skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt that was his message, too.

I never see any exercises in deducing limits of APIs to understand means to break their literal limits. I think with cost of bandwidth and instances now, subsets of search might be attempted against a private crawl, to peer into invisible optimisations.

I recently have been thinking, how vertical markets and subject areas may be susceptible to challenge for search traffic supremacy, how if the big search and data slurpers may be toppled sooner rather than later by federations of sophisticated narrow search. What if, hypothetically of course, big companies used their own data to train search models, and the models could be traded, the cost regained by advertising arbitrage in industry portals, related industries aggregated and new search models developed at both higher and lower levels? After all, what does Google do, but an implicit quid pro quo, in particular with gmail accounts? Do we need such intimate personalization to ever be even possibility? It would be strange and maybe profound irony, if big companies' actions relieved us all of intrusions by way of enabling a new search competition.

Yep, Fravia would not have felt constrained - to overmuch anyway - by an API being deprecated. I'm sure he would immediately ponder why, and whether there was a reason important to the searcher.

I always thought it poor thinking, that the SEO game was self limited by the fact it set about to skew results, instead of first learning how accurate the non gamed indexes might be already gamed. I see the way Google seems to prefer decisions following user behaviour even over any lookup at all (follow the most followed links, assume audience is right, as opposed to worry that was best of poor set of results) was the natural outcome of a industry determined to rewrite the source material constantly, even to the point of creating new grammars. Of course, what SEOs affect is not all the web, but they have been too influential, to my taste anyhow. The most written language, I forget who pointed this out here not long ago, is actually transliterated speech, exclamatory or emotive not structured with dependant clauses for elimination of risk for misinterpretation is priority, information subordinate to emotional appreciation of message intent, and semantics choice over expression. Only the other week, a comment which expressed the received impression of a company's marketing stance as speech from their spokesperson, was warned that HN doers not accept such language, and the reprimanding moderator (?) went on in such a way I was uncertain they, as opposed to a supposed audience they meant to protect from such dangerous prose, understood the words they criticized.

My view is that more "formal and correct" search might go a long way to

edit: just continuing last sentence as pushed this too quickly...

might go a long way to averting many kinds of linguistic rot.
Frankly I'd be OK with that, even though I'd rather die than have them harvest my organs and desecrate my corpse. I guess being at the bottom of the queue is not that bad a price to pay for that, it's only fair.

I'm against an opt-out system, though. I don't think the default should be for people to cut pieces out of someone, and I think most people wouldn't want that.
It's the fault of their own business model which cuts cost on consoles (they have to compete against the other ones) only jack the price up later on games and make money there.

On the bright side, the Air Force made a really nice PS3 cluster.

http://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercompute...
Does it matter that a foreign, non-friendly country hacked an email system and deliberately staged releases of info in attempt to cause maximum damage to a political party and sway the outcome of an election?

I'm going to have to say "yes".

DNC, RNC, Green, Independent, etc. it shouldn't matter who got hacked. I'd hope that all Americans would be concerned about this.
Yes, people in Barcelona smoke, grill, have hobbies, bicycles, etc.
The Dreamcast was notoriously easy to copy games for, it's a darling of gamers but the companies making games didn't like it one bit.

And while I do love my PC for gaming, it definitely feels more and more like an afterthought these past couple of years.
The problem with this is that, much like fake news, no refutation or retraction ever spreads as wildly and virally as the original sensational claim. So people will carry on believing that Russia hacked the power grid, just like they have with all the other bogus, sensationalised, narrative-pushing claims so far. It's basically a way for papers to have their cake and eat it: they get to profit from the original bogus claim while insisting that it shouldn't affect their reputation for good journalism because they corrected it.
This year I am going to focus on being less passive. I have written down some achievable goals and instead of only thinking about doing them I am going to push myself to complete them.

In the past I have been too complacent and this lowers my self-esteem indirectly when I feel like I never get around to finishing these goals.
But ... but ... but ... doesn't the Earth revolve around SF?! :-P
Odd they reference c# since c# does not have this feature in its traditional format strings - they don't allow you to access arbitrary members.

C# recently added string interpolation, which does allow arbitrary code, but string interpolation itself is compiled C# code and can't be stored like a format string.

