skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you also saying by listening to the radio you agree to listen to the ads? Watching TV requires you to watch the commercials? What about newspapers and magazines that are heavily subsidized by ads, are you implicitly agreeing to read the ads by buying them?
I don't think there is any implicit agreement to vivid, or listen to ads given with free items. The Web isn't any different
I worked on 3 feet high and rising as a sound engineer. They were a total riot, I had absolutely no clue they would go on to such renown.

All the records they sampled had their labels blacked out with marker. I freaked them out a bit by recognizing Hall and Oates and Steely Dan samples.

I don't know anything about the clearance problems, but it's true that this was one of the first records that used samples so extensively as the core basis of the tracks.

A bit later I worked on Queen Latifah's "All hail the Queen", which also used samples liberally. I never heard of any problems with that record but perhaps Tommy Boy were more careful with the clearance legalities by then.
I guess it's good that they're branching out beyond their initial Soylent brand and trying to get more consumers, especially breakfast users who are used to coffee, but I still don't appreciate the notion that this is somehow better or more efficient than making a meal for yourself, when it's not been proven that it's any better (and may be worse, it's hard to know because it's so new). To me the Soylent brand just seems like a startup version of the supplement shakes that I saw my mom drink when I was a kid, and marketed to a different demographic.
> The WWW project was started to allow high energy physicists to share data,
news, and documentation. We are very interested in spreading the web to other
areas, and having gateway servers for other data.
It's capped at 160K. This means most are likely making less.
Uber has way more QPS and route planning complexity, and they still have multiple datacenters for redundancy.
Pitch, or indeed much premeditation at all, wouldn't be necessary in a village with five foot alleyways and dried grass roofs. Additionally, tar was a common caulking material. Oh, and running water/chemical foam wasn't usually a thing. And, you know, no trained quick response teams, or well maintained roads and swift transit systems to escape on, or any way to tell the difference between the smoke that always hung around the fireplace and the smoke from the roof being on fire... I could go on.
Suppose a company raised money at some implied valuation. If they raise money again at a lower implied value, you call it a down round.
Looking at the two best guesses: a reasonable assumption, if the Certifi bundle was in fact the target of this attack, is that some consumer of that bundle is that true target of this attack.

(Incidentally: I'm not familiar with what the Certifi bundle is, and some quick DDGing didn't turn it up.)

As a recent convo I'd had here on HN turned up, key management is a crucial element of PKI, which includes not only SSH and PGP, but the CA-based measures: SSL and TLS.

Your web link is only as secure as the least-paranoid developer's MX registrations in your entire development toolchain.
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The web of research always spins around money. So far I am not seeing a monetary interest group with a declared imperative of creating a self-sustained artificial mind.
Network effects and lack of off-the-shelf implementations.
Interesting responses. If you haven't already, the Foundation trilogy is a must read. Essentially a bunch of really smart folks create a new field of science focused on predicting the geopolitical and technological advances of the future universe to ensure the human race is successful.
Wow! Have you written about this experience in the past? I'm sure a lot of people would be fascinated to hear what engineering that project was like. I'll start:

1. Was it SP1200s or S900s that were used?

2. How did a typical composition come to be?

3. How did all the horseplay come into being an integral part of the album? Did the quiz show thing just happen, or was it planned from the start?
An air-gapped set of servers performing updates from a non-air-gapped WSUS server are not air-gapped servers at all.

If the WSUS server were also air-gapped, then you're in the business of manually downloading each update, verifying it, and copying it to over to the air-gapped WSUS server offline.

Microsoft's Windows Update servers have also been compromised in the past. Depending on the level of security you're operating at, taking new windows updates on your air-gapped systems may require having someone decompile and review each update.

In general, being air-gapped prevents infinitely more exploits than windows updates could ever possibly cure; that is, until one of your admins uses his admin privileges to disable the USB port restrictions for 5 minutes that one time to copy that one file quickly so he can go home for the day. For this, there are epoxied USB ports.
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Ask HN: Please help with my product naming – “funky” or “descriptive” name?
I feel like a descriptive name for my product is boring but will quickly convey new users some idea of what the product is.

I feel also that a funky-but-meaningless name will be more interesting and perhaps memorable.

Which way should I go?
Here's a good video from Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqyyhhnGraw
I don't know the relevant laws surrounding this, but I'm surprised they're only suing for $75,000 for something that's been going on for almost 15 years.
Some back of the envelope math:

50% of total staff are at Mountain View. Of 60k staff, maybe 20-25k are engineers. So in the US it's probably 10-15k engineers total.

In my experience, software engineer attrition is around 20% per year in firms with good employee satisfaction. That's 2-3k engineers excited to be tackling new opportunities each year. In 8 years: 16-24k employees.

