skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without commenting at all on the practicalities of attacking it, it's reasonable to expect a higher level out of security from GPG than a standard TLS connection.

Your web server needs to key and manage many connections/sec, and any delays feed back into my web developers further arguing against the use of TLS. You can generally expect no one will be trying to break your current TLS sessions ten years from now. If that doesn't apply to your situation, you probably have bigger problems, such as the broken CA model.

Both of these scenarios may be different with GPG.
Log is often used because it makes linear proportional returns. It makes the most sense when gains are considered derived from the principal, ie proportional returns from capital. See an example below.

As others have mentioned, maximizing log is equivalent to maximizing the underlying.

But when considering returns on accruing capital, a 20% loss is much worse than a 20% gain is good, and similarly a 100% gain is much less good than a 100% loss is bad. This is correctly captured by taking the log. In the case where money is simply accrued from some external source, and their is no proportional return, log isn't necessary.
> Perhaps I'm a bit cynical, but space exploration strikes me as a waste of money and energy.

Yes, because the "defense" budget is a much better use of resources. The NASA budget is a rounding error in comparison.

There is enough money. Money dedicated to space exploration is well spent.

> We know enough about space for now

Says who? Perhaps you need to do some more research.
The helium tank is inside the oxygen tank to keep it cold. For a given pressure and tank size, more helium is stored in the tank at lower temperatures.

For an ideal gas, PV = NkT, where P is pressure, V is volume, N is the number of atoms, T is temperature, and k is a constant. It looks like the O2 temperature for this version of Falcon is 66 K. If we take T_out ~ 273 K just for the sake of the discussion,

N_in / N_out = T_out / T_in ~ 4.

It's a significant difference.
So they'd convert 15% of all user accounts (many user have more than one account)? That seems really high - 1% might be attainable. Hardly the numbers they need to justify their valuation. Maybe if they lay off a ton of employees and start getting lean, while keeping their current revenue?
Spotify and the Art of the Playlist
That or spacex overlooked the complexity
This is a false dichotomy and just not representative of reality.

There can never be self-driving cars because the type of generalized intelligence that would be required is impossible to achieve. The fact remains that a computer program can only do what it is told, it cannot think. Code has no mind.

So what the choice is between is, instead, someone (Tesla) pushing out a falsely marketed support system that does none of the things it is believe to be able to, and causes unnecessary deaths and injuries. And, on the other hand, thorough testing to uncover the possibilities and limits of the technology, to produce a reliable, usable product.
Well, he's suggesting maximizing the expected value, which is a little different. For example, a situation where you have a 10% chance of making $10M and a 90% chance of making zero has an expected value of $1M, but its expected value in log10 space is 0.7 = only about $5, while a 100% chance of making $100K has an expected value of $100K, but in log10 space = 5 = $100K.

I still quibble about the use of log for this purpose (and even if you do, what base?), but I see his point. A non-linear utility function penalizes low-chance but high-value outcomes.
Getting rid of half their staff probably wouldn't hurt. In fact, they might finally be able to turn a profit.
I donated last year. I love this project.
Google Photos (launched in May 2015) reportedly had 200M 30DA a year after its official launch [1]. Sure, it's not a billion, but how many products do you know that reached 1B 30DA in their first 3 years? I can't think of a single one.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11685424/google-photos-upd...
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12568010
Is it out of the box dude!!
iCheckMusic: complete popular music lists
Last I checked bitbucket.org didn't
Hey everyone,

My name is Ben, and I want to introduce iCheckMusic. It’s essentially a primitive clone of iCheckMovies, but for music, where you can check off albums from popular music lists. If you’re interested, check it out and let me know what you think.

I plan on adding a couple lists a week as well as implementing new features. If you have any ideas regarding features or lists, feel free to email me at obringer.20@gmail.com or comment on this thread.

