skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really disagree and think the whole "There's no way to gauge results!" meme is low-impact FUD. FUD that isn't particularly dangerous so people that don't know any better just believe it (like python can't be performant because of the GIL or macs are better than PCs or some other inanity).

> As exciting as their performance gains have been, though, there’s a troubling fact about modern neural networks: Nobody knows quite how they work. And that means no one can predict when they might fail.

Nonsense! Cross validation. Develop hypotheses, develop subsets of data to prove or disprove given hypotheses, observe how the network reacts. All of these people complaining about not being able to understand what's going on are either reporters, bloggers, or machine learning dabblers looking to say something seemingly unconventional.

From your linked article, which gives more specifics as to the argument:

> Because ML systems are opaque, you cannot really reason about what they do.

Yes, it is possible to reason about a system even if it is "opaque"; the discipline is called reverse engineering. Or the scientific method.

> Also, you can’t do modular (as in module-by-module) verification.

You can do "modular verification" in a variety of ways. Start with analyzing the behavior of each layer and how that changes as you incorporate more layers. It's beyond the scope of this comment to go into it beyond surface level, but there are a lot of papers written about it, google "analyzing neural network hidden activations" or something.

> And you can never be sure what they’ll do about a situation never encountered before.

Humans can never be sure what they'll do about a situation they haven't encountered. Or engineers. They can simulate the events that they can think of, but we can also do that with a neural network.

> Finally, when fixing a bug (e.g. by adding the buggy situation + correct output to the learning set), you can never be sure (without a lot of testing) that the system has fixed “the full bug” and not just some manifestations of it.

Fixing the "full bug" is often not something that can be done in traditional software development "without a lot of testing". Machine learning works the same way.

If you want if/then statements, use a decision tree. If you want strong accuracy on predictions, use a neural network. It helps to know what you're doing when verifying results. You will run into trouble if you don't know what you're doing, as per common sense.
For me: I just ignore most emails people send and use slack.

In fact, I avoid reading around 80% of my emails. Too much noise not enough signal. The signal usually comes with a lot of human interference making it difficult to figure out what it means.

However, systems which email me things automatically? An, overwhelming amount of noisy emails.
Can't say for sure, but if they follow their past patterns, then I would guess that they will continue to work fine. And if you delete and want to re-install they will be available under Previous Purchases. But of course would not be available to you on a different apple id which had not downloaded it prior to it being pulled from the store.
The "Escape the ordinary" section made me laugh. Looks very similar to a million websites/design styles before them.
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Does Apple have metrics on which apps are used and how frequently or they only have metrics on installations and updates? That would be an easy way to filter which apps deserve another review.
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Edit: I'm stupid and this comment was totally wrong; see below.
Or a silly pun.
Don't like it? Send an email to hn@ycombinator.com

"Tone" policing on HN is getting a bit ridiculous.
Lawsuit claims popular Warriors app accesses phone's microphone to eavesdrop
Which apps? Just curious!
They definitely do vent LOX boiloff.
I don't agree with this logic. The government engages in all sorts of activities that are illegal for citizens. Use of lethal force, for instance.
From this POV, yes.

However, for that you need:

1) a specific kernel for specific hardware, there's no universal kernel like for PC and

2) lot of hope that the maintenance or support of that specific kernel is not going to be dropped as soon as the hardware ships out of the gates (which is the fate of many routers or android phones, which cannot be updated to newer OS releases).
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That definitely reads like a witch hunt as does this: http://jacobappelbaum.net/

Anarchist tendencies aside, I wouldn't be comfortable working with people who initiated this type of vigilante justice. Doesn't sound like Lucky Green was either.
> The point of those systems was to limit damage from vibration and rocket exhaust

It is important to note that the deluge functioned to protect the launch vehicle from sound vibrational damage, not the pad.
It's possible the OP was talking about firmware development for embedded hardware (Arduino-scale devices), using the RS232 port on the X99 to communicate with the firmware. Lots of embedded hardware has a serial console hidden somewhere inside, and when debugging, it can be faster to add some printf equivalent calls or a new console command than to use a JTAG.
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This doesn't surprise me based on my own reading. Perception is a very hard problem to crack. Also, even a seemingly simple task like driving involves situations requiring "human-level" decision making and judgement.

Also interesting was this link from the article: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/robots-are-caring-for-elder... The obvious answer to the robots-taking-the-jobs argument is that the world population is aging and there's already a shortage of medical care and nursing home staff.
Because the speaker output is on an integrated circuit with the keyboard controller in many machines.
Unfortunately, preserving the design does not seem to be - and cannot be - one of the goals of the project, since in order to stay relevant they need to follow the ongoing development of the original, which is a rapidly moving target. Even the internals of the original have been changing over time, albeit somewhat slower than the UI. The initial design of NT was very interesting indeed; if I remember correctly, it included a message-based mechanism of interaction between the base ("native") OS and "subsystems" (Win32, Posix, etc.)
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Most reporting on this I've seen suggests that the DNC hack originated in Russia, and that it had the trademarks of a Russian Intelligence action:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jul/31/...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/07/russian_hack_...

