skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I met with Google ATAP in 2013 and had a similar experience. I am and have been an aspiring inventor for the past 10 years.

You can read more about my experience with Google ATAP via this post...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15422475
Indeed, it does look like the set she's holding is one of three that were sold in the auction. If Adafruit has actually acquired the brand, this is certainly an odd way to go about announcing it. I could see this having been a joke that's now gotten misinterpreted.

But, if so, the @adafruit twitter account is definitely further confusing things.
Parables are one of the best ways to get a message across to a lot of people. It's a message worth spreading.

If you want more "technical" thoughts on the project, there are those things too, but most people would never have been exposed to them without the less-technical people making noise.

"The central, gaping hole in their fear-mongering, as Maciej has pointed out, is that they do not define or quantify intelligence, but they're very free with language when they talk about AI surpassing human intelligence."

IMO, this is less of a problem than most people assume. It's usually defined in broad terms as "ability to achieve goals", and that's enough for almost all practical purposes. To insist on a stricter definition is simply unnecessary for their arguments.

Just because we don't understand something, doesn't mean we can't use it or reason about it.
It is reinforcement learning, i.e., necessarily unsupervised.
Oh wow. That was pretty brazen of them. They sized you up and decided "What's the chance they'll have resources to sue us? No much probably. So just take their idea and go with it".
and make it tuRing complete
The price is 5x since after the ETH hype started a few months ago. Literally just look at the price history.
I work at Google.. I am just a lowly engineer and know nothing about this so I have nothing to say.

I miss the days when I could comment and people would think I was just a person with an opinion.
A PhD from say Microsoft Research ought to be as good as any. Or back in the day, Bell Labs.
This author confuses a hard fork for a github fork:

> The bitcoin chain has been hard-forked at least five times, [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bitcoin_forks

Ouch! Those aren't hard forks— they are forks of the github repo!

In reality Bitcoin has only been hard-forked twice. Once, to fix the bug as described in BIP 50, and once for Bitcoin Cash.

Here's a better resource: http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/patrick.mc-corry/atomically-tr...
Don't say "European". The rights may be bad in the UK, but here in Germany we have rights as strong as the Bill of Rights.
Beauty of the Go Programming Language
An interesting idea, but a browser is only designed to render and manage web pages, I think what you’re more talking about is the underlying protocol and network implementation
I agree mostly with this sentiment but this did actually happen with discoveryd in MacOS. https://www.macrumors.com/2015/06/30/apple-releases-os-x-10-...
There is Pale Moon. Being a very niche browser developed by a small community it is unlikely to add to the internet data mining gold rush that is currently going on. Pale Moon doesn't even accept the new DRM standards that Mozilla was forced to accept.
Mid 2000s was about flipping houses. Do we have seminars at Marriott courtsides pitching bitcoin yet?
Personally, I think XMPP with Omemo is the best you can use today.

You have classic desktop clients for all operating systems (e.g. Gajim for Linux and Windows) and there are clients for android (conversations) and iOs (Chatsecure). Most of the clients (pc+mobile) are open source. What's more, you don't need to disclose your phone number and the privacy enabled by OMEMO is great without any usability nightmares.

On top of that, the network is highly decentralized. There are many providers for free and paid accounts and you could also host your own server.
It doesn't matter if it's a "password hash" if it's a cryptographically secure hash and a long enough password. If it can withstand all the attacks that give you shortcuts to finding out what the input was, given the output, it's fine.

Password hashes only help protect against brute force searches by increasing the cost to attack linearly with the cost to verify. But that isn't a great tradeoff and isn't future-proof.
On fiverr you can buy quite decent illustrations from $5 and up. It would work well for so many scientific articles. I bet their readers would appreciate great articles like this accompanied by drawings and other illustrations instead of just text and numbers and primitive graphs like here. Researchers often work in teams for years or months costing hundreds of thousands or millions in equipment and salaries. A few hundred bucks would make their work much more interesting and accessible. I wonder how many more would actually read the articles if they were illustrated. My guess is a factor 10 or more, even among their peers.
It was set to die by design.

Bitcoin has a predetermined graph of coin production with time that converges soon. In 2022, 90% of all bitcoins will be produced, and the ideal inflation will be lower than most fiat currencies.

But inevitably, people die, and the knowledge of their private key with them, removing bitcoins from circulation. The amount of bitcoin will therefore decrease impredictably

All in all, it will be as volatile as currently traded gold (which is not as good a long-term store of value as fiat money as a result), and slower to use in transactions (in November, the European Central Bank will launch SCT Inst, a SEPA mechanism that provides transactions in less than 15 seconds, which is better than Bitcoin's recommended 2 hours).

Beating the improvements of traditional systems will require new cryptocurrency designs.
Hi Flavio, no problem, happy to make your day!!

