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I think the challenge here is: if the users don't care, why should the CEO of your company?

...and if the CEO doesn't care, why is he going to want to pay developers to (as you say earlier) "always include security robustness as a required feature during the software estimation cycle"?

So, unless the users _do_ care, the only way I can see this happening is if it costs no more to the CEO/users to do this than it costs not to... and that either means
* all developers swearing your security "Hippocratic oath" (which, as you say, will never happen)
* languages/tooling that mean that this becomes automatic (where there have been steps forward, but we're clearly not "there", and I doubt ever will be).
I'm regretting commenting now. Like a bikeshed next to a nuclear plant, anybody who has ever lost any amount of weight has an opinion on how it's done.

Reducing fat reduces caloric intake. Note the word reduce (I even emphasized it), instead of remove, or replace. Yes, fats are a healthy part of a good diet. No, you should not omit them.

Of course, don't take my word for it. RTFOP, which made the recommendation in the first place.
the problem to me seems
that those overly technical interviews
focus more on what you know (memorize)
than what you can do (learn, troubleshoot)

i guess they are top tier enough to be worth the effort
Why thinking like a computer scientist can help with big decisions
Of course, what anarcho-capitalist cypherpunks mean when they talk about "democracy" is fundamentally different than what everyone else means. From that point of view, consensus as dictated by the free market is probably the only legitimate form of democracy.
ETH has cranked out all kinds of good, practical research. They were also the birthplace, via Wirth et al, of safe and efficient languages for systems programming.
Chrome Experiments – Creative code for the web
This article reminds an always missing in the startup "change the world" culture: animals and wild life. There is almost no investment, innovations, startups etc in this direction. The poor animals can't blog.
On the eaernings call, they mentioned they purchased and would be purchasing more trucks airplanes.
Is feeding cats antidepressants a usual thing in the US? I've never heard of such a thing in Europe and to be honest I think it's a bit barmy.
That has more to do with a language opting out of having fixed types than it does with class-based versus prototype-based inheritance.
> For example, RSpec 3.4 will use `coderay` for syntax highlighting [1] if it’s available, but doesn’t make `coderay` a dependency of the `rspec` gem.

Absolutely true, two observations:

- I've often wondered about syntax highlighting in rspec to make things more readable in tests, I wish I would have known about this and seen it featured more prominently.

- RSpec have no vested interest in promoting Coderay. I do have a vested interest in making Harrow come to break-even, if we don't make it break even I may have to step away from the FOSS work that I so enjoy.

Thanks for sharing rspec+coderay, that's gonna make life in rspec projects much more bearable!
The 4 rack cage plus extra power plus redundant network at a Tier I datacenter costs us close to $6K/month (including some block of remote hands hours). Even at our peak we didn't have the racks full, allowed room for expansion. Note that this cost includes only coloc costs, not server or network leases/purchases.

We have very bursty traffic and run our baseload of ~ 30 severs (mostly m4.larges, with a few smaller utility servers as well as larger servers for back end services) most of the time, but when we need to scale, we ramp up to about 2 - 4 times that, but usually only for a few hours at a time. We also do some batch processing that takes a few high-memory servers for about a day each week.

We monitor costs pretty closely and our monthly AWS spend is still less than the coloc fees, and we are much more scalable now and have multi-datacenter (AZ) redundancy, and by the end of the year, we will have a cold spare in a second region (which will cost us very little since it will be mostly powered off)

We no longer need to vastly over-provision servers to handle our peak load and batch processing needs.
I'm talking about Dropbox.
"There have been previous incidents, including one in 2009, when a bird is believed to have dropped a baguette onto critical electrical systems."

Animals be trollin
+100.
Researchers need multiple frameworks because the feature sets aren't the same in each.

I haven't done anything with deep learning, but I worked in a research lab with others who did. On the image processing side, we prototyped code in OpenCV, both with Python and C++, and MATLAB (with toolboxes) regularly because of this.

At the end of the day they have a limited amount of time and just want to test their idea the fastest way they can.
I had no idea about Nielsen and Ninomiya's theories and multiple publications on them. I love the serious way their (I assume trolling) ideas are taken. Good fun in the high energy physics communy.
What is the size of the coworking space market?

How will Lackii avoid the personal service agency problem of coworking spaces or their tenants just hiring Lackii's staff directly?
Implementing a new operation in TensorFlow does require a fair amount of overhead, and you'll need to know CUDA if you want to create something that works on (NVIDIA) GPUs.

