skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try harder, too obvious and people won't react
What do I use this for?
- confused out of touch javascript dev
That's true but kind of misses the point. I'm not worried about my machine using this. Hell, I don't even use Windows. I'm worried about the zillions of people who do use Windows and who will thoughtlessly enable this because it seems convenient. They will wreck the security of other people who have done nothing wrong.
"I can't breathe!"

"Am I getting a medal?"

Well done, American society, well done parents.

Edit: I realize this is a snarky comment but this was my initial reading of the article. Sure she is brave. I guess? This just seems rather extreme. It's sure not the kind of values I would want to see in my kids. You know, breathing, and staying conscious, and not depriving one's brain or body of oxygen, these are sort of important things, especially throughout development.
It's pretty arbitrary, yeah, but why 'obviously faulty'? Seems to me like it's just a different threshold than you or I might have picked, I can't think of a better metric to judge by though.

It would be interesting to see which names were the 'most' unisex, though - ie. those with closest to 50% spread, regardless of popularity.
I do agree that GA is overhyped, but it's definitely not useless. GA brings many separate concepts into a common framework. He's a couple of things that are just ugly:

- Cross product only works in 3d

- Why is it that the cross product seems mysteriously related to determinants?

- Multivariate calculus as typically taught is very ugly

- Complex numbers for 2d, quaternions for 3d, then what?

- Rotations/reflections using linear algebra

- Cauchy's integral formula, Stokes' theorem, Helmholz decomposition, etc.

- Etcetera

GA just makes all of that much nicer and brings it together into a coherent framework.

Here's a simple problem that illustrates why GA is nice: given 3 points A,B,C in 2-d space with integer coordinates, determine whether B is on the line segment AC. Now do it in 3-d, and then in n-d.
How about detecting vector edge shapes and unifying that result with the existing classifier? Surely a leopard sofa cannot have the same edge vector shape as a real big cat.
Just because you found it hard doesn't disprove the statement. It could be harder still without said loose money.
so like.......did they put this decrypted database online, or something? true, we could just perform the same operations they did, but if you're going to go through the trouble of putting your crack in public, might as well spread its fruits too
" And when they applied an oscillating magnetic field, the nanoswimmer moved in an S-like, undulatory motion at the speed of nearly one body length per second. "

If applying an external magnetic field, why not just use that to direct the drug delivery?
Language popularity generally follows adoption of some key library or framework from that language.

Python is probably an exception there because it got popular despite the lack of a clear reason (I would argue it was there to fill the vacuum left by Perl). But Rails is what brought Ruby into the mainstream, and C was brought to the mainstream by Unix, and JavaScript was brought to the mainstream by Netscape, and so on.

Lisp never became mainstream because nobody ever wrote a killer app/library/framework/OS in that language. The most popular flavor of Lisp today, Clojure, managed to carve a niche for itself because its community is so practical-minded and has been working on very practical stuff like Om, Storm, Reagent, etc. Hopefully they will find their own killer app one day.
Endurance sports like running will lead (even in healthy individuals) to very very mild cases of orthostatic intolerance.

If you go from sitting to standing, you might get lightheaded for a few seconds as the body is too slow to react. More here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2343225/pdf/tjp0...
They will only wreck security, because you personally gave them the password, instead of using this system from the start, change your password upon windows 10 release and you are golden? :)

Edit1: tho i can see the downsides of this, add you neighbor on Facebook and get free access to their WiFi xD

Edit2: You can select whether, you want to share network with Outlook, Skype and Facebook friends, so what i wrote in Edit1 could be invalid if you simply uncheck Facebook.
It's a real shame that cats became the canonical subject of macroscopic quantum mechanical thought experiments because they're just too damn complicated. The interesting case from the point of view of GR is not whether gravity causes the cat's state to collapse, but what happens to spacetime when a macroscopic object is in a superposition of position states. So the interesting thought experiment is not Shroedinger's cat, but Shroedinger's neutron star: you get a (really really big!) sealed box with a neutron star inside, and somehow arrange for it to evolve into a quantum superposition of position states. Then outside the box you send a beam of photons past the box. The photons are deflected gravitationally by the neutron star on one of two trajectories. You then recombine the two trajectories (without, of course, measuring the photons en route). The $64,000 question is: do you get an interference pattern?
Momentum.

Specifically:

Well designed and communicated homepage.

Modern products and companies using the language. Their websites should look great too.

Boilerplate-free graphical or web app oriented examples.

If a clean, well designed language with good documentation and bite-sized clear intro videos could do this today, it can build momentum.

