skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a terrible contact list. They don’t actually give you the details you need to contact people!

If the user in question actually uses Facebook, then it can act as a messaging service. But if someone, for instance, sent me a Facebook message, they would never receive a response, because I would learn about it approximately 6 months later when I do my annual login.
It says "Powered by Microsoft" on the bottom of a search results page. Is this just a wrapper around bing?
It was helpful enough for me to look for more information.

https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/1103087046661267456
I hope this doesn't qualify me for a "whoosh" of your joke, but wouldn't an RCE in Chrome run code as the current user? Or did you mean attack the domain admin's computer?
I don't encounter many counterfeit problem as people here seem to be frequently hit. I use Amazon quite frequently, more than one order each week.

Disclaimer: Ex-Amazon employee.
Tesla Swerves on Strategy, Trailed by Growing Doubts
I know what you mean, I went through a fairly simple cave except for ~90 feet with 3 90 degree turns in between which required me to be completed stretched out (Superman style) and push with only my toes/fingertips. It was terrifyingly exhilarating.
And this is why cryoto is unlikely to go mainstream. Because the market for people who are willing to put up with the risks of unregulated banking are too small a minority to be worth it.
I think the title implicitly means 'for PhD students', rather than 'for people with a PhD'. I don't know any tenured professors who would describe themselves as 'a PhD'.
One feature (limitation) of Instagram is that you can't include clickable links in a post message. So if you're running a business or are a personality of interest, you might share something that your followers might actually care to look into in more depth off-platform.

But then you have to tell them to check your profile for your one allowed link, go to your site, search for the product/blog/video - or you pay for an ad with links enabled.
I'm on your team, but a lot of people seem to be happy running, say, the HotSpot JIT compiler in production, so I think it's probably fine for most people.

At a certain level of scale you're running code you didn't write, anyway (some mix of open-source code and code from previous team members) and having exact source with exciting surprises you've never seen before isn't going to save you from getting woken up at 4 AM. Though it might make it easier to fix the problem.
I noticed Google Voice was broken in Firefox yesterday. (Shocking, I know.)
Some players play DF with specific goals in mind. Others play in order to have a story like experience. In the latter case, the "fun" in losing is only "fun" if it creates a kind of dramatic tension. DF is also unusual in that worlds are intended to be played over and over again. "Losing a game" only adds more interesting history to the world, so "winning" and "losing" loses a lot of meaning. What's "fun" is playing again and having that historical "loss" influence your next game.

Like I said, though, many players choose a goal oriented play through. Achieving that goal is a win for them (and often they abandon the fortress and start a new world afterwards). I remember one person bitterly complaining on the forums that the game was too easy because they had already won the game. After they succeeded in becoming the mountain home for their civ, they felt the game was over. Sometimes it's hard to explain other ways to play games ;-)
What a beautiful swindle. People who got creamed in the MtGox pyramid collapse where made almost whole by a next generation of suckers who lost 65% of their BTC's value in the bubble.
For anyone who wants to learn more about Blockbuster and Netflix, the Acquired podcast has a phenomenal episode which covers The saga in depth: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/season-3-episode-8nbspnetfl...
Conclusion: The study strongly supports that MMR vaccination does not increase the risk for autism, does not trigger autism in susceptible children, and is not associated with clustering of autism cases after vaccination. It adds to previous studies through significant additional statistical power and by addressing hypotheses of susceptible subgroups and clustering of cases.
ahhh thank you I did not read closely enough
UAF by whom? If it's through a bare reference held in the JavaScript VM where operations don't access the C++ object as a C++ object or as some shared primitive object as in the JVM or CLR, then the error is in maintaining state consistency across distinct environments. Such bugs look exactly the same in every language, although the risk is compounded by (a) JIT'd environments and (b) asynchronous execution.

