skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to know as well, in particular your stance with regard to the UI concept itself — which is a very interesting take on a common problem.

Is it your intention to proselytise this particular UI concept (i.e., “Everyone should use this type of calender view! It makes calendering better for everyone. Get inspired and go implement it in your own software!”) or to test the waters for a commercial product?
No problem :) Glad I could help! :D But other than that, I don't know much about what you're doing, but seems very cool anyway :D
Depends on the type of VM. A VM emulating the same type of processor just runs the client code direct on the processor. What stops the client code from messing with the reat of the system, which includes the VM supervisor code, is the processor's protection circuitry. If client code does the exploit to kick the processor into supervisor or hypervisor mode it will be running client code in that elevated mode. Priveliged instructions would no longer trap to the VM's supervisor or host OS.

Now if the VM is emulating the client's individual instructions, which is the usual for running code for a different type of CPU, then it's a different story. Under pure emulation it wouldn't work. The exploit would have to know what the host CPU architecture was, get the emulator code to trip the extra gate. As you said, all that would do is put the VM supervisor code into the CPU's supervisor mode which it probably is already in if the VM is running bare metal without a host OS.

But if the VM use JIT conversion of the instructions for speed then the exploit becomes possible again.
Imagine if they were all running Boinc instead. We might have cured Zika already.

Gridcoin pays cryptocurrency for 'mining' through a proof of work concept using Boinc credit.

But who cares where the carbon emissions from all that mining go? Someone else's atmosphere, no? At least a productive output would offset the needless waste.

A quote: "Researcher Sebastiaan Deetman came to the conclusion that at bitcoin’s current level of expansion, it will require 14 gigawatts of electricity to run by the year 2020 — an amount of energy equivalent to that of a small country, like Denmark. At the current time, a single bitcoin transaction requires as much electricity consumption as the daily consumption of approximately 1.6 American households."

via http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/04/03/bitcoin-could-consu...
ironically, this is what the parent comment is doing - attacking the author and not the message
> oral traditions

People can't even be orally consistent over 100 years.

There's no such thing as oral traditions that are anything more than 100's of years old.

We can watch fiction stories that were written down evolve at the 100 year speed.
You could hijack the scroll only when the mouse is over the phone's screen not the entire page. Very interesting UI!
Technically, even if the vehicle logs do show the accelerator pedal being commanded to 100%, that doesn't necessarily mean the driver actually pushed the pedal. The computers inside the car are capable of commanding the accelerator too. They'd have to rule out a glitch which got mistakenly logged as user input. They probably can, I dunno. I think accelerator pedals use hall-effect sensors so a readout directly from the magnetic sensor should be impervious to glitches.
And was there one saying "beware of the leopard"?
I'd certainly say there is a spectrum of varying human consciousness from fetus>baby>young child>child
Ask HN: Should I quit my internship?
I'm an undergrad at <pretentious university> starting my third week of a CS internship at <large famous tech company> doing front-end design and development. I took it mostly for the money - the project is vaguely interesting, but nothing particularly new or exciting - although finances aren't a pressing issue.

So far I absolutely hate it. My supervisor and team feel lethargic, and just being in the building feels draining. It's very difficult to get work done. I dread sleeping because I have to go to work when I wake up, and haven't felt this dead since high school.

Furthermore, I have a long hit list of extremely exciting personal projects that I'm dying to tackle, although none are likely to be profitable. Personal projects are a huge part of my life (and resume), and I love working on them. Even worse, I have the opportunity to develop one of them as a research project with <extremely famous professor> "if I'm free".

How bad of a move is it to quit an internship? I've heard it's bad, but I've no sense of scale. Is there protocol for doing so? I now recognize this as a bad decision from the start, and don't want to be a whiny brat, but still want to make the best decisions from wherever I am.
There is nothing delusional about the fact that the first person experience exists and is the basis of all science

The most commonly agreed thing is the people agree they have first-person experiences. That this is "the basis of all science" is a fine example of how people jump from this highly value quality to any old thing - I've also heard that subjective experience refutes all materialism, shows humans aren't computers, proves the existence of God and so-forth.
I don't understand why you would want to watermark text? How many people want to do that? Why do they want to? Text is copywritable (with the exception of text on social networks, which you don't have the rights to - so why watermark??)

You "really want this to be something lots of people can use". That's a good start, but you believe pricing will have a big influence on adoption.

The way many companies deal with this (as long as there aren't prohibitive costs involved) is to give the product away for free for a bit. Have a beta, find how many people want it, how often do they use it, what do they use it for. Don't worry about it being to many, it will likely be 100% less than you think (yup, I mean 0) until you start personally talking to people and getting them to try it.

