skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to commend Microsoft for issuing the fix months ago.

There was some interesting discussion recently about Microsoft's potential role in creating an environment where users feel the need to disable automatic update. Disabling it for fear of system reboots, loss of performance, unexpected changes, or what have you.

Reworking automatic update so that it feels like an essential, useful feature to the end user could be a productive next step for Microsoft. Software bugs aren't going anywhere.
Here's one with more than 3 million miles: https://www.facebook.com/irvgordon3millionmiles/posts/188158...
I use some basic tf-idf machine learning for clustering similar articles for http://tracket.com
The I/O keynote always bothers me. Apple and AWS have great Keynotes that get me excited to develop on their platforms. Google's always comes across as too self congratulating.
It's a bit silly to assume that demand is the only driver. At some point, people can only buy what's supplied. If 99% of the stuff available is cheap junk and I don't have time to sort through that, likely I'll buying that cheap junk (or nothing at all).

One example is if a high quality item is no longer produced because the company or division selling it goes out of business as it's priced out of the market.

Supply-side domination/flooding can and does impact buying habits.
WolframScript: Run Your Code from Anywhere
I'm pretty certain Richard is not the author of that post. It seems likely it was written by one 'cybervegan'. In the second paragraph, the author of the post states "...after recently reading TGD..." which would be a strange thing for the author of The God Delusion to write.
I bought it when it came out, and read it (mostly) cover to cover. I remember it as an interesting exploration into cellular automata, and how complex behavior can arise from simple rules.

I think a lot of the hate came because of the title.

Disclaimer: I'm neither a scientist, nor a mathematician.
This is a very good analogy. Media is input for your mind in the same way food is input to your body.
First of all, suppose we say "tool learning" instead of "machine learning". Next, suppose we view the mind as a collection of automaticities---machines. This means detaching from the image of the self as a unified whole and attaching to the image of the self as a network of activities and processes.

Machine learning means I am going to entertain the notion that these mental formations can learn on their own, in other words, that I will give them permission to have their own autonomy.

Why would I do that? Why would I give a bunch of paintings in a museum armaments? And freedom of movement? Why would I give mental formations the power to hurt, even kill me? In order to learn, we must first learn to kill the reality in which we cannot learn. I am the thing that creates the reality in which you cannot learn, since if you could, you would learn how to kill me.
FPGAs are hard/expensive to program (including being very painful to debug), at least for most tasks - and few people are good at both FPGA and software development, so you may need different people to do the programming. New FPGA generations can require substantial re-work, at least for best performance. Many tasks would require kernel support (which is another "hard/expensive to program, and annoying to debug", although not nearly as bad).

You need a deployment scenario where FPGAs beat GPUs (and CPUs) by enough to be worth that pain, but not by enough that someone already has a ready-made ASIC for you. I agree that one would expect to see more deployment of FPGA's naively, but not a lot.
We need security mechanisms that prevent such overreach being possible at all, just like Apple is doing with their hardware.
>I'd say it's primarily caused by a disconnect between what the human vestibular system (your sense of balance and spatial orientation) is telling the brain your body is doing vs the acceleration forces that your body is feeling vs what your eyes are telling you about what the body is doing.

The vestibular system has a prodigious amount of control over your life. I've got hearing damage and occasionally get vertigo spells (I carry dramamine in my wallet for emergencies). Every once in a while my balance sense just begins to swing around wildly. Sounds kind of cute. It will put you on your ass for 24-48 hours with zero possibility of doing anything. Even drinking water is hard. Without drugs the nausea just becomes your entire world. You think about nothing but how much it sucks. You can't eat, move, sleep or speak.

So... yeah. Motion sickness is a very real thing. I think (based on zero evidence) that everybody has a different threshold but experiences the same effects past that. If you're lucky, your threshold is faster than you can move your head. If you aren't, chug dramamine and coffee and hope they invent something that turns off your sense of balance without making you delirious.
Surprise there is a support team!
Can you elaborate a little bit more on the process?
Perhaps this is an opportunity then. I looked in YC's Startup Documents and didn't see anything at all related to legal agreements between cofounders; maybe they will put something together someday.

The only protection from dilution I saw mentioned in this thread isn't doing so well (gray at this point):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14357964

an agreement from the company that neither of the remaining founders can receive additional shares for 2 years [...] is a pretty effective way to protect against dilution
The title is clickbait, but I actually enjoyed the discussion of Windows' design within the article.

One key thing that the author has missed: Ransomware works very well even without SYSTEM level privileges. The goal here is to encrypt files the user has access to, therefore if you move SMB Server into the user's context you haven't really hampered WannaCry's overarching goal.

Back in the early 2000s there was this assumption that malware needs root/SYSTEM to be successful. The last five years has shown that that assumption is incorrect, with a lot of popular malware never even attempting to escalate, and happily performing their function as the user (since that's where all the "goods" are anyway).

