skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that people with higher priority get served first.

The question is how that will affect someone's real-world use.
> the page is 3.1 MB in size, makes about 460 HTTP requests of which 430 are third-party requests (outside of its parent domain) and takes 20 seconds to fully load on a fast 3G connection

That's a lot of ad-tracking and ad delivery code. More than that, it's also remarkable that so much of this code is essentially duplicated. It's all user tracking and ad delivery but with each separate company loading it's own "stack" to accomplish the same thing.

It's part of a larger trend from content-centered and user-centered to advertising centered. The problem is not centralization per se but business built on advertising revenue. Facebook is an extreme example - the news feed algorithms are optimized for generating ad revenue and not necessarily favoring news reports that happen to be true.
I want to make some money buying bitcoin it just keeps going up! Which is the best exchange I should use? Is Coinbase best?
My office provides a license for Pluralsight. I have found some courses with high quality content and interesting information, and it's really useful to have it all in one place. BUT, especially with programming, I find video to be a really challenging medium. It's so much more useful to scan for things you don't know or context of examples and spend some time digesting, or just playing around with sample code. Not everyone can learn at the same rate and text is great for allowing people to learn at their own pace. I really wish they provided a full text log of video caption instead of requiring the content to be consumed solely in video. Udemy suffers from this as well. I might as well look up the info on youtube.
Am I the only one who thinks "adversarial attack" is both a redundant and unhelpful name?

- Redundant: Anyone who attacks you is by definition your adversary.

- Unhelpful: According to the article, "designing an input in a specific way to get the wrong result from the model is called an adversarial attack." That sounds much closer to spoofing attack ("a situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data" -Wikipedia). For example, a turtle masquerades as a gun by spoofing the machine learning system by changing irrelevant visual details.
Possible New World Record for Lowest Barometric Pressure: 860 mb?
Can anyone recommend a network where you can post open source jobs? Not an open source job board, but a live job board with open source jobs :)
Exactly. There are obviously use cases for video - which you can't present in text. Visual tours of architecture, nature, machines, etc. - or other kinds of visual information.

But for facts - reading is simply superior.

What sometimes works, if it is wellmade, is a mixed presentation: text, pictures and video, where you can controll the pace of information. But I seldom see something like this wellmade.
520 error here. Hug of death or they took your site down.
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No, I meant personal stories. Any other surprising behavior that they had in common?
Hmm, sounds to me like they are not doing so well. I wish them luck.
Adversarial means something specific in the ML community. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_machine_learning
I’m thinking it’s too late for just CO2 reduction alone. We need to get CO2 sequestration going.
I live in Munich and it still feels pretty hit and miss to me.
Is there any reason to think this would work at all in the real world? All of these "attacks" require complete control of the image being fed to the classifier.

In the ATM example you don't directly load an image of the check to the computer inside the machine. You design a check in photoshop, add the noise, print it out, feed it to the machine, which takes a picture of the check. Mobile bank apps still require you to take a picture of the check so you don't have enough control there either.

Similarly in the road sign example; the lighting, angle between car and sign, dirt on the sign, etc all mean the car sees a much different image than you designed.

I'd think all of these steps mean the classifier gets a dramatically different image than you intend and the attack fails. There's maybe a vanishingly small probability it works when the stars align, but that could be easily mitigated by taking multiple consecutive images and looking for an odd results.
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The impression that I got was that Target thing wasn't some spooky self-learning AI product recommender, but rather they had the data to write some special-purpose analytics to detect a specific but common purchasing pattern. Your motorcycle jacket example isn't the kind of thing that would get that kind of special attention.
Yeah, and it wasn't too long ago that SO Documentation was shut down as well. Hopefully Channels works out better for them.
> Systematic profits are feasible year over year... But only to the select few who are in the right product or looking at the market in the right way.

You seem to be falling for the same myth: That "certain wizards" can get +EV. Every casino on Earth makes money from this myth. I believe that there are no wizards in the stock market (or in business in general), and everyone's gains and losses vs the total market are for the most part random chance.

I'm reminded of the coin flip exercise one of my statistics professors did. Everyone in the class stand up and get a coin. Flip the coin, if it's tails, sit down, and the rest of the class repeats the exercise until only one person remains standing. Then interview that student and ask them how they became such a good heads-flipper, and what great strategy he/she used to flip so many heads in a row. This illustrates the survivorship bias we fall victim to when we look at someone successful and try to determine what wizardry they used to become that way.
Are they really going to add $ to C++? Unbelievable. What was wrong with "reflexpr"? It is way more C++'ish than "$".

