skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There is almost no political engagement from the technology sector, as compared to others

That's because the tech sector is busy actually doing useful stuff and inventing world-changing technologies. Pharma only does some of that (their pace of innovation is quite lackluster, and they spend more on marketing than on R&D, the real medical innovation is being done by other entities), finance is figuring out how to make money from a bad economy with hedge funds, telecoms are just exploiting their monopolies and screwing customers over, and entertainment is just rehashing old stuff with never-ending low-quality remakes, reboots, sequels, and prequels.

Instead of trying to use politics to make more money by screwing people over (which is how other industries mostly work), the tech sector makes money by creating new technologies. It's a fundamentally different mindset.
Oh thank goodness. The last thing that would make me consider using Python 2 for new projects is about to go away.
To be honest, the attitude doesn't help. Did the author omit something that you find important? Well, you can point it out saying something like "hey, nice informational article, but I would have included X, Y and Z." It's basically what you said, but in a more constructive manner.
I don't understand this. It's your browser. It's not like it's illegal to, say, run a noncompliant browser that misrenders things. An adblocker is the same.
What are the alternatives? I don't think you can prevent problems affecting the whole AS or problems affecting the whole company with anything but failing over to another AS or another company. And the only place you can do that for a web browser is DNS.

And there is some beauty in it. It's fairly simple and with more servers in more places you get fewer affecting clients when one of the places fails and fewer disrespectful clients as well. It scales very well and cheaply.
I agree: If you have data X and outputs y and must have a linear function of X to minimize square error on y and only y, then yes we have defined our task.

I think it's a lucky engineer that has their end-goal defined as such a crisp mathematical task. Defining what is an optimal way to do a fit, for the surrounding application, usually requires thought. Often the reasonableness of the curve does matter, for example if it will be evaluated in locations other than the training data. Also, there may be some choice in how to set up the problem. For example, maybe we're allowed to transform the inputs with some fixed non-linear functions to create extra features. Adding these extra features to the design matrix will improve fit, so an engineer might consider it, but they'll need to be careful about over-fitting if they care about a surrounding application.
Report a bug, or look at about:config settings.

https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-get-firefox-looking-right-...

apply those to seamonkey.
What positions do you have that a good cover letter is a strong positive signals indicating that the person will be good at the job? If it's a writing or communications position, I fully understand. If it's for software engineering, cover letters serve more to stroke corporate egos than they do to provide critical job skill information.
You can try J instead, http://www.jsoftware.com/

As Wikipedia puts it [0]: it is a synthesis of APL (also by Iverson) and the FP and FL function-level languages created by John Backus.

To avoid repeating the APL special-character problem, J uses only the basic ASCII character set, resorting to the use of the dot and colon as inflectionsto form short words similar to digraphs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_(programming_language)
Sounds like a hybrid pos with a centralized key giveaway
It represents the resource and infrastructure investment needed to calculate the solution to a block. The resource being electricity, and the infrastructure being the computer and any peripherals needed (i.e. expensive video card).
A lot of fancy words indeed and no real meaning. I didn't read the whole thing, not sure what it was about or what she was smoking.
Combining EaselJS and Box2D
Essentially depending on what malware does we can easily identify government software because criminal software has a different set of objectives. Is it possible though that corporate software could have similar objectives? I'm thinking corporate espionage type behaviour.
On first read, it looks like this doesn't cover merchants accepting digital currency, or using it to pay invoices. I hope that's the intent as well.
I'm glad to hear about this funding. It's also a reminder for myself to bring the topic to my company about donating to open source.
This is really cool. Nice one!
That's the point of the article.
Not that odd if you are trying to represent a chunk of a file with a single url, which would be desirable if you were serving video manifest/playlist files like m3u8 (HLS) or f4m (HDS). IIRC Netflix is using HDS.

Edit: not sure what format they are using, probably several depending on the client... But one url per chunk makes sense for multiple delivery formats as well.
What No New Particles Means for Physics
Start with what your friends and family do for a living, especially if any of them work in logistics, manufacturing, product sales, etc.
We have ideas how to make relational databases secure while running everything server-side, thanks to recent research publications [notably CipherBase from Microsoft Research http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2013/Papers/CIDR13_Paper33.pdf] and advances in CPU hardware. Early days, but we'll probably test it first in the open source ZeroDB database [https://opensource.zerodb.com] and then apply the same method to existing relational databases.
Offline combined storage is not a more secure setup if the problem is insider theft. Mt. Gox had offline storage controlled by Mark Karpeles. Given how hard it is to find the principals of this company, this looks like an inside job.
Unless you stop using ad networks and just inline unobtrusive text ads?
Please don't post racist material on HN.
I lost money to the "hacker", but I fully support the original, untainted, "the code is the contract" blockchain.
This is how it would work at a company that's not completely deaf to user complaints

Unfortunately this is not the case of Google
Glad you enjoyed it!

