skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An important difference is the manner by which 'exploration' is codified in evolutionary algorithms, which allows for these algorithms to have a tune-able mix of hill-climbing and niche-finding. RL-based systems, Evolutionary Strategies, Swarm Intelligence, ... all are essentially hill-climbing and are typically much better at the 'exploit' aspect than the 'explore' aspect of the search. When you pair evolutionary algorithms with novelty search, for instance, you get very good coverage, as these guys have done with their sorting network work.
I understand that, the question is regarding mapping the IP to an individual officer.
Unwritten Cold War rules pretty much said you don't pursue the opposing officers unless you catch them on your turf.

It's obvious that the troll factory people and Guccifer 2.0 were acting on behalf of Russia with the direct approval from Putin. Why bother indicting individuals?
People have been living trailer parks, with trailers worth far less then 20k for many years. The tiny housing movement did not show us much.
Ask HN: What if Facebook Charges $50/Year to Users to Keep the Data 100% Secure?
Having to suffer with Scrum at work is bad enough. This sounds like a great idea for people who hate themselves.
It would be valuable if a 3rd party solved the problem of feedback minus the liability. Could be a business there. No idea what that would look like though.
If we will survive until that moment.

We already know at least 5 extinction events on the Earth : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#Major_extinct....

But no proven contact with extraterrestrials.

Probably because life forms on other planets didn't care at their time - didn't pass the Great Filter : https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
Relevent paragraphs:

> [An intelligence researcher] led an investigation at ThreatConnect that tried to track down Guccifer from the metadata in his emails. But the trail always ended at the same data center in France. Ehmke eventually uncovered that Guccifer was connecting through an anonymizing service called Elite VPN, a virtual private networking service that had an exit point in France but was headquartered in Russia.

> But on one occasion, The Daily Beast has learned, Guccifer failed to activate the VPN client before logging on. As a result, he left a real, Moscow-based Internet Protocol address in the server logs of an American social media company, according to a source familiar with the government’s Guccifer investigation. Twitter and WordPress were Guccifer 2.0’s favored outlets. Neither company would comment for this story, and Guccifer did not respond to a direct message on Twitter.

> Working off the IP address, U.S. investigators identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer working out of the agency’s headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow. (The Daily Beast’s sources did not disclose which particular officer worked as Guccifer.)
He probably logged into other services with his real name from that IP.
Good Pair, Bad Pair
Is the best way to accomplish sugiyama still to use dagre-d3?
Evolvability can also evolve away too. For instance, a gene that decreases the mutation rate to 0. Most mutations are harmful, so any organism with the gene will be more likely to have successful children. And eventually the gene will become dominant and there will be no more mutations. And evolution will stop.
We have this requirement, at least in Europe. There are even ISO standards to follow. The one related is ISO26262. But it seems, this does not apply to those permits issued for these cars by Uber.
Small dam on brink of failure amid California's strongest storm of the season
Oh I'm very aware of it. I tried once before to quit my job and go it alone, at the ripe old age of 22! I failed spectacularly. Reason - I only had 7k GBP in my bank. That simply wasn't enough money for me to live on and pay my mortgage till I found clients. I then put aside 10x times that amount, and things started to fall into place. Exactly the same skills, idea and enthusiasm as before, just a bigger cushion that meant money was not at the forefront of my mind driving crazy waves of anxiety.
> it does a lot more through executive orders than many modern democracies

Obama did a lot more through executive orders than his predecessors, in large part due to Congress obstructing all policy much more than its predecessors. IIRC, at a certain point he turned to executive orders to implement policy the best he could.

Also, most other modern democracies use parliamentary systems, in which the executive always has the majority in the legislature. In those cases, executive orders are less needed because the legislature and executive are much more likely to agree.
“Working off” does not mean it was a one-step IP -> name mapping, orn that the IP address was the only relevant piece of information, just the thing that got them past the VPN exit point in France that was the dead end before that unprotected access was discovered.

The IP address could have led to GRU HQ (specifically identified as where he was working out of), and other information could have narrowed it down from there to a particular officer.
That general statement does not give Uber a pass on this particular incident, any more than this particular incident casts aspersions on the autonomous vehicle industry as a whole.
> Is there a way to do this for existing repos?

You can add a webhook on GitHub and have it point to our Pull Mirroring API [1], followed by manually setting up the integration to send status updates back [2].

We're looking to make this process easier, and have explored ways we might implement this in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/5220.

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/projects.html#start-the-pull-...

