skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is nobody in the world we couldn't direct this kind of "investigation" at.

Most people post a lot of Instagram pics with hashtags like chickenlovers on pics of kids? Frankly, I don't think most people act in this way. I'm no stranger to twisted humor, but the weirdness level with this is off the charts if you just look at (formerly) public Instagram posts and artwork.

Again, being weird isn't a crime, and all that's happening is people looking at some of these connections and past history about them. There's a lot of smart folks who are convinced something is being covered up.

Even though Pizzagate emerged this year through Wikileaks, some of these allegations have gone on for a while. This is extremely interesting: back from Andrew Breitbart in 2011.

https://twitter.com/AndrewBreitbart/status/33636278100561920

> How prog-guru John Podesta isn't household name as world class underage sex slave op cover-upperer defending unspeakable dregs escapes me.
I believe the switching from charging a device and charging your laptop is done in software. The spec allows any USB C device to charge any other in either direction AFAIK.
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That's the strange thing about these.

Why didn't Apple allow for custom earbuds e.g. Comply or provide some way to modify the physical design to accomodate people with different ears.
"It was only after seeing the documentary that she began to learn about the impact that her undergraduate thesis had on the fate of Manhattan."

Amazing story.
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Thanks for this post. I've had that book on my shelf for months now, and I'm going to start reading it. Thanks in general for the information here, it's helped validate a few suspicions I've had, cheers!
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We were using many of the gsuite features previously, and just over time moved off one by one.

Really we only have it now because it's nice to have support if needed, and having our work emails associated with the hangouts we do with people outside the company is nicer than everyone using their personal emails (with their personal profile pictures).
In my humble opinion it's probably this guy who deserves at least as much of the credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keller_(engineer) The whole team, really.
Thats broadly correct, although auditing is usually risk based. The first question should be is there a risk that requires a detective control of audit logging to be in place, if the answer is no (because the system is of low risk or value) then you would be unlikely to continue down the checklist.
Under 21st Century Cures Act, stem cell advocates expect regulatory shortcuts
I really like Google Maps Android's UI.
Bose makes a set of noise-canceling earbuds that are marketed for all-day wear, as a general way of filtering out noise. They want you to leave them in during face-to-face conversations (to help isolate the other voices from the background) or train rides (just to silence everything).

https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/earphones/qui...
Also Slack, which (curmudgeonly) is "just" IRC with a pretty front end, as if teaching the marketing/design/billing/every non-engineer about screen and tmux was going to be a productive use of everyone's time.
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https://www.cnet.com/products/apple-airpods/preview/

Until, of course, they start to produce some of the same little pops and interruptions I always get from Bluetooth earphones when I'm walking. I don't seem to get quite as many with the AirPods, but the skips and interruptions, when they happen, make me wish for something wired.

Did they stay connected?

Mostly, but I still heard audio pops from time to time. Not as many as I usually get with Bluetooth headphones, but they were still there.
It's funny how alarmed this person seems to be and how they take pains to point out how it's tied to Nazi imagery.

Dark Enlightenment, Cathedral, etc are ideas. Probably bad ideas but, ideas. You battle bad ideas by showing them to be bad and showing ones that are better. You don't cower in fear or spread alarm.

We live in the age of the internet; a giant library with whole shelves (wings even) of material on scary ideas like The Dark Enlightenment, Racial Superiority, etc. These ideas aren't going away. It's basically impossible to ban motivated people from discussing ideas because of encryption technology. All a ban will do is give a weapon to suppress ideas to the vast silent majority who see little value in defending ideas others have told them are bad.

If the author of this article has a problem with these ideas, then say so or at the very least point out links to refute them. Breathlessly implying they are intrinsically wrong does nothing but signal virtue to those who don't find the topic worth investigating deeper.
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In my experience it most often manifests in the form of columns that are constrained not NOT NULL into which you suddenly can't insert, say, a user who has no last name.
> We have little to no idea how actual neurons (let alone entire brains) really work.

I think that slights neuroscience, which has devoted the past 60 years to answering this question, to a fair degree. But I agree that the biomimetic motivations offered up for various flavors of neural net feel pretty bogus. It seems to me like, among the major old-school researchers in the field, only Geoff Hinton still does this.
Wasn't the attempt of modeling a collective of neurons, their synapsis, and the way that some connections are reinforced the genesis of the artificial neural networks?
That's how the first person brought that concept to life, no? He didn't even have a theoretical explanation on how/why that would work for something, right?

