skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author discovered this exploit in the template engine he wrote (Jinja2).
German here. Had a friend who studied info scienes. He does the tour- as in traversing the Mediterranean coast (Marroko, Porto,Spain,France,Italy, Austria, the Balkan (the european middle east), Greek, Israel - living in AirBnB Flats, working remote. Great landscape, great climate, tax avoiding if you stay in no country longer then the max-tax time.

Con: Sucks if you want a stable live and a family.
I'm with you, it's a mantra that takes effort to maintain, I'm easily sucked into a 'serious news' narrative, then mine for background information obsessively so as to form an 'informed opinion', then what, it's formed but neutered, extending my understanding of a topic does nothing to change the situation... my existential inclinations are not well serviced by what I see as a self-indulgent and negative voyeurism, a better reaction, to double down on local, small scale, personal improvements.
Naive trend-extrapolation (assuming 1 synapse == 1 parameter) implies 17 iterations of Moore's law before we get human level AI, or some sort of ASIC, I suppose. This is what made me think human-level AI is a ways off.

Brain dead trend-extrapolation is a pretty good prediction tool, but I suppose my assumption that modern NNs aren't more efficient was sort of an arbitrary assumption that makes the exercise useless. Is there any work on this?

I'm not sure what evidence the performance of these systems show us, as bees are pretty smart for their size. These system are about as optimized for lip-reading and translation as bees are for their various tasks, so it wouldn't be surprise me if it turned out that they are similarly powerful per synapse to NNs.
> We kept thinking: why can't SF be more like BCN?

Because 'Murrica. As a native Russian, this has always puzzled and bewildered me, too.
That's very true. Flat shares are often a lot of fun with the right people.
Hm, I thought the point of pseudocode was that it is simple to write down, and everyone understands it.

This misses both of those advantages.
Interesting... I tend not to eat just potatoes (I'm diabetic), but wonder if it would work with my typical "mash" (cauliflower, celeriac, parsnip, potato, butter, cream, salt, pepper) it isn't just potato, but may be able to get a similar effect if I cut the butter, cream, salt and pepper down.

Will definitely look into it.
Ask HN: Has anyone taken the LSAT for fun?
I don't want to go to law school, but I've always been good at standardized tests, and the sample LSAR questions I've seen are mostly logic puzzles that seem to correlate highly with computer science ability.

Has anyone taken the test just for fun? How'd you do?
"How could they?"

Sounds like a Responsible Disclosure kind of thing to me. However, they didn't just ask for the research, they requested additional work in the form of a presentation. That's labor for which there should be compensation. Further, a contract with this potential client that explicitly prevents the client from blocking other presentations and publications; perhaps even barring this client from speaking publicly about the research and what you've found any time before your public presentation. They need to cover the legal expenses for the researcher as well.

So you give them a price to get this advance presentation. Maybe you offer an olive branch (and maybe you label it "responsible disclosure") that they might also have access to the research itself before publication.

Or maybe you tell them to stick it and go public on your own schedule and throw this industry group under the bus. But that seems like destroying the canyon wall before any bridges could even be built (let alone burning bridges that may have already existed...)
There was also a discussion when it was announced as Hyperdev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11808911
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We're facing a huge impending labor shortage.

The trend in US wages/employment for youths doesn't seem to signal that. The trend in wages/employment for youths in nations with even lower fertility rates (Spain, Italy, Portugal...) doesn't seem to signal that. Even Japan, where absolute population decline is already underway, has good-but-not-amazing trends in wages and unemployment for youths. Where's the race to bid up the prices for young workers, and buy all their labor that's for sale, if an aging work force really is leading to crisis-level worker shortages? If the market expects a huge impending shortage of (e.g.) coking coal, you don't see the same lackluster demand for the output that's currently available.

Maybe you meant that the shortage isn't coming in the next couple of months or years, but in a generation or so, so the market reaction isn't there yet. The view that I subscribe to, which seems common here on HN, is that technological change is going to significantly reduce the market demand for human labor in a generation or so. I expect that automation will generally deflate the market price of human labor faster than an aging work force can inflate it.

Social Security solvency currently depends on lots of middle class workers earning wages, because its funding is structured that way. But that's a policy choice that is more easily reversed than fertility rates or technical progress in automation. If the problem is more about paying for retirees than lacking warm bodies to do work, higher fertility just makes government funding problems more severe: you end up with more people who need non-market support mechanisms if the market demand for additional human labor isn't there.
That might be my fault if I wrote this poorly. What I was trying to say was closer to "programming is fun, but all the prerequisites it takes to get code running these days aren't very satisfying".
hmm, generally when I suppose there are classes of beings of intelligence vastly greater than mine I suppose they are sitting up on Mars watching the earth with jealousy.