Of course Google is a great place to work and they weren't as large 8 years ago, so let's guess 10-15k employees turned over. Of that, 250 is 2%.

The government says around 2700 people work for the executive [1]. That is 0.002% of the total workforce in the US.

Google could replace the entire executive with castaway engineers every year.

[1] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-docu...
For a data point, I was offered $130k for a position at the IRS (as a USDS employee) working on taxpayer authorization, authentication, identity management.
Can talking to women help your brand grow?
When to and When Not to Use Phonegap for Mobile App Development?
We have put some serious critique on using Titanium for cross platform app development considering both the opinion of the community (which is not very shiny) and the opinion of our own Titanium development team, which has proven rather well. Usually whenever Titanium is discarded as preferred cross platform development technology, almost every solution architect thinks of Phonegap. Is this wise? Is Phonegap good enough to close the gaps left by Titanium?
Very true.

There's some law of software engineering...can't remember the name.

It basically says that complexity can only be pushed around, not destroyed.

If you make every class simple, the composition of classes will be complex.
Amazing Social Media Facts and Stats 2016 – ViralWoot
Does archive.org archive flash stuff? Decades into the future, playing back archived flash games and animations will be very difficult.
Getting started with Electron
Articles like this are a great example of why the so-called revolving door is a good thing.

Government technology has been a disaster for quite some time. I think we can all agree that the best technologists aren't usually looking to accept a low-pay, low-prestige job in government.

So the Obama Administration has taken steps to try to improve government technology, primarily through USDS but also with direct White House hires. Of course many of the best technologists are employed at Google, so you'll see a lot of people coming from there. Especially since there are significant network effects in recruiting.

Naturally, the best technologists aren't typically interested in a long-term government career. So they shift back out after their "tour of duty." In fact, I believe 18F explicitly requires limited term contracts.

Despite good intentions (including willingness to take substantial pay cuts), people inevitably attack these attempts.

I wonder how much of the "Google Transparency Project" funding is coming from existing federal contractors. Perhaps they should be transparent about themselves for a start.
The time-critical parts of a hospital's workflow are less IT-dependent than the time-critical parts of an airline's workflow. You need a computer to handle admissions in hospitals, but you can get by with the actual medicine with the computers offline (there's a LOT of paper replication).

Besides, if $CLOUD_PROVIDER has a couple of hours outage and the patient records aren't available, not that much backs up. There's not that much in the count of patients that's affected by, say, a 2-hour outage. But that same length of outage can affect thousands of passengers across a dozen airports, and cause knock-on effects for days.
This article contains no data. Merely speculates or insinuates that if it's investigating Google, clearly it has to be part of some plot against them. I know it's hard to imagine, but sometimes people may just want to know what a giant evil international conglomerate is doing in backrooms with the most powerful people on the planet.
All those sentences sound (mentally) a lot differently. Some of those sentences give you the impression the speaker is an idiot, for example.
Now compare this to Walmart'a $3B acquisition of Jet. This seems like a brilliant move and maybe a very good price given what it could do for Intel.
It would almost certainly not be legal for them to host it on any servers owned by a private company. It's a national census, and they specifically are planning to store personally identifiable information for 4 years (imagine that I'm screaming the last sentence). Basically there's no way on earth it would be permitted for a government department to host the census collection on someone else's servers.
> to a post World War II effort by Communist Russia, who once again took control of Poland

Inaccurate - it did not wait for post-WW2. Russia invaded already the second half Poland as soon as 1939 (2 weeks after Germany) and on top of that, without declaring War.
Individual platforms do seem to do it. If I understand Windows resources (and I don't really), they are just file blobs munged into the executable and then accessed through a simple sort of namespace.

Seen that way, resources are over-engineered. The basic compiler feature we weant is something like:

const char blob[] = __include_binary__("blob.dat");

But if I could do that, then probably the next thing I would do is invent some macro-magic to provide a resource-like namespace on top of the feature.
The very method of using a word embedding space assumes the manifold is smooth, so the fact that vectors extracted from a method that assumes a smooth manifold, are in fact on a smooth manifold, is just circular and not evidence of anything.
>I would be surprised if large defense contractors like Northrup Grumman and Lockheed Martin didn't have way more than 250.

Especially since those type of jobs often require security clearance. Once someone has clearance, they are more likely to take more jobs in the future that also require clearance, because the clearance is a valuable part of their resume.
>I think you mean redundancy.

No, I meant a pair of specific information-theoretical quantities I've been studying.

>And yes videos are highly redundant. But I don't see how that's any kind of advantage.

Representations are easier to learn for highly-correlated data. Paper forthcoming, but conceptually so obvious that quantifying it is (apparently) non-novel.