Is there any evidence that points to the contrary?
> Could it be that you believe the narratives you find in major newspapers?

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/2699

The Washington Post, which published the article linked by HN, has a bit of an undisclosed angle in going against these leaks. This can be seen from the leaked email above about the clandestine fundraiser the lawyers would never allow ("Great – we were never going to list since the lawyers told us we cannot do it.").

But maybe someone can point me to where they've explained themselves, because it's entirely possible that I missed it.
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Active Inbox [1] is also another great one I've used for years.

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If you haven't tried http://gitup.co/, give it a shot. It works completely different from any other Git client and might meet your needs.
Did you just make that up?
they also have pressure sensors in the tanks so the timing of pressure differences allowed them to determine that the tank came loose before it burst.
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Investment in the face of trouble. Legal situation solvable, much more worrisome is fish vs shark dynamic.

New money (casual fish) is drying up as they push down the adoption curve, long term, there are only a limited number of hedge fund types that want to devote themselves to this.
> This system is not for the faint-hearted or casual user, but rather for someone with an overwhelming inbox, a nearly unmanageable amount of tasks hidden in email messages, and the willingness to learn a new way of interacting with your productivity applications.

Hey, that's me!

Very interested in this, but only if access to my email stays on my local machine. If there are any cloud servers involved... nope.
Seeing conditions must cooperate also.

The shot is totally within the capabilities of a 200 mm Schmidt–Cassegrain in good seeing, which is not very bulky and could sit comfortably on a medium-to-large size tripod.

The theoretical linear resolving power of that aperture at 5 km is 12 mm. But in practice it will be several times worse.

This is all napkin-based math, I've no clue what optics were used for the shot. Might have been a compact 150 mm apochromat refractor - still capable of enough theoretical resolution, and possibly a more popular option (though more expensive) in practice.
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You are. :)

The comment was essentially stating that Facebook should have built two of the satellites, as a contingency plan. Rocket science is hard. Having a backup is easier.
Furthermore there are other forms of reasoning than pure deduction. If you allow probabilistic inference, which is how humans generally operate intuitively, many deductive fallacies turn into probabilistic theorems.
I love CloudFlare, but understand the concern some people have.

With the amount of sites they have behind them, and the amount of visibility and data they can extract, it is actually a bit scary to think what will happen if they get compromised or "do evil".

But so far, they seem to take the open and ethical approach and actually follow the "do no evil" mantra. CloudFlare is another Google in the making and I hope they keep like that.

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Of course they’re punishing legitimate visitors. If there weren’t any humans getting captchas there wouldn’t be any need for captchas in the first place.

It wouldn’t be so bad, except Cloudflare doesn’t have any idea what they’re doing. Like the static.domain.tld issue I’ve mentioned—not even documented. This breaks websites in a very, very, bad way.

Next we have the lovely security setting called “Essentially-off.” Which does absolutely nothing to the captcha system. Apparently “essentially” means “not really,” according to Cloudflare.

Also forget VPN/Tor. I’m getting consistently captchad by Cloudflare just visiting mostly american-only websites from residential networks in Europe.

They’re either incompetent or just plain malicious. Right now I’m swaying towards the latter :/
> evidence of the world-class productivity of American workers.

This was repeated a couple of times. I think we get the point.
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Interviewing can take up a noticeable number of developer hours precisely when a team needs more of them. I suspect they're trying to cut down on the number of full day interviews needed. Too often, it's clear within minutes that a person isn't a match.

Or maybe they're reacting to how little we can learn from a single interview by adding more hoops. Either way, it's a broken system. If anyone has a solution, I'll build it :)
Had this happen last year. Set up a rule to auto send to spam with the emails subject title in outlook. Done.
Yup.

It's why the walking dead can show gratuitous over the top violence, but they have save "They're fucking with the wrong people" for the blu-ray.

Can't have that swearing. Oh no.
Intriguing, but....

Without Calendar integration, it's not even worth my trying, and 14 days is not enough of a trial to learn a new system.

Contact sync as a free feature? Yeah, OK, that's what it's worth to me.

Right now, I use GTD-style tags in my business account and rely almost entirely on my business calendar for scheduling.

Without Calendar integration, I ain't movin'!

What might interest me:

* In the Free plan, offer Calendar and one of either GTD or Kanban (I'll start with GTD), and sync with one email account.

* In a step-up plan, offer either the "other style" or multiple accounts.

* In another step-up, offer everything, including Contact integration.

