skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science is composition.

We build a bit, we test, if it's solid, we build a bit more. We don't need to come up with hypothetical black hole computers.

The paper and the concept of TOW dynamics has been referenced in http://www.nature.com/articles/srep13253 which shares one of the authors and is interesting in a different way.

I get tired of people saying things that aren't exciting enough shouldn't be published. It's not the exciting things that make the breakthroughs, it's understanding a bit more about the things we've always figured are obvious. To me this is more interesting than some hypothetical black hole computer. Sure it's not blowing me away.

It's just a block. A little block. Other ideas can choose to use that block or not. I haven't seen that system of tug-of-war dynamics described before. It seems solid, so why not describe it?

Or does it need to be antimatter hoverboards to be worth publishing?
True, but simpler in scope. Searle's Chinese Room is paradoxical because it involves trying to combine mechanical processes (of rote symbol-copying) with supposedly higher-order thinking (speech/understanding).

But the "decision-making" here is dubious. If Searle had written an "Iron Bar Gambling Room" argument, I bet most people would have rejected the notion that the room was "deciding" anything. This is little different from light-sensitive cells in primitive eyespots accumulating energy from photons to "decide" the direction of the sun.

In short, this paper is what happens when people chase the Minimum Publishable Unit for their career.
Czeslaw Milosz wrote that it was very clear that there was American government money behind the Congress for Cultural Freedom--one didn't need inside information to figure it out.
Is There Awareness Behind Vegetative States?
I've had a similar disquieting occurance on that site.. my step-aunt from another state was suggested as a connection. I never talk with her online, only over land line telephone conversations. She even has a different last name.

As far as I can guess, they use publicly available information to make these suggestions, they might have been able to see that you went to the same college.
FWIW, he got the name from Jonathan Swift:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laputa
An Introduction to Full-Stack JavaScript
I sounds more like "Hey merdeux !"
Reading the article, it appears to me the researchers are talking about harnessing physical fluctuations in a process to achieve an outcome similar to some sort of computational modeling of the same process.

I don't think they're literally saying the iron bar is making a decision, and I'm a little surprised that would have flown over the heads of most of the readers here.
MultiFab 3-D Printer Prints 10 Materials at Once
Good points. This sort of program has traditionally been paired with taking a class on the subject, with the program used as a means of practicing the material, rather than as a means of learning it in the first place.
The USSR was never communist

By this definition, has there ever been a communist country?
If you don't read the article just look at the pictures, all you can see is people staring screens. That bothers me a lot.
Didn't https://ghcformacosx.github.io/ work for you? I have no problems on 10.11 with GHC.
Scala is another one of those languages whose type information should enable a really good advanced experience, but the IDEs are struggling with respect to their peers (heroic efforts from jet brains and type safe not with standing). As parent said, many communities really don't appreciate or understand IDEs, and so what gets done reflects that.
When the truth hurts
He actually said "with quite a lot of mathematics too"
If you are interested in more tools like this, I practiced a lot with this: https://itunes.apple.com/at/app/better-ears/id284444548?mt=8 (it was called Karajan back then, years ago).
> " We conclude that parents and offspring tend to resemble each other for genetic reasons, and not due to cultural transmission."

Interesting, but not earth-shattering. Reminded me of studies such as those referenced here (http://freakonomics.com/2011/04/11/economics-and-genetics-of...),
finding that "with a few exceptions, adoption and twin researchers find that nature overpowers nurture, especially in the long-run."
Yeah, I'm making 100k+ a year working fully remote. US resident
I do a milder version of this: I press the buttons, mute my mic, and leave the phone on the desk. Less work for me, but still costs them a little bit in terms of connecting to the phone of a real person who goes through their intro-spiel.
At risk of being extremely cliche ...

It's not rational for me to care about surveillance of the socialists, because I'm not a socialist. It's not rational for me to care about surveillance of unions, because I'm not in a union. It's not rational for me to care about surveillance of fringe elements, because I'm not in a fringe element.

