skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that ICANN is either corrupt or useless, but you still have the problem of scarcity to address. Domain names are important assets for businesses, and ‘good’ ones are going to be in high demand. Squatters add essentially no value to the system, but there’s no fair way to determine who gets a domain name that multiple parties want, aside from letting the market take care of it. This is a flaw in the system itself, but I can’t see many realistic ways of addressing it.
As a machine learning freelancer, I can definitely understand the main argument of this article.
When I started applying for contracts I always felt overwhelmed by the competition with math PhDs and other developers with brighter pedigrees.
After closing my eyes to the competition, I started offering high quality communication, clear project specifications and complete honesty in terms of project feasibility, just as I would for any regular software project.
After over 30 successful projects, I can't say I developed an Ai that can beat Starcraft, but I definitely brought a lot of value to all my clients.
If you are passionate about machine learning and really like the grind, just go for it. Work finds a way
Chinese company secretly diverted Canadian internet traffic to China
That's neat that 1Password does that. I tend to do something like "Clark Dark Bark Park" for "First school?" and record it in LastPass's notes.

A lot of the questions are dumb, like "Favorite Food?" with a pull-down of 8 or 10 answers.
Alibaba 4Q18 revenues up over 40%, profit by 33%
Gigantic hole two-thirds the size of Manhattan discovered in Antarctic glacier
A Fireside Chat with Benchmark's Bill Gurley (2013)
The emergence of human sociability defies modern genetic models. Nonetheless, out of all the irreparably flawed assumptions in anthropology, one of the least flawed is the premise that intelligence and sociability probably had a complex, interconnected evolution.

Given that not only can we not explain our sociability, but that it's emergence seems nearly impossible according to our understanding of genetic natural selection, then opining on the dominant factors that drive modern intelligence, let alone drove our intelligence hundreds of thousands of years ago, is a hopeless endeavor.

Anyone providing answers to such higher-order questions could only be correct by accident. We have no way of assessing the validity!
OK, let's check your numbers. There are about 1.5 billion people who speak English, and you are telling us that only .0001 * 1.5 billion = 150,000 of them will get anything out of the abstract? And that only .01 * 150,000 = 1,500 of those will find it to make perfect sense? That doesn't seem right.

Abstract. Using elliptically fibered Kummer surfaces of Picard rank 17, we construct an explicit model for a three-parameter bielliptic plane genus-three curve whose associated Prym variety is two-isogenous to the Jacobian variety of the general three-parameter hyperelliptic genus-two curve in Rosenhain normal form. Our model provides explicit expressions for all coefficients in terms of modular forms.

Oh. Oh my. Checks list of Sokal Squared spoof papers, nope. "Indistinguishable from random gibberish in a paper written by a recurrent neural network" it is then. Rather than being conservative, now I see that you were wildly optimistic in your estimate. There can't possibly be over 1,000 people in the world to whom this would make perfect sense, can there?
The morning before the shuttle blew up I was watching the news on tv before catching the bus to school. You could tell just looking at the news feed that that the shuttle was covered in ice. Even to my 12 year old self it seemed insane to launch a space ship into orbit when covered in ice. I was so confused when told in school that the shuttle blew up. I was like, no way would anyone think that was a good idea to launch today. I still to this day don't know if they de-iced it first or just shot it up there and hoped for the best.
> At least present news as it is?

This is exceptionally difficult. My favorite example is choosing which photo to run for a story. Let's say a photographer take photos of Trump at an event. He has a photo of Trump smiling, a photo of Trump frowning, a photo of Trump scowling and a photo of Trump laughing. Which one is correct? They are all technically correct because they happened, but they all convey different tones, some of which will be completely inappropriate in the context of the story it runs with.
> I think it's rather refreshing that Apple followed the rules they set forth even when it was large companies breaking them.

This kind of behavior from executives[0] is precisely why I invested in Apple products in the first place — why I took the risk at all.

I meant that I don’t see this as any reason to get out, from a pure “well, what if they abuse their power?” perspective: the risk is low, given the way they’ve acted until now, and the total possible cost is reasonably bounded — I’ve already had enough upside to eclipse the risk weighted cost, this was a good investment.

So why would I even worry about it until something bad did happen? The homo economis answer is to let your bet ride, until the point you were going to re-evaluate anyway, when buying a new phone.

[0] There is approximately 0% chance Google and Facebook were kicked out of dev programs without running it by senior executives.
It may be that to a degree, but there is also a desire to point out reliability deficiencies in a product or platform that inevitably gets pushed down everyone's throats by management with low resistance to kool-aid.
also Thiel (at least as represented in the review here) seems to systemically understate the role of luck and environment.

One contribution to Amazon's success was also the great culling of (potential) competitors after the dotcom burst. They were really lucky to rake in a 700 million investment barely a month before the crash, and most competitors afterwards had a hard time raising serious money.

