skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an About-Face
Looks fake/misreported: https://www.quora.com/Has-the-Riemann-Hypothesis-been-solved...
Depends on what you consider as bad people. One could easily say that both east and west worlds are bad or evil
Read the article, up to 25% of the youth in these areas show some form of support for ISIS.
Can spikes be seen in the late-night data when new businesses open around the pickup address? In the Williamsburg section, the reason why the N 11th St block area is bright red in the observation is mostly due to the opening of a hotel/restaurant and two very popular electronic music clubs. Prior to those 3 businesses opening I can't think of any reason why anyone would be in that 1 block area late at night. Is there anything city agencies could do with this feedback loop of data after businesses open to assess their impact on an area? Liquor licenses? MTA?
> The question is - what's the price?

I am familiar with the tech world and I keep asking myself this question too. From what I see now, all the data that Facebook collects can hurt me in two ways: more insidious ads, and when used by a superhuman-level AI to infer pretty much anything about me. The AI doesn't seem on the horizon, and the ads don't seem to be that harmful, they're only annoying. There's of course an angle of a dystopian totalitarian government, but in that case we're all screwed anyway; data collected by Facebook or Google will make little difference.

Then there's an insurance angle, but here I have mixed feelings - it seems to me that it's better for an insurer to know more (I for one would like car insurance companies to have real-time centimeter precision location data about every driver, that could restore some sanity on the roads), but not too much. I don't know where I stand on this yet.

Anyway; the way I see it, this whole data-selling business model works mostly because advertisers are stupid enough (or rather, in so tight a competition) to pay for data that won't give them much edge anyway. In a way, it's not users that are the victims here, it's the advertisers.
From this article -- "They're locked to Tracfone's network, and Tracfone has a very punitive unlocking policy: you have to use this cheap, pretty lousy Android phone for a year on Tracfone's network before you can unlock it."

As opposed to the original iPhone which had a non-existent unlocking policy :-)
As some of the comments in the article point out, you probably won't be spending $10 on this phone to use it over a cellular network - rather, you would probably just use it to connect over WiFi as an additional smart device.

It does have Android 4.4 with WiFi support - that should be enough to use as a cheap additional smart device at home.
I don't think so, as far as I know encrypted data doesn't really have a signature that can be easily spotted
French President Hollande Seeks to Amend Constitution
Google and ASUS Launch the $85 Chromebit, a Chrome OS Desktop on an HDMI Stick
Remember the late 90s, when Fed chairman Greenspan was terrified the national debt might actually be paid off someday (denying the rich an investment in our future taxes)?
To be fair, the same youths in Germany or the UK that are technically-not-unemployed aren't faring much better, working below minimum wage or ridiculously precarious jobs (like the infamous 1€/hr jobs in Germany or the 0-hour contracts in the UK).

I'd argue this "French economy" argument is pretty weak under scrutiny.
Many of those choices to make it easier only work if you're willing to disallow a lot of SQL semantics.

Like, tradeoffs in consistency? No transactions? That requires not implementing some important bits of SQL.
One that tells you the truth, not just "things that are true"?

For example, don't just tell us he said, and she said, and leave us to try to figure it out. Investigate until you know who's right, and why, and tell us.
No because they're not using it in the first place. It's a totally unrelated issue, dear to some for reasons entirely their own. The fear of terrorism is just a convenient little button to press to get their cookie.
Dr Enoch presented the paper at the International Conference of Computer Science and Mathematics [http://computer.conference-site.com/] entitled "A matrix that generates the point spectral of the Riemann Zeta function".

ABSTRACT

This work presents some meromorphic functions which have the same results as the Riemann zeta function. Matrix representations of these functions are also obtained through which the general form of the point spectral and the trace of the Riemann zeta function were generated.
The Riemann Zeta function and its Analytic Continuation function are presented as function with real and imaginary parts. By this The Riemann Zeta function and its Analytic
Continuation function are transformed into their Matrices equivalents...[some equations]..Some methods of solution are presented. [http://computer.conference-site.com/proceedings_icmcs_2015.p...].
Most users do not use password managers, thus most users won't remember the password you generate and you will have the same problem.
If they were using something federated and secure like XMPP+OTR, sure, but Telegram is as easily moderated as any other centralised solution (they might as well be operating on an FB Profile + FB Group Chat).

If the DOD/NSA/CIA/WTV wanted to shut this down (which they likely don't as this probably serves as a nice stream of data) all they need to do is shut-down Telegram's US servers, which would likely cripple the entire company financially.
I'm just giving you a book recommendation pertinent to your question of how a non-religious person might define "good".

