skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can't burn the world down and remake it. These things WILL happen over time, the next generations definitely are focused on safety and correctness. 1 we need to remove unsafe-machismo for the landscape, vector that energy into correctness instead of living with danger. 2, we need to figure out how to partition, segment, wrap the unsafe legacy stuff into a safe operating regime. The single biggest win is if we could load a library in another process and make cross-process calls to it.
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Possibly could have phrased it differently.

Also, not sure why a genetic algorithm wouldn't be what you are looking for.

We can't really make "motivations" for the AI stuff we are doing, so making them be "motivated by" reproduction doesn't work,

So, if you just want the ones that fit some task better, that seems like you would just make the more successful ones reproduce more. A genetic algorithm.

I suppose maybe if you had them evaluate each other and have the reproduction be based on that, and have that evolve as well?

But I don't expect that to be a particularly effective training method.
This is a big part of it. It's not that the cities are expensive, it's that they're so unaffordable. This is especially so in Vancouver where the average income (~C43k)[1] is lower than Toronto, and yet prices are higher.

The large disparity between local incomes and housing prices is a major reason why there is so much attention on the implications of foreign capital on Vancouver's housing market. It seems like there hasn't been as much concern or interest in Toronto, but there probably should be.

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/for-vancouver-hou...
It's Yahoo.
These institutions were horrific, my friends dad wrote a book about them ( http://www.newsletter.co.uk/lifestyle/delving-into-the-world... )

If you were a single mother you'd be sent there, if you were lazy, masturbated too much (how would they even know??) etc ( http://canyouactually.com/list-of-reasons-for-admission-to-a... )

Basically it seems like people were sent there for pretty much any reason, away from societies gaze. So there definitely needs to be more awareness about the history, but this article just seems to romanticise it and shies away from the reality.
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Telegrams clients (and the e2e encryption) are open source. For instance: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram

Curious if you know why the crypto is half-baked. Has it been broken?

edit: found Signal server, I think: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Server

Nice it's out there. This will help Signal live a long time.
> why Oracle is trying to take on Amazon, despite being years late to the party. I believe it's a defensive move

Ellison is all about the money. When "the cloud" started, he quietly bankrolled a bunch of companies spearheading the space, so he didn't have to risk his cash-cow. Once the space was proven, he's steered the whole company - and he didn't do it yesterday, he's done it about 6 years ago. You're seeing results today because Oracle is large, it takes a while to release stuff that has almost been rewritten from scratch to fit the new paradigm, and it takes even more to sell it to Oracle's very conservative userbase.

If it succeeds, the subscription model will make Oracle even more money than before. However, they are effectively rewriting from scratch a large number of their products; this is why they are very limited. It will take another 5 years before they can reach feature-parity with on-premise solutions, assuming on-prem doesn't get anything new in the meantime. Performance is also pretty dismal for some cloud products at the moment.
He says they literally can't get a stent at all, because the government's budget for the year is gone. If that happens, presumably a Dr. could say "well, you can buy one yourself, it's x $" or whatever.

But maybe not, I'm not Russian and don't know what the rules are there.
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SpaceX is an american company, so they are subject to their laws.

The situation is similar to Antarctica, which is home to a large number of small scientific settlements, each following the rules of the country that it is bound to.

A treaty that some countries have signed acknowledges some country borders, but they are not enforced in practice, and those territories are home to settlements from other countries — you even have multi-nationality settlements.
Well that was an interesting read.
Genes encode some of the rules by which the the neurons self-organize, or "grow". Further growth from an initial cell is partially controlled by environmental factors.

This is not a novel or unique application, literally all living things grow by using the rules encoded in DNA and environmental factors.

Consider the demo scene, where 64 kilobytes of code generates a fascinating video with deep complexity. You could not encode a 64k demo as a series bitmapped frames in 64k, or probably in 64 megabytes. But that doesn't mean that you can generate one by stuffing together a bunch of RGB pixels and hoping they self-organize.
I maintain a project (http://freeradius.org) which a similar amount of code, and (arguably) similar complexity. While we've had issues, they aren't as numerous as OpenSSL. And, the issues in the latest major version are negligible.

Why? We have a requirement for code quality. The code can't just work, it has to make sense. The OpenSSL people don't seem to care about badly formatted and/or non-understandable code.

All commits MUST build cleanly without warnings on multiple operating systems, and under multiple compilers. We have test cases for a large chunk of the code base. We scan all releases through three different static analysis tools.

Security is important. We make it important because we care. I wish other projects would do the same.
Seconded. I am working on a project at UCD Med Center for California Dept of Public Health, which includes a pilot tie-in with Epic (even if it's just Epic shaking hands with our system and putting a short task's page in a frame).

