skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From TFA: "Perhaps few adults (especially a medically qualified one) would be foolish enough to try eating an unknown fruit found on a foreign beach, but children would be highly likely to do so, especially when they find it to smell and taste sweet, resembling a ripe plum."

It's really more of an advisory.
> With crypto this changes.

It shouldn't. Listening in on a conversation should be illegal whether or not the conversation is encrypted. But we realized that if we weren't encrypting our conversations that our rights were being illegally infringed upon, so we started taking matters into our own hands.
> I tried to use the Range header feature to resume downloads in an autoupdating app once, and it worked beautifully...for about 90% of users; the others had all kinds of weird issues thanks to transparent proxies and caches not handling the Range header correctly.

One of many reasons to use HTTPS: prevent tampering with your requests and responses.
The PDF can be accessed freely at https://archive.org/details/simplesabotagefi26184gut
Unlikely. Those people don't have the luxury of time needed to put any serious efforts towards their education.
AWS ELB limitations: No static IP.
Only accessible through a domain name like "elb-role-12345.eu-west.aws.amazon.com" and the underlying IPs can change every 60 seconds.

The feature has been missing for years, it doesn't have any workaround, it's not being worked on anytime soon.

AWS vs GCE: Pick your limitations ;)
> but also not to stand under the tree when it rains!

Why? According to the sign: "It is also not recommended to take shelter under this tree when it rains, water that runs off the leaves is corrosive"

Frightening!
I have a 42 inch 4k@60hz Seiki I got for a couple hundred bucks last year, I'm happy with it as my sole monitor (replacing two others). It's not as good as others for gaming but good enough. At that size the pixel density is roughly the same as my smaller 1080 and 1200 monitors it replaced so it really does end up feeling like 4 screens, while having more vertical pixels than my 1900x1200 that I had on its side. I could probably live with a 720 plasma as a TV but not as a monitor I do work on...
Beginner’s Guide to Information Security
To get access to those, you needed warrants, and you didn't get to listen in on every conversation, only targeted conversations. On the Internet, you have full access to pretty much everything I've ever said to somebody.

They aren't equivalent.
Much more afraid of Google here. Or correction - much more afraid of us delivering such a bad experience software wise that no one will use it, meaning no developers will care to build software for it, meaning no one will care. And after that we're much more afraid of Google.
Speed vs. Accuracy: When Is Correlation Enough? When Do You Need Causation?
> frequency fluctuations added during the propagation along the fibre are actively suppressed by up to 6 orders of magnitude

Where could these fluctuations originate from?
Blows my mind how many banks are throwing money at this when they dont understand the least of the underlining technology just because they want their hands on a potential rival fiat digital currency.
The Mainline DHT (the more-supported DHT vs. Azureus/Vuze DHT) traditionally only contains (iirc, hashes of) torrent infohases mapped to peer lists. With BEP 44 (arbitrary data in DHT) or some other enhancement, this may change, but right now even if you traverse the DHT there's no "interesting" metadata about the keys (or, y'know, the actual content of the .torrent file) inside the DHT.

From the sibling comment (posted by swolchok)'s paper, a relevant quote:

"We chose to demonstrate our proof of concept only on Vuze due to the significant additional complexity of supporting two DHTs in the crawler. While Mainline does not contain torrent descriptions, its peer lists are keyed by the torrent infohashes themselves, so no additional machinery would be needed to discover infohashes. However, some method would be needed to discover torrent names, such as downloading .torrent files directly from peers using the metadata exchange protocol.

To explore this possibility, we built a prototype .torrent crawler. Since we are operating in the context of the Vuze DHT, our DHT crawler needs to obtain both a torrent description and a peer list before the .torrent crawler can contact the appropriate peers with the correct infohash. However, the .torrent files contain useful additional data, including the full listing of files contained in the torrent"
If you've ever wondered what evolutionary pressures make some fruits poisonous to humans/mammals, and some delicious, here is a good write up.

http://www.kew.org/discover/blogs/archived-blogs/trouble-par...

