skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something Wicked This Way .coms: this sure seems like a big hole in the web
Here's the TL;DR of an earlier post: I accidentally mistyped a domain name configuration value while updating a website and found what I feel is a phishing op. If you take any .com domain, and add a second.com to the end (I do NOT recommend actually trying this unless you know what you are doing) you will see what appears to be a typo phishing operation.

My question: is this well known? Because I've never seen it written up before when I peruse web security stuff. For the full write-up of my experience and an associated screenshot check out: http://www.oldirtyhacker.com/something-wicked-this-way-coms
A libertarian explanation is that in the age of the Regulatory State, it's often more important to be the biggest lobbyist than to make the best product.

"In the Game of Crony Capitalism, you lobby or you die."
Hi from San Diego.

I did a brief contracting stint in SF, and considered relocating up there for work (the pay is indeed much better) but ultimately decided against it. Note that I grew up in the Bay Area.

In SD I pay $2300/month for a 2500 sqft house with a yard and garage, 4 blocks from the ocean. While in SF, I paid this for a single room in a shady neighborhood without a window.

After coming back here, I was struck by how clean it is compared to SF.

For the young people, SD has some of the best nightlife I have experienced (and I've been everywhere throughout California). SF has better food but our culinary scene is getting much better and has improved drastically over the last decade, IMO.

We also have a growing capital scene. Its not SV, but if I were an investor I would hole up here - its nicer, cheaper, and the burn rate is lower. Plus we have some big players here: Rockstar, Sony, Psyonix (Rocket League), Qualcomm, many military contractors, and so forth. Even a bit of history here - FTL (which made Dungeon Master) was located in SD.

Anyhow I'll stick around here for now. :)
Twitch Creative launches /programming live from the White House
SBIR is a neat program. I tried applying once but didn't get the grant. I've heard tell that they tend to favor PIs with advanced degrees. Sadly, I only have a bachelor's.
Yeah, when my atoms are rearranged into paperclips, I don't care if the AI that did it truly "desired" that outcome.

(https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer)
It sounds like you're parroting things you've heard second-hand.

I was heavily into Nietzsche in my late teens and early 20s, before discovering Rand. He definitely influenced her in her early years, but by the time she came to write down her own ideas she'd rejected pretty much all of his ideas. She was an Aristotelian.

> Even Rand herself hated Objectivists.

This is not remotely true. In her later years, she concluded that the organised Objectivist movement had been a mistake, but she still hoped for an informal movement of intellectuals to follow her philosophy.
You can get the free credit if you just press ENTER after entering the promo code (without needing to enter the credit card details). It's not very intuitive, but it worked for me.
That's a good point, although I'm not sure if it's accurate. I wonder what patterns of bike theft have looked like for the last 150 years or so.
we can do both. In JIT mode, we XHR for them and compile them on the fly. In AOT mode, we do that at build time and turn the templates into TS code, which we can then typecheck (thus giving you typechecking against templates) - the benefit of this is you don't have to ship the compiler code to the browser, don't pay the cost of runtime compilation, and the generated code is monomorphic and thus highly optimizable in browser VMs.
I'm barely 30 so don't take this as some graybeard being snarky, because I too waded through years of bullshit in my early and mid 20s.

A. Turnabout is not fair play; two wrongs do not make a right, especially when your wrong is to discriminate against people other than those who may have discriminated against you

B. Inflated expectations != discrimination

C. Discriminating against someone because they are too old is illegal; discriminating against someone because they are too young is not (both are equally wrong).

D. "I'm rather bitter and sometimes it shows" - Get over it.
Agreed, the vast majority of what I create is ISC (similar to MIT) these days.
Thanks for introducing time4vps: I was very surprised I can get a box for $1/month. Going through their website I found that in fact it is being run by IV (a major and reliable long-time local player in VPS/VDS/hosting market), so I wouldn't worry about the quality. Their network and infrastructure is superb.
Ideal week method (calendar and productivity)
I realize you're in the gaming world, and that might be much different; but in the business application world (and I don't mean simple CRUD applications) anytime I've seen code like you describe, 1,000+ lines in a single class, let alone a single method, it's a complete mess.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12501668
Am I understanding this correctly to be essentially fail2ban without the banning part but with a history and a Sentry-style interface?
I'm out of my edit window, but I am aware Bourgeoisie is the class, I should have said I am a small minded Bourgeois.

Post-colonial vaporwave music production is an associates degree. My children can get degrees in post-colonial power electronics music composition. Also, to apologize for that snark, post colonial theory is interesting, music composition is very interesting.
This review is based on two observational studies that began in the 1980s -- long after health-conscious people had heard the official wisdom that saturated fat causes heart disease. So, although the researchers try hard to control for individual differences such as exercise level, it's very possible that the people who ate the least saturated fat are also the ones who engaged in all sorts of other health-promoting activities, which were not controlled for. Epidemiologists call this the "healthy user" bias.

