skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi phd514, in reading your comment, you are absolutely right; my comment did paint a broad brush. In reconsidering my response, I'd retract what I said about MIT culture and say my remarks really says more about me and my own cynicism/preoccupation at my age, late twenties.

It is in direct response to the parent post where the poster lamented about missing out a chance to experience the idealistic/radical youth culture when he was young, I responded more cynically about how in college I and my other friends did live in creative undergraduate communities; but whereas it was easy and natural to take on that attitude during undergrad, I found it became much harder to sustain those ideals in adulthood, as hard choices and realization of human nature creeps in, whether to truly sacrifice precious time and energy in your adulthood working towards them vs. "establishing" oneself professionally and socially; and because I struggle mightily with this, I put more value on what imperfect choices that people commit to as adults vs. the exciting (albeit memorable/enriching) experiences that they partook in as undergrads.
Perl 6 makes all of Lisp's mistakes, then sets itself on fire
my view counter went up by 2 for the demo and 1 for the founder video. Didn't think I'd get an interview but did end up getting one.
Iirc comey said in one interview that they wanted to know which path they went on during missing minutes on the day of the shooting when the phone was with them, and hoped the phone had location data.

Edit: see http://nytimes.com/2016/03/02/technology/apple-and-fbi-face-...
As far as the recent deep learning boom is concerned, genetic programming is really out of favor. I don't really see it in any of the deep learning (or even machine learning, for that matter) literature/successes/research groups.

"Neural networks" are a really really overloaded term. A ton of stuff referred to as "neural networks" has little to do with the "neural networks" that are used in the machine learning community.
I'm not surprised that it's a hatchet job, given that it's _The Guardian_ on a conservative position; but even by their standards, it's kind of low to ask one of the principals of a debate to write an article about that debate!
"regulators" who likely share their data freely with the government or law enforcement anyway. I see no reason to make a distinction where no practical distinction exists.
One gain is that they're still a going concern and none of the individuals responsible have faced any sanctions or penalties.

You'd think at least that these folks would be barred from any further involvement with the financial industry.
>Do you drive a car? If so, you're choosing to use a technology with a catastrophic failure mode triggered by obvious mistakes. So the answer is clearly "yes".

The difference being that even the most gnarly multi-car pile up doesn't directly involve more than a few dozen individuals. The worst macro-level effect is making everyone 30 minutes late when the interstate backup.

"Catastrophic" failures in cars are very localized when compared to the catastrophic failures we've seen in nuclear plants, which cause the permanent emergency evacuation of millions of residents overnight and quarantine zones that must be kept in place for decades.

Nuclear power is no joke. Look through the pictures of Fukushima or Pripyat if you don't believe me. Nuclear is way too dangerous to be trusted and doesn't have a place in civilian power generation, no matter how many times people swear "this time we've got it guys, I promise we didn't overlook anything obvious, I promise that we have a super-stable cool new design". These promises can't be trusted when such catastrophic failures are a realistic risk.
Are you trolling? How is "never telling anyone where you work out of fear of a lawsuit" the smart way to do anything?
If you want numbers, provide funding.
Using all inputs and 6 layers of varying sizes. After about 500 iterations. http://i.imgur.com/x1MOpvl.jpg
What makes you think ISPs are intercepting HTTPS traffic, or have the ability to do so?
Broadly speaking, investment banks perform two roles:

1) Act as advisors in financial transactions. You expect them to have your best interest in mind here. That's the core reason you are paying them -- to give you good advice and look out for you.

2) Act as brokers when you want to buy or sell something. Sometimes it's hard to find buyers or sellers for your particular transaction. Imagine trying to sell a hotel... or a 10% stake in Tesla... or a few million barrels of oil. You might not know anyone who has interest in that, but you still want to buy or sell. An investment bank can help broker a transaction. In this case, you're (implicitly or expicitly) paying for liquidity, i.e. access to their relationships with buyers and sellers around the world. The service being provided is arranging a buyer(seller) for your transaction. (The service is not about providing advice in your best interest).

There are certainly examples of shady dealings in role #1 above.

But in role #2, a customer of an investment bank generally understands that the service is matching buyers/sellers, and you don't rely on the investment bank to do your diligence. You're not paying for advice in this case.

It's like if your real estate agent was representing both the buyer and the seller, and you know they get compensated only if a transaction occurs. of course you expect that they are doing everything in their power to get everyone to transact.
Yeah you're right, it probably is bullshit. I mean, you never hear in the news about mass civilian deaths caused by missile strikes. You certainly don't hear about them almost every week. It must be lies.
> If he was paid for it, he was technically a session musician.