We started out in late spring / early summer back in 2015 saying we needed to support IE9, but that has since changed to 11. The notice from MS that nothing before 11 would be supported after January of this year (2016) forced the issue, I think.

Back when I worked at a financial company two years ago we sure had mandatory crusty old versions of IE, though. Except for the groups that got special permission to use a browser that actually worked for things they had to have.
All of which would be true -- in an environment where antibiotics weren't being pumped into battery-farmed livestock.

But we don't live in that world.
What I don't get is WAY more expensive in places like London, Hong Kong, New York and San Francisco but I don't hear as many complaints or alarms going off in those areas. Why?

Those places have always been expensive to my memory, and I'm not a young man. But Toronto? Expensive? Get outta here! And if Toronto is anything like Vancouver, BC, you get the same expensive housing as (places with which I'm familiar:) Seattle and SV with 60% of the salary.

Also, regardless of the expense, NYC, SF and the like are where you go to get your "big break" or what have you. Sure, you'll pay $2000/month for a closet, but if that audition goes well you'll be on your way. Toronto? Fine city, last I was there. It's not, however, top of my list of cities when I imagine myself packing up to seek my fame and fortune.
What a terrible article, and written in such layman language:

"it comes as “bare metal,” a attention tenure for servers with no program installed"
But that's also a DoS attack. If they're doing the time-wasting thing, they can't do other things... Denying service.
Liv also just published a guide to joining the Virtual Reality Industry. I found it a fun and interesting read. Check it out at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LLHGAX6/
Fairly? It is hugely exploitive. The author has an editorial point of view which is "nuclear energy is not worth this sort of disaster." It is not a well researched point of view (as there is ample objective direct evidence to the contrary) but it is an emotional one.
I'll have to look up OCEAN, thanks.

It sounds like it functions as another, parallel model to the one described in the article. Where's the harm?
I can't offer specifics, but the way I typically evaluate jr. vs. sr. is whether the person can understand things at the conceptual level or not. Do they understand the design / architecture / reasons why things are/were done in a particular way, do they understand the benefits and downsides, and do they have knowledge about alternatives.

Junior developers almost always only know about concrete things they worked on previously. They typically have a hard time talking about anything other than implementation details.
I certainly complain about London, all the time. It's always been expensive compared to the rest of the country, sure, but the current flat-out-insane bubble prices are a comparatively recent (and deliberately induced/maintained) phenomenon.
I learned by reverse engineering DSP code in another platform which was used for obfuscation. I had a chat with a friend and he suggested the TI DSP starter kits. I'm not familiar with any of them, though.
Trial by fire, I see...
coughbullshit?cough

Would this be relevant anyway — I'm sure I read of some BAE (?) system that interpreted deflections in existant third party radio transmissions to infer stealthed objects... never mind old-style long wavelength radar, as puportedly used in Bosnia against the F117?
This mentality about gun carry - it's demonization and the gradual, continual encroachment of laws against our second amendment rights - leads to very low carry percentage among the general public.

This in turn leads to one person being able to cause 100+ casualties in a club with over 300 people in it - without being neutralized by a responsible carry citizen (Pulse)

if even 5% of the population carried I imagine the casualties would have been MUCH lower
That's why the proposed solution is 'Sure, we'll do the time-wasting thing, but it's going to cost you more to pay us to do it'.
In some ways, yes. On the other hand, free software is also everywhere.
Linux, Webkit/Blink/Firefox, Apache/nginx, LLVM/GCC, Emacs/Vim… it's a pretty big list.

Instant messaging and Pro Photo/Video apps are a particularly sore point.
No worries, it takes a lot to offend me! :-)
There surely is, but the first step is to acknowledge that the world has come to a certain point where we've lost control of our data and intelligence agencies, and not to write off people who's privacy has been compromised as fools who should have known better.

Because we are all those fools. Do you use gmail? If you don't, do you email people who do? Do you use Facebook? Do people talk about you on Facebook, even if you don't have an account? Do you email people who give Facebook their contacts? Is that even something you can find out?

Trust is transitive. If someone close to you along your social graph is being observed, you are being observed indirectly. If many people around you are being observed, you are being observed rather closely.
If it's a case of cutting back on the coffee budget to ensure one always has an epipen handy, of course you're right.

If it's a case of having to choose between paying the paying the electricity bill and buying an epipen, and you have to guess at the probability of you needing an epipen in the next month vs the certainty of the electric company shutting off your power, with the extra fees and penalties that'll cost to turn it back on, "no matter the cost" is no longer the standard to use.
I think it is releated. The economic factors that have shifted jobs away from the land and into the cities are the same ones that attract young people to the cities.
This looks more like a bug, where the attacker exploited a function which is particularly slow and forced the nodes to run this function many times.