All that said, though, I agree that the impact of saturated fat on health is hardly clear-cut. As someone else in the comments mentioned, the best advice is probably the oldest: Moderation in all things -- including moderation.
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If that's the only thing you thought was odd about it, you must not have been watching very closely :-).

I'm much more of fan of his other works, like Castle In The Sky, and Kiki's Delivery Service. And The Wind Rises. And the Cat Returns.

Okay, let's just pencil in that I like all of Miyazaki's work.
Nothing too surprising here. It's like when you play poker you're playing the other players, not your cards against their cards. Same cards can win or lose.

Curious what will happen when general intelligence becomes better at managing money than humans + supervised algorithms . I am guessing volatility will drop with less chance of flash crashes. And will be able to better judge a company performance based on their stock . Right now none of that is 'rational'.
Question/Answer I found interesting:

Sama> How should someone figure out how they should be useful?

Elon> Whatever this thing is you are trying to create.. What would be the utility delta compared to the current state of the art times how many people it would affect?
Why is that sad? Modsecurity sources are freely available on github - and nginx.com emails are seen in the commits.
Urban Engines Acquired by Google
Purdue creates 'opt out' system tracking student movement on campus
> I'm becoming increasingly aware of how desperately the Java ecosystem needs genuine competition

Do you mind expounding on that?

Is Java that much of a major player on the backend? I didn't think so; especially for new startups.
I thought you meant hitting "return" on the keyboard, but then I spent 30 seconds trying to go back to HN with a keyboard shortcut and discovered what you meant.
I heard that a particular company, Rangle, worked on AngularJS2 and from what I've heard of them they're an MVP/dev-agency so it isn't surprising to see some of the complaints here about broken backwards compatibility and bad documentation around testing.

Seems few people know how to steward a free/open source software project that has lasted over 5 yrs.
Onsen UI: Another cross-platform framework based on Cordova
This is too dismissive of the possibility of the development of consciousness. John Searle's argument is famous, but it's not the final word on the subject.

Most of the arguments against the possibility of computers developing consciousness are just as strong against the possibility of biological life developing consciousness -- yet here we are! Why would the rules be different for brains made of silicon than for brains made of meat?

Besides, AI can be dangerous whether it is conscious or not. After all, in the Chinese Room argument, the output is the same for a brain and the room, even though the internal processes are not.
I used to hand anti-alias pixel fonts. There was a tool called Grasp that our shop used to create animated ads back in the early 90's. It only supported two color pixel fonts.

Wrote a tool to take a single font sheet bitmap and parse out each letter. Each letter had 4 shades of grey. So, would create 4 fonts that would render in 4 passes.

To make a master bitmap, we'd scan a font sheet into a PCX file hand it over to an artist with the instructions: "make it smooth". Hours upon hours of: zoom-in-click-click-click-zoom-out-review-repeat. Poor artist.

I wonder what kind of lament a vector artist will have, decades from now. And what will take its place.

[edit] vector
> I have no personal experience with USAJobs, but the experiences of the many people I know who have is that you are SOL if you don't have veterans preferences.

Having gone through that multiple times personally, veteran's preference is not a requirement.
Thanks. Just curious as to why this was not caught during submission. The URLs are 96% same except for the bit after the #
The Problem with Macroeconomics [pdf]
I'm currently running some OVH boxes and my largest gripe is the low storage space.

That's the only thing that would draw me to another provider
People make mistakes all time but having said that there are level of how bad things can be.

Personally I feel this is the worst thing you can do to co-worker.
R wasn't the only language scientists have used for this work and it's also not the last one being held on to.

Hello matlab, hello fortran! Yes scientists still use both of these.
Data collected:

Some data incorporated in Forecast are probably no surprise. For instance, student academic records are used, including grades, progress toward a degree, and use of the Blackboard course management system. But the system also incorporates some less obvious data, such as your use of Purdue’s wireless network and swipes of your Purdue ID card at the gym, residence halls and dining facilities.

Privacy policy:

Whether you use Forecast or not is entirely up to you. Students can formally opt out at any time by emailing tlt@purdue.edu. If you opt out, your data, while still collected, will not be individually displayed. You will still be able to see the University-wide analysis of behaviors that contribute to academic success at Purdue, which can offer some useful pointers, but you won’t be able to see your behaviors compared to everyone else’s.
Gvien the forum we're on, it's worth pointing out that today's white collar laborers are capturing one or two orders of magnitude less of the value they're creating than the blue collar workers of 1990's detroit.

