skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously the data set doesn't become "weaker" or "lose value" -- it's data, and running stats against it doesn't change it.

However, every test for a correlation against a data set has some chance of yielding a false positive or false negative. This chance is called the p-value, and typically .05, or 5%, is the minimum requirement to be considered "significant". But that means that if you test for 20 or so correlations, you would expect one of them to be wrong. And the only thing that can fix that is reproducing the test with a different data set.

Searching for "science reproduction crisis" will give a lot of good results for further reading.

This topic is also what this XKCD is about -- and it's not a coincidence that there are 20 "test" frames with a .05 p-value:

https://www.xkcd.com/882/
Self-hosted wordpress, etc
I feel like when I think of "mobile", I can only see a European person saying it. In the US it's usually "phone" or "cell phone".
random nearly constant periodic auctions would be how I would fix it

something like the Turquoise Uncross: http://www.lseg.com/sites/default/files/content/documents/TU...
If your bar for consciousness emulation is quantum randomness, I'm glad to tell you that computers are great on getting this one too. Yes, it's outside the scope of pure Turing machines, but that is of little relevance.
Nissan GTR R35 1500HP VS. Toyota 86 – Japan Drift
How the Planet Vulcan Changed Science Forever
> This leaves me in an unpleasant spot as I, where I can, avoid using google services and now need to find an alternative dialling application. Isn’t this sweet? I am searching for a dialling application for my smartphone. A DIALLING application

You bought a Google phone and don't want to use Google services, but complain that the dialler can be provided by a third party? Isn't that a good thing?
We are using MySql :)
You're being obtuse if you think this use-case wasn't a huge part of their thinking while designing the software and offering support to customers.

>I asked a FlexiSpy salesperson a simple question: If I wanted to, could I use their spyware to snoop on my wife's cellphone without her knowing? The answer each time was yes. When asked if it was legal, they responded with a canned disclaimer explaining it was necessary to get the permission of the target. But what if I didn't want my wife to know? They could help me anyway.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/02/22/flexi...
> When a programmer successfully emulates consciousness, every line will be deliberate, and they will know exactly how they did it.

I am not so sure. The current success of deep learning seems to be a direct counterexample to this. These techniques are yielding great success by imitating some patterns we observe in the brain, but the resulting inferences more or less defy rigorous explanation. We might fully understand the structure of a neural network but explaining the "why" behind its decisions seems to elude us.
A lot of comments suggesting this is cynical compensation arbitrage by the DeepMap founders. I don't buy it.

I expect a startup was the only option to execute on the idea with a decent level of autonomy. Google/Alphabet already have well established teams in the areas of mapping & autonomous driving so you can't just go ahead and start your own multi-engineer effort.
Not to mention the changes to the SPARK subset of Ada for doing proofs on parts of your code have improved a lot.
> This bill is going to end up killing people

I'm pessimistic that this will ever be known by those in swing states, let alone cared about. I've traveled to those places and met people there. They have normalized death due to medical complications and drug addiction. Why should more people dying make a difference there?
I find it offputing when a business put people in jail because someone shared a exact copy of a program. That ideology is a large part why people put their work under gpl. As a fact, no person have ever been sent to jail for sharing a GPL'ed software with a friend. If you oppose people getting sent to jail or given fines that will last a person a life time, then it perfect rational not to help companies that do this. Some add clauses which says "do no evil", others put common legal obstacles so the practical results will be that code aren't used by them.
I work a lot, I like working a lot, I choose voluntarily to work a lot. I find it fulfilling and productive.

It doesn't leave a lot of time
for cooking healthy things (or, more accurately, I would rather spend the limited time left over after work for reading and producing music rather than cooking and cleaning my dishes and kitchen) and most packaged/prepared food is pretty unhealthy. Soylent and Joylent and Jake mean I end up healthier.
How is this behavior ever useful server side?
Sorry to disappoint you guys, but Reaction Engines was founded in 1989 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_Engines_Limited) and every year they issue press releases stating they are on a brink of revolutionary engine. In this 18 years they didn't produce anything that actually works. Skylon is a "design" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)] and SABRE is a "concept under development" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)].
What if it's not a bogeyman, but something that really is pervasive and should be addressed? I don't think the commenter or anyone I've read is saying "eliminate progress". Have you, or are you just making it up for rhetorical effect?

Look, it's not crazy to grant that each of those things is a benefit and bring up the fact that there are downsides. It doesn't have to be all good or all bad. We can say "ordering pizza is great, and we should consider the fact that some people rely on it to the detriment of their physical and emotional well-being."
You'd prefer a $10,000 lidar over a $8 mobile GPU?
This is like that movie where US pilots have to battle a super advanced AI stealth drone.