Unfortunately I don’t have access to a Windows machine.

The EQL5 repository has a readme, which I believe has windows instructions, if you can run EQL5, running nEXT is trivial, you would just type in ‘eql5 run.lisp’ from the source directory and it would just work!
Perhaps easier to conceptualize in Europe indices. Imagine European stocks go up but so does the strength of the euro vs the dollar. You, as a US resident (ok presumably) wouldn't be realizing those stock gains on the top line numbers because when you sell the position and convert back to dollars, the worse FX rate erodes your returns.

When OP talks about dollar adjusted returns of S&P, an analogous mechanism is at work.
No, but it's plenty acceptable to say "I'll be less productive because the IDE is broken". Even the diehard Java enterprise developers I know can jot down code with a pen and paper if they were absolutely forced to - that doesn't make it a good idea to tell them not to use an IDE in their day-to-day job, nor a language without good IDE support.
You must be astroturfing (or whatever it's called - submarining, secretly shilling, etc.) for the Mill project[0]! ;)

Every once in a blue moon someone from that group returns from "investing sweat equity into patents" (or however they're [not] getting paid for whatever they're doing) to HN's reality distortion field (welcome!) and blesses us with wisdom[1] from their awe-inspiring project currently classified as vaporware by many such as myself with no public evidence of even a single physical hardware prototype.

I would be interested to hear your thoughts about that project, and also hope my playful jab (not too harsh?) can provoke any of them to respond to your comments (maybe they should hire you!). There are other projects mentioned in those comments that you may find interesting as well (CheriBSD, L4 Linux, etc.)

Also, any thoughts you have time to share on the adaptability of the various open hardware RISCV projects, which seem to be at the beginning stages of delivering just beyond basic functionality without much priority allocated for your secure performance concerns. I was surprised to see no specific mention of it in your initial​ comment.

To the best of my very limited knowledge, a genuinely secure processor, even versus nation-state level actors, is unfortunately still non-existent or near uselessly underperformant (is that a word?) at this point. Not to mention all of the various other, often easily side-channel attacked, bits and pieces are required to have a working computer!

Perhaps an introduction is already behind you but this is a helpful recent discussion for anyone developing an interest in this aspect of information security: Ask HN: Where do I get started on ASICs, FPGA, RTL, Verilog et. al? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15379418

PS. Paging HN user nickpsecurity[2] once they wake up since this topic is pretty much their personal hobby horse here. Your comment seems like it was posted by this user a few years ago in an alternate universe, which I mention as a nice way of documenting the very unique similarities of your level of concern.

[0] https://millcomputing.com/

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22mill%20project%22&sort=byDa...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=user:nickpsecurity%20hardware&...

- specifically, on real-world implementations of secure systems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9628845 | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14692557 | etc.

- bonus: on web browsing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9962444
Yes, and as a European, this is very visible in my portfolio. S&P 500 ETF is the worst performing part of my savings portfolio, when nominated in euros. China, Nordics, rest of the Europe & emerging markets are all doing fine.

Of course, the falling dollar price benefits US exports in the future, so it could be a good time to invest in US, now that it has been performing less stellar compared to the rest of the world.
Because (B-tree) indexes on sequentiel IDs are more efficient.
If you actually look into it, there's basically nothing that you can accuse them of here.

There's the possibility that Cliqz does actually start collecting the data, i.e. breaks the contract, commits a crime, and that then Mozilla, which owns parts of Cliqz and therefore has insight, does not notice right away.

Other than that, there's nothing. No serious journalist will pick this up, because it would in turn damage their reputation to accuse Mozilla of mishandling user data here.

Yes, it is still going to damage Mozilla's brand, because people prefer conspiracy theories over actually reading up on what they're doing, but it's going to stay isolated to first-hand news discussion forums, like HN, Reddit, Slashdot.

This is simply an investment that Mozilla is willing to take to potentially improve search in their browser and to decrease the internet's dependence on classic web search engines, which is to say Google.
If you are attacking just one password, that makes sense. But if you want to check all the compromised accounts for easy to guess passwords, a salt will increase the cost.
Interoperability and dependency also tends to play a very large part of why IT projects are notorious for getting side tracked, to jump off this post; at my last place of employment, the first major project we tried to tackle was finally migrating off of a legacy server which touched virtually every other piece of software and hardware on the campus due to how the infrastructure had grown over time. Every project was stalled largely due to the fact that everything was so dependent on this one system and the system itself was a complete unknown as it more or less was script-soup written by one guy over the course of 20 years. Detangling and decoupling everything took years, and was only finally completed when the server's mobo went belly-up on us and we weren't able to scavenge a new part.

With a lot of infrastructure projects, you can fairly easily route around dependencies since, luckily, in many cases modern cities have planned for it, or there are natural detours built in, but dependencies in IT can be literally hard-coded, and replacing then is not a minor task.
"Why does the company force hardware upgrades?"

