skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>they cannot reach out into my real life and actually harm me

I would be careful with that assumption. The reason you are not hurt is mostly because people don't want to hurt you. The reward is not high enough.

I'm not trying to diminish your importance, for all I know you could be facebook employee #17 or have gold bars buried in your yard.

But any of the top security guys will tell you safety is a function of an attacker's motivation and resources.

It's not theoretical either, you can google people who took lots of time building up their protections and then challenged a pen test. We're talking people with good above average safety practices, that got owned within 24hrs. Social media, banking accounts, everything.
That a great deal of thr largest tech/Internet companies sell ads for shit we don't want to impress people we dont like is disheartening.

I believed in the promise of the Internet to create a more informed, compassionate, open, and enlightened society and that hope is turning into disillusionment.
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I really enjoy Clojure. Persistent data structures, core.async, and transducers have all been really pleasant abstractions to work with. I've been writing in it for fun and utility for maybe five years now, and have used it for one mid-scale contracting project, so I hope that that's sufficient background to prevent dismissal of the following as the gripes of a beginner, but: it's so strange to me, for all of the appeals that Clojure makes to an interactive development process involving the REPL and immediate feedback, that a first-class debugging experience on the level of Common Lisp's doesn't seem to be on the roadmap at all. The type of explorative developing you do in that environment, with the ability to drop into the debugger on error, alter the function body and restart the frame with your new code, seems about as far beyond the standard Clojure workflow as REPL-based development is beyond the save-compile-fix cycle of less interactive language ecosystems.

I can deal with the Java stacktraces and the occasional mystery of which concrete class is actually backing IPersistentMap after however many invocations of assoc, but if the experience of writing code is going to be a pillar of the language's sales pitch, why isn't this sort of next-level debugging experience on anyone's radar? The CIDER debugger is nice, but it's not CL nice.
What keeps other countries like India from developing PhD's like that? It seems like they would have a strong incentive to do so.
Would be interested to see this as well. Looks like TPC-DS would a big benchmark in SQL, though apparently aimed toward transaction processing... maybe more relevant when they add update/delete then.
LastPass is a tire fire. How many exploitable vulnerabilities in a password manager do people need to drop as 0day to kill this company? Why is it that we continue to tolerate products that routinely violate the sales claims they make? Start actively telling your friends to stop using LastPass and switch to a better password manager.
Right, but that's my point. You're playing a game and the display crashes — I guess it's nice in theory that the rest of your system stayed up, but you're still more than likely just going to reboot, no?

If not, how exactly do you plan to restart the graphics process?
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I wonder how many people there are with browsers sending en-US but who want non-English results.

The current behavior might make more people happy, at least in the short term.
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It looks an awful lot like nepotism when you funnel $30M to your future brother-in-law.

Smart people are great at rationalizing, including to themselves.
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There are so many vectors that it's hard to get customers excited about significantly paying more to close just one security door (such as sloppy or uninformed server setup.) Which doesn't mean this won't happen necessarily, just that I'm not counting on it happening soon.
The cult of 'AI risk' is a religious belief that brooks no dissent, and unfortunately has its claws in a lot of otherwise smart people.
idlewords, this comment has tremendous negative utility for humanity. By pointing out obvious nepotism and corruption in the AI risk charity field, you make people less likely to donate in the future, thus increasing the likelihood of a takeover from the robots. You must delete this comment; the fate of the world depends on it!

/s
I think it's early this year because people don't want to release stuff on the weekend.
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The problem with holding Wikileaks as "selective" is that you would have to establish that there are true leaks which they have withheld from us. There's this popular misconception that Wikileaks actually hacks to obtain the data, but this is false and no one has ever so much as attempted to prove otherwise.

So given that they can't select the sources, the claims of them being "selective" just sound ignorant to anyone who knows how they operate, especially when those same claims are so often repeated in publications which are openly selective.
>There is a rational middle ground -- Ubuntu's regular semi-annual releases.

I'm aware of Ubuntu's normal releases. These aren't labeled enterprise-ready, so enterprises won't use them.

They also frequently contain experimental/unstable stuff, not because they need to, but because the LTS release cycle causes the release team to treat non-LTS releases like a beta.

>Then again, you seem to be taking all this pretty personally, so my comments are probably wasted on you.

I'm really not sure how you came away with the impression that I'm taking Ubuntu's release cycle as a personal affront. I'm not the top-2000 guy you initially replied to.

Rest assured, I do not believe that Canonical has selected its release process specifically to offend me. :)

>I've been using Arch for 4 or 5 years and can only recall a couple instances where I needed to force-install a package to accomodate a backwards-incompatible change.

