skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is odd that it is a binary blob, but it isn't dangerous in the same way as binary driver blobs on Linux. Everything you install via Xcode is sandboxed in exactly the same way as the binary blobs you download from the App Store.
I'm a (protestant, FWIW) Christian and I also believe evolution. This has taken some wrestling over the years.

My current understanding is that the creation myths in Genesis are non-literal stories, intended to be taken in ancient Mesopotamian context, primarily describing that the cosmos is God's temple. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_creation_narrative#Mes... )

My main problem at this point is that a central theme in the Bible as a whole is that death was caused by original sin, and wasn't originally part of God's creative plan. Obviously by the time mankind had evolved and sinned, death must have occurred, so I'm struggling to reconcile this one.

How do other Christians resolve this discrepancy?
Well, unfortunately your comment is gone now (I did not ask for it to be removed, nor did I 'flag' it [I can't]). If you repost it I could give a better analysis, but basically you were stating that I didn't "learn" anything.

1) You do not know what I "learn" or do not "learn" from any particular thing.

2) You do not know what lesson was being taught (or even if one was trying to be taught).

Your consideration that some things are "small details that are unimportant" is purely your consideration. While you may not see the importance of such details, others might. In this case, I think it is important that words actually have meaning and that if some words do not have an apparent logical meaning it should be explored more to come up with words that do have an apparent logical meaning (particularly when words, on their face, are self-contradictory).

Or, at least, it should be explored more what the author actually meant, or, might have meant to write in stead.
Yeah IBM really created a false dichotomy. Production users want the mainframe architecture and reliability. Developers are fine with emulation and create demand.

I've got to imagine they are barely breaking even on a minimal config baby class system. The yield on an MCM has to be minimal. You can find videos of how labor intensive the build of a frame is, let alone the engineering. I wouldn't even be surprised if they were loss leaders.

And that begs the question, why not grow the user base with aggressive placement, training, and development. Another $1 billion investment in Linux has no appreciable affect to most mainframe users, and no way there is an ROI. Imagine that injection on this small, loyal platform of users.
Questions Linger as Juniper Removes Backdoored Dual_EC RNG
Where I live car insurance is very comprehensive and one of biggest reasons why people insure their cars is as protection for theft.

For the most popular cars, the ones at higher risk of being stolen, tracking is mandatory. All insurance companies require it, otherwise they won't insure your car.

So, with the justification of a higher risk and by acting in a coordinated manner, peruvian insurance companies (4 which control the market) have effectively deployed a vast tracking network.

Don't know if something similar could happen in the US, there are too many insurance companies as to easily establish common policies across the board and I suspect that it would be harder to come up with a credible justification for it.
Exactly. It's not fetishism of the military, it's advertisement.
Honestly, the tracking is the biggest thing that would stop me from getting a Tesla. Is it possible to completely sever the data connection for the car?
Intel: Integrated chip graphics catching up with graphics cards
"But these sensors do not work well in snowy conditions, and the car's onboard cameras cannot see road markings obscured by snow. Ford said it had instead programmed the Lidar sensors to detect landmarks above the ground, such as buildings and road signs."

Countryside usually there is a lot more snow on the street and especially next to the street. Detecting "landmarks" there will be hard.

Also if you combine LIDAR with stereo cameras, you will find out like Mercedes dod in the 1980s that cameras have problems with low stand sun (light rays), common in winter season (evening). So winter conditions will be harder to solve.
“You want to know who works hard? Our Filipino helper who spends 2 years away from her family in a foreign land and in these two years spends almost every waking hour working. That’s someone who works hard”.

Among several distasteful elements of this article, this was one of the more striking. I'm glad that kind of workplace is illegal in the U.S.
"So, are Intel just being lax on verification or is their stuff just too complex + optimized to catch all the corner cases?"