Another commenter in this thread, @marcosscriven, also linked to The God Delusion. It's been a while since I read it, but I remember it being quite informative too.

> no-one has come up with a good "right" way to
> live or act and it is often even harder without
> a theist grounding to decide on some pretty major
> points.

This is just something you're asserting without arguments. Proponents of secular explanations for "morality" would argue the opposite.

There's no innate compelling reason for why Reasoning about morality from a theist background would be easier. I think all evidence points to the contrary.

Perhaps you disagree with that, but we could have a more interesting discussion if instead of blindly asserting our positions we'd back them up with some arguments, don't you think? :)

There are a lot of societies on the planet today that have little to nothing to do with the Judeo-Christian tradition or are otherwise without a scriptural moral tradition.

Do you really think those societies or their members are more inherently immoral? At best the idea is naïve, at worst xenophobic and offensive.

> Plus going back to burning witches and
> stoning homosexuals, really?
> [...]
> It isn't about "cherry picking".
> Different traditions have their basis,
> I'm not sola scriptorum, the CofE believes
> in "scripture, reason and tradition".

I wasn't mentioning homosexuals and burning witches to rile you up, but rather as an extreme (but I feel appropriate) example of how much of scripture is at best the source of ambiguous instructions when it comes to moral issues.

You're quite correct that the moral tradition of Christianity doesn't stop at scripture. I'm not only agreeing with that, but suggesting that that post-scripture process is actually the only relevant process by which we arrive at moral truths.

Why is it that we've decided to put more emphasis on some stories in scripture than others? That really is largely a process that can best be described as cherry-picking. How do we decide what to cherry-pick?

I think the evidence is clearly on the side of the secular argument that humans are social animals, therefore we need to exist (mostly) peacefully in groups, which gives rise to "moral" principles like not screwing with your neighbor least he screws with you back.

Scripture is really just an adaptation of these principles in the form of stories and allegories. Those stories are important to reinforce those ideas in society, but to say that they're the primary source is putting the cart before the horse.
There are systems that get this right. Just apparently none for Postgres or MySQL :-(
> Is there a language X that allows you to write high performance X without huge amounts of profiling and time?

Yeah, if high-performance is something faster than Haskell I'm already there with C++. If I understand copy/move semantics I won't get bitten by anyone, same thing with laziness in Haskell, although sometimes I stumble a bit.

Of course we're all talking about C++14. I guess everyone else is talking about GHC 8.+, at least in this thread.

> You can't really compare development time though can you, even with C++x11? Even if so, you should probably specify the version of C++ you are referring to since they can mean very different experiences.

Write a highly performant discrete optimization in Haskell using monad transformers that have overhead, laziness that has overhead, and almost everything has several levels of indirection.
Yes, I can write a prototype that is sufficiently fast, I can then profile and write a version that Haskell might never reach. And yes, it'll probably take me less time to do than to do the same with Haskell, it might be my lack of expertise, who knows, I've tried.
I've got fewer than 100 "friends" and there are a few whose posts don't show up in my newsfeed. I think their algorithm for showing what people post is fundamentally broken.

Yes, I've gone through the "like/follow/show all posts" dance several times.
I believe I understand your position. In a situation where a project is open for market-rate bidding, you believe that only people looking to profit should bid. To do otherwise is more than rude, it hurts someone trying to make rent. I don't agree, for several reasons.

First, I think that because the goal here is a public good. As a result, civic engagement in the form of volunteerism is something to be welcomed and encouraged. Volunteerism in public good production is a net win, as it frees up resources for other uses where volunteer labor is not available. This could easily include paying contractors to write Open Source software, leading to a net increase in the production of Open Source software. The goal is a maximum of production of public goods, not a maximum of employment of people to produce public goods.

Second, I do not think you like where this logic leads if applied with your caveats. By your logic, you should object to any non-profit performing service that are also performed by for-profit entities in the event that the former undercuts the latter for service recipients. Your logic requires you to object to free clinics, MSF, and food pantries. All participate in markets as volunteers where others are attempting to participate as for-profit actors. Do you think MSF is rude and inconsiderate?

Third, I do not think you have considered the practical implications of your proposal. How do you propose 18F determine which projects should be market-rate-only and which should be volunteer-only? Do you think there's reasonable any way of doing this that produces ideal or near-ideal outputs? I do not. Such a distinction is at best arbitrary.

