skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like what Sandstorm is doing here, but the most attractive setup for me (self-hosted on a box I physically control) is hampered by the asynchronous up/down speeds of consumer internet. I already have a somewhat slow download (~15Mbps), but my upload is 10% of that, and I'm not fond of the idea of reducing all of my access speeds to my "cloud" data by 90% of what they currently are.
I have been using it for years on a very high traffic website and it works great. Doesn't break a thing for me. The image optimizations it does are awesome.
I was reasonably impressed with Nature's new(ish) reporting checklist, at least, which exceeds what most other journals are doing: http://www.nature.com/authors/policies/checklist.pdf
There was research in bees some years ago that also tested this hypothesis and found evidence for a genetic link between robustness and intelligence:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/old-and-wise/

Also see this from last year:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2015/07/Link...

"They found that, within twin pairs, the brighter twin tends to live longer than the less bright twin and this was much more pronounced in fraternal (non identical) twins than in identical twins."

The intriguing question here is the identity of the dominant mechanism behind the web of associations in human demographic data that link education, intelligence, social status, wealth, and life expectancy. The safe assumption has long been that better lifestyle choices and better use of (and access to) medical services were the driving force here, with smarter people doing better in both of those. Exercise and calorie intake have large effects in comparison to other factors that can be pinned down. It is generally thought that genetics plays little role in mortality until very late life; if it turns out an intelligence-robustness link is meaningful in comparison to exercise and calorie intake, that'll be a turnaround for the consensus. Though extracting compelling evidence from the statistics will be a real feat of arms.
Sadly, I don't think we will witness a working implementation of Hornet anytime soon. Hornet was designed to be implemented at the core Internet infrastructure in order to operate at the network level. It is practically -impossible- to achieve this level of migration (remember IPv6). Moreover, it requires the deployment of a PKI on an unprecedented scale, which may or may not be secure. However, it's true that some ideas might be extracted and used in other future projects.
The best video yahoo made, ever !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E37-iqnvzZ4
Population decline is here or in the near future, depending on where you stand on the planet.

Overall GDP growth is needed because it's the fundamental assumption behind both government and private debt.

The US has both had population growth and anemic growth since 2008. So it's not all population bust.
>"Imagine that you begin a study of 200 people, measuring some variable. You see promising results, so you decide to extend the study and add more people; you test another 100 people.

By adding 100 more people to your study, have you increased or decreased the likelihood that your results were due to statistical chance? Counter-intuitively, the answer is that you have increased the odds that the result was due to chance."

I'll assume you are talking about using a t-test to see if two groups are samples from the same population. The problem you point out has nothing to do with chance. It is that you started with a null hypothesis that your groups were independent samples from the same distribution, but by having the second 100 people sampled conditional on the results of the first 200, you have ensured this is not true.

Such research designs are just a way of making sure the null hypothesis is false. If you get rid of the incorrect attribution to "chance", I don't see what is counter-intuitive about