Heartbeats, to a first approximation, don't cost money. You could do an entirely reasonable heartbeat using parallel ports (like Princeton PAPERS, but for failover rather than HPC), sound cards, or a couple of GPIO pins. What heartbeats cost is the ability to use off-the-shelf networking hardware and software, because it's all best-effort — nothing based on Ethernet tries to guarantee delivery, much less latency.

I guess it makes sense that if they never shipped an Alpha product, their tech reports and manuals would never mention it. I guess John was right about that!

I don't think Tandem was comparing their prices to IBM prices in the early years, though I could be wrong; I think they were comparing them to the prices of the Seven Dwarves.
Technically correct is the only kind; no pretense needed.

>Playing dumb only makes you look dumb.
I'm also experiencing the same (also using HTTPS everywhere). Disabling the extension doesn't seem to work.

If you get a solution, please let me know.
Not the same thing - this tribe can't exist without infrastructure it cannot create or maintain itself. Your caring sharing tribe ain't going to be making a chip foundry or a means of powering it or extracting raw materials for it anytime soon. That needs capital.
For an MVP you might be able to write specifications in https://apiblueprint.org/tools.html format and then have the tools create (mock) the server for you.
Good luck Facebook because we have this: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Like all the non-English speakers do.
> What is the meaning of a word, if not the relationship it has to other words?

There's also the relationship it has with the world.
It seems some kind of arbitrary execution is necessary. I decided to come back to the problem out of curiosity to see if I could push that toward declarative or logic to gain its benefits. This isn't another argument so to speak so much as a brainstorm pushing envelope here. Could speculate all day but came up with a cheat: it would be true if anyone had replaced make or other imperative/arbitrary pieces with Prolog/HOL equivalents. Vast majority of effort outside I/O calls & runtime itself would be declarative. Found these:

http://www.cs.vu.nl//~kielmann/papers/THD-SP-1991-04.pdf

https://github.com/cmungall/plmake

Add to that Myreen et al's work extracting provers, machine code and hardware from HOL specs + FLINT team doing formal verification of OS-stuff (incl interrupts & I/O) + seL4/Verisoft doing kernels/OS's to find declarative, logic part could go from Nix-style tool down to logic-style make down to reactive kernel, drivers, machine code, and CPU itself. Only thing doing arbitrary execution, as opposed to arbitrary specs/logic, in such a model is what runs first tool extracting the CPU handed off to fab (ignoring non-digital components or PCB). Everything else done in logic with checks done automatically, configs/actions/code generated deterministically from declarative input, and final values extracted to checked data/code/transistors.

Hows that? Am I getting closer to replacing arbitrary make's? ;)
That sounds like Steem.
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Wouldn't surprise me if there are bugs.

There are some weird issues with facebook.
So security through obscurity?
Infrastructure funding is political influence. Non-warry stuff.

But if you want to wage war on China be prepared to go back to the 50s. China and its immediate neighbours make everything. And have done for decades. No country has the standing manufacturing capability (facilities, machinery or trained/robotic workforce) to replace what China does for them. Some other Asian countries manufacturer electronics and India and Pakistan do textiles like nobody's business.

This is where that influence from earlier came in. They've traded cash for foreign government bonds to ensure great tariffs and to stop protectionist policies. They pegged their currency to ensure their exports undercut everybody else.

Automobiles are pretty much the last serious manufacturing done in market countries... And where do you think many of those source their parts and steel from?

So yeah, you piss off China and they have the physical wherewithal to embargo almost all material imports. Your economy dies overnight.

You take back a bridge and a nuclear power plant. Big whoop. What's your next move?
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3.4. gave a good virtualenv by default. That helps a lot
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Is there any part of your talk available online?
I just got the email. Too bad Brookhaven's availability is limited to apartments right now.

Looking forward to signing up but I am not sure how it works since I am off a street and not in a "neighborhood".
Intel to buy deep-learning startup Nervana Systems for at least $350M
And lifted up 6 feet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of potential investors?
Would love to hear what people are using to keep track of potential investors outside of a Google Doc Sheet or Excel Spreadsheet.
What do you mean "attack"? Is there some specific harm being done that you want to protect against? Breach of defenses isn't itself an attack. A foreign agent inside your castle isn't an attacker until they start stabbing people, right?

