skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember you got the list from a company lead by ex-KGB, with very close FSB (and Putin) ties. Kaspersky himself studied in a KGB sponsored school. He even met his wife at a KGB holiday resort.

Not suggesting anything, just keep that in mind.
You realise that humans are very, very good at figuring out what just doesn't count as breaking an extremely strictly defined law, right?
I am impressed that Phantom could do almost everything https://github.com/sindresorhus/fast-cli/blob/master/api.js#...
1. All ads are bad
2. Closing your eyes is not the same as robbing
Ohh, you have your own browser? What other browser is it based on? Do you have any screen shots? Does it support plugins?
My gut feel is that governments have a much more significant ability to do things such as: "hey, we're going to do this thing and you're not entitled to ask about it" than private sector.
I'm doing 2D, but thanks for the tip. Why do you consider it to be weak on 3D?
Make sure you update your user agent string to the latest Chrome every couple of weeks too. (I'm assuming any ISP doing this is already doing all kinds of sneaky things).
How do you assume that the information isn't useful? That implies that all your valuables are fully isolated from the digital world - really? I really have trouble understanding the "I have nothing to hide" attitude. What's the difference to saying "there is this guy always standing in the corner of my living room, but I'll just assume he's benign..."
> The expert consensus on the 2008 bank bailouts is that they had to be done

Of a carefully curated set of worse choices, such as "A: Sit back and watch the banks keep going.", sure.

There are a ton of ways the bailout could have been done that don't involve giving money to the same people who screwed up before. For instance, let those banks fail but insure the individual depositors (trickle-down to insuring individual holders of MBS-backed retirement funds, etc.) and recapitalize a new set of banks.

> because letting them fail would've turned the recession into another Great Depression

Yes, letting all banks fail would. But there's no need to throw the baby out with the bath water.

> It means the right way to avoid the moral hazard would have been to better regulate the banks and never have let them get "too big to fail" in the first place.

Yes, we should try to regulate, but there'll always be new loopholes so we need to stop rewarding the bad actors when, not if, they find a new scam.

> [Smart contract]. They're always going to end up in situations like this, because they involve the affairs of messy, imperfect humans.

And yet your solution is to add another layer of humans?

> The correct answer to the DAO mess was never to get into it in the first place.

Like buying Enron. But not all companies are scams and not all smart-contracts will be ineptly written.
I don't really believe the same network can carry its metadata. (attached directly to the content) I mean, in an ideal world it would be great, but in practice how would that work? You can copy anyone's metadata to the file you published. How can anyone tell a difference? (unless you put some kind of signed ranking system on top of that, but that's just another layer waiting to be abused - like kazaa's star ratings)

It's basically the reason search engines stopped trusting meta tags on the websites.
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The really cool thing about this – as opposed to something like Tor or I2P – is that rather than coming up with a novel addressing scheme, it just commandeers the entire (unused[0]) fc00::/8 block of IPv6. Because of this, it is 100% compatible with every existing IPv6 application.

For bonus points, it can also tunnel IPv4 and IPv6 through the P2P network[1] much like a traditional VPN would. But unlike a traditional VPN, it is sufficient to connect to any single node of the P2P network, no need for direct connectivity to the gateway. And of course that connection doesn't have to be a UDP/IP stream over the public internet, because CJDNS can speak raw Ethernet frames[2] over any hardware interface you like.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address
[1] https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/tree/master/tunnel
[2] https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/blob/master/doc/configure...
I didn't mean unit tests; I meant more along the lines of a bug bounty - which is why I said $10k.

"Here's a box, it has $10,000 in it. If you break it, you get $10,000 worth of Ethereum."
Many keyboard layouts have altgr instead of a right alt key, and it won't work for this.
I worked for both DreamWorks and Disney while this was going on, and I have a slightly different take. What he did was illegal, no question, I'm not defending it at all, but the Cartoon Brew article and this comment seem slightly hyperbolic to me. I'm not an expert, and I don't know all the details of the lawsuits, I'm just providing an anecdotal data point.

