skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out the Assimilation Project [1]. It facilitates automatic infrastructure discovery and uses the Neo4j graph database for visualization / querying. More info about the project here [2].

[1]: http://assimilationsystems.com/

[2]: http://linux-ha.org/source-doc/assimilation/html/index.html
This Adorably Batsht Email Says Everything About Millennials and Their Money
Von Neumann bottleneck
And to add to this, if you can take a cadaver heart, strip it to the scaffolding, and then using a plurpotent stem cell line from your own cells to convert that structure into a functional heart, which can then be transplanted into you without risk of rejection, well that would be pretty much a game changer for all those people dying from congestive heart failure.

Tissue engineering has come a long way. The possibility of building a replacement organ this way is pretty interesting to contemplate in terms of changing peoples lives.
It is a very important distinction. It is the difference between three sizable but incremental advances - rehabilitating unsuitable donor organs, the potential to use pig organs, and elimination of immune rejection - and the far, far greater advance of being able to grow entire patient-matched organs from scratch as needed with no donor.

Being shackled to the need for a donor organ for tissue much thicker than a centimeter is a big drag on the progression of this field. It is a function of blood vessels, largely - being able to create scaffolds of sufficient complexity and size with the right chemical guides to allow formation of blood vessel networks is still not there yet. Hence the need for the natural scaffold of the donor organ.
How about third party app development?
Totally agree. I no longer trust third party electronics sellers on Amazon, and always have a ton of trouble finding that info.
Ask HN: What is the term for faking automation by using human labor?
Like early in a startup you fake automation by really using human power. Its supposed to look automated but there is a human behind the scenes doing it. I swear there is a term for this that I can't think of. Best I can think of is meatgearing.
If you are happy to get lots of false alarms, it's doable with a whitelist approach.
Thanks for editing to point out that is Local+State+Federal. sien's point and "Hauser's law" is about Federal revenue and specifically how Federal tax revenue doesn't seem to respond to policy changes in the marginal Federal income tax rates as you might expect. They are both good metrics to consider at different times, for example sometimes you ignore certain classes of taxes and spending (like local/property taxes which are largely for K-12 education) when you want to focus on welfare spending, which is 95%+ Federal.
It appears that not much have changed in the last ~20 years, when looking at mainstream antivirus software... I used to be able to move around a few assembly instructions inside a virus to avoid detection while still maintaining 100% of the virus' features
Perhaps I overstated it. I have only seen a few videos of her recently and I got the impression other senators in the room don't really take her seriously anymore. Maybe she was knowledgeable during CW I but her argument makes no sense in this particular case. Plus, I do believe you can be an influential person without really knowing what you're talking about. That's politics.
I'm continually impressed with sandstorm. I played around with their thing on oasis and it all worked as advertised. It's not extremely polished yet, but the functionality is there. I've been looking into their serialization protocol, Cap'n Proto, for a side project and again it seems quite well designed.

I sincerely hope the future is one in which lots of families, people, etc, self host their own "cloud apps" rather than delegating it all to facebook, gmail, etc, and sandstorm looks like it could be a winner here. (Or maybe owncloud, or that thing that HN blogged about a week or two ago, or...)
I understand that "underemployment" is traditionally seen linked with the hours that you work but I feel that it is too simplistic to leave it at that. If a senior developer ends up working full-time at McDonanld's Or a manager level person ends up in a junior dev position, how is that not underemployment? Is there any other term for it? Are there are any stats around it?
Well power must have something to do with it. The 2nd industrial revolution made essentially unlimited chemical power available to many people.

Next revolution? Unlimited nuclear power available to many people...
There's nothing wrong with "content" when it's purely entertainment, but freakonomics falls well into the TED, Malcolm Gladwell, "fake-insight" category, that makes you feel clever about knowing some counter-intuitive fact, when the majority of the time, it's only counter-intuitive because it has been presented unintuitively in the first place, or because the fact is actually bullshit.
That's why we need reliable undo, not confirmation dialogues.
>The difference between the two systems is that one of them, even when implemented incorrectly, still works in practice.

