skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the onion-skin paper had two advantages for messages intended for courier transport: it was really light, so more messages could be carried per courier (this became even more important for air-mailed communications; more messages per plane!); and it was also, for high-security messages, more easily folded up and concealed. (You might guess it was more easily destroyed under threat, too, but it's probably not—onion-skin paper is stronger than it looks!)

Oddly enough, in the military-fiction book I have on my lap at the moment, one of the characters has a rolled-up bit of onion-skin paper tucked into a hidden compartment of their jacket with a set of recent codes and ciphers on it. Similar idea.
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Easy+way+to+iOS+8.4.1+jailbreak+untethered+by+TaiG
not a designer here: why are there two columns? If it's chronological, imo the columns might be better showing up as staggered; the screenshot was a little confusing for me(again not a designer so I might be oblivious to some issues)
It is HTML emails that are gross, not plain text.
I have similar issues and had that anxiety feedback loop once when questioned by an airline security officer, "How long have you been in Europe?" on a backpacking trip. I was wondering if they meant EU or the continent and whether only since last exit or since I left home (since they were holding my non-European passport), and no exact correct answers were coming to mind for any of the possibilities, I was tired, wondering why didn't they just read the stamps in the passport if they cared so much, I wasn't prepared to get a grilling just to check in for my flight, and OH NO I'M HESITATING I LOOK LIKE SUSPICIOUS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?!? Well, I muddled through with vague hesitant answers that may have even been contradictory because of my uncertainty. Anyway, despite a really cringey performance from me, I guess they were satisfied that I wasn't knowingly or unknowingly carrying drugs/bombs (seemed to be the main concerns), because they gave me my ticket and I went through the real security and passport control which IIRC was nowhere near as invasive.

I guess they can tell the difference between a socially-anxious perfectionist stressing about giving correct answers and a liar stressing about giving false answers... or the airline is wasting their money by giving this "interview" but ignoring really sketchy answers. Or maybe I did not appear as suspicious as I thought.

Another time I casually broke eye contact with a bus security officer while he was rattling off prohibited items and searching my bag. I've noticed sometimes I subconsciously prefer to focus by looking down and maybe turning an ear toward someone talking about something detailed like this, but this guy seemed to interpret it as a sign that he'd just said something that was in my bag and shouldn't be. He repeated the question once and maybe twice, so this time I stared straight into his eyes as I answered. Maybe it looked like a liar over-compensating, but whatever, he was tossing my bag anyway.
I'm not a fan of this trend of presuming causes for suicides. The brain is an incredibly complex system with many failure modes, and some of them are just weird. You don't necessarily posses the hardware to begin to comprehend what a particular suicide victim experienced, which is not to say you shouldn't try, but humility is appropriate.

People project their pet social critiques onto the youth suicide rate. I've heard everything from high-stakes testing to too much Instagram to the rise of atheism to too little punishment. In the context of statistics this might be an appropriate national conversation. In the context of a specific person, speculation on a cause beyond what they've written is patronizing at best.

The only generalization I'm willing to make about a suicide is that the subjective experience of being inside the person's head was excruciatingly painful for too long. This kind of pain is probably not a scalar quantity across individuals, so ideas of normal and abnormal tolerance for it may not even make sense. Perception of time is also subjective, so don't think you can judge "too long" either. There is probably a 16-year-old who has struggled for 3 years with an experience that would have killed you in a week, just as someone has probably killed themselves to escape pain you would have considered trivial.

There may not be a truthy-sounding causal story for the origin of that pain, even for its victim. If they had one, even wrote it down, it might have been an explanation they latched on to but not the root cause, which may be as complex as the sum total of a lifetime of experiences or as banal as chemistry.

I hope that we as a culture can show some respect for the dead and the complexity of their experiences, and stop using them as soapboxes for our ideas of what's wrong with kids these days.
This is going down the whole attribution rabbit hole, which is arguably the most challenge issue in the advertising/marketing space today.

Static attribution models like first touch, last touch, U-shaped, and even custom weighted models provided multiple lenses through which to view your data to see how it would be valued if more credit was given towards it (since historically things were viewed via last touch lenses for the most part). Google Analytics offers some great attribution tools for free if you're interested in checking those out.

Beyond that, static models have their weaknesses, so dynamic models such as the data-driven model in Google Analytics Premium are a nice step up. There are other solutions that handle this too such as VisualIQ, Adometry, Convertro, etc. Those were all recently acquired by Google, and others btw.

Then there is software that attempts to help you model incremental lift in addition to dynamic attribution models. I just demoed Adobe's econometric modeling tool in their Adobe Analytics package (that feature set might be in the higher-level version) and that was about the closest I've seen to date for doing it the way I consider the "right" way (ie. user-path level attribution and modeling for incremental lift using literally whatever external data you can feed into it).

