skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't run Docker in production, but I'd say it's the infrastructure. Docker images seem to be turning into the universal package format for distribution, CI, orchestration, resource limiting, etc. If you need to run a Go service which you to scale horizontally and mix with other projects (possibly dependencies), it's just easier to stuff your binary into a Docker image.
Yes, it always amazes me that we grow rice in a desert. But you might say the same for cotton, but in the case of cotton, long-staple cottons derived from ancient Egyptian cottons make superior cloth because of the longer fibers, but are susceptable to boll rot if it gets rain at the wrong time. It isn't always a simple analysis. If you want to give up growing cotton in California, be prepared for the quality of your shirts to go down.

The bottom line is it isn't the farmers who are the ultimate consumers of the water. We all use ag water when we buy food at the grocery store. We eat the water. You can't make an impact on ag water without impacting the consumer also, and that connection needs to be acknowledged. The farmers use the water, but they don't consume the water. We do.
#bigdata visualisation for realtime Twitter analysis of upcoming German election
> Investigators said content stored on the encrypted hard drive matched file hashes for known child pornography content.

Can someone explain to me how it's possible to check file hashes in encrypted drive?
My wife and I have been researching this because of her recently-diagnosed thyroid problems. As far as we can tell, most food in general doesn't contain iodized salt. Apparently, if you didn't shake it out from a container that says "iodized salt", it probably isn't.
Fiction: Peter Watts - Blindsight
Nonfiction: Gödel Escher Bach
CS: David West - Object Thinking
I thought he meant emotionally cold
The frameworks can abstract away much of the math. You won't have to actually take the derivatives yourself, but understanding how they work actually matters to network design. It's much harder to get meaningful insights out of papers for designing better networks if you can't read the math in them. And Neural Networks is an area where you will read research papers as part of your job in order to do it well, even in industry. When is RELU better than sigmoid? When should you use a bottleneck layer? When do you want fewer larger layers or more smaller layers? When is it appropriate to add some manual features in your problem? Or even when you get an error message back from your framework when is the error in your network code an when is it in your data design? It's very hard to develop good answers to the questions that come up if you don't have the math to read papers, don't have the math to double check expressions in the error code, or have problems going back and forth between expressions with Matrix and vectors and expressions in summation notation. There are a lot of people who can build a neural network when the architecture is done for them and nothing errors (using no math or stats), but training someone to make decisions on the architecture and handle the errors IS the job.
Whoops! xtanx already asked the same question.
JoeBrowns.co.uk – Customer Services gave password over the phone
So my experience today, girlfriend has forgotten her password to JoeBrowns.co.uk which happens to anyone from time to time, and attempted to use the forgotten password link. Unfortunately no email came though. Recommended calling customer services which I was expecting to have them say that their mail system is down or something like that. The conversation went as follows:

GF: I have forgotten my password and the forgotten password link doesn't work

CS: Not a problem, we should be able to give that to you, what is your email

GF: <<email address including spelling the name out twice>>

CS: I have found you, can you write this down

GF: Sure (sounding a bit surprised)

CS: << Password, character by character >>

GF: Thanks, that worked (me with my mouth open wide at hearing the result of the conversation)

CS: Oh your name is <<insert real name here>>

GF: Yes that's right

CS: Thank you and enjoy your day

Give the account potentially can have saved CC details in, order histories, delivery addresses, i was pretty shocked at the level of security on the site. The whole call lasted about 5 minutes, there no wait time. Plain text passwords on an eCommerce website... Asking for trouble!

Is it me, or is there something //slightly// wrong this this behaviour, or have I missed a trick?

Feel free to disprove me! As I would love to know how a company like Joe Browns can just give passwords away like that!

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Sorry yours didn't get any attention! It's mostly up to chance, so the software lets through resubmissions of earlier posts that are too old to save but didn't get any discussion.
re: b12, good point, you should take a b12 supplement if you are eating vegan. It's a good thing they are cheap, easy to take and effective! and most people are low in b12, so even if you are a meat-eater, it's good to take a supplement as well
White House Nominates Bridenstine as NASA Administrator
The A/C acts as a dehumidifier so it will be more cooling than just a fan
The courts are trying to say that the Fifth Amendment only applies to witnesses. They're deliberately misleading the people in this case. The fifth amendment clearly states "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

Note the "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" telling him to decrypt that hard drive is still in effect forcing him to be a witness against himself.

These judges saying the fifth amendment doesn't apply should be sued for constitutional violations.
In no particular order ...

