skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone who engages in the exploitation of children probably shouldn't be around teenagers.

Painting him as a sympathetic character is just wrong. The things that he watched, and as a consumer encouraged to be produced have harmed children in irreversible ways.
> I'm very sorry to hear that. Would it help if I told you how my life sucks now? ;-)

I'm sure it does ;)

However: back in those days, computing skills were in mad demand (much more so than today, impressions to the contrary notwithstanding) and almost everything that you could do with a computer turned out to be something interesting and new.

With all the 'base' problems solved and the enormous resources available today the creativity and joy have definitely dropped a level or two. That doesn't mean that it isn't possible to derive some satisfaction of the creation of something but it is definitely harder to come by than it was in the days past.

Creativity explodes when there are more constraints, we are now for all practical purposes almost unconstrained.
What is it with the Brit's love of hacking/building?

Perhaps the generally shitty weather tends to keep them tinkering away in their basements!
And Mac. You could write shared business logic in C# for your Windows, Mac, and mobile apps, with a combination of .NET and Xamarin, and still use C# for each native UI.

But it sounds like you are actually thinking of Xamarin.Forms, which allows sharing UI code on mobile platforms as well as UWP. You are correct that there is no Mac support for that.
Anonymity, especially with healthcare, is usually treated as a spectrum, with a (somewhat arbitrary) cutoff.

For instance, let's say you want to study how much a variety of lifestyle factors influence some rare disease. Is the fact that a person has this disease and lives in a certain zip code enough to identify them? Depends how rare the disease is and how populated the zip code is. How about if you add in age? Ethnicity? Is narrowing it down to 10 or so people still anonymous enough? Etc.

I guess my larger point is there probably isn't a simple practical one-sentence test for anonymity. And giving google eye scans, diagnosis info, and maybe some basic demographics and no other PII seems fine by me, personally.
I wish companies adopt the same "what have you done for me lately" mindset to investors as they do to employees.
It wouldn't be very hard to collect existing data points and come up with a rough approximation, would it?

I would think enough data now exists to allow such an analysis to have some idea of those numbers.
#4 and #5 are back to #1 - Doing what you feel is best while not being caught for doing it, just with a broader sense of "best".
Is that a problem though? Freed from the socio-economic obligation to maximizing income from labor, (due to basic income) one is able to pursue these other types of more p-personally rewarding work.
Hey, just finished a malware ML custom system for one of the largest european corporations, large enough that some malware is targeted at them. Result is 97% accuracy (they did retrain and check on their own held out dataset). More careful analysis is needed (many malware have high entropy 'zones' that may help the classifier find the right category), but overall it does work.

See the Microsoft / Kaggle challenge on classifying malware families, winning solution is > 99% accuracy IIRC.
I'm much more upset with the vendors that thought UEFI was a good idea and pushed it, than security researches who discover vulnerabilities in UEFI, no matter how they choose to disclose it.
Are you quite sure? I don't think this is correct.

Xamarin.Mac provides C# bindings to Mac desktop APIs, and has nothing to do with Xamarin.Forms.
The semantic web failed in large part because browsers didn't implement XSL, and so the average web developer never learned about the idea of sending structured data to the client as XML and using XSLT to instruct browsers to render the data as XHTML. If these specs hadn't been released in the middle of Internet-Explorer-monopoly-induced-browser-stagnation then they wouldn't have been dismissed as failures by the time browser competition increased and standards started to be honored.

I'm not sure that the semantic web would succeed even if it were a new idea today. HTML5 was popular because it gave web developers tons of shiny toys and got them excited to use it. XHTML was conceptually beautiful but it hardly enabled any user-visible improvements over HTML4, so only the philosophically-minded web developers gave a fuck.
I think that you've become confused about the distinction between the Ethereum virtual machine and the Ethereum public blockchain.

Raiden is a project that will work on any blockchain running EVM code, not only the blockchain that has had this DAO drama. So, for example, many of the internal private blockchains in use at major banks and corporations will be able to benefit from Raiden.

There is an interesting discussion to be had about the merits of Turing-complete (EVM) vs not Turing-complete (Bitcoin script), but you have chosen to focus on some off-topic drama instead.
Math and Recursion = Art
Ask HN: What interesting software did you work on in the past?
This comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037548 by lisper about his time writing a patch for the software running on an instrument on the Galileo spacecraft makes me wonder how many other interesting stories HN members have.

So, What interesting software did you work on in the past?

I don't care if it is famous or if it made a billion $, just interesting.
iMac killer from Microsoft
Are you forgetting C?
The FBI says their only reason for not recommending indictment is a lack of precedent. They described multiple felonies. In my lifetime ive never seen such a blatant display of a corrupt U.S. government (i was born after the JFK murder).
> You can talk to me about "not-fully-developed brains". all you like, but as a 16yo you certainly have the capability to make the decision to not rape/assault/etc.

having sex with your girlfriend or sexting is the same as rape/assault/etc?
> Nexus phones are supposed to be the gold standard of android ...