In the context of a bug involving JavaScript ArrayBuffers (where JIT compilers are designed to optimize away both FFI accessors and bounds checks) and asynchronous events I think it would be prudent to withhold judgment.
This video from the Royal Institute has a lot of good info on the microbiome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LUuqxQSaFQ
That actually is a very useful ratio to look at. Essentially says “in a compute-bound data processing algorithm, how long would it take to process all the data you can store?”
No they never gave a timeline. Waymo announced they had bought or were going to buy 600 Chrysler Pacificas, in summer 2017, then they later announced plans to buy 2,000 more, and then later announced plans to buy 60,000, but currently they still don't have all of those original 600 in operation. 5 years to get all those vehicles earning money is sounding optimistic to me. The complexity and the number of complications and hangups Waymo has to deal with just keeps piling on.
It's obvious that Facebook is having some challenges from the dramatic increase in the number of inline ads (promoted posts). FB is scrambling to generate enough revenue to avoid spooking investors.

What the investors will be missing if they abandon Facebook, however, is that Facebook has one of the most valuable data droves in history. Long after the kind of dark patterns and data collection policies used by Facebook have been outlawed, the trove that has already been collected will provide AI with plenty of information on human behavior for many decades into the future.

Imagine if you are studying the human genome and you are forced to stop collecting new DNA samples after you only have 1.74 Billion samples collected. Not a bad place to be in considering that no new competitors will be allowed to collect samples in the way FB does today in the "wild west" of privacy violation.
How much more than "a wrapper around Bing" would you say DuckDuckGo is?
2-bit digital audio? Like only four total values of dynamic range total? 4-bit meaning only 16 total possible amplitudes? Is that even physically possible? ;)

I agree that the quality of the record -- AND its playback equipment -- among other physical factors will dramatically effect the numbers. My "10-14" quote only applies for ideal conditions: a newly-minted, unplayed disc on a high-quality preamp which together with the turntable and clean needles can produce a very low noise floor. Obviously I'm never going to get this with my dad's old Dead vinyl that he played to death, or with cheap needles, or with those crappy Crowley turntables at target....

Anecdotally, on my home system with clean records, I can make nearly-CD-quality recordings, with the differences only really apparent on flat studio monitors or a good Hi-Fi.
Good point, I've seen comparable use cases in the wild but it slipped my mind!
That's me at 46:14 asking a question about killer drones :)
"set_to_random_numbers" is much less descriptive than np.random.normal...the former doesn't tell me what distribution the random numbers come from. Agreed that the weights should be stored in a list or the like in real life rather than duplicating code for each layer, but the examples in the blog post are clearly intentionally minimizing abstractions as much as possible so that an untrained reader can immediately tell exactly what each line is doing. It's obviously not intended to scale to larger models.
Darknet Diaries is such a good podcast. I've been working through it recently and this is the next episode I'm up to. Can't wait.
And my apologies for forgetting to mention the single largest increase in expenditure—health care. We can cure more diseases and fix more injuries than ever before, which means that there's more health services worth paying for than ever before.

In summary, if you want to live like someone in the 1920s, with 1920s technology, 1920s mobility, 1920s education and 1920s health care, all while defending your country with a 1920s military, you'd probably struggle to know how to spend your inordinate wealth.
As I've said before repetedly, in order to use facebook effectively, you need to do everything you can to avoid the algorithm.

What I mean by that is that you don't want facebook deciding what you see. Instead, you want to control your feed as much as possible. I've found that to be true to some extent for every social media platform.

With facebook, the best way to do this seems to be to create a "friend list" of all of the people whose posts you want to see, and then bookmark it so you can use it as your main portal to facebook. When viewing the list, you'll see the posts and shares of everyone in that group (in chronological order) and nothing else. Nothing about who liked what or who commented on what.

Now, go to the list, scroll through everyone's posts until you see something you remember from last time you were on, and that's it. You're done with facebook unless you want to post something.

