skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the nineteen-nineties I'd built a neural-net creator using a method other than back-propogation that was able to create nets with about a hundred neurons that played tic-tac-toe well or perfectly (depending on the net created that day.) This was on a 12 mhz 286 using what I called static point multiplication (based on shift instructions, not multiplication instructions.) So I went to Toronto to see Professor Hinton, to share. My not being a big back-propagation fan was one thing that divided us before meeting him, but otherwise I thought we'd be pretty much on the same page.

It didn't go well. I happened to mention that I thought parallel programming would be a big help speeding up neural nets, and that I'd toured such a multi-processor computer in Alberta. He blew up. I never got to explain what I'd done with neural nets. He tossed me out of his office summarily and wouldn't listen to another word I had to say - somehow he'd gotten the idea in his head that I was a salesman for the company whose machine I'd seen, which machine was too weird to be considered anyway, and absolutely nothing I could say would persuade him that I wasn't a salesman. So the nets I'd created and methods other than back-propagation never got mentioned. Weirdest meeting of my life, and the end of my desire to do anything with neural nets, since other academic departments were even more violently rejecting of the idea back then.
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> But we're seeing how skillfully the FSB played the Trump campaign.

Someone's being played, that's for sure.

As a non-American, what I find amusing is how quickly the rhetoric changed from before the election "elections can't be rigged/influenced, Trump should stop complaining and such claims undermine democracy" to "Russia/Trump hacked^H^H^H^H^H^H colluded to influence the election and undermine democracy" once Trump won.

Heads I win, tails you lose.
> I think games which portray men as unemotional automatons who are only capable of the grunt work, or portray men as mostly machismo-fueled bro types who constantly degrade women, also reflect sexist attitudes.

Ehhh... I think its more important to see characters in the general sense rather than focusing in on particular characters.

Trevor Philips (Grand Theft Auto 5) for example is clearly a sociopathic machismo-fueled nutjob. But he's also clearly evil to the point of parody. He's an anti-hero protagonist.

Another "Machismo-fueled" character is Kratos from "God of War". A man who goes on a hate-filled killing spree where he one-by-one kills every God and Goddess in the Greek Pantheon (while having lots of sex in between) until the world is a ruin. Despite being the main character for the game, I think its pretty clear that Kratos is a morally "bad" person, and the 3rd game's conclusion (with the seas out of control with the death of Neptune / Zeus / etc. etc.) makes it clear that Kratos's rage basically went nowhere as far as bringing back his family.

When people are "machismo-fueled dude-bro" types, the storyline usually takes a deeper and more philosophical turn. For the most part, mainstream video games seem to be about Greek-style tragedy if a character goes down that route.

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I mean, I personally didn't like either of the games. But I recognize that these characters (and the stories that contain these characters) are deeper than the typical person would expect.

IE: Did you kill Trevor (GTA 5)? Does Trevor deserve to die after what he has done? The game encourages philosophical thought and brings the decision directly to the player in a way that no other medium can do or accomplish.

All the violence and agony that Trevor does throughout the game (under the player's control nonetheless!) is really just a vehicle to a deeper question that exists within the great scope of the plot.
I would disagree that the F-106 wasn't a great interceptor as it apparently was (and was a pleasure to fly).

The issue is that by the time it made it to production, the major threat had become the ICBM rather than the bomber. USAF Air Defense Command in general was defunded but ABM never took its place.
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Ahem: the V-bombers were all subsonic (at least in service — the prototype Handley-Page Victor went supersonic on at least one occasion and was controllable in transsonic flight; the production Victors had various external extras bolted on which made supersonic flight impractical).

The requirement issued for these bombers in the late 1940s, was for a mission to carry ten tons of Atom bomb from the UK to Moscow at high subsonic speed and able to penetrate Moscow's air defenses. They were pretty successful; Vulcans carried out the longest bombing mission in aviation history prior to Operation Desert Storm (the 8000-mile Black Buck raids during the Falklands Conflict) and the last Victor tankers were retired in 1993. And we're looking at designs that flew little more than a decade after the piston-engined Lancasters and Halifaxes of RAF Bomber Command.

All three V-bomber types — the Valiant, Vulcan, and Victor — saw service carrying Britain's nuclear weapons from the 1950s to the early 1970s. (They were replaced in the deterrent role by Polaris submarines.)

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_bomber
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Researchers at my alma mater created paper transistors, maybe they could be biodegradable after EOL?
The concept of frozen credit itself is wrong. Creditors need to positively identify those seeking to open new accounts or access existing accounts with a more rigorous process.

