skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm waiting for WebAssembly to receive stronger toolings and lib until a radically new way to program the frontend appears. Ah, and I will relish to see the end of the Javascript dominance of the browser. I can say that again. I would love to see Javascript kicked away of the browser and replaced with something less asinine that doesn't require transpilation (Babel, etc), nor a slow kludgy hack to have a weak type safety net (TypeScript).

Meanwhile, i'm sick of the current state of the art for the web frontend. It is currently so convoluted and unprofessional, that programming a Windows desktop application using the ancient, verbose Win32 API looks like heaven, compared to it.

In any case, if you need an alternative, Svelte looks good.
"Network effects" are people's relationships with their products, which they justly earned.

They ran atop the same network that everyone else had access to and achieved, the accurate analog to the railway example is the ISPs and not these companies.
But nature also evolved a bunch of other organisms alongside humans that are fit in their own way. How do you evolve for just the (human level) intelligent entity and not a cockroach or rat?

Point is that you're going to end up with a massive ecosystem of organisms if you could fully simulate an evolutionary history. It's not even clear that human level intelligence would evolve. It's only happened once in our planet's history. We might be flukes.

You might have to run the massive simulation a thousand times and somehow be able to pinpoint the human-level intelligence when it does succeed.
Building a Slack command with Go
This is bullshit.

Alice Goldfuss, SRE at github: "reddit is mocking the Equifax CISO for having a music degree, meanwhile I know no one in infosec with a CS one" https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/908430394529259520
> Being total jerks, we have a pingback in the setup.py of all packages

Ugh. Yes, you are being jerks. The ethical way to collect statistics would be to ask the victim to click the pingback link.
New Details on Mysterious Crash of Lt. Col. Eric Schultz Near Area 51 Emerge
The one mile super-grid: Dallas' hidden asset
What does any of that have to do with the nanny? Anyone who feels guilty about how little their nanny earns is free to either (i) pay the nanny more or (ii) do without a nanny.
> kids?

I have lots of carless friends with kids in NYC, and they seem to get by no problem.
Fixed. Wordpress mangled the code when I made an unrelated change.
Had some fun with it yesterday :)

http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/facial_expressions.html

http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/max_headroom.html

It seems to be working pretty well, results do look nicer than earlier methods which were based on morphable faces [1][2].

See also continuous face reconstruction from video on their project page [3].

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nice6NYb_WA

[2] http://gravis.dmi.unibas.ch/publications/Sigg99/morphmod2.pd...

[3] http://aaronsplace.co.uk/papers/jackson2017recon/
>> Wasn't there in fact an agreement amongst the PostgreSQL contributors that they'd never all go and work for the same company?

At least some of us have that understanding - and looking at where at least the committers work it's fairly well distributed.

> Having said that, there do seem to be some larger concentrations of them in a few companies. I don't keep up too much with that either, but it seems like EnterpriseDB was in this camp (and logically so).

There is some concentration, but if you look at the list of committers (smaller number, I don't have to look up affiliations), they're fairly well distributed across the the larger players (alphabetically 2ndQuadrant, Crunchy Data, EnterpriseDB) and various other orgs with some.
Yes, in fact, for some value of "you"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
"you can guarantee it is published by someone who is who they say they are"

Can you? Positively identifying people seems a pretty tricky and easily screwed up business.

ID's can be forged, and a web of trust requires, well, trust.

I guess such a service could say something like "we got this person's ID (and/or address)" or "here's this key's web of trust", and that would probably be a bit better than what we have today (which is virtually nothing), but it would still be a far cry from "guaranteeing it is published by someone who is who they say they are".
But you can't even 'give an AI a mission' without a model of the world! And, if you expect the AI to achieve its mission in a way that's acceptable to you, you better be supplying it with a big enough model for it to reasonably be able to hit that tiny target in the space of possibilities.

Take self-driving cars as an example. Do you not think that any AI that will be able to do this will be essentially 'given' a huge set of knowledge before it's expected to learn anything by itself?
My point is that Gab will easily be able to demonstrate that Twitter is in violation of the Play Store's own policy - the very policy which is the ostensible cause of the Gab app's removal.

