skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abstraction is the domain we need to research before we understand intelligence in general, the ways our abstraction is determined by nature and more importantly the ways that will become possible when we surpass it.
>when it comes to technology skills, we're dead last compared with other developed countries.

Maybe because the education model in the US (and elsewhere) relies heavily upon Ludditism.

Student's intelligence is measured on a single linear numeric scale based on paper-and-pencil administered examinations and are strictly limited to using computer technology (calculators) that was invented 40 years ago[1] even though they posses in their pockets computers that are millions (billions?) of times more powerful.

"Never memorize something that you can look up."

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_Business_Ana...
Any pointers on who might be a good VC outfit for SaaS type startup that actually needs to run their own clusters as opposed to throwing everything onto AWS?
Advanced travel AI launched, Ask it anything, seriously.
I've seen Dillo freezed few times on big pages but it's a great project.
That doesn't really depend on mass, but on drag and altitude.

See for example Figure 10 of:
http://www.agi.com/downloads/resources/white-papers/20110808...
Really great outcome - it's hard to fight this space with so many well backed players - and Cruise had a novel solution and strategy.
There's no standard. It can be anywhere from 1-4 years with various cliff terms.
Thanks for sharing this. It's good to hear from others who have been through similar experiences!

I fully agree with you that one needs to think in terms of years and not days, weeks or even months. I do make this point in the article, as well.
I like to think that I’m intelligent, but how do I really know?
The key issue, I think, is not what law-theoretically does and does not theoretically oblige you to comply with a jurisdiction, but the assets and people which are within reaching distance of the applicable government. Whether a service is accessible from the UK is irrelevant so long as you have no assets, no employees in the UK. Conversely, if you have assets or employees in the UK, you can expect them to be under threat of seizure or coercion, respectively.

I also don't think it's a safe assumption in any jurisdiction nowadays that the person who gets served with a notice will be an executive. It seems quite plausible to me that a front-line engineer could get served with a notice, and not even be allowed to tell an executive. Thus, even if your employees in the UK don't appear to have been coerced, this appearance could be deceiving.

There may be some limited countermeasures to this sort of thing, like regular audits of system configurations, etc. performed by a different group of people, and who will thus cry murder if they find any anomalies. This should work because the second group of people will not be the target of a notice, and thus not bound by its secrecy provisions. Possibly this group could do their auditing remotely, from outside the UK. Of course the in-UK group could, under coercion, rootkit the system to hide these changes, probably by being told to install government-issued software. Hmm...
Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse [video, 2014]
I think go build -i does the same without putting the result in the bin dir.
>And it's been long enough that if nobody has done it right so far, it seems like a distinct possibility that nobody ever will.

But it hasn't been that long at all, and there are people doing it right.

The problem is that they are expensive and don't offer the same amount of features that some people want.

Take the "traditional" smarthome networks like z wave and friends.

I have a z wave light switch that works as a lightswitch 100% of the time. I actually installed the switches before i had a controller for them.

Add a controller and you have a "smarthome".

Connect that controller to your wifi and you have the ability to control these things safely from within your own network using anything from a bash script to shitty iphone apps.

Connect that network to the internet through a firewall and an authentication system and you now can control all of that stuff securely across the planet.

If any one of those breaks, functionality is reduced. Internet is down, i can't control it outside the house. Controller goes down, i can't control them as groups or from within the house but still "remotely". But it will literally always turn on/off the lights when i hit the switch. I don't need to worry about the security of a cheap chinese zwave knockoff thing because the controller is that gatekeeper.

That's IOT done right.

But people don't want to pay the money for that, they don't want to pay an electrician to come out and install them across the whole house, they don't care about security or what happens when the internet is down, they want a light they can control from their phone for as cheap as possible as fast as possible. And of course when people are asking for a product, manufacturers are going to make it.
I didn't find it to be clear, otherwise I wouldn't have asked.

SV has its own jargon, and not being from SV, I think it's fair to want to clarify what is meant by a capitalized phrase like "Hard Tech" in case there is a deeper meaning known to those inside SV.
Checking in build products is not about saving a couple bytes. It's about having a DRY codebase that isn't of out sync with itself.
Turning the lights on a 3am is a nuisance. Writing

while true; do turn_on_all_lights $IPADDRESS; done

is enough to ruin your night's sleep. Fighting with the lights that won't go off will probably pump enough adrenaline into your system to wake you up enough that you're not going back to sleep anytime soon.

And why not do that to the entire block of addresses you can reach, of course?

It's no "steal identity, rack up tens of thousands of debt" level of nuisance, but it's enough that some basic security is definitely called for. Given the capability of the devices on both side (i.e. we're not dealing with "embedded" 1MHz processors here), client and server side validation of SSL certificates on an SSL connection, combined with some basic physical security to detect that someone's pried the Android off the wall (this can be something like "seal" stickers; we're going for detection here more than prevention), would have had a pretty good cost/benefit ratio.