Personally I use mustache when i need format-string-like-behavior from semi-trusted users.
What does "[flagged]" prefix in the title mean?
Obscure is the a catchy marketing word like weird. For example, "10 obscure tricks to do x". We should remove it from the title.
Bad science and health ideas that should die with 2016
Depressing. Is there any reason to think Putin's strategies are unsustainable?
Why would a template engine allow for free access to the native platforms string capabilities in the first place?
Excellent point, and the main point is... it doesn't really cost them anything if it doesn't get called out by another high-visibility actor. And the whole "call them out" thing obviously takes lower and lower priority if all you're trying to do is to out-"produce" your competitors. It's all a pretty depressing case of perverse incentives... again :(.
I got a nice domain a couple years back and for a couple of months ago I redid the site to try out GravCMS and now I use it to write small "TIL" (Today I Learned) entries.

https://it-db.com
Haha I'm sure you could. I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader :)
Still, no reason to save them in the platforms native string format and with full reign over native strings.
Clover: open source OpenCL 1.1 software implementation
> And this is exactly the ugly place where reality collides with the way we wish things were. I worked for a guy once who could put together a story so plausible that someone close to you would invest way more than they had any reason to or should, into the venture. He would not tell a single outright lie and the "truth" would be that if all the things that needed to happen, did happen, the business would in fact be a great investment. He would have a sold your parents so hard that they are probably getting their friends to come in on the deal too. And when all the money was gone and your parents were destitute, he would have an iron clad story about how it was not his fault, how your parents knew that things could go wrong, and that risk was all part of the equation. He would be untouchable as far as a fraud prosecution goes.

This happens to VCs too. So? This is why investing into companies is risky.
>in reality the bank will force you into bankruptcy, seize all your assets because they're at the top of the payback list, and blacklist you from ever running a business or borrowing money again.

You'd be surprised. People have recovered from such "bankcrupcies" time and again, including the current POTUS.
I believe you meant "Prosper" and not "Lending Club". LC never allowed lenders to set the rates, it was Prosper. LC started out as Facebook app for lending.

Equity crowdfunding was hobbled by SEC equity crowdfunding regulations influenced by special interest groups. The restriction on max amount non-accredited investors can invest to very low amount doesn't help investors in diversifying across lot of companies and make follow up investment in winners.

Also, equity crowdfunding platforms haven't done the favor to the industry by creating poor investor-unfriendly terms like no direct claim/ownership of the company, no voting rights, no access to ongoing financials and inability to do follow up investments. A better structure would have been that followed by angels/VCs.
I'm the co-founder of Calcapp, an app designer for the spreadsheet crowd which uses Excel-like formulas. I've had hundreds of conversations with potential users and I have a radically different view of what people find problematic with spreadsheets than I did at the outset. I thought that people would be clamoring for version control, unit tests, the ability to define custom functions and to prevent users from tampering with the formulas and data. Instead, people are mostly looking to craft better user interfaces with great usability on mobile and to get into app stores.

I've spent years building calculator apps for healthcare use, where the certification process essentially requires apps to come with unit tests, so I'm definitely biased by my past experience. I'm still somewhat surprised that more people aren't frustrated that spreadsheets make it so hard to build robust software.
How does it compare with Khan Academy? Content seems to overlap - what's the differentiation?
> And a correction was published.

Too late. I already saw a news segment about Russia hacking US power plants on mainstream Italian TV. There will be no retraction here and the disinformation is already in the public consciousness.
On the other hand, I came here to suggest that knowledge of Simpson's Paradox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox) could resolve a lot of political fights. And Simpson's paradox is only applicable when data is presented as percentages, so the key to unraveling the paradox is to show the absolute numbers and changes, instead of the percentages.

The real problem is that percentages hide the size of the groups, and even if you show the sizes of the groups separately, focusing on the percentages still obscures the reality unless this is called out explicitly.
Well, lets see, the Pentagon considers cyber attacks against critical US infrastructure (including the power grid) an act of war that can warrant a military response [0].

And now we have a major US newspaper publishing articles claiming (with the most tenuous of links) that Russia is hacking the US power grid.

Not to mention a whole bunch of other dubious anti-Russia stories making the rounds based on flimsy 'evidence' that boils down to what another commenter posted the other day:

"Russians drive trucks. Hackers used trucks. Therefore the hacks were clearly done by the Russians"

It's not a straw man to say people calling for calm against Russia Hysteria are doing so because they don't want things to escalate to war with Russia.

> Certainly not the incoming US president

And so I find myself looking more and more forward to a Trump presidency. There are still 20 days to go however, so lets hope the media and the left can calm themselves down before then.

0: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-13614125
Format strings in python are not equivalent to eval. The syntax looks similar, but it's actually limited to evaluating methods and list elements in a given object. Now, with Python's monkeys patchability this is worrying, but it's far from being eval.
I think you should mention the linux ABI compatibility in articles like this. It's a huge selling point IMO.
It never occurred to me, and the solutions are far from obvious.

