skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not blind, but I would certainly like to contribute where I can. Shoot me an email (it's in my profile).

The world can certainly use more open source accessibility standards, protocols and tools.
I admit her handling of the issue has not been great, but that is a trend with most of her "scandals". How she handles them is often worse than the scandal itself (in that there tends to be smoke but no fire).

This to me supports the idea she wasn't trying to hide her state dept emails where they couldn't be accessed via FOI requests. If that were the goal, they would have done what the bush administration did and use that server almost exclusively so that both sender and receiver were on a private server. As it was, emails to and from other state dept staffers using their state dept emails would have copies. If that was an attempt to hide official emails it was not a good one.
Does it? Except for very sophisticated organizations, I doubt it.

You don't hear about intrusions into self-hosted source repositories. Not because there are fewer, but because they likely don't have the security infrastructure in place to know that they ever happened.
Similarly, you might be interested in the "Save Page As..." feature of web browsers along with the bookmarking one. I too was worried the best stuff would go away. Plus, Archive.org is sort of a single point of failure, isn't it? So, I just started copying best comments into text files or bookmarking their info if they suited my purposes. Could straight up save the whole thread. If it ever goes down, we upload our collections to one or more repositories in a similar format.

Note: I'm ignoring the complexity that copyright law would introduce into this to just focus on keeping the key info.
Wow.
What's wrong with people?
It's a laptop! It should be durable and updated with the latest hardware. Plus more battery time.
We go on and on about the cloud but no one wishes for the xeon family inside ( it will be hard to call it a laptop with it ). And dont get me started about touchscreens, super overrated!
I really love the idea of the bar and my last pro was a mid 2010.
This pro is now my media center running Sierra, if you asked me back in 2010 i would never guess i will still see it around today, but there it is.
How about rant on the fact that it's 2016 and cancer and AIDS are still a big deal?
And then you'd need to describe the specification language and how would that be verified?

I suppose that English is imperfect and could use improvements. Ideally those two would converge. That would solve problems about the interpretation of laws, as well. How would that convergence work? To answer that you'd have to know how language is acquired in the first place. I suppose some form of self-reference in the language that mirrors some of Chomskie's stipulated universal grammar, if it exists.
You seem to conflate "allowing ambiguity" with "not requiring specification of extraneous detail."

It is not a new mistake. Many people thought that programming with GC, or with high-level languages, or with generics, was just a kind of magic that couldn't lead to understandable programs. But these things succeed because, while they allow you to stop worrying about certain details, they do so while still remaining perfectly well-defined and unambiguous.

The fact that you no longer can know how the low-level details will be handled can be very uncomfortable. If there is most of what you have spent your programming career doing, it seems like it must produce ambiguity and inefficiency. But this isn't generally the case. Optimizing OCaml compilers can often produce code faster than C simply because the higher level of expression expected from the programmer leaves more room for the implementation to generate the right low-level code.

I won't say that I know Eve will be successful, but it certainly is possible. It produces unambiguous behavior which just happens to no longer specify lots of details most programming environments make you think about. When I think about the work I do, most of which involves providing live representations of data, and executing certain rules when it changes, I would guess that most of the details I worry about are extraneous and could be dealt with by a sufficiently-smart environment that encompassed both the database and the program.
The last I tried it the baseline works. All of the buttons, wheels, pressure sensitivity, tip angles, etc... not good.

Just want to re-iterate it's not Linux's fault, it just doesn't work well as a proprietary platform. So if your program needs art assets you'll have to get them elsewhere. And if you want to deploy on Mac or Win you'll have to have one of those anyway... so shrug.

I like programming on Linux for sure it's just not there as a personal OS. And I used to run a very stripped down, customized Arch distro... on a desktop PC. It never worked well on any laptop I've owned and required too much hand-holding with rolling releases breaking things occasionally.
I feel like I'm the only one who likes Magsafe in theory but hates it in practice. Setting my laptop on my lap, it ends up pushing the charger against my leg and unplugging it. If it's sitting beside me and I lift it up to put it on my lap or desk, it commonly unplugs just from the weight of the cable pulling down. But when I trip on the cord and it tries to pull straight outward, I've had my laptop tumble to the ground before the cable unplugged.

It's great to think that it can unplug itself instead of damage the machine, but in practice I find myself wishing I could get something that just plugs in like normal, or breaks away like an old Xbox cable (i.e., straight out instead of up or down).
I don't believe so, but we have plenty of shitty precedents with Obama's 8 years.
A great example of this technique being used stylistically is Titanium by David Guetta (ft. Sia) - listen for the kick drum masking out all of the other instruments in the mix at the end of the chorus. In this case, it's used more as an obvious effect than a transparent mixing technique (as compressors usually are).
As far as we can tell, she has not committed any crimes. Innocent until proven guilty, and all that.
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> Hillary intentionally subverted the democratic process by having the DNC work against Sanders.