> ANNs have more in common with a CPU than a brain

How so? which parts are similar?
The A64 was one of the chips whose clock controller support got stuck in mailing list hell for over a year. Currently that's planned for 4.10, basic stuff like Ethernet, USB and SD card support is still pending though: http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort I imagine they must be using a ton of patches on top of mainline to make that work.
UR reading group gets tired of BTC mining and 3D printing guns, diversifies into DIY spycraft (see also: http://thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis).
It's not as simple as that.

"The price of lawful public dissent must not be a dread of subjection to an unchecked surveillance power. Nor must the fear of unauthorized official eavesdropping deter vigorous citizen dissent and discussion of Government action in private conversation." From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._United_States...

And "These Guidelines do not authorize investigating or collecting or maintaining information on United States persons solely for the purpose of monitoring activities protected by the First Amendment or the lawful exercise of other rights secured by the Constitution or laws of the
United States" from the Attorney General's guidelines for the FBI, which were originally created because of said case.

Much as how there's a legal distinction between firing someone for no reason and firing someone for an illegal reason, there is certainly reasonably interpretable legal precedent that investigating someone solely for their protected first amendment activities may violate their first and fourth amendment rights.

Of course, IANAL, but that doesn't seem to stop many people on the internet.
Funny you should be 55 as a number. My Chrome version is currently 55.0.2883.95
This: most user stories / user requests are raw diamonds waiting to be polished. ("What do they really want me to solve")
Very nice coin term for just another deep learning method
It's a vast conspiracy, and only only the brilliant minds on r/The_Donald could uncover it. Not local law enforcement, not the FBI. Just Internet people and their intuitions about Instagram.

New day dawning.
I feel like there'll be a second wave of VR, when there's a headset with resolution high enough to not look like you're pressing your face against a 1980's TV.
Don't see why not. Just make sure they have accessible ISOFIX (UAS) connectors and it'd be very straightforward.
I'd say a repurposed book.

It's a art piece that has been changed to another type of art.

Book -> performance art

Although since inside is a written story, I'd argue it's still a a book, unless it leads to further clues then it becomes performance art.

A good example of a fake book is a book made of plastic which is then used in ikea or has a hidden void.
Messages is a terrible example of that. In fact what you are talking about makes absolutely no sense.

The reason the UI is designed this way is because they decided to cram 100 features in a space that simply can't accomodate it properly. Stickers, Apps, Photos, Animations etc all of that takes space.
> There's a lot of smart folks who are convinced something is being covered up.

There were a lot of very smart Truthers and Birthers too.

> I'm no stranger to twisted humor, but the weirdness level with this is off the charts if you just look at (formerly) public Instagram posts and artwork.

Person who owns a pizza restaurant takes pictures of people who attended his restaurant! How shocking!

How anybody can even remotely consider "pizzagate" credible is beyond me.
I can think of one way to display the data... JSON.
I have indeed encountered many broken zip files. In truth it doesn't happen to me much anymore, bit it sure did in the earlier days of pkunzip/pkzip, and in general during the BBS days. Sometimes this was just due to all sorts of weird things going on with transmitting files over networks and modems. Mostly you could prevent these things with CRC checks or any other verification method, but that doesn't mean implementations checked this or that the check itself didn't just fail.

A few things that I've hit in the wild that screwed up zips:

* Viruses/Worms that were rather primitive and start adding weird bytes in all kinds of places in all kinds of files

* Incomplete transmission over a modem. Depending on the protocol, you might even have most of the data, so you could read part of zip header, but not the actual archive or vice-versa. Normally, you knew right away the file was incomplete with a CRC check so not the worst problem, but the check itself was slow on old hardware.

* Weird things that added metadata and screwed with byte order, ends of file marks, etc. For instance there were some early attempts in the BBS scene to add metadata formats similar to what ID3 is to mp3s. Sometimes the writers would ruin the original file. I hit a few cases of strange attempts at steganography with software pirates trying to be "3l337" or whatever.

* Tools people tried to use to fix broken zips, that didn't quite fix them how they thought.

* Not really the fault of zip, but I've seen people rename a zip's extension to another archive format, causing the unarchiver to assume the format based on the extension. Never trust an extension if you can help it. (ex: rename a zip to rar, arc, lzz/lha, tar whatever)

* Floppy and hard disk repair programs. Sometimes these things would end up corrupting the bytes of files instead of fixing them when they tried to be more clever than moving things around. Sometimes moving things around also would result in things being ordered wrong for whatever reason in these programs. Some of the DOS Norton/Fastback/etc. ilk were especially frequent offenders.
It's actually "码农".
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You mean when new model comes out next update makes your model slower?

Thank you but no thank you. I don't want have EULA for a car and one more entity trying to track everything I do and pretending I own the car while actually they do.

