skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why use a fake browser when you can use a real one? It's also harder to inspect the actual rendering of an invisible browser.

Near the top of a google search for 'phantomjs vs selenium', we have folks on HN complaining about phantomjs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8418071
You should be careful about making bold proclamations about the supposed insecurity of Linux or AOSP. Especially under the guise of tech-savvy lawyer. And just because you made a browser extension that doesn't trust Chrome's security model doesn't mean you're also qualified to confirm the complete and utter "owning" of the Linux kernel on ~5 year old Android devices.
That's exactly the thoughts that came to my mind. Article is big on complimenting Greg about his qualities being able to follow others, and drive a given vision handed down to him.

Hopefully, this article is simply not doing the Person justice and is simply poorly thought out and comes out as a superficial 'fluff' piece.
In my opinion, that's the beauty of the approach. The attention mechanism reuses the same weights for each symbol in the sequence. The attention mechanism is essentially a weighted average that filters which pieces of the sequence are feed through each processing step. So no, it does not need O(n^2) weights.

My guess is that the RWA model would be well suited for natural language processing. I am biased. Of course, you would need to first convert each word into a vector representation (i.e. word2vec). You might also want to add a decay term in the weighted average to force the model to focus on the recent past and not the "deep" past.
(I am not a doctor and none of the following should be construed as medical advice.)

Well, there is dream interpretation as part of psychoanalysis; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalytic_dream_interpret... . However, you'd need to find a therapist/psychiatrist who subscribed to that theory and, even then, well, it's unclear what, if anything, you'd get out of your undoubtedly quite expensive sessions.

If the dreams are strong enough to trouble you or disrupt you sleep, you might want to seek medical attention directly. They can suggest stress reduction techniques, lifestyle changes, and, as a last resort, provide medication that suppresses dreams such as prazosin.
The scale is deceptive. Take a look at the report on this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xa_Q1R7mGs&t=132s and you will see a thick concrete spillway with 1.5" rebar. All that was ripped off by the force of the water!
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> As evidence look at how many people want to "go back to the farm", and raise their own animals. On the surface, why? It's harder and more expensive. Yet, people want that anyway.

No one is "going back to the farm" to raise their own cattle, which they slaughter themselves, for a steak. It also doesn't scale to the "buy cheap steaks and grill a steak for lunch every day" level that some people do. Just the reduction to "I'll have one steak per year" is a significant departure from where we are now (which is a significant departure from where we were 100 years ago[1]).

[1] Do you think that the majority of people 100 years go could afford the variety and quantity of meats available to them today?
Mass transit needs to take a page from Uber. The reason for declining ridership is because there's not enough trains or buses, etc. Get some funding, increase the number of trains by 5x, and people will start to go and use them because they're convenient. We need VCs for public service projects.
I... Uh... I'm disturbed by lots of things the CIA does, and I'm sure there's something incriminating in here.

But isn't it a little weird we're suddenly talking about the CIA's capability instead of the investigation in to the administration's Russian connections? You know, the one that seems to have every high level official with illicit contact, including the AG lying about contact to Congress and a campaign adviser making serious allegations just last week?

We definitely have to do something about the CIA and their shenanigans, but this "leak" is mostly them doing their job effectively made out to be scary by people with a known bias.

Maybe we can stop chasing random scary thing, and focus on the election that had a major PSYOP by a foreign power that resulted in an administration with unusual to illicit ties to that foreign power.

Im all for holding out intel community to account for their behavior, but now isn't really the time for it. We have more major issues to deal with.
Let me make sure I understand: rather than using gates, each step explicitly takes a weight average of all past steps using attention.

What is the training speed of this network? Computation seems to scale at N^2 rather than N.
Plants can experience pain and do, in-fact, communicate with other plants, animals, and fungi.
Can I use the Instant Pot as an autoclave? I've been using a pressure cooker with a propane turkey burner for my tissue culture experiments.
However, lambda calculus doesn't have code made of data, QUOTE or any of that. Lambda calculus isn't Lisp; it captures the gist of some of the evaluation semantics of Lisp only.
The RWA model is described in equations (7) of this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.01253.pdf

I think you will see that the cost per training set is just as cheap if not cheaper than a LSTM model. On my machine, the RWA model completes each training step faster than a LSTM model. I don't know if that will hold for GPUs.
Yeah. Shell semantics can be pretty unintuitive sometimes. I often find it helpful to translate these ideas to standard programming language terms.

* Commands are like functions
* Commands in /bin etc. are like library functions
* Builtins are like a language's primitive functions
* Keywords are keywords
They are not ideal though. Travel times can be close to double using the orange line.