No, the difference between them is everything but that. IMHO Communism is more just, intelligent and advanced way of doing things... Saying that Capitalism "works" is just untrue, though it would be good to know what are your reasons to think that, and what news do you read? What's a socio-economic system that "works" for you?

>The other one is an intellectual's dream that caused pain and suffering for millions of people.

"An intellectual's dream", seriously? For starters it is not just one intellectual but lots of the brightest sociological minds on history, and also, it's not a dream, the idea of communism has all the backing of centuries of sociological development and science, and it's a very plausible evolution to the non-ever-working capitalism.

>We should drop the "no true Scotsman" for Communism, at this point.

Agree. My point though, is that we can't keep stigmatizing communism and misusing the term because of poor knowledge or out-of-space-time implementations.
Change the SSH port...
I didn't see a link to the code, do you mind sharing?
Lessons Learned the Hard Way from Building a Node App in Docker
Isn't it dangerous to assume all malicious programs will use scratch files before communicating across the network? Won't you miss programs that use purely in-memory structures?
Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile
I recently updated my AngelList profile and they emailed my employer, pretending to be me, to "confirm" the project I'd added. How can they think this is a good idea?
The Billion Dollar AI Castle in the Air (2014)
I've never seen this issue before; are you still seeing it? Seems like the result of some temporary down-time.
Interesting. I think though the difference with chess is there's no simple known heuristic to evaluate a board position.

AlphaGo does it with a neural network, and as far as I can tell, it seems to be doing a better job at it than top professionals.

All the AIs before AlphaGo basically (as far as I can tell) had some hand-coded heuristic rules.
Heavy users may be more likely to use dedicated readers so % of total users is less important than % of book sales.
I don't know if this is still true, but I read a number of years ago that the Kindle hardware was sold at under cost and subsidized by the "sales" of DRMed content. I've got an early-gen Kindle with no content actually purchased from Amazon on it; it's a really nice arrangement.
This looks excellent!

Some questions because I need something like this:

What does "distributed" mean in this context? Can the graph size be larger than the storage on a single node? If so, how is it partitioned (I think Titan was randomly partitioned)?

Has any thought been given to in-graph processing (PageRank etc)?
This is exactly the reason I decided not to stay in academia after I got my Ph.D. I could not rationalize working 10 to 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, trying to teach, conduct research, scramble for funding, participate in department politics just to attain tenured position at an R1 school while making barely 75K starting.

I now work in a development position at a large tech company for which I'm overqualified. I work about 7 hours a day plus a couple of meetings. I never work weekends, have plenty of free time to conduct research on the side and make well into 6 figures.
Ha! I tried editing my text to be clearer what I'm referring to.
What if it was a real Apple charger bought from Apple. And it ended up killing 100 people?

The Apple blogger army would be out in force defending Apple in that case.

What do you think? Would Apple be liable?
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam
Privacy Badger (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) already has the capability to replace social media widgets.
Just FYI, I wouldn't log into any systems using credentials you find through this. A lot of people are obviously using credentials stolen from previous dumps, so there might be valid ones in there. Logging into a public facing router using stolen credentials is definitely a crime.
Only in the newer Android releases.
The comments here are really missing the forest for the trees. The point is: here is one computer Go researcher predicting computer Go dominance would be achievable by 2017. I keep reading in the media that "Go experts thought it would take decades," but the fact is it's hard to find actual quotations from computer Go experts.

You can easily find many professional Go players who didn't think Go programs would surpass humans for decades, but these people aren't engineers. This would be like asking a human off the street for predictions about AGI.