Continuous future improvement is wet dream of locking car owner (in your world it should read "car user") into paying more.
Weren't people still trying to adapt to angular 3?
Too often they bring breaking changes. I hoped after stable release they will stop breaking things every two weeks or so, as it was in alpha, but looks like they still don't understand that every breaking change stops development of projects for 1-2 days and this time is not free. I want to write code to solve business tasks, not just patching working code because of one more imperfection they found.

I can run HL1 on Windows 10 but my 5-months code for Angular is outdated.

Please, Angular team, be more pragmatic.
Thank you. Not sure why people are acting so jaded when we're getting all of this cool stuff that was scifi even less than a decade before. The future is cool.
Yes of course it is enough, if that is your definition of 'viable product', that should be self-evident. It only needs to be better than a human at driving for it to be a viable product. Are you prepared to pay the insurance premium on a non-autonomous transport appliance in 10 years time ? I'm betting you won't.
Why would it be different than previous instances of whole industries being out of a job? There was no revolt when the US shipped manufacturing overseas.
Neat, thank you! The graphs use this nebulous "signal" metric. It is hard to tell if that includes start up valuation and/or exits, which I posit are more important than some of the markers they mentioned like advisor or investor popularity. Neat data point though.
If I understand your code correctly in analyse_evaluations, you're defining a "surprising move" as a move that has a large change in valuation when it's considered at a higher depth. So if a "human" (really Stockfish at depth 5) evaluates a move as +1 and a "computer" (Stockfish now at depth 11) evaluates the move as +5, the move is surprising.

This is pretty interesting, but I'm not sure if it fully captures all the nuances of what a surprising move is. You might be able to classify a move as tactically surprising if it becomes clear after depth 7 that the ending position is favorable. However, in my opinion truly surprising moves are ones that carry plans that I haven't even considered. Hence, this methodology doesn't capture moves that are positionally surprising as there wouldn't be such a drastic change in evaluation at different depths. I'm not sure where you would start to figure that one out though :)

That being said this is really cool work!
They simulate neurogenesis, I guess, but they do not incorporate the most interesting part of that neurogenesis: That is the new neurons are born into the dentate gyrus, a region thought to have a particular capacity to orthoganalize feature representations that are similar (e.g. pattern separate) allowing distinct memories to be formed for similar events. The dentate gyrus outputs to a region called Cornu ammonis 3 (CA3) which is heavily recurrent, and thought to br able to pattern complete a full representation from partial inputs. That is, CA3 can encode and retrieve the relations between 2 or more features or objects.
For a mathematical model and review one might read:
Rolls (2013)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3812781/

but many others exist. I'd write more but typing in my phone is driving me to distraction.
Can it not drive around the tumbleweed? Or, if it's completely walled in by them, make an assessment of their density and likely harm caused, and decide to just run over them?

If we're crediting the car with being able to handle merging into a crowded multi-lane highway and dealing with idiot human drivers who don't indicate or hold lane position very well, it seems a bit odd to arbitrarily presume that it won't be able to identify non-hazards like said tumbleweed.
Are you using a bleeding edge release? Why not pick a stable release and stick with it?
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Have to agree with this.

It's getting ridiculous the OSX support for those three apps and frankly bizarre given that BYOD is very popular these days.
Personally I can't wait until Angular 7 is out by Q1 2017
To the point..
My first experience with Notes was in grad school in 1992. It looked ugly and didn't make much sense to my relationally-educated brain.

I bumped into it again in the mid-90s when Notes 3 was released and the lightbulb went off. I became a Notes developer overnight.

Things Notes solved years before its time include:

1. distributed databases everywhere even over a crappy pipe

2. distributed software releases through replication (this was genius - everyone forgets in the 90s most end-user software was still distributed on floppies, but with Notes you just push the design out in a replica and all of your end-users get their client apps magically updated)

3. A fully integrated visual app dev + server admin platform that made design of apps a snap. It became possible to sit down with a team and instead of writing down requirements, actually building a working model of the app in the meeting as they describe their needs. This was 1994, and it's still hard to do in most development environments compared to the ease of Notes.

4. Public-Private key identity management and a terrific security model all the way down. It made it very easy to enforce a very granular security policy across all the apps down to individual rows of data with the same global security mechanism. As a dev it made it trivial to build a highly secure app without having to think much at all about security.

5. OS independence!

I worked in one shop in a ~$1B/rev company in 1997 - this team had 3 admins and 4 devs handling email and all the internal corporate apps, pretty much all built in Notes except the financial system which was its own team. This company had fully embraced Notes as an internal app dev platform and had built a marvelously powerful set of workflow apps for all of their core business processes - some 30+ apps total - all of which integrated with each other.

