skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty cynical calculation to make. And no, we don't typically accept untested additional risk in the name of saving untold later. We test first. There's a reason why drugs are tested on animals first, then trials, then broad availability, but still with scrutiny and standards. This is a well trod philosophical argument, but we seem to have accepted that we don't kill a few to save others. We don't fly with untested jet engines. We don't even sell cars without crashing a few to test them. The other companies involved in self driving technology have been in testing mode. They have not skipped a step and headed straight for broad availability.

Why then does Tesla have a pass? There's no evidence it's actually safer. And there's no evidence that the company is truthful. We don't accept when a pharmaceutical company says, "no, it's good. Trust us." That would be crazy. We should not accept Tesla's assurances with blind faith simply because they have better marketing and a questionable ethical standard.

http://driving.ca/tesla/model-s/auto-news/news/iihs-study-sh...
This would be pretty easy to automate so you could turn it on and off remotely.
If they are expecting it, there are glasses that they can wear to prevent the attack from being effective. Really bulky and uncomfortable to be wearing in peacetime though.
I also did two passes through the game and did not end up on the trap card. Worried that I was not following the rules correctly I came to the comments to check.

I followed the rules just as you illustrated.
60 year old Combinatorics Problem partly solved by an Amateur Mathematician
Law and Public Intuition on the Use of Force, Part 1: An Introduction
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You can watch it online here [1]

[1] https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/mission/timeline/launch/watch-...
What I think is brilliant here is that that sort of work can take place separately and provide feedback to these checklists when problems or deficiencies are found. Basically the security checklists are a deliverable that can be iterated on independently while they still benefit from the existing one.
Hopefully a plateauing of the smartphone market along with China starting to produce memory will start to bring memory prices down.

And then manufacturers will consider adding 8-16GB of memory... and at that point I wonder if more people will just use their phone docked to a monitor as their PC if Apple/Google/Microsoft do a better job facilitating it.
How would one phrase it?

People will wake up and realize they are debt slaves to an elite few, with livelihoods being made obsolete by tech, with privacy becoming a luxury, with media being used to focus public rage at any particular target?
I've been using the same phone for almost 4 years now (oneplus one). It came with 3gb ram and 64gb storage and cost about $300, vat included.
There are two tells that I'm using an old phone. The camera is really bad compared to the current ones, and it doesn't have any biometric unlock.
That they are educated has nothing to do with whether they are right or their points are useful broadly. It's a dramatic story from someone who themselves thinks they are more useful than they are.
"Everyone who disagrees with me is a Tesla short" is the new "Everyone who disagrees with me is a Russian agent"

And frankly, even if Ars was short on Tesla, it still wouldn't invalidate the article. Short sellers provide the market valuable information by deflating hype, and no one has been more hyped than Tesla. Which factual claims in the article do you dispute?
It's interesting because, even though I make the conscious effort to keep my iPhone 5, I thought MOST people upgraded? Reading through a lot of these comments, it seems that's not the case. That's surprising but comforting. Having teenage daughters I really started to get a kind of inferiority complex. Thinking, "Man, am I being unreasonably stubborn here?" But it always just seemed like the phone worked, so why upgrade?

It does make me wonder, however, what's next for Samsung and Apple? Is it that there are still more than enough people upgrading to make plenty of money? Or will they have to come up with new non-smartphone products in the future?
Ah, that makes sense. Given that the term "time crystal" seems to conjure up images of physical objects that exhibit supernatural characteristics, is there a more specific term you'd think would be more accurate for describing what it is you're observing?
'97 was 25 years after the original patent was filed, so the original patent was well expired.

I would guess that what they were buying from the Navy were literally just the implementation notes, because even if the patent covers all of the original, key, patent-able ideas, it can still be a bitch to go from that to an actual working implementation.
Young men can get away with all sorts of stuff.
There were certainly plenty of hits of edgy-teenageriness in that book.
People upgrade because what they have becomes worse as time goes on. Maybe you don't get OS updates any more and you can't run apps you want, maybe you do get OS updates and your phone is now slower. Maybe your battery charge lasts less than a day and you don't know you can replace your battery or don't want to. Some people I know almost always end up with cracked screens and upgrade rather than repair, and some other people play Ingress or Pokemon Go so heavily that their batteries don't even last a full day.
Well, it also contains markdown comments (often with LaTeX formulas, so the graphical rendering is appreciated), and, most importantly, plots of the results (which are typically fast to generate, so they are not cached).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EApk15pCIEA
I think the biggest win for wins in the near term will be kites, not full-on sail rigged ships.
I don't remember a time where some variant of Unix wasn't the preferred server operating system.
(If you're too busy to watch: it repeatedly drives the car across the double yellow line dividing a 2-lane freeway, towards oncoming traffic, once right into the path of an oncoming semi).
Navigating the Legal Challenges in Digital Health
There is a high correlation between insufficient sleep and catching cold. It kind of made sense but I've looked it up and found several studies supporting this.