(Remember, the goal here isn't to make the security "perfect", merely to make hacking it more expensive than what is being protected, which in this case still isn't that much. Nobody's going to risk being physically fingered as the room that pried out the Android tablet just to screw with lights.)
Not to mention his support for prop 8 and pathetic excuse for an apology.
Quotes from the article:

> The journal is published on PubPub, a platform developed at MIT
> that is inclusive in ways that academia and academic publishing
> frequently aren’t; PubPub is an experiment in radical
> transparency, where almost every part of the journal is open and
> editable.

> I publish a paper and then someone publishes a paper against it,”
> Slavin says. “It should be a conversation—that’s the world we live
> in.”

The platform seems like a GitHub for scientific research. A very innovative move.
e.f. cohort?
How about setting up shop next door to get pics of $random_politician getting a blowjob for blackmail material?
Customizable, interactive dashboards for your entire software release workflow
Another explanation for these numbers is that prosecutors are also resource-bound and risk-averse and prefer to go after cases they are almost certain to win.

There are, of course, exceptions of all kinds, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev.
How does bringing a genius into the conversation in anyway answer the question?

Hopefully, they do a good story with the most recent movie on Ramanujan's life:

http://deadline.com/2015/09/the-man-who-knew-infinity-exclus...
>> and some good experience manipulating continuous functions and their derivatives.

> Nope

1. "good experience manipulating differentiable functions and their derivatives" sounds weird in prose.

2. Some continuous functions are differentiable. Those ones have derivatives you can manipulate. In fact knowing when a function is not differentiable is a pretty useful skill.

> The interview was in their computer group, but I indicated that I'd like to get into quantitative trading -- they acted like they had never heard of any such thing.

Sounds like you interviewed for position X and talked about wanting position Y, and were rightly rejected as "not a good fit; likely to leave at first opportunity".

> only a very tiny fraction of the people on Wall Street had good backgrounds in measure theory and stochastic processes based on measure theory

Probably true. Think of this as "calculus for engineers vs. analysis", and imagine how well a civil engineering interview would go if you talked about different types of integrals instead of talking about how to use the basic stuff to build good bridges. Fact is most people in industry are looking for "calculus for engineers" levels of formal understanding. Enough to be useful and make money while avoiding expensive mistakes.

> and were looking to hire people like themselves.

Also probably true. This is a good assumption not just on Wall St but everywhere.
Usually crossword answers make sense. This ended up just looking like a jumble of letters.
I'm thinking from the perspective of "I'm sick of working at your standard SaaS. I'd like to see what else is out there for software developers."
GIANT Death Star
The main issue with brassboard prototypes done on a shoestring budget is that they don't show well. On top of that, they carry the risk of not being able to go from brassboard to finished product. This was probably implied by Sam's comment that fundraising will still be harder for such a company.
I can almost never find that info.
Does "...in the past ... quarter of a full scale reactor, rather than a quarter scale reactor" mean that

1) in the past the mocks was just a subset portion of the reactor (ie the quarter that is relevant to operations)

Hopefully I didn't mangle your words, but this is how I understood your phrasing.
Yes, nothing new.
I (and likely many others on this site) am tired of people complaining about weird-scrolling sites, but this one is exceptional: I can't get it to actually display the content! At some point scrolling gets somehow stuck and I can't scroll down anymore.
I wonder how long the US government can keep doing this kind of shit without most (if not all) of the people in tech with any kind of ethics left leaving the US for, let's say, Europe and take their business with it.

I really, really do.

Note -- To make things clear (in regard to the -1): While it may look like it I wasn't trolling. I'm just wondering when tech people after all the shit happening the last few years have had enough. Because there must be a last straw somewhere, right?
That makes more sense (Python not Java) with the other technologies you mentioned.

Writing "working code" in Java in 3 days is extremely ambitious, unless by working code you mean some version of "Hello World."

There are solid developers (who if for some reason had no exposure to Java) who would have trouble writing "working code" in three weeks. Again..if working code was something commercial.

I guess it really matters how you define working code.
FUD is FUD, and this is preaching to the choir anyway.
I wrote this answer to a similar question in /r/math last year. You might enjoy it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/3ixyw3/how_can_i_begi...
>This is why rich people had a lot of gold - rich people have money and gold is money

It's my understanding that the richest people in America think gold a barberous relic.

