skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever considered that there's a good reason for that fad?

I just graduated from an elite American college, and almost everyone there was extremely condescending about the idea that race and IQ were at all correlated. They felt similarly about racial culture and success. In these powerful people's eyes, the underperformance of non-White and non-Asian races is ~100% the fault of White people and their machinations.
I wonder if a higher level equivalent of this could be to read a full IEEE article every day (from the right publications, of course), since these often seem to be more accessible writeups of academic papers anyway and a lot of the hard work of curating and picking out the key details has been done.
It's not in-app purchases. It is: cheat codes

Literally every other name you might choose to apply there is less correct than that one, and by using any other name all you do is perpetuate the idea that they are anything but that.

Worse, you keep people from making the easy logical steps in judging game, wherein if you do think of "iap" as cheat codes, the game design becomes either "can be played normally" or "nigh-unplayable without cheat codes". A game to which the latter applies thus becomes easily evident as what it really is:

Broken.
What about Pascal, isn't it still more widely used in cs101 than anything else? And yet, no traction.
I think this is a pretty big myth that only applies to some of these language features.

If you admit that it applies to some language features, then it's not a myth by definition.

In Smalltalk, #doesNotUndertand: handlers and proxies and unfortunate "clever" use of message sends synthesized within custom primitives could result in outsized costs. (It's where method_missing comes from in Ruby.) It's not that you couldn't do powerful and useful things with those facilities. It's that large projects that were around for years tended to accumulate "clever" hacks from bright young developers with a little too much hubris. Often, those costs would be incurred years after the code was written.

Yes, it only applies to some language features. But it clearly does apply to some of them. I don't think it's easy to come by quantified costs for these. Doesn't this strike you as a problem for our field?
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Weird I was just looking at this last night. They implemented it: https://github.com/ZigaSajovic/dCpp

I got onto that based on this fantasy I was having. Basically I keep thinking that the main advantage deep learning has is probably not actually the neural nets, but the fact that they are highly parallel and very general computation techniques.

So if it doesn't really have to be a NN, maybe there could be a way to more efficiently achieve the same level of results by using something more like evolved parallel programs. Maybe have a universal virtual sensor grounding. Then if you find a useful/general procedure/dataset you could distribute it to improve lots of diverse agent's knowledge/skills immediately.

But to evolve these supposed universal function-approximating parallel programs that are more efficient and exchangable than deep NNs, you would need something like backpropagation, except for some arbitrary program structures. So when reading about backpropagation on wikipedia they mention the generalization is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_differentiation

Anyway I don't grock all the details fully but my interpretation of all of this is that I think things like backpropagation with deep NNs are truly general purpose and when combined with grounding such as streams of virtual/real senses and training across widely varied tasks can actually produce general human and animal/like intelligence. I think the problem is it just takes a ton of computing power, iterations and time. If we wait 2-10 years that probably won't matter. But if we don't want to wait we can probably do something similar and more efficient/readily distributable if we can use algorithms that aren't NNs but are general and highly parallel and can be adjusted via AD to learn.

Based on this I personally believe we will see human/animal like general intelligence systems before 2020.
True. But the absence of sophistication constitutes evidence neither in favor nor against the "State Actor" hypothesis.
Nah. You can do the same work as in SF, or more interesting stuff, or less interesting. Whatever.

You're paid less because local companies have less money, there is less competition to drive wages up, and costs of living is cheaper.

SF has lots of EXTREMELY profitable companies, it could pay anything.
i'm guessing to work for facebook the employees probably know what they're signing up for so it might not feel like "the wrong side" for them
Thanks guys - much appreciated. I'm on my mobile in another country, so, can't post a link right now - but I will later tonight when I've WiFi.

BTW - this reaction is why I continue to work with Rust; the community is awesome!

(Dealing with trait objects and generics...less so)
No, many studies have worked hard to control for sociological effects and concluded that there are likely still correlations between race and IQ.
I've written tools for work that automates the boring things in python. That said I wouldn't consider myself advanced and maybe intermediate is pushing it. But I know how to use the language to accomplish things and I try to optimize where I can: using threading and queues where they help etc

Edit: I know JavaScript can be done on the server side via nodejs I was talking more about the client side soup of libraries that I'm not interested in
>1) A massive conspiracy in which the leaders of practically the entirety of the US military/intelligence community are willing to go on record with a hoax that will easily be unraveled by the incoming administration in a few months

Unless the actual perpetrators were the US intelligence community and/or the incoming administration. Then they could both hide their tracks or have no reason to unravel this. But why suspect the group with the most to gain or the community with the most experience doing this? It's not like there's any other examples of a Republican politician breaking into the DNC to tap their communications, using the intelligence agencies to help cover it up...
It is emergents of simpler problems. My point (claim) is that a lot of the simpler problems are the same.