>I don't know if humans have generative models in their heads.

The best available neuroscience and computational cognitive science says we do.

>Regardless, an AI should be able to get around that by learning our common patterns. It need not mimic our internal states, only our external behavior.

Our external behavior is determined by the internal states, insofar as those internal states are functions which map sensory (including proprioceptive and interoceptive) statistics to distributions over actions. If you want your robots to function in society, at least well enough to take it over and kill everyone, they need a good sense of context and good representations for structured information, behavior, and goals. Further, most of the context to our external behavior is nonverbal. You know how it's difficult to detect sarcasm over the internet? That's because you're trying to serialize a tightly correlated high-dimensional data-stream into a much lower-dimensional representation, and losing some of the variance (thus, some of the information content) along the way. Humans know enough about natural speech that we can usually, mostly reconstruct the intended meaning, but even then, we've had to develop a separate art of good writing to make our written representations conducive to easy reconstruction of actual speech.

Deep learning can't do this stuff right now. Objectively speaking, it's kinda primitive, actually. OTOH, realizing the implications of our best theories about neuroscience and information theory as good computational theories for cognitive science and ML/AI is going to take a while!
The "Google Transparency Project" [1] seems like a deliberately misleading name. They're not at all associated with Google yet they're going as far as using Google's logo in their logo. I wonder how legal that is, and if Google's comms team is aware of them.

[1] http://googletransparencyproject.org/
What will it take to get a robot to clean your home so you don’t have to do it?
Effectively they are paying even less if you consider taxes (which go back to the federal government). Maybe a clever tax scheme can incentivize it.
How low are you looking for?
It's a cool enough remix, and the beginning was different from ones I've heard before. The problem is that I feel that the eeriness of the original comes from the minimalism. Any sorts of drums or orchestra or choir sounds take away from it. Maybe the only improvement could be more modern synth sounds? That's just my feel on it, maybe I'll hear a counterexample some day.
* Uber's drivers can operate largely independently of each other. A local issue does not cascade to affect larger areas. An airline's sub-components largely cannot operate independently; issues on a local level can easily cascade upward to become regional issues, and then regional issues can cascade upward to become national or even global ones, as passengers and deadheading crew members misconnect, late flights become later en route to following destinations, etc.

* Uber does not submit route plans to any authority, or deal with issues of transit across controlled borders. Airlines must submit valid flight plans for approval to aviation authorities in the appropriate countries, and routinely must handle transit of aircraft, people and cargo across controlled international borders, planning all aspects in advance.

* Uber simply makes use of any available roads and pickup/drop-off zones. Airlines must pay for and sometimes obtain regulatory approval for takeoff and landing slots, use of gates at airports, use of facilities at airports, etc., keeping track of what resources are available and which will be in use at any given time.

* Uber famously tells regulators to, effectively, go fuck themselves. Airlines which attempt this are shut down. Immense effort must be dedicated to compliance with applicable safety and commerce regulations at all times.

* Uber does not own or maintain the cars its passengers use. Airlines own or lease their aircraft and are responsible for their maintenance, on legally-mandated schedules. Airliner maintenance is a wonder in and of itself.

And on and on and on it goes.

Again: this ain't a Silicon Valley tech startup. Thinking in terms of even the largest SV startups is going to lead you badly astray.
Character Changing Machine – Motu Patlu in Hindi
>Making a web is as simple as writing a few SGML files which point to your
existing data. Making it public involves running the FTP or HTTP daemon, and
making at least one link into your web from another.

Wouldn't that just make it part of the internet, though?
Fundamentally these are not technology companies but companies driven by financial markets, cost saving _innovations_ and run more like the hospitality sector.

Most of them outsource their tech to the tech-outsourcing behemoths who are also run by man-month billing _innovations_

I see no hope of things improving drastically. Small incremental updates over decades till we invent teleportation... then they will die.
Pub del Reino Unido sin wifi y sin señal móvil, para que los clientes hablen
Yes, archive.org archives Flash and other content, as long as something links to it so the archiver can find it.

Standalone flash players exist, and flash-to-HTML translation will continue to improve.
Yes, as it turns out using the internet requires reliance on third parties. Is the IP address of your mailserver as easy to compromise as your domain name? I don't know, it depends on your ISP, but it almost certainly requires a targeted attack. Using email to "secure" access to accounts is already "a really bad idea", so what can one do?
Definitely a cool idea. Though I feel like I would want to be able to have more flexible rules than "folder" to decide what the account can access. For example, "all unread emails newer than 1 day and containing the string 'registration'" would be quite useful. To be fair, it would be a bit of a pain to implement but it might be useful for the usecase of wanting to just get a single email.