Which is to say that in the absence of a government identity verification service, you really shouldn't be able to open a new account without showing up to a branch office in person. That would at least limit identity theft to those that bear some physical resemblance to you. If they could also take cheek-swab DNA samples directly from the applicant, establish shared secrets, and exchange cryptography certificates at that time, that would be great.

The procedure should really be predicated on the possibility that they would later have to prove conclusively in court that the account-opener and the defendant are actually the same person.
I believe this was even more common on the SNES. The most well-known example is the Super FX chip, which was used in Star Fox and Yoshi's Island among others, but there were actually a ton of these things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_NES_enhancement_...
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That is generally the opposite of reality. IPv6 is generally faster than IPv4.

I don't know what "a couple of years ago" is, but all tier-1 ISPs have IPv6 backbones. There should be no reason for your access ISP to have to tunnel anything to get to a tier-1.

Your statement "Most ISPs (including mine) are using 6rd gateways to get their customers onto the IPv6 backbone" is kind of a red flag. If ISPs aren't connected to a backbone, can you even call them an ISP?
Also, it costs more to build and maintain a house (compared to a flat), and most of the other countries, even the developed ones, aren't as affluent as the US.
Can we slam Jamie Dimon a fraud / contributor to the financial colapse. Why is he not in jail?
Check out about:profiles! While not nearly as nice as the Chrome UI, it is definitely more approachable than using a terminal.
Twitter Lets You Target Millions of Users Who May Like the N-Word
That looks a lot like the format for auto-generated method comments from VS.net ~2013 or so.
No, jastr's command is wrong.
StrongTowns has a great article on this, "The Growth Ponzi Scheme," describing the effect that debt-fuelled, suburban city growth can have on municipal finances: https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/
For home users, Netflix blocks Hurricane Electric (sometimes?) because it can serve as a proxy for non-US users. I haven't had it happen in every case, but it blocked users at work from connecting and at home I got US Netflix instead of Canadian.
Pain and pleasure are the oracles. Maybe not at every moment, but within a given lag.
No,I'm talking about dedicated attackers of any level against naive, unsuspecting users, as you brought up. The FBI case was against a user who knew the FBI was after their data, thus not unsuspecting.

Social engineering, for one, is much easier against naive unsuspecting users than wiping their phone and hoping they wouldn't bother.

For those who truly care about their own data security though, a wiped phone is an instant siren.

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I have used an iPhone, though only for a short while, and not long enough to get used to it. I agree it goes a great, great distance to protect users against everyone not blessed by Apple.

But then I have greater data security on my laptop and far greater freedom too, so Apple's offering doesn't seem like a good enough deal to me.
Launch of a small model rocket with active stabilization.[1] This is common now, since every quadrotor drone has similar control hardware.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTND_wot9zI
I think the point is not how easy is to start a company, but how easy is to get funds that you can spend without fear of failing.
So here's the antitrust angle: what do you want to bet it'll have a default exception for YouTube but not other video sites?
> I don't know the answer on how to deal with this stuff.

It's not a question of technology or UI. If the same thing happened in your email inbox you would know the answer. Mark as spam. The only real solution is to stop visiting sites that make your life miserable (regardless of the medium). Most of the time they don't add a lot of value anyway and they don't link to sources so why are we even trying to fix them?
I upvoted simply because the title was too good not to.
This would imply that someone making 150 CAD (for a senior top developer) would be making 450 USD. That doesn't match actual salary numbers from the field.
Not 3rd parties, but their business model is based on affiliate payment from the banks/credit companies they recommend to you based on your data.
Some people don't care about people.
Well, I personally feel 40min/day for a 7yo is bordering on too little. Personally I had mostly unsupervised and not strongly limited access to a computer since about 9, and I definitely owe at least my career and my English skills to that. I mean - how can one expect a kid to learn to do anything creative/productive with technology, if one gives them so little time that learning and creating isn't a viable option?
A similar more modern font is Terminus.
Look at this headline, "Chrome Will Soon Block Autoplay Videos With Sound—Here's Why You Should Be Worried" [1] What a brazen attempt at fear-mongering so they can protect their ability to be more ad-intrusive than porn websites.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/chrome-will-soon-block-autoplay-videos-wi...
You can also use about:profiles, which is a little nicer than the profile manager.
What is it with this open-source + patents bullshit. Why can't we just work towards abolishing software patents altogether. They hold back pushing the state of the art.
Expert systems are one of the, supposedly not profitable, previous AI booms the preceded an AI winter.

My point is, they were and are profitable, but clearly that didn't keep winter at bay.
What's the idea? Sounds interesting? Publish a paper on it? Or put up a blog post?
Apple Watch 3 LTE won't work internationally
I have in fact read that article :). It's quite a good overview.
Good metaphore, great essay. TY.