Yeah, it's very rare to need to force install (has become more rare in recent years, but was still quite rare). When I say "break things", I don't mean you have to pass the force flag to the package manager.

I mean that configuration formats change, binary formats may change, a lot of system expectations may break that could take you offline for a while, even if you know how to fix them (for example, significant PostgreSQL updates require the data to be reimported to the new version).

Their transition to Python 3 as the default /usr/bin/python about 2 years before anyone else broke all kinds of stuff, for example. That's fine, you sign up for it when you use Arch. But that's not the kind of experience most people expect for a server distro.
I'm not quite that bad at chess, but bad enough that I wrote a chess game that plays random moves so I could always beat it:

http://www.notesfromandy.com/2016/09/27/chessfidget/

That got boring, so I added very weak AI by connecting to the chess engine that comes preinstalled on macOS (inside Chess.app).
I don't think they're encroaching quite that far...
I'll believe it when I hear it from a future superintelligence that has pre-committed to simulating 3^^^^^3 copies of me.
Why do people waste their time waxing apoplectic whenever it's found that Reddit censors or shapes discussions.

It is not some cultural institution of free speech, it is a subsidiary of Conde Nast. publications and its responsibility is to its shareholders, not the general public.

The. smaller subreddits are indeed some of the best forums on the Internet, but any sub with over 30000 members can scarcely be called a community
Ok. In that vain, here's a question; should you use any of these tools as an American citizen, beyond what you use them for, are you breaking any laws? That is, could you be guilty of something like sedition or something like it by using these thing illegally gotten?
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Funnily enough, I was searching for an official Vector website (which isn't linked from either the Google or U of T announcements), tried Googling it and didn't find anything. So thanks for the link.
Just a heads up that 'last January' would generally refer to January of the previous year, not the current year.

http://english.stackexchange.com/a/43000
This is junk.

'Don't feed the trolls' has nothing to do with harassment, it's about the quality of forums and user content.

But to be honest not sure if you are being meta? This is a bit of a troll statement.
Thanks.. wish we had got in.. Hopefully this is not the final list. The json data is nice, wish the company description was part of it too. Will be fun to analyze.
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#3 bothers me a lot. It reminds me of the way owners of sports franchises use public tax-payer money to pay for stadiums, meanwhile keeping all the profits from the money made by their teams.

If the various governments in Canada are funding this research and Google is contributing such a minor amount of funding, who is the beneficiary of the research output? Does Google get first dibs on all the information? Does the research ultimately find its most valuable commercial use at Google? Who else stands to benefit from this research? Are any of these beneficiaries going to directly be Canadians? Or are Canadians merely going to be tertiary benefactors with the primary ones being the researchers working in Toronto taking salaries?
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It's great when used well. I'm a (Java) developer/architect type, but being involved more in infrastructure and deployments makes me a better overall contributor. If I follow your reasoning, my job would have been "deflated", but it doesn't feel that way.
The claims of partisanship rely on claims that Wikileaks somehow selects their sources. They are not a hacking organization and they do not go choosing targets to hack for the leaks, so they cannot be selective in the same way that, for example, the NYT chooses openly to be.

I have yet to see anyone even claim that Wikileaks participates in the hacks themselves, let alone to provide evidence thereof.
Markets aren't unique to capitalism. They have existed since the dawn of civilization.
Continue with your CS degree. In my experience, all good sysadmins have significant development experience. This is especially useful when working at small companies/startups.
Agreed. Acceptance for tax payment is what imbues money with value.
How to: Salesforce, restrict to selection of single product from price book
Back when I first started using USENET (late 1980s) it seemed like most people used their real names. Maybe that was just the newsgroups I read.

I didn't really notices the pervasive pseudonyms until web forums and chatrooms started taking off.
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There are systems like Druid that memory map files and rely on the OS for paging in and out segments:
http://druid.io/docs/latest/operations/performance-faq.html
Personally I would appreciate when those who got pigeonholed into finding their consecutive jobs "the same sh*t" don't foreshadow that onto those yet to graduate. It's good that those coming into the job market newly know what to look out for, but the opportunities mentioned by the previous poster also mean that you can steer away from such shotty (I'm going with the auto-complete here) jobs... if you choose so.
I suspect if you told tavis there was a RCE or CSRF bug, he would find one of each. I mean, I've found bugs by telling myself they existed. If I told myself it was a different bug, I'd find a different bug. Software is buggy.
You don't need to prove anything about an AGI system if you can prove things about its I/O capabilities. I recognize that proving things about machine learning models is very hard, I tried to do some research in that area and got practically no where.

