skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people think I'm talking about "how well people can learn new things" when I talk about this. That's potentially a part of it, but it's not what I interviewed for. I interviewed for, literally, simply, "ability to do the job we had Matasano consultants perform".

Microcorruption and the Crypto Challenges were outreach for Matasano, but they were not part of the hiring process. Our hiring challenges were slightly more boring, and explicitly tuned to generate the exact signal we wanted.

I don't know whether there's any valid signal to recover from candidate psychology. I don't have to reach that argument, because in my universe, there's a giant, very accurate signal available that makes looking at other signals a poor use of my time. The fact that the big signal also keeps me from using dubious signals and making bad decisions is just a knock-on benefit. :)
I think it would actually happen a lot.

Maybe not on our daily lives, so I don't think (I hope..) there will not be wide spread panic. Maybe a few groups here and there but nothing we've never seen before.

What I would expect though, and I consider this a big deal, is the potential for humans to start answering one of life's most intriguing questions: are we, or are we not alone in this Universe? Like Clarke famously said, both alternatives are pretty scary.

So at least I would hope people would start pressuring governments to actually go there and make contact. As a lot of other people say, humans seem to be explorers by nature.

However there's the other fact that someone else posted. Probably this would not be know at first, so it's harder to gauge with that factor. I don't think NASA/Gov would release this info right away, but I do think if this info is ever released, it would make the world change a lot. Maybe not immediately, but for sure on the mid-to-long term.
>A certain phenomenon of consciousness is demonstrated to be fully represented as a computational process using a quantum computer. Based on the computability criterion discussed with Turing machines, the model constructed is shown to necessarily involve a non-computable element.

So, the universe contains uncomputable physics?

Some aspect of quantum computing is uncomputable (beyond mere exponential slowdown in a classical simulation)?

Edit: those two claims are at least as interesting as anything about consciousness, but much more amenable to further study!
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I think its good having this kind of thread at some period of time.

Previous posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8561842
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7957989
The idea here is that you know you are in your final days, so coming back to life for a few more hours or days isn't ideal. What you want is to be frozen as close to the time as you are pronounced dead (and preferable pronounced dead as quickly as possible).
The penultimate line of the article negates the headline.

> When I carped about all this art disappearing forever after auction, she said, in a tone that was distinctly silly boy, "A lot of it will be back here next season."

Where 'she' is an art expert and employee of the auction house handling the sale.
I'm really enjoying listening to you on the podcast - I want you to succeed and I know many others do to. Keep your head up high and keep at it.

Is sexism a problem in tech and venture capital? YES. But don't focus on it and don't let it stop you. So you've gotten lots of rejections. If something isn't working change your strategy. You don't have to raise money to build an awesome company. If you are out of cash take on part time jobs but don't give up.

This line really concerns me:

"You need tens of thousands of users to prove what we’re trying to prove, and it acquiring users in this space is very costly"

Any business is about math. What's your lifetime value of your user? What does it cost to acquire them? Do do you do it cost effectively at scale?
This person's purpose is to store the patient/client's brain in cold storage in the hope that future technology will allow the personality to be recovered. Their job starts after people are clinically dead. Struggling through reviving someone might cause more damage to the brain compared to the anesthetic approach.
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Like those people called France with a France flag image :)
Right. The paper also only takes a few seconds to identify as bullshit: rather than having any claims whatsoever about biology or how the human brain in particular depends on quantum behavior, it just takes the Copenhagen-interpretation concept of "observer" over-literally.

While others may have more credible claims that the brain's operation depends on quantum behavior, my inclination is to be highly skeptical due to the basic nature of biology combined with the bias you cite.
The paper relies implicitly on the Von Neumann-Wigner interpretation of quantum physics, which has consciousness as an assumption. So the paper is part of a circle argument. [1]

On top of that, this interpretation is very controversial to say the least. In most interpretations, the role of the 'observer' is left in the middle, as there is no good reason to assume it should be conscious.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Wigner_inte...
Resolution independence is nice. Has Microsoft figured out how to scale legacy apps on HiDPI displays for Windows 10? I found Windows 8.1 unusable on my Retina MacBook Pro because so many apps didn't use the new fonts/rendering framework (even many built-in Windows tools like the MMC) and text was therefore horribly disfigured. I don't have such problems with any applications anymore on OS X.
Interesting - we have a small team but it's already a pain adding everyone's keys to each server and rotation would be a pain.

