skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always imagine that these services are supposed to serve as the "automation put me out of a job" of the full-time personal assistants had by the wealthy.

In that role, it's usually the assistant's job to present a selection that's sorted by optimality on axes of both quality and price (and arrival time, reliability, packaging options, etc.) Properly done, this means that you should almost always be "defaulting" to the first option presented; rarely switching to the second or third (and there only really needs to be two or three) when there's something in particular that stands out about them despite them optimizing lower.

When described this way, it's clear that this is a much harder job than just doing fancy language recognition. An AI personal assistant has to know what you care about—what weights you put on various optimization criteria—without you having to explicitly specify them. Presumably it would be an online learning system, and screw up a bit at first.

I think the key in such systems is how they'd behave before being trained by lots of individual preference data over time, though. Hopefully it could "guess" at some initial preferences in a good way. (Maybe by taking all the preferences of every other user, putting your sparse preference-set as a point in that preference space, and then seeing how you cluster: effectively "stereotyping" you based on its other "employers.")

On another tangent, one thing I haven't seen built into any such system yet is the "active academy model" mentioned here (https://scifiinterfaces.wordpress.com/2014/06/24/course-opti...). One of the criteria you'd expect a PA to optimize for in their employer is patience. Rather than staying with an initial optimization-problem solution, if the answer is not time-sensitive, one can continue to search the solution-space for new, better solutions that might crop up (involving things that maybe didn't even exist at the time the question was first asked.) If given two weeks to book a hotel room, there might be a good hotel room on the market now, but a better one on the market later. There are very complex questions involving the costs of reserving and then cancelling reservations to re-book, or holding off on reserving and maybe never finding anything better and running out of time.

For physical goods, there is even the possibility of an "indefinite optimization problem"—if I tell my PA to "buy me a top-of-the-line computer", then presumably I want my computer to continue being top-of-the-line unless otherwise noted, and this will require constant weighings of various components' or configurations' depreciation-rate, market-liquidity, employer's opportunity-cost for maintenance time, etc. All the questions a major corporate IT "buyer" employee considers, behind the facade of a single innocent request.
A bit of justification would be nice why you think Swift can be faster than C.
"My intuition was that malware attacks were less prominent nowadays."

They are and they aren't. What you're seeing is a combination of economics and improvements in software quality. Economics says they focus on whatever gets them the most zombified PC's since competition drives prices of each individual PC down in black market. To get this, they target apps with most widespread use. This is why almost all 0-days were found in Windows, IE, Firefox, Java, Adobe Acrobat, etc.

Microsoft's SDL & QA tools did them a 180 on code quality. Low-hanging fruit in major apps might be drying up because so many bugs were found. Attackers shifted focus to backend databases via hits on web apps as that's new low-hanging fruit (read: shit security) with huge rewards (eg million records at once) for success. So, it's not that it's gone away so much as not as popular while low-hanging fruit exists for their purposes. Organized crime, esp targeting online banking, plus nation-states continue to find, sell, and use 0-days for malware. It's still a thing except stealthier and more targeted.

"Aren't these more easily exploitable in practice than say a stack overflow somewhere in my programs (not a rhetoric question)?"

Oh yeah. Skilled hackers look for all of that. They'll look for that kind of stuff first since it saves time.

"The morale is an ignorant user can easily be exploited even on OpenBSD"

No argument from me there.

"while a security-savvy user can secure himself even on an insecure OS"

That's been disproven by too many pentests. You can cover lots of known risks but then get hit by something inherent in poor foundation you built on. I liken it to building your castle on foundation of quicksand. Security properties work layer by layer, piece by piece, from bottom up plus interactions with other systems via protocols. I might be able to secure DOS apps but DOS's intrinsic properties might eventually do me in. See what I'm talking about?
I would recommend talking to a local genetic counselor. They may be able to find a genomics core that will fit your needs, and they will be able to help you interpret that data in a medically relevant way.
You wake up lighter than when you went to sleep. Here's the data
You're right, of course, but I have to do something to break up all the time I spend reading EULAs and terms of service for all the websites I visit.
Isnt this whole category of bugs easily avoided by using

1. _SECURE_SCL on windows

2. _GLIBCXX_DEBUG on glibc based toolchains
Detecting the language of a tweet (Python and Scikit-learn)
"a naturally-occurring food that our ancestors successfully consumed"

I think there's some problems there with the definition of ancestors as in just the last one or two for an extremely small subset of ethnic groups. And that microscopic subset is being compared to a diet consisting primarily of corn syrup for 2/5th of a billion people.

