skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume so these days, but TIPS didn't exist when this article was written. And probably not exclusively TIPS in any case (but perhaps combined with equities, etc.).
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.

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TL;DR: There are reports that somehow the anthem of the Nazi Party was played on air by a Russian radio station while the German Army was apparently on the verge of capturing Moscow.
Yeah. I said he was partially right because it's true that the government had some influence in the past so VW can technically be considered a success.
> This has been my experience working with companies that use cloud services as well.

It's generally the case across large parts of IT. I confused the heck out of the first manager I started sending itemized weekly reports of the cost of each functional area and feature requests (based on average salary per job description), as he'd never seen it before. But it very quickly changed a lot of behaviors when they realized the value of the resources spent on various features.
http://www.samsung.com/uk/microwaves/microwave-commercial-cm...

Large and not cheap, but it's 1500W and has 5 power levels.
Taiwan and Ukraine are very different.

The U.S. doesn't have much history promising Ukraine defense as it was part of the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War. In contrast, Taiwan was practically there since 1949.

Taiwan's economy is multiple times the size of Ukraine's and is comparable to the likes of Saudi Arabia. To not defend Taiwan would send a very bad signal to all American allies that unless you're worth more than Taiwan, we'll sell you out. Assuming China continues to grow more powerful, this also means South Korea would be in danger as well. This is not even accounting the fact that if China controls Taiwan, China will control a majority of sea lanes to Korea and Japan. If she wished then she could interfere with oil supplies to those countries.

Plus the U.S. already goes great lengths to restrict China from acquiring U.S. technology, much of which has supply lines and partners in Taiwan. Letting China take Taiwan would mean a massive change unless you think we'll just accept that every Taiwanese company now will be forced to put backdoors for the Chinese.
I've seen this limitation brought up before, but I don't have an intuitive understanding of when it would apply. Is the essential issue spacing between floats?

The scenario I'm thinking in is each user's entry is a real number from U[1e15,1e15+1], and we want to output sum. The sensitivity is still 1. So the Laplace Mechanism outputs something like sum(DB)+laplace(0,1/eps), which will be exactly sum(DB) because laplace(0,1/eps) is smaller than the gap between floats >=1e15.

For this to be an issue, the actual sum(DB) needs to be implemented in full precision right? Otherwise it seems like the sensitivity isn't necessarily 1.
What do you mean "give credit where it's due"? It's not common (in my experience) to thank every dependency's creator, right?
As a javascript library it is pretty much as open as React or any other javascript platform.

It is the caching where the discussion lies - effectively Google is providing a CDN for AMP pages and I agree this needs some improvements. But these should in the realm of technical discussions rather than looking for conspiracies.
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This reminds me of multi-room sound systems, which are as bad today as they were decades ago. They're a technological solution to a problem that only marketing can convince you exists. And only once you pay thousands of dollars to enable the same sounds to by piped all over your house do you realize how unpleasant that experience is.
Browser makers still don't seem to understand that they are developing a new OS, where resource management and defending resources from possibly malicious 3rd parties is their core business. It's incredible that we have no way to limit memory and CPU consumption, or that browser doesn't do that automatically.

EDIT: interesting, your link made FF sweat, but it didn't stop working when I closed the tab - I had to manually kill the offending process.
what a clickbait title
Adding noise is important for generalization and predictive power but it may just shift the attacking pixel from one to another, since the model itself is inherently compressed, inversely correlated with its complexity.
Give an example of successful country where ownership of stock is taxed.
There is always room for improvement. I think it's easy to underestimate the time required to dwell in a thing before we really understand it. This is true for runtimes, libraries, even entire programming paradigms. We want to take shortcuts using abstract reasoning, and that works well usually, but sometimes you just gotta use something for years. (Alas, one lifetime may be too short to dwell in all the various paradigms the way they each require. But I digress...)
Or n6, nn6, n7 or nn7.
As was mentioned in the article, applications in chemical and physical simulation seem very promising. I would think that error correction would not be an issue. You would use QC to identify possible solutions which could then be verified by traditional computers.
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use your own data center for base load, and on top of that use AWS for traffic spike

Much easier to go hybrid on Azure, at least until AWS and vSphere integration is ready for prime time
I'm probably telling you how to suck eggs here, but given I just went through loops myself last week with my emails suddenly hitting GMail's spam bins - make sure you set up DKIM, SPF and DMARC!
Not really. Usually the developers and mid managers are doing this to themselves, they say something like "we can't tell him or he will fire us" and the decision maker is not aware of any problems. What happens when I step in is that I tell them what problems do they really have and most of the time the decision maker really wants to fix them and isn't going to fire anyone (except for the incompetent mid-managers that caused these issues).
Your account is 4 days old and only comments are pro-China party comments. Hum.
> By spreading the load across the dev team I can automatically get a high bus factor and 24/7 hour on-call rotation.