Update: From Herb's blog :

"Also, a vocal minority in the committee strongly want a syntax that does not include the $ character (not just for $class, but also for $expr reflection) because they have large code bases that use $ in source code that is not C++ code but is processed to emit C++; removing $ is an easy change at any time and we’ll just follow what the committee decides for reflection syntax (in fact, the alternative syntax I showed in the endnote above removes the need to write $). So further work is needed on those items, but fortunately none of it affects the core model."

https://herbsutter.com/2017/07/26/metaclasses-thoughts-on-ge...

P.S. I really hope that vocal minory would win ;)

But overall the proposal is what I have been talking about for a long time.
Sorry I guess. I dont know who Cody Bellinger or Astros are nor do I know what sport they compete at. So I mean, that particular story is not much interesting.

Likewise, I like math. I am one of those people who honestly like math instead of culture around math that just sounds cool. I also have interests in security. I like to read easily digestible technical blogs about it.

Stories about hackers in presentations about above are annoying to me. I came to learn and instead I am getting fairy tale. Most of them are bullshit, despite following protagonist, antagonist conflict formula that is repeated so much that anything that goes just slightly against it makes entertainment hundred times more interesting.

And that story is not helping me to achieve any goal, except of realizing that presenter is wasting my time. I heard already enough presentations with formulaic stories in them to know what is the part I usually wish presenter would skip. And I guess really good writer could create an interesting story, but I don't really expect that from technical presenter who I would prefer to focus more on whether his explanations are clear then on this.
That's fair, but the first line is:

> Can we have the improved isolation of VMs, with the efficiency of containers?

It's the "efficiency of containers" part I'm disagreeing with. They define "efficiency" as "start up time", and that doesn't affect my team's efficiency.

We choose to make the tradeoff between much higher efficiency in our daily workflows, in exchange for slightly worse isolation (the level of isolation is acceptable for our use case given that we have multiple other layers of security).
Thanks! I realized that I have been reading HN for the last year and always thought the domain name was strange, but never really dug into the meaning. Makes sense.
And the polls bear your assertion out: everyone was pro-Hillary and she was winning by a landslide.
No need for bots on Twitter or other shenanigans.
There's an option to disable autoplay in the settings.

https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=1020263...
Yes, I host project websites, package repositories, build servers, buy domains, etc.
Why would you fire people on such a short notice? No need to hand over things? No interest in providing at least some time to look for a new job?

EDIT: To clarify that a bit, I am interested in what the upsides are except for possibly saving some money. An orderly shutdown usually seems preferable to me over quickly killing the process, for both sides.
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Just mine them. Actually you probably have better odds mining that landfill where the guy lost his hard drive with thousands of them on it.
High fees, I would search around if you're buying large amounts.
You're still not supporting your claims. If, as you said, the debate is not that simple the onus is on you to justify the claim that there is in fact any significant debate over vaccination in the scientific community.
That sounds like a horrendously selfish attitude.

The problem was fixed; nobody was harmed; lessons were learned. The sum total of effect of this "Linus tirade" seems overwhelmingly positive. But just because he didn't conform to your arbitrary standards, you write him off?

Linus is more humanist in this case than your policy apparently allows.
So you need as many threads as you're delivering parallel files ? That reminds me the late 90's when everyone started to discover how easy it was to deal with blocking I/O using threads until they discovered that threads are very slow since you have to suffer from context switches all the time. As a rule of thumb, you must never run more threads than you have CPU cores, or you'll get the taste of context switches.

And it's really hard to scale using a model requiring one thread per connection. You'll hardly stand one million concurrent connections this way, and this can definitely happen for large objects.
In order for optical illusions to be a counter example, I must believe those lines are not parallel with near certainty. While I perceive them as such, I don't believe they are. The fact that I can know my perception does not match reality is what gives optical illusions their novelty. Thus, the very nature of optical illusions makes them not a counter example.

A true counter example must be similar to making me believe a car is a toaster by manipulating a single cone cell in my eye. Such a possibility is absurd, which leads me to conclude the human mind is not ML.
> Buffet's is a success story not of compounding but of leverage

These are not mutually exclusive. Anyway, more on the latter:

"Berkshire’s more anomalous cost of leverage, however, is due to its insurance float. Collecting insurance premia up front and later paying a diversified set of claims is like taking a 'loan.' Table 3 shows that the estimated average annual cost of Berkshire’s insurance float is only 2.2%, more than 3 percentage points below the average T-bill rate.