Ps: I'm a designer who would love to get into programming with Racket.
https://xkcd.com/297/

I believe this is what happened:

The first mainstream computer programs were written in imperative (think assembly goto, etc), and became the defacto standard. As new programmers entered, many were taught by older programmers, so they would most likely learn imperative programming. Since it is arguably harder to learn functional programming after imperative programming, (rather than learning functional programming right away), the imperative cycle continued, and here we are today.

I also attended Waterloo CS, and I am really grateful to have been exposed to Racket. I am actually using Racket for my upper year courses as well, which is awesome.
Rest In Protein Zyzz.
I go by what I thought was the accepted definition, which is a failure or error presenting a risk for temporary or permanent harm to people. Financial risk like data loss would fall under mission critical.
No idea why this is on the front page of Hacker News, but, if you like this topic, I'd highly recommend White Castle by Orhan Pamuk.
http://www.amazon.com/The-White-Castle-Vintage-International...
Emacs brought Lisp mainstream, and Emacs Lisp at its heyday was arguably more popular than Clojure is now. The problem is that Emacs was the dominant text editor c. 1990, when the software world was much smaller than it is now, and has since been eclipsed by IDEs, GUI editors, etc.
> ((D%C)+(B%C)) = (D+B) % C

This is wrong. You need an extra %C on the left hand side for that identity to work:

((D%C)+(B%C))%C = (D+B) % C
The incompetent medical and mental health care in the Clark County Jail in Vancouver, Washington is largely due to a contractor trying to save a few pennies by ordering prescription drugs from a pharmacy in Maryland.

This has the result that lots of mentally ill inmates - including myself - land in Western State Hospital at a cost to the taxpayer of $550.00 per day.

I've been taking psychiatric medicine since 1985; the very most I have ever paid for my happy pills was $1000.00 per month.

Because the contractor wants to save perhaps ten dollars per month, every mentally ill inmate goes cold turkey on their medicine when they are detained. Every prescriber I have ever met adamantly urged me never to stop my medicine suddenly. There are all kinds of ways that could lead to death but in my particular case I find myself in a very expensive nuthouse rather than an inexpensive slammer.
Are you serious? Not only are people expected to know algorithm brainteasers for interviews, they're also expected to practice every stupid IQ test ever invented?

Instead of studying for interviews, focus on something useful, like learning a new language or framework.
Sick system. In other developed countries you have copyright if you do it. You don´t need to register that right anywhere. Of course more difficult to prove but thats another story...
>try turning up at ha hospital with a bag of blood

I have Rhnull and that is the only way I would donate my blood, ever. My mom (who also has this type) has been looked down as a emergency bag of blood on a few occasions and living with that is terrible experience.

In fact, I installed tor just to post this.
But aren't there almost double the number of Android user's out there than iOS users?

Any idea on how many of those are low end devices sold to users who just want a phone and have no interest in the play store?

I just get the feeling that looking at averages of the entire platform in this instance can be misleading as there are different types of users.
I imagine that if someone wanted to prove a point, they could just target every single person on the ICANN commitee, use their whois data and dox them. Then offer them whois privacy services.

I don't agree with harassment per se, but direct action is sometimes quite effective.
The real issue is that we put too many people in jail for two long. And that's a legacy of laws passed in the crime waves of the 80s and 90s, back when for-profit prisons were almost non-existent. E.g. three strikes laws passed in the early 1990s.
The noise could be filtered out with enough samples, so this mitigation only increases the number of attempts required and does not prevent the attack.
I communicated with Jason when I asked him for a Google Wave invite (which he kindly gave me). I assume I'm also therefore on a list.

I imagine that the NSA is building a database with every single person on the planet sourced from multiple databases, both PRISMed, FISAed and stolen, and each person has a 'risk' and 'delinquency' factor, just like credit ratings. They also have an 'influence' factor and next to it a link that takes the operator to the available naked pics of the subject for blackmail purposes.
Why is being able to release a half-assed app which needs "x iterations daily" to the public suddenly something to brag about ? That's precisely why I respect App Store content more then on the Play Store, I expect app releases to be serious and not taking the users as beta testers.
"using this system from the start"

I don't use Windows, so I cannot use this system at all.

"add you neighbor on Facebook and get free access to their WiFi"

That's missing the much bigger downside. Give your neighbor your Wi-Fi password and they can share it with hundreds of their friends automatically.

Microsoft claims users will not be able to find the password and that users will only be able to access the Internet, but that assumes there are no security holes. I'm not comfortable putting my network security in the hands of a company I did not choose to associate with.
Probably...

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Perhaps if they want more people to know they can file a takedown request.
It's too bad that JavaScript collections have ugly Java-like APIs, with get(k), set(k, v), etc.

It would be nice if the [] and . weren't essentially aliases for each other, so that [] could be use for collections. There was once a proposal for this, though it would have broken assumptions of lots of code: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:object_model...
Credible(?) Gruber practically did:
http://daringfireball.net/2002/09/on_joel_on_software

>> In fact, I think Spolsky is wrong about nearly everything in his article.