Now sure you can argue that there's strategies you can pick that maximise your chances of abusing these crashes, but they're very hard to predict and if they don't come you might lose out, and I don't think Bezos ever anticipated the dotcom bubble.

So chance and timing really play a gigantic role in creating successful businesses, there are not always secrets or geniuses behind successful enterprise.
The author clearly abides by the old adage, “Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, then tell them what you told them.”
> Do this ... get sued by Facebook.

"It's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it pays off for him"
Recruiters/managers are very picky about the Masters/PhD requirements, even if the corresponding day-to-day work does not necessarily warrant it.
Why not link to the most recent version? It's currently at 4.0:

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/
Can You Feed Laser Paper in the Inkjet Printer?
Meh, it isn't that difficult with ripped blu-rays either. Plex can do it quite well.
Alibaba, earth scale
https://medium.com/@alitech_2017/alibaba-blink-real-time-com...
If I bought the DVD and download a copy off torrent. There is a case to be made that this download is not a copyright infringement. So, why should I have a concern about uploading?

That is, other people may have fair use claims to the access. So why should I be on the hook for uploading.

—yes, I know the position that RIAA takes on this. I just found it interesting seeing this from a different perspective.
pythonistic coffeescript for java ?
Get a number in a completely different area code than where you live. In an attempt to appear legitimate and get answered lots of spam calls with come from the area code of your phone number.

If I get a call from the area code where I live I pick it up because it’s usually the vet, doctor, school, mechanic, etc. But if I get a call from an unknown number in the area code of my phone # I can safely ignore it and let it go to voicemail. If it’s legitimate they will leave a message (and it’s never been legitimate so far).
Hall of mirrors tech support?
Do you think aapl needs google's "billions"? No, they're making way more money selling "privacy" and building a solid search engine to replace google is high priority for them.
Maybe we're all a bit right. Seems like it varies. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_financial_officer

> The CFO typically reports to the chief executive officer (CEO) and the board of directors and may additionally have a seat on the board
Apple have different distribution methods for different use cases. Enterprise distribution is meant for internal company apps. Testflight is meant for test customers. Use any of these in a way that Apple doesn't approve of and you'll deal with the consequences.

Apple's platform, their rules.
This would never be a direct action. But they don't have to go out of their way to inform either.

Do you think Facebook's right wing oppo research firm would balk about leaking a story that a competitor's phone is vulnerable? Absolutely not.
Innnnteresting! We've been using Pandas as our slow CPU fallback in the GPU Arrow world b/c of issues like this.

Today, we default to using pydata gpu arrow tools like BlazingSQL or Nvidia RAPIDS directly. They ~guarantee perf, and subtle yet critical for maintaining our < 100ms SLA, the Arrow format stays clean. (Ex: don't want a column schema to get coerced to something less structured.) We'll use Pandas as a fallback for when they lack features or are hard to use.

The ideal would be to use Pandas directly. Today it is a bit of a crapshoot on whether schemas will break across calls, and the above libraries are really replacements, rather than integrated accelerator extensions. So thinking like this project get us closer to predictable (and GPU-level) performance within pandas, vs fully replacing it. So cool!
I think the author is trying to lend support to people who feel excluded from the field due to a lack of credentials - great! You can, in fact, materially contribute and succeed without a PhD. Machine learning is a pretty big tent.

Claiming that a profession is meritocratic, though, strikes me as a harmful framing. From my vantage I don't see a) what an objective notion of merit would be and b) that all people who have the capability to contribute is strictly equal to the number of good jobs that are currently available.

I can definitely see when someone is already doing something useful well, but not if they might do that later or if the notion of useful will change.
I think this specific process is referred to as domain tasting. Front running is using insider information, such as whois logs, while tasting is actively registering domains and measuring how much traffic the domain gets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting
and if you select a link through siri, google doesn't get your query (data).
Robot thinks for itself from scratch brings forward rise of self-aware machines
No it isn't. Applied machine learning is an arms race of who has the data.
And the 2nd Battle of Fallujah.
Title is inaccurate: _Facebook_ leaves Facebook offices in disarray after Apple revoked app permissions.
I don't know why Bezos doesn't offer the paper for free?

It seems like the Goodwill it would generate might make him wealthier?

Or, at least offer it for free to Prime members?

In all honesty, when I don't see billionaires giving back; I try to avoid their product.

(Yes--I'm on the dislike of the selfish billionaire bandwagon. I know they are easy targets, but just how much money do you need to live a full life? I think about the billions his wife will receive for just being with the man, and don't get it. These people must see how the poor, and homeless are doing, but just don't do much? And I'm sorry, If you grew up in America, and made your wad here; give back to people here. Rant done--waiting for a another Shadowban.)
I think that's debatable. Hiding the content allows the learned to focus on the content at hand. If the user prefers to always be looking at a TOC, they still have that option.