I agree that gold has some interesting properties, but so much of the value-of-gold argument seems to stem from its historical uses. But we've used all kinds of things as currency. Using a metal we have to dig out of the ground seems so backwards to me.
The word "advanced" is relative to the intended audience and it's obvious how he meant that word to be applied. The author wrote:

", chances are if you are considering studying advanced mathematics you will already have formal qualifications in the basics, particularly the mathematics learnt in junior and senior highschool (GCSE and A-Level for those of us in the UK!). "

The author is not a Fields Medalist writing to other PhD mathematics graduate students. In such a case, the adjective "advanced" would have a different meaning.
IP Address Whois and IP Geocoding (WebRTC Leak Detects VPN)
AlphaGo's replication implementation
You or I, probably not. But just this week Erin Andrews won a $55 million legal case where somebody had intentionally booked a room next-door to her hotel room, then modified the peephole to her room, in order to film her naked. Certainly, there's people intent on prying into the private lives of others.
I look forward to finding out how this plays out. This tack actually seems like it could work. I'm also curious what Apple would do operationally after being forced to hand over that key. What are the implications of rolling those keys and what ability do they have in that regard? What changes would they make to their next gen security systems to address this situation?
>> In contrast Facebook is largely just a couple of web forms and some Big O problems at scale.

Yes, and Steph Curry is just a guy shooting a ball in a basket.
Still NO, Google
More doors in, more doors out. Bad OPSEC.
Show HN: Spending too much time on monitoring? Let us save your back ;-)
When You Listen to Music, You’re Never Alone
A year or so ago a chum asked me to take a look at a paper that some of her quants were basing their work on. When I dug through it and pulled out all the plagiarism in it (and I do mean that; it had literally been hacked together out of other papers by some chancer in a middle-eastern university) it turned out to be a Crank–Nicolson method, and then when I saw what they were doing with it, I reckoned they could have just used a crayon and drawn over the graph they were interested in to get their smoothed graph. I do know that soon after that she got a job somewhere else. You can find hacks and chancers in every walk of life.

[1] In the above text, "hack" and "hacker" is used in the pejorative sense, similar to a "hack journalist".
Reachout: The app to connect people facing life threatening illnesses
Yeah, it is rather unfair to point your finger against a reviewer's comment without having a look at the paper too. I've come across papers for which some of these comments would be even too kind.

This blog is funnier if you're able to mentally classify the posts in four bins:

- Clearly clueless reviewer (e.g. "The reported mean of 7.7 is misleading because it appears that close to half of your participants are scoring below that mean")

- Reviewer just trying to keep the tone light in a funny way (e.g. "Unless the authors performed some clever pagan ritual before euthanizing the animals I would use ‘killed’ (or ‘euthanized’) instead of ‘sacrificed").

- Merciless and sarcastic destruction of what was very likely just garbage anyway (e.g. "This looks like a very early draft").

- Just a butthurt author's reaction (e.g. " I have read this paper several times through, and I have nothing to say in its defense.").
Tech companies compete in improv PowerPoint for bragging rights
Yeah, when the effort put into inserting types is higher cost than reading them (as with short lived / unstablized code), what you're saying makes sense.

Which is kind of why I wish for tooling outside the compiler to make the effort in specifying types (when it increases readability, maybe based on heuristics) very minimal. Wishful thinking.
"A good litmus test has been that if you need to SSH into a server or an instance, you still have more to automate."

Amen. We couldn't agree more: https://boxfuse.com/blog/no-ssh
How are they defining "Fetishism", precisely?
Hold on hold on. This is a big swarm of satellites and (I assume) a forthcoming API and the comments are "the scrolling sucks"? They could have used tables and comic sans for all I care. This is awesome.

Though Planet Labs will always be my first affection in this space. Talk about a hard and interesting problem. This data takes you to so many different places.
That's great news, hopefully we will see projects/engines in the future using this, similar how Doom/Quake stuff is still being worked on.

I'm not familiar with the engine, is it any good and how does it compare to others?
There could be a market for the "IBM PC" or Android of smart cars, i.e. standardized hardware and software interfaces for interchanging parts and manufacturing them cheap. The IBM PC was not the top technology, but standards made it easier for most to get into the market.
The main thing to remember is that nobody learns mathematics to any significant depth by reading. The only way to learn it is by doing it. Doing it carefully, and in full detail, not falling into the trap of "and I understand it from there".

So the biggest barriers to doing it on your own aren't source material (there is lots of that) it's a good source of correction. There is also the usual problem of self study, in that you don't have a roadmap and can waste time easily.