I'm an ad tech nerd so let me know if you have any other questions.
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Is this available in an off-line bundle?
If only intentions made the world go round. But how we use things, and build upon them, is often rather more interesting than what someone intended.

The commercial CAs will be a relic. It's only a matter of time before the whole house of cards collapses. The price pressure has been downwards for years. EV is not meaningful to most end-users, remaining a money-printing scam that provides little assurance of safety (if Enron, or Ashley Madison could get one, what's it worth?), and is vulnerable to MITM and rebinding attacks[1].

I anticipate that Amazon's CA[2] could undermine the profitability - and via desperation, the integrity - of the whole sector even further.

[1] http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/ZUSMAN/BHUSA...
[2] http://www.geekwire.com/2015/amazon-wants-to-be-your-ssl-cer...
I fear there will be again no Windows binary.
Hope I'm wrong.
> just shifts how I encode the solution

And this is actually the most important thing in industry software development.

It affects:

1. how easy it is to modify an existing codebase: eg., can you add feature X before your competitor even after you app grew to 1M LOC?

2. how easy it is for a new developer to start working productively on you codebase

3. how stable your software is: do modifications introduce subtle bugs that make the whole thing more and more unstable until it becomes unusable?

4. how secure your software is: how easy (read "cost effective") is it to write secure code without having to take 10x longer to do this?

From a business perspective, the "fundamental bottleneck is always what's in your head" problem can always be solved by temporarily hiring a few super-smart consultants with "bigger heads" that can get over this bottleneck, the rare times when you have the problem...

The rest of the time, the "shape of your code" is 100x times more important than the abstract formulation of an elegant solution. Because what you do 99% of the time is "re-shaping" existing code to do slightly different versions of what it already does, not solving interesting problems...

So yeah, at this level, languages can make all the difference!
Seems like Backus likes postfix syntax. Same goes with BNF which reserves cardinality at the end. Does anyone consider the first example easier to read? As a mere Human, I find the syntax hard to follow. 1978 was the era when AI provers were solving theorems in hundreds of steps, which was impossible for a Human to follow.

So, what are the non-von architectures to play with? GPUs? FPGAs? For GPUs, Cellular Automata is a lot of fun. For FPGAs, perhaps Petri Nets. A classic connectionist book is the Minds of Robots, by Culbertson.

What next? Light prisms? How the hell would you program one of those? Or perhaps the problem becomes how to create highly distributed pipelines?
Privacy trumps mining in my book.
Paper clip reset buttons are so 1990?
Ok, let's get specific about listicle crap like this then (aka native advertising).

The formats, popularized by such ad networks as Taboola and Outbrain gained popularity because publishers needed ways to drive additional ad revenue without adding what appeared to be more display ads.

This happened to combine with the layout/design tactics of sites like Buzzfeed and HuffPo that have nailed the approach to keeping users engaged, clicking, and reading.

Coincidentally, this also helped provide a source of content for sites didn't really care about drawing the line between journalism and sales. Not that more respected publications haven't been trying them--just with tighter controls over the advertisers (perhaps via direct sales only).

Affiliates are all over these as expected, and if they can make it work, then that says something because affiliates operate on crap margins and have many other challenges.

That said, there's almost certainly a significant amount of dollars in there from companies just testing it because you need to constantly be testing new traffic sources and approaches. In fact, I always recommend companies carve out a test budget that they can just consider wasted, and if it happens to perform or they learn something, then it usually pays off in spades.

There are always those that are less savvy and tossing money away on wasted impressions. Then there are folks like myself who understand the limitations of the data, the nature of the medium, have their own audience data, etc. In many ways it parallels the differences between Wall St. and Main St. in the investing world.
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While I don't disagree with your comment, I think once you've learned this material you could reasonably look it up in a different book. Put another way, going through this course might greatly increase the value (to you personally) of having any other linear algebra text available. It's not necessary to look things up in the same textbook you learned them from.
+1

LAFF is great
That's why CS matters.

Anyone with a good CS background can think abstractly in terms of algorithms and data structures, instead of focusing in language X with feature list Y.
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At the time when PG was solving a web development problem, web development problems were "new and interesting", so it made sense to use a Lisp.

Nowadays it probably doesn't make sense to use Lisps for web, but it would absolutely make sense if you are solving something that is actually a new and interesting problem nowadays...
Amiga's was being used on Babylon 5 first seasons. Also, I have Amiga A1200 with animations for TV and a movie across the whole 90's. So not was too dead.
This is an outrage
> Javascript will probably be around for a while but Python and Ruby have been constantly shrinking in mind share and buzz these past years

At least in the scientific and data analysis communities, Python is exploding. I'd say it's neck and neck with R. R's infrastructure outside data analysis is weak but improving. Go isn't even a part of the conversation.