[2] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/github....
VW has been moving almost all transverse front-wheel drive/all wheel drive cars to the MQB platform for a while now. This includes sub-brands such as Audi, Seat and Skoda. The benefit is that all cars based on this platform become much cheaper to design and build. The downside is that the cars end up being the same, drive the same, feel the same, etc - which I find quite boring, but that might not be an issue at all for the average motorist.
Could you expand a bit on this? Are you saying they are inflating their core count or the reverse? Everything I've looked at indicates significantly more powerful cores.
The freelancer thread can work, and hopefully you have a network you can ask.

Please, though, tell us more about it! What's the project in a nutshell? What kind of developer skills do you need? Rough ideas of time investment and compensation?
I haven't used Little Snitch, but if it's a firewall then yes, this work is related to the eBPF work in Linux, which has been used for custom firewalls. There's a lot of work in this space, so I don't know where best to start. One example is cilium: https://github.com/cilium/cilium
You're stranded in a foreign place and have no cash in the local currency. There's no ATM around, but there are businesses that take credit and you can pay the bill for it at the end of the month.

Something unexpected pops up like a family member dies and you need to arrange a funeral, but don't have the cash on hand because some other emergency last month used up your liquid savings. You know that you can pay it off over the long run, but don't have any other way to deal with it right now. So you go into a small amount of debt that you can likely pay off without paying too much over the original cost.

There are a million ways that they can be good. There are probably more ways they can be bad, but this question is very simplistic.
>> I am not even allowed to tell a candidate (another human being that probably NEEDS a paycheck) why I didn't hire them and what they can do to improve their viability.
> Policies like this exist because candidates have and will sue the shit out of you for any flimsy accusation of discrimination they can cobble together.

I thought that it was the other way around. You need to have always ready the reasons why a candidate has been rejected and give them on request. Otherwise, they can sue you as your reasons are not clean and transparent.

But, I guess that this depends on the country's laws.
Web really will be the death of UX.
And other paces dont? Almost every country has severe issues related to all the above. In the US, we have litigation everywhere, you fall and slip in a supermarket? Lawsuit! You tripped over a pothole? Lawsuit! Heck, lawyers advertise to do this...
Finally, `d3.create`[1] - it has been a minor pain pointer in d3 to create a detached selection for quite some time :)

[1] https://github.com/d3/d3-selection/blob/master/README.md#cre...
Early life experience changes neural genomes in mice
That seems like a small update compared to v4. Wouldn't it be better to brand it as a minor version and provide backwards compatibility with deprecation warning where Promises were added?
Your last point is spot on. Lots of successful people are simply good at faking it and not getting called out. This is good and bad. Good if you know how to play the system. Bad because it means our system is run by a lot of people who don’t know what they’re doing.
This is the LIDAR sensor being used (virtually all SDC companies use this LIDAR because it's the most advanced out there for 360 degree 3D coverage):

http://velodynelidar.com/hdl-64e.html (note that this LIDAR is expensive - costs way more than the car it is mounted to)

Here's the manual for it - note the specs in the back:

http://www.velodynelidar.com/lidar/products/manual/HDL-64E%2...

It has 64 lasers, spread out over about 27 degrees - about 0.4 degrees per laser, from almost horizontal to an angle of 24 degrees or so down. Now take a look at where it is mounted on the car, and envision these laser beams spreading out and being spun in a circular conical area around the car.

Now - if you think about it - as the distance from the sensor increases, the beams are spread further apart. I'd be willing to bet that at about 200 feet or so away from the car, very few of the beams would hit a person and reflect back. Also - take a look at the reflectance data in the spec. Not bad...but imagine you are wearing a fuzzy black jacket on your top half. How much reflectance now?

What do you think the point cloud returned to the car is going to look like? Will it look like a human? Hard to say - but you feed that into a classifier algorithm, there's a possibility that it's not going to identify the blob as a "human" to slow down. Especially when you add some bags, a strange gait, plus the bicycle behind the person. All of this uncertainty adds up.

I am also willing to bet that only the LIDAR was used for collision detection (beyond the radar on the unit). Any cameras - even IR based - would likely only be used for lane keeping and following purposes, plus traffic sign identification. Maybe even "rear view of vehicle" detection. Ideally it would be used for "person/animal" identification and classification to - but again, given the camera sensor, and who knows what the IR sensor saw or didn't see, along with the weird lighting conditions - well, who knows how it would have classified that mix?

Lots of variables here - lots of "ifs" too. All we can do is speculate, because we don't have the raw data. Uber would do well to release the entire raw dataset from all the sensors to the community and others to look over and learn from.

Finally - I am not an expert on any of this; my only "qualifications" on this subject is having taken and passed a couple of Udacity MOOCs - specifically the "Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree" program (2016-2017), and their "CS373" course (2012). Both courses were very enlightening and educational, but could only really be considered an introduction to this kind of tech.
The microcode updates can also be loaded via your OS if they are not installed via a firmware update. This happens before the OS itself is loaded early on in the boot stage.

