skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Healthy aging" and "successful aging" as they are used in the research community are fig leaves to avoid talking about extension of human life. The researcher pretends that ways to remove or slow aspects of aging will not in fact extend the operating life span of the biological machinery making up a human individual.

It is a form of institutional cowardice in most cases, not a belief that we can magically engineer humans that live in excellent health and then somehow drop dead on the present schedule. Drop dead of what, if health is excellent, if age-related disease is prevented, if declines do not exist any more?

We are machines, complex yes, but subject to exactly the same statistical laws governing the operation of any system. See reliability theory and its application to, separately, electrical engineering and biological aging, for example.
I'm entirely of your opinion, but what you describe doesnnt sound like the US way of handling things.

There are some initiatives in that direction from INRIA and other european groups but aside from GNU and the EFF no one is even talking about things like Taler in the states.

Vote with your wallets and browsing habits!
Apparently the prince is second biggest shareholder of Twitter. Donald disrespected him in his own house!

https://www.dailysabah.com/mideast/2017/11/05/alwaleed-bin-t...

But really he and Trump go way back. They've had financial dealings and Trump bought his yacht, then the Prince bought it back when Trump got in a bind.
Seconded on Lombardo. I picked it up 17 years ago after seeing him on CSPAN discussing his translation with a panel including Christopher Hitchens. Thankfully still available:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?160063-1/discussion-homers-ody...
> My own opinion after talking with conservative friends and on the 'net is that if climate change is real, the only known option for countering it requires government (or world) regulation. It is hard for people to accept a problem if the only solution violates their strongly held political/moral beliefs.

It's unfortunate too, because I don't even think it necessarily requires government to solve it. There are real decisions individuals and companies can make (and have been making) on their own to improve things. (But some people deny or don't take the problem seriously, and therefore don't try to help out.)
The philosophy suggesting that a non-HTTPS site isn't good for your privacy is a pretty good one... I can understand why the author believes it's a bit authoritarian for a web browser to forcefully mark a site as "bad for your health" if it's not HTTPS-enabled but only contains something like old blog posts, but it almost seems like he's forgetting that modern internet surveillance techniques used by governments capture everything unencrypted and it's in everyone's best interests to avoid it as much as possible.

What if that old unmaintained blog site you are looking at was compromised and is being used as a dumping ground for illegal information sharing (illegal by some countries standards at least) and you happen upon one of the posts or comment threads containing the illegal content? Suddenly there is a record of you somewhere pulling those specific blog posts despite your lack of intent to look at illegal information.

At the same time I think it's rather easy for such websites to simply enable a reasonable level of HTTPS (even something with known primes) than it is for them to complain. It takes about 30 seconds with most modern web servers as long as you have administrative access to the back-end of your website and said back-end already has Let's Encrypt integration. An hour at most if you have to get a more traditional non-EV certificate. People's privacy is worth that much time on the part of an administrator.
Popular Anime Site Crunchyroll.com Hijacked to Distribute Malware
I admit that I too am not quite happy with the Internet being subjected to 'traditional' law and order. I'm old enough to remember a time when the Internet was the playground of only computer scientists and some few nerds, before it was opened to commercial purposes. Before that, law never really applied to the Internet and I sometimes miss the time when it instead was this futuristic, anarchic, cyberspace that nobody but tech heads took serious.

Nowadays we spend a good deal of time every day online, we manage our money through the Internet, almost all communication would be impossible without it. It's become part of the real world.

So while I bristle at the thought that somebody has to delete post on their own servers - that users have to connect to and download information from, just because some weird law about inciting hate limits some certain public speech, it's their own computer! -, I have come to accept that since the Internet has become part of our life, it has to be governed by the same laws that govern our life. We cannot hide behind technical smartassery anymore.

So I don't see this as - put by you - 'cultural marxism'. This law follows the same maxim as the German constitution; human dignity aforefront. There's probably a giant philosophical debate what that implies versus putting free speech aforefront (the U.S. American constitution doesn't do that; it instead required an amendment to get free speech) and I'm pretty sure that just reducing it to 'marxism vs. free market' would simplify things a bit too much.

Have a good day!
depending on what you mean by "most applications", that's been the case for 20+ years.

that said, compilers can't "take care" of a lot of things; and either way, people are still needed to develop and maintain those compilers.

there will also always be software that has significant performance requirements, and opportunities to write higher performing software than competitors.
JavaInJava (Sun) and Jalapeño (IBM) are both from around 1997. You’d have to dig up some bodies to know which was first.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2781745_Implementin...

http://research.ibm.com/people/j/jdchoi/jalapeno.pdf

Actually, reading through the papers, JavaInJava didn't implement a JIT and Jalapeño did.
>If true, you're very correct that lower-dimensional intuition does not transfer into higher-dimensional spaces: my intuition tells me that a Gaussian distribution drops off as you fall away from the mean, and it's quite easy for me to imagine that in 2 dimensions, 3 dimensions (e.g. by imagining a mound on a plane) and 4 dimensions (e.g. a cloud in 3-space with increased density around the mean).

