skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I monologued elsewhere:

If C is like playing with knives and C++ is juggling chainsaws, Rust is like parkour suspended from strings&wearing protective gear. It'll look ridiculous at times, but you'll be able to do all sorts of cool moves that would otherwise be damn scary or outright impossible. You'll have so much fun you'll start trying to do it in other languages, too. And many of us never look back.

Especially when we hear stories about knife players ending up with a bleeding heart, and that one chainsaw juggler who lost their poodle. At the beginning, you fear the padding will hinder you, but by now you learned that its clever design allows you to move as fast as without it. A bit faster, actually, since you're no longer on the lookout for ledges you might stumble over.

Also you get new improved gear every six weeks, and between this and your newly built muscles, you start feeling like a super hero. This feeling is amplified by the community, which simultaneously does awesome feats and is really humble and open about it (you're by now accustomed to people being good at concurrency, and get slightly annoyed that your snake-charming friends insist on doing everything one step at a time).

You also met some folks you wouldn't have expected here, from a number of dynamic languages, braving the learning curve to descend into low-level programming, usually singing Rust's praises with unreal sounding benchmark comparisons.

You start looking with pity at your knive- and chainsaw-wielding friends. You see both their bruises and denial about said bruises. You'd want to offer them some of that awesome protective gear (by now you no longer feel the strings, because they seldom get taut), but you know the answer already. Poor folks.

We are super heroes. We are legion. Join us!
> If you're a Javascript programmer, Rust is mostly about the awesome abstractions and the great community.

;)
Fine. But (assuming you extend this attitude to "the mainstream media" as well) you've created for yourself an ontology of the world in which it is impossible to claim any knowledge of anything outside your direct field of view. I'm not really sure how you intend us to accomplish much of anything without _some_ ability to trust _someone_ else. And bipartisan agreement from bitter enemies who have little or nothing to gain personally from such statements is about the lowest bar of trust I can imagine.
According to the patent, the drones would not fly back up to the airship but rather they would fly to collection center on land, be loaded into a smaller ship with other supplies and then flown back to the large airship. Presumably with the energy saved from gliding rather than flying to their delivery destination they'd have more range to make it to collection centers that are more sparse then if they just flew back and forth from the centers themselves.
"Salary can't and shouldn't be compared across the globe"

and

"there is not enough engineers and they are all going abroad"

Your prospective employees seem to disagree with your first statement.
The "evidence" cited is not the handful of unclassified details included, it's the fact that the FBI and DHS are willing to go on record publicly accusing Russia. There are no asterisks or weasel-words or "allegedly"s. Just a clear "Russia did it."

There are only two possible explanations for that:

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

2) There is clear and damning evidence that Russia did it, but it's classified
Unfortunately for her, being "robbed like a Christian in the night" doesnt hold a candle of defence to DKIM signatures. Sorry Brazilenut, you gave multiple questions to the Hillary campaign and are guilty of conspiring to destroy the fairness of a democratically held election. Goto jail and dont come back.
I'm addressing the poor thesis that "the IC has been (deliberately) wrong before, therefore they can't be trusted without an undefined amount of evidence."

The points you raise are good and worth discussing, but unrelated to what I was talking about.
> the Chinese Fighter plane that looks almost identical to the F35 come to mind

The good side is that at least it will probably be NATO interoperable!
I think that's missing the point.

Russia, a state-actor, coordinated an cyber-attack on an American political party. The results of that attack (which weren't particular interesting) are secondary to the attack itself.

The Russians are "to blame" because they're the ones who committed the action.
Even if Wikileaks never published anything, She would have still lost. She had the greatest help, money and collusion from government, media, international community elites and her party and still lost against the most unpopular and unfit candidate of all time who got more than 300 electoral votes. That's how loser and corrupt she is. Just get over it.
There's one huge incentive I can relate to: a product for the n percent of lonely men each generation who don't have the social skills, status, or otherwise cannot attract a mate. And afterwards, the men who would find a perfect and sentient companion to be superior to dating and relationships. I'd bet that logs of Siri's queries support this idea quite well.
This is so awesome. I want you guys to package it up and sell it for $5.99. Or $1.99/month. I would buy if it were zero config; we've got lots of tablets lying around and would hack it into plenty of different use cases if it were up and running.

At any rate, nice work!
> In which case it would be 100% political.

