skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What really matters is cross-over. Does the skill you are training have application to what is being simulated? It's kind of like you get what you measure, in that you get what you train. For example, through training head-to-head in math based games where speed is important, I have noticed that I am much more able to do quick calculations on checks more easily. There is a game in Elevate where you are shown avatars of people then told information about them and their names. You have to remember what they look like and basic information about them through various rounds and comparisons to the other players. I have noticed that when I play that game frequently, it helps with memorizing names of people. Dual-n-back is said to help increase working memory and I believe it because in that game you are having to constantly keep in your head the last auditory and visual records at the same time and integrate new information with them. I am annoyed by people constantly saying this type of training does not work...
Hard to take this seriously when the author opens with an underhanded attack on Thiel's political views. Irritating formatting as well.
This research article and the arstechnica commentary are examples of exactly the overreach that they aim to criticize.

A number of large-scale multi-site randomized controlled trials have shown that specific types of brain training generalize to untrained measures of cognitive function and real-world activities. Here's two examples:

ACTIVE: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3934012/

IMPACT: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4169294/

Some brain training works, and some doesn't. Of the ones that work, some show certain types of benefits; and others show other types of benefits. Throwing the whole field out is like saying "laetrile doesn't treat cancer, so no molecules treat cancer."

disclosure: I was an investigator on IMPACT; and I work at a brain training company (Posit Science)
Doesn't it? https://codemirror.net/demo/resize.html
Well if you imagine planting trees in vast numbers where there are none today, that will have a rather dramatic environmental impact on any species currently living there. Possibly leading to endangerment or extinctions. A price worth paying, perhaps, but others won't agree.
No. I only hope I live long enough to see the apocalypse.
> They created a situation in which bugs would be expected to arise in an environment in which bugs are legally exploitable. That is hacker heaven.

Every single system has this problem. You think banks aren't hacked?
'for the benefit of consumers' in boldface on page 2 is eerie
The lack of secure auth mechanisms is exactly why companies like Plaid (and Yodlee, and Dwolla, and Intuit) exist. Take away that constraint, and this is easy enough to package as a library and not a product.

Many "disruptive" industries like this "API on top of legacy systems" segment are merely arbitrage schemes; they profit from entrenched players' greed and apathy. Luckily, banks are starting to wake up.

As such, it's not really Plaid's responsibility to "fix" this problem, it's the banks'.

- http://www.americanbanker.com/bankthink/a-neobanks-prognosis...
- http://www.americanbanker.com/news/bank-technology/wells-far...
New Twitter Handle Now Live: AWSSecurityInfo
Is it really shoehorning when Thiel's lawyer is threatening Gawker with a lawsuit about an article they wrote about Donald Trump?[1] Seems like that's very relevant.

[1] From the article, http://gawker.com/now-peter-thiels-lawyer-wants-to-silence-r...
Thoughts and Prayers the Game
You are right, if the company you outsource your task to is actually better then you. In LinkedIn's case, outsourcing was the wrong decision because they used pretty bad "tools". You should also only outsource if you trust the other company to be "competent" and protect your interests. For instance, I would have trusted Mozilla with their OpenID alternative but not Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn (though I'm pretty sure Google knows how to keep the login data safe, I'm more worried about privacy in that case).

In this case, what I would do is to use a framework that makes getting those things wrong hard. Django is a great example for that. They provide you with a generic user model that does password handling for you. They also add a few middlewares by default to protect you against CSRF, click jacking and many more. While django can be really slow, and hard to use when doing something "unsual", you can learn a lot from it. I don't know many frameworks that make security so much easier. In Go, you can do all those things as well but that requires that you are aware of those security measures to use them, which is not ideal for junior developers or "fast moving startups that don't have time to invest in security measure".
Software is almost always flawed to a certain extent.

The problem with Ethereum is that you can't push a fix to your contract.
What does AI safety mean to you, specifically? What kind of scenario would this solve, specifically? What kind of mechanisms would help, specifically? It seems that redognizing danger to humans (particularly in a general case) would itself be an AI problem.
It's actually really easy to game the trust system. Back in the day a common scam was for a seller to sell a whole bunch of cheap books, and actually deliver with great customer service. Then they would switch to selling TVs and other high ticket items, which people would buy from the highly rated seller. Needless to say they never sent the TVs.

That one was easy to spot after a few times, but it's always a cat and mouse game. As soon as they figure out what the inputs are into the system, they game it to their advantage.