Similarly, my portal to youtube is the subscription feed. If I want to see recommendations, I'll go looking for them. On reddit I tend to browse r/all with a pretty extensive block list. Whatever I can do to stop algorithms from deciding what I see.
How would you classify a political story?
ah, but then they'd be fools for just using one tool. Against the ethos! You need 30,000 tools, obviously.
Cloudflare is a registrar? I had no idea.

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
Yes: https://ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206153381-Where...
I read that the "engagement" measure supported the Trump presidency since their ads were more clickbait than content-driven [1]

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/27/analysis-trumps-faceb...
Toss your email into your profile, I'll drop you a line.
I worry that there may be currently unknown compatibility issues between donors and recipients, and that a recipient could be worse off after the wrong donation.
You hear a lot of "STOP SHOWING ME ADS ON _____. I'LL PAY FOR THIS. STOP TRACKING ME. I'D LOVE A PAID VERSION OF ______"

And every single time I laugh at how much those statements reek of privilege. It's always from people who live in the biggest, richest cities of the country and are usually white+young+have steady incomes.

If Facebook started offering ad-free versions, within a year it would become a website only for the SF/NY/London elite kids.

Imagine if these services were paid: Facebook = $40/month. Whatsapp = $30/mo, Instagram = $30/mo. Youtube = $30/mo. Google Search = $50/mo. Google Maps = $30/mo.

Sure, you're probably rich enough that you can afford a crazy amount to subscribe to every possible website. But the majority of the world cannot - and that's why ads are not just an unnecessary distraction but instead a necessary way to life on the Internet.
How Much of the Unobservable Universe Will We Someday Be Able to See?
couple hundred people I would otherwise have no contact with

Not being snarky, this is a genuine question - If you can't make the effort to email these people every other month or so, then do you really care that much about them? I can understand the difficulties in visiting in person, or even phone calls - many people don't like phone calls these days, but email/SMS? This sounds more like you have a passing curiosity about these people than genuinely caring about them
I don´t agree with the use of the word ~Potential~

It sounds ridiculous, in my opinion, like in a federal good wife´s court, your honor
But what if a larger percentage of boys want to code or take a STEM path? If this were so, it would look like a pipeline problem, and it would look like a pipeline problem that's quite hard to fix. It might actually look like the reality we currently see.

Why is that a problem? Why is it something to fix? Why do we want to achieve perfect 50% ratios on people's motivations and desires?

edit: typo
Obviously so. If you're into music/movies/arts you should come up with a crappier product. I hope you don't come up with tunes that are addictive and get people hooked to your music.

Same with sports teams: I hope they all play crappy so that people are not hooked onto them.

/s
Pretty much every search box you see on the Internet is a wrapper around Google or bing, with Yandex as a distant 3rd and a few country-specific engines in China, Russia, Korea, etc.
“Being a graduate student is like becoming all of the Seven Dwarves. In the beginning you’re Dopey and Bashful. In the middle, you are usually sick (Sneezy), tired (Sleepy), and irritable (Grumpy). But at the end, they call you Doc, and then you’re Happy.”

Maybe I'm suffering from effort justification. However, I believe I learned a great deal about the art and practice of study.
Although the number is shrinking, it's still a thing in Japan (so-called "ronpaku"). It is generally said that the thesis by a paper PhD must be better than those regular PhDs who completed courseworks, but it's much more efficient. If your thesis is already complete, you can get a degree in less than a year.
On-Call Nightmares Podcast – Episode 14 – JD Trask – Raygun
I closed my Facebook account around 2012, maybe even earlier. Recently I had to reactivate it (oh, and that's when I found out that Facebook never deleted my account). It still active but I simply don't use it. And I believe that's the best compromise for most people. It's still there, and if you need to lookup someone, for instance, just log in. Elsewise, just don't use it.
Lighting matters, and thus Daylight Saving Time matters. Could it be racist to make one choice or another for Daylight Saving Time?

Background matters. Should be use concrete roads or asphalt roads? Could that choice be racist?

