skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some banks might use it. It's kind of like if there was a Napster clone in 1995 endorsed by a few record companies.
Yes, but... that somewhat misses the point of machine "learning"! Maybe the author is being somewhat facetious when making an overly broad interpretation of an important point.

When one wants to use the best ML model "in production" (after all the exploration is done and dusted), or when there is a "domain expert" who can specify the right biases to encode into the algorithm (i.e. problem information), the point made in the post is very valid.

Often, however, the point of using ML is to tease out some property that is not apparent previously. In that case, the hope is to use some class of algorithms (eg: neural networks) with the right general biases (eg: convolutional layers and RELU activations, or share the first few layers of VGG) so that it can pull out the appropriate aspects from the problem specification that you did not know to ask for.

From this perspective, the challenge lies in the 'No Free Lunch' theorem which implies that unless you known enough about the problem to indirectly encode the correct biases (eg: In the case of image classification -- choosing neural networks, convolutions, etc. rather than a decision tree) you can never win the game.
It was better before the switch to wayland/gnome in 17.10. In 17.04 they actually appeared to have fractional scaling working pretty seamlessly in Unity (not sure exactly what they did to accomplish that), but with the most recent version they are back to integer only.

That being said, gnome is expected to have factional scaling support under wayland for 3.28, scheduled for, iirc, March.
Nope, such testimonies even exist in 30 yo. It's not a matter of having children (and I firmly believe you can have children without becoming unreasonable on the way, even if having children often denotes of complete disregard for the world's state over one's egoistic interests but that's another problem), just having seen enough biology at work...
I'm always skeeved out by reports like this. I know they're PR bits for the companies, but to me they're just another constant reminder that I'm just a data-point for any app that collects my data and all my data is theirs forever to use to build their product.
Some alternatives: Binance, Bittrex, Gemini
Pretty much. There was no slide at all. The chart is fake. You can say fake news, I say market manipulation.
The Raspberry Pi PiServer tool
I agree it's a stretch, but it's a fun link.

The parallel I see is that this is as close to anything I've ever seen in this industry to having to start so far back again. I very much suspect that we're going to be playing cat and mouse with timing attacks for the next 10 years, while pie-in-the-sky research projects just get started more-or-less today that will finally fix it.

The Mill CPU people have popped up a few times today... they seem to have an interesting opportunity here.
Any major features missing?
Zamify Your Next Web Application
I'll be honest, I'm still confused why the European 16GB non-touch xps13 configuration doesn't work for you...

Edit: ohhhh! You want non-touch but 4k. Now I see! But if it's paying for unwanted touch functionality vs a US keyboard layout (not to mention the vastly inferior design and size) then I know what I'm picking.
Those are mostly the drawbacks of JWT, less so using stateless sessions altogether.

I found some additional reasons from a page that was linked from that last link here: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/13/stop-using-jwt-fo...

* They take up more space
* You cannot invalidate individual JWT tokens

The other reasons seem a bit weaker.

In your opinion, are those also the reasons why you wouldn't use PAST for stateless sessions?
> Salting passwords also protects against password attacks using precomputed rainbow tables, but that wasn't a concern back then.

Hmm, if not to defend against rainbow tables... why were the passwords salted back then?
What precisely does "X% of people in an metropolitan statistical area cannot afford local rent?" mean?

Aren't all those people paying rent now? If not, in what sense are they "in" an area? If so, in what sense can they not "afford" it?

A large category of people not paying rent is homeowners. Retired homeowners might have small incomes that suggest they can't afford rent, but because they own their home they are fine. Are they part of X%?

What is "local rent"? Perhaps they mean an average of the area. If so, it's not surprising that a good fraction can't afford the average rent, so they live in below-average apartments. Any healthy housing market would have this.

What is "afford"? Is there some percentage of income they're assumed to be able to pay as rent? If some people decide to spend a higher percentage of their income on rent because they care about their neighborhood more than eating out or buying gadgets, do they belong in a statistic that seems designed to show how unaffordable housing is?