This assertion supports what vidarh wrote. What you wrote has nothing to do with DevOps or software or engineering - what you are really saying is that you are saving money by coercing your developers into working two jobs at the same time. I have been in this position as a developer at a company where we had on-call rotations. This is a false economy and a quick way to increase stress, alienate employees, and increase turnover. Infrastructure tasks get neglected and are performed poorly because those tasks are now just necessary distractions to the main workload of feature development, to be gotten over with as quickly as possible. A lot of things get overlooked because no one "owns" areas like backups and disaster recovery.
I bought an iPhone 8 Plus after using mostly Android phones due to a lot of really good praise from my friends.

I'm finding that while the iPhone's hardware beats most of what Android has to offer, a lot of iOS has weird user design choices (hidden search fields, strange menu placement in apps, random antagonistic design choices), that just seem mildly inconvenient at best.

Also iOS 11 had way more bugs than any Android release I've ever used.
This also reminds me of MBA CEOs that delegate everything, and that also reminds me of Jack Dorsey that is CEO of two companies.
Good point! But leaving types aside, the same argument applies. "Observable semantics" seems to mean "observable according to our semantic model" which is an agreement to pretend that machine behavior outside the model isn't observable and avoid relying on it.

This agreement is normally a good thing since it's what allows for the same program to run on different machines, or to compile the same program with different optimizations, or swap in a newer version of a library with a better hash function and claim it doesn't break backward compatibility.

Nevertheless, it can be a blind spot as we saw with Meltdown and Spectre, so I wanted to emphasize that this is a useful myth but the world isn't obliged to go along with it. It's often important to observe program behavior that isn't specified by the language.
That's pretty insane and irresponsible to just drop this bombshell in the middle of the spec. "Oh, by the way, our image format allows for embedded scripts. We won't tell you what the scope is, or even what languages are allowed. Deal with it.".
I think the better argument is that most "breakthroughs" are exponentially hard, or we wouldn't consider them breakthroughs!
One should remember that many unfalsifiable things are true.

Zero falsified things are true (plus some false negative rate)

Personally, I believe in God because it’s tautological. Saying there is a god is like saying half of children are above average. As soon as you reference a line in the universe, there is inevitably an ultimate point on it.

Edit: I will add that I don’t think God is truly omnipotent. She is bound by the laws of physics, same as us, and will die with the universe. Perhaps sooner. But my article of faith is that she will long outlast me. If I’m wrong, and God dies on my watch, that’s a bridge I needn’t worry about til I get there.
Papirux, a person-centric team documentation tool, is now integrated with Slack
thats a good point, what about random fonts per character? sucks when you get a wingding, but hey
I consider it a nice-to-have, but we can definitely remove it if deemed unnecessary. Want to open an issue about it?
I would love to see what tinkering could be done with low-power, minimal or "self-sufficient" location-placement of sensors to gather data and report data using Lora, cdma, or HF for long range. Why? Because electronics are small and there should be interesting ways to exploit the difference between this smallness and full blown CPUs operating on the grid.

But I have a hard time generating good ideas. Any thoughts?
Redesigning Techcrunch
It’s probably most effective to identify the software and font that produced the original, exact positioning of text is complex: you’d need to identify kerning pairs, spacing rules within lines, sub pixel positioning (where appropriate), etc.
I look forward to gray-hat software that allows you to posture as someone who's very price sensitive, and thereby allows you to purchase tickets fairly cheaply.
Very good point. People love to frame it in us vs them not realizing that most likely to majority of the world you are likely one of "them".
How to sail faster than the wind
None of the bike lanes on Queens Boulevard are protected. And according to the article, when it is "protected", it will be with "plastic posts".

Here's what cement dividers on Norther Boulevard protect riders from (scroll down for photos): http://qns.com/story/2017/12/07/poorly-designed-hastily-cons...
I think it'd be false economy for them to try, as if the customer understands how expensive Amazon is, but still wants to use them for certain things, they're more likely to jump ship than switch fully to AWS if AWS starts pulling any stunts.

They certainly can and likely will respond by tweaking their cost models - bandwidth costs at AWS are completely out of whack - e.g. list prices at AWS per TB are tens of times higher than Hetzner for example; I presume that's based on looking at what customers are most sensitive to. E.g. if you retrieve only a small percentage of your objects every month, it won't matter much. Similarly, if most of your retrievals is from EC2 rather than from the public internet, the bandwidth prices won't be a big deal, and you may not pay attention to how much you actually pay per TB.