Not being a lawyer, I don't know what the legal consequences of proving capriciousness of policy enforcement would be. Maybe nothing. But IF it's legally consequential and actionable, then it would be easy to prove.
Elon Musk's Neural Lace could use Brain-simulating tech to make humans smarter
South Park Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo
Arbitrary execution in super mario bros 3 here: http://tasvideos.org/4961S.html
When did I mention AI?
Re: your second point, this SPAC is basically a $600M growth VC fund. Growth funds are common: Sequoia, KPCB, Accel, CRV, DFJ, Index, USV, IVP, Meritech, YCombinator, and more all have them. It's an intensely competitive market. SC is now joining the mix and their pitch of "get help from the team that built Facebook" is them marketing to entrepreneurs.
Downward spiral: how Venezuela’s symbol of progress became a political prison
Well your teachers, parents, society tell you what is right and wrong so we really aren't learning unsupervised.
Which also goes to show how ridiculously easy an electric vehicle is to produce, considering there isn't much to the engine nor transmission (the two most complex items) necessary.
Yeah if you have branch prediction you can suddenly realize you put dirty clothes in the drier together with clean ones.
> and "Allow installation of apps from unknown sources" locked off

Which phones are these?
The argument is that whether people choose to use mutable when it's not necessary has nothing to do with being harder to type. In Scala, using mutable is not harder and people still do the right thing.
All those things you described can be explained by having a pre-trained model built from DNA. Babies aren't a blank slate. Why would you even think they are? Do you think a baby learns to breath from blank-slate intelligence?
The answer is that Google is terrible at getting non-advertising revenue sources online.
707 came a decade later...
IMO being a music major isn't the story here, having no related experience/knowledge is. But that doesn't get clicks quite as well.

One of the best engineers I've ever met had a bachelors in Psychology. Another was a highschool dropout. The difference though was that those folks spent a ton of time learning everything they could, and continually improved.

Having a music major isn't a bad thing at all. Having no relevant experience is a much larger concern for me.

I'd go as far as saying that this headline is harmful. It perpetuates the "only people with CS degrees can program/security/architect", which isn't true at all. We shouldn't be shaming people who come from another walk of life. More power to those who didn't get a traditional CS degree and still kick ass :)
Here is the exact text from the article. It states exactly what I already said it does:

>While Torba paints this as a free speech issue, YC told BuzzFeed that he was kicked out for “for speaking in a threatening, harassing way toward other YC founders” — particularly in this Facebook comment:

>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.
That's been passed down over 3.5 billion years to form the DNA that creates that part of the brain in an infant. AKA pre-trained.
> I thought the bigger advantage was that you could do sequential-only I/O on projections?

Not quite following - a column store will usually not have more sequential IO than a row-store. Often enough to the contrary, because you have to combine column[-groups], for some queries. What you get is: Higher compression ratios, better IO & cache access patterns for filter-heavy queries, easier to vectorize computations. Especially if you either filter heavily or aggregate only a few rows, you can do a lot less overall IO in total, but the sequential-ness doesn't really improve.

> Or are you saying that you're only CPU-bottlenecked?

Oftentimes, yes. You might be storage space constrained, but storage speeds for individual sequential-IO type queries are usually fast enough. Parallelism helps with that (if you can push down enough work, a lot of it added in 9.6 & 10), plain old code optimizations (better hash-tables, new expression evaluation framework, both in 10), as does JITing parts of the query processing (WIP, patches posted for 11).
it wasn't until I noticed the animated clouds in the background that I was sure the image of the "future" suburb with houses that weren't shaped like regular houses and the staggering innovation of roads that are curved hadn't been drawn at some time in the, say, 1930s.

On closer inspection, there is a difference in vision, but they might want to reconsider the sustainability implications of the bird that disappears and is replaced by a drone...
Don't do shady deals with trolls then? Or, if that's not possible, at least do them in a way that grants downstream recipients of your software the same patent rights that you got from the deal.

There is precedent for the latter. When Red Hat paid off the Firestar troll, it negotiated a patent license for all recipients of the software, including upstream and derivative versions.

Discouraging individual patent deals with a troll while leaving the rest of the community (from whose software you benefit) vulnerable doesn't seem like a bad thing to me.
OMG, that's really bad. He does not even try to make a point. He's just repeating "build the wall" and calling other people cucks.

Being proud of "meme"-ing Trump into office, wow. Torba repeats how his right on free speech is violated, but is an outright dick to everyone around him because they have another view on some topic...
I work in infosec and I dropped out of a biology program.
I know numerous people whose technical skills I highly respect that have a degree in all kinds of things, or, indeed, nothing.
Note that this is just one recent work in a well established research problem that has been worked on for decades. The interesting bit here is that they appear to achieve state of the art results by doing something simpler than other approaches - instead of fitting a well thought out generic morphable face model, they use a pretty standard deep learning model to map a 2d image to a discretized 3d model of the face (voxels). Intuitively this feels a bit off, since outputting a discretized 3d model instead of fitting a continuous model has inherent resolution limitations, but the benchmark results are pretty impressive.
"Echo chamber"? Maybe if we couldn't split into filter bubbles, we'd be forced to figure out how to talk to people unlike us over the long run.
Absolutely doesn't take much to find the links:

https://www.google.com/search?q=patreon+nsfw&oq=patreon+nsfw...