> ... They're still better than any of the non nexus phones I've used.

Sounds like the OEMs still have a lot of work to do and that there are many ways in which they can improve the android experience.
Hunter-gatherer societies don't allow for all the advantages of civilization, including modern medicine. So long as you don't over-eat yourself into obesity you're way healthier now than you would've been as a hunter-gatherer.

Besiders, hunting/gathering is a dead end -- it doesn't lead off this planet, which is ultimately what we'll need in order to not be a forgotten about galactic footnote.
Interesting use of virtual reality and 360° video on the Gates Notes. I think it's clear that VR is the next big thing in terms of culture.
> And this either means changing your job (yes you can) or simply looking at your job from a different perspective. Maybe you don’t like your job because society tells you it’s cool to hate what you do from Monday to Friday.

I applaud you for having a career where you never worked in a dehumanizing, humiliating bureaucracy, but knowledge workers are some of the most economically insulated people on the planet. Looking at your career in tech and extrapolating it to "Gee, why don't poor people get a new 'tude" is a simplistic as it is noxious.
> I haven't encountered any tactician cards yet (confession: I haven't even reached Hate Bit, I've been so focused on the coding/blogging and it's easier to debug against Fancybot).

Ooh, you're in for... uh... well, not a treat. But a challenge!
The new internet domains are a wasteland
Wow. This is an awesome idea, and a very easy one to implement. I'll think about it. :)
Account manager John's noticed your spending has gone down by 5% each month for the last quarter, flagging you in their CRM as a member to reach out to 'to help you out, in case you have any questions!' Casinos do the same thing by profiling high-rollers who haven't visited in a while ("well we just happen to have a Gulfstream ready for you, sir, and the Villa suite opened up too!").
V8 has some quirky memory mechanics. Object pointers, and similar, are subject to a vague hard limit, loosely defined by `--max-old-space-size` and other related flags, while the objects themselves can extend beyond it. For example, if you had 1 object that contained 15gb text, that would likely be OK, however if you had 1 billion objects, storing 1 character each, that would likely lead to a crash - even if the process memory is below limits. Relatedly the shape and nature of the data matters (nesting, types, etc.), limiting the ability to use the full memory available in various ways. I imagine a lot of it has to do with GC, but I don't think that's the full story.

Have you noticed such quirks building loki? Do you imagine being able to make full use of, say, a 64gb ram server? Is this something being taken into account and optimized in the project somehow? @joeminichino
Ever read the Culture series?

Yeah, until we achieve that level of technological sophistication, where human labor isn't needed because much more intelligent AIs and robots handle everything, then we can't truly have a work-free world. Don't get me wrong, the hedonistic Culture sounds amazing, it's just so far from reality as it stands today that it's not even worth talking about as anything other than science fiction.

Star Trek would be another post-scarcity parallel to draw, and again, it's very far from our current level of progress.
> Since when does “X.0” not designate a stable release?

Oh, approximately since Microsoft gained a lead in personal computing in late 1980-something, and decreed that henceforth, systems shall be expected to be a broken mess until version 3.x.
The timing attack described here is really interesting to me but I'm not totally convinced it's feasible. That said, that's what a lot of people thought about other timing attacks over networks and they turned out to be totally feasible!

Does anyone have a second opinion on this?
How would you make that distributed? You still need a unique repository that serves as a reference and on which pull-requests are made.
You say this as if giving people who can't contribute to society a place to live and recreational activities would be the downfall of civilization.

Homeless are expensive as hell to have. They visit ERs instead of getting preventive care, not that they can afford either, they devalue property where they squat, they occupy emergency services like police when property owners complain, they spread disease, etc. etc. etc.

You can joke about giving people a home like it's just going to ruin the country, but we're already subsidizing these people with emergency services, jails, and police. Just giving them a home with some basic amenities both gives them the chance to actually contribute and at the same time, and basic income allows them to manage their own money, even if they aren't earning it, to give them some semblance of dignity.

And in almost every case studied, it's cheaper.
Did you forget the entirety of the Reagan and Bush Jr administrations?
TasteKit: Recommendations as a service
You can't really design an iMac killer up front. You can position something to compete with the iMac, and then, after you've sold a very large number of them and your competitor (Apple in this case) has been unable to match you stride-for-stride you might conclude that it was - in the end - an iMac killer.