Technically, sure. But it's pretty obvious that this situation is not what anyone is talking about here.
It's great that Apple is a company with lots of money that can stand a chance in court and all that, but that also means they're a government-legible single point of failure. Their business model is still "administer our users' devices". While this is much better than Google's "surveil our users", maintaining their privileged access puts their users at risk, as highlighted by this recent battle.
So, punish companies for using AdSense, one of Google's core services? As many have pointed out here, AdSense is a big contributor to these ads. It seems it would be pretty easy to weed out on the AdSense platform, since they have to be bidding on "download" as a keyword to be assigned to that page.
No wonder YC doesn't go for music industry startups anymore
It does come off a bit like a multidimensional pissing match - with the FBI alternately saying, "We can force you to break this phone", "We can break it ourselves if we want to", "We will break it and not tell you how", "We can insert a succession of stories in the media that will call your security into question."
You can't really insure against environmental damage.
http://gamesalad.com/

My son used this for his science fair project last year and I thought it was an excellent platform.
Hi bestattack,

Thanks for your great questions! Questions regarding scope (ambition) are especially pertinent. Most independent games fail due to an inability to reign in their ambitions. With that in mind we're engineering this project to be both modular and scalable according to our resources. Ideally we want to create an MMORPG so that, as you've identified, players can improve their English through online interactions. At this point our players would be essentially creating content as they play! If we weren't able to raise enough money to produce an MMORPG we'd create a single-player campaign. At our most lean, we could break the RPG down into episodes, taking cues from the publishing industry. Thankfully, monetization strategies of this sort are much more flexible in Asia.

The closest comparison to a "successful" game would be to Koe (声), which attempts to teach Japanese through an RPG game. They managed to raise over $125,000 on Kickstarter (no mean feat). While they have yet to release (scope mismanagement), it does demonstrate market demand for language learning video games. Keep in mind it's estimated that there are more people learning English than speak it natively and you get an even better sense of demand.

That being said, I feel as if the market demand should already be clear; Koreans spend 15bn USD on English education with disastrous results. If we can create an educational system in which students get better test scores and don't feel compelled to kill themselves, well, that's worth something. I'm not just combining my two biggest passions, I'm combining Korea's two biggest manias: education and gaming. Korea is the world's 4th largest games consumer.

Thanks for your great questions bestattack (let me know if my answers have/haven't been sufficient)!
Thanks.

This would protect against hardware failure, but I would be worried about accidentally entering some commands to delete a bunch of stuff. If any automatic syncing is append-only, this is less of a problem, but it still seems to easy to delete everything during the next hardware upgrade, with a few accidental commands.
I actually kind of like header files. I find that they can nicely separate external interfaces from internal interfaces. They also can summarize an interface nicely.

They are not without problems. Complete template definitions, default circular includes. Not supporting partial classes. Ect.
We do have some features to help manage the lifecycle of feature flags. For example, we can determine when a flag has been "flipped on" for everyone, and notify you that it's time to remove it. We can also determine that a flag has been removed from your codebase, and prompt you to remove it from LD (http://blog.launchdarkly.com/launched-flag-status-indicators...).

We have more coming, including an ability to mark "permanent" flags that should never be removed.

The product is built API-first-- everything in our UI is driven via our own REST API. Docs are here: http://apidocs.launchdarkly.com/
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Affirm Raises $100M, Bucking the ‘Down Round’ Trend
You'd make it impossible for people to come into the city to work and eat? Or even live there?
New Evidence on When Bible Was Written
Very similar dynamics happening in Philadelphia. Go PA!
I think your lense of "free market" needs to be supplemented with a little game theory here. If you're an employer, what's your disincentive for tucking in a little non-compete in your contract? None at all[1], especially since many of your prospective employees won't read it or potentially (if you're a low-wage employee) understand it's implications. Then what's the disincentive for an entire industry to do this? None at all. And suddenly, there is no free market for job seekers anymore.

There's a reason why in the US, overwhelmingly contracts are read against the one who drafts them for example. There's an inherent power imbalance here. That's where laws and courts come into balance things out.

[1] To point, it's not uncommon for California-based tech companies to insert non-compete clauses into their contracts, even though they cannot possibly be enforced unless there is some special compensation.
National Weather Service: Forecasts ‘Will Stop Yelling at You’
Are you asking about a wind farm with the same power output as a nuclear plant? Because we could easily hypothesize about the damage done by a nuclear plant with the same power output as a wind farm, if you wish.
This is really great --- really loved the music. What is the name of the song ? Can't seem to recall it ... very majestic, beautiful
I'm happy that FB is releasing these tools. I really am, but you know what I want? I want to use the FB app with out it DESTROYING my phone's usability. Anytime FB is installed on any of my devices, the device degrades day after day until the phone is virtually unusable. Next step: Uninstall Facebook. Phone is usable again. I only use Nexus devices with a lot of space on them, so ... it's not like I'm using a cheap burner.

