skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also love Lisp and I understand your point of view about the way Lips is not so nice with strings, which are the main data of the web. What do you think of such an approach based on strings and regular expressions: http://lambdaway.free.fr/ ?
> It's just a process with a fancy chroot.

and also namespaces for file-system, network etc. etc.
But then you are not really paying with Bitcoin. You are paying with Visa and funding your account with Bitcoin.
Just move to China then! If you really wanted to cut the cord and get that project done then you could rent a room in some Chinese town and stay there for however long is needed. I imagine rent would be cheap and you could AirBnB out your home to get all the bills paid. For the duration you will have the Great Firewall of China stopping that casual browsing of Western social media sites. Would reading Facebook be worth going to prison for? Nope. Problem solved. But I am not seeing these people that want to break free from social media doing the obvious thing of moving to a country where the populace are spared such things. Clearly North Korea is a bit 'far', but China is fine to live and work in as a Westerner and you could just go there if social media was 'ruining your life' and you were addicted to it. But nobody is cutting the cord that extreme, are they?
From pinot's links:

GOOG: $256K per employee

MSFT: $186K per employee

FB : $659K per employee

AMZN: $6K per employee

AAPL: $402K per employee
Almost correct but the secretary problem only allows you to accept or permanently reject an option. What you describe allows going back to previously rejected options.
The "conversation with your computer" aside (which basically comes down to "REPLs trump more static solutions"), I find that many really awesome solutions for problems came out of restrictions on resources or interaction possibilities. I assume that Vi and its text operation "language" wouldn't be invented today, even if it never existed; the modern mind wouldn't try not to use a GUI and base everything on keystrokes. It's far more likely that the according programmer would go "well that'd be a nice feature! I'll make a context menu entry for it!".

From a similar perspective: The terminal has by far the best options when it comes down to interacting with program output based on text. There's nothing comparable in the GUI world. Yes, using the terminal to edit pictures would be a Bad Idea™[1][2], but so is using a GUI to do the terminal's job. Pick adequate tools for your job - and if you refuse to: at least don't bother those who do.

[1]: Also, did anyone else note how Blade Runner features the worst user interface for any task in modern sci-fi? I'm talking about the "picture enhancement" scene. That is not the task you want to control with voice input. I imagine terminal-based solutions for image editing would have similar interactions.

[2]: Well, there's Image Magick and the like, but those excel because they're built for repeatability, not interaction.
Broadcast Receivers listen for push notifications. When a message is received, Service is started which are responsible for showing the notification as UI. Developers can rely on SDKs to take care of this for them but the steps are still the same.

The article points out a behaviour in some devices where the services do not get started because the stock ROM blocks the app. This in turn blocks the showing of the notification as UI.
What I disabled is the Google page when swiping left.

Tap and hold on a free space on the launcher. Tap settings and toggle "Display Google app"
Love this extension. Would love to see support for other feeds added as well (Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.)
...no there isn't. It's just another boring retread of key escrow, and we already vehemently discarded that terribly bad idea in the 90s.

But hey, as the world's about to destroy Net Neutrality and overturn Roe v Wade, why not. Tis the season for terrible ideas and throwing away decades of progress.
Go watch Yatin Gal's talk on dropout in neural networks. He shows pretty convincingly that the belief that dropout reduces network overfitting by introducing noise is wrong.
Try not to bump into the sea of money changers in the major cities.
Reclassify waste to shift the nuclear landscape
I know. But you shouldn't lump the dangerousness of HPKP on HSTS.

Also with HPKP you shouldn't just pin one key. You should pin several keys you own as well as several root and intermediate keys. But I agree it's very difficult to do right and there's still a risk of it failing.
Maybe delete Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Twitter from your phone.

That's the idea I've had that I haven't actioned because that would mean actually solving the information tech addiction problem that I think I've had since I first saw a computer about 40 years ago.
Devils advocate here. So the PE ratio is absurdly high for many stocks... so what? stocks are not like clothes or food. you don't get a fraction of their profit/earnings for your stock (ok dividends is like that a little, i concede)

people will continue to pay higher prices with no regard to whether its "expensive" if they feel confident in the economy. And ultimately if they feel a greater fool will buy them in the future.
Good thing I read the comment before I read the article, because I couldn't really follow the post... I am not alone. Anyway, I am glad author figured it out!

So I was looking up "furl" [1] and the first thing returned was a Python library called "furl". But the actual "Furl" in the blog post is a Perl library [2]. Open source project owners, please hear me out... can we please avoid name collision?

[1]: https://github.com/gruns/furl
[2]: https://github.com/tokuhirom/Furl
Harsh tone for a comment that’s confusing OS virtualization with virtual ISA and its runtime.
Ethereum's blocktime is way shorter: 10 seconds. You usually want multiple blocks to be finalized, from 3 to 6 to be sure you are on the longer chain.