But now they're surveilling me, and there's no one left to be irrational for me.
The BBC made a great documentary on this subject: "Century of the Self."

The best source is to just read Bernays' own book: Propaganda (1929).
I often noticed that some books are phenomenal, and don't really have a mooc, but should definetly have something.

I wonder if there's a place for a site that:

1. Gathers recommendations the best book on a given subject + some set of practice material

2. Helps to forum study groups or classes, gives them forum/hangouts,etc,offer some structure, etc

3. Enables P2P grading by students

Basically ,helps as much as it's possibly can for students to form great classes around great books.

What do you guys think ?
It would probably be most accurate to say that it's an extra person.

Verbs can be inflected in various languages for gender, number, person [which can include degrees of formality, respect, or social distance], voice, mood, tense, aspect, ergativity [an alternative to voice], evidentiality [how the speaker knows that the thing happened], and other things I'm probably forgetting.
Their history certainly supports their penchant for enthusiastically engaging in strategies with no proven effectiveness (like giving people LSD for the purposes of mind control). Though there's (maybe) something of an argument to be made that the Cold War was an era of particular lunacy and that the CIA of today is more sober-minded.
Are you by chance the same Alois who's author at ruxit blog [1]? I don't mind that "user" scepticer submits stuff which only advertises ruxit, but at least let an honest discussion happen in comment section...

[1] - https://blog.ruxit.com/author/alois-mayrruxit-com/
Ditch the tinge of conspiracy? How is he supposed to get clicks and pay his rent?
Apparently there were 214,000 people who complained about robo callers to the FCC last year. If you think about how obscure that reporting process is and extrapolate to the real number, you're probably not that far from the truth.
Catalonia from 1936 to 1939. Maybe.
Turi and Lado are not words in English? (Unless I'm very much mistaken). All the other's are, bar Rand, but that is a variable name beloved of coders!
Many robocall spammers are located abroad. They use VoIP endpoints to connect with US phone numbers for pennies on the dollar (relative to international calling prices).

But that's not even the biggest problem, the biggest problem is that it is trivial to spoof caller IDs in the US, and many of those operators do just that.

So tracking down who actually called can be tricky, then even if you could you still need to either get them extradited for robocalls (which isn't happening) or get them prosecuted abroad for breaking US law (which, again, isn't happening).

I personally feel like it can be solved however it has to be solved like this:

- Eliminated caller ID spoofing through technical means.

- Once caller ID is accurate, you can both have apps/databases with known bad callers or callers from VoIP providers, and or you could fine the VoIP providers facilitating this type of activity in the US (i.e. give them a motivation to stop abusive behaviour on their services).

I mean heck, if a VoIP limited each account to just ten calls per minute, it would massively decrease the volume of robocalls overnight. But none do because they have a financial motivation to keep allowing these companies to operate on their services and zero motivation to stop them (since it is almost untraceable anyway).
Is the company located in the US? Or in a Stripe-supported country?

If not, there's your answer.
Wow, I didn't know Spamford was even still around.

I still remember the hundreds of cyberout.com emails I'd get from his company back when I used AOL around 1995.
> We've decoupled Angular 2's rendering from the DOM.

Does this mean they are using some sort of virtual dom a la React?
This post occasionally makes the rounds and is an enlightening read:

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html
It shouldn't. You're starting at a screen to read this. I am staring at a screen to write it. Communication with people outside of shouting distance has always required staring at something. It looks passive, but it opens up a world inside your head.