Vastly more intelligent not just more intelligent but vastly. Wow.
You'll have to be a lot more specific, and I currently work from home. We also have a school-aged child.
How I Started Coding and Got into Software Development
Can you talk more about those tax incentives?
Coincidentally I watched a new documentary last night on Netflix named "The Ivory Game" (https://www.netflix.com/browse?jbv=80117533&jbp=0&jbr=6)

Heartbreaking documentary on the massive killing of elephants for ivory and how futile all of the efforts the African nations are taking to try to stop poaching and killing by local farmers.

Investigative segments include a Chinese journalist undercover with WildLeak talking to the Chinese criminals involved in the massive illegal ivory trade.

I hope this was instrumental in getting the Chinese govt to actually set a ban date for ivory. Currently their regulation are so lax and so corrupt that it's easy for the "legal" ivory dealer to launder illegal ivory in order to sell millions of dollars worth every day.

Did you know over 1000 Kenyan and other African game rangers have been kill in the protection of elephants by poachers. Terrible.
Not watching TV since more than 5 years (also no Netflix etc.) - blocked every new source except HN at the beginning of 2016 (using leechblock in Firefox).

Much happier.
how do you make carbo fiber frame yourself?
It's just a pointless question to ask if middle class families can live in the city limits (an arbitrary border) in my opinion.

The better question is do middle class families have to live as far away from their jobs in LA as they do in SF, and the answer to that question is increasingly "yes."
This existed in python 2.6; it's not a new feature by any means.
Year End Blues – Arms Control, Disarmament, and Non-Proliferation
This is still qualified as an "emergency".
Clearly there is room for improvement in this area.

But I'd rather see papers include code snippets.

If a widely used and highly readable language is used (Python, for example) then the meaning of what is going on would be much more clear, and in some cases could be immediately tested out with ones own data or at least played with in an existing, widely installed, live system.
IIRC the Randall Hyde assembly language book is also good. I've read some of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Hyde

Another is this one by Paul Carter, who taught Computer Science at the University of Central Oklahoma for 10 years, including PC assembly language programming. You can get both a free PDF and a physical copy of it from here:

http://pacman128.github.io/pcasm/

and it uses only free software such as NASM and GCC.
The book covers 32-bit protected mode programming in assembly. It also covers interfacing assembly and C code.
Link I posted from the author of the exploit yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13284872

I guess the ad blocker blocker killed that...
Are you sure? This has a broad interpretation:

Unless explicitly permitted by your Rate Plan or Data Plan, you are not permitted to use your Device or the Service in a way that we determine:

[...]

- Causes harm or adversely affects us, the network, our customers, employees, business, or any other person;

[https://www.t-mobile.com/Templates/Popup.aspx?PAsset=Ftr_Ftr...]

Even if that person's Wikipedia activities are not themselves deemed as TOS violations, it seems probable that if their activity were monitored for a bit, T-Mobile could come up with a TOS violation unrelated to those activities and shut them down. (That violation could be something that they knowingly let vast numbers of other customers get away with.)
Oddly enough, SF is among the best cities in America for density.

I wish more of America were like Barcelona, including SF. Regulations tend to prohibit dense walkable construction though. I don't mean NIMBY protests per se. Existing city regulations tend to require more parking spaces and setbacks than old cities provided.

Not to mention prohibitions on having shops and housing in the same zones that most modern cities now have.

This shows that a good chunk of Manhattan couldn't be built today: http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.c...

The North American status quo is weird: it is illegal to build dense, walkable, aesthetically pleasing neighbourhoods.
So does in Python. This isn't string interpolation, it's the equivalent of String.Format.
*say, not "day"
Watching this is the closest thing I've had to a religious experience.
Use offlineimap to synchronize your mail. Then use whatever client (webmail or otherwise) running on your local machine.
I would challenge that narrative, because Trump clearly wasn't "The Party's candidate". He was a populist candidate, and populists gon spend (or at least say they are).

There still seem to be deep misgivings within his cabinet about the spending, but Trump seems to tend to get what he wants, and is quick to fire people who aren't making it happen, so...
Cities are expensive for a reason - they are not just a Veblen good like a Mercedes AMG, mainly valuable due to scarcity. Cities are more like doctors - they are extremely useful, and we would all be better off if there were enough to go around.

