skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A "we drive you" company taking financing from the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving. I guess that's somewhat noteworthy. Maybe some of that money goes towards Wali notification if a female passenger wants to take a Uber ride in Saudi Arabia. "Your protectee wants to take a ride from A to B. Accept/decline." It'll need an auto accept for women over 45 as they are allowed to travel alone.
You might like BoxBackup, but unfortunately not very active project now: https://www.boxbackup.org/
Google has their new Cloud Speech API (alpha)

https://cloud.google.com/speech/
No normal ( :) ) person cares about getting a fantastic experience when taking a taxi. They just want to get from A to B reliably and safely and without messing about with tipping.
Technically it is, colloquially it isn't.
>Generating theories which have predictive power is exactly what deep neural nets do.

Not really. Some symbolic/inductive systems do that. Traditional deep neural nets have a single model that is being adjusted to fit the distribution of input samples. That is not the same as creating a theory, let alone many theories.

> Reinforcement learning systems do explore their environment and perform experiments

Since when does trying something 1000 times with incremental changes qualifies as experiments and exploration?
Where I'm from we don't really use the term 'Liberal Arts' and instead we generally refer to the specific field (psychology, philosophy, literature, etc.). The only group-term we use is 'social sciences', but at least at my university the overlap in classes, especially the first two years, justified that label.

Much less dinging by proximity going on because of that, I think. It's generally accepted that studying philosophy is much more difficult than social sciences, for example. Of course, as a result we probably have a richer collection of more specific stereotypes for each field though.
I've been writing a paper and hoping to give a talk about this at KVM Forum. I wasn't ready to publish this, but here's an early version of the paper for anyone interested:

http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/paper.pdf

Note: I'm not connected to Intel, just trying to reproduce their work in QEMU/KVM and regular kernels. KVM Forum details: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/
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Twitter Is Betting Everything on Jack Dorsey
Right, and the companies can sue if they believe that the gag is no longer necessary. It provides a real legal argument for legal action, instead of nebulous moral arguments.

Rule of law can help as well as hinder.
They can and they do. The onus is on the passenger to report issues such as indirect routes.
It's not really surprising, it's just a lot of hard work on small details of the boot process. Intel are way ahead here. See my other comment for a draft of a paper I've been writing about this.
Yeah, definitely. They're hoping to pay a senior developer a junior's salary.
Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
I do use an extension for Firefox (though, it's a WebExtension that I've built myself. I have not yet announced it anywhere (first time here!) because I'm still occasionally working on making it ready for the masses.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/improve-hn/

https://github.com/andriussev/improve-hn

Comment hiding is kind of important because the trees CAN become fairly large. I read somewhere that it's coming natively to HN, so that's good.
Lobbying is my primary guess.

They are disrupting one of the most heavily regulated markets where government is protecting special interest groups. I would not even have bet any money that Uber could have taken off the ground. But they have done well.
Browser based load testing
I feel like the more AI gets into the middle of our online interactions, then the more AI will try to steer those interactions. There is already plenty of evidence that our online behaviour is strongly influenced by algorithms, and I suspect this is just the beginning. One reason why I log onto FB maybe once every couple months; it just feels like I'm being manipulated.
Infrastructure monitoring
I'm from Europe and I know of a lot of people who wouldn't be able to front a $5K bill. With the US system I would still think there are many who would fall below that line as well. Free healthcare as exists in some european countries actually helps those people.
The backup tool itself doesn't need to know about encryption at all. I have full control over the backup host, so I would use either full-disk encryption (luks) or filesystem-level encryption (encfs/ecryptfs) on the backup host. The former works better if you want de-duplication. Regular ssh takes care of encryption in transit, so rsync just pipes unencrypted bits through this encrypted tunnel. You could probably add GPG in there somewhere if you wanted. Just a bunch of Unix tools doing Unixy things in the Unix way.
Nextcloud (the continuation of ownCloud)
Maybe relevant: a FOSS AI project:

https://mycroft.ai/
The existence of the inherent time-of-check versus time-of-use hole with access is a several steps away from "execute arbitrary code". The example given presumes you are using access on crontab (and that the app can write to it).
Could they though? The way I understand the answer is that the security hole happens if a privileged user which manipulates files for an unprivileged user calls access() and then open(). In this case Blizzard's application is an unprivileged user, thus even if you manage to insert yourself between the calls, you will only be able to make Blizzards application execute code. The application still runs in a sandbox so you will not get that far.
People in the general public don't really have a clear idea about what Facebook, Google, and Amazon are doing. Still, most people I know are vaguely aware that there's something creepy going on. They aren't really comfortable with Facebook, Inc owning their digital social life, but they rely on it because of the obvious network effect.