It's something I imagine people using only they're not in a hurry or can't drive for whatever reason.
It still scales O(N^2) in terms of computation though right?
This 'reason' is as old as C, and it's always seemed to me like tying bells to your shoelaces because it would be bad if you forgot to tie them and tripped. I.e. the 'solution' is orthogonal to the problem. If you can train yourself to put the constant first, you can train yourself to use the right operator.

And you can test your code.
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The problem is, that's not what's happening. Not everyone who eats cows are getting them from people who treat them as nicely as I guess you claim to. Further, why waste food and water on cows when humans can just eat and drink that themselves? Why raise a cow and then shoot it in the head when you can just, you know, eat plants.
Tolls don't bother me personally. If it clears congestion and earmarks funds so that the people that use them pay for them; that's a good thing. However, isn't it a regressive tax? The price for the tolls will affect people with little money the most.
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For the same reason eugenics, GMOs, human cloning, and to a lesser extent stem cells, aren't popular:

It's an abomination against nature, in the public eye.
> The problem is fundamental to human organizations

I can't help but think about all the other countries who actually invest in their infrastructure and in public needs and have far better outcomes and social cohesion than the US. There's something wrong with this countries system of governance I feel.
I did, at least the relevant parts of your question. And it still stands that
you missed my point that you just created a contention point fully knowing
that it is useless contention (your quoted remark from the chapter prooves
both that you knew it will be problematic and that you didn't need it
there).
They also often take considerably compared to driving.
The point the OP was making that the class keyword was a mistake, not that inheritance was a mistake. This is an entirely different topic.

Furthermore, Javascript classes make writing mixins AKA composition a breeze, compared to before:

http://justinfagnani.com/2015/12/21/real-mixins-with-javascr...

This link is an excellent rebuttal to Eric Elliot article and how he achieve composition through copying by the way.

So even if you like composition over inheritance, Javascript classes still allow you to write safer and clearer and cleaner code. Now you can do away with ugly factories and property copying.

> Object.assign is far less fragile than inheritance

You realize the using Object.assign means copying properties from object to object over and over and increase memory requirements in order to run a script.

So my point still stands, there is not a single disadvantage introduced with the class keyword.
Anecdotally, my vegetarian friend was growing breasts and the doctor told him to stop eating as much soy which seemed to work.
The best anyone can hope to do is roll things back to text-based systems... beyond that the cat is way too far out of the bag as you say.
That is true, but a similar effect can be achieved via stop and go traffic that occurs under congested conditions. Gas mileage, for most vehicles, drops when that occurs.
The point they were making is that users are now burdened with the responsibility of ensuring their computers are compatible with the web, rather than the web ensuring their sites are compatible with users.
It doesn't depend much on the West. In North Korea (and to lesser extent in Russia) the anti-Western discourse is needed to keep local population mobilized and under control. Having an external enemy also provides legitimate ways to suppress opposition -- something that happens in both countries. Therefore deescalating relationships with the West is directly against the interests of the governing elites.
That was a good read, and I agree with your conclusion.
> Animals shouldn't suffer either if they're raised right.

This is not possible at-scale.

Also, do you really think that giant corporations, that would willingly throw humans under the bus by the truckload to save a few dollars, give a crap about the suffering of an animal? Especially an animal that is slated for the slaughterhouse anyways?

Just look at how they react to undercover videos that expose illegal practices behind their closed doors. They immediately start lobbying for industry-specific laws that make it illegal to do undercover investigative journalism of their industry (the so-called AgGag bills).

They can't even stay within the letter of the current (and fairly lax) laws on how they are supposed to operate, and when exposed find it more logical to (attempt to) make it illegal to expose their crimes rather than to just stop committing said crimes.
Kids learn fast. Teach them what you want to learn. Before you know it, they will be teaching you stuff you don't know.

48, son in university now.
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According to Google maps, taking the bus to my job would increase my travel time by at least 50 minutes each way.
Tolls do not reduce traffic. Chicago's (and when I say Chicago, I mean it in the same vein that the author uses "LA", a massive metro area) installation of toll systems in my life here have caused the infrastructure to perpetually be under construction for the last 20 years I've been here.

At best, tolls remove large trucks from the roads - which is not the problem in L.A. Mostly though, they just make the situation worse, and more expensive for users that have little alternative.

The solution is the same as it's always been: stop building areas with car travel as the only option. The little things like bus routes dropping off at a stop that has no sidewalks and no legitimate way to cross a street without a mile long detour for a pedestrian are what make buses not work. The same features that funnel cars into shopping centers disregard the human walking element and make it all but impossible to move in this suburban sprawl.