It's only how and to what extent they are combined that they are of various complexity.

So once you solve some of those simple problems in some problem spaces you can solve the same level of problems other places.

In other words, you don't have to start over with every single problem. I am not saying it's always like that but I believe enough to make the singularity a realistic thing to plan for.
It's not that simple. Saddam was trying to make it look to his neighbors (especially Iran) that he had WMDs. Recall that this is very shortly after the end of the decade-long Iran-Iraq war. He wanted to be very convincing, so as to make his neighbors unwilling to oppose him.

At the same time, he was telling the US, "Who, me? I don't have any WMDs." Which made him look like a two-faced liar. The "evidence" that he wanted his neighbors to see convinced Washington.
they could make it opt-in from the beginning, but that'll never happen
There is a fair amount of public evidence lying around tying the hacks to Russia or at minimum Russians, including CrowdStrike's recent report about Ukrainian artillery. Considering that, it seems more likely that US intelligence has their own evidence, as they claim, than that they're simply making things up (at the risk of substantial embarrassment).
Do you have any evidence to back up your utterly ridiculous claims?

And yes, claiming that's all the evidence that exists is complete bullshit.
Yes, that's the lie the corporate execs tell. People lured into a trap would rather live in the trap than die.

It's not impossible, for Apple with $XX Billion in profit hiding in tax shelters, to pay better than subsistence wages to their subcontracted workers (or invest in community resources for the cities where their factories are, or similar).
Ok, but it's STILL false that if google wants to backdoor you a signature check is irrelevant.

Also, no need to get triggered mate, we're just having a conversation.
What's weird about programming is the amazing longevity of experimental ideas vs. heavily engineered products.

I like that very much! Also strange are the obscurity and outright myths surrounding heavily engineered products, followed by hyped reinvention.
> This article has shown that the classroom environments that raise test scores also improve long-term outcomes. Students who were randomly assigned to higher quality classrooms in grades K–3 earn more, are more likely to attend college, save more for retirement, and live in better neighborhoods. Yet the same students do not do much better on standardized tests in later grades.

> Yet the same students do not do much better on standardized tests in later grades. Researchers who had examined only the impacts of STAR on test scores would have incorrectly concluded that early childhood education does not have long-lasting impacts.

This seems to pretty definitively end the argument I'm having with my wife in her favor; my thought was that early school education probably doesn't matter too much, since they're learning very basic things that we can teach them at home anyway.
Please stop saying this in various comments here. It isn't true. Someone linked you to the relevant Wikipedia article, which references a lot of good sources you should become familiar with.
The Democrats (of whom I am one since birth) are using "The Reds did it!" as a tried and true excuse to explain the utter failure of their muddled, ineffective ideology on the national stage.

It's face saving through and through. And it makes a better story than "Trump beat us because we half-assed this election."
dunno. I was thinking about my personal experience and this article.

http://m.cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-t...
There are junior/newbie devs unfamiliar with the concept of CI etc, who will often submit working code without updated tests, and in that case it's up to the community/maintainer to point them in the right direction and help get their PR merged. An important first step to lay the foundation for future contributions :)
Double points for banging war drums?
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Ummm what piece of information in the leak caused Clinton to lose?

Reality check nothing because there were no bombshells found like James Coomey re-opening the FBI's investigation against that woman. A woman who nationally especially compared to Obama is highly unlikeable with a horrible public image. Though we're stuck with that crazy man... losing game either way!
I didn't say Rust has no practical value, nor did I say what someone needs.

I commented on the fact that saying Rust is for everyone you're watering down your marketing message.
In a sense this probably isn't terribly surprising; GM corn is known to have reduced yield due to disruption from the genetic modifications. The interesting part is that the composition of the resulting corn differs as a result of this in ways that weren't expected or previously known.
The author of the article is also author of https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-City-Greatest-Invention-Healt...

He is an expert on cities. I live in NYC and much of Manhattan is low density (4 story brownstones). It may not be building 100,000 apts. per year, but it would be far, far greater number than what is being built today.
The report just didn't get into that much detail but they did say:

"the code delivers Remote Access Tools (RATs) and evades detection using a range of techniques."

A "range of techniques" includes things like rootkits.

>No rootkits,

The attackers did use stealthy persistence techniques often called 'rootkits".

