skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a pretty good article where many of the players are interviewed in depth.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/elon-musk-billion-dol...

“If you want a picture of A.I. gone wrong, don’t imagine marching humanoid robots with glowing red eyes. Imagine tiny invisible synthetic bacteria made of diamond, with tiny onboard computers, hiding inside your bloodstream and everyone else’s. And then, simultaneously, they release one microgram of botulinum toxin. Everyone just falls over dead.
When you say IoT professionally, do you mean PLC based solutions? or something like Arduino and Pi?
https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-politely-correct-someones-gr...
One guy is trying to change the world and one guy is trying enslave it.

When you have the likes of people like Stephen Hawking agreeing with Musk, why wouldn't you listen and be wary. Mark doesn't seem like a very intelligent person, just a very lucky person.
This is a simple resize using canvas.drawImage(). Since data is permanently lost in the output file, it is misleading to call it compression.
Not so - that quote suggests that there is a lower bound on the difficulty of proving security; that whatever language you choose, it is still difficult. And even if you were right, it would be a non-sequitur, on the grounds of relative versus absolute difficulty that I gave before.
Asia Times seems quite good too: http://www.atimes.com/
I'm not sure which rewards you are thinking of. The reward of having a big bank account?
Musk maybe oversells the state of AI a bit when he says it's potentially an existential threat to mankind - but on the other hand, the advances of the recent years alone are enough to disrupt the daily lives of almost everyone. In that sense, some alarmism might be appropriate, especially considering control of the best machine learning systems will likely be concentrated in the hands of few powerful players.
The U.S. Military Believes People Have a Sixth Sense
> But internet addiction is invisible; it masks itself as the person being just slower than their peers, or lazier.

Socially isolated, failure to obtain/hold jobs, failure to reach traditional milestones (marriage, own house, children, etc.).
Why I’m Learning Perl 6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com_controversies
I can tell you that for the first year of Prime, my wife and I never thought twice about the price when buying items on Amazon compared to the price we would pay locally. It seemed as if just about everything was comparable in price so why not take advantage of the convenience of having it shipped to our door.

Now i'm starting to question whether or not we're getting a good deal.
I'm not saying programs written in it aren't useful or doable, I just don't think it's a great approach. I think it's a last-resort approach, because there just isn't a better cross-platform toolkit available.
> How was this admitted?

When Don Jr. tweeted out the emails specifically inviting him and other Trump campaign staff to a meeting in Trump Tower (fairly good chance Don Sr. was there too) with a Russian government connected lawyer to get dirt on the Clinton campaign.

> compromised servers

I think you're only talking about the DNC hacks? Where this is now a much wider scope and context due to their own admittances.
I'll add another concern which is already occurring (the thing I'm concerned about, not the concern, although I guess the concern is already occurring)

AI is being used as a workaround to existing anti-discrimination laws. The core of anti-discrimination law is that it doesn't matter if you think on the average my group of people is a worse credit risk or more likely to rob your taxi or more likely to trash your rental property; you need to judge me by the risk of the general population.

AI allows you to create a black box which will inevitably find proxies for race and spit out a higher risk for some races than others. Race won't directly appear in the model but what does will be strongly correlated with race.
I've been really impressed with Particle easing that transition from Arduino to production: https://www.particle.io/
IndieHackers: Examine.com – bringing in $100,000+/mo while bootstrapped
This looks suspiciously like overt advertising for another useless ICO, 50% of which is premined and 30% (make that 40% including "bonuses" & "marketing") of that is going to the "founders".

If this coin ever hits an exchange I would short it hard, there's no platform, no demo, the whitepaper is 13 pages of tosh

"Microsoft Word - CoinJob Whitepaper V1.3.docx"

"Day 1: 1ETH = 1200XCJ"

So with 200m tokens at 1200 eth each, that's $26,000,000

so they only want 780,000 for marketing and 780,000 for bonuses

And how much is going to the founders?