Unfortunately, due to this problem, I've been using the FB mobile website for a very long time. Every 3-6 months I'll re-install the FB Android app in hopes that things are better, only to be let down once again.

Something tells me that all this bit flipping that FB is doing is not making things better, but worse. Sure, it may be better for the FB app, but worse for the device general. This is just my speculation at this point though ...
At the last few places I've worked I've found that all I had to do was smile as they handed me the non-compete and tell them that I would take it home, read it and return it signed. Then I'd take it home and trash it. The next time someone asks about it (usually every few months) I say "I'm sorry, I think I lost it, could you email it to me again?" and start the process over. I honestly hate to be that passive aggressive about it but I'm not 'rockstar' enough to just say no and expect to keep my job, and I also don't want to limit my future options.
> By "free as in free speech" we mean the same thing as when we say "free as in freedom".

If it's freedom, why does the GPL need copyright law?
Because people build bridges and ladders out of rope, Perl has a history of giving the programmers plenty of rope to hang themselves. This is construed as a feature.

The good news is that even if such craziness exists in other people's code, it's lexically scoped, and does not contaminate your own code. I'm just enjoying the fact that even Perl 6's detractors realize how powerful the language is.
Are any OpenSSL fork vulnerable in the same way?
Keynote of engineer Niels Provos sharing some Google security and privacy details
> If you want to compute at compile time

I assume you're not up to speed on all the constexpr work.
I'm confused.

The web has a new server. If I trick the server into thinking that stuff I write gets hosted on example.com, it will generate a certificate asserting that I have a right to post stuff on example.com. It's easy for me to get that certificate revoked, but hard for the legitimate owners of example.com to do so.

Comparing this to self-signed certificates, I can think of a bunch of drawbacks, but I can't see any advantage. I hope I'm missing something.
In the spirit of the HN community feel, "Show HN" has always been about personal, side, or small projects. Never a link to a company's page.
I mean intrinsic to the "bind" authentication part of the DCE RPC protocol. Because the connection level part of that isn't integrity protected then any mitm can downgrade it.
Thanks for sharing, do you still see runtime performance benefits when ART is used or just compilation / dex2oat perf improvement?
Any pointers to your data collection and retention policies? After all, if you don't have it, you can't give it.
"more controllable"?

As the article says, Fukishima killed nobody, and wind power energy generation has killed more people than nuclear power generation.

I don't know how much more controllable you want?
If you're not set on living in the city, housing is fantastic in the Pittsburgh area.

I live 20 minutes from Downtown and I bought my house for $74,900 in 2008. 3/2, two car garage and driveway sitting on about 1/8 of an acre.

It blows my mind when I hear how much money people are paying for housing in bigger cities. The salary would need to be significantly higher to make it worth my while to move to a place like SF or NYC to take a job.

Additionally, this area is fairly centrist politically. Sure, it's Democrat heavy but there are a lot of conservative, blue collar Democrats that balance out the urban intellectual Democrats and we have a small but intense Republican population so we never go too far in any direction. That's an intangible thing that is very important to me.

The low cost of living, the low housing costs, the abundance of college educated professionals and the variety of experiences around would make this place attractive to all kinds of people. It could become a startup hub. I'm not sure I want to see that but I'm also not blindly opposed.
Not all closures require heap allocation.
I guess using a large hard drive at home, combined with tarsnap as backup, could be enough. The chance of the hard drive failing and the tarsnap service disappearing on the same day is extremely low, barring a crazy natural disaster.
Airbnb acquires team of Bitcoin and blockchain experts
You seem to be assuming that there needs to be a distinctive backend codebase for each domain covering the wildcard certificate.

This is something entirely orthogonal to the number of certificates. You could have 1000 codebases with different attack vectors under one SSL certificate, or 1 codebase the same attack vectors serving up 1000 SSL certificates.
I Apologize to the Driver and Passengers as Well
Of course there is a freedom argument to it. The freedom to contract line of reasoning is faulty because it ignores relative bargaining power or desparation.

When you are worried you won't be able to pay the rent you are not likely to care much about non-competes and you will get yourself into a bad situation.

To use your extreme example, people that did give themselves into slavery (and yes this used to happen during roman times), usually did it because of hunger and desparation. And because living in a country that has widespread slavery it was impossible to get paid for most labor. Certainly they would have preferred if Rome had banned slavery and even had a minimum wage. Then they would be able to do similar work but be paid for it. I doubt they would have worried much that banning slavery limited their freedom to contract. In fact they would practically have much more freedom in a world that banned slavery, as they would be ordinary employees that would be free to do as they wished in their free time.