Lax! Of course it's complicated but verification is about finding the corner cases. Intel is driving all these extensions to the ISA. They have a pretty captive CPU market so they are slack. Qualcomm was the same with Wifi SoCs when I was there. Freescale was better but that may be because of the particular projects.

"I like knowing a batch of chips performed exactly according to spec when probed during operation. Funny I can't remember what you HW people call that activity."

ATE (automatic test equipment)?

The thing is that Intel does have the toughest job. They are 28nm with a complicated design, lots of RAM, power is a big issue so clock gating probably everywhere etc. You can't really compare that with a military or an academic chip. The design constraints are much tougher for Intel.

Still, Intel supposedly has all the geniuses and the money. They should have no excuses.

On the formal stuff, I have yet to be convinced. I never just trust the tools, remember?

My email is now in my user profile if you want to discuss further.
It's actually just a product of how animations work in OS X / iOS. When you play an animation, it takes the place it is currently on the screen and tweens to the place it needs to be on the screen. This means if you stack two animations, the second one takes priority, but the duration stays the same, so what happens is something like this:

N1, N2, ... NN are notifications.

Time 0 ms: N1 is delivered. It appears at y=0 with no animation.

Time 100 ms: N2 is delivered. It appears at y=0 with no animation. N1 is animated to y=50 over 100 ms.

Time 150 ms: N3 is delivered. It appears at y=0 with no animation. N2 is animated to y=50 over 100 ms. N1 is currently at y=25 (halfway through its animation) and is now animated to y=100 over 100ms.

Now N1 appears to accelerate downward while N2 is moving at half the speed downward, and N3 is behind both of the notifications waiting to be pushed down. The effect is like a waterfall of notifications accelerating downwards, without ever explicitly coding it that way.
Well no, mostly we don't, because the brains who happen to be the weapons still need a world to live in after they fight. The difference is that with artificial brains, hey, why would they give a crap what comes after the killing?
He used to be some of those. He used to be a democrat. His current form as a presidential candidate is way hard-right.
Do you know of an actual instance of this happening?

If it is bogus, we should be trying to eliminate socially-enforced ramifications that allow VCs to promote violence.
At the risk of sounding cynical: how long before the insurance providers lobby the government to make these trackers mandatory because they enforce "safety?"
You can alt-click not only the Restore button in iTunes, but also the Update button - and then choose an arbitrary .ipsw file.

Of course, things may still go wrong, betas being betas :)
Virgil (https://virgil3d.github.io/) is a similar effort for virtualizing GPU(s) in QEMU. The virtio-gpu guest DRM driver just shipped yesterday with Linux 4.4, making it possible to accelerate multiple VMs using host hardware.

A Direct3D guest driver, if it performs well enough, could finally end the hacky VFIO passthrough setups that are currently in vogue.
> I'm glad that's illegal in the U.S.

Which part of it do you think is illegal? That would be totally legal in the US as long as the helper immigrated legally.

In the case of undocumented immigrants, the US relies heavily on them (sometimes paid, sometimes literally enslaved). Restaurants, agricultural products, cleaning, and child care would be radically more expensive for everyone if undocumented immigrants didn't work long hours doing those jobs for what is often less than minimum wage.
Good agencies copy, great agencies steal and receive awards
Jack Ma in 1999: Selling Alibaba from His Apartment
One of the first movies I watched on Netflix (we just got it) was "The Internet's own boy".

He was the typical overachiever, successful in almost anything he touched but finally he decided to hack justice. And broke a bunch of laws and went against a few institutions. JSTOR wasn't responsible, MIT might've been but he broke through enough barriers set up by them that Aaron did deserve a slight tap on his knuckles (the plea deal). And rather than take it he decided to end his life cause it meant the end of his political career. If he had been so volatile I wonder how he would've reacted had his earlier efforts elsewhere had failed.
Ask HN: Have people outside the US heard of the Powerball on the news?
Given that the Powerball now holds the lottery as the largest lottery in the world, I was wondering if it is being reported in other countries.
iPod 'spy camera' found fitted to cash machine to plunder customers' accounts
MIT Failed him - spectacularly so. If they had declared that they had no wish to see him in prison and used their (considerable) influence he would be alive.