And a book from the same author:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fruit-Inedible-Incredible-Wolfgang-...
So SigOpt was tuning rank (number of latent factors), number of iterations to run the algorithm (in my experience alternating least squares generally converges within 10-20 iterations, but there'd be no downside to running it longer unless it's overfitting), and the regularization strength.

What optimal parameters did it find for these?
Wow! Who knew it would take a scientist to make me consider reading Middlemarch!!
The learning algorithm we used is not a neural network that got trained in end-to-end fashion. Instead, it is a local prediction model that takes an input image patch and produces a patch of the same dimension with probability for each pixel of belonging to a document boundary. Those per-patch predictions are then aggregated together to reduce variance, resulting in an edge map of the same dimension as the input image.
For a hardened PC, the first thing I'd do is burn the BIOS into ROM. Read Only Memory. ROM cannot be infected.
I've seen military manuals with basically the same procedure recommended. I wonder if there are some commonly known dangerous plants that would've slipped through these cracks.
NeXT? Are you kidding? Apple has done nothing but _loathe_ buying NeXT and their mercurial CEO. Huge waste of money. /s
Rubber hoses don't scale. With our technological solution, we make it so that the government can't access 99.9% of all conversations. If they want to access a conversation here or there, they can use a rubber hose. But if they want to see every conversation in a person's social network (including conversations they weren't directly involved in), then they aren't going to be able to do that anymore.

Technology helps a lot. It brings us from a panoptikon to a situation where enforcement has to be done on an individual basis. That's a big win for freedom in my book.
Have you tried Vivaldi? Chromium-based, very configurable (including keys), lots of features, and they are always interested in adding new ones.

I dropped Chrome after Vivaldi came out, but there are plenty of other Chromium-based browsers to try....
The point of 'taste' is generally to find things safe to eat. It's not a 'random thing from the ground', but a fruiting body, which is almost universally safe to eat if it is sweet and not bitter.
I honestly recommend just setting up a toy split-view DNS service with a hidden master using BIND9. Get zone transfers working and maybe play with dynamic updates, and you'll basically know all you need to know. I set up an internal DNS infra at a previous job and was pretty surprised at how simple it really ended up being.
Facetious?

You're attempting to justify the release of a (potentially fatally) flawed product on the grounds of lost "competitive advantage".

If you lost a family member to a faulty (yet certified!) medical device, would you feel that their death is justified by a marginal improvement to some company's bottom line? What if it wasn't a medical device with closed code, but a miracle pill whose manufacturer refused to release the formula to the government for analysis?

The argument I made in my original comment does not rely on the (un)soundness of your original claims - it is a moral argument about the value we place on human life. I'd be willing to bet that, even if you think that closed source is superior in every fashion, you would never be satisfied by your own justifications in the case of a personal tragedy. This contradiction suggests that, at the very least, we must draw a distinction between justifiably and unjustifiably closed source code.
Not to mention smallpox and other infectious diseases where one person could kill thousands easily, even if unintentionally (with some instances intentional).
Apple has begun to stop selling iTunes downloads
"We ate a weird fruit and got poisoned. True story."

Why is this on the front page of Hacker News?
Interesting, why would anybody still use Facebook in the first place? It's so 2007.
The boy scouts drive this into you as well.

There's a protocol for eating unknown plants if you are starving to death in the wilderness. Otherwise, don't.
FWIW, I just clocked in at 780 Mbps on fast.com.
Great work! Let's hope this is an early contribution to a novel way of measuring computational complexity. Power drain, as much as time, is the scarce resource both in data centers and in mobile devices. It's great to think about measuring it.

Wouldn't it be great if our favorite IDEs showed a little yellow lightning bolt indicating suggestions for reducing the power-consumption profile of the code? Some of it could be obvious stuff (StringBuffer in place of string + string in loops, for example). But nonobvious stuff could be flagged too.

