skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When exactly was this "before ads on the web" period of history?

I hear this a lot but there was just a very small early period where a few enthusiasts were on bulletin boards (and definitely not "tons of sites").

As soon as the web was mainstream and had any appreciable amount of content, there were ads right alongside.
lol: "In 2015 alone, 210 researchers received $936,000 with an average payout of $1,780."
> The Northeast is generally thought of as the most liberal part of America (aside from coastal California maybe). So why is it that I've seen far more toll roads and bridges there than in any "red state"?

Because the Northeast was also the most heavily developed area of the country before the Interstate Highway System came about with a funding system that made non-toll roads the norm for new limited-access highways (funding rules which have since changed, weakening the financial incentive against new toll roads.) Modern political orientation has little to do with it: outside the Northeast, the people trying to introduce toll roads where they haven't been in the past are conservatives, the people opposing them are liberals.
And the world marches ahead of America
It's time to get most air conditioning load onto solar. In the US, areas south of 37° (central California across to everything south of Virginia) should have enough local solar power to drive daytime air conditioning. For that, we don't need storage, we don't need to feed much power back into the grid, and air conditioning is the big residential load. 21% of electricity consumption in the South is for air conditioning. This is a no-brainer right now.

Here's an application for "smart power" technology. When a cloud comes over and blocks the sun, air conditioner compressors should shut down temporarily. If the cloud cover remains, start up again, on a somewhat random time delay, to give generators time to respond. (This will probably be implemented with some overly complex system that involves "the cloud", rather than being done by a simple broadcast signal.)
I've used GM more. For whatever reason I've had quite a few weird problems and performance issues with IM. (It's been quite a while, though.)
You'll have to reduce the value of productivity. Many have tried, but no one has ever pulled it off successfully because it only takes one asshole who realizes the whole scheme is trivially exploitable just by working harder to ruin it for everyone.
So I take it is ok to mention it reminds one of 1984, but not the reason it is so? Should I refrain from trying to mention certain established world events regarding the relation of this post and 1984?

Thank you, I'll be careful from now on and keep quiet.
Leka: An Exceptional Toy for Exceptional Children
Google Maps and a profile photo you can see on your phone without having to squint at the little image in the front of the black cab, I'd say yes.
PieMessage: iMessage on Android
What I'm always shocked at is that the App Store doesn't seem to have any capability to resume a download.
I've played with this setting on a few projects and didn't notice any big difference so I'd like to see benchmarks for it. I reasoned that if it's not significantly slowing the code down and could be used for easier debugging later I didn't see the harm leaving it in.
Regarding Google's natural language abilities, I think that if they don't develop a decent chat bot soon, much more natural and conversational than Google Now, they will lose to Facebook.

Lose what to Facebook? I suppose there's a "chatbot" war now but so-far Facebook's chatbots have opened to terrible reviews. The chatbot market has a long way to go and I suspect it's one place where best will quickly outpace first if things do get going.

Google controlled the search engine market before they AI-ified their search engine and find myself usually using it the same way though occasionally jumping to full questions - which it does OK at. So here it's hard to tell whether AI actually help Google compete.

At some point in the future audio recognition will be good enough (if it isn't already) and understanding of meaning will have become useful enough to make it easier than any other way of interfacing to a computer when giving various commands or searching. Then everyone will adopt it en masse.

The rise of text-messaging shows that text is often the superior medium even for people who fully understand natural language. I'd rather send or receive text than deal with voice mail - phone calls for people I care about or things that are hard to understand.
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The power companies can get overflow from solar and wind and water and redistribute it at a profit while paying the residential over suppliers. It's on the power companies to build the infrastructure like batteries to take advantage of all this free new power.
Maybe they mean "average per vulnerability", not "average per person".
Lots of theoretical models, philosophical, and metaphysical thinking... The scientific method... Actual in-depth studies centered on the system you're trying to understand and duplicate in another form. You know.. Everything but the foolishness employers and VC firms look for in people.

How all the greats did it :
> Einstein
> Von Neumann
> Alan Turing
> etc

If you have a proven coding background, you're off and running in the production lab. The problem with the layers of hype, academic jargon, overly complex white-papers, and hand waving is that it makes people believe this is unapproachable outside the narrow scope of thinking that everyone is currently subscribed to. Scopes change with time and the people who tend to progress and widen these scopes are often those who think outside the narrow box everyone else is set upon. This is what Jobs meant by 'think different'.

to the history of new approaches... i.e :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_diagram

Or you can attempt to brute force it with statistical models, PHDs, computing power, and truckloads of data hoping something miraculously emerges.