Instead, this political, vindictive creature http://wgbhnews.org/post/carmen-ortiz-spotlight-under-fire and her nasty acolytes in search of a high profile "Scalp" pushed him over the edge.

A terrible waste and a horrible use (misuse) of prosecutorial discretion.
Duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10879450
google the url for a working link:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

at least for now
Shoot me an email if you want me to help you interview. :)
You might enjoy reading this book:

http://smile.amazon.com/Why-Evolution-True-Jerry-Coyne/dp/01...

It summarizes the strongest evidence for evolution in several categories, including the fossil record; the evolution of various features like feathers, eyes, and wings; sings of path dependence that can only be explained by evolution, like the recurrent laryngeal nerve[0]; etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve#Evid...
“Cleaning Education” School Teaches Public Spirt
Are you dirtier than a Roomba can handle?
Passwordless authentication seems like a good alternative: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/10/passwordless-authenticatio.... I’m planning it as a replacement for Persona. (Currently waiting for my host, Modulus, to add support for Let’s Encrypt.)
This issue aside, it's always okay to scrutinize the intentions and funding sources of organizations. The EFF once tried to work with big tobacco.
until they make it mandatory and then the discount will be as good as gone.
Does she have a github account with some examples of personal projects she works on? Does she go to networking events or meetups to expand her professional network, or could she maybe contact previous colleagues to ask for tips on upcoming openings?

I'm not in the states, so I don't know what the employment environment is like on the ground, but from what I know in general getting a job depends on who you know and what others know about you. In other words; getting employed via the traditional vanilla job application route is going to be tough. Especially for immigrants.

She needs to go out and meet people, work her personal network, and have some cool and interesting projects to hook people's attention with.
>or otherwise placed new locks around them that hadn't existed beforehand

How is creating network and identity based locks around the papers not placing new locks?
> That simply isn't true.

Nu-huh!

C'mon. Is this what HN has come to?

Look, I'm made an observation: put a kid in a room with three objects, 2 computers and 1 book, and in only one combination does he in fact learn python! He knows the terminal is on the iMac. I know he knows, because he knows how to ssh to another server to launch our Minecraft server. I've shown him python is there. But he doesn't use it.

He frankly seems quite proud of his "hacker laptop" that boots to console. He logs in, starts X, and gets a full-screen xterm running tmux. It even has an antenna sticking out. He thinks it's cool.

Fine. Whatever floats his boat.

But, seriously, if you're writing code, you are quite literally not doing any of the other things that you could be doing with that computer. E.g., browsing the internet, writing a document, drawing, etc, etc.

It's like saying "When I'm writing with this pencil, I'm not doing any of the other things I could be doing with this pencil." E.g., throwing it in the air, braking it in half, pulling the eraser out, sharpening it, whittling it down with a knife, splitting the wood to get the whole lead out, etc, etc.

I'm just stating a fact. There's no argument to be made there. If you want an argument, there are other things to argue about.
He does not like to be filtered, but he's OK filtering content...
wonder how android would behave in this situation
HTC Vive Pre-Orders Will Open on February 29
I know it feels really rad and smart when we see this headlines and say "finally Americans are waking up to privacy conerns!!!11!", but the mere existence of such a headline only indicates Americans' growing apathy to digital footprint of any kind. And for good reason: if Skynet/Matrix/Hal were close to such a self-awareness, we would have already solved some pretty legit issues (e.g., poverty, greed, insecurity, life, etc.).
So what's the car theft rate there? What about RF key validation?
More like 1-10 years. And the snow plover destroy the surface of the roads, so you can't mount some device on the road surface or just beneath the surface. Even the sticks net to the road get destroyed from time to time by trucks or snow plovers.
"Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar."

