skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The catchiest (and wrong) assertion is this:

"even for highly technical aspects like deep learning, fast.ai has shown that people with 1-year of coding experience can become world-class deep learning practitioners"

Yes, any Joe can train deep network with dozen lines of Keras. Sure, your startup can use off-the self models and tweak it a bit... That doesn't make you "world-class deep learning practitioner". If you are designing the network for new problem domain, there are thousands of decisions to make - everything from hyperparameters to network architecture to distributions in data. Making these decisions without having developed lots of intuition and good foundations is very hard. I often find usual developers without ML background and experience completely lost in these cases. Debugging a model that doesn't work is super hard. There are no IDEs, no breakpoints, no watches and in fact not even error messages. Its purely statistical debugging and probabilistic fixes.
> Chinese children scored higher just because they were trained earlier.

No, Chinese children scored higher because only a sample was taken from urban Shanghai and compared to the entire USA. Imagine comparing San Francisco to the whole of China, including its much poorer and less educated hinterlands.

There are false generalizations all around.
wow, succinct but profound!
You’re required to PIN, Touch/FaceID, and/or enter iCloud password simply to purchase an app, even when it’s free, unless you specifically set otherwise in your device settings. What attack do you envision that would be possible here that doesn’t require an attacker already in possession and full control of your iCloud-linked device?
"Technologies are supposed to be "thin", simple, efficient, and composable." -- good aphorism for evaluating protocol schemas and suchlike.
You might want to add uMatrix or NoScript, but having said that I don’t know if uBlock might not be enough.
I don't think a citation is needed for the proposition that VCs often push companies to grow too quickly, before they've nailed down product-market fit and monetization.

You could argue that VCs want to see product-market fit before they invest, but this is certainly not true of monetization.
Literally tells us nothing about what's in it. Not even a changelog. Not even a sentence hinting as to what might be in it. Incredible.
I contribute to open source a lot, but mostly to my own code bases.

I seldom fix other open source projects, because they are not well documented, digging other people's code is a pain.

Or some code bases are well documented, and their code is also structured nicely, but they have a quite complex or bureaucratic procedure to do code review and submission. I tend to give up in this case and simply file a bug and point out the problem to them.

I think I should contribute to open source, because I benefit from them a lot. Every single project I worked on uses open source libraries, frameworks. I should pay my open source tax to support them.
> a ‘smartscreen filter’ that sends the urls of websites you visit to Microsoft (to check against a database of ‘malicious websites’)

You can't really compare at least this to Apple, as Safari does exactly the same thing.

> cloud-based Cortana

As opposed to cloud-based Siri?
"It's not the pace of life I mind, it's the sudden stop at the end."
Since Russia's relevant interests are in destablising the Atlantic alliance and undermining the European Union, elevating the US- and EU-critical Corbyn over more reasonable elements in Labour is exactly what one would expect.
FedEx wasn't based on a PhD thesis
This has absolutely destroyed Intel's reputation and handed a massive PR win to their competitors (including AMD). Hard to imagine any normal company cutting out their own feet so willingly, this will cost Intel a lot more than it will make them in short term revenue.
I think a key difference is that Snapchat is not a feed app. There's no endless scrolling to waste 30 minutes on to give you that dopamine hit. The time spent is mostly being spent as a messaging app I suspect if you look at the levels of use of app features. Do you think it's a problem to spend half an hour a day texting + sending pictures to people?
Scalm: Elm-inspired Scala library for writing web user interfaces
Detecting Spectre and Meltdown Using Hardware Performance Counters
Cryptocash perhaps
Which isn't good PR given that all the related press (including non crypto currency specific stuff like Bloomberg).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/bitcoin-r...
did anyone mention "These tokens serve as scarce resources that can be regulated and governed to more closely align with the functionality of a dapp" ?
See token ring for shared conductor, but different coordination.[1]. There was a time when it wasn't clear which one would win out.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_ring

Edit: Also DecNet, SNA, Arcnet if you want some more view into competing ideas in the same time period.
Last I knew, you couldn't disable Chrome's async DNS feature, which will bypass your system's configured DNS servers and use Google's own. So, while certainly not the same level of tracking that Google Analytics or even browser history can perform, many (all?) domains you visit are still sent back to Google in one form or another:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=432236
There's no reason to invent new terminology for speculative execution. Also, the mapping between the variety of CPU caches and real memory has been known imperfect since the beginning of time.