It doesn't really matter whether or not the researcher predicted the exact methods of AlphaGo (he didn't - while AlphaGo uses tree search methods very extensively, just as important were the policy/value nets). Does anyone really believe that the people with predictions about the timeframe of AGI are going to predict the exact methods used in AGI?
The Reply All podcast, and maybe all by Gimlet media, play a very specific background song when a paid advertisement is running. It's a very clever way of helping listeners differentiate.
I just emailed this to off to the couple of friends of mine who still use MBP's. This is a real, real clever solution. Read this post, it's very clever not just as an instructive on heat-shrink repair, but the composition (if I'm visualizing this correctly) also functions as strain relief, which is ultimately the cause of fray[1]. My way around the 'over the connector' was just to oversize via teflon tape (naive solution, I know), but your idea is simple yet genius (silicone is soft, so it won't score the existing exterior of the wire, and silicone is rigid enough to act as auxiliary support).

If you're rough on your gear (I've thrown my laptop into a TSA container in a 5:30AM grog more times that I can count), I'd do this as a precautionary measure even if you don't see any damage yet. It might not look pretty, but functionality over form any day.

[1] combined with using thin wire shielding in order to maintain a 'sleek' aesthetic
In perspective its really not that odd.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/FYONGDA188S

1) 2015 is 20.55%. 1980 is 20.64%.

2) Recessions increase spikes as a share of GDP, really bad recessions have bigger spikes.
"Because we get tired." is what I've always heard from people that aren't researching it.
Are there any VMs that give you memory-state level snapshots?
The reference library we do have looks set to make further breaking changes[0], which complicates this further.

[0] https://github.com/P-H-C/phc-winner-argon2/pull/119/files
Most water utilities are public. Only 11% of people receive water from private utilities. Even privately owned utilities are often quasi-public entities. They may be privately run, but often a public agency sets rates.
Are there any command line tools for GPS tracking on laptops (for example if you are connected to a GPS via bluetooth) ?
The point was to have a look at what kind of attacks are launched on the general internet, so the point was to be attacked.

Also, changing the port does basically nothing these days, with stuff like Shodan around constantly port-scanning.
What's an accurate, neutral headline?

Edit: we changed the title to a representative sentence from the article.
I'm strangely excited, hopefully not because of all the pistons. My favorites are Spring and Align.
The roadmap for Titan is unclear to say the least. No communication, then a release drops, then nothing again. Hmm.

I agree with your point about the Wikidata decision process. Some links about this if anyone is interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11201943

BlazeGraph seems like a reasonable product (now). But I don't like seeing this "Wikidata evaluated products and chose Blazegraph" thing - they started an evaluation process.
And a huge number don't suport email addresses with 'bare' tld's.

see rfc 7085 "Top-Level Domains That Are Already Dotless"

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rySaMA...
Baidu's Deep Speech 2 awarded as breakthrough technology
Oh my. I'll take five.
I listen to local NPR station often and I had never ever heard of NPR One. So I went to one.npr.org and I'm no wiser. It's a white page with a logo and a completely undocumented audio-play widget. I'd say the "don't talk about NPR One" rule extends to NPR One.
Like I mentioned above, changing the SSH port would only lessen the attempts on my box. I am interested in collecting as much data as possible.
For me the demo doesn't work, CORS violation while trying to access http://dgraph.xyz/query. (EDIT: manually accessing it sends me in a cloudflare(?) captcha, that might mess with the query?)
This is an amazing project. Thank you for that post. I would love to find some teams working on this who are interested in adding junior level engineers.
From the 2015 AIIDE Starcraft AI competition report[0].

> ""Why not StarCraft 2?"

> This is the question we always get asked when we tell people we are doing a BroodWar AI competition. This competition relies completely on BWAPI as a programming interface to BroodWar. BWAPI was created by reverse engineering BroodWar and relies on reading and writing to the program memory space of BroodWar in order to read data and issue commands to the game. Since any program that does this can essentially be seen as a map hack or cheat engine, Blizzard has told us that they don't want us to do anything similar for StarCraft 2. In fact, most of the StarCraft 2 EULA specifically deals with not modifying the program in any way. We are happy that Blizzard have allowed us to continue holding tournaments using BWAPI, and they have also helped out by providing prizes to the AIIDE tournament, however until their policy changes we will not be able to do the same for StarCraft 2."

