skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I'll check those out. Krakauer has a book on protocells, looks like a general overview of new ideas about self starting life plus computational ideas since Miller-Urey experiments. My trepidation is that I don't know if I'd require a PhD in biological science to understand it. I'm reading through some of his articles at the moment and they're all interesting.

> Though the published papers don't have the full formulae and typesetting of the published work.

Maybe email the author.
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> I don't think any Democrat would love this, having Sanders be nominated because HRC went to prison would probably make him considerably less electable than he ever was.

My twitter timeline would disagree, and frankly I don't think it would really hurt Senator Sanders. It might help in the I'm an honest man category. His main worry is his wife at that point.

Trump is a very different situation. Its Jesse Ventura writ larger, and the polling wasn't very effective at showing his voting. I'm not convinced an HRC indictment guarantees a victory. Do remember its pretty much the party elite that wants him out (well, and a lot of died in the wool conservatives who aren't happy with the party elite either).

To show how messed up this election is: a recycled Libertarian is polling at 9%. That's not normal at all.
Huh. I got a warning from Firefox that the site was configured insecurely. Invalid security certificate.
On the subject of code quality:

https://www.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/comments/4p5ung/longs...

(After a few minutes of poking)
It's an informal sociological clustering observation. Vegans are often sort of 'hippy' types, who place value on food being 'natural', 'organic' and dislike GMOs.
As far as I know they are investing in other countries for solar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec
I think characterizing it as unfair downplays the problem. It's not "unfair", it's straight up incorrect to reason off probabilities - the design of the justice system is explicitly not utility maximization.

But yes I think people concerned about these issues would do well to understand that they're the minority of cases. If they were that common, things would easily change through the democratic process. The job is then convincing the majority, who will likely never have a problem, that such injustice could happen to them.
Not the only case of this, either.
You are right in theory and in older times, but these days trying to get a browser to accept a self signed certificate is difficult. Remember that it would need to be done on a multitude of different platforms (eg Safari on iOS, Chrome on Windows) and by regular users. And no one is going to repeat this for the combinatorial explosion of browsers in the home with the devices (fridges, printers, other computers, device controllers, your garage door and what have you).

If you were a device manufacturer what would you do? One approach is to make all communication happen with "the cloud" as an intermediary, but that means that local operation is dependent on the Internet and some backend running on it somewhere. Or you have to come up with some hack, confusing instructions for users, lots of documentation etc. We see the results in Matthew Garrett's most recent post, and it isn't pretty.
> "Arbitrary" to me means "not making rational distinctions based on criteria we care about."

I would suggest that the US Sentencing Commission guidelines do not meet that description, generally, especially if "we" includes the very large share of the population that -- whether you or I do or not -- care about retribution within the criminal justice system.

> Sentencing someone differently for stealing $250k versus $350k is.

Taking into account scale of theft probably is not. Obviously, any system that simplifies and uses breakpoints vs. a continuous function of value is going to seem to exaggerate the differences near the breakpoints, and breakpoints are inherently arbitrary in the usual definition (though perhaps less so in yours.)
Isn't it more like having a median barrier?

It's unnecessary if everyone drives competently, but it also successfully prevents people crashing through no fault of their own.

It also breaks or complicates use cases like "changing which direction you're going on the highway".
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You can work through the Coursera variant of Andew Ng's course without a deep math background: https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning

More in-depth videos of the course are on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA89DCFA6ADACE599
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I don't think its unfair. She might be tough but they sent her out on Sunday to defend censored transcripts, so I think she has to listen on this. She probably would believe that giving an election away is bad.

(I don't think it would give the election away, but others disagree)
Show HN: MumbleDJ, a Mumble bot that plays audio from various media sites
Six months ago, I would have said Kaggle, Juptyer, Python, figure things out. I've since discovered Microsoft's ML Studio. It allows you to start out with drag and drop (no code to learn) and, most importantly, you can visually see the output of your experiments. For example if you run a binary decision tree algorithm you can actually look at images of the 1000 trees it created and what the nodes from them is. Not important for practical functioning in the real world, but I like it a lot as a tool to learn.
Which is why I was glad Lenovo made it possible for me to order my current laptop without a webcam at all. I can just plug one in if I need it.
>> "If that's the path I have to take to make money on iOS, I'll take a path on a different platform."

I think this is about much more than iOS. Anything that can be delivered online (software, music, movies etc.) is something that consumers think should be free. Strangely they are willing to get milked after download through things like in-app purchase.
A good question isn't it?