I imagine one could write definitions of the above terms to get X anywhere from 0% to 100%.
Yes and no – I doubt that we will have enough resources to build a real sync because it's really hard to implement but only a small number of people will use it. It could be possible by making a "team edition" and recovering costs by selling the app to companies but I really don't like the idea of managers spying on their teams by using Qbserve.

But I was contemplating an idea of merging scheduled exports from multiple Macs with a simple web app.
I would recommend doing cryptopals in any case. It will give you a good background on this and other crypto topics so you can evaluate for yourself.
That's an interesting argument. But do you have some of specific conditions that might qualify?
Itch.io year in review 2017
If Rohrabacher-Farr doesn't expire, the states will challenge the action as a violation of federal statute (where they've won before against the Feds trying to narrowly interpret Rohrabacher-Farr) rather than launching a Constitutional challenge of on grounds where there is crystal clear Supreme Court precedent against them, and little reason to believe the Court has moved in their favor.

Even if they also raise the Constitutional argument, a Court that fears public opinion as much as you suggest would likely take the less precedent-disturbing approach to the popular result by resting a decision on Rohrabacher-Farr (even if that took a somewhat expansive interpretation of that prohibition on DoJ use of funds) rather than overturning Gonzalez v. Raich.
> Now that the top is being lopped off, you experience the true speed of that CPU while operating in a secure manner.

So the proper execution is slower than the secure execution, right? Ergo, it is 'slower'.
> Do you really think Texas could revel and secede?

Not Texas alone, but the 2A doesn't exist so Texas can secede. And it wasn't was I was referring to, anyway. It exists, among other reasons, to ensure the US government won't become authoritarian. If the US did decide to consolidate power (à la the 1930s) it would be met with an armed resistance. Sure, there would be a power imbalance. But simply based on sheer numbers it'd be a nearly insurmountable task for the US government to quash it.

> It is the single most vaguely worded and most misapplied portion of it.

Okay, I'm just gonna be maybe a little too pedantic here, but that sounds too subjective to me. Plenty of folks might argue the right to privacy found in Roe v. Wade is more misapplied. And plenty of folks seem to think the 1st amendment gives, for example, racists too large of a platform and that platform has, both directly and indirectly, caused suffering to millions of minority groups.

> It’s like if you wrote a piece of code that ran all the systems in all the hospitals in a country...

That sort of presupposes the only way to fix the software is to scrap the entire thing. What if it were possible to add some bug fixes in other parts of the program? (Which is kinda what I've alluded to before—I think we could fix a lot of the 30,000 number without having to scrap the entire thing.)

> Yup the app will work great for just one person! Thanks for checking it out.

Sweet! I've been looking for a simple app that I don't have to connect my bank account to, unlike, say, Mint.
The crazy part is how much XRP is concentrated in the company and its founders:

> XRP, being issued by a company, is less decentralized than many other cryptocurrencies. For instance, Ripple itself holds 61.3 billion XRP, including 55 billion that it keeps in escrow. Only 38.7 billion XRP tokens have been distributed.

> Cofounder and former CEO Chris Larsen, who stepped down in November 2016 and now serves as executive chairman of Ripple, has 5.19 billion XRP in his personal holdings and a 17% stake in the company, according to sources at Ripple. That gives him a net worth of $37.3 billion, using Monday’s exchange rate.
sounds like a job for [adversarial networks](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.2661.pdf)!
The Republic of China probably agrees partly because waiving their territorial claims could trigger military action through China's Anti-Secession Law.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2018/01/02/meet-the-c...
Coinbase is covering their ass because of the Bitcoin Cash fiasco. They're basically saying, "We're not adding anything until we add something. And when we do, it will be officially announced."

i.e. they're not just going to suddenly add it and then tell everyone like with BCH.
Well they aren't all just dreaming are they. Some are pouring resources into bring about their future.
you seemed to say that no people are 'pure rationalists' ("people are emotional animals rather than pure rationalists"). but now you seem to say some people can embody this idea of apparent perfection.