The physical distances people typically go in one of the most beautiful climates in the country, cooped up in a car, makes me also wonder why there isn't more of a push to create safe cycling routes? I ride 11 miles each way to work here in Chicago, all year, and in the winter extremes it can be occasionally miserable, but one thing I don't have much problem with is safety. I have a path or lane almost my entire commute, and other than the 1 mile of the heart of the loop, it's basically stress free. If I had this safety with LA's climate, I would literally become an evangelist for bike commuting.
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You appear to have been moved (triggered, even) to say something about "free speech" and "obnoxiousness". Aside from the fact that post posts contain these words, I am at a loss to understand how it connects in any way to anything I wrote.
> I do not believe for 1 second that Tyson cares about health, environments, farmers or the well being of animals.

In which case we should all marvel at the virtues of capitalism and the free market, which take our selfish desires, and convert them into environmentally and communally beneficial actions.
> x86 in 2017

Cool man...

> SHA1 IN 2017

Uhhh, yeah, cool man
There's of course the other "meat": insects.

"Because they are cold-blooded, insects are very efficient at converting feed into protein (crickets, for example, need 12 times less feed than cattle, four times less feed than sheep, and half as much feed as pigs and broiler chickens to produce the same amount of protein)."[0]

I'm plenty squeamish but might just be willing to try mealworm flour. Other ideas: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130514-edibl...

[0] http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3253e/i3253e.pdf
Any car that's sitting in stop and go traffic isn't going to get nearly the mileage they would get when driving at free flow highway speeds. As the vehicle fleet transitions to higher mileage vehicles, the gas tax can be adjusted to compensate based on overall usage and the number of registered vehicles.

And making those adjustments would cost far less money compared to setting up additional tolls or a VMT based taxation scheme.
Thanks for the clarification. And thank you for the work.
All of this makes more sense when I imagine smaller groups within the bureaucracy with narrow objectives and severe myopia trying to "solve" immediate problems to achieve short-term objectives. It makes my skin crawl to contemplate but the truth is that human beings do this sort of thing all the time.
I don't disagree with any of those points. I simply disagree with the leap to the conclusion by several posters that because Podesta used "p@ssw0rd" in one place (based on the context, I'd guess that was presumably the initial password as set by some staffer), he definitely reused that same password for a different account.

I will also agree that the Politifact article's conclusion is hasty, and their selection of evidence is questionable at points (such as gmail account creation).
The Forbes article is misleading.

1. It attempts to simultaneously argue that ISPs don't need additional regulation and oversight, but also that the FCC's rules are bad because they supposedly prevent additional oversight from the FTC.

2. It attempts to equate ISPs with other kinds of tech companies, particularly website operators. It then argues that a pillar of the current web is offering free or discounted services in return for targeted advertisements, and that it is unfair to restrict ISPs ability to do this when websites are allowed to do this and consumers clearly favor this tradeoff. (Also simultaneously arguing that ISPs haven't done much throttling/targeting yet, so allowing them to do so is not a problem.)

This is a dangerously disengenous comparison, as my ISP controls all websites that I visit and has the power to e.g. throttle any video service that I attempt to access besides its own, while YouTube has no control over my connection to a competitor's video service.

I have a number of smaller problems with the article, but those are my major ones.

The letter advances the same arguments and they have the same faults.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_logic
I think that's referring to people who want to sell them, like the people who supply cracking tools to questionable governments.
From modern-era studies of existing hunter-gatherers, as well as nomads. They're a lot more egalitarian (though of course there are some status differences) as there is less scope for specialisation. Agrarian societies are much larger, allow for much more specialisation, and as such have much more power on offer. Think about all the power levels in an agrarian society. At the macro level, we have working, middle, and upper classes. Each of these is divided again into more and more levels.

Look at the different titles for British peers for example - from Baron, through Viscount and Earl, Marquis, Duke, Prince, King, plus the female versions of all of these, plus that all peers above Baron are also Barons, and all of these titles means different roles and privileges. Then you go down the ladder and you get knights and dames of the various orders, awards, and so forth. Then you can start looking at the middle classes...

It's an extreme example, but it isn't hard to see similar in other places. Take a 'new world' anglo country, and compare how seriously people take the word of a senator versus a teacher versus a homeless person.

The simple counter to the statement in question is: "people in agrarian societies are primarily concerned with social standing, making sure they're not the ones doing the back-breaking work in the fields". Field work is gruelling, and requires a lot of labour. In comparison, hunter-gatherers historically only needed to work ~2 hours/day to meet their needs.
Father of four with one on the way.