Once you know how and why people are using it, you might be able to estimate how much it is worth to them, but probably not. You'll have to look at how large the market it, how many customers you can get, how much your costs are, and does the whole thing make financial sense for anybody?
So his attention schema theory is actually about consciousness as a whole, not just metacognition. Here's a quote from his book Consciousness and the Social Brain:

>The attention schema theory could be said to lie half-way between two common views. In his groundbreaking book in 1991, Dennett explored a cognitive approach to consciousness, suggesting that the concept of qualia, of the inner, private experiences, is incoherent and thus we cannot truly have them. Others, such as Searle, suggested that the inner, subjective state exists by definition and is immune to attempts to explain it away. The present view lies somewhere in between; or perhaps, in the present view, the distinction between Dennett and Searle becomes moot. In the attention schema theory, the brain contains a representation, a rich informational description. The thing depicted in such nuance is experienceness. Is it real? Is it not? Does it matter? If it is depicted then doesn’t it have a type of simulated reality?

His stance is basically that theories of consciousness rely on way too much magical thinking, and that this is the most scientifically responsible position to take. That consciousness is entirely information, rather than some sort of spontaneous emergence from the processing of information.
It has worked well so far, as a device to test my Android apps on. It does have a camera.
Ah, so that was Iñigo Quilez!
The website heavily encourages connecting your Google calendar.
Even more interesting if you look at it state by state. You'll find that most states in the northwestern part of the country are majority German, for example.
>why not use a keyfile?

Because you're always just one burglary away from passwordocalypse?
Does it vary within each category?
Old (June 2012), but still interesting related article: http://www.redblobgames.com/articles/visibility/
My bad! Of course ray tracing in the GPU would be costly; I dunno where I got that. I think my mind is still stuck on 2D after this, need to go back to 3D :)

When I had to do picking on a 3D terrain, I did a scanline approach too (https://bitbucket.org/rmsundaram/tryouts/src/master/CG/Terra...)
This is really cool, appreciate the demo, source and the writeup.

The debug view is beautiful. Great work.
One clear problem with using A.D. (anno Domini) as measure for time elapsed, is that in 10,000 years Domini will no doubt be taken to mean either Bender Rodriguez or Donald Trump.
Sam Harris Speech on Religion
I like to take in account the distortion as a meaningful information. It says things about what people perceived and desired somehow.
For me too. I also tried few other things (open file etc.) and everything works instantly. Just startup time could be faster, but I launch it once a day at most so not a big problem for me.
You don't even need word2vec good old cosine sim or an svm on the descriptions would classify theses. But if you're stuck with just the titles, just make some more patterns. There's not much you can do without building a simple dictionary.
Hyperloop One’s First Public Speed Test Is a Success
Feature launch of email editor on Firecart
This is one of the references I'd cited, see the References section in the design document link I'd shared.
Show HN: CartoChrono, a mapping tool – useful to anyone else?
There's a big difference between a venture backed tech product that doesn't work at the desired scale because of the laws of physics and a medical product that doesn't work because of phlebotomic reasons (also, procedural and calibration).

And that difference is who gets hurt.

uBeam is going to hurt the VCs, Theranos hurt everyone who relied on the results of their tests.
Somebody might correct me but I'm pretty sure they were bootstrapped
Should Non-Profits Have Competitors
Isn't the goal of social impact to solve the problem? It seems counter intuitive not to share your key learnings and donors list. Wouldn't doing so help others solve the same problem you are trying to solve?
Reminds me of that South Park episode where they take cough medicine to get great ideas, decide to write it down, then when they get conscious again they find out all they had written were some squiggly lines. Could be an urban legend of some sort?
It's refreshing to see a piece written by someone who's new to functional programming, discovering the beauty of types and pure functions for the first time.

I very much agree with the author; learning functional programming idioms have had a profound impact on my ability to model problems in code, regardless of the language I'm using.

I admire Elm so much for putting an emphasis on the user experience, recognizing that it has been one of the biggest blockers to making functional programming mainstream.
He forgot to mention the groups of Israelis who travel together in large swarms with at least one guitar player, taking over hostels before migrating to the next one!
> The entire population of earth wouldn't be able to sign up

They also have freely-available 128-bit identities, called 'submarines', that can be created on whim.

The 32-bit identities are 'destroyers', both being subsets of 'ships'.

Like everything else associated with Urbit, it's back-to-front. Real-world destroyers hugely out-number submarines.
I'm considering spending some more time on this to refactor the code and add a couple of new features. I want to find out whether such a tool is of use to anyone else, before spending further hours. I am open to feature requests.
Using Werkzeug debugger with Django
Very nice.
Did you look at http://ncase.me/sight-and-light/ at all?
You have to travel a little different when you have children though. They need longer to adjust to places, so as long as you stay in each place a little longer they cope quite well. So rather than stay somewhere for a day or two, you stay a week before moving on.
I absolutely NEED this as a widget on my Android phone screen! Congrats to amazing job Peter:)
I don't have to think too hard to make a bad UI. It comes naturally.
Are you saying that consciousness does not exist?
Yes, we would be keen to try out such a service.

