skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why caffe ? why not something like h2o or tensorflow ? just curious.
The things is, can it run natively on a decent array of hardware? Unless it can reliably use Windows drivers I expect the hardware support to not be that great. After all, Linux & FreeBSD, which are much older and a lot more popular, still have problems sometime with hardware support.
As far as I can tell the west is moving equally as fast if not faster.
It seems the author didn't look far if they just said "PyQt, licensing too hard" (fair enough) without noticing PySide.
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Flash is used a great deal for advertisements which most people aren't going to care is missing from a page but it will still trigger the pop over thing.

I find the prompting at the top of the page to be nuisance and people are likely to turn it off so they don't get prompted all the time. Advertisers and malicious sites will find a way to make it appear and then offer helpful instructions for getting rid of it.

I would say for sites, that just push flash without detection, change from the missing puzzle piece icon to a non-obtrusive "run this flash content" play button. You could even add a checkbox to "always play content for this site". That way there's no annoying flash pop over and you only run flash when the user demands it on a case by case basis. This will have the added effect of encouraging content producers to migrate because heavily flash laden pages will just look ridiculous.

For sites, that try to detect Flash, display their "you need flash" messages and respond accordingly to clicks to install. The potential risk here is that people will become accustom to these prompts and a site might try to exploit that to get people to download something nasty.
>> "No, [repeat idea]."

Is not a meaningful response to the claims I presented.

At the point that I'm able to swap two resource with another and only reason to believe that a given resource is in fact the resource I referenced is the fact that the unique identifiers are the same means it's in fact useless as an indentifier.

In fact, I would claim that the whole idea of URIs as currently used is malformed, since it fails to allow a user to be able to know the resource reference is in fact the resource received.
What people demanding innovation from Apple don't get is that as a corporation Apple cares only about profit. If the profit happens to require innovation then there will be innovation , but besides this it's pointless thing.
Usually the innovations in marketing are enough to keep the sales.
> For Q1 2016 we are reporting on 61,590 operational hard drives ... [t]hese days we need to purchase drives in reasonably large quantities, 5,000 to 10,000 at a time.

To me, that's an astoundingly large number of hard drives. But I realise there are probably much bigger deployments. Does anybody happen to know just how many hard drives Amazon or Microsoft have for AWS/Azure?
GMO - what's not to love about plants designed to bath in larger quantities of carcinogenic pesticides whilst their natural competitors wither under the chemical assault? Or seeds that do not allow the next generation to seed? I mean that's great right?
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The best part of this whole story is the unintended consequence of attack. Don't like someone, encrypt a zip drive with drivel, toss it in his car and call the cops. Say you saw him looking at what could be kiddie porn. The guy doesn't know the password. Life in prison. No excuse.

This applies not merely to Bob in Accounting that's a dick, but to everyone: Congress! Start sniping political enemies. A jump drive here. A hard drive there. Soon, you could have 6 or so Congressional individuals going to jail for a child porn ring. The Feds would think it's a great prisoner dilemma. No one's turning on each other. Again, anonymous tip claiming that the right honorable Representative Duggans was watching kiddie porn late at night in his office. The same tipster told the police that while he was jacking it he thanked Representative O'Connel for the present over the phone (make sure to wait for an actual call so their is evidence).

Sure eventually all of this will die down. Until then, for $100 bucks and a few hours you can sit back, eat some popcorn and watch the system implode. Do it right and you'll get years of fun for everyone.
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"Make more shit. Shit on other's work less."

One of the best quotes I've seen this month.
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Probably gets it from FatSecret?
anything involving concurrency.
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Scary sh#t. What if inmate forgot the password? I cannot remember 4-digit PIN on a year old card I hardly used.
Speak the truth, brother. Sadly I've seen production code (I do not work at Microsoft) that contains assumptions that are really that bad..
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Sign the NDA!
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Alternative why not have both? Use the meaningful url as most links, but have a randomly generated perma link that will always redirect to the same article
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In a dynamic language, every function or property is a magic string since the IDE/Compiler has no way to tell that this function will exist or not until runtime.
So how can I buy into this ponzi? I'd throw $50 at it and see what happens. How do I do that?
Is it possible to rename an account previously named user ? my computer running Windows 8.1 came with such account name AS an administrator.
Wrong question.
The right question is:
Who facebook already sold their equivalent system to?
or else, what facebook is using it for?