Put aside the romantic notion that these people are losing something. They're gaining access to the rest of the world. They deserve it just as much as you and I.
The darknet's biggest drug market to cease operations due to Tor vulnerability
You don't have to go very deep into the Amazon at all for that to be an insult. :-) What an amusing example.
Your comment history consists of bashing the US and more bashing the US.
The term Communist Dictatorship is an oxymoron. Even though it's true that Lenin envisioned a dictatorship based on Marx's theories, this is not really anything like communism in the sense that Marx envisioned. The Jewish Kibbutz is a communist organization and notice how democratic it is.
Stephen Hawking believes he’s solved a huge mystery about black holes
I don't think there is much distinction between "bad at math" and "anxious about math". The article certainly doesn't try to make one.
Turi prefixes Turing (which means the act of pissing in Nepali) and Lado is popular in Spanish i guess.
so, side channel analysis? Or am I missing the point?
Greece shortly after WWII, Maybe.
Isn't this what the FCC is for? Can't they require providers to update their standards for the public?

It would be interesting if they could implement a system where you could dial (555-555-5555) or something after receiving a robocall, which would log your last received call as being fraudulent and flag it for providers to shadow ban it. Would that work for spoofing caller ID?
Ask HN: What are the most annoying things in software development?
As a software developer, which tasks do you find most annoying in your daily work? Which part of your job would you like to outsource to someone else if you could?
They are breaking the TCP contract:

"The server sends the first part of the response which we ack"

I have seen this strange behavior on mobile networks: the server sends a heartbeat to a mobile client every 10 seconds, I pull the battery on the mobile client and still get an ACK for a minute or so. Now I have to bring the ACK up to the application layer so I know whether I am actually talking to the device, or the mobile network is lying to me.
The decision is still made by the human evaluator(s). (Presumably, to declare one slot machine the "easiest".)

Terrible headline.

Are they even suggesting that the bar is somehow affected by the output of (perhaps) coins from the slot machine... electromagnetic interactions? Or is the slot machine example simply a thought experiment? I suspect we may be attempting to process bad input here...
It does say on the site "Uses GeoLite data from MaxMind, March 2014."

So not only is the Maxmind data well over a year out of date it's [citation needed] likely to be the free dataset which is only a subset of the Maxmind purchasable data
It's very possible rustc has changed, but I hope not because the generated code was looking pretty good.

My basic register write is volatile_store(($base as * mut u8).offset(idx as isize) as * mut u32, v); $base is just a hex literal address. There is an extra cast because I defined 'idx' in terms of bytes.

I might not have been concerned about the absolute smallest code when I accessed $base+4 then $base+8 (use of a small offset vs loading a second constant), but I definitely observed eliminating redundant loading of the high half between different registers.

I was compiling with "-O -Z no-landing-pads -C lto".
I've been fascinated to read some comparisons between Occupy and I think it was second-wave feminist groups. Basically, the feminists ran into many of the same problems as Occupy, a few decades ago.
I get one or more a day but then again I have a business line with a Google listing. I started to use the whitepages caller Id all to block known slammers - it is pretty good.
I am aware of no such regulation in the USA. Are you?
... could easily be done on a local machine.

I think you're going to need to provide some evidence to support that. It is not intuitively obvious in the slightest, especially given how frequently Cortana/Siri/GoogleNow trip up even with a data center backing them.

Seriously, if processing locally was so easy but they still wanted to steal all your data, they would crunch it locally & give results, and silently ship off the recording to an archive in parallel. Local processing is cheaper for them (bandwidth, compute) and faster for you.
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Alternatively, just get rid of the phone system entirely. Transitional points are starting to exist, and if we can do more things that interop without involving telecoms and are decentralized, you can have a situation a lot like what email /should/ be (with better identity management and less 60's holdover support).

I truly believe eventually cell phones will just be a data communications tool and "voice" will be done through these kinds of standards rather than phone numbers and ridiculous bureaucracy surrounding them, not to mention the quality of such communications will be fantastic comparatively.
How do the PCB boards communicate among themselves? The cables don't look like ethernet (CAT6).
This is failing with a JS error on line 60:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token =>
I've complained and was appalled at how obtuse the process is. (E.g. the FCC requires that you include hyphens in phone numbers, the Do-not-call list won't allow numbers with hyphens.)