there are extremely few people who exhibit chronic irrational behavior. of those who do, many tend to be institutionalized due to (at least in part) their mental health needs.

being rational doesn't mean you're a cold vulkan logician, and it doesn't mean you're always 'correct' or free of faulty reasoning or other issues. people don't usually get math problems wrong due to irrationality, for example. the average healthy person has their moments, but over time behaves rationally.

i'm not suggesting every single person that exists will be swayed by your reasoning. mostly because to properly sway your most ardent of opponents takes a lot of work, as you usually have to start at a low level, defining terms, identifying assumptions, establish a foundation you can both agree upon, and then build up. (this assumes your reasoning is solid in the first place.)

we can observe the world as a whole: the world is getting better all the time. there is less violence in the world than now than at any point in recorded history (see Pinker; The Better Angels of Our Nature). extreme poverty is much less common than it used to be. there are pockets of conflict, but the world isn't submerged in an eternal sea of chaos.

religious fundamentalists aren't necessarily irrational. many are highly educated and fully functional people, some with phds. if you actually talk to such people, you'll generally find they're operating with different axioms than you are.

to me, i almost feel that you're trying to rationalize grounds for conflict and justify the avoidance of dialogue. if you caricature people you disagree with as emotional animals that simply can't be reasoned with... what does this imply about your options for engaging with them? what does this imply about their options for engaging with you?
Oh, the reseller's (FastSpring) server is down. But it's $40 one-time fee.
I raised an eyebrow at that as well. I guess it was to squeak in under the $1k mark but it seems like an odd decision for a machine being targeted at developers
I like to think the NSA/TLA folks are sitting in an office somewhere incredulous that someone found this bug they'd never have even dreamed up, whilst a catalogue of simple buffer overflows and mandated backdoors that no one has yet found sits on the shelf ready for offensive use.
> RL is supposed to be the way to AGI

Could you expand on that? The more I read from folks like LeCunn & Chollet seem to disagree strongly. Just this week Yan posted about unsupervised modeling (with or without DL) to be the next path forward, and described RL as essentially a roundabout way of doing supervised learning.
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I settled on the 13.3" form factor 6 years ago, but the lack of all dedicated PgUp, PgDown, Home, End, Ins, Del keys puts me off (I'm very used to copy/paste with Ctrl/Shift-Ins and whole line selection). Well, I'm sticking with the small ProBooks and Lenovos for now.
BSF is also famously the lawfirm which help SCO sue IBM, Novell and others over Linux. [1]

I'm sure there are other unethical law firms out there, but it is my opinion that BSF crossed the line more than once in these cases.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO/Linux_controversies
is ripple even a blockchain? I thought it was controlled entirely by a private entity? edit: it looks to be a 100% premined cryptocurrency with a blockchain
I think his primary goal is to mention system76 much as possible while pouring scorn on dell
You can just turn it off in the BIOS.
Google does have a PoC for spectre that attacks Chrome via Javascript. That said, I am not super worried either. Its not like all my personal data isn't already out there for all to see (Thanks Equifax).
"Yes, yes we do. Local control of land use is the reason we are in this mess."

No, no we don't. I don't usually side with conservatives, but this is comically bad policy. It's a state power-grab for supply side controls -- planned economy thinking -- justified by Adam Smith rhetoric, because some folks in San Francisco have decided that they know what's wrong with the local planning of every other city in the state.

It's especially irritating, because the transit corridors that this legislation targets -- BART, Caltrain, etc. -- suck, and the sheer vacuum of their suckage probably has more to do with local housing density than any particular zoning rule. I cracked up at your Brisbane example...people choose not to live in Brisbane because it's inconvenient to everywhere, not because Brisbane has zoning restrictions. You could let developers build skyscrapers right next to the single Caltrain station (you know...the one next to the city dump?), and they still won't do it, because the demand doesn't exist. People aren't clamoring to live in Brisbane, and office parks are probably the only thing that sells.