Thanks for your time,
Ben
Behind the Scenes of Dropbox’s Early Days
If only. I'm sure we'll get there eventually, the question is if we'll live to see it.
Actually Skype is great with code.: just prefix your message with "!! ", or surround it with triple backticks, and it will treat it as code.

Triple backticks also works in WhatsApp.
I had free weights at my house, they sat in the office near my computer. Actually I found that if I was on a tough problem, I could do a set, then come back and sometimes that would help me get back in the groove. It also added some light upper body workout to the jogging and biking I was also doing.
Just look at the moon upside down through your legs and the illusion goes away. It is all in your head.
>For many radios power consumption is the same whether transmitting or receiving

This, is not right.
It would collide with the game. It should be worst in the beginning.
These guys may be based in California but Google has a London office, and if you want to work on deep learning then Google DeepMind is the obvious place to go and they're based in London as well.
I think there is a big cultural element. Not to say other cultures are immune to conspiracy-theory thinking, but something about American exceptionalism seems to encourage it.
Might they have known or suspected that they were being recorded? Their words may have been chosen to make them sound good were they to be brought before a tribunal.
At this point, I don't think any of this matters for the viability of Oculus (regardless of these being small devs anyway, it's not like their games make or break the platform, even in aggregate). It's dead, and here's why:

Facebook wants "regular people" to "hang out with each other" in VR. Facebook wants to own the movie theater, the mall, the billboards, the radio, and everything else, all at once, without having to buy real estate, so they can own 100% of global advertising, on the VR globe anyway. But regular people can't afford Facebook VR. Regular people make <$20,000/year (40% of American workers earn under 20k, and 45mil are on food stamps).

A hard plastic VR phone case with decent lenses is $10 and it's pretty damn convincing for that price.

The next cheapest VR is PS4, which is ~$700 all up, console and headset. Sony has a known name in the gaming space, a reputation for quality, and is the #1 console maker. People will buy this.

And then you have the PC VR, whether oculus or vive, $600-800 for the headset alone, and then over $1000 for a PC (because most people don't have a PC they can just plug a headset into, nor a PSU allowing them to just upgrade their GPU, etc, it requires a new unit for most.) -- and no killer apps.

So where are the devs going to go? Playstation has advanced graphics AND is difficult or impossible to pirate. Mobile has obscene penetration and people who don't play games and don't want to invest in gaming hardware have the ability to engage here.

I don't see Oculus having a good end regardless of decisions it can make.
might check out some of the affiliate networks. you could build ads for some of your top searches.
The helium is in the gas phase and at thermal equilibrium with the surrounding oxygen.
@pb did you watch comma.ai call out Cruise? It seems that comma.ai thinks Cruise lacks urgency, are sell outs. They clearly communicated that Cruise essentially had nothing.

It going to be interesting to see if a outsider like Hotz can outperform a well funded YC startup.

A person who hacked the PS3, iPhone versus whatever Vogt accomplished.
you can use regular expressions to filter make validation filters on websites for things like email, phone, etc. you could filter for sql injection attacks and if you didn't catch it they could delete your whole database.
Was half expecting to see somebody say "rainbow table", but the comment in question is even better than I could have imagined.
One paper at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5605
…and merged: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/974

I'll tag a new release in a day or two. Also, it looks like the sift author is getting on the .ignore train: https://github.com/svent/sift/issues/78#issuecomment-2493352...

This worked out pretty well. :)
DDos attacks and the decentralized internet
Moreover, I bet the author is ESL. I see there's some dropping of the definite article (ie, "the"), and the use of the word "intelligentzia" in quotes. I think the author isn't aware of the English word intelligentsia and is dropping in another language's spelling. Also, note the plurality-agreement stuff in "attended more than one TEDx talks in person"; everybody knows "talk" is singular and "talks" is plural, and "more than one" is greater than "one", but only native speakers always remember the exception.
> The comparison between skilled and more unskilled labor is intentional.