I've thought of making an app to automate the process. It would remember all form's entries for you (name, address, etc) and fill in the current time and date. You'd just have to copy the phone number.

Think there's any demand for this?
Whitepages caller Id app for Android does this. But it only blocks rather than reporting to fcc.
Nobody, to my mind's got this quite right yet so I'll give it a bash...:

MR2 = Ehm Air Duh ~~ Merde :) cuz the middle e is like the ai in air (near enough) and the last e is like the uh in duh (near enough) - Not a native speaker so caveat enunciator
It’s 2015--have the browser use real small-caps if the font supports them. Even if it doesn’t, you’re probably better off letting the browser make them instead of you creating them.

font-feature-settings: “smcp”;

on an element turns lowercase letters into small-caps;

font-feature-settings: “c2sc”;

turns uppercase letters into small-caps.

More at https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts/#font-variant-caps-prop.

Safari’s renderring engine WebKit just got font-feature-settings: support: https://twitter.com/webkit/status/631827777319256064.
The "Fix Firefox" version: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making...
It would be interesting if there was some audio-based exploit that could be used against the systems in question.

It would depend heavily on the nature of the software and the processing done, I realize. But if only one overly-clever person who wants an inordinate amount of praise and fame can manage it. . .
Linux is required to support a lot of legacy at this point; to try truly new paradigms you need to be in a codebase with no backwards compatibility requirements to break.
I use Ruckus (3 AP) in the office and the performance is good for 50+ people. Remember that every person at least bring two devices (laptop + mobile phone) to the office, some of them bring 2 mobile phones plus tablet. make sure you count that too when sizing the WiFi.

Meraki is easy to setup and manage, it does not use any controller on premise since the AP connect to Meraki Cloud. You can manage all your Meraki AP from single dashboard even if you have separate physical location. This including user management so you don't have to only rely on WPA2 for WiFi security

Regarding the AP itself, if budget allowed make sure the device support 802.11 AC, most new devices support this (CMIIW) this run on 5Ghz band which on most places less crowded than 2.4Ghz. Usually this kind of device support dual band with 2,4Ghz to also support

At the very least make sure the AP you will buy support dual band 5Ghz (802.11 N) and also 2.4Ghz (b/g/n).

Most dual band support feature like band steering (this might be ruckus term, but others should have similar feature). Basically the AP will offer the 5Ghz to any device want to connect to them first, if the device can't connect then they will offer 2.4Ghz band. Having people connected to 5Ghz band is improving the network performance that people get because less inteference in this band.
Diversity is a good thing. Systems-level research is at a woeful state right now because the status quo is Good Enough for a lot of people. Thus, the number of interesting ideas to try, to fail, to succeed is a trickle to what it should be. Database-based and object-based filesystems are little more than research projects because of the hard to shake belief of what stored items should look like and what their properties are.

We need to work on projects with little to no preconceived notions, so we can start poking at things, figuring out what can be done better. We indeed have a working model, but I'm certain we can do better than just working.
By far the most intriguing was Davis Wolfgang Hawke, the "spam Nazi", subject of the 2004 book Spam Kings.
might want to space these csvoss submissions out a bit
Dragnet surveillance is not a prerequisite, but it makes it wildly more effective. Without it, when someone becomes an issue you have to dig into their past and try to find that which they haven't covered well in the intervening time. This is costly and can be circumvented given determination. Dragnet surveillance gives you a complete history of everyone at your fingertips. It makes oppression wildly cheaper and easier.
Democratic socialists are quite capable of forming dictatorships themselves. See: Venezula under Hugo Chavez and Nicaragua under Daniel Ortega.
The idea of encompassed printing made easy is very exciting. Right now it is very difficult to tune and program a printer to print on an existing object, not to mention the risk of ruining the step motor or damaging the nozzle.

