skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it comes down to the limits of available Information with a capital 'I'. If you're working within the encoding system (as you're recommending here with the "all the text in the world" approach), then in order to learn the function that's generating this information, the messages that you're examining have a minimum amount of information they can convey. There needs to be enough visible structure purely within the context of the messages themselves to make the underlying signal clear.

I don't think it's so weird to imagine that natural language really doesn't convey a ton of explicit information on its own. Sure, there's some there, enough that our current AI attempts can solve little corners of the bigger problem. But is it so strange to imagine that the machinery of the human brain takes lossy, low-information language and expands, extrapolates, and interprets it so heavily so as to make it orders of magnitude more complex than the lossy, narrow channel through which it was conveyed? That the only reason we're capable of learning language and understanding eachother (the times we _do_ understand eachother) is because we all come pre-equipped with the same decryption hardware?
He ran the program to collect fingerprints.
If they aren't going to act like a speed test server, they shouldn't advertise it. Not that netflix is the only potential weak link between the person and fast.com.
Page 1/14 each having a few lines? Must be one of the worst mobile version I've encountered in a long time.
The one-person stage play "Manya - A Living History of Marie Curie" is fantastic incidentally.

There's a clip here; I don't know if a full recording is available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8GTXNkkFPs
You don't see a problem with that..?

You still need to have the entry point - that's exactly where the censorship is occurring. Try to find a copy of the KickAssTorrents database on Google right now and tell me how easy it is.

The approach you're talking about is essentially what http://bitcannon.io/ is trying to do - but that requires running a separate app, a local MongoDB server, downloading many gigabytes of database data, and half an hour to import the torrent DB into your local instance, and that STILL requires you to be able to acquire the Torrent database or related infohash, which isn't easy because of the very censorship we're trying to sidestep.

Quite frankly, that's a really dumb solution to this censorship and it's naive to say that it's useful. This will never be used in the fashion you're describing and it does nothing for anti-censorship.

It makes so much more sense just to have the DHT be actually useful in surfacing content.
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Vuze (formerly known as Azureus) has (or at least had a prototype of) p2p search.

I wrote a paper on building a torrent search index quickly using the DHT records that this feature emitted at the time. http://static.usenix.org/events/woot10/tech/full_papers/Wolc...
You get what you pay for. Right now, endpoint systems are undefended, even intentionally compromised. The design of endpoint systems assumes all components can be trusted. But those components don't usually undergo testing for vulnerabilities and hidden capabilities.
So what should the protocol be then? First rub a little of the juice on the skin, wait a few hours, and see if it stings? And if not, then proceed, but how?
I say to myself, "Self, what did you learn today?"

But seriously, as a freelancer, I'll usually explain some new process or algorithm to my non-technical wife until it makes sense to her. It's a better version of rubber-ducking that helps you not only understand your own code, but also improves your ability to talk to clients.

Not quite what you were asking, but I think it's relevant. You can't really share the nitty-gritty of technical info with colleagues until you can also give an overview to a layperson.
So a related question becomes, can you learn to understand and thus predict physics (the way a child does - I'm not talking about quantum mechanics) from literature only, without interacting in space?
> If everybody had been as cautious as you two, nothing much would've happened.

The time for eating unidentified fruit is when you are dying of starvation.
I cannot imagine doing this today, although there are still places that need a secret university. However, I wonder if we have the solution, at much less risk.

I wonder if, 30 years from now when a whole new generation has grown up, we will discuss poor countries (or, say, people under the Taliban, or in North Korea) learning from the Khan Academy, Coursera and the like in the same way.

"What was it like, mom?"

"Well, kid, they didn't have these fancy holographs. First you had to find a really good 'connection' ..."
You were the one complaining that you couldn't awk an xml file in the context of "xml versus makefile".
Or they're saying, "Oh? That old thing?"

We honestly don't know. It might not even be the NSA.
>The attackers used multiple interesting and unusual techniques, including:

> Data exfiltration and real-time status reporting using DNS requests.

Sorry to be more specific we spoke on DNS Base Exfil using base64 encoded strings in DNS Lookups and also how to use DNS records to control botnets.

So not exact and only part of their method.
There is a protocol for sampling unknown foods that I suspect aboriginal humans might have developed ad hoc. http://www.wikihow.com/Test-if-a-Plant-Is-Edible
For those with experience on Godot:

How feasible is to build a canvas-heavy/webgl application that is also exportable to the desktop? I'm looking at unity at this moment but godot could be a viable alternative.
For the 3D deformation take a look at this part of OpenCV:

http://docs.opencv.org/2.4/doc/tutorials/features2d/feature_...
And many in the sciences are confused by 'endogenous' and 'exogenous', but just say 'independent' and 'dependent'... Every field has its jargon and econometrics has no primacy here; no reason to have a strong emotional reaction to words you understand because they're not what you learned in college.
Hah. Well in Dallas, AT&T rolls out their fastest Gigabit speed (and most expensive offering) to the poor communities first. Because city council and politics. Makes sense.... the poor people, right after shopping with their food stamps and using their entire paycheck on rent can most definitely afford $130+/month internet...
>Language is very different when there are literally tens of thousands of characters to learn.