Don't you need to "condition" on aptitude and ability then? A person capable of getting into a decent PhD program would probably also be able to get into a solid medical or law program. At the undergrad level, that might mean a nursing degree (APRN or something) instead of a bachelors' in biology.

The science degree is not particularly lucrative at either level.

Also, I think you're flipping the causality around in other people's arguments: they seem to be claiming that pushing science degrees is not a particularly effective way of addressing poverty.
Yes, this is also the reason why GPS is so power hungry--it takes a lot of power to keep a GPS radio receiver operating.
I take it back! I'm definitely switching over to using ripgrep for the next bit.

Off topic - is there a way to exclude directories? I tried doing things like `rg pattern -g '!my_dir/' but nothing I tried seemed to work.
"battle tested" and "resistant to quantum computing" are complete opposites
I am in the Southern hemisphere and found the seasonal countdowns irrelevant (https://days.to/until/spring).
A sniper could hit that from 1 km distance.

I'm not saying that's what necessarily happened. I'm saying a sniper could very well do that.
This is a little simplistic. Computers can do things they aren't heuristically programmed to do - that's the basic idea behind machine learning. I've seen some incredibly impressive robots that ran entirely on neural nets and never failed, but because it was impossible to understand how they worked they could only be used for demonstration purposes as guaranteeing safety was impossible.

What you seem to be referring to is true AI. I agree we are nowhere close to anything resembling true AI, but I do believe something representative of a computer that can "think" will appear in the coming decades.

That said, you can program a car heuristically. Statistically speaking, the unknown unknowns are so rare that assuming it doesn't fail under expected conditions you can guarantee it to be safer than humans. The unknown unknowns are not the problem right now, it's just dealing with limited sensor input (cars have a hard time "seeing" what's around them) and making sense of the world around it.
"Computers can only do what they are programmed to do" is the slogan of a 1950s advertising/propaganda campaign by IBM to alleviate fears that the newly-birthed field of AI would create computers which would not only do what they were programmed to do.

Which is precisely what AI is about. Getting computers to effectively program themselves toward some specified goal. In which case, the problem becomes "be careful what you wish for". The paperclip maximiser AI is one such cautionary tale. HAL in 2001 was an exceptionally thinly veiled reference to IBM, no matter how loud Clarke and Kubrick's protestations to the contrary.

On the Media on IBM and AI:

http://www.wnyc.org/story/engineering-intelligence/

There are numerous IBM logos throughout 2001. One is noted in this Slate piece:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/01/07/hal_9000_ibm_...

And it points to a now-removed YouTube video pointing out numerous other instances:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1r5dOwUS6Y

The logos also appear on the Newspad, in various shipboard equipment, and elsewhere.
For some reason I just assumed that all the more "serious research" was done in California and completely forgot about DeepMind.
Note to mods: this has been submitted 10 times in the last week, getting from 20 to 1 point. Something should be done about Medium's URLs.
"I think its pretty obvious you don't understand how internet traffic really flows, when you think "all I have to do is compromise 600 pc's with a Gb connection and I can launch a 600Gbps DDoS."

I've been doing networking for 26 years. One of my largest jobs was mitigating Slashdot effect for two high-profile sites. I know very well how a DISTRIBUTED denial of service attack works, can work, and have done many of my own in checking security measures for those whom I consult. Compromising backbone routers is actually fairly simple. Too much reliance upon software stacks and not enough reliance upon sound hardware logic design that's proofed against attack in the first place.
Violence against police officers can trigger increased discrimination
How could be a programmer, who has enough patience to read documents and has knowledge to implement the Windows kernel driver which does,

1. offer IOCTL serivce
2. disable SMEP
3. execute user-space code from kernel.

, NOT notice the very program he is writing has serious security vulnerability?

How could he not notice and saying "Wait, Am I writing rootkit?"
I dig it, but the main content area is too narrow.

