skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I complete disagree. Dr.Neal Koblitz (inventor of elliptical curve cryptography)spent a good bit of his life fighting this obsession with bringing the computer into math so things can be visualized & manipulated. You should check out what he has to say.
https://www.math.washington.edu/~koblitz/mi.html

btw, I used to think like you before I got into math. Its a very valid albeit flawed viewpoint - to think that hey if only there was a javascript doodad somewhere so I could move a slider and manipulate the parameter space, I will instantly "feel" CLT in my blood instead of working through CLT as a dry formal math proof. The reality is, this sort of dumbing things down works maybe in 2D and best case 3D, but beyond that, its utility is rapidly diminished. Also, the results you get in the lower dimensions don't map into higher space. As yummyfajitas points out elsewhere, in a reasonably high dim space, all pairs of random points will be fairly equidistant, which is simply not the case for say 2D. So even the little bit of useful intuition you learn in the lower dims becomes quite useless as you scale up.

Proofs are best learnt by doing proofs. Math is not cinema.
Of all the different ways you can improve your brain there is only one thing they all have in common that things that don't make your brain better have. They challenge your brain. The complexity of a problem required to challenge someone is different for every organism. A simple task would improve a bees cognition. A more challenging task would be needed to improve a retarded humans. A more challenging task than that for an average human, and continued for an above average human, well above average human, cont.
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At the time we were only hiring a single engineer, but that's definitely a good suggestion.
It's not news that Russia is doing this. It is news that the government is officially accusing them of it. There are going to be geopolitical and diplomatic repercussions from this.
>there is no event like Burning Man on the planet.

There's another event that happens I'd like to tell you about.

It's a place where people get together with friends and strangers to share thoughts, ideas, drugs of one kind or another, and even gifts.

It's a place that sometimes does get ruined, and sometimes does not--most often ruined by the organizers themselves. It has a lot on common with burning man.

There are people there who will agree with your attitudes about art, music, culture, and technology. There are people who will disagree so hard they want to punch you in the face.

We even burn things down--sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively.

It's a great event, and I speak for everyone involved when I suggest that you participate.

It's called real fucking life. Feel free to join us any time.
Actually this is a pretty clear sign of a state sponsored attack, most attacks including the ones that the US does are not technically sophisticated but they are executed near flawlessly with a very good operational methodology, the other aspect of state sponsored attacks is protection; even the criminal elements of the security/hacking community stays out of military and government networks usually unless they have a pretty strong patron they can run to, no one wants to experience rendition or a drone strike both of which are very real threats hackers that attack government networks face.
Security Analysis of Estonia's Internet Voting System
We should make DRM as expensive, difficult, and unwieldy to use as possible. We need not and should not standardize the use of things that are detrimental.

"Oh, hackers will always be able to break into systems. So instead of making them do it ad-hoc, let's just create a standardized backdoor on every system. It will be less work for everyone."
"all people are boring" a little too on the nose.
Even they aren't paid that highly. Most of them make chump change compared to a world class lawyer or a doctor.

I guess we can thank Steve Jobs for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
It's impossible to say if the attacker owns one beefy server or a thousand of bots.
You're actually not being pedantic. It's true! Microsoft does _not_ love open source.

The company does love to find ways to hurt Linux while pretending to "love" it.
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Press release (with the joint DHS and ODNI statement referenced in the article): https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/10/07/joint-statement-departme...
US accuses Russia of cyber attacks
The US itself has become slightly less shy recently about it's efforts to manipulate elections. With high likelihood, direct criticism back and forth between these two superpowers is likely to inform those in smaller countries that their votes are subject - as they have been for a long time - both domestic and foreign manipulation, some of it very clever and very deniable.

In this case it should be introduced as a concept in civics courses that as an individual your vote is not 'your own' and an expression of your personal thoughts, but that your vote is a commodity that other people are trying, covertly, to convince you to spend certain ways. Civics courses would do well to train citizens not to believe their own states, not to believe major news outlets, and to otherwise vote when they feel they've come to be able to identify the discrete manipulative narratives coming from various political information warfare centers.
Yup, it was Ginger. The syntax was like a mix of Python and Scheme.

define fib (n)
if (= n 0) 0
elsif: (= n 1) 1
else: (+ (fib (- n 1)) (fib (- n 2)))

println (fib 20)
The entire brain training market seems to be based on a willful failure to understand Goodhart's Law.