Yes and no. Chinese-character based languages are conceptually different to languages employing Roman letters/an alphabet to the point where there isn't a great deal of transferability between Western and East-Asian languages.

But people think in composites just as you said - people prompt each other with "anshin no an" or hand drawings. This isn't too different to thinking of spelling in composite blocks of syllables.

Characters are to syllables what strokes are to letters. And people can describe characters in their composite strokes just as a syllable is a composite of letters. The difference is that the association is mechanical/visual, rather than aural.

People making errors by using the wrong "an" or the wrong radical happens just like people getting the order of "i" and "e" mixed up in English... Or German, for that matter.

I'd probably agree that there is a steeper learning curve with character based languages. Possibly even more so with Japanese - Chinese people don't really get the option of kana so are forced to master kanji/hanzi from a younger age through exposure if nothing else. That said, after a certain point, it does genuinely suddenly click. I used to snort in disbelief when my Japanese friend claimed he could memorize 100 kanji in 10 minutes (he was a bit of a machine to be fair) but after my first thousand I was able to memorise entirely new characters after barely a glimpse.

Alas, you can forget them as quickly as you learned them!
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Whose law? Your country? My country? The USA, just because? North Korea because they have the most restrictive laws? All unworkable.

Your country's law applies to you, as you use the system, but not to the contracts themselves. If you contract for something illegal you can be tossed in your country's prisons but the contract can't be altered.
Daring Fireball, that's the one! Of course it's an exception - no other bugger tries, opting to instead chuck adsense all over the place.
I am disappointed in Python core developers when they decided to accept static typing to Python 3. It bothers me more than the formatting PEP.
My mother's actually a nurse, and it's been a really great career choice for her, especially as she's aged. Over the last five years or so my parents have had to move several times due to volatility in my dad's career. And yet at every move my mom hasn't had any trouble finding stable and well-paid employment as a nurse.

Nursing is similar to teaching in that you're not likely to get rich off of it, and it's not even an easy job at all, but it is a very stable one which pays a solid middle-class wage for life in pretty much any area of the country, from huge cities to small rural towns in the midwest. And, while the hours are rough as a new nurse fresh out of school, they're not bad at all with experience -- certainly it's a far more family friendly career than many others in healthcare, like being a physician.

If my mom had been a programmer, she definitely wouldn't have weathered the moves they've made as well as she has. In fact, she'd have been the one forcing my dad to move with her, as decent programming jobs simply do not exist where they live.
Chicago also made its river run backwards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_River#Reversing_the_fl...
Separate the work and the man and you can keep your admiration without having to spend your time condoning or condemning everything else the man does you disagree with. I think this is necessary for most historical figures (even many living ones) given popular modern ethics. (Edit: with separation you can also work with your coworkers professionally even if they have different politics.)
Oh wow, this is extremely interesting. Hopefully Google rolls their connections out soon.
Here's what Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said that really made me angry
I like it for distinguishing homonym operators, but not for the precedence stuff they seem to have there. I'd like something like this though:

let a = 10;
a / 5
output> 2
let b = pwd();
b/temp
output> Directory<"~/temp">
b / 2
error> b:Directory does not implement method "divide(:number)"
a/temp
error> a:int does not implement method "get(:string)"
They could block or override the A RR for fast.com so that a client can't connect.
I'd like to mention News Feed Eradicator here - not only does what its name implies, but it adds a motivational quote in the empty space. The quotes are usually about goals, procrastination, etc and it's saved me a lot of (potentially) wasted time.
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> If everybody had been as cautious as you two, nothing much would've happened.

No, actually they would have probably improved human knowledge after conducting the autopsy on your body and examined what you had carelessly ingested... ;) j/k
No, it makes them into regulatory bodies. Would you really trust Congress to legislate the minute details of FDA clinical trials or EPA pollution regulations? How about transportation safety codes or allocation of NSF/NIH funding for basic research?

This is a fundamental feature of most modern democratic bureaucracies: the power of regulators flows directly from the legislature which sets the goals and scope of each agency but it is up to the individuals in each organization, who have spent most of their lives in the relevant fields gaining direct experience, to decide on the specific implementation of the legislators' vision.
So something factually incorrect is preferable? And is it not possible to simply expand the acronym? E.g.