I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter - strongly influenced my beliefs about how consciousness works

Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter - made me think more deeply about so many topics

Animal Liberation by Peter Singer - made me both an animal advocacy activist and strongly influenced me towards a consequentialist moral

Neuropath by R. Scott Bakker - more on how consciousness works, this time through a work of fiction

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin - strongly influenced my beliefs about political systems

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins - changed how I thought about animal behavior and what living things do

Republic, Lost by Lawrence Lessig - strongly influenced my beliefs about US government

Manufacturing Consent by Herman & Chomsky - made me rethink my view of the media and news
All of his and fellow Azul Systems guy Cliff Click's talks are worth watching as well, particularly if you care about Java, JVM, low level performance, processor caching.
if you are interested in the vegan perspective of why we think that even "humane meat" is wrong, I'd strongly encourage you to read this paper

http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/joomlatools-files/docman-files...

It really opened my eyes when I read it. :)
I think the main problem with the brain simulation approach is that we don't yet have a really good model of how the brain actually works.
Poor Charlie's Almanack. It's a compilation of talks and essays from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet's business partner. This book has single-handedly changed my invest strategies and mindset. Instead of trying to buy low and sell high, Berkshire Hathaway holds a large cash position, until they find something they consider to be a sure bet, take a large stake and hold. I now have the quote "Be right and hold tight" written at my work table.
YouTube gets material design
I'm not claiming it's a perfect solution, but what other options are there? Here's the only other options I see:

* Detaining this individual indefinitely without charge.

* Charge based on limited anecdotal evidence.

* Release without charge.

Can you think of other suggestions? Which of the available options do you think is best? Best being a balance between the rights of the individual and the laws of the state.
StrongSwan: Object Oriented C programming style
Not all the good data scientists I used to work with/for are mathematicians but all of them have a deep understanding of mathematics. Knowing math upfront is not a must but if you are not willing to learn it along the way than you shouldn't choose the path of ML.
what is a good source to learn advanced data analysis for someone with mathematical background?
There is something a little intellectually lazy about taking an editorial from a republican representative in the OC Register and then treating it and commenting on it as if it is a news article that is not implicitly biased. Many news articles have been published on this bill. Here is one that the Mercury News did.

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/23/first-ever-tax-on-cali...
The brain is slow and redundant. It has to be like that because it is not produced in a factory - it is created by self replication. Self replication imposes strict limits and requirements on the type of brain that can be created. AI neurons, on the other hand, are perfect - they never get old or tired and always remember. A neural net like ResNet-150 is capable of doing essentially what 1/3 of the brain is doing (vision). We can achieve superhuman results in vision with much less neurons, and faster. This is the kind of logic that makes brain emulation a far flung possibility compared to the current day deep neural nets.

That and the fact that the brain simulation guys don't have anything to show for. There are no human-level tasks that could be replicated by this approach yet.
It's definitely nice but feels too tightly coupled with the PHP+MySQL web stack, it's too big of a hurdle to install these two just for the purpose of storing some numbers and showing a simple HTML page with a javascript line graph.

Maybe consider:

- not storing the data in any database and instead fetching it through javascript when the page loads; sure it might take a couple of seconds to populate on first load but it's a small price to pay for the benefit of not requiring any database or server-side refetching cron jobs; most of the exchanges have publicly accessible APIs for fetching candles for every market.

- using a simple node.js express server to serve the (now practically static) HTML page
Google's standard was "Don't be evil." So as long as it wasn't committing genocide it met the standard. [1] But I say, "was" because Google became Alphabet and dropped "Don't be evil" for "Do the right thing." Spike Lee demonstrated the turbidity of that phrase decades ago.

[1]: In the context of US manifest destiny with which Silicon Valley's history is interwoven, even that might be open to interpretative rationalization.
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Your arguments would be correct if consumers footed 100% of the ag water bills. Want a premium-quality t-shirt? Go pay for superior cotton grown in a desert. Sounds fair to me.

The question is in subsidies on water for farming; without them, much of the ag on California would become unsustainable, or, hopefully, would turn to modern practices that allow to grow vegetables in places like Middle East with very moderate water supply.
Fox News is owned by the same parent company, http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/07/12/paying-professors-ins...
I believe anyone use ansible is probably came across your name once :). Thanks for sharing.
Well the data sets are all around your house and yard. Think of baby human agi's.

