skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Garry Kasparov talks about AI and interplay between ML and humans
These are the relevant links for the idea:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/05/tyler_cowen_on_1.ht... (about half-way down, search for "casualness")

> * But what I find striking is societies with a lot of upward mobility often tend to have strict dress codes. So you see this today with Mormons, at Mormon businesses. You see it in Japan in its heyday years--you know, the businessman or journeyman suit, they more or less all looked the same. There's something about upward mobility where actually clothing is not that casual and one is being more formal in trying to impress; and that is a [?]. But the thing about being casual is it actually makes it harder for people to prove themselves.*

And a follow-up: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/05/inf...

> When I [a correspondent, not Cowen] was a young associate at the biggest law firm in Rome, casual friday was the time when my Sicilian provincial middle-lower class background was most transparent. I didn’t have the money for smart but impressive casual clothing. But above all I didn’t have the cultural and social capital to know how to dress casual in the right way.

In general, social norms often play a substantial role as a level playing field. The people who benefit from their removal are those who can quickly understand and adapt to the unarticulated, informal rules that govern all human interaction. I'm happy I don't have to wear a suit and tie every day (and slightly sad that I never have, but that's a different discussion), but let's not pretend that "no dresscode" is actually to be taken literally if you have any intention of advancing in the hierarchy that we pretend isn't there.
async/await doesn't change the fact that we have two types of functions, async and sync.
Could just be marketing or for Aesthetics. Glass and concrete don't always mix that well. My hobby is concrete countertops with glass fibers, and these are specifically alkali resistant. Concrete and glass don't mix well without additives, which may or may not matter for eco friendliness. You will find some fly ash in some concrete mixes, which is a byproduct of power plants more common.
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Definitely stick with HDF5 and Python for what you're doing. Postgress doesn't lend itself well to timeseries joins and queries in the same way that a more time series specific database like KDB+ would. The end result is most likely that you'd be bringing the data from a database into python anyway, probably caching in HDF5 before using using whatever python libs you want to use. You could alternatively bring your code/logic to the data using Q in KDB+, but there will be a learning curve and you will have to code for yourself a lot of functionality that just isn't available in library form. The performance will be a lot better though.
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rosy retrospection bias.
> the definition of privacy you use is important

Yes, it is. Defining privacy to mean the very opposite of "private" is pure doublethink/newspeak.

> Google having my data

You're not giving your data only to google. You're also giving it to anybody that hacks Google's servers to take their data at any point in the future (and anybody that buys it from the hackers), and any government (or other entity with sufficient power or influence) that orders (legally or illegally) Google to turn over their data, and anybody that Google might sell the data to should they have unfortunate financial troubles. This list will probably grow as the value of data grows and creative new ways to exploit data are discovered.

I commend Google for taking security seriously. You data is probably saver with them than than many business. However, they are still human so they make mistakes. Hacks will happen even with the very best well-funded security teams using impossibly good practices. When governments are involved, it may not even be Google's choice.

You need to remember that data doesn't go away, so the risk of who it may spread to only increases with time.

> other humans

Humans don't need to see your data for it to harm you. Your insurance company doesn't need a human to feed data from Google (or whomever) (possibly blinded through some sort of "rating service"?) through the machine learning and/or "risk assessment" heuristic du jour to raise your rates or deny coverage.

> centralized power

Pretending the world is just[1] - that your data will somehow be limited to only Google - gives Google a lot of power, that will be hard to reclaim. If by some miracle they are able to do better than most people throughout history that acquire power and only use their power for benevolent reasons, the same cannot be said indefinitely into the future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
I wouldn't, any more than I'd let my 6 & 8 year olds choose their food entirely. I'm fiercely independent and libertarian, but I believe that a basic level of education is sufficiently important to a free society that it's worth curtailing that freedom to mandate certain things (or mandate by default with an opt-out process, which is pretty close to the condition today).
There are two types of company I refuse to work for:

1. Companies under French management

2. Companies with a dress code.
There's a couple of docks which are quite reasonably priced, and support a couple of 1440p/4K monitors, plus a keyboard/mouse etc.