For parallel ideas and situation, take a look at Lincos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincos_(artificial_language)
Well, if she's a black belt 2nd dan in a martial art, she's entitled.
Yeah! I do arithmetic most days, and i very rarely have to prime factorise anything!
You should start with an intro calculus class (e.g. Calculus I). Andrew Ng's Coursera course teaches you the necessary linear algebra. After his Coursera course it'll be worthwhile to take a linear algebra class.
To put it mildly, I don't get the feeling that the author is much of a coder, and is suffering from Dunning Kruger.
I noticed something similar. I think their id decoding/encoding may be buggy.
Yes, look at Lincos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincos_(artificial_language)
How about: RTFM https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/getting-started.html

I don't get the react hype anyways. Writing inline HTML in JavaScript seems so weird to me (JSX).
Peter Domingos? Really? Did they mean Pedro?

Sigh. Another instance of pop science getting most everything wrong (and I haven't even bothered to write anything about the technical content in the article).
Reason number 37 why URL shortened are bad. They can disappear and all URLs become invalid.
I've heard of junior engineers making anywhere from $60k - $110k, usually on the higher end of that range.

Personally, I wouldn't live in San Francisco itself. I live in Alameda (quiet small island life ftw) and that lets me save quite a bit every month.
I suppose that makes logical sense. But I don't know of any platforms or markets where the proportion of risk to reward is much better. And if that opportunity was much better, economics dictates that it eventually would draw in more competition until risk-reward became par with any other market. No free lunches out there.
> Really, they placed Paid Ads on the new tab screen

You're also forgetting when they changed default search providers to Yahoo! for big money (even though practically nobody wants Yahoo! as a search engine anymore).
I think we found what to do with the water from melting glaciers. /s (?)

(I can't say if I should put a /s on the end or not. If the alternative is drowning Venice, is it a good idea to throw water out of the hydrosphere entirely? ... But if nothing else, look at the scale differences; there's no way that hydraulic fracturing uses as much water as snowpack melting generates...)
If you like seeing this kind of thing, you should probably call your senators and tell them that. (Assuming they voted it down.)

Rewarding them for doing good things helps them justify not doing bad things in the future more than if you only call to complain about bad things.
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I'm sorry but the quality of this article is just too low for my taste.
How is the definition of Successor so obvious, even if you explain it? How can I understand what it so obviously means?
This makes no sense. This is just unsubstantiated speculation right now. There is no reason to believe that dumb AGI will hardware-scale to smart AGI for free. In fact most machine learning algorithms have diminishing (logarithmic) returns with data and compute.
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I am the sole back end developer for a number of rails applications at my companies very small SF office. I'd like to be able to support things like the spread operator in ES6, and ideally also JSX compilation for React, and make things easier on the front end dev.

Currently I'm looking at the following solutions, and I'm not sure which is the simplest/most robust

Browsify-rails
Sprockets 4
Sprockets-es6
react-rails
react-on-rails
babel-schmooze-sprockets

There is also splitting out the front end into it's own separate repo and having a separate compilation/deployment scheme, and just using whatever I want (webpack etc) but this leads to issues deploying, and as I'm also our devops, I'm reluctant to rearchitect how we deploy while still trying to push new features and catch up on technical debt.

Thoughts?
Presumably of HRC, for mishandling of classified information. (This article doesn't seem to show that, though it previous had a misleading headline that indicated it was about HRC's personal email server.)
This might not be as easy or practical as it sounds. Replacing an existing power supply that is known to match the requirements of the system with one that was cobbled together from modern components is inherently risky. You're either building something brand new and un-tested or hacking an existing supply to fit a job it wasn't designed for. If the original is reasonably intact and can be verified, it would be simpler and safer to repair it and know the supply matches exactly.
haha that's the 5th link in the blog post
I was kind of surprised this article hooks with that relatively small "Ninja" workshop. My impression so far was that Google more or less created the whole machine Learning movement (out of necessity from their two core field, search and ads/analytics) and is employing several authorities of the field.

After Google Now, DeepDream and all the self driving car hype, reading about that workshop being the start of the big transformation seems strange.
I haven't looked at any proofs for the FTA. Could somebody point out if I made any mistakes on the one I've arrived at?

[1] Proof by induction that if a positive integer has a prime factorization, then it is unique.

We're inducting over Z_N, where Z_N is the set of all positive integers with at least one known prime factorization using exactly N number of primes. Call this factorization Pn = p_1 * p_2 * ... p_n

For every case, split into proof by cases and contradiction: suppose there is an element Z in set Z_N had another factorization Fn.

- If Fn has the same number of factors as Pn, divide both sides by p_i. Since Fn / p_i must be an integer, Fn must contain p_i, or else one of its factors f_i actually isn't prime by Euclid's Lemma.