As mempko said, kids can go to bed at a structured time. Kids getting enough sleep is really good for them and really good for you. After work I spend about three hours with the whole family, including supper and housework. Then the kids go to bed, and I get an hour of learning coding in, then hang out with my wife for an hour. Usually I get about theee straight hours on a project somewhere in the weekend.

Newborns are something else though. It's prudent to plan on being a sleep deprived zombie for three months. If you are in the lucky 33% that escapes this, rejoice!
I don't know, an argument could be made that there is always cause to undermine state-run intelligence, and I'd like to think Assange knows this, but I don't have enough to be sure about it, obviously.
What's the mechanism for that?
Accidents should be priced in via insurance; if the at-fault driver pays and liability insurance is mandatory, the costs are internalized.
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CTO then snarkily asks me "do you always do the minimum"?

I would have responded "Yes". The less we do, the less scope to go wrong, the less maintenance we have, etc etc.

In fact I don't want to work with anyone who would answer "No" to that.
I wasn't making an argument. Listening to various points of view. Thanks for yours.
The real problem is the thinking that "it tastes good" trumps all other concerns. Heaven forbid you develop a taste for "man flesh."
The decentralization of the Internet was killed by major NSPs closing their peering, the original Net Neutrality loss.
If you save numerator_t and denominator_t from a previous computation, then h_t = f( (numerator_(t-1) + z + a) / (denominator_(t-1) + a) ). So it should be linear with t?

(where z and a are z(x_i, h_(i-1)), etc)
It does seem like the US ends up with extra poor outcomes with their government.

Here in Japan, the government is surely also corrupt, with "bridges to nowhere" and construction contracts assigned on a buddy-buddy basis. But at least here that corruption still nets us well-maintained roads and top-notch train infrastructure... just arguably too much of it and at a high cost. In the US they end up with the high costs but none of the good infrastructure...
The cost of meat is kept artificially low in the USA because bribed/corrupt polititions keep giving meat producers free or cheap water grants, etc. Ironically, in another article thread on HN it was mentioned that it would cost $50B to repair dams in the USA, and I think that is about what the government gives to meat producers.

Solve the epidemic corruption of public elected officials and a lot of other problems would be resolved.
If you add $1100/month to the cost of driving to discourage that, all that happens is that the $3000/month apartment goes up to $4000/month because you've increased demand for closer housing but not supply.

That's not all that happens. You also see an increase in the population living close to work (even without zoning changes, you'll have more people living in the same set of units) and employees demanding higher wages for working in inaccessible parts of town, and companies responding by moving offices to places where they can get cheaper workers (i.e., places which are more accessible).
Your point is well taken. Consider me suitably chastened.

Back to the question at hand - there seems to be extremely strong evidence that android - and iOS, apparently - are compromised pretty thoroughly. https://betanews.com/2017/03/07/wikileaks-vault-7-cia-year-z...

If this is not the case, then what is your conclusion? Because the claim that is being made far and wide, right now, is that android, ios and samsung smart TVs appear to be fundamentally compromised.
If I have information that you murdered someone, and information that a friend of mine murdered someone else and I only release the info I have on you does that make the information any less valid? Should you not be punished in this situation? I don't get this line of argument.
> they've never published anything that wasn't verified to be true

Says the 21 day old account with this single, highly upvoted comment.

There are millions of documents on Wikileaks. I highly doubt everything there is verified.
It's sort of wrong, but not really if we are using the commonly used definition of inheritance where we think of the strict hierarchical inheritance provided by classes. And you mention prototype delegation which is only one type of inheritance provided by javascript and is also hierarchical. There are two other types of inheritance you can use with javascript: functional inheritance, and concatenative inheritance. Concatenative inheritance is so different from class inheritance that most people don't even call it inheritance. They call it object composition. Which has been preferred over class inheritance as far back as the GoF "Favor object composition over class inheritance." More here: https://medium.com/javascript-scene/master-the-javascript-in...
> Encouraging inheritance in the first place is the mistake.

Yes.

> Using composition with Object.assign is far less fragile than inheritance.

Absolutely not. Object.assign is an example of inheritance, not composition, and it's just as fragile as the others. Eric Elliott is well known for calling "composition" what everyone else calls "multiple inheritance". See, eg:

http://wsieroci.github.io/elliott/inheritance/composition/20...

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/3oy9c3/composit...

It's almost a running joke on the /r/javascript subreddit at this point.
Wikileaks has the code for these tools but wisely didn't release it.

Hopefully they will notify vendors of the security vulnerabilities being exploited