"The Office of Strategic Services' 1944 Simple Sabotage Field Manual (2015)"
It does for Polymer and Webcomponents, but not specifically for React, since React ignores all this and does everything in JavaScript vs the DOM.

It might indirectly help React for scoping CSS.
> the rule of law and being technically correct matters

As one of many factors. The rule of law does not suspend human reason and common sense. SCOTUS recently ruled in favour of original intent over a strictly structural in an ACA case, where the later would have meant literally interpreting a likely typo [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/obamacare...
This is pretty much the only part. The code from the live demo. I will try and find a place to get the slides up in the next few days if there is any interest:

https://github.com/coryschwartz/dns_exfiltration
> It's learning the meaning of words, and the relationships between them.

It's learning a meaning, not the meaning. It's just a probabilistic model for the occurrence of a word based on the words that surround it. This should not serve as a base for the rest of your claims.

Anyway -- the improvements gained by multi-modal systems essentially disprove your thesis. Which is a good news! We're making progress.
Just as it would be obviously illegal for a stranger, it would be obviously illegal for law enforcement.

I'm confused as to how you could misconstrue that.
Thanks for the feedback and the useful reference. I'll definitely add the Gauss-Markov theorem to my to-look-in-depth-at-later list and may write up about it at some future point.
Hi, they are using Random Forest to get the edges :)
They already excuse you for virtually no reason at all. (The two times I've served, I've seen people excused, no questions asked, for stuff a lot more petty than "need to find child care".)

I'm not sure what you think needs to be improved.
Their Neon platform is awesome. I hope it will not be abandoned.

Congratulations!
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This article speaks to me.

My neighbor is retired and his only purpose in life seems to be keeping a fairway quality lawn which means he's cranking the social contract to 11.

I don't know how much he spends in weed killer and fertilizer. Maybe he doesn't want to lay on his deathbed and regret, "If only I'd mowed more..."
Seems phaser.js is going to fit your needs better, but the desktop is not gonna be a "real" app
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> The build process for Mozilla add-ons was even converted from Python to Javascript to eliminate Python from the build chain.

Which part of the build process? I don't think the build process is written in Javascript / NodeJS.
Not so obvious. In fact, I believe they are using Random Forest.
>> Vancouver is Canada, with lots of undeveloped spaces available......It can be safely increased in size many times.

- That is not correct. Vancouver proper is hampered re: expansion because of mountains and sea. It has limited availability of lands for development. Only way it can meet demand for housing is via vertical (i.e. condos) vs. horizontal (i.e. houses) ecpansion. But there is substantial local resistance to highrises, especially outside the downtown/west end area.
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There was internal loss, but it was the combo of these:

> resulted in announcing some Google Cloud Platform IP addresses from a single point of presence in the southwestern US.

> not yet configured to handle Cloud Platform traffic and applied an overly-restrictive packet filter.

that caused the real pain. Other traffic that ended up in the Southwest would have routed crazily, but wouldn't get stopped (filter). If it had just been a route thing for GCE (and related services) we would have just seen slowdown, etc. like any other routing mistake.

Disclosure (and Disclaimer): I work on Compute Engine, but I'm not on our networking teams.
> I don't expect strangers to tail me.

But you do expect that a stranger could tail you if they wanted to. You could sue that stranger for harassment and get a restraining order, just as you could sue law enforcement for the same thing.

> privacy I expect from strangers is far greater than the one currently expected from the FBI

The comment about strangers not tailing you suggests you care about de facto privacy, rather than de jure privacy (your right to privacy). In that case, if no one is investigating you, you have absolute privacy.

If we're talking about your right to privacy, then I agree that the FBI should have only the same privilege that any citizen has, unless they obtain a warrant. Conversely, I argue that the FBI should be able to get a warrant to access any data that a citizen is legally able to share.
> Android? In this context, that's UNIX. MacOS X is UNIX. Even the z/OS on the mainframe has a UNIX03 compliant UNIX subsystem. You were saying...?

So you use VI and Emacs on Android, generate postscript and troff files, configure /etc/passwd and /etc/init.d

How does your Android .profile look like?

Yes z/OS has a POSIX subsystem, it also doesn't support anything besides CLI, daemos and batch processing.

Mac OS X is a certified UNIX, however none of the APIs that matter. You known, those written in Objective-C and Swift are UNIX.

> GUI is dead; if your application doesn't run on the server and display the results either on the command line or in a web browser, you're doing it wrong.

Better let all of those that earn money targeting infotainment systems, medical devices, factory control units, GPS units, iOS, Android, game consoles, smart watches, VR units, POS, ... that they are doing it wrong.
I already block all facebook domains in my hosts file, so no impact to me.
Anyone know what IPs the C&C servers used?

