skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great to read the government or other criminal groups in a BBC article!
I got too comfortable with my smart lock and got locked out of my apartment once. It was not fun.
patio11 was entirely wrong about bitcoin.
That is crazy, and i'm out right there.
> supporters of Beijing say the problem is too much democracy, not too little.

I'm struggling to think of an example wherein a country suffered from too much democracy.

However, I can think of many, many examples of the opposite situation.
This has been my main side-project / hobby for the last few months. I am building a framework to facilitate the creation of agents that can interact with games.

You can think of it as a minimal, one-man OpenAI Universe. The main difference is that you can set it up to interact with native games you own. No VM + VNC setup or depending on available games/environments like Universe! It takes less than 10 minutes to write a plugin to add support for any Steam game.

The framework provides 2 major features: First, it sets up the game agent loop for you. Frames are captured and fed to your agent, you process them the way you want (can be anything from pure computer vision to reinforcement learning) and are able to send actions back to the game. Second, it ships with multiple blackbox implementations of algorithms that are compatible with the architecture of the framework. This second part is a total WIP.

On stream right now, I set up an experiment in The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth to see if we can learn to defeat bosses in game using the DQN family of algorithms. The current version uses 2 DDQNs each using Prioritized Experience Replay. 1 controls the movement and the other is in charge of the shooting. This is already v11 so there are a lot of iterations and chat has been great for discussing possible improvements.

Code is in Python. Linux only for now but Windows support is on the roadmap. Pre-release repo: https://github.com/SerpentAI/Serpent

Happy to answer any question!
jQuery is hardly a good benchmark for current js style. You'll find completely different shapes in other libraries.
The fact that we interact by voice leads toward a sort of inadvertent theory-of-mind about the other party, which makes the pulling away of the curtain with so many of the answers much more jarring. Voice interaction seems to recruit a much deeper evolutionary expectation than the much more recent phenomenon of typing and reading.
This isn't really "selling" email addresses. It seems much more like it's a lead gen strategy that multiple companies are participating.

Providing an incentive to sign up isn't quite the same as sending all those subscribers to the giveaway that didn't opt-in to it?
The article is about doing the calculations on-board. This is about decentralizing what is now centralized!
I didn't mean to trivialize it, and those are all valid questions - it's not a black and white issue. But the debate should be framed as one about civil liberties and how to balance them against safety. Making it all about what is safer vs. less safe puts it on much less solid ground.
For some context, the population of New York city (NYC) in the 2010 US Census was ~8.1 million, which is ~42% of the ~19.4 million for the state.

Of the 63 seats in the New York State Senate, 26 represent NYC. Of the 150 seats in the New York State Assembly, 65 represent NYC. Those represent ~41% and ~43% of the seats in the upper and lower house, respectively.
Well, I think the research is more ad-hoc than being it's own field at this point.

I just scan papers that come up in the Reddit group[1]. I've seen:

"Chains of Reasoning over Entities, Relations, and Text using Recurrent Neural Networks" by Rajarshi Das, Arvind Neelakantan, David Belanger, Andrew McCallum

"Rationalizing Neural Predictions" by Tao Lei, Regina Barzilay and Tommi Jaakkola

"'Why Should I Trust You?' Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier by Marco Tulio Ribeiro, Sameer Singh, Carlos Guestrin

You might be able to chase down the works of these various authors to find more.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/
Pretty but how does this provide insight?
Interesting how it's only for companies that have it shared on their page. FB will have the same info as Google as to where all the free Wifi is located, they're either being cautious or they're trying to drive companies to setup a page.
JS is the new C++. It's several different languages depending on which subset you use: jQuery style, pyramid callbacks, promises, async/await, etc.
> paying for the guy's job

The taxes pay for a certain pace of work. Faster work requires more parallelism (more employees or better software) and thus more taxes.
Check out Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment:

https://youtu.be/ohmajJTcpNk
Front-, mid-, and back are all quite common. I have no issue with it; it's not like there's no costs incurred by the podcaster or the host.
The connection between these APTs and DNC and determination of the scope of each group's activities seems to be dependent on CrowdStrike investigation. That they are likely Russian is another thing.
Buffalo has a lot of traction and is what I would suggest to most people looking for a go web 'framework'

Mark chose to combine packages such as gorilla/mux into buffalo since they are popular, solid choices for most use cases
For those who decline to watch a video: the author uses animations and hyperlinks to simulate a Turing machine inside a PowerPoint presentation. The actual paper is at http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/twildenh/PowerPointTM/Paper.p... .

My first thought was that while this was really cool, it does seem to have only a finite tape; I would be quite prepared to believe it was possible to have an unbounded tape, but my mind would be blown. The author admits that the tape is indeed finite.
What incentive would there be to offer one? Snapchat has in-app adverts, an API would offer no such profits.
Remember though, computational PowerPoint is not the same thing as expressive PowerPoint. :)
I recline to watch videos, myself.
But a sysadmin who frequently upsells customers for a $500 higher-tier service agreement might get a raise.

