skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me Worrying about "vulnerabilities in their virus detection method" seems unlikely.

We're talking about downloadable software here, not a cloud service like google. Once a hostile nation state has access to your binaries (as they would with an installed product like A-V) they can just fuzz the A-V detection method to find bypasses.

Heck that's what pentesters and red teamers do on a regular basis, A-V bypass is a common thing in that world, so if people at that level can do it you can bet that nation state actors can do it.
Given perfect information, execution, and instant reaction times, fighting games would be trivial for an AI to win at. There are already some bots that will do things like auto-block or parry any incoming attack in Tekken and they're pretty funny to watch (see TOOLASSISTED's videos like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNG5iRMdeg0 )

At high levels of play, where execution largely isn't an issue, it's all about reading your opponent, conditioning them to play how you want to play, and exploiting their tendencies to get in your damage. It would be pretty cool to see a bot learn to play with a human-level reaction time handicap and put them up against a pro in a long set, though!
There are no direct flights between CMH and SEA. Seems like that wouldn't make sense for a company based in Sea.

http://flycolumbus.com/airline-info/non-stop-destinations/
This is about VR video, not VR games, or other VR apps.
I wrote a script that switches my outside lamps exactly at sunrise and sunset. It checks the times and schedules the switch command using cron. It runs on a Pi, for several years already without much trouble. (https://myrpi.nl/node/60, sorry it's in dutch)
Thanks for the submission.
For formulas, I find Anki to be pretty effective, because it forces me to recall the formula. I also try to put proofs and proof-techniques into Anki so I can maintain knowledge of an area without using it frequently.
Hold your horses. It's not MSS clamping per se. It's the middle box MSS clamping. Say a middle box rewrites my SYN packet from my phone to have smaller MSS, from 1500 to say 1344.

The other party (server) responds with 1500 MSS, and both parties successfully exchange TCP handshake assuming PMTU of 1344. Now say there is a 1300 link between. And say my phone sends large packet.

My phone will happily transmit 1344 byte packet. Say TCP, with DF flag.... the intermediate router with small MTU will stop it, and return back ICMP PMTU message.

The point I'm making - the middle box doing clamping, usually don't do much about this ICMP. They drop it. What they should do is to send this ICMP back to my phone, but that's not what I saw in my tests. Or maybe I just tested some buggy middle boxes.
Some conundrums I have with this article and other folk here saying that you should get a therapist, that everyone should see a therapist, and you should listen to your therapist:

1. How do you find a good therapist, and given the disparity in their quality, why would you trust yours all that much?

2. Therapists can get very very expensive. Yes, including insurance. Very very expensive.

3. Therapists often can't meet you outside of business hours when you're often working.
I believe the latter post (obfuscating the method of detection) over incompetence.

Don't forget that nation states also produce malware (Recall Stuxnet?) [0] and evading detection is substantially easier when you know exactly what to avoid doing.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
Boring Company tunnels are NOT for cars-only, they do envision public-transportation-like services which will be much better to move between dense areas:

https://fm.cnbc.com/applications/cnbc.com/resources/img/edit...
More importantly: Societies need to be put in context. It's pretty meaningless to compare a materialistic modern society benchmark to, say, that of Sparta (disallowing trade, life goals include dying in battle).
Energy is the master resource and rome did not have oil; its that simple.
Gangs may not be the best example, but your interpretation is a mangled version of what op actually said. Clearly we don't know the long term ramifications of these changes. And we're sprinting towards these changes at high speed and acting like we know everything we need to know about gender. We don't.

We don't know whether it's merely a social construction or something deeper. And if it turns out to be something deeper, then we run the risk of fucking up a generation of kids.
> Is it comparable to commercial AV solutions?

