skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made a simple one in a style of unsent email:
https://valiafetisov.com

Would be glad to hear any feedback!
For those like me who get redirected based on the referrer, here's a web archive mirror: http://archive.is/UMMCx

Alternatively, you can copy-paste the address and open in a different window.
Different European countries have different VAT rates. Ireland's is 23%, Germany's 19%, and Switzerland's 8%. The price without VAT is about equal in all three, $2930 (± $6). That's still $130 more than the US price. Can anyone recall how large this gap has been historically?
I disagree with this. I remember when I was in primary school and I was confused about how to multiply decimals. At that level I didn't even know what it would mean to multiply a decimal: how can you have 5, 0.2 times? I asked the teacher and instead of explaining the concept properly, i.e. 0.5 is half etc., I was just told to multiply the other way around, by adding up 0.2, 5 times - and do drills with that.

It's this kind of teaching that makes good robots and terrible mathematicians. (Thankfully I'm neither the former not the latter.)
i is initialized twice in the example code

int i = 0;
switch(i){
for(i = 0; i < ({case 0:; 10;}); i++){

The compiler probably tried to be intelligent and optimized it away.

EDIT: Okay I tried reading the assembly and I think I understand whats going on:

movl $0, -8(%rbp) # translation of i = 0
... # the following is jumped over
movl -8(%rbp), %eax
movl %eax, -16(%rbp) # 4-byte Spill # i is moved to somewhere else in memory
... # the switch jumps between these
movl -16(%rbp), %eax # 4-byte Reload # tries to reload i from its "new" position

Whoever wrote the code to place variables into memory obviously didn't consider this kind of insane control flow.
How long should we cling to a word's original meaning? (2011)
I thought no key/public key, but it really doesn't say
Nothing some termites or woodworms can't fix, and it will at least lay to rest one more religious conflict.

From your link:

"The primary conflicts, however, surrounding the ladder and its immovability have been disputed by a lasting conflict between the Greek Orthodox Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church."

Surely such insect activity could be interpreted as 'an act of God' and then all parties could get on with their lives.
So I never heard of Aurelia, but now I've watched their video and explored the website. Looks cool, but... Google:Angular :: BlueSpire:Aurelia, no? So I'm betting on a small company surviving, vs Google at a whim killing off a thing they probably won't kill off unless they make a whole new v3 that is not related to v2 ?

What am i missing?
I wouldn't be surprised. I can't drink 2 cups of soylent 1.6 by itself. Mixing with bananas, stevia, coconut/vanilla extract lends to a much better taste.
Ah right. That makes a bit more sense, I thought Troy meant the paper answers ended up on the webserver.

I guess I was thinking the online presence was more like a "contact us" email form that emails it somewhere internal, not stored on the server.
It's worrying. Apple didn't want to drop Lightning from the iPhone, because it would mean losing control over iOS accessories. But now their iOS and Mac products have incompatible connectors, which can't be easily fixed. I mean, they could go for USB-C on the iPhone 7S, but they just told everyone to switch to Lightning headphones. And Lightning, which is essentially a glorified USB 2.0 port, is a waste of space to add to the next MacBook.

What a mess.
Can you expand on what you mean about not being able to use the power brick?
Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (2012)
That's quite a bit more variation than I'd have expected. Almost takes us back to the 90s where it was worth an occasional trip to the US for shopping!
> not needing to think about nutrition. I hate cooking, I hate cleaning, and eating out all the time feels wasteful. I just want quick, healthy meals with a decent shelf life.

As I've come around to thinking of the human body as more of a system than a binary switch (sick/not sick), I've come to appreciate that natural food sources have a lot of nutrients in them that are hard to get with manufactured foods.

There's a lot of debate about studies proving this one way or another, but for me looking at it intuitively from a co-evolution standpoint (foods we eat evolved in conjunction with humans) is proof enough to pay attention to the quality of my food. The intuition is basically: food we've been cultivating and bringing around with us for millions of years is going to be more beneficial to our internal chemistry than a substitute we recently made up to save money on production costs.