$3,640,000, there are four of them so skim a little marketing and bonus money and that's 1m each.
Limited in a sense that he's saying Musk is being irresponsible and then talking about the simpler machine learning problems that can be solved [1] when Musk's warning is really about the super intelligence piece.

The main problem is the term AI is overloaded and overused so it creates confusion.

Musk is not against the machine learning approach to solving a new class of useful problems (though replacing a lot of current human jobs and the political risk associated with that is an issue to think about)

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/24/mark-zuckerberg-elon-musks-do...
Lets hope farcebook has no future....
Ask HN: What qualities do you look for in a junior developer?
I am currently hiring developers for a junior position again for my startup.

I say "again", because the first time round we had so many applicants (400+) that it was a tough challenge discerning the best candidates from the pool and had allocated 10 interviews a day. The interviews were so bad that I ultimately rejected all of the applicants. I also withdrew the position because it was wasting my time.

Preferably, I would like to hire senior developers instead, but they are too expensive for my budget.

I slogged it out for another 4 months and I'm giving it another go on hiring juniors. But would not like to make the same mistake.
You know the rule, Apple ALWAYS gets a pass. No matter what they do, no matter how bad they treat their customers, no matter how awful their "upgrades" are, no matter how non-configurable and locked-in their products get over time, no matter the lack of innovation for the past 5 years, they always get a pass. Deal with it, that Jobs residue works its magic for a loooooong time.
> lack of documentation

For what it's worth, I think it's an intel trademark to have bad or lacking documentation. Even projects that should have stellar documentation like intel TBB or MKL have fairly cryptic docs
>> It also comes off as very monkey-centric. Is it so bad if human intelligence isn't what proliferates the future?
>> Perhaps AI is a kind of memetic evolution for our culture, evolving into a form of life which can achieve sustenance with much less waste

Is that what humanity should strive for? Create form of Intelligence that can sustain itself with less waste?

Calling someone who is trying to create better future for his 5 kids "monkey-centric" is pretty offensive. I wish there were more "monkey-centric" people out there.
Working from Home? The Boss Wants You Back in the Office
I'm hoping one day we'll figure out how addiction works in the brain, and we'll develop a pill against the negative effects.
Any company can install a reporting agent on their desktops and that will collect basic information like what .exe files have been executed.

Once a portable app shows up in the reports you are simply fired by blatant disregard for the rules and procedures you agreed to when signing your contract.

Finance is a heavily regulated environment and you can't get away with things that would be excusable in other places.
I disagree with your opening argument. Python is objectively easier to learn than c, no matter which one has learned first. In my own experience, I learned Esperanto at about 10X the rate at which I learned French (though this was also due to teacher quality). Esperanto has no irregular verbs, unambiguous pronunciations, and only a quarter of the usual vocabulary to learn because nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs all share identical roots. Being a native English speaker I did know similar roots more often, but no more so than I did for French.

The only place where I would agree Europeans have a significant advantage is that Esperanto has a European style letter script rather than an Asian character-based one. A fair point, and unfortunately no one has come up with something halfway between a letter and a character script. The best apolitical solution to that may be to make two alphabets for the next iteration of Esperanto.
> Shipping a simple binary installer for multiple distributions is still tricky.

Because you're bypassing the package manager. Packaging isn't all that hard, much easier than building your own binary installer that handles multiple platforms.
I'm actually surprised more people don't buy time.

I used to pay to have my laundry done. first it was part of a 3hrs for $60 of house cleaning I used to pay for in the mid 90s once every two weeks. Then later when I moved into a apartment with no washer. I loved it. Also loved the house cleaning when it was good.

Would love to pay for some kind of shared personal assistant that would deal with whatever. I'm not sure how much I'd be willing to pay. I rent a cube at an office with shared assistants that charge for individual services. each phone call $3 for example. I'd love to be able to pay for someone to deal with all my bills, taxes, mail, basic shopping ...
as masto wrote in another comment, a lot of these "public private" spaces are inaccessible to the public. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/nyregion/public-space-tru...