Zuckerberg has an agenda: http://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-supp...
For me, it was writing my own Lisp. I'd strongly recommend giving it a try -- you'll learn about tokenization, parsing, garbage collection, and a bunch of little software development lessons.
In the UK you do (obviously not property rights because that's stupid, but access rights):

https://www.gov.uk/request-cctv-footage-of-yourself
The OP's list seems is a list that will prepare you to ace job interviews. This list is a list that will make you undeniable [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pn1RVZu-24
Not all EU, but countries like Poland, Netherlands etc. can't make you decrypt if you are suspect.
It does! They've been gracious enough to let me use their data since I'm running a nonprofit experiment.
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I like it very much, because it's a good example of counter-signaling.
> This is not a technological issue, it's a social one.

I meant that fonts and IMEs make it technically unfeasible to change kanji or create new ones.

> kanji .. are the words that you use for educated, literate speech.

But not for neologisms. That's what my post was about.
He's actually already won. The original URL included www., the current one doesn't anymore.
Stock Cafenet, trained from scratch.
Making containers more secure
because Im a newb. Looking forward to expand my repitoire!
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Snake. Can pretty much pack all of CS 101 into that one little game ;)

My "hello world" for learning new languages and platforms. Integer based or floating point. 2d or 3d. Sound effects, sprite animation, physics, procedural particle systems, global leaderboards, digital skins and so on ad infinitum. Allows you to experience nuances in packaging and deploying WebGL vs Android vs Steam. Continue polishing it, and you may end up with something fun that others will love!

Can also be refactored into a full Tron Light Cycle style simulation. Which is a great way to learn AI. Good luck!
I was referring to other countries in EU like NL or PL etc.
I doubt it. Given the symptoms of the issue, I'm sure IT departments would be on the phone with MS in a heart beat.
On windows8.1 I found that a program with "update" in the name - eg MyUpdate.exe was treated differently by the OS.
But do the police have to get a warrant to review CCTV footage?
It's not a replacement at all, and has almost nothing in common with what is discussed here (except the name).
Robberies should be question #1.
It has been in Microsoft Edge/Chakra for a while. But I couldn't make it work with Babel + webpack2. I still needed babel for static properties and React. It was either webpack parsing couldn't recognize async/await or webpack executes modules on Nodejs which wasn't supporting asyn/await by the time. So bundling was failing.

I wonder if there is any babel/webpack gurus out there can make it work ?

Oh btw, I recommend windows users to try microsoft edge for debugging and runtime inspection, it is so slick :)
>The only workers who aren't able to quit a job are public sector workers, where the government has a monopsony on hiring.

That reads like public sector workers are not allowed to quit, and that public sector workers are some special class who are not allowed to work for private firms.
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Hey,

I'm thinking of taking 3-5 months off (I'm a contractor). To do an intensive language course in Spanish and work through cracking the coding interview. Additionally I'll keep doing what I do now (perhaps more) playing with some new techs like angular 2

I have the money aside to achieve this. Any things I should be aware of? My main fears are

- having a big gap in my CV (I've been working for 7 years up till this point)
- ending up doing nothing
>Seriously, just DONT DO IT(tm)

Yes, you'll learn that this task is literally impossible, as well as why:) I think we've all used regex in a spot where it's impossible to do so correctly at some point.
Check the examples. Integration with js graphing is being worked on (mpl or plotly, I'm undecided)
There was an episode of Planet Money just a couple of months ago that says Buffett is indeed on track to win the bet:

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/10/469897691/armed-with-an-index-...
A zip drive with no fingerprints of the person it supposedly belongs to? Not very convincing.

Also in this case the prosecution apparently has a bit more information that just "he did it":

A subsequent forensic exam of his Mac Pro computer revealed that Doe had installed a virtual machine ... the examiner found one image of what appeared to be a 14-year-old child wearing a bathing suit and posed in a sexually suggestive position. There were also log files that indicated that Doe had visited groups titled: “toddler_cp,” “lolicam,” “hussy,” “child models – girls,” “pedomom,” “tor- childporn,” and “pthc,” terms that are commonly used in child exploitation.

... The exam showed that Doe accessed or attempted to access more than 20,000 files with file names consistent with obvious child pornography... and that he used the external hard drives seized by Delaware County detectives to access and store the images.
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1. New users trial signups are the same and steady, ~30 a day.

2. Yes attrition rate has been very high. Why? I don't know. Most of the cancellations don't leave any feedback (or its not usable -> Will re-design cancellation form).

3. Lots of my new signups have been via partnerships with blogs that sell training and use my product as part of it. It could very well be that the numbers are new users that start the process, signup but they lose motivation along the way. But I don't have data to back this up.
> No.

Why would you say so? There is nothing simpler than compilers. They can be broken down into pieces as small as you like which are still independent and fully sequential. Most of the rewrites you'll ever need to do can be done in a total language - i.e., you don't even need Turing-completeness for most of your code.

