skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They seem to have a lot more publications listed here: https://www.vanaqua.org/act/research/publications

Are some of these not peer reviewed? I'm not familiar with the journals that they were published in.
Don't see how up-front modelling would have predicted the high planes of Unicode & MySQL's utf8 encoding being supplanted by utf8mb4 so users of your product could message taco emoji to each other.

I have an agenda against Getting It Right First Time, Every Time, since it encourages brittle code that's a struggle to adapt to new, seemingly-similar use cases.
there is no reason that python has to be the language of ML.

there is no reason that english has to be the language that is spoken when foreigners interact with each other. but somehow, it is. and it doesnt really change.
I just find it to be a lot of smoke hanging around for nothing to be burning.

These whales had been living in that pool for years and had even given birth without issue. Seems rather strange timing to all of a sudden have a mystery 'toxin' bring two of them down, particularly with the pool testing clean after their deaths.
Maybe the choice of title was a bad move on Wolfram's part? Your argument makes sense; it doesn't predict anything, or show any hint of science. Based on what I recall of the book (I did read it - everything except the appendix/notes), and what I've read of this new article (I didn't finish it - I will read it in full at a later point, though), it can't predict anything.

What I mean is that these simple rule programs can't be run any faster than the universe in which they are running. So you can't say "I predict this simple rule set will eventually draw a butterfly" (or whatever) - because you couldn't run it long enough for that to occur.

In a way, it's a simulation (or emulation) problem; just as you need a more powerful computer to run software to emulate a system in real time, provided that system is less powerful - you would need to do the same in order to run these simple programs. In essence, since the theory espoused in NKS (more or less - at least, that is what I got out of it - and maybe I am wrong) is that the universe at its base level (quarks? dunno) is composed and operates and creates based on these simple rules, in order to go faster than our universe (and catch up), you'd have to have a more powerful system than whatever the universe is running on (conjecture, I know - and Wolfram noted this as well IIRC).

So right now - just like if you were wanting to emulate a PS4 on a contemporary PC - the only way you can do it is non-realtime; you have to be satisfied at running the system at a slower rate. What is interesting about this - and this is pure speculation - let's say you are running "rule 30" on a computer, and unknown to you, it is actually computing a new universe (that is, simulating it) - to you, it is happening much more slowly than realtime - but to anyone "inside" that universe, they can't relatively know that they are running slower - their sense of "time" is "normal"...

I'd like to encourage you to read the book in full and maybe this new article as well. Yes - it's a real long slog. And maybe it is nothing more than a giant ego stroke on the part of Wolfram; I don't really know what to think about it anymore. But you might walk away (to get some aspirin for your headache?) with something to think about and ponder - even if it is completely wrong, or you think so, or whatever - simply reading it and understanding it might lead you to your own discoveries and ideas.
Spraying holy water on computers to prevent cyber attacks
Not the same structure at all. "Apple betrayed by its own law firm" is passive voice; your example is active voice. Passive voice in English is constructed with "to be" as the conjugated "helping verb" and the past participle of the actual verb. This is also why the law firm must be prefaced with "by"; the actor is not included in passive voice. earlyriser is correct in his proposed insertion of "was".

The equivalent to your example would be, "Law firm betrayed Apple, its client."
I think the idea would be to build plants that burn hydrogen to operate a steam turbine and transmit the electricity.
Ok, I have no idea who these guys are so forgive me being rude: if they're so good then why did they not address those points? to my eyes, op makes a solid argument. I'd like to know their side of the story.
I expect investors to fit in at least one of three buckets:

- understand the industry;

- understand the go to market/sales approach; or

- understand the current stage of the company and what it takes to move to the next.

And within each of those, they should have relationships, information, and strategies that accelerate the company in some way. It's not just a "look at my linked in and tell me who you'd like to meet" but a focused "I know A, B, and C who beat the problems that you're dealing with. let me get them right now and see if they can offer advice" and then a while later "Oh, you need X. I know a guy who does that. I'll get back to you."
Have they settled on a dessert name yet?
This is a really good thing, and thank you for showing it to me.

Something like this could be good if you wanted to rapidly switch between different compartments on a single device. It would be great for e.g. keeping a 'sensitive data' compartment seperate from a 'emails and paperwork' compartment on a work laptop.

Doing something like this is certainly better than using a single device with no seperation or just user accounts.

Psychologically, I still think that training people to use different devices for different things is more likely to stick than (account seperation on steroids). This extends to physical security - not leaving a work laptop in your backpack in a nightclub cloakroom like you might a personal device. But in the end with that reason, at a small comapany where you can avoid hiring idiots, it's up to each person to decide what psychological tricks they need to get themselves to do things.