AI really should have no place in military but it's going to happen. Some spineless fucks are going to spread their legs for a 5 star general to sell their company.

The defence industry is in the business of killing humans and you play a direct role by selling your knowledge and skills to make it more efficient. Fuck that shit.
When you were arguing about how the EU and Fed are,
in your opinion, elected, I thought you would be able to make the connection. They aren't considered elected officials in the standard sense we think about it--in a democratic sense--and no one thinks that. They are unelected by any plain interpretation of democracy. That's the reason the word technocracy is used to describe them.
Dude, I started on a Canon AE-1. Well that was my first personal SLR, I really started on a Pentax K1000 (didn't we all?).

I've done a _lot_ of film. I think before I went back to that I'd try post processing. I'm of two minds on post processing, I know it can make things "pop" but I like pictures to be realistic. Sometimes that makes them look worse than you might like but they are real.

That said, I am sure a ton of my keepers would benefit from post.

See my profile if you want to try and convince me in email, I'm a total nerd about photography stuff. Not great at it, I've got a shitty eye for composition, but still love it.
To be fair... Man has never walked on the moon in my lifetime either. I find that sad.
A lot of the variables you listed is not relevant. The solution linked here is only deriving the 3d positions of the fingers, none of the other nuances that can be expressed by the hand's muscular and skeletal system.
But i have never seen it working properly in
PROD enterprise application.

FWIW, I have programmed for and deployed OSGi-based enterprise solutions. Karaf[0] was the container using Felix[1] most of the time (Equinox[2] being the other for a brief period). These are/were production systems, so I am curious by what you experienced as "never seen it working properly in PROD ..."

0 - https://karaf.apache.org/

1 - https://felix.apache.org/

2 - https://www.eclipse.org/equinox/
This opensource libraries that you mention (and most in general) are focused in generic constructs of methods for the solution of partial differential equations (PDEs).
PyFR - flux reconstruction.
OpenFOAM - Finite Volume.
The list is actually extensive, there are libraries with focus in Finite Element, Finite Difference, Boundary Element, Smoothed Particle hydrodynamics and so on.

The difference here is that this is a solver, not a library. So it is focused on a specific set of PDEs, by doing so you can apply optimizations that are specific to this PDEs and the space representation that it uses, this optimizations are not general to the underlying method of solution (which can actually be a combination of methods), so it will be extremely hard for this generic libraries to compete in performance with a focused solver.
> obvious first choice

why?

People tend to start with bootstrap, and move from there to a more specific framework with minimal code.

Also i don't trust w3schools, they just took advantage of the name w3 and people often thing they are related to w3 but they are not.
1) Note, you can patch this in a theme or plugin of your own by explicitly setting a sender email address:

add_filter("wp_mail_from", function($generated_from) { return "mysender@mydomain.com"; });

2) The thing I'm not understanding - wouldn't setting a "Host:" header change the directory being served in most virtual host configurations? For instance:

POST /wp/wordpress/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword HTTP/1.1
Host: injected-attackers-mxserver.com

In most configurations the web server would look for a virtual host configuration matching "injected-attackers-mxserver.com" - and when not found would just return a 404 or error page, or possibly the default Apache/nginx directory? So to be vulnerable the WordPress install would need to be accessible via either A) a default config or B) an IP address.

3) It's odd there isn't a patch for this. WordPress already creates and stores a canonical "siteurl" on install, and this setting is not changed by any "$_SERVER" variable.
The purpose of the DoD is not to spy on people, it is to protect people. That some actions by some programs and and departments may cross the line legally during certain periods is not that same as an entity whose sole, or majority of goods or services are for, or marketed as being for, an illegal action.
Yes! It may have!

Why is that not something that can be discussed? I mean, I'd bet good money that delivery pizza is a net benefit, but I can still admit that some people probably rely on it in a way that's unhealthy.
Cooking is an anachronism and it is in no way madness to stop doing it any more than it is madness to use a washing machine instead of a washboard or email instead of the post.
Ugh. Hate to be Debby Downer. I mean, nice effort, but one of the crappy things about some of these newish languages is how each of them comes with their own package manager baggage that is different from the package manager that all the rest of your software is installed through.

So I have my Debian setup and I'm happily using apt to install all my software. Now ruby comes along and I need some libraries and have to go and install everything with gem. And I can't use apt to see what gems I have installed and vice versa! Argh!!! Now I have to write some python code and here comes pip... And node/npm... and on and on.

apt-get install libx11-dev is just fine for my C and C++ development needs, thankyouverymuch. I don't see the value in yet another incompatible package manager.
"Think about CloudFlare protecting ISIS sites."