Maybe we shouldn't go looking for racism everywhere and always assuming it exists.
Can you provide an example of a dangling reference of any type (not just a UAF) being exploitable for RCE in a managed language like Java, Rust, or Go?
The problem is this will straight up crash many important sites. In the battle between usability and privacy, usability wins. Just try disabling javascript or cookies and see how long you last.
Although now Reddit requires an email address for signup.
FB - LIFELOG (DARPA) canceled same day FB is formed - FEB 4 - 2014. LIFELOG team transfer -> FB. Building 8 - China. Zuck’s fairy tale - no more lies.
Yes I was trying not to specifically say baby boomers because I know even the oldest user on HN is very much not the type I was trying to refer to.

I meant the users like my 60 year old father who was recently "Facebook hacked" when he accidentally hit the "insert" button on his keyboard.
Spooking investors? Aren't they kind of past the point of needing to raise money, and onto the challenge of completing world domination?
It’s not a question of which types of testing are easier, it’s a question of which types of testing are necessary to guarantee the same level of coverage. If you’re testing functionality that crosses a service boundary, you need to do integration testing. If you’re testing functionality that exists within a single service, you can settle for unit tests.

In a monolithic architecture where your only service boundaries are frontend-to-backend and backend-to-datastore, you still need some integration testing but not a ton. If your backend is comprised of a network of microservices, you need to integration test all of those points and, most likely, all of the data access layers that each microservice has.
My SaaS company has a user group on Facebook. It has been great and allowed us to build a strong community among our customers.

And one of my goals for 2019 is to shut that group down and move the conversation into our app.
Google's a big place.
My favorite calculator was the PowerToy Calculator back in the Windows XP days.

Does anyone have a suggestion for a replace on Windows 10?
They'd actually somewhat recently taken steps to reduce the number of posts, and instead push advertisers to bid more for fewer impressions. If successful, this has the impact of getting them more revenue with a better UX since there are fewer ads and in theory higher-quality brand advertisers who can afford more for those impressions.
FUSE: Fusing STT-MRAM into GPUs to Alleviate Off-Chip Memory AccessOverheads
I have huge huge grips with tech news reporting. NYT/WaPo are reasonably decent usually. You should look at how unbalanced recent tech articles are:

Look at this horrendous article by Josh Constine: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/28/facebook-research-teens/

> "So 18 percent of research testers were teens. It was only less than 5 percent when Facebook got caught. "

Very very colloquial term plus hugely biased+loaded terms like 'caught' are being used. Even basic Journalistic standards are not being met.

This isn't a new article. That's an opinion piece (and I am not disagreeing with his facts but with how opinionated his presentation is).

There's a difference between "GSW lose to Celtics 129-95" and "Low energy GSW show disinterest in the game and get walloped by Celtics 129-95".

And Josh is one of the more popular tech 'journalists'. So you can imagine how problematic the whole industry is. There's no "news". There's just opinion pieces - all of which are from a single elite SF/NY/LA bubble
Open the code up then..
> A vulnerability, or vuln for short, is a bug that makes software go wrong in a way that reduces computer security.

So glad the article cleared that up.
Traditional news media gave the election to Hillary. And post-election they found it convenient to blame it all on Facebook.

Facebook certainly isn't influential enough to swing 20 points of an entire US Prez election all on its own (It obviously contribute though)
From God´s crowd, to the non biochem crowd...

kinda should eat coconut water and drink 1 little shot of sea water directly from the ocean , no bottles, no cups, no using your hands to drink the water, must imerse your head in the ocean water and drink the shot of sea water directly in the Ocean
On Resistive Memories: One Step Row ReadoutTechnique and Sensing Circuitry
You wont get too much traction with this format, specially with the allcaps :(.

Try writing an interesting blog post about a problem that can be solved with you cool project or an interesting blog post about a problem you solved to make your software, and drop "we need more collaborators" at the bottom of the log post.
Brian May, started 1970, submitted 2007. https://ewikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_May#Scientific_career

They may have made an exception.
Another view is that the root problem is every company.