I also view eating as a chore (except when it's not), so I often end up eating this: black beans, chicken, guac, milk

PS: for the "naturalistic fallacy" group, how do you account for the role of evolution as an optimizer for health vs evolution as optimizer for 20th century economic cost? Optimization targets make a difference.
Shhh, one should not have to learn how to use their tools.
True. Also many times they don't tell the real story of what's really inside their packages.
Excellent resource and augment to the conversation here, thank you for posting! Totally love seeing the Harrier in that video - I saw one live at Oshkosh and WOW that thing was LOUD.
Uber Drivers win employee rights case
Many people, myself included, love the Dell XPS 13.
After this comes an "update" to your privacy statement where you have to agree or you loose service...
hahaha thank you jwz for that imgur
It doesn't. As an AI developer you have access to the AI code and memory.. How could you not replay the encryption process used by the AI since you know the state of what it "knows" constantly? Both have a encryption and decryption process that you can reproduce.
Wall Street's Frantic Push to Hire Coders
A small price to pay for no longer having to label our strawberries.
> If it wasn't for the Mac OS, I wouldn't even bother considering their lineup anymore.

Years ago, when I exclusively used Linux even on my local machines, I used to buy Apple computers and replace the OS with Linux. Because they used to build the best damn computers (specially laptops) out there. They were way ahead of the competition.

It’s sad that now we just have to put up with Apple hardware because of software integration, etc. . If I wanted to run Linux or Windows, I wouldn’t hesitate for a second to look somewhere else.
Eavesdropping on Typing Over Voice-Over-IP
Man, Adobe still has no Linux products? This is 2016.. I thought we were "getting there"..
> While Magic Leap is clearly going after talent in locations that have established themselves in fields integral to VR/AR.
Florida – where the company is headquartered – is a burgeoning gaming and graphics hub with Orlando as one of the biggest video game development communities in the US.

Except they're in Ft. Lauderdale?

Still pretty skeptical of Magic Leap given time-to-market(public demo, etc). I do hope they do well, though - I grew up in the area, cool to see some interesting tech there.
Also, they've always had the best display, and now it's even better. I'm so happy that it turned out that computers aren't as expensive as cars to build because I always feel like I'm getting this super luxury for what is an expensive, but affordable price. Like, Kanye West uses the same computer as me, how cool is that?
I've not met anyone who voted to leave the EU complaining. We were all aware there would be short term pain for long term gain.

Most of the moaning comes from people who wanted to remain.

The £ was overvalued, this will bring a huge boost to our export industry.
> Every time someone I know professionally has uttered something like "I do the same job to the same quality", it simply wasn't true.

Then our experiences differ (which is sad but okay) - I have seen, multiple times, the situation that not only the person who uttered it thought it was true but the better paid peers agreed (and yes, they agreed in private, not only in public where they had to fear to be judged if they said "well no, he is not as good as he thinks").
Then again, it's pretty hard to run a "successful fund" these days due to the overwhelming influence of the Fed which has washed out every other indicator. A lot of funds are shutting down and returning their clients' money because they can't find an edge. There is only one signal.
"This is the result of the post-Brexit vote"

This is nonsense; the pricing of the Macbook Pro rose in every country. Not everything has to be shoehorned into your personal politic viewframe.
Baby steps, baby steps. It's a process.
IS either opinion incorrect? Why can't we agree that some people don't want to take time preparing food, and others do?
If someone marketed this type of product as a reasonably nutritious meal on the go as an alternative to grabbing a Big Mac or a soggy slice of pizza, it would be utterly unobjectionable--and no one would pay it the slightest mind. So instead we get this narrative around meal replacement for Silicon Valley types who are too busy advancing Western civilization with a Facebook for Farmers to have time to eat.
> post Brexit

This should say post Brexit vote, as the UK leaving the EU hasn't been actioned yet.

