skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We preach that curl | sh is evil because of a potential lack of
transparency but rarely does anyone denounce the evils of binary
packages.

This is "Freedom 1"[1] and a bedrock principle of the FSF.[2] Applebaum recently gave a talk "Free Software for Freedom Surveilance and You" about the evils of binary packages.[3]

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

[2] Free Software is Even More Important Now: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-impor...

[3] https://media.libreplanet.org/u/zakkai/m/free-software-for-f...
curl won't buffer the entire stream, since that would be silly, so if it is a big enough response then curl will have already passed parts of it along to the shell through the pipe.

Is this likely to cause a catastrophic failure? No. Is it possible? Absolutely.
Very good point: while it is common sense and true that exercise reduces ADHD, it is also common sense (but not true!) to say that sun revolves around the earth or that, in a vacuum, a feather will hit the ground after a large ball of lead.

Much of Quantum Mechanics is also counter intuitive but true, while some scientific concepts can only be expressed through mathematics and have no simple intuitive explanation.
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Because they just upgraded to xcode 6.
Given how China is able to completely hide the protests inside the mainland, I fear for how this is going to end, because they can hide that too.

I mean who really is going to come to their defense, look how everyone immediately abandoned Ukraine.
> They were always looking for a way to do this to you, all that's changed is that they've figured out how.

And that's why things start to suck. What they way "always looking to do" to us is bad, but we had a period of happiness when they couldn't effectively implement their vision.
All your pictures are belong to us.

(From p. 117 of the EULA: (http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/legal/licens...)
"All rights not expressly granted are reserved by Adobe
and its suppliers.)
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Maybe it can predict which Microsoft lab will be closed next? ;-)
Next stop, automatic dog food opener!
If you enjoyed this, I highly recommend Mikito Takada's "Distributed systems for fun and profit" http://book.mixu.net/distsys

The "Partition-tolerant consensus algorithms: Paxos, Raft, ZAB" section is relevant, along with the "Further Reading" which follows it.
Ketamine will be popular. Right now they have ongoing medical studies trying to determine it's efficacy. You
need to infuse the drug, so it's a hard core drug, but
in terms of preventing someone from committing suicide
the drug shows promise. (I'm not condoning it, just passing
along what Psychaiary is talking about amount themselfs--other than stock picks.)
What kind of time granularity can you get for health checks on ELB vs Route 53?
If the authorities sought to disrupt these networks, would it not be possible to jam Bluetooth (and Wi-Fi) signals within a certain area?
It isn't unoffical anymore. For bash3.2, which seems to be what apple is distributing, that patch is ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-3.2-patches/bash32-054
I was going to read this but it's a PDF.
>I don't know why you were using their software in the first place

Who says I'm concerned about myself here? Maybe I'm concerned about other people, especially those with less technical understanding who don't fully appreciate what it means for all their files to be locked away on a cloud server.

>They were always looking for a way to do this to you

So we can't complain when bad people do bad things now? Also, I was replying to a post that was celebrating this as the future of all software (and democracy and human knowledge in general it seemed).
Consumer reports needs to be called out for misleading people. Its painfully obvious that they were paid off, probably by Apple or their investors, to release this bogus study where they dont even bend it at the weak point, giving ammo to all the fanbois for them to defend against this issue.
And what if my bash has been moved?
The US also has restrictions on 'free speech'. It's strange that the US is so passionate about protecting hate speech, but is similar to other places when it comes to libel or slander (which are similar to hate speech, in that they're about defamation). Similarly things like Free Speech Zones: 'you can say what you want, but you aren't allowed to say it in this public space'. There are a lot of nuances to 'free speech', it's not the black-and-white affair that many say it is.
Well he was talking about the 1970s...
Disclaimer: I don't know Haskell.

But I did read the article - do I understand correctly that lenses are more or less equivalent to the Common Lisp getf constructs?
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>Your fake names are a false choice

Yes, they are certainly hyperbolic. But the idea was to make the point that longer is not better. If a variable has a short scope, you do not need to constantly be reminded what it is. If a variable is very general, a very general name is fine. Generally haskellers consider names like 's' and 'x' and 'i' to be very good names. Code is generally optimized for being read by people who know the language, not by people who are unfamiliar with it.
In my experience, the corrective upvotes happen without calling out that the downvotes are happening.
I don't get it. Why would you think about moving just because you can't wash your car or water your lawn for a couple of months?
I believe the basic idea dates to the Rice architecture of the late 1950s and 1960s [1]. Although there it wasn't just a programming language implementation technique, but a proposal conceived as a full-on alternative to the Von Neumann architecture [2].

