skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the center of the application, semantics are encoded using the language of the domain model.

Say pg/psql.

> Beginning at the center, each layer is translated into one or more languages with lower-level semantics.

ORM mapping into Java?

> At the outermost layer of the application, the final language is that of the application’s environment — for example, the programming language’s standard library or foreign function interface, or possibly even machine instructions.

Or maybe even html+javascript.

Congratulations, you have (re-)invented the layered architecture.
> I didn't state it should be the only mechanism. There could be others. Those class action lawsuits mentioned in the article prove there are some. But the primary mechanism is users' responsible choice.

That's simply not realistic on technical issues. Users can't take responsibility for choices they can't be reasonably expected to understand.

> Actually I think the blame is on us, techies. We should create a culture where security matters as much as performance, pleasant design or simple UI. Both among users we live with and companies we work in

If you believe that, in your own words, user's responsible choice should be the primary mechanism of enforcement of this, you've rejected any effective means of achieving the above trite and obvious truisms.

In fact, security should matter to us a lot more than performance, pleasant design, or simple UI, because unlike those, security can be a matter of life and death. Which is why I don't want to leave it up to users.

> And one fundamental problem of security for the masses is not solved yet: how a user can see if a product they use is secure without being a security expert.

Which begs the question why you want to leave security regulation up to users moving away from the product.
I wish they'd addressed that too.

I'd guess the reasoning is, because it's a list of public URLs, there's no expectation of privacy.
I've lived in the US and my wife is American. I also have distant relatives in the US. I know what their lives are like and I know the struggles various members of my wife's family has gone through as well as my distant relatives.

I work with a lot of Americans and deal with a lot of American companies.

I'd say in many ways I think see America clearer than a lot of Americans because they have nothing to compare it with. I've lived in several countries and I can compare my experiences. If you have never lived abroad you tend to take too many things for granted and you become blind to so many realities in your own country.

Anyway it isn't like American's are the quite guys in the corner never volunteering their opinions to anybody else about how the rest of the world should be run. Quite the opposite, except American are frequently extremely opinionated about things they know absolutely nothing about.
My take is that perhaps the rate of homelessness tracking overall demographic distribution might cause one to question the education->work->retirement life-cycle model wherein cohorts achieve greater financial stability and autonomy as they age. If we consider homelessness as some objective measure, under the EWR life-cycle model, rates of homelessness should decline due to the accumulation of benefits from many years of education and work in the aggregate of the cohort.
"To a first approximation, let’s assume that a driverless car is perfect at navigating scenarios it has previously handled safely."

As a back of the envelope calculation, I was with you until that sentence. That is an unwarranted and very aggressive assumption.
"There was such a terrible loss of life that day we decided to pull it"
"We were there to document the event"

Discovering who [we] is is an exercise left to the reader
> Trump is a lot of things, but pre-vetted isn't one of them.

No, the republicans made a mistake by actually letting the people's vote decide and they will correct it before the next elections. The Democrats have already made this kind of mistake in the past[1] which is why they now have superdelegates to correct for that.

So yeah, Trump supporters managed to game the system this one time, unfortunately they wasted their one opportunity by choosing that clown.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdelegate#Origins
HRC does not strike me as a great leader. Trump however seems hardly capable from distinguishing what is so from what is not so but would feed his ego to believe. He is not a fit man to deal with US interests.
EU Digital Commissioner wants publishers to influence their journos' opinion
In my experience the likelihood of your scenario (increasing resistance to refactoring)
is almost always indirectly proportional to the amount and quality of refactoring tools available.

500KLOC JVM/.NET application? No big deal.

50KLOC JS/HTML-based SPA? Pfooooh. That could take a while...do we really need to?
Personally I deploy everything in Docker containers now, so I test a static image and push a bit for bit identical image. (EDIT: Even for individual / one-off setups, yes)

But even if you want to do "manual" changes without Docker, or without a configuration management solution like Puppet etc., I'd do them locally in a git repo or similar and either git pull'ing it or rsyncing it over. Both because it'd mean flexibility in terms of tooling, but also because it makes it easy to actually test it first, or at the very least e.g. syntax check them.
This has been offered by their competitor Incapsula for some time under the name 'Global Server Load Balancing'

https://www.incapsula.com/load-balancing-failover.html
Is there much research on how information like this actually affects consumer decisions? It looks good on paper, but the up-front cost is still generally much higher than higher-emission vehicles. My impression is that people will generally ignore these long-term benefits in favor of the more immediate reward of a lower investment at the start, but perhaps that coupled with the environmental factors could sway more minds than usual in this case?
I wrote a layer around an existing parser that refuses to parse anything except that subset that most people use 99% of the time:

https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml

IMO TOML is syntactically messy, especially when dealing with hierarchical data, and a whole new config format to deal with the fact that YAML has too many features is somewhat unnecessary.
Yup. I'm one of those people. Well, partially at least. I do a lot of distributed computing. But my PhD was in a statistical area.