To make it a no-brainer for any business, find them a list of potential partners/affiliates through your research as part of their trial period. Don't reach out to them yet. If your trial customer likes it, they can sign up and start paying you monthly for this service. May be you can remove this trial later once you have established yourself or have enough case studies.

My contact information is in my profile. Feel free to reach out to me if you want to discuss further.

All the best.
What is wrong with your punctuation?
"If the vendor reps were any indication, Cisco didn't believe there would ever be competition for their product"

Familiar feeling. The explanation: there is no long-term horizon. All they care about is near-term bonus, and things that position them personally.

Companies with clearly-defined leading products are under permanent risk of being hijacked by sociopaths.

Engineers are intelligent, but we are focused on hard problems, and we are typically invested in the platform which limits our ability to manoeuvre.

The sociopaths have nothing better to do than spend all their day consolidating position, and they don't care if they have to destroy the mountain in order to take it. (Once a company has been pillaged, they can just go somewhere else and do it again.)

As an engineer, you will fight to kill this thing. But once you see it has succeeded in taking root, immediately try to get clear of it. I don't think this gets enough emphasis in our circles - we need a short phrase that captures the transition point. I've just read your blog and suggest "bed bugs".
Definitely the Nazi* architecture does that. I remember seeing thee very intimidating military towers in Berlin. It was like the tower wanted to start a war itself. (*Yes I said the magic word, it is now one of THOSE threads!)
This too is a reference that I'd cited in the design document I'd linked :)

See the References section.
Instana Secures $6M Led by Target Partners
Can you link a quote or a point in that video? What does Boeing's use of Clojure have to do with Cognitect?
The point of an internship is to gain "real world" experience and begin networking. If you won't learn anything from your intern project or team members, then the internship is just a way to add <large famous tech company> to your resume.

That could be a good thing, but it sounds like you would get more personal satisfaction and public recognition from working on your research project with <extremely famous professor>. You can just omit the internship from your resume. No one will know or care.

Just make sure you have something lined up before you quit. :)
Can something like this be used to tamper with the Blackbox type voting machines used in India?

If so, why have there not been much of a hue and cry about it.
BigDebug: Debugging primitives for interactive big data processing in Spark
Well, if you can look past the simplification, The Matrix had some examples. Like how deja vu is a glitch caused by the controllers manually changing something. And an example from The 13th Floor is to travel so far you reach the limit of what the environment the engine rendered.

An example of a test that's phenomenally complicated is, roughly speaking, to zoom in on physical reality until the resolution starts to drop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis#Testing_...

An example that's like magic is to communicate with someone outside of the simulation. Either someone in an adjacent simulation, or someone outside of the simulating system itself.

Basically, a simulation has to have rules and constraints. If we can get a fingernail into a crack we can expand it. Just keep pushing the limits until they break. We could even start the simulation version of SETI. That's a project that's testing the hypothesis that there are ETs out there we can communicate with. We could start a project like that based on the hypothesis there are Simulators outside of our simulation we can communicate with.
Man, I've been out of Neural Nets a long time. I studied them back in the early 1990s. Perceptrons and backpropagation. Didn't really keep up with the state of the art, I'm afraid. Maybe I should catch up.
"That's easy, anyone can do it" is similarly stupid, especially when anyone who actually does stuff like this says it's impressive.
While all this is true, I find it hard to beleive that anyone prefers to dodge the dark patterns, forged images with embedded malware, and adverts of The Pirate Bay rather than direct from the distro web site.
Why We Chose MobX Over Redux for Spectacle Editor
You're saying that they closed your account but kept your money??

"pay people I'm employing". You may want to look up the definition of "personal use only".
Services, basically. This is why system hardening is essential. You don't need all 148 services running on a windows 7 home edition machine.
Why not just dump the waste in the marianas trench? The waste will get subducted underneath the earths crust. Problem solved, FOREVER. There are plenty of ships that are sitting in mothballs that can be used for the purpose. Hundreds of them, actually.

So really this is just a non-problem, and example of the "need" to create "busy work" so that fiat dollars can be backed by "something super important". Sigh.
They might be aware of the dangers of radiation in the abstract, but they might not be able to read our current marking systems to learn that there is a specific threat from radiation at that specific location. 10,000 years is a very long time to try to preserve information across.
You need to trust something at some point, be it TLS session and the server you’re talking with, or an SHA csum you verify with a friend (or using PGP’s WoT), and even further the process(es) and person(s) responsible for actually signing the releases.