It's also quite annoying that you have to set up the keys beforehand. Though, obviously if you could connect to the server to create keys then you wouldn't need to use this. :/
Or my personal favorite, United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins.

Incidentally, the shark fins won.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximately...
Absolutely. The only thing that demanding total transparency gets you is hidden private groups. Private conversations will happen one way or another. From the outsider's perspective, the important thing is to make it explicit that there is that level of communication outside the public sphere when conveying decisions that were legitimately made by the core contributors that aren't directly observable from the outside. The goal is the reasoning and thoughts can be shared as much as possible, but when that isn't possible just acknowledging it is important.

At least that was my takeaway from my experience almost 20 years ago in a popular open source project.
I'm genuinely curious; what is The Apple Pay Experience?

What sucks so bad about our current setup?

What is so hugely different about tapping your phone instead of a card that it could possibly convince me to go through 3-4 extra steps? I really don't get it.
Yes they are. However, is a blind, deaf, person with absolutely no motor control, no sense of touch, and no proprioception intelligent? Unclear. They certainly have no language faculties.
Yes we have many Ethiopian and Eritrean immigrants in Oakland and Berkeley.
I'm rather not a fan of Google in general, and particularly not these days (though they're hardly the only tech company backing the TPP).

That said: on account of size, targeting, procedures, and what I find are generally fairly diligent employees on the tech side (design, products, ads, and gov't rel'n are another story), you're probably as safe with Google as with any other large vendor.

That said, the basic problem here -- getting locked out of your account or profile, or allowing the wrong person in -- is a HYUUUGE problem. And the 2nd Amendment people can't do anything about it either, to continue the allusion....

I wrote of my own "I've been locked out of a Google account" account, well, twice. It's been pretty annoying (particularly as I'm paranoid and don't trust Google to know who I really am, because reasons). It's been resolved within a few days, though it leaves me scratching my head a bit.

As I noted the first time, and have adopted as a slogan for this type of event, "Who are you is the most expensive question in information technology. No matter how you get it wrong, you're fucked." See: https://redd.it/2w618r https://redd.it/3mo7l6

Unfortunately, that issue is paired with another, also sloganed and given to much use: Data are liability.

If you hold data about people, or state they consider important (e.g., a widely used codebase), or other elements, then you've got control point others may well find they wish to avail themselves of.

I don't have solutions to either of these problems (I'm paranoid, not narcissitically delusional). I can see the shapes of possible solutions, including reducing attack services and possibly having a more widely distributed and socially-integrated identity verification mechanism. Or offering far more services as stateless and without locally-maintained data, at least in cleartext.

Better notifications, recovery, and encryption methods for mail would also help -- capture of email accounts would matter far less if they were encrypted to keys held only by the user (and absolutely not on the control path involved in accessing or specifying them, such as MXs).
Then don't. You don't think the tradeoff is worth it, just don't go to the site.
Oh, it'd be nice, but it probably makes more sense to have handle that kind of thing with a JIT runtime.
In that case, tracking a re-joining user with email makes more sense than mobile phone, since emails cannot be transferred. As far as my thinking goes, as soon as I delete my account, Facebook's ability to track me with that mobile number should go. There is no point in digging my phone number from the networked people's data and try to connect with me again. For me, it reconfirms my point that to quit facebook, we need to sacrifice all online persona related to it.
> Maybe, but probably not. I don't think math alone get you all the way there.

Hm, I'm not so sure. When I was studying anti-coagulants, I came across a wikipedia excerpt. Apparently until 1700 AD the most advanced information about blood circulation came from Egyptian texts written in 200 BC. This knowledge came from mummification techniques. Egyptians knew the difference between veins, arteries, amongst other things.

So for nearly 2000 years no advancement has been made on the topic, because religion. Indeed, if I'm not mistaken the period is called "the dark ages" and "the middle ages" to signify the lack of any advancement in science - or at least that's how I've always perceived that period.

Aristotle had described a sort of scientific method but we had to wait for the Royal Society and Newton to establish what the actual scientific method is. It would have taken only one step between the two in my mind, 100 years should/could suffice.

I think parent comment has a valid point. Of course I reckon that all this is pure speculation.
They get to take ad revenue from Facebook :) I seriously wonder if Facebook will allow this to continue (to use their login) don't most services have clauses about offering competing services?
Yup! Always good to remember that the hydrogen atom is "only" about 10 orders of magnitude smaller than us meter-scale objects, and what's going on with atoms took a long time to figure out.
I've never advertised on Monster, but if you're a recruiting agency, wouldn't you think twice about doing so now that it's owned by a competitor?

This is the same reason Pepsi spun off YUM brands. Coke converted Pepsi restaurant customers by asking how they felt about giving money to KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut.
The terms are not clear only in the heads of people who think they can have their cake and eat it too.