Make it quick and painless to commute to Brisbane (or any other city) by something other than car, and you won't have to tell the local lawmakers how to set their rules. The flow of money will do it for you. This is just silly grandstanding, not practical legislation.
I'm curious whether the Retpoline mitigation will still be necessary/recommended for user applications (that don't operate as a JIT or interpreter) once the kernel and CPU mitigations for Spectre that are currently in the works have been applied.
Whatever they claim, in the present time reality the RC (Taiwan) and the PRC are 2 distinct independent countries that are not going to re-unite any soon. "Believing" any of the 2 just doesn't make much sense.
Popehat seems to think that the concerns over this are overblown:

Okay. But what does that really mean?

As long as Rohrabacher-Farr remains in every federal appropriations bill, Department of Justice policy is mostly symbolic — the Department of Justice will still be prohibited from spending money on prosecuting people for medical marijuana activities that are legal under state laws. (That doesn't limit prosecutions of non-medical personal use activities, though — but it will be difficult to tease them apart.) And, practically speaking, it's utterly impossible for the Department of Justice to prosecute more than a very tiny fraction of marijuana cases. They don't have the resources.

...

Your main concern will be that businesses and institutions will be slow to support an activity that the citizens of your state have chosen to make legal.

https://www.popehat.com/2018/01/04/lawsplainer-attorney-gene...
I get it; the test is sufficient. But I remain troubled, as I'm not sure I even want an AI that thinks in that way (the same as a human). I make no more claim than that; the Turing test is a little interesting and quaint; but surely much better tests could be conceived of.
They do... because they are measured in a weird way.

If the usage is split 50/50 kernel/userspace. And the userspace changes slow the app down 10%. Then the user space changes slowed the userspace code down 20%. Likewise if the kernel changes slow the app down 10%, they slowed the kernel code down by 20%.

So the total impact of the changes is 20% in your example.
Mozilla Confirms Web-Based Execution Vector for Meltdown and Spectre Attacks
Why Is LiveEdu Running an ICO? Why Does LiveEdu Need to Be on a Blockchain?
“Jann Horn developed all of this independently - that’s incredibly impressive,” he said. “We developed very similar attacks, but we were a team of 10 researchers.“

That is very impressive.
Beijing to build $2B AI research park: Xinhua
The mitigations don't involve disabling speculative execution entirely, only adding safeguards to how it's done.
Harvard architecture
> My gut feeling is that people who haven't looked up from emacs or vi for a decade or two have no idea what modern IDEs are capable of out of the box.

Do you have some examples of things I might not be aware of?
I wonder how long much longer it will take for the astronomers to get the technology that would allow them to hunt for life in other stellar systems so that we can check all this out.
Keyboards are variable beasts, even at 13.3".

My ThinkPad 13 has all those buttons.
The final solution.
So it is a game over here. Unless Intel can change the microcode to force a page fault in this case.
HackerRank is down
I actually wonder why there aren't more IDEs that just embed vim as their text editor. Ironically, the only one that can do something like that is emacs.
There are other theoretical biochemistry possibilities[1]. Silicon, for example, works well in low-pressure environments. It's an immense stretch of the imagination to think about life-forms that use semiconductors to do useful work, but is certainly a fun thought experiment.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemi...
(But if he's an immortal being who can live in space, why would EB even want to kill his way to more control of property on Earth? This is like the implausible plot of a bunch of alien invasion stories where societies capable of interstellar travel still want to come here to violently seize our dirt and water, for some reason.)

Indeed. That's the consistently ridiculous theme that has pervaded SF for decades, Oblivion being a recently example that I've seen.

If you've already uploaded, then you might want to just ship yourself off to another solar system, so that you can have unimpeded access to all that matter and energy, instead of competing for stuff here.
Strengthening Checks on Presidential Nuclear Launch Authority [pdf]
This reminds me of when the Conservative government in Canada did similar chest puffing activities. But local police refused to enforce the law. It'll also be interesting to see what state attorney's do. Will they sue the federal government? Will they make it harder for federal prosecutors?

