skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't really trolling... there are some great apps out there, but even those feel very broken, it's something about how the app scrolls and i think in combination with the screen feels on your fingers, it's like a steampunk phone, you know there's gears inside that might need oiling more regularly.

It's kinda like those make your own pasta places, you eventually realize that a chef is pretty good at figuring out what ingredients go together, sourcing high quality ingredients, etc. If you have a basic knowledge of food you can make pretty darn good pasta at a make your own pasta shop but will get blown out of the water by an italian grandmother.

You don't want to open your new pasta shop in an area with lots of grandmothers, if you aren't yet at the top of your game.
Stupid question: how come they avoid white blood cells?
I prefer the IEEE 754 solution: NaN.
In the J programming language, '%' is the division operator (not the modulus). So the identity is correct
>"private prisons are profit making enterprises"

Tautology surely
Interesting. I've been a runner for over a decade and run 50+ miles/week. I experience light-headedness going from sitting to standing a few times a week.
Still, all of the doctors they visited, Dale Peterman said, cleared Sam to run. “If we didn’t have the utmost medical clearance for her to run,” he said, “she wouldn’t be running.”

We aren't so fragile.
That's right. But I think it's going through a little renaissance. Emacs 21-24 has happened in a remarkably short time. With the Internet, many programmers are looking for better paradigms and find Lisp & functional programming.
It doesn't. But trade requires calm politicans. Those aren't calm if people aren't calm. And people aren't calm the moment TVs don't get bigger anymore. That's what makes them angry.
"It generates too many messages and basically just sucks."

Yep. That's why I closed my LI account -- it was part of a process aimed at reducing my inbox load. Yes, I had them filtered into their own folder, but it still used up space and increased cognitive load to deal with them...and if you're not going to deal with them (say, by sending them directly to the trash), what's the point?
All works that can be copyrighted are automatically copyrighted from the moment of creation, unless you live in one of the dozen countries which haven't ratified neither the Berne Convention nor TRIPS. The US signed Berne in '89, by the way.
> The worst instance, her father said, occurred last fall, when she fell a quarter of a mile from the finish of the state cross-country final and was out for 40 minutes.

What?? This does not sound healthy, especially as there is more and more attention on the long-term adverse effects of traumatic brain injury (concussion). But I guess good for her that she is staying active despite this condition.
I began reading this posting and thinking that I really should acquire material on GA and end up ordering a linear algebra 'refresher" book bases on your comment. Funny considering how difficult it seems for GA to gain mainstream attraction :)
The Caffe models are only trained on the 1000 category subset of ImageNet used for the competition: http://image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2014/browse-synsets

There are no sofa's in this list, the closest thing I can find is a "studio couch, day bed": http://imagenet.stanford.edu/synset?wnid=n04344873
Ok, we changed to that from https://www.wired.com/2015/06/course-china-russia-snowden-do....
I agree with you on this, I've had same problem when trying to connect to a Hotel Wi-Fi and my browser didn't render their properly because i didn't have Windows XP with IE 7...

Probably the best feature of Wi-Fi Sense.
I'm European, and while I appreciate your point, in all fairness there's a lot of stuff coming from the US as well. Arguably, the movement originated there.
Same with me. I use to donate blood in Sweden but after moving to the US I'm not allowed anymore
Fun with Magic
Related text:

[EDIT] I posted the exact same Joel quote (only 2 paragraphs more of it) than some other has posted earlier. Reducted.
Looks like this Wifi sharing app that's huge in China:

http://technode.com/2014/11/17/wifi-hotspot-sharing-skeleton...
That's one solution. I don't think it's ideal. Not everyone would know to tick that box. I would, but my friends would not and their networks would be vulnerable.

It could also require buying new hardware. Once again, I would know to look for a Wi-Fi Sense-proof router, but my friends would not.

I also don't think we should be expected to solve problems that Microsoft caused. Why should the industry adapt to Windows rather than the other way around?
I doubt the pyramid domain model is going to be the dominant way we find resources in 10 years.
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Thanks so much for your 2 cents VoiceClonr!

After talking to a lot of people, I agree that:

- Most people treat groceries as JIT

- Most people see the value of real-time cross-store comparisons

There have been other apps & services that have tried to solve this problem, but I think that the "great filter" is making price tracking valuable to a single user in a single store. Before you get a network of people contributing prices, you need a set of people who are willing to contribute on their own. I am currently trying to test if such people exist :)

Some people maintain "price books" of prices they see in stores, and they claim that historical records of prices let them predict sales.

