skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two problems with your reasoning:

- Who decides that hacking the Mafia is Ok and someone else it is not? And if Mafia is ok, what about lesser criminals? What about someone you suspect is criminal but you are not sure?

- It is in theory laudable to ask full transparency from our politicians. And, yes, the on/off record distinction is sometimes problematic. But this is not what we are talking about. The article discusses private conversation between two public persons. They should think on how they express themselves in these conversations? This couldn't have the effect of freezing their ability to communicate? I have no idea, but I think it will be problematic. I'm not saying that one of the two involved parties could not breach the privacy assumption. That is own personal choice with the consequences to his reputation, so he could decide to do that according to his ethical consideration if he thinks what he has seen is wrong...
It's interesting to think about the ways your opponent might capture your pieces, but it's just as interesting and just as important to think about the ways you might capture theirs.

Time we spend bickering about whether electric cars are ready is time not spent talking about the new grid, the new architecture, the new social organization that will form around these (to me obviously) imminent technologies.

I don't think "how it could succeed" is less interesting than "how it could fail". And if I expect something to succeed, frankly the failure speculation starts to get a bit boring.

It's a bit personal for me because I am pursuing a high-setback business model in my startup and so people always want to talk about the looming dangers they see. It starts to get boring, because I expect a certain number of failures, and I intend to work through them. What's interesting to mr is whether the first principles analysis is right, and how the plan looks from a Zen perspective... Not is everything right, but am I applying pressure in the right place today given the conditions.
It's interesting to think about the ways your opponent might capture your pieces, but it's just as interesting and just ad important to think about the ways you might capture theirs.

Time we spent bickering about whether electric cars are ready is time not spent talking about the new grid, the new architecture, the new social organization that will form around these (to me obviously) imminent technologies.

I don't think "how it could succeed" is less interesting than "how it could fail". And if I expect something to succeed, frankly the failure speculation starts to get a bit boring.
The NSA are not releasing my inbox for the whole world to see.
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It is bad because the UNIX culture just froze in time.

Computers with the hardware computing power capable of making Xerox PARC researchers dream of new worlds, are bought and used exactly the same way as if they were a Sun-3 workstation.

Then Bret Victor does a presentation and everyone is amazed what proper desktop programming environment should be capable of.

No wonder, that the majority of the developers, which actually cares about the overall desktop experience has moved into macOS or back to Windows. Which are also the biggest communities producing applications for mobile devices.

As Rob Pike, a person that might know one or two things about UNIX, puts it

"We really are using a 1970s era operating system well past its sell-by date. We get a lot done, and we have fun, but let's face it, the fundamental design of Unix is older than many of the readers of Slashdot, while lots of different, great ideas about computing and networks have been developed in the last 30 years. Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy."

-- https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/04/10/18/1153211/rob-p...
NSA Can Access More Phone Data Than Ever
>> it's not going to take long before mobile phones offer similar graphics, and gamepad experiences.

But they already do now. The only problem, albeit a big one, with gamepad experiences is the constantly changing form factors of phones over time.

>> At that point, what's the advantage of buying a Switch, when the phone in your pocket does all of the same things, and more?

It's not about the hardware, it's about the software. And in Nintendo's case, it's about having the latest and greatest first party Nintendo games. Which, with few exceptions, are not available on other platforms. The bottom line, enough people are still willing to pay for proprietary hardware to play Nintendo's games.
Do you actually know something or is it just speculation?

It looks like they are attempting to prohibit driving people for money, not connecting the car to unauthorized software. "Revenue purposes" is the exact words they used.
It's not just self-driving cars. It's features like autonomous parking, lane-assitance, cruise control that automatically keeps the distance to the car in front of you and the like. Stuff like that has been repeatedly hailed by HN'ers as revolutionary when Tesla introduced it. Neglecting that other companies had those features for years.

Whenever Tesla is the topic it's almost guaranteed every negative comment on HN will be downvoted (I just see that right now with my comment above. It's constantly gaining and losing me karma).

Besides that, the self-driving Tesla isn't news. That is the joke here. It's a press release that gets frenzied on HN's #1 spot.
Maybe I didn't convey it clearly, but this is what I was trying to get at by different packages and price points. Consider how the 3DS is marketed. I can buy the cheap 2DS, the middle of the road 3DS, or the high end 3DS XL (might even be missing some options).

At the end of the day they all play the same games. I bought the 2DS for my 3 kids because it is cheap, but also because it is the most rugged with it's non folding uni-body so they are less likely to break it.

I bought the 3DS XL for myself because I have poor eyesight and need the bigger screen and I'm less likely to break it.