My first concern is - how does this work? If you are generating new keys, does that mean you could SSH into my servers if you were compromised?
Having done much with districts in the past, I observed the same push to collect data and then make use of it in the classroom and at the district level. In the districts I encountered, there was plenty of data collection and there were even some basic reports each system might provide, but beyond that, very little thought went into `what to do with this data to turn it into actionable knowledge`. Districts would blindly throw hundreds of thousands of dollars at the problem of data collection with very little, and often none, at the actual analysis portion of the problem.

Districts often face even more fundamental problems, such as each software system being a silo to it's own data and being very hard to cross reference with other systems. SISes, LMSes, HR, and dozens of smaller systems existing in their own world. Many questions one might want to pose needs data from two or three of these. So, questions like `is Steve a much more pronounced risk of dropping out of high school` are hard/impossible to ask (depends on the software systems and data collection practices).
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Well, I'm just an outsider, but I seem to be seeing things like this more frequently with regards to the larger European countries:

http://news.yahoo.com/germany-grapples-rise-anti-foreigner-m...

Edit--video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZFmnz4ROEo
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So who's working on the AI that will punish anyone for creating Roko's basilisk, removing the motivation for creating Roko's basilisk in the first place?
Descriptively, scan through the slots in order, stacking reds up on the left, and blues up on the right, leaving greens in the middle. You only need to remember how many reds & blues you've stacked up.

Programmatically:

LastRed = -1, LastBlue = numSlots

- If the observed ball is red, swap with ++LastRed. Move the observing arm forward, as you've already observed the one swapped in.

- If the observed ball is blue, swap with --LastBlue.

- If the observed ball is green, leave it there. It might get swapped with a red later as LastRed grows. Move the observing arm forward.

If the observing arm is at LastBlue, we're done.

Loop.
Do you have any more info on the ELVIS joint project? This is the only mention I've been able to find: http://articles.latimes.com/1993-03-17/business/fi-11913_1_n... The announcement is dated over a year after the dissolution of the USSR.
Disclaimer: Committer on this library. We actually built canova[1] for unstructured data. Docs aren't quite there yet but I'd love to float the concept out there for people to get feedback on.

In ML we like to term this as vectorization rather than pipelining. Same idea though.

Many libraries like binding the ML with the feature vector transformations. Our goal was to isolate this process in to something composable.

General idea is file -> feature vector/matrix

[1]: https://github.com/deeplearning4j/Canova
I am not sure my loved ones would allow me to add 39,990 speakers to the already-intrusive 10 around the living room in order to achieve ambisonic excellence. I do not completely agree with them, although your suggested approach sounds like it might work better in the basement where I have more room and fewer shared furnishings to negotiate over. And though my days of ruling the clubs are far behind, I would gladly spend the night at one that offered rotating 3D sound fields, as you propose.

As for re-implementing the Behringer in code, I don’t think there are any significant technical barriers for a modern PC, or even a high-end mobile device. I have not used Pure Data, but if it’s adequately performant it looks like a fine platform from which to start.

My original plan was to execute the room response mapping with REW (Room Equalization Wizard) on my PC. Then I would hard-code a set of appropriate digital filters into a software plug-in that I could attach to a digital audio I/O board in a PC or equivalent. That filter system could run headless after that, since all the human interaction ends with REW.

The sorry part for my project was realizing I had (at least in part) to dedicate a general-purpose computer to a single minor use. I gave up designing this system in code when I knew I would it meant yet another little PC with suitable digital audio input / output hardware, built to sit up behind the television with all the other gear that gets turned on whenever a game, movie, or song is needed. But my weakness need not be your own.

More power to you in your future endeavors! I look forward to visiting your place once you've got your project up and running.
Police and Government should be two different entities, but if you're living in a police state then you're probably right.

Otherwise, what Google could do is, say, record your dangerous driving (maybe that one time you were rushing a friend to hospital and ignored some speed limits). And then, every time a potential employer googled your name, they would see this "dangerous driver" notification. And you have no way of removing this, there's no statute of limitations, there's no way to correct it. For the rest of your life, that's the first result anyone sees when looking up who you are.

That's what Google could do.
I'm not entirely sure just how much Larry can do - it's really the 2% of the island that's state owned that includes the public roads.

Hawaii in general seems like a great place to start a lot of "infrastructure 2.0" (if I may carelessly make up a term) projects geographically, but the logistics are tough because so much of the population is desperately poor, there's already a lot of class/ethnic tension and to top it all off, local government is a mess.
Yes, if the Airbnb hosts rents out additional rooms. Now those rooms have additional cars where without those renters, only the owner would have one (or two) cars.
Qualcomm Hexagon DSPs have "instruction packets" that have hardware loop support.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Hexagon#Code_sample
Better than nothing....