"In a Shadowserver six-month test between June and December 2011, ClamAV detected over 75.45% of all viruses tested, putting it in fifth place behind AhnLab, Avira, BitDefender and Avast. AhnLab, the top antivirus, detected 80.28%.[9]"

> Can it intercept network traffic

"On Linux servers ClamAV can be run in daemon mode, servicing requests to scan files sent from other processes. These can include mail exchange programs, files on Samba shares, or packets of data passing through a proxy server (IPCop, for example, has an add-on called Copfilter which scans incoming packets for malicious data)."

It seems that there is a third party tool that provides heuristic detection.

Source: Wikipedia
Moreover, it's likely that a proper GAI would be able to ideate and come up with such concepts completely on its own. In fact, "lying" need not necessarily be a concept that has to be learned, the concept at play here is getting people to do what you want them to do by means of words. Lying falls out naturally.

The whole idea behind dangerous superhuman AI is in that AI seeing possibilities that humans fail to see and gaining capabilities that humans do not possess. Without superhuman intelligence, AI is no large threat to human civilization, exposed to dangerous concepts or not.
The emperor has no clothes. The guy who claims to have written 12 compilers hasn't turned out one in a decade. How are microarchitectural decisions being driven without a compiler?
you said "[exercise] might be good for a lot of depressive people, but definitely not for all."

Which is dead wrong. Exercise is good for humans, depressed or not.

You also said, "Before I turned twenty I met two people my age who took your advice and exercised until ambulances had to pick them up (literally). "

...apparently as a warning that exercise is dangerous. But as you can see, it's a ridiculous statement.

Sure, people should see a therapist. They should also exercise. Go for a walk. Move around. They should also gain some sleep discipline. Those are easy to start with. There's no mutual exclusion here. Just because someone is exercising and sleeping right, does not mean they cannot talk to a therapist.
If I need to get Mozilla's approval before I can run code in the browser running on my machine then I see a wall. That they've automated it so much as to mitigate the protection a walled garden normally gives almost makes it worse.
Most trees last far longer than people. But of course that's only on average.
That's fair--I edited my comment accordingly.
If researches present an artificial cuttlefish to the public as true AI, I think people would be very disappointed. But I think I get your point.
Do you know of cases where people have to be counseled for harmful effects of meditation?
Flying cars. Open-rotor engines. SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System. Skylon/SABRE rocket engine.
Yes it’s insensitive the way you put it, but being in motion is crucial. Don’t aim to “change lifestyle”, instead focus on doing very small things. When I had chronic depression, making my bed was a big thing. If you trip over again, nevermind, do another small thing like washing the cup you’ve just drank from. Or getting out of bed. But whatever action it is, pretend that you’re a robot and focus your consciousness to the task. Nothing else, because you’re a robot.

It might take a long time to build up but the hardest part really is the first part. Hope this helps someone :)
I'm a little cautious with posting this, I know it might sound terrible, but maybe suicide data might not be a good proxy for basic needs being met.

Maybe suicide has the precondition that you have enough basic security for the most basic needs to feel hopeless about the next level of needs.

After all, there are plenty of examples of people that had a lot of things and opportunities that elected to commit suicide. And maybe lack of struggle might be a prompter of this action.

Jeez, this sounds horrible.
It's exciting to think ahead to what that part of Mission Bay and Potrero might feel like someday when the train tracks are put in an underground tunnel (for Caltrain and high-speed rail to the Transbay Center) and I-280 is turned into a surface-level boulevard (like Octavia).
With respect, and as pure anecdote based on myself, "run a mile" is really good advice. I've dealt with depression since puberty and the main thing that helps me is excercise.

Lifting, getting punched with gloves or preparing for a marathon works wonders for me (not said as an opposite opinion than the author, but as a datapoint).

And please, if you're dealing with depression, you need to find out what works for you. Friends and family can help you find your way back, but they can't make the decision. When you decide - you - to take steps for coping with it nothing is impossible.

The author has sound advice on where to start. I'd just like to add that it can take quite some time, and that's ok, because life is long and you'll look back at this period and thank yourself for acting on it.
Usually companies allow source code review beccause they're trying to sell their solutions in the countries in question.