I used Octave for a while (matlab clone). But then as my data sets got larger and I mean really large (non-linear equation solving on 11m points on my puny desktop), I went full force on Python (NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib). The reason - its is super easily scriptable, the libraries are great and easy to use and python allows me to use multi-processor capabilities to distribute my work to all my cpu cores.

Keep in mind I could have used GSL. But Numpy/Scipy & matplotlib were just faster and more productive for me.

That being said, I'd rather have one source of truth - i.e. GSL and have this be a wrapper around it as opposed to re-creating all the logic.

Either way - its a fantastic effort. If at anytime I create systems that need numerical computation (as opposed to the hacks that I did for my thesis) I will definitely look into this.
There is STILL no AWS region in Israel.

All Internet traffic in and out of Israel goes through three undersea cables connecting the country with Turkey, Greece, and Italy, and as such suffer from the kind of lag that happens when you're separated from your destination server by a couple thousand kilometers, usually more. There are no local cloud providers and the local entrepreneurial culture (which is MASSIVE for such a small country) either has to pay for cloud resources in Europe or has to pay for local non-cloud hosting, which is orders of magnitude more expensive and running on relatively ancient hardware (the local VPS shops have little incentive to upgrade).

Do we have to beg for Amazon to come here?!
"Leap" is quite the exaggeration IMO, especially talking about ML. This is improvement wrt to neural networks which had some support in R already (mxnet). In ML, in general, R is quite a bit ahead of the competition.

You have been able to use dplyr on spark dataframes for a while now (at least a year).
Proposed laws would expand travel controls from airlines to passenger railroads
This is old, but yeah, reductionism is specifically western. It's derived from Descartes (who believed the entire physical world can be reduced to numbers, and introduced the idea of dualism - there's a world that exists, and a mind that understands), and from Newton, who developed calculus and established what has become the scientific method. Or, as a PhD physicist friend eloquently put it, "Before calculus, we didn't understand how the world worked. With calculus, we do."

In the Newtonian/Cartesian world (reductionism), the entire physical world can be reduced to numbers. You measure and compute. If you don't understand, it's a failure of measurement, not of methodology. The problem is, this neglects many valid distinctions that the mind can recognize, but cannot be measured. In particular, it falls apart on problems of complexity, of interrelationships between many possible states of many possible elements.
Many Google JS things use it, for example the Maps API.
Apple Logs your iMessage contacts, and may share them with police
Yes, this is a horrible situation that she is in, and it's extremely sad. However, Social Security is not meant to be lived on; it's meant to simply be a supplement to a retirement that the individual was saving up for their entire working life. Let this simply be a lesson to put money away for retirement, as people have successfully done for centuries.
Show HN: Order Healthy – Healthy Ordering Made Simple with Delivery and Takeout
Right. Startups typically use python/ruby or commodity hadoop clusters on EMR. It's not an audience match and they don't have a budget anyways.

For anyone else we have a very active open source community:
https://gitter.im/deeplearning4j/deeplearning4j
An additional explanation I heard is that the more common reflector telescope possesses diffraction artifacts inherently caused by the mounts of secondary mirrors. These artifacts interfere with seeing the faint magnitude of galaxy halos. Refractor telescopes don't have these artifacts.
Vast Conspiracy to Overcharge for Chicken?
There are probably no greater predictors of success than a stable marriage and delaying children. I know people like to roll their eyes when conservatives talk about this stuff, but shouldn't we try to increase focus on the two greatest predictors of success?
That doesn't contradict my conjecture that the issue was improper sharding. The jump in duration of cancellation detection from 2ms to 20ms could have been because they were running that calculation on a single machine.

Although... Ethernet latency would probably make it tough to stick to 2ms.
Why is it better? Because you say so? The American way offers huge rewards for success and punishes failure brutally. It forces you to take risks. Overall, it creates more than other systems.
You mean unsubstantiated bluster, as compared to the actual, you know, fuck-ton of science that shows there's no link and never has been?

No, that doesn't phase me in the slightest. If rumours of someone claiming to be from the CDC having said something provocative are a form of evidence to you, then I feel sorry for you.
I am interested in the full text search as well as

Index-only scans for partial indexes
This post and its comments totally feels like a post from Slashdot.
Nah, fam, it would be so much more efficient to write it in Elixir
15 years later: On the physics of high-rise building collapses [pdf]
> Unless you're proposing a large rise in non-profit foundations, these are mostly funded by for-profit corporations operating in a market.