This isn't something you can easily back away from...
You can call into the kernel.

edit: s/call into/trigger a syscall/
Store everything on iCloud Drive and it does backup "automatic" and invisibly.
Cars lack the recursive properties of computers and computer programs.
What did you buy? I've now bought and sold many k's worth of Eth. It usually takes about a week for a purchase to settle and less when selling.
The power adapter is a good point! It really is a beast.

Including the AC adapter, the XPS 15 is 40% lighter than the W520 for roughly equal performance and similar battery life. Not too bad.

It's still a bit sad though. After 5.5 years I moved to a macbook pro 13" 2016 and the performance was a drastic downgrade from it (the w520 finally broke...).

Moore's "law" is clearly, finally, gone.
How do you know? Sometimes it can be difficult for others to tell if somebody is burned out or not besides that their productivity, motivation etc tank.
https://mobile.twitter.com/misc0110/status/94870638749178675...

upper window is firefox
A full system emulator like QEMU that's built as a compiler generator. The goal is to build new interpretors and stage 1 JITs at runtime that are tailored to specific supervisor states to give good low latency performance before code hits a real big boy JIT.

Targeting game consoles at the moment because of how sensitive those emulators are to latency as well as raw perf, but better a ARM Android emulator is one of the end goals.
BTC and ETH both had major scaling issues and transaction fees skyrocketed. Since the semi-centralized nature of Ripple means that transactions are relatively cheap speculators started buying. There are other similar coins that also saw a boost.
It's a weird constant feeling that no matter what I do on my computer or my phone that someone else knows what it is, is watching, recording, analyzing my activity. No stopping it now, but it takes away from the magic.
I also recently bought a Galago Pro, primarily since it was the only reasonably priced laptop I could find with 32GB ram. I'd say overall I'm happy but it's a mixed bag.

Pros:
- Gorgeous screen, lightweight, Ubuntu 16 feels snappy.
- System76 customer service is amazing.
- Sub $2000 machine with 32GB RAM and i7. (Mine was $1850 after shipping & tax.)
- Lots of ports! The fold-out ethernet port is especially nice, for those rare times when you need one.

Cons:
- I dislike the keyboard layout quite a lot, but I'm hoping I get used to it. The right-hand column of home/end/etc gets hit quite a lot by accident when I'm trying to hit enter, tab, etc. Also, the center of my space bar has a dead spot unless pressed very hard.
- Battery life is bad. If you're just browsing, you get maybe 4 hours. Anything intensive will run the battery down in under an hour. I mostly use it at home so this isn't a big problem for me.
- As stated above, the touch pad feels unresponsive, esp. if you're used to a macbook pro. Not sure whether this is a hardware or software issue.
- They charge you $77 (after shipping & tax) for a second charger. (It also seems to be a nonstandard size, so good luck finding one from an OEM.)
To be sure, what you're hearing from that website is not coil whine (inductor phenomena), but mechanical resonance caused by piezoelectric effect on solid state MLCCs[1] charging/discharging in your monitor during frame refresh.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_capacitor#Microphony
I see, how you are writing your go code sounds similar to how we wrote our code on the JVM. e.g. We didn't use Spring or other enterprise frameworks like that and would write pretty much direct SQL with jdbc (after several misadventures in various Scala db-wrappers de-jour).
Coinbase shouldn't dictate the market. It is the other way around. And sooner or later I hope they will be forced to add it.

Having an argument "Our mission is to create an open financial system for the world" and accepting >only< decentralised cryptos sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Isn't Ripple supposed to be for moving money around instead of wire transfers? How is this volatility remotely good for that use-case?
People bought and sold at increasing prices. There was a "demand".
I don't have hard evidence, but

A) they are vulnerable to two out of the three attacks, which indicates they did not in fact consider speculative execution a danger

B) it is hard to believe that if they researched the topic at AMD, they wouldn't find this vulnerability in Intel processors a long time ago