skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Troy Hunt explained somewhere that he doesn't actually store the password (hashes), nor does he want to.

See the FAQ as well: https://haveibeenpwned.com/FAQs
Unbelievable,Awesome
Out of curiosity, which ones have you taken?
"100% of the base-2 primes ending in '0' are followed by a prime ending in '1'."
How to plan an IT budget?
February Smashes Earth's All-Time Global Heat Record by a Jaw-Dropping Margin
That was why I said wasn't really a thing being offered. There were certainly some classes that dabbled in the general area, but nothing that I can remember that came out and said "this is Machine Learning".

At least in my Computer Engineering curriculum it was very much about the electrical engineering and software development fundamentals.
Ignored for years? What? From what I can tell that's how we got into $19 trillion dollars of debt. The only reason it's now being defended as a systematic theory is that it's become embarrassing to still believe it in the face of all evidence.

Simply put: MMT completely ignores floating exchange rates.

The only reason that hasn't been completely catastrophic (for the US) is that we're the global exchange currency, and can basically tax the whole world by printing more money.

The long term problem is that too much inflation (or, more accurately, taxation) may drive people away from our currency, and MMT will be shown for the sham that it is.
Don't know if this is exactly why, but the situation certainly reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penney%27s_game
Open letter to Microsoft: force Windows updates, don't force restart
To who microsoftie may concern.

Unexpected OS restart is one of the worst user experiences ever. And yet this is exactly what happens with Windows 10. The user loses unsaved documents, open browser tabs, and their prepared working environment.

This said I ask Microsoft to change a little the update procedure - download the updates, warn the user, but do not restart Windows. Just apply the update when the next restart occurs.

P.S. Sorry for using HN for publishing this letter, but this is my only place where my path crosses paths with some people from Microsoft.
is it just me or is the logo blurry?
Thanks, might be useful indeed.
Of course.

An amateur is someone who does something for the love of it -- rather than someone who is getting paid for it.

And while the experts focus on some very narrow algorithm or process and release tools like tensorflow to the public -- somebody with a pile of mac minis in his livingroom will combine those tools in some novel way that the experts would have never considered.

Don't discount the possibility of a real breakthrough coming from an amateur. You know, like a patent clerk mulling over physics problems on his own time, or a destitute kid in India doing independent mathematics research.

Indeed, that's often where breakthroughs come from: left field.
I specifically spoke about the attacks in Paris which was originally blamed on Snowden and encryption but actually they didn't use encrypted communication.
I have read what is written but sorry, WUWT and Robert Brown are not exactly examples of honest reporting.

And, to be sincere, the site the link pertains to is just another denier site and not even a very smart one
>Overall I am negative on accelerators. Perhaps I am bias as I have enough savings/income from an existing small business that I don't need my living expenses paid for what I think may be giving away too much of your business. Though I look forward to reading other peoples experiences.

If having cash lying around from a previous business/startup attempt was a pre requisite to starting a startup are you not creating a sort of catch 22 scenario for the whole ecosystem? The current accelerator model seems very completely sensible given the level uncertainty involved in startups and has plenty of successful examples including YCombinator.

Have you specific reason to not like accelerators?
You might want to sort that by frequency before printing it. The repeats sort of get lost when they're just mixed in with everything else.
That's because we can code but can't design. So we take ready made themes and we don't pay attention that they have scrolling problems...
Web App Using Microservices in Go: Part 1 – Design
What's special about the "Special" frames, in particular "Debated" frames?
Ceausescu family mansion opens to visitors in Romania
“The Primaverii Palace, former residence of the Ceausescu family, will soon open not only for protocol events, but also to the public, who is entitled to see an important part of the country’s history. It’s the building where Elena and Nicolae Ceausescu, alongside their children Nicu, Zoe and Valentin lived in the last 25 years of the two spouses’ lives,” reads a post on the ministry’s Facebook page.

http://palatulprimaverii.ro/
> Dialogues like this make me feel like I'm in some surreal universe where all software evolved around one giant mainframe, and now, centuries later, everyone is still programming in COBOL, and it's illegal to not be backward compatible.

