skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea what you are talking about. React doesn't require any tooling. Drop a reference to React from some cdn in your HTML file and you are good to go. People confuse the myriad of libraries and tools complementary to React for React. You don't need create react app for Hello world.

Create React App gives you a zero configuration way to not only write hello world, but also bootstrap a non-trivial production ready application. In the company I work for, we were previously using JSPM/SystemJS/Gulp. We replaced all of that with create-react-app. It allows you to very easily bootstrap existing applications on top of it: http://fredrik.anderzon.se/2016/12/04/adding-create-react-ap...

And if you want full control of your project, you can "eject" and CRA will generate the webpack configuration file being used so that you can tweak to your heart's content.

I use React daily, and the whole experience has been extremely pleasant.
I didn't see anything in the article you linked to where Gevers says that the amount ($20 million) the Tezos company would sell itself to the foundation for is excessive. As I understand it, that was always the arrangement. The amount the company would sell itself for was a percentage of the ICO funds raised, I believe.

I do agree that the situation is a shitshow.
Article mentions that Hitler didn't drink alcohol, but he sure was a speed freak and took a lot of other drugs. Also worth mentioning that the Axis and Allied sides both utilized amphetamines heavily during the war.

I think that alcohol use on the battlefield has declined largely because in modern warfare, the kind of impairment that you get from alcohol is a huge liability, but the kind of edge that a driver or pilot can potentially get from a strong stimulant can really benefit the effort.

Edit:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3bjp4y/total-intoxication...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377281/
It's possible this was only done on Android specifically because the odds of this being picked up and the app rejected by Apple are close to 100% while the odds of that happening in Google Play are about 0%.
And also don't allow access to an internet-enabled device without direct supervision until they are fairly mature.
I'm trying to imagine a scenario where data is stored encrypted in the db and then decrypted in the app server (I've seen this in a bunch of random PHP apps over the years). A SQLi might be able to dump encrypted data or escalate to execution on the database (from which you could pivot back to the app server), but just the SQLi doesn't necessarily expose the encrypted data.

See the example vulnerable web service here: https://gist.github.com/emidln/a43b9fee4fc55273106c4b850f6b4...

Is the assumption that control over the db can pivot back to the server or that if there are basic issues with db access that there must be other exploitable issues (probably a fair assumption)?
Could you expand in this? Like, if there's somebody surveying what programmers want as a population, that's pretty cool.
Ah, apologies; The way I read it was that your friends don't but their parents do.
A C# deep learning wrapper on top of CNTK
The bitmap is 105x16==1680 pixels, or bits. And 2^1680 is about 5*10^505, which is about the magnitude of n.

So, indeed, nothing to see here.
A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (2009)
RSS is nigh-unusable for many sites now because they only put the first few sentences of an article in the feed, then "continue reading on our site <link> [where we can show you our ads]". It makes sense from a business perspective, because RSS has no good way to embed ads. However, it greatly diminishes the value of RSS -- reading ALL of your content in one easily-organized place.

The best alternative that I've found is Feedly, which can show ads inline.
I'm not sure all this big.little stuff is the future. The heterogenous cores make scheduling/caching/etc a nightmare particularly when someone decides that the cores have different features.

Particularly, since I think its all a crutch for lack of finer grained power control within the CPU core. Want to save more power, turn off a few of the duplicate functional units, shutdown 3/4 of the ROB buffer, or fuse a few pipeline stages together as the frequency is reduced. Whatever. The point being its possible to have a finer grained performance profile on a bunch of higher performance cores rather than wasting 1/2 the die on caches and cores that are basically useless for any real work outside of handling idle loop wakeup events to tell the GPU it needs to scroll or run a idle TCP stack's keepalives..
7 Powerful Programming Languages For Doing Machine Learning
http://blog.hackerearth.com/powerful-programming-languages-f...

Python if a popular scientific language and a rising star for machine learning. I'd be surprised if it can take the data analysis mantle from R, but matrix handling in NumPy may challenge MATLAB and communication tools like IPython are very attractive and a step into the future of reproducibility.
Side point: can I suggest we all throw away whiteboard markers that don't work any more? In my experience, people will just place them back in the tray and keep trying other markers until they find one that works. There is probably someone whose job it is to replace markers, but they would just replace missing ones rather than try every single one to see if they still work. So throwing away dead markers speeds up the process.

Or use refillable markers, of course.
> not discoverable....

How is going to a 3rd party site like Google Reader (yes, it's dead and damn Google for killing it) any less discoverable than going to WaPo or Facebook? I make a conscience effort to go consume these sites. I made a conscience decision to consume my information from Google Reader. Or it's replacement.

RSS buttons are (were?) right along side Facebook, Twitter, Google+ buttons 10 years ago. Not that difficult.