The idea of eating grains is recent in evolution. Unsurprisingly farmers use grains as a tool to fatten up livestock. Works pretty well on humans too. Pancakes and syrup are in no way natural or healthy.

The condiment industry is interesting. Maple syrup in particular is advertised as the breakfast itself, with the pancake merely as sponge to soak as much as possible. Consumed as a meal, 60 mL isn't much. As an occasional condiment 60 mL is a multiple of a reasonable amount. Consider an analogy with hot pepper flakes. A tiny subculture that uses a fraction of a teaspoon to flavor chili once in awhile while its in season will have different medical issues than a culture where basically everyone eats two cups per day, every day.
Friendly comment, I read the name of this product as disk ache. I'm gathering that this is not where you were shooting.

If you want to retain the name, I recommend looking into how you capitalize / kern / otherwise present the name to try and get you the association you're going for.
Django has always been relatively pleasant for me to develop in. Flask has been okay too.

I almost learned Rails in 2007 when it was at the peak of its hype cycle but after reading a series of (not very well publicized) tirades about pain that Rails' magic caused I learned Django instead.

I think node is at the peak of its hype cycle right now.
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I love guard statements, but Swift's `if case...` syntax is horrendous. I'm approaching a year of full-time Swift and I still struggle to get the syntax right on the first try.
The Painful Introduction to Virtual Reality
> is the vendor lockin not a problem?

It so happened that almost nobody in the (previously tiny) industry specialized for using GPU cards for computation had used any cards other than NVIDIA early on. NVIDIA had listened to that niche market by releasing increasingly performant hardware for compute needs, while other manufacturers kept ignoring the niche and focusing on graphics. As a result, very few on the software side have a burning desire to do free work to support cards made by anyone other than the Big Green, even if they had equivalent performance (they likely don't).

This may seems strange to web devs who remember the hard-fought war against Microsoft's lock-in on the Internet via IE. But NVIDIA is seen in a different light---it is seen as a benevolent company without which the GPU-for-compute platform wouldn't even exist.
I have seen in the past when there is a split like this. That there are often different styles and topics of conversation on the subject. I find reading and sometimes participating in both to be worthwhile.
its easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.
Open Source Tools Being Utilized in Panama Papers Drop
Fort McMurray Wildfire in Alberta Canada Deemed Extreme
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I think its important to remember that when people talk about "tax havens" what they are really talking about are places with strict privacy laws.

The most common reason people want those privacy laws is tax mitigation, but for certain people, celebrities and sports stars especially, the privacy could be the entire motivation.
> FOX news (is there any other conservative network?)

Not on TV. Fox Business has quite a lot of libertarians (and some really, really devote Trump supporters). CNN did hire some conservatives who are actual conservatives recently (e.g. Mary Katharine Ham), but it really doesn't change the editorial.
Reminds me of how I started my MicroVAX collection, I saw a couple at a closed auction and had to bid the minimum to see the price they went for. Turns out it was the only bid and I found myself the owner of a couple of MicroVAX 3's in the ginormous BA123 roll-around chassis.

The other thing that it reminds of that things in context are more valuable than things in isolation. Specifically by going to the trouble to research the systems, understand their place in Apple history, the exhibit takes on a value that simply having an old Apple computer would not.

My hat's off to the kid.
Jimmy Carr had this happen to him[0] and basically handled it pretty well. He stayed in public, took the ridicule and admitted his wrongdoing. He had an accountant take things too far, and he went along with it because hey, more money.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carr#2012_tax_avoidance_...
CNN (and many other media companies) support Hillary because they are pro-corporate and pro-status-quo.

They have de facto supported nonsensical positions because CNN pioneered the "two sides to every argument" stupidity in their effort to look "unbiased". CNN's reporting is heavily distorted, but the distortion is usually giving credibility when it isn't deserved. Fox simply pushes their agenda directly, while CNN gives cranks a stage no matter how stupid their position is, because calling out even the obviously wrong is "biased". Often this involves conservative opinions (for varying definitions of "conservative"), but almost every opinion of every topic gets the same treatment from CNN.
Don't really understand the downvotes here can people explain why they are downvoting?

The parent opinion is that Nestle is a large corporation and they are diversifying their revenue streams as every profit-seeking company is entitled to.

The other opinion elsewhere on this thread is that sugar is the enemy and therefore Nestle should be held accountable for first causing a problem then charging people for offering the solution.

It's probably going to be hard to reconcile either opinion given the subject of sugar in diets is already quite divisive, but is an attempt to illustrate the anti-sugar camp's perspective through an extreme but easily understood example not constructive?
Facebook and Oculus exec leaving to work on wearable MRI
Now I'm curious how many people are really confused about it.