The high bandwidth prices hit some niches much more than others, and it may be more expedient for AWS to keep it straight forward for those affected to put caches in front than it is to rattle the cage of other customers. E.g. if you consume huge amounts of bandwidths you'll sooner or later speak to specialized CDN's or start looking at peering anyway.
As I said, proving that the underlying crypto is unbreakable would involving proving statements stronger than P≠NP, and so isn't going to happen for a while. What you can do is conjecture that your favourite hardness assumption (SHA-256 is a CRH, AES is a PRF, factorisation is not in P) holds, and then base your cryptographic constructions off such assumptions.
Is this anything more than the general human trait where most people think more highly of themselves than others do of them? E.g. where 90% of people tend to consider themselves above-average, when mathematically it can only be 50%? Colloquially called the "Lake Wobegon effect" after the fictional lake area where "all the children are above-average". See [1].

There doesn't appear to be any evidence that this has anything to do with students and employers specifically.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority
That's right. Google has built this culture. Now they have to deal with the consequences.
Why does it need to be ownership? Doesn't capital gains tax match his description?
Most cars don’t supply 12v thorough the accessory outlet when the ignition is off, so you’d need some of backup power source. Pis do not cope well with having the power cut off abruptly, so unless you want to carry a spare microSD card around at all times, you’d need some kind of solution for handling shutdowns.
Modern C++ 03
By this line of reasoning, every single thing for sale today is at its minimum price.
I think it's mostly one front war.

By numbers, adoption is far, far easier for open source tools than closed sourced (Sublime, VS Code -- vs -- Intellij, Resharper).

Adoption is the reason business open source.

It's hard to have a product that is expensive and popular. Unsurprisingly.
Sounds like a way for airlines to engage in illegal/unethical behavior (price fixing, collusion, etc.) behind the thin veil of "algorithms." At least third-party referral websites have already done this using cookies, though I guess airlines doing it is the next logical step.

I'll simply have my nephew buy my tickets (for a $5 tip) if they price gouge based on third-party lookup of my personal information.

Airlines will make money from this in the short term, and poorer relatives will too I guess. But I think in the end it's the lawyers that will profit the most. It's a class-action lawsuit just waiting to happen
Your middle link there refers to the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study [1]. That brief seems to assume the reader is familiar with the studies as otherwise it would be very easy to misunderstand what they're saying - which is not what you're saying.

Their study was a large undertaking studying the differences in black/interracial/white children who were all adopted by wealthy white families in Minnesota. It found that at age 7 the difference in IQ between a adopted white child and adopted black child was 20.1 points. At age 17 this changed to 17.8 points. The difference for a half black child and a white child was 6.1 at age 7, and 8.3 at age 17.

The goal of the study was to show the opposite of what it ended up showing. Consequently many individuals, including the authors of the study themselves, have tried to argue that this is not evidence of a genetic link to IQ. Arguments against it have run the gamut from environmental factors from before the children were adopted (which was at less than 1 years old in all cases) to skin color causing environmental effects. These are certainly contributing factors, however they would undermine any and all results of the study - which is indicative of an after-the-fact effort to undermine their own results. In either case, that result certainly showed nothing like "family environment mattered a hell of alot."

The misunderstanding here probably comes from one questionably phrased sentence in that abstract, "Black and interracial children scored as well on IQ tests as adoptees in other studies." That is more clearly read as "Black and interracial children scored as well on IQ tests as black and interracial adoptees in other studies." In other words, they're comparing differences between 'same group' individuals and trying to see what determines the variance there. And they found that at a young age this is frequently related to environmental factors, whereas at older age genetics becomes dominant even among 'same 'group individuals. In the abstract's rather kinder phrasing, "Our interpretation of these results is that younger children are more influenced by differences among their family environments than older adolescents, who are freer to seek their own niches.".
Julius Wess: Theoretische Mechanik

The book is amazing, since it introduces advanced concepts like group theory and greens functions very early with very simple examples from classical mechanics.
Unfortunately it is only available in german, yet:

http://www.springer.com/de/book/9783540885740
Ramon Llull's Thinking Machine (1937) [pdf]
Single-letter second-level domains
Genetic Influence on Intergenerational Educational Attainment
Isn't price transparency a basic tenet of free market economics? How does anyone look at this and think it's in the best interest of consumers?
With the traditional analog controls, the knob is adjusting the spring tension of a thermostat via a screw, so going "below" 0 doesn't really make sense (it would be "more off than off"), and likewise in the other direction too.
> WiFi is an example of an almost everything interface

And the gap between almost everything and everything is huge.