Many people I know in the industry, people who've worked with Catmull directly and were surprised by the no-raid agreements and his emails, these people also see and understand there's more nuance here than pure greed/evil/disgustingness.

Catmull did make statements about trying to protect the overall business at the expense of individual wages, as well as said things that exhibit a belief that wages were too high. "If the pay goes way up in an industry where the margins are practically nonexistent, it will have a negative effect."

And for what it's worth, Pixar is still in business, while both studios I worked for, PDI & Avalanche, have been since shuttered by DreamWorks and Disney, leaving all the employees there without jobs, even while they were making profits. Plus, the VFX industry in the US did in fact collapse almost completely near the end of when this all happened, and it had a lot to do with margins getting too small or going negative, as well as foreign competition and foreign subsidies, so the fears aren't exactly unfounded.

I never starved or felt significantly under-compensated while I was at either company, in fact I was paid pretty well, and I know many people who'd prefer to have kept their job with a little less pay than not have a job, or even change jobs or have to switch industries. They're all doing fine, but not by choice in all cases.

Anyway, it doesn't take being unredeemingly bad to explain what happened, there are less extreme explanations. Catmull clearly believed he wasn't doing something wrong, because he refused to apologize for it. While I'm certain it was illegal, I'm less certain that it was immoral or disgusting or that his motives were 100% selfish, in the larger context. I'm still curious about him, and the wages thing is a black mark, but he did make many important and foundational contributions to computer graphics. He seems to be a genuinely nice and thoughtful person in his interviews and writings. I'm curious what the discrepancy is between what he says and does, and whether his intentions were as bad as they're being painted to be.
You're right in that linguistically its roots did not come from Chinese, but I don't agree with
> except for the borrowed words, spoken Japanese and Mandarin are as far removed as Mandarin and English.

That's a bit of an exaggeration - there are plenty of features in Japanese that make learning Chinese (or vice versa) easier than Mandarin/English. Assuming by "borrowed words" you're referring to onyomi (which is a huge deal in learning languages) there's still the fact that in both Japanese and Chinese (off the top of my head) there is:

- no verbal conjugation

- no genders for nouns

- monosyllabic sounds

- gender ambiguity in pronouns

- no definite article

I'd also argue the concept of tenses is more similar between Japanese and Chinese than Chinese and English.

If you start factoring in things like onyomi, it's a whole different ball-game, and anecdotally I and other people familiar with South-East Chinese dialects (e.g. fujianhua/chaozhouhua) have noticed similarities in the pronunciation of Japanese and Chinese - which makes learning new vocabulary way easier see [0].

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-Chinese-dialect-is-the-most-simil...
Wtf this isn't Cunningham's. I had the same thought and did the math and decided to post the results since other people were thinking the same thing.
FWIW YouTube now offers an ad free service for a monthly fee, bundled with Play Music. $10/mo in the US.
The Czech people were already one step ahead of this manual. According to Madeleine Albright's book Prague Winter, the Czech factory workers during the WWII occupation by Nazi Germany worked hard at personal peril to ensure that the goods they made for the German war effort were not up to their usually excellent standards of workmanship (excerpt: Or the message found in the casing of an unexploded bomb from Czech factory workers:“Don’t be afraid,” it said, “The bombs we make will never explode.” [1]). Best book I have read in a while albeit a very sad read.

[1] http://www.aspeninstitute.cz/en/article/0-2012-like-a-czech-...
I think he's looking for the word demagogue. Trump is a textbook demagogue: "a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument."

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...
Not everyone has the option of putting infrastructure off onto a cheap, convenient, quick, readily available grocery store either. I've personally been in situations where such was not available. Plus, doing that is almost certain to nullify the intended cost advantages and impose extra time costs.

The viewpoint you endeavor to provide is one we are all aware of. After all, it's the default that Soylent exists to provide an alternative to. Myself, I found Soylent incredibly useful for caloric restriction in ways that whole milk, cheese, nuts, grocery stores, and the attendant required infrastructure are not.
Wearables in Court: How Your Electronic Data Becomes Evidence
> Is it possible though that corporate software could have similar objectives? I'm thinking corporate espionage type behaviour.