Here's a site that lists the ones in NYC https://apops.mas.org/

(I don't have any first hand experience with these since I don't live near NYC)
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They're already pretty good at determining that without scanning items in a store.
+1 on the execution

+1 to the request for the clickable tags - as that was the first ting I tried to do.

Good job. The only suggestion I can think of right now would be to add a link to the linkedin group surrounding that conf.
How a coffee machine took down an industrial control network
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Show HN: about:blank an iOS website blocker
I LOVE the pattern-matching/deconstruction/guards stuff. It eliminates SO much boilerplate logic. Just the function head of an Elixir function eliminates a dozen input validation and assignment lines in most other languages. It wouldn't be nearly as spectacular if it didn't pervade the entire language, though (for example, I'm sure you could get partway there in many other languages using a DSL)

Same thing with immutability. If it doesn't pervade the entire language, it feels slapped-on, and you basically lose most (all?) of the guarantees (like removing an entire class of bugs caused by mutability).

I saw what you saw in Go, but in doing my homework, I also saw an astonishing amount of ugliness[1][2][3], and additionally I took a bit of actual offense to the core philosophy of Go's design as stated by Rob Pike himself[4][5] so I am betting on (hoping for?) spectacular Elixir adoption I guess lol, as my current and all future projects for the foreseeable future will be in Elixir.

About the only wart I've seen so far in Elixir is the pin operator[6], but that was necessary to preserve the name-rebinding ability in a pattern-matching context, and it stops seeming like a wart fairly quickly, once you realize why it's necessary.

[1] https://anvaka.github.io/common-words/#?lang=go makes it seem like 50% of the day-to-day code in the language is error-checking due to the lack of exceptions

[2] https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good

[3] http://byrd.im/go-is-poor/

[4] http://nomad.so/2015/03/why-gos-design-is-a-disservice-to-in...

[5] I'm actually a fan of Plan9 and appreciate Rob Pike's work on that

[6] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27971357/what-is-the-pin...
Agreed, turns out that it was the one I was using myself too. Until I just swapped it out for calculator plus. The only issue I had was that I wasn't able to setup a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+C), but just figured that one out.

Turns out that if you create a shortcut via the send To "Desktop (Create shortcut)" that you can then set it up a keyboard shortcut via properties. As long as your shortcut is on the desktop or in the menu then the keyboard shortcut works. Yay.
side note: autism may not be quite so imbalanced by gender. it's diagnosed in males more often, but the diagnostic criteria were established by observing males and autism presents differently in females. there are suspected to be a lot of undiagnosed ones.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/autism-it-s-diffe...
I like "Rodney Yee's A.M. Yoga for Beginners". It is gentle enough for when you're just getting started and only 15-20 minutes. It doesn't feel like much, but after several days you'll start to notice more flexibility. I start here whenever I've stopped exercising for a while.
Congrats to them for front-paging this ;)

I've heard some people say that most ICOs wouldn't stand a chance at getting VC funding. So, investors of HN, what say you of this one?

To me, the first question is why does this need its own token rather than just using Ether? I can maybe see appcoins making sense for something like Status (mobile messenger platform trying to be the crypto WeChat), but this seems too small even if it's a success to merit a separate token.
SQL injection attacks are STILL frequent.

Heck, buffer overflow bugs are decades old but still happen all the time.

Software security has practically not gotten any better over the years. Best practices are now known but rarely followed. Even when you follow best practices, there are vulnerabilities. Software security is an illusion.
If the AI requires a supercomputer to "exists" it can only jump to another supercomputer. It will not be able to spread to your Arduino.
I don't know if anyone was harmed per se - it's just a dick move.

If you had a friend that had been trying to sell his car on Craigslist and manipulated the price right before offering to sell it to you "at a discount", I think you'd be pretty disappointed with your "friend".