I'm not personally worried about what Chinese and Russian hackers know about me, because none of that information is particularly useful for taking valuables from me. I am curious what your experience is, just so I can understand the context of your concern.
It also needs to attract top marketing talent, which also means fancy offices in trendy parts of town.
Why do you believe that? The last couple of halvings appeared to have little effect on the global hashrate, and so had little effect on the energy consumption.

The vast majority of Bitcoin mining is done by professionals. I doubt many people buy thousands of dollars worth of hardware to mine simply for fun. Miners are looking to profit.

People will mine the coin up until the point at which it becomes unprofitable. The cost of mining is more or less the cost of electricity (you can amortise the cost of the mining hardware over time). It makes sense to mine when the value of a coin is higher than the cost of the power used in mining it. Electricity cost is proportional to energy consumption. Hence, Bitcoin's energy consumption is proportional to its value.
Absolutely. And if you seeded a torrented movie, that is billions of dollars of lost potential profits, right?
> and also isn't friends with Iran or Russia

Actually Israel is on very friendly terms with Russia. There are a ton of Russian immigrants in Israel to the point that Putin called them "Russian ambassadors".

It didn't start that way - part of the history of the creation of the modern state of Israel is Russia vs US proxy conflict (of sorts) via Egypt. But it's not like that anymore, not for a long time.

(The US and Russia have moved on to other proxies :)
>What the hell does "nominal" mean?

Off the top of my head, I think the Federal Law for Money Transmitter Business (MTB) carves out businesses for up to $100/day so unless a company is registered as a MTB I think that would be the daily cap.
There's a STIG already for RHEL 7, for what it's worth.
I also don't read all ads in print magazines, should I no longer buy print magazines?

If I rip out all ads in a print magazine, or throw away the flyers in a magazine - which I do first after buying a mag - then I shouldn't buy the magazine? (magazines are paid for by ads not by me buying them).
Basically, yes. There was a well-watched talk about it that introduced it to people who hadn't seen it or hadn't bothered to try it.
Focus on customer development and not product development.

Product development fails to address customer needs.
They might own a significant share of Tor relays and exit points, likewise for Bitcoin.
A big chunk of space would take some work, but if you only needed a few KB there is slack space (at least a handful of sectors) on the end of every USB drive that doesn't align with partition sizes. I've used it before to store data on how many times my reformatting tool was used on the disk.
The central sentence is a few paragraphs in: "And again we are searching for the right metaphors and models to guide our investigation." That's what the whole article is about. People are looking for a useful way to describe the masses of new infrastructure, and this article lists some of them. It also calls out past and present ways of looking at the world, for context.
No, that is not why.

The reason why the tech sector does not engage in politics, is that people feel they are above politics and "don't want to get dirty".

Further more, they're sure the laws doesn't matter on the Internet anyway, right ?
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Could you elaborate more on the edge detector? I thought it was a bit of a juxtaposition to go from:

> We decided to develop a customized computer vision algorithm that relies on a series of well-studied fundamental components, rather than the “black box” of machine learning algorithms such as DNNs.

To:

> 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. Given this labeled dataset, a machine learning model is trained to predict the probability of each pixel in an image belonging to an object boundary.

This seems like a crucial step in the algorithm and sounds exactly like a black box DNN...
Gunpowder plot of 1605 is a rather famous counter example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot
Can you mod my Playstation? I need to play, um, archived games. Yeah that's it. Archived games.
Surely cold storage is compatible with segregated accounts using payment channels or one of the other novel Bitcoin mechanisms. But if not, and cold-storage had to be abandoned, then that would have been a good signal to walk away.

And if accounts had to be segregated then losses should have been segregated too, not socialised.
It sounds like you're saying that targeted ads are bad because they influence you to buy stuff. But that's what every ad is for, regardless of whether it's targeted.
What was false and misleading? Didn't the DAO creators and enthusiasts insist up and down that the code is the irrefutable interpretation of the contract? Doesn't ethereum.org still state that smart contracts are "applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference"?

The only false representations I've seen have been from the Ethereum developers: by hard-forking to change the terms of the DAO, they have misrepresented Ethereum to everyone who invested in its ICO.