I wouldn't trust something like this to keep high security information seperate. When some exploit that escapes Xen or (for a corp) accesses windows systems otherwise securely configured, there is nothing like isolated networks to keep your blood pressure low. For most software a service dev type people you already have this - your data lives in a data center on carefully configured production servers. But for data science type users, you see a lot of people (especially in accademida) doing work with potentially scary datasets on local laptops they probably also watch pirate TV on at home, which is a bit concerning. I guess at least if they were using qubes it would be a bit better though.
Google announces new Daydream VR hardware – no phone required
I'd appreciate an invite as well thanks. Email in profile
> since it is just another JVM language

Not for long, they're working on Kotlin Native which will make it completely independent from the JVM and portable to all platforms. Killer.
Interesting. Dang, adding a (2013) to the title would be helpful.
This is exactly one of the things that media-types solve. Simply using application/json doesn't tell me (consumer) anything about the semantics of what I'm reading. It only tells me what "parser" to use. If we have a proper media-type, like application/hal+json, I know exactly how to create a client for that type: I need to use a JSON parser _and_ use the vocabulary defined by HAL…
There's a reason why different gasses are used in different applications. Combustiblity, pressure required for liquefaction, flashpoint, safety and so on.

There's a lot of overlap between these in some areas like home heating and BBQs, but each application requires some engineering to make it work with any particular fuel.

The energy storage density of hydrocarbons make them more practical as a fuel in situations where portability is a concern. For example: You could have a hydrogen BBQ, but the tank would probably have to be much larger for the same amount of burn time.
Ask HN: React.js complex UI tutorials/examples?
I'm looking for React.js + (optional) mobx/redux(preferred)/flux complex UI example projects. I know there are some complex projects listed on https://react.rocks/ (found via Google search) but I'm looking for tutorials which can help me learn more about building complex UIs. I understand that Reactjs is not a requirement to build complex front-end UIs but it's tool of my choice.
I agree, but can you elaborate?

edit: 100% earnest request here
MacOS's package manager is the App Store. Which Handbrake isn't on.

It isn't on the Windows store either as far as I can tell.

Why, I don't know - maybe nobody involved wants to pay the fees to become an Authorized Developer, maybe there's a Free Software religious argument going on, maybe Apple doesn't want a program whose original function was "ripping DVDs" to be on there because of the many deals they have with the entertainment industry.

tl;dr: the program in question ain't in the operating system's package manager.
It's a small world.

Your hiring manager, the people you interviewed with (6-8 people probably?), and some of the management at company A will know you rescinded your signed offer.

What are the chances that one of those folks ends up working a company with a job you're applying for 4 or 5 years from now when your application comes through?
Sorry, misread that line.

Point being, how many examples do you have where someone writing a Django site is going to reuse their own apps?
Is your DBA helping or hindering your innovation?
What improvements to the developer experience for the Mac sandbox do you think are needed? If you get access all files through an open dialog, you're almost automatically set (and with a few lines of code you can even maintain access to those files). If you do something more complicated, you can write specific sandbox exceptions (as long as you don't want to distribute on the App Store). Privilege separation is also very easy to implement via XPC (complete with automatic proxy objects).

I think most apps don't sandbox not because it's especially hard, but just because it never occurs to the developers.
As soon as we can convert CO2 into hydrocarbons using solar or wind power in a way that's cost-competitive with conventional extraction we'll have turned an important corner in developing as a society.
I think IoT is even worse, since the actual tech isn't new or innovative, just being applied everywhere because it has reached a certain price point now. It's also a badly integrated insecure mess currently that has a lot of bugs. Which screams for a big player to take over.
a catalyst by definition reduces the minimum energy input required for a chemical reaction to occur
I knew it!! :P
I bought it new, too - twice. First time, because I was reading it and found that it was bound incorrectly (text repeats for about a good third of the book) - so to finish reading it, I had to buy a new copy.

I did finish it (everything except the appendix/notes - though I did read a few of those, which are fascinating as well, and wholly attributed) - I do not consider my purchase a waste of money, either.
For better or worse, my answer is that I don't use Scala. The development environment did not really appeal to me when I tried it a few years ago. Though I can see why people like it.
You can do that already with electrolysis, but why would you? It's way more expensive than approaches like reverse osmosis.
Vulnerability in Google I/O 2017 Android application
How much water would this process need to make enough energy for this to have an impact? Presuming we wouldn't use up our fresh water resources for this and that it would come from the ocean, but would this process create potential threats to the marine habitat as the mineral/chemical concentrations of the ocean water shifted?
Full Text: https://sci-hub.cc/10.1039/C6TA02876D
I'd love to have enough time to read everything about homotopy type theory / category theory / number theory / cryptography. Heck I'd even want to read the complete Art of Computer Programming from beginning to end. It's so hard to balance this with being productive. Life is too short.
GPGPU was definitely part of the success of recent years, but there was also a lot of experimentation and hard work carried out e.g. on CNN designs. Lots of trial and error. That took a lot of time. There have been fundamental changes in the structure and training of NNs that have helped bring the step-change in success.
Welp, does this make everything okay? I've seen a lot of people complaining that this wasn't happening.
That is false. BMI has been shown to be highly correlated with body fat, and remains the only practical method for large scale screening.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/17/obesity-heal...
It's all available on their price list under Machine Learning.