I like the phrase I heard a few years ago from friends that played MMOs: “92 is halfway to 100”. Diminishing returns is a painful thing.
Find foreclosures using Google Maps
The Apple Watch displays the location of my next meeting beneath the time. The UI interaction is identical to a typical watch.
You are right, and it's not even a new idea. It's the premise of Douglas Adams' H2G2 books, where the Earth was literally built as a supercomputer by another supercomputer, named Deep Thought, after it finished computing the "Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" and realized that the answer was meaningless without the right question and that it would need a much more powerful computer to find it.
US campaign against Huawei driven by NSA fears
HTML requests are: plain text, self-explanatory ("Content-length", "charset", etc.). What exactly is unhuman about that?
Editor with IT experience
Where do I find an editor who can check my English, grammar, and technical feasibility of my writing? I have many steps and want to make sure I didn't miss anything.
Correct, which is frustrating.
> we need to create a socket, bind it to an address and then start listening for connections.

This is the most important part. Is there a tutorial on sockets, perferably not written from a C perspective and in a language agnostic way? How OS specific is it? Is there a common basis over most OSes?
Meanwhile, Southwest offers predictable and transparent pricing, and actually makes money.

I always got the sense that airlines spend more dollars to get pennies.
I'd highly recommend reading more of that blog. He's been publishing consistently for 7 years (!), tracking down obscure interviews and conducting a few of his own. I spent almost 2 hours this morning digging through his full history of Sierra.

Some interesting nuggets:

- Al Lowe basically invented beta testing at Sierra for Leisure Suit Larry. He wrote a program to capture user inputs that didn't work onto the floppy disk, which the beta testers then sent back to Sierra. They then updated the graphics, text, or parser to account for these confusing areas.

- Ken Williams was quite a visionary on several things, including the rise of IBM compatibles, MS-DOS, and the early internet / social networks.

- Lori Cole's vision for Quest for Glory, using a cardinal direction, a season, and an element as inspiration, was really fascinating to reflect on. (I have a soft spot for Quest for Glory IV's Eastern European mythology, which was very rare in the pre-Witcher days.)

- There was a failed merger between Sierra and Broderbund (Carmen Sandiego, Print Shop, Prince of Persia) in the early 90s that could well have changed the face of the industry.

Overall, was way better than the average internet rabbit hole!
Some local governments do that. Houston sure doesn't, but commuting around Houston can still really cut into family time. We can't blame NIMBYs for all problems making ends meet.
It's really hard to imagine this will be good for anyone except airlines.
I design interfaces for a living, but tinkering with hardware is one of the most satisfying journeys I know. Every now and then, like OP, I play around with different hardware projects. It's amazing how, showing a half-baked hardware project to a friend gets them a lot more exciting than showing them a nicely designed software project. It feels like when you're tinkering with hardware a lot more parts of the brain are challenged and thus generate a more fulfilling experience. I highly recommend everyone who's into software or design but never did anything with hardware to spend some time this week building a simple blinking LED project with the Arduino. You'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
Ah, yes, This is where safety and security differs! Abstraction is about safety: preventing errors and giving additional guarantees, not preventing attacks. :)

Nothing I said hold when people are being malicious: Even in OCaml, you have escape hooks that allows you to break past abstraction boundaries and do whatever you want.
Hi Jovan. Thanks for being open about your background and good luck with your endeavour.

It's perhaps not my place to offer any sort of advise, but it might be a good idea to be a little conservative with your terminology ("AGI") on forums like HN. The wrong response may well hurt much more than your HN karma, especially if you're looking for funding.
I am working on automating this process and trying to find similar hits for the remaining redactions.

I was thinking that too, but it characterizes Carter Page as a "former campaign foreign policy advisor". The other names may have similar designations, making that a hopeless game.

We do know, from an unredacted footnote, that one of them was Michael Flynn. So that makes 2/4.
that ("90% of people tend to consider themselves above-average") can mathematically be true if you have a skewed distribution.

suppose that 90% of drivers have no accidents at all, while the other 10% have 10 accidents per year. Then the average (mean) is 1 accident per year, and fully 90% of drivers are better than average!
Why would they redact an undefined quantity?
Great projects!

I got an Arduino recently and it’s the best £6 I’ve spent in ages. My pet project is building a synth driven from the midi output of my keyboard.

As a software person, “real” electronics felt hard to grok. The Arduino has been a dream. You have to learn loads along the way. How do I get audio out? Oh right, what’s PWM? Oh ok, how do these timer things work? But it’s soooo satisfying.

Highly recommended!
Heh, I jokingly refer to myself as a full-full-stack developer. I can do schematic design and board layout, baremetal or RTOS embedded software, Linux kernel hacking, etc all the way up to web apps with React (preferring Elixir on the backend but shrug).
Surely you mean "given a stack of microchips and lengths of wire"?