Sanders was basically an independent running as a Dem. Even though I would have preferred him, it's ridiculous to expect the party not to be preferential towards the inside candidate who has decades of connections. Also primaries are not subject to the same level of protections or expectations of institutional impartiality as general elections, which sucks, but is simply the political reality. Also this is all moot because Hillary won by a significant margin.

> We have concrete evidence of her working with one of her PACs, which again is highly illegal and subverting our democratic process.

Citation?

> She has Obama, using tax payer money, campaigning for her - while not illegal, is pretty morally bankrupt in my opinion.

It's completely normal for the outgoing president to campaign for his party. Only reason Bush didn't do it for McCain was because he was so unpopular at the time.

> She has shady and inappropriate meetings with people responsible for running the voting process. She's sponsored by people who own the voting machines.

Citations?? I haven't heard of any of this. Also - so what? Sounds like a Breitbart or Drudge invention.

> And not to mention that she has inarguably done highly illegal things with her private email server and got off without charges, showing the injustice of our two-tier criminal justice system.

"Inarguably"? If it was truly "inarguable" Comey would have recommended prosecution in the first place.

Trump, otoh, has expressed his desire to suppress the free press, to normalize relations with dictators, to jail his political opponents (not something the president has the authority to do, not that he understands that). He's encouraged violence at rallies and on election day. He's encouraged minority voter suppression and intimidation (which has been part of the republican platform for the past decade, so he's not exceptional in that regard, just in how nakedly he does it). The things HRC has done or been accused of are normal, if disappointing, qualities of a mainstream American politician. The things Trump has done and said he'll do are very clearly in the tradition of fascism.
how were banks viewed compared to MSFT/Oracle/Sun back in the late 1990s and early 2000s?
I think a bipartisan effort to arrest both of them before the election is the logical way forward. I want a system where criminals are afraid to run for office.
Is that IRC jab related to the PlayStation cryptosystem breaking ?
" Yahoo! Answers: It's Yahoo. It's been acquired."

That's the kind of common sense and succinctness I like to see. It's Yahoo so mismanagement or disappearance is a high risk. It's been acquired. Assets often get gutted or shelved after that. Two statements in five words tell you everything you need to know about why Yahoo Answers might need a mirror. :)
Well, humans have absurdly stupid corner cases during actual use, too. It depends on how small the corner is, I think.
I hope he backs down a bit, consults widely and work with the regulators looking into his company's product, even while exploring other markets.

Still personally rooting for him because I personally think his product is amazing, and is poised to be a huge success if he does ship.

As an outsider, his audacity, backed by proven technical smarts, seems to be the quality that should define the Silicon Valley startup scene, but over time, sentiments here at HN and other forums seem to suggest otherwise.
Yikes. I didn't know it was possible to feel embarrassed by watching a TensorFlow video.
Another implementation of the clock demo

http://www.red-lang.org/2016/07/eve-style-clock-demo-in-red-...
Ha I tried this (trivial app, get paid) and no one paid!
Maybe I didn't understand his remark. Obviously if you don't use the touchbar it doesn't work. And if you don't use the trackpad it doesn't work, etc.
It wasn't the largest DDOS in history by a good margin.
And even then it wouldn't have to kill comma.ai, it could simply lead to Hotz selling the company to a party willing to dot the i's and cross the t's but retain the technology and Hotz himself as a partner/minority shareholder/employee.
How do you know that you want to be a developer if you have 0 knowledge of software development? A lot of jobs require logical thinking and learning on the fly. That doesn't mean you'll enjoy all of them.

I'd say get your feet wet by learning Python and some basic algorithm knowledge first to see if you're actually interested in programming. Also, learn a lot before trying to Stack-Overflow your way to an app. That approach is exponentially harder the less you know about software development.
HN search has been one of the most helpful resources (among many) to my personal and professional life. +1 for that alone. It sowed the seeds for a career path (went from a yoeman replaceable scripter to a guy with a reliable paycheck that can comment with angst on HN.) HN-algolia is snappy. I've been developing a behavior where I default to searching HN before I search google (for better or worse).

Also, I really apologize for this but, please don't say things like: "Time for me to get down voted to oblivion".

You've spoken your mind (and helpfully so) with the end of your comment (which is otherwise good).