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Edit: My previous endorsement is now retracted, installing the Chrome extension changes the default new tab behavior. Hijacking default browser behavior is terrible. Bad form on the part of the author
OK ya, that's all fair. I overstated. I will amend my comment to say that if companies do offer options at a discount to the 409A everyone involved needs to be very very very careful about tax laws or bad things can happen to both the company and the option grantee.
Wonderful! I took his machine learning coarse at the University of Alberta and we used the first edition in his class - though he didn't make it mandatory to buy his book. In any case, it was well worth the asking price. The math isn't too hard and progresses gently enough. I think the lisp code he wrote for the first edition is online somewhere. I'll have to check his web presence.
Yup. On twitter I see ads for tech and movies - that fits my tastes. On fb I see ads for sleaze.
A lot of the people I know in tech do these types of activities. Those who don't typically belong to an older crowd. Perhaps my cohort is bringing along a cultural change? I'm fairly new to the industry, so I might be talking out of my ass.
>I'm not sure what the lifetime of a computer is. In my family, we are still occasionally running machines from circa 1995.

Pretty sure it's not 21 years, c'mon...
Generate Music with TensorFlow
The (mostly) lisp code from the first edition can be found here: https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/code/code.html
Oh Snap Looks like Snapchat could be rebranding
Twitter's basic problem is that they opened up to third party clients back while they were still growing, and those third party clients quickly outpaced them in new usage features.

Twitter has been trying to reign that in since (various things their official client can do is not accessible via the public APIs), but they can't just drop their third party support or they would see the usage rates dwindle in no time flat.
You needed Snowden to realise this? I've known it my whole grown-up life, I'm soon 31 but realised at a very young age what a twisted world we live in.
I dare say that it has also been said before that just because something is the law, don't make it right.

Do you think that while slavery was legal, it would have been improper to criticize the companies that engaged in it?
After the live streaming will the videos remain archived on youtube?
No, you're wrong. The 850 PRO uses MLC while the EVO uses TLC. But given that they're both constructed on Samsung's 3D-VNAND technology, their endurance is still much higher than the competitors out there.
Just tried it out; works fine.
Almost an order of magnitude? You obviously don't know what that means. I'm at half a magnitude of order off by your supposed words (protip: An order of magnitude meas you add a zero to the end of the number you're using,) and you know not much about CDNs if you don't think that multiple terabits of traffic are flowing through Akamai every second already.

Currently, I do the physical networking builds for a mental health company. We're already deploying 100 G-bit in these offices as primary connection trunks, because a lot of these services will be done remotely over video and audio.

I could open up a 20,000 user Camfrog Video Cluster chat room and could saturate a T-bit connection link just like that the second it's half-full. Have you ever used (let alone seen)a T-bit scale program before? Camfrog's been out for over a decade.
Actually a significant portion of the tech team (for instance Content ID) is based in Zurich, not in San Bruno. Check out their jobs page [0]. You don't need a friend to recommend you, but it would be great if you find somebody on a team that you are interested to join that would root for you.

[0] https://www.google.com/about/careers/locations/zurich/
My guess was almost correct. The issue was indeed that they use "views with >3 secs" in some metrics and use "all views" in other metrics. Do one of the other, don't mix them up.

http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/facebook-gave-ad-agenc...

> UPDATE: Facebook authored a blog post today to futher explain the metric-based miscue. David Fischer, vp of advertising and global operations, wrote: "About a month ago, we found an error in the way we calculate one of the video metrics on our dashboard – average duration of video viewed. The metric should have reflected the total time spent watching a video divided by the total number of people who played the video. But it didn't – it reflected the total time spent watching a video divided by only the number of 'views' of a video (that is, when the video was watched for three or more seconds). And so the miscalculation overstated this metric. While this is only one of the many metrics marketers look at, we take any mistake seriously."
An automated ironing appliance. Drop unsorted clothes in, they come out ironed on the other side.
> Chrome, on my system, is even more abusive.

The OP is complaining about excessive write traffic, which wastes power, steals disk-time from other applications, and may wear out SSDs prematurely.

