skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How dare you dismiss the possibility that there are billions or trillions of Russian accounts? Clearly you underestimate the limitless power of arch-villain Putin.
Did Genius use AI? I thought it was more of a collaborative filtering feature where it used other people's playlists to build relationships between songs.
No disagreement from me.

It's definitely not easy to keep queues shallow end-to-end. In my experiences with Erlang systems, queue management is an area where the BEAM VM's runtime is definitely not actively helpful enough. One anecdote: within the last few months, the weak scheme that the BEAM uses for runtime back-pressure was removed because it isn't effective enough to justify the complexity of its code.

When a system does have the ability to keep queues shallow end-to-end, then I think it's a good base to build on, adding additional features to allow deeper queues where and when we want them.

Regarding Wallaroo: Today, you can use Kafka as a data source, allowing Kafka to be your deep-as-you-wish buffer upstream and/or downstream of Wallaroo. Tomorrow (a.k.a. vapor, though we've discussed the feature internally) it's certainly feasible to add an option to (for example) `TCPSource` that would add a large buffer at the entry to a Wallaroo cluster ... with flexibility to queue in RAM, disk, or elsewhere. It would also make failure recovery more complex, and it's one reason why we've deferred implementing it.
Ultrasound-Powered Nerve Implant Works Deep in Body
Yes, it's far and away the largest funder of health research in both the U.S. and the world, and NIH funding is the "gold standard" for things like tenure and promotion.
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> Security Professionals seem to have an unfortunate habit of talking down to everybody else.

I understand the feeling, and I have a related one, which is that the crypto field seems to be too "Rock-Star" focused. Unlike most other areas of software engineering, where a design flaw is unlikely to be business-threatening[1] and so engineers are comfortable rolling their own, crypto is very much of the "get it exactly right or don't do it at all" category.

It's hard to get right, and it goes against many (most?) programmer's instinct of "I can code it up in a week(end)". Add to that the steady stream of news about some company's compromised security, and crypto experts who care to communicate to fix the software industry's happy-go-lucky culture are forced to become ever more strident and dumb-down the message to reach the widest possible audience.

And then people think they're being condescending...

It's a cultural issue based on a technical one, and I don't know how to fix it other than have software engineers be more careful.

On the "rock-star" thing, it's because of how much we depend on a few recognized sources of authority (here, cperciva, tptacek) who we trust to point us in the right direction in the every-changing minefield of crypto practices. Other than have the field stop evolving and best practices become common-sense (which they absolutely aren't currently), I don't know how to fix that either.

[1] they might cause bugs, they might cause downtime, they might cause frustration with users, but by themselves are unlikely to cost you [m/b]illions and kill your company
“Data Is Like a Moat” and Other Bad Ways to Talk About Data and AI
The entire point of CORBA was interop, so it's a bit absurd to say it wasn't actually needed, no?
You can electroshock a brain, completely scramble the "active patterns" and the person will... well, reboot, for lack of a better term. If you could get the weights without activity, I see no reason you couldn't just initialize in a random state and let it figure itself out. Figuring out the weights is a technical problem, but technical problems are made to be solved.

Finally, dualism is juvenile bullshit. A neuroscientist who thought the mind WASN'T the brain would be absolutely useless.
I would be for (and think it could pass) psych evals for those under 25 if we paired it with allowing anyone over 18 who passed to buy guns.

We could do better on background checks but the devil is in the details.

There is no way police checking storage at any time would pass at the federal level and I am doubtful it would have a noticeable effect on gun deaths but I could be convinced otherwise.
US Army Now Wants Hypersonic Cannons, Loitering Missiles, and a Massive Supergun
This is one of my favorite proposals, along with the pipe operator and partial application proposals:

const add = (x, y) => x + y;
const addTwo = add(2, ?);
let x = addTwo(5); // 7

x = 5 |> addTwo |> add(?, 10); // 17

The last example is equivalent to:

add(addTwo(5), 10);

Obviously the pipe operator is more useful when order matters.
And by book you are referring to "The Rise of Meritocracy"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Etymology
> That was only one sided though.

Extensively quoting The Verge[1] on the subject:

And yet, Intel actually had a written document describing a non-poach agreement with Pixar, where Intel's policy was to not hire any Pixar employee without the Pixar CEO's express approval.

"If a Pixar employee applies to Intel without being recruited by Intel, contact Pat Gelsinger and explain to him a Pixar employee (provide the candidates name) has applied to Intel without being recruited and he will contact the CEO of Pixar for approval to hire," read the Intel document.

...

"Mr. Jobs wrote: "I would be very pleased if your recruiting department would stop doing this." Mr. Schmidt forwarded Mr. Jobs's email to undisclosed recipients, writing: "I believe we have a policy of no recruiting from Apple and this is a direct inbound request. Can you get this stopped and let me know why this is happening? I will need to send a response back to Apple quickly so please let me know as soon as you can."