> Any complexity? Really?

I have not met a kind of complexity that cannot be decomposed into trivial pieces mechanically using this technique. And I've seen a lot of very different things.

P.S. And try not to confuse a size with a complexity. E.g., C++ spec is huge, and implementing a compiler for the full language is a daunting task. Long, but not complex.
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Indeed. The latest fad in dating is smell dating

http://uselesspress.org/things/smell-dating/

Waving an electronic nose around is even more inconspicuous.
Now you could have an app that would match the current odors smelled around and your state of mind, and automatically match them with a database to point you to people giving you good feelings.
Trains seem like pretty low hanging fruit, since they don't have to deal with nearly as much problems as vehicles on the road. Yet train automation still hasn't put train operators out of work. I doubt that self-driving cars/trucks, which lag far behind self-driving trains, are going to cause much unemployment anytime soon.
Google Search. Sure, Google still do a search engine, but it is nowhere near as good as it used to be.
Yeah, when Google announced they'll be shutting down Reader, Feedly was amongst the first to offer an automated migration. I use and love Feedly since then...
I actually got a couple Win81 VMs that have VMUser as a user and I never noticed any CPU usage issues.

But the non-solution is just pathetic response from MS - they used to talk in updates and fixits but with all the focus on Windows 10 now, they hardly seem to have a reason or incentive to care about older OSes.
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> Honestly, I don't get the fuss about macros.

DSLs are an ultimate solution. And DSLs are best implemented with macros.

> where they don't make the code harder to understand

Macros are there to make code easier to understand.

I just explained it in detail elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11705170
Something like this would be a fantastic addition to MyFitnessPal.

I find myself sometimes not logging food on that app because I couldn't be bothered to search for it.

On the other hand if the product has a barcode I always scan it in because that is convenient.
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Pedophilia is a sexuality. Some people are just that way inclined. Don't confuse child abuse with sexuality the way people used to do about gays. That's extremely harmful to actual pedophiles who may have done nothing wrong. It's not even classified as a disease unless it causes problems for the person afflicted with it.
I'll cons this onto my list of reasons why Lisp "failed". Other explanations are:

Worse is Better: https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/eicqv...

The Lisp Curse: http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

Where Lisp Fails: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=69

Lisp is still my language of choice. I'm more productive in it than other languages (C, Java), not because I know the other languages less well, but because they're less expressive. So, for me, Lisp fixes the world.

Why aren't people using it? There are three things often missed.

(1) People's choice of programming languages perhaps isn't as rational as they might like to believe. There's a large amount of personal taste involved. For a personal project, that's no barrier, you can use your favourite language, but if you're working with a dozen other people, Lisp is unlikely to be adopted because more people on the team will prefer Java, C++, or Python. Multiply over all the commercial projects and you can see why you can't build a career around Lisp programming.

(2) There are accidents of history. When DEC decided to discontinue the PDP-10, the days of the hacker community built around it were numbered. Those involved then went on to build Lisp machines, but they were undercut by cheaper, commodity hardware which ran Unix. Then, the AI winter arrived. It was bad for Lisp, but Prolog fared far worse.

(3) Linguistic relativity. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis might be dubious for natural language, but for programming languages it certainly does apply. If you're uncomfortable with Lisp, you won't be tackling problems at which Lisp excels, or (at best) you'll do them in a completely different way, and it will take you longer. The result is that people think their language of choice is fine for everything that matters, and the problems they don't tackle don't matter to them.
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“Elite Class”, in this context, does not mean “top 1-5%”, but “independently wealthy by age 30”.
Realistically, how can we differentiate between a suspect who's refusing to unlock something, and a suspect who has genuinely forgotten his password?

I know for myself, even with passwords I use multiple times a day from memory, it only takes a couple of months of not using them before I cannot recall them again. This guy has been locked up for 7 months.

See also the numerous people who stored bitcoin in brain wallets (bad idea), who now cannot reclaim their money despite considerable financial incentive to do so.
> A company can build up a reputation in the security industry, produce world class hardware and software, and charge a sharp premium on it, because security is _so_ important and protects some of our most valuable assets.

Hmm. I think there's considerable limits on how true this is. I would argue Yubikey's current security is more than good enough for almost everyone.

As mentioned in your edit, there's not a lot Yubico can do about the hardware restrictions. Given these restrictions, a common way companies in this industry assure users of the security of their device is FIPS 140-2 certifications, which range from levels 1 to 4.

Level 4-certified devices are extremely expensive, and the market for them is tiny, which seems to indicate that there's a definite limit on the amount people and organisations are prepared to pay to ensure security.
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> (Don't worry - it will be).