To wit: "Would you like fries with that?"
This seems amazing, but I should note that this program does take 7% equity.
The training remains centralized, and drives the data collection.

The article mentions de-centralized training (in the "bottom up" section), but that begins by saying we have to reinvent the entire field.
The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Review
Ask HN: Has anyone been able to trigger Instagram's mean comment filter?
A couple of friends and I just tried but all our comments were posted.
The biggest reason I like TDD isn't ending up with tests (that's a really nice side benefit though).

It's that I start writing how I intend to "use" the function/method, and thinking about how I'm going to make it testable (i.e. dependencies, etc) before even writing any of the code itself.

Then I can immediately start refactoring as soon as I finish writing the code, cleaning it up a bit before committing.

But the "test-first" approach has saved me countless times from unintentionally coding my way into a quagmire of dependencies, etc.
Thanks!

I definitely won't be able to go nor stay free.

The plan is to create a SaaS with 5 tiers, and to use the service you have to subscribe to a plan—possibly starting at $6.

There are a lot of image-manipulation SaaS that charge (Imgix, Cloudinary, etc.), but I have no idea if my service will be useful enough for someone to want to pay for it.
uncompressed digital definitely does; but since most services dont offer that, its not what most people compare against
Six Things to Do to Secure Your Linux System
OK, so how many of us are wondering what other kinds of products this would work for?

I've seen similar newsletters for books, for Amazon Subscribe & Save, and for low cost Amazon items.
Momentum is Building for ARM in HPC
1. This is a common criticism, but probably shouldn't be. It would be nice if the activity of folding proteins offered the same proof-of-work, security attributes as, for example SHA256, but sadly it doesn't. As in all systems there are engineering tradeoffs involved and the mining functionality of a cryptocurrency, which literally secures that network, should probably choose the security-first sides of any tradeoff. Additionally, if the network has "value" (however you might like to define it...they clearly do as denominated in USD), then the activity of securing that value should not be considered a "waste", even if it doesn't also provide some other, secondary value.

2. As in any market, the early risk-takers (who, by virtue of being early in an unproven market, are also the biggest risk-takers) will be those granted the biggest reward if they are "right" (the market/product has value).
I think this might be more effective if there was some kind of emphasis on lines which contain nothing but tokens used to end control structures, such as
}
or
});

Frankly, as is, I think that javascript looks more crisp and sane than it really is (although, as another commenter points out, jQuery might not be the best choice for the current style norms).

Also, the Python choice, while a very cool project, is very atypical of Python style. I suggest using one of the more complex modules from Twisted.
Sonic boom strength scales with aircraft size, and you know this. Your footnote is in bad faith.
What did you read? Off-target changes are a major topic in gene editing approaches, and are universally reported. It is among the chief advantages for CRISPR. There are hundreds of papers that discuss this, and dozens where it is the focus of the article. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=crispr+specificity

The specificity has been perfectly acceptable for many research purposes for several years now. The current issue is increasing this even more to be suitable for clinical applications. There are many strategies being considered.
They sold a worthless mobile business to MSFT for over 5 billion euro. That was a baller move.
Under the Hood of New York Times Redesign
It's easy to spoof if you try though, so it only works to detect unsophisticated forgeries.
For people who don't know about fractal dimensions, might I suggest this[0] video

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB9n2gHsHN4
It’s simple, they made some very bad decisions. They had an opportunity to get out it but they didn’t. And now that they are trying, the competition is just very tough to survive. They got fucked because of Microsoft.
Privatize the Interstates
A C++ translation of d3-hierarchy/pack for compilation to WebAssembly
I'm usually the last person to jump to the defense of anything golang related... but people seem to be raising eyebrows about the nodejs dependency. Assuming they're using it for asset compilation etc I really don't see the problem. There's no reason to keep rewriting that stuff in every language.
I assume that your studies in economics identified what you are referring to as "cost-plus" pricing...which is not how any drug is priced. At the point of sales, R&D is a sunk cost and is not part of the pricing strategy, in most big modern companies. Companies price their product to maximize profit. That is not always the highest price they could charge, but is a function of total profits.
Show HN: Social Video Jukebox, Play music videos with friends
Maybe decades ago, but I find it hard to imagine any recording studio still having an analogue recording process. Sure the different mediums may call for different mastering, but the loudness war wasn't a result of limitations of tapes/CDs.
You say that like there are other implementations that actually have an infinite tape. :P
My gawd, Firefox is telling the iad's security certificate is broken. Now if there was ever a sign the world is going to heck, that would be it.
Everything that is done is logged someway or somehow. Particles or something else to be discovered, will reveal traces of everything ever done. Luke 8:17
But the debate should be framed as one about civil liberties and how to balance them against safety.