At the end of the day you have to have policies that aren't tied to the reputation to make things fair and that is where the debate about pro-seller vs pro-buyer comes in.
It's worth your time (and extremely entertaining) to read Sarah Jeong's twitter commentary on this piece. She does a really nice job of highlighting all of the places where basic journalism, asking for outside expertise, or really any shred of skepticism and tough questioning would have killed the story:

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/744950977090838528
I complained to my bank that their 12 character password limit suggests they are storing passwords. Their reply was little more than don't worry about it, you aren't responsible for fraud. I asked for them to add some kind of second factor authentication (I'm a fan of TOTP systems) and was told they are thinking about making that available for their business accounts.

It bothers me that my most valuable login is probably my weakest.
yes it is good to adapt to your target audience. If that is linux users a makefile might be the best. For a lot of other users like javascript web developers npm might be better. For end users on windows an msi or exe installation file is probably best.
Makefiles are unusual on windows which makes them a somewhat bad solution even for developers on windows machines. If you want to create system that works on multiple platforms there are probably better ways. At least make sure to not use some *nix-only syntax in the makefile or calling grep or awk.
You can generally eat beans (black, lima, pinto, or Lentils) on a diabetic diet, depending on your restriction levels. Which fit into cheap bulk food category.
Disclaimer: I work for Auth0.

I couldn't agree more with this comment.

Storing username and passwords is really hard. Using a secure hashing alg is trivial compared to other time consuming problems like handling brute force attacks or other kind of anomalies like a distributed attack trying to use a db of leaked email and passwords from other services.
"brain training" industry may be a placebo but brain training is real. I have yet to understand why people think that you can have a very good brain if you don't train. In sports it's a given: if you want to run fast, you have to train, you have to eat right, you have to sleep rigth, you have to take breaks to not destroy your body.

But somehow people that work with their brain think that the brain, the organ, does not work like the rest of the body and that you are smart no matter what an so on. You are smart if you trained, if you sleep right, if you eat right and in general if you take care of yourself.

People say "it's just a puzzle". It's like a football player would say "why do I have to do squats?! I never have to do one while I play". Sure, at some point the puzzle becomes too easy. Thats why they do squats with weights.
Long way to go in catching up with Azure and AWS in relation to market share not in capability. I should have clarified that.
I'm interested to see if you have any links to studies/research that back this up.

The reason I ask is that I personally find I am passionate/hardworking for certain things but for others I'm completely disinterested/lazy.

Likewise I have seen other people who are typically lazy and not hardworking, but get them on the one thing they are interested in (e.g. a specific sport) and they can quote match and player statistics stretching back decades. It's like they have this amazing ability but they've only applied it to a relatively useless part of their life (I say relatively useless because if they'd applied themselves with the same fervour to their work they'd have a much better quality of life).

I'm not sure how that connects that with genetic personality traits.
> You're right, it seems like there are a few cheap and easy fraud solutions

You'll just have to take my word for it that eBay and Amazon, companies that have been dealing with fraud since 1995, have implemented all of the cheap and easy solutions. :)
Good Zuck, f-off Denton.
Exactly -- this is why people are tempted to choose an increment, and will say "at least it's a little better" -- but if the threshold isn't actually reached, then it is the opposite of a little better, it's an illusion.
Sonia Sotomayor’s Dissent Slamming Racial Profiling and Mass Imprisonment
Oh, no! No support for Ada? Algol? Apl? ;)
Atari 1040 STE vs. Commodore Amiga 600
I've made an MVP of groupon for altruists – all profits are donated to charities
He's a con man... we just don't know who he's trying to con. From a confidence game perspective impersonating a recluse like Satoshi is a great choice, in fact a classic choice. Especially after that other fellow was incorrectly identified as Satoshi by national media and Satoshi didn't do anything to correct those claims.
My theory is that OpenAI is trying to become the premiere research outfit in the field, with all of the power that affords.

If they can get there before the arms race dynamic becomes an actual problem, then they'll have succeeded in largely divesting the major players of their technological advantage (presumably Google and Facebook will still retain a massive advantage in terms of data).

When state-of-the-art AI research is open, it allows everyone to have a more accurate pulse on potentially dangerous advancements.
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I'm saying that you don't see what is on your retina, but something that is manifested by your brain (and this is why you can see images when you dream).

So I'm guessing that there is a path for you to imagine images. It could be very similar to how most people who think they are tone deaf can be helped to hear pitches quite accurately.
What publishers need to know about virtual reality, according to Jeff Jarvis
From the 2nd edition of "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System"

ZFS, Pg 549

"
However it is not designed for or well suited to run on resource constrained systems using 32 bit CPUs with less than
8 Gbyte of memory and one small nearly full disk, which is typical of many embedded systems
"
Awesome work, I love the speed. What it needs is a useable vim plugin, otherwise, it would be too difficult to use regularly, or for any real work. BTW, I also appreciate that it's cross- platform and runs on linux.
Happy Full Moon Solstice
> What in it for them?