https://cloud.google.com/pricing/list
Rust has hype because it is mozilla, servo, and mozilla blog posts about it.

But that is not the point i was making. There are a lot of languages that "have safety". Ada is a prime example as it "has" more "safety" and is really old. And yet nobody talked about Ada before rust came with "safety".

With static analyzers and valgrind even C has enough of memory "safety". (note that Ada has more "safety" then just memory access)
Meet China best companies
Backups. Just f###### do 'em.
Since you can send normal sms (to any contact on your phone) directly from Signal interface, I guess it should be obvious it has access to your contacts...
It might be an interesting idea to sample the market using this (e.g. to obtain behavioral economics signals), even though I don't believe this is their original intention.
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be for me, even though I'm really interested in AI and I'm currently working on an AI project (look at my profile if you are interested). I wish I could run my own AI algorithm rather than just using their own. It would probably be cheaper to just buy my own Xeon computers. Training is really what takes most of the computer power.
Limitless blood supplies are 'tantalisingly close' to becoming reality
To add to this, motion sickness from FPS-on-a-screen is inherently unfixable due to the lack-of-locomotion issue. But roomscale VR deals with that issue. VR done right could very well expand the FPS market.
Occasionally the media will pick out a couple short segments from these and broadcast them. I think that's the audience.

Also these keynote things are just cheap facsimiles of Stevenotes. Apple's own keynotes have started to slide down to this level of without him.
Have you had a project where you needed automated testing?
I've never thought about it that way, nice perspective
The "mother" cell in the article isn't referring to a literal mother, but rather, a mother cell that divides itself and creates two daughter' cells.
Is that working?
How long has your algorithm been running live, and how many trades has it made?
But what about Tesla? It managed somehow to compete with Toyota, Honda, etc, although it had to create a new market (market of electric cars) to do it.
The "hit-and-run" problem turns out not to be that big of an issue really - there's so many public torrents out there and so many people that want the files that things mostly seem to work out just fine.

Sure, you won't max gigabit like you will on some private stuff, but unless that's an absolute need, issues with public trackers are fairly rare. In fact I've occasionally found files with only a single peer or two on a private tracker which would barely download which were much more readily available on a public tracker.
And The Justice of Obstruction is something that only politicians would have...
This is an interesting comment as we have no way of validating how much money designers are putting into their own algorithms.

I started building algorithms on Quantopian 2.5 years ago, using it as a way to teach myself how to code because I come from a finance background and had no coding experience. I now have a portfolio of algorithms that consistently produce alpha (so far). My favorite algorithm does valuations and then buys and holds for long periods of time. I don't actually invest any money into this algorithm but rather use it as a prescreener for my own personal investments. I have a significant amount of 'skin in the game' because of the amount of time I have invested in developing my algorithms in addition to half of my (very little) net worth being allocated based on the suggestions of my algorithm.

I wouldn't be surprised if other designers were in the same boat. This is purely anecdotal but I hope it helps.
While deep learning and related technologies are exciting and extremely powerful, they have not yet proven that they will achieve the "final human technology" status that you are proposing. We may be centuries away from that, and at this point trying to speculate is foolish. However, even if they don't live up to those lofty outlandish prospects, they will still prove very valuable and useful.
Not in a million years.
It does not have to be only one or another: one can both stop holding wild animals in captivity and also stop farming domestic animals for food. Just do your part in this (significantly lower your meat/dairy consumption and never go to zoos).
It's more to influence journalist to couch their features in human-relatable terms. It's about showing off specific, widely applicable use cases. 'Google launches another photo sharing service' vs 'Google launches Pics, parents can send grandma physical photo albums of their grandkids.'
That's an interesting point of view. I've never heard this work described that way before. If that's the correct interpretation, though, (and I think you've implicitly acknowledged this), the NKS work is, perhaps, some kind of metaphysical speculation, with some demonstrations to support it -- but not any kind of science, since, as you say, it can't predict anything. Also, in that case, it would be unfair to demand that it produce a prediction, of course.
Not a good example. France has an elite system making all political decisions, and that elite is formed partly by the nuclear industry. Also, its energy industry is on the brinks of collapse - turns out nuclear energy is expensive and the subventions already too high, at least for a country that sees itself as being in crisis. And there are a constant stream of accidents and safety issues in those nuclear plants.