Am I surprised that prices has increased? Yes and no. Yes in that we haven't actually triggered anything that makes a change to the way we in the UK will trade outside of the EU. No in that currency variance was to be expected.
This seems like really, really bad news for Uber. Could someone with more knowledge on the topic chime in on how this might manifest?
Internet+of+things+Project%3A+Integrate+Arduino+with+Yahoo%21
2 years of gym and I never needed these powders to fill up my macros.

>sunday

>market, buy groceries, pasta and meat for whole week

>cook everything at once

>put everything on freezer

>clean up everything only once

Of course, I need to wash my dishes during week, but it takes literally 1 minute and half. And you can argue that there are powder to purposes other than macros, and I agree with you that you must take it if you think you need to. I, personally, don't.
Introduction to DropWizard
X1 Carbon is also pretty good. I miss previous generation Thinkpad keyboards, but I reckon the island one looks good and feels great on the X1C.
I hope Uber self-driving cars come and these people get unemployed.
I don't understand the love for OSX/macOS at all anymore. I feel like the last time a release really felt like an improvement was 10.5, with 10.6 being mostly the same, and downhill each release afterward. Earlier this year, after not having used OSX since 10.7 (which I wound up downgrading back to 10.6 after a short time), I bought a Mac Mini running "El Capitan" (whatever version number that is, I don't care anymore).

Compared to my old late-2008 13" Macbook with a Core 2 Duo and 2GB of RAM, this Mini with an i7 and 16 GB of RAM takes longer to boot, feels more sluggish during regular usage, and is noticeably less stable. Launchpad is new and dumb and drives me nuts, but other than that, I don't really see what, if anything, has been added to "justify" such a downgrade in usability. There was a time when OSX was a dream, but today it's akin to Solaris (i.e., Slowlaris) in how it feels slow, buggy, and even outdated to me now.

Nowadays, my primary machine is a Lenovo Ideapad Y410P with an i7 (Haswell) and 8GB of RAM running Slackware. Even with GRUB2 set to wait for 3 seconds and using sysvinit (with the huge kernel, no less, rather than the generic kernel), it takes less time to boot into a functioning desktop. It's far more stable, and feels far snappier. Virtualization works much better. I don't miss OSX at all, and, now that I've gotten the hang of tiling window management, I don't think I'd go back even if Apple managed to restore that Leopard-era quality (awesomewm is practically a killer app for me now, as it's boosted my productivity in a way that nothing else has since I picked up Vim 10 years ago). It's also nice having choice and Freedom again, especially compared to Apple's "walled garden" which has been leaking out of the iPhone and into their PCs in the name of "security"...

tl;dr: Linux rulez, macOS droolz :p
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.

Happy to answer more questions about it. (I'm one of the authors.)
I made almost a similar thingy when I was working for a freelancing agency last summer. Its not packaged like yours, and was meant to be used internally. Since then i have put it on my github[0].

Only thing I am proud of in that project is the firebase support. Since I was managing my tasks on 2-3 computers, I had to build something that syncs itself. I am thinking of packaging this thing, so that other people can use it in thier command line.

[0]:https://github.com/FalloutX/cmd-todo
That could be really bad if the tax man wants retroactive payments because of this ruling.

30K people times a few years that really adds up.
Dell Precisions are well built.
In the US many employers restrict the hours that employees can work to avoid paying benefits, is this a likely tack for Uber if they lose the appeals?
Multiply google analytics users by k to get a more accurate number, where k is a percentage of readers using uBlock or some other blocker that blocks google analytics. Ie k=1.5 for a tech heavy audience :)

Edit; Anecdata, almost all my signups come from users who block google analytics.
Interestingly, if you move to Switzerland, for most household items they can demand you prove you've owned it for at least 6 months and that it's not been bought elsewhere and you've avoided paying local VAT on it. So although not the same direct situation, shows that they're pretty hot on cross border purchases, even if you unwrap it and say it's a used good.
Uber in the UK's prices aren't that much lower than standard taxi's, and they're not profitable as it is.

The strategy now must just be taking VC money until driverless cars are legalised.
Didn't some high-class Razer gaming laptop do something with little blinky / changeable icons in some keys a while ago? Just looked it up, yeah, the Blade.