Phones are increasingly powerful, prevalent, and for a lot of people, their primary computer. Being able to use the same code, data, and test cases for every platform you want to train or run your model on is good from a software engineering perspective. Don't underestimate the challenges of software eng. when ML is involved -- see, for example, http://icml.cc/2015/invited/LeonBottouICML2015.pdf
Would you maintain that attitude when confronted with your own or your loved one's diagnosis for something terminal and agonizing? Or is that cavalier, pretentiously "utilitarian" stoicism reserved for the young and invincible?

And even if you don't value your own health, substituting another warm body in place of a cold one does not undo the suffering caused by disease and death. All those people you don't care about deserve better than your "meh." And thank goodness we have so many people who disagree with it.
The problem with these systems is that batching would make the implementation more complex. Sending say 10m notifications per second in a fire-and-forget manner is easily distributable en requires little state. Batching per user would be do-able but requires thinking about distribution (messages to the same user should at some point go over the same machine) and tracking a bit of in-memory state per user.

In short I can imagine the trade-off of less-optimal support for some edge cases like these.
I wish more phones followed the, somewhat uncommon, droid turbo battery model. The droid turbo 2 has a 3760 mAh battery. On slow days I can 2 to 3 days of internet browsing and reading hackernews without charging (with battery saver mode enabled).

I wish I could play around with some of my performance settings to squeeze even just a little bit more battery savings in.
U.S. Modernizes Nuclear Weapons by Making Them Smaller
Apparently this site works for other people, but it seems to be pointless to me. All I see is a phone with the date, temperature, tiny text that says "We've freed up 1.8GB by offloading 10 apps and 34 photos", and nothing to click on. Do you have to disable adblock or something?
aaronsw was not a student at MIT.
The "them" in the sentence you quoted refers to "the original public records".

The locks you refer to were around the new, value-added work: the digitized, processed, cataloged version of the papers they had made by adding value to the original public-domain documents. The locks were not applied to the original documents.

It's like the difference between storing a touched-up version you made of an Apollo 11 photo in a vault, and stealing the original photo negative from NASA and putting that in a vault.
I misread it as "shareholders" to be honest.
War Is Extinct, and We Miss It Part 3: What Is Our Military Future?
The discount is partly there because tracking makes it cheaper for them to insure you, because they can estimate risk better. The better you are at estimating risk, the narrower your margins can be.
[posting on behalf of my colleague @ Google]

Hi everyone, Google Product Manager for Maps APIs here. We are not revoking Routebuilder’s access to the Maps API. Unfortunately, we mistakenly sent a letter to Routebuilder saying that they were in violation of the Google Maps API terms of service. This was an error. Once the developer contacted us about this issue, we replied apologizing for the misunderstanding and confirming that we would not be revoking his access to the Maps API. (He contacted us on Friday, we replied on Monday, the blog post was published on the weekend.)

We’re really glad he let us know so we could fix the issue and we encourage any developers that have issues in future to reach out to us so we can help. Developers who want to contact the Google Maps APIs team: Stack Overflow and our issue tracker forum (https://code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/) are both monitored by the Google Maps team weekly.
How to set up cron job for InstaMember?
Why don't you try it yourself, and Google

Powerball 1.3 site:.co.uk
Powerball 1.3 site:.de
Powerball 1.3 site:.fr

? You'll find the answer is "yes".
This is really not how the court system works.

Big, intimidating numbers are definitely one of the tactics used by prosecutors to coerce a plea.
JSTOR doesn't lock content away. They make deals with existing journals to take content that is not available online and make it available online. Any access restrictions JSTOR imposes come from the content owners, not JSTOR.

JSTOR has also convinced most of these journals, even ones with restrictive access policies, to let JSTOR make their content available for free to the public at many libraries and schools, including ones that do not have subscriptions to the underlying journals. Because of JSTOR, many second tier colleges, community colleges, and even high schools have free access to vast journal libraries that they would not have otherwise had access to. They also do a lot to bring cheap or free access to vast journal libraries to schools and libraries in developing countries.

