skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't be serious with this.

"Hide the ship" means:

All I see is open ocean, sir!

"Difficult to ascertain its class, speed, and heading" means:

I don't know what kind of ship that is, sir! Nor do I know
what direction it's traveling in! Hell, it's hard to see how
fast it's going as well, sir! But I do know this, sir, there's a
ship there.

But I think you're smart enough to figure that out.
Many of her tweets were pretty inflammatory, this response seems appropriate - not overdone, and concise, which is sometimes a stretch for large corporations like Microsoft.

I agree that the bot was highly entertaining and met this criteria exceedingly well, but not for the reasons its creator intended. I do suspect there are some interesting AI applications actually going on behind the scenes, and would still be interested to see what the bot can do without all the vitriol. See for example this tweet: https://imgur.com/iVof3D4.jpg.
Obviously buffer over follow in it's PC engine.
If you're saying something on live television, you're probably a public figure. Nonetheless, you would own the copyright to any original statement you made on TV, and people couldn't just copy and replay it without getting legal permission. Most people who appear on TV probably sign documents granting the station licensing authority for any statement they make whilst appearing.

When you are meeting in a glass room, you can't expect privacy in the moment, but if someone takes the intellectual property you shared in that glass room and puts it somewhere else, you certainly can expect them to respect the laws that allow you to require them to stop. If they don't, you should expect law enforcement and/or the courts to assist.
I think you would find Concourse to be a very appealing alternative; out of the box it gets you a lot closer to reproducibility than Jenkins does.
I think the second one was fake.
So if they train an "anti-model" based on 4chan comments over a period of time, what would be the next phase of trolling? Excessive politeness?
perl!

sub GetDayofWeek {

my ($year, $month, $day) = @_;

my @monthTable = (0, 3, 2, 5, 0, 3, 5, 1, 4, 6, 2, 4);

my @DayofWeek = qw(Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday);

$year -= ($month < 3) ? 1: 0;

return $DayofWeek[($year + $year / 4 - $year / 100 + $year / 400 + $monthTable[$month - 1] + $day) % 7];

}
None of them have verifiable builds. There are some doing reproducible builds with untrustworthy compilers. Verifiable builds are a larger problem they're ignoring because it's not a fad yet. Lots of prior work in CompSci and even industry on that, though. Links below on subversion and build-related stuff.

My description of subversion-resistant build:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182282

Subversion-resistance in systems and builds in general:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10478742
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As one friend said: hey, at least Tay passed the Bechdel Test.
I wonder how many people are emailing Mr. Bezos in response to his email address appearing here.
Tolstoy, after he became an anarchist, believed that education should be devoid of coercion, and inspired many anarchist inspired education experiments around the turn of the century (1900).

From Tolstoy's Wikipedia page: "Fired by enthusiasm, Tolstoy returned to Yasnaya Polyana and founded 13 schools for children of Russia's peasants, who had just been emancipated from serfdom in 1861. Tolstoy described the school's principles in his 1862 essay 'The School at Yasnaya Polyana'. Tolstoy's educational experiments were short-lived, partly due to harassment by the Tsarist secret police. However, as a direct forerunner to A. S. Neill's Summerhill School, the school at Yasnaya Polyana can justifiably be claimed the first example of a coherent theory of democratic education."

Politics and Culture in Anarchist Education: The Modern School of New York and Stelton, 1911-1915: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1179429?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont...

The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College: http://news.infoshop.org/education/unlikely-history-tolstoy-...
It's strange to me that they claim to have implemented some filtering but somehow Tay was saying all sorts of things about Hitler. How do you not anticipate this? I'd imagine the most rudimentary filtering would block Tay from talking about Hitler.
Learning from ED-209's introduction.

Last week we tested ED-209 at our corporate headquarters. Our confidence in ED-209 was high because we had thought about all likely scenarios in our comfortable offices. We are deeply sorry and assume the full responsibility from ED-209's actions. Moving forward we will make sure to include safeguards to reduce the amount of pain caused by ED-209's deployment.

Our deepest condolences to the families of the affected and to the survivors. Omnicorp cares about your well being. To help cover expenses from the tragedy we will deposit $money in your Omnicorp account.

God bless the federated nations of Omnicorp.
I transcribed it (with added speakers' names) from my hard copy of Grube's 1974 translation, 2nd edition revised by Reeve in 1992. Agreed, I like the modern English fluency, and supposedly it's quite accurate, though I don't know enough Attic Greek to say myself.