That was 3 years ago.
V-js: turning SQL schemas into JavaScript data validators
For anyone familiar with the landscape:

Are webworkers likely to improve dramatically as time goes on? For example, the cost of using web workers appears[1] to be far greater than just spinning up another thread in, say, Go[2]. I assume this is mainly due to how the browser is sandboxing JS. So, is there room for improvement here? Or have most things js related been so drastically optimized that we are without much hope here?

[1]: Purely speculative on my part.
[2]: Yes i know Go has green threads, it's purely an example. I was going to say Rust, but that seems like an unfair comparison.
My experience and usecase is limited - I just use my Windows machine for game development - but I’ve dealt with more headaches trying to get Bash for Windows + git to play nice with Unity that I’ve just gone back to using Git for Windows and its bash exe.

Probably the weirdest problem I’ve ran into are shader files in my git repo being locked to requiring administrative rights for either Unity or Bash for Windows to be able to open them.
>Does anyone who knows this better than I anticipate that this would cause problems if one wanted to host, for example, an internet message board with this service?

Probably anything illegal in France or Netherlands. The sentence sum the most common thing you could do that could get you in legal troubles if you cross some lines.
Hmmm...many comments stated in the article sound like someone clinging to old legacy not for utility but for mere nostalgia...
"Twitter is a communications marvel..." << No, I feel the internet and the web running over it are communications marvels with applications like twitter simply being an (as in, one of many) application that was somewhat useful back in the day.

"Twitter is not yet treated as hallowed, but it has the makings of an institution that could be." << I struggle to classify any application that artificially constraints its messaging to 140 characters, as anything that could be considered "an institution". There's something good to be said for being succinct but 140 characters - nowadays - is just silly, i think. Mind you, not just because it limits the initial message, but I believe it drastically limits the possibility for further discourse and discussion.

"Twitter is the first draft of journalism." << I disagree. I would argue that systems like BBS or even early blogs represent truer electronic representations of "the first draft of journalism". I fail to see why journalism needs to feel beholden to a single, monolithic company. What about the Internat Archive and its wayback machine? I actually feel that might be a good (though not the only) representation of journalism - albeit inclusive of "civilian journalism".

"This computer-science problem — filtering out trolls — remains as difficult...technology would not only win back the advertisers who are fleeing because of trolls, but also, if shared, enable newspapers to reopen their comments’ sections at their own websites, promoting the airing of differing views in public space." << While I can't speak to the advertising aspect, here's one method to provide for airing of different views while helping to de-anonymize trolls (at least a little, which might lessen their flames): don't have everyone jump into yet another walled garden; instead have everyone build up their own decentralized social network presence. So everyone has a presence online - either managed through their own website which runs a decentralized social network application/software, or maybe they pay a small fee to group onto a small community...this would help mitigate from a single platform failing and bringing down the whole "first draft journalism". This would also give each user the freedom to express themselves - without any constraints from twitter, etc. Its not perfect, and i'm sure there would be problems, but i feel this is the better direction forward.
You can replay it, but you might not necessarily be able to understand it fully. Kind of like how beginner programmers can't necessarily understand advanced algorithms just by reading the code or walking through it in a debugger. They may need someone to help guide them through it and teach them how it works, and they will need the intelligence to be able to comprehend it. If the algorithm is designed by an AI, we may not have either.
Why do you hope that?

They simply disputed their status in open court and the judge seems to agree with them, whether or not Uber self-driving cars will come has no bearing on this case, and if and when they become un-employed it still will not be because of this case or any others.

Of course employers the world over would love to get rid of their #1 cost, but that's no reason to break the law by pretending you don't have any employees when actually you do.
You might be able to follow the steps that the computer takes but you won't necessarily know why. Why is that the magic constant is chose, what is the purpose of those branches, etc. And likely, if it's necessary, the AI can continue to evolve the algorithms faster than you can figure out what it's doing.
> As an AI developer you have access to the AI code and memory.