That's what I'd plug it into.
They'll build a "better" cash register which bundles counterfeit money detector and serial number scanner in the same package. Combined with facial recognition on the cameras and accurate timestamps on both CCTV and the cash register, you have your perfect money tracking system right there.
^This. Like Facebook's Zuckerberg wears a t-shirt so he doesn't have to think about getting dressed, I wear khakis and the same blue polo every day like a uniform. My closet looks like Spongebob's.
Some argue for disengagement, coupled with strong security and privacy. The cypherpunk equivalent of dropping out.
It wont happen that way. How many times has America been through this kind exercise? Truman gave us a dire warnong and not enough cared. Look at Iraq, Vietnam, Hiroshima and Nagasaki--they were all unjustified atrocties, and that is the truth--which you will come to if you research them--but it's too easy to make up believable bullshit that the people gobble up. Most of us are conditioned to follow leaders, and "great men are almost always bad men." Who has time to think or worry about this? Our jobs, lives, bills and healthcare are overwhelmingly stressful and if that wasn't enough we are conditioned by our culture to religiously value money over everything else, which keeps us in line and productive.

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell

Something big needs to happen to prevent this.
What do you have to say then about the widea acceptability now in the US workplace of profanity?
Ask HN: How do you read source code?
That assumes that you've optimized your clothes so that everything goes with everything else or that you don't care if things match or not. And if you're either one of those types of people you're probably not agonizing over what to wear in the morning in the first place
> the dress was quite so formal

This was entirely normal for employers large and small at that time. It really was the first startup era (Microsoft/Apple) that eroded it, as the spearpoint of a wider de-formalisation of society.
Yes. And privacy does give you more options. But be careful not to be too obvious about it, because that makes you a target.
App engagement methods with different types of applications
The ultimate aim of apps is to engage as many numbers of clients as possible in the business. B2B, B2C and B2E apps give a chance to engage more number of clients in the business.
I might have missed it in this rather long article, but I think the whole debate could use some people more that have read Karl Popper and are familiar with Positivism vs Falsifiability. I would not be surprised if all this amounts to is that you can of course "replicate" results if you try often enough, and ignore the falsifying results when it did not work.

I mean, of course the big problem is that applying strict falsifiability to social sciences does not work. You can always find a counter-example, the problems studied do not work like that. It is hard to reconcile this, but I think that is the heart of the replication crisis (together with some bad statistics). But (having done a PhD in a somewhat related field) I see only two options:

1. We need a complete overhaul of how experiments and study results are published, so that observers can see the failed results and we can try to assess how often a theory hold up

2. We have to limit non-hard sciences to questions that are not ambiguous, where one well-done negative result really shows a theory is wrong.

Of course, there is a third option: Just continue as it is now and ignore all results that seem unlikely, because given how those fields work, they are most likely wrong.
I disagree, the real danger is people don't care as long as it happens to those who hold different political beliefs. Worse some openly celebrate it.

This is partly being prodded along by politicians under the guise "well they may/might/did break the law" so its okay to spy.
front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14405810
Something like half of the supermarkets in Denmark scan all money bills they receive supposedly with the purpose of defeating counterfeit money. However it could easily do OCR on the serial as well. Combine that with CCTV records, and and it does not offer much more privacy than credit card payments.

Ironically I started to appreciate it, after I received a fake bill from a different store.
The company was obviously missing a generic handler for <T>.
Can confirm the same on Windows. I downloaded the newest version manually as well.
> Companies under French management

I'm curious about this one, how come?
New release of Self programming language
I'm hoping containers disappear, not become pervasive.
Variant of this is that some celebrities are said to dress identically from day to day to reduce the value of paparazzi photos of them.
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Why do you need to do this? Explain in detail.
If you get a full scholarship then probably, that's usually the case though. The PhD will give you prestige and credibility if you start your own business, and will open some doors when you are looking for a job (but also close others). It will also set you back a few years from your goals, and the amount of money you will get with a PhD won't be more than with a MS. Best perk of having a PhD is working in academia, which can be a great life style: much lower stress, decent compensation, lots of vacation time and recognition.
It is more like traversing a tree. The more you learn (the deeper you go) the more branches you can explore which leads to the conclusion that the more you know the more you realize how much you still don't know.
Ironically the authors I've spoken to are often upset that the cover is chosen entirely for marketing purposes and often has little to do with the contents of the book. Things like choosing a cover model of different race and sometimes even gender from the protagonist(s) of the book.
I think this is an incredibly worrisome move on 1Password's part. Coming from the right motives, but ultimately it'll end up being used against us.

Look at it from the perspective of the government. By bringing information from elsewhere into the US, you're importing it. It just so happens that the import security is tight in airports. So you use 1Password to delay importing this data until you can reach it through an alternative import method which is much harder to regulate - the Internet.

What's going to happen is that they'll spend much more effort on tightening up the "import security" from the Internet. Things like SSL/TLS MITMing and deep packet inspection will be used to enforce compliance.