- If Fn has k more factors than Pn, then divide Pn by (f_1 * f_2 * ... * f_n). Then (f_n+1 * ... * f_n+k) = X for some composite integer X > 1. Thus Fn = X * (f_1 * f_2 * ... * f_n) = (p_1 * p_2 * ... * p_n) = Pn. Since (p_1 * p_2 * ... * p_n)/Z must be an integer, Z must divide into one of the factors p_i by Euclid's lemma, which is impossible since they are prime by definition.

- Similar argument to above if Pn has more factors.

[2] Proof by contradiction: Every positive integer Y greater than one has a prime factorization.

Suppose not. We know Y = Y * 1. So Y must be composite in order for it to not have a prime factorization. Hence, we know that Y = a * b, (a, b > 1). At least one of the two must be composite or else Y has a prime factorization, so let's say (a) is composite. Then a = c * d (c, d > 1). Then at least one of the two factors must be non prime or else we've found the prime factorization for Y. Repeat ad infinitum to show that if Y does not have a prime factorization, then it must be the product of an infinite number of composite factors, with every factor great than 1. Hence contradiction.

So every positive integer greater than 1 has a prime factorization, and it must be unique.
Does it really apply to just browser histories? Does it mean they can take your computers without warrant to get to this history, or does it mean ISPs will have to sniff traffic to extract URLs visited and keep a log of them (for how long?).

It doesn't make much sense to me, unless they are carefully wording this into something that seems reasonable to the public ("I'll just use private mode, no deal") when it really means monitoring all our internet traffic. But then why is the media repeating it?
Nice, but I've got an error: https://www.opendoctor.io/advsearch/?dtype=name&qtype=name&r...
The prosecution would be in violation of Federal Records Act. Existence of the server in the first place and loss of e-mails is the problem, not the break-in.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hillary-clinton-email-...

http://static.politico.com/f3/9b/19d29ab14abeb4a30ca2975f1e6...
Where does the data come from?
> Isn't that the idea of open source software? The best maintainer is the one in charge.

No, not really. Open source embraces the idea of forking - a hostile take over of the original project is most definitely not the idea - but it can be allowed depending on the projects charter.

Also - most active contribute =/= maintainer - I'm sure Red Hat adds more code to the kernel than Linus these days, but Linus is still the 'decider'.

To conclude, Benno is free to fork GNU Nano, but it will not be GNU Nano - he can call it 'New Nano' if he likes.
Expert?
Past cases with similar server security issues show that an indictment is unlikely.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/hillary-clinton-prosec...
For iOS, probably last year (2015). Assuming Apple doesn't massively lose consumer marketshare (certainly a possibility in hardware, just ask Motorola), indie development on macOS/iOS/watchOS/tvOS will likely become viable again between 2018-2020.

This is an interesting time in computing history, though, because there are multiple overlapping tech cycles and multiple big companies driving them. During the web interregnum, the dominant tech company was Microsoft, and Microsoft basically completely controlled the channel to the customer. So we just weren't getting fundamental innovations in the browser - there was XmlHttpRequest and hidden iframes that sparked a lot of Web 2.0, and there was Flash from Adobe, but that was largely it. Today, we have innovation in cloud computing from Amazon and Google; we have innovation in programming languages from Mozilla, Jetbrains, and Apple; we have innovation in big-data tools from the Apache foundation and others; we have innovation in machine-learning from Google and a number of startups; and we have innovation in computing devices from Apple, Google, Pebble, Oculus, and a large number of other companies. So while the Apple ecosystem itself may face a dot-com bust, there could easily be a killer app brewing in technologies outside of the pure iOS ecosystem that uses an iOS app to deliver its service to the customer.
> Yes, but that requires a fixed machine (or a cash lock box on every vehicle?).

Of course not. Do it exactly like how rentals work today except in an app instead of in person. Put in your bank card info, a hold is placed on your card, when the vehicle is returned the hold is released and the service fee is charged.
I think a lot of people consider uniqueness of prime factorization to be obvious just because it's stated as true so frequently.

If you want to convince someone it's not obvious, I would ask them a simpler, weaker question:

Can you find four different prime numbers, a b c d, so that ab = cd? If not, why not? You may not cite unique-prime-factorization.

They will find themselves really wanting to cite unique prime factorization, and unable to prove it otherwise, which will convince people that it's not obvious.
Yea isnt that crazy ? imagine the fbi investigating you and you deciding what to turn over and what is personal lol. Nothing could ever go wrong with that.
Question for people who learn by video rather than text based guides - why do you find it more effective?

I have trouble following someone else's pace in a video (or audio for that matter). I also like to be able to copy and paste code into my editor. Navigation to particular sub sections is easier too.
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>Strangely they are willing to get milked after download through things like in-app purchase.