Tagged values as a programming-language implementation technique do seem to take off more towards the early 1970s, though, with the ex-MIT team that would produce the Lisp Machine, and the Xerox team that would produce Smalltalk, both using tagged values prominently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_Institute_Computer

[2] A somewhat later (1973) paper referenced above: http://www.feustel.us/Feustel%20&%20Associates/Advantages.pd...
Wait who abandoned Ukraine?
In quite a lot of asia.
> If there is an issue with a collector, Route 53 automatically takes it out of the service; our customers won’t see any impact.

Except when for example rsyslog caches DNS resolution forever. Or the log forwarded doesn't have a buffer and logs get lost.
So, that's not Tor being exploited, that's just a Firefox bug that was used to get at Tor users because they're more interesting targets. It wasn't a case of JavaScript making Tor less private or less secure except in that it was JavaScript making everything less private and secure, and Tor doesn't protect you from that because Tor isn't a security tool.
It would have collateral effects (disabling all wireless activity in the area of jamming), but it's absolutely possible.
I've laughed a lot by looking at the achievements I've unlocked with my Git repos using Acha: https://clojurecup.com/?#/apps/acha ... My submission to ClojureCup was a simple feeds reader: https://clojurecup.com/?#/apps/friendly
'Anti-Facebook' platform Ello attracts thousands
“Your stock options will be worth more here than elsewhere.” “You’ll get to work with the smartest people in the world.” “You can help solve the world’s most challenging problems.”

I should make a catchphrase bingo sheet and bring it to interviews.
100% possible and at reasonably low cost.
>Amazon Route 53 DNS Round Robin Was a Win

>If you’ve ever used the Internet, you’ve used the Domain Name System, or DNS, weather you realize it or not.

Interesting article, wrong weather used in this sentence.
Siren Song of Deep Learning and AI
Recently a number of investments in Deep Learning space raised hopes of delivery of AI products with human like performance in near future. Dharmendra Modha, in charge of IBM’s Synapse “neuromorphic” chips claims that IBM “will deliver computer equivalent of human brain” by 2018. I have heard echo of this claim in statements of virtually all recently funded AI and Deep Learning companies. While some progress in speech processing and image recognition will be made, it will not be sufficient to justify lofty valuations of recent funding events.

Symbol based computing technologies, including point-to-point “deep” neural networks can not possibly deliver on claims made by many of these well funded Deep Learning labs and startups. Here are just three of the reasons:

1. Every single innovation in evolution of vertebrate brains was due to advances in organism locomotion, and none of the new formations indicate the emergence of symbol processing in cortex.

2.Human intelligence is a product of resonating, coupled electric fields produced by massive population of neurons, synapses and ion channels of cortex resulting in dynamic, AM modulated waves in gamma and beta range, not static point-to-point neural networks.

3. Human memories are formed in hippocampus via “phase precession” theta waves which transform time events into spatial domain without use of symbols like time stamps.

Each of the above three empirical findings invalidates AI’s symbolic, computation approach. “Artificially Intelligent” computers will certainly not appear in next 20-30 years, what market needs today and tomorrow are “mobile assistants” augmenting human memory and intelligence, which will be delivered by rapid advances in wearable sensors and neuromorphic chips operating under control of real neural science, not AI.

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What kind of TTL value would they use for these records? Should something happen to one of the collectors, couldn't that value still be cached by an endpoint or an intermediary?

Even with a short TTL, are there still servers out there that don't respect all TTLs, or has that been eliminated by now?
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Neural networks have their place, but are probably the most complicated and opaque machine learning tool. They are also hard to set up: so many parameters! Given that, I found it really strange that they went straight for a neural network (and then implemented one themselves!). Surely the place to start would be Naive Bayes, followed up with regularized logistic regression (through something like glmnet). Heck, even random forests would do quite well on this task I imagine, although thats getting closer to on the complexity and opaqueness spectrum towards NN.

There is also no evidence of doing cross-validation, and in another comment they say they used entire data set to do variable selection - a pretty bad mistake. They justify by saying they aren't in an academic environment, but thats kind of a bad excuse, as given the way they've done it I'm very unsure whether they actually are getting the accuracy they think they are.

I also worry that they sunk two man-months into this when they could probably have achieved similar if not better results with off-the-shelf and battled-tested tools. Sets off a lot of warning bells.
What are the ethics of sharing things you see on Hacker News on social?
What's the proper/preferred way (or is there one) of giving credit to Hacker News community when you find something interesting here and want to share it on social?

I often say things like "via Hacker News."

Are you giving credit to this site/community? Is that necessary, you think? Do you tag @newsycombinator when sharing what you saw here on Twitter?

Just had this question come to me out of blue right now. I like to give credit where it's due whenever possible. If I see a friend share something interesting on Facebook - I try to tag them if I want to share that same thing on Twitter, etc.
In these deep relu networks which are not renormalized in between, (like overfeat which has no normalization), some of the activations become pretty big in size! (in the order of 1e3).