If Nintendo does something along these lines I suspect people would buy multiple Switches per household. Based on their history it's not unreasonable to suspect that something like this is in the works. I doubt it would happen at launch since, but over time I will not be at all surprised to see different versions of this system offered.
The article is titled to kind of make it sound like its a bad thing, when its not. The discrepancy in different IDs and how different states issue them and whats accepted is ridiculous.
So you still own the car but won't be licensed to drive it?

And people are saying "Yeah, sounds reasonable!" in this thread? Okay...
I will need to know , what do you have in SAP, what do you have in Salesforce.
It's precedent really.

One company does something to fuck over consumers and the others hold their breath for a minute to see what happens, then stampede to do it too.

It's why we have binding arbitration agreements and no right to class action lawsuits in EULAs for game consoles.

It's why we have every company around trying to extract their 30% cut by sticking themselves in as a middle man.

It's why we will end up losing the right to use our cars as we see fit. I don't the buy the argument that it's a "software platform" now. The amount of software in cars has been increasing for decades and this being a bit smarter doesn't suddenly mean that Tesla should get to take this step.

They need to be stopped. It's not some Stallman-esque FOSS zealotry, it's just wanting to preserve the basic concept that I own my car.
You're right to ask for citation. Put simply, there is no definitive proof that the primary was rigged per se, but there were consistent differences between the exit polling & the voting results. Almost all of the differences were in Secretary Clinton's favor, and these discrepancies were not found in the Republican primaries, nor were they found in the '08 primaries.

http://www.snopes.com/stanford-study-proves-election-fraud-t...
Yes, I remember trying to use Google Books Ngram Dataset [1], but it was too tedious for me to setup and maintain a server with the data for a purpose of a quick-and-dirty tool (that's why I asked for a ready API). Still, using it is probably a nice idea for a more ambitious side project or even a startup.

EDIT. Actually I would happily pay for a tool that implements the idea. Grammarly has paid plans but $30/month is too steep (for my types of usages), and the types of grammar checks it performs is not exactly what I need (which is what real people in real situations use).

[1] http://storage.googleapis.com/books/ngrams/books/datasetsv2....
I couldn't find anything that shows/says it has any kind of touch screen. I hope it doesn't. I also hope there isn't any kind of indie market, there's already plenty of options for that and it would be nice not to have to sift through a hundred FNAF rip-offs to find something worth playing.
FM actually has a very very extensive player database and a large number of scouts who provide them with data. There are reports of popular clubs who use the FM database (and additional statistical analysis) to find out about players and so on. A slight tangent, there are teams like FC Midtjylland(Danish League) and Brentford(English second tier) who make extensive use of data (think Moneyball) to sign players, and have achieved moderate success.
Announcing the October 2016 Update for .NET Core 1.0
Exciting product. Criticism: the detachable controllers don't appear very ergonomic. They are small in size and the detaching mechanism look looks somewhat flimsy.
But couldn't that just be, to use the language of my analogy, papers being published which confirm particle existence?

I mean, if physics publishes papers when they find things they expected to find (at least, the first instance of each kind of thing and thereafter, any novel improvement in their production), why wouldn't machine learning theorists?

That's precisely what I can't tell: is a paper that's "We found that architecture X performed task Y with score Z" the same as "We found particle X at energy level Y and have no idea what it is" or "We found particle X at energy level Y just as we were expecting"?

And a lot of the papers are "We changed architecture X to now have feature Y and got the expected improvement Z", which I doubly can't tell how expected the improvement was and how systemically improvements are being designed and implemented.
Yeah, they just step around due process and use parallel construction to throw people in jail who they couldn't actually prosecute. That makes the destruction of our privacy ok, I guess.
Techfugees in Calais
> Also am I the only one who finds the Peanuts to be depressing?

Well, yes, but it could be worse. Matt "Simpsons" Groening had really depressing strips ('Akbar and Jeff' and 'Life in Hell') in the early years in the free newspapers.
Downtown Montreal here, speed right now:
83 mbit/s down
13 mbit/s up

Quite good, almost as fast as my home connection.
I would agree. Reading it felt like a mush of useless quotes and no real substance. All I can find are articles citing this one and when I search WHO, I only get articles about infertility and disabilities, not anything suggesting not finding a partner is the same as infertility.
I would guess with an hourly charge.
Overview: Applying Big Data Analytics to Clickstream Data
Sorry but it absolutely needs LIDAR.
Think about neural nets as emergent: simple nodes give rise to complicated dynamics. The dynamics are determined by the overall geometry of the system.

Theoretically, we should be able to look at a bunch of different geometries and explain what works and what doesn't, just from the original rules and the geometry. The fact that we can't, and usually experimentation is necessary to get a good idea about the strengths and weaknesses of different geometries, is a signal that we don't really understand the system. I'm not aware of any theory of the type: give me an ordered graph with typed nodes and I'll give you the types of data this is good at modeling, how quickly it will converge, if you need dropout or layer-skip or something else in order to make it converge well, etc.