Well thought out worker protection laws do improve freedom for ordinary workers despite the technical reduction to the freedom to contract. The "freedom to contract" argument tends to get peddled by people and entities that have all the bargaining power.
I'm interested in this, but is there any info about pricing available yet?
Something is not rational simply because you think it is. A decision is rational if and only if the invested resources are proportional to the likelihood of success.

A fallacy is a fallacy because it violates this proportionality. Fallacious reasoning can never be rational.
Obedience to hierarchies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
3.25g EPA / 1.75g DHA. (For the record, that's quite a bit of calories, so I account for them in my daily caloric intake.)
The definition of what they are and how many could just as easily be done at the function declaration. There is no requirement that multiple return types in a static language have to be declared separately and verbosely. That is just how C does it.
How can I integrate Redex with gradle building?
Yet for some reason giant mounds of stinking garbage are aesthetically and politically acceptable...
It seems fairly clear that Apple's trying to engineer out as much of their being a single point of failure as possible.
Justice would be 'punching wrong' regardless of up or down.
The Rise of New Operations
Points I would like to have seen mentioned:
1. Non-competes are enforceable in Pittsburgh, PA. Unlike in California.
2. Intellectual property rights over personal projects.
I forgot, "with at least one level of underground parking" so there's no net loss in parking spaces
> This is essentially a complaint that Rust went with strongly-typed generics

It could also be a complaint about how operators are implemented, e.g. in Scala they're just methods (no need for a special trait). That's not to say I don't think Rust made the right choice, but Scala went with strongly-typed generics, and can allow implementing the asymmetric multiplication operators.
There are a few things I disagree, but at least one is factually wrong. C++ is as fast as C, if nothing else because it's (almost) a superset of it.
http://nypost.com/2015/01/26/the-1000-parka-that-quietly-too...

Sure it is a fashionable jacket that you see a lot of people wear on the streets and subways of NYC/Boston that cost about $750-$1200 (a comparable Northface jacket would go for 1/3 or 1/2 of that price). It's a viral trend where the utility doesn't justify the price, but people blindly follow the trend as a status symbol. Newbury Street is the most famous/prominent downtown shopping district in Boston where yuppies and hipsters go to see people and be seen and hence, the jarring conclusion that you'd see as many Canada Goose jackets there as in the long hallways (Infinite Corridor) of MIT.
Yep, that's the way to do it - just ignore the questions competely and let your password manager handle it.
Basically each input gets multiplied by some weight that gets adjusted through each iteration. The product of the input and weight gets put through an activation function, and the outcome of that can be interpreted as the network's prediction of the class.

So you see the first neuron's input is just x1. You can see in the little graph at x1 that it's split down the middle with orange on one side and blue on the other. You can think of adjusting the weight on that neuron as adjusting where along the x axis the split occurs. All points on the orange side are classified orange and all on the blue side are classified blue. If you picked a data set like the spiral one or whatever, that neuron alone isn't going to make very many correct classifications. That's because it only gets the x1 value as input and can only affect the output by multiplying x1 by some weight, which would only have the affect of shifting the classification boundary left or right. You can see the same thing happening for the second neuron with input x2 except that now it splits along the y axis. Again that alone isn't going to match the data very well.

But then you get to the second layer, and the input of each neuron in the second layer is the output of each neuron in the first layer. So these neurons are able to take into consideration both x1 and x2 and are able to divide the data in more complex ways. So you can think of the neurons in each layer of the neural network as being able to consider more and more complex properties of the data in forming its output.
You can depending on how recent they are.
I agree with those ideas, and they are pretty consistent with monist philosophy. I often think of life as one big unbroken chain, one system, and then that of course extends to the planet, solar system, galaxy, and so on. The fact that I "consciously" view myself as a "human" living a "lifetime" is just a very curious phenomenon, the illusion I mentioned.

I don't see it as the opposite of nihilism, it's two sides of the same coin. When you take it to such an extreme, things break down. Is there no meaning, or is everything meaningful? What's the difference?
The way I fix this is to save the images that you get for 2FA and store them offline in a password manager like KeyPass.
It was made a little while ago by myself and 2 other people :)
> It's not something to be appalled about. They aren't trying to be evil overlords.

Not so fast. A lot of East Coast companies aggressively enforce contract provisions, EMC being one of the worst.

If it's in your contract, and it's not illegal in that jurisdiction, you should be very concerned.

Most companies require board-level approval to change a contract, and you will usually be told, "I want you to leave the premises now."
"Came from Plan 9". What does that mean?
Historic building preservation in NYC came about as a direct result of the destruction of the old Penn Station. If you've ever been to NYC via Penn Station you'll realize what a tragedy it was. The torn down station looked much more like Grand Central than a rat maze.

As always, laws are reactionary and laws can be abused for personal gain. But I don't think the idea of historically preserved buildings is fundamentally bad.