I don't think that is true. I doubt many pay at all. I think there are a small number of people who are massively exploited to generate the revenue for these apps.
Ask HN: How to fund an open source project?
A few months ago I built an App that people seem to like a lot: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=snapdrop&src=typd [1]

Now I'd love to work on it full time, but I'd like to keep it free and open source.
Do you have any suggestion on how to fund it?
Thanks a lot!
I'm sure others in this thread will have some good advice on the math front. You will want to be comfortable with statistics (as it seems you already are aware), but you will also want to be comfortable with linear algebra as well. Andrew Ng's course has a quick tutorial on linear algebra, you might also want to check codingthematrix.com. Khand Academy is a decent place for stats, probability, linear algebra, & calculus. I know there has been some criticism of K.A. in the past, but I think it's a good resource to get an intro level understanding of those topics.

As an intro to ML, I am a fan of Courseras ML specialization that is done by the University of Washington (https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning). It's free, except for the capstone, and the instructors do a good job of giving both theoretical & practical grounding in various aspects of ML.

I am sure others will have good suggestions as well. Good luck.
I'm surprised that device isolation is common on home APs. Wouldn't that break some fairly mainstream things like Chromecast?
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What the article says? No, though people might get fired.

cwkoss seems to be referring to Hillary running her own personal email server, though. That's absolutely not unintentional. It's not what the article is talking about, though.
What would you use this device for?

I haven't released the code for it yet, but there are plenty of tutorials online. It's using NodeMCU and a DHT11. If there's more interest in hacking the device, I can provide some blogposts or tutorial videos.

There are 5 available and 15-25 more are on the way. Please contact me if you're interested. I'm planning on selling it for around $35 and for the first few batches at $30 (as an early adopter discount). Email: antoniuschan99@gmail.com

For personal uses, I have a waterproof temperature sensor coming in, and plan to use that for my aquarium, so maybe I will produce that version. Also I am tinkering with electrical outlets that can be remotely triggered. So you can set the weather alarm to trigger appliances.
Wasn't Anthony Kennedy confirmed in 88? Nominated by Reagan with a Democratic Senate?

And Rehnquist in 72 (associate justice), nominated by Nixon, again, a Democratic senate?
True, but orthogonal to the argument. Elon's pro-simulation argument is fundamentally grounded in our reality ("video games have progressed a lot and there are lots of video game consoles, so eventually we could run the types of simulations postulated"), and my argument is refuting that ("video games will never be good enough to run those types of simulations")
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Text seems to be at http://commodity-market-news.com/sec-official-says-ethereum-...
Does this actually teach you much though? Or will you more likely end up toggling a bunch of things, seeing an output, and not having any better understanding of what led to the output or why a given approach works better?

Not that there isn't value in immediate results for building excitement and interest--I just want to have proper expectations before I check it out as I'm in a similar state to the parent in terms of where my math is and wanting to dive in.
JavaScript is so '90! Let's see some WebAssembly benchmarks! XD
This limit must be due to the older versions we have in CentOS 6. screen-4.0.3-19.el6.x86_64
I'm not saying it's a great solution. Just that it's not pointless to put a self-signed cert on a device like that.

What I'd do as a dev manufacturer? I'd try to change the game entirely. The current system simply did not have devices like that in mind. One idea would be "device certificates" - basically known CAs that can certify MAC addresses. This should be enough for local networks.
I don't have any direct experience with asset forfeiture, no. But you should read the news reports with some skepticism.

Note before going further: I strongly support innocence projects, public defenders, etc. But if you read the news you might think most convictions are faulty, or most people are coerced into pleading guilty to crimes they didn't commit. But if you ask someone who works at an innocence project or as a public defender, most will tell you: the overwhelming majority of people who are convicted or accused are actually guilty. I saw this directly as a judge's clerk: tons of sentencing appeals where the conviction was based on literally a pile of hard evidence.

So yeah, people want to get rid of civil asset forfeiture (I do too!). So they tell you about the hard-working guy who saved $10,000 in cash and had it seized on the way to the dealership. They don't tell you about the 12 drug dealers who had $10,000 seized from their glove compartment the same day.
I'm confident it did cause some of them to commit suicide. I am arguing, as someone else said - some of them made it. Nobody survived without food. Therefore it is silly to suggest love is more fundamental than food to survival.
It doesn't hurt sanders specifically it will hurt any nominee that the DNC would have to put in her place.
There are a lot of undecided in this election still, being the party that had to replace their front runner due to legal trouble won't pan out well in the general election it would be the easiest thing to attack.

"Crooked hillary go indicted how long until X gets in trouble too?"
Yeah, the jsx bit is weird to start with, the best bit is changing data diffs the DOM and updates it for you.

However, unless building a madly complex UI I've decided it's best avoided; mostly because now that I can build super complex UIs I probably will rather than simplify things that can work in a progressively enhanced way.