skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not forget how much people (like Marvin Minsky) crapped all over neural networks

AIUI, Minsky and Papert "crapped all over" perceptrons specifically and not neural networks in general. It's often been said that the idea that "Minsky said NN's don't work" was an erroneous interpretation by others in the field.
> "You're getting into unsettling ground that I think is damaging to our sense of humanity," says Stuart Newman, a professor of cell biology and anatomy at the New York Medical College.

Is this vague sense of humanity worth more than a loved one's life? Out of curiosity, how did it survive antibiotics, in vitro fertilisation, and industrialisation?
Wish I could remove the "lazy" part, my apologies webdevs!

Still: wish less companies would be fine with shipping web apps that break in one or more of modern browsers.
What you call privacy might be called fraud in some countries. That's what my question is about.
I think it depends what you do there. If you're a quant developer, or actually working in the investment bank (rather than retail) it's a really good thing to have on your CV. Especially if you actually want to work in fintech.
You may not have read the whole article. It discusses specifically software which employs statistical analysis of DNA sample data.
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Title should actually be 'Hacking Team hacker' (as in, the guy who hacked Hacking Team - 'Phineas Phisher').
There's a difference between fading away and the universe expanding.

Once upon a time most Unix software was written in C, shell, and awk. Then Perl came along. Did that diminish C? No. Then Java. Did Java diminish C? No. Then Python. Did Python diminish C? No. (You can throw C++ somewhere in there; not sure where. Though IME C++ use really seemed to explode with Windows developers migrating to Linux.)

In each case the universe of software expanded, but C was never diminished. People who think Rust, Go, or whatever will diminish C are ignorant of history. Of course, maybe the predictions will bare out. But I seriously doubt it, and it will be despite their underlying premises, not because of them. Rather, much more likely is an expanded ecosystem.

As I explained else thread, there's nothing intrinsic to the C standard which makes it unsafe. Compilers are free to add bounds checking at every point in the program; in most cases it would be just as cheap as in C++ or even Rust. It would require much rebuilding and retooling, but not much rewriting existing software. (Relying on undefined behavior is dangerous not only because of optimizations, but because undefined behavior can also preclude automatic bounds checking.)

That C compilers don't do that is a function of 1) baggage and 2) other functional constraints, like strong ABI compatibility. But neither of those are set in stone. People who think C is hopelessly unsafe make the same mistake every C newbie (and some die-hard C-is-just-assembly people) do: conflating the language semantics with implementation and machine details.

People assumed that clang would quickly overcome GCC because it was so new and nimble. But clang still hasn't unequivocally really overtaken GCC, and certainly hasn't obsoleted GCC. Rather, the competition merely spurred GCC to evolve faster. I see much the same happening with C.

In the future, look to systems like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Alpine Linux, which are more free to upgrade their toolchain and runtime environments with backwards-incompatible changes, to field enhanced C environments with better bounds checking and mitigations. Approaches like stack canaries and ASLR are only the tip of the iceberg for what's possible.
I don't really know what are the exact regulations, but I've read the article. It says:

> The rules do not apply to agriculture, which is covered by different regulations and makes up the bulk of water use in the state. Cuts in supply based on seniority were imposed in the last year. Some of them have been rolled back already as water has become more available.

Doesn't that mean that there are also regulation on the agriculture part of water consumption?
This is why you should always use different passwords everywhere. Hashed passwords from old breaches will be useless vs tomorrows hardware.
But I think it's very important to note that Elon surrounds himself with the very best domain experts he can find. He also has a reputation of deeply engrossing himself in a topic to learn as much as he can. While he may not be a domain expert when we starts, I believe he does eventually becomes one.

Theranos shouldn't be an excuse to discount domain experience because fundamentally the impeding failure of Theranos isn't due to lack of domain knowledge. It was pushing their product before it was ready and misleading doctors and the public as to the accuracy of that product.

Elon would be "pulling a Theranos" if he obscured failed launches and solicited launches without being transparent on SpaceX's capabilities.

I think its also worth to keeping in mind that SpaceX nearly went bankrupt in the process. I wouldn't be entirely surprised if the rational behind Theranos's actions were caused by financial pressure. But that's just my speculation.
> I don't really think so. Who nowadays would want to buy a feature phone when smartphones are so cheap.

'Smartphones' are a usability nightmare. (Especially Android smartphones, and especially cheap Android smartphones.)