In your physics analogy: we can write out various properties of composite particles purely from theory: i.e. Mesons decay pathways and allowed compositions, Baryons decay pathways and allowed compositions, etc, just knowing about the core 17 standard model particles. We know about a few core nodes of neural nets, but can't use that to predict the behavior of the whole net.
> But the real killer is: games are still tied to hardware, not user account.

that's wrong. only the game that is preinstalled on the console is tied to the hardware. which mostly happens on bundles.
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The iPhone couldn't cut and paste for a long while. Hell, iirc, there wasn't the App Store until iOS 2 or 3.
Yet both "It gives out" and "different ways to say the exact same thing" give many thousands of results. So "5" should be recognized as a template variable or the meaning should be combined from popular fragments.
And what useful conclusions can be drawn from that?
A much more balanced take on the subject is offered in the link at the bottom of the article https://seti.berkeley.edu/bl_sdss_seti_2016.pdf

I am quoting from there: "The international SETI community has established a 0 to 10 scale for quantifying detections of phenomena that may indicate the existence of advanced life beyond the Earth called the "Rio Scale". The BSRC team
assesses the Borra-Trottier result to currently be a 0 or 1 (None/Insignificant) on this scale. If the signal were
to be confirmed with another independent telescope, its significance would rise, though an exhaustive
analysis of other possible explanations, including instrumental phenomena, must be performed before
supporting the hypothesis that artificially generated pulses are responsible for the claimed signal."
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The way I see it panning out is that the first generation of autonomous vehicles is going to have a tough time. As more and more cars become fully autonomous there will develop some sort of protocol where every autonomous vehicle will be relaying exactly what it's "about to do" to anything nearby. I.e. your car will know if the car in front / behind / on the other side of the freeway is about to do anything and thus eliminate what is currently seen as "unpredictable environmental factors" to a very large extent. Internet of Things will also increase the amount of additional data being fed to the car's computer, e.g. it will know exactly when a traffic light is about to turn red because they will receive this data directly from it.

Once you reach a certain critical percentage of fully autonomous vehicles regulation will probably change to such an extent that car insurers will void your insurance if you drive it manually, or give a significant discount to your insurance premium if you don't ever put it in "manual" mode, etc.

I think the problem is really difficult right now because humans are still allowed to drive, but as that ratio goes down it becomes less of a serious problem.
Great find, pjmlp! The F star code is incredibly readable. I know nothing about the language but I'm fairly sure I get what it's doing. The difference between it and the C illustrates why it's better to get above C if one can for verification and maintenance. The difference is usually much, much worse. The second, impressive thing is that the C was so close in readability to the F star code.

An interesting project for academics might be re-coding parts of MirageOS's TLS in F star to run through Kremlin. They already wrap C versions of the algorithms IIRC. One could start with the algorithms as a practice run. Then the stateful parts as that's where a lot of risk will be. Then the functional parts. Then integration into a C library.
LanguageTool has limited support for using Google's n-gram data to find spelling errors. It only uses 3-grams, and only for a list of commonly confused words. I'm not aware of any Free Software that does better.

http://wiki.languagetool.org/finding-errors-using-n-gram-dat...
OpenBazaar 1.1.8 Released; New Features Added
> They will not go back to cartriges obviously

It does indeed use cartridges:

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/20/13344618/nintendo-switch-n...
Huge list of links on cryptography
Fisher–Yates shuffle – random shuffle of a finite set
> C has no choice but to have MyFunction allocate a couple kilobytes on the stack and have main copy the structure from the stack to where it should eventually go. The equivalent Rust code, however, can pass the address of the object x to MyFunction, as if it were actually void MyFunction(bigstruct &output).

What sort of C implementation (ABI, compiler, etc.) are you thinking of here? gcc (x86, x86-64, ARM) is perfectly capable of doing the exact optimization that you describe Rust being able to do.
In all seriousness, I too think it's silly we do not ID folks before voting.

However, one of the common hurdles seems to be that ID's are not free, as-in folks need to pay to get government issued ID (which is crazy, if you think about it. you don't even own your ID - the issuing state does) and this may negatively impact our poorest population's ability to participate in elections.

Why don't we issue government ID's for free (paid via taxes, naturally), and then ID folks at the voting booth? Only citizens have the right to vote, why not protect that right?
Why the Tesla Model X’s doors open and close automatically
It's interesting to me to watch a video about a new gaming platform and have that video show me all the ways in which said platform will destroy nearly all forms of real human interaction with others, reducing us to unthinking drones looking at screens moving little virtual characters around while our brains whittle away.