JSTOR has probably expanded free public access to scientific research more than any other group or organization.

Sure, it would be nice if everything were open access so you could just legally get it all on the net for free, but many journals aren't willing to do that yet, and in the meantime JSTOR provides a way for most of the public to get that content at the cost of having to visit a library or school that offers public JSTOR.
Are you basing this on statements from MIT, from the government, from the indictment...?

I ask because, though I've never been near MIT, everything I read about it suggests that every one of these steps is seen as part of the game expected to be played by a few curious students now and then.
> He is no actual criminal. He didn't feel the articles he downloaded from servers should be kept private.

That is a horrible argument. should I just be able to take your tv because I think it shouldn't be locked up in your house?

I'm not saying I agree with the papers being locked up. Not believing in a law does not make you innocent. Many people think they don't have to pay their taxes and they all go to jail.
Easy, God has a specific meaning in mind but we are still too young to understand it.

Or the meaning got lost in translation.

Listen, if christian people (disclosure: I'm catholic) can rationalize genocide and enslavement of other people then rationalizing something like this should be easy.
It's incredible that planners have fallen into the cobweb [1]. For enterprises with long lag from set-up should be aware that you are not the only one thinking "I'll have me a bit of that" and that you'll all be on-stream together and then there will be too much.

It was first noted in the pig breeding in 1925 [2]. Breeders saw today's prices, bred pigs based on it and then too many pigs were all born at the same time depressing prices, so nobody breeds and then prices go up - repeat

> Companies that took advantage of the cheap debt to increase production are now stuck with a big bill that will be difficult to cover.

And they will be blamed, like householders that borrowed to buy McMansions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobweb_model

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_cycle
Who's profitable? Once upon a time, 1983 was the year of the robotic startup. That didn't end well.[1] It looked so promising back then; mapping using ultrasonic sensor was starting to work. But it wasn't good enough.

So far, the only profitable autonomous products are industrial robots and vacuum cleaners. (The surgical robots like DaVinci are teleoperators.) Even Boston Dynamics, in the end, failed to produce a usable product; the LS3 (the militarized version of BigDog) was canceled.

The technology is much better today than ever before, and there's a lot that could be done. But so far, there's nothing that's cost effective enough to be produced in volume. Except robot vacuum cleaners.

If robot vacuum cleaners were cost effective and able to keep out out of trouble (such as getting snagged in cords) most offices would be using them. That's not happening yet.

[1] https://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/robot.papers...
Could probably route it through a non-existent proxy.
Well if they go to bed 2 to 4 hours later than you do, then you have 0 more hours a week, and 0 more days a year than they do.
Notifications are unique to each platform. Plus things like animation, delay, sound effects, etc all could operate a bit differently.
MySQL Master-Slave Replication on the Same Machine
It is easier to browse this list than it is to browse a Netflix genre...
So let a jury decide guilt or innocence, based on information such as whether there was a moving car within range of the pedestrian's crossing. The point of plea bargains isn't to save the government money. It's to prevent jury trials.
Those who want to hack/program/tinke will do so on whatever they have access to.
Those who don't—won't, Pi or no Pi.
No system is fault proof and I doubt we will ever surrender the ability to manually override the system.
At least in the flying-robot space, I think cheap batteries and sensors have been at least as important.

The sensors -- primarily accelerometers -- are etched in silicon, and benefit from a lot of the same cost and quality improvements as other microelectronics.

Batteries don't get better as fast as processors, but they do get better. About 7% per year for the past two decades. That has been adding up, and finally tipped us over the point where you can have your own tiny flying helicopter for $15.
The iPhone and Android app has been out for many years. It currently relies on a password (1FA), but I haven't heard about it being exploited.