If Facebook suddenly announced an RSS component to their service, people would use it. I know when Google reader dropped their Google Reader service, there was a hue and cry about it. Google said the usage numbers were flat. I suspect in great part because Google's lessor products come and go all the damn time. If the product is not integrated into Gmail or YouTube, 99.9% of their user base does not know of the service's existence.
I enjoy your thorough lack of strong emotions, and I agree that these drafts are special in that they are not obviously intended to harm anyone who isn't WASP.

But the opportunity costs of this futile exercise in trickle-down would seem to make this one of the worse policies from a utilitarian perspective.

$1.5 Trillion dollars (the self-imposed cost limit of the tax plan) divided by $40,000 (what givewell.org estimates to be the marginal cost of saving a life) = 37,000,000 lives.

That's obviously calculation, because those marginal costs would start to rise after the low-hanging fruits are picked, and you may want to think of some other ideas that could be realized with that sum.

But even if I'm off by an order of magnitude...wow.
Here’s What Happens When You Install the Top Download.com Apps
Survivorship bias would explain this pretty succinctly.
If you’re looking for an RSS reader that does away with unread counts, check out https://siftie.com
> Sendmail.cf deserves its reputation.

Hah; I had to look at a sendmail config a while back for a legacy server. It's line noise.
"Because I'm a billionaire, I'm going to have access to better health care so ... I'm going to be like 160 and I'm going to be part of this, like, class of immortal overlords."

Not really an 'immortal overload' but closer to a vampire seeing all of your friends & family pass away while you never age and only those that you decide to keep are allowed to continue living until they arent.
1 Becquerel is by definition the same amount of decay events. However, the amount of an isotope that is needed for that one Bq is directly dependent on the half-life of that isotope. Exactly twice as many nuclei are needed to produce the same Bq amount when using an isotope that has twice the half-life.

The limit for ingestion for I-129 is 5 uCi. From the formula of radioactivity:

m/m0 × NA × ln(2)/t½ = A, the amount of I-129 that is needed for 5uCi is ~28mg, which is also ~= the amount of Iodine in a normal human body. That is, if an evil wizard suddenly converted every atom of iodine in your body to I-129, you would be right about at the epa limit.
This was a much more manageable problem when it was all in one place, Google had tags to organize your feeds with, and their magic sorting algorithm wasn't bad at all.

Now, if you haven't found any free alternatives that are as good, you've likely subscribed to some emails to keep up, go to the website often to check if anything is new, keep up on twitter/fb if there is a page/profile or just don't bother anymore with content you would actually have been interested in if it was easier to get. The most reliable reader I've found on Linux is liferea, and it works, but I wish it had pluggable sorting mechanisms, based on how popular an entry is.
That seems to be somewhat overstating the current position under EU data protection laws, though some member states already go further, and with the introduction of the GDPR next year the situation across the EU will move closer to what you describe.
Not sure where I read that, can't find it anymore
> Even if someone programs robots specifically to take over the world autonomously, they would need to either encode all the assumptions or else train them perfectly for all situations.

Encoding just one assumption will cover a large fraction of situations: anyone that the robot cannot positively identify as being (1) the Evil Overlord, or (2) an employee in good standing of the Evil Overlord, or (3) someone the Evil Overlord has granted an exception for, or (4) someone in a place that the Evil Overlord has granted an exception for may be terminated.

We've got almost 8 billion people in the world now. Most things an Evil Overlord would want to do once in charge, especially an Evil Overlord with good robot technology, don't need anywhere near that many people, so losing 6 or 7 billion in exchange for keeping the robots simple and reliable during the takeover would probably be acceptable to the Overlord.

If the Overlord does have plans that require more people, that can be taken care of after the takeover. Presumably an Evil Overlord would not have any qualms about a forced breeding program to shore up the population.

A lot of problems that we consider to be hard become a lot easier when you are an Evil Overlord.
They are sent over an encrypted transport which means law enforcement must subpoena them from Facebook, and cannot monitor them with a telephone intercept like calls and SMSes.
We’re using spooky moon math (semi-homomorphic encryption in a rather restricted case, mind you) for exactly this reason for the 4 biggest companies in a huge industry here in Australia. These companies are starting to understand why it might be needed, which is super exciting. And hell, even if the prototype gets killed, it’s been fun as hell to work on.
> There's a (formal, legal) agreement between YouTube and creators that predetermines how much of that revenue belongs to YouTube and how much belongs to the creator.