The "Creating an Op" how-to[1] goes over the basic steps necessary to implement an operation, but there are a couple of things missing. Notably, proper documentation for the various functions and classes used when writing operations, as well as information on writing (and registering) a Python wrapper for additional functionality.

All this said, if you want to commit your work to the GitHub master, the Google team working on the repository does an excellent job of walking contributors through the steps necessary to get their work over the hump.

[1]: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/master/how_tos/adding_an...
Jibo Delayed Until October 2016 Timeframe
Whither Agile? Cross functional teams, sitting together.

This is The Reason (tm) :)
That interpretation makes a lot of sense.
How the “what’s your current salary?” question hurts the gender pay gap
Or, if you insist on bringing politics into unrelated topics, it's a failing of a commodity that hasn't been properly marketized.

You have to externalize the cost of bad behavior by making it a proper market.
Yeah I understand, sorry for the angry tweet, it was fixed fast, thanks for that.

It was stress built up from converting a plugin from Capistrano 2 to Capistrano 3, and that I had to close that popup on every click.
That would be over 4x bigger than the biggest PE buyout of all time. I'm not so sure it would be that easy.
I think it depends a lot on the density of the crowd. Chihuahuas have become quite popular in the town where I work; Drammen, Norway, about 65k people. And they always seem to me to be quite oblivious to the difference in size between themselves and other dogs and humans. Of course, we don't have crowds in the same way that, say, London or New York has crowds so the risk of being stepped on is rather small (except during the World Cup Ski Sprint of course).
Massive capex.
The unverified components were steel rods. SpaceX manufacture most of the complicated parts, but they buy nuts and bolts. Also, the steel rods were checked, but only statistically, not each one. 1 in more than a thousand failed at 5 times lower than its design strength.
How about just different operators for different intents? Like prepending a special symbol in front of an operator to make it behave differently.
It's been mentioned elsewhere in the comments here, but this is directly relevant to your comment.

http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastin...
Could you expand on your ideas for improvement?
So this is ActiveX v2 then? It's not just loading a URL with plain html5 on the other end?
This game is easy to beat. Wreck most cars except a few, get a single car in the inner circle by slightly bumping it and press and hold the corresponding key.

62.8 kilometers covered.
I agree, but I think traffic is really more of a classic "socialism vs. individualism" problem. Tragedy of the commons and all that. I think it's a little more zero-sum than many would have you believe that capitalism is, at least when there is any reasonable amount of traffic. The actions of greedy drivers can be felt for a long way, even if it may not seem like it in the moment.
Reducing fat reduces caloric intake.

Looks like you're doubling down. Your statement is 100% correct. The problem is, fat calories are more satisfying than non-fat calories, so you are more likely to eat less if you eat protein + fat instead of protein + carbs + less fat. That's just the wait it works.
Burroughs Master Control Program
> Of course the voice goes through each companies respective
> search engines, they kinda have to to work unless there's
> some standard for voice queries I'm not aware of.

There is. Convert the voice query to text, then send the resulting text to the user's preferred search engine.
Well, obviously it had to happen. All the universes where the weasel didn't stop it ended up being destroyed.
The new title is boring. Hacker News is all about link bait so why be coy about it?
Is this "tuning" typically done on the revenue side or the cost side? I'm surprised it's at all possible with proper revenue and cost recognition policies in place.
The cost of a supernode is more than just monetary. There is a cost to the network when one single entity controls all the supernodes, because in almost all cases that means they have some disproportionate level of power over routing or quality of service. You wouldn't want one company running every Tor exit node, because then it's not decentralized.

A business model that relies on donations to one, or a few, entities controlling the supernodes perpetuates the centralization of infrastructure. Not to mention that donations are historically the most cost inefficient solution, especially compared to "market forces." If the efficiency of a decentralized system depends on the number and quality of supernodes, then some economic mechanism must exist to incentivize peers to become "super peers." The competition will ensure that the super peers who survive are the ones with the highest quality nodes at the lowest cost.

Then the question becomes, who pays the cost that gets distributed to the supernodes? In the case of TorCoin, we wanted to avoid the situation where people need to pay to join the Tor network. So our solution was a cryptocurrency with "proof of bandwidth" as its "proof of work." Just like a single Bitcoin represents some amount of CPU power that was expended to "mine" the BitCoin, a single TorCoin would represent some amount of bandwidth that was transferred to "mine" the TorCoin.