Look at it from the perspective of those countries

Symantec "hey buy all our security software it's super-great"

Foreign Gov. Customer: "sure can we check the source code first to see if there are any heinous security bugs or NSA backdoors"

Symantec "Oh gee no, allowing to you see the source code of products we want you or companies in your country to run might compromise it's security"

Foreign Gov. Customer: "..."
> I blame the people who publicize these places as much as I blame the people who fuck them up

I think that's a questionable apportionment of blame.
To me, saying "it's hard to pin down what the claims for meditation are" is a bit like saying "it's hard to pin down what the claims for psychiatry are". Meditation comes in several flavors and within the flavors is practiced in very different ways. The top level claim is "this will make you feel better" but when you try to verify that you're going to have to restrict it to something narrow that doesn't represent the whole thing.

The self-restraint aspect of mindfulness is one superficial outcome of the practice, one which I think emerges quickly if you engage with mindfulness. It's not the whole thing.
PornHub served up malware in ads for a year undetected
You should be charitable with the way you interpret what people say. That person probably meant "e.g. gangs." I find it frustrating how combative people are when discussing anything on the fringes of what is socially acceptable to say.
That is one place AI should 100% be regulated. There should be no weapons development where AI makes the kill decision. This is as important as the ban on chemical, biological and mine weapons.

When the weapon has the ability to kill indiscriminately (as in the above categories) it should be banned. AI should never be considered sufficiently able to discriminate to make a kill decision.

If there is no kill decision, just wait and fire, then it is equal to a mine.

100% should regulate / should ban.
Crude oil was irrelevant 2000 years ago. The primary forms of energy were wood, dung, and charcoal if I'm not mistaken.

There wasn't really energy infrastructure like there is today, outside of firewood/charcoal supply, which the Romans had in great supply.

But the average roman did not require much energy outside of cooking, as the temperate Mediterranean weather did not require heating energy.

The modern concept of energy running the world is really an Industrial/post-Industrial concept. Coal, then oil energy driving mass industry is the driver of modern power. Energy -> +Industry -> +Economic activity -> +Money -> +Power
But way messier. Which in a sense is what it's like to be someone researching the brain. Except with the brain, just getting access to the "code" is a huge challenge.
Interesting enough, the CEO of Kaspersky already offers the source code for review in the US: https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/02/kaspersky-lab-offers-sou...

Can't speak for the US, here in Germany the Kaspersky tools are used on large companies responsible for critical infrastructure. With the option for source code review, I'm still with a good impression on their tools when compared to Symantec and no option for review.
They have absolutely no need to court you.
> People with clinical depression aren't those who _can_ easily hit the gym for that dopamine rush.

This is not accurate, depression is just not clear cut like that. A depressed person can be fully high-functioning from the outside, even...

Quite a few people don't exercise for other reasons (time, aversion), in fact, I'd say those are all much more likely reasons than depression, but may also lead to depression.
Today I have already consumed more sugar than most of my distant ancestors would see in a year. The device i hold in my pocket reminds me that it is time to perform the action, and so i will perform the action. I sit down about 10 hours a day, and I have never once hunted for an animal I would eat, nor retried food from nature to consume, aside from a few raspberries on the hill in my parents' back yard when I was a child.

The contours of my life are dictated largely by a curious system called 'capitalism', a distributed computational mechanism whereby largernumbers of agents act with only one goal: to maximize their own utilities. I think capitalism is a mostly benevolent AI attempting to limit the oppressive conditions of our reailty's scarcity, and to allow billions of us to live on a planet that can only support so many hunter-gatherers per square meter. Many suspect it is not benevolent.

The singularity is already upon us; it's unevenly distributed. It started with the sedentary shift. Agricultural societies dropped the egalitarian nature of their ancestors, they had lower average health, and they had a tiny elite cast of nobles presiding over a much larger population of what were essentially slaves. As hunter-gatherer population increased, fighting was more frequent. An army of slaves beats a smaller contingent of well-fed free men. This terrible knowledge was the apple in the garden. What we call our written history is essentially the singularity playing itself out, as knowledge accumulates, depends, reflects itself, and expands.