Missed it while I was on a "no media" diet during school, but we do seem to watch the same channels.
Neither of them exist in my city and the trip is 300km each way :/
I can't use your link b/c I don't have a FB account.

>He was removed for hostile trolling of other YC founders.

Precisely, the words used by YC were "threatening and harassing" comments. To my knowledge this is the exact comment YC cited:

>All of you: fuck off. Take your morally superior, elitist, virtue signaling bullshit and shove it.

>I call it like I see it, and I helped meme a President into office, cucks.

I certainly see how this speech can be viewed as rude and disagreeable. But I don't really know how you can say that he made any serious threats or was honestly harassing anyone.
Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB Reviews Strongly Correlated with Movie Revenues
Dunno - criticise the powerfull but don't pick on the vunerable. It's kind of common sense.
Then again... Many great, new ideas are slight variations on old tropes. To quote pg's latest essay:

It's not true that there's nothing new under the sun. There are some domains where there's almost nothing new. But there's a big difference between nothing and almost nothing, when it's multiplied by the area under the sun.

http://paulgraham.com/sun.html
That's true, but you still find higher rates of urban living in similarly rich countries with lower subsidies on sprawl.
Equifax CEO hired a music major as the company’s chief security officer
I'd that were my main concern, I'd put the device on a pipe with too little bandwidth to handle video... All the text you can eat, but no moving pictures.
That's great. Someone I know makes more than twice that. https://imgur.com/mfOlO27
Yet Twitter remains. Why? Because of collusion. Apple will be destroyed next
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Current rule is 1 activity at a time. Little one spends 30 minutes a week in Gymnastics. Maybe someday it will turn to ballet. Who knows.

You have to set some kind of limit, or you get activity creep. Oh you need a sport. And something musical. And something social. Blah!!!

Maybe 1 isn't the perfect number, but 5 seems a bit unhealthy for almost anyone (unless the kid is really thriving in it I guess)
Google is going to split their sync tool into a consumer tool (Backup and Sync) and business tool (Drive File Stream); I think they stopped updating their main sync client a while back in preparation for this split. I think the business tool is the only one that will allow for files to appear locally that aren't actually downloaded. It's still in beta.
I think it is really interesting, since people were already watching a lot of TV before the recent leap in quality. They were willing to watch those old school network dramas and sitcoms (and still are, see: Big Bang Theory) but when a few cable networks tried bumping the quality up significantly we saw how many people wanted to watch something better.

And youtube is a much better platform than television for evolving the cheapest, crappiest "content" that is just barely good enough to get people to continue to watch. Twitch is especially interesting in this regard.
I have a remote job and am looking at a setup like this. Land seems like a very valuable commodity and I would like a lot of it. The peace of having distance between neighbors, the ability to grow food, building structures (I'm thinking workout equipment), having some animals. It seems like the ideal set up for me and I do really think self driving will allow people to work further and further away. I think it will also help normalize remote work, when you regularly work for an hour on your commute, it should be easily transferable that you work at home.
I meant the difference between protecting your data from destruction and securing your data against exfiltration.

The former is trivially defeated (just breaking the phone, for example, is much quicker and less involved than forcing a factory reset), and not what we were talking about.
I've been using containers in test pilot for about a month and I love it. Google is separated from my news reading, is separated from my banking, is separated from my shopping, is separated from my leisure activity, is separated from my work activity. Once you set it up to aways open a site within a designated container it is all smooth.

However, I wonder. What is the technical reason for not making it default to 1 container by site? Sure that would mean hundreds of containers...but does that pose performance problems?
> Everything short of the vocal pause stuff an old Sansa will do for you, running a tiny embedded C based runtime.

Great. So instead of using the increased compute power on my smartphone, I can do (almost) as much by just carrying another device around.
There are indeed PDF preflight tools to this day. E.g. on Linux you can run `pdffonts` and check that everything is embedded. I believe it's still very common, to the point that my local university's PhD thesis print delivery checklist includes it.
I used https://germ.io for a looong time. It's a really good implementation of this idea.

(No affiliation)
Not just NAT, but CGNAT, which allows ISPs to oversubscribe your IP address for you.

https://www.a10networks.com/resources/glossary/carrier-grade...
My father wrote (or edited, I don't remember) an article about state of the art aircraft in 1958. Among others it covered the Avro Arrow, stating, among other fun trivia, that more than 450 engineers worked on the design and it was built from more than 38,000 parts, including 17,500 meters of cable.