The basic pitch is "performance on these games correlates with intelligence, so practice these games to become more intelligent". That's not how anything works! If you influence a metric directly, it stops being a good proxy for all the things it used to correlate with.

It's like fly-by-night companies improving retention by selling at a loss, or running up user count with expensive perks for each new client. Those numbers are important as a reflection of business health, not a cause of it.
I don't think it would be a major international incident or even be particularly unexpected for them to hack the rnc and dns and anything else they could get their hands on. In fact, they'd be failing at their jobs if they weren't trying their hardest to do that.

The problem is that they released the data. And they are fairly blatantly attempting to tip the scales in an ongoing election. That's not something that the US can politely ignore. It threatens the entire political system of the US.
Criminal law makes a distinction between gross negligence (locking the doors to a busy club so people can't get out which then catches on fire and kills everyone), and ordinary negligence (securing a heavy thing in the air with just a knot that falls and kills someone). Even if someone "should have known," that is almost never enough for criminal liability.
This is silly. Check out the two major "targets": Clinton's emails and the DNC. Read about how the Clinton server was "secured" (hint: comically). Read about how the DNC has been getting hacked: very simple phishing scams. Everything about the DNC screams shoddy. Why haven't the Republicans been hacked? This isn't a question about politics, its that the DNC clearly has some operational problems.

No, what this really is is an information campaign that both countries are playing against each other. You've got Crimea, Syria, other hotspots. Check out Trump's rhetoric: he admires Putin, he clearly doesn't want war. Check out Clinton's rhetoric: conflict.

Donald Trump being a racist Neville Chamberlain should make no one excited, but the neoliberal part of the Democratic party (which is clearly ascendant and has been for some time like the neoconservatives) doesn't like getting bullied in retaliation for being a bully.
Hillary trying to start World War 3.
That particular question seems to resonate because it was also mentioned in 2014 NYT article about a mother's autistic son and his relationship with Siri: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/fashion/how-apples-siri-be...
Really? Can you name one hacker targeted in a drone strike? I'm pretty sure that only happens in your mind.
There may be a skills shortage but that has nothing to do with a graduate shortage (or lack thereof). Just because you graduated doesn't mean you have a useful skill set, that you're proficient or employable.
Sort of, as there are other models. What I'm objecting to is the claim that a) DRM is just necessary and b) we are talking about it as a mechanism to fund content creators.

a) is simply not true
b) is mostly not true - DRM is used to prop up a desired business model for many layers between consumers and content creators - the content creators incidentally get a small part of the revenue, but that isn't really what the conversation is about

So if we are talking about these things, we should at least be honest about what we are talking about funding, and how.
does real life have any of these sparkle ponies the burning man savants are so afraid of? they sound cool.
okay but but whom? geopolitical and diplomatic repercussions by Russians or Americans?

In case Americans... is there anything America can do to them to make them feel the heat? I mean you talking about the country that was in a deep poverty for decades but still praised and loved their dictator...

That mentality won't change.
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When using browser-sync, which parched-tasks-webapps does, CSS is already hot-reloaded, and there's no worry of configuring different "loaders" for the case of a javascript file on the server trying to require a CSS file.

In both cases, the page is loading an external stylesheet, so both are as susceptible to FOUCs as the other.

This is only my opinion, but using CSS loaders backs you into a corner where your javascript file is suddenly less portable, since the environment it will be running on needs to be aware of it.
> The biggest career advice you can take: it never gets better, there is no good fight, and you should flee to save yourself.

This is demonstrably false since a lot of people like their jobs (that includes me and, anecdotally, most of the people I work with)
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Would You Take an 8% Pay Cut to Work from Home?
Is there any compromise about Microsoft not going to sue Open Source projects anymore? (FAT patents, etc.)
KOHCTPYKTOP seemed like building things with transistors should work about the same way, but I've only built things with logic gates (and that, only a little). Could you not actually build circuits the way you do in the game? I've actually been thinking of buying a few thousands of transistors (2N3904) (and resistors as needed, which aren't used in the game) to see how far I could get building a (tiny) computer.
As annoying as SFO can be with for the reasons you've mentioned, it's miles better than going to Laguardia where there is no rail connection, and specific public transit buses go to specific terminals. When going to Laguardia from Manhattan, 89% of people commute by taxi/private car service!
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Next time I have a 12 hour stop-over in an airport that's mostly closed I'll remember how much I should be enjoying myself - I'm travelling.
I am serious - and don't call me Shirley.

