skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know, right? $10,000! Facebook is worth billions!

But is causing monetary loss to Facebook, specifically, worth much to anybody? Anybody who would take the risk of committing a crime to do so?

This bug deletes content on Instagram. Unless you are the most underhanded of Instagram competitors, or just want to cause wanton Instagram picture destruction, I don't see why you as a third party would pay for it. Also, since I assume FB has backups, this is at most a relatively sophisticated DOS attack. Now, if you could insert data then you have stage 1 of a APT deployment platform, which is a whole other story.

Also, you underestimate the lifetime potential earnings won of "I discovered an attack on one of the 2-3 most popular internet platforms on earth at 13 and practiced textbook responsible disclosure with it". Beyond that, selling bugs to the highest bidder is very hard to justify, ethically speaking, and a lot of people put a high price on their integrity.
True, but they usually do by the time they say that you will be paid.

I think the argument that a black market sale of an exploit won't necessarily be as clear cut is still valid.
Apples and oranges: millionaires would pay no tax on income, but would pay the full tax the moment the income is applied to consumption -- so sure, they could accumulate wealth untaxed, but in order to enjoy it rather than just stare at it (in theory -- see below), they'd have to pay the full rate. It doesn't seem very relevant to compare progressivity of income in preference to consumption.

With that said, the FairTax is bad for other reasons -- by concentrating all your taxation on something that's relatively easy to hide, you massively increase regulatory and compliance costs. Imagine the blooming industry in recharacterizing consumption purchases as investment purchases! (For the rich, "sufficiently advanced investment is indistinguishable from consumption".)
Also note it doesn't say "2,129 Iowa farmers combined"
Find a way to do it without using force, or threat of force, and I'll be on board. Otherwise, any UBI proposal is a non-starter in my book.
async / await is a huge deal. You can use the same interface to manage multiprocessing pools, thread pools and asyncio. With clean RPC&PUB/SUB like in crossbar.io and async http libs like aiohttp, we have a strong base to create a nice next gen framework.
I deleted the personal attack statements, sorry about that.
The particularly interesting piece to me is the SVG exploit. ImageMagick apparently will try to load xlink'd images referenced from within the SVG and hit the same problem as in the MVG example.

No skin off anybody's nose if they have to block MVGs, but SVG could be somewhat of a loss.
I think he or she just meant that in each case it was a single Judge's decision - that in neither case was the decision reviewed by a second court or committee before taking effect.
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> I know at least Tracy Chou has acknowledged the weird position Asians find themselves in here considering they're massively over-represented when you compare U.S. demographics to tech company demographics.

They seem to be purposefully ignoring the likelihood that parents drive this.
I was thinking about that as I submitted it but was multitasking. You called it so I gotta correct it. So, let's drop the analogy and go back to what I originally claimed: CPU's modified to protect pointers, arrays, stacks, and so on. The primitives forced to be used in acceptable ways. The programmer does the rest expressing the problem in the type-safe HLL.

Now, almost every hack on a system that I can think of requires forcing a pointer to go out-of-bounds or something like that. Further, the rest send in data that becomes code. One check, from Burroughs, is CPU looking for code tag bit before executing which only can be set by OS or isolated service on microkernel. So, that wouldn't work.

What remains, with little performance hit & no static checking, is a system where hackers (a) have to con the admin into installing malware, (b) break the minimal, trusted loader/installer w/out abusing above components, or (c) get a denial of service attack. Forget analogies: the reality is much more impressive given there's almost no high-severity CVE's left. You can also do great static checks and such as I always recommend. Yet, you either don't or rarely need them in practice if goal is integrity or confidentiality rather than availability.

"Check and incidentally... mate" (Sherlock Holmes, Game of Shadows)
Should you do that if you don't already know how it works?

This is a tough one. But my general instincts suggest that yes, there are significant benefits to be had from at least getting traction on figuring out how stuff works natively before adopting a framework.

BTW I'm certainly not anti-Bootstrap. It's just that suspect the tipping point in favor of its adoption lies somewhere beyond the threshold of a single form button.
Isn't deep learning the correct approach though?

> No. It's a piece of a much larger puzzle and only a partial piece at that. An overfit piece that people are over-applying. This is why things are overly complex and filled with statistics...

I mean we are trying to emulate biological neural networks which is fundamental to intelligence.

> There is far more functional complexity to the underlying biology. This is why studying neurobiology/neuroscience have value as opposed to resorting to ever more complex statistical models that no one understands.

Do you think that the artificial neural networks we are using right now are not rigorous enough?