Watching a team of 7 people manage and develop this awesome backoffice system was a big eye opener for me. This company leveraged their IT staff 10:1 or better compared to similar companies using typical tools. A well-run Notes shop in the Glory Years of Notes (1995-2005) was truly a sight to behold.

My longest-lived solutions are Notes apps I built ~16 years ago still being used today.

Fun fact: CouchDB was built by Damien Katz based on a lot of his experience working on Notes / Domino while at Lotus, and Damien Katz is a badass it turns out.
Unfortunately I'm working in a node environment. The Java SDK for working with DynamoDB seems much nicer to work with. For example I believe that you can do transactions with the DynamoDB interface for Java.
#3 feels analogous to saying: "I would never walk down the street reading a book without looking where i was going." (or something similar) Makes sense until everyone has a smartphone and then this: http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructur...
The number of times that "you can't stop / brake / slow because someone behind you will run into you" comes up in these threads is always alarmingly high.
> I've personally come to speculate that there is some dodgy and disgusting acts occurring at this pizza joint.

There was only one "dodgy and disgusting" act that occurred at Comet Ping Pong. That was when a man, misled by totally fabricated nonsense, brought an assault rifle into the store to, at best, intimidate and threaten innocent people.

The people spreading this conspiracy theory should be ashamed.
I am very interested how you know about "most people." Any data to back up your knowledge about what most people want or how they use their phones?

I like interacting with the notification instead of losing context to respond to some message.
Pygame 1.9.2 realesed after 7 years, now with python 3 support
almost affordable luxury

Is it markedly different from having an iPhone for portability and an iPad+4G for around the house?
Also many motherboard USB controllers are incompatible with both Rift and the Vive: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3zrtgs/psa_your_usb...

AFAIK neither company mentions this in their supported PC specs, though the Rift compatability tool will warn you if you have incompatable USB ports.

I would really have liked to have known this going into my Vive purchase - I've owned it for 2 weeks and have been able to use the device twice in that time.
Of course! And by showing initiative, you're also motivating others and thereby live up to your username (for what it's worth =).
A lot of motherboard manufacturers have stopped supporting ECC on their boards with recent AMD sockets but I think Asus is the last holdout.
The relationship between YC/HN and TC goes back pretty far as part of a collusory pipeline for media attention around startup launch and funding announcements. Not sure how that's changed since TC's decline over recent years (which is why I imagine YC invested in ProductHunt), but there are possibly still some artifacts of a relationship there that might prevent this.
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Seeing as there are already people trying to use their Tesla autopilot as autonomous capabilities, I'm pretty sure they'll be viable as soon as they are road legal.
It'll be interesting to see how this change in versioning might impact recruitment for developers to service different versions of Angular projects. I guess this goes especially for recruiters who don't really know (or care about) Semver.

I mean, there's a rather huge rift (i.e. TypeScript, tooling, etc) between Angular 1 and 2, but this might not be the case for future consecutive major versions.
Are there supposed to be pictures in the text, or is this just really bad layout?
I'd also add compression time and decompression time to that list. Zip wasn't actually the best compression algorithm I remember seeing in its original days, it just was the best compromise of speed of compression, extraction, and compressed size. The TOC feature was a killer because even the fastest formats decompressed slow, not to mention space was more of a premium.

An additional feature that sometimes is important as well is making itself stream friendly so you can read the metadata without the entire file (or easily before streaming) as it is streamed over some context or using some technology.

The landscape is much different now and so some of features you'd design into a new format didn't exist then, while others that were concerns are less concerns now.

As parent hints, the compatibility alone makes zip still very desirable and actual compression is good enough given size of disks today for most people. Obviously there are exceptions.
ECC isn't just for servers. Why do we assume that it's okay for Grandma's laptop to randomly flip bits and crash?
'pip install pygame' now works!
customization has never been a huge idea within Apple.
You can just email them.
Funnily enough, Yarvin's company is named after that story.
Sorry but do you actually work in a real life company ?

Nobody is coming 15 minutes early to a meeting. That's unheard of in all of the enterprises I've worked.

And with there being more and more meetings often you are literally running from one room to another.
A large part of the reason they fall out is that the weight of the cable pulls them out. It's not 100% of the cause but it's definitely a major factor.
Actually... Yes. Browsers have introduced as many vulnerabilities as they have cleared, it often seems.
No, I use stable release. It was released 3 months ago. It's too often for breaking changes.
How are they forcing you to do anything?
The length of your comment is 51 characters.
In a few short years you're probably going to find it hard to buy any phones then; Samsung is reportedly already planning to remove the headphone jack from their flagship phones.