EDIT: It's Friday. Voted down for one of the greatests movie quotes of all time?

https://youtu.be/ixljWVyPby0?t=62
Recent HTTP DDoS attacks have shown that there is no dependency on spoofing. The problem will be there as long as there's insecure hardware out there.
Can someone explain the consequences of DDoS attacks to me? My understanding is that the worst case is that the target server goes offline for the duration of the attack.

If that's indeed the endgame, it seems like a lot of work on the attacker's part to disable a company's servers for a bit, but maybe I"m missing something? The article did mention servers boiling, but that was likely hyperbole unless there's a way to physically damage servers with DDoS.
Why doesn't real embedded development work this way?! This is awesome and I want it to be real.

This is the distilled greatest moments of embedded development because in reality I spent today ~2 hours doing a code merge, ~2 hours of work logging and other bureaucracy, ~1 hour of helping testers and ~2 hours of reading schematics and hunting down hardware issues with an oscilloscope and spectrograph.
The best way is to work on your own project. Read or watch some videos to start but quickly start a project yourself.
Facebook is like this as well, but I very strongly disagree that it's a negative.
Most damningly, the review didn't turn up dose-dependent results. If n-back works, I would expect either "more is better" or "flat gain past some minimum". Instead, the effect vs training graph is a shapeless cloud, which seems like a major warning sign.
Right. We shouldn't pretend that the US doesn't do this to other countries. What happened in the Ukraine, for example, almost certainly wasn't an organically grown domestic insurrection. That was nurtured by NGOs and foreign intelligence agencies.

Nonetheless-- it's one thing when the superpowers do that to smaller countries, and another, far more dangerous thing when they start doing it to each other. We're in uncharted territory here. As you saw in the Ukraine (and Syria, and Egypt, and so on and so forth), when the political system fails, you have violence, and the US isn't going to stand by and watch Russia destroy the integrity of our elections. And our means for retaliating are untested, and the risk of escalation is pretty high.
Should be similar for IQ tests, I guess. So if new generations have better "IQ", some part of it could come just because of being more prepared/trained for those kind of tests.
Am I the only one who would like to see cold hard evidence for these claims? I want server logs, ip traces, intercepts, or some proof besides just "intelligence says".
Thanks for the new Bash trick.
Thanks!

It seems very obvious now. I was thinking the purpose of the language was for performing research, but that didn't make much sense. I see now that it's the language itself that is the subject of research, not the tool. English is fun.
If we're going to move toward open cyberwarfare, we could do a lot to their network infrastructure.
Haha, yeah, I do systems development, not far from your area of work, I imagine. I have a CS degree, but I hated doing it. Google seemed to be aiming for CS experts, and I just want to make computers do cool/useful stuff.

Of course, there's other disadvantages to working for big companies. Lots of dead weight (see: that recruiter I worked with), lots of rules, a lack of trust, lots of bureaucracy... I'd do it if I have to, but the small company vibe works way better for me.
Would you care to share where you work, so I can mark it down as a nightmarish hellhole I should forever shun?
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Normal users aren't relevant players in the politics of DRM. It's everyone who's tech- and IP-literate who is involved in the politics of DRM.
Misleading headline. Working from home doesn't necessarily imply the setting of one's own hours.
Thanks for clarifying my misconception
But McDonalds cannot just put whatever ingredients they want in their burgers. They have to follow rules. Like not putting Nicotine in them.
And they could do a lot with our power grid. Probably not a wise path to move down.
The US? Seriously is this some kind of joke? The same US that has been assassinating leaders and overthrowing dictators for over 100 years is accusing someone else of interfering with an election? That's really a sign of mental illness on the part of the US.
Not one of the old guard from the socialist era, a generally good reputation / better service, and first to have relatively OK internet banking. (ie. not 'manually reconfigure your windows certificates' like some others used to be)
Should you ever be delayed at Gatwick, with pleasant weather, there's a public footpath that leads away from the airport along the river. It's amazing how quickly the airport disappears from view.

I spent some of a 4 hour delay walking this path.

The blue dotted line, go north then along the river: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.1581/-0.1632
Without getting bewildered I would suggested going through these 3:

1. Book of Proof by Hammack (http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/)

2. Calculus by Spivak

3. Linear Algebra Done Right by Axler

Be prepared to work through all (or at the very least only the odd numbered) exercises. If you can't stomach that or find that life gets in the way of you completing even these very basic books, you do not have the time or discipline required to advance in mathematics.
I think the unwritten qualification is "If it's a bad environment".