Or maybe it makes sense to show the TOC by default, with the option to hide it. Either way, I'm curious to hear more about your reasoning for why it's so horrible.
Insider demos are still demos, so its less of a big deal, and they're not doing something with the intention to circumvent app store rules.
Often the message is "If there is an account with that email, we'll send you a link". The idea is that you don't want to confirm that there is an account because it might be someone testing to see if there is one.

On the other hand, I would think that the bigger problem is people using the same password with multiple sites and the attacker is entering username/password combos as fast as they can. Joe Hacker isn't probably going to look at your Facebook page for where you went to school, what your dog's name is, etc. Unless they're after you specifically.
Apple is likely going to be sued by FB and Google and eventually they will lose the control over their platform. Yes the terms are in the TOS. Those terms should be illegal. Same as say non-competes are illegal in some places. No company should have that kind of power.

And, before you say it's the same as some company turning off your net based account, no it is not. For example if you upload porn to flickr and they delete your account in that case you're using flickr's servers. In this case Google is using phones owned by Googlers and other customers to run software by Google. Apple is not involved at all here unlike the example flickr case above. Apple should not be allowed to reach into another company and kill it.

AFAICT Google and FB did nothing wrong here. Those apps were test apps. How else are you supposed to beta test something? Tons of software does this. You build an app, you offer beta program. You had out codes for the beta users. Beta testing with direct employees is not useful because employees are no representative of actual users.
Dogfooding is possible via TestFlight, and Apple moderates it to ensure they aren't breaking the rules before the builds go out, I believe. Enterprise certificates are for pushing applications written for internal use only, like the Facebook lunch app or Google's bus schedule.
Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – digested read (2018)
When you scan for uncorrupt institutions, how the hell do you end up on "governments the world over"?
I do it on iOS 8. Can't recall the Xcode version.
> I don't find the real thing any more valuable than the fake.

That's a pretty damning statement to make about yourself.
Online, usually corrections are appended to the bottom (or even top) of the relevant article.
The Millennial Generation, Jordan B. Peterson, and the Problem of Meaning
Kubernetes and the Challenges of Multi-Cloud
> public data that EVERYONE can see

The entire concept of law is based on the premise that not everything that is physically possible should be permitted.
Ironic comparison given that the British Empire banned slavery before the American Civil War.
I think the whole point of the rule of law (versus rule of authority) is to remove some of the massive ambiguity about enforcement and make the courts a bit more “robotic” and regular. You don’t want a situation where it’s luck of the draw on a judge, or where the ambiguity allows selective enforcement against people one judge or prosecutor particularly dislikes.
I agree with the writer about the statement that you don't need a 100% test coverage but you still need to check your coverage. I mean you need to run coverage and go through your code and see if there is any gap in your testing.
That said I don't agree with the statement "mostly integration" the reason is that he don't take into an account the ROI of a test, he only take into account the outcome. I mean e2e tests are the best to catch bugs but they are harder to achieve harder to debug and harder to maintain. Same go for integration test they are harder to debug, maintain and perform than unit test. Developpers forget that their time is money and that if they spend time on a test just because it make them feel safe that mean that the project will cost more money.
The general rule I use is simple. When you test, test behavior not code and do your test at the lowest level possible.
I haven’t heard anyone say that before either. As many others I know, I don’t mind it. But I have made it more useful using this neat utility called Energy Bar - https://github.com/billziss-gh/EnergyBar

I mostly use the function keys in RStudio for R programming and for everything else I use Energy Bar for quick app launches and volume controls.
If the IPA is already built you just need the cross-platform Cydia Impactor. Jailbreak not required, but standard Developer Account for full features applies.
I don't have much knowledge of how Google Fi works but what little I know makes me think that, yes, Fi and Voice are doing the same thing. If they are, then yes, a Fi number is on the exact same footing as a Voice number for port-out shenanigans.

One data point for why Fi and Voice numbers are the same: For a long time, hip-and-trendy apps like Uber and Venmo wouldn't accept Google Voice numbers because they show up in API calls as "voip." About a year after Fi became widespread, Google Voice numbers show up in services that provide information about phone numbers with a carrier of "Bandwidth.com/GV" or similar so now the apps can whitelist that carrier as "yeah it's VoIP but it's fine." If I test the number of someone who I know uses Google Fi--but did use that number with Google Voice before Fi, so I don't know for sure if this is valid--the information returned still comes back as Google Voice.
No one is entitled to Apple’s operating system. If you want freedom, the price is Android or whatever. In fact, the restrictions that Apple imposes on iOS and MacOS are arguably what makes them desirable in terms of consistent user experience, robust default security, and lack of crapware. For some people, that’s a good trade off. For others, the allure of Apple’s walled garden is too tempting.
FB, G clearly violated the ToS of the Enterprise Acc (no public distribution of such Apps) and Apple has rightly suspended their enterprise distribution cert.

