skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll probably get a bunch of down votes for saying this, but anyway...

I suspect that is has a lot to do with the varying IQ distributions between the genders. Females tend to be closer to the mean, whereas males have wider variance. If you are of average intelligence, calculus just won't make sense to you and that will end your STEM education right there. There are just more males with above average intelligence than there are females, so naturally more males will "survive" calculus to continue in STEM fields. On the other hand, there are more males with below average intelligence than females, which is one reason why most criminals are males.
mining= energy proof of burn, a way to bootstrap value in a cryptocurrency, at least in bitcoin, see "commodity". "The steady addition of a constant of amount of new coins is analogous to gold miners expending resources to add gold to circulation" it's a feature.

This is regarding first 2 chapters where it compares it with fiat saying it could become 802.4% more costly, right comparison is with gold indeed like in https://www.bitcoin.fr/public/divers/docs/Estimation_de_la_d...

Expect a tldr of chapter 5, will check here back tomorrow if there is any.

Actually I'm happy they are working on an actual prototype.
Well, we also get things wrong all the time. We regularly either ask for further information to decide what they mean, or expect that it's OK to get the interpretation wrong but be corrected.

Asking a computer to solve all the ambiguity in human language perfectly is asking it to solve it far better than any human can.
Glad the title was updated from the previous titlegore. Thanks, mods!
Mary's Room and qualia is totally irrelevant. I'm not asking if the computer will "feel" "redness", simply if it can pretend to do so through text. If it can talk about the color red, in a way indistinguishable from any other human talking about red.

In any case, at some level everything is symbols. A video is just a bunch of 1's and 0's, as is text, and everything else. A being raised on only text input would have qualia just like a being raised on video input. It would just be different qualia.
Wait, Spark has built-in Model Hyperparameter selection (http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ml-tuning.html), that was not mentioned in the article. What advantages does your service do?

Relatedly, why are you advocating using MLLib/RDDs when they have been deprecated in favor of ML/DataFrames (http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ml-guide.html)?
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http:/...
This is not a dupe. This article has more information than the other. Both discuss the same topic. I'd classify them as "Related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12238197 (307 points, 3 days ago, 199 comments)"
python -m venv

I'm not sure what the differences are to old virtualenv, but the biggest feature is that it works out of the box as long as you have Python > 3.4. No more googling "how to install virtualenv" or "easy_install pip; pip install virtualenv" stuff.
Yeah, wireless is super fast, satellite is the one with latency (and usually then due to dial-up uplink and just the distance of the sats). Most p2p links are under 50 miles, and in this case probably under 5 miles. The latency from the wireless link will be a negligible (for those not in HFT) overhead on the order of a few ms.
People here are still using Facebook? Interesting...
> If they gave it an objective of playing like a human, I'm sure AlphaGo could play in a way that would be indistinguishable from a human.

It could just play unbelievably bad and appear like a beginner. That wouldn't prove intelligent.

> Peeking at the system/data is cheating

Someone ignorant of computers would hardly ever assume a machine. Of course the omission of this rule would leave someone smarter than the computer.

If you talk statistics, IE the machine has to convince only a fair share of humans, the definition of the threshold is a problem. Intelligence would depend on the development of the society. I thought this is about an intrinsic value.

It's an interesting thought experiment, but hardly conclusive, just observational.
Which part of the above comment you believe is not true?
The Mary's Room thought experiment is garbage, if you ask me. You can't just assume your hypothesis and then call the result truth.

If you assert that a person can understand everything there is to know about the color red and then still not understand what it is like to see red, you have either contradicted yourself or assumed dualism.
Federal Source Code Policy Released
Behind the Scenes with iOS Security [pdf]
I've had this done in Russia, as a kid - it was pretty popular.
Why would I need to AWK a Makefile, when make will take macro definitions as arguments on the command line?
Wasn't Valeris the vulcan woman who turned out to be evil at the end?
Thank You Product Hunt – Erik Torenberg
> You can chip that off easily with your finger or a key.

Because it was more of a reminder for stupidity. "Oh, look there is glue in there, that's right we not supposed to stick random USB devices in there". If the machine is on their desk, yes, they could plug in a PCI device that has an USB thing on it and still connect. But by that point they are really going out of their way, they are opening the case and such, and it will be very hard to maintain the idea that it was just a stupid mistake.
I'm not saying it is possible from just basic statistical NLP techniques. It may take much more advanced techniques. And it may take much more computing power than we have even now.

But I do believe it is possible, someday. Probably within our lifetime.
Softwares Architect's Perspective on Oracle and Google
This reminds me of a 2013 blog post by Albert Wenger where he argues that treating the problem of mass surveillance as a technical problem is futile:

We cannot and should not be living in digital fortresses any more than we are living in physical fortresses at home. Our homes are safe from thieves and from government not because they couldn’t get in if they wanted to but because the law and its enforcement prevents them from doing so. All we have to do is minimal physical security (lock the doors when you are out)...