That said though, one advantage if you are diligent is that you probably by necessity learn techniques of checking your work (formally and informally) earlier than typical students, which is a good thing.
Power Assert in Elixir – Shows evaluation results each expression
My association with this name is the IPX over Internet app that was around in the 90s to play things like Doom over the internet.
Strange :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_%28software%29
"I made a few adjustments to your brake lines, and I improved your steering system -- I call it 'natural' steering because it works the opposite direction."
having a $3500 fridge go dumb via updates made people very unhappy

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/smart-fridge-only-capable-o...
This is what you should be doing when you start a new job
Something like Gattling or Artillery.io would probably be better for this use case. TcpKali looks good but purposed more for benchmarking servers than actual apps.
There's a difference in security issues due to programming bug vs insecure design.

If an application was created without security in mind in worst case it might require complete rewrite. In other cases it might be a whack-a-mole game.

For example compare ssh vs application that simply opens port and starts bash as root. You can use both to control your server, but if you want to add security it would be a lot of work (you could incrementally add authentication, encryption, maybe restrict user what s/he can do but there will be million and one ways to escape).

After fixing one issue after another without seeing the end you'll realize it would be less work to just rewrite it from scratch with security in mind.

Security is not a feature, it is a process.
That's probably because OpenGL doesn't do antialiasing by default. When it does it, it does it by rendering everything at a larger scale and downscaling it (well, actually MSAA allows the GL to avoid having to do this to everything, and only do it for some buffers)

FXAA and similar antialiasing algorithms fake it as a post process effect.
Why can or should criticism only come from people that are building things themselves?

Because the people who associate themselves with their products will bite their tongues for business reasons. If Sam pretends like the only people who worth hearing criticize from are exactly the group that won't voice their criticism, he can act like there isn't valuable criticism coming in.

Am I building something? Who knows, I use this account anonymously so I can call bullshit, not be a kissass because I'm worrying about my reputation and the reputation of my products (if they exist).
Not working on Win10 with latest Chrome either.

Clicks ("Next Observation") take me down and then up where I was; then scrolling is jumpy and extremely annoying to read
Take it away, Koons Crooks.
Doesn't really say what's left over after the plastic gets broken down.
I wonder if Apple has a key revocation procedure for their signing key? It would have been sensible to have done this anyway, in case the key was compromised. They must, after all, be one of the highest profile targets, both for criminals and assorted foreign intelligence agencies. If they give the key to the FBI, they have to assume it is compromised, and so they should revoke it to protect their other customers.
Why the InVision/Macaw Deal Signals the Liberation of Creativity
Without sounding snarky, I searched "BMW Australia Head Office" and got the address, pretty quickly. Alternatively, the Contact page of their website had a section for "corporate" matters.
This seems to be a common pattern. I suspect there could be a business opportunity here for someone to outsource intermediated job applications and keep track of both applicant and employer communications.

Plenty of sites try to match up the two sides but it seems most fall down at the point of initial contact.
Interesting.

If you like satellite images and some interesting analysis, I suggest checking out Nasa's earth observatory.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/
Blood Ties: Conjuring up my own personal conquistador
I feel ya bro. The pre-alpha build will be released early, just need something complete enough to get meaningful feedback on.
Power Assert makes test results easier to understand, without changing your ExUnit test code.
I'm looking forward to your feedback. Thanks in advance.
> those who are not building things themselves

Also there are people not currently building but that have built something in the past (or assisted others who have done so). Such as sama or pg.

> have a different perspective than those who do, and therefore their arguments should be heard in that context.

That perspective could also be more valuable in some cases. Keep in mind that many of today's "disrupters" are people outside a traditional industry who actually do great things exactly because they have little experience and are not jaded. Fresh outlook not restrained by traditional thinking.

The problem that I had (if you want to call it that) was not that sama made that statement. It's the fact that I feel he implied a negative which was not warranted. Plus the use of "usually" when the truth is nobody is in a position to know the exact experience or background of someone offering criticism particularly what they have done in the past. [1] [2]

[1] There could be people even here on HN who have extremely significant backgrounds in building things that prefer to remain anonymous.

[2] I am now thinking maybe this is why PG has others read his essays. So he could simply change a sentence or insert a word and avoid criticism and excessive footnotes.
Yes, remember Sun. Once a strong company, now a shadow of its former self and a "brand" in Oracle's portfolio.

I'm sure giving yet more things away would have saved them (that was sarcasm).
Isn't this the same thing China is in discussion of demanding of anyone who sells software in China? We've already criticized this as "they can steal our stuff." Why would any country not think the same of us?
http://www.joinef.com/
I'm also curious about this. Isn't this exactly the kind of project Alphabet was created to wrap? i.e. something not related to Google's core business but still under the corporate umbrella?
You mean I only need to look back 35 years to a professional medical device built when computer control was still very new and that wasn't intended to be operated by unskilled consumers, and wasn't certified by to be safe for home use?
Is the FBI themselves going to be comfortable using devices which, say, the Chinese government, has the source code & keys for? The NSA and CIA certainly won't be. This is a two way street and they damned well know it.