Density is different from mass. Namely, mass is the integral of density. So your intuition is roughly correct for density, but you need to make it accord with a good intuition for mass.

Since getting the mass requires an integral, getting the mass over N-dimensional distributions requires integrating an N-dimensional region, which means N integrations for N dimensions. Each integration is, intuitively, a kind of sum. Integrating out many dimensions happens recursively; looped or recursive addition is multiplication. So on some level, to take the probability mass of a region in N-dimensional space, you need to "multiply" a density.

Since the total probability mass is fixed (1.0), adding more dimensions means you need to "multiply" the density by a larger number to get the mass, which means you need to divide the mass by a larger number to get the density, which means that despite the density peaking at the mean, the available density at any given point gets smaller as the dimensionality rises.
Accord.NET Machine Learning Framework
Image Classification “Plucked Chickens”
Aka, the Linux anti-virus.
Epic Guide to Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch – By Yourself
Ask HN: Interested in contributing to a refactoring newsletter?
I am a Ruby & Rails developer. I am starting a newsletter that focuses just on refactoring. The idea is to get a walk through from the developer that refactored the code, so we can learn about their thought process.

Ruby is naturally the first language I want to start with, but if you have some examples from other languages then I am game to exploring those too.

Would any HNers be willing to contribute by discussing a few refactorings they have done? They would have to be from an open-source project (or public repository on Github or Bitbucket), so others can look at the history.

If you are interested in discussing a refactor you have done (or a few) just email me at marc.gayle+refactoringhn@gmail.com or reply to this thread with contact details.

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Good article, was informative.

Germany isn't the only country considering laws like this, and companies with large online presences need to find some way to get a handle on the user created content they're propagating. The fact that it's open season as far as what users post is going to eventually lead to the companies doing the propagating: Facebook, Google, etc, being the ones called before the state to answer for it. This ultimately isn't fair and is terrible for business, but the situation we have right now isn't fair either, especially to the individuals who are being slandered with no recourse.
That's very recent, and authored by d.tran, package maintainer for this project on github. Before that paper I see no other reference to it. Makes me think itwas coined in the paper and this package as part for trendy "deep" buzzword value. An impression bolstered by pyro's "about" section, which gives a vague generality and not much else.

This isn't a criticism of the work done which, on looking at the details, is useful and interesting. This is a comment on the difficulty of finding out what the actual interesting bits are.

I looked further: Uber's more detailed writeup has a statement for "why deep probablistic?", but it too is vague, about learning generative knowledge from data. And that a claim about generative knowledge is extremely ambitious for any learning method to make without still more explanation.

EDIT: I'll be honest, it was really this project's connection to Uber, and Uber's corporate culture, that prodded me to think a bit more about the project claims & terminology use. Maybe I'm being unfair.
It might not always be possible, but if you can "solve" depression by changing your conditions or your behavior, that seems highly preferable to a chemical solution.

It's easy to underestimate how programmable the mind is. You don't have to have any fixed goal; indeed I suspect it's often better not to. Introspection, study, learning, conversation, they all cause reprogramming.
I find the best mix is talks with slides, and that way you can see the slides along with the text (if the text is even needed). Often I'll just go through the slides by themselves without the talk. Good presenters often have slides that can be followed on their own.
At least initial reports are that alphaGo Zero is more human-like than Master. Zero packs even more of the inhuman ability to pick the most critical part of the board for each move, but less weird looking stuff.

In fact, one of the obvious differences between AlphaGo Zero and top human players, is much more play on safe opening spots, which has been out of fashion among human pros for a hundred years or so.
If it can be demonstrated that he is using your work elsewhere, he has clearly stolen your services/work-product, and that has got to be a crime in the UK.

If it was more of a consulting arrangement where there is no tangible work-product, you might be in a tough spot. That becomes more of a civil issue (not sure of the UK equivalent).
Where are the how tos on how to create fake faces to spoof FaceID?
When TouchID came out I saw Hacker News Links on how to create fake fingers, iPhoneX FaceID is out, where are the how tos on fake faces?
Beluga Living with Dolphins Swaps Her Calls for Theirs
isn't it more like Apple anti-virus?
How Netflix works: the stuff that happens when you hit Play
>they can save me from a typo in the web search, but can't in the Play store.