There are a few exceptions to this, like stealing cached AD credentials, but overall you can do a lot just by having the ability to install evil browser extensions, turn on the webcam, and encrypt files.
i think you would get more traction if you had called it doILookFat.com or doesItMakeMyButtLookBig.com . Then automatically find and link to products ( jeans/hairstyle) ect that can improve the situation. make money from product referrals.
I think the article has a point. How is the principle of least privilege hindsight?
Google will soon be able to remove objects from photos
I don't live in the valley. I live in a medium sized house on the east coast. I live in a very average neighborhood which is close 99% of what I need - work, groceries, restaurants, beach, fun. I live in the kind of neighborhood that the average high income duel income couple would scoff at... No two car garage, no granite countertops, I have a small lot, I'm close to the neighbors, I don't always have to get in my car to go places.

We have one car even though we could afford two, we both share our commute to work, I drop off my husband on my way to work and pick him up again on the way back. Most couples would buy too cars but we feel that our money is much better used on fun stuff than a second vehicle. A second vehicle is a large money sink for a small amount of convenience.

I made $30k a decade ago when I lived in the Midwest ($36,000 in today's dollars) and lived very, very comfortably on that. Making more than double that now along with two incomes allows us to have the sorts of comforts and luxuries I couldn't have at $30k (homeownership, guest rooms, expensive travel, booze/restaurant money, coffee at DDs every day) while still saving.

We are happy and we are very blessed. We could buy more but we are happy with less. Part of why we save so much is to avoid being wage slaves as I don't feel that to be an ideal lifestyle.
Why, oh why is the sound that bad?
Sounds like they're adding reverb for the live sound and just use that for the stream...
There's a lot of incidental value in on-demand streaming. The streaming company gets immediate and much more intimate feedback about how you're interacting with their product.
Yes. But are we really going to ingrain our mindset that taking pictures of passwords & sending them to the Cloud is safe?
We get plenty of tasty fruits and veggies that are shipped from all over the world. This was something different. These had no nutrients. My hunch is that they were grown in mineral depleted soil.
Are any?
We use it for automated seizure detection in EEG data. Most seizures have no clinical manifestation (e.g., shaking or trembling), and if a seizure goes on too long (~30 minutes) the patient can suffer permanent brain damage or even die. This is particularly problematic for patients in the ICU since they tend to seize silently more often and it isn't easy to tell that they are seizing without having a neurologist examine the EEG data.

We also use machine learning for detecting other features of EEG data and removing artifacts. (Eye blinks, for example, cause big artifacts.)
Qualcomm sues Apple suppliers amid global patent battle
So the sudden 7000% cost increase is just the normal course of business due to a bug? Wow, great business plan -- tell them the first one's free ..then they pay.
What do you think will stop artificial intelligence from becoming a closer and closer approximation of human intelligence?
Easily spin up Kubernetes on vSphere
>is it not better to die free than live long in a cage?

From an instinctive and evolutionary standpoint, definitely the latter.
A new ELF linker [pdf](2008)
There are now more than 2B active Android devices in the world
At this point, it is university research. The work has been published, and we are in clinical trials in prep for commercialization.
Get some of your kids' friends to participate and have their parents chip in as well.
I really wish he would have pardoned Snowden in addition to this.
As Bitcoin’s Value Rises Real Estate for BTC Sales Follows the Trend
You mentioned that Apple has great Keynotes and at the same time you wrote that "Google's always too self congratulating"?

Didn't you mean the opposite? Apple is always so self centered on their presentation that it is hard to watch.
I don't have time to watch this, but I would like to go back and find highlights and hear about some interesting stuff earlier than later. Can someone point out a good liveblog/livetweet source?
This is potentially the most sociopathic comment I've read on this site.

Here's a reason: because it's an awful thing to do.
Ask HN: How do Twitter ads to listicle-type pages make money?
I've always been confused by the idea that it can be cost beneficial to pay twitter to get me on sites where there's nothing to buy.

Since the best case scenario is that I click an ad on the linked page, can it really be true that the ad revenue from the linked page as a result of the twitter ad campaign can be more than the cost of the twitter ad campaign?
These Google people. They are so full of themselves. Yet they fail to deliver a profitable product besides serving ads
Google Photos passes 500M users
mere mortals at what point is there so much stuff in memory that you need a couple hours of hold up time just to flush it out to SSD