Of course, I hope the authors or others will try the same sorts of things on low-power mobile processors, and with workloads closer to the real world.
Growing up in the NorthEast, I can say I've eaten many random berries, from the ones that grow on forsythia to the pimento looking ones that grow on shrubbery.

I think I've been pretty lucky; however, I did always avoid (wild) mushrooms...
IPFS still doesn't have a content discovery mechanism, which I found very disappointing. It's not a killer app without that.
Lawn care is a religion in North Carolina. In the city, in the country. What's amazing is that when driving in any rural area, you'll see frequently small houses on five or ten acres of perfectly cultivated and mowed grass with no agricultural purpose ... just for show.
High Sticking with Flash Memory
The explanation quote: "Just three months ago, the tech giant denied rumours that it was going to stop selling downloads from the iTunes store 'within 2 or 3 years'. However, reports are now coming in that music downloads have already been axed in South Korea, suggesting that a worldwide rollout may be imminent."
I'm pretty sure I was told those pimento ones were poisonous as a kid.
Or Yellowstone. Very little of the wildlife there is petable. At least not more than once.
Very exciting that Intel sees a need to compete with NVIDIA here in a way that isn't just more x86. NVIDIA certainly needs the competition. Now can AMD get in on the action? They should be in a pretty good place to compete but so far they seem to have missed the boat, with approximately zero software support.
Reminds of me Kipling's poem whose meaning goes something like this:

> The implication, of course, was that the Empire existed not for the benefit — economic or strategic or otherwise — of Britain, itself, but in order that primitive peoples, incapable of self-government, could, with British guidance, eventually become civilized (and Christianized) [1]

The author is either writing some kind of bad sarcasm or simple falling prey to the above kind of complex.

I don't want to assign motives but western civilization should learn that just because you don't understand other cultures that does not mean they are stupid, retarded or some how disadvantaged. Provide some data or it is just the prejudice. Japanese people have achieved a lot in short time in fact lot more than almost all their Asian peers. They have achieved this while using their language.

Author should have spent some time learning the Japanese culture and being one of them instead of being judgemental. Consider this line about Manga

> Young adults here read comic books for the same reason children do elsewhere: because they’re fun, funny, and not too hard. Sure, a few deal with “real” issues, but it’s not like we’re talking To Kill a Mockingbird. Who doesn’t like ninjas and pirates? No one in Japan, apparently.

Clearly the author is not familiar with manga culture and has not bothered to read one. I am from India, I have read Harry Potter, Song of Ice and Fire, Mahabharata, Ramayana and Death Note or Naruto. Japanese Manga and Anime both have significant depth, characters which have shades of gray and as an Asian I can relate with Manga characters and story themes lot better than Harry potter which I find too superficial.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Man%27s_Burden
You can verify the roundness of the earth in a wide range of ways using only trivial observations. But I don't expect people who believe the earth is flat are likely to do that.
> Coming soon: Visual programming language and C#/Mono support.

I've followed this project for years. The developers have always stated they have no plans for C# (or Lua or whatever), and that they prefer GDScript and C++, not to mention in the early days they moved away from 3rd party scripting languages. Did something change?
Your Personal Brand Is Doomed
My personal brand dies with me.

There are dozens of people with amazing personal brands.

- Gary Vaynerchuck

- Ramit Sethi

- Derrick Halpern

- Leonard Kim

These individuals are prolific in their fields and have built enviable businesses on the strength of their personalities.

They won’t last.

https://medium.com/the-xp/your-personal-brand-is-doomed-bfdd5e0e5b54#.vyozcwxmt
> Why put words in my mouth?

I was replying to the wrong post. I had wanted to make it clear that we were discussing the same person.

Amusingly, I did it explicitly to avoid the OP thinking I was putting words in their mouth.