By implementing a proper PID controller and being able to adjust materials without having to move the object, it's going to be cool seeing new over mold type parts that can be quickly produced.
Was this man prosecuted primarily because of his notorious history? I have never heard of FB spammers being prosecuted before.
The fun part is that Angular (1, anyway) has pretend-separation. Sure, there's truth in DOM, but not really. Littering your custom directives all over the place may feel like progressive enhancement but if you're using an app framework like Angular your JS is likely already complex enough that you can't meaningfully consider it a mere "enhancement" -- we're talking core functionality, not fairy dust.

People react (heh) strongly to React's JSX when they first come across it but at the end of the day I find React far more honest in its approach. Your Angular templates don't really gain anything from looking like they're just HTML templates -- instead you end up either serializing your data into some kind of string format or faffing about with magical nested "scope" objects (as if JS scoping wasn't enough to keep in your head).

But in order to maintain that illusion you also have to buy into these huge layers of added complexity when writing your own directives. I'd rather go all the way back to steamrolling the DOM with Backbone templates than these pretend-semantical lumps of custom elements and attributes.

Sorry for ranting. I'm still sore about being burned by Angular.
I'm surprised there hasn't been any cheap wifi-connected buttons like this before. Or at least none that gained popularity.
I've always been pretty skeptical about Nova in particular. It's like an English speaker going to a restaurant named "Notable": we wouldn't expect to have to eat on the floor.
I've tried the first exercise. What I think would help me is when I get an answer wrong and get, e.g., Nope, "Major 3rd" is not correct, provide a button to play what the Major 3rd would actually sound like so I can compare it with the question and memorize.

This looks like exactly what I've been looking for, though, I think I'll try getting into learning with it.
WHO ARE YOU – How to FORGIVE YOURSELF
As someone kinda ok with go, I'm a little concerned that there's no info on building a binary, and all of the instructions in the README say to download their binary and chmod +x it
Yeah, but that is what the title says (that the iron bar is making a decision). It seems like the title is completely out of whack with the contents of the article.
Absolutely. I donated to try to help Snowden's legal defense, but I certainly had pause beforehand, wondering if I would end up on, say, a TSA list.
Shipping on mobile
Yes.

I thought everybody remembered that Polymer was originally intended to be an experiment. It was never meant to amount to much more than a bunch of glorified polyfills (and "prollyfills").
OuiPlan is hiring a CTO
We need a master of iOS development and passionate cTO to lead our startup to success.
It's not "idle name dropping"; Matthew Green is very likely the reason you know who Eric Rescorla is, and what Extended Random is supposedly about. I didn't pick that name out of a hat.

That you'd suggest it was a random "character witness" is just one more in a line of "tells" that you haven't done any research, don't really know anything specific about this controversy, but that you're still happy to stridently assassinate someone else's character. That says more about you than me.
I played the saxophone for many years. Music has always been an interest of mine, but I have no application for it. Thus, my ear for progressions, pitches, intervals, etc. has waned. In spite of there being no clear end-game other than education (as in you can't "beat" it), this is the type of thing that I could do for hours on end.

I don't know the challenges involved (haven't seen the codebase), but you should package this into a Cordova or some other JS phone app. I'd download it in a heartbeat. I'd also be willing to assist if you needed extra hands.
Which brings up the interesting situation of the linux kernel. Lots of corporations (with their own agendas) have contributed alongside with lots of independent devs.
Good idea! There's an advanced option that puts a "listen" button next to each interval on the sidebar in the intervals exercise, but this would be a good more general feature to include for whenever someone answers incorrectly in any exercise.
Bootstrap documentation in chm
I once witnessed a Dominican telling a very recent Mexican immigrant to "cogelo suave". The look did indeed range from shocked to confused.
is 30! ≅ 10^25 ?

not in my book!?!
I especially like the idea of bringing plans for a complex object to a local print shop and leaving with my printed widget :)
This would sell much better as baby name checker.
Tell me about it. I've been having an exciting morning...

The oneliner was submitted early this morning, and that seems to have been the catalyst for the others.