But that's precisely what this is about.

The NRA claims concealed carry increases safety, and therefore concealed carry should be deemed a core right protected by the second amendment.

This paper is attacking that claim and the associated conclusion.

Given concealed carry is just one of many questions regarding what is or isn't a reasonable restriction on gun rights, wouldn't you say this paper is specifically tackling a core question about "[gun-related] civil liberties and how to balance them against safety"?
No. And some developers prefer NodeJS dependencies on Go project, which this framework helpfully provides.
I was under the impression that France's heavy taxes makes it particularly hard for startups to grow.
I personally would love to know what's been done to help startups VS. in the USA (or Germany/ England)
Yup, noped the hell out of there.
And then it's mistaken instead to be a direct insult because the same people who don't have a firm enough grasp on the English language to correctly comprehend hypothetical speech in the first-person case are also not going to understand the hypothetical second-person case either; instead, these people will also misconstrue that the speaker is directly referring to themselves.
Try creating a high ranking e-commerce website as a SPA
if you create the market than you didn't raise prices.
"The order was signed to help authorities track 26 individuals"

"The federal wiretap resulted in the interception of 3,292,385 cell phone conversations or messages over 60 days"

3,292,385 / 26 / 60 = 2110.5 calls/messages per person per day.

That wasn't really explained in the article but I'd be interested in knowing how that could happen.
1.) For the umpteenth time, they're not black boxes. We can inspect everything in the structure.

2.) "a team of computer-vision researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)" may have "described a method for peering into" the not-black box of a convnet two years ago, but Oxford researchers published on in in 2013.

3.) Gushing about how understanding convolutional networks can help confirm the grandmother cell hypothesis in real brains is embarrassing under all circumstances but should be particularly so when thorough examinations from real brains just came out to the considerable detriment of said hypothesis.
http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30538-X

Nothing wrong with making visualizations of your nets, but I'm less than impressed by the reporting.
This isn't an NLP problem, it's a coder problem. These solutions already exist, Google/ other assistant providers just need to dedicate the man hours to make it happen.
NodeJS is not a horrible dependency and it's not required when creating a new project. It's not like everyone doesn't already have Node or NVM installed for some other project.

How else is the framework going to handle/bundle these two parts together? There is so much code already out there that works for developing rich frontends that it seems silly for a "framework" that is trying to handle everything for you wouldn't handle that.
You don't see a problem with installing nodes for assets compilation? What is the tech world coming to...
If THAT happens, then we can - after some further research - loose the last bits of our privacy - our mind...
>> cost associated with bringing a new drug to market

If you are referring to R&D, that is typically a sunk cost for existing drug companies and is typically not figured into the price.
Which is why I have a dumb thermostat (well, not totally dumb, but an old Honeywell manually programmable thing) plus a little homebrew Raspberry Pi project that tweets some basic information and will send me an email alert if the temperature drops below a certain threshold.

I'd rather have the IoT device just be a sensor while the thermostat itself is more or less as dumb/reliable as possible. As you suggest, there are still failure modes but at least the thermostat isn't adding to them any more than necessary.
Yes, but you don't need more than 20-30 seconds to be confident that a transaction isn't a doublespend attempt.

After that it's only about checking if the fee is high enough.
Tax dollars are paying for the regular work on the FIFO queue; satisfying the expedite request without impacting the regular work on the FIFO queue requires additional hours of work to be done in the same time, which costs money that the taxpayers, through representatives, have elected not to pay for. Rather than prohibiting such extra work outright, they permit it to be done, at the requesters expense.

It's a two-tiered system that favors those with more resources to expend, but it's not bribery.
Around the year 2000 or so I was on a contract to help a small phone company improve their internet infrastructure. I was shocked to learn how easy any technician could listen in on a call.

Imagine a world in which everything is IoT.
Likewise, Common Lisp has a powerful matching DSL library too - Optima[0]. I also found a pretty new alternative, Trivia[1], which claims to be a drop-in replacement for Optima, but more extensible.
--

[0] - https://github.com/m2ym/optima

[1] - https://github.com/guicho271828/trivia
Reminds me of trying to debug long-lived SSH tunnels which would fail every 2:11:15 hours. Right down to the hardcoded value in net.ipv4.tcp
A botnet is a different problem. If a device is taken over as part of a botnet, the person controlling the botnet has an invested interest in the device not being discovered. The smartest move is to therefore keep the devices functionality as close to normal as possible.
Per the wise words of a certain German musical group: we're all living in America.
Logically infinite if not practically infinite. Python specifies a language which has access to logically infinite amounts of memory: it's an implementation detail that there's an upper bound on the size of tape it can simulate on a computer. PPTXTM is by design unable to simulate unbounded tapes.
TLDR: Government makes trillions by auctioning off the interstates, and uses the money to fund a universal basic income. Should be equally popular for both free market and socialist sorts.
Ask HN: Potato knish recipe?
I know a lot of people here are seriously into food and cooking, so I figured, why not ask?