I doubt that vaccines or hygiene had much of an impact. Being an organ donor is not really compatible with death by disease, which tends to wreck the whole body. Organ donation requires being killed while leaving most of your body largely intact. Violent deaths involving the brain are good candidate, thus why motorcycles are so "popular" among transplant surgeons.
That is a great way to kill all transport by car in the US. I understand there is a risk when driving in a car. However, when I am driving I am in control of, at least, a portion of that risk. I can control how I drive and how I react to scenarios on the road. I also have my best inteserests in mind.

If I get into a self-driving car that will randomly kill me if I am unlucky enough to get into the wrong car at the wrong time, I cannot control that risk. It is no different than Russian roulette. No thank you. I would take public transot and/or move somewhere I could walk everywhere. Part of the reason that people accept the risk of driving in cars is because they have some control (or someone they trust has that control). Without that, I wonder how many would bother with driving?
I've been feeling better and better about PC gaming these past few years. Most people I know have been making the switch to PC from Consoles. The biggest factor being steam sales (or X company sales)... the sales themselves reduce the risk associated with buying games; especially, triple A titles which tend to be expensive and hit or miss.

Grand Theft Auto for PC at 4K, while requiring a helluva graphics card, blows away consoles. To be honest any game I've played on a PC has been a better experience (with the exception of racing games and some side scrollers which benefit from an input device not being a keyboard or mouse).
I have seen an endless stream of fakes and lies spread virally through social media for the last few months, and no refutation or correction ever reaches the same kind of viral spread that the original claim did - not even ones from the original person making the claim. The refutations don't support people's existing worldview, so they don't spread.
A new iPhone bug will crash the Messages app with a single text
The point is, there's been a sustained campagin to discredit Russia at every opportunity by the Dems who are buthurt about their election loss.
I am not saying that Russia did nothing and I don't think Glenn is saying that either, rather he wants us to think more critically before accepting "secret evidence" from the same people who pushed us into the Iraq War, not that controverial a position, or is it?
The international market exists, but there is no evidence of the malware having any positions there or any efforts to promote it there, which is how things usually are. So, it is used mostly by Russians and Ukrainians and is known almost only among them.

If you believe the intelligence agencies, it's only logical to believe that Russians did in fact do it. Simple estimates based on the things that we know about the world don't suggest other possibilities.

Not that it matters though. Russia already did a lot worse, but US officials were so afraid to call it out, even downing MH17 was presented as if Russia "helped rebels" and didn't do it itself.
You are asking for evidence of a lack of evidence. The onus is on you here - it can't be the other way around.
Trump Praises Putin for Rejecting In-Kind Response to Obama
I've done this in other areas (not security) and it's worked out well.

Some quick tips:

* get everything in writing;

* make sure there's not a clause, agreement, etc that prevents you from presenting it elsewhere;

* make sure to clearly say what they're allowed/not allowed to do with the presentation - record? share slides internally? publicly share everything?

* clearly document that you continue to own everything 100% - (slides, code, etc);

* get compensation - I'd suggest travel, two hotel nights, per diem for meals, and at least one daily fee on top (travel+presenting is possibly 1.5-2 days);

* make sure you understand what any non-disclosures cover and for how long.
> modern CNN's are better compared to a _single_ neuron

You obviously cannot reach human-level performance on ImageNet or do anything at all with a single neuron, so such an absurd equation refutes any such calculation or attempt to use a comparison as an upper bound.
Spain has an opt out system and it has the greatest donation per capita in the world.

By the way, only 5% of the organs came from vehicle accidents
+ORC
I believe strongly, that the important wage comparison is not between the Finnish teacher and the US teacher, but between the US teacher and the US MBA, and the Finnish teacher and the Finnish MBA.

In US a teacher makes about a third of what an MBA gets. In Finland the difference is an way smaller when you account for all the wealth transfers.
Right, so it's not WaPo/The Guardian who are spreading fake news to push a narrative, but rather the person who asks for actual evidence before jumping to conclussions who is the sad one?
Thankfully no. Who knows what can happen in 20 days though.
Which immediately becomes a security risk because classes can overload __getattr__ and __getitem__. So now you're executing random code.

Of course, %s does the same thing (__str__) but at least %s doesn't take any arguments.
Is that the same Rolling Stone that just lost a defamation suit for a blatantly false 2014 story[0]?

I'm all for dismissing this Russia story but I don't find RS an especially credible source right now.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/jury-finds-re...
> I am not surprised at all how many applications you can get from insect-brain sized networks, since they only solve one specific purpose. If the same network could solve all those problems that would be surprising.