But meanwhile, yes, can definitely agree how fucking cool it all is
Distributed how?

Produced how? by work?

Bitcoin distributed the vast majority of its wealth to aprox less than ~1000 individuals.

Best estimates are that there are about one million
holders of Bitcoin; 47 individuals hold about 30 percent,
another 900 hold a further 20 percent, the next 10,000
about 25% and another million about 20%, with 5% being
lost. So 1/10th of one percent represent about half the
holdings of Bitcoin and 1 percent close to 80 percent
(http://www.businessinsider.com/927-people-own-half-
of-the-bitcoins-2013-12). The concentration of Litecoin
ownership is similar
(http://litecoin-rich-list.blogspot.com).
Most of the big wallets have been in place from early on,
so sitting back and watching your capital grow has been a
very successful strategy.

The distribution of Bitcoin holdings looks much like the
distribution of wealth in North Korea and makes the
China’s and even the US’ wealth distribution look like
that of a workers’ paradise

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/86/is-it-possibl...

http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-inequality-2014-1

More to the point, assuming a currency medium has a finite supply - once produced and distributed, all future generations are at a catastrophic disadvantage simply for arriving at the wrong time.

It should also be noted the term deflationary is often used to represent Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies when in fact the supply continually inflates every 10 minutes.

What many advocates conveniently omit from disclosing is the algorithm produced the supply very rapidly for very low effort to the early adopters. Not only does the production supply require more work for later adopters, but more users compete for the limited block rewards which decrease as time goes on.

It's not exactly Ponzi scheme, or a Pyramid scheme.

It's a Satoshi Scheme

... or a "Nakamoto Scheme"
https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/08/bitcoin_ponzi/
Thanks. I suspected as much for LuaJIT because, like a JavaScript engine, it supports JIT compilation of untrusted code. It's interesting to hear that PUC Lua also needs these mitigations even though it's only an interpreter.

As for implementations of Python and Ruby, they might not worry about these attacks - because AFAIK they do not try to support secure execution of untrusted code.
>The default needs to move to charging every driver involved in a fatal crash with manslaughter. Currently the police won't even perform basic investigative work that would make any charge possible.

On top of the other points people have made about why this is a bad idea, it would also probably make people somewhat more likely to avoid reporting the crime all together in situations with no witnesses.
There are always a tons of fans for Wuxia in China for probably hundreds years. Supply follows demand. And Internet-literature is a big thing in China. There are also a lot of Wuxia or quasi-wuxia published online. I wonder which country don't censor movies? China actually has quite a few political-metaphor movies up. Not to mention recently one filmed by Feng XiaoGang. I am not saying China bureau of movies production are doing a good job. In fact they have been complained quite a a lot. China still hasn't implement a good classification system. Quite a few films got cut because it has to suit majority(including children) which really annoys people. As your last film example, many Chinese viewers don't think that film is good.
During the Christmas holiday, when bitcoin was slumping, I saw that some dude was giving millions of dollars worth of bitcoin to charities, and was like "NOOO!! Anybody but charities!! They're just gonna dump it in the damn market and crash the price"
I do not believe page speed should play a role in search rankings at all. It has nothing to do with the content and the person with the correct and most relevant content doesn't always have the relevant skills or a DevOps specialist handy to meet the requirements.

This only helps the heavy handed SEO optimized sites with deep pockets and time to kill get yet another edge.

The article with the best insight isn't likely to be the one with the perfecly optimized website.

I understand that pagespeed effects end user experience when they hit a website, however that's not what I searched for. I did not search "fastest website with okay knowledge about dogs" I asked for "website with the best knowledge about dogs".