A nice way to transfer money to clandestine operations world-wide, risk-free, for example.

For example, to fund a spy in China, you'd need to pay him in Yuan but the Yuan is a highly controlled currency... and guess what e-currency is highly popular in China? Bitcoin.

Just transfer your spy a couple of btc and have him trade the btc for local currency, in an eyeblink. Prior to btc, e.g. the CIA and other spy agencies had to fly in (and hand over!) literal bags of cash.

Guess this is why the Chinese government tried to crack down on BTC so hard, aside from the fact that BTC allows bypassing their currency controls and an outflow of money.
Great idea. With the flexibility of org-mode, you could even turn those notes in spaced repetition flashcards using org-drill.
TheDAO Whitehats: Make a refund wallet first
With a good programming language and interface, one -- even children -- can create from scratch important simulations of complex non-linear systems that can help one's thinking about them.
Lemmings playable in the Browser
> It was a school, not a home.

It was someones network that they're in charge of securing.

> The criminal who is secretly trying to hide IP cameras in your house is going to leave you a picture of Rick Astley?

See anything from Anonymous-like hacking groups. Leaving troll notes behind isn't all that uncommon in network breaches. The point is you just don't know until you investigate.

> Suppose your neighbor sees what kind of locks you have on your door and proceeds to pick them in front of you in ten seconds

Or picks them while you're out and leaves a note saying "your locks suck". You discover it's your neighbour after checking your cameras. The OP did say they traced his IP to discover who it was, this wasn't some white hat pen test.

> That's the whole problem. You need to find something to distinguish those situations and codify it into law, instead of having a law so broad that it covers both and then having to rely on prosecutorial discretion.

Great point, I'm on board. But there's a lot to cover that isn't just "what harm did you cause once you were in?". There's potentially time and money (resources) that law enforcement spend investigating. Resources that the company spends investigating. If the breach is public, stock prices could be impacted. IP could be discovered - whether or not it is disseminated, sometimes you just can't know.

All of this because you wanted some lulz and to see if you could? How about stay out of the network you aren't meant to be in. Go into pen testing if you find that work so rewarding and fun.

Punishment isn't the only reason we have laws. Deterrence is also key.
Here is a BBC article that talks about a study that quantifies the issue:

* http://www.bbc.com/news/health-36208003

Even in very polluted cities you would have to do much more cycling/walking than anyone would normally do to negate the effects of exercise (7 and 16 hours respectively)
For sale is one thing, but I get the sense that they might do this as a means of reducing CO2 emissions. That would generate truly epic piles of nanotubes, far beyond any concept of containers. For perspective, look at the amount of coal going into a plant. Roughly that much, by volume, would come out again as nanotubes.

If they are flammable, even explosive, nobody has any protocol that could make storage of such volumes safe.
A New Constraint on the Drake Equation
Only $3.5 billion to produce 1,000 metric tons of propellant on the moon? Seems like it probably would have already been done by now if it were that cheap.

Would it not make more sense to build safer and more reusable systems, like, electromagnetic launchers?
You absolutely can if you're not too proud to imagine you'll need to upfront.
What is the title referring to?
Yeah, but we don't normally hammer people that open the wrong unmarked door by mistake in a long hall full of unmarked doors. It's not hard to typo a URL. It's not unreasonable to connect to anonymous FTP--they choose to authorize you and you have no good reason to second-guess them.

Now, yes, when you do that 100 times with a script, you can argue that they're doing something bad... which is why I also advocate a safe-harbor for people who report the bug only to the site owners or the government. If someone is making a reasonable effort to help you fix your bad security, we shouldn't be treating them like a bad guy.
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Posting as this may be of use to others. The article led to me reorganizing my phone.

The author recommends something called Infomagical, which is a five part podcast aimed at reducing digital distraction.

Haven't tried that yet, so I can't comment. But day two is phone reorganization. You can see a preview of the process here (not my site):

http://www.kennethbills.net/blog/infomagical

Basically, you move all your apps to folders, move them off the home screen, and then open them with spotlight (I think Ok Google would be the android equivalent?)

I've tried a few different distraction reduction methods, and none stuck. But this one appealed to me because that's actually exactly how I use my computer. And it works well. I just never thought to apply it to my phone.

So I:

1. Moved all apps to folders, on the second page
2. Identified the four apps with the highest signal to noise. For me, that was whatsapp, messages, google now (I use it logged out), and calendar. Choose whatever you like – the important bit is that none of those have proven compulsive for me
3. I set my background to a nice nature scene near where I live
4. I also turned off most notifications, except those for messages and whatapp. None of the other phone notifications were actually important. For things like Slack and Trello, I usually see those on my computer.