So, what type of thinking is used to develop strong A.I?
Strong thinking... Something that most and the industry aren't set upon which is why it most always takes an outside to usher in such new paradigms.

As is the history of the Googles of the world ...

Which is why I say you are more likely to hear about strong A.I once someone has developed it in the dark. It isn't going to be a 'thing' until it is a thing for people don't know how to recognize, value, or back undefined things until someone goes out of their way to make it into a reality.
I try to avoid using chatbots from major companies, because they gain way too much information about you via those means. The voice-based chatbots, as commonly implemented, have the ability to listen to everything you say.

I hope Google doesn't end up in the same boat Microsoft is in with Cortana.
WASH Your BALLS
I would highly recommend "Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water;" it goes into fair detail about Lake Tulare. Fascinating read.
Do We Really Need Solar That’s Too Cheap to Meter?
Some deoptimizations are ahead-of-time planted to make performances increases easy to enable in the future.

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop
You are comparing apples with oranges.
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I'm not disputing the architectural choices behind Node's async model. I'm talking about syntax. It's cool that you can process multiple promises at the same time, but most of the time I need one promise to complete before continuing. In those cases the way it inverts regular code flow is very unnatural. Like I said, I think more support/usage of 'await' will help.
Someone should create a startup to sell people based on their level of privilege to other startups who want to "diversify".
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Nice tutorial-esque writeup as suggested by title. Keras makes neural net ML so easy to play with... Would have been nice to see a bit more exploration of the results though (examples of input and output, how significant embedding and attention are to this model, etc.).
More of this type of projects is good, gives consumers/developers more choices.
I've attempted to learn more about Shannon's battle with Alzheimers, but found little information on the subject. Are there any interesting readings on this, perhaps in his biography?
This is one of the things that really concerns me! It's really no
longer possible for one person to work a "normal" job and afford a
house/condo in Boston/Cambridge/Somerville, etc. Now it takes two
doctors living together to get anywhere.
>I agree to the extent that "Rust will save us" is a glib answer, but dismissing it completely is equally silly – safe-by-default is an excellent tool to help prevent many of the common sort of vulnerabilities we see in C code.

There have been all sorts of safe languages that are appropriate for image processing and other types of programs, but people apparently like programming in C more than they like secure software. It is hard to see how something like Common-Lisp/Ocaml/Haskell/Java/Eiffel/C#/Ada wouldn't be more than up to the task, with only a slight speed penalty. It seems more like a social issue than a technical one. Maybe Rust will finally be able to break through, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
"The problem lay in a private application programming interface (the slice of code allowing certain outside access) that wasn’t properly checking the person deleting the comment was the same one who posted it, the spokesperson added."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/05/03/facebo...
If you have space and money, you can create huge "gravity lamp" to store energy: lift up something massive using solar energy and electric motor, then it will slowly generate electricity at night using same motor as generator.

Or you can use "molecular spring", which is very compact, for same purpose.
Same tyrants. By the time of the potato famine Ireland was unified with Great Britain, "this was achieved through a considerable degree of bribery, with funding provided by the British Secret Service Office, and the awarding of peerages, places and honours to secure votes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland#Union_with_Great_Brita...
haha you can't be serious right? I am sorry but I honestly found that amusing. Like Instagram engineers scratching their heads as to why comments are disappearing while there's an up-rise of users and then someone finally decides to create a secure alternative and is upheld as the savior.

Realistically though if this an were to become big enough to promote an alternative then Instagram would be all over it and thus fix it within minutes.
I see. So, the business plan here is: outbid Facebook to buy the rights to arrange the commission of, what, tens of thousands of felonies, in order to secure a marginal benefit for a competitor to the world's most popular photo sharing application, where those rights expire instantaneously as soon as one of the best security teams on the planet notices what's happening.

Sounds great. Where do I invest?
If that order is lawful, then it probably has a chargeable crime behind it. If it doesn't, then there should be limit.

Compelling someone to open a phone with a fingerprint is far from settled law. It should be litigated properly as part of the trial rather than with a "contempt" charge.

In this instance, it is the court that is attempting to end run an unsettled area of the law using "contempt".
I think you just gave me my new side/hobby project :)

A sort of CMS-like frontend to Hakyll (the Haskell Jekyll). I've tried to more or less sketch out the idea here https://github.com/Tehnix/hakyll-frontend.
> The reason we've developed our own CMS framework (on top of Django)

Is it open source? How does it compare to Mezzanine CMS?
Uber have denied this (July 15) - do you have any evidence?

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/28/uber-cars-alw...