Surveillance is a political and legal problem, not a technical problem. We have to all become outraged and start a big and public online and offline campaign to take back the law into the hands of the people and their representatives and away from secret organizations “overseen” by secret courts in a system that goes beyond Kafka’s worst nightmares.

http://continuations.com/post/60444129080/disagreeing-with-b...
The steps to learning to make aircraft didn't come from understanding how birds flap their wings. I can't imagine the kind of intelligence we consider general will be from study of how humans biologically think.
Nope; Solaris / illumos / SmartOS.
relying on handling sigsegv is a pain to make portable

Is there any effect due to virtualization?
Since when did meal mean your entire diet?
Will this hurt Second Life/its users?
Finally it looks like Intel is getting serious about competing with Nvidia GPUs in the nascent deep/machine learning market!

As good as this could be, it would be even better if we also get an open-source software stack that can compete with Nvidia's proprietary CUDA stack, which currently dominates everywhere (except maybe in Google's data centers).
Cool article. I wonder if the beach had any pertinent information/signage regarding the fruit. Obviously if the locals are aware then they wouldn't need it, but visitors would probably appreciate it. I wonder if it's more helpful to put information directly at the beach, or back at the airport in documentation in a variety of languages that people can carry with them?
> This is what moral hazard looks

Yes, and I would have hoped/expected the curators of the Ethereum ecosystem to have greater respect for moral hazard.
In other words, it turns those agencies into legislative bodies.
The irony is that many videos on youtube are locked down with rtmpe which will only play with flash and not html5
Peter Thiel: Against Edenism
The notion that a significant number of people in this country are drawn to a sociopath is fascinating. ... Yet there are a large number of people that are utterly missing the clues.

The thing is I don't even think Trump's a sociopath. A troll for sure but not a sociopath.

I had the displeasure of meeting some real sociopaths in my life. The dumb ones are easy to spot and typically end up broke and/or in jail. But the smart ones are way, way more subtle than Trump.

A smart sociopath typically aims to make you believe that they are the nicest person in the world in order to gain your trust. Once they have it their goal is to use it for their maximum profit while giving back nothing in return. Lies and deceit are their primary tools.

Trump's not one of these. He's blatantly disrespectful and crude and quite certainly lacks education, manner and values. But he's not trying to mislead anyone about it. In fact he's pretty upfront about it. And that's what separates the troll from the sociopath.
Do you have a sense of whether any nations' laws are applicable to the DAO attack situation?
Samsung Pay: tokenized numbers flaws and issues
The usual way, I imagine: by having more guns than you do.
That's entirely unprovable, given that we have no idea how many backdoors the NSA has, nor for the matter, are we even sure how many have been leaked.
The venv module in the stdlib: https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html#module-venv
When you talk about two people plotting to kill hundreds, do you mean any two people or do you mean two people who are otherwise physically apart but are brought close together by technology? Coz if the medium of communication used by your two would be mass murderers is VoTA (0), that technology is as old as human beings.

0. Voice over The Air. :-)
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ZeroDB Provides Security for Enterprise Big Data in the Cloud
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...?

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.
Before my honeymoon in Barbados I read a travel guide. It was mentioned not to shelter under one during rain. I don't think the ones we saw were bearing fruit at the time. All of them were marked with a dark read stripe painted on them.
Europe's Wave of Migration Brought Too Many Men
Is that really so strange? (And you seem to be ascribing a level of intent/purposefulness to the government that I doubt exists)
I've thought about that as well. Is there any evidence/reports for this?
Here in Nashville, the are rolling out access to only the richest communities first. But -- they are also about to wire some poor, subsidized Section 8 housing as well. It appears those of us in typical suburbia are likely last on the list, if we are on the list, for better or worse...
> It boggles the fucking mind that they didn't run a small-scale test

The issue was a semantic bug in the code, which was exploited by an unanticipated usage pattern. It is hard to catch this kind of error with testing, since the programmer is usually the one writing the test.

It is also (often) hard to catch subtle semantic bugs in code review too, unless the reviewer is looking for a known pattern of semantic bug.

There are some interesting things happening as a result -- formal verification, etc., but I am hoping that we end up seeing the emergence of an insurance market on smart contract behavior...
DC gets a lot of flak about its traffic (which is deserved), but much of it is outside of their control. I66 for example is outrageously undersized for an artery into a major city, but that mess is in Virginia and outside of DC's zone of control. The whole I95 and 270 mess is also a state issue.