Can't speak to Ruby, but as the "big data" hype cycle continues Python will continue to blow up.
tldr: uses python 2.x, discovers known, fixed long ago behaviour
"virtualization, concurrency, and persistence" I would have said something like memory management, interrupt handlers and system calls.
https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy
I have a good CS background and follow a similar approach.

We were lucky that back they excel in throwing all the paradigms at the students and have enough lectures about pure algorithms and data structures regardless of the language.
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Don't worry, there is no actual technical thing called architecture, its a management topic.
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If you're asking yourself what kinds of problems is a Lisp good for you should probably watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g (A computational chemist built himself his own Common Lisp implementation because no other language available was powerful enough for his needs...)

It basically boils to: if you're solving a truly new and interesting problems for which the current libraries and ecosystems don't matter that much to you anyhow (because what you do is too bleeding-edge / ahead of everyone else, so you'll write your own better stuff anyhow), than you might want to choose a Lisp.

And if your problem is so bleeding-edge and exotic that you also need to build your own programming-language for it, than you might just as well build yourself a Lisp (like the guy in the video did) and add your needed features to it, because this would be easier than any other approaches and allow you to spend more time on your problem and not on the language...

EDIT+: another example is DWave using SBCL: http://www.dwavesys.com/careers/senior-software-developer - if quantum (or analog... anyway...) computing is not "truly new and cutting edge", than I don't know what is
Since we are doing kinda root cause analysis, why don't we just ask the companies to use materials that are environmentally degradable and disposable?
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Do you know of any tools/studies/approaches which combine techniques from adtech attribution with techniques from online training, e.g. spaced repetition? E.g. are there timing models for saturation thresholds which cause users to ignore a message?
What's in a necronym?
Cool thanks dang!
Slavery is not economically efficient at all. The fact that economists pointed this unpleasant fact out is what got economics tagged with the phrase "the dismal science".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dismal_science
One issue is that open source CL lacks the tooling from commercial Lisps, and there are not many of them available.

Yes there is a standard, but is like having to keep coding in K&R C, in terms of actual needs.
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My 2015 wrangler seems to use the same torx screw for almost everything there is, and the best part is it came with a nice torx driver wrench with several heads in a little canvas tool kit lol.

I think you have to shop around to find cars that are easy to work on, but it's not impossible. On my chrysler 300 the spark plugs are right on top of the engine lol
There was SCSi, EISA, VESA bus, Unixes for PCs, windows NT, OS/2 and NetWare.
Nothing to do with law. CAs are bound by the requirements that Mozilla, MS, Google and others set out. These requirements obviously go far beyond the law. For instance they require that a CA issue certs to the public (IIRC), so you can't become a trusted CA if you're only issuing for your company.

I'm not sure why you are trying to turn this into legal issue for companies. Of course they can do whatever they want. But then Mozilla and others should respond by revoking trust.

Specifically, no trusted CA should be revoking or refusing certs on non-identity issues. That seems like a perfectly reasonable requirement to hold CAs to as part of including them in default trust stores.
I am far from an expert in creating access for communications.

I know that it must be handled with deliberate diplomacy and tact. If not, the other party could see this action as imposing and could shut down any attempts on your part to create that access. This is even more important when it comes to family members because the emotional investment is a lot higher.

Good luck!
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What are a hospital's costs?
Pro tip: you could simply avoid a dupe submission by searching.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=visual+6502
China indeed went through tough time, but hopefully things will settle down with the new generations.
Here is a thing I built a while back: An 'HTML to 8-Bit-music' converter. This transforms a URL to a Bytebeat formula and uses the HTML of the page behind the URL as input.

http://lazerbahn.com/soundof.html?url=https://news.ycombinat...
YC has no foreign offices to date. Any idea on why the different strategies?
The compiler team built a non-general transpiler from C to Go in order to port the compiler.

Perhaps it could be hacked to read js?
As someone that has to dip into exotics like relevance logic just to somehow get closer to the mode my brain operates in while programming, either the math is seriously undeveloped/undecidable in areas of my interest, or just not capable of much help in what I set to achieve. And I have extensive knowledge in functional programming including proving correctness using Smullyan's tableaux on the fly all the way from very primitive axiomatics up to complete arithmetic in predicate logic. Often in those exotic logic kinds (which I deem necessary) trivial things aren't provable, yet they seem to model actual human reasoning much better and that is my main interest. With computing I am able to actually do some work in this area, with math, due to aforementioned limitations, not so much.