Besides machine intervention, this seems like a company the size of Google could easily help (if not solve) while creating a lot of good will by hiring a few at-home workers to better flag or check in on certain applications. Off the top of my head, this wouldn't require a ton of training and you could even provide burner-like phones for folks to download the apps to and play a bit on.
Any book worth reading should be worth reading because of that insight. Which might be a way to say that most words aren't writing, and especially these.
Go has been studied for hundreds of years. In many cases, by people who study the game since their childhood and work on it as a full-time occupation.

The consequence of Alpha Go Zero is that it can, in a matter of days, disregard and surpass all human knowledge about the game.

Maximizing a score margin has been equated for a long time with maximizing your probability of winning. Alpha Go doesn't play like that... it's a substantial paradigm shift. If you see the early commentaries you will see that human players were initially saying Alpha Go moves were mistakes because they were slow and wasted opportunities to get more territory, to then realize that Alpha Go was actually winning.
Afghanistan moves to block WhatsApp, Telegram messaging services
It depends on what hardware you have available to you and what other limiting factors there are, hardware wise. Choosing what to mine is about efficient use of electricity, and miners make these micro economic decisions every day - but within the confines of what hardware they have. A SHA 256 ASIC is only ever going to mine SHA 256 coins, a Scrypt ASIC is only ever going to mine Scrypt coins. GPUs on the other hand, can mine a bunch of different things with just a change of software.
Historically, the data shows that this is the right answer.
It's a factor, but is it really that big of a factor for Linux? I'd've thought that its usage on servers would make it a sizeable target (both as powerful machines to use in a botnet and as a way to compromise company information).
It won't exactly explode, but it will strip a proton off of pretty much anything. It is undoubtedly reactive with water, pretty much any 'interesting' organic compound, and probably even methane. The thing is so sensitive (being a superbase it by definition has a massive propensity for stealing protons) they had to make it in the gas phase by pelting it with negative ions/electrons at high energy.

So there is no use/will be no direct use because A. It is so reactive that it can't be in contact with pretty much anything else w/o reacting and B. there is no way to make it in any meaningful quanity - even micrograms would be exceedingly difficult. There might be some interesting theoretical/computational implications, but that's not my field of expertise. (and it seems to be claimed by pretty much every paper regardless)
If the invasion involved limited or no violence and ended up with a democratic vote that was otherwise going to be suppressed, I'm not so sure that's such a bad thing.
Anyone have a way to read this that doesn't require subscribing and is easily accomplished from mobile (no JS Kung Fu)?
my contact info is at wondering.xyz/contact
Probably covered by:

> Spam & Security

> Access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of Twitter, Twitter’s computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of Twitter’s providers (except as expressly permitted by the Twitter Bug Bounty program).

> Interfere with or disrupt the access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, mail-bombing Twitter’s services, or by scripting the creation of content in such a manner as to interfere with or create an undue burden on Twitter.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311

I agree this was not a spam issue (many found it informative), but, depending on how this tweet was done, it could be a security issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_translations_of_Homer

A list of over 73 translations of the Odyssey into English.
Sometimes it certainly seems that way, but there was also period of time when Apache dominated the web and yet Microsoft's IIS was having a lot more exploits despite Apache having more market share. Marketshare isn't the only factor, but it probably is a factor.
> Tuition for a halfway decent school now frequently surpasses $50,000 a year.

Where is the source for this statistic? The only universities which I know to charge that high are small private liberal arts colleges or the Ivies.
You are 100% right about the folks who use this and many of the folks in the early days.

It is a little lost today in all the bubble conversations, many of the ICO conversations, and people are generally debating what is the value of this stuff.
"Brig. Gen John Baker, the chief defense counsel for the military commission system at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had been sentenced to 21 days' detention and a $1,000 fine by a military judge angry that he allowed civilian defense attorneys to resign from a case. They withdrew after apparently discovering the government had been monitoring their communications, including legally privileged exchanges with their client.

...

Those classified rulings 'placed us in the untenable position of having to advise our client that we could not visit him, but could not tell him why we could not visit him,' one of the civilian attorneys, Richard Kammen, said in an October statement announcing that the Nashiri defense team had disbanded because it couldn’t guarantee its client confidentiality.

Defense lawyers consulted a legal ethics expert at Hofstra University, Ellen Yaroshefsky, who concluded they couldn’t continue to participate in the case, given their inability to assure their client their discussions would be private. Gen. Baker concurred with that finding and dismissed the attorneys.

...

At an Oct. 31 hearing, Col. Spath ordered Gen. Baker to take the witness stand and to rescind his decision releasing the civilian attorneys. When Gen. Baker refused, Col. Spath found him in contempt and sentenced him to 21 days’ confinement in quarters and a $1,000 fine. Gen. Baker was required to telephone the military judge’s office every two hours to verify he remained in quarters, except for eight hours sleeping time." [1]

More on the Obama administration's surveillance of the defense counsel [2].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-releases-marine-genera...