Suspicious timing? What's suspicious? Absolutely it's related to the formal sanctions of the US against Russia—what could that possibly be apart from politics?
pass-through device virtualization of various types provide this facility.
I'm an ex Army bomb technician, let me help you.
You know WMDs were found in Iraq right? ..Unless we're not calling stockpiled chemical weapons WMDs anymore.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleea...
Yes. Many, many parts of the intelligence community produced reports contradicting any claims of WMD evidence, and were summarily ignored by a very not-bipartisan administration. There is basically total consensus among every intelligence agency that the evidence points to Russia.
People often opine that groups of humans are more intelligent than any human in the group. In terms of raw processing power, sure. But in any analogous way to AGI, it would seem not: for that it would have to be the case that the collection of humans can accomplish something in fewer human-hours than the smartest of them could. That might be the case in carefully designed situations, but generally it doesn't seem to be.
The point is that AC Unity had very serious problems, which would have no doubt been fixed pre-launch in a pre-patch world. Also, if testing is as thorough as you claim, and you actually do have to have a fairly playable game to relase without obvious, terrible, bugs (Unity was unplayable for some on launch, and it was difficult to play for many others because of just how buggy it was), than Unity should have never seen the light of day.
Yep. All the more infuriating. They know better.

NGOs, private industry and the US government at most levels there has been a movement away from password length limits and password expiration and SMS as a second factor. (Even OTP and hashes may be replaced by U2F keys someday.)

Then we get this recommendation for password expirations.

Two steps forward, one back -- as always.
I spy with my little eye....a trump supporter
I can only agree with your 'quite extreme' classification, if you also agree that a physical chat between you and I in the your house (especially if we are sat in the bath or bed) should also be freely evesdropped... otherwise we are talking about the same thing, just abstracted away to the ether.
I disagree. The programmer is the expert in types, so it is the programmers duty to ensure that the possible values stored in a variable of a given type are compatible with the type selected. Particularly when it comes to these sort of critical applications.

Programmers blindly following specs put together by people who have no claim to expertise in these matters without questioning the assumptions behind the spec is the cause of all manner of disasters. And "but that's what the spec said to do" is all to common an excuse when the problem is with subtle runtime behavior issues that fall squarely in the programmer's domain of responsibility.
>What I do agree with is this part: Lack of incentives means very little strong AI work is happening

Really? OpenAI is a thing. Numenta has been a lovely scam for VCs for years. I found an "AGI" company just yesterday that actually publishes peer-reviewed research (http://www.maluuba.com/research/). There's another one that's kinda cranky but sent a guy to give a talk at MIT CSAIL last October or so (http://www.vicarious.com/).

Seems like it's a space where you can pitch yourself as "AGI", but you have to get your revenue from solving real-world machine learning problems. That seems pretty appropriate to me: you have to solve someone's problem to have a business.
Probably. So?
Are you upset that he is accusing Russia of cyberattacks, or that he's doing something about it?
In Romania they do..
I'm definitely with you on the hobby aspect. That's why I keep trying: I do love building new products. The problem is that I don't really enjoy the other aspects of building a side business (marketing, sales, etc.) so it's hard to sustain those when the revenue is so pitiful.

Would you mind linking to your interview? $3k/m is certainly respectable and more than I've ever reached.
This is literally what EU data protection is for: if you're going to process personal data, people have the rights to know what it is, whether it's correct, and to have it deleted.
Ah. Sorry. Got that one wrong. My mistake...

So maybe not in the early 80s, but by the 90s, when PCs had progressed beyond the point of assembler being a common language, C took off, partly due to limited resources, partly because that was what all the Big Iron folks were used to at that point.
Thanks for mentioning. This is something I needed to be reminded of myself. As part of my new year's resolution, I want to get serious about building a product from one of my seemingly endless ideas that I never execute on. I often give up part way through when I notice that my consulting pays exponentially more, but neglected to consider the passive side of the equation
Sure. Like Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates and Ukraine. When all of those have negative stories about them I'm sold.
U.S. evicts Russians for spying, imposes sanctions after election hacks
> A good type system (e.g Rust's, Haskell's..) can eliminate all type errors from your programs.

It depends what you call a "type error". Is calling `car` on a `nil` instead of a `cons` a type error?
>It's very difficult to see any marginal ROI for any organization whose end goal is not some form of world domination.

Of course, that just means you'll see AGI efforts from organizations whose end goal is world domination. In fact, in general, half the people I've ever seen or heard using the term "AGI" were basically wannabe supervillains.
1) I'm not sure the corruption to which you're referring. Does it exist? Probably not.