360 billion* divided by 1.2 million = 300000 "per employee". Typical salary to 40,000ish-100,00ish range for laborers/engineers. The disparity in those numbers isn't so bad at all.

Conversely, 1 trillion divided by 137000 = 7,299,270 "per employee". Typical salary of engineers in those firms is closer to 100,000 to 200,000, and that's just for the golden child software engineers. And without accounting for massive cost of living differences between 1990 Detroit and modern day SV.

Which wouldn't be so bad if there were some engineers earning close to or more than the "per employee" numbers, but I've never heard of anyone making even close to 7 figures as an engineer at a big firm...

* I think you meant 360 bn, not 36 bn, right?
And the performance of all those is just garbage in Firefox on a 3 yr old laptop and isn't that much better on mobile.

They're fantastic for forcing people to buy new hardware just to look at information :|
Among many ideas for improving democracy, disenfranchisement is probably the one most often tried and history clearly shows that it's unmaintainable. Sooner or later it always gives in and nearly everyone gets to vote. In modern US it will be sooner.

There's simply no realistic path where people move into a large, modern European* country and remain second class residents with limited influence over the government. This state won't last a single generation.

* USA included by heritage if not by geography
Ok, to be clearer, an optical connection uses the drivers from apple and will always work well whereas I've seen some usb dacs that used custom drivers and would fail (example AT-HA90USB)
Sure, I'll give it a read.
Pretty varied! I'm the station's network engineer but because of how small it is, we spend a lot of time wearing different hats. I'm also assigned to the Glacier Search and Rescue team, the firefighting SCBA team, and the trauma team. About 60% of my time is spent doing IT work.
The majority of the working world.
How about the brain chemistry of asian compulsive gamblers? You can be in the middle of Ohio where it's 99% white people, step into a casino and it's chinatown.
Tell me more about all the places where a home bought in 2000 is worth less now, and all the colleges where tuition was not 50% cheaper in the 90s.
This is a retread of the traditional I'm-actually-a-dualist argument, and a pretty naive version of it at that. The brunt of the argument is the citation of Searle's chinese room, which is treated as proven fact. I'll give it credit as being a powerful intuition pump, but it really just reduces to the dogmatic divide between those who believe that consciousness can be an emergent property of mechanical systems and those who believe consciousness is the domain of some kind of non-mechanical, non-physical thing, such as a soul.

Some other notes;

1) I dislike casting statistical learning and symbolic systems so starkly against eachother. They are both facets of the same underlying principles, and the relation is better illustrated as a continuum, rather than a sharp divide.

2) To succumb to participating in the retread, we don't know enough about the nature of language right now to know whether the premise of Searle's chinese room even stands on its own. We don't know if such a book of translation is possible. And we don't know how to measure its accuracy. This is an old question; c.f. the kerfuffle lately over what the Turing Test actually means.

3)

>>>A machine needs to at least have an analog of a desire to do something before it does it. For a biological system, it “wants” to live. This desire emerges from several millennia of evolution. A machine doesn’t want food, of course, but it has no direct reason to “want” to live.

We need operational definitions of all of the terminology involved before we can make statements like this. It's dangerous to take these understandings of 'desire', 'want', etc. as givens when we don't even really know how they apply to -us-. This is where an understanding of the history of philosophy is helpful.

I agree with the fundamental premise that AI isn't something that is so worrying as a lot of these overhyped press releases make it out to be. But I don't think Searle is on the right path here.
IIRC, the only areas that have been specifically mentioned have been surrounding filesystem access and structure, which MS has done a lot with, most of it outside patent protection now though. Not sure what else, as most articles can't/won't say as part of the non-disclosed parts of these contracts.
No surprise that Jobs would fixate on the UI thing. He never struck me as a techie, but someone that got into tech because it was easy to mesmerize people with. The UI was a perfect tool for that.
At some point in the far distant past, someone decided they didn't want to give the FSF the ability to apply any license they like to their software (which is reasonable, the FSF could in principle make GPL v4 -- All your source are belong to us).

While that choice might have been a mistake, it would now be an impossible effort to get all contributor's permission to change, so we are stuck with v2.
The closest thing I have to a blog is this Imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/ijX9Q

I try to put detailed descriptions on each photo.
Walking past senior citizens whiling away hours at Vegas slot machines, I've often wondered how things would be different if they'd grown up in a time of ubiquitous video games.

Will today's generation, who spends time playing free mobile games, been as keen to spend money for slots when they get older?
It is an odd definition, I won't deny that. I was trying to talk about possible implementation, as opposed to the typical definition, so it's possible that I should have used another term.