[2] http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/...
Is there a relationship between NYT and Google? I’m surprised how they are (politically) aligned to display a coherent message.
While it's not as popular as Lua or Elixir yet, I believe Crystal (crystal-lang.org) will be "the next big thing" in a few years. It's also from the Southern Hemisphere.
It's remarkably refreshing to see this comment on HN. The pirates have become the navy and it's time to grow up.
For what kind of tagging are you looking? Per-image labels? Single-tag-per-image? Image rectangles?

Most of the tagging programs I've encountered really aren't that awesome. For such a relatively common task (for ML, at least), there are few, if any, really good pieces of workflow software out there.

I'll forward you to the list of annotation software on Wikipedia because, as I recall, at least one of them supports machine-assist. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manual_image_annotat...

When I'm back on my home machine I can check which one it is.
Politico: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/03/john-baker-release...
Bill Gates is a terrible example for college dropouts considering the college he dropped out from.
"Cultural Marxism" is an awful term that reeks of Fox News and Tea Party. It's a propaganda term to label (really quite disparate) others, designed to bait people who have a Pavlovian response to certain trigger words (Marxism, socialism). It feels like an insult to my intelligence when somebody uses such terms in my presence.
I don't want to defend the sometimes grotesque excesses of internet SJWs, that is another issue. But don't talk to me like a dog.
For what it's worth, I've also created a little similar tool that we use - it's specifically for Github and does a lot less for you, basically just routing JSON bodies to the standard input of commands.

On the other hand it's quite lite and simple. About 9 out of 10 of our hooks are written in bash using jq.

- https://github.com/donatj/hookah
This is a major topic of discussion among my colleagues (I am a Marine judge advocate).

Some good background reading in a blog post by a fellow Marine: http://www.caaflog.com/2017/11/02/the-non-contempt-contempt-...

The gist is that "contempt of court" in the Gitmo commissions is narrower than it is in most other courts, and this was likely outside the power of Col Spath. Additionally, the subject the judge was discussing (BGen Baker's dismissal of several defense counsel) was removed from the judge's purview recently, so he shouldn't even have been issuing orders in the first place.

I have the utmost respect for BGen Baker, and hope his conviction is swiftly overturned.
Visual intuition fails when you have more than 3 dimensions or 4 in some cases. I can visualise a right angle in 2 and 3 dimensions. In 4 dimensions I can't visualise it and the whole idea of an angle no longer seems to make sense. And yet I still need to use this notion of a right angle in more than 3 dimensions in order to reason about certain problems.
Attacks on servers are of a different nature. No one runs Linux desktop, so it is not a valuable target for trojans or other attacks like that.

If it were popular we'd see just as much malware for linux.
Yeah probably that too
I seriously don't understand how people let their aging parents or young children or friends use Android phones.
I think this statement only holds for private universities -- public ones are struggling financially.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/10/midwest...
https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/article...
STFW for the title or the first paragraph. This was covered by multiple reputable news outlets yesterday. I was also able to access the WSJ article by clicking through from a DDG search. Sometimes, publishers allow access from certain referrers (e.g., that's how I usually bypass Forbes' annoying welcome screen).

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Pentagon+Releases+Marine+General+H...
Twitter's 2nd largest shareholder Prince Talal arrested in corruption crackdown
Yeah there's some fiction where it seems the world only serves the plot, but LotR feels like it's taking one of infinite potential paths through the world created.
He is a big Apple shareholder.
I've been working on Meteor apps for a few years now, and my TLDR answer for you is, no, don't use it.

The releases since 1.3 have definitely pushed it in the right direction:

* NPM instead of atmosphere

* React/Vue/whatever instead of Blaze

* ES Modules (import/export syntax) in place of global variables everywhere and a dependency loading system that i-shit-you-not came down to loading things in alphabetical order

* ESNext support

* Getting Node and NPM up to current LTS versions

Next stop on their roadmap is integrating Apollo, at which point it'll basically be a turnkey system for building React/Vue apps on top of GraphQL. Most of what originally made Meteor what it was will have been removed in place of sensible best practices that everybody else in the JS world has since moved on to.

But for me the sticking point is that Meteor is built on a couple of assumptions that, in my humble opinion, are fundamentally incorrect.

1. Focusing on writing code that runs on both the server and the client is a useful idea.

2. MiniMongo is a sensible way to handle the data layer and reactivity everywhere is helpful.

I personally reckon these are both crappy ideas, and combined with the "magic" parts of the framework, they encourage people who are new to full stack JS to develop bad habits and skip learning some of the real fundamentals that every developer should know in relation to security, performance and scalability.