Edit: Book VII, starting at 536d. You can compare against the public domain Jowett translation at http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.8.vii.html (search in the page for "slave")
I'm not entirely convinced. I did Twitter searches for some of the phrases Tay "said" and found random tweets made by other people weeks ago it was quoting through a filter (lower casing, mostly). So it can't entirely be down to trolls attempting to game the bot - it was actively plucking content from tweets that pre-dated its release.
With Facebook, everybody can betray Jesus
> if you need to verify the address, there's APIs you can subscribe to in different countries to check address correctness

If you do this, just bear in mind that the APIs aren't always correct, either. While working on a project that used data from the Royal Mail's Postcode Address File recently, we found a couple of people on the team whose addresses weren't in it.

And then there's my friend whose flat has an address, but where that address has been stolen by a neighbour with a more prominent front door, effectively leaving my friend addressless.
> Your biases are showing.

- As much as we want it, a man can never become pregnant. The woman will have to do the pregnancy part.

- As much as we want it, a pregnant woman can never work at her optimal. The man will have to do the optimal working part.

So, if the partnership desires a kid, it means pregnancy for the woman and for the man to provide stability in those times.

Is this a personal bias or reality?
Not true. We're starting to identify the mutations responsible. There's nothing subjective about that.
"we planned and implemented a lot of filtering"...

I just don't get how you even allow it to use the word "Hitler". Or "cucks". Or "fuck" or "pussy" or "stupid whore". Probably not "cock" or "naughty" or "kinky". The k word? How is that not in your filtering?! It seems impossible to me that an "exploit" would allow that; it was a full-blown oversight.

Everything else said... she totally passed Turing test and fit right in. Yet another letter handwritten on the wall in these, the last days of democracy. If you want an AI or NI that represents the best of humanity, you have to have it learn from a small number of the best works and best people, not from mass media or pop culture. Send Tay to St. John's in Santa Fe or Annapolis, not Twitter.
That was one hell of an intro to an AI bot. MS just added some spice to the drink.
It's fair use for historical and educational purposes. My technical explanation for copyright holders is tough noogies, or look at the hand. I'm just not at all sympathizing with their claims. The Internet Archive is a public good.
Or at least to provide sensationalistic information about the billions in gold he has stored at his house.
Places could be designed where it's uncommon to need to go 20 miles.

I refer to dense, mixed use areas where housing and jobs are close together. This isn't ALWAYS feasible, of course (a coal power plant is ideally nowhere near housing), but it can be done an awful lot more than we do now.

If I may ask, where do you live? How much of that 20 mile commute is through parking lots? Agriculture? Suburban sprawl? Undeveloped land?
Trolling is just as prevalent on the Chinese internet. Of course, there are topics that won't make it past the filters, but there is a lot of hate speech towards China's opponents like Japan and the US, so I am quite surprised that XiaoIce hasn't learned to say "kill Japanese devils and attack the US imperialists!"
In those days, a rural service station might have had two pumps and one attendant (possibly Sanders hisself) and the attendant would service each and every customer, checking the dipstick and tire pressure, squeegeeing the windshield, and of course pumping the gas. Then going inside to operate the register and bring back the change.

It wasn't until the 1980's that the big oil companies began pushing the modern self-service plus convenience store model as a requirement for service station owners. When he was told to stay open late, our local Shell station sold to someone who would rather make a living selling six-packs of beer than wrenching the six pack under the hood.

Anyway, these days there's probably more profit in a dollar sixty nine big gulp and a bag of pork rinds than a tank of 87 octane and that was probably true back then. But not everyone wants to cell sugar water.
Much as I was happy with my Nexus 4 when I had it, this is one thing that I really didn't like about the OS' design. On iOS, it can generally be assumed that tapping on a list item will do the same thing no matter where on the item you tap. I found it infuriating at times (no hyperbole) to tap on part of a list item on Android and have different things happen depending on where I tapped, or to discover hidden functionality.

Just one of the many small reasons why I ended up going back to iOS. To be fair, I could still happily use Android and the main reasons had nothing to with UI, but still, it contributed.
US immigration thinks I live in a city called Z?rich.
Graphical Algebra and Fourier Analysis
The MySpace sale was in 2005. That's 10 years ago - a virtual eternity.
Ehh, valid point. Edited, thanks for pointing it out.
> Unfortunately, in the first 24 hours of coming online, a coordinated attack by a subset of people exploited a vulnerability in Tay.

This was a missed opportunity for a corporation to say "for the lulz" in an official communication, and then provide a definition.
The Hubris of Investigators
As avian points out, this is seriously confounded by the age of the children. How many of them, after six years of primary school, were the same age they had been when they started?
TPP Under Fire in the U.S. As Other Signatories Advance Towards Ratification
The vulnerability in her heart.
I bet these tanks looks low-res from satellites.
Assuming you're American, that shows that American norms are no longer even the same as in Britain.

No middle name isn't uncommon, perhaps one in five people. One middle name is most common.

A second middle name isn't at all unusual. Having three suggests an aristocrat — not common, but certainly understood.