This winter I've tried only cold showers after running outside. Cold showers as in (sometimes) my neck hurt if I did it too long. Did not catch a cold until this spring and I think this is more correlated to insufficient rest/sleep (on top of exercising) than to water temperature.

My takeaway is enough rest is not optional and cold showers are doable even in very cold water. I have no idea how hard would be a bath in water + ice.
Red Hat Developer Toolset 7.1 Release
GVisor: making it simple to run sandboxed containers
Are you trying to do anything in particular?

ML can be used in a number of different facets. On one hand you can grab pre-trained models that people have sitting on github and glue them together to make working projects for your own use. The other extreme is working through the theory to create a new method on a dataset you've collected yourself. Most of the tradeoff is in how much time you want to invest in solving a problem or learning something new.

The major thing for hobby problems is learning how to best use what's already out there given your own restrictions on data and computational resources. The algorithms themselves can be quite complex, but as long as you're not targeting state of the art results, there should be plenty of tools to help get yourself started.

My general recommendation is to dive into some of the papers out there and blog posts on different methods to get a feel for the breadth of options as well as the cases which may not currently be within your own personal grasp.
We need a B Ark: http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_Sh...
8days= more time to filter user content and claim they have no data about you
Yup. One of my high school classmates was an assistant manager at the Burger King where we worked as soon as he graduated high school.
Automatically Publish Scheduled Posts for Your Static Site
'Accused' - whatever happened to not guilty unless proven otherwise?
For plenty of people, so long as the answer is "not near me" then the details are irrelevant. You can see the policy mess that results.
I guess for every person that uses 100 TB a month, there's the person who runs an IRC bouncer. I know that at least my Scaleway instance only has one single-user Django app, a static website and an IRC bouncer, so the traffic amounts must be tiny.
Could you expand on this a bit? We've tried to be very transparent with how we approach and think about open source by publishing all of our internal documentation at https://opensource.google.com/docs/. Is there something that's missing from that? Or are you thinking about certain specific projects being opaque in terms of how their managed?
They should renamed it to "Super Cruise"
It will be different, but concurrency, mutability, structured programming, and scope are very relevant.

Concurrency: Not all genes are run at all times. Gene regulation can look a lot like code. Ex: if(curr_temp > DANGER_TEMP){temperature_defense_gene.activate()}.

Mutability & Scope: Cells that have the same genome can act very differently (all of your cells have ~the same DNA, but act very differently) and some cells in your body can change roles.

Structured Programming: Biological pathways use a lot of control flows. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_pathway
Before he even backdoored it, the lottery was using a Mersenne Twister?

The random number is called the seed, and the seed is plugged into the algorithm, a pseudorandom number generator called the Mersenne Twister. At the end, the computer spits out the winning lottery numbers.
TSPN1: HTC 12 Plus will be Launched 23 May 2018
I once worked on a project for one of the largest corporations in the world. First part of my career I only ever worked on smaller teams.

I was excited for the move to a large corporation where there would be amazing room for growth and learning.

I have to say that almost a year into my work on this project, I was absolutely stunned how inept this company was at coordinating a technology project.

Something a small team could accomplish in a matter of months was taking 100's of developers and 100's more in supporting / operational roles years to accomplish. My guess is the developers on this project would gladly trade places with Sisyphus.
Outlook has a way to send such messages that you only see a Webmail.dat attachment when using other clients, hence why I was jokingly asking if that was also part of achieving parity.
You’ve employed some sort of inverse ad hominem here. Credentials don’t mean we should take someone seriously. Their words should stand for themselves.
http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/
Aside from privacy there is another important issue to consider. Facebook makes censorship decisions it has no authority and probably little expertise to make. All with little to no accountability.

Consider the Israeli Palestinian conflict and the censorship of Palestinian voices as an example. In general there should be no tolerance for speech that incites violence. Everybody agrees to this. But in this particular case things are different. The Palestinians are an occupied people and the Israeli army and Israeli colonizing settlers are occupying forces. The international community is almost in total agreement — the Palestinians have every right to engage in armed resistance against the occupation forces. Yet Facebook still delete accounts which call for resistance. To make matters worse, they allow the formidable, multi-million dollar funded, Israeli state-aponsered propaganda machine to use Facebook to normalize occupation, to demonize Palestinians, to dehumanize Palestinians, and to disrupt foreign protest/resistance in western democracies. How is this not morally bankrupt!?