Yes, that is the cut that they give the creator. Not the cut that they take from the creator. Advertisers are not talking to hundreds of thousands of creators, they're talking to YouTube. They give YouTube money and YouTube places advertisements on videos. The value that YouTube provides is necessarily greater than the portion of the advertising revenue they keep, otherwise creators would host their videos on their own sites / DailyMotion / Vimeo. And some creators do host on those sites, because they've decided that they aren't getting more value out of YouTube than elsewhere, that's a decision they're always free to make.
Why is Facebook obligated to fulfill your desires for privacy by censoring content you have no legal claim to?
Update: The fun wears off quick when you realize that the markets are manipulated by the dev to the point of being impossible to compete in.
I think it's the same deal: your data is being seen / used by algorithms, your information is just a bunch of 1s and 0s being copied and processed and re-copied and re-processed. It's all very impersonal, so it's easy to abstract it away.
>indefinite lifespan

What materials are we talking about?
I would love to believe that idea would work.

What are some examples of concepts written for JSON that became more successful than their predecessor?
I was under the impression, based on its docs, that Datomic only supports processing transactions serially through a single transactor.
I find rewatching things I still remember the plots of intolerable... when I'm fully awake.

When I'm trying to fall asleep, I will almost always put on an episode of a podcast I've heard 500 times. It's more soothing than one of those ambient-noise apps.
I gather you didn't like HPMoR, like the author of the review? Here's my advice: do not read that review, even the introduction is full of spoilers.

I personally loved HPMoR, even more so than the original series. I also disagree with most of the review, either factually (I believe most of the science is sound), or because I have a different interpretation (how Harry lacking agency is even a problem?).
The source documents I was referring to were letters between Turing and his fiancée Joan Clarke; I'll look up a source if you like.

Hodge appears to have Turing as an "out and proud" homosexual (eg https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/revie... "saw no reason why he should hide his homosexuality"), yet his fiancée -- whom he also worked with -- who he spent so much of his time with had to be told in a letter of his "tendencies". If he didn't hide his homosexuality how did his colleague & fiancée not know, or at least how did Turing suppose she didn't know and so need to write the letter.

This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB2e9R7bXCk has an interview with Clarke, and some other colleagues, who say Turing wasn't known by them until later to be homosexual.

Turing appears to have had intimate affection for Clarke, perhaps she was intended by him as a "beard" but it seems as likely from what I've seen that he was bisexual?

Stepping sideways to consider Furbank's endorsement of Hodge. If Hodge were using Turing to attempt to push an idealised homosexual image then it seems -- reading _a_lot_ between the lines -- that perhaps would also be seen as beneficial to Furbank (who I read was a good friend of Forster, whom Hodge tells me in a pamphlet was a closet homosexual, http://www.outgay.co.uk/wdg4.html) either for himself or for his associates.

I'll reiterate, I haven't read exhaustively on this, but what little I have read seems to put Turing's character at odds with [again, what little I've seen of] Hodge's presentation of him. It's like you told me there's no fouling in soccer and the first media that came up in a search was about how there's so much fouling in soccer; it would make me suspect you were perhaps presenting things for other purposes than merely to show the truth.

Thanks for your post. I'm interested if you have more to add.

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Looking back at bookmarks I see that https://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/text/papers/turing/, http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=54 were sources I used for general biography previously. I can't recollect exactly but I imagine I read maybe 10 or 20 different sources, including Hodge (particularly lots of this, http://www.turing.org.uk/scrapbook/index.html), on the subject.
I do something similar with TweetDeck and Twitter lists. By building lists of about 20 people per topic, I get a streamlined view of the topic that's not overwhelming.

I am apparently in the vast minority as there seems to be no decent mobile app supporting lists effectively. I'm not sure if it's even possible given Twitter's token policies, and unfortunately they killed off TweetDeck's mobile ambitions an eternity ago.

TLDR I would love a mobile app that embraces Twitter lists as much as Tweetdeck does on the desktop.
Yanis Varoufakis on the Young Turks with Nomiki Konst
[Edit]: Why was the above comment flagged?

How much of big queries performance do you think stems from Capacitor versus the rest of the system. For example if you switched it out with parquet, but kept everything else (Colossus, Dremel, Background reordering, metadata stored in Spanner etc) would it still be 10/30/50% worse or would it be an order of magnitude worse.
Cursive handwriting and other education myths
What do you mean 'no excuse'? hahaha do you even code bro? Everything is littered with bugs. Usually mgmt even knows about them and has kicked them down to some later sprint.

I could see myself triaging a temp file clean up bug way down the list of priorities.
That's the norm in Asian countries like Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(East_Asia). They even have different types of seals that are used for just plain signatures and more important things like loans.
haha. yeah, no. Apple catches UI issues and obvious use of private APIs. You just need the slimmest of excuses to do what you want. Like if you want to track a user's location put a location feature ANYWHERE in the app.

Also if the app is using the mic outside of the app, you'd see a big red bar at the top of your screen.
The only thing that is really hard is collecting data that you have no justification to collect. If you simply avoid collecting data, none of the other stuff affects you.

Unfortunately, since our modern digital world works with data, that particular tautology is next to useless.