Being backward compatible is a feature in a legal system (e.g. forbidding ex post facto laws). Moreover, it's entirely possible to change the Constitution in any way one wishes, simply by passing an amendment. What you can't do is claim that it says what it doesn't, any more than one could run an amd64 Linux kernel directly on a 68000[1].

The Constitution's not perfect. It wasn't when it passed, which is why the Bill of Rights was required. It still wasn't, which is why further amendments were required (e.g., that banning slavery in most cases). Some of the changes were themselves suboptimal (e.g. the 17th Amendment, which has been a catastrophe, or the 18th, which banned alcohol). It's perfectly fine to amend the Constitution to fix it (e.g. the 21st Amendment, which repealed the fundamentally flawed 18th), but one can't just read whatever one wants into the document (c.f. drug prohibition: if an amendment were required to ban alcohol, then one must be required to ban drugs; and yet here we are).

[1] Yes, I'm sure that someone could in fact come up with a bitstream which is both valid amd64 opcodes and valid 68000 opcodes, and that someone could use that substrate to implement some sort of half-assed, tortured 'Linux' kernel. You know what I meant.
InVison just one-upped Adobe by acquiring Sketch prototyping tool Silver Flows
Okay, while I am in full agreement that no back door is warranted why does Apple get a pass of their actions with regards to China? The rumor mill claims it means possibly handing over source code used to drive devices. If true, how would they not do the same for US officials?

I certainly don't believe they should write the code request by the government but at the same time are they going to keep that stance in all markets?
I believe trying to create a general search that's better than google is pretty much a lost battle.

I think the next big thing in search will start as a niche thing. If you reduce your user domain you can have a better shot at producing better results even without tracking.

For example, you could develop a search engine for developers/IT people, make it's results better than google's and then expand to other domains.
Hmm. Almost exactly $900, with a quick bit of searching.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-5357172...

I'm curious as to how you can assess lavishness of spending of people walking by on the street; presumably you're very good at identifying branded fashion?
5 MOST COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT OUTSOURCING
Our indexes are probably very small (about 40gb total) but I've found if you value speed and consistency over all else.... just run a single, 1 shard node and have a fallback in case of random errors. I just do major version upgrades and rebuild the indexes, no real maintenance.

I should add that all "hot" data fits in 24g of memory.
By this logic, if there was one section of the gov't that had extremely advanced crypto cracking capabilities, then keeping crypto legal for normal citizens should also be a "moot point".

However, citizens would probably still want to keep their data private from all kinds of other eavesdroppers just like they want guns to protect themselves from threats less capable than the military.
I wasn't able to play the video for some reason, but I located it on YouTube:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZisFfiEdQ_E

For comparison, DeepMind:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ePv0Fs9cGgU

Note that 550 is a very low score in Space Invaders.
Implementation of Xen PVHVM Drivers in OpenBSD [pdf]
Scaling to exabytes and beyond
Designing a RESTful API with Node and Postgres
For the last 15 years, I have always gone with a Dell laptop for my dev needs.

However, I had an incident where I needed a quick laptop and decided to buy a Lenovo Yoga 900.

Now, two months into using it, I am actually surprised with my decision and it's working fantastic. I'm glad I bought it.