The smartphone form-factor is geared towards buying and playing games -- it's essentially a glorified game console. It's a popular product but by no means universal.
Is there any evidence that Theranos didn't bring in the best people in the industry? They certainly had the money (and stature) to do so.
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I think a neat solution is home-serving. A little box with big storage which acts as a hub for your family's digital life. It relays all your devices, gathers all info they're spitting out, and works on it. Results are fed back to the UIs.

When you're out and about, your devices tunnel home automatically, knowing the endpoint is trustworthy (which is more than can be said about traditional VPNs). All your photos, tweets, posts, and all other brain farts straying into the open world are never sent out directly by the device they were produced on, but by the server at home instead.

Tor could finally work as intended, with millions of boxes in the network, all handling each other's traffic. Add new projects like IPFS, and the whole centralised cloud bullshit starts to crumble. Not just from a privacy pov, but features. Your home box talking to the neighbours' home boxes by itself is a whole lot more powerful than all parties meeting on some obscure server somewhere, although I find myself quickly coming back to privacy when thinking about advantages. I do hope there is room for other big features, otherwise getting this box into peoples' hands will prove difficult.

I see it as a kind of decentralised centralisation: your whole digital life is based on this one machine, but it's in your home, you own it, and you can do with it whatever the heck you want. No ads (!), no monetization of your private data, which stays in your hands at all times, except of course once you share. Still, then it will be in the hands of those you shared it with, and hopefully not huge corporations with little incentive to do no evil (who the hell thought this was an appropriate company motto?).

Most everything for which we turn to Google and Facebook can be done much more privately at home (office things, communication, sharing shit...), except maybe search. I have little problem in keeping Google as a search machine (they do a great job) once they stop waiting for me at every. single. corner, and following me around the bits inbetween. Decentralised search is hard, but I'm fairly optimistic once a basis is laid out, someone smart takes on the challenge (and is able to solve it, too!).

Regarding your last sentence, rethinking our economy isn't a bad idea in any case. Capitalism is fundamentally unfit to be a fair system, and if a socially fair system is what we want, we have to get rid of some ideas (like this infinite growth nonsense, or that education is obsolete. Education, in whatever shape or form, is the only way I know of how humanity is not going to spiral to its (intellectual) death).
Maybe the old Heathrow terminals but the new Heathrow terminals are much better than most US airports I've been in.

Most of my travel is to SFO, which is great by US standards but I've also been through Boston, Miami & Austin in the last year and the departure zones are pretty awful.
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The reporting by Carreyrou is particularly insistent to put Holmes front-center in each of this series of articles. She's in the article subtitle and first image again. I wonder if other execs are also responsible for this disaster.
Even if you have the score and sources, I still think you'd need good guidelines. The problem is, nobody seems to know what these guidelines are in Facebook, and nobody outside of Facebook can review them!
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> bring up a smtp and imap server and I can put it on the colo box or do it on AWS.

Is that all the server will be used for? If you just want to run a Linux server 24x7 you will not be taking advantage of any AWS services, so you would probably be better off getting a colo box or VPS to act as your mail server.

If you really want to run this on AWS, you just need to spin up an EC2 instance, and configure the Security Group (think of it like a firewall). There is a wizard which will guide you through the process[0]. Once the instance is running you can (optionally) use Route 53 to set up DNS records for your new instance.

Also, feel free to buy my book :-) It starts with the basics like launching instances, and then moves on to more interesting AWS-specific features [1].

0: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/launching...

1: http://www.amazon.com/AWS-System-Administration-Practices-Sy...
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Despite of the pessimism, Rob's talk always has lots of refreshing insights and inspirations. But I also wonder that after several years in Google, how Rob would see systems software research today. (He is not doing OS in Google; but since he claimed golang to be a "systems language", he uses "system" in a broader sense than OS).
Email messages you describe are formal and generic replies can be useful. But hitting canned replies to my friends and spouse is a bit sad.
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If you think the Bell Labs school of OS design is that interesting, have a look towards ETHZ, where a lot of that originated (as the ultimate minimalistic filtration of Xerox, of course).
Would be easier and nice if there was a ready to use virtualbox image.
Someone knows if it exists ?
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You should read catch-22.
> the screwing around just draws attention to it

In a world of pageviews, isn't that incentivized?
It requires that the particular stockholders be actually culpable and involved in the fraud - fraud done by non-owning management would not allow to capture funds of non-managing investors.
Difference in company maturity, same reason startups get valued at higher multiples than public companies. Everyone knows what Ford is and for the most part doesn't think they have much of a shot to make enough significant changes to, say, 100x their revenue within 5 years. Tesla, on the other hand, has about as good of a shot at doing that as any public company, so to some investors its worth pricing that growth opportunity in.
I used to think that these problems would kill ETH - but after reading this I am changing my mind. This will be a hell of a game for hackers! Like Core Wars for money.
What about the new "Firebase Cloud Messaging", formerly GCM?
Come on Nadim. Just shut up. seriously. go whining about ptacek treating you badly again.. because your behaviour isn't any better:

You've been bashing on TextSecure/Signal and it's authors on Twitter and other mediums since you started your own, insecure, javascript IM a few years back. Always promoting your own product along some rather dubious arguments. There has even been a best-of on tumblr of your self-righteous flood of twitter messages, unfortunately it was taken down. Please leave people that are busy working on securing strong crypto-systems alone with your idiot-commentary.