I want Google to be able to show me the most awesome page about dogs. The most in depth and relevant information. That niche dog blogger who is so passionate that they spend all their time researching dogs. I don't want "10 cool facts about dogs by Buzzfeed".
Isilon is part of EMC which is part of Dell (now). They do scale-out fault tolerant storage up to multi-petabytes.
Better OS X Key Rates (Excellent Tip for Vim)
A Type of Road Junction that Kills Cyclists
Given the history of CPU hot plug, it has always been generally assumed that all the CPUs in an SMP are identical (hence the S in SMP). I'm not aware of any OS that supports differing feature sets, and if one exists, it almost certainly goes with the least common denominator feature set.
Concept of private property is as old as civilisation. Whereas taxation (at current depth and scale) is barely 50yrs old and already showing cracks.
> Literally tells us nothing about what's in it. Not even a changelog. Not even a sentence hinting as to what might be in it. Incredible.

They do have ./releasenote:

Intel Processor Microcode Package for Linux 20180108 Release
-- Updates upon 20171117 release --
IVT C0 (06-3e-04:ed) 428->42a
SKL-U/Y D0 (06-4e-03:c0) ba->c2
BDW-U/Y E/F (06-3d-04:c0) 25->28
HSW-ULT Cx/Dx (06-45-01:72) 20->21
Crystalwell Cx (06-46-01:32) 17->18
BDW-H E/G (06-47-01:22) 17->1b
HSX-EX E0 (06-3f-04:80) 0f->10
SKL-H/S R0 (06-5e-03:36) ba->c2
HSW Cx/Dx (06-3c-03:32) 22->23
HSX C0 (06-3f-02:6f) 3a->3b
BDX-DE V0/V1 (06-56-02:10) 0f->14
BDX-DE V2 (06-56-03:10) 700000d->7000011
KBL-U/Y H0 (06-8e-09:c0) 62->80
KBL Y0 / CFL D0 (06-8e-0a:c0) 70->80
KBL-H/S B0 (06-9e-09:2a) 5e->80
CFL U0 (06-9e-0a:22) 70->80
CFL B0 (06-9e-0b:02) 72->80
SKX H0 (06-55-04:b7) 2000035->200003c
GLK B0 (06-7a-01:01) 1e->22
<snip>

But I'm not sure how to interpret it... BDW is probably Broadwell and HSW is probably Haswell etc., IVT is... interrupt vector table? and I'm not sure what the other characters are.
"No, not really. Your employees are by far the most important thing to focus on. If you have great employees who're engaged, they will build for you an amazing product/service which will blow away your competition, which your users will love to use, which you can sell at a massive premium."

We can play this game all day folks.
A way to bypass a Chrome interstitial page is to type a secret keyword
A friend of mine told a great story about how some Koop aid drinkers were pitching blockchain internally for internal chargeback for services.

So you’d use your corpcoin to rent cubes and get pens from the facilities folks, and trade coin to get servers, etc. the idea had traction until the accountants revolted.
They wouldn't risk Elon's roadster.

More seriously, even just the PR cost and the actual cost would prevent them from launching.
How?

You're taking a concept from the world of finance that's highly regulated, and applying it to a field that's a complete wild West. To execute a proper short one needs:

* to borrow shares from a counter-party that has them, as verified by their broker

* to agree on collateral that your brokerage has verified and ensured is not pledged for anything else, agree on the interest rate you'll be paying to borrow those shares, agree on collateral to support those interest payments for the duration of the short

* a regulated exchange that frowns upon self-trading and wash trading

* an exchange with decent enough activity that a few whales don't control the entire supply/demand, moving the needle into whatever direction they feel like

All of those activities are more or less automated in the world of NYSE/Nasdaq, but what's a good broker and exchange that support all of this with the tokens?
How was the HIV virus first contracted
You are implying causation when all you have is correlation.
At this age its ultimately parents fault.
I was under the impression that the recent security update for El Capitan 10.11.6 contains required fixes. I am doing a clean install and upgrading all the way and check the PoC for any red flags. I will update here my findings.
+1 for not upgrading to High/Sierra.