Our lives are already controlled by this embodied, accumulated knowledge. Capitalism, rule by the head, our tools are knowledge condensed into matter, and we are controlled by them, living lives as far from our natural environments as cows in a farm or chickens in tiny cages, towering over the streets of hong kong.

I don't think it's destroying us, any more than we seek to destroy chickens or cows. Well, sometimes we do. I had a veggie burger for lunch today though.
As music, I have no problem with it. I just found it distracting for a science video. Turning the sound off helped me to pay attention to the scientific aspects better.
All the tech currently exists; cheap Kinects or Sony VR cameras could work for this, for instance

Unfortunately, that's not really correct - at least not at any level of quality that is viable. MSFT showed off some examples of this a year or two ago but the subject of real time scanning was in a very engineered and restricted space.

It's also unneccessary, unless the goal was telepresence, why would you scan someone in who is in the same office?

If the argument is that we're all going to work from home because we can all be scanned in virtually and work inside VR, then I won't be able to convince you that the barriers to that aren't predominantly technological.

there isn't anything you can do with AR that you can't do with VR

Ha, ok.
ah, thank you. I don't do social media so it doesn't even occur to me that answering this type of question is actually easy =)
Yeah, there are some affiliate links on the main page of the website, then a link in the header to 'how it works' shows a bit more. All of the code is mostly on github. (I was still learning how to use git for this project, so its not perfect)

If you have any more questions feel free to post them in the sub and I can explain more!
I'm not entirely kidding around myself. A lot of the places where I enjoy taking photos, you'd need to be a Baltimore native or a long-time resident to find, and I have no desire to change that. But when it comes to photography, I'm more about making the most out of the everyday.

I mind me of a fellow who briefly set up, on the Fourth of July, directly alongside me on the north brow of Federal Hill - he unlimbered a pair of tripods, a sack full of lenses, and a setup based on a D7100 that cost more for just the body than I paid for my entire kit. Then, after five minutes, he tore everything down again and strode purposefully off, leaving behind only a vague complaint about how "the atmosphere was wrong". I'm not sure what he meant, and since those few words were the only ones he said to me throughout his time on the hill, I have no idea how his shots might compare to my own [1] [2]. No doubt they are much better, though.

Come to think about it, I haven't posted a new gallery since before the train wreck. I'll have to make some time this weekend and fix that!

[1] https://aaron-m.com/2017/07/05/inner-harbor-july-4

[2] https://aaron-m.com/2017/07/08/bonus-shots-july-4
ClamAV's detection ability is really a joke.
To put it nicely, it's when you don't release it via manually stimulating your genital nerve endings. This practice is derived from ancient Chinese medicine I believe, may be wrong.
Reading a bicycle doesn't teach you how to ride the thing. To do that, you actually need to ride a bike.

I bet lying, deceiving, and manipulation are the same way.
>At present, bicyclists mostly represent a mode shift away from driving, which represents a net mobility increase for a given congestion equilibrium.

I challenge that, bicyclists who do things like run red lights seem to increase congestion.
Go stick your finger over a flame right now and hold it there until you can't feel it any more.
Strange, http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/git_module.html is pretty robust. If you haven't already, try running the playbook with -vvv to get extra debug info printed. You might be running in to a (possibly obscure) local or remote SSH permission issue.

You can use ansible.verbose="vvvv" if you're calling the play via vagrant's ansilbe provisioner.
Hey, if you were acclimated to it I bet VR headsets could make for better drivers. Put cameras around the car and give you a wider field of view, plus it's not obstructed by the frame.