"the SeaDaddy implant developed in Python and compiled with py2exe and another Powershell backdoor with persistence accomplished via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) system,[..] The Powershell backdoor is ingenious in its simplicity and power" [0]

>no 0 days

The same group used six 0-days in 2015. Either they didn't need to use them in this attack or they used them and deleted the evidence. Senit is APT28 see quote below:

"One of the striking characteristics of the Sednit group is its ability to come up with brand-new 0-day vulnerabilities regularly. In 2015, the group exploited no fewer than six 0-day vulnerabilities" [1]

>yet it was the most routine, simple attack conceivable.

The attack involved multiple pieces of custom written software and carefully researched spearfishing, the attackers spent time and effort to hide their tracks, maintain persistence and exfil data without detection. This level of effort and time does not qualify as routine, some intelligence agencies can't even write their own RATs.

[0]: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...

[1]: http://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/ese...
Incorporate is so wordy though, why don't we just start saying "inc" for short instead of "hack" and call it a day?

That way we can ironically signal to fellow incers on IN that we're part of the IN-group and feel good about ourselves as we imagine being subtly given recognition by various internet strangers with similar interests who may someday be sitting across from us in an interview where having the "correct" signals of exactly what we see as cool vs. ironic may be paramount to determining "cultural fit".

P.S. Thanks for giving me the inspiration to inc up a witty response.
A bigot? Really?

"There are hundreds of issues of infinitely more substance than whether black children are conceived in wedlock."

This is where it's obvious that you are yet another non-black person who has never lived in a predominantly black community or extensively socialized with large groups of black folks in real contexts. I've attended black churches countless times, been a best man and/or a groomsman in two weddings with two very good friends who happen to be black, and my own wedding party was my brother, and white coworker, and two black men who are my oldest friends. I don't point out the lack of fathers in the black community because I'm a bigot. I point it out because I care and don't believe America can succeed without the betterment of black America.

Fatherless children are vastly more likely to end up in jail, dead, or at best drop-outs. You talk about drugs and poverty, and act as if being raised without a father doesn't directly impact that? Are you fucking serious? I'm not "judging" the black community for lack of fathers. I'm characterizing a real problem that is obviously a root cause of many others. People like you who reflexively jump to cries of "bigot" don't help. You hurt by enabling the demagogues to continue to act as if the real challenges imposed on blacks by systemic racism are equal to the challenges imposed by a broken culture that was created by white racism but has now, post Civil Rights Act, morphed into a self-perpetuating feedback loop.

Now if you excuse me I'm going to go home to my mixed-race children and continue to hate them since I'm such a bigot according to some dipshit on the internet. I'll have to kick my wife out too. Can't believe I didn't see she wasn't an Aryan before.
There should be a rule that if one writes a post saying language X is faster than languages A,B,C there should be some real world benchmark to add data to the discussion.
Is there anyone out there making a paid, zero advertising/data collecting social network? What if this service allowed you to buy access for 50 of your closest friends and family? I would think if it was executed properly and you provided a standard "I'm deleting Facebook and here is why, apply to join my paid for network group" post people would consider making the jump. I know there's a lot to Facebook and I wouldn't expect some new company to stack up feature for feature. Just give me chat, text/image posts and the wall and I will be happy that I can keep up with my close friends and family. I wouldn't be entirely surprised or disappointed if Apple attempted something like this on their Messages platform but I would just hope they'd make it accessible to all phone/computer/tablet users.
Exactly, why burn zero-days when you're targeting a technologically unsophisticated adversary with a huge organizational attack surface?

Then how is this evidence of a 'state-sponsored actor'?

And how did the narrative of this story ever get derailed from what it should have been, which was, "The DNC, and John Podesta in particular who had both his gmail and his Twitter accounts hacked, are incompetent", to "this is Russian interference in a US election"?
Can experts weigh in on the utility of this thing?
To my ignorant eyes it looks excessively complicated.

To save you a search it's here: https://www.themooltipass.com/
Very true, also it's not really a weakness for Rust, but any new language / tools.
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Your "summary" leaves out the key points. The SeaDaddy, X-Agent, and X-Tunnel tools used in these attacks have only been used by two groups, using the same control servers each time, on European, American, and World Anti-Doping Agency targets that the Russians had strong motive to attack, with some of the attacks being attributed to Russia by multiple other means.