2) I can't help but notice all your posts sympathize with Russia. You literally don't comment otherwise.
Maybe I'm splitting hairs here, but it does bother anyone that the NYT title calls it "election hacking"? To me that sort of slyly suggests that the actual election / voting process was hacked, which as far as I know did not happen. Perhaps "election-related hacking" would be more accurate. I don't mean to say the DNC and other such hacks weren't a big deal, but I worry that people who just read titles are getting the wrong impression.
That is unfortunately something we will never get to know. Trump's election is tainted by both the Russian DNC hack and the FBI letter released immediately before the election. It is impossible to know what would have happened without these two events
So then are there just no organizations other than government that can get done what you want? Why advocate for higher taxes rather than upping your voluntary contributions?

I just listened to this [0] Sam Harris podcast episode yesterday so it's kind of on my mind, though this is admittedly a tangential issue to the podcast.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxStuUxaZxQ&t=4171s
A good start would be to provide some evidence.

For now, it's the same 'trust us, the Iraqis have WMDs' again.
In Romania? $5 for 1Gbps, I'd wager. That is really not the problem there.
>The results of that attack (which weren't particular interesting) are secondary to the attack itself

One could argue that the documented effort to override public opinion in the primary election is quite interesting by itself. I suppose you could also claim that it's uninteresting, but that doesn't change the fact that it happened.
I was afraid of that. Thanks for the links, I'll take a look.

From your comment it seems as if any data stored on the server is fine? For instance, I could potentially track all info Google Analytics tracks, what the user clicks on, what torrent files they've downloaded recently etc., as long as I store that on a database instead of a cookie (not that I want to do it, just trying to understand)?
So is this how US politics will be from now on? Every president spends their lame duck period doing everything possible to sabotage the next guy (if they're the other party)? I seem to recall GWB having a bit more decorum than Obama here but maybe I'm wrong. Is the political climate really more poisonous than ever or does it just seem that way?
Yes I'm familiar with the proxy case and I think it's a worthless metaphor. I explained my reasoning in my comment but the whole point is that goal direction is the major difference.
> Why trust them in the first place, look at the evidence and if you disagree with a conclusion, be able to say why.

They never even claim that the evidence they show would lead to the conclusions they assert. What they claim is that there's other information that they can't tell you that would lead to their conclusions, and then they release documents like this so interests who have an interest in supporting their conclusions have something to cite.

They're explicitly asking you to trust them, and offering no evidence.

When climate change scientists who operate within an opaque government agency start telling me that the evidence for climate change is too secret for me to see, I'll become a climate change skeptic, too.
Democrats and Republicans. Republicans and Democrats. It will never work.
What do you think would have been in RNC and Trump emails if they had been released? I'm sure they'd all have been talking about puppies and unicorns.
If you believe this proves that claim I have some WMD's in Iraq to sell you.
Runner game?
I really like the subtle 3D UI effects.. and the expose changer for OSX is really great with the touchpad.
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This stopped being about Hilary Clinton over a month ago. This is extremely important regardless of who is President.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989358/

"there are good reasons for long-standing recommendations that dietary cholesterol should be limited to less than 200 mg/day; a single large egg yolk contains approximately 275 mg of cholesterol (more than a day’s worth of cholesterol)."

Cholesterol is the only cause of Atherosclerosis, a leading cause of heart attacks. A single egg has more cholesterol than you're supposed to have all day. This myth that eggs have "good" cholesterol needs to die, the ratio of cholesterol in eggs (and all animal products) is terrible.
This does not increase my confidence or trust in abstract assurances from intelligence agencies.

> In five of six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies.
Not just clicking on them. They are entering their details.

I can excuse (sort of) clicking on infected files. Honestly, how many of us are checking unsigned e-mails' headers in the source code? At the very least we should confirm if the displayed From and Reply-to match the originating server.

But we usually don't. And we may be on webmail(!) on someone else's computer. That PDF could have malicious software.

*

Clicking on a suspicious link is one thing. Doing something on that linked site is worse. (instead of re-typing the URL -- I hate internationalized URL domains for making this hard.)

Not checking the URL or even looking for the green padlock or using common sense and then typing in your password??? No excuse.

Would a bank ever send you a postcard asking you write down your PIN and bank balance on the postcard and send it back to them? No. Of course not. For starters, they don't need that information.

Clicking on phishing links and entering personal information is stupidity on a whole new level.
That documentation does not exist. You could argue it is "hinted at" in the emails made public, but cannot argue it is documented or proven.
A Yoshinoya beef bowl can be had for 6 USD and is a lot more than rice and some noodles. If I didn't have to eat it all at once, I wouldn't eat anything else that day.
Exactly this. If it was just a recommendation notice, why release on same day. Plus the thing is titled:
"Russian Malicious Cyber Activity"
As addressed elsewhere, the linked document is not supposed to be a proof for Russian involvement.