The main point is that it makes a clear punishment for the company; so that others think before doing it themselves.
If the cost of loosing the case is high enough, all manufacturers will learn to be cautious about including 3rd party software on their laptops.
StartSSL also provide free certificate : https://www.startssl.com/

You might also want to use http://www.cacert.org/

and don't forget https://letsencrypt.org/

If you have budget and want to use for multiple sub domains you might want to buy wildcard certificate which can be used to secure *.domain.com.

Domain validated certificate is good for security. having a organization validated or extended validation certificate will not improve your security.
I'm going to assume that just taking a high-res scan of the thing and making prints would actually miss something of the original. Maybe there's artistic merit in how the thickened wodges of paint in each brush-stroke glisten as you move around the room; perhaps educational value in the particular refractive indices of the paint in demonstrating how to paint that way.

My question is, then: if not a flat 2D scan, what would be enough to capture everything relevant to the structural identity of the work? Could we, say, take a 3D scan of the surface, combine it with a spectrographic analysis of all the relevant oils, mix up some of the same oils in their old styles, and then 3D-print those oils onto canvas to create an exact replica? Would that be enough to alleviate the author's ennui?
I hitchhiked over 30,000km in the last few years in many countries of Europe and Asia. I would claim that people have usually gross misconceptions of the risks. It is of course very dependent of who and where you are and which techniques you use, but I would say that the risks involved are on par or rather much less than traffic accidents. Western Europe countries tend to be slightly harder because the people are more afraid, and as I'm kind of sick of these societies rooted in fear I don't think I would want to go to the US. Besides, at least in Europe and Asia, hitchhiking works everywhere if you know how to do it, and it's a more fulfilling way of travelling than anything else I've done.
Yes it is, which is why it's a good idea. Such a good idea, in fact, that OpenSSH security in practice relies on it!

It still won't stop someone who really wants to compromise you, which means that you still will need to trust CAs from time to time.
I worked at a large public 3PL for 8 years before joining a VC backed startup and at first glance the logistics industry seems ripe for disruption by smaller tech-driven companies. I'm super excited that there are companies out there trying to change the industry. My gut feeling however is that the large incumbents have long relationships, tons of cash, and people on the ground in hundreds of countries around the world. Those things might make it difficult for a startup. How do companies like flexport plan to compete with the Expeditors and CH Robinson's of the world? The place I worked would probably benefit greatly by acquiring a company like this and integrating their tech, but the culture would never allow that to happen.
Does anyone know of a good data modeling course like this? I understand SQL, but I think I could still improve at data modeling.
I've never heard "crapware" "junkware" or "bloatware", definitely not "third party pre installed software".

Everybody, included non technically literate people call this spyware. This is where names like "spybot search and destroy" come from.
It is not "stupid", it is simple and effective. I use the blacklist process to exclude disposable email domains (there are 100s of them and everyday new ones come up) from registering on my service. It is much faster and inexpensive than making a round trip API call to some remote service to confirm validity of the email domain.

Unless you don't have better things to do with your time, I will suggest focusing your time on things that are more important.
Hi Jordan,

We are essentially acting as an easy-to-use, "client focused", Certificate Authority for SSH and X.509.

So, in the simplest threat model, yes, if our hosted SaaS version is compromised, your infrastructure is threatened. We believe many of our larger customers will adopt an "on premise" style deployment for this and other reasons -- doing this on premise is not very different than their threat model for a central LDAP server or other identity provider many have today.

Having said that, we are incorporating all the best practices you would see in a CA for other purposes, and believe for some segments this is a viable and major improvement over their current security practices.
Looks nice, at least for on-premises deployment of service. Will there be source available for client?
What is your opinion on DNScrypt? As far as I've seen it is somewhat the Yin to DNSSEC's Yang.
Moreover, why do we think that this process would happen in meatspace? Distinction between on-line and off-line is getting increasingly meaningless anyway. People now mostly communicate on-line, mostly get their news on-line, so it stands to reason they'd behave exactly as they do now, only with worse consequences.
The number that people drive isn't important, what's important is the accident rate: do humans get into enough minor accidents over 1.7m vehicle-miles that 14 is clearly bigger or smaller? Your answer is going to be driven almost entirely by what human-rate you select.

For example, if I use https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operating/osss/highway/acci... , then I see that most of the quoted accident-rates are 1.8-3.29 per million miles. If I use a rate of 2.2/1m and use the simple binomial approach of x events per million miles, then the self-driving cars are statistically-significantly higher accident rates (since 14>3.74, and `binom.test(14, 1700000, p=(2.2/1000000)) ~> _p_=3.778543e-05`).