Partly to pre-empt hardware issues. Vendors will only offer warrenties for so many years, because they can only maintain stocks of replacement parts for any given model for so long. Once you have enough machines, a certain percentage of them will fail each year, and it becomes a game of numbers. A well-organized IT department will swap out your computer before it gets so old that there is a risk that it will suddenly fail in an unrepairable way.
Same for Huawei (swipe on the menu bar at the bottom).
Why do you say that's likely? The data points otherwise.
I'll just add my 0.02 and say that for writing games, at least, I cannot imagine a better language than Swift, unless it's a slightly better version of Swift.

Combined with SpriteKit/SceneKit/GameplayKit/Metal, it's a decades-long dream come true.
> If I find a bug on my own I can do as I please with it.

only if your access to the vendor's systems wasn't precluded with an eula that you agreed to beforehand. I don't see company be stupid enough to not put in broad legal terms in the eula to prohibit this sort of penetration.

But if you weren't given permission first (which may involve said eula) then that must mean you're accessing without permission - which is illegal.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai: 'I don't know whether humans want change that fast'
Before everybody gets too excited about brick and mortar stores opening (back) up, think about it for a second...

If RadioShack couldn't earn enough to stay open -- selling all the various products that they did (mostly Sprint phones and service the ladt few years, AFAICT) -- do you really think there's gonna be enough sales of AdaFruit products to keep retail stores open? No.
A critical vulnerability affects Siemens #smart #meters
Trump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate
Interesting article, but doesn't explain why the situation is anything close to an apocalypse.

My only piece of advice is that while it's fine to take money off the table before such events, pay very close attention to what is going on and NEVER PANIC SELL. Anyone who has done so before (myself included) has regreted it.

Bitcoin has been pronounced dead many times before and yet is very well alive.
> a "genetic algorithm" can be extremely simple and isn't fundamentally different than an algorithm like quicksort

Ah, but it is. What do you get when you run quicksort? You get a sorted list. What do you get when you run a genetic "algorithm"? You get ... the result of performing that procedure. There's no other formally specifiable postcondition. You certainly aren't guaranteed to get a perfect solution to the problem you were trying to solve. That's why it's a heuristic: if you run this procedure a certain number of times, you might get a useful result. Maybe. And the way it works is by searching a space of possibilities in a certain way. That's not an application; that's the whole point.
Because most IT projects are not really pure play IT projects? If we do a comparison with construction, once requirements are done, design is completed, it is civil engineers all the way through. But in IT it requires input from non-IT folks and the amount of disconnect is mind boggling. So say creating a product for a construction company, which can predict the stress on a building. It requires coders who have no formal education on this aspect to work with civil engineers who have no formal education on how software works. So both way communication tends to be terrible.

Then the questions are what exactly constitutes a project and what are failures? Taking the example of the quoted A380 example. Deliveries have been delayed:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-27/airbus-to...

And the engines the mainstay of a plane have found to be have problems:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-18/emirates-...
They would also need your personal password. And the first time you use it you will need the one time pad your bank has provided you with.
The main thesis of the article is outdated and now wrong - as someone pointed in its comments: https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/commit/a3c41256984bf11d95a56...
All the rest might be interesting to someone completely new to the subject - but it also contains many mistakes. One is confusing git forks of the source code with the blockchain forks. Another is his claim that "everyone agrees that the capacity of the Blockchain needs to be increased" - bitcoin needs capacity increases - but it does not need to be on-chain - there are proposals like Lightning Network that would do that off-chain.
I have no other way to describe weak typing and scoping rules of the said language. I stand by my words.
Intelligence Quotient and Intelligence Grade of Artificial Intelligence [pdf]
Serverless Share Tracker Using Go, Make, Gnuplot, SQLite
If you're correct, it's unlikely that this license would be enforceable under current copyright law. This can only work if output contains parts of the copyrighted work (see: Bison's GPL exception).
Or they could just list direct numbers to each division on the company's website...
Because we can't estimate things well. We have played with small demos and examples, solved homework problems (in college). We remember how successful we were picking up and coding new APIs and ideas.

That is we often have a proof of concept ready or the skeleton and then declare it 80% done. Then we extrapolate and say, "well I'll a bit more just to finish the last 20%". Except that the last 20% is composed of both boring and unpredictable things. Boring like having to write tests, documentation, find out that it doesn't jive with the deployment hardware, plugging logging, authentication into it, managing upgrade from old versions of software, having meetings with marketing. Unpredictable because in that perceived 20% requirements change. Even more insidious is the market as a whole change. Ever seen it happen - while finishing a major project and about ready to release it, everyone moved on and nobody wants that kind of a thing anymore? I've seen it.
My mistake - I would delete this comment - but now I cannot.