This assumes that weavie actually has a beard.
We both know I'm legally allowed to have you watched in public in such a way that you would never know, and yes, I would legally be able to collect all that data; in fact, legally I'd be allowed to even listen to what you said.

Questions relates to how tech has changed this and it's clear it has.

Until there's one set of rules for expectations related to privacy, it will be exploited by anyone able to do so.
Don't forget terrorism.
That would be true if we were talking about normal languages eval'ing strings. Lisp on the other hand treats the code as data and has the full compiler available at runtime. It can check types at both runtime and compile time, and it will still compile it down to nice machine code on the fly.

Lisp eval is not the same as other languages, you use it implicitly all the time. Any occurence of macros or something like `(1 ,(+ 2 3) 4) is playing around with evaluation behind the scenes.
Exactly. For a city with 200,000 people you only need 18 bits. For the whole planet, you only need 33 or 34 bits.
You didn't even link what was actually merged, that PR is still open.
There is no foolproof way, but uncertainty is something the law has dealt with for centuries, and isn't unique to this situation. The short answer is: it gets argued in court like everything else.

If cryptography introduces too many new cases of contempt, we'll need to rework the contempt system, and, in particular, introduce juries to the process (perhaps for contempt sentences exceeding a certain number of weeks).
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You could probably outsource enough of the UI work to Fiverr to make a really decent looking app.

Things like Main screen, App Icon and colour palette.
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Yes, I mean that pointing to selective breeding as if it's "all the justification for gene splicing you'll ever need" is a false equivalence. Sure, you can compare them, but you can not point to a few similarities and then wave any differences away. As one example: with selective breeding, you can at least be confident that the resulting strain is viable within its ecosystem since it is itself the product of numerous generations. Gene splicing does not come with that same viability guarantee.

And I do mean that it is harmful to both sides of the debate. I have no clue whether the characterization above is even remotely valid. But most of the rhetoric is so content-free that it does not help me alter my view around GMO, in either direction.

And lastly: US (and many other international) corporations do not have a good track record when it comes to acknowledging and respecting human health. The backlash against GMO is, I feel, at least partly attributable to the tobacco, food and oil industry, and the "sciences" that were complicit.
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In Russia, if you are curious this is often called rectal high temperature cryptanalysis. There is manual.

http://lurkmore.to/%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B...
> You're pretty much the equivalent of the Japanese soldier who got stranded in the Philippines and kept fighting WWII until the 1970s.

Never hear about this—thanks for the entertaining research. For those interested, it might be this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda
> if the choice is between the true and the good, then for the sake of society, the true must go

I vehemently disagree. This is a prelude to Brave New World.
Wouldn't stop the police from keeping him behind bars. "He went through the trouble of encrypting the drive and keeping it clean from prints, but we found it in his car. He's clearly a well organized, determined child porn consumer."

Perhaps you have too much faith in law enforcement, or I have grown too cynical by what I perceive as the dawn of a new era of police states.
It's not just that. It's continuing despite the other party not being interested. Flirting is a two-way street.
My experience is a lot like that. However one of the core issues Twitter has had in the recent past is that many users were not experiencing polite conversation on twitter. They were experiencing harassment instead.
"No, it was intended to be the "Big Iron" CPU replacement"

All the computer press was pretty sure it would replace x86. Microsoft released Windows port for Itanium, which was unseen of them.
My color palette was carefully engineered to induce vomiting and weight loss! :p
I agree that the case here is a bit more compelling. You're also correct in the lack of some evidence in the attach scheme.

You can overcome the fingerprints by handing things out for free. Here's a jump drive from some corp. You can also it in a cup holder. The person would touch the jump drive while being a bit perplexed. If you know the person, you can probably get them to hold it for you by simply handing it to them.

Yes, you have to be more involved, but at the same time it's doable.
You didn't consider y < 0
Yev from Backblaze here -> They have a lot more :D
I've settled for "every article has an URL that looks like a folder" (including trailing slash – that particular debate is pointless), only resources like pictures look like a file with extensions.

That's easy to achieve with all CMSen, but also trivially done with a static website (the web server is configured to use index.html or whatever you like).
Police have international co-operation to identify, find, and protect the victims of child abuse.
Same - its one of the reasons I wanted to make my own. That and data export functionality, which is requisite for research.
You're not responding to Rayiner's point. AT&T's customer records don't become "your data" simply by dint of being responses to "your actions", any more than security footage becomes "your data" by the same mechanism.

It seems untenable to me that all rights to privacy in our metadata are entirely subverted by their being owned by telecom companies. It's not as if I'm arguing that warrantless access to metadata is a good thing. But there must be a better argument than "this feels wrong".