> Of course not. Out of all the amazing people centered on it, no one can say why/how it works. Is it magic? lol... That should tell you something and trigger a red flag. I can state why it works and already have. It's just not something that's convenient and would necessarily cause one to admit that its not the broad general answer were looking for....

So, for some time, those centered on this paradigm are probably going to build out wildly elaborate NNs. They will require boat loads of data and computational power and achieve great outputs. Coincidentally this fits nicely in the cloud computing model that the big tech titans maintain.

Somewhere down the line, more solid and thought through computational models inspired by actual understanding will come out that will shake the very foundation of said approaches and so will go another page in tech history.

NNs are biological inspired. With all of the fanfare surrounding them, You maybe never stopped to question how inspired.

Drop Paul King/Paul Bush a line a Quora or dig through some of their posts.

It's better to talk w/ a Neuroscientist/Computational Neuroscientist about this stuff IMO.
I'd bet typical users live closer to the city center. I've been using uber and lyft a lot in Chicago, Austin, and Denver recently, and my average cost per ride is probably around $12.
Not disappointing at all; solving the system in a least-squares sense is O(n^3) and choosing the optimal setup is NP-complete (didn't prove it, but I'm _pretty_ sure it involves backtracking, especially when you consider stuff like adding a PCIe SATA controller to maximize the total amount of storage available).

I originally wanted to monetize the idea as well, but gave up and open sourced my solution due to the labor-intensiveness of adding and maintaining components and benchmarks.

I can't really help you business-wise, but from a technical standpoint, my suggestion would be to split up the problem in two (sorry for the formal definitions, this is mostly translated from my paper):

1. Given n benchmarks each containing n[i] components each, assign a score to each component so as to obtain a total ordering that minimizes the error (as you mentioned above, one processor may be _way_ faster than another in one benchmark, but be completely outclassed in 50 others).

2. Given n desired component classes, each containing n[i] components as well as their bus requirements or offerings (I stretched the 'bus' definition to also include stuff like S-ATA, 3.5'' slots, ATX power cables, etc), their performance relative to components of the same class (obtained at step 1) and their price, obtain a compatible component subset that:

i) satisfies sum(Price[i]) < max_price

ii) satisfies sum(Power[i]) > 0 (assuming PSUs provide positive power and everything else negative power; I used watts here but if you're feeling badass, you can extend this to amps on the 3.3 / 5 / 12V rails)

iii) maximizes weighted-sum(Performance[i]), given a certain target (this is how I implemented the "I don't want to play games" feature requested by another HN poster; in this case, each target would define a weight for each component class)

Since 2. is most likely NP-complete (again, didn't prove it), my approximate solution was a greedy PTAS knapsack ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem ) that stored partial systems in one of 3 heaps of about 10k items each: one sorted by cost (to ensure the cheapest system is displayed in the event of a low budget), one sorted by performance (to ensure the best system is displayed, in the event of a high budget) and one sorted by performance/cost ratio (to hopefully obtain the best-bang-for-your-buck system).

Anyway, best of luck! Throw me a tweet (same username as HN) if you make it big :)
A Hinton inspired speculation about a Robot that plans & communicates.

I posit that general A.I. must be embodied to develop, it must learn from the real world by interacting with it and learn by trial and error.

Deep learning is a huge leap for AI. It learns best from raw data. Babies learn motor control & input interpretation first[1]. Moravec's paradox proposes learning these basics are the hard foundation that higher levels of reason build on.

Abeel and Levine's work[2] where robots learn robust functions to map from pixels to motor torques for domestic tasks show solutions built on features learnt from raw data are more resilient than hand-engineered ones. These trajectories through motor-torque space to produce a desired goal are intriguingly like planning.

Mikolov's[3] Word2vec & Radford's Image Vectors[4] produce semantic spaces where vector math is akin to reasoning. Higher level control could be achieved through vector algebras deriving actions and things directly from the robots internal vector space of motor-torques and raw-pixels

Thus internal vectors are like thoughts[5] which can interpret, reason, plan, and control.

Karpathy shows internal vectors can bridge modalities from words to pictures[6]. If the higher level control vectors of actions and things could translate to the modality of language as verbs and nouns, perhaps the robot could discuss its plans, and receive orders.

[1] - Thelen's Infant Development http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17107442

[2] - Levine, Finn, Darrel, Abeel http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00702 &

[2b] - Distributed Grasp Learning http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/deep-learning-f...