I'm pretty sure the Feds are happy to have traffic to ISIS sites be routed (unencrypted) through an American company's service...
Wiktionary gives the etymology of "bó" as coming straight from Proto-Celtic and Proto-Indo-European. In any case, sometimes Irish has both a word of Celtic origin and a loanword for animals. "Chicken" is "cearc" but also "sicín".
Under the ACHA, being a woman is essentially a pre-existing condition
What was the approval process to get the Raven device whitelisted for access to the meter?

(I own a Condo in Schaumburg)
Yea, it should be:

<h2 class="larger">

or something. Using elements as class names is insane.
As an artist who very much enjoys this style I agree wholeheartedly with your premise but not your conclusion. ISTM that that this is precisely what the article is about, albeit presented in a breezy did-you-know-this-fun-fact way rather than the more plodding style of academic writing.

I thought it was an excellent article and I'm baffled by your suggestion that the author was oblivious to or indifferent to the symbolic language in the paintings, even if he didn't explore each individual one to the depth that you might have preferred.
I understand what you're writing, and what HackerOne wrote, but to me it pretty much seems like "we won't run a security service for spyware companies".

At Matasano, we wouldn't do work for the USG or arms manufacturers. We didn't have a coherent framework to fit that decision into. We just wouldn't do it. I worry that we may be overthinking things here.
Why is dialing a phone a "Google Service"?
I bought a few Haskell books but could never really grok it. In the last couple years I started learning f# and have found it's an incredible "intro to Haskell" language. I opened one of my Haskell books the other day and realized I understood everything much more quickly.
Thinking about it, it seems weird that there are not at least some happy robots driving around on the Moon that people could take over for fun.
I fully agree and if you look at my other comments in this thread you will see the things that I think are done better and the advantages that I feel modern languages have.

In this case age has something to do with it. There are far fewer people who know fortran, there are far fewer people working on good fortran libraries, and there are languages that can do the same thing that fortran can do.

My issue is that fortran can do the same things (we can argue about speed because that's not really the language's fault) but it has a detraction that other languages don't have. No one outside of very limited subsets of the software development community uses it.

I see that as a huge detraction. Maybe others don't, but I do.
It will still be travelling at that speed when entering the corresponding area of the target system. If it could survive, it would be interesting to know what kind of observations could be made by a single-chip sensor travelling at that speed. No planetary close-ups surely.
I believe it's both actually. With the exception of maybe a few small corners, Google no longer has the reputation of a place where you have autonomy.
Just FYI. Oscar's founder Joshua Kushner is Jared Kushner's brother. Yes, President Trump is its founder's in-law.
The way I think about HFT is:

- one effect of an economy is to find an approximate solution to an important problem: optimising resource allocation with regards to growth

- within this paradigm, markets exist to process all publicly available information and turn it into real allocation of resources

- considering the difference between trades executed once a day vs once a week, the more frequent trades will provide information that is up to date, higher resolution, and will lead to a better solution to the problem

- HFT uses a huge volume of very frequent trades based on very weak correlations, meaning that the information it adds is newer than that of longer term trades, is very high resolution, and may take into account factors ignored by longer-term strategies

- therefore, HFT leads to better overall resource allocation by providing greater visibility into the value of the things being traded

This ties into the comments on the efficient market hypothesis. HFT brings us a little closer to the impossible ideal by making the market a little more efficient.
Not yet, but I can't imagine a future where AIs don't eventually control takeoff, landing, and emergency situations.
Better to eat how your great grandparents would have eaten if they lived somewhere notorious for long, healthy lives.

There's such a gap between Soylent and something like Wendell Berry's ideas:

https://www.ecoliteracy.org/article/wendell-berry-pleasures-...

People do mention that in relation to Soylent, encouragingly (whether it's altogether right or not). Historical perspective is very important.
This isn't just something Soylent pushes, either. This is a lifestyle that was crafted really carefully over many years that is at the core of 'startup culture.' It's ironic that we're talking about that "always-on mentality" in the venue that's responsible more than anywhere else for disseminating it, demonizing the 9-5 life as the choice of inferior cubicle-bound minds, and glorifying the startup life as the only alternative acceptable alternative. Otherwise, you're not smart or ambitious.

In the same way that "ball is life" gets a lot of kids to pay a lot of money for sneakers and the faint possibility of a future as a pro athlete, you'll get goods that signal your commitment to that lifestyle. Same with startups. Ergo, as startup culture does well, so does Soylent.
I'm being called oblivious by people who confuse HFT and market making which each other. That's cute.

There are companies that provide liquidity. They do nothing else. They don't take a position in the market. Its their job to quote both a bid and an ask and to trade with anyone who wants to hit those quotes. They are not allowed to not quote a price, unless trading is suspended. Those are called market-makers. They need to be able to change their quotes quickly, because being taken out on one side of the market creates positional risk for them. The only time they make money is when they can trigger a buy and a sell at the same time. If they cant do that, they have to hedge their position. They have to compete on spread with other market makers, which is possible to do in 2 ways - being fastest to quote or having a narrower spread. Trades at the price are executed in the order of submission.