The idea was that a TorCoin would have value outside of Tor, and Tor was simply the mechanism used to mine it. So relay operators would mine TorCoins, then sell them on an exchange just like they would any other altcoin. This way they get value from providing bandwidth to Tor users, but the users do not need to pay for the service.

However this gets complicated very fast, because you're not talking about one person mining coins with one CPU, but pairs of people mining coins by transferring bandwidth between each other. So the priority of the paper was addressing the threat of collusion, where two malicious nodes (possibly controlled by the same actor) spoof terabytes of bandwidth between each other, flooding the market with TorCoins. Our key insight was "TorPath," a circuit selection mechanism that ensures every circuit participating in the TorCoin mining scheme is "privately-addressable but publicly verifiable." So each TorCoin (or part of a TorCoin) would represent a circuit that actually existed, and anyone could verify that via a public ledger, without revealing the identity of the circuit participants.

I think the idea of non-CPU "proof of work" schemes is very interesting in general, and bandwidth is one of the most profitable venues to apply it to. For example, imagine if the BGP system were operated along an incentive scheme like this, where instead of "circuits" we are talking about "peering." The path selection mechanism we devised would work in any routing system with multiple participants, not just Tor.
Your Slack login details are on GitHub
Thanks, that's really interesting - I was just going with the raw definition of sigma. Consider me corrected!
My point is that this was a similar situation to what we normally write off as "bad management". I'd say OP did not follow the traditional bad manager path, and found a better approach.
According to wikipedia, the entire Apollo program, inflation adjusted to 2007 dollars, cost 136 billion.
They must be looking for a replacement for Thomas Friedman. Needs more incomprehensible metaphors, you can't just repeat yourself into credibility.
Line art photography cleanup
> I thought your response was fine :-) I see what you are saying now - basically that was part of Capistrano already, so moving it to its own gem is a very good idea.

Thanks for the vindication, if it wasn't an external gem, I'd probably have to re-release Capistrano, exactly. This is less invasive.

> Wouldn't the new gem rely on Capistrano and not the other way around?

Typically yes, but I have a vested interest in promoting Harrow so that I can afford to keep working on open source, it's slightly cheeky but apparently I earned some good will in all the time I've worked on Capistrano as we've had genuinely net-positive responses to the suggestion.

> Regardless, the one lodging the issue probably should have stepped away from the keyboard before lodging the issue.

I'm guilty of writing much worse, a little empathy goes a long way on the internet. I just apply Hanlon's razor anytime I see something that makes my blood boil, apart from making me feel a little bit less bad about myself, it's a quality of life improvement.

Thanks for the constructive discourse.
Thank you kindly - subscribed.
Perelman Declines $1M for Poincaré Proof (2010)
Gyroscope Multiplayer
Check out coursera. UC San Diego just started an entire program full of algo classes.
Certainly the current system can be gamed, and is, and the complaints about problems with bibliometrics about 10 seconds after the first one was published.

But the argument is that "giving other researchers the ability to rate ... [would work] just as well as this journal reputation system".

My question is, simply, why should I believe this?

Bibliometrics often look at citations. Citations are, yes, a marker of popularity and social connections, but also have certain scholastic requirements. Editors and reviewers can and do point out missing references or highlight too many irrelevant self-citations. This is a type of moderation system. Imperfect certainly, but it does provide some grounding.

Also, it's not like the scientific publication system only contains original research papers. Review papers fill a curational role, with the advantage of a single voice (even if from co-authors) making the comparisons, so I at least have a relatively constant baseline.
Rust already has bounds checking on buffers though, so that specific issue isn't a huge concern. However, there is a class of security bugs introduced by bad logic, its just a little more difficult to exploit.
While I do like playing spot-the-link-bait before I click articles, I do like this policy of link title revision.
The article already mentioned the idea of using separate operators to control this behavior, similarly to how Swift has a separate set of operators for wrapping arithmetic.
If you're ever in Hamburg look me up and I'll buy you a beer. I don't hold anything anyone tweets against them, I'm glad you were able to sort the upgrade in spite of my incompetence :)
There's certainly much more in TFA but I do appreciate the effort of the summary.
Distortos: Advanced real-time operating system for deeply embedded targets
This article, including the title, is a bit of a mess. Nothing in it refutes the commonly accepted principle that if you burn as many daily calories in exercise as you consume in food, you will not get fatter. The point of the article seems to be simply that the modern Western diet is so high in calories that it's difficult to do enough exercise to make up the difference. The survey study they cite talks about exercise in the range of only a couple of hundred calories a day, and even then, contrary to what the article implies, the study's conclusion clearly states that weight loss was proportional to the amount of exercise. So, sure, if you're eating 1000 calories/day more than you're burning, throwing in an extra 30-minute walk on the treadmill isn't going to do much. But try a real exercise regimen like P90X where you are burning an extra 800 calories or so a day, and you absolutely will see results even if your diet remains unchanged.
Isn't that just because that's not a useful or testable hypothesis? It's technically possible that I'm the only conscious being on Earth, but there's no evidence for that and it would be impossible to ever know, so it's not really worth thinking about.
That's discussed in the article.