...

In essence, we find that the secret to Buffett’s success is his preference for cheap, safe, high-quality stocks combined with his consistent use of leverage to magnify returns while surviving the inevitable large absolute and relative drawdowns this entails. Indeed, we find that stocks with the characteristics favored by Buffett have done well in general, that Buffett applies about 1.6-to-1 leverage financed partly using insurance float with a low financing rate, and that leveraging safe stocks can largely explain Buffett’s performance."

http://docs.lhpedersen.com/BuffettsAlpha.pdf
Thanks for the candid feedback!
We're always striving to make devs' lives easier, and testing is a huge part of R&Ds day to day tasks.
This is why I stopped listening to back to work. There were useful tidbits, but I didn’t want to wade through an hour of random drivel to get to it.
You will need a very strong error correction scheme. It is not necessary to have a negative selection against "wiki DNA", if there is not positive selection the error will accumulate quickly.

With a quick googling, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_rate#Variation_in_mut... I think that a mutation rate of 10^-5 per base per generation is a good estimation for humans. Let's assume 10^-6 per base per year. So after a million year, with no selection pressure, probably more than a half of the bases will be overwritten with garbage.
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I've personally used Coinbase and find it an excellent platform. Great interface, app works well and they enforce 2FA. I'm by no means an "enthusiast" but took a similar attitude to yours a few months ago, grabbed $400 or so of BTC (and some LTC and ETH, the other two currencies on offer by Coinbase) and I'm at around $2,000 in gains now, so can't complain.
Goodfellow et al. demonstrate that adversarial misclassification works in the physical world: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02533 -- a printed image is consistently misclassified (demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_uMenoBCk)

Recent work by me and some friends demonstrates that physical-world adversarial examples can actually be made quite robust, and you can synthesize 3D adversarial objects as well, and make them consistently classify as a desired target class: http://www.labsix.org/physical-objects-that-fool-neural-nets...
Not really.

Plant a ton of trees and the CO2 problem solves by itself.
The problem stems also from the huge deforestation that has taken place in the last couple of centuries.
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I did not.

It seems to me then the real problem is India's brain drain. I don't see how lifting the cap would be good for American workers or the Indian economy.
I think they might be referring [1], which shows that adversarial examples transfer to models such as decision trees and SVMs.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07277
> Some people might only care about development speed; other people might care a lot about runtime performance and will find this article relevant.

You're exactly right, and I'm simply saying I don't find it relevant for any of the work my team does. Others might, but my feeling is that the workflow of actually developing on these things is what has caused a shift from VMs to containers for so many teams.

I'd love to see a solution which combines the workflow benefits of Docker with the stronger isolation of VMs.
The transition is being handled with as much dignity as possible - The company is also offering to help place people through USV.
I don't know if it is true, but it's not obviously false.

Military uses huge numbers of powerful diesel engines and the US military is larger than most of the rest combined.
Also: Baumol's Cost Disease.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
It's been interesting watching SO try to monetize.

I wonder: How would people feel if they went the Wikipedia way? It's obviously a very beneficial site, but not as widely applicable as Wikipedia. I personally prefer the Wikipedia model of being ad-free and having no additional product and doing a fundraising drive every so often. PBS as well.

That said, I certainly think given the audience of SO that there are several opportunities for them, so it'll be interesting to see what works.
I block far less than you do, but all recommendation engines appear to be crab: I brought a few books on Amazon that could be purchased by middle-aged women and now most of the books I get recommended are romance novels with a vampire, time travel or magic theme - meanwhile what I actually buy is mainly SciFi and a bunch of books about NK.

Come to think of it the recommended movies on Netflix is also crazy, but they may be screwing it towards their own selection.

But lets be honest even when I tell Facebook what my interests are, it can't give useful ads - and even mighty google assumed I was interested in Palaeontology at one point.
How many people work at StackOverflow?

Seeing this post also made me realize I have no clue how the company makes money.
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>Humans have no problem correctly interpreting adversarial examples, so there must be a way to do it automatically.

Not true, we just have different priors and are fooled in different ways. See stage magic, optical illusions, etc...
A 2016 model year car, at the end of 2017, is not “new”. Also, I don’t know what specific electric utility subsidy you’re referring to, but that doesn’t help your argument, in this thread about subsidies, IMO.