Simple writeup:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/2/16074892/patreon-erotic-mo...
Author here. I've used plenty of editors that 'know' how to manage parenthesis. And editors that did even more than that, like auto-completing snippets and moving around the cursor.

It's all great, and I too think paredit is great! But these are all techniques for improving the "writing new code" experience, which is the minority of work that anyone does. Nobody writes perfect code the first time. And these conveniences for writing new code don't help much with the majority of my time, which is spent editing, deleting, and refactoring code - and understanding at first glance the structure of a program from its punctuation.

So, sure - editors can do more and I'm hopeful about them. But I don't think that 'automatic bracket insertion' actually fixes this problem. I think it makes the task of writing code seem easier but doesn't help at all with the hard parts.
I don't think people are dissing her for having a music degree. They are dissing her for apparently having no infosec experience (an accusation further intensified by her education also not being in a technical field). Whether that is true or not can be investigated. But saying that the row is about her having a music degree is a slight misrepresentation.
The original syntax for lambdas in D worked, but it was so clumsy nobody used it, and people even said "D doesn't have lambdas". Changing it to a much simpler syntax changed everything.

old:

function double(double a, double b) { return a + b; }

new:

(a, b) { return a + b; }

Currently, the syntax for in/out contracts is being revised for usability:

https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/98052839441fdb8c6cc05afcc...

D has a different syntax for templates than C++, and is far more approachable and convenient:

C++:

template<class T> void foo(T t) { }
template<class T> class S { };

D:

void foo(T)(T t) { }
class S(T) { }
No, you're absolutely wrong. Saudi Arabia was FLOODING the market with oil since 2015. They were producing at historical levels in 2016, even in the face of plummeting oil prices.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-20/saudi-ara...

Why do you think that is? The only reason why they flooded the oil markets with oil is because they wanted a low oil price. And the very simple explanation for this is because they wanted to starve ISIS from all their extra money they were receiving from black market oil.

They eased off a bit because they've achieved their goal to maintain rock bottom prices, but they're still producing > 10M barrels a day.

There's an oil glut because Saudi Arabia and the US want an oil glut. There's no sane reason why Saudi Arabia increased production to historic levels in the face of $40/barrel oil prices except for the fact that they want a low oil price.
I'm truly sad that Cassini's gone; more than I thought I'd be.

I didn't fully realize until today that I'd been keeping an eye on it for roughly 1/4 of my life.
Why should the word of a SRE at a small company be the gospel at this?

When I was working at Cisco pretty much all InfoSec people I know had a technical degree, from CS to EE to sometimes Mathematics.

I'm sure there are some outliers, but saying "no infosec people have degree in CS" is just plain ridiculous.
Duh, yes, that is needed. I don't have hibernate enabled on my laptop though, nor more importantly, my server.
And expecting everyone's LI profile to be a source of absolute truth is also risky.
i'd like to personally say fuck off for the dna stuff and a fuck you for mentioning it so casually
I liked the part where you call people suffering from mental illness "cowards". The part where you blithely assert some millennia-old facile philosophy can solve depression was pretty good, too.
To play Devil's Advocate, should a company be forced to bake a cake for gay people? Should they be forced to serve minorities?

I think we have decided the answer is yes.
It's amazing how little people on this site know or understand intelligence, artificial and human.

You would be surprised how much infants learn from listening around them and how long it takes to learn that language, and how a brain interprets language was formed through so many years of evolution to be highly tuned to learn language fast.
Best time to raise funds is when you need it least. Maybe this was a way to pad the bank account in case of a downturn.
I know the reasons why and how mutating methods work in Python.

Nevertheless I find this here much more elegant:

data.sort.tail.first # or this
data.append(7).append(3)

More elegant than this:

sorted(data)[1:][0]

data.append(7) # and then

data.append(3)

I love method chaining in Elixir or Javascript. In Python I have to create temp variables here and there to capture / further process intermediate results.

Having said that: Python has it's strengths. I use it more than any other programming language.
Yeah, I think it's interesting because this maybe isn't obvious when approaching with a network-guy mindset. A workstation guy or printer guy would probably check this first thing.
Yeah, article does not list a bit of evidence it is even true, forget about explanation or proposed solutions.
I'm actually quite impressed with HE.

They are essentially donating IPv6 bandwidth to the tune of 50Mbit per tunnel.
How the Transbay Transit Center is reshaping San Francisco
That's a good question, so what do you think might be the answer?