"If it's a bad environment -- it never gets better, there is no good fight, and you should flee to save yourself."

It's very possible to find places that are good to work at. It's highly unlikely for a shitty environment to get significantly better.
That's like saying that quitting smoking is ineffective because many people can't follow through with it.

Limiting caloric intake (diet) below caloric output (exercise, etc) is the only effective way to lose weight, excluding literally cutting it off. Just because people struggle at doing so doesn't mean that it's not effective.
You will never see it. The US never provides proof. Only "Intel sources say" and rumors.
Depends on the toddler, and on the age.
>And even still, who cares?! Do you actually have a good handle on how many of your employees just read HN or Reddit for half a day? Unaccounted for smoke breaks? Having to make personal calls while on the clock?

Don't need a handle on it if you block access to them.

But my work found that blocking Reddit/Facebook actually made less work get done: people couldn't spend 5-10 minutes to unwind and then plug back in and work. That policy lasted a single week.
Prediction: The speedup buttons will be globally configurable and will be promptly disabled by each company.
A number of my close friends are part of the gay community there, so I strongly care about that issue. My experience has been that the gay community is very strong and has as good relations with police as anyone. Of all the complaints I've heard about police, I really haven't heard that as a theme. I'm sorry your friends had that bad experience.

The (overbearing) presence of police is dispiriting, and is most definitely a sunk cost of the growth and notoriety of the event as it now is. No one enjoys that. It is what it is. That said, it's easy to overstate its impact - they're ultimately a very small part of the experience and don't really stop you from doing whatever you want to do out there.

Burning Man is not what it was in 2000. People who really enjoyed what it was then may not enjoy what it is now. But it really isn't Disneyland or Vegas. Thankfully (in my experience), there's still a long, long way to go before it gets there. When it's getting there I'll be the first to step off the ride. But I'm still enthusiastically in love with what it is now and proud of the communities I know and have been a part of. They're some of the most solid people I've ever known. That's mostly, in the end, what keeps me there.

Our conversation sounds like a "changing of the guards" dialogue. I'm glad you have good memories from your times and I hope you can find some joy knowing there are still people with fires in their heart stirring the flames.
I'd love to! Are you Guillaume?

Are you working on more than classification? What about automatic improvements, including not just lightning but also straightening, cropping, etc.
Depends on what level the students are and what depth you want to teach them at. It's really a puzzle game that happens to use an extremely simplified assembly language as its interface. Students would get the general flavor concepts of programming at the assembly language level but it's only coarsely similar to programming a real device. Moreover, the game is inherently multi-threaded, which adds a level of complexity.

If your students are at the primary or secondary levels, a less complicated but similar game like "Human Resource Machine" ( https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine ) would probably be easier for them to grasp.
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What's the evidence?

Personally, I think the Russians were involved. But for consequences to follow, we as a culture need to be certain based the preponderance of the evidence.
>>>The W3C exists as place for these companies to work out interoperability standards.

Web for All

The social value of the Web is that it enables human communication, commerce, and opportunities to share knowledge. One of W3C's primary goals is to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability.

Web on Everything

The number of different kinds of devices that can access the Web has grown immensely. Mobile phones, smart phones, personal digital assistants, interactive television systems, voice response systems, kiosks and even certain domestic appliances can all access the Web.

https://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission

EME and DRM violate the Stated mission of the W3C
I never thought of Feynman in this way. At first those quotes on his view of router mechanics seems average at best, but the Danny Hills followups were really interesting and give me new light on Feynman's quotes. Thanks!

I learned a lot from his lectures even though I didn't go to Cal Tech (only UC Berkeley, but his lectures where still available).

EDIT: I've written Conway's Game of Life in at least 20 languages by now (including oddities like PostScript and C++ templates). I find it an excellent way to view a machine,
From the underlying statement:

> The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts

I really hope that we have better evidence than this. The US intelligence community has made errors before, even in circumstances where they released considerably more information than this.

Given that the attacks have been directed at a particular party, and that party is the one currently in power in the executive branch, establishing that the results of the investigation are truly objective should be a critical goal here, to prevent this press release itself being seen as an attempt to influence the election.
Hillary wanted to drone Snowden. I don't think it's too far off you're going to see these batshit crazy political elities start droning anyone that opposes them.