But what kinds of accidents are those? If I instead look at https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operating/osss/highway/acci... and look at "Property Damage Only" accident-rates, it seems the human rate per million mile is more like 65-85. Now, unsurprisingly, the robots look superior (14<110, `binom.test(14, 1700000, p=(65/1000000)) ~> _p_=2.2204e-16`).

And if you try to argue apples and apples and use fatal accidents from the same source, noting a range of 0-1.33 fatal accidents per million miles, and 0 fatalities due to the robots' 1.7m so far then the difference is unclear (0<0.85 but `binom.test(0, 1700000, p=(0.5/1000000)) ~> _p_=1`) because the usual tests don't like 0-counts and the robots have not driven enough to clearly distinguish themselves from normal human rates.
> This method is really inefficient.

That's what I've noticed with Haskellers. They have a tendency to write really slow code and don't have a clear idea of the execution model behind what they write down.

A while ago I asked in #haskell for translations into Haskell of the following C++ code:

http://codepad.org/sQTXhqC2

This should be easy. The algorithm is right in front of you. There should not be a lot of thinking in transcribing an algorithm into Haskell. But most of them wrote down something with a fold which turned what is an O(m*n) algorithm in time and O(n) in space into something like O(m^n) in space and time. The only one who got close to the C++ implementation was one who used a lot of State monads.

Then, of course, there was someone who pointed me out to a radically different algorithm written in Haskell that I think is only O(n+m) in both space and time. I haven't been able to understand this other algorithm yet.
Now to find a cost heuristic for thoughts so A-star thinking can be applied.
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Microsoft is sure that this is the future though - one operating system, one set of applications, multiple UI experiences depending on input and screen size. I think they're right, and would love to be able to dock my phone and have it operate seamlessly as a full desktop with a monitor and M+K.

They just need to get the UX right, which they got way, way wrong with Windows 8. Luckily they have so much inertia in the desktop market that at this point it didn't cost them too much.
It irks me whenever something trying to clarify CAP insists that you can't choose CA. You can. In the real world you can't avoid partitions, but you don't have to tolerate them.

The rule for Availability is that non-failing nodes must respond. If you detect a partition, you can fail the node. Make a system that shuts down when it loses a connection and you can be CA.
Oh no, you misread what I wrote. I was comparing your tirade to diarrhea. As in, "I think your words are shit".

Sorry for the mixup! Take care!
Reddit is actually quite a complex ecosystem nowadays. There's a lot of HN-quality subreddits focused on particular topics. I'd risk saying that most topical subreddits are sort-of OK. The rule of thumb I'm seeing is: the more niche the interest, the better the community. It's only when you start dealing with "normals" that you see the worst parts of humanity.
The common syphilis test looks for antibodies that are produced in response to the bacteria. However, the body may produce those antibodies (on a continuing basis) for other reasons. If you find these antibodies the first time in a given person, you'll keep finding them when you re-test.
I would say the psychological riddle is why people feel an urge to personally invest themselves in this issue.
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For those curious, there's also BlockchainID (something I've worked on):

https://github.com/okTurtles/blockchainid

And BitAuth:

https://github.com/bitpay/bitauth
I agree, I think your time would be better spent forming and running a company of your own (and generating taxable income and jobs for Nepal) rather than policing others. I just don't see what's in it for you.
Nasdaq launches enterprise-wide blockchain initiative
Features built or under consideration [0]

[0] http://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/
FYI this news is creating excitement in the Bitcoin community because Dr. Ed Felten is a notable Bitcoin researcher and advocate: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-researcher-ed-felten-white-h...
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> Because the observables correspond
to the reference frame of the observer and they exist in the complex Hilbert
space, it must be concluded that, unlike reference frames in classical physics,
quantum observables correspond to an observer’s reference frame in thought.

The whole argument rests on this sentence, which is just pure nonsense. There's nothing about Hilbert spaces that has anything to do with conscious thought; the conclusion is a complete non sequitur. The context of the sentence doesn't add anything to support such a notion, either.

This is just another in a long line of people putting way too much stock in the very unfortunate choice of the word "observation" as used in QM.
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Mobile developer who uses existing APIs ?
I'm pretty sure that Sony wouldn't like Microsoft to find out about their super secret PS4 sdk, as after all, they are direct competitors. So you can't seek Microsoft's help for something that happens with Sony's super secret PS4 sdk.

Or am I missing something?
Maybe I'm just oversensitive or not modern enough. But the way cities look these days e.g. around football (soccer) games scares the shit out of me. A black-red-gold sea of flags. In Germany. Brr.

Less trivial, but Germany is one of the major forces controlling EU's border policies - and that's a wider form of nationalism and protectionism that pretty directly costs lives.

Political forces like AFD and pegida (legida, ...) aren't exactly a sign of receding nationalism either.