That said, the undersized DC Metro system is largely in the hands of the local government, although not directly controlled by the city council (like most metro boards). It was somewhat unlucky in that their initial buildout happened right as the car boom took hold and killed metrorail expansions all across the US. Even cities with well regarded systems like New York have suffered from a lack of expansion to cover growth since the 50s. Just look at how badly underserved Queens is.
Shops have to accept the fact that shoplifting is going to cost them money.

I'm not arguing that Facebook isn't allowed to try to stop adblocking. Only question is what means they're allowed to take. Just like security guard isn't allowed to shoot shoplifters on sight.
In the sense that the author uses the word "retarded" to mean that it takes Japanese longer to learn their language than other cultures then yes, the author is correct. Japanese students take until 6th grade to learn the 2,000 most common kanji characters. Most middle schoolers cannot read a newspaper. Heck even most high schoolers shy away from newspapers in Japan.

Manga (comics) are the way most Japanese learn their language. One of the reasons that manga are so helpful is their usage of furigana which are small hiragana (phonetic alphabet) characters printed next to the more difficult kanji characters (pictograms).

Japanese people come in a wide range of IQs just like any other culture. In my experience they are not any more stupid nor any more intelligent than the average U.S. citizen. They do often forget kanji characters, just like you would. It is common for Japanese to ask someone to jog their memory on how a character is written. In this case, people often respond by drawing the character on their palm or saying something like, "anshin no an" meaning it is the same "an" character as in the word "anshin". Language is very different when there are literally tens of thousands of characters to learn.
Great questions!

The Spark hyperparameter selection uses an exhaustive grid search approach, which can take a long time (complexity grows exponentially with number of parameters to tune) and produce poor results when compared to other methods [1]. Bayesian optimization is a great way to tune time consuming and expensive functions like ML pipelines, where finding a good configuration in a small number of total attempts is the only tractable way to tune the system.

ALS implementation in MLLib still requires ratings in RDD and hasn't moved over to ML/DataFrames yet.

Edit: Looks like the original comment was edited, but this post does in fact use the built in MLlib ALS implementation.

[1]: http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09441
For that price you can find a Jerker on Craig's List...

$120 + tax for cardboard? Nice profit margins if you can get it.

Jerker was only $129 new. I'm certain IKEA was paid to kill that desk off... It was too perfect.

https://www.jerkersearcher.com/
Anders Brevik should be executed, it is the moral thing to do.

You say Scandinavian justice is morally corrupt. How? Why do I care about a person who's not going to kill someone in the future? If anything, I care about intervening before someone commit a crime so that it won't be too little too late.

There are thousand of things to focus our attention and time on that has nothing to do with criminal intent. Cancer and heart attack will cause harm and kill you without any moral intention. These are worth spending money and time on, not some harmless humans.

If all humans can be rendered 'scientifically' unable to murder even a fly without attendant system of prison and punishment, why do we care about revenge so much?
> There is no way to deal with fraud or mistaken tranfers in bitcoin.

This is a social problem of bitcoin. The bitcoin people consider this a feature.

However, it can be dealt with at an exchange. "MyBitcoinExchange(tm) only allows transfers to other members of MyBitcoinExchange(tm) and yourself. All transfers will be escrowed for 5 days to ensure that they are not fraudulent."

The problem is: nobody in bitcoin would use that exchange.

People who want non-traceable will stay away. People who are using it to sequester wealth out of countries will stay away. People who want fast liquidity will stay away. etc.

So, who's left? Um, people who are perfectly adequately handled by existing credit cards, thanks.
But you can't do it sitting in your living room. For some people, that's enough to take the job at that rate.
By Shannon's information theory, everything is bits of information. Completely irrelevant for the mechanism of a Turing Machine is, who writes the initial bits on the tape. For all I care, the world is the tape and the computer is the head being moved through it. It's the old fallacy seeing the brain as a computer, since we've build computers after structures from our brains. Hence I wondered, what more there should be.
> I'd say that a dictionary is an ad-hoc, typeless instance.

The dictionary will preserve the entirety of the data, that's already better than any custom type can ever dream to do. You're not going to want to upgrade your codebase every time a 3rd party adds fields to their documents.

Trying to make data "safe" by giving it strict types is only going to result in the destruction of data and no actual gains in safety.

> I prefer (no surprise!) the Lisp reader

The Lisp reader is not a data format nor is it available outside Lisp. That's no good on the wire unless you live in a sandbox and never talk to the real world.

You're going to receive data with fields/types your program do not understand (the endpoint could've pushed a new version without your knowledge) and there your ad-hoc types will become pain points.

