skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they're in possession of the original files they can just look at the files to see what they contain.
The Bay Area, while very far from being a well planned live/work/commute environment, does have a somewhat unique structure. It is made up of 3 geographically dispersed, relatively equitable major cities, albeit with different strengths (SF - international cachet, SJ - largest city plus proximity to Silicon Valley, Oakland - future opportunity).

There are arguably more high end jobs in the suburbs surrounding these 3 major cities than in the city centers themselves. While this has removed the issue of one major city sucking in all of the surrounding resources, it has also distributed all of the problems of a major city center throughout an entire region - extremely high housing costs, horrendous traffic, etc.

Since each municipality in the Bay Area enjoys near ubiquitous power over local development and policy, it is also very difficult to implement effective regional plans to improve these issues.
Yes. Evolution strategies are just an alternative approach to RL. Reinforcement learning is basically solving the problem of being an intelligent agent in the world, moving about, achieving goals.
Yes, this. Whatever was used to share or transfer the files generated a cleartext log with MD5 hashes, which was written somewhere other than the encrypted volume.
It went to court in the EU, this is not the case anymore
We're talking about someone who allegedly shared his illegal porn habits. Hasn't been convicted yet.
NOAA has some post storm imagery:

https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/harvey/index.html
Among my recent reads:

1. Finite and infinite games, by James Carse

2. Antifragile, by Nassim Taleb (IMHO the book rambles on a little too much; some of his hour long YouTube talks convey the ideas almost as well)

3. Obedience to authority, by Stanley Milgram
Article was updated with the following link to sustain the source of the information: https://arstechnica.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/rawlsopin...
hitchhiker guide to the galaxy: it taught me how small the earth is. And therefore we should use the limited time we have wisely. Also, Don't Panic.
No, Chinese stidents, as claimed in another post, were taught to respect hierarchy. Their colluding is the result that it's a working way of game the system.

But is there anything special?

Gaming the system is the human nature.
Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday. The book tells you all there is to know about ego and will change the way you see yourself.
No More Mr. Nice Guy by Robert Glover. Raised as a peaceful kid whose introversion taught me to try to control my world and keep things to myself, I am now more aware of how much healthier it is to set boundaries and just let the world run its own course. Immensely happier!
The brain has 10^14 synapses (100 trillion) synapses. Current day neural nets barely reach a hundred million, with very few exceptions. Then, besides compute, there is data movement - currently the bottleneck in AI is moving data around, not computing. Imagine the interconnect for a brain-size neural net.
I'm on a streak of reading Neuromarketing/behavioral economic type books.
1. Predictably irrational is particularly good. Especially the first half.
2. The Confidence Game explains the steps of how con trick people to fool themselves.
3. Buyology is very focused on purchases/retail.
4. Brainfluence. I'm halfway through it. Mostly bite-sized chapters and it's similar to Buyology, but I prefer this book.
Numenta is doing much better than the worm brain simulation.
I'm waiting for the day when there is an IA OS. Basically there would be a Natural Language processor that determines what sub AI app to run. It's not true general AI but if it's done broad enough it will seem like it.
Fantastic question.

The selfish gene - for understanding human behavior

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - for understanding how to be content

Debt, the first 5,000 years - for understanding money and finance from the ground up

Wright Brothers - for understanding how technological breakthroughs happen

Snowball (Warren Buffet), Andrew Carnegie and Rockefeller biographies - for understanding the mental mindset to win in business (it's not what you think)

Hackers and painters - for understanding startups and how/why they work

Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - for understanding beauty in the routine

Essentialism, the disciplined pursuit of less and Walden - for understanding how "stuff" gets in the way of happiness

Les Miserables - for understanding love
Perhaps adding that last part without acknowledging these claims from the article wasn't fair to the author. I meant it more of a rebuttal to the subject line. I probably should have ended with something along the lines of "data analysis is a different type of math" rather than trying to promote the idea that "there's still math in machine learning".
They carry around their bridge library called MSVC redistributable, and that one is tied to compiler version. Fortunately for them they don't release compiler versions too often, but stuff you have on your Windows install perhaps carries around half dozen of MSVC redistributable library sets.

All Windows APIs are still C (stdcall to be precise) with some COM.
The air filter- It's just an electronic version of putting a box of baking soda in the fridge. See the video I posted in the comment you are replying to, its from the manufacturer and shows the setup.

The water filter- My fridge makes ice and dispenses cold water from one of the doors. This mechanism has a water filter.
I've been working on something similar for my own perusal. My dependencies are sbcl, gnuplot and an image viewer that can do a slideshow: https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZSKsy7ZMOpNjrfY8wbQ...

You'll always have dependencies.

My graphs need a little more info like a label for the left and right y-axis.