And the computing costs could be boot strapped by the ai. Put it to work earning its keep and expanding resources.
Thanks for the link, good to see that the Vietnamese government is investing in light rail for HCMC.
Yesterday I was reviewing answers in this thread. Some might be applicable:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14477851
Linearizability
Millennium series by Tejaswi
Machine Learning Could Improve Earthquake Prediction
The power of the word Beautiful
1. I am not talking about politics, please do not label or imply whatn I stated. Chinese textbook devote significant part on history from 1840 to recent years. Those are a history of revolutions.

2. Chinese are not particularly taught to respect hierarchy or particularly really respect hierarchy. Most nations respect their own hierarchy. There is no special in China, and there is no special in Chinese education.

3. I am not debating if China respecting hierarchy, I am pointing out that your baseless claim of China being educating or particularly educating her citizens to respect hierarchy, that's not true and I showed the fact.

4. Respecting hierarchy is not a problem itself. Organized system, be it human or machine, needs hierarchy to function. Your premise of moving away from hierarchy is GOOD, itself is another unbased claim, AGAIN.
My point was "C with Classes" and "C with templates" versus modern C++ best practices.

C++ code can be quite safe, providing people stop writing C with C++ compilers.
Something to bear in mind. I've been in this game 33 years now and very few of the companies I worked for even exist today. They either went bust or were bought by a bigger company. And I'm not talking fly by night companies either: MySQL AB bought by Sun for 1 billion. Sun bought by Oracle. One day someone will probably buy Oracle (God help them!).

One company I worked for I literally had about an hour's notice before they shuttered. I was working from home on the Friday and got a call late afternoon and while my manager was on the phone the sys admins shut down the networks and an hour or so later everyone had gone home and the company never opened its doors again!

Being laid off can work out. The last time I got laid off I took the plunge, went contracting, and never looked back.

My advice. Stay cool. You have savings (many don't). This could be a good opportunity for you.
The problem with the brain simulation approach seems not that it's boring and obvious but that it's hard to do. They struggle to simulate C. elegans which has 302 neurons in a fixed layout. Humans are harder.

>[OpenWorm] project coordinator Stephen Larson estimates it as "only 20 to 30 percent of the way towards where we need to get. (wikipedia)

That said, figuring what we can about how the human brain works and trying to make a computer equivalent seems quite promising. For example modern artificial vision seems to process data in a way similar to human vision even if it doesn't simulate human neurons.
Yes, absolutely, but it can be gutted for parts or rewired to bypass the API. The latter is not straightforward but someone did so in a video posted in these comments.
Mind is a myth - UG Krishnamurti

Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter

Unweaving the rainbow - Richard Dawkins
Manchester weather must be pretty bad then, because I looked into Amsterdam and the weather is worse than London.

I'd prefer to see better jobs than QoL - me and my girlfriend have been looking to move out of London and we'd love to go to Amsterdam. It would mean taking a more rudimentary position in both our professions (front end and data scientist) than what we get in London.
This man is a living history of Microsoft and one of the best resources for WINAPI development.
No, probably evolution strategies.

https://blog.openai.com/evolution-strategies/
The problem is, Vue.set is documented exactly nowhere in the getting started guide[0]. In my case, I couldn't use it because I wasn't the one modifying the data binder, d3-force was. But either way, this should definitely be in the guide !

Besides, it's possible for the new property to be picked up through Proxy Objects[1]. So it's not like it's entirely impossible for Vue to do this, they just chose not to (and they probably have good reason, like IE support).

[0]: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/index.html

[1]: https://caniuse.com/#feat=proxy
Oh boy. Legislating government control of all computational resources is not a path we want to go down. Read Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End" for some fun ideas on how this screws everyone over. Watch Cory Doctorow's talk about the war on general-purpose computing for some more immediate concerns.

I wonder if nebulous fears about AI soon will be added to the ranks of famous justifications for horrendously overbearing laws, like stopping terrorism, the war on drugs, or thinking of the children.
London and a Belgian team?
How would the ISP have such hashes? Are they hashing and recording every file one downloads? And the sources of this illegal content weren't even using HTTPS, let alone Tor?
No, he was held on contempt on the All Writs act, and here is a very important distinction to make. He refused while in court, so he can be HELD on contempt. To be CHARGED with contempt of court, your actions typically happen outside of the courtroom after being given a legal order (e.g. you ignored a TRO or ignored a civil summons subpoena or violated probation.)
"I disagree. It's too expensive to run a low level brain sim."

Interesting. Could you tell me Why is it too expensive?