Mr. Geshuri told Mr. Schmidt that the employee "who contacted this Apple employee should not have and will be terminated within the hour." Mr. Geshuri further wrote: "Please extend my apologies as appropriate to Steve Jobs. This was an isolated incident and we will be very careful to make sure this does not happen again."

Three days later, Shona Brown, Google's Senior Vice President for Business Operations, replied to Mr. Geshuri, writing: "Appropriate response, thank you. Please make a public example of this termination with the group."

1. https://www.theverge.com/2012/1/27/2753701/no-poach-scandal-...
I normally speed up his lectures to 1.25x. I love the lectures but 1.25 just sounds so good!
How Elm saved my life
It's pretty shocking. What becomes _infuriating_ is when they say this while also defending their right to own the product of that labor because they were there first or happened to present capital in the right place at the right time.
I found the lectures entertaining and the exercises of a much lower quality. Not enough of them, shallow and ambiguously worded.

I got something like 90% on the edx MITx probability course and was barely getting 50% for the above mentioned Stanford stat learning course for the 5 weeks of it I completed. I mention the MIT course, (which I highly recommend fwiw) only to support my view that I don't think my experience is aptitude or workload related. But as ever YMMV.
The HN bookmarklet wants to call this "BBC Radio 4 - The Digital Human - Three stories about the power of resistance".
Anecdata, perhaps, but I have noticed that Google's photo searching by content has greatly improved as of late. Searches that failed for me around Christmas of last year now work perfectly.
Thanks for the pointer to restic.

I like and use tarsnap (and have for years) but the lack of choice of backends is a downside. I've been waiting for something I can use to backup my workstation and laptops to a server at home as well as a server I have at $work (ISP). I've tried out all the usual applications but have yet to find something I'm happy with.

restic looks like it may fit the bill perfectly.
Apple Dropping Intel
Indeed. We all know "fall by the wayside" means "starve homeless." At least in countries like America.
I don't recall which of us is planning on attending DataEngConf SF, but I'm asking around now.

EDIT: Ah, it will be Vid Jain, the CEO of Wallaroo Labs.
What do you mean? Go has generics. Kind of.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...
The implicit assumption here is that American firms actually higher leaders based on some kind of objective leadership skills (and that the market will suck them all up).

I'm guessing whoever wrote this hasn't grown up poor/discriminated against, didn't beat their peers and find themselves never-the-less judged/ousted because they "weren't of the right background/proper means/cultural fit".

And remember, all it takes is a few key leaders. And that includes those who may have been part of the system but were unjustly ousted...(or those who just think they are getting a wiff of the winds of change and want to be on the right side)

/I'm not making any actual prediction of revolution the US incidentally. I'd be inclined against any theories of imminent revolution. Just pointing out that simple theories of "it wouldn't happen here because of our fake-meritocracy" are pretty off the mark.
The claim that EU may have a populist-fueled agenda against American tech companies is not entirely without basis. It's not lawless anti-Americanism, but the tone has certainly changed.

Consider what the Economist has to say about Margrethe Vestager, who runs Europe's trustbusting agency.

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21728979-she-rich-wo...
Which photos seems to think is full whatever I do.
Bing's general search still lags Google's, but its image search is miles ahead. IMO.
Reverse Alphabet of the AI Hype
Here in Australia there are plenty of builders that will openly offer you quotes and then take off the 10% GST/sales tax if you pay in all cash

The builders benefit because they then wont pay any income tax on the job
I wonder about this. I definitely pay more but (and this is a bit hand-wavey, i admit) it seems like the opportunity i'd be wasting if i lived anywhere else is FAR greater than the insane rent.
It's hosted on a small shared vps and I don't have a ssl certificate so there's no https for it. Once I can afford that and a better host it'll exist of course. I have no fundings and everything related to it comes out of my pocket as of now.
Not the original commenter but I am currently studying at UA and interested, who could I reach out to for more information about internships?
Also graphical models are combined with deep learning techniques for SOTA performance in area like Named Entity Recognition.
There's capitalism in a nutshell.

Except first prize was granted by your parents and upbringing. Second prize was partially because of parents and upbringing, but with a bit more luck.

And bronze? Yeah, well they're just lazy and bad and they deserve what little they have - cause the Gold and Silver earned what they have.
I'm sorry, but what is the point of this?
Metallica's collection is definitely available on Spotify... at least in the US.
Indeed, it is the Pact language I have been playing with. Good stuff. I have also been watching your company Kadena.
Video Games helping kids mental health
That's what happened when my town in USA tried it years ago. The bikes were all destroyed or stolen and cut up and sold for scrap within a few weeks.
What's wrong with PolarSSL/Mbed TLS? It is designed for low-end ARM processors and is directly backed by ARM.
+1 I loved this class
Yeah, .edu bitrot is the worst.
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There is need of custom model in a lot of businesses like you want to identify only a specific kind of product from rest of similar looking ones or find only defective pieces and where you cannot collect 10's of thousands of images from the beginning. Also pretraining is not only for initialization but also to improve generalization with less data.
Actually no, most shooters do not own their guns legally. Only 18% of guns used in crimes were legally owned. Although your claim may be the case for mass shooters, a tiny minority of all perpetrators of gun homicide. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/27/new-e...
I fundamentally don't understand those comments.