[3] - Mikolov, Chen, Corrado, Dean http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3781

[4] - Radford, Metz, Chintala https://github.com/Newmu/dcgan_code#arithmetic-on-faces

[5] - Hinton https://youtu.be/IcOMKXAw5VA?t=32m55s

[6] - Karpathy https://youtu.be/ZkY7fAoaNcg?t=38m31s
The FDA would do nothing. All drugs have side effects and many drugs are taken for "off label use".
Which RnRS is this designed for if any?
All chromebooks allow to completely overwrite the firmware.

It requires opening the machine though (and then turning a screw), both as a crude security measure (it's not a drive-by attack if it takes 10 minutes of physical access) and a stability guarantee (without the modification, the system basically can't be stuck, no matter how broken an update might be).

Disclosure: I work on Chrome OS firmware.
After 3 or so hours ubuntu 16.04 finally installed & what lovely surprise,no launcher a big black cross instead of mouse cursor & slower than a bowl of soup warming up in the freezer, can someone please advise me how to get this running properly.
Many thanks.
I didn't get the feeling that she thought she was better than her engineers.

Regardless of that, each of these archetypes presents real difficulties to a team that has to deal with them. A hermit can cause massive troubles for a company if they are doing critical work. In the case that someone is prolematic to the team, it's better to solve the problem than to lose the person, and that's what she tried to do.
Could someone point me to the source of the reports by Fidelity?

I've tried searching the web but can't find anything but news articles from outside sources on this and previous reports about markdowns. I'm interested in learning more about what private companies Fidelity has holding in.
In straight cash USD, that's more money than most people in the world have to their name.

[Edit: straight cash == completely liquid assets]
Perhaps.

I used to live in Zone1/2, and had 24 hour bus routes. So still ~an order of magnitude - 10GBP vs 1.50.

I'd forgotten about sharing with friends. Taxis certainly work out well there. Maybe that's it?

It's probably simply that I hate spending money! :)
Sorry to see the thermal analysis software didn't make the list. I have worked in this area and it is challenging and expensive to do well.
im not sure people are happy enough with the implementation of social security to be sold with that premise. id sell it as a solution to social security, rather than an expansion of it
Most people don't get college degrees, so that's a poor jumping off point to begin with. Near 68% of Americans do not have a bachelors degree. Many who do enroll simply drop out long before graduating.
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Best of luck
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Side question: what prevents a basic income from being a driving force behind an inflation jump making the system less stable?

For example: rent. Wouldn't landlords managing properties at the low end of the market price, raise those prices knowing people both 1. have more distribution control over their money (cash vs. coupons for things) and 2. More people in their target market have cash to pay.
>There is no mystery w.r.t how deep learning/etc work I.M.O.

Good, there shouldn't be. Being mysterious doesn't make something better, and simplicity is desirable.

>Frankly, there is nothing to understand ... NNs/etc are distributed optimizers guided by partial objective information. The resultant network/weights are a spaghetti jumble of 'whatever gets the right output out the other end'.

Basically yes. But that's not only incredibly effective, it's quite possibly how real brains work too. A lot of people do believe it is a path to AGI.

>You're throwing a bunch of 'agents' at a solution space and having them gradually combine their results to a final solution. This was previously known as constraint optimization before it got the silicon valley treatment of buzzwords :

That's not an accurate description at all, there are no "agents". In fact your whole description of NNs sounds off.

And backprop wasn't invented or named in silicon valley. In fact it's been around since the 80's. But whatever.

>Strong A.I is being developed far from such thinking and is a totally different animal. People who work in this space are necessarily guarded and un open as there is a lack of appreciation, value, and funding for their 'audacious' efforts.

Every "AGI" project is a bunch of pseudoscience. They have no idea how to build an intelligence. They have no idea how the brain works. They have no results to show with their algorithms, they aren't beating benchmarks. The theories are always vague and ad hoc and include a million special cases to make their systems do anything.
>I would like to mention that most, if not all, of the Go compiler and related utilities is written in Go itself, with high quality, open source code

High quality? Isn't the compiler since 1.5 auto-generated from C for the most part, and quite crap with regards to optimizations/readability?
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Unless one believes in dualism, I can't see how one can believe that there is such think as free will.
Really? Limited experience, but doesn't GCC require -g to enable debug symbols?
Let people fend off for themselves. That's what we do anyways when terror strikes. Imagine a post acolypatic world everyone fends for themselves are work hard for it.
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The main benefit doesn't have anything to do with bandwidth (which is very cheap), it's that the "disable your ad block" nag screens actually work on some people. If even a small percentage of people actually do whitelist/disable their ad blocker as a result of the message, then the site makes more money.
Agreed, but the irony in that statement is that the OpenWrt developers who started LEDE are also DD-WRT developers.
Maybe whomever started Bitcoin lost any record of their early mining efforts. It's either that, or they're walking away from several hundred million dollars. Or they're dead.
If basic income only provides enough to just get by - living in a crappy apartment, barely being able to afford basic groceries, and living paycheck to paycheck, do you really think everyone is just going to stop working and do nothing all day?