> "It's real time analytics and the cars you see on the app are the cars driving around London,"

> "If we know it's going to be busy we can tell our drivers, but that doesn't affect when people open their app. There might be a ten second delay from their GPS, but it's not that you open up the app and there are three cars around you, and they're not there. That's definitely not correct." (emphasis mine)
I usually notice that if a company is not doing well, coworkers stop hanging out as much. If the coworkers are really friends, they might talk about how they are getting out. But generally, people get more distant.
Swift framework for interactive gesture-driven animations
One ultimate question: "describe a project of yours, current or past, personal
or or job-related, that you are most proud of". You don't need to ask
a professional anything else if he's anywhere near worth his salt; he'll
volunteer all the information you could judge him by.

Having that said, most of the questions from "general questions" part come
either from assuming that the candidate is dumb and possibly doesn't
understand how computers work or from some lousy layman psychology.

Many of the questions further down are incorrectly assigned. "What is an
A record?" is not a Linux-related question, and git is hardly a "devops tool".

Very poor list, in my opinion. In an interview you need to assess whether the
candidate can do the job. Since the only heuristics available to the
interviewer is how the candidate did in the past, the interviewer needs to
allow candidate to show what he has done, how, and why.

And just for fun:

> A careless sysadmin executes the following command: chmod 444 /bin/chmod
- what do you do to fix this?

My favourite way of fixing it is by running /bin/chmod. It blows minds of most
smart-asses who ask this question.
to "prevent" fraud.
“Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.” -Machiavelli
When was Python networking great in the first place? I often felt confused by the inheritance in socketserver, and its derived classes like BaseHTTPRequestHandler.
I'm an Iowa native. I find the cartoon itself pretty ridiculous. Why shouldn't CEOs of multibillion-dollar companies earn more than farmers? In addition, every single farmer I've ever met is very well off. In addition to the money made while farming, farmers are sitting on millions of dollars of land.
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I've been out of the loop on this discussion -- when was it concluded that diversity is a critical thing for tech companies to focus on? The article makes some really strong recommendations are not backed up by anything in the text:

"If you’re an early stage startup with little to no diversity, you are in trouble and need to fix it fast."

"For everyone who has the vision and courage to push forward aggressively: What if your whole team spent 25 percent of their time on diversity and inclusion efforts?"

"Think about your biases  —  we all have them  —  and how they affect your actions and perspective. Then ask people to teach you even more, and pay them for their time to show that you believe diversity work is hard and valuable."

I agree completely there are issues with, say, gender makeup (10% in SV vs 50% female overall), but this is a pipeline issue and I don't see tech companies having a very big impact here. A better, more direct approach would be to spend time explicitly promoting tech to girls in the K-12 system.

One final point: I decided to create a throwaway to post this because I am confident that I would be pilloried by people in these organizations if I were to bring up these points with my real name attached. There is not a healthy climate of discussion around this topic right now.
The Fed obviously creates inflation by injecting new money into the system. Who get the extra new money?
The difference being instant feedback. The low ratings one would garner by doing this with Uber would probably lead to the irresponsible driver getting booted, where with a traditional cab, the complaint process is significantly more involved.
Less link-baity title - "Using development options in production is bad for performance."
There are no Facebook vulnerabilities that have a value any higher than what Facebook is going to pay for them.

If Facebook was sending t-shirts instead of writing 4-5 figure checks, these discussions would be more interesting. But that's not what Facebook does.

Put it this way: before Facebook started these bounty programs, what do you think the price sheet for Facebook bugs on the "black market" looked like?
I also think there's never been a pattern of having "success metrics" tied to laws. Laws are LAW. The best we could get using current legal technology would be a built-in expiration of the law. And if the people think it's good, then we'd vote for representatives who will retain it.
I wonder if there is a better way of doing code reviews.

For example, a way to for reviewers to just mark a review as 'acknowledged' and submit a list of potential concerns (which may freely be ignored by the author). This makes them much more low friction as the reviewer is scanning the code to understand the purpose of it and help think of potential pitfalls at a high-level, rather than nit-picking apart little details.
Note that Stochastic Gradient Descent is not an alternative to backpropagation. They are typically used together.
>It’s hard to imagine anything more amazing and positively impactful than successfully creating AI, so long as it’s done in a good way.

Really, what? This is horseshit of the highest order. Why would you think this is true? The vast majority of automation tasks don't require advanced AI. The vast majority of human work can be removed without recourse to AI.

In addition, AI produces enormous problems, especially in the colossally power-imbalanced society we live in. It's overwhelmingly likely that an AI would be used first for surveillance and oppression; this is probably already happening with the most sophisticated intelligences we have available to us.