Like, I get that these guys might be - maybe even probably are! - snake oil salesmen, but what about brain digitization is actually impossible? There are certainly a fixed number of neurotransmitter types, a fixed number of channels, a fixed structure to a particular operating brain, and so on. Anything that exists can be reverse engineered and, in principle, rebuilt.
Currently enjoying the 2017 lectures (and I bought the text) for McElreath's bayesian stats course:

http://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/

Strang's MIT OCW Linear Algebra is pretty good. Probably also needs the textbook.

John Tsitsiklis' MITx edx Probability intro course is probably the best course I've taken anywhere and better than anything I did in person at university. I didn't buy the text for this one though I probably should.

Robert Sapolsky's Human Behavioral Biology Stanford lectures are well worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D
Which of those answers are going to hold up in the post-quantum world?
First in the series for those who are curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-wWBGo6a2w
I did. The context is Spotify's back catalogue. Which includes the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Motown, et al.
I agree. With an inflexible build system we still end up with the nasty shell script but it's worse because it wraps the build system.
>that it isn't AI rather using arcane statistical methods to hopefully ascertain the human requirement for the context

One of the big problems the field of AI has in terms of marketing itself is that is soon as a problem is understood and put in to use, people no longer see it as 'AI'. It's the god of the gaps, so to speak. But that does not render the actual advances not-AI. It is a perceptual problem, not a real impediment.
They seem to have fixed it pretty recently (maybe last week?).
Can someone please explain why for…of needed to be specialized for its async form?

I get why async generators & iterators won't work with plain for…of, but don't get why following is invalid:

for (const i of [1, 2, 3])
await getThingAtIndex(i);

The very last example in the article uses similar code, but I feel iterating over array of promises misses the point (as opposed to actually receiving async iterator with `async next () {…}` via `Symbol.iterator`).

Or am I missing something here? Thanks.
Technically, it only claimed he was the first prime minister to do so, but the sentence was ambiguous.
> Not just watch something else, if they don't have that matrix movie, you might watch it somewhere else. People don't make movie playlists and consume 35 movies in a row. Switching from one service to another to make up content gaps is OK when you're talking about a 2-2.5 hour block of time. It's not something people are going to do to listen to a mix of artists at a party.

You nailed it. Music has a fundamentally different mode of consumption from music. People consume music in so many different ways and contexts. Music doesn't always demand your attention like a sensory-engrossing medium (like movies). But when music demands your attention (like having to change providers to hear a specific song) it introduces friction that is unnatural to that medium.
not overseas, and has a deductible. I used a generic travel credit card and it covered my rental damage once, now I make sure to use such a card whenever I rent.
The Ryzen 2 lineup should work on the same AM4 socket, AMD claims that the newer X470 chipset will give better performance.
It could easily stop including those if the record companies think Spotify is competing with them instead of helping them. I think that's the point being made: that back catalog is leverage that will stop Spotify from ever rocking the boat the way Netflix has.
How would you know if it's not holding them back?
> "Flexibility" just means that the dumbest guy on the project will find sufficient rope to hang the whole team sooner or later.

In my experience, it's not dumb but clever which you should worry about — those are the ones who'll spend two weeks making something completely unmaintainable after reading someone's post about how some esoteric mathematically pure style delivered a 7% performance increase on an edge case.
In the grand scheme of things every one dies and the universes freezes from entropic heat death, so yeah...

That said Nihilism isn't necessarily pessimistic. The French Existentialist were basically weak nihilism and Camus was almost celebratory of the lack of meaning of life. "Nothing Means Anything" can be taken as "fuck it burn it all down" OR it can be taken as "there are no unforgivable sins, there is no eternal reward for martyrdom, so why not maximize our fleeting existence for 'happiness'?"
The big book of particle physics
>Money is nothing more than numbers in a system.

Heh, and someone would say that Facebook posts don't say much about you, but I bet really quickly how and where you spend money give a good profile of who you are.
Yeah, it bitrotted : http://www.juga.com/list.php
Colt Steele's the Web Developer Boot Camp was the first online course I took. I was committed to a career change/learning how to program/do web development and his course was the structure I needed at the time. It helped me land my first coding gig too. Thanks Colt.