If it wasn't expensive, would that change things drastically, and make brain sim a viable option?
A hellhole full of scum... I don't know where these people have been, but that isn't the London I know.
Let's Build a Simple Database
I noticed that if I read a book, I don't understand it immediately truly deeply. Some sort of analysis happens and then after few months or even years my mentality becomes different and I start to think in a different way. So it takes time to build a different mentality by reading books.
The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson

Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
I think you might be right. AI fear will probably be made into a justification for government power grabs.
EvilAbigail – Automated Linux evil maid attack – Hack4Net
Technical Terms that you don't have an Idea of being Misused – SuratNow
> Trump is Satan and the world is about to end mindset.

I've never heard this angle, in fact it is his supporters who embrace ideologies that involve Satan, not the other way around.
Poor no more - Robert Chester Ruark
A Coffin Full of Dreams - Frisco Hitt
Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil
> I'm interested why he's so pessimistic about the simulating a brain approach.

While theoretically possible, I think going with that approach would be admitting we don't understand the origin of general intelligence, so let's just copy the wetvare.
Your analogy fails for a couple of reasons:

1) Giving up the decryption key is clearly not analogous to deciphering the letter. When you decrypt a drive, it’s the computer does the actual deciphering operation.

2) Focusing on how easy the safe is to break without the key cuts against your position. We can jail people for not providing the key to a regular safe, even though the cops could break into it. But we can’t jail people for not providing the key to an encrypted drive, even though the cops likely have no other way to get the evidence they know is in there. Isn’t that precisely backward? Shouldn’t the cops have more power in the situation where they have no alternatives?
https://backtrac.io, visual regression tool for websites. Started two years ago and it is doing 500$+ a month after all expenses. Has great potential for growth.

https://turbohiring.co, built a year ago. Database for recruiting IT specialists in Ukraine. After only one year it already generates $3k+ in revenue and growing. Finding a right sales person was a key.
How did Microsoft solve it with their C++ APIs? I've never ventured much into Windows programming, but I remember hearing that MFC uses C++, and newer stuff is mostly C++-based.
At a more general level, you may find the book Society of the Mind interesting ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind ). In this, Minsky proposes simple (mindless) agents that then are combined together to form a mind. That our mind is interacting with the world and launching agents to deal with things - that our own mind may be built this way.

Yes, its a bit old (1986) and the current machine learning techniques have dated it - what was theory at one time is reality in places. Still a good book to read and think about.
Didn't JavaScript partially solve the == problem with ===?

Unless they grabbed that from another language as well. And that all being said, the equivalence table for JavaScript is crazy.
The fact that he possesses no physical key is the crux of the matter. Any metaphor that tries to use objects like keys is pointless - there would be no controversy if there was a physical key.
> Put it to work earning its keep and expanding resources.

It's called Google, and is already filthy rich and has a ton of computation and privileged data at its disposal.
Are these processes gravitationally mediated, like tidal energy transfer?
I think wonderwonder's point is that the massive data sets and millions of dollars in resources might not be necessary. I don't have an opinion on the matter, but what if AGI falls out just from a small number of critical ideas which while being complicated and non-obvious are nevertheless straightforward to code?
These issues are often around catching criminals but there's always the issue that they will be abused for something else and we (the common folks) are all at risk. That's plausible.

Honest question: It's hard to do risk assessment at my level of ignorance so where can I find major cases where common people have been screwed by the overarching tentacles of govt surveillance in the developed world? Any noteworthy cases I should read about to raise my level of alertness?
Non-profit does not mean the system is working outside of capitalism or people are not making money.
Artificial general intelligence won't be invented, it will emerge, just general intelligence did in the wild. AGI is just going to be a hierarchical arrangement of specialized tools.

The first step is highly specialized AI tools for very specific problem domains.

The second step is AI tools that use other AI tools as components but address slightly larger problem domains.

The third and successive steps are recursions of the second step.

Additionally, we won't be able to tell right away when we've crossed the threshold. We can't even say for sure where "intelligence" stops in animals. We used to think we were the line, but now the bar has been pushed down to include primates, cetaceans, a number of birds, possibly some members of the bear family, etc. The reality is that it is a gradient and there is no clear line.
The Dance of Gods novels by Mayer Allan Brenner, free download here: http://www.mayerbrenner.com/download/ They are like a Discworld where magic and programming are basically the same, of sorts, with a large, sprawling world with overlapping storylines. It's a great read and I came away with many interesting lines of thought whilst reading a very fun story.