[0] http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~cdavid/starcraftaicomp/report...
> (SC2 is prone to game-shaking patches)

It's something humans have to put up with, the AI should too?
https://github.com/vespakoen/dwaler
If you got a fake one, report it to Customs and Border Protection, along with as much info as you have about the path by which it reached you. They seize and destroy crap like this regularly.[1] Call 1-866-999-HALT, or see "stopfakes.gov". Mention the forged UL symbol. Also report that to UL.[2] Their report form accepts pictures.

UL puts effort into power supplies. This has been a problem with desktop machines for years. Gamer sites which review power supplies note that UL-rated power supplies don't burn out or blow up. That's because UL tests them by loading them up to their specified output with a resistor bank and running them for a few days at 100% load. They also test the overload-shutdown features. There are many low-end desktop power supplies which will not deliver their nameplate output continuously, or at all.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/13/us-customs-seize-35k-in-count...
[2] http://ul.com/customer-resources/market-surveillance-departm...
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Wage income may not have increased much for lower/middle class over the last 30 years, but certainly gross income counting welfare benefits has increased significantly, so perhaps that could have something to do with it.
UXE?
I agree. It's one of only areas the AI's have been hood at. Pathfinding and build orders being other two. AI should be limited to a specific number of actions a minute comparable with opposing player or best human champ. Then, we're grading it on its "thinking" instead of dexterity.

They better keep fog of war on too.
I have no connection with Mammoet. I just like the way they deal with difficult and dangerous jobs with very little drama.
I am interested in Solar myself. Yet my decision matrix has nothing to do with how much I can get back from the incumbent utility provider. I am FAR more interested in storage technology. Ideally it would progress such that I wouldn't need to pay much for non solar electricity. Of course it is my fear that this is what they actually wish to stop; their end game is most likely to make you pay for connectivity and services regardless of if you use them or not.
Mechanical Turk: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
Totally screwed. Battery completely dead on an older generation model I hadn't used for some time. I can't even get the charging light to come on despite trying all the tricks. Too late to get any kind of battery replacement and still get the update.

Bricked by the cloud.
Probably the same reason they often have typos and stuff in the fake labeling - they just don't have the know-how to do it better.
Survey paper below introducing Starcrafy challenges plus all the AI's that failed to conquer humans.

https://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/87/10/01/PDF/survey.pdf
Works great with cloudmqtt and https://home-assistant.io for home automation based on your location.
hope this works: https://goo.gl/photos/jiZYZZYkxhFVSj7u8
Just like it's a crime trying to ssh into a box that is not yours right? And besides I didn't do anything to the router. I was simply pointing out that you should change your default credentials and hide your router.

... should be a crime to not change the default credentials.
I was an active TechShop member in July / August 2015 to build an art project for Burning Man [1]. My friend and I were there Monday through Friday, it felt like it was our office.

Overall, the experience was very good, we learned a ton of things, met interesting people, such as a guy who explained in details how to use that magnet printer, and some mechanical engineers building a cool sandwich-making robot which later turned out to be a YC company. We had a lot of fun.

However, as soon as our project was completed, we discontinued our membership. TechShop's pricing is weird: it's either insanely cheap if you're working on a project full time (I would have paid 2 times the amount no problem), or it's prohibitively expensive if you're just there 2-3 times a month.