To review, I understand your position. You hold that volunteers should not undercut for-profit contractors in market bidding scenarios. I disagree. The product here is a public good, and we wish to maximize production of public goods for a given cost. Further, any logic that requires you to object to MSF should be reconsidered. Finally, I hold your proposed alternative to be unworkable.
Criticizing a religion and discriminating on the basis of religion are two vastly different things.
Rdio, Inc Asset Sale Process and Purchase Agreement
Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
What's this "encryption technology"? It just sounds like another case of "a hacker named 4chan", meaning the media throwing around buzzwords like they know what they mean. Encryption is built into technologies, not something that stands on its own like a weapon. It's like saying, "the hacker used http to gain access to the server".
Global median (by region or country?) vs global mean by total population, computed from the raw data in the annex combined with some population figures from wikipedia.

I know how to do maths, thank you very much.
Well, the key tenets of beliefs and the legal outline laid down in the revealed texts are essentially immutable, per what a Muslim is meant to subscribe to. If this core idea is not there, that is logically equivalent to not subscribing to the religion (whoever wants to change whatever at wherever renders any belief fundamentally void, let alone what one believes to be God's guidance). But the jurisprudential framework ('usul al-fiqh') encompasses the principles to formulate specific course of action according to the immutable legislative guideline (formulated from authentic texts) in the specific circumstances. An example, harming oneself is prohibited in the text, so smoking has the ruling of being impermissible as its harms are largely known now while earlier academics used to deem it disliked based on another textual principle.
In short, there are constants and there are variables; without any constants, it all becomes tendentious whimsy.

The ideas related to the roles, responsibilities and respectability of the individuals are different in the Islamic creed. Yes, a woman gets half from her father (her husband owes her, legally), and she is exempt from the basic responsibility to become the breadwinner. Any Muslim is meant to respect and care for his/her mother more than the father. Historically many Muslim women were scholars (https://archive.org/download/AlMuhaddithat/al%20-%20Muhaddit...) and rich (in the old Muslim heritage, many of the large endowments for public welfare are known to be from women). Besides, a merely demographically Muslim territory may not embody much of the Islamic ideals though.

In the other part, I was referring to the epistemological basis regarding the concepts of triumph/progress; in particular, in a framework where basically, "we are from nowhere, we are going to nowhere and we are here for nothing", nothing really signifies anything.

Thanks.
No

One intends to cause terror, the other to hit military targets (against a certain government).

Who mentioned values?
The first supercomputer was capable of at most 160 MFlops, which is much less than this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1
Indulging this fantasy, it begs the question of whether those (enencrypted) communications would have been targeted and flagged for analysis
It also didn't get where it is today just because Mark sat there thinking hard and intense. There's a lot of people involved in something as big as Facebook, and a lot of lucky breaks going their way.
> How do you have that conversation?

This is NOT the time for a conversation. Deliver the news in a professional, respectful, and buttoned-up manner. If you take more than 5-7 minutes, things will go badly.

If he pleads why me?!-- Tell him, to call you in 9 months time and you'll talk it through. But you can not discuss it now.

Time will take the sting, hurt, and anger out of the decision. It may also give you the clarity and perspective that this was unquestionably the right move for the business.

When (if) he calls for that follow-up conversation. Use that occasion to repair & rebuild your friendship. It can be done.
Restricting Encryption Would Not Have Prevented the Paris Attacks
It's a few cents over $10 with tax, including free ship to store, no additional purchase required.

Source: I bought it.

Minutes run $20 for 180 if you want to activate it, which is a fair price for a pay as you go emergency phone, especially one running Android that includes a data plan.

For a heavily used normal day to day phone sure, something else is better.
I don't understand. How can you be sure that they haven't shared their keys to the government?
I'll notify the Mersenne project.
also check out http://vietocr.sourceforge.net/
3 Red Flags That Will Torpedo Your Chances of Getting the Job
How Saudi Arabia's Wahabi Ideology Created ISIS
Also they were talking about rotary phones!
Are we going to do this every day now?

There are several "$10" phones out there and have been for the past couple years.

I have a dozen various brands of android phones sitting on the desk in front of me for testing, none were over $20.

Next Friday (black friday) there will be $5 phones, $10 phones and $20 phones.

Both Best Buy and Kmart will have this phone for $5 next Friday:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/net10-zte-paragon-4g-with-4gb-me...

(net10 is tracfone, same no unlock policy)

You can even find middle range phones now for $20.

https://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-phone/zte-obsidi...