The proposed blockchain solution for this are state channels where payments are then instant. Using state channels you can build a multi-hop network solution called Raiden (Ethereum) and Lightning Network (Bitcoin).
The Parsi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsi) angle of this story went unaddressed!
In general in biology there is a simple criteria about the interest of an article:

- If it is tested in vitro, not only those results do not translate to human health issues (it is not in a living tissue which is a complex milieu, not simply the juxtaposition of cells), but commercial cell lines are not representative of normal cells, as they reproduce indefinitively.

- If it is tested on a mammalian animal model, it better but obviously mammalian species are different from each other at the organe level (for example the tail is used for thermoregulation in mouses).

- The best thing for evaluating any human impact, is a phase III of a clinical study.
sometimes HN comments goes through and doesn't display. maybe commenter created a new account because he thought his account was blocked?
It would be interesting to see what happens when these adversarial images are used while data augmentation in training
You don't need the original source code, any code producing the object you want to check will do. If the object has a field "field" with value "value", then the code

function () { return {field: "value"}; }

produces a value of type Foo precisely when the original object was of type Foo, even if the code producing it was much more complex.

I don't see why that wouldn't work. If you have a specific example where that approach fails, I'd like to know about it.
Sure, you'll get some people to wear it, see whitemenwearinggoogleglass at tumblr, but ignoring fashion in wearables is just inviting competitors to put you out of business.

Please don't wear crocs in public.
If by knowing the structure of a NN a "trick" image can be specially crafted to fool it, what is the equivalent for a human brain?

If we get to the point of having a human connectome to analyze-- or the kind of access to neural topology that a neural lace would provide-- could an optimizer generate an image of static that human would mistake for the president of the United States?

It seems outwardly implausible that such an image could exist, but perhaps that is only because we've never seen one (or if we had, would we know?), and a "blind" search of images would never find it, as the space of images is galactically huge. With a "map" of the brain it might suddenly become plausible.

And if so, that world sounds absolutely terrifying to me.
> I had this problem. Solution was to install a Chrome extension called "StayFocusd" and really lock down what it allows me to look at.

Good idea. I just did a search and found something similar, but with a twist, for Firefox: Forest. Seems to be trading addiction for gamification / reward of growing a virtual tree. :P

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/forest-stay-f...
Two questions about mesh networks:

1. at some point there will be an expensive hop across the ocean, or between cities, that will likely only be built once, then shared. Won't whoever owns that hop have similar centralized control of any non-local traffic, similar to an isp?

2. how meshy should mesh networks be? On one extreme, every computer can be directly connected to every other computer in the world. On the other, every computer can be connected to just one neighbor, and requests are routed through many hops. What is the prevailing wisdom on the optimal amount of peers nodes should have on average in a mesh network?
Because people don't want to put stupid shit on their face that doen not even have any trace of marginal value. There's no transcendental deeper reason.
My girlfriend once got up in the morning and kissed my computer and said "That's how much you love your computer."
Having read some very introductory stuff about human visual system, I'd be willing to guess that a partial reason is that the human vision works on the input level quite differently than "observe NxM colored pixels in grid". The act of constructing what we'd think as a single "view" of our surroundings (that one intuitively might equate with a still pixel image) includes lots of low-level processing.

(E.g. Everyone probably has heard about the blind spot at the point where optic nerve 'connects' to retina. But I was surprised to learn that most of the stuff in our FOV is seen very poorly, and only the tiny area called macula is responsible for the high acuity vision. And the macula is capable of covering only a small spot in our FOV at one time: what we'd think as a single view is really constructed in a post-processing step as our eyes move and scan our surroundings. My amateur-level explanation might be a bit off, but the point is, it stands to reason that kind of "dynamic" processing system is more robust (especially to small pixel level "attacks" as in the linked paper) than simply constructing mappings of still pixel grids to outputs, as currently done by CNNs.)
Crisis averted: https://www.livescience.com/60607-helium-reserve-discovered-...
Related article: "BadNets: Identifying Vulnerabilities in the Machine Learning Model Supply Chain" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.06733)
Moderation is hard. It's personal, vague, variable and difficult to grasp without experience.

Extremes are easy. Easy to define, visualize, and apply. As such, they feel more rewarding and beneficial.

While taking extreme measures over superficial things might help, I think it's more important to recognize and address the underlying issues.
I wonder if exercising contributes to killing off these senescent cells. In muscle building one is breaking down and rebuilding muscle cells, this might as well prevent cell "aging" and going into senescence.
Is anyone else bothered by the last panel?

The first three have a straight progression from some bulky brick-like computer to something more mobile, and yet the last panel uses projection of some sorts. Wouldn't that be a regression of sorts?