[1] http://flowandwonder.com
Just for fun I ran an SSH server on a RasPi to basically allow any login and to simulate a Linux shell. And then captured the various things that people tried. If you're wondering what the "standard set" of script kiddy tricks are, I highly recommend it.
I think that's a bad idea. Many hardware technology start-ups go down the path of forward-integrating in order to drive adoption. To do this, they end up investing massive amounts in developing the end product, instead of on the specific feature.
Klondike: Solitaire for Mac, continually updated for 32 years by same man
kubernetes is that general use framework.
AFAICT, Titan is effectively dead, being replaced by Datastax Graph. Likewise, Blazegraph is about graph computation (think Spark's GraphX, OLAP) rather than simple reads/writes (OLTP). Systems can try to straddle both, but the benchmarks should be different.

Quickly looking at this project suggests it's on the OLTP side, not OLAP, so apples/oranges. Claiming more performance than a GPU compute engine would need some real benchmarking ;-)
> forcibly keep an animal awake for long enough and you will kill it. The same almost certainly applies to humans.

There was a PBS Nova episode on sleep many years ago. It showed people who never sleep. They are rare but they exist and have been studied extensively. They do have down-time where they rest for hours, but they never fall asleep. If this was any other show than Nova I'd call bullshit.
I mean like, you have a 3 person startup and one of you is running around doing work that your customers assume must be already automated.
> Of course, it's hard to separate out or even infer the causes as nature vs. nurture (which the article is careful about) but the part about twins was the most striking for me:

If you look, they already give you enough to get an idea of the relative contributions:

> 15% of siblings share an occupation, which is higher than the 8.6% rate for any two same-gender, same-age individuals in the population. Twins' tendency to choose the same occupation, at 24.7%, is even more striking.

So siblings have twice the rate of random people, and identical twins have twice the rate of siblings. Since twins have twice the genetics as well, this points to high heritability and (probably) lower shared environment.
Stopping counterfeit LV bags is hard because there's no authentication mechanism short of putting RFID tags in each bag.

But a computer accessory is different. The magsafe charger communicates with the laptop using the 1-wire protocol[0][1]. Why not incorporate an authentication mechanism here?

[0] http://hackaday.com/2013/06/07/apple-magsafe-protocol-hackin...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire
25 years from now is forever in biological engineering. It's crazy to think noone knew much about CRISPR 4 years ago, now it's used everywhere. It's like that in other fields too.

The things AI is able to do is growing rapidly too. Nothing looks like a big deal to the Freakonomics guy because the next thing comes out so quickly and replaces it that it doesn't seem like a big development, whereas we had decades to admire and reflect upon what a big deal our cars and light bulbs were.
M(n) = floor[A^3^n]

The above will give you primes, so long as A is filled in with the right constant. So, in a strange way, you might imagine A as number that has information about primes written inside of it. The formula could be thought of as a decompressor to get that information out.

In a similar way, could some of our physical constants be "hiding" structure inside of them? If we got all of the structure out and into math, could we end up with a constant-less physics?
Is Lua easier to optimize than Javascript? Is impressive how fast LuaJIT is for being a one man show.
The product is actually internet hosting as a service. It is being administered by an autonomous artificial intelligence, who runs the books and decides who owes who how much. That AI is its own corporation, and is a separate entity from the Ethereum Foundation, which created it and organized the initial public offering of web hosting tokens. The tokens can be exchanged for hosting.

They have some value on the open market which is a function of how much people are willing to pay for Ethereum hosting and how much people think people will be willing to pay for it in the future.
Did you attempt to notify that poor schmuck who stood up that AirRouter with the default username and password?
Our users (graphistry.com) do this with our visualizer. You don't really need a heavy-duty graph database for that part, stuff like SQL or even lighter weight things are more normal.

It gets fun for us when we help visualize a full enterprise (hundreds of thousands of users, devices, apps..), and even more so when event data enters the picture. We do the former with our GPU tech, and push the latter to generic big data systems like Spark or Splunk that should already be in place before this becomes worthwhile.
Show HN: FatStack.js – A stack implementation using Bignums
"doing thinks that don't scale"?