Throughout US history there have been economically booming areas where people could move to become more prosperous. The majority of good new jobs are in cities. The fact that we are not building enough housing and transit infrastructure so people can actually live somewhere while working those jobs is a problem for national employment and economic growth. The landlords end up taking home a great share of the economic benefit instead of the workers as the price for scarce housing is bid up. This is also the root cause of gentrification.

This leads to megacommutes as people occupy housing further and further from the booming economy. That's clearly the case in the Bay Area, where many cities have built more units of office space than housing, guaranteeing a rough commute for the people who work in those buildings.
It'd be a couple days long, though...
Scala's solution to string formatting is the best out there imo. You can put basically any code into the format placeholder.

http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/string-interpolati...
Android's standard mail application talks IMAP to mail servers just fine. It doesn't do much, but it does work well.
With great power comes great configurability.

You only have to do it once.
Found your post-project debriefings very interesting to read, thanks for documenting your experience so thoroughly.

If you don't mind, I do have a question: what did you do in terms of the legal side? I.e. did you start a new company for each month, do each within an existing corporate umbrella, or just not worry about that until you needed to? Or maybe something else entirely?
I am not sure what is the right thing to do but I feel not watching the news is not right. I too feel anxious and depressed when I follow the news and politics but I feel that I become part of the problem if I decide to live under the rock.

I think the solution should be something like being able to filter the negativity and keep the zen while watching the news, not close the eyes.
In python, function calls start from left and continue to the right. Though f'' doesn't look like a function call, in practice it is.
Please don't make these sorts of comparisons between biological neurons and our "neural networks". They're really not the same thing at all. We'd rather call them "differentiable networks", and IIRC, the human brain is supposed to have only 6 layers in the visual cortex.
Not for me, but for a lot of friends, Pokemon Go made a huge health impact, just from the increased walking around... One friend in particular started going to more parks, etc just to walk their trails and get more game play. Kind of wild.

For me, It wasn't really a year I pushed myself as much as I could/should. This coming year, planning on going lower carbs again, but also limiting my calories a bit more than the last time. A few years ago, I lost 80# by going low carb, but wound up in the hospital for ketoacidosis. Will have to keep a closer watch on my blood sugar and insulin levels. I've been within 15# of that weight since, but it's been hard.

One funny thing (kind of in response to the potato hack post), is that since that year, I really don't care for potatoes by themselves as much (straight mash, or fries), I'll have a little, but a year without added starchy foods of any kind (bread, rice, potato, corn) really changes what you like. I do seem to do better on red meat (even leaner varieties like bison) than I do with poultry.

So, ready for round 2.
>In Fort Hill in 2016, meanwhile, initiatives to build new affordable housing to keep those long-time residents in the neighborhood were met with resistance by some homeowners fearing an influx of low-cost housing would negatively affect their home values.

Someone enlighten me, why does the government have to listen to the wealthy NIMBY's over the longtime residents? Are certain voices more important than others? We live in a egalitarian democracy, no?
I certainly agree, but it the private presentation offer was predicated on understanding the risk so they could start an injunction process if necessary, then they wouldn't agree to a stipulation that they wouldn't file an injunction. That would defeat the purpose.

That said, it might be a nice way to test the waters with them to understand their actual agenda. IF you said, "Sure I'll come and give you a talk but you need to all sign and say you will take no action to prevent my talk from happening in the future in public." And if they refuse to sign such a stipulation then you have your answer on their motives.

Note that if that is in fact what they were trying to do, and you "gave away" that you knew what they were trying to do, it might just force them into action anyway even without a lot of evidence that the talk would harm them.
More offerings in the small brushless class, I like it :)

I kind of miss a video. I assume it behaves similar to other offerings in the same size, but video (outdoors and indoors at that size) would help. As would some text comparing it with alternatives and why I should buy yours and not e.g. a FlexRC MiniOwl (I'd guess yours is lighter but easier to break, but that is a guess)

Also, shipping costs? Shipping to non-US locations? (maybe I missed a page about that)
I personally eased off sugar in iterations, by making short "pushes" where I cut out ALL added sugars and answered any cravings with fruit like bananas, apples or grapes. Each iteration wouldn't last forever, but every time I "cheated" it was with a little less sugar than before. And every time I tried again I lasted a little longer before cheating.

Something that really helped me was getting angry at the companies producing all these foods with added sugar. Seriously, look at the labels, it is EVERYWHERE (at least in the USA). I resolved to not buy these products--why give your money to these companies that can't make a product taste good without resorting to cheap tricks? Why am I paying them to hurt me? I do still buy dark chocolate for dessert a few times a week--I am not opposed to dessert, but that's the only place I think sugar should be.