And I think you and I have very different definitions of Rigorous. Like I said, unless you'd take Wilbur Wright's thoughts on a mars mission seriously, I don't think you should give much thought to Geoff Hinton's thoughts about when we'll get AGI, and I say that having enormous respect for him and his achievements. (and using him as a simple example)

Its pseudoscience. We're notoriously bad about predicting the future. I don't see any reason to trust people going on about the dangers of AGI any more than the futurologists of my parents generation, who predicted flying cars and interstellar travel, but missed smartphones.
Disclosing before filing would indeed, I believe, preclude obtaining a patent in most of the world. In the US, though, there is a one year grace period after the inventor publicly discloses the invention during which that disclosure does not automatically make the invention ineligible for a patent.

Of course it would still be better to keep it private until you file, so as to not lose the possibility of patents outside the US, and so as to not subject yourself to the risk that it might take more than a year to get to the point that you are ready to file.
It's 2017 and cars drive themselves. Isn't that exciting?
I'm not arguing with that, simply stating that there is already an obscene amount of funding for our military. I don't believe for a second that it is necessary.
Will read this but not sure I'll agree. Banks create money and it is fungible with state tax payment money

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/Pages/workingpapers/...
Yes, I know what you’re thinking. Soon everybody will
Riiiight.... It will outsource the sales to a subsidiary that will do it...
Interestingly he basically lists some potential problems with doing it, but says he thinks the pros of offering free internet to people are worth the cons. For some people, the argument works, but I think the risks are too great. People download illegal stuff so often that I wouldn't want to risk sharing my ip with someone like that. If you are a coffee shop you will easily be able to show that it was probably a connected user. But as an individual, you'll have a much harder time proving it was the guy who used your free wifi.

Secondly he makes the argument that his computer should be secure anyways, which I think indicates a poor understanding of how computer security works. No matter how well he configures his system, there will always be undiscovered bugs in his OS. Having multiple layers of security makes it significantly safer
The link to the rrule.js demo is broken; it has moved here: https://jakubroztocil.github.io/rrule/
Long time user of Phaxio. We tried many other services and your seems the be the best when it comes to crunching documents - Word, PDF, Images, you name it.

I don't know how Twilio does it, but unless one day in 100 years from now we will be sending 1 million faxes, we will be reluctant to switch and probably save ourselves a headache just to save few bucks a month.
I get the sense that the author doesn't know about algorithmic complexity. This has nothing to do with language choice and everything to do with the algorithms used.
Nothing is a panacea, but what if just 10% of people remoted instead of driving to work and back, lunch and back 5 days a week?
> NRTW's definition of "right to work" appears to be the common definition. It's also the common definition of "open shop".

Not quite, because you can have an open shop in a state that doesn't have a right-to-work law. Right to work laws only ensure that workers have the ability to dissociate from the union without losing their employment.

> Minority unions can bargain only for their members -- but as far as I can tell, members can't commit to be bound by the outcome, which undermines the union's bargaining power.

Alternative way of phrasing that: Only unions which represent the majority have the ability to compel all members to accept whatever terms they negotiate.

> Majority unions have to represent all workers in a bargaining unit

They have to represent them for things like grievances, yes, but that doesn't mean that they can't pick and choose which subgroups they advocate for in negotiations over others.

That's literally what negotiating is - you have to figure out what you're willing to give up in order to get what you value more. And a union with a heterogeneous membership will inevitably have to decide which group of members to prioritize over others.

The purpose of right-to-work laws is to limit their ability to marginalize minority members, because those minority members always have a second option that doesn't involve unemployment.
Good article, Musk's logic seems more sound than most of SV. Of course he's also the one building cars and rockets while everyone else's business boils down to fancy websites.

I admire his individualism. For such an innovative place, I find SV to be one of the loudest echo chambers in the world. God help you if you're Republican and if you use jQuery in 2017 you might as well kill yourself. There's a cult mentality, a smugness among those drinking the koolaid that they're somehow better than everyone else.

To me, messing with AI feels like what would've happened if nuclear energy had been discovered by private industry. We have 1000's of companies competing, tinkering, trying to build the smartest AI to power their systems. Right now, nobody has any idea if we're 5% away from prompt critical and an immense all consuming fireball. Well, maybe a few companies know, but its "proprietary information". As the past has proven repeatedly, private industry has no issues playing with something wildly dangerous.