Interested to see what hosting company in the US they used.
That might be a great opportunity for a lawyer (maybe in Europe).
Thanks for posting that, very interesting. I don't think it's entirely fair. No one should care about warnings about style (spacing, case, etc), but much more commonly warnings about correctness are important.
So do things like Microsoft points or rewards work the same way? What about stocks/bonds?

I find it amusing that the exempt e-money while targeting "digital currency". What exactly is the distinction?
This is quickly becoming my favorite open source project. This is like an open source Unity Game engine.

Highlights-

- Custom font support, plus editor translations. So now hopefully more people around the world can contribute.

- Sort of an asset library to make sharing assets between game developers easier.

Coming soon: Visual programming language and C#/Mono support. While VPLs are problematic for large projects, for some smaller bits of functionality they are pretty cool and I think can add a lot to game development.

I don't yet know if my next project will be able to use Godot or if it will be based on Unity... but at the rate Godot is advancing, before too long we will be able to switch.
You could start with minimum wage. Jurors get like 5 bucks an hour in federal court. That's absurd.
> Anyway, the answer to your question is iPad Pro by Apple Computer. It runs an operating system called "iOS" which is a heavily customized FreeBSD on top of a custom CMU Mach kernel. And it's UNIX03 compliant. UNIX! It's everywhere, it didn't go away, and it won't die!

I'm aware of it, it's not good enough. Its UI is terrible when you need to work with multiple applications, it's a pain to customize anything and even more of a pain to run your own programs.
I was responding to this:

> Observation by anyone/everyone is so easy and natural. We should not expect more privacy from law enforcement than we would from any other stranger.

I disagree. I expect law enforcement to pass a more stringent bar -- ie. get a warrant. The same is true for privacy and data collection (IMO). Just because "anyone" can see and record my activities does not mean law enforcement should be permitted to without a warrant that very narrowly defines the duration and start time. (Ie. No mass surveillance.)
Yes, the child doesn't learn physics he or she learns motor control of its body. Baby learning to talk is more about the brain learning to control its body through throwing its neurological system.

Look at animal kingdom some animals are walking about 5 minutes of being born and running in hours.
Agreed. When I seek out a new program, I usually have some specific goal that my current software doesn't cover, which usually means that it's something fairly "out there", and not even necessarily a core feature of whichever software I find.

Still, a program needs a guiding light to its design. It has at least one purpose, and that purpose should be the central focus of its design. That doesn't mean there can't be ancillary features, of course.
It's not just the fruit, contact with the leaves is similar to contact with poison ivy or poison oak. Sometimes people take shelter under the tree when it rains and end up in bad shape.

I led a program for teens in the Caribbean one summer. One of my teens took a shit in the woods on an island, and unknowingly wiped his ass with a leaf from this tree. It was a long 5 weeks for him.
How do you run XCode, sign apps and upload them to the store on iPad Pro?

How does you .profile on iOS look like?
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Sounds like alcohol might have been involved.
I'm looking at unity too, but if you want both desktop/native and webgl deployments, it seems that Godot or Unity are the only choices (or of course Unreal Engine).

I can't say yet which is the better choice, though.
in addition to what other wrote you also have pyvenv command which is much convenient way of using it in cli (the usage is same as of virtualenv).
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They epoxied the USB ports on my secure machine when I worked at one of the national labs about 12 years ago. One day I came in and the admin had gone through everyone's office the evening before with a bunch of JB weld to fill the USB ports.

So, whether or not you believe that it is a useful solution, it certainly did happen. As for alternatives to gluing, I assume that was time related: filling in a port is certainly faster than opening thousands of machines to give them a physical port-ectomy.
I believe the algorithm he's using to be Random Forest, not exactly a black box DNN but close enough :)
Btw, if you're reading this and you are an Android dev interested in working on a really challenging technical problem (and not 'just an app'), reach out - we're looking to hire employees #1-3.
Actually the latest Redis does allow you to build your own data structures using loadable modules, as announced at RedisCon 2016.

see http://antirez.com/news/106
> This will benefit various research areas, with applications in fundamental physics, astrophysics and geoscience.

Does anyone know of some concrete application examples?
That's pretty dramatic. I wonder if they throttle, won't increase peering bandwidth and won't allow them to deploy an OCA within their networks like Verizon is/did? Could be that the connection is simply tapped out and they're trying to play hardball with Netflix. It is hosted on exactly the same infrastructure and served over the same network links after all.
TL;DR... see git
This is great news; I had been waiting.
Just put the software in the device in ROM, a forgotten technology. No malware will survive a power cycle.

It's like I read that malware could infect your "internet of things" thermostat and then hackers could remotely turn off your heat until you pay ransom. Just put the dang thermostat code in ROM. Power cycle, goodbye malware.

For more critical stuff, just have it regularly power cycle itself.