Try asking someone "hey, you know Facebook use a lot of state-of-the-art technology to algorithmically understand the meaning of everything you post and write, feeding this massive data set into their huge artificial intelligence program?" I don't think it's likely that many people will say "cool, that sounds like a great deal, because I love it when I get very specifically targetted ads."
They'll say anything to get what they want.
Yeah, you guys are right, the `README` file is not clear enough regarding the objective of the hook. Will fix that ASAP.

Bottom line, this is a "save your bacon" approach if you forget to change your email locally on a github repo, but still want to use your professional email globally on your system.

We've created this hook after we had to, yet again, rewrite history to remove the company email from public commits.
It's not too late. It can still take off with external GPUs.
Ask HN: Why using server session store?
HTTP is stateless, API for mobile app is stateless, so why does web application makes HTTP stateful by storing user data in its store ?
Well I have one of these N1 cases[0] which takes a mini-itx board.
The graphics card will be taking up the only full size pci-express slot, so I am looking at M.2 ssds.

[0] https://www.ncases.com/
Hey there, nice list!
I see you have nothing on data-mining yet. Here is an awesome well-written open source guide on data mining using Python.
http://guidetodatamining.com/
I've been collecting a similar little list as well, here it is on my blog:

http://blog.rplasil.name/2016/06/my-list-of-high-quality-onl...

Welcome any other (high-quality) additions!
Ah yes.

I read about those problems.

First they changed the license then the switch from 3 to 4.

This cost them many customers.

I started with 4, so I didn'T encounter these problems.
> Both sets of friends are very capable, but as someone from a solidly middle-class background who was raised to view hard work as the only way to succeed, the notion of "networking" and playing the social game to move up has always seemed alien to me. I know it's not true in all cases, but it makes me wonder if taking the risk on a LA degree in some cases is correlated to greater economic privilege

From my experience of college (and that of most people I know), especially in the social sciences, the degree itself was only worth it because studying is cheap here. About 1500 euro a year, and we received about 250 euro a month from the state, more if we lived in a dorm, and could top that off with a very, very friendly loan up to about 600 euro total.

The biggest value, aside from intrinsic interest in the topic and having mediocre-at-best lecturers provide us with reading suggestions, was indeed the connections we made during those years.

Most of the people I met in college now have interesting work or positions in their field (and often via said connections). I partied with them, hung out with them, had discussions with them, started book clubs with them, and became friends with them. If I need to talk to a good journalist, accountant, lawyer, entrepreneur about something, there's one from my network available. If I have questions related to philosophy, physics, literature, etc., well, that's just an appointment and a few beers away.

While it's possible to create these connections without going to college, it's much harder. By going to college it happens automatically, especially if you join some student organization.

Whether that's worth the insane student loans people have to burden themselves with in some countries is up for debate, but the value in the network is huge.

I'd also like to note that it doesn't feel like playing a social game and networking. It's making friends and acquaintances and sort of 'falling into' using the advantages. A bit like how I suppose most people who date other people are looking forward to getting laid, but it doesn't feel 'sleezy' because it's not your primary objective (of course, if it is and you're up-front or okay with that, that's fine too).
OK, you have written an API. When can be expected that you publish a code for a service that implements this API?
We should not aim to create a clone. We should aim to make something right, fair, and better - the way it should've been done in the first place.
On MS-DOS, Acorn, Amiga and Atari it was just yet another one.

On Mac OS (after the C transition), Windows and OS/2, they might had C as main implementation, but most of us that couldn't carry on using Turbo/Quick/HiSoft Pascal, Modula-2 or Basic compilers, moved to C++ instead.

We could still make us of improved safety and stronger type checking features, while being compatible with the C toolchains.

EDIT: Also IBM and Microsoft eventually had very good C++ support in the form of SOM, COM, C Set++ and MFC, with Borland providing the very good OWL and VCL.

Also any Windows 3.x old timer remembers the message and event handling macros alongside #define STRICT, that Microsoft used to bring some sanity to Windows programming with straight C.
KountMoney
Someone is always talking about high-speed transport. Either rich people who really need to do london-new york in under an hour, or packages that for whatever reasons cannot wait for the Fedex truck.

If SpaceX really can cut costs by 99+% (imho they cannot) then rapid delivery of people/packages might be viable.
"Unique" in unorthodox meaning of this word.
With SmartOS, the database image can be preconfigured and published into the catalog, so when the image is pulled down with imgadm(1M), the database is already ready to take data and serve.

The complex startup he then continues to hack on is superfluous on SmartOS, as SmartOS has the service management facility for that. For brand new services, one XML file and svcadm import later, the thing is ready to be turned into an image, never to have to be revisited again.