Transfer learning demonstrates that the 'specialization' objection is moot. The CNNs are learning large parts of what goes into general-purpose vision, not super-narrow specific things, otherwise it would be impossible to take a classification CNN and reuse only a tweaked version for image captioning, localization, tagging, segmentation etc and find the intermediate layers learning semantically meaningful things.
Pay for what?
As a southerner who's moved to a northern city that expanded before cars blew up in the 50s, I gotta say, I can't ever see myself going back until you can feasibly live without a car.

My homecity is now over 600k people, but it's really just a network of highways and avenues/parkways connecting them all. Public transit is underfunded, and only the poorest of the poor use it until they can buy a car. Buying a car is simply a necessity, like a roof over your head.

Maybe the freedom of not being trapped in a car to get anywhere interesting costs more. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes, and that's not the actual meaning of the word.
Pixelmator is definitely the wrong tool for web graphics. It is much more focused on image editing. I tried to use it as a PS sub like you. Eventually i moved to Sketch and it has been great.
yes, basically eval is evil
Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. Flamewars are not welcome either. You've been doing both in this thread. We ban accounts that do this, so please stop.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13293599 and marked it off-topic.
> When the Soviet Union confronted this array of challenges in the mid-1980s, it promptly collapsed.

Bullshit. Soviet economy was just fine at the end of the Cold War. In fact Soviet GDP per capita was half that of the US, compared to now where it's like 10% of the US. Many historians agree that there was no economic need for the Soviet Union to be dismantled.

Article reads of conventional wisdom as advocated by Cold War propaganda about the Soviet Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union
The Pro Mouse had one button when five were becoming standard.

Apple has always produced mice that have at most one physical button, while providing in the OS to support third-party mice that have more. This isn't something that started with Ive. There are plenty of people who think Apple should produce mice that have more than one button throughout its history.

Having used all of these mice extensively, primarily in desktop publishing and programming environments, I haven't found any of the issues you mention a problem. That's not to say others haven't. I enjoyed using the Magic Mouse in particular. I never had any ergonomic issues with any of them, other than the Apple USB mouse.

You mention gaming, and I can see how none of Apple's mice would be good for this. And it's great that there are third-party companies producing great mice, and have been for a long time. (Speaking of Microsoft, I've heard great things about their keyboards as well.) Given my (admittedly personal) experience with Apple's mice, I find the phrasing "consistently awful" to be hyperbole and unwarranted. That's not to say they're the best. There's a wide range between "near-perfection" and "consistently awful".
I totally understand. What's the best way to contact you? I didn't see an email in your profile. Thanks again. I really appreciate it.
This seems similar to DayOne. I left day one when they went to their second version where they wanted to keep my journal on their servers. For similar reasons, I won't be signing up for your service. I know your journals are cheaper than self printing (I think you said $29 vs $79) but my privacy and controlling my journal data is easily worth $50 if I wanted a hard copy.

Best of luck going forward!
I think that it's funny that they target what they call "Conspiracy Stories or Theories". The world should be inherently activist and sharing their experiences, to make our governments better. I was the victim of getting drugged and raped by what I believe was an intelligence agent when I was on vacation at Burning Man. She left her phone unlocked and I saw her texts to her handler. Saying I've "got info" and stuff, and this chick, very literally tried to probe a guy who throws red herrings for a living to protect the secrecy of my business. I thought I was secret enough that people took me serious but not literally who I wouldn't want to know, but actually take me seriously and literally.

Scared the shit out of me. She could've been getting me into a honey trap to discredit and disrupt for economic reasons because I'm building the next Facebook, extremely secretively. I didn't even know what a honey trap was. She expected me to be easy to get in a compromising situation, thinking I would shag her, when in fact, I had a lovely partner at home that I promised I'd be loyal too and told the rapist at the start of the week at Burning Man, I couldn't do that with her. At the end of the week, she drugged me and raped me. Now my doctor wants to pre-empt the symptoms of PTSD because I shake when she verbally mentions me getting raped.

Intelligence can be a good thing, but when they are picking and choosing who to like, and trying to harm with violent intent, and subsequently drugging and raping innocent innovators.. they're being totally fascist and scared of change.

The private sector can do intelligence better and get people out on the streets, exercising their constitutional rights with Celestial Messaging..
... which is why it's a poor idea to do that in the first place, since it has literally a single layer of protection against remote, unauthorized, arbitrary code execution, that depends on keeping a static key secret.

Much better idea to use a stupid, non-ACE serialization there.