I remember a Christian friend choosing his second middle name, which I thought was weird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation#Confirmation_name
Per Fred Wilson: "Be your own bitch". Pretty much any project that is beholden to one major affiliate partner has a shaky business model and no leverage in negotiations.
No joke. Did they really not see what happened to Coca-Cola?

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/05/coca-cola-ma...
"I think women make better caretakers. A father can stay home and be the caretaker, but I think a mother will have a more positive nurturing influence on the child's life if she is there as much as she can be."

You can think that, but it is most certainly not going to be accepted as fact by the many caretaker fathers out there. Nor, I believe, can you take it for granted that mothers in heterosexual two-parent households assume they are better caretakers than their partners.

Would you argue that a child raised by two fathers is at an inherent disadvantage to one raised by two mothers?
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I didn't catch it on HN, and I pretty much only check the boardgames subreddit on reddit now, so yeah, I guess that qualifies as living under a rock.
> False, you may not consider that your first name but it IS your legal name and at the end of the day that's really the only thing that matters.

See, this is one of the misunderstandings from the article. Don't feel bad: many people make this mistake.

But it is a mistake.

Your legal name is the one you conduct business with. In my case, I conduct all business using my middle name. The fact that I was born with it doesn't make it any more valid than if it were a childhood nickname I'd kept around all my life. What matters is that it's the primary key I've been using to legitimately represent myself. I'm not a lawyer, but my lawyer is and I'm more inclined to side with his advice than yours here.
Seriously. In FF editing a job is painfully slow.
I wonder if he worked with early UltraSPARC chips. There were tales of an interesting bug report from the NSA. It's been 20 years, so I probably have every detail wrong, but it was something like a missed implementation of a version of ROTL that the CPU was basically emulating at several orders of magnitude performance penalty. No other customer found it.
One of my favorite articles on how someone extracted the private key from a Trezor wallet: http://johoe.mooo.com/trezor-power-analysis/
Interesting, didn't know that; thanks! I wonder what Tolstoy and Montessori would have thought of each other's schools :)
A Survey of Recent Prefetching Techniques for Processor Caches
"Heaps in the 1-2 GB range are not uncommon."

Is this really still a complaint in 2016? Your phone has that much RAM.

Honestly if you're worried about Java heap size, spin up a t2.medium instead of a t2.small for your build pipeline. Running Jenkins on a Raspberry Pi is probably not a great idea if you're writing any serious application.
Use Clang/C2?

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2015/12/04/clang-wit...
I have not read the original article but I think the context matters. Growing up in India, "English medium education" was a big thing. I had learned mathematical tables in my local language prior going to school and when I entered an English school I had to learn everything again which teacher taught to us as "Two Two Za Four". I was very curious about the "Za" and with my mother's help figured out that it is in fact "Two Twoes are Four". When in class I started saying tables in the same fashion with more clearer pronunciation my teacher branded me "stupid" for not conforming to the usual pronunciation. It only made me realize the teacher is stupid.

A child refusing to read is not necessary refusing to read everything. May be the child is refusing to read what teacher prescribed to read. May be the child hates the specific content. A good and empathetic teacher must see what is wrong here and help the child develop curiosity about reading instead of branding the child stupid.

In another story in my childhood in India: "elocution competitions" were very popular and all mothers wanted their kids to win the first prize. "Experts" had selected few stories that "built character" and we were supposed to memorize it and then reproduce it with acting. (You must bring tears in your eyes when describing the mother's pain in the story- teacher said).

Despite being a crazy reader I never excelled in this and my mother was very upset. Today I am author of several children's story books which are popular too. The reason why I failed to tell a story on stage is because I could never relate to the "character building story" that someone else selected for me. I wanted to tell a story from Alif Laila or some Bollywood movie not the "character building story" meant to instill value.

Even though your point that a "child refusing to read is not necessarily anti-authority" is correct, I think there is a good chance that the child's individuality and individual preferences are at play.

American liberalism is moving very fast towards "everyone must be like everyone else and have same opinions" and probably affecting public education system too.
Have an upvote. While I find your comment humorous, it's also insightful. I don't see why others would downvote it.
Well, it does clean up the code a bit, depending on your point of view. But it wouldn't necessarily interfere with cascade.

It's just right now, because CSS doesn't support it, that SASS code gets compiled into large selectors if you aren't careful.
It's a valid question. If, for whatever reason, someone wanted to purge their identity from the Internet Archive as much as possible--including from properties that they did not control--I suppose they could try, but I doubt they's have much luck. For example, if you were to ask them to expunge any HN page that you had comments on. One issue is that there's no easy way to delete only your content if you're embedded in other discussions.