>> Let’s divide computer users into two groups — people who think computers are fun, and people who just happen to use a computer. Which group do you think buys more software (even including all the Linux nerds in the first group)? Which group do you think most Mac users are in?

>> Don’t get me wrong, the Windows software market is much larger than the Mac market, and there are millions more Windows nerds than Mac nerds — if you’re trying to sell into big corporations, write for Windows. I’m not even arguing anything silly, like that Mac users, on average, are smarter than their Windows counterparts. (Although I will link to this.) All I’m saying is this: amongst computer users who actually buy software, Mac users comprise a signficantly larger chunk than 4 percent. Significantly.

>> Mac users value attention to detail and intuitive, consistent, attractive interfaces. Developers who share these values would do well to create software for the Mac, where they are likely to be rewarded handsomely for their efforts. Developers who would prefer to program more features with less attention to detail should not.
My guess is that it's because Europe consists of relatively rich societies (so home computers were available since the 80s) that had limited access to US software (pre-Internet, software availability over here was pretty hit and miss).

That led to an active European freeware, shareware, and eventually open source software scene.
While strictly speaking there are many laws as well as court precedents that protect the rights of mental hospital patients, quite commonly the hospital staff are not only unaware of those laws, but regard me as delusional for claiming that I have any rights at all.

I was on an involuntary ten day hold in Reno, Nevada because I told a shrink I planned to go camping in the desert. Not being from Reno myself, I was unaware that "camping in the desert" is a local euphemism for "committing suicide". It was of no use to point out that I had gone camping in the desert just the night before, nor that I have the Boy Scout Wilderness Survival Merit Badge.

I was handcuffed then taken by a deputy to a hospital emergency room, where I refused to wear a hospital gown because "As a mental hospital patient, I have the right to wear my own clothes".

In reality I don't particularly care, I only say that to determine whether the staff knows that the laws are.

Some very, very angry man shouted "YOU'RE ON A HOLD! YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS!"

When I bluntly pointed out that the United States Supreme Court disagreed, they injected me with a massive dose of Haldol. That's widely considered one of the most-powerful antipsychotics. While I was not in any way symptomatic all the time, it is also powerfully sedating.

I don't know why but for some reason Haldol is largely ineffective on me. That really freaked them all out when I continued going on about my right to wear my own clothes, so they injected me again with a far higher dose.
I don't believe it can go multiple "hops." If you connect it goes to your friends, but it does not go to friends of your friends.

If your friends connect to the network using Wi-Fi Sense, it might spread to their friends. I'm not sure.
I'm pretty sure Cesar wants to avoid such a direct copyright violation. Sure just breaking the encryption might be considered a violation of the DMCA anti-DRM stuff, but that is a much more controversial law that many people oppose. A lawsuit over the anti-DRM would likely pull the EFF in, and make large news, while a lawsuit over plain spreading copyrighted information would be much more straightforward and likely for him to lose.

By only publishing the steps, he gets the benefit of the publicity of breaking the encryption. Then anonymous people can easily break it themselves and spread the actual list, free from worry of being sued.
And I'm still wondering what happened to pump.io and tent.
Yup, it's also pretty easy to A/B on mobile.
Router companies should get together with Microsoft and make some kind of Flag you can tick, so your router actively tells you can't share this, without the ridicules name of "_optout" as last part :)
So what do you think Sweden should do about the nationalism of the US' blood donation system?
COM1

Man, I haven't even /thought/ about that term in years...
Proof of Concept or Get the Fuck Out Vol. 8 [pdf]
We did not train ImageIdentify to be invariant under arbitrarily large rotations. This is fairly easy to do: show the network couches rotated at all angles.
Pump.io is still being used and developed.
https://www.windowsphone.com/en-gb/how-to/wp8/connectivity/u...

>... WiFi Sense can do a lot of things for you to get you connected to the Internet using WiFi, so you don't have to do them on your own. These include:...

> - Accepting a WiFi network's terms of use on your behalf...

That doesn't seem appropriate.
We will know some parts of truth but probably in one or two decades from now (like for the Cambridge Five).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Five
I suspect you still aren’t understanding what Hestenes means about coordinate-free approaches to problems and why he calls coordinates a “math virus” (cf. http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/MathViruses.pdf). Again, I’d highly recommend you study his work in detail.