"Root problem" seems to imply one central point of failure that, if only it were fixed, the issue would be resolved.

Instead it could be that every company converges based off whatever constraints having an Internet business at that level of scale requires, and this convergence happens independently from each another.

If that is the case, addressing the root cause would not look any different than addressing each company's business model separately, meaning that every company has to be individually at fault.
It's funny how we define terms like "front-end" and assume a specific meaning. A web browser is certainly the front of something.
RRAM Based Neuromorphic Algorithms
I never thought of using any service to generate a chart and this looks like it may come in handy in the future for me.

Glad that it is open source so people can self host it.
I took the Pytorch scholarship challenge this past December with Udacity. I couldn't make it to the nanodegree scholarship but the challenge course was really good in exposing me to the various facets of deep learning. The notebooks are free, but the videos really help explain some concepts well. For people who took the course, the videos are available for another year, so that helps.

I wanted to get a good grasp of DL but was floundering around before with so many sources and tutorials - and frameworks like Keras, Pytorch, TensorFlow etc. This course helped me make some decisions - like if I needed to get a developer's handle on DL, I would have to know Perceptrons, CNNs, RNNs, Style Transfer, Sentiment Prediction and GANs (even though GANs were not part of the course). And Pytorch would be my tool of choice.
It’s called a “sandwich thesis” and it’s quite common in some countries, mostly in Europe. Put together a few papers published in peer reviewed journals, write a introduction, and submit it for defense.
I hope they're not entitled to my late fees
The latest from Josh Constine: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/06/facebook-living-room/

"Perhaps this will just be more lip service in a time of PR crisis for Facebook."

"Now Facebook might finally see the dollar signs within privacy."

Shamefully opinionated comments again from Josh.
I was a bit confused about the talk about the maximum length of floating point constant that must be parsed, but a test case cleared it up... https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/blob/master/src/Common/test...

The (760-character) string should parse as the smallest positive denormal number, but if even 1 of the trailing digits of the mantissa is deleted, the number should correctly parse to the double precision floating point value 0.0 instead. However, there are many much shorter string representations of this number possible, such as '5e-324'.
That "award" ceremony video is both surreal and ridiculously cringe-inducing at the same time. It wouldn't surprise me if he actually felt like he had "achieved" something when he gave himself that award, either.

It was like you were watching his fantasy of what people would say about him if he was a productive member of society instead of a criminal and fraud.
Can't speak for everyone, but your second point is an easy one for me. If I were drafted, in any remotely realistic circumstance I would go.

And military research is a result of war or potential war. And if you want to deny the lack of the military's influence in human flight, I'm not even sure what to say to that. Aircraft were adopted by militaries around the world as soon as they were viable. And military observation balloons go back to the 18th century. The military may not have invented human flight, but they funded a crap ton of it.
Can One Design a Series of Brains for Neuromorphic Comp to Solve Complexity? [pdf]
> The RPC service has two methods and that is the only way _anything_ can interact with the real service, so faking out those two RPC calls let you write focused tests easily.

Except now you have to cover cases like “the service is down”, “the service is too latent”, “the actual outputs from the service differ from the documentation”, “the service is behind a reverse proxy that mutates headers in a surprising way”, “you are behind a reverse proxy that mutates headers in a surprising way”, etc.
I think I saw an article... I did I did see an article!!

> Sight-Unseen in 2017: 35% of Home buyers Bid on a Home Before Seeing it in Person

https://www.redfin.com/blog/2018/02/sight-unseen-in-2017.htm...

I've seen hundreds of home photo's on real estate sites. Almost all of them are heavily edited.

Tip: Get the disclosures before looking at the house. And also understand disclosures are to protect the seller not you.

Tip: Put your bid at the last minute and check disclosures right before. I've seen realtors drop bad news at 11pm Sunday with bids due 8am Monday.