But Apple has been selective in enforcing this rule. If I recall, for many years Uber's driver App was distributed as an enterprise app. Uber has always claimed that drivers are not employees and so this was in clear violation of the ToS.

Imo, Uber's use case was legit. During early days Uber probably did not wish to have 2 Apps in the App Store to avoid customer confusion. Or maybe they were actively updating the Driver App and did not want to add days of App review holding up every update.

Apple should change their ToS and allow such use cases in some form. At times this would get misused (like FB/G) but opening up the walled garden to enable such "private" apps to be easily distributed can make iOS a more interesting platform. In any case they always have the final kill switch of revoking an Enterprise Cert for malicious use.
Shatter Secrets: Using Secret Sharing to Cross Borders with Encrypted Devices
previously, with comments from the creator:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7149908
>"It's not clear that even reputed newspapers like NYTimes/WaPo produce quality content consistently."

Doesn't the Washington post charge for articles with named sources?

Almost every time I follow a link to them the source has been "someone familiar with the matter". However, one time I was surprised see there were actual names attached to the quotes, but they obscured most of the page and wanted me to pay a dollar to read it.
I want to see a browser plugin or web service that uses natural language processing to highlight both the claims of fact and opinion in different colors on the article you are reading.
The employees would each have to spend $100 on a developer membership (sharing them is a good way to get more revokes).
I think Twilio is running its own infrastructure so some of the attack risk is mitigated but there's still no prevention of doing things like temporarily rerouting SMS or other things like that through SS7 access.

Point being, SMS-based "authentication" is so laughably insecure as to be pointless if you become a target of someone who wants into your checking account.
Slightly off topic, but I've learned (the hard way) that the most important thing in a backup/restore process is the restore part.

It doesn't matter how reliable your backup is. If you can't restore it you've done nothing. So far I've managed to:

- Backup encrypted content without saving the decryption key

- Backup everything to a remote server without backing up the ssh key to that server

So do yourself a favor, don't just backup. Try restoring some of your content from time to time (or at least imagine how you would do it).

Another scenario I've been recently thinking is, if the house burns down tonight, and you lose everything, phones/computers/etc., would you be able to get your data back?

EDIT: formatting
After some more investigation... their paper is interesting. But: it's $25 to download their model file, and the trainer code and training dataset aren't published. Oh well.
Lombok is awesome. There's still some painful stuff in Java but Lombok gets rid of most of it. I agree with other comments about using Kotlin instead, but I've had a ton of resistance to switching languages since all our devs know java.

Since Lombok is "just a library" I've managed to sneak it in almost every project I've worked on. Deftly used, I swear it cuts the LoC in a project by 30%
Because some of us don't believe governments are inherently evil?
I looked at the Rust site and their published grammar.
It is VERY incomplete, missing entire productions.

I cannot determine if the syntax of Rust is "better" than that of C.

At least the ISO "C" std. organization publishes a complete syntax of their language.

Perhaps someone knows where there is a complete grammar for the Rust language?

I cannot find one.
The New Open-Source Kermit Project
It's interesting that a spike of 30k login attempts in a short time is enough to set off alarm bells. It makes me wonder what kind of attacks fly under the radar in larger systems.
The original pdf - http://www.cypherpunks.ca/%7Eiang/pubs/shattersecrets-spw18....
I'm amazed at the pushback over "Afrofuturist", the term has been around for decades and is an important theme in science fiction and pop music (think Janelle Monáe), let alone Black Panther:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrofuturism
January was Australia's hottest month since records began
TensorFlow Lite and Optimizing Neural Networks for Mobile Apps
AI on Raspberry Pi with the Intel Neural Compute Stick
Permit me to agree but to ask the obverse question. They are dealing with an enemy that routinely uses hospitals and dwellings for military purposes. Both are war crimes.

But... Could it be (not trying to take sides here for the sake of this though experiment, honest) "cheaper" in terms of civilian lives to use a few as shields? In other words, suppose taking an opposing officer's family hostage saves 100 lives on your side and 500 lives on their side. Ethically, which is the right decision? Kill one family to save many or kill many more soldiers and perhaps more civilians?

This is the decision Harry Truman had to make... I think.
I was hoping to see there a block with unregistered domain names.

One could do it by, for example, training a Markov chain/neural network to spew out (sample) domains, and then see how many are currently registered, to compute the general XXXX.com space utilization fraction.

This approach would be powered by a more sensible, IMHO, probability distribution than, say, taking all domain names with up to 30 {a-z0-9} characters with uniform probabilities.
Reaping what it has sown: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/30/australi...
The Larrabee architecture was something like this, no?
Yes, Valgrind has support for annotating memory pool operations: http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/mc-manual.html#mc-manual.mem...