Historically, most regulation starts life as a knee-jerk reaction to companies doing terrible things. Especially in staunchly capitalist societies like the US, where the government is seen as a necessary evil. I hope human military is enough to stop the first singularity from destroying the earth so we can get some reasonable regulations in place.
In another comment someone posted the link to Vector's website (which I couldn't find linked from any of the announcements, nor by searching on Google), which clarifies #1 and #2.

http://vectorinstitute.ai/

Vector is organized as a not-for-profit corporation. It has 12 directors including some academics, some big names from corporate Canada, two VCs, a few entrepreneurs, and a few people with close ties to the Ontario government.

The directors are:

Ed Clark - former bank CEO, Ontario government economic advisor

Scott Bonham - VC

Vivek Goel - senior administrator at U of T

Mary Jo Haddad - management consultant specializing in healthcare

Chaviva Hosek - U of T public policy professor, former Canadian government advisor

Jordan Jacobs - lawyer and founder of an AI company

Stephen Lake - engineer and founder

Nadir Mohamed - former Big 3 telecom CEO, associated with Ryerson University

Michael Serbinis - scientist and founder

Pearl Sullivan - Dean of Engineering at UWaterloo

Terrence Sullivan - healthcare policy professor at U of T, closely tied to the Ontario government

Shivon Zilis - VC
The trouble with "golden" chips is a) the manufacturer can EOL it at any time (and I don't think just the OSS people are numerous enough to keep any specific set in production), and b) it freezes things in time. For things that don't change much (e.g. sound cards), no problem, but there's still improvements to be made in other areas.

The focus for FPGAs has traditionally been performance, but I think there's a model where they can be used for both long-lived compatibility and cutting-edge devices living together on the same chip.
The middle east also has a bunch of money to spend with US companies.
Yeah I don't really understand why people want to be anonymous on the internet - and if you don't want people to have your personal information against you, then you do want to be anonymous - but hate the idea that anyone else is anonymous.
Author here - have a look at the main site, it was made just for that purpose: https://www.blinklight.io

It's based around the iCE40/IceStorm, but it has its own specific "dev board". I'm planning on making it more generic later on.
It should be noted that if they don't themselves design any of the modules that would require certification, but instead just use already certified third party modules, that greatly reduces the amount of testing their product needs.

I've read that can get the cost of FCC certification down $1-2k and the certification time us under 5 days.

If you design your own module, then it is $7-20k, and will take 4-6 weeks. (Once you've certified that, though, then if you reuse that same module in other products it is like using a third party certified module, so $1-2k for each subsequent product).
What about, the people that made it in the first place?

The support I've had from companies like Red Hat is unparalleled.
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> connecting to the chess engine that comes preinstalled on macOS

Can you elaborate on this please? The presentation at your link doesn't say.
Evil vim user here. Also a Stanza employee.

What you're describing is exactly the vision for Stanza.

Currently, our product allows users to subscribe to event feeds, much like a YouTube watcher subscribes to YouTube channels. These channels (or StanzaCals) sync with your Google Calendar, iCal, or whichever major calendar platform you use. Right now our main product is an embeddable calendar that lives on sites such as http://www.wowhead.com/, http://www.lakersnation.com/, NFL teams, and many other hot websites.

Right now, we're expanding our product to make discovering events easier and improve personalization. We're built on Node, AWS, MongoDB, Redis, and serve 200M unique impressions per month.

If you have a passion for making a great calendar experience, (eg: the atom of Calendar), we'd love to hear from you.

Drop me a line at matt@stanza.co
Hiring staff capable of handling such materials would be another material step Wikileaks could take in addressing its glaring bias problems.
I want to ask a serious question: considering there have been some major issues with LastPass, like this one, showing up in recent memory, why do people (at least here on HN) stick with it despite these major issues? There are other options out there, depending on your use case (I use 1Password, which seems to have fared much better as far as vulnerabilities), so why keep the same software when vulnerabilities continue to be found in it? Is there a special feature in LastPass?
I guarantee that they are being outright racist in "vetting" the people to inhabit these luxury apartments, which is part of the secrecy.
>It goes beyond unions as you mention.

Yeah, and it gets really interesting when you look at examples from evolutionary biology, too. There's a pretty common population dynamic that goes on between "punish non-cooperation with some version of tit-for-tat" and "always cooperate because others will punish defectors" and "exploit others because there's enough non-cooperators for this to work as a strategy".

In normal times, companies don't pay more to non-union workers - but the company pays the same, and non-union workers get the benefits that union workers fought for, and the non-union folks don't have to pay union dues and the like. There's a very real reason why unions work to make themselves non-optional, and why businesses favor laws that enshrine a right to not pay union dues.