This is getting annoying (for a lot of people). Ignoring you on twitter doesn't seem to be enough.

I'd never work on nor recommend crypto.cat, but if you feel your time is spent well coding on that crap, please do so instead of spreading accusations on twitter on OWS and others all of the time.
"it is easy to troubleshoot due to the interactive nature" isn't going to cut it. You cannot change the code of an etherum contract after the fact. Once it's used there is no second chance.
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The whole thing depends on what your product is, what problems are you solving and what touch points have you identified for reaching out to your target market.
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awesome!

(and sounds totally intuitive and obvious, not like a trick, but like a proper methodology, proper approach, never had this feeling of before)

thank you for info! will try to dig in
Once upon a time I hacked on the AIX kernel which ran on POWER hardware (I think they're up to POWER8 or higher now). In my time there the latest hardware was POWER7-based. It maxed out at 48 cores (with 4-way hyperthreading giving you 192 logical cores) and a max of I think 32TB RAM. Not the same hardware as mentioned in the OP, but pretty big scale nonetheless.

This shows a logical diagram of how they cobble all these cores together: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0972.html?Open

I've seen these both opened up and racked up. They are basically split into max 4 rackmount systems, each I think was 2U IIRC. The 4 systems (max configuration) are connected together by a big fat cable, which is the interconnect between nodes in the Redbook I've linked above. The RAM was split 4 ways among the nodes, and NUMA really matters in these systems, since memory local to your nodes is much faster to access than memory across the interconnect.

This is what I observed about 5-6 years ago. I'm sure things have miniaturized further since then...
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Comparing everyone's DNA vs everyone else's would be like the birthday paradox. However in court they've already picked one sample (the evidence)
There's a huge gap between wimpy and GPU, no? I'd guess this chip was right-sized to run inference on a 10 Gbit/s feed, optimized for perf/W.
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I really wish these various voice offerings would offer push-to-talk as an option. It would solve a whole bunch of problems: It would activate reliably when you want and almost never accidentally, you don't need to use awkward code phrases, and it can trigger results as soon as you release the button instead of having to wait for silence. It would also allow for better privacy by making a phone in which the microphone is hardware controlled by the button.

It just seems so obvious to me that I don't know why no one has done it. I guess needing a new button makes it harder to sell, but this seems like a great use case for smartwatches.
The responses aren't preset, they learn how you respond to certain scenarios. Not everyone is going to have the same choices, it just makes your generic response easier to send.
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The same number of amps will require the same cross-sectional area of Copper, for both DC and AC.

You can use less copper for the same power with higher voltage as a reduced current is required for the same power. This is also independent of AC/DC.
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What kind of argument is this? You seem to believe that if the reverse hypothesis "sounds obnoxious" then the direct hypothesis must surely be false. The fact is that if what the parent is saying happens to be true, then the reverse is bond to sound obnoxious.
I'm having trouble finding it but the perfect example of this is a census that collected religious affiliation (for innocent statistics) that some brave citizens went to great lengths to destroy when they came under Nazi occupation in order to try and protect Jewish residents.
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Internation....
Voice interface will solve this soon (might already be better than a tiny display + 0-9 Keys).
I saw this recently but wasn't sure whether they will admit me not being a resident of the UK. Is that possible? Also, like you, I do not have an undergrad degree but, still, got admitted to another UK based uni.
http://rer.sagepub.com/content/68/3/322.short. You can go through this research paper. I feel before implementing the technology we really need to check all the pros and cons and then we should decide.
It is for judges, and I think for government officials in general, but not in the private sector as far as I know.
AvHerald is always a good source for factual information that doesn't include rumors and speculations
http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4987fb09&opt=0
Netflix should advertise the speeds people are getting from them. And alternative ISPs if things are regularly slow.

Here in the UK we have fibre through one provider and lots through the phone lines because BT were forced to open their network. I get the feeling there is little choice in the US?
Yes. Up until a few weeks ago, Theranos's board consisted of mostly ex-Pentagon and ex-Senators and such types [0]. Theranos did not have a medical advisory board until about a month ago, apparently.