Sure, Amazon isn't your friend, but I think it's short-sighted when corporations engage in sociopathic behavior and are hostile to their customers. Especially when their business model is predicated on customer loyalty.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Habibie
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
>What next, buy a new car and complain it didn't come with the tank full?

Yes. You should complain if you buy a new car and it doesn't come with a full tank of gas, or needs new tires, or needs an oil change right from the dealership. Those are things you expect from a new car, and they're the reasons you buy a new car.

If I bought a used knife, I'd expect to sharpen it. If I buy a brand new knife, I expect it to be sharp right from the factory. If it's not, I could have saved money and just bought a steel rod and made my own knife out of it. A knife has one purpose: to be sharp. If it's not, it's not a knife. It's a cheap hunk of thin steel that they told you was a knife.

There is zero reason a brand new product needs immediate maintenance before it can be used.
Ask HN: How do you monitor your infrastructure?
Hello! In the past day I've been researching how to do proper monitoring to our infrastructure, but unfortunately this seems much harder then expected. We need to monitor: 4x AWS Lambdas (errors & invocations), 2x Cloudfront statistics, CPU usage of EC2 instance, requests per second of heroku instance and its response time and few stats about Mongo instance.

If we were running only on AWS stack, Cloudwatch fit our needs, but we have some external dependencies.

I would like to hear, how do you monitor your infrastructure at scale and what tools are you using?
How to use Let's Encypt with Google Cloud Platform
Why Apple's investing in PCB equipment
Culture for a digital age
They probably did something illegal in order to get that far and know enough information to file the report. That they were doing it for good instead of evil is nice and all, but it's not that far to decide to start doing it for your own benefit. (Remember that there are laws against unauthorized access to computer systems.)

Scenario: College kid is upset that the admins have hidden the games on the college network. Kid snoops and finds that he can open other sections by changing a number. Kid changes the number a lot, and before he finds the games, he finds all the test questions and answers to the entire nursing program's exams.

Kid was only slightly tempted to do something with that info for profit. Kid did nothing and walked away. But that temptation was there, and it could have gone the other way.

That's the precipice of cyber-crime.

That is a true story, BTW.
This is somewhat ironic considering how Elon Musk's claims on the danger of AI are viewed in the more serious research community (as overly dramatic).

The consensus amongst many researchers in the area seems to be that we should focus on the dangers of narrow AI applications (social media filtering, targeting) and privacy concerns.

I liked a comment I saw somewhere on r/machinelearning (or twitter) where someone said if you have a text about the consequences of AI and cannot replace 'AI' with statistical learning and then read the text with a straight face, you are probably overdramatising.
Unsure if you've seen Samsung's Artik platform. I think this is what you are looking for https://www.artik.io/

I was working in this space, but never got on to their beta program.
Amazon bumped the price of a $20 Britta water filter by $15 when I went to purchase it a second time. Odd how that can happen.
Are there some good open source scrubbing center projects you might be able to recommend?

Also might you have any resources or links to how these scrubbing services are implemented, what heuristics they use etc?

I understand the front end of DDOS mitigation i.e netflows, BGP communities and RTBH, and GRE tunnels to the scrubbing centers. However the details of how the scrubbing centers works is something of a mystery to me.

When looking at any of the big DDOS provider's literature, the scrubbing centers are mostly just opaque boxes with little documentation on how they actually work.
Excellent page! I suggest adding a filter for continents (where > Europe doesn't work).
Can you be a bit more specific, maybe with an example issue?
Musk's view of AI relies on AI being magic, too. He's using the definition of "AI" that exists only in hyped-up promises about the future, and evaporates when applied to present technology.

Musk dismisses AI experts who tell him that his claims bear no resemblance to real technology, because Musk isn't talking about the same AI as them. He's talking about sci-fi AI.

There are no experts in sci-fi AI because, if there were anything there that one could understand well enough to be an expert in it, it wouldn't be sci-fi AI anymore.
>But then he sues, and they settle for $100,000.00.