Right now my tests are suggesting that such people are few and far between, so I think that this might be a fail-fast type situation.
This is actually a better argument for copyleft licensing for any community effort like this. It would not have been possible for any company to lock down the efforts of this community if all contributions to the wordlist at question had been under a license like Creative Commons or the GPL.
IMHO: The author neglects the fact how Go shines in the Packaging. It is clear that ruby and python are nice for scripting but Go also is not too verbose.
Users? sure, customers?... probably not.
NSA adopted two man rule for system administration only after Snowden leaks. Before Snowden anyone with similar access as Snowden could have copied the same data.

What is the probability that at least one guy with same access as Snowden spied for China or Russia? I would say close to 1.0.
Space X Won’t Fly a Manned Mission to Mars by the End of 2030
> 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.

You don't even need a "security hole": the machine needs to know the key to connect. From there, it's your machine -- you will be able to read it out of memory. Now, this is probably out of reach for most "average users", but for even a moderately capable attacker it provides little protection (and tools automating this will likely become available).

At best, if the Wifi network is using a passphrase it'll only send you the key (which is calculated by applying the PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1 function to the passphrase using the SSID as a salt for 4,096 iterations), but this still lets the user get on the network and decrypt traffic.
You can find out who's behind a corporation

There's a lot of people who would love to know that trick. AFAIK there's no public disclosure of ownership of a corporation.

In any case, I thought whois privacy services were real addresses which could have mail/legal proceedings directed to them. I'm surprised to learn that they are all phony addresses. Thanks for teaching me something.
From https://www.windowsphone.com/en-gb/how-to/wp8/connectivity/w...

> Your contacts don't see your WiFi network password.

> When you share network access, your contacts get Internet access only.

How can they ensure these two?
The article points out that everyone will experience this at some point due to extended exertion. This girl's condition makes it happen more quickly than average.
$85 Wooden Watch with Leather Strap
They would be if you ran screaming from someone's living room because of the thing in the corner. I think it's because from a practical point of view its a different category of error?
Re: why racket isn't used more

Last time I did some json parsing it was poetry slow. I've also heard the continuation based webserver was slow and uses a lot of memory.

I'll have to benchmark again to be sure. I hope I'm wrong, racket was very enjoyable to use.
Can Wikipedia Survive?
I just watched the government crush one ton of ivory in Times Square
That definition is technically true since it is equal to a black hole inside a black hole.
25-year-old cat makes mystery journey from Australia to Northern Ireland
Haha this xkcd is great.

Which upper-year course is using Racket? CS442?
Very cool work, but blinding is a good countermeasure [1], which all RSA implementations should use.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinding_(cryptography)

Edit: And BTW, yet one more argument for NaCl or libsodium, which boasts "no data-dependent branches."
Really, humans are not so different. Online and in person, we pattern-match on a few scant signals, sometimes jumping to ridiculous conclusions as a result. (1) Granted, we have much better machinery for recognizing the kinematics of fellow animals. There's compelling evolutionary reasons for animals to become really, really good at this.

If one paired the present classifiers with Amazon Mechanical Turk, just providing one bit of information -- "is-it-an-animal?" -- I wonder how well the current classifiers would fare in relation to human beings?

(1) - Ironically, the more "cosmopolitan" people become, the quicker they are to jump to such conclusions!
> Ps: I'm a designer who would love to get into programming with Racket.

How to Design Programs is the way to go. It's an amazing book.
They could require "secure enclave" hardware. But that'd need cooperation with the NIC, too, eh?

Most likely they mean "we disable the show password option".
My understanding is that light doesn't interact with electromagnetic fields, so you couldn't use a laser to detect electromagnetic fields.
This is why the "guest login" feature on most Wi-Fi routers exists, to prevent untrusted persons (and by untrusted I mean anyone other than yourself and possibly-but-not-always your immediate family) from having access to your entire LAN when all they need is Internet access. Of course it works best when your guest login feature supports time-limited random passwords. Set up properly, guest accounts can make this Wi-Fi Sense bug a non-issue for your own network.

That said, I think Microsoft made a serious blunder here; it's inherently flawed and I can't immediately think of a way for them to fix it without getting rid of its entire raison d'être.
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Regarding your second point, I expect that has more to do with the fact that it's difficult to compete with zero-overhead craigslist (and similar sites) for local used goods. There's little reason to use a B&M store to buy or sell such things used.
Corollary: most open source software is created in Europe and monetized in the US.
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Virtualization is a great tool for using "well behaved" programs. It's foolhardy to expect it to defend against sophisticated malicious software.

About 40 years ago IBM studied the security of their own VM technology. They found many exploitable bugs, and this was on a codebase that was probably less than 1% the size of VMware. I wrote more about IBM's findings on HN about 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9241807
Well, will at least be interesting to see what the future holds for Wi-Fi Sense :)
This conversation was too hostile for me a long time ago. I apologize for my contributions to that. Take care.
Sounds like a bad idea, [] and . have always acted directly on object properties. Changing the semantics of a basic language operator can have consequences you wouldn't envision. What if an existing function deals with a new object?