($20 phone with $40 airtime card - quad-core, 1GB of ram)

Yes Tracphone will not unlock the phone. But you can use mvnos on other phones if you actually want a phone plan.

You can even get free phone service from services like RingPlus with Sprint/Boost Mobile/Virgin Mobile phones and those phones are sometimes $10-$20
If you always used one computer that would be fine. But if you create your account on your home computer and then want to use it on your work computer, your ipad, your android phone, and occasionally at your brother's house then we need some way of authenticating you instead of your computer. And even if you don't want to log on from any of those places, eventually you are going to get a new computer.
JavaScript is just not a nice language to maintain - bizarre scoping, confusing inheritance model, extremely clunky syntax, confusing standard data types. Being "dynamic" isn't a feature so much as an acceptable cost, but JavaScript doesn't really give me any expressibility advantage over straight Java, yet alone compared to Scala.
Going for retribution continuously is the same thing as "an eye for an eye and the world will go blind"
I have, and every time I do, I basically end up trying to rebuild Bootstrap's grid. It has 4 screen sizes that cascade so you can set a small size and not explicitly declare that you want larger screens to be the same, responsive and adaptive resizing, offset columns, push/pull (this is hard, and necessary if you need to change the order of elements based on size), and BS4's alpha adds opt-in flexbox.

Regarding push/pull, Bootstrap is the only grid system I've used that has had this. The use case is when you want

[x] [y] [z]

on desktop to be

[z]
[y]
[x]

on mobile.
Same here, also, I would like to add out that we in generally tend to use Bootstrap only for internal admin interfaces, not for the ones that out end-client would see, though.

Even then, those are prototypes that get replaced by more adequate things eventually. Not to mention, in many situations I would actually write better (as in more robust and more maintainable) solutions than Bootstrap with less CSS and mark-up funk, but that might stem from my misuse or insufficient knowledge of how to use bootstrap.
All true, but none of that contradicts what I said.

Right now, most refugees are in Turkey, Lebanon, Germany and Jordan (not counting the internally displaced). Lebanon and Jordan in particular are completely overwhelmed. What many people (such as the UK government) suggest is to help these countries cope by sending money and logistic support.

Many refugees understandably do not wish to spend the coming years in bleak refugee camps and want to leave the region. That is very understandable and in my opinion the world should agree on refugee quotas according to population size and economic strength. The world includes the United States of America that otherwise likes to make its presence felt in the Middle East.
You raise some points which i may have neglected a bit.

Allow me to elaborate a bit on the setting from which my experience came. This was in the later phases of my whole hallucinatory "wonderland", and i spent my time pretty much solely within the realms of classical music (early spotify binges, time to kill, and a tendency to not be able to shut my brain down in the evening.)

Now, the easiest way to describe it is probably to say that my dreamstates seeped over from my "dreaming" brain to my waking brain so that what should be relegated to the realm of dream became something i played with from an "i am awake and physically present and this is all in my mind, hopefully" (when i was in the thick of it the paranoia of the external sometimes asserted itself).

So there are plenty of stories about people who find songs they've never heard in their dreams, or do stuff like that. What is interesting is that when you're awake, conscious, and interactive in your thinking and music manifests itself you (or at least i) end up with a very brittle construction that you need to keep a special kind of mental focus on for it to keep unfolding. This mental focus also affords at least the semblance of control over instruments and moods.

So yes, once the "how does this make sense" part kicks in, you end up tuning your brain away from the music and the music stops, but with the right mental tricks you can

Also, from my experience there was never any active input querying, this was more or less independently manifested from my brain based on the input (really quite excessive amounts of classical music/sensory depravation/scrambling of the daynight wakesleep cycle) that i had exposed it to.

I hope that was reasonably focused and relevant.
My question really was ambiguous and more to do with subtle frustration with limitations of the current DF library and the dependence of various nice statistical features in GLM, or plotting in Gadfly, that rely on DataFrames. It's not just nullable types (and also I believe the Nullable arrays in DF are tuned for performance with linear algebra operations, which may not be true for general Nullable arrays). You can get to the features in other ways, but it's easiest to use DataFrames and the documentation is written for DF's. However I think the documentation, scope of functionality for DataFrames, etc is not complete enough for me to quickly use it day-to-day. So I basically just put everything back into arrays and do a couple of custom functions to get my work done. Julia makes this great, but it'd be better to not need to and MATLAB still has many more "easy" functions along these lines.
All your internets are belong to us. Resistance is futile.

What was the date for Genisys to launch again? Some time in October 2017?