I even wrote up a review about the laptop (http://www.danylkoweb.com/Blog/review-lenovo-yoga-900-13isk-...)
OpenBSD project status update [pdf]
It would be nice if the README would mention how this compares to cmake's builtin ExternalProject module, which at first glance offers similar functionality (https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/module/ExternalProject.htm...)
I mean, maybe there is better stuff somewhere. Nonetheless, its position as an selective and influential journal with excellent research is pretty secure, which is precisely why they can charge. I still don't see it as quite analogous to an expensive handbag.
Full paper is available here : http://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2016-xen-paper.pdf
John Oliver explains why Apple is right about encryption
Show HN: Donald Trump Votewiser
Kontena Is a Black Duck Rookie of the Year
ML is a subset of AI.
Confessions of a Git Novice
Google is also a major shareholder in DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
Great to hear! I have yet to use Akka seriously, but I'm planning to soon. Keep up the awesome work!
Hacksplaining
CoreLogic Reports 1M US Borrowers Regained Equity in 2015
[iOS tutorial] Creating custom walkthroughs
Former Head of IBM’s Watson Unit to Start Own A.I. Firm
Well I wasn't totally sure so I googled quite a bit and what with websites recommending 20 minutes, articles about deaths, discussions about achieving 45 minutes in a sauna, I would say that a few hours in a Sauna would kill you unless the temperature was very low by Sauna standards. I was originally going to suggest that the OP stand in an oven but thought that too crude.

Realistically I accept that this debate is not 'winnable' in any traditional sense. Even if the governments crack down on CO2, and the temperature drops back to non increasing fluctuations there will be no acceptance from some people who will always insist that it is/was a conspiracy the same as the moon landings and the UN. I suppose the only way that one side could convince the other is if the CO2 keeps increasing and the weather doesn't end up killing us all. Sorry for the digression.
>AWS would cost you at least 3-4x as much. You'll lose the flexibility of AWS, but save a ton of cash.

Isn't there more to the analysis than just comparing cpu before we can conclude it will save a lot of money?

It looks like their servers[1] use ~150TB source data that's already hosted on AWS disks. The source x.gz archives of the Common Crawl on AWS S3 are then imported to a Elasticsearch disks that are hosted on AWS.

To pull ~150TB of data using network speeds of 30 megabytes/sec[2] would take 60 days to transfer from AWS to another USA datacenter like Rackspace.

(Copying data from AWS to AWS isn't instantaneous either but it won't take ~60 days. At 60 days, the next crawl archive would have been released before you finished importing the previous one!)

Questions would be:

1) What are current 2016 network speeds between cloud providers?

2) What's the cost of ~150TB of network bandwidth?

3) From those datapoints, can we derive a rough rule-of-thumb where a certain amount of data exceeds the current capabilities (speed or economics) of the internet backbone available to projects like Common Search?

[1]https://about.commonsearch.org/developer/operations

[2]http://www.networkworld.com/article/2187021/cloud-computing/...
Can anyone say what the security implications of this are? Intuitively, it would seem the less 'random' primes appear to be, the easier it would be to factor the composite of two prime numbers.
The proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM0sTNtWDiI
I think a "solution" for Go is a program that can play to a win (or a draw, I guess) in any circumstance, right? I mean, like, you can create a tic-tac-toe program that plays perfectly and will never lose, but you cannot do this for go.
Great resource. Even more useful for checking family members' email addresses. I use strong passwords, change them frequently, and use 2FA wherever possible... My family (probably) doesn't, nor do they know to check a site like this.
God this is exciting. One of the most painful bits about Scala for me is that documentation cannot be centrally located!
Power of technical documentation
You're not talking about downloading copyright works, you were talking about "the death of copyright". Copyright isn't dead, it's alive and well, regardless of how easy it is to download stuff.

Not only that, while it may be easy to download stuff, it's also easy to be sued for it, and this has happened countless times. There's been a whole industry of suing downloaders and getting them to settle for $3k. So your assertion that "nobody suffers any consequences for doing so" is quite false. Ask Jammie Thomas.

Yes, you can largely avoid this by using a VPN, but not that many people do.
Sounds good, have tried scala before, that was great experience.
I don't think the payload matters much. Certainly its own weight is insignificant compared to the rocket as a whole. I'm not sure if they might load less fuel if the payload doesn't need full performance, but if so I think that would be a relatively small effect as well.