"The current state isn’t necessarily the final state of overflow checking: the RFC even mentioned some future directions. Rust could introduce operators like Swift’s wrapping +% in future, something that was not done initially because Rust tries to be conservative and reasonably minimal, as well as hypothetically having scoped disabling of overflow checking (e.g. a single function could be explicitly marked, and its internals would thus be unchecked in all modes). There’s interest in the latter particularly, from some of Rust’s keenest (potential) users Servo and Gecko."
Which they can not legally do. That’s the point of Antitrust laws, to prevent one company unfairly taking over a market through their power in other markets.

Google has to treat all competing services the same as their own on Android or Search – in general, in all markets where they have a majority.

Microsoft had to add BrowserChoice.eu, and Google will have to add the same for Android, too. Microsoft was prevented from forcing OEMs to install Windows everywhere, and Google’s Anti-Fork Anti-Kindle clause will be declared invalid, too.

This is the law, and if Google wants to avoid doing so, they’ll have to avoid operating in the EU.
How I changed SSID of every router connected to my ISP to NSA Be Watchin'
Friends of mine feed their cat prozac in response to him peeing everywhere; it seems to work.
I stand correct. All those schemes you mention were also used by the ones that are being replaced, and for even nefarious goals, like being able to manipulate the elections and perpetuate in the government.
I think the neat thing about Google is the high degree of crossfertilization between teams. In many organizations, teams rarely share information either due to political reasons or a lack of sharing culture in the company as a whole. That being said, this framework/API change doesn't really surprise me; DeepMind was more a proof-of-concept than an actual battle tested framework, unlike TensorFlow. So in that sense this news isn't surprising at all.
Bezos is in it for the long haul. He's probably the most impressive business person there is right now. Buffett and Musk are impressive in different ways.
I stand correct. All those schemes you mention were also used by the ones that are being replaced, and for even nefarious goals, like being able to manipulate the elections and perpetuate in the government.

If the new one just don't destroy the economy, or recover from inflation / unemployment, it has done more good than the previous one.
There are some architectures that support saturating arithmetic in hardware, DSPs for example. I wonder if the Rust saturating arithmetic commands get turned into those automatically?
The Fiscal Ship
Anyone know whether they are primarily working on Python 2 or 3?
HN threads on this topic tend to be repetitive and superficial, but this article appears to be so much more substantive than the usual media pieces that we've provisionally turned off user flags on the post.
> The Higgs is believed to endow other particles with mass

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but after digging into things a bit I've determined that the Higgs Boson is nothing more than evidence of the Higgs Field - which is the thing actually responsible for mass as a result of energy moving through it. Is this a common misconception or is it me that has the misconception?
Spending $500m, $1b or $2b on video content is pretty easy to time.
Why yes of course recommendation engines will get better with these improvements in machine learning. I'd even say that significant, noticeable improvements are not unlikely. Consider image classification, playing Go etc., where RNNs have advanced the state of the art from "research interest" to "reliable product" within a few years.

There may be some reasons why recommendation engines may not advance as fast:

- It's always been more valuable than playing Go, allowing vastly larger ressources to be dedicated to optimizing the current models
- Image-processing and NLP both each profited from specific inventions (i. e. RNNs allowing position-independent feature detection in images).

I'm actually looking forward to a time where amazon can recommend me books based on the shoes I bought last year. I don't think I've ever seen a recommendation engine that impressed me.
> In a 2009 bear's defense it was unprecedented Government intervention

The novel part was the purchase of government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) mortgage-backed securities (MBS), and GSE debt securities. The Fed's balance-sheet expansion, interest-rate regime and their effects on the market have precedent [1].

[1] http://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/14110_-_bordo_-_ex...
Because Bezos can't get a crappy USPS delivery person off of a shift that affects a bunch of his customers.