Come on. I do not understand this — how can any educated individual support a company like Facebook is beyond me. How can all those top notch researchers work for them? Facebook has 0 moral integrity.

It tells quite a story about us techies. While they are some of the smartest people they are also the least morally-driven people. So selfish. Look at the world you Facebook engineers are creating. A world where a massive, world-wide, media platform doesn’t direct flows of information based on ethics and responsibility. The information flows based on profit and power. Of course Facebook will acquiesce to the majority of Israeli government requests. They project billions of dollars worth of power. Palestinians barely have enough to eat. Screw what the Palestinians think, what can they do?
When Facebook and it’s platform acts as the Israeli propagandist and censor Facebook only loses if it’s users or employees get upset. What are the chances of that? Who controls what reaches our newfeeds? Are our feeds not filtered by what’s popular according to the masses and what hasn’t been downvotes to oblivion?

I truly despise Facebook. I hate how they have no accountability. I hate the effects they are having on the world and people. I hate the way they influence how people think and nobody calls it censorship.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2016/09/1...
[2] https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-partisans-work-censor...
I have a PhD from a top institution, so I'm all for science. But the science on this matter is misleading to people who aren't experts in the field, so I don't blame you for calling me out.

Let me try to explain why there is no contradiction, and why the science here can't be relied upon across the board.

First, my anecdata pertain to athletes who are competitive on a national or regional level - Olympic Trials qualifiers, Cat 1 and pro cyclists, and similar. Science will confirm that these individuals have profoundly altered physiologies as compared to average "fit" people.

A problem with extending exercise physiology research to elite athletes is that most of the time, the scientists do not have elite test subjects available. There is a world of difference between the 4 hr marathoners they probably surveyed, or even 3hr Boston qualifiers, compared to the 2:20 and under marathoner I have in mind. There simply isn't much science published on these guys, because there aren't that many of them.

Many exercise physiology papers will say "well-trained subjects between the ages of 21 and 30", and the layman will think this means they studied top athletes. But then you look at the data and see that the average 5K run time for these people is something like 18 minutes, which is much slower than even the easy 20 mile pace for the subjects of my anecdata.

So maybe, the average marathon jogger is not more likely to fall ill after an effort. But talk to anyone who has run under 2:30 for men or under 3:00 for women and they will agree with what I have found
That's what I ended up with as well.
"humans are really bad at supervising a driving technology that works 99.99 percent of the time but gets in a fatal crash the other 0.01 percent"

I've tried to express the same concept but you said it in far fewer words. Nice.

Good article.
Just another subjective aspect, the rules define what exact sports are even awarded medals. Nobody gets anything for best backwards running.
I mean, Apple was dead in June of 1997. Jobs was rehired shortly after, and the rest is history.
Would it be possible to use this as phenomenon in a clock?
“China's total debt surpassed 304 percent of GDP as of May 2017," the IIF noted.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/06/28/chi...

“the rate of growth is strong, rising more than 80 percentage points from January of the same year. The household debt-to-disposable income ratio is catching up to developed country levels, having reached 68.3% by the end of 2016.“

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/sarahsu/20...
Quantity != Quality though. Arguably, a lot of Google published research papers have spawned entire software categories.

The original papers on Map/Reduce, Bigtable,
Dremel, Dapper, Spanner, directly spawned a bunch of successful open source implementation projects as well as companies.
I use Atom quite a bit and I'm now curious if it phones home as well. Guess it's time to get out Wireshark.
Interestingly, the US' total private and public debt amounts to 3.5 times the GDP as well but few seem to have as much concern over its debt as they do China's. Also, the UK appears to have a similar level of private debt as the US, and only a bit less public debt.

On public debt alone, China:UK:US is 66:85:107 percent of GDP, according to the IMF.

So what is the reason for major concerns over one but not others? Developed vs developing countries? Stronger vs weaker financial institutions/systems? Something else?

Note that a key measure that the US and other developed countries tend to be ahead of most developing countries is national wealth, i.e. its assets minus liabilities, as a percentage of GDP. (This is unsurprising since they have much more time to accumulate assets.)

"As of the first quarter of 2010, the Federal Reserve estimated that total public and private debt owed by American households, businesses, and government totaled $50 trillion, or roughly $175,000 per American and 3.5 times GDP."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_position_of_the_Unit...

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/private-debt-to-g...

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/private-debt-to-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_de...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_wealth
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>Human driving has basically capped out at its potential to improve. It may even be starting to get worse...

But we can significantly improve on that. Augmenting human capability is far easier than converting a pile of transistors to perform at the same level as humans. Improving road safety infrastructure is also possible - today, Improving technology in cars to detect when the driver is impaired is also easily possible - today. We don't need pie in the sky "autopilot" technology to improve on the current situation.