By the way, this is the paper I was talking about. It won't explain my bizarre choice of words, but it might explain what I meant when I said that Scheme tail-call optimizes unconditionally:

http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/ai-lab-pubs/AIM-...
No, it is a pretty well documented deadline at this point. The callback is not intended for I/O work, but to clean up resources or to spin up any background tasks you might need for I/O. There are lots of articles full of best practices for the app lifecycle. Yes, it's different than Win32. Yes, it's influenced by mobile and low resource environments. But it's better for it and worth learning.
A large part of statistics is devoted to making valid inference from noisy samples, largely by making sensible assumptions. Even in your example, it is common practice to assess a surgeon on outcomes of surgery, even though a lot of a surgeon's work does not lead to surgery.

We aren't claiming to assess the wide practice of law, just litigation. We do Litigation Analytics.
This is a deeply flawed rehash of some of the field's least interesting commentary.

Among other things, the likes of Musk and Hawking, while brilliant, are in no way experts on artificial intelligence. Rebutting them is far less meaningful than rebutting Moravec, Russell, Bostrom, Sutton, or any of the other actual experts in the field who have expressed concerns.

More to the point, a discussion of what an AI "wants" is sophistry at best. That the Tesla autopilot does not "want" to kill anyone should be of little comfort when it kills someone. No one talking serious about AI as existential risk is envisioning Skynet, and no one interested in real consequences cares whether an extinction-driving AI has human-style desires.
Seriously. Can someone please downvote this whole post? Is this the caliber of content we now have on the front page of HN?
http://techslides.com/best-mobile-frameworks-and-platforms-f...
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Yes. There are financial incentives to go to community college, but if people made their decisions based solely on these, then no one would attend universities.

I'm not arguing for the status quo, but let's be honest about the current state of higher education in America: a ton of people have too much debt because of the pressure to attend a 4 year university. This pressure is usually of the form, "good education => good job". Moreover, "good" is often conflated with "expensive" or "prestigious" with regards to education, and conflated with "high-paying" with regards to a job.
that's no different from any company with more than 10K employees, one group won't necessarily be aligned to all the others... The developer and azure areas of MS have definitely been leaning in the pro-floss side of things... Windows and Office, not so much, who knows wrt XBox, they seem to flip-flop on indee support.
That's my strategy..
> If the whole point of the technological singularity is that it is beyond our ability to understand it, how can we have an opinion on it?

Some people here would probably enjoy this: https://www.gwern.net/Complexity%20vs%20AI#parable-of-the-wo...

I can't understand seriously asking that question.

There are infinite ways for some superintelligence to be misaligned with our goals, and very few ways for it go right. We're the one's building it, it's not some inevitable fate that we'll build a superintelligence who's motives/utility function is beyond us. Now is the time to think about it and get it right.
Also in my limited interaction, C# community has a very positive vibe and is noob friendly. I rarely see a discussion about any superiority over other language/stack/companies. Even the topline guys like Anders Hejlsberg are very humble and have strong empathy with a lowliest developer.
Sorry, how does Xamarin not support this?
Templates based on the market's best practices to help manage all Startup's
I was greatly pleased to see the color reference card in the photo of the model. If you're going to make the most accurate depiction ever, you might as well take that extra step to make sure all the photojournalists can render the colors on it properly, before all the news services run with it.
EU ends anonymity and rules open Wi-Fi Hotspots need a password
I don't but I do post some pictures with detailed descriptions to an Imgur album here: http://imgur.com/a/ijX9Q
Sure not every home is the same, but I was particularly responding to the concern about running to the wrong room first.
It's both non negative[1] and non personal, just an intellectual distinction to avoid giving credit to the wrong object: a language or a tool written in this language. Hoping you're not offended anymore.

[1] I am in no position to criticize anyone this way, and I wouldn't do it anyway.
Surely they are both the industry's fault?
Ask HN: How are teams sharing secrets?
What's the best way your team has found to manage secrets for things like db passwords, admin login credentials, etc.?
This article mistakes how we talk about AI with potential outcomes.

It presupposes that AI will only do what we ask it, not that we'll program AI to, for instance, "protect us from enemy nations." It also seems to presuppose that we'll be able to understand why it does what it does.

> "However computers change, they won’t have innate desires. They will be programmed by people. It still won’t be in their nature to want things."

Regardless of the truthfulness of this (What is an innate desire beyond programming whether by evolution or people?), it doesn't matter if the desires are innate or programmed. We will definitely program them to want things and to do things like trade stocks and drive us places. If we get it wrong, it can go haywire.

The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence has a very good explanation of this: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolu...

I'd suggest the writer should spend more time trying to understand what many of the smartest people of our time are saying before declaring them wrong.
Interesting. Someone else recently mentioned remote working being a great antidote to age bias. Contract work also seems to avoid a lot of nonsense.

There's a real irony that tech in "liberal cities" is provincial and close minded and you are avoiding that by being in the country on a farm.