I didn't find actual TWRs listed even just for the launchers, but you can find the liftoff mass and thrust pretty easily, and just divide.
The politics of poverty stop many more.
That's nice to hear! I'm doing my masters thesis on statistical learning and I often think how un-glamour this field now is. No bayesianism, less engineering, but having probabilistic guarantees on your out of sample results as well as sample complexity, no matter the underlying distribution, can be quite beneficial.
+1. Algolia rocks. (https://www.spiralmedia.co.uk/implementing-lightning-fast-al...)
There seems to be a bit of an art to choosing your machine learning algorithm and parameters. The class is a good way to get a grasp on that.
Congrats thinkelastic!
Well, a really interesting AI could tell us things about questions where we don't even know where to start, rather than needing to be primed with tons of data.
you still need to know what is appropriate to try. Depending on the problem there might be colossal mistakes that you can make just because you don't know what's behind the scenes.
hahaha dude upvoted you sure got me with your funny trump meme! xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Don’t let your architecture become the new hardware
Quantum Computing != True AI
The various Ultimate Flora brands are excellent.
They are expensive and you can get them at whole foods.
The trick is to get multi-strain LIVE species. Refrigeration seems to help.

Many probiotics are labeled as "active". I think this means they are dead but the remaining proteins are "active". They'll only last as long as proteins are available. The industry really needs to clarify this stuff.
Independent evaluators need to check out their claims.

Live strains will reproduce.

There are many tricks to get them to survive the stomach acids: imbed them in gelatin or psyllium. Another trick is to prefeed them in airtight, dark bottle so they're growing before you eat them. Just put it in your pocket for a couple of hours.

Clinical trials need to be done to firmly establish efficacy; but I've given this concoction to several people and they were very happy with the results.

More research needs to be done on which species of fungi, bacteria , and arachea give good results.

The gut microbiome is an interdependent environment. Restoring the balance occasionally may benefit lots of folks.
Lenovo y50
Dev is own by Google
Apache Taverna Workflow System
ChitaSoft (Web-Application) – SQL Injection Vulnerabilit
Point A also adjusts the offer rate upward given the high cost of living (independent of all the other factors)
Hi there. I'm sure you're well-intentioned, but this isn't a very charitable or productive response, and it contains at least 3 argumentative fallacies.

Responding to your points...

Do you also advocate stopping cancer treatments?

No and that's a misrepresentation of what I said.

I didn't say we shouldn't treat mental illness.

I said we can do better than giving amphetamines to children as a way of dealing with aberrant behavior, and that perhaps the key to finding the best treatment is likely to be found by understanding (not denying) its evolutionary origins.

I believe this to be true as I've seen this approach work on myself and others.

Stopping vaccinations, because not getting smallpox is interfering with evolution?

Again, I didn't say we shouldn't treat. And I'm not antivax, no.

When done right, vaccination enhances evolution. (FWIW I'm less convinced about giving flu shots to people with healthy immune systems for the same reason most sensible people are concerned about over-prescription of antibiotics).

In short, I'm fine with any medical intervention that steers the world further down the right path (I.e., enhances evolution).

I'm very confident that the widespread prescription of amphetamines to children will one day be shown not to be good for the world.

Evolution doesn't happen for a reason. The whole point of evolution is that our biology and the way our brains work is bafflingly random at times.

This not a statement of established fact; it is a statement of your understanding of evolution, which may or may not be complete or correct.

But natural selection is not a random process. It is a very deliberate process of adoption and distribution of traits that benefit the species.

So the fact that depressive and ADHD-like behaviours exist in so many people across many different regions and cultures, indicates that they have been positively selected and reinforced over many generations.

Another commenter in this subthread has offered a very plausible explanation as to why this may be.

Depression is a crippling mental illness

Trust me, I know, I've had it for much of my life and have witnessed many other lives be destroyed by it.

it doesn't happen for a reason.

Well for me the key to overcoming depression was discovering that it does have a reason, then addressing that reason at the most fundamental level (genetic expression).

And now I plan to devote as much of the rest of my life and available resources as I can spare, to researching the topic so more people have the chance to be saved from this menace.