If the nodes had different implementations, chances would be that only some nodes would be slown down, but the reality -i assume- is that there's only 1 implementation.

Think to mail servers, if they were all running the same os/sw then attacks to the whole system could be easier.
What if the internet is already a massive artificial intelligence that we can't even begin to comprehend?
I complain about London house prices all the time!
In a very real sense, people did "build Twitter instead of saving lives." The money invested in Twitter's IPO alone could've saved more than half a million kids from malaria. And your first point basically reduces to: it's more immoral to develop a cure and make lots of money from it, than to spend billions on activities that don't even cure anything. That's absurd.

Your point about anti-competitive conduct is well-taken. But beyond that, it's government's obligation to make sure everyone who needs life-saving treatment has it. But going into the business of saving lives shouldn't entitle you to any less of a profit motive than going into businesses that don't even save lives at all.
My understanding is it works like this in Ethereum:

The miners can run any arbitrary code ("a contract") that you write, and this code is verifiable and trusted by everyone once it's been uploaded to the blockchain. The contracts can read/write arbitrary things in the blockchain and send coins to anyone you want, determined by the code you write.

There's a "gas price" that you have to pay for each operation you tell the miners to execute. However, the operation "EXTCODESIZE" evidently has too low of a cost, allowing someone to pay to have it executed enough times to noticeably slow the miners down for shits and giggles.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong?
Verizon legal team might have forced Yahoo to disclose this in order to remove the liability before acquisition.
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Pure averaging isn't the best way to go, that's basically a box filter. You can use the interpolation kernels, but you need to widen them proportionally to the amount you're downscaling. Instead of your bicubic working with a 4x4 area, for 3x downscaling it needs 12x12. Ideally for ½ scale you should be using 8x8 already.
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5. you can buy/hire accredited expertise as well, which is something BigCo risk-averse management often prefers over competent-but-unaccredited people.
> stable and reliable

They were not, for a few years.
From artificial instincts and emotions.)
Where in Canada do you live, Whitehorse? Toronto is further south than most of Michigan, and folks in Michigan seem to use their yards and open space just fine for a large part of the year.
> But 500 years? What else in human history has taken that long to figure out?

Powered, heavier than air flight falls into that ball park. da Vinci was making doodles in the (late) 15th century, but this was only accomplished by the Wright brothers in the (early) 20th century.

Edit: After additional research, I discovered that recorded attempts at manned flight can be found as far back as the 11th[1] century! So it took roughly 700 years to figure out, if not longer as earlier attempts were likely not recorded.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornithopter
I think there is a way to train an unsupervised model and make it represent some interesting features explicitly in the top level vector.
> how many of them use Oracle database or SQL Server?

All of them on our portfolio, which are all non software based companies, rather telecomunications, manufacturing, healthcare, commerce, and so on.

Sometimes there are a few projects using Postgres or MySQL, but usually those are small department experiments that either stay small or are eventually migrated to Oracle/SQL Server.

Also I am yet to work in any NoSQL project.
> If we duplicate that blindly, we won't have to figure out how that works or have to program it.

Genuine question: what would be the value of blindly duplicating a brain without figuring out how it works (and as a consequence, without knowing how to change/improve how it works)? After all, we already know how to create human brains, and it doesn't involve tech at all :)
Do you think this is intentionally deceptive or just uninformed?
Your parents/legal guardians consented for you when you were a minor and could not make such an agreement.

When you reached the age of majority, you gave consent by continuing to live here.

(And if you think consent requires words, and not merely actions, try wordlessly walking out of a convenience store with a package of slim jims you didn't pay for.)
There are two widely-used implementations, and more that don't have as much adoption:
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
https://github.com/ethcore/parity
Excuse my ignorance but what do KNN/ANN stand for?
It's not even "the Canadian government". This was purely a Provincial scheme to lower costs.
> 1. Real science that demonstrably works now.

One of the things I noticed in college is that the classes I took in this category never actually taught "the scientific method."

It was only ever in the so-called "soft" sciences that we got the scientific method lecture about creating a hypothesis, doing some tests to verify, checking results, etc.—usually in the first week.

So maybe a way to identify classes still in your category "2" is to see if they explicitly teach the scientific method or not. If they do? Category 2. If they're obviously scientific and don't teach it? Category 1.

(I've also noticed that an easy way to identify a crackpot on the Internet is to see if they trot out the scientific method discussion in the first 1000 words. If they do? Crackpot.)
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I know :-(

Give it a year. Without MS support, they will be forced to give up these older versions. Of course by then, IE 11 will seem quite "vintage", but that's life.
I'm running macOS Sierra, 10.12 and Safari 10.0 (12602.1.50.0.10) I do not get the color change.