I already have the feeling now that if anything will succeed in killing the terminal, it'll be those tiny touchscreens in our phones. The problem with those is that they're actually useful on the go.

Now I'm left wondering how a terminal would look like if it was adapted to such a small screen (half of which is a keyboard) instead of just copied over from the desktop.
Sorry slightly off topic, how does one get their chess level measured? Thanks
Of course it would be tautological to say "what's useful is useful" but that's not what the parent is saying.

The parent is saying that usefulness is the main, if not only, cause of success, and that other factors are in fact irrelevant (namely, fashionableness, launch strategy, celebrity endorsements, etc.)

You can agree or disagree with that thesis, but here you're misrepresenting it.
> Maybe next draft? :p

Looking forward to it :)

Also, what about the other half of my points? ;)
I can still see them, here is two:

https://deliveroo.co.uk/menu/london/blackwall/dirty-bones-bl...

https://deliveroo.co.uk/menu/london/blackwall/la-pistola

They are now flagged as "editions" but they weren't when I last tried one.
Simple Testing Can Prevent Most Critical Failures (2014) [pdf]
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Related: Slight Street Sign Modifications Can Fool Machine Learning Algorithms https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14935120
Question about "We give a polynomial-time algorithm for learning neural networks with one hidden layer of sigmoids feeding into any smooth, monotone activation function (e.g., sigmoid or ReLU)":

ReLU is piecewise linear, I always thought that was non-smooth. Did I get that wrong?
That's weird because it directly contradicts most rules of Darwin Awards, that the people must be mature (well I don't know what kind of school it was), that they must be the ones responsible for their death (from what you say, the engineering is what killed students later) and that it must be because of "extraordinary misjudgment" on the part of the people both responsible and victims (who are supposed to be the same).

Can you link to your story on their website in order to contact them and withdraw the award since it breaks the rules?
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Turing tests are, by definition, the thing which if a computer passes all of then they are a person.
The human brain is incredibly more complex than a "simple" (artificial) neural network, so there might very well be no equivalent for a real brain... but I think optical illusions would be a good approximation, even if less severe: tricking the brain in elaborate ways to see something that is different from what it would usually see.
I have an Android phone for purely economical reasons, but I tend to hate it, because it's buggy as hell, nothing really works the way it should.

Apple phones are way way overpriced but they're so much better than the competition. It's not true people buy Apple phones only for fashion reasons. The absolute value of an iPhone is vastly superior to the marginal value of any other phone, and the marginal value depends on how much you use your phone.

I don't use my phone very much so I can tolerate an Android phone; but if my personal or professional life depended on it, I would buy an iPhone.
I'd expect redundancies in analysis in the brain's NN make this impossible.
We have optical illusions, which can make you answer a lot of questions wrong like

Is this a face?

Are these lines straight?

Is this stationary?

What colour is this?

These even work across vast numbers of people.

With full knowledge of a person's brain and the connections, we would surely at least be able to enormously improve on this.

What other things might be possible? Could we make people move in a certain way, do or say certain things? There's no fundamental reason we'd be limited to affecting the visual processing sections of the brain.

And now I need to read snow crash again.
Who is a civilian in a civil war in a nation which has a constitutional right to bear arms?
Let's make an Animation with PureScript and C++
> If removing apps won’t get my phone to better behave, I’m going to do a hard reset. That will downgrade me to iOS 10 (or even 9), which I hope will be more usable.

Not true. Apple's servers are no longer signing iOS 10.3.3, it's impossible to downgrade through any means. http://api.ineal.me/tss/status https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/04/apple-stops-signing-ios...
No matter what Apple says: battery life on my iPhone plummeted after I installed iOS 11. Speed went down a bit, but that was you be expected. Hoping 11.1 will address the battery issue.

As far as I know, a factory reset won't downgrade you to a previous version and it's nearly impossible to do so.

Obviously yes, you don't need the fanciest, latest iPhone in most cases. Mine is a 5s, and I may upgrade to SE eventually.

Edit: typo
I believe Australia charges more than UK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3572446/Budget-2016-...
All the things you've said, bar temporal integration, are also present in CNNs in some way.
Training data is "augmented" with different levels of luminosity to cancel the affect that has on classification, pooling layers give some translation invariance (and avg pooling is a type of blur), and resolution is also very limited in most models (and gets smaller as you get deeper). And it still fails!
Filtering RSS depends on your RSS client.

On the desktop, QuiteRSS [1] is really good at it.

On Android, SpaRSS [2] isn't entirely terrible at it, though there might be better ones out there (I've essentially only looked on F-Droid).

[1] http://quiterss.org/

[2] https://github.com/Etuldan/spaRSS/blob/HEAD/README.md
I guess it depends, for one-off tasks you'll have to compile and run the Crystal code. I assume you ran the code above with `crystal run`. If you first compile the code with `crystal build --release` and run it, you should see a dramatic improvement over Ruby.