One guiding principle is that I should not be doing most things on my phone. I'm significantly more productive, say, answering email on my computer. So I should mostly do it there. I don't have the kind of work where I need to respond to anything within 1-2 hours, so this works.

Obviously, I just tried this, so I can't know if it works long run. But it's what I already do on my computer, so I suspect it will work better than past attempts. My phone already feels calmer.

Link to infomagical itself: http://project.wnyc.org/infomagical/
The funny part is why does the placebo work? I know, there you go again....
That's what most debates end up like on the internet.

Parties just endlessly change definitions of terms until it fits their narrative.
And, even if you hire your own lawyer, being able to present a neat packet of all the forms already completed will surely save you many billable hours.
Makefiles are only considered unusual on Windows if one ignores decades of .MAK files. (-:
Ha. A real blast from the past.
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I get that, but the solution is still possible and should be acceptable -- keep a One True Copy of a .multirust directory which you install on all testing servers and dev setups. No network necessary. Enterprise setups already do far more complicated things with pypi clones and whatnot.

Again, having rustup installed with two preinstalled and pinned compilers should not be much different, acceptability-wise, from having one preinstalled and pinned compiler.
It happens as a buyer, I buy expensive antique glass and have more than once had to fight with ebay to have the purchase refunded because it was not as advertised, or worse having a seller ship a piece that was previously broken and then turn around and try to claim it was the post office and defraud them.

so I understand paypal's and ebay's stance
1. They are up against CC companies who will side with their customer
2. A market suspected of selling fraudulent goods fails quickly
3. Sellers enter the agreement knowing full well there is a risk of a bad buyer and they will lose in the dispute.
i need help because i do not know how to hack so can you help me?
I tend to think there are opportunities up there, but they're primarily in mining and the infrastructure support that. There are opportunities in tourism of course, but those are small compared asteroid mining.
Yes, it was MACOS. A very good book about this is "Politics in the Classroom".

There is actually quite a lot of stuff on MACOS on the web, most of the materials, etc.

Bruner wrote a number of outstanding essays as part of the MACOS design project ...
Chewing gum can also increase intelligence. So it's easy to see that the effect of games can be hard to isolate from other factors.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19356310
A friend of mine has been working here for the past year and bursting with excitement over the tech and design. They've been extremely silent in public, and even this close friend has given me zero insight into what they're working on. We're former Army intel and NSA guys, so I respect that, but it's cool to see them start to make some public overtures.
A lot more good activity here than on Quora ...
So you think people will use voice to do general informational queries like what's a cure for asthma? Not just navigational queries like how to go to the theater?
I like the vibes here
Ah, yes, I'm hoping this is true as well hence my interest in what you said about learning to dream while awake. If you don't have any specific recommendations I'll continue researching on my own.
The startup scene is primarily young, white and male. It isn't all that surprising that Trump has support among the startup scene. American tech workers are also particularly vulnerable to outsourcing and have suffered from the H1B program.
How Facebook can save Oculus and win at VR
It's more a social than a legal problem on that front. If they can say "X was prosecuted for hacking us" it doesn't make them look as incompetent to the public at large as if they have to admit that a random person on the internet could see obvious flaws in their setup. You can see it as another way of encouraging responsible reporting, not unlike one of the goals of bug bounties.

I think people would start seeing more social costs for running businesses negligently if they couldn't point to iffy hacking prosecutions to justify themselves.
Yes ...
The number one request I get from folks around screen is how to have more than 40 screens in a single screen session. It is a hard coded limit. (MAXWIN 40) Many people recompile it to have more, but I don't want to maintain yet another internal build of a package.

Screen is still awesome and I have taught many folks to use it.
Shoes inhibit the foot's natural spring-like function during running
> They need a much better idea of time (such as approaches to McCarthy's fluents).

I am not sure what the time problem is for functional programming, but I reckon the Elm language/framework solves problems with time in a very elegant way with it's flavour of FRP and Signals.

In Elm, you can play back your UI interactions in a debugger as they happened and watch the variables as they would have been!
What _legally_ exploitable bank bugs have you heard of? Keyword there being legally.
Redux does this at a library level - http://redux.js.org/docs/introduction/
The term "heist" seems more appropriate here. I thought "heister" was a word, but apparently only in the (excellent) game Payday: The Heist.
If by "loses" you mean "loses the general election", that could be a bit problematic.

In 2000, Bush mainly kept his mouth shut. But Gore's campaign manager made a series of public statements along the lines of "Gore has clearly won, and if this goes to Bush it's a travesty of the election." That didn't help heal or unite the country after the election; arguably, the division has remained ever since.

Trump could do the same thing, but do it much more loudly, bombastically, and in a more attention-grabbing way. The only prevention would be for him to lose so strongly that nobody listens, and everyone writes it off as the whining of a bitter self-deluded loser.