Add a new operator, like {}.
Racket has an enormous standard library. I'm not gonna dare wave numbers around compared to Python, and I'm sure Java beats the both of them, but it's not small.
Agreed. Every once in a while I consider selling something on eBay, think for a few seconds about the effort it would require to take different pictures, write up a compelling description, figure out shipping costs, find some decent packaging... ah whatever.

I love eBay as a buyer though, especially in Canada. There are still a ton of random things on there that really can't be found (at least not nearly as easily) anywhere else.
This is a lot like what got Google in trouble - mapping all WiFi access points while collecting StreetView images. Microsoft is just doing it in a distributed way.

Does all the collected WiFi data go to Microsoft HQ?
Ablaze
I'm lucky I don't have a Facebook account anymore :)
Given enough time, you'd expect the to develop clever behaviors, but instead they just fuzz-tested the sim and locked in on exploits of bugs or environment settings.

Classic A-life! Also, not so different from the spirit of actual biology.

They only got a bit more clever when connecting different sims running on different conditions.

Diversity is very important for evolution on many levels. What many don't realize (especially, I note, evolution deniers) is that the ecosystem as a whole provides a very complex and continually varying epiphenomenal fitness function to any given organism.
What's your source for being able to trademark a word list?
The package insert isn't enough. Those things contain so much BS most people have stopped reading them.
Nah, I have a guest room with its own door. Don't stick your dip in crazy, and all that.
Or she loves running and competing so much that she's willing to let herself go through that?

On HN there are workaholics, people who sit too long programming, people who smoke or drink in excess, etc.

I hit my head a fair amount of times wrestling in junior high and high school, but turned out fine. (I think.)

If she loves running on her own accord, let her. If she runs like that because her parents want to live vicariously through her, then it's absurd and wrong.
The article probably does violate that section of the DMCA. But it is also a research/scientific piece subject to the protection of the First Amendment. I could be mistaken, but I suspect if one or the other had to go -- the First Amendment or this law -- the First Amendment would win.

Said another way, even as a very pro-copyright judge, I would have a hard time saying the author did not have a First Amendment right to publish his research. Now if he wrote a program to make it easy to crack these databases and sold it for $5 each, that would be a different matter.
Full Disclosure: I am technically employed as a sysadmin, but before that, I worked as a programmer. I have only very little experience with C++; I have looked at it repeatedly over the years, but mainly by building small-time applications for my private amusement/education.

I do agree with you in that that it would probably take me a couple of years to get comfortable with C++. My point was that I feel it would take me substantially longer than it did with other languages.
Your point appears to be that if enough people have debt, you don't need to have much to be above them. In short, you're trying to argue that there aren't many actual poor people and that there aren't a small number of super rich people (as the report suggests). Your point is wrong.

Most people are not in debt, as illustrated by the fact that you require USD 3,650 to have more wealth than 50% of people. If most people were in debt then USD 1 would be more than required.

Your figure of USD 150 is ludicrously inaccurate. That's nowhere near half the world. That's my point.
Let the Other 95% of Reality In
That's not the only place that has poor isolation: clocks, cache, devices ...

virtualization comes with the lie of hardware isolation while devices are views on common peripherals that are isolated at application level by an incorrect abstraction.

jails and virtual machines alike are jails made of a strong but viciously brittling glass.
Consider a physics class to learn about electricity and magnetism.
Let's assume that they have somehow secretly shipped this "secure enclave" with all machines that will support Win10, and that they have h4xXx0r proof-ed the code to make it impossible to RE the code and implement the protocol directly, presumably we'll still be able to emulate Win10 and have a virtual NIC which spits out the key when it's handed off to it.
More often than not I look to the judiciary to reign in overreaching by the executive, but more and more the judiciary seems entirely complicit in what I personally consider to be affronts to the basic ideas on which the Constitution was written.

It seems to me that secrecy is the default state of the federal government now, not the exception, and between the NSA and gag orders keeping me (or you) from knowing you're privacy is being violated, my right to defend myself and redress against the government are both violated.

The Founding Fathers knew the price paid by the general public when government acted for its own gain first, and held dominion over the population. Their attempt to reign in its powers and make it truly a collective representation of the will of the people was in reaction to oligarchy and monarchy - both of which make the relationship between the people and their government adversarial at best.

The U.S. government - and more and more, state and local governments - feel entirely adversarial to the people they claim to represent. Lobbies, super pacs, laws written by the entertainment industry and so on make it pretty clear we're bound to an oligarchy which attempts to masquerade itself as a democracy. There is rarely cooperation between the general public and their government - more often, the general public finds itself universally against (SOPA) or universally disgusted by (NSA, Snowden) the actions of the government that claims to be their mouthpiece, working for justice for all.

So long as the judiciary upholds the government's power grabs against the people, there's little that can be done.