On my machine, parsing a 374MB file took:

- 25.63 using Ruby
- 19.97 using Crystal (run w/o optimizations)
- 19.01 using Crystal (compiled w/o optimizations)
- 18.68 using Crystal (run w/ `--release` flag)
- 11.54 using Crystal (compiled w/ `--release` flag)
> I think that currency volatility won't be a problem in the future .... It will be like in the old days when people used to haggle over the price of everything.

That does sound like a problem to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...

No, by the 2001 census it's about 50% of Indians who do not speak Hindi.

I don't see a reason for this fraction to have changed significantly.
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You could make that same argument about VPNs in general, which happens to be a 25-30 billion dollar industry. While I may or may not have reasons why a random "average" person might use this service, I find the question confusing... is the product not capable of being a success if people exist who don't want to use the service?

This kind of question always comes up for just about every service ever developed, and as the discussion continues the goalposts tend to shift and the user gets less and less sophisticated and more and more stubborn until at some point you demonstrate a user exists for which I can't prove they want it, and then victory is somehow declared. It is a sport I don't see much interest in playing.

To flip the question: we are providing a replacement for a service that already exists which is used by people worldwide and makes up a sizable market; our replacement is more secure and likely to cost less. Given that beachhead, you can now ask "who else would want to use this service if only it were cheaper and more secure?", and have a really fun brainstorming session.
In my experience managers are utterly horrible at giving early feedback to people who are not performing, and working with them to improve. It is I suppose part of human nature. People think it is awkward to deal with so they avoid it.

You have to consider that for society it is very wasteful to have people live off welfare schemes rather than working. Even if you are not a high performance worker, it is better for society that you are working than staying unemployed.
Docker lacks full IPv6 support
Here's what I want to disable https://ibb.co/hGVc1R notice the clickbait that showed up as you try to search
The brain has some inherent biases and prejudices - these arise from just how we grow up and perceive objects. So optical illusions are a deviation from whatever visuals we are used to, and you can say similar events occur with stuff like tasting an unknown object, or finding a different smell.
Regarding Jar files, wasn't it JVM that coined the term "compile once, debug everywhere"?
> Folks push it because it's Indian and understood by most.

I don't ... dispute that? You're continuing with the non sequiturs and it's really hard to tell what point you're trying to make.

("most" is also "bit more than half the population", which isn't that compelling)

> Folks resist and protest because it's not their native language and somehow worse than having English everywhere.

You have not understood the resistance. People don't think it's "somehow worse than having English everywhere". There is no analogous push for English everywhere that people are not opposing.
A selfie gadget would be an amazing thing. Maybe it could simply be an accessory to a phone, a variation on the selfie stick that would let you use the back camera (the good one) for selfies.

It strikes me as very strange that on all phones the good camera is on the back and the crappy one on the front. Many people mostly take selfies with their phones and so it would make much more sense to do the opposite.
There is a word for it, it's often called a tweetstorm.
That probably only works if the root cert is mandated in all OEM installs...

And still you probably won't find any Linux distros with this support.

Note. incepting all traffic sounds expensive and very dangerous, ie. risk or leaking grows when you scale. It's probably better to only use it for select users.

Curious, why future versions of chrome would not force CT for official TLDs?
I used to feel similarly and used these networks daily, but I stopped logging in after graduating college in 2010 and deleted the accounts a short while after. As a result I started my professional life without these networks.

It is possible to survive without them, and maintain a social life.

>Twitter is used daily for talking to friends

Have you ever considered that this might be a symptom of a problem, not a benefit?

I just finished a month long overseas trip without tweeting or posting about it daily. This gave me the opportunity to catch up with various friends in person to share stories. It also helped me stay present with my overseas friends during the time I was away.

Daily contact is convenient but, barring a subset of lifestyles, not essential.
> my website.

Anything publicly accessible is not yours entirely.
I was mainly using https://newsbeuter.org/ and it has great filters. Just that action to reward (circumventing filters) does not require enough effort to prevent me from not looking outside of them.

The only thing I still look at is HN and, as we can see, that goes almost with success.
I have information addiction myself. I’ve had websites I check compulsively ever since slashdot first became popular. When it becomes a real problem I take action. I’ve only found two things to work: complete cold turkey with a specific end date (personal challenge) or subsituting site checking with activities I enjoy more (reading books, playing games, ...). I’ve never been able to subsitute with something more productive that I enjoyed less, I just end up procrastinating in other ways.

The remarkable thing about going cold turkey: you don’t miss out on anything important. Everything truly important will reach you another way. For me, checking news sites is not about getting useful information, it’s about rewarding my brain by feeding it what it has been trained to want. In my experience it took weeks to deprogram myself.