Don't get me wrong. The ability to be able to do this is incredibly important. If they had marketed this as anything other than a travel mode specifically, and let users work it out themselves, it'd probably be better. But as it is, they've created something which is basically publicly stating that it exists to break import security, and as a result it's going to get a lot of attention from the wrong people. I worry that the existence of this mode this is going to be used by the government as an excuse to have a "Great Firewall of America".
Without context, they are very different things. In this context, however, they amount to the same thing. Your technical solution doesn't work when someone can use force against you.
> The attack vector relies heavily on the poor state of security in the way various media players process subtitle files and the large number of subtitle formats.

Well, last years exploits against iOS, Android and Ubuntu where all related to media metadata processing. It is only natural that the same folks screw up this one too.
If it isn't worth your time to look at the codebase before doing something, why should it be worth the maintainer's time to look at your issue?
Where I'm at (NASA), there is a broad spectrum of dress formality. Generally I do the typical polo shirt and khaki or jeans. When giving a local presentation or low-level sight visit, business casual. When going to a conference or getting a visit from HQ/congress/president's staff, business suit.

I notice more academics having the same approach as well. I dress to match expectations, but generally I'm past the point where visually impressing someone would impact my upward mobility.
What about mpv? That's my preferred video player.
Having to manually handle callbacks (and error callbacks) is the hell in itself.
I imagine that most jobs that have a 'value' of ~$5/hour don't require much training. Also we could implement this policy tomorrow if we wanted to while automation is still many years out (at best) for a lot of tasks, so the two policies could be run in parallel.
I think the article is wrong on the definition of "about data." The definition I read was, "about data" is information that mentions a foreign intelligence target, even if it's sent between two Americans domestically.

This was, apparently, perfectly legal to query as long as you were querying a foreign target. The NSA overstepped pretty egregiously and had to shut those queries down.

The article say it's data "about" Americans, which is true but confusing.
Yeah that's me.

I own 3 pairs of dark blue jeans (of the same style), half a dozen tshirts (dark blue, dark grey), 4 shirts (all vertically striped).

I just wear whatever is clean, I don't think I've spent more than an hour on clothing choices in the last year (and most of that hour would have been picking a suit out).

I do make sure everything is clean and ironed though, I like to look neat if not smart.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2137145/Googl...
Agreeing to work on mass surveillance/manipulation tech isn't something highly ethical people do.
So mostly government, or public service companies.

I think this is not even discussion worthy as long as there is not one big rich guy or purely private corp owning a lot. The only thing presented in the map getting close is the crown.
I suspect the serving vessel for the buffalo milk may have been contaminated. Running water to wash dishes with isn't the easiest thing to find out there.

Mom may have been malnourished as well.
When everybody is a target, nobody is a target...
Kodi 17.2 with the fix for this flaw has now been released:

https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-v172-minor-bug-fix-and-security...
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Why should they? How would that benefit anyone?
jankey, if Google had any respect for my privacy this information would never have left my phone in the first place.
> Who really wants a $600k 2 bed/1 bath home when a similar condo would be less than half the price on the same land?

I do.

So I bought a place with a similar "you 'overpaid this much' ratio". Why? So we could live in (/on the edge of) Cambridge and have a small yard for my kids and dog to play in, have BBQs, grow plants and flowers, have a driveway/garage, a basement for projects and tinkering, etc.

It quite literally means that I will have to work 5-8 years longer before retirement to afford the excess we paid over a condo in a similar neighborhood. To me, that tradeoff (which is enormous - 12-20% of my prime adult years) is worth it.
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Occupy Hacker News in a few hours. Bhakts are everywhere. Still can't digest the fact how they conquered Quora. Hope they stay away from your post :)
There is something to be said about forming your own group with like minded people.

Then discuss and work towards some action. Protests, fight corruption. Don't sit behind your computer, meet, mingle and execute on something.
In which order are my Elasticsearch queries/filters executed?
Wow, that is bad. I'm always amazed by such vectors in supposedly passive formats, like fonts, images, and so on.

There is no excuse that these kind of applications are not completely sandboxed. All you need is some kind of DLL, raw data in, raw pixels out. In case of hardware accelerated codecs, raw pixels in, surface pointer in, nothing out. There is no need to be able to access the filesystem, etc.. To render subtitles on top of the video it's the same.

I wish a fraction of the energy we put into DRM would go into sandboxing instead.
What are the advantages of Haskell at deep learning, given that

1. Graph structures are notoriously difficult to model in functional languages.

2. The software-engineering side of deep learning is not all that difficult (e.g. using Keras is quite simple).
When has accelerationism ever worked before?
Much butthurt, such wow :D

Anyone failing to see this magnificent invention for what it is will just hurt him or herself.