See [0] for Linux and possibly [1] for Windows. Not 100% sure if Windows does handle this via Windows Updates or not.

[0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel_microcode

[1] http://www.overclock.net/forum/5-intel-cpus/1633419-how-upda...
It enabled corporations and other groups to utilize unlimited, unregulated, anonymous spending on elections. As a result, much of, maybe most election spending is by people unidentified to the American public, and of course that makes politicians beholden to them. At least the Russians are identified!
I think they are both having trouble scaling up different parts of the production line.

So far, it seems that Tesla has been focussing quite a lot on getting great at producing batteries, including the logistics for that. Which is what they seem to be good at (given that they produce industrial size battery stations and batteries for home use as well). But they do not have as much experience in managing a mass production line for cars.

BMW on the other hand has a lot of experience in mass producing cars, but they do not have as much experience for batteries. The hardest bottleneck for BMW might just be getting the batteries themselves. Tesla has worked hard on that by building their Gigafactory for example.
Note that it was described as “a somewhat contrived example”. I was just trying to get the idea of a relationship where some people would want to prevent you from setting incompatible values and others might have a separate step.

I tend to prefer the latter approach but I've worked with people who felt differently for reasons which I'm unwilling to entirely reject. Both can be made to work[1] and there's enough variation between languages, projects, and environments that I think the choice is at least understandable.

1. To answer your last point: something along the lines of obj.setZip() raising an exception but obj.setState() automatically cleared the related value on a change.
Clearly lack of a sound theoretical basis or proof for why deep learning works has not stopped its proliferation. For a practitioner, the proof is in the pudding: generalized results, novel solutions that provably work, new designs that fulfill the given objective(s). At the end of the day, those are what really matter for practical applications.
Yep yep yep.

I've had to fight numerous battles with my boss, along the lines of, "I don't care who scheduled the meeting, I already have plans tonight, and it's not reasonable to make me change them with no notice."

This mentality has turned out to be (a) well worth it for my marriage, and (b) not actually a big deal in the scheme of things.
> it is nightmarish to toil through some tightly coupled mess and try to rewrite it in a manner that is more maintainable.

I'm doing that right now, and it's great. There's several responsibilities that are all tightly coupled, and I'm pulling them into multiple components. It's requiring a lot of code archeology and reverse engineering of intent, but it's incredibly satisfying at the end.
Why should we expect there to be any mathematical foundation to this stuff? It's quite possible to imagine an alternate universe where GAs and neural nets don't work. Because they have different datasets that don't fit the structure of NNs well. Or problems that happen to not be solvable by the search strategies of GAs.

In fact we have many such problems in our own universe. I can give many examples of things NNs and GAs don't work well on right now. Those are just ignored by the research.
The article addresses your second point:

"Indeed, it's entirely possible to imagine a self-driving car system that always follows the letter of the law—and hence never does anything that would lead to legal finding of fault—but is nevertheless way more dangerous than the average human driver. Indeed, such a system might behave a lot like Uber's cars do today."

It doesn't matter if Uber makes cars that are technically not at fault, if they're mowing over pedestrians at a rate significantly higher than human drivers then they should never be allowed on public roads. People mess up occasionally. The solution is not an instant death sentence administered by algorithm.
My pet theory is that our culture is becoming increasingly atomiticized, like everyone experiencing their lives as entirely disconnected from anyone else or to history or some bigger sense of meaning.

There are upsides to it, but I think people are craving some "grounding" in a world where things/groups exist for deep reasons--where there's a continuity of identity that lasts many generations instead of the blink it lasts in most peoples' current experience.
Me too! I was so hyped up about it that I got myself a ThinkPad X1 Yoga with an OLED display. But wish I'd realized sooner that putting an amazing display in a shit laptop still leaves you with .... a shit laptop.
It was never anywhere near their core competency.

Maybe not directly, but is Uber's current business model sustainable without some form of self-driving technology replacing their human drivers?
> A CS degree, you say? What in the world use is that

Perhaps you can learn something.
> You know what might change this? I gave a talk on this to Stanford alumni and afterward a lawyer came up to me and said there are going to be lawsuits.

This won't happen as long as the worst offenders can push individual arbitration agreements. The Supreme Court heard arguments about them recently, and a decision on whether they are legal is expected soon.

On the other hand, electronic health records should make it easy to show with statistics if a workplace causes chronic disease, relative its peers. We just need to add employer information to the standard information that hospitals collect. Certainly a group of university hospitals would be interested in seeing this data, and could organize an initiative to collect it.