If it turned out that Russia was not behind these attacks, the scale of the bad publicity for Crowdstrike, Fidelis, Palo Alto Networks, etc. would nearly put them out of business. Unlike you, they have skin in the game and don't make these claims lightly.
Source?
I googled it and only found articles suggested the opposite.

ex.https://theintercept.com/2016/12/29/top-secret-snowden-docum...
Notifications are the most annoying thing ever. Facebook innovated on the notification icon and concept back in 2008 or so. Since then every one has followed their path. I do not like notifications on my phone unless it is for my email and I am currently on call (Thanks FastMail for having an amazing notification system (real time)).
>Please note that experiments with alternative societal models often have failure modes like dictatorships and/or a large part of the population dying in horrible ways and/or... It is not something to experiment with lightly.

I agree it's not something to be taken lightly, but saying that there have been failures in the past is not an argument against trying to fix those failures by systematically identifying them. The modern Marxist movement is focused on finding the failures of the 20th century attempts at Socialism.

Besides that, calling out capitalism for the exploitative system that it is by no means implies I'm supporting any particular societal model, nor that I approve of other's societal model. It only means that I disapprove of capitalism.

And you know, I'm sure that during feudalism there were lords, barons and peasants all saying the exact same thing you are saying right now. You can't simply dismiss every other model that society may be fitted to by pointing out that atrocities were committed in the past. That's painting with a brush that is too thick.

>nice and democratic countries
And you're even assuming democracy is something inherently good. There is also the distinction between 'pure' democracy and 'bourgeois' democracy that's worth knowing about, as Engels wrote about.
I've never seen a company where engineers were the "elite" status.
I look forward to that.
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No, I think this process does a very good job of illustrating an important idea: prices are what people are prepared to pay, not any objective kind of "value". This includes what you can trick people into paying until it's actually made illegal.

These games have a lot more in common with the toxic reinforcement of gambling than they do with regular pay-once games.
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I think the article touches on some interesting points, but it doesn't really go into any of them, including the warped understanding of economics.

However, I am interested in learning more about these exchange rates that don't add up and the bonus' that don't help the players but still appeal to them.
Fair enough. I'm sorry about calling you out on the metaphor. Instead I'll call you out on the point itself :-)

> Having safety features that you know you can rely on allows you to take risks that you normally wouldn't in order to accomplish some really awesome things.

Unless you rush to publish a public facing version of your code, I can't see why you'd be afraid to take risks in any language. What's so scary about a buffer overflow on your home workstation running data from a source that's never even seen your program? It will just segfault, which is no worse than a Rust panic. If I could exploit your new code, it means I've already gotten so far into your workstation or server that I could just run my own code. Where does the fear come from?
Would you consider open sourcing some of your work on Ruby analysis?
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TBH, I'd just assume see more stuff come to light... however, in this case, the Russians didn't want Clinton in office (for whatever reasosn) and allowed, encouraged or outright paid for as much negative information as possible to come to light... the timing was a bit odd though, as it's likely this could have happened during the primaries and brought in a Sanders win.

The Obama (big D) administration doesn't like the outcome, or interference, so are stepping in now that they have some evidence of the origins of said attacks.

Of course they didn't step in when it was one of several large corporations which have heavy economic ties with the US... Boeing, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, etc... but hey, they messed with their political party and the elections this time.

I'm a bit cynical about the whole thing to be honest. If the news media had done their job instead of pumping Trump's visibility we wouldn't have had to worry about Hillary or Trump being their respective party's nominees in the first place.
This is not evidence, and it is unlikely evidence would be released. The Administration (as is usually the case for any US executive on any issue unless they are seeking action that requires legislation or a court verdict or something similar by some formal body outside of the executive branch) is not engaging in an effort to prove anything to anyone.

This is an analysis report with information (including most significantly the IOCs in the accompanying files), some of which is previously released and some of which is newly declassified, for use in defending against and forensically identifying attacks by the threat groups identified.

No one is passing this off as evidence of anything.
Safety stopped here: "curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh"
So did my interest.
Yes, we are thinking about specifying the licensing term such that clients cannot use it to create new project.

We are looking for the proper phrasing, wording, template and general experience of folks who have been on either side of the table on this issue. The more we know, the better we will negotiate so to speak ;)
Why would they switch a perfectly working software code with something in Go? Java is 15 year older than Go so obviously lot more code would be in it. More interesting case is Dart as despite having 'official' Google support, industry wide usage is rather tepid compared to Go.
Seriously. Clapper lied directly to congress under oath on TV. The whole "they know whats best for us and our only choice is blind faith" attitude is really disturbing.
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>why should these IP addresses from those countries make this attack attributable to Russia?

"DHS has released a Joint Analysis Report (JAR) attributing those compromises to Russian malicious cyber activity, designated as GRIZZLY STEPPE. "

This is one of the 'GRIZZLY STEPPE Indicators' . Am i reading this wrong ?