Update: According to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208331 the Security Update 2017-005 contains fixes for Meltdown.

Update 2: According to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208403 the Safari Update 11.0.2 contains fixes for Spectre.

So folks on 10.11.6 El Capitan should be good.
Ispc: A SPMD Compiler for High-Performance CPU Programming
Spoiler alert. Damore's lawyer is Harmeet Dhillon, a female super lawyer American born in India. She's also a Republican party official, and recently successfully defended the Berkeley College Republicans against Yvette Felarca of the BAMN left-wing militant group. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmeet_Dhillon
Ask HN: How do I invest $1m in VC funds, to diversify from crypto?
How can an individual with a lot of money get access to VC funds? What would you do?

This is a general question as I doubt I’m alone, but I’ll explain my story.

I got into bitcoin when it was a few dollars a pop, ‘diversified’ it to Ethereum around the crowdsale, and now I need to diversify into other asset classes. I have shares and property exposure, but I also want to invest $1m in US-based VC funds.

I know the most established funds are out of the question for me, and while I’ve got opportunities to invest in some small new funds, their portfolios aren’t appealing and I’m not confident in their performance.

I am Australian but I want to invest in US funds. I obviously am an accredited investor. In terms of my value add, I can offer advice and help on most things crypto & blockchain.

This account is a throwaway for obvious reasons, but an email is in my profile.
In the short term, maybe. But the OS update processes are incremental. If the user wants to upgrade their OS version for some reason (new feature, etc), they will get the performance hit bundled together.
The only problem I see with this is that it doesn't have support for optional types. This is nice to be able to distinguish between null/empty fields and defaults. But this is very nice work regardless and will be useful in.many people's usecases.
It didn't; the confusion is because HN shows visited links with a similar grey to down-voted comments.

(They should fix that.)
How is Microsoft more trustworthy than Google? Google's involvement in OSS vs Microsoft's time-old approach tells a huge story to people who write software.

Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft all open source code that isn't part of the Crown Jewels. Even many of the parts of Android that people consider Android are closed source.
Conversely, the concept of taxation is as old as civilization, and private property at current depth and scale is barely as old as the most recent extension of the rights associated with copyright in the DMCA, and already showing cracks.
...generally viewing intelligence as a trait that can be acquired through hard work rather than a quality that you're born with.

The first thing that came to mind when I read this was Lysenko-ism.
I somewhat fail to see how they could ever serve as a real payment utility. If they have some actual application utility, then you'd have to dynamically adjust costs based on the speculative cost of acquisition so your application costs aren't wild, and then it's still nothing but a speculation-driven currency. Isn't that just nuts? It's a built-in catch-22
Google Groups works well for this. I use it for my open source projects. You can interact with it via the web, if you want, but it also has a full mailman style interface, which is how I use it.
Most ridiculous aspect of corporate American governance, or lack there of, is making CEO the Chairman of the Board, almost always.

It flies in the face of the whole point of the Board! It blows my mind.
Jp Morgan actually did fine during crash. They didn't need a govt bail out ( even though they were forced to take money)
The case was dismissed with prejudice.

An appeal should only be granted if the plaintiff can show grounds for an appeal, which would require extraordinary evidence of judicial misconduct.
180m daily active users is not scale?

When Facebook IPOd, they had 160m monthly active users, and had $3.7B in revenue with $1B in profits.

And yet with more users, Snapchat pulls in $200m in revenue last quarter, and lost $440m.

The users are there. That's not their problem.
Without hyperbole, one of the biggest trends to avoid is overgeneralization.

A large part of one's experience at a startup is unique to that context.

Certainly not all. But certainly a lot -- Probably the majority of what counts as advice.

Being able to filter what's generalizable and what's not is the most useful skill an advisor can develop -- ironically, even more than the experience. (And I'm breaking my own hypothesis by giving advice there).
> The problem is that eating food IS consumption. For very poor people, food is the main consumption.