Edit: Actually, a way to link massive amounts of healthcare data to patients' employers might already be available. Medical records often store insurance information, which can be used to figure out a patient's employer if they are the subscriber.
It might not be a great look to say "the 5% of you who signed up for FB Premium get security, and the rest of you get to roll the dice." I believe, and have been thinking about it for 7+ years, consumers will own, control and license their own data. It will flip ad models everywhere, and loyal brand followers will have their purchases subsidized, get experiences granted to them by brands, etc. Entirely new businesses will form out of this ecosystem where consumers have control– but where that is a good thing. The data will finally be fresh, authentic, deep and dynamic. It still felt early to me to start this about a week ago– but now the world feels like a very different place. If any technical folks would be interested in pairing up on it, I have lots of ideas.
If following semver style: Major updates include backwards incompatible changes. Minor updates include new functionality but no backwards incompatible changes. Patch updates include no new functionality.

There are backwards incompatible changes, so it has to be a major bump.
This kind of blew my mind. The maternal care received significantly altered the genomes (transposable elements) of the neurons in the hippocampus - key for learning & memory.

This seems like more evidence that the Central Dogma of molecular biology is extremely simplistic compared to reality & that genomes are far more flexible during life than assumed.

Also a nice summary in this podcast:
http://www.sciencemag.org/podcast/possible-cause-severe-morn...
From many years developing safety critical software, I reckon culture and processes are more important than certification. There are various standards for developing safety systems in other industries (defence, aviation, etc) and these standards exist for a reason. Have Uber applied any standard for their automation software? Or equivalent development processes? "Move fast and break things" is fine for an app, but not fine for controlling a vehicle.
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Ask HN. I am looking for a three letter domain (total) but am having a lot of trouble searching. No domain searches do not allow the query .
China’s movie makers are leveraging iQiyi’s data to make the next blockbuster
Unionize. That’s how we got things like the 40 hour work week.
True, but.... A company can (does) decide how much time, energy and money to put into protecting its executives. There is a strong trend that all business decisions are made because execs desire for self preservation makes them prioritize legal safety over every other consideration, including productivity and innovation, not just over being humane.
On the topic of mac keyboards and mice, I've never had any uncomfortableness or pain at work, until I started a job where I was given your standard Apple combo of peripherals.

Suddenly, pain everywhere. The tips of my fingers were burning after every keystroke, some of the muscles/tendons in my right wrist felt like they were about to snap after using the mouse for a few hours.

How are these products still on the market? Two weeks in I bought my own mouse and keyboard and haven't had a single bit of pain since.
[Shield] Pref Flip Study: Trusted Recursive Resolver
First comment on this bug:

> This will result in sending all DNS lookups in the study to Cloudflare. Given that even Mozilla does not collect this level of browsing data via telemetry/studies, I do not think it is reasonable to send this data to a third party.
That's a really good idea.

We make the technical debt ticket anyways describing the problem, taking a few more minutes to describe "how it should be" so a design process can begin... it will be much easier to pick it up later on... maybe even tie it to an ongoing Technical Debt Roadmap that can be tied into the main product roadmap.
I recommend checking the Wikipedia's table of KDE applications; there are some gems to be discovered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:KDE
Don't feel bad man, I remember there being a run on food staples. Things like 50lb bags of rice and beans were sold out at Costco. People were stocking up on guns and ammo preparing for fucking Mad Max. I am not ashamed to admit I participated in some of that myself by doubling up the emergency rations I keep for hurricane season. You withdrawing $2k was not irrational at all given the scale of what was going on.
But would they actually work from a known location id assume that US offensive operations are not done directly from Langley
Fuck me, wish I had 7k at 22, just around the time the internet bubble burst, basically fucked and went back to data entry for a while.
> I don't think a User class should be directly validating the zip lives inside the state in some sort of setter method... which one do I set first to make it work? It looks like once I change one I can't change the other any more... I'd need to have a method that changes both at once.

The idea I had in mind for that admittedly contrived example was roughly that you'd have an address class and some logic along the lines of setting a field automatically clears the lower-level fields, but that's not really a practical design as much as an illustration of the pattern of having complex logic in a setter.

I should note that this isn't my preference, either – either set,set,set,validate or updateLotsOfFields(dataStructure) – but I've seen people who felt otherwise and had reasonable arguments for this kind of behaviour.
It's called "Consulting"
Ebook piracy has always been rampant (and still is), ereaders just introduced slightly better formats than pdf.
You have a sample size of 1. Acknowledging that doesn't suddenly make the sample evidence of anything, good or bad :P.

Almost all the miles driven are going to be in near-ideal circumstances (daylight, no rain, good road surface, driver familiar with normal road traffic conditions and drives the route regularly). I have nearly no insight into the uber death, but I gather it happened at night. It could easily be that humans are also an order of magnitude more dangerous at night.