I do not understand why people take the harder way to do the same thing (if there is no clear advantage to doing it the harder way). He picked MySQL, a database which is infamous for data corruption and bugs where basic SQL functionality does not work; the substrate, Ubuntu, provides no fault management architecture, no end-to-end data integrity, no post mortem kernel debugging and dynamic tracing facilities, which will eventually result in incidents in the dead of the night. Then there is the choice of Docker, which is really not designed to run a fully functional virtual server, but a single process in a single image (although it can run something akin to a virtual server, with lots and lots of extra system engineering put in). Why choose Docker, when with zones on SmartOS one can have a fully isolated, fully functional UNIX virtual server, but running at the speed of bare metal, and all of that in a single invocation of vmadm -f vm_definition.json (or use the SDC software, which puts a GUI on top of it all)?

If something more reliable and easier is available, why insist on doing it the harder way with an unreliable substrate? There appears to be no logic here, and if there is any, it escapes me. Is it lack of awareness of SmartOS, FMA, SMF, ZFS, and zones, or something else?
and that, my friend, is exactly what I meant when nice ideals hit reality. it never ends as it was intended, and extremely rarely for the better
Blendle's 'no questions asked' money-back guarantee works pretty well. You pay the moment you open the article, and if you don't like it you click on the link in the top left to get your money back.
How the top 5 PC makers open your laptop to hackers
Regardless of how you analyze it, it was clearly a mistake because the platform is literally driving many freelancers away (many contracts are short-term or <$500 contracts). The least kind thing they could have done is make the announcement about the pricing change at least one year prior the implementation, so that affected freelancers could take appropriate actions.
Profit-wise, it could be considered a smart move, but even that is an uncertainty.
There are many rsync-based backup systems like this that assume you back up many times and don't restore often, so backups are efficient (deltas, etc) but restoring is not (just download the whole thing). I'd like to use an rsync-like mechanism for software distribution, where the problem is reversed: the software is updated infrequently, but there are many clients that all need to download updates, so "restoring" should be efficient. Is there any open source solution for that? Preferably where the server can be dumb, like an S3 bucket.
Eben Moglen:

> Facebook is strip-mining human society. Watching everyone share everything in their social lives and instrumenting the web to surveil everything they read outside the system is inherently unethical.

> But we need no more from Facebook than truth in labelling. We need no rules, no punishments, no guidelines. We need nothing but the truth. Facebook should lean in and tell its users what it does.

> It should say: "We watch you every minute that you're here. We watch every detail of what you do. We have wired the web with 'like' buttons that inform on your reading automatically."

> To every parent Facebook should say: "Your children spend hours every day with us. We spy upon them much more efficiently than you will ever be able to. And we won't tell you what we know about them."

> Only that, just the truth. That will be enough. But the crowd that runs Facebook, that small bunch of rich and powerful people, will never lean in close enough to tell you the truth.
Warden isn't particularly widespread, and impersonating it wouldn't gain you any extra privileges. Seems pretty unlikely.
But you can't ignore the value of the lease of the car; it's not like you can only use it to drive for Uber.
Or if they have, we have no records of them.
> Do we really care on which CPU architecture runs S3 servers and etc.?

Not at all, specially when the language runtimes are rich enough to abstract OS and hardware architectures.

Even GPUs can be treated as an "acceleration device" by rich GPGPU runtimes.
Apparently Steam games are favourite attack vector of NSA, they love exploiting Steam games on sysadmin machines.

https://www.wired.com/2016/01/nsa-hacker-chief-explains-how-...
Seems like 9 of the top 10 contributors in addition to the project founder and the lead security engineer are pushing this effort. Good foundation to fork and support users.

Let's hope this brings the transparency, openness and community awareness owncloud/nextcloud always needed.
in short: lawyers, politicians (whether legal donations or illegal bribes), and accountants. each of which will vary by jurisdiction (city, county, state, nation, etc.) yes, the core server-side codebase design/code/operate will be about the same. yes, each taxi operator will own/buy/provide their own hardware. yes, the mobile platform app codebase is fairly unified/common.

but... it's all those jurisdictional and market differences. plus, the advantage to subsidize and accelerate, that will likely cause the lion's share of thirst for bootup investor cash. Uber's biggest problem, as a 2000-ish YC/SF-style "software" startup is that there is no Amazon/AWS-like cloud provider of vehicular rides. Because you need, well, vehicles. Which are expensive and messy. Uber needs enough cash to ensure enough vehicles, plus those messy human drivers, plus all those locale/jurisdiction-specific requirements, are satisfied and ready. Human/political/legal costs don't scale up/down anywhere near as well as totally automatable solutions like pure software.
Sounds like if Apple re-releases the Thunderbolt Cinema Display it could have a built-in discrete GPU.