But given MS's track record to date with 'killer' projects (Zune, anybody?, Windows phone, perhaps?) I'd not hold my breath until they have accomplished the stated goal.
I've been considering trying my hand at creating a bittorrent client. This should prove to be most helpful!
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Really? Because I know plenty of people in the US who have built cabins in the woods, and they didn't have to ask any hampaters [?] for permission.
You could certainly do the microcode updates yourself.
Err, maybe I misunderstand. Is it possible that their confidence is misguided, or are they aware that Amazon provides a tremendous platform that, if they sell direct to consumer, they'll have to replicate in some way?
the hedonistic culture sounds amazing

Not to everyone, it doesn't.
Why I quit my London job for a startup in Bath
For a long time, I actually thought it means "Let's Get That Moving". Still works.
Right, that's why I didn't do any of that.

What would a moral argument even be about if it's not about deserving things?

I don't know how many arms and legs you have now or how many you deserve, but it's unlikely that anyone else has a moral right to take any away from you.
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>People can and do, do a good job at things even if they're just doing it for the money.

In order to make the big dolla dolla on ads, your piece can't be too confronting, it can't be so dense or specific that's it's unapproachable for a general audience and it can't critique the people who supply your ads. It probably needs to use simple enough words and sentences that it translates through google with reasonable accuracy. It must have a sufficiently eyecatching title and meet a minimum of entertainment value for the average netizen.

Most importantly, it must cater to the facebook, twitter and/or reddit communities well enough to trend on at least one, and thus must meet the community standards that prevent those communities or their moderators from quashing it.

In short: content that is effective at generating ad revenue must be shallow, vapid and limited in scope.

These days, my best source of written content on the internet comes either from company blogs and pages, which notably do not survive on ad revenue since they have a real business model paying their hosting bills, or from community/project specific blogs and pages, which are generally donation supported.
> So basically there is only mainstream benefit: removing chargebacks.

You mean mainstream disadvantage.

I think most people using VISA are happy that they won't lose all their assets to fraud or theft of their credit card. Mainstream retailers accept a certain amount of fraud as a cost of doing business, only disruptive or greymarket vendors face significant risk from chargebacks.

Removing chargebacks is a positive benefit to a tiny fraction of the participants in legitimate financial services.
At this point, Windows 7 is 7 years old. Do an apples to apples comparison here, and try getting your same hardware working on a copy of Ubuntu 9.04 or RHEL 5.3. How hard is it?
I used this on a internal project for a little while, it's easy to use, and the promises integration is useful, however at high volumes it did very poorly.

I was storing time series data.

I ended up moving to redis which has worked very well as long as I make sure it has enough memory for the date range I am keeping.

I hope this project keeps at it and gets a handle on performance under heavy load.
RKoutnik, regarding the neural net, if you're not specifically looking to play with neural nets but you just want to identify numbers, you don't need neural nets. Especially if you have a digitally-accurate dump of the screen, you just need one pixel that uniquely identifies the given number. Looking at the screen shots, while the numbers are different colors, they all have black outlines. It should be fairly easy to find simple combinations of pixels that uniquely identify numbers.

If you want to play with neural nets, by all means be my guest. But if you're just looking to do the job, this is probably a much easier way.
Well, what do you mean by more complex?

A Turing machine can simulate a python interpreter.

Have you seen the xkcd with the rocks in the desert? https://xkcd.com/505/
You might be missing the trees for the forest when it comes to boring. One of the major failings of public schools and society in general is we do not teach people how to effectively use their idle time. Then to top it off we don't encourage use of it either.

Contributing back to society through actions not necessarily normally compensated needs to be brought out as a worth endeavor for employed, the unemployed, the unemployable, and so on.

From an early age we should encourage helping others and volunteering. This is not the same as "you have a nice pencil set and bookbag and should be forced to share it" its the idea that when you have free time here are things you can do to improve yourself and the world around you.

Then we get government and charitable organizations a means to easily communicate to all the opportunities available.

Being idle can really wreck the mind and soul. Never underestimate it
I just don't get this argument: are people seriously claiming that the hunter-gatherer lifestyle is better for us than our modern society? In the modern world life expectancy is significantly higher, as is prenatal and neonatal care. People in the modern world are far less likely to die of infectious disease, starvation, or really any form of violent/"unnatural" (meaning not due to old age) death. And how could you measure the happiness of hunter-gatherers relative to people in the modern world?
Statutorily correct, what does that mean? They claim a lack of precedent. The only reason there's a lack of precedent is that email is a young technology.
Why an Appeals Court Just Rejected a Challenge to a 1984 Anti-Hacking Law
Yet employment has not changed over the ages.
Sure there are significant differences between Rust and Swift.

But characterizing that as Swift = GC, Rust = No GC, as I was originally objecting to is a pretty terrible way of describing it.
Are you confusing the spirit of the law with the letter of the law? Or do you really think that banks aren't selling your transaction data?

http://www.cardlytics.com/technology/

Despite the "firewall" between the bank and the marketers, information is being sold - it just requires an extra step on the part of the marketers (leaving the banks legally in the clear).
>That's a great way to end up in prison

easy there, cowboy, this isn't East Germany just yet. I think American authorities can tell the difference between what they do and the Stasi.