This is the problem with the gaming industry. It's the equivalent of very smart engineers using their skills on the web to find ever more effective ways to make people click on ads. It's such a waste of human talent.

Gaming is different but not really. Most of the popular games have no real redeeming qualities. They are black holes into which youth can get sucked into, burn hours, days and years and, in extreme cases, ruin their lives. This, I think, is despicable.

If you want to do well in gaming you have to use your skills to find ways to create addictive games that shift a person into a Pavlovian state where they want more, they keep clicking the buttons and, eventually, they send you money. This has certainly been proven by the iOS space. Games like "Clash of Clans" is one of many examples of this.

Getting truly creative to find ways for people to engage with more intelligent and useful activities is very, very difficult. And so, to usurp part of a phrase that paints an amazing image...when they go low, we go lower.

I have long been disenchanted with what the gaming industry has done to kids. It's making money at the expense of their brains and emotions. It's selling drugs in digital form.

I didn't used to think this way until I saw the effect on my own kids. To make a long story short, my two little ones started to lie to us and play a couple of these addictive games on their iPods.

We have a simple rule at our house: On Saturday's you can play the available games for a couple of hours. The rest of the week play with legos, go outside, play with the dogs, etc.

This worked very well for many years (almost 18 to be precise). In fact, in a lot of cases they'd play less than two hours because they'd get sick of it and prefer to go for physical play.

Until a couple of games surfaced. And they, like evolved bacteria, became immune to the mechanism that made my kids decide to stop playing. Soon we would discover them playing the games in secret under their blankets at 11 at night instead of sleeping. Warnings did not work. And, after a couple of them we took the iPads and iPods away. They had become destructive devices rather than the opposite.

My kids were lying to me in a manner which I would imagine was no different than kids lying about taking drugs.

They've been off the iOS devices and these games for a year. They get their devices back in January. Cleared of all the addictive games. We'll see what happens.

So, yeah, I look at a video like the one for the Switch and immediately imagine how many lives it will destroy if used as portrayed.
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The North American natives had strong traditions of freedom and something like democracy. Alas, they didn't have the military power to resist the USA.

For a very interesting take on this, see "The White Indians of Colonial America". (http://www.amstudy.hku.hk/staff/kjohnson/PDF/engl56_kj_axtel...)
Hourly Billing is Nuts
>A tiny enterprise that took on the old Detroit giants and is winning

In what way are they "winning" against Detroit? Certainly not in revenues, profits, miles driven or cars produced.

Yes, they "own" one segment": high end electric vehicles. No one there is close. But Detroit owns many others. Why does the one that Tesla dominates carry so much weight?
That doesn't speak to me too well, to me all Disney work seems like a clone of each other -- you've seen one, you've seen them all. They are even stylistically (nearly) identical. The plots are all the same. The characters are all the same (and very shallow). I loathe that they now get to milk the Star Wars cow. I'd be very upset if Disney acquired Nintendo, even worse than I was when they got Pixar (and ruined it).

This may be naive, but while Disney strikes me as profits first, and nothing else really matters, and everything else is a byproduct, both Nintendo and Apple strike me as companies that actually give a shit about the final product, and profits are just a vehicle to achieve excellence in that.
No. A salary range requirement isn't customary in the U.S., and I'm in no position to enforce one at such an early stage.

I'll make it an option though, and I'll include the salary data that StackOverflow ads make available when they do. I definitely prefer seeing a salary range when I look for jobs.

>> I'd never ever create a website like this with hidden salaries. ...what if they do so, because they're offering 10, 20, 40% less because it's a place for "old geeks that noone wants"?

In my experience, the risk of wage exploitation decreases with age. Unfortunately, a lot of younger workers are paid lower than less skilled, but older workers simply because of lack of seniority and/or negotiating skills.

But, I must say such "what ifs" are silly in business. What if your anticipation of a nonexistent problem is the cause of your inaction?

I'm not being snarky so much as serious. I've been in a number of meetings where I had to cede to someone's "what if" when the alternative was a cheap and measurable test. Cheap and measurable tests are the primary thrust of my blog post.
I have ~300 things between 40 or so folders in my chrome bookmarks atm, and about ~150 tabs that I need to get around to bookmarking.
Main issue using the normal manager is that it's not actually that easy to parse my folders, and it's troublesome to reorganize

Main reason I keep so many tabs is to send them to people when it comes up in conversation

That'd be why I'd consider buku anyways

Also in the back of my head is auto-pushing bookmarks to wayback and replacing the bookmark link with the wayback copy ala gwern.net; presumably doing that with sqlite would be simpler than some kind of chrome plugin
But the federal government was not granted the power to enforce how states issue IDs.