Self-referencing how one expects comment voting to go is a behavior that I wish people would refrain from. It makes the comment "about" itself --- rather than the content. It's a primer that stems from perceptions about how it will be interpreted by the community, which in turn manipulates voting behavior about the comment. (<insert-discussion> voting systems on community forums. is voting itself a good system? </insert-discussion>).
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Someone should have told the people who funded him.
This is all disingenuous hyperbole. There are plenty of terrible things to pin on Trump without inflating bullshit memes. There is a nugget of truth to some of what you say, but it is not said or meant in the way you state it, and there's no nuggets of truth in anything I have seen that has anything to do with subverting the voting system.
An interesting article and "keys to the White House", but nowhere does he "double down" on a Trump victory. If anything he's saying "anything is possible" for this election.

Glad the headline here is not the same as WaPo's suggestive one.
Obama said otherwise. He said he learned about it in the news reports at the same time as everyone else.
> And don't even get me started on how evil extension headers are from a hardware point of view.
> trying to argue for an IPv5 that was just an extended v4 without all this added complexity.
> V6 is miserable in OSes because everything has to be done twice because you have two stacks (see my other post here regarding the PMTU locking issue in FreeBSD),

On the other hand that flexibility may save us from going through that "we have to upgrade the whole Internet at once" pain again. In the end widespread v6 adoption is driven mostly by v4 address space exhaustion. At the time this got really severe some years ago the implementations in both hard and software were already pretty reasonable and widespread. Would we really be at a higher adoption rate right now with no additional reason to upgrade? (also IPv5 was already used in RFC 1819 for sth. different, that's why they jumped to 6 ;))

> The only good thing about the new V6 proto from a hardware perspective is the elimination of the header checksum (which was trivial anyway).

What about fragmentation which is entirely left to the hosts in v6?

> Even if you want to say that FreeBSD sucks, pretty much every innovation has some to V6 later than V4 on every OS I can think of. From simple things like TSO and checksum offload to RSS. There are examples of this on Linux, OSX and Windows.

I don't think such optimizations coming a bit later had a significant negative impact in v6 adoption (and if v6 adoption would have been higher it would have been implemented more equally). Also bugs get found and sorted out a lot faster if someone is actually using the code.
I don't like the double standard that would cause a lower-level employee prosecuted or worse, but if this is an issue I would like to see a more consistent standard applied across government.

Also, how many CEO's do you know that do stupid stuff with customer data and break rules in an organization? I'm not saying is right or that it shouldn't be punished but the double standard to me is the problem. If it wasn't Hillary nobody would care but there has been a marketing campaign against her for so long its practically Pavlovian at this point.
I'm always trying things for this, first WorkFlowy, now:

https://gingkoapp.com/

I also tried Notion but it's very slow.
I was thinking the same from the root of this argument: "redundant encoding" isn't a way to automatically fix errors, but rather only a way to detect errors. Like a one-bit Error Correcting Code: the fact that the parity bit is wrong tells you something is corrupt, but it doesn't let you know what the right value should be. There's one useful thing you can avoid doing in response to such an error being detected: not rely blindly on either the implementation or the specification being correct, but instead check them both.
I suppose we could email them with a request to make sure they scrape everything off of first, few pages of HN or key subreddits. I'm not sure about Stack Overflow where they or Google would know best based on hits certain questions get which are best to archive. Maybe just archive whole thing. Sites might even pay them to as a high-availability or backup option. Low odds there but asking doesn't hurt. ;)
I feel like Apple is slowly stripping all of the small but delightful "details" from their products: no more glowing apple logo (completely useless, sure, but iconic at this point), no more magsafe (how many times have you tripped on the cable only to realize it was all good -- thanks magsafe!)

To me, these "details" seem to be the little things that contribute to so many people creating deep emotional connections with otherwise cold metal objects.

At this pace, not too long from now, cold metal will be all that's left.
Autonomous Cars Could Determine Your Driving Style by Gently Probing You
I'm 100% in agreement with that. Engineers carry responsibility for their work (and do so with pride).
Actually, the article specifically said "and other big name schools":

Financial institutions traditionally coveted graduates from Stanford and other big-name schools and people already working in Silicon Valley.
Then what happens? Does Tim Kaine take over?
Has the US been trying to covertly rig/impact/sway foreign elections for decades through covert operations? Or does that only happen in the movies?

If so, HRC maybe had some knowledge of these types of acts, and was maybe carelessly referencing them?
A bit confusing to just talk about i7 CPUs. That's not a specific product, but a family of processors. The speeds vary as well as number of cores. I don't think Surface Book has quad core option like Macbook.
i have to admit, i don't really see the point of this (i admit not having read the paper though):

> It's a random key paired with a random plaintext for each input. In the experiments, the key is the same length as the plaintext.

this practically means the networks only have to implement XOR for perfect security (a one time pad).

maybe you're studying something different i don't understand, but why wouldn't it be more sensible to limit the key size?

i.e.: why didn't you train the network to create a key stream? i'm not a cryptographer, but in this case you'd only have to train two networks (the keystream generator bob and the attacker carol).
The requested things are pre-existing regulation requirements, simply worded with leading questions to prevent unnecessary back-and-forth.