A large profile file does not imply excessive write traffic, so it's not clear from your report that Chrome is hitting the same problem at all. Definitely worth watching, but big-file != excessive-writes.
I noticed that too, but for some reason I can't seem to figure out how exactly it works. It's not just like in ST, as my buffers get lost. After a while I just gave up because I don't actually need to switch from ST...
This treatment is horrific. Solitary confinement is well known to cause severe depression and suicidal ideation.
Seeing as how the key is only being protected by TLS in the GET requests. You may want to tighten up your configuration. Also, patch the padding oracle vuln.

You scored an F on SSL Labs.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=beta.cryptpad...

I like the idea though! :)
> If I order a pizza and the delivery driver mows down a crowd of people with his car on the way to me, that's not my fault.

Where'd you get that idea? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respondeat_superior

It might not be your fault, but the question of "who made the mistake?" doesn't really enter into it.
In their defence they do list the march equinox as well, for the internationally minded (https://days.to/until/march-equinox).
I don't know since I haven't used them yet. I imagine the middleman is fairly well aligned with you because their business model is to take a cut of the transaction. If they're getting 5% of a $100K or $500K transaction, that's a fairly good incentive not to try to screw people over. Disputes cost time and money.

The party that isn't aligned is the employer. As mentioned, they hold right of first refusal, and they may balk at having "strangers" on the cap table.

I'm sure there is a whole bunch of "interesting" paperwork and if you had a lawyer look at it they would gladly take your money. I believe each company is different, because the way you hold private shares depends on the company governance. SharesPost has presumably done some of the legwork for you because they are advertising this facilitation only for specific companies, which they have hopefully vetted in some way.

I imagine that SharesPost exists precisely because people had to get lawyers and accountants involved to do these custom transactions, and now they are pushing it to the lower end of the market. But they are also fairly new so they can't be perfect.
This is great. Someone needed to do one of these, I dabbled in this market with my little one person shop because it seemed so critically underserved, but my constraints were a bit different.

Some of the challenges I faced in trying to help startups: I needed to be paid in real money, which is tough for a startup. I didn't market myself at all (not even a webpage) which is just neglectful. And finally, surprisingly: frankly I found startups to have the worst legal advice and contracts. All of them went to their lawyers and came back with contracts that looked like employment agreements and frankly included worse terms than most employment agreements. I had my own agreement, but it didn't help much. I had a surprising number of deals fall through because of this. Part of it is I clearly allowed incorrect expectations, and part of it is, I think is if people haven't heard of you they just assume you'll be unrepresented and shocked when you don't just sign their standard "we put whatever we thought would be best for our client" contract and instead asked for a version for a lawyer to redline.

So frustrating. And for real, most startups didn't need that much of my time, so it became not worth it.

Instead I had a much better experience with a lot less pain (and frankly more interesting work) working on multibillion dollar public infrastructure contracts (train systems mostly) and focused on those instead. Go figure.

You'd expect startups to do better in this area than larger companies.

Thankfully Thomas is well known on the Internet, which I think will help a lot with startups. And it's a better model than what I was doing.

Anyway! Thanks for doing this! It's a huge unfilled area. Someone needed to and I hope it works well!
GP (by YCR HARC)
Kyle McLaughlan explains a former project: https://ello.co/codenamesarah/post/s9dx9cx_iw6ytktbugjwmq
It could have to do with the NSA's August 2015 plan for transitioning to quantum-resistant algorithms. In their new Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) Suite, they advise a minimum 3072-bit RSA modulus:

https://www.iad.gov/iad/programs/iad-initiatives/cnsa-suite....

(Doh... I don't know why I'm getting an invalid certificate authority error when trying to access that site, but Qualys SSL Labs confirms it's a real error. Yikes.)
JavaScript Conditional Comments for IE
That's just compile-time verified duck typing.

Not bad.
Thanks buddy. I will have to investigate their team and work first, but then I might apply. Crazy!