If your buying these machines with multiple TB of RAM, then buying flash arrays that can drive multiple GB/sec of IO bandwidth shouldn't be a problem either. At say 8GB/sec write bandwidth flushing 1TB is a little over two minutes. Although, why you have that much "dirty" data in RAM might be another question. A database machine using that amount of RAM is going to care more about the IOP rates of the disk, so that its flushing updates to disk at the same rates they are arriving. Meaning that the RAM won't need to be flushed to disk if the machine/power/whatever fails. Disk arrays with >1M IOP/s have been around for over a decade, and given a SAN can be wired together to increase aggregate performance.
Then why did WannaCry even pose a threat? Perhaps Microsoft needs to think about the consequences of shoving Win10 down the throats of their users via critical security patches.
Google's Second AI Chip Crashes Nvidia's Party
Google Launches Find My Device App for Android Devices – Digital Trends
Or you might think that he got in over his head and decided to step aside and let the other guys manage the business.
Samsung Chromebook Pro should be announced
Google Lens will let smartphone cameras understand what they see and take action
It is a bit of concern, but we are not out in the wild yet so we have time to look at ways to protect the IP.
You can easily write the compilers/interpreters/other tooling in high level, memory safe languages. Not all, but quite a few of those safe languages have their tooling built in the same language

PyPy is written in Python, golang has a compiler made in go, etc. Many others do rely in part on LLVM, but in the "long future" there's no technical reason why a common component like LLVM has to be written in C/C++, who knows, people might switch to something else written in a memory-safe language.
Google Lens vision recognition tells you what you're looking at
Bank of America has this in the US.
John Cleese lecture on creativity, sleeping on problems (2010)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.refect.not...
Don't travel with electronics?
Google Rattles the Tech World with a New AI Chip for All
In that case ventilation was the cause of those deaths, or at least made the situation worse. It doesn't have much to do with the availability of oxygen.
Mostly because of bandwidth and physics. You have to get information into the display in a form that the display can convert to spatial/angular/wavefront information efficiently and with enough fidelity to be believable.

Any data compression method has to be compatible with the underlying display technology so you can bring the signal straight into the modulator. In addition, there's a wire problem: you can only bring so much signal into a light modulator because the signals interface through a surface, not a volume.

For these reasons and others, true holographic displays are simply not competitive at this time with stereoscope-like VR systems, which rely on tried-and-true, market-driven incoherent-light raster display technology.

People have been asking these kinds of "why not" questions about 3D and building various types of 3D display technology in garages and labs for almost two hundred years. With the exception of the discovery of optical holography, it's surprising how much is fundamentally unchanged.
Sure, but we weren't talking about Trump or the term "fake news".
Doesn't Rust compilation rely on LLVM for all the actual compilation from IR to machine code?
Monthly Android updates everywhere please.
WebHacks – An Online Hackathon
Everyone? It's always going to be a niche thing. There's lots of people who can't play regular video games because of motion sickness, but the video game industry doesn't suffer.
How to attack security issues like Google and Microsoft just did – The Parallax
All of the investors I've ever talked to preferred founder vesting over anything else. Maybe we run in different investor circles.
well you're in luck Google Assistant is now on the iPhone
They're self centered but it's about stuff that is relevant to me. All this talk about Google Assistant is useless to me as a developer. At least Apple talks about stuff I'm able to plug into.
Google Lens allows you to do searches with your camera
Google Assistant on iPhone
tl;dr: Microsoft has historically under-invested in security engineering, especially with regards to software architecture.

I sort of agree. Microsoft's direct competitors in this area (Google with Android, Apple with OS X) seem to be doing better than they are. But software security is hard, and it can't be solved just by throwing money at the problem; it requires a good development culture and practices, and in a company as big as Microsoft, building that is also hard. Microsoft is also saddled with considerably more legacy code and backwards-compatibility requirements than Google and Apple are; and SMB, which contains the relevant exploit, is absolutely legacy code.
My favourite page on ELF executables of all time: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm..., "A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (or, 'Size Is Everything')"
Facebook is the closest.
I don't understand.

> The Firebase Realtime Database charges for SSL overhead on all requests ... We’ve always had a policy of charging this way.

So it's always been charged.

> Unfortunately, we introduced a bug late last year that began undercharging for SSL

Except it hasn't always been charged?

> We recently started actually enforcing overages on legacy plans and our current fixed-price ($25/mo Flame) plan.

In fact, if you're on a Spark or Flame plan, it's never been charged?