You also cant clip them and get away with it, you have to either renormalize the layers to do half-precision (and live with the extra cost) or stick to full-precision. I was doing fun stuff early this year that did fixed-precision nets (8-bit/16-bit). Things get very interesting :)
getDirectoryContents "/home/cody" >>= print

Bind a function which gets the contents of my system tmp directory to a function which takes anything and returns a monad, then return the evaluated monadic result.
I would love to see a statistical analysis of this. :)
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It seems odd to leave off any discussion about DNS TTLs, and the risk that something like 8.8.8.8 could end up sending them a thundering herd.
That is probably the weakest Godwin-ing of a thread I've ever seen. Eliminating an unthinking species for good reasons is no no way morally equivalent to massacring an ethnicity for no particular reason.
>"Full SSL" is still useless against an advanced attacker as it does absolutely nothing to prevent MITM.

I wouldn't say this is entirely useless, even if there is still risk. Someone can impersonate your site to Cloudflare's reverse proxy server if they control the medium between, but they can't just get instant plaintext. This adds an additional barrier for an intruder into Cloudflare's network: they'd have to not only tap all traffic, but inject their own self-signed cert as well. This increases the chances of Cloudflare discovering the intrusion.

I agree though that a pinning solution of some kind would be preferable.
Oops, you're right. That was a vestigial step for when I was filtering the list by some standard (e.g. less/greater than certain number of followers) and then unfollowing.
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I wouldn't use ZoL either -- I read that mailing list for quite awhile too, and skimmed most of the issues on GitHub. As of about six months ago, lockups were too frequent for my taste. All the implementations are improving though and the OpenZFS movement is promising. A caution here too: if you use ZFS, all implementations are not equal, you'll need to research the specifics for each platform on which you intend to use it; and the compatibility [with other implementations] if you want to move the file system [to a different platform]. If I was rolling out ZFS, I'd only use it on Illumos/OpenIndiana (vs., say ZoL).

I have been waiting and watching for a long time for most of these "new" filesystem features (pools, fs-level RAID, checksums, send/receive), but I am a "filesystem conservative" (especially in production; less so on my own machines) -- I'll keep waiting awhile longer. On production Linux today, I stay with EXT4 or XFS.
> For an example see, any centrally planned economy, ever.

We're pretty centrally planned here in Denmark, and it works well. :)

The key is to centrally plan infrastructure, but not everything. Electricity, healthcare, heating, oil/gas production, transport, education, and other basic infrastructure is mainly centrally planned, but plenty of the economy isn't. Things are also not always centrally operated (transit is usually bid out to private companies to operate), but infrastructure, energy, and other common resources are generally centrally planned. I think overall this produces results that are less chaotic and short-term-profit-maximizing, and more sensible.

Central planners can also use market mechanisms where appropriate, so planning and markets aren't exclusive. For example, the university system is 100% public and generally rationally planned, but there are also market mechanisms within it that reallocate funds based on various metrics, such as tying # of admissions slots in various fields to employment outcomes. I don't think it's perfect, but I strongly suspect a laissez-faire market would produce worse outcomes.

(You do, of course, also need a functioning civil society, so that the planning isn't abysmally stupid, but that is basically a prerequisite for democracy to work at all.)
With the power-draw of those things, I think it would be a little tricky in the short term for tablets (and even harder for phones)
"Some see the technology as a potential new channel for targeted promotions or advertising."

A fair amount of the article is devoted to the potential for advertising, tracking and 'user experience' - which often equates to 'we will encourage you to buy something'.

I hope this feature has an 'off' switch or a set of granular user preferences.
Right, the Tor browser bundle was exploited. The context of this thread is browser usage of Tor.
The iOS8 WiFi probe MAC randomization implementation is quite flawed in that it's enabled only when you have location services off AND cellular data turned off! [0]

[0]http://blog.airtightnetworks.com/ios8-mac-randomgate/
Your Wikipedia link says there are over 1,400 named dams in California (and presumably more unnamed ones). But the list you are reading from contains less than 250 of them, so you are probably under-counting.

A thousand dams and reservoirs sounds to me like an awful lot already.
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I think you're over-thinking it. This is all just marketing hype and when someone says deep learning and AI you can just substitute automated data mining without loss of generality. Automated data mining doesn't sound as sexy and so the marketing departments are not presenting it that way.
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> Why would I live then?