You bring up a deep problem that I admit I'm not sure how to solve. I'd love to see a large rise in non-profit foundations, but I'm not actually convinced even that would solve the problem.

I think the solutions proposed by i.e. the FSF where up-front contractual obligation to follow through with their ideals may be a better solution, but we're beginning to see very sophisticated corporate attacks on that model, so it remains to be seen how effective that will be.

> I don't think most people beyond libertarians or knee jerk conservatives believe that. Heck most economists don't really believe the market is "self regulating", there's just too much evidence that it's not.

> However, most do believe that a regulated market solves the problem of large-scale resource allocation better than planning in most cases. In same cases, no: healthcare is a well-studied is a case of market failure and why centralized / planned players fare better. It's not clear to what ends data/communications/security is a case of market failure and warranting alternative solutions.

This argument is purely sophistry. You take a step back and talk about a more general case to make your position seem more moderate, admitting that the free market isn't self-regulating, but then return to the stance that the free market solves this problem because a regulated market (regulated how? by itself? In the context of free market versus government regulation, "regulated market" is a very opaque phrase) solves most cases, and on that principle, we don't know whether the very general field of data/communications/security warrants alternative solutions (now we can't even say "government regulation" and have to euphemistically call it "alternative solutions" as if government involvement is an act of economic deviance?).

We're speaking about a case where the free market didn't work, de facto: Yahoo exposed user data, hid that fact, and likely will get the economic equivalent of a slap on the wrist because users simply aren't technical enough to know how big of a problem this is.

So let's not speak in generalizations here: the free market has failed already in this case, and you admit that the free market doesn't self-regulate, so you can't argue that the free market will suddenly start self-regulating in this case. Regulation isn't an "alternative solution", it's the only viable solution we have that hasn't been tried.
"The statistic grew from ~25% to 33%. This is noteworthy."

That's the whole point! Compare to, for example: "Homeless people in America that are over 50 increased by 30%". See the difference? "A third" is just what one would expect from pure statistics.
It is direct investment into a new asset class

There really is no rebuttal to the clever savant that makes this observation whether you are at a VC fundraising event, an Amway meeting, or talking to Charles Ponzi himself
She says she's had to go to a hospital a lot, so she's probably on cheap/free healthcare (or she wouldn't be able to have it).

She says she gets foodstamps. She may well have a free cellphone.

By the sounds of the article she isn't passive and actively looks for ways to improve her situation.
City Demonstrates How a “48-Hour Brain Dump” Can Build Trust in Police
Maybe this is a bit trite, but isn't the ordering given in Free simply the order of the code? At what stage does loss of information happen.
> They also give clean needles (could happen in certain states) and crack pipes (never).

Both crack pipes AND needles are given out in Canada. Not sure why you think crack would be treated differently? Harm reduction is harm reduction, I doubt they are selective about which drugs are used.

Although Canada is progressive and even has safe heroin injection sites in Vancouver staffed with nurses. I just read an article saying that it's now coming to other provinces because it was successful in reducing the spread of diseases and overdoses. Plus we are legalizing marijuana.

Not sure about the US harm reduction policies though, they are known for some silly drug policies.
> So if the car wants to do a correct maneuver in the test (i.e., one that passes the evaluation), but it is different than the maneuver the test has recorded, then you suddenly don't have the data to assess how well the car did.

Wouldn't engineers notice that when examining why the car failed the test, and modify the test to allow the new correct maneuver?
Ah, the pot calling the kettle black :)
Promising Biomaterial to Build Better Bones with 3-D Printing
Distributed Censorship or Extortion? The Iot vs. Brian Krebs
Microsoft Merges MSR with Bing, Cortana, Robotics, Ambient, Information Platform
In the US, a meaningful fraction of the population over fifty is receiving direct cash distributions in the form of Social Security [and perhaps other forms of 'retirement checks']. Such direct cash support is much less common among the rest of the population. One way of looking at it is that the rate of homelessness among people over 50 is what it is despite the rates at which individuals within it recieve of direct cash support.
the luddites never learn
As a ruby developer who had to move to python for its data science support, it’s very nice to see that people help Ruby to evolve into this direction. Ruby is a beautiful language that should be expanded beyond web development and these kind of libraries will make it happen.