Finally, there is a superabundance of "intelligence" available to us already, in the form of human intelligence. These intelligences are already highly capable of understanding and solving problems that an AI would take generations to appreciate on human terms (if it ever could)

To me, the most positively impactful thing that we can do as human beings is to enable the full application of human intelligence to solving human problems, currently going to waste in most corners of the globe.
Have you seen, for example, how he structured his code? One file per C function, with no header files. And guess what? He still does that to new code.
Payed out to over 800 researchers? Wow that's a lot of security bugs. I wouldn't have guessed so many were possible. Imagine if they didn't have such a program!
And probably none of these is Qt-based. (I'm not blaming Qt specifically, it's a great framework, simply showing why you didn't have the problems). And of course there are solutions, but I wish things worked a bit more smoothly:

RStudio on Windows (fixed now, and some workarounds) - https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/2065421...
I would imagine this is because its rather boring to most readers. Good investigative tech journalism often just looks like Tom's hardware or anandtech. Page after page of technical specifications and comparisons to similar products.
GP is not talking about just sharing. This is selling information for monetary gain. The buyer of which is also attempting to profit from it.
Android Security Bulletin–May 2016
Maybe if we had room-temperature superconductors. For now, transporting huge amounts of electric power across many thousands of miles is very, very inefficient.
Invest in yourself and keep growing
Johnson and Johnson just lost another talcum powder cancer lawsuit ($72 million)
Easy. All the sting operation has to do is make it clear to the seller what the "buyer" "intends" to do with the bug. It doesn't even have to be overt: they could simply say "we are looking to pay $10,000 for a bug that would enable us to download all the private photographs from Justin Bieber's Facebook account".
Iron Man, Not Terminator: The Pentagon’s Sci-Fi Inspirations
You could use amazon associates to sell parts. Anybody who's anybody in America uses Amazon.
Not just their own domains, but in this case its own logo and Twitter account. Seems really bizarre to me, I don't get it.
Google Developers Africa on Air: REST matters (and you need more of it)
Why hundreds of databases? One for each stackexchange site?
Dynamodb-lambda-autoscale
> Being responsible for the full 20 year term is also a somewhat onerous financial agreement.

I don't think so. Is it wrong to be responsible for a car when you lease it? Different asset, different terms.
Thanks. Yes, your GeoIP based redirector does not help me directly, as the problem is less that the ASIN is different and more that the prices vary. A 800€ pc won't have the same components in the US as in Germany.

> If I pick 300 EUR I get a casing "Sharkoon VS4-V" without link?

That's the maintenance work I mentioned, sometimes amazon's api search just stops finding stuff. I fixed this one, thanks for the hint.
At least the money has gone to encourage economic activities, i.e. housing service. Increased rent leads to more housing development as more people piled in to take advantage of the increased return, which can lower the rent as more housing capacity comes online.
Don't underestimate the value of money that's guaranteed instead of a hypothetical possibility, now instead of maybe sometime, yours free and clear instead of legally dodgy, that you can boast to friends and future potential employers about instead of hiding as a shameful secret.
The cryptographically provable con man
Well, there are a lot of great frameworks in Python -- gevent, twisted. They existed for many years, are quite fast and solid. Even 10 years ago it was totally possible to solve c10k in Python. Now, with players like Go, it's a bit harder for Python to catch up, but totally possible.
Rule of the day. Ad hock parsers are the #1 infosec issue. AFL is the Killer Rabbit. The only defense is writing formal parsers on all inputs.
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Can you elaborate on this? I have never thought of "atrocious" when someone mentioned the history of vulnerabilities in djb's software. Depending on how egregious these security practices are there could be a $500 check in it for you.
Best security teams on the planet? You are talking about Instagram? I've read multiple reports of their properties being completely owned in the last few months, just here. The fact that they are still up is a testament to the researchers who reported the errors to FB.

Also, many people invest in even worse and more fraudulent schemes. Publicly traded companies have scammed entire states and nations, costing dozens of billions to trillions of dollars, all while NYSE investors trade their stock like cash.

Edit: If you can't deal in facts, deal in downmods and unsubstantiated platitudes.
Also worth investigation the Intellectual Property rights of your work. I remember that some universities own the right to work produced by their PhD candidates, be it on or off premises.
Sandboxes aren't the solution. Correctly designed and implemented programs and file formats are.
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/404795
Feature flagging to mitigate risk in database migration
I'm already investigating buying 50+ MW at a time of Tesla Powerpacks in certain markets exactly for this purpose, as an independent generator. Buy power when people are paying you to take it, releasing it back to the grid at the most expensive times.