I've helped collect and boil sap, so I'm pretty sure I've had the real thing, but still, I don't think I was ever confused about there being syrup products manufactured from other sugars.
> Having draconian penalties for line employees is not going to do anything to dissuade a C-level executive who wants to commit fraud from committing fraud.

Holding them personally responsible for fraud would help. As in you were the person in charge when this happened, here is a fine of millions + 2 years in jail.

That's why they get the big money right? To be the ones responsible?
Three main things: - memory space for printers and sound cards changed in Vista, so when you have some constellation of printers and you change the printer in dialog whole program just crash, because it is trying to touch restricted memory or something.

Can this functionality be separated out into a different process, or called from a DLL compiled using Visual Studio?
bhyve already shipped in 10-RELEASE!
> Even if you, like me, generally believe that the liberal political position is correct, ideological conformity of this magnitude should frighten you.

What it does is make people whose views fall out of that bubble feel disenfranchised. This is no small part of the Trump phenomenon.

I was watching a documentary about South American politics yesterday and there was a globalist establishment candidate running against one that was a protectionist populist. It was strange to see that the globalist was on the right and the protectionist was on the left and that is exactly the opposite of what we are seeing in the US election this year. After decades of people on the left lamenting that working class Republicans don't vote in their own interest the left is in a panic now because they are.

No one saw this coming and the media lock down is the reason why. When it's easy to smear anyone who does not take a globalist position as a racist that part of political discourse goes underground until it pops up in the voting booth.
Given the open decision process (with a visual representation of the exact information and logic that went into a decision) it seems like someone could fairly easily add a "reverse sort by price" or other more complex model. Of course that is assuming a single "price-sort" function could be applied across multiple domains. If each price-sort algorithm has to be implemented and delivered as a separate model it would take a lot longer and be a lot more tedious for both developers and users.

I think the real question is -- how easy is this development process? A gui representation of the program is great, but a lot of times it is easier to deal with text if you have a well designed library. They mentioned it being like an app store, so what is in it for the developers? Selling apps, directing through your own store / affiliate links?

It does look pretty cool, but when there are at least 5 established competitors implementation is everything.

EDIT: I would like to add that this looks like a great combination of the logical analysis of soundhound, the mobility of siri, the ability to extend of facebook and alexa. It could definitely be a breakthrough. Still -- implementation.

EDIT2: Follow-up questions starting at 16 min.
Launching at the end of the year, working with select developer partners toward the end of the year.
"What makes it something that makes our lives better rather than makes us talk to things we don't want to talk to." A: "Developers motivated by self interest to make things work smoothly". What is that self-interested motivation? They get to sell you stuff? What do they want to sell you? The most expensive thing that fits your query -- or maybe the thing that's $5 more expensive that should sell for $20 but that will sell for $25, or $30... I agree, based on that response, it sounds like even with developer interest in the platform it won't be developer interest to give you the best product, but developer interest to give them the most money.
I don't often visit Hacker News, but when I do, it's to receive compliments.

But srsly, thank you, that's very kind to say.
Or Rails on Erlang (even though I see what you did there).
It boots to a shell in about 5MB of RAM, with networking and USB. Both Linux and Minoca can get smaller than that depending on how much you're willing to strip. The goal was to start lean and clean and then go up or down depending on specific needs. (Disclaimer: I work on Minoca OS).
They are state tax free if they are issued in the state you live in. If they are federally tax free, they are tax free in any state. Be aware that not all MUNIs are federally tax free.

You would not get the state tax free benefit of a California bond if you live in New Jersey. But you would get the federal tax free portion.

I suggest that you confirm with your brokerage's fixed income team before proceeding.
With all of the competitors out it is basically a big party for Trump. At this point if you are a die hard Republican and you don't like Trump there isn't an alternative short of looking for a third party candidate. The theme of the convention is going to be "Get behind Trump if you don't want to see Hillary in the Oval Office".
The History of Liberalism – John Dewey
Abortion is a cultural issue, and which ever politician talks about Abortion for or against, is playing the classic textbook cultural partisanship game. Immigration is a bit complicated, but can be boiled down to both culture and economics. Clinton talks about tolerance(cultural), Trump talks about jobs(economics) being lost to immigration and open borders.

In my opinion Trump is not about 2016, but we will likely have a President in 2028 who runs on the Trump agenda of Native Populism, in a world of automation and globalization, his message is only going to get popular.
That's not trying to break the mitigations: it's simply testing if they stop an exploit which isn't designed to bypass the mitigations. Really easy to pull off. :) Below are examples of a clever scheme for stopping control flow attacks and a successful attempt to breaking it. When I say testing the mitigations, I mean work like what's in the second paper.