Also note:

> Let there be no mistake about the nature of the coordinate virus. There is nothing wrong with using coordinates when they are appropriate. It is the insidious idea that coordinates are somehow more fundamental or concrete than other mathematical objects that limit conceptual capacity.
The "60% of all names" is wrong. Let's imagine there are 3 total names, Alice, Bob and Casey. Alice is > 80% female, Bob is < 20% female and Casey is 50% female. Even though we're using the 80/20 cutoff, only 33% of the names are unisex, not 60%. You can't just subtract 20 from 80 to get the number of unisex names as the distribution is unknown (or unmentioned). You'd have to actually measure or take the distribution into account.
> > The vulnerability is not Snowden; it’s everyone who has access to the files.

> > First, the journalists working with the documents.

> Bruce Schneier is falling into the trap of saying since computer security is hard, the NSA has certainly been compromised and we can assume these docs have been out there for a while.

The NSA has been compromised. By Snowden. There's no assumption there, that's fact. Now, access to the documents not longer just means having NSA access (or a complicit person with access) or hacking the NSA, it includes access to any system or person who has access to all the files, which are no longer restricted to NSA servers. It's no longer about what the NSA's security practices are.
Is there any work into building self-verification into these type of networks? For example based on hierarchical categories of concepts?

If part of the network is trained on the concept of a cat, and whether or not an image is a cat is fed into training of the leopard, it seems like the problems would be avoided. Or is the notion that with enough training data and deep enough networks the concept of "leopard is cat" will be learned?
A Stanford Mathematics grad student spent twenty-five years unsuccessfully struggling to obtain his PhD then beat his advisor to death with a hammer.

After serving quite a long time in prison, he was offered parole, with the only condition - at least as reported in the press - being that he not set foot on the Stanford campus ever again.

He refused parole, served out the remainder of his sentence then was released. I don't know what became of him after that but his plan was to work as an electronics technician in Silicon Valley.

While he did wrong to murder his advisor, I regard his refusal of parole as one of my inspirations for being so bluntly outspoken myself. There is no doubt whatsoever that what I blast all over the Internet makes me damn near unemployable but I work to benefit others that are unable to speak for themselves.

As bad as things do get for me sometime, there are billions of people alive today that have it far worse.
This is a very well-written piece and I really enjoyed reading Jorend's analysis of "Open" vs "Close" hash table performance [1] linked in the article.

All four of these collection types are sorely needed in JS and will have many positive effects into the future. I am especially happy to have WeakSet, which virtually eliminates a number of pesky memory leak cases that happen all the time in DOM library code.

ES has a bright future and it is great to see the committee making so many great choices while it grows. It is truly great that the community has not only been given significant opportunity to comment on and contribute to the spec, but to actually test code written with the new spec using transformers like Babel to ensure that they not only sound good, they work well in practice. What a breath of fresh air it is to evolve the web this way, rather than having a committee simply unilaterally define a specification (without a reference implementation) that turns out to be bug-prone, slow, or incomplete.

1. https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Jorend/Deterministic_hash_tabl...
I'm thinking in setting up a gnu social server for personal use. Do you recommend it? Does the federation work well or it has known issues?
Standard convnets do not contain explicit rotational invariance (unless you include a layer such as this: arXiv:1506.02025v1). They can however learn rotational invariance if you feed them rotated images.
When I found out you had to register your stuff for copyright in certain countries, I was actually surprised ... I just thought having copyright for your work by default was normal.
Do you mean that this condition is caused by endurance sports?
ProjecturEd: Projectional editor in Lisp [video]
Maybe it is because

a) it's in the water
b) we are a bunch of socialists
c) we are trained from when we are young that money is ugly

Actually, There is a lot of open source coming out of the US as well. But there are a lot more possibilities in the US to get good funding for software projects and there is a strong culture of "making it" in the US, which probably influences things towards more proprietary.
I wonder if a laser could be used to pick up on this signal such that an individual could be targeted from afar?
According to some the Earth is less than 6k years old, but that doesn't make them any less wrong, kind of like what you just said.

App Annie shows that of all revenue from paid app downloads, Apple accounts for 70% of it, which is up from 60% in 2014.
Oh no, I just wanted to mention other more common faults of our poorly parameterized blood pressure PID controller.
That's the only part that seems kind of cool. It's legally a bit strange, but terms of use on public Wi-Fi can be really annoying, especially when they don't work well. I've had networks refuse to let me on because their terms of use thing is broken.

It isn't as though anyone actually reads the terms of use anyway.
The thing is, the only thing keeping us from jumping in all sort of immoral actions (the set of acts gennarilly understood as immoral in a certain social context) is the emotional response we have. Very few, in the best scenario, have rational justifications for moral evaluations of various acts. This is a very difficult thing to ask, specially to the general population. Even among philosophers, moral judgments grounding is a difficult task, and general spirit is that there is none.

Speaking in a foreign language comes with a certain inferiority complex and, I believe, that influences one's evaluation of the morality of certain actions. Specially when one feels part of a larger cultural context in which morality is less objective and much more like in the movies. So, yeah.