Might be not dead over here, but it certainly isn't healthy.
Two-Way Texting Messaging for Teams (like Slack for Texts)
> Even without the zero-day it would have spread to whatever NAS was used and eventually encrypt and possibly spread - though just not as quickly.

That kind would have been orders of magnitude slower though and again dependant on social engineering: The worm would have needed someone do download the executable from the NAS and run it - in the face of usual security practices and anti-virus software looking for exactly that kind of thing - for every single machine. Even then the executable would only have admin privileges at best and probably not even that.

Compare that to the exploit which allowed the worm to execute code on every windows machine in the LAN, with system privileges and without any user interaction needed.

I think the exploit increased both the speed and the likelihood of successful infection by an order that is game-changing: Even if an infection was spotted, by the time countermeasures could have been deployed, the damage had already been done. Because no social engineering was required, even machines with restricted user input or no input at all were at risk (e.g. information screens or specialized hospital equipment).
To calculate the actual minimum energy, you also need to account for the H₂ bond and the O₂ bond.
It seems that all this spec is, is a structure for an api response. I don't see why it should have a different media type.
Quoting you, "I'm just not sure how anyone could claim that an OS that updates without your permission, sends and stores your encryption keys, captures browser history and all keystrokes, etc is not considered malware."

I'm making that claim and I don't think you have a clue on how security works.

1. Transmitting encryption keys is something many people want as it removes the overhead of them having to manage them on their own. Businesses use this too (via the cloud) in many cases. As for doing it in the background - how else should it do it? Have a big flashy screen that will confuse the average user? This feature allows Microsoft to gradually raise the bar on its OS security and prevent data recovery from physically stolen devices; while still allowing the user to recover their data if they lock themselves out.

2. The cost comparison is valid. Disk is cheap, and key management should be (this I don't know) automated. Microsoft stores tons of data already (all major software vendors do).

3. Windows Updates should trend towards automation frankly for the consumer versions of the product. Those versions don't have sufficient security features to not get updated.

4. No PII is sent with the core dumps; it's debugging information and helps make the product more secure - that's kind of something you want right?

5. The NSA key is a known falsehood. I'm not even going to bother to address it.

I'm honestly not sure if you're a troll or a rabid conspiracy theorist at this point.
The thing I found after reading it, in regards to your list of criticisms - is that for the last two, Wolfram spent what felt like every other page (it wasn't literally that, but it was very, very often) expounding upon how the material wasn't new, and that he wasn't being original with it, and as far as credit is concerned - did any of these people bother to go to the back of the book and look at the HUGE pile of "footnotes" (they are printed much smaller, because there are so damn many that to print them at the same size would mean to print at least one or two more books the same size as the main text!).

I honestly tend to wonder if the people who are complaining about the book actually bothered to read it in its entirety, and understand the information and ideas being conveyed? So far, I'm not convinced they have, but I'm willing to change my mind if someone can point to a review or argument against it that holds up. The only one I've seen espoused by anyone (and was mentioned by a commenter here) is that the book doesn't actually do any "science" - but if you read the book, you would understand that this is an impossibility based on the premise of the work.
So where is your data model enforced if not in your tables?
Crossed wires? I was replying to noio, not you. Your first post was quite clear enough. For what it's worth, I think it's quite a good idea.

Since my entire contribution to this thread seems to be to gently correct people who did not read the comment they're replying to carefully enough (a regrettably frequent occurrence I'm sure I'm guilty of myself from time to time), I would like to take this opportunity to exhort the HN community to please make it a habit to reread and attempt to a understand a comment before replying. It's a luxury we don't have in spoken conversation, so let's make it count here.

Also, by the way, you can edit posts; it's better to do this than clutter up the thread by replying to yourself.
DON'T DROP IT IN THE OCEAN
Depending on the jurisdiction, the government agent may not be able to ask for the backup.

I only know US border control considerations and they can only legally ask for access to what you have on you when you cross the border. If you are an American citizen (or permanent resident) you can decline, and they may well seize your device(s) but cannot deny you entrance. If you are a visitor to the US they can legally deny you entry if you do not comply with their vague and ever changing requests.

But in neither scenario could they legally demand access to a backup copy: they can only ask for access to items in your possession while crossing the border, otherwise they would need to get a warrant.
I wonder if that is more of a technological problem or more of a social problem (recognizing the costs of conventional extraction).