That's my point. There is no why. You don't need a why. You do live.
Awesome. We also need a repository of things that can be built solely with parts from the library. (ie "The 10 watt CPL boost regulator" etc).
If I understand na85 correctly, they are suggesting that the terminal model of chrome books requires decent internet and thus increases the barrier to entry. I agree with you that Chromebooks lower the barrier to entry because hardware cost is too big of a factor (and many things still work offline).
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Still, the CR test doesn't properly reproduce either situation. Pressing the 6+ in the middle doesn't let you draw conclusions about how it will behave when pressed in the weak point under the camera or when placed inside skinny jeans' pockets.

Also, that test indeed shows the newer phones are structurally weaker than the 5, at any rate. The iPhone 6 can barely sustain half the pressure as the previous model...
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Don't forget that you can't even copy and paste a url safely, because there might be hidden text halfway through.
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But if there's no newline or EOF until the pipe breaks...
How does this work regardless? Isn't route53 a DNS system? How does it know whether a service went up/down?

EDIT: To reply to myself
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/hea...
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/APIReference/API_C...
Looks really awesome. Why is it typically so expensive to incorporate and more importantly, how have you made it so cheap?

Also, for companies that are LLC's, can they still use this to convert?
Glad you're enjoying it! Great idea about the date searching, we've added it to our list of work.
There's an argument for ADHD being over-diagnosed, but your sentiment trivializes the issues that can prevent people like me from attaining a better quality of life. I was about 23 by the time I got treated for ADHD. I often wonder how different my trajectory as an adult might have been had I been treated while I was still in high school. I got abysmal grades -- just barely graduating, in fact -- and I dropped out of college rather quickly. I beat myself up on account of my failures, over which in hindsight I had very little control.

Amphetamines are no panacea. I don't truly know what I'm doing to my heart and brain in the long term, anorexia is a constant concern, and coming down from what I would describe as a 6-hour high can be devastating to my mood, but they overall they improved my quality of life and facilitated me attaining a career as a software developer. Perhaps more exercise would be just as effective as a treatment, but knowing that I had a legitimate problem was crucial.
Surely you must understand that the intersection of people that want to run graphical manipulation software and have the time and expertise to work on the GIMP codebase is rather small?

Sure, the Steve Wozniaks of the world have always had the ability to write their own GIMP plugins or whatever, and you're right: that hasn't changed.

But there were a few decades there where the rest of the world could actually own commercial software, and that had a lot of upsides. Those days are drawing to a close.

(Yes, I know that EULAs attempted to "license" software to you instead of truly letting you own the software. But for all practical purposes, you did at least own it to the extent that it would continue to work even if the software vendor's servers went down, or they decided they didn't like you using their software, or your government decided they didn't like you using the software vendor's software, or whatever.)
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Interesting "growth hack" there.
> The result is 89 terms which have the same meaning in a conversation (unless your votes/comments say otherwise). And that doesn’t even consider whether to say someting[sic] is O(n²), has O(n²), or is of O(n²).

That has more to do with how the rest of the sentence is constructed, and to some extent the selection of pronunciation of O(n²). e.g., selecting "order n-squared" makes "is of" the natural choice, while "big-oh n-squared" is less grammatically awkward with "is" (arguably, the former example could be "of order n-squared", in which case "is of" is not actually different from "is"). To completely disambiguate, one should specify what the growth is in respect to: time, space, or something else. For example "In the worst case, quicksort is oh of n-squared with respect to time." "Has" should be reserved for when using O(n²) as an adjective, e.g. "Quicksort normally has oh of n log n growth in time."
The Moto X.
So basically you can get PR after just 2 years? That's amazing!
And here is the modern version:

http://defense-update.com/products/u/UCS.htm

With nice rugged panels and controls. Comfy chairs. Some places require wearing a full flight suit. To make the job more official, of course.

Exacting King's (i.e. Obama's) merciful justice in all corners of the earth by day, leaving from Langley, VA to pick up kids from soccer in the evening.
>disabling all wireless activity in the area of jamming

Only on the jammed frequencies. Police radios and such will keep working.
Example: I needed to make a circuit with a logarithmic response to voltage that ran off single rail +5vDC. I needed about 200 copies of this configuration. I chose a low VCC rail-to-rail single-source op-amp from Digi-key. Twice. Both got EOL'd and impossible to get between the time I got my prototype done and the time I was ready to order in quantity.

Many ICs are produced for specific purposes for a short time and are never made again. As a "pro-am", its hard to navigate this part of the supply chain. Ostensibly a common part library would have smart people looking to make sure that a part remained source-able in the long term. If the idea became big enough, the CPL would cause these chosen parts to be so.
There is a rather large technical divide between 'no logs left behind' and relying on DNS lookup to provide that guarantee.
> Just use free (as in freedom) software instead.

If the last several decades have shown us anything, it's that the free software movement is excellent at creating some kinds of software (operating systems, development tolls, severs) and generally pretty bad at many other kinds of software (games, content creation software, etc).