Contrast with Elon Musk and SpaceX. One of Musk's first hires/co-founders for SpaceX was Tom Mueller, who at the time was already widely regarded as one of the best rocket engine designers in the world [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theranos#Governance

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mueller
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Wouldn't it be possible to create micro grids? E.g. tenants of one house or small town. They could sell electricity to each other then.
Is US banking really this dystopian?

I've had my Maestro debit card skimmed twice, causing about 3k to be withdrawn from my account. In both cases my bank had:

* Filed a police report

* Disabled the card

* Mailed me a new card

* Started recovering the money

Before I even noticed the money being gone. The first time I actually had my money and new card back before I noticed my old card got disabled. The second time I noticed because I couldn't buy lunch using my card, but in both cases I had my money and a new card within like a week?

Besides, no one here really has/uses credit cards and stores mostly don't accept them.
There are definitely less skilled developers around, but in my experience they also don't read (or even write) on HN.
It seems they are looking for candidates who can work for long hours and under pressure.
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Google's AI has written some amazingly mournful poetry
Stories you've read online?

There is zero hassle reversing fraudulent charges, in many cases the bank itself will tell the person they think something is fraudulent, and a quick "Yeah that was me" or "Oh dear that wasn't me" is all it takes.

4 digits is enough security given it requires having the card itself, and locks out after a few incorrect attempts.

And security is about traceability not preventability.
I guess that makes sense actually, I think I only even ran into an issue where bytecode was actually relevant because I'm just a hobbyist programmer. So I like to explore things that have only marginal utility and don't have anyone else to help out with specialist stuff. I can imagine how a professional developer wouldn't ever want or need to deal with bytecode.
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This is interesting but to be honest I already have this on my phone, which is with me not only in my living room, but even in the street.
Not exactly, but it's pretty bad.

Here's the thing. There are two kinds of legal systems in the US, the civil system and the criminal justice system. In criminal justice there are tons and tons of protections for the rights of individuals, right to legal counsel, right to face your accusers, right of a jury trial, presumption of innocence, and very importantly the requirement that a trial find you guilty "beyond reasonable doubt" in order to mete out a sentence. In civil law a lot of that doesn't exist (the lowest rung being small claims court) and most importantly the requirement for a conviction is merely a "preponderance of the evidence" standard, meaning that it's more likely than not that the defendant committed the crime (i.e. 50 + epsilon percent chance).

The kicker is that with civil forfeiture laws the accused is not a person, no individual has to be found guilty of a criminal offense, the accused is an item, a piece of property. This neatly skirts a lot of the protections of the constitution and civil law. The basic idea is that if you pull over Jim Bob on a country road and you take ten thousand dollars off his person you don't need to put Jim Bob on trial in criminal court and convict him to take any of his stuff, instead you can put the ten thousand dollars on trial in civil court and assess whether there was a greater than even odds that it was in some way involved in a crime (typically drug dealing) and then when a judge says "sure enough, that seems likely" you take that money and you use it to pad out the operating budget of your police agency.

Seems ridiculous but it's been a major aspect of the "War on Drugs" for over 3 decades now. Consider, for example, this court case, the United States Versus $124,700 in US Currency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U...

This sort of thing happens on a regular basis day in day out. Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of goods and cash are seized every year in the US.

And yes, it does sound like a police state. The War on Drugs has been one of the most extreme erosions of rights and liberties in the entire history of the US.
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/11/15/mobile-music/#gref

Its a list of music discovery app.
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Actually configuring sendmail is a piececake these days thanks to Google and countless engineers documenting in excruciating detail the problems they faced.
I presume you can still use it with any mobile App wrapped as native e.g. via React Native or Ionic.
I like to read from paperback/hardcover. Never enjoyed reading from kindle/ebooks.
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But then what if 'people walking with rocks in their shoes' can be detected (which doesn't seem to complicated to me)? You'd be instantly suspicious and stand out even more.
> There is zero hassle reversing fraudulent charges,

For fraud where the pin is used? In the UK if the criminal uses your pin you're going to struggle to get the bank to repay you.

"banks / credit card companies always repay the victims of fraud" is a bit of a meme, and it's dangerous because it's often not the case. The repay in certain clearly limited cases, but not in others.
I've been told conflicting things about don't repeat yourself; sometimes you end up making something wildly complex to avoid repetition - since learning functional programming I'm starting to think breaking things down into small reusable pieces that can be repeated in different ways is better.