> In what other area of contract law are people allow to solicit investment based on false representations/marketing and hide from liability based on a disclaimer that the marketing materials may be inconsistent with the contract?

The "code is law" was the main point of the marketing. They repeated it constantly.

> it isn't novel in law where contracts are inconsistent with marketing material

What was the inconsistency? That their goals didn't come true?
MLlib is for operating in RDDs, ML is for operating in DataFrames.

RDDs themselves, however, are obsolete to DataFrames as DataFrames are faster and cover most of the functionality of RDDs for common use cases.
Is time dilation measurable between the two (due to gravity differences between locations)?
Netflix could load something from fast.com on each Netflix navigation right?

Ultimately if they're playing cat to Netflix's mouse how much does each mitigation strategy cost them relative to Netflix? I wonder if it's more cost effective to process that much traffic through shapers than it is to increase bandwidth between peers or allow Netflix to drop their boxes within their networks.
That would backfire very rapidly. We have trillions of dollars of infrastructure that would last 3 days against a single competent hacker. There was just an article recently on vulnerable hardcoded-password medical devices. Electrical grids and construction equipment aren't much better. People's webcams that they already own, phones that they already own, highly insecure software is pervasive in everyone's every day life. It's inescapable.

The pressure you are talking about would be too great. Things would collapse if it became legal to actively pursue hacking them.
Yes it's in the article. Pretty exciting.
> aggregated

It is unreasonable to expect a typical stranger to have access to aggregated surveillance data. Therefore, law enforcement should need a warrant to access such data.

BTW, in the article, Comey is talking about what access is possible with a warrant.
> Why doesn't our research focus on understanding and copying biological brains?

There's lots of basic research being done to better understand the biological brain. Progress is slow and steady, but the brain remains poorly understood at this point in time. Most applied research has pursued more pragmatic methods because these methods have had faster progress and proven more useful in practice.
They have some history about their scripting languages in the docs: http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/reference/gdscript.htm...

> ... The result of these considerations is GDScript. The language and interpreter for GDScript ended up being smaller than the binding code itself for Lua and Squirrel, while having equal functionality. With time, having a built-in language has proven to be a huge advantage.
> Missing is a definition of what "value" is.

Laws typically don't incorporate definitions of words used when they aren't used in a special sense in the law.

> My Bitcoin is a digital representation of the bits needed to solve a particular block.

No doubt.

> It doesn't represent value,

The "X needed for Y" have value to the extent Y has value; I would suggest that there is considerable evidence which might be marshaled that solving Bitcoin blocks has value.

So, I would think that your explanation of what Bitcoin does represent supports the conclusion that it is a digital representation of value, not that it is not such a representation.
all the processing happens on the phone...
Here is the reason why I don't believe in that: First of all, it seems that mind space is huge, i.e. there are very different programs that can lead to general intelligence, many of which will be very different from humans (this along is evidenced by the fact how strongly human characters and intellects vary, e.g. highly functioning mental conditions). A lot in machine learning points to that possibility. There are for example many ways to get supervision signals e.g. reconstruction error, prediction error, adversaries, intrinsic motivation (reducing the number of bits required for a representation), compression, sparseness etc.

We basically just need a system that comes up with efficient representations of the world such that it can reason about it, i.e. that it can tell you which hypotheses about the world are likely true given some data. This computation allows you to make predictions and predictions are really at the heart of intelligence. If you can follow a hypothetical trajectory of generated, hallucinated or simulated samples of reality, i.e. samples that likely correspond to what actually happens in the world (and in the agent's own brain), then you can actually perform actions that are targeted at some purpose (e.g. maximizing reward signals). However, there are many sources of data that essentially give you the same information. Whether you create a representation by directly interacting with the world or just watch many examples of how the world generally evolves over time and how different entities interact with one another, you essentially get the same idea about how the world works (except in the first case you also learn a motor system). I think the anthropomorphism is really misplaced here, because computer systems are not dependent on actually performing in the real world. Since computers have near unlimited, noiseless memory and have super fast access to that memory, they can actually plan interactions by careful reasoning on the fly instead of needing to learn e.g. motor skills for manipulating objects, eating and handwriting before one can get anywhere near the performance of computers wrt. access to reliable external memory. A computer system also does not have hormone and neuromodulator levels that need to be met for healthy development (e.g. dopamine), therefore the intuition that deprivation of interaction with the world prevents learning is extremely misleading.
Hot Vine Girls Peeing Stop and Pee Later
> The researchers examined several other common aspects in the Dutch artist’s works such as his off-center gaze, which they say may suggest he was facing a projection surface off to the side rather than looking directly at his reflection in a flat mirror.