Your source is also not quite on the spot - it is about hard forks - but there were also soft forks.
My point was that you could probably simply export as 16-bpc TIFF and I'd be surprised if RawTherapee didn't support that (cursory search through the docs suggests that it can do so).
The Possible Link Between Air Pollution and the Stock Market
Thanks for doing this, Ken. I have a similar, but slightly different, motivation.

I'm working on Noctacam (http://noctacam.com), a camera app that uses computational photography algorithms to take better photos. I would like everyone to be able to reuse my work, without having to reinvent the wheel. But while paying me. Imagine if I released the source code, with a clause saying that its use requires a payment of money to me. Say $3 per user with a cap of $1M.

I don't want to distinguish between commercial and non, because most users of a camera app will be non-commercial, and in any case, I want everyone who benefits from my effort to pay me. Is it part of the plan to make L0 more flexible so that people who adopt it choose whether to make an exception for non-commercial use?
I suspect that the first step is for to break down the problem a bit more. Large projects need full-time developers, plus other kinds of expertise, which means organizations. For the long tail of libraries and small tools, I don't think that the problem is funding, it's team-building. If lone maintainers had better ways of recruiting extra team members to help carry the load, there would be a lot less of an issue with burn-out.
C:\Users\me>tasklist /NH | FIND /v "vivaldi" /c

60

Windows 10 minus all the vivaldi (~chrome) processes. You can trim most OSes to the reasonable essentials if you try hard enough.
The real value is the nominal value adjusted for the rate of inflation (using an agreed definition of inflation and against some agreed monetary base - see M0, M1... and other types of monies)

Inflation means the purchasing power of the unit of currency is reduced. iirc it was Keynes who noted that government financing can utilise the margin between real and nominal values, with the benefit of also maintaining animal spirits (bullishness/confidence) as the public sees only price.
For economist perspectives: Paul Krugman's blog elaborates on this in a readable way. Mises.org provides one critique. David Harvey another.
Dan Amerman provides an CFA/investor perspective (http://danielamerman.com/va/Dow36.html)

The graph linked to above could be viewed as a decline in real value of equities - or the value preserving market response to inflationary pressures (with some degree of non-market support)

The combination of inflation and tax rates is important to understanding the interplay between government, markets and the wider economy. Which is the dog and which the tail is a moot point. Not endorsing, and not by any means the last word, but David Graeber provides an alternative starting point before exploring further: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2015/oct/28/...
Only barely (see "What if we could perfectly time the market?" in [0] which cites [1]), and it is the height of self-delusion for anyone to think he or she will time it correctly, when professionals fail to do so. Don't try!

[0] https://www.bogleheads.org/blog/bogleheads-principles-never-...

[1] https://www.schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/does...
For those, like me, who don't know what KYC is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer.

I wonder if I or, more likely, someone else could write a GreaseMonkey script that would turn all these obscure abbreviations into explanatory tooltips.
Thompson created B, not C.

C didn't exist as he wrote the first code of what later was named Unix.
Indeed. If they hadn’t been retweeting congratualtory messages confirming the acquisition from their official corporate Twitter account, I wouldn’t have posted it here.
How did you work around Obj-C inference issues when migrating to Swift 4?
I get the not wanting to be sentimental (I did get rid of nearly everything I owned once) but there’s a modicum of things people may want to keep and may regret not keeping: things related to family ancestry, pivotal life events come to mind.

More generally: I still don’t fathom the populist, knee-jerk, sweeping generalizations of castigating and demonizing immigrants and refugees whom the Western countries created, and that often they themselves were once also. If a country becomes predominantly xenophobic, like say China or Japan were long ago, they fall into backwards ways: socially, politically, economically and technologically. It shouldn’t be a political or partisan animosity issue that should be argued over or not discussed at all via the isolation of separation political universes, but a strength of values, integrity, community and collaboration with those whom may build future gigabusinesses elsewhere. Self-interest would welcome intellectuals, engineers, entrepreneurs and others with open arms and facilitate their integration as fast as they would like. Immigration is a form of customer service that signals values and qualities of the country... is our or your OOBE good?
Holy sh*t, this totally blew my mind! My first x86-based PC was a Sinclair PC200, which had CGA, and I had a RGBI monitor, and while online references of that PC suggest it had a composite output, I never used it. I thus had to endure the crappy output mode, and never knew it could have been so much better (and that a lot of the games I played were optimized for that better output).

I wonder if some emulators have a filter to get something like the composite output...
This is a really nice address book, thanks :) The UI is bare but does what it says on the tin. I hope this list keeps growing!
Well, as of January that at least had changed. https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/01/04/adafruit-products-at-ra...
I have used the subject for metadata as a way of storing backup files in IMAP. You can also use tags and as someone else mentioned you can do all sorts of things with headers.