The OP's design does look now modern although I do not know what "hackable graph builder" means.
Why this is down voted? The report on this is censored because of political fight.
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan. I come from a very religious background and it helped shape my way of thinking around superstitious thoughts of all kinds.
We already see many people, from all nations, with diverse backgrounds, point out the importance of AI.
Does that apply to California though? It has some of the highest water rates in the country.
Rule-based NLP has been tried for several decades and has (very) limited success in the real world. Current systems based on deep learning beat it for most complex tasks. DeepL, which was on HN front page a few days, is the latest example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15122764
Workers clear out of Russian consulate in San Francisco
Yes! "Godel, Escher, Bach" and "The Mind's I" completely broke down the rigid models I had for how I perceive objects around me and my place in the world.
The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies
Background: I did AI and Philosophy of Mind in undergrad, an MSc focused on ALife, then a PhD at Yale under a Macarthur Fellow who developed the theoretical framework for the 'evolution of Evolvability' where I worked on computational evolutionary biology. I can say we're not going to blindly brute force our way forward, but instead we'll need to reverse engineer nature's core algorithms to generate hard AI. Every time a major advance is made in AI the computational neuroscientist say: "why didn't you talk to us 15 years ago? We could have told you that!". Those ingredients will be embodiment, evolution, genetics (genotype-phenotype encoding), neirogenesis(gene regulatory networks directing phenotypic development from a single cell to a multicellular neural network), and ecology (evolving in adversarial and cooperative environments). And we'll need a lot of theoretical work in how to represent nature's algorithms in code. For example my PhD work just focused on how to use evolutionary algorithms to evolve simple gene regulatory networks and how that leads to properties of modularity in the genotype-phenotype map. That alone is life's work but a necessary ingredient. I don't expect to see this solved in my lifetime given how we're attacking the problem (head on) today. And until then we're going to continue to run into these dark winters of AI.
Well there are plenty of safes without physical keys that use pin-pads. To to bring that analogy a little closer to reality then, they are trying to force him to enter the pin into the safe.

And again the current argument is not about whether he knows the pin or not, just whether he can refuse to enter it by arguing that this would be "being witness against himself", i.e. protected by the fifth.
The Wright brothers were bicycle mechanics
My French cooking teacher had a saying something along the lines of "Tradition is the last bad performance."

He is in fact quite traditional, but he understands the basic principle: If there was a significant migration from a famed food region to "here", what would they do to adapt, to interpret the spirit of their beloved dishes?

Anyone who can't do that, doesn't understand what they're cooking. He taught me a brilliant bouillabaisse, by the way, structured around principles rather than ingredients.
All modern encryption schemes inject randomness into the encryption process (via an initialization vector) so no, there is no way to check if two encrypted files are the same file. The investigators' claim doesn't make sense.
Again, regardless of any age, the subset of people familiar with computers is exceedingly small. Yes, there are people in every age bracket who are computer wizards. The majority of people are clueless. I know you're completely hung up on the age thing, because I mentioned "older folk", but I would also argue a greater percentage of "older folk", compared to "younger folk" don't know anything about computers. This will obviously shift, as the computer generation turns into "older folk". Suggesting that any reasonable percentage of people around, before the proliferation of the personal computer, are adept to using them, is just silly.

I get it, you know computers, other people know computers. Most people don't. That's the only point I was making. Thank you for your work in traffic modeling. The rest of the humans on Earth(I've traveled most of it for business), generally can only handle checking their email, if it's already been setup for them.
Very nice website and blog. You obviously love what you do. I enjoyed the piece on reverse engineering HN too!
Not quite. The prosecution’s position is that the 5th Amendment doesn’t apply here, which makes all the All Writs stuff permissible: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201....

The Third Circuit punted in the legal question, stating that even if the 5th Amendment applied to being forced to hand over a decryption key, the guy couldn’t invoke his Fifth Amendment right here because of legal technicalities (see Kerr’s analysis in the link above).
The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham

A Guide to the Good Life - William B. Irvine
State of the art in CSS (and CSS-in-JS)
This may be a dumb question but I want to make sure I'm getting everything here... they have a warrant to search the hard drive?
> None of that in China; the politburo says what it's going to say, and then does what it's going to do.

Thats not what happened in China. In China government invest heavily in propaganda and mind manipulation, they do not automatically push anything and everyone just follow blindly.
I'd love to read your thesis. Would you please a link?
Can you link to some of your work, this is very interesting stuff
Knowing may come from a user complaint. After a single valid complaint, one may argue that the site is on notice.
When I was contacted they where looking for over-all experienced developers. From listening to some of their developers podcasts they found most developer picked up Perl development and didn't have any problems with the language.