That could work really well, and I'd imagine it could allow even a Macbook Air to handle gaming fairly well.
> transform themselves from a company that does cutting-edge research and makes universally useful products into a corporate blob with no specific purpose and niche products of dubious quality.

This is very true and funny only when read as a sarcastic comment.
I thought, and wikipedia agrees, that BRT implies dedicated lanes, for at least the majority of the route.

There's lots of little improvements that could be made to bus transport, for similar money to trains, I think a big part of it is just wanting to be responsible for big construction, whether to get kickbacks or to just a more straightforward ego boost.
> Microsoft and IBM agreed

My understanding of the narrative surrounding this is that Microsoft started working for IBM on OS/2 before switching to Windows, which - struggling here - was intended to have a certain amount of binary compatibility (?). Basically IBM decided, Microsoft went along with them, and the rest was history. Would be interesting to understand who made the decision to use C and why ... was OS/2 intended to be "unix-like"?
I continue to be blown away that such a powerful and flexible piece of technology is completely open source. Bravo Epic!
Berghain Trainer [face detection / emotion analysis]
That single model is in the important respects as powerful as any model can hope to be, since it can approximate any continuous functions. Sure, it's finite, but so is my computer, and my brain.

Sure, we can't guarantee that the ways we have of training this model will be able to learn these function approximations. But the same is true of my brain.

So why would multiple models be better? Any set of multiple models can be aggregated and called one model, anyway.

Being adjusted to fit the distribution of input samples sounds unimpressive, until you remember it can in principle do it for all distributions. And it learns to generalize from the input samples to unseen samples. Making a model to generalize from what we've seen to what we haven't yet seen is exactly the same as creating a theory, as I see it.

Since when does trying something 1000 times with incremental changes qualifies as experiments and exploration?

Since when doesn't it? If it's 100 times, is it experimentation and exploration then in your eye? What about 10 times? Sounds like an arbitrary distinction to me.
A-Frame (look at this on a smartphone)
But we are talking "developer edition". Do you code laying down in bed?

(not that what you suggest is very ergonomic anyways)
Ugh, the article is so full of crap it hurts.

As you've said they mix suborbital toys in there
Show SLS (but no price breakdown - hint - it's going to be fucking riddiculous) And it has the fucking suicidal SRB's (they dramatically increase the risk of a critical failure) that cost more to refurbish than to build new...
Antares is just...

And they compare the MAX SpaceX price to MIN (theoretical!) Vulcan price

I actually don't fanboy SpaceX that much (I love what they are doing (because, HEY SPACE!) but I am somewhat ambivalent about them as an actor. Plus, I'd really want to see Skylon fly...), but one has to admit, right now SpaceX seems unstoppable.
The steam uri handler probably has lots of avenues of easy RCE.
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I wonder how humanity ever got anything done, before we had stimulants to treat our ADHD.
Hi dozzie!

Please check out the samples directory for client code:

https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask/tree/master/samples

These are direct ports from the Java samples:

https://github.com/amzn/alexa-skills-kit-java/tree/master/sa...
I mean, technically spacex vertically landed a rocket in 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwwS4YOTbbw
more like uber is domino's for people
This guy published an app that did jailbreak detection and some other stuff on the App Store, it was taken down, and has been rambling since then in a very very childish way about stuff like this: https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/738286205708738560

Truth is--he knew what was going to happen, so this looks just like another excuse to rant.
I don't really rely on them to show me important updates. I see the stories they provide me with as more of a friendly suggestion that they've found something I might like or might of missed. I don't get them very often and I really like the spontaneity of them appearing when I'm not normally looking for them.

The only time they annoyed me was when picking up a false article about Breaking bad being renewed. I shared the headline with several people before realizing it was a fake article.

http://www.businessinsider.com/breaking-bad-season-6-hoax-20...
This particular point was rather annoying, and involved working around it in this manner:

Me: "OK Google, navigate home"
Google: "You need to turn on web and app activity."
Me: "OK Google, navigate to $NUMBER $STREET, $TOWN."
Google: "No problem".

But, they then decided that web and app activity was essential in order to give me commute information, and the only way I found around this was to turn it back on and start doing almost all my searches via Duckduckgo.
Do you have any evidence that's a relevant favor in the practice? Eg: how many times does a doctor see the same patient again in a shift? Is that really relevant across all medical positions/specialties?
Dear n-gage: don't use rape to promote your app
SpaceX will send missions to Mars at every orbital opportunity, starting in 2018
Owncloud has been forked into Nextcloud
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