Yes, it is possible.
Indeed their shadow profiling via other websites is a serious concern (I usually try to block requests to fb/goog on other websites, with the help of some browser addons).

But my main concern, as other people mentioned it here too, is rather about the safety of the displayed ads: malevolent ads are an important security (and privacy) risk.
And I doubt ads sellers would cover any damages occurring to me because of them (moreover proving it seems difficult).
>Then you'll want to know how to diagnose your model and whether you should trust it.

Yes this x1000. Normally I rely on F Values to get an indication of how reliable the thing is - the package I use spits out a tonne of other information - Cook's D etc but most of the output is just noise to me at university all I was taught was T-test (I'm an engineer) and the (now retired) statistician at my work only gave me a very cursory explanation and he basically emphasized F value.
Complex problems sometimes require complex solutions. I get it. But this implementation, where all are suddenly thrust into the complex solution for something that the collective memory determines to be simple, is a net negative.

I have the same complaint about what has happened to Xorg.conf, or grub2. Yay, they are more flexible and dynamic. But they also run contrary to Unix philosophy of simplicity
I've been meaning to. I took a quick look now:

# rr record date
rr: Saving the execution of `date' to trace directory `/root/.local/share/rr/date-30'.
[FATAL /build/rr-jR8ti5/rr-4.1.0/src/PerfCounters.cc:195:start_counter() errno: 2 'No such file or directory']
-> Unable to open performance counter with 'perf_event_open'; are perf events enabled? Try 'perf record'.
Aborted

oh-oh...

# gdb `which rr`
[...]
(gdb) r record date
Starting program: /usr/bin/rr record date
[...]
[FATAL /build/rr-jR8ti5/rr-4.1.0/src/PerfCounters.cc:195:start_counter() errno: 2 'No such file or directory']
-> Unable to open performance counter with 'perf_event_open'; are perf events enabled? Try 'perf record'.
Thread 1 "rr" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00007ffff6d6b418 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:54
54	../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007ffff6d6b418 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:54
#1 0x00007ffff6d6d01a in __GI_abort () at abort.c:89
#2 0x00000000005a9133 in FatalOstream::~FatalOstream() ()
#3 0x00000000006303fc in ?? ()
#4 0x0000000000630679 in PerfCounters::reset(long) ()
#5 0x00000000006cbd8f in Task::resume_execution(ResumeRequest, WaitRequest, TicksRequest, int) ()
#6 0x0000000000638be9 in RecordSession::task_continue(Task*, RecordSession::StepState const&) ()
#7 0x000000000063d70e in RecordSession::record_step() ()
#8 0x00000000006354b6 in ?? ()
#9 0x00000000006356f2 in RecordCommand::run(std::vector<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, std::allocator<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > > >&) ()
#10 0x000000000061f44d in main ()

I did a bit more gdb debugging (one debugger debugging another, although it's a bit hard as rr is stripped and doesn't have a debuginfo package!), and it looks like it's trying to use PMCs.

No PMCs here: EC2 Xen guest. So rr won't work, for me or EC2's 1+ million other customers. Perhaps rr can switch to software events?
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SV colloquially refers to the entire region comprising SF, the peninsula, San Jose, and East Bay.
Or Nial, which is APL in plain English.

http://www.nial.com/OpenSource.html

They're working on a distributed and GPU versions.
“To overcome these shortcomings, we used a modern machine learning-based algorithm. The algorithm is trained on images where humans annotate the most significant edges and object boundaries. “

-- did Dropbox use Turk for this?
Intel buys Deep Learning chip maker Nervana
There are cases where the jury has to choose one of several charges if they find the defendant guilty, e.g. second- or first-degree murder. In those cases, the jury instructions are pretty specific about the differences between the charges, but that does not eliminate confusion entirely.
You still need something like MyPy to actually validate types. What happened is that there's now a standard for typing annotations - now, PyCharm, MyPy, Wing IDE and anyone else can share the same syntax.
Later in the article:

> South Korea, the home of K-Pop, is the eighth largest music market in the world. [...] Apple has never launched iTunes in the country, but has taken the plunge with Apple Music.