EDIT: I'm more interested to know whether or not the DAO "attack vector" was placed there intentionally. Then you might be able to argue that the developers acted in bad faith.
After they install an ad-blocker anywhere. The site in question could always been been nice and unobtrusive with their ads. It makes no difference for most users.
No. Facebook does not provide a service, you said it yourself, it is "ad supported". What they provide is a platform that companies pay to show ads on. Kind of like billboards and ad agencies. Snickers bar drawn on the street is not a service, even if you happened to glance over it.
Read this as an "introduction" and then you'll be able to understand why the researchers can be so sure that specific kind of malware must be state sponsored:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ord...

http://www.langner.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/To-kill...

Simply, the goals ant he methods of the commercial malware are fundamentally different to those that can be recognized in the state-sponsored malware.
That's what is happening right now, but the currency exchange is happening on Poloniex, Kraken, etc, and the hashing power is following the exchange rate.
Microsoft offers "Always Encrypted" for Query Processing over encrypted data in SQL Server and SQL Azure : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt163865.aspx (Disclaimer : Microsoft Employee)
This doesn't follow. All it shows that it increases transparency and a goverment can't pretend to be a democracy while running a total surveillance operation against public interest and funded by the public on the side.

Non democratic governments are not the benchmarks for democratic behavior by definition. Governments in countries like Kazakstan and China have already made it clear they are not interested in privacy and its for their citizens and social structures to respond.

Countries like the US and UK claim to the defenders of democracy but are running equally intensive surveillance operations on the side, and in this case without outliers like Snowden we won't even know. So let this debate happen in the open so citizens and the state can reach an acceptable consensus on checks and balances.

It would also be a good idea to remove the emotional threats of terrorism that are used to manipulate and manufacture outcomes from this debate. There is a long history of government abuse of power that citizens cannot ignore. There needs to be more accountability of US and UK relations with Saudi Arabia and its 30 year funding of wahhabism globally. The effects of this and geopolitical games cannout be brushed aside as they are fundamental to terrorism today. Without terrorism there is essentially no debate and citizens will not give up their rights for day-to-day law and order problems.
I wish that my ISP (Comcast) would throttle Netflix in the evening. My internet bandwidth gets reduced to 200 kbps during prime time (roughly 9 to 11 PM). It makes it challenging to work, especially if I need to stay connected to a VPN.
Meta-data should be added to deprecated functions in Clojure
"I can do what I want with my browser" is irrelevant to the fact that you do not have a right to Facebook's content. They give out the content on their terms.
Looks like I've hit a case of IPv4 vs. IPv6. I recently noticed that fast.com starting showing me at about half my connection speed, 50Mbps. I only just now realised while looking at the traffic that it was doing it over IPv6. Disabling IPv6 in my network gets me a reported speed of 120Mbps on fast.com, which sounds about right for a 100/100 subscription + some burst.

My ISP hasn't even officially announced any IPv6 support, I discovered more or less by accident that if I enabled 6rd things "just worked" so the fact that it might not go at the full speed of my subscription isn't something I'm super worried about.

I've actually got a similar issue with Google. While using IPv4 I don't even leave my ISP's network as they have those Google Global Cache boxes at the edge and terminate my connection there but over IPv6 I do go all the way out over the internet to Google.
I am also skeptical of Google Fiber's economics, but they have some business model hacks up their sleeve that FIOS doesn't: redlining and rallies. FIOS spent a lot of money to pass homes that will never subscribe and they had to do a lot of separate truck rolls to connect customers over time. Google Fiber is more like Kickstarter where they don't have to do any work unless the 'hood is guaranteed to be profitable, then they wire the whole place at once. Whether this business model is good for society is an open question.
While this cliche is indeed very true, the ability to play games from a hard-drive in the PS2 was amazing. No ferreting about for disks, much faster load times etc. I didn't pirate a single one, and loved HDLoader.
Unfortunately I agree with you. I try to do that, but too many sites are abusive. If a site said "hey, we see you block ads, please unblock, we only use small text ads", I'd unblock right away. Most of the time though, after I unblock a site, I immediately have to re-block it.
"Heartbeats, to a first approximation, don't cost money. "

Over a WAN? The low-latency connections were an important part of their WAN high-availability per Animats. Leased lines here cost more than a house payment.

"I think they were comparing them to the prices of the Seven Dwarves."

Well, they were called the Seven Dwarves because IBM dominated the market. So, Tandem was taking on IBM and all of the rest. They had to be price-competitive with Seven Dwarves while looking way better than IBM, esp price/performance. Them getting SQL to scale linearly in NonStop SQL was one of their differentiators IIRC.