And a painter like Rembrandt would not be able to adjust for this, by moving the painted eyes a few millimeters? I can't believe that.
RandomUUID.net
I can only speak for chess, but one of the unsolved problems in computer chess is how to build a program that plays human chess of appropriate level.

It is very hard to dial down a ELO 3000+ program to 1800 level of a club player and not make it computer like.

What is usually done is lower the depth searched and add some random blunders but it is still obvious to a stronger player that it is a program.
> It's a pretty simple transfer of VC money to customers in an attempt to increase growth.

I guess it worked.
It looks like the idea has been studied:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_intelligenc...

In a 2008 study paid for by the National Science Foundation in the United States, researchers found that... while boys and girls performed similarly on average, boys were over-represented among the very best performers as well as among the very worst.
Thanks; I glossed right over it.

"Also, the apparent rate of a clock depends on the local gravitational potential: comparing two clocks measures the gravitational redshift between them, and thus yields their height difference. Such measurements provide data points for the geodetic reference surface, the so-called “geoid”. This research approach is pursued jointly by physicists and geodesists in the Collaborative Research Centre 1128 (“geo-Q”) of the German Science Foundation (DFG)."
They also have a pretty simple way to show end users that their ISPs are either throttling them or being uncooperative with Netflix. I'm not sure what it will do to monopolies, if anything, but it could apply significant indirect pressure to a lot of ISPs.
Sorry, I meant the typewriter from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA
I agree with this sentiment as a well-informed adult. As the proud owner of a 1.5-year old son who will attempt to eat absolutely anything, I am glad to have read this so I know what to aggressively and proactively remove from his field of vision.
Great work with this. Are you still in academia doing research?
Well, to be fair, neither does HTTP, short of either name-services (DNS), or crawling-and-indexing.

IFPS has IPNS [1], the name services (the feature most-directly relevant to the Bittorrent enhancement in question).

To date, I'm unaware of an IFPS crawler-and-indexer search engine.

[1] https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/16
I am pretty sure that this is an attempt by somebody who doesn't work in DWDM/optical transport systems to describe industry standard dispersion compensation modules (DCM). Such as you would install for a 40 x 10 Gbps wavelength DWDM link on two strands between two sets of chassis and linecards.
I am reminded of Foucault's referencing of Borges' fictional Chinese encyclopedia, Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. Which divides animals into 14 categories:

Those that belong to the emperor
Embalmed ones
Those that are trained
Sucking pigs
Mermaids (or Sirens)
Fabulous ones
Stray dogs
Those that are included in this classification
Those that tremble as if they were mad
Innumerable ones
Those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush
Et cetera
Those that have just broken the flower vase
Those that, at a distance, resemble flies

I think people have realized for some time that all efforts at cataloging carry the baggage of ethnocentrism and cultural biases.

PS I am agreeing with danielvf.
Survival protocol for unknown fruits and berries is to rub a small amount on your bottom lip and wait a while. Then ingest a small amount and wait a while. Increase amount you're eating while monitoring effects and 'output'...

Please note, this is not professional advice - if you try this and die or spend 9 days on the throne I'm not responsible. It's a survival technique, intended for use when not eating anything will kill you, while eating the wrong thing might kill you.