So downloads were 'axed' in a country where they never offered downloads?
The weekend work = success is hardly a new item, there was a reference to it in Microserfs... Written in 1992. The VC/money guy said he'd invest in biotechnology but staff didn't work weekends. And as soon as he finds one that did he could bet the farm and retire.

As for the rest of it, same tired tropes from the author. I already knew what he was gonna say when I realized who it was.

As.for Marissa... She's kinda right. And every current Googler is thankful they can reap the rewards.
Memebox raises $66M for its e-commerce platform for Korean beauty products
The protocol: introduce it in tiny quantities, starting with "touch it to your arm", and wait for hours watching for a reaction. Then touch it to the outside of your lip - do not eat it - and wait. Etc.

Not "Bite it and see if it tastes good. Don't mind the burning sensation."
There's been sufficient evidence that they are involved in hacking/rewriting HDD firmware. See: https://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/
Topology has always seemed like the exotic yet substantive branch of mathematics... would love to see more reading like this posted.
If you liked the beach apple story, perhaps you'll find this article about intentionally and regularly eating poison oak to be fascinating.
https://yankeebarbareno.com/2011/03/03/eating-poison-oak/
HSBC, StanChart help UK banking index recoup post-Brexit losses
If it means anything, I was not nearly so interested in Vermeer until after I heard the press about optics.

I find technological cleverness, and maybe a bit of hustle, more fascinating aptitudes than mere technical skill.

(Or maybe that's still disappointing, because I'm similarly focusing on technical choices rather than artistic choices, just going the other direction...)
Agreed. Looking forward to the 3.5 port.
Interesting. I see this going on all of the time; YCombinator is a great parallel example of, while not exactly clandestine, non-institutional education collecting great minds and educating young people in an environment of relative obscurity and non-intervention from the greater culture that hosts it. I expect _more_ of this in the future.
The whole idea that I can no longer "own" my copy of music, videos, etc. is insane to me. I understand why it benefits Apple, but not the user.

What happens if I don't have a data connection? What if I dont want to use data to listen to a song more than once?

Music isn't video, I have enough space on my phone to have 10,000 hours of music.

Discovery to me has been worth the ads. I find bands through concerts, friends, the radio, and Spotify. However, when I find a band I like I either spend the little bit of money to buy the album. Usually, it's like $5 or $10, and if I don't buy it then I really didn't like it enough to listen to it more than once anyway.

I wouldn't pay for Spotify because it doesn't have everything I want anyway - and I definitely don't want to buy a CD a month, so it's saving me money not to get premium. Apple is now going to have the same model. It's more expensive to the consumer and at least for me, i actually get less.
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I've heard it described as men having 'more dumbbells but more Nobels'. I believe that came from Helena Cronin of the Darwin Centre at the London School of Economics.
NodeJS/V8 is faster than CPython for obvious reasons - V8 is JIT compiled while CPython is not. PyPy closes the gap.
It's not only optional, it does nothing by default. What was introduced into python is a standardized way to do type annotations. It consists mostly of a new standard library module and as far as i know it doesn't even introduce changes to the language as it uses comments, additional files and the rarely used function annotations. The interpreter happily ignores them anyways but external tools like mypy don't have to invent their own incompatible syntax.
> Python is weird that it is 50% webapp hipsters ala Ruby, and 50% scientists in lab coats sitting in the lab crunching.

Don't forget about the ops guys using it for automation!
> their was a lot of free time in ancient agrarian societies

Isn't it disappointing that with all the automation and advanced technology we have today, people on average have less free time?

I changed jobs recently, and at my new company, my team consistently works from 9 am to around 7pm. I feel pressured to stay as I don't want to be the only one walking out the door at 5:15pm (and since that'd be frowned upon). My commute is one hour each way, so I'm not free from 8am to 8pm.