People are still going to want money for buying gadgets, going out, a better living space, cars, clothes, vacations, impressing girls, buying toys for their kids, etc.

Also I'd bet that a significant percentage of trust-fund babies work, and their trust funds generally provide them much more than a UBI would.
I mean, there are details to work out, but the general idea is fairly simple, start with a small UBI and slowly increase it, reducing or abolishing most of the existing welfare mechanisms as you go.

While enough to live on would be great, I think people underestimate the benefits of a smaller UBI. Even if it doesn't completely solve wage slavery, it can still ease the pressure, letting people work fewer hours, save money, and waste less of their savings between jobs.
It's not surprising to me that there is only one app used by the majority of people. That is called the network effect.

But why is it WhatsApp? It's very frictionless. WhatsApp is a drop-in replacement for SMS. You don't make an account. You just download the app, import your phonebook and start messaging people who are also on WhatsApp. It's SMS except it's free, not more not less. My parents (not from Brazil) are on WhatsApp. They don't use any other social network or messaging app (except Skype).
Did you read the article? A good chunk of it was about understanding the trouble makers to see what motivates them and aligning both the goals of the employee and the company.
That is exactly wrong. The editor gets to pick what goes in the paper, who to employ and etc.

What this does say is that the editor didn't review the comic before printing it, and then fired the cartoonist after the fact. This seems unfair to me and I sympathize, but it is entirely within his rights.
I never said it did in this circumstance.
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Off topic, but I once found a Magento SQL database backup from going to a robots.txt page for a company that I will not name. I told them how I was able to get to this file and laid out the other vulnerabilities with their site set up. I had access to all of their customer emails, all of their admin logins, encrypted passwords, and salts. Was able to find git credentials and a whole swathe of information that shouldn't be available...

They fixed the issue pretty fast, but what bugs me is that I didn't get a thank you. I wasn't looking to gain anything, but I figure telling someone that their site is exposed warrants some gratitude.
"Americans find it jarring when they are sitting at a European café or restaurant and someone takes the empty seat at their table"

I've experienced this and I had to exert will power not to get up and move. It was very unnerving. In the US I would have thought the guy was a creeper of some sort, or needed to be shot or stabbed quickly before he got me. I also was in a hotel restaurant once and there was only one other person at a table. The hostess wanted to seat me at his table, even though there were a dozen or more empty tables. Ack.
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How come it has to be progressive? Wealthier folks consume more and therefore pay more.
It's interesting to compare contributors from both LEDE[1] and OpenWRT[2] sites. Most of the folks involved in LEDE seem to be from Germany. With OpenWRT devs mostly from DE to begin with, this fork may end up as something interesting. Hope it's not another libav/ffmpeg snafu.

[1] https://www.lede-project.org/about.html
[2] https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/people
> All those jobs are upper class, college degree requiring positions.

No, they are middle class roles (either independent business owners dependent on their own labor rather than primarily renting other's labor to apply to their capital -- the classic petit bourgeoisie -- or elite educated workers with likely some personal capital but still dependent on wage labor for support, but not as immediately at risk as the working class without reserves are.)

The upper class in a capitalist society are the owners of capital who primarily rent labor to apply to that capital, they are occasionally major characters on TV shows, but I can't think of many shows with more than one as a significant protagonist. Generally, most of the protagonists are middle class, or notionally working class but somehow living a middle class lifestyle.
It made me laugh, I searched this board and I couldn't find any topics about it.
So, pardon me if I missed it.
I was just starting the 3rd lecture. A real shame.
Both articles are based on our press release. Some media outlets called or emailed for additional details or info, but in both cases (and probably others), a lot of the "meat" came from the press release.
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> Can someone please explain why people call Social Security an entitlement? Am I missing something?

Because it is. What you're missing is what the word entitlement means. They paid into the system, they are entitled to get those checks, i.e. they have a right to it. Calling it an entitlement is not an insult.
>Everything in Smalltalk was pretty much polymorphism, lambdas, and reflection. I suspect that's why I like golang.

Huh? While it has both, Go is as far from lambdas and reflection as you can go and still be modern language.
Ellen Pao launches advocacy group to improve diversity in the tech industry
I don't laugh at every Mallard Filmore, but he still shows up in my Sunday paper.
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> you'll be at work and won't be taking advantage of it.

Most people don't work in the dark