If we work with assumption it's not an accident/idiocy/etc, what is the state of relationships between US & Cuba? Does this send any kind of message and if so who is the audience: Cuban leadership, or local (US) readership, or international readership? Does it change the conversation in any upcoming meeting? Does it alter a stance in some negotiation?
Alternatively, and perhaps closer to where you were going, is there a sub-government entity that benefits - a department or an organization? If intelligence community is not in good relationship with or respected by the government does this help them? "We're under a thread, we need more autonomy/financing/powers"? Alternatively does it hinder them - "we give you all this equipment and money, yet you cannot prevent this"?

etc etc. I honestly don't have an answer - but as much as I like to rant against any given gov't as much as the next person (and perhaps more), I imagine there exists one rather than being fully inexplicable and illogical...
She did have an MBA, so maybe that degree should be a sign of incompetence.

Instead of asking the Infosec community for their thoughts this journalist is showing he is already out of his depth.
I know a system architect at Facebook with four music degrees...

Worked with several highly competent people in tech and infosec with music degrees, liberal arts degrees, no degree...
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.

Those that claim all 17 agencies had evidence when that is absurd (did Geospacial have evidence?) — making such a claim gives reason to doubt all the claims. I think was the point being made.
Yeah. If you graduated more than 10 years ago I don't really care what your degree was in, but I do care about what you know and where you've practiced it.
Interview: Apple’s Craig Federighi about Face ID
Butter-Toast – Smooth toast notification system for react apps
A reasonable theory. Agreed.
I just went to check out Mastadon and learned it calls posts "toots".

To me, that means "farts".

That's going to be a struggle.
port scanning?
Tesla files patent for mobile battery swapping rig
I don't understand why this isn't more upvoted; the fact that they managed to build this thing at all is astonishing, let alone the high quality of the writeup and tooling built around it.
pretty much everything tech VC-related is overvalued by conventional metrics
I don't know if NY suburbs are a great example, though. Things are much more spread out and loosey-goosey there than in younger cities.

Here's Plano, TX, which was mostly developed in the '90s and the 21st century: https://i.imgur.com/TmIlgBh.jpg

Here's Westchester County, NY, developed much earlier than that and not nearly as dense: https://i.imgur.com/pSIettu.jpg

(I used Google Maps zoom level 14 for both screenshots)
I started out majoring in music. I switched to studying CS and math because career prospects looked better. It was also easier.
I'm going to relish my first parent-teacher meeting in elementary school. I think that homework at that level of schooling is absurd, and there are studies to back it up. That age should be about exploring the world and its relationships. Locking children away for 6+ hours at school with the minimal recess they're permitted now-a-days, and then tack on an hour or more of homework at home? Sorry, I'm reserving that time for my child to have healthy play time.
Very little of what human's learn is done "unsupervised".
But I'm sure you also know system architect at Facebook with actual CS degrees.

I'm not saying music degree people can't be good engineers, but saying "no infosec people have CS degree" is plain absurd.
> If it takes me 40+ minutes longer to ride a subway than drive in (currently true) then it's both me and my employer's interest to reduce cost barriers and pay for the downtown parking.

Or it's in both your interests to decrease the time it takes to use public transport.
Silicon Valley’s quest for a basic income just got a boost from Congress
> 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.

Why is it not already this way? If a credit reporting agency falsely alleges that you have a history of failing to repay your debts (when in reality the person failing to pay is actually a scammer who has no relationship with you whatsoever) and that false allegation negatively impacts your ability to obtain a new credit line in the future, isn't that libel? Why aren't credit reporting agencies already being sued left and right as it is under existing law?

If a company wants to make it their job to determine the credit-worthiness of individuals, then shouldn't they be required to make sure that information is accurate or face libel charges?
JavaScript is dynamically typed, Swift statically typed.
Indeed IBM or anyone else could do this, but they're not, which implies a lack of demand.
Well the article mentions that the government passed legislation in 1976 to change all the "blue" lights to a tone that is the bluest shade of green.
Maybe it is comparatively easy to fit the morphable model to the voxels?
You have to forgive him. Shilling Kremlin talking points in a second language is not as easy as it looks.
obviously Equifax has shit security they had multiple webpage panels exposed on the public internet (ouch so stupid) and with default credentials of admin/admin and you are arguing that the CISO is competent? She was obviously massively incompetent.
> typically silicon valley tech companies have no problems raising money

I think you should qualify that with "good" tech companies (eg good team, good market, good product, good growth) ... crappy companies have plenty of trouble raising money.
A movie titled "The Interview" which released in 2014.
(quick additional note)

If you're looking to use Citus Community edition for your multi-tenant project, one thing to keep in mind is how you set up replication.

Citus comes with two replication methods: streaming and statement replication. The streaming replication method is more suitable for multi-tenant apps. In the Citus Community version (if you need replication), you will need to set this up yourself.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/warm-standby....
It's the movie "The Interview" on platforms that happen to also do a lot of interviews themselves. False positive.

If you filter trends to just that week and look at related searches, it's very clear.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2788710/
So if this exists, why don't they do some minor adjustments to make it usable and call it good? This works rather well (except not telling you which browser is loaded with which profile)