What was the out-the-door price for your parent’s 2017 Leaf?
I'd be curious to know at this point what amount of bitcoin transactions are actually retail focused. There was a big push a couple years back by users wanting to make actual purchases with bitcoin and helping to build the infrastructure around that. Does this retail side of bitcoin still exist, or is everyone just mining and selling -> buying and holding?
Every week, I read an article about this, all I say in my head is 'but then what'. Unless there is money bleeding no politicians will take this to rest. It's sad but true and this will keep on continuing.
Part2: https://www.sudosu.fr/2017/06/05/sfr-vulnerabilities-isp-2/
Part3: https://www.sudosu.fr/2017/06/05/sfr-vulnerabilities-isp-3/
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There have been a number of top level powerlifters in their 40's. Most of these studies don't study people with solid diet and training routines.
As someone not invested in any of this at all, its fascinating to watch as people jump in completely oblivious to risk involved.

I've listened to friends and family discuss investing "only $100" or "only $1000" for fractional amounts of bitcoin with the idea that they're sure fire bets for making money.

I feel a bit like a rube sitting it out on the sidelines (and they're chastising me for not acting) as the price keeps going up-and-up and for most of them, these small investments (some quite large) have paid off for them.

When does this bubble burst? And, what is it going to look like? 100k people in a single day is crazy to me as a layperson, but if this was to be compared to a stock run (disregarding dilution) what type of alarm bells should be ringing for those with the most to lose? Or, are we past that point now?
earlier discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15613101
Optical illusions are reverse adversarial examples to those who think the human mind is a deep neural network.
Mining Bitcoin with personal equipments is the dumbest thing you can do.

Even with modest ASIC in a pool, you'll get very little.
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I like Coinbase for my personal account, but I've been waiting a month now for them to approve my company account. I don't think they're equipped to handle such an influx of users
I really wonder why they arranged for your bank credentials. I've always been able to just wire transfer wise in the states and they wore in the recipient country. Pertussis there's some regulation in Cyprus about transfers?
This weakness is one that I think will plague self driving cars as sign recognition will be key and without some ability to insure that they cannot be dangerously fooled, it will be hard to get them certified. The canonical example is to make a no left turn sign recognize as a no right turn sign and have the car go the wrong way on a one way street.

Clearly there is a marketing opportunity for t-shirts that make you recognize as other things. Who doesn't want to show up in an image search for toasters on Google Images ? :-)

But my current best guess on how this issue will be addressed will be with classifier diversity an voting systems. While that just moves the problem into a harder and harder to synthesize data set (something that not only is adversarial to one classifier but gives the same answer on several), I believe it will get us to the point where we can trust the level of work to defeat them is sufficiently hard to make it a non-threat.
This is no mild reorganization but a reorganization to the tune of trillions of dollars. And while I am all for redistribution of wealth, taxing rich people at 91% (or anything over the average rate in developed countries) is a great way to get people to leave for good and lose out on even the 39.5%.
Also, gift cards are almost always denominated in terms of an actual currency.
I may not completely understand the question, but I'm pretty sure "Intentionally fooling an algorithm for nefarious purposes is illegal" is both the answer, and the status quo.
Your comment seems so ignorant to me. Maybe that's true if you are day trading, or picking dozens of short-term holds each year instead of long-term buys.

My stock picks have been:

* Google in 2003, because I worked in a call center and saw EVERYONE using it all the sudden to find answers on tech support calls.

* Chipotle at their IPO because I saw the huge lines at every location in my city.

* Amazon in 2008 after the big stock market crash, simply because it just seemed super undervalued considering everyone was still using it / loved it.

* Broadcom in 2014 because it was obvious the cellular industry was going to keep growing and they were well-positioned / undervalued at the time.

None of that thinking required me being a wizard. Nor was it luck. More just seeing obvious momentum and being willing to act.
Two tips:

1. Don't keep your BTC in any exchange account for very long, and check the popular forums for people complaining about transactions being held up before transferring BTC into your account. Lots of people got screwed by MtGox, and it can happen on any exchange.

2. Don't spend any money other than money you would be willing to give away for free (totally discretionary money). The bottom has fallen out of markets before, and BTC is not immune. BTC has a lot of similarities to tulips, houses, Beanie Babies, and .com stocks in the late 90's.
I wish your older snapshots weren't deleted. Any chance to get them back?