Any ideas for a good potato knish recipe? Aiming for the round, baked knishes a la Yonah Schimmel's in New York (or what they used to sell at Mort's Deli in Minneapolis, or at Billy Sherman's Deli in St. Louis). Definitely NOT aiming for the square, fried knishes out of too many food carts or vending machines.

I've tried several recipes, but the dough part especially has never turned out right. If anyone knows the kind of knish I am talking about, and has succeeded in making something similar, I would much appreciate knowing how it's done!
Add-on fees have gotten out of control, both in the hotel and airline space. There is a race to the bottom for having the lowest price to show on booking sites. This is a form of SEO for airlines and hotels.

I am not familiar with any airlines that charge for carry-ons, but for example I know that many hotels in downtown Las Vegas have mandatory "resort fees" that on many nights actually exceed the nightly rate shown in booking engine search results - so the actual cost of staying is more than double the advertised rate. Most booking sites have heard so many complaints about this that they do show the total (including resort fees) just prior to booking. But the "headline rate" - the one shown in search results and used by the sites in arranging results by price - is the one sans resort fees.

Taken to an extreme level, hotels could advertise a $1 nightly rate and a $200/nt "resort fee". It wouldn't surprise me if this actually started happening, given the competition among hotels to show up first in search results. It sounds like some budget airlines are headed in a similar direction.
I'm not a fan of the fact that on their website the testimonials are the same (with the currency changed) no matter what location I choose.

The destinations in the locations are of course also the same, so it just kinda seems like they are trying to trick me. Kind of reinforcing the feeling I generally get from this kind of business. If they have that many happy users, they could at least get real testimonials from each place.
> What is the goal of taking over my smart thermostat and turning off the heat?

While it might seem an extreme example, in many parts of the world when AC or heat fails, it can be a really big deal, especially for the very young and very old. A great example is the 1995 Chicago heatwave, which killed ~800 people. If IoT thermostats become more widespread and tightly coupled to the actual heating systems, it's not unreasonable to think they could become an attractive target. Even ignoring the incidents of deaths, the inconvenience alone of losing AC or heat can be substantial in many climates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave

Without a source I personally wouldn't feel comfortable assuming that "money or power" alone account for a vast majority of these attacks. I don't think it's an unreasonable hypothesis that some are the result of plain nastiness, stupidity, or doing it simply because they can.
what about Zerocoin?
My point of view is that if you're two equally good styles based on the compiler, it's contorting your code. One doesn't have to be better than the other, if you can't make that choice between semantically identical options, you're conforming to an arbitrary standard.
The reasons this is "currently" impossible are:
- We cannot build communication infrastructures that are 100% reliable
- We build apps that actually crash.

I would not venture as far as to say this is impossible. If one day we are able to leverage quantum entanglement phenomenon in telecommunications network this would certainly be very much possible.
From the Fine Article:

> It's understood to be the largest number of calls intercepted by a single wiretap in years, though it's not known the exact number of Americans whose communications were caught up by the order.
This is better than the story link, I think. I found it impossible at first, but after a few rounds there were some clear clues like the block of imports at the top of a Java file or the distinctive shape of functions in functional languages.
Amazon seems to have semi-embraced the new GTLDs; http://amazon.horse and many others redirect to appropriate sections and products on Amazon.com.
Maybe one day. From my understanding we're not even close. We don't even have the computing power available to simulate a human brain. But yeah, scary applications. Minority Report anyone?
Definitely take the same precautions with respect to having a spare key somewhere that you'd presumably take with a dumb lock. (Not that I haven't burned myself a couple of times in the past, pre-smart lock, by locking myself out without a spare.)
Sincere question: Assuming you're somehow doing web development without it, what is the problem?
Are we really at the stage that a country declaring cyber war on my thermostat has a higher likelihood than my furnace breaking?

I am not saying that your example aren't possible. I am saying it is a game of odds. I have no reason to believe the odds of a catastrophic failure are increased by the introduction of a smart appliance to a greater extent than other catastrophic failures are decreased by said appliance.
To be fair, it's an optional requirement. The authors only recommend that you do.

We realize that some people may not enjoy having a NodeJS dependency so we've made this entirely optional (abcweb new --no-gulp), however we highly recommend using it due to the conveniences it provides.
Yeah, 1 is exactly right, but hopefully Ethereum will be able to move to Proof of Stake [0].

[0 ]https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ
Wow does too. They actually make sure it's not too big sometimes as well. That said Wow can be 4-5x cheaper otherwise, so an extra ~$50 bucks for a carry on is still worth it. No entertainment and wifi but you'll sure get there cheaply!