With my small business hat on, I'm deeply concerned about the real world implications of the GDPR next year, even as with my privacy advocate hat on I'm happy that the kinds of big data-hoarding companies that cause most of the real problems are going to face more meaningful regulation.
Agreed on the packaging side, but the python community / existing libs (the entire rest of the ecosystem) is miles ahead of Go's at this point.
How is this different from traditional appearance services? The only difference I can see from a quick look is the use of an iOS/Android app.
Yes, likely. It'S plausible that Google captured Wifi signals in order to get to the SSID etc. to build a location database and they forgot to cut of the data part, possibly assuming it was encrypted anyways. Considering that they announced the mistake themselves and the short time the car was in receiving distance makes this a quit believable thing.

Similar here: The developers logged information onto the device itself in one version of the software and didn't hesitate to push a new release.

From an engineering perspective relatively small bugs. Impact a bit larger.
The General X companies won't be increasing jobs available anymore, so the wage market will be freed up. Other than that the market shouldn't be manipulated in any negative way, or would you disagree with that?
> were going to run a lot more stuff -- think a full JVM

Is a JVM really a lot more stuff than Minix OS?
Domain Specific Languages are good thing for specialized applications. Here we want automatic differentiation, parallelization and vectorization.
It gets bad when general purpose language's features are added to allow things that the language wasn't designed for. A good interface to a GP language would be more relevant.
> admits recording users' remote sessions

To me, this sounds like the recording of remote sessions which would involve some sort of connection (otherwise how would it be remote if it's only on the device itself?)
It's entirely possible. I'll have to see what kind of support Roslyn has for F#. If the support is there, it would be extremely easy to support F#. I'll look into this, thanks for the tip!
I've kept my subscription list in Feedly, which I open every now and again. I like the highlights it selects for me.

At peak Google Reader I suffered from "inbox zero" syndrome and recall zapping through hundreds of posts a day (being full time student in dorms help with having free time). But something rss, email and social media have thought me is that you'll never see it all. So I never pay much attention to the vast majority of the dress I subscribe to.

I certainly look forward to more decentralized systems like rss in the future.
Adults crave predictability too; they've just seen enough stuff to be able to predict most of the things one encounters out in society.

But watch a YouTube video of a magic trick, and you'll likely click back and re-watch the critical moment a few times before you've even realized what you're doing. Even if you don't end up understanding what happens, your brain inherently wants to make sure you are entirely clear on what you saw, so it can learn the raw fact that "this is a thing that can happen" and then attempt to reconstruct your mental models and schemas to take that evidence into account.

Kids just need to do that for, well, everything.
If anyone is interested, here's how you can build your own 8 foot by 4 foot whiteboard for about $15 (they normally cost around $200):

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/build-your-own-8x4-foot-white...

I've been using Expo markers for a long time. They rock.
This was hard for me when I was a big Google Reader user and even with Twitter. You have to accept that the world is going to go on without you and it's impossible to catch up with everything.
Do not permit them. Free apps are just a way to reinforce the user-is-the-product problem that exists today.

Note: I don't agree with a "permissions tax."
Not sure why you were so heavily downvoted; the title explicitly says "recording user's remote sessions". To record something remotely heavily implies a connection between two places. If it was only recording on the device and nothing else there would be zero reason to say "remote" because it wouldn't be remote, it would be a local recording.
This sounds almost identical to the datastore honeycomb.io built and describe in the talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr2KcekX2kk
Does Apple hellban in cases where they discover someone was maliciously trying to call private APIs? How easy is it to get away with this long term?
How To Survive A Robot Uprising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G3RoBHMu-o
It depends, you can embed ads and content in a feed, or some content and no ads. I think depending on what you're reading, academic, non-profit, ad-supported, etc.. the published RSS feeds add more value than take away for both parties.
"Sex toy company admits recording..." implies that the company did the recording. A more accurate title might begin "Sex toy company admits product records..."
the title is crafted to imply that the sex toy company was recording its users, could only do that remotely. but hey, titles sell
I had a very similar experience when I took a processor design class in college. At first in the class we started learning the binary codes for each instruction, which bits were the registers, instruction bits etc. It seemed so pointless at the time. When we finally got to the end and it clicked that those bits were physically turning on and off gates, it blew my mind.
Make the algorithms public, let them be broken, refine them etc. until the margin between identification and refingerprinting becomes so small that refingerprinting involves such significant changes that we are reasonably confident that we are no longer dealing with theseus' ship.

That's how we got good crypto. By not keeping it proprietary.

And a side benefit that we would get some amazingly alteration-resistant perceptual image hashes out of that.
You can also go beyond free. After Reader, I decided to go with Feedbin so that I know it won't evaporate when the next annual drop-the-least-sexy-projects time comes around. And, after all, if you're not the customer, you're the product.