Ultimately I think everyone has a unique approach (mentally and physically) that works for them, and it's probably an ensemble of smaller strategies accumulated over time that create success in the end. Be willing to experiment (safely), accept temporary failures, learn what works and then repeat all over again.
> If you know where to find more data for this country, please let us know.

Wikipedia.
Why all the downvotes?
I think ideally a psudo-code should be directly translatable into any programming language. It should be dead simple. It should use all of the best practices of the most common programming languages. It should be typable.

None of this garvage of arrows and triangles. I'm not Greek, I don't have that kind of stupid keyboard.

Also, it should follow programming practices for variable names.

Rather then A, B, C, D, X and the lot use forward_momentum or ForwardMomentum. We're not using typewriters any more. The extra few keystrokes for typing out words, and not symbols, is well worth it.
You don't have to make up all your opinions from scratch. Pick a person who you trust and who you think shares your values. For me, that could be President Obama. Whatever position Obama has on a given issue, I will find that position reasonable virtually 10 out of 10 times. If I happen to be expert in some issue, I might presume to disagree. Outsourcing the problem to someone who does think about policy all day is a big time saver.
I had high hopes for Geary but it was underfunded and lacks the feature set I need to replace Thunderbird. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geary_(software)
>(1) Do not such articles sound like "not everyone can afford a holiday in Hawai"? Or "all my friends have a Mercedes AMG but I don't"? What is the difference? *

It would be useful, for many reasons, to have a greater proportion of people living in cities. So, it's useful to challenge your implicit assumption that doing so ought to be a luxury.

(2) In Bay Area, the daily commute itself is an obvious sign of overpopulation. How does more housing not make it even worse?

a) The commute is awful because the Bay Area is overpopulated relative to its transit infrastructure, not some natural limit. Or, conversely, the Bay Area's transit infrastructure is under-provisioned relative to its population. Faster, more extensive transit infrastructure can drastically improve the commute at both current and higher population levels.

b) We also underutilize the land close to commute destinations, so everyone (but the residents of single-family homes near downtown) has to travel further than they should. Pedestrians don't need much in the way of infrastructure (just sidewalks, which most of SF already has). Building more residential skyscrapers in the midst of business districts lets more people walk to work in a short time. Building more mid-rises (~6 stories) where there are currently single-family homes gets more people into commute distances that are reasonably quick on a bicycle, motor scooter, or public transit. Density of residents also promotes density of stores, so that i.e. everyone can be a short walk from their grocery store, rather than needing a car to shop, and the reclaimed land previously dedicated to parking can house more people.
That's fine. It's worth it. Hell, make it + set of lectures + a book + homework exercises and sell it as a college architecture corse.
I studied with the Goethe Institute in Sydney and highly recommend it.
Housing is only a good financial investment if supply outstrips demand. The high cost of housing is less a function of low interest rates than zoning laws that restrict new development.
This may be true if measuring "most businesses" by legal entities. In the US at least, 17% of US employment (27 million) is for the Fortune 500 (2015) - definitely spanning multiple time zones.
Once again strings and io formatting making fun of us.
AFAIK Fravia was ORC+. He invented many different avatars for his teachings.
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.

I also think neural networks could save alot of parameters if they use sparse connections. That just doesn't happen to work well with our current hardware.
Is Mercury in Retrograde?
We know how to safe six-story buildings in SF are a solved prblem, and developers have no problem following building codes when zoning allows them to build 6 stories.
Looks like it needs some more educationin'
Thanks for the levelheaded reply. After reflecting on it a bit, I think you and WhitneyLand are right. It would have been a different thing if this were the company blog, but this was your personal blog, so of course it's completely reasonable to talk about yourself.

I was out of line, and I am sorry for the harsh tone of my comments.
I asked the Google deep mind team how their brain would work in 1. A mouse and 2. A lizard. They replied that they are no where near that level of intelligence.

I think AI will split into two sets, biological inspired that will be general purpose. The other will be tool, much moreasier alien and specific to a domain. Bit like how aeroplanes don't look like birds.
Very cool, I strive for that always, which makes some situations far easier to cope with, others harder. Also, key is to be honest without being cruel or mean, wording can make some huge differences, but that takes practice. I've made honesty a point of my life for a very long time.

Funny story, as I really don't drink very often. It's the only time I've ever done so, but about 13 years ago, met up with friends after work for a few drinks, and kind of turned into a party. My boss was a bit lost for words when I called in because I was hung over. I just don't lie. (I frankly suck at it).