Assuming that what you want is a complete end to mental illness - for everybody, regardless of their genetic predisposition - we both want the same thing.
This is the first time I've seen it, and I quite enjoyed it.
It's awful beyond words, you should never ever mess with the user's scroll. If themes have it just delete the feature entirely.
Out of curiosity, mariodiana, do you take probiotics? If so, which ones?
The blog post talks about an index, not a package manager
I think it should be visible in your upvotes list: https://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=CarolineW (Obviously, I can't see your list.)

If that fails, you an email the mods hn@ycombinator.com . If this has an easy explanation, usually dang answer in the same day.
Seen it before, still a fun read though. What else could you say about a substance that will instantly set ICE on fire?!
And ruined my local setup.
Ah, thanks for that. So it's not a property of the coin toss itself, but the fact that a failure at the second step in the series only resets to before step 2, instead of before step 1.
It steam engines when it's steam engine time.
Yeah, its my favorite chemistry story.
Here's a hint: some perfectly qualified scientists pursue work outside academia because they're unwilling to put up with publishers and journals. The ones who stick around base their career advancement almost entirely on publication-derived credentials, so it isn't in their best interest to rock the boat. There's a strong selection bias at play.
Excellent Total War documentary on the Punic Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOk6ppoQrkw&index=1&list=PLk...
Strengthening your comfort with math and algorithms is the first step. If you are doing your undergrad, do as many math classes as you possibly can. I think the hardest part of breaking into a career in machine learning and data science is learning the math on your own. Being enrolled in a real class helps.
9 open source alternatives to Picasa
> Didn't get the connection with "killing in self defense".

If a reasonable person, in your situtioan, thought that their life was in danger, they can kill someone in self defence. This is less about "intention", but about "what's inside your head", but hose are very similar.

> It is true that theft and fraud are all crimes where the intentions are important, however it applies after the crime is already been confirmed.

Not always. Some countries say "theft" is only when you intend to permanently deprive someone of something. So if I find your wallet on the street, and pick it up in order to bring it to the police station, then I amn't guilty of stealing your wallet. Because I didn't intend to when I picked it up.
Ten Life-Changing Cleaning Tips from Marie Kondo {On Books #26}
Dup detection applies to deleted posts, but you can't find them using search. So what might have happened is that somebody submitted this link, deleted it, and then you tried to submit it.
I would put it this way: Forcing windows updates are bad, forcing windows upgrades (or shoving windows 10 down the computer's throat as I call it) is worse and forcing restart is just simply ridiculous.
It all contributes to the list of reasons why I made my final decision abandoning windows for good and migrating completely to Linux.
In Montana, US, it really was a shocking amount. Averages in the 40's and 50's (Fahrenheit), where we should be in the 20's and 30's. No new snowpack to speak of.

It's fair to say forest fires this year are going to be pretty bad. I'm personally not looking forward to another August where we can't see the sun for the smoke.
Publish or Perish is a highly accurate description of the career. Improving the publishing experience is not the same as publishing, so while you and a couple of your colleagues band together to improve the process, another colleague continues to publish and now looks better than you on paper.
Why is random in quotes? Random numbers can have patterns, too.
I second this. The search engine could be an API to the web. There are lots of resources that could be pulled out that way.
Many probiotics are labeled as "active". I think this
means they are dead but the remaining proteins are
"active". They'll only last as long as proteins are
available.

Incorrect. Probiotics are supposed to contain live, active bacteria: the large "CFU" number on the front stands for "colony forming unit": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony-forming_unit

Labdoor (which is advertising-supported) tests probiotics based on how accurate their CFU numbers are: https://labdoor.com/rankings/probiotics (These tests, of course, don't say if the probiotic in question is actually good for you or not.)

I've taken both General Biotics Equilibrium and (115 strains, 1 billion CFUs, shipped unrefrigerated) and Renew Life Ultimate Flora Extra Care. (10 strains, 50 billion CFUs, refrigerated)

If either of them had any effect at all, I didn't notice it.
Using Finite States Machines in Django User-Centric Applications