Not really. The police decided to act like corporate lackeys and TAX PAYERS paid a $40,000 settlement to a person who was physically injured by their misconduct. There are several ways this story should end that are not that

1) the settlement should not cost the tax payers money

2) the cops, or at least the property owner, should pay the settlement

3) those officers should not be officers anymore AND they should be held to some level of personal responsibility for their actions

4) there should be consequences for the police brutally attacking someone who asserts their (legal in MN) right not to identify themselves to police officers
Agreed! I haven't looked into this at all but I wonder if you can run some algorithm on the datauri.
It seems to me that this stems from a misdefinition of the phrase "public space". Public space shouldn't be defined as "space that is owned by the state", but as "space that makes no attempt to prevent entry". An open park on a lot that someone owns should be legally considered a public space, but if the owner puts up a fence and a door, then it starts to move towards private space.
The death of the public commons, and its replacement by privately owned pseudo-commons (just don't break any corporate or brand rules) is a major theme of Naomi Klein's seminal book, No Logo. I have't read it for a while, so I don't know how it holds up (more, rather than less, I would guess) but I enjoyed it both times. Here's another article from the Guardian, discussing No Logo.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/15/100-best-nonfi...
Because if they didn't make a useless token, they couldn't sell the useless token
There is just Yes and No.

The default answer to most every question is No, aka status quo. Change occurs when a temporary coalition of Yes is formed around a hot issue. aka the Politics of Attention. Looks like punctuated equilibrium from the outside. Sometimes that change is progress, eg extending the franchise, more fairness, better accountability.

The partisanship in media, culture, politics, etc. maps very loosely to Yes and No, if at all.
For user-generated content, a blank slate is usually discouraging to contributors. Additionally, you need to set expectations for what sort of content you want users to generate.

The thing you should do that doesn't scale is to seed your content area with content generated in-house that mimics the type of content you want to see. Then invite a couple dozen users, engage with them heavily, and continue to generate your own content.

Your goals are 1) to make the community seem like it's active and something users will return to frequently to find new content; 2) to make users feel like contributing is a rewarding act that gets them the sort of interaction and encouragement they seek; and 3) to establish norms for your community.

Then invite another cohort and another. Each new cohort can be an order of magnitude larger than the last, and once each new cohort is engaged, you can scale back your own contributions and engagement significantly.
Speaking of poor fits I'm still astounded they bought McAfee.
i wonder how expensive is it to frontpage something on HN.
even I noticed this and I'm in India. I buy second hand books now from an Indian startup. It has high quality second hand books for low prices & I don't mind second hand as long as there is no compromise on quality. I got 11 books for 1148 eight of John Grisham and rest are other authors
Or get paid to do something you enjoy doing. And then it's not 'a bad terms' deal, it's awesome.
Android Things promotes the SoM approach to bridge that gap: https://youtu.be/sjpNek_7z-I?t=18m18s (further explained here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Q8MCyuIks ).

Disclosure: I work on Android Things.
It is possible to react at any time because of an external hardware event, such as a button press or a hardware sensor that triggers. Depending on the sensor or external hardware, those events can be very cheap in terms of power consumption. For example, a button switch can be completely passive and consume power only when it triggers. Once it triggers, the microprocessor wakes up and can decide to handle the event, potentially by using the radio to send a message. Sending the message will consume much more power than just turning on the microprocessor, so depending on the application logic the microprocessor can simply choose to ignore the event and go back to sleep.

"Waking up" in the context of the article should be taken as "waking up an turning on the radio to check if anything happens that I should be aware of". This involves power-consuming activities, such as turning on and using the radio, and cannot be completely passive. That's why it pays off to not do this too often.
Uber is going to provide accident insurance in France for free
Ditto. Groove Salad, Fluid, and Sonic Universe channels on Soma FM. Enough to tune out the world without breaking my concentration.