At the time was following `Damian Gryski‏` presentations how they used redis for their cookie management for such a large web-site. Also was reading into their back-end systems and over-all cultural inside the business.

Though was super excited about the interview with them although froze up during the interview process.

Nice to see other people here went through the interview processes and had a great time. I just suck at interviews.
Do programmers have some coding secrets that are only learnt by experience?
Bargaining for Advantage : Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Lies my teacher told me : everything your American history textbook got wrong

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

Thinking, Fast and Slow
This is 100% wrong. XTS-mode AES absolutely protects you from known-plaintext attacks like the investigators apparently claim to have pulled off. I suspect we don't have the full description.
On Intelligence - taught me how our brains work

Sapiens - How the world works

Biographies of Steve Jobs and Einstein - Taught me that even geniuses dont work in a vaccum

Lean Startup and essays from PG - taught me how to start a business
I like factorio's Friday facts. It often has some interesting engineering knowledge.
Magsearch: A low key torrenting cli
The brain is slow in "cycles"/second, but the amount of computation done by each cycle isn't directly comparable to that done by a computer.

Forgetting isn't a bug, it's a feature. Forgetting is basically like dimensionality reduction on input data - we extract the principle components/exemplars, remember a weighting, and trash the redundancy. Training a ML model is a lot faster on smaller data, and the same is true for us.

Don't compare ANNs with the brain strictly on a time/time basis. Time isn't the only factor, power consumption and heat production are also factors, and if you include them the brain comes out way ahead.

People with an engineering background almost universally underestimate how freaking awesome biology is. Our brains are self-constructing, self-replicating, self repairing (mostly) hyper-efficient pattern recognition systems. The more we learn about them the more awesome we realize they are. Don't be so arrogant as to assume a few hundred years of engineering will universally eclipse hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
This guy is going to forget the password before this is resolved and then the argument will be about whether or not he has really forgotten. I look forward to seeing how this all plays out.
Google and FB have most to gain from a capable conversational agent. The moment this system will appear, it will start replacing the old interfaces, and pretty soon eat the G-FB pie. If they are not on top of the wave then, they'll lose.

Current state of the art in dialogue AI is an agent that can reason based on images, documents or tables with data. There is a lot of research into attention and memory augmented neural nets. I put my bet on graph based neural nets, that can better represent object and relations in reasoning tasks.
You're referring now to "Don't commit any crimes"
'Deschooling society' by Ivan Illich.
Voters decided too in China. Electoral system and people's representatives are about the same level.
And on macOS BSD sockets are on their way out, as the new networking stack (user space based) doesn't support BSD sockets (page 15).

https://devstreaming-cdn.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2017/707h2gkb...
I'm working on a technology that I think might enable either IA or AI. Basically intelligences manage their own programs and the computational resources allocated to those programs. So I'm looking at doing that with markets.

With IA the user acts as feedback to the market about what is good or bad. Ideally it would act as an external brain lobe. More information on my approach is on this blog https://improvingautonomy.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/why-study...
Serverless: Tracking Correlation IDs Through API Gateway, SNS and Kinesis
Goldman Sachs
Step 7: Branding and logo
Inkscape, Logojoy, etc.

Brandzy does some cool branding too: https://brandzy.com
Yuck. If AMP just uses frames then it seems like WebKit should be handling this properly.
Where will the philosopher's stone come from?
There are, as of yet, no high speed monorails that I'm aware of.
Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
The philosopher King came from Plato, that was much earlier.
Very nice! I was just reading your blog post on lessons learned from self-publishing. Your first point is spot on and actually applicable to all side projects, and probably your main job too - be passionate about what you do. There's nothing worse than having to grind something out when you really don't give a hoot about it (I've done it a few times - never again!). Well done on seeing the process through to publishing!
If we move towards hierarchical model composition, you don't need to rebuild the visual object recognition module to experiment in learning spaces that incorporate visual information.
Besides dark patterns, there is something else that annoys me even more: the cluttered and inconsistency of the UI itself.

It is not possible or really not intuitive to do something like entering a couple of places you would potentially want to go to, select 2 adults and 3 children, filter them on criteria like free parking, free wifi and sort the results on price.

While this sounds like a pretty common pattern, the experience is really bad. Sorting is messed up by sponsored hotels, not consistent on the price of a room or the room I configured or the price is the cheapest room without wifi...

On top of it, they run all kind of experiments. This causes more confusion for me, because I just learned to do something in a specific way.

I still use it, not because of the great usability or great service but because there are no real better alternatives.
https://www.amazon.com/Six-Pillars-Self-Esteem-Nathaniel-Bra...

Hands down
See, a lot of people say things similar to this.

But let's think logically: with Go, you have a single binary file, that will run on basically any distribution of Linux, with no external dependencies.

With Docker, you need a lot more than that, and in the case of a Go binary, you have no benefit.