I feel like this response is straight from Office Space or something. "So we just went ahead and fixed the glitch."
-Out of sample testing. Across markets, across time.
-Logical economic explanations.
i guess whatever the faults of the paper, i like that they do have a product on the market and are demoing and publishing research. magic leap? not so much.
I'm sure in certain niches there are companies and people outperforming Google on AI stuff. Overall? None come to mind.
Google Lens Allows You to Connect to a WiFi Network by Pointing Your Camera
Here is a damning Twitter thread comparing the article to Lola's published obituary: https://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/864656017480708102

It makes the author and his family a lot less sympathetic.
NVidia announces they are building new generation TPU's and two days later Google announces that they have them in Google Cloud. God Speed!
Our voicemail server is OS/2. :(
No, I don't think the parent really wants to go back to the way things were. But I argue against something different - I argue against revolutions itself. The two points I made could be restated like this: our civilization is at a very fragile stage and a big enough revolution now could kick us back into pre-industrial level and keep us there, since all the easily available sources of energy have been already mined and used up. That, and revolutions are bloody, and frankly, I don't want to die yet.
Here:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11409/the-google-io-2017-keyno...
One is not explicitly barred from buying a product with too much fat or sugar due to their age however. Cigarettes and alcohol sure, those have proven societal and health implications, but the analogy falls short on the basis of the buyer not being restricted from purchasing that which contains the nutritional info
Node.js 8.0.0 has been delayed: Here’s why
Steam is not healthy for gaming
Funny, you're certainly speaking adversarially while I'm seeking an earnest answer.

Just like speed is relative given your frame of reference, wealth inequality does not prove a decrease in prosperity. Not by a long shot. So, if that's your proof, it doesn't make sense.

Because if my plane is accelerating while yours is accelerating faster: inequality of position has hastened while we've both improved.
The archive is a campsite
Not sure how it's an "opportunity" when it's a red flag that would prevent the startup from raising money!
Perhaps Apple, but Google with Android? Really???
You can write apps for the Assistant now.
It's at Shoreline amphitheatre, so a little reverberation is kinda inevitable. Someone should develop an AI to delete reverb, though.
Google Assistant should be useful to you in many ways as a developer. It's become an open platform from several directions.
Perhaps your project can include a "memorial" in the readme or some other wiki page as sites shutdown, including the site url, any claim to fame, and the date it died. This page may eventually serve this purpose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BitTorrent_sites

As it is, if you were to [edit:actually link] the list of sites you currently support I'm certain your project would draw some unwanted attention!
> When we refer to things, we use words that convey our perception of them.

We are not talking about cross-dressers. We are talking about transgender individuals. You wouldn't even be able to notice them standing in front of you once their transition is complete.
(am an eng at google)

How else do you provide 24/7 support?
Qt can be made beautiful. Just like most other UI toolkit out there that support theming. HTML by default is pretty hideous.

It's mostly a matter of knowing how the theme engine works. As an example, https://tox.chat/ qTox looks pretty nice in this screenshot :)
Theranos Names Cass Grandone as Head of Product Development
Google doesn't have support for free products but they certainly do for paid. Whether the support is good or not is another question but it's there.

Just go to https://support.google.com/googleplay/?hl=en and click "Contact Us" in the top right. All the menu items I clicked that don't have straightforward solutions went straight to a menu where within 2-3 minutes I can get live chat or a phone call.

I've also had no problems getting help with my paid Google Apps account when I need it. For cloud there's paid support with a 4-hour response time: https://cloud.google.com/support/
Real firms use tick data to backtest, not the 1 minute bars that Quantopian uses, and spend a lot of time simulating network characteristics such as data and order latency. They also use machine learning, which isn't possible on Quantopian, to build models, which requires downloading lots of data (and not just equities). No serious quant will ever use such a tool. You might as well go to the casino.
Four reasons you need an independent, transparent attribution solution
They actually reunited a few years ago, have been playing shows since then, and are releasing a new album this year. They didn't get back together just to play a show at a tech conference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD_Soundsystem#Reunion_and_ne...
Google more self-congratulating than Apple? Come on.

They are just less polished in presentation. Which I like. Raw stuff is more interesting.
A nice email / phone capture portal you have there.

Does anybody know what the value of such lists are? Having no other information with them I can't imagine it is much.
You might have seen Graphcool's launch yesterday where they announced 'inline functions'. Graphcool is running its users' code on their behalf right in the hot code path of their mutation pipeline. This means they're able to run untrusted code in an isolated and low-latency manner and at scale.

You may have seen something similar before in Auth0 Rules [1]. That the two share similarities is no coincidence! Auth0 Rules and Graphcool's 'inline functions' use the same Webtask technology behind the scenes.

We packaged up this technology to provide the first and only 'Extensibility as a Service' offering called Auth0 Extend [2]. Auth0 Extend builds on the familiar webhook model but removes the friction webhooks impose on user; no more standing up and managing servers just to handle webhook invocations. Auth0 Extend makes it trivial to transform a platform's webhook integration into an in-platform custom code editing experience.

1: https://auth0.com/docs/rules
2: https://auth0.com/extend
Google Assistant just launched for the iPhone, watch out Siri
People knew the EoL date for Windows XP ten years ago. It's not MS fault they though it will be no problem to use EoLed software.
Hahaha, the website was just made as a joke but you're probably right that it could be optimized to get more traction...