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/cfi-sec15.pdf

Note: Native Client, which protects Chrome, is a form of Control-flow Integrity. Hence, me using it as an example.
This seems a bit strange, from a company that until now seemed to be very much against Trump and hoping he'd fail in his bid to become the nominee.
Its a recent user training issue, so, if it wasn't so soon I would be all happy, but finding a better icon would probably be better.

A book with a lock might work.
Very good idea, if you can pull off what sublime did to text editors, then take my money :) I'm still using Total Commander, but I definitely see the need for a more focused app that help my directory browsing habits.

Subscribed, rooting for your project.
Yeah, like I said in another comment, I didn't use the example of maple syrup because it was a particularly healthy food, but because it's a particularly egregious instance of deceptive labeling. The consumer is being tricked into buying a completely different product than he or she intended to buy -- no part of Aunt Jemima's or other major syrup brands has any relation or origination point inside a maple tree -- and most never realize it.
As I understood they are combined now:

"The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists publishes today a searchable database that strips away the secrecy of nearly 214,000 offshore entities created in 21 jurisdictions, from Nevada to Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands.

The data, part of the Panama Papers investigation, is the largest ever release of information about offshore companies and the people behind them. This includes, when available, the names of the real owners of those opaque structures.

The database also displays information about more than 100,000 additional offshore entities ICIJ had already disclosed in its 2013 Offshore Leaks investigation."

https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160509-offshore-databas...
I actually wnt to believe you because it accords with my own intuition but I don't trust my intuition on this!

Conceptual categorisation + language + ? is totally how we humans comprehend and analyze the world around us, granted. (The devil is in the details of course.) But I don't see how we can go from there to "it relies on a hierarchy of defining attributes"

I don't buy your example because the concepts in our heads seem to be organised in context-specific word bags, i.e. tags.

I think I would believe you if cognitive science discovered that tree-hierarchy navigation relied on built-in neuro-spatial machinery or something like that :)

I _want_ to believe you but I also want proper proof! :)

edit: thanks for the heads up on prototype theory, can't believe I'd forgotten about this. also, thanks for making me ponder more deeply about stereotypes.
>I wish I could have been a fly on the wall when they were discussing ARC versus GC.

Apple shipped a tracing GC (RC is a form of GC) for a while, but couldn't get it to work reliably or with adequate performance. ARC was a bit of a "Hail Mary" and is problematic in its own right, but certainly better than the GC it replaced.

Marcel
It's not about making the ultimate right choice. It's about not getting trapped in a dead end, or in a situation where you can't change your mind.
That's the issue: he calls them tomorrow's languages, implying that they need to change ("can you marry modern thinking, build a community [...]) before getting there, or being "today's languages".

So far, I still haven't seen anything better than Rails to solve yesterday's (and today's) problems.
From their GitHub repository[1]:

"Panopticon is under heavy development and its feature set still very basic. It's not yet able replace programs like radare2 and IDA Pro. We are working on it, check back regularly!"

[1] https://github.com/das-labor/panopticon/blob/master/doc/feat...
IANAL but if you're making commercial products you need pay for QT. You can use GPL etc if you're doing open source I assume.
The "word" genocide is a word so much manipulated by you "humane" Americans "saving the world". You missed a number of genocides commited by the Bosnian Muslims and the UCK rebels financed by the CIA.
We have all been fed the one sided story of Srebenitsa about the Serbs commiting "genocide" while it was pure execution of the soldiers who had massacred Serbs in the nearby villages in the first place. Then you send your phony Agelina Jolie to shed tears about the Muslims but no one tear for the Serbs. You hypocrites.
Or how Germany, the main US lapdog of Europe, instigated the break up of Yugoslavia.
As people, we revolted, but as always the European governments are bought up by the warmongering elite living in your country. I personally have felt what toxic fume tastes like thrown to me by police by protesting in the streets. A fried of mine lost his hearing while protesting.
Please don't lecture us. Investigage your wars crimes and stop playing "the saviour". This is not Hollywood. It real life. And you are complicit in every way. But I accept that Europeans are complicing by laying down and letting the steam roller called "US foreing politics" roll over us.
I have been waiting for this one to come out! So hype!
It insinuates fraud took place.
Haven't your institutions been subverted already? Secret courts, asset forfeiture, parallel construction, NSLs?
One argument I read is that when you take profits from the food industry and subtract health care costs due to industrial diets we're (just the US) 1.4 trillion a year in the red.