The latter part of my comment was meant to provide some context as to why that type of information hasn't been publicly released. If the IC reveals sources and methods, Russia or similar actors will change their behaviors in order to avoid detection/attribution.
I appreciated the limited scope of this article.

As far as winning the talent wars, I'm not sure if that is what is happening. (Russia has been making use of its talent to fantastic success, however!) Russian efforts have been bolder and focused on political and military objectives. U.S. efforts so far have been for intelligence gathering and the "Stuxnet" Iranian centrifuge sabotage.

The recent email phishing hacks required very little technical talent. More impressive Russian activities would be government and corporate network intrusions, which are not detected frequently. That is probably the best comparison with most of U.S. computer network exploitation activity.

Involvement in the Arab Spring didn't involve an offensive cyber threat; I'm not sure what you mean. Maybe some NGOs that were CIA-funded were behind some of the Twitter and Facebook posts (I haven't come across any compelling evidence to suggest they were, but I will allow for the possibility), but I wouldn't consider that an offensive cyber threat.
>An odd tack for someone who I would expect to be pro-states'-rights

From the rest of your comment I'd guess you already know this, but organizations like these have no particular affinity for the rights of states.

Conservative-funded organizations are only pro-states'-rights when it advances their other agendas -- usually identity politics around race (where "states' rights" has been a dog whistle since Nixon and Reagan), and economically where states with different regulations can promote a race to the bottom that benefits corporations and the wealthy (Delaware's rules on corporations are a good example).
I'd guess a third option, actually: It's just a best guess, but they don't like being questioned.

If they had damning evidence it'd be in their interest to release it.
We have encountered a reproducible panic and deadlocks when a containerized process gets terminated by the kernel for exceeding its memory limit:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/5535

We're strongly considering using something else until this gets addressed. The problem is, we don't know what, because every other CoW implementation also has issues.

* dm-thinp: Slow, wastes disk space

* OverlayFS: No SELinux support

* aufs: Not in mainline or CentOS kernel; rename(2) not implemented correctly; slow writes
I said no such thing. Nor does the report.
So 35 Russian diplomats have been given 72 hours to leave the country, and 2 of their properties will be closed - one in DC and the other in San Francisco.

Well, if history is any guide, expect Russia to return the favor.

Question is, how long will they wait before announcing that 35 American diplomats have 72 hours to leave Russia?
What a useless post. The author is leaving for New York to be closer to family and moves (or tries to) every 3 to 4 years. From the sounds of it the author only left SF once
Kurzweil's point is the following: "who cares". Even if it takes one-thousand years, it's a blink in the history of humanity / life.
We decided to call those "helicopters".
Just as planned:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Right now chips are mostly two dimensional. Some of the structures might have three dimensions, but the general layout of the chip is two dimensional.

Going into the third dimension would allow you to cram way more transistors into a small volume of space. Once we run out of improvements along the first two dimensions, up might be the only way to go to keep transistor growth going for the future.
Ethicality is subjective but accuracy is not. It's pretty much impossible to have perfect accuracy but there are some organizations that do provide more accurate news and data than others.
>Exponential growth in our problem-solving capabilities is explosive when the problem-space is linear. But what happens when the problem-space itself grows exponentially with each iteration? Then we're back to linear progress.

I've always wondered: why should recursive intelligence improvement be possible? That is, if you're an agent, you're nominally searching for improved versions of your source-code to self-improve. That's obviously going to be a discrete, combinatorially large search space. Why should each search space have constant or falling entropy, conditional on the agent's existing source code and knowledge?

I don't really think "intelligence" can drive the entropy (or the compute-time) of any given search-problem to zero just by existing, so it seems like it should need to draw some resource other than memory space and energy from its environment. This resource is probably information: you would need some knowledge of the world to improve yourself. Successive improvements would then require successively better, finer-grained understandings of the world.

That makes sense, but implies that self-improvement becomes more difficult with each round you attempt, since you've already conditioned on most of the environmental information you can get. Entropy can't go to zero, precision can't go to infinity.
Rust code is also going into Firefox, slowly for now, but it will speed up over 2017.
Ask HN: Is a DUI disqualifying at Google?
I just got an email from a Google recruiter asking me to apply because of my JavaScript background.

I would rather not go through their interview process if the end result is a "no" regardless of qualification. Does anyone have an information that can help me decide whether or not to pursue the position?
Guccifer2 is not in the report as an alias?? Hmm...
No mention here if this was the mobile app, but the IOS version will try and upload your contacts when you install messenger.

If you or one of your contacts uploads their address book then your friendship/connection can be inferred from the emails now in their database.

I'd guess your client has messenger installed if you didn't install it.
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Wtf? Majority of report is copy & pasted security risk descriptions