Edit: kudos to Google for fighting as hard as they could for the Fourth Amendment (and First). At least someone is. Secrecy was desired because of the huge public backlash the last time they acted so egregiously. Instead of the Judiciary acknowledging how out of bounds the last action was, they instead agreed public knowledge of bad acts was an unnecessary burden on government overreach.

Edit 2:

However, the Justice Department asserted that “journalists have no special privilege to resist compelled disclosure of their records, absent evidence that the government is acting in bad faith,”

I contend that this seizure of private data, with a threshold of evidence far below a Fourth Amendment level, ignoring historic protections for journalists based on the absolute importance of their work in keeping the government in check, is the government acting in the worst faith possible.
Might you by chance be familiar with Rodney Brooks' work on subsumption architectures [1]? If not, I would summarize the underlying idea (my words not his) as "don't try to jump too many layers of abstraction in one go" [2].

So I wonder to what extent you would consider this a predictable outcome from the classifier in question not being part of a subsumptive architecture --- which at a guess would look like

- glance/texture responses fed into
- boundary-recognition layers fed into
- object persistence/tracking layers
- fed into abstract scene reasoning

It seems to me, as a non-vision researcher (I mainly worked in planning and control), that the most obvious counterargument to the image being a spotted cat is based on boundary/object/scene reasoning, and that it's "reasonable" for the texture/glance layer to say "looks a lot like a cat texture".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Subsumption_architecture

[2] I realize this may seem, superficially, anathema to deep network research, which advocates letting the network find its own intermediate levels of abstraction. But it's actually compatible in my view because Brooks advocates (again, paraphrasing quite a bit) that the separate layers should have different objective functions, and that in fact the need for different objective functions (in a prioritized order) is the cause of emergent layering in nature. "First, don't die. Second, find shelter. Third, find food etc." So one can imagine deep networks each finding their own locally useful abstractions for each objective function in the "Maslow" chain, while still having some macro architecture that tracks human-imposed design principles.
Oh the joys of copper mesh Faraday cage rooms. (Did some 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz industrial packet radio work.)
Half of All Languages Come from This One Root Tongue
I wonder whether you can bypass copyright for a word list if you feed it into a bloom filter[1] and then save just the bloom filter.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter
It's not something I've explored or really care to pursue, but I've sat though at least a half dozen talks on audio synthesis in Clojure including one by Rich himself. They do signal generation in Clojure that feeds data into another system that does the real-time portion.

I agree that Clojure isn't suited to hard real time systems and it's not hard to come up with drawbacks to the above approach but you just happened to pick an example that a lot of people in the Clojure community seem to care about.
this has been fantasized in metal gear solid for so long now...
"The only way to opt out of this "feature" is to change the name of your SSID to include _optout at the end"

Google requires you to have "_nomap" at the end of SSIDs to "opt out" of certain services...
It is an amazing book.

For me it is not a book that teaches Racket though - and not a book to pick up web dev in Racket though.

If there was tutorials on how to do Sinatra, Express or Flask style web apps/apis I think people who use those types of frameworks would find it more accessible. And there are a lot of those type of people.
There's evidence that US government counter-intelligence and information security are very poor: Snowden, Manning, the recent break-in at OPM, etc. In past generations, nuclear plans were stolen, the heads of both FBI and CIA counter-intelligence have been moles, a Navy sailor kept the Soviets updated on the locations of US submarines, etc. Here's a list I came across recently:
http://www.wearethemighty.com/american-spies-military-secret...

It's hard to know how bad or good the US's security is, because most intelligence operations are secret and I don't know enough about the field to have a standard by which to judge it. Maybe these things are the norm for most governments.

I would not be surprised if other governments already knew much of what Snowden made public. Some secrecy clearly is necessary for governments but how often does "secret" merely mean "unknown to the public" (but already known to enemies)?
It seems that Linux version has a version of the database as plain text (including their meanings); wc -l tells me that OSPD4.1.txt has 178378 entries, which seems about right. edit: seems like that's only true for v4 and below, while the article could be about v5 (it doesn't say)
Another, similar petition: http://www.savedomainprivacy.org

A very long list of domain registrars have come together on this one:

1 & 1 Internet
Blacknight
Domain.com
DomainIt
Domains By Proxy
DomainCocoon Inc.
Endurance International Group, Inc.
eNom
EuroDNS
GoDaddy
IDCPrivacy.com
InternetX GmbH
Key-Systems, GmbH
Moniker Online Services, LLC
Moniker Privacy Services, LLC
Name.com
Namecheap
NetEarth One, inc.
Perfect Privacy, LLC
Tucows
Web.com
Whoisprivacy.com, Ltd.
No, that wouldn't make sense because of the false positives.

You could instead store only the hashes of the words, using a sha256 or something similar.
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