I'd suggest reading through https://thehftguy.com/2017/02/23/docker-in-production-an-upd... for an idea of "Docker in production". Sure, we aren't all running HFT systems, but the issues he documents aren't really specific to HFT - they're more related to having a piece of software you can rely on to work.

Can containers in the generic sense be a useful tool for certain tasks? Sure.

Is Docker the "omg lets put bread around this meat and call it a sandwich" epic moment? No.

The rise in mindshare of Docker is IMO not coincidentally linked to the rise of the bad kind of DevOps: where management fires ops, and gets developers to run their infrastructure.

"I don't need to understand how <insert common Linux infrastructure software> works, I can just run 2 docker commands and it will download me a working image from the internet. What do you mean who created the image and can I trust it? This is the Internet, of course anything I download is trustworthy."
ReactOS 0.4.6 released with many new drivers, UX/stability improvements
If anything I think less die before reaching puberty.
Oh cool, I'd heard of PhotoDNA but I didn't know the details behind it. Thanks!

"It works by converting the image to black and white, re-sizing it, breaking it into a grid, and looking at intensity gradients or edges."

Pretty cool piece of technology. Seems like it covers the obvious bases. I imagine it also ignores meta tags as part of the hashing process, and operates directly on the pixel information.

Perhaps one way to circumvent detection without making perceptual modifications (which would have to be somewhat significant to thwart the above method) could be a program that losslessly converts all of your images' pixel data to a generated file type only understandable by a program with a specific key in memory, which either directly displays the image or creates temporary files that could be used by a regular image viewer? The files could possibly be signed by more than one party for extra protection. I know it sounds just like encryption but I'm thinking of something a little different. Sort of a singular encrypted file that can be securely transferred to any file system.

Sounds like a fun and challenging project but I'd hate for it to be so successful that it leads to child pornographers getting off the hook.

"In December 2016, Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft announced plans to use PhotoDNA to tackle extremist content such as terrorist recruitment videos or violent terrorist imagery."

Dear lord, that is a stupendously slippery slope.
How to Design Programs. It helped make explicit the very concept of mental models.
Great source. Here's the relevant bits:

Agents from the Department of Homeland Security then applied
for a federal search warrant to examine the seized devices.
Doe voluntarily provided the password for the Apple iPhone 5S,
but refused to provide the passwords to decrypt the Apple Mac Pro
computer or the external hard drives. Despite Doe’s refusal,
forensic analysts discovered the password to decrypt the Mac Pro
Computer, but could not decrypt the external hard drives.
Forensic examination of the
Mac Pro revealed an image of a pubescent girl in a sexually
provocative position and logs showing that the Mac Pro had
been used to visit sites with titles common in child
exploitation, such as "toddler_cp," "lolicam," "tor-childporn," and “pthc.”
The Forensic examination also disclosed that Doe had downloaded thousands
of files known by their “hash” values to be child pornography.
The files, however, were not on the Mac Pro, but instead had been
stored on the encrypted external hard drives. Accordingly,
the files themselves could not be accessed.

So it looks like they got the hashes from logs/forensic evidence collected from an decrypted Mac Pro.
> Well, poorly

Agreed. I shouldn't have included that line.
Ding ding ding. This is the answer. I know OS X also stores hashes of at least some downloads for the purpose of checking certificates on downloaded apps and disk images.

This is clearly enough evidence to convict the guy, so I imagine they're holding him for some political reason (like generating jurisprudence for violating the 5th amendment in the future).
> When mormons/christian groups/conservatives/etc organize and start flagging atheist/lgbt youtubers/content and getting them taken down, are you going to celebrate censorship?

Given that this has happened repeatedly before, I think the response will continue to be the same when it next happens: mostly challenging the choice to censor those materials, not the choice to censor anything. In the case of, for example, Facebook or Twitter this is already apparently the case (in Twitter's case mostly using their more subtle moderation mechanisms), so yes, the stance of queer leftists who support harsher treatment of racism and such online tends to be based in a belief that being queer can in fact be treated differently in online spaces than, for example, advocating murdering black people. After all, if the status quo of online moderation is already harsher against us, that's clear evidence that it's possible for it to be differently harsh between us and neo-Nazis.

[Edited to correct a typo of "mechanism" in place of "mechanisms".]
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations - David S. Landes

Agree or disagree with his findings, but it was the first book I read as a teenager that tried to connect seemingly disparate things into a single narrative - culture, technology, luck.

Jared Diamond had a similar, but more simple premise.

I still think of certain passages of Landes' book to this day. The impact of clockworking, the start of the modern tech industry. The impact of protocol and bureaucracy, especially the Spanish one.
Pretty much the same errors that were made in the 2008 financial crisis.
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