>Automated driving, has barely begun and even if it is less safe today, it will clearly be much safer than human driving soon. And will only continue to get safer and safer as the technology improves.

You can say that about anything. One day a bacterium will evolve into a human. Also, its more than reasonable to say, we don't want to get killed because some dude in the valley pushed a firmware update. If the tech sucks, don't endanger other humans. Go fix it, and come back and we'll gladly take a look at it again since it does have value. As of now, people are better off staying away from any Teslas on the roads.
Law is definitely way behind
No argument there.

Hello readers from the future!
Uh... I really, really dislike this title, its inaccurate and (intentionally?) misleading.

The title is "The Man Who Cracked the Lottery" but it's not about someone actually cracking the lottery, that is, figuring out how to mathematically win the lottery or figuring out existing flaws; its just about straight up insider fraud. A better title is "The Man Who Rigged the Lottery." Or the TL;DR version: "Man Inserted Logic Bomb Into Lottery Draw Code Because There Was No Controls To Stop Him."

Its still somewhat of an interesting read but the title really ruined it for me; I was expecting an entirely different story.

Examples of people actually cracking the lottery/gambling site:

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/lotto-winner...

https://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/616221/How-We-Lea...
What did you do, upload your resume somewhere lots of recruiters have access to?
“Digital stowaway!”
I'm astounded how little discussion the effects of China imposing tariffs on Chinese people has been getting really. Everyone's happy to talk about how imposing tariffs would just hit poor people the hardest and how retaliatory tariffs are a terrible idea when the topic is American tariffs, but the discussion of Chinese tariffs on food is all about the effects on American farmers - there's very little about them hurting China, even though they should if we applied those same theories on tariffs to them.
I've worked on XMPP.

Google talk / now hangouts once was an XMPP pusher.
XMPP is decentralized. As with mail servers you can advertise your own XMPP servers, see https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/SRV_Records , you can even publish a per-user DNS record with an OTR key.

I shut down my XMPP endpoint a few monthes ago because Google had stopped supporting XMPP bridging to hangouts. Now that everybody uses hangouts (coders) or slack (teams/corporates) or whatsapp/messenger/skype (everyone else) there is no incentive to support it anymore (I speak now only IRC with coders)

They gave their support and a lot of traction to the protocol, and removed it on a second step (once advocates of XMPP, _yes, like me_ said to everyone, "yes you should prefer gmail+talk, they are supporting open standards")

Looks like an approaching-with-good-intentions and then disrupting strategy to me. Even if you disagree on the responsibility of XMPP rise and fall, they are the bull in a china shop : don't drink the kool aid, you'll end up broken.
Then just ignore the comment! We don’t need any more HN comment policing.

And academics don’t have a monopoly on making criticism.
I just bought my first Chinese phone: A Huawei P20 Pro. I am so amazed by this thing!
What’s the theory behind the cold shower?
Maybe I should only believe in the existence of functions that can be implemented by a terminating computer program.
This is actually my point. It didn't say "no one" is doing it. Even though his means are very crude, he still needs a furnace, a welder, and a lot of other tooling (receiver jig, etc.) to get to the point where he can use a bucket of pre-fab parts (most notably the barrel).

That guy is building a receiver, then assembling. Most people who are into it are just assembling.
I have said this before, but I see some parallels between the modern world and Japan during the early Tokugawa era. Japan had pretty much reached a steady state by the time Tokugawa Iyeyasu came to power in 1600; most of the available land had been cultivated or settled, and, especially after the policies of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, society was locked in a rigid structure without much room for advancement or unrest.

As a result, the samurai class, especially Tokugawa's bannermen and "inner" families, sort of lost their purpose. There were no more wars to fight - not when peace lasted "as long as the waves roll" - and the strongest rebels they could expect were peasants who could not own swords.

Because they couldn't just revoke the lands Iyeyasu had distributed (without very good reason), and to give the samurai something to do, the Edo government expanded constantly, creating dozens of superfluous or sinecure bureaucratic roles, so that the second and third sons of samurai families wouldn't just sit around at home. I believe this pattern was repeated across the various daimyo han at each castle town. Further, the samurai household themselves created redundant job openings just to get more peasants out of unemployment. This was how every samurai ended up with six porters. Even as certain samurai families sunk into abject poverty in the 1800s, as the shogunate neared its end, this policy continued: your grandfather had increased the number of household retainers from five to six, to give someone's fourth son a job; and it had become hereditary, and now that fourth son's grandson was your sixth retainer, and you couldn't destroy the position even if you could barely afford to pay him.

When I hear politicians talking about "creating jobs", I think of the shogunate.