There are companies that engage in statistical arbitrage. They look for opportunities that are statistical in nature. Think of technical analysis but in a way that works. Think stock A and stock B being more correlated than price reflects. They want to execute fast because those opportunities do not exist for long. This kind of trading smoothens out the curve and smooth curves are nice to have, mathematically speaking.

There are HFT firms who scalp dodginess in price by renting colocated servers. Very tiny but almost guaranteed returns if they can get execution. Nothing wrong with that either. Low margin business model.

Then there are companies, or rather teams inside companies, that send buy and sell orders into the exchange that they never want to execute, on millisecond timescales, to disrupt the market. They are trying, in simplified terms, to create signals for other market participants that do not really exist, and then execute trades that they know will be profitable by exploiting other participants for whom they generated buy signals. This is your evil HFT. The T in HFT is a misnomer, because they dont really trade. They abuse stock exchange mechanics to fuck with other market participants and then try to rob them. This is mostly illegal and not allowed by the exchanges themselves. The problem here is to prove that someone didnt play by the rules. Google "optiver the hammer" for an example of a couple years ago. They have counter-intelligence teams whose entire job is to not trade the market for profit but to ruin other companies profits to drive them out of business. But most of this is illegal, its just difficult to prosecute.

The problem with banning folks is that most trading companies engage in all of these things at the same time. There are market making teams at optiver and there are evil HFT teams at optiver and if you ban optiver, you wipe out a major market maker which leaves the stock exchange exposed.

Another problem with "banning HFT" is that where do you draw the line? Market participants can suddenly not try to get their trades executed anymore? Maybe that's beneficial to the market as a whole, but how do you even execute such a rule?
The reality is that these tools add value that extends beyond mere package management. You are right though, if you just use them to install things, and not as part of a development process, they might seem superfluous.
What makes it funny? you might find that the answer to that question is rather more complex than you think.
I didn't mean to imply the code was the same or the editor was the same, but that the VSCode team have access to the original source code for all the compiler and intellisense algorithms that were already written, tuned and figured out.
> And here's the arrogant, self-important attitude that turned me off of Haskell.

Haskellers are usually out to convince that Haskell is for most programmers, and that "need PhD to use it" is a myth.

It is people frustrated by the (difficult) learning curve of Haskell that say such things.
police still use horses, but they don't spend a trillion dollars on a new laserhorse
#2 Really depends on how bad they want to come after you. There have been cases where non-competes originating out of state have been enforced here in California. I personally wouldn't want to go up against Google's legal team and their war chest.
Find another job, please.

Even if you made less, not having to commute would make you feel better.
> unique to lazily evaluated languages

More precisely, unique to significant use of laziness, which is going to (obviously) be more common in lazily evaluated languages but laziness is supported elsewhere.
Get ready for a new kind of apple. It's called Cosmic Crisp
It is worth noting how we got here:

- Someone said having multiple options for a phone dialer is a wonderful thing.

- Someone else pointed out that the article isn't about a choice, the dialer was forced on the user.

- The parent asks if it is bad that Google updates apps in a tone that strongly hints that they can't imagine how the answer could be yes.

Far too many conversations go like this here.

To (try to) get back on topic, of course the Google can update their apps. I'm pretty sure the number of people here who would answer this negatively at a rounding error away from zero. But that is entirely beside the point.

The point is the author of the article doesn't want a dialer that surveils them and spews their private conversation details (along with everything else of note stored on the phone) to the "trusted partners" of the surveillance firm who wrote it. And yet it was forced on him.

This is ironic and sad to anyone who considers phones to be things that one might have private conversations on. (Insert opportunity to talk about how old-school talking on phones is.)

And again, it is just another reason to be very, very careful with whom you "do business" (which includes third-party private-surveillance firms, the names of which you may not have a way of determining before purchase).

For me, this dictates I won't use consumer software from a large number of current producers. Google included. Not everyone has my requirements, I get that, and that's fine.

But there is exactly nothing wrong with wanting a phone that doesn't spy on you.
> It's the distinction between programming consciousness and physically reproducing it.

Except that there is none: consciousness is "programmed" into our brains (by hard-wiring + social experiences); artificial intelligence is "physically reproduced" as a mesh of transistors and higher-level structures built from them - logic cells, LUTs, FPGAs, PSMs, CPUs, HPC clusters, etc.).

(Partially relying on software is not an issue: even a brain completely simulated in software could, in principle, exhibit consciousness just as well as a "wetware" one can.)