Yes, 12602, not 11602.
I don't see looking for quick and easy wins is not a negative, nor is in opposition to understanding trade-offs.
Thanks so much for pointing this out. I had never heard of it before and had a look. It looks good and has a team whose values I identify with. What's more, it has flexibility in billing that looks quite attractive (users, storage, aliases, etc.).

Unfortunately, it does not support IMAP or POP, which I prefer just to have local copies of mails as a backup.

A paid account looks appropriate (and would help the company stays in business), but it's a bit pricey for my needs (though not as much as other providers who don't have a lot of flexibility on users/storage/aliases).

I will try the free account to experience it firsthand.
Something about the experiment design seems off, but I can't place exactly what.
What's hard to read about it? Obviously (to me), those are all event handlers. Not sure why (or if?) you have to define the ones that don't actually do anything, though.
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Genetic Programming should be mentioned I think. Programs learning to write programs which solve a specified problem. It is already quite promising and successful.
This tutorial disables curl_exec. Good luck getting any popular API client to work, they all use cURL... or if you're lucky, a modern-enough version of Guzzle that can use socket connections, but LOL that's opening another can of worms...

HTTP parsing is notoriously difficult and I'd rather trust cURL (which is battle-tested in a load of environments) than a PHP userspace library.
Also this week in virology if you like such things.
> Isn't that true of any nation's healthcare system?

Not for coronary stents in the U.S. If needed to treat a heart attack, a coronary stent is administered regardless of the patient's ability to pay. Generally speaking, emergency treatment is available to all humans in the U.S. regardless of ability to pay. You might get a bill afterward, but first they will save your life.

As for prophylactic coronary stents, the little bit I've read about them suggests that they don't actually keep people from dying, compared to other cheaper and less invasive treatments.
> Software Development Laboratories implemented it and called it Oracle, and in 1979 sold it to the CIA...

I've long suspected that Oracle's success was due to becoming the de facto RDBMS for any and all government TLA's. I think this is part of Ellison's legendary arrogance. He knows he has the US government by the short hairs when it comes to IT.

I think it also ties well with Sun CEO Scott McNealy's famous, "You have no privacy; get over it," comment. McNealy understood that the CIA (and NSA, FBI, et. al.) were running big data mining operations -- with Oracle, as that was the only game in town, at that point -- on his hardware, but he couldn't just come out and say that.
k-nearest neighbor vs artificial neural network.
I recently had a hospital bill where they forgot to bill my insurance. They automatically gave me a 40% discount, before I even asked them. That's not to say that the price doesn't matter, but that no one should actually pay MSRP for medical care regardless of insurance.
This makes a big difference to small projects using the $7 hobby dynos, where the $20 of the SSL Endpoint add-on made Heroku less attractive than other options.

I'm interested to know how performance compares to the add-on, which uses a dedicated ELB per app (which is why it cost $20). On the one hand I would imagine switching to this new feature removes the need to pre-warm the endpoint (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/ssl-endpoint#performan...), but on the other could presumably introduce noisy neighbour issues.

"we will be rolling out exciting new features to it over the coming months"
...native Let's Encrypt support perhaps? :-)
A good senior developer is proficient in more than one languages, knows or figures out quickly the pros and cons of any technology. They have both depth knowledge in certain part of the development stack and breadth overall.

Assessing seniority by just number of years of experience, or knowing a hot technology doesn't make one a senior developer. A solid Aptitude + Attitude towards software development will make you a stronger developer, and that will also help you pick up any new tools, needed to get the job done!

Good Luck!
Yes, you suggest a little effective training method. What I suggest is training a lot of very little effective training methods looking for mutations. By not being gready perhaps AI can develop a new system for evolving that we can't envision at this moment.
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The point I took is that conditional embargoes are much worse than simple ones.

This is a long-discussed issue with video games. If you say "no reviews for our video game until release", that's just controlling timing. If you say "no negative reviews for our video game until release", you're manipulating the narrative. You don't ask anyone to lie (good reviews can still be totally sincere), but the gestalt is no longer natural.

> "Embargoes that attempt to control sourcing are dangerous"

It appears that the FDA is using conditional embargoes, and their specific conditions are what shocked reporters.
I was also thinking ML is a dark art and only a few selected ones are able to understand it, but then I started to look more into it took the coursera ML course and now I'm working trough some other lectures and it's easier than I imagined. Like you said, you just need to start working with it.
If your point is that I'm sensitive to journalists looking for takedowns given that I feel I was the target of one, you're absolutely right. But how is your comment relevant to the article originally posted? And why the throwaway account?

For those curious, the article above was published after I wrote a blog post on my mistakes here: http://sethbannon.com/mistakes-you-should-never-make
I didn't expect to see so many anti-science folks in this forum. Ah well, I guess I'll move away from the coast.