It could have a look-behind mode that swaps around 180 degrees to the rear camera array while you're in reverse. Better spatial awareness than a backup camera on a screen.
Interestingly, the "Discover repositories" tab does have "dismiss" fields for every row!
Yeah, so it's not water on demand. That was my original idea but obviously that posed some risks to the dryness of my floor and the relationship with my landlord.

How it functions is a daily yes/no vote that triggers a watering event for that day.

Edit: Oh, but to I think the real question -- No. It's not my plant anymore as far as I'm concerned. The community can care for it as they see fit. I won't interfere, except to add features, or put up seasonal decorations :)
I didn't say anything about consciousness but you're free to draw your own conclusions. Since you asked a random stranger on HN their thoughts: I personally think that consciousness is an epiphenomenon, a result of a bunch of smaller (but complex) processes in the brain working together. I see no reason why an AI can't produce the same results.
Ok, I see the playlists now. Strong vouch for this tip!
Have an interface for Serializer, with N (> 1) implementations. Write the code to decide which to implementation to use in whatever place is appropriate for the desired functionality. For code that don't get to decide, pass the Serializer instance in.
It seems like you're agreeing with what's being quoted: risk of any sort is, well, riskier (in many cases, impossible) for the unprivileged. Maybe I'm misreading you or the quoted part.
These same criticisms were lobbed at Microsoft 15 years ago (and IBM before that), but then, as now, people forget that part of why some of us love technology is that nobody can rest on past success. Ten years from now, some new upstart is going to make everyone wonder what the big fuss was about.
Yes, like I said you're conflating MSS clamping with all kinds of other things. That's incorrect. Remove the MSS clamping from your example, and the outcome is exactly the same.

MSS clamping by a middlebox is a totally fine practice. Dropping ICMP packets is a bad practice. But they have nothing to do with each other. They're probably not even being done by the same device.
I feel like it was a missed opportunity not making this a mixed reality headset. VR is great for completely immersive experiences but otherwise becomes a nuisance. Problems I've had with VR:

1) Audiovisual Isolation. With immersive VR you are unable to interact with the real world and often unable to see or here what is going on around you. It always feels creepy to me to put on my VIVE and not be aware that someone has walked into my room or has been knocking on my door.

2) Very poor multitasking. VR experiences demand uninterrupted focus. I'm often not 100% immersed in whatever I'm doing at any given time. I will share my focus with other activities and other external events. I don't like having my focus locked onto a single activity for long spans of time. If I'm gaming, I'll probably alt-tab once in a while to send a chat message. If I'm watching a movie, I'll likewise pause or shift my focus if something demands it. There are very limited blocks of time where I'm willing and able to give a VR experience uninterrupted focus.

3) Inability to physically interact with real world objects. If you don't need to do that, that's fine. But what if you want to take a sip of your drink? Eat a snack? Have a smoke? When you have 0 spatial awareness, that is very difficult to do. Even putting down your controllers and switching to a keyboard is hard to do when you cant see where it is. You could just remove the headset every time you want to do this, but that's very cumbersome. This headset doesn't even have a fliptop so that makes it even more cumbersome.

All in all I'm not sure how much utility fully immersive HMDs have outside of some unique interactive experiences that are short enough to mitigate some of the above problems. Remember that "dumb" HMD displays (like this: http://www.siliconmicrodisplay.com/uploads/9/0/4/6/9046759/_...) have been available since the 90s. They were also billed as the future of entertainment and TV/monitor killers, but adoption never picked up for the reasons above. People don't like giving up all their focus.

That's why mixed reality headsets are more promising to me. If you can insert virtual windows/objects into real world spaces, you can introduce immersion without necessarily sacrificing awareness. Let people jump in and out of virtual reality without having it be an all or nothing compromise.
haha I can snip off the pin and super glue a magnet to the back of one if you want. They haven't been selling well enough to recoup the initial production cost so I'm hesitant to expand the product line.
I think it's unfair not to clarify that he went to jail for insider trading.

He believes that that the government only brought the action against him because he refused to divulge user data, but he is in jail because of insider trading.