As for “moving the problem,” it is worth it. Because it’s easier to verify the origin of the software once, then for every update. If there’s a new vulnerability in TLS this will only affect new installations. Verifying (& signing) packages offline is much more anti-fragile.
I was always wondering – isn't it better to make usage of voice assistant similar to simple phone call? Why it should be in speaker mode?
Sounds like marketing, not engineering. The "DBaaS operated by IBM" backend also doesn't sound hacker-friendly...
Samsung May Release Phones with Bendable Screens in 2017
Can't they deny service without holding funds?
yoo author here! I haven't played with Tidal, though I have done livecoding audio with Vivid[1], a Haskell-to-supercollider DSL.

Never heard of shadertone; thanks for the link! Always cool to see another point in the livecode space.

You could definitely do livecoding of visuals and audio in the same haskell file! One interesting idea is to define a light higher level DSL/collection of functions that would allow one to actually program both simultaneously, as in write a line of code that affected both audio and visuals.

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/vivid
Is slow start really still in use? I'm not too familiar with congestion control algorithms, but I thought that TCP stacks have moved beyond that...
Qlikview is a BI product. In their day they were very promising upstarts in the industry and they really shot ahead on the back of their in memory cube processing.

It pushed them out ahead of stalwarts like Cognos and Business Objects for a while.

When Microsoft entered the BI landscape they changed the world as we knew it by bundling a fairly decent BI stack right along with MSSQL and native Excel connectors, for free.

Many big names in the enterprise space went for it (and subsequently choked on Sharepoint) but I think this hit Qlikview pretty hard. They didn't have the legacy to withstand that battering that many of the more established BI offerings took during that chapter of the story.
If you want to prevent me from defending myself against accusations, please delete my account. If you want to defend people calling immigrants rapists that's your call.

Thanks.

Edit: on second thoughts, please delete my account. I don't want to be involved with a website who defends such people.
... define decorator-like Nim pragmas that generate Python C-API boilerplate code for decorated Nim procs, to auto-generate type-safe, exception-safe, refcount-safe Python bindings for Nim? https://github.com/jboy/nim-pymod :)
> In his brilliant career, the only time his work was subjected to blind peer review – the authors don’t know the reviewers and vice versa - he showed contempt for what is now the gold standard of science ... The story reminds us that double-blind peer review is only a relatively recent invention.

I believe the author has confused anonymous (or "single blind") peer review with double blind peer review. That is, I don't think the Einstein-Rosen paper was subject to double blind peer review, which didn't really come into use for another ~20 years, and in sociology.

Double blind peer review is not the gold standard for peer review. It is the gold standard for medical trials. I suspect the author has confused the two.

> He then send it to a reviewer for comments – his selected reviewer was probably the famously gossipy Howard Percy Robertson, one of Einstein’s colleagues at Princeton.

"Probably"? What is the source for this doubt? http://www.geology.cwu.edu/facstaff/lee/courses/g503/Einstei... is a copy of the September 2005 Physics Today article on the topic. It shows a copy of the Physical Review logbook. The caption for Figure 5 is:

"""The Einstein–Rosen article was received by the journal on 1 June 1936. After a delay of more than a month, John Tate sent a referral to Howard Percy Robertson on 6 July, finding him in Moscow, Idaho, on vacation after a sabbatical at Caltech. Robertson returned the manuscript and his review to Tate on 17 July. Six days later the package was sent back to Einstein."""
That's good to know. I wasn't sure if it's just a thin layer on top of javascript, or if it was stricter about this. Thanks!

So the way it interacts with the dom seems to be similar to what I've read about React, in that it seems to always map the model to a view, rather than messing around with existing dom elements. That seems like something that is easy to understand and to reason about.

The downside seems to be that it comes with quite a bit of js size, slightly larger than jQuery, if I understand it correctly.
Not exactly the same set up, but "the Engines of God" by Jack McDevitt is a great example of that idea of future archaeologists trying to decipher an ancient message.
I like the comic where the happy man has successfully plundered the nuclear waste. It contaminates him and he is observably less happy, though still exhibiting signs of above-average satisfaction with life. Then in the final frame, his beloved treasure stolen, he sadly dies of what appears to be thyroid cancer. His dying thought is that the person that robbed him of his ill-gotten plutonium squeezings will soon be suffering the same fate. Justice.

If I were watching a movie where the protagonist goes in to get some ancient artifact and this comic showed up on the wall, I would be like "yeah fucking right, some spooooky spirit kills the tomb raider? suspension of disbelief fail!" But of course this is real and is actually what would happen. If the society in 10,000 years is as cynical as me (and has forgotten about radioactivity), this comic will just egg them on!
FYI there is a chrome extension which solves this!
Better the next Theranos than the next Therac.