Imagine if we tried to make HTTP "safe" by giving types to everything. The second a proxy sees a header it doesn't understand the request would fail. We'd have absolutely no internet. Distributed systems depend on the fact that you're able to handle unknown data and types.
I've had this done to my feet before in Japan and China. One time it hurt and left a painful bruise for a couple days. Usually no problems or pain. Also no marks after the first couple times I had it done. Half the times I've had it done were with suction cups, not the glass and flame method that originally existed. I'm not sure it really did anything, but maybe.
No, you're missing the point. I'm talking about the real-world implementation that I have.

I don't think it's too much to ask before adopting a given security policy that it provide some evidence that it increases security. Or should I also be gathering a collection of rocks that keep hackers away?
I agree on that it needs to be open sourced, I would buy superbook but can't think of using proprietary software. If I could install it via F-droid that would be nice.
There is some evidence that CITIC Group, a Chinese company, is heavily involved in corporate espionage and the manipulation of foreign nations. There's no particular reason that other large companies, no matter their home countries, could not also be engaged in these types of activities.
That's a rather artificial limitations, few modern plots are from 1 or 2 people with hundreds killed. Historical examples are generally things like fires not bombings / mass shootings. As an example of the risks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Meireki for example was extremely deadly, though estimates of ~100,000 dead where probably exaggerated.

We have also forgotten a lot of this crap. EX: 40 to 81 people killed from a time bomb in 1875.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Keith,_Jr. Note, this was for insurance money not terrorists, but I don't think the dead care.

Some historical examples where donations where probably accidental. The Delft Explosion of 1654 killed 100-200 people. In 1769 ~3000 people where killed when a depo @ Bastion of San Nazaro in Brescia was struck by lighting. A lighting also sparked another detonation in 1856 killing ~4,000.
Rodeo, a Python IDE for doing data science, releases support for Windows
It's a possibility. uvloop is written in Cython so it will depend on whether PyPy3 supports what uvloop uses through Cython: http://docs.cython.org/en/latest/src/userguide/pypy.html
I thought painting on copper sounded like a good argument. There were some good points made.
Some of the trees in the more touristy areas are marked with warning signs:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/trips/Amazon/Pages/526.html

Not only do the signs warn you not to eat the fruit, but also not to stand under the tree when it rains!
The FAQ points to a Google group https://github.com/zk00006/OpenTLD/wiki/FAQ
In a not so distant future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tMXKQdc5ZM&t=9m

Btw. the Black Mirror TV series is awesome.
Does Shadow DOM have any significance on other things like React? (for example performance gains or similar?)
Oh man, passed out (it's like 5 AM here in Shanghai). Great question.

The hardware for the Superbook isn't hard, to be perfectly honest. We actually fully expect that we'll have copy cats, and there is absolutely nothing we can do about that. We are at heart a software company, and if you look at the various attempts at doing this, getting the software experience right has been the challenging part. One of the reasons why we price the item low is so that we can get it out to as many individuals as possible. By building up a large user base, we can build the only thing that's defensible here - a great software experience with a sophisticated developer network, building software for the Andromium experience. In fact, we'd actually be pretty happy if someone else built and sold the hardware - and really just got it out there. We can build a big enough business on the software side, owning the home screen for the desktop environment.
Is that one of those failed Microsoft tablet thingies? Why would anyone care about a GUI in the 21st century, when everything runs either on stdout/stderr or on the web?

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!
This use case you describe sounds reasonable because in that case, to produce the goods, you actually need to have a factory, and for that to happen, you need money.

But how often does such a use case actually come up in the real world (in the tech industry particularly)? Not saying it doesn't happen from time to time but it doesn't seem like the standard case these days.

It seems like a lot of time, VCs are just throwing money at specific companies in order to 'outfund' competitors who are also receiving money from a different set of VCs (they're all trying to run each other into the ground by artificially lowering profit margins).

Eventually, everyone realizes that the funding ultimately did nothing to neutralize the competition; most of the competitors are still alive and kicking (and new ones have since spawned up) - And the market is simply not big enough to meet everyone's projections/expectations.
The inventor of markdown. Fireball something. But it's really an exception.
>who cares for some extra 5-10 seconds of the "configure" command

Building freebsd-7 ports on my athlon felt like "forever and 2 more days" back then. If it is not possible to remove autoconf/configure with all obsolete options, can we at least PLEASE stop doing the same thing again and again 220 times for each small package in enormous dependency list? Caching, anyone?
> What makes smart contracts so special that people can falsely market them to the public and not be liable?

This is indeed an interesting question. I think the obvious answer is nothing... Nothing makes them different.

Unless they are executed in a way that makes traditional enforcement methods useless. Which jurisdiction will legal enforcement occur in? Who has the ability to reverse the outcome of the contract?

This is both the horror and the beauty of decentralized smart contracts.