If you are going to give anyone else power over your money you are going to have a bad time, simple as that. History pretty much proves this beyond any doubt.
These are the VLC commits adressing the issue:

https://github.com/videolan/vlc/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=subt...
> because I don't understand how to calculate the integral, there can be no way anyone else can
> Just because some people don't know how to do something doesn't mean its not possible.

While this is a wrong place to continue this, I still think that I must answer this.

This analogy is incorrect.
Let me rephrase your statement about the integral: "I'm incapable of calculating the integral therefore it cannot be calculated"

It's not a question of human capabilities. The problem with EmDrive is not that we say that humans are incapable of inventing a reactionless drive.

The problem is that all working physics theories embed conservation of momentum, and reactionless drives contradict conservation of momentum.
This is equivalent to saying "here's a proof this integral cannot be calculated in all useful mathematical formalisms". Please note that there are no "proofs" in physics, and I'm only using this as an analogy.

Of course you could define a formalism that makes it possible to calculate the integral, which EmDrive proponents don't do.

I would be glad to be proven wrong. If there was a rigorous experiment that invalidates all modern physical theories, I would change my mind really fast, so would the majority of scientists.
However, EmDrive proponents produce no rigorous experiments. The analogy would be saying "oh those silly mathematicians saying I couldn't calculate this integral, here's my calculation!" while having many errors in your calculations.

> By the way we saw the same thing in algo trading, were a cabal of finance professors argued for more than 10years that the EMH theory holds and algo trading is a hoax. Just saying..

Again, this analogy is incorrect, because you won't find an adequate physicist that disputes conservation of momentum. And EMH was/is disputed.
While Bell Labs did do some laboratory science (where they developed the transistor among other things), the majority of researchers there were mathematicians and computer scientists who don't work in a lab.
> There is nothing other than cryptocurrencies that can protect them. That's a super valuable utility.

Until the regime gets the private keys, which isn't unlikely. As soon as cryptocurrencies are widely adopted, regimes will learn about them and not only take the cash but also search for the keys.
I remember 20-odd years ago I was working for UBS the investment bank in the city of London just as "Casual Friday" was becoming a thing.

One Friday I looked out of my office window near Liverpool Street Station and saw about a dozen smartly dressed gents in pinstripe suits with rolled umbrellas and bowler hats holding placards protesting against Casual Friday. I suspect it may well have been a stunt, but it was funny to watch.
Our governments are in no position to pour money into educating people/changing their habits. All the planning that you mentioned needs money that we don't have(OR politicians don't want to spend)
Same here. It appears to check http://update.videolan.org/vlc/sparkle/vlc-intel64.xml for updates and the newest version listed there is 2.2.4
They don't care anymore because they believe it's also done for their own security.
Does anyone know if the subtitle hosting services added checks for this as well?
> PS: they can also take all your devices for imaging and keep them for 48 hours - but you will likely have to sue them to get them back after that time.

You don't really want them back, anyway. So you just don't carry anything valuable, in any sense.
When pissed and sitting in the front seat of taxis, my friend used to grab the microphone of the cabbie's radio and start calling in Napalm strikes.

"[fake static noise] AWACS 1 AWACS 1 REQUEST NAPALM ACACIA AVENUE OVER."
Did you knew Chromecast refuses to register in your network unless Google has your exact GPS coordinates?

Try setting up one from a phone with GPS turned off and see what happens (assuming the wifi AP you are using is not already in their location mapping database)
Does this also work for Android versions of Kodi et al?
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In Mumbai, bout 15 years ago we had a 'hotel boy', he came in every morning and evening and swept the balcony clean of the day's accumulated soot. People shitting, pissing and spitting in the street everywhere, all the time. A jarring experience.

I'll tell you one thing for sure, if ever the world gets wiped out by some global pandemic, the last man standing will be and Indian, pissing in the street.
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Google Buys a /12 IPv4 Address Block
Catholics and abuse and you are surprised?
Wow, it was really easy. I like the way of editing - no signups, just link with id. Perfect!
15% I think but you can skip that.
That's because they can't do much with this info since they aren't also a giant ad network. Now imagine the same data in the hands of a company which has built one. They should probably start charging more :-)
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I guess people should stop developing new libraries that already exist for other languages (Re-inventing the wheel?).

Even if the library is novel, people should write it for languages that are popular.

We should just stick to the stack we have today and hope that someday, AI-powered tools can rewrite all the libraries for us in our favorite language. Till then, people should keep working on the more important stuff than maintaining libraries for languages like Haskell, Clojure, etc.
But what if my data has already been used somehow. For example to train next generation speech recognition AI.

What will happen to that information?