But now I realize how much I don't know :) and why the CS kids I work with have a leg up. I've tried making my way through teachyourselfcs.com, mostly just dipping in here and there. But I've also learned that staring at a glowing rectangle 8+ hours a day doesn't bring me as much joy as does collaboration/empathy/creativity, and that I'm pretty good at design/product stuff (not saying programming can't also elicit said feelings).

Life is one big learning journey, and I'm so grateful that one of the by-products of the internet has been the democratization of learning. For $10 dollars and some work ethic you can learn enough to land a completely new job. The paradigm of 4 year college is waning, and that's a beautiful thing.
What's even more stupid is that it's even possible to detect you're browsing incognito.

The server should never be able to know.
Yeah, I install docker on to 16.04LTS via this install guide [0]. I'd happily use something else, and probably will, but docker is low friction.

[0] https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/
Interesting.

I just went through this a bit and it doesn't appear that the specification allow for polymorphism in the type system. Am I missing something here?

If that's true, it doesn't seem to address the issues highlighted by the paper, although does handle simple type checking across interfaces of primitive types.
36% of college students don't have enough to eat
It sounds like you are not a fan of landlords or am I misunderstanding something.
Well, iMessage is end-to-end encrypted and works smoothly on both mobile and desktop. Caveats apply, of course: supports OS X and iOS only, is not open source and its protocol is not publicly available for audit.

OP’s post indicates they need support for Android mobile and Linux desktop, so it won’t fit their bill, but it’s a viable option for some.
Maybe they'll make an Apple TV app now? Does anyone know why that doesn't exist yet?
Exonum is written in Rust and Pact (and Juno) are written in Haskell.

I was very enthusiastic last fall about setting up, on a very small scale, what my friend Ben Goertzel did with SingularityNet.io. I set up a placeholder web site http://hyperledgerai.com/ but have been too busy with my day job to put enough effort into it.
Well, yeah. That's standard operating procedure for Red/Blue team work.

By knowing how to hack, one knows how to defend. But knowing how to defend also imparts the knowledge to hack.
Machine Learning by Andrew Ng on Coursera is the best MOOC I've taken so far. It has great explanations on complex topics, fun activities, and a really well put together curriculum on machine learning.
How COBOL Became the Early Backbone of Federal Computing
I use multiple computers daily and not having those synced with my Firefox account is a pain in the ass.
Oh, you're absolutely right, thanks for pointing that out. For some reason I interpreted it as "at worst", oops..
Honestly I stopped reading as soon as I saw the name of your project - really, it's called "stdlib"? What good can possibly come from that name? Either the confusion will prevent your product from ever succeeding; or, less likely but just as annoying, you'll grab meaningful mindshare and everyone here will have to change their vocabulary to accommodate your semantic landgrab.

I've noticed a growing trend of startups trying to do this, and it just annoys me immensely. How hard is it to invest in your own original brand?
Twenty years from now...uber car service system failure affecting 90% of North America
To be clear, it seems you have basic coercions (a la C, or ad-hoc polymorphism) but no general support for subtype polymorphism nor parametric polymorphism.
1) Adam Langley explains why SHA-3 exists and why it shouldn't be used:

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2017/05/31/skipsha3.html
Oh fucking great... my CPU's on the list, they didn't ask me but apparently I don't mind someone stealing all of my credentials from my main computer... what kind of BS non user said that.

I will never buy another Intel CPU, fuck you very much Intel.

If you have an old macbook you might want to check that list, the various flavours of C2Duos on that list were pretty common.
Two words: Key Management

And of course nobody wants to pay for it. Also we need to aim higher than just p2p messaging. Shameless plug. http://firestr.com
Not a mistake. It's a nod to the tax havens.
What you've written isn't invalid, it just does something different. Async iterators effectively yield awaitable promises instead of values.

Iterators, normally, are synchronous. Generators immediately yield control to whatever is consuming from it. An async iterator yields things that will eventually yield control.

The best example I can think of is disk IO. In Python you can iterate over a file handle, but in JS you can't (without blocking). Async iterators would enable this: each yielded promise would resolve with the next line of the file.

Edit: the spec is pretty interesting: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-async-iteration/blob/master...
There are objective things like 'people follow you'

Why are you making assumptions about me?

What if leadership isn't about beating your peers, but about using influence to bring people together?
Doesn't that make them really detectable? A deadspot with full signal bars would be really suspicious.
I wonder if that is due to Heathrow using Time-Based Separation software.

https://www.airport-technology.com/news/optimised-runway-too...
Yeah i disagree. In 20 years, the Beatles and ac/dc will be less relevant and easier to live without. If Spotify start their own content channels now, and i imagine they have, the situation could easily be reversed, where they have exclusive rights to the content that others want.

Time will tell but i feel like this can go either way.
Maybe I'm too cynical, but also looks like a nice way to e-vade taxes?