Then tax consumption enough to pay for the food accounting for the consumption tax that will apply to the food. That the amount of money you need to pay for the food increases as the consumption tax used to pay for the food increases is not a problem as long as anything at all other than food is being consumed in the economy. (If it happened to be the case that nothing other than food was being consumed, that would just mean it isn't possible to supply enough food—an income or wealth tax wouldn't be able to change anything about this.) The consumption tax needed for the government to pay for the food will be lower than the income or wealth tax that would be needed for the same thing.

Taxing investment to pay for food is only going to work insofar as it reallocates resources from the production of whatever the investments were in to the production of food. A consumption tax can already do this reallocation more efficiently. If your goal is to make the economy produce more of food and less of other things, this goal can be achieved more efficiently with a consumption tax than with an income or wealth tax.

> That's the bad of taxing consumption - that it naturally taxes more the poor, making them even poorer, than the rich.

It only taxes the poor more in proportion to their wealth, to the extent a higher proportion of the wealth of the poor is consumed instead of invested, but not in absolute terms. In absolute terms, it is the reverse, since the rich consume on average more than the poor even if this consumption is less as a proportion of their wealth. The tax on consumption taxes your absolute consumption, not your consumption as a proportion of your wealth, so it does make the poor better off in relation to the rich.

> But if you admit that some public services are necessary (eg police, defense from external threats) then it's obvious that a 0 tax rate is bad - 0 taxes mean 0 public services.

Even if these public services could not be provided without taxes, the reason having no taxes would be bad would not be that it is an extreme. But public goods can be provided without taxes. For the police, courts and laws, chapter 29[1] of The Machinery of Freedom describes one way this could be done. National defense can be funded with dominant assurance contracts, as can many other public goods (even when they can't be made excludable), including lighthouses, scientific research, information goods such as books, software, or art, clean air, and free-to-air television. So even if some public services are necessary or even just desirable, it is not obvious that having no taxes is bad as they can also be provided without taxes.

[1]: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/Machinery_of_Freed...
With the App Store accounting for approximately 20% of their revenue (as at 4Q 2017), I'm not sure how you describe this as "zero evidence of priority".

I'm fairly certain they don't consider it "strictly optional bonus income".
All advice is an older person talking to their younger self.
But Isilon is purely NFS (and/or SMB/CIFS) and doesn't support the parallel access that GPFS or Lustre do. It's not really a choice for this workload. Plus it'd be a lot more expensive than HPC storage - enterprise level RAS (reliability, serviceability, availability) costs. I've seen comparable capacity Isilon & DDN quotes (w/GPFS or Lustre) and they're worlds apart.
> Criteo, one of the largest in the industry, says that the Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) feature for Safari, which holds 15% of the global browser market, is likely to cut its 2018 revenue by more than a fifth compared to projections made before ITP was announced.

If Safari is 15% of the browser market, how is this causing a 20% drop in revenue?
Appearances are deceiving with Turla’s backdoor-laced Flash Player installer
Let's stick with the reddit example. The up/down vote links could be standard anchors with additional tags <a href="upvote" reload="comment#564534">^</a>. Inline posting could be similar.

It doesn't take much to do 99% of what we want with javascript and server side rendering, we used hacks to do it before javascript so I'm sure we could design something even better. It doesn't sacrifice anything.
If the teachers never give a single 20/20, that just means there is grade deflation, right? Effectively, 18/20 or 19/20 becomes the "perfect score," since it's the highest possible to obtain.
It's good if it plays some role when the content quality is similar between results. Some pages are so slow or obnoxious that I'd almost rather not get the information at all, than dreadfully waiting for ads and pop-up-modals to load. Perhaps ranking is the wrong tool, but it would be nice if I could know that a site is bloated before clicking the link. AMP lets me know that.
"Intel expects to issue updates to its processors soon.

... the rest by the end of January."

Not "the rest are not affected," or "the rest are intrinsically immune." If they were, Intel could have deflated a lot of the PR around AMD being immune while Intel is affected.
Agreed!

Meta for admins: shouldn't the headline include the year? (I've got comment downvote rights per karma > 500, but can't edit post headlines.)