Most mathematicians can't see beyond binary predicate logic :-(
This issue has come up with MOOCS also. If you look at the MOOC sites they offer there class content including videos as downloads. Even tho most of the MOOCS are introductory courses and you probably would need to get a good book to go along with them lots of people were requesting downloads of the content. There is a variety of reasons why people want off-line bundles. Its just something I have gotten use to with this sort of content.
>All AI introduces is a much less constrained upper bound.

Can you please explain?
> The cables, which are sometimes accidentally used in datacenters, feature a protective boot that sticks out over the top to ensure the release tab isn’t accidentally pressed or broken off

Is this just a typo (misplaced "accidentally"?), or is there really a reason such cables shouldn't be used in datacenters?
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> But CAs aren't government entities

All the more reason that they have no particular responsibility to revoke certificates of "criminals".

We've absolutely got to get rid of the idea that a certificate is any sort of measure of probity. It isn't. It's simply a verification of identity.
each email is supposed to have a globally unique Message-Id header, offlineimap or not.
How do these things work in the case of physical goods and documents?

For instance, suppose you and I are both US residents, residing in the US. You loan me some item. I fail to return it and you sue me. The court orders me to return the item to you.

If I had that item in a storage locker in Los Angeles, there is no question that the court would have the authority to order me to retrieve that item and turn it over to you or to the court.

Suppose, however, I have taken the item to Mexico and have it in a storage locker there? Can I now get away with telling the court that since the item is in Mexico, the court does not authority to order me to retrieve it (or to order me to instruct the storage facility to retrieve it and ship it to me)?

Similar question for physical documents. For instance, if GM set up a documents storage facility a few miles away from its headquarters, across the border in Canada, and kept all documents not actively in use at the Canadian facility, would they then be able to fend off document subpoenas from US safety investigators this way?
I'm sure that this a wonderful book, but please note the error right off the bat in equation 1.3 The tangent of the angle in question is b/a NOT a/b as stated. Probably a good idea to keep an sharp eye on the math as you go along in this thing.
probabilistic convolution tree is not much more involved. In some sense it's just multiple polynomial multiplication.

But anyway, coin change problem can be solved much faster.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00453-007-0162-8
Wirth didn't make it. It was a good design, though, as illustrated here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3

Many commercial projects and even some OSS (eg CVSup) got built with it. SPIN OS as well. Another step in right direction away from things like C++. ;)
Perfectly smooth here on a 2012 rMBP in Chrome, just blew through about 20% battery in 10 minutes. I guess you can't have both incredible 3D and great battery life.
Is it common to have washing machines in rooms without floor drains?
The Cisco Field Notice implies that it is a problem with excessively large protectors: "Numerous types of snagless cables are available. However, most are designed in such a way that the protective device is less prominent and/or held more tightly to the tab, which prevents the aforementioned drawbacks."
I realize that this not related to the topic of the post at all, but... why on earth would you (try to) make a pun and then add "(Haha, get it?)" at the end? At least for me, that takes all the fun out of getting a joke :(
If I understand correctly, the cool thing is you can specify the length of the output depending on your size/collision avoidance needs.

> An extendable-output function (XOF) is a function on bit strings (also called messages) in which
the output can be extended to any desired length. The two SHA-3 XOFs are named SHAKE128
and SHAKE256.
I <3 nmh.
Cordova Hot Code Push
Yesterday we released our, previously internal, approach to doing hot code push for hybrid apps as an Open Source native cordova plugin for iOS and Android. It should work well with any cordova/phonegap based app.

We would welcome your feedback.
Did people forget Automation Everywhere Logo?

http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2014-07-17/0717_airbnb_630_INLINE....
My footnotes got mixed up: the first [3] shoud actually be [4].
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Seaside towns like Brighton or Blackpool in the UK would be good places to try.

Both have considerably smaller winter populations (~circa 150k) yet have ~280 and ~400 pubs respectively, and those pubs crowd the streets around the promenade and beach-front.

Brighton: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/pubs/@50.8227911,-0.138...

Blackpool: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/pubs/@53.8090219,-3.047...

I suspect the biggest problem in the UK would be the shadow of licensing hours meaning that the pubs are mostly closed during the 24-hour window.
I find that it hasn't really been designed for keyboard-only use. Some features, such as switching folders for instance, seem to require a mouse, or at least I haven't been able to find a shortcut for doing it. It's also kind of hard to avoid accidentally composing html emails - it cannot be disabled completely. I still use thunderbird myself though, as I haven't been able to find a better alternative for Linux. claws-mail comes close, but it does too much work in the ui thread, which grinds everything to a halt whenever it fetches email. Why do mail clients all seem to suck so much, given how much people use email?