For one of many examples, public information seems to show that his device affects the rear view mirror in a manner that violates specific pre-existing regulations, they ask him how does it affect the rear view mirror and how does it comply with those regulations.

There are only two reasonable responses for such a question - (a) he submits the evidence he has (and had before receiving that letter!) that his product is compliant with these regulations; or (b) he acknowledges that right now he cannot demonstrate that the product is safe and will not sell the product.

For such devices, documentary evidence (including testing results, and all other "random crap" requested) is an integral component of the device - if you don't have all this done, attempting to sell the product is prohibited. That is pre-existing regulation.
Yes, that would be an ask-only model. The issue there would be that the customers would have to select from a list, where the list composition was constantly changing (in busy areas). People might also be hesitant to user an app if they have no idea what it will cost. These issues would probably be solvable or solved, as I'm sure prices would stabilize in busy markets, and people would probably be willing to accept any price under $X; transaction costs would still be higher than with the current Uber/Lyft model.
Strange - no one in the game has any interest in you not conducting your business.

Note that in cryptocurrency, there is no bank to call when your crypto "coins" are gone. Then it's gone harder than anything else that ever went, ever:

- you can't explain to your family or friends what happened

- law enforcement will hardly consider it a crime and in any case can't do anything about it

- the community will berate you for not watching out better for yourself and somehow call your loss "a good thing"

- if it's anything like Ethereum's DAO hack the fraud will not even be considered any wrongdoing at all

- everyone in the game has already made their money by pre-mining or getting in early and nobody has your interest in mind
> than it will be for a car rental company to develop a platform for a new business model.

How much money and how long would it really take to build out a basic uber type system?

Uber does have an advantage in that they are already around and have that market share. Plus they have the system built and can start focusing on adding nice to have features and really polishing the experience.
Yeah, they probably didn't - because large auto companies have time and resources devoted to safety and compliance.
If that was true, then they could have left off the "or else, pay $21k/day for noncompliance". I've seen plenty of big-companies use forced compliance to kill smaller and more agile upstarts.

I remember the tactics used to kill most butcheries and local meat shops. Same games, with onerous and idiotic requirements of "compliance" that the big guys can do. Of course, the big companies got legislation to enforce their standing.

This is not opening a dialogue, this is a shakedown to kill a product.
Some more hands-on experience with the new MacBook Pros
Here is a play-through for reference.
https://vimeo.com/189210575
I don't think it's entirely inaccurate to call neural networks "rewriting their own code". For a long time people experimented with algorithms that could actually rewrite human programming languages, like genetic programming. And it's mostly a failure, because most mutations to most programs just break them.

Neural networks fix this problem by being sort of 'continuous programming language' where any small change to the net results in a small change to the output. And because of that we have algorithms that can find good changes to make much easier than with code. They are theoretically turing complete under some circumstances. But even when they aren't completely recurrent as in this case, they can still learn very sophisticated functions. Theoretically a neural net can learn anything a fixed number of logic gates can learn, which is still pretty powerful.

I don't think parent comment meant by computers that can "re-write their own code" was that the programs are self modifying. But the computer itself is self modifying, as one program can change another on that computer, so the computer has modified itself.
I could understand skepticism of this before they announced and demoed it, but after? I was really impressed by the thought and detailed work that went into it. It seems super, super useful to me. Definitely much more useful than a row of function keys I rarely interact with. I don't understand the disappointment with it. It's not "shiny" bullshit.
unfortunately most enterprise/workstation grade notebooks from Lenovo are ugly, talking from my experience though they are workhorses and can take a lot of misuse before anything breaks. their consumer models tend to have better aesthetics.
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>"Inarguably"? If it was truly "inarguable" Comey would have recommended prosecution in the first place.

Go look at the reason he gives for not recommending prosecution. It has nothing to do with whether what she did was illegal.

Go Google the rest yourself, it's not hard to find and I'm not going to waste my time trying to convince someone who can't be convinced. My comments are targeted at people reading this who might not be aware of the bullshit going on.
And/or other keyboard shortcuts. This is not some immutable situation.

I don't know why everyone is unnecessarily freaking out over this non-issue that has so many alternative solutions, some of which will be superior.
Most people, sure. But they weren't going to do great works anyways.

It's the exceptional ones are more likely these days to be eaten up by transitory media along with everyone else.

But who knows. It's all speculation from me. There's no ethical way to run the experiment.
http://blog.yhat.com/: Tutorials, example apps, and other stuff.