As in, I actually, literally think they can tell the difference. Nobody will be ending up in prison for posting the above. Seriously. Show me a judge who'll do that.

You don't get a 4-year philosophy degree before getting a JD in American law, and structurally answer to a constitution literally containing the words "Congress shall make no law ...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press" which is the first amendment, and which has been judged and interpreted very carefully by 9 independent justices upholding Freedom for 220 years, while sending people to prison for publishing

" Apr 2016 - "

Not happening. Not in 2016, and not in 2020. People need some perspective here.

EDIT: getting a lot of downvotes. Show me anyone who is in prison for publishing " Apr 2016 - " or any other similar warrant canary. You people need to stop throwing around "a great way to end up in prison" like that.

I'm not defending the status quo, but the suggestion that anybody is going to prison for posting a warrant canary is too much, sorry.

It diminishes the conversation and criticism around the actual status quo.
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In this case: Because it's more fun and personally rewarding to do new stuff, than fight the hard compatibility fight.

In startup API cases: Because it takes 10x longer to build a solid foundation, and you don't yet know whether that's worth it -- time to proof is more important.
And once you have proof, well, you can't change it easily...
EDIT: Here are some non-paywall versions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/us/politics/hillary-clinto...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/0...
> Furthermore, one can never be assured that a canary is entirely reliable as a signal -- just look at the other comments with conjecture as to why a canary might be removed.

I would treat the removal of a canary as I would a fire alarm. Sure, it's possible that it's a business decision, just like it's possible that the fire alarm is a false alarm. But I'd rather make the assumption that is most likely to protect me.
I also heard Google uses it, in none of my previous employees I've seen it (corporations).
What HPKP is but isn't
The difference between Hillary Clinton and others who were charged for retaining classified data is that Hillary Clinton had the authority bestowed to her by Executive Order 12958 and 13526 to classify and declassify information at the "top secret" level that originated from the State Department.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/02/...
Labor participation has changed radically. http://data.bls.gov/generated_files/graphics/latest_numbers_... from http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet
I don't know what housing costs you must be talking about then. $40k/year pre-tax is close to $2648/month after state and federal taxes, and you're saying that with Bay area housing prices, you're not starving? I'm guessing that's also with no school loans or trying to work and pay your way through school, which probably applies to a very small fraction of the population.
Different people have different ideas on the value of "sometimes" in that sentence :)
https://canarywatch.org/
My only wish is that the "no reasonable prosecutor" test would be applied to criminal cases against normal people, and not just the powerful and the privileged.
I'm also in Atlanta and I can't stand those sunrises around 8 AM at the beginning of November right before the time changes back. Personally I think we'd be better off on Central time here - and in fact this used to be the case.
Thanks for the advice - and if this weren't a completely bananas project, I'd be doing that instead. However, part 3 is a thinly veiled excuse to play with neural nets and I learned a ton (code is done, post is about 1/3 written). The opener to part 3 is an elaborate excuse as to why I didn't do the simple thing (as you've mentioned).

One quirk of using NN for that task is that since I've already got all of the possible outcomes, I need to deliberately overfit to my data (and it's a rare case where 100% accuracy is to be expected). Of course that's a good sign I shouldn't be using NN anyways, but we've beaten that drum...
Careful, you might lose an eye. Really, I had one fly into the cockpit and slap me in the face. He was a tasty one :-)
Let's enhance said terms.

1. Government server - whatever the gov sets up. Chief attribute(s): security

2. Private sector email provider - a service like hotmail or gmail. Chief attribute(s): convenience and security.

3. Personal homebrew server - something on a box you hire someone to set up for you. Chief attribute(s): control and convenience.

A public servant who would use #2 for testing purposes so that they can execute the duties of their jobs is one thing. A public servant who would go to the lengths needed to secure #3, thereby placing their complete archive beyond the reach of the public but well within the reach of intruders, has in my view used their public office for private gain at the potential cost of national security. Their motives and judgment are entirely dubious.
As I said, completing your course is useful in eliminating residual disease. How does it help in preventing drug resistance? If anything it seems by increasing exposure to the drug it encourages the development of resistance, since it gives the (otherwise less-fit) resistant bacteria a fitness advantage. Completing a course of a drug that the bacteria is already-resistant to will accomplish nothing other than eliminating its non-resistant competitors, so what's the logic?
Great point. I enjoy using stories, history, humor as effective tactics for presentation. ADEPT is mainly about the raw ingredients I find helpful.
Looks like the FBI statement I posted got unflagged. Definitely disappointed in the flaggers who more than likely did not read it at all.
You definitely missed the Pure CSS dancing tree: https://codepen.io/yukulele/pen/KCvbi