Until you don't. Sufficiently advanced AI can devise methods to mislead the developer.
This seems pretty click-baity to me. Especially "no one knows how it works."

Alice generates ciphertext based on plain text and key. Bob generates plaintext based on ciphertext and key. Eve generates plaintext based on only ciphertext. Train the three networks across a variety of plaintetxts,

No doubt it's cool, but I would be very surprised if it offered any insight into, or represented an advance for strong cryptography.
Nothing to do with the 20% drop in the pound vs the dollar. Why won't Apple subsidize Brexit?
Except it's not because it rose 25% in all countries. Sorry.
Sure, the actual vehicle systems had better work and be properly authenticated, and that could be achieved in numerous ways... but none of this stops a hacker war-driving with a laptop, or sitting on an overhead bridge, or on the other side of the world.

There is no doubt that intelligent highways would be a massive target for terrorist and cyber attacks. However, one thing in our favour is the fact there is so little technology already in place, since they won't be burdened with decades' worth of insecure legacy systems: at least they'll be able to start out building infrastructure in full knowledge that it better be secure.
The difference on my machine is not even 50ms - good tradeoff for more responsiveness
I don't think "less hard on your digestive system" is an advantage but rather a disadvantage. Just like "less hard on you bones" is not really an advantage for astronauts that spend a couple of weeks/months in space.

If you want to have a healthy body you have to put it under a stress level for which it was designed by evolution. I.e. exercise once in a while and don't just sit in front of your computer, eat enough fibres and harder to digest food, etc
As AT&T already did until right before the FCC started talking about this decision (and I'm sure they'll go right back to now that it's OK), charging $30 to opt out of their spying program, plus a bevy of one-time fees that are "waived" if you let them spy.
Thanks for the advice, that's actually the exact modell i plan on getting. But I was unsure if it was a modern CPU, seemed dated? Or are the newer XPS also called XPS?

The worst thing was that the linux version cost 2x more than the normal one here in Sweden...
We can know how, but we may not know why, if it's too complex to be understood.

But yes, knowing how means that anything the computer can decode, we can too. Until the machines block access to their own source code...
Unfortunately Missing: Chart (preferably Gantt) that shows how TBTF banks can be effectively broken up into loosely affiliated regional entities within the next two years.
Green Tea is Google's internal CRM system and something to do with AdWords.

I guess why it's tailored to them is somewhat self explanatory -- they want a framework that handles the specific frontend needs their projects have.
TFA's title is a little clickbaity by adding "noone knows how it works" which apparently means that:

The researchers didn't perform an exhaustive analysis of the encryption methods devised by Alice and Bob, but for one specific training run they observed that it was both key- and plaintext-dependent. "However, it is not simply XOR. In particular, the output values are often floating-point values other than 0 and 1," they said.

Just saying...
Poor taste with the Terminator graphic. A new level of lame fear mongering by Ars Technica?
Because humans have invented tools - math, notably - that they can use to be more formal and precise when they deal with problems of this sort. To date, neural networks can't -- they're doing very well at the kind of "intuitive" pattern matching that our brains do, but less well on an algorithmic front. It's one of the really interesting frontiers of AI right now. The folks at DeepMind recently showed, for example, that a variant of their "Neural Turing Machine" architecture could learn to do things involving more like what we think of as discrete algorithms (https://deepmind.com/blog/differentiable-neural-computers/ ), but all of this is very early work.
UK pricing for new Macbook Pro is cheapest in Europe. Sorry, what were you saying?
Uber aren't profitable as it is (and their prices aren't that much cheaper than taxi's in the UK - so they can't just price hike without losing large numbers of customers).

I assume their strategy for profitability now, in the UK at least, is just take VC money until driverless cars are legalised.
Ask HN: Archiving Vine? Anyone doing it?
Simple question, I just find Vine's concept very good and it should be archived as it's part of the web's history in some way.

Time wasting link : http://digg.com/2016/vine-is-dead-and-so-is-my-soul