I really wish I had more free time for intellectual pursuits and personal projects. :(
Documentary Screening of “CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap”
ProjectSauron: top level espionage platform extracts encrypted government comms
>What happens if I don't have a data connection? What if I dont want to use data to listen to a song more than once?

Pretty much every streaming app caches the songs you play and/or lets you saves songs to disk for future offline playback.
Great question. SigOpt is a hosted, scalable ensemble of different Bayesian optimization methods. Many of these methods use Gaussian Processes (GPs) as part of the modeling aspect of their Sequential Model Based Optimization (SMBO). We've written up a primer on Bayesian optimization [1] that goes over some of the different methods, with lots of citations for diving deeper.

We've found that SigOpt compares very favorably [2] to other Bayesian optimization approaches. In addition to this, our hosted platform allows people to harness the full power of GP backed Bayesian optimization with just a few lines of code [3] instead of the sometimes heavy administration required by other methods.

[1]: https://sigopt.ninja/1470077644/pdf/SigOpt_Bayesian_Optimiza...

[2]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09441

[3]: https://sigopt.com/docs
Having done a technical review of what Nervana has to offer... Why Intel?

My assumption, is that Intel will lease the chips + software, similar to the way HP, Dell, etc. Lease GPU machines.
The ABS sets up a single site with identity details of every single person in the country. They are then shocked, amazed and flabbergasted when the site is attacked.
Tilt Wants to Be Venmo, but Everywhere
One comment I would share; I completely missed the "How This Works" link because it's in the part of the page where people usually put the name of the site, and doesn't look like a link. I might be the only person who ignores the upper left hand corner of a page but it is one data point.
You're conflating a lot of different issues. Anyway, the example you started with would likely work similarly in the USA. You'd have to provide a lot more detail to actually show the the difference that it seems you're trying to show.

There are strong rules of evidences in common law systems as well, and the Court expects the parties to introduce evidence; I don't know of any Court that goes seeking evidence that wasn't provided.

In the USA, we talk of jury's as "fact fiinders", but their job is to only consider the evidence before them (possibly conflicting, as it comes adversarially from both sides), and find what's true. But no one in this process other than the parties in civil litigation bring evidence forward.

So, the specific distinction you're trying to make isn't really a distinction between the two systems. I agree with you that there are huge differences in various ways.

My guess at what you're trying to point out is that there is no discovery process in Germany and elsewhere, which is certainly true and is relevant to this discussion, and makes the evidentiary systems very different in practice.

Interestingly, Richard Fontana just told me today a piece of history I didn't know: the USA didn't have discovery in civil cases until the early 20th century, apparently.
> An 'eye for an eye' would imply someone who stole could be stolen from, someone who maimed could he himself be maimed

Someone who killed could himself be killed, etc.

Everyone who takes revenge calls it "justice".
Could you clarify the question?
1) I'm pretty sure they won't cache my entire music library.

2) That defeates the purpose of discovery - thus removing the need for the app (obviously besides the UI/indexing)

I guess my point is that I like the freedom "owning" stuff provides. It's cheaper, but not easier, and I'd just like to have both options.

Edit: I really disagree with the idea I can't switch apps and keep the songs, i can't copy where ever I want, can't embed it in something I'm doing, etc. It's locking you in unnecessarily, I don't disagree streaming is cool, but I want both options available
90-year-old Cryptanalytic Efforts Must Stay Secret, says NSA
Since fast.com is https, the headers are encrypted. Correct me if I'm wrong, but unless the ISP has the CAs private keys they wouldn't be able to tell your user agent.
The Github whitepaper says that they are designing with the idea that large telco's won't upgrade to DNSSEC, or IPv6...but they are adopting IPv6. Cellular carriers are pushing that, but IPv6 is being built out in lots of places.

I'm not saying that this isn't neat...just being "that guy", I guess. It certainly looks like something to dig into and check out.