Then I might be willing to try it. But as it is, while I am unhappy with my ToDo management and really want something that works across multiple systems, without Calendar I won't move.
Relevant Wikipedia page, since the article is completely lacking in historical context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm

"On 14 October 1997, a Microsoft employee noticed that they were on an as-yet unknown email distribution list 'Bedlam DL3', and emailed the list asking to be removed. This list contained approximately a quarter of the company's employees, 13,000 email addresses. Other users replied to the list with similar requests and still others responded with pleas to stop replying to the list. A Microsoft employee estimates that 15 million emails were sent, using 195 GB of traffic."
If your email is already on Gmail isn't it already on cloud servers...?
Think of each layer as an opportunity to perform a level of abstraction or categorization. Concepts are built out of smaller concepts which are built out of smaller concepts; lots of layers allows lots of hierarchy in the concepts.

The first layer might recognize and respond to pixels in particular parts of an image, the next layer will group certain of those pixels-responses together into an abstraction you might call a "line", the next layer will respond to certain groupings of lines and add a level of wiggle-room regarding where the lines are in the image, and the final layer will judge whether a combination of groupings constitutes the letter "A". Or at least, if you spent a bit of time poking at a deep network, giving it slightly different inputs, you might eventually conclude that this is what the layers were doing.

Without layers, you're basically just approximating a simple function or mapping with one level of abstraction.
I still have the connector with the resistor ladder laying in a drawer down here. A parallel port plug with a audio connector coming out of the back. :) Good times.
Launch is scheduled for 30th of Dec 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_CRS_OA-7

Yes you will be able to receive telemetry. Check satnogs-client for how you can set it up! https://github.com/satnogs/satnogs-client
I'm 15 years removed from the TV biz, but I vaguely remember 'birds' costing like $350m to launch, something like $200m + for the hardware, then $150m for launch fees and misc pre-launch insurances. In some cases, I want to say they insured them before taking possession of them, like if some guy at Lockheed has a bad day and drops a wrench on exactly the wrong part, you're looking at a substantial delay which could substantially impact business. Companies would talk up these satellites to investors for years before they launched, hard to imagine them not being completely insured up in to space. Then there was launch insurance and I think it included operations in many cases, TV birds had a lifetime of like 7 years and the operational insurance paid out if they had a certain amount of failure before the lifetime was up, transponders die and they need to spend fuel periodically to keep them in place when the fuel is gone the bird is done. I want to say the launch and ops insurances were like another $100m to $150m. All told you were in for half a billion to get in in to place and that's not including the lease on the slot of sky... I'm pretty sure Echostar was involved in some lawsuits about it and there are probably some public details that came out of that; maybe they wanted to claim more damages than the insurer wanted to cover or something like that and then no insurers wanted to sell them operational insurance.

It's not cheap but if that's your business you absolutely insure it. It's not cheap though. Would investors let you get away not insuring one? Rockets not making it in to space isn't uncommon.
Guccifer and Guccifer 2.0 aren't the same thing; even if one gives weight to the sources indicating Guccifer 2.0 is connected to Russia, that has no bearing on Guccifer. The Guccifer hack predated any particular expectation that Russia would take particular interest in this specific election, and so its hard to justify judging Guccifer based on that interest.
That'd be somewhat worrying, DDoS protection shouldn't be dropping non DDoS packets. If the chinese bruteforcers can't get to your server there's a very good chance your users can't either.
My favorite guitar tuner app no longer works, sadly, as of this or last version.

I paid for it originally, which is not -really- a sore spot, but also sort of a quirky thing. Paying for something that just doesn't work at some point in software because of how upgrade cycles work is interesting.

Do wish I could find a simple guitar tuner that doesn't spam me with ads these days though. =(
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I don't see how this would work, seeing as the safari-extension protocol doesn't get the location to go to based on DNS.
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Everything about Internet.org went in a way contrary to what Mr Zuckerberg wanted.

The bourgeoisie of the developing world he wanted to help protested, the political class looked into constraining it by law, the first world hated it for misrepresenting the ideals of the Internet and going against hard-earned net neutrality laws, local Internet service providers backed off because of the negative publicity...

And the satellites he wanted to use to circumvent that went up in flames.
$100K is not really impressive at all. After taxes that's barely enough to pay one full time person.
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No they aren't; SpaceX is charging around $62m and Arianespace charges $100-$130m for the same launch.

The first few Falcon 9 launches were a lot cheaper, around $40m I think. I'm sure SpaceX would still be massively profitable at that price, but they're already over-booked so might as well raise prices to generate more capital since building rockets is an ahem <i>capital intensive</i> business.

If SpaceX can re-use rocket engines for 10 launches that will change everything yet again. Let's be extremely generous and say $5 million for fuel, personnel, range rental, etc. Amortize the vehicle across 10 launches and you're talking $10m.