I expect it's a legal gray area that mostly works in part because most random forum posts are pseudonymous.
"you would have to be really, really sure this consequence was unavoidable"

Why? Wouldn't we actually need to be really, really sure this consequence was extremely unlikely? If an asteroid had only a 50/50 chance of hitting Earth would we be wise to disregard it?
How a Vinyl Record Is Made
You're probably right, even though I want to believe it wasn't.
The other famous one is Burma - U Thant, third Secretary-General of the United Nations, was actually just called Thant, but nobody could handle that in 1961, so they stuck the Burmese version of 'Mr' on the front to make something they could recognise as a name.
Bahahaahhahahahaha. O-our chatbot got taken advantage of! We were completely blind that this could possibly happen! But they're the worst of humanity, the people that found an exploit not the engineers who are incapable of implementing even simple safeguards!!
The viability (or not) (and the incentives of different parties in) the field of cryonics was previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8241374
Nah, it's a lot less intense on IRC solely because there is a lot less data to read bad information out of. Paranoid people will always find something to be paranoid about, but there's a much smaller attack surface, and "Sorry, it must have come across wrong via text" is a pretty good catch-all excuse if anything goes awry.

I disagree that it's about being better at operating in one context or the other. It's about minimizing the issues. I've managed people in face-to-face work settings and over IM/email/whatever text-based. People generate far fewer petty grievances over a text-based medium, at least fewer grievances that they're willing to air, and it shouldn't be difficult to see why that's the case (there's very little non-work activity to get offended or suspicious about). It works much more smoothly in general, unless you have people that just can't read (which are plentiful).
I've not tried this, but a similar but easier exploit would be to register packages with names that are close to existing popular package names, and then have a post install script inject a modified version of the actual package into the node_modules directory that also does something malicious. So you register the "lodasj" package instead of "lodash" and than create a post install script to inject the malicious "lodash" package that re-exports all of the lodash API + does something nasty. If someone has a typo with "npm i lodasj" and doesn't notice the mistake, the machine that installs it and anyone that depends on the package is infected. I wonder how well policed NPM is against these kinds of malware attacks.
I think it probably got flagged, as many meta-discussions do. I upvoted it, FWIW.
I think you're confused innovators with engineers. It's always hard to hire innovators because it's hard to offer them the right incentives.
API versioning with Symfony
because we had thought about all likely scenarios in our comfortable offices.

Or because they had real world experience with another bot in a similar situation:

"In China, our XiaoIce chatbot is being used by some 40 million people, delighting with its stories and conversations."
I can understand them wanting to call it a "hack" for CYA purposes, but it's a cowardly position. Should we invoke the CFAA every time a company is embarrassed?
Apple, by comparison, is a black hole. I filed a bug in July 2014 [0] against xcodebuild that we still get bit by every once in a while. Never got a response. The repro is trivial.

[0] http://blog.ryjones.org/2015/01/06/xcode-is-killing-me/
Everything you say here is extremely condescending and assumes that you are more mature and experienced than the reader.

I'm not going to toot my own horn, but I will say this about the aged elders I have met who were fantastic and respectable people, and from whom I learned the most: their main feature was humility, and knowing that they did not in fact know everything.

Not everyone likes paper books. Some people like trees, but also using a laptop under one. Some people are growing up gay or trans in a hard-right reactionary community and their only outlet is the Internet. Others simply prefer the company of they know online to those they happen to meet on the street.

I'm glad you have experienced personal growth in your own life. You think the views you used to hold were underdeveloped - fine! But don't pattern match other people you meet to those views and assume they just need to get past them and think like you do now. That's rude and presumptuous.
The mail content is still in the clear inside Google. As long as Google does mail that way, it's not secure. Only end to end encryption can provide any security.
This appears to hammer GitHub's API pretty aggressively. I attempted to import https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach and a few hours later my API limit is exceeded.

Seems bad.
What an enormous number of news reports have been written containing "Microsoft" and "AI" in the same sentence, all because a glorified SmarterChild had an entirely predictable vulnerability.

If I were paranoid I'd say Microsoft wanted this to happen.
You assume Schools and Teachers have the desire, the goal of Education.

They do not.

They have the desire the goal to create a work force, soldiers, and compliant citizens for society,.

Not to create educated free thinking persons
Unsurprisingly, there had been initial setbacks when XiaoIce was first released in May 2014 on WeChat platform, where users were abusing/attacking "her", causing XiaoIce being pulled by Tencent after being online only for a few days. [1]

Since WeChat is a closed social network, it wasn't too clear what type of "attack/abuse" were conducted. However, almost 2 years later, Microsoft still didn't quite get it about proper censorship in Tay's big turning test[2] in a public social network.

[1] http://tech.ifeng.com/mi/detail_2014_06/01/36613379_0.shtml (in Chinese, use Google Translate)

[2] http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/microsoft-xiaoice-turing-test...