Unfortunately he switched jobs shortly after that and worked for a fine literature publishing house until retirement. I thought his earlier job was way cooler. :) We still visited the local airfield every other weekend.
Discussion about the article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8658283 and his account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7818823
The "just read" chrome extension seems to work pretty well at stopping media playback for Newsweek.
Accessibility guy here. Don't forget that color blind/low vision users are going to have a tough time parsing meaning from that table. Color shouldn't be solely responsible for conveying informational meaning. Consider pairing color with another visual indicator like an icon.
This is codifying "instinct" which presumably has already been done at least once (via DNA in some species).
I wonder whether this could be used to crack face id.
No, that is not the extent of the thread or the allegation.

It's probably not worth litigating this further, though.
What if the new tab had a command line inside of it? That would be perfect!
Hiring a nanny may be buying a way out of the problem, but at least is a decision you make. "Parents who pay to be watched" bothers me for the same reason life coaches bother me: it would seem to be a way of buying your wait out of having to "do you".

An adult should first be their own person. Of course it's not a good thing if they're bad parents (although even naming a boy Sue may be a way of exerting parenthood), but they're not going to be good for anyone if they're not their own people.

Here's an analogy: I understand prostitution -- it sells a service to people who are very ugly/deformed, the mentally ill, people who have very high sex drives or, in the limit, even people who don't want to deal with dating and Tinder and want to just get their sexual needs met in an uncomplicated fashion. The last case may be even societally deplorable (I'm not making value calls here) but at least is something one does.

I have slightly more trouble understanding the idea of escorts, who sell "arm candy" service to narcissistic people . I mean, I understand the appeal: I used to have share a desk with a very attractive woman and just the everyday banter and occasional flirty smile gave me a huge "ego boost".

What I don't get is hiring someone to pretend to be your girlfriend. The article tells us about a service that lets you pretend to be a parent.
> the Black Sea Fleet has run out of there under the Russian Flag

That was most wonderful comment so far.

So you're not aware that fleet's flag was changed at least 4 times during last 100 years and half of the time it was nothing to do with Russia?
I agree that this piece is exceptionally well written!

I also just wanted to mention, if you're looking for more things that humanize mental illness, that I've been particularly impressed by the podcast The Mental Illness Happy Hour. Some episodes are better than others, but all of them give voice to deeply personal, human experiences.
Five years ago I graduated from Waterloo and went to a startup in Vancouver for a year as a full stack dev at 80k CAD. I then went to the bay area where my initial (junior) offer was 135k USD. I don't like the area but I'm not moving until I've earned enough to live off of my investments.
I'd also like to see verifiable stats.

Anecdotally, when I tried Gab, the ratio of violent racist content to normal content was way way higher than on other platforms (even if the absolute amount is much higher on twitter due to popularity, the ratio is lower).
Thanks!! The network ate the font is actually how the problem was reported. :-) That was a fun break from not breaking the HP-UX server running the 24/7 factory and from babysitting various Linux web app server issues at the colo. :-)
I'm not aware of any routers that can forward IPv4 in hardware, but pass IPv6 to the control plane.

Even the discontinued Catalyst 6500, which was used (and still is) by a lot of ISPs with the SUP720 supervisor, can do native IPv6.

I think you are completely wrong about this. Routers with native IPv6 were available 15 years ago, and are already getting pulled out to be replaced by the new stuff.

The reality is that, that ISP tier 1s use either Juniper MX or Cisco ASR9000 routers. These routers have good IPv6 performance.
My SO is a HS teacher and has been in very good (publicly funded) charter schools (100% admit rate to 4 years Unis) and the bottom of the barrel public schools (50%+ non HS degree completion), so there is a breadth of experience.

We've seen the super-moms and the slacker-moms and at the end of the day, it really just comes down to the kid. Most of the time, whatever drive or interests they have are going to run haywire over the parent's best/worst laid plans. Valedictorians at the best schools still get abortions and go on to meth-out, and slackers in the worst school still go on to be fighter pilots. It's the kid's life, mostly. And, like most people, their life will be average. That's not a bad thing.

Problem is, admin is nuts, typically. Not the unions (at least in this state), just the regular state admin. They are under a LOT of pressure to make sure that they 'improve' and send kids to college (nothing else counts in the metrics). As such, you sometimes see 'non-traditional' grading systems where a 25% is a D and you can only give out 4 question multiple choice tests. Yes, by random guessing, the average student should pass, and they do, if you can get the 14 years olds to knock off the vodka and pot long enough to take a test. The lawyer-based teaching approach is obviously crazy, but here we are.

Strong caveats apply for instability/abuse in the home-life and drug use during pregnancy, of course. Unfortunately, you see that a lot more in the 'poorer' schools. At the last public HS, 90% of the teachers 'dropped out' after 1 year, my SO included. Sometimes it can get that bad, yes.
Cassini is far too old to have ion thrusters -- and even ion thrusters use reaction mass.

There is a plutonium RTG that generates electricity. That's used for heaters and powering the science instruments and communications gear.
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