But, as encouraging as it is, if your’e thinking about developing a real, production-ready, data science project in ruby - don’t. At least not yet. The libraries around machine learning, neural networks etc are old, unmaintained and usually don’t even work.
... or not.
Is there any kind of simulator that I could run on my classical hardware to get some experience programming with this kind of thing?
Maybe she's alluding to the fact that if buying a house was more affordable, but the time she was 60 she might have owned her own home, so at the very least she would have had a roof over her head when she ran out of money.
Up to Ubuntu 14.04, PulseAudio worked just great for me. To the point that I didn't notice it was running, because everything just worked.

With 16.04, PA has decided to not recognize the analog ports (headphone, microphone) on my motherboard. They are still there, and I can use ALSA programs to control the volume and play audio. But they just disappear after a couple seconds. It is annoying enough I might just move back to Ubuntu 14.04.
Because if it breaks, there are no spare parts, the people that maintained the system are long gone and the software that it ran probably does not run on a modern computer/OS.

Related: http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-23-year-old-windows-3-1-syste...
What comes after automated knowledge work?
تحميل لعبة وصلة كلمات متقاطعة ألغاز للأندرويد وللأيفون مجاناً
How Can Technology Improve Healthcare for Everyone?
The next industrial revolution doesn't even have to automate jobs to kill them. It just has to make them all so specialized that it will be highly improbable that there's any people who have that specialization.
As of right now both views seem to just be idle speculation. I'm not an economist but every other time similar things have happened in industry the economy has balanced out. What I don't get is how what is happening now is fundamentally different to the point where the economy won't correct?
I find it odd that you care more about the perception of your country than actually dealing with the horrible problems you have.

What is more important solving poverty in America or shut up some smug European saying unfavorable things about America?

I would never excuse problems in Norway by saying look how horrible it is for people in Ethiopia. We are a rich country and should be judged by those standards. So is America. It ought to be embarrassing that you are even competing with third world countries.

In your sad world I guess you imagine that this is a game to me. That I just want to embarrass America to feel all good about myself. I don't. I feel deeply sad about the many people suffering in the US. Why do I not feel the same about people in say South Africa?

Well we humans are odd. We don't care equally much about everybody. As Europeans we will feel strong kinship with Americans. We have many family members there and we can relate to American society as it is another western society with many of the same values.

Solving Uganda, Jordan or Colombia's problems are very difficult not at least because they are poor. America's problem seems like the most unnecessary problems in the world because America is so wealthy and still have third world problems. They could have been solved with political will.

Other countries don't have that luxury, they actually have to build and industrial base and get rich first.
Protecting Humans and Jobs from Robots Is 5 Tech Giants’ Goal
"How is government oversight of these companies going to prevent you from applying your own magical 'data privacy management' spells?"

That depends on what is being overseen by the government.

I have no issue with EU-style or Canadian-style privacy regs for PII. I think that encourages local innovation by ensuring data can stay within a legal geographical territory.

Where I take issue is "AI is scary, please stop these companies from doing things" and by implication thinking that a government (a) is an organization I trust more than the company with what should be done with my data (a massive leap), or (b) provides value by preventing/limiting that organization from offering a services I want based on AI because non-customers somehow think it's scary or might lead to some nebulous monopoly power.

I'm not saying no government oversight is every warranted ever, I'm saying that there's a lot of fear-based desire in this thread for "government save us from Zuck!!" which isn't helpful when people don't even know what specific regulation they're looking for and what the systemic consequences of that would be.
Thanks for the links. I went deep into the Bear thread, definitely an interesting man. Funny enough as I began reading I was thinking, "I would only do this if I had access to cheap Australian grass-fed beef," and it turns out he lived there. Commercially available beef in the US is plain awful; Whole Foods carries grass-fed Australian but it's expensive. Fortunately I'll be moving there soon.

Now, I've been doing a lot of thinking about my evolutionary history. My immediate ancestors are from central Asia / mideast but really don't know about anyone beyond great-grandparents. Observing myself, I seem to thrive in dry weather and feel horrible in humid weather (regardless of temp; winter moisture doesn't feel good either). This has led me to believe my "genetic preference" is for dry climates and possibly the foods found in arid places, which would probably be animals that feed on dry grasses and such.

I love fruits and vegetables, I have grown up eating lots of them, and salad everyday. However, I am open to skepticism, as right now in the last few days I've stayed home and eaten nothing but very fresh, healthy vegetables and fruit all day and yet still could not prevent this cold / congestion from taking root. I could not imagine eating zero vegetables for the rest of my life, though, it sounds ridiculous.

I'm fed up with generally being a low energy person, with chronic nasal congestion (inflammation, not mucous) maybe I will give this a shot. I don't need to lose weight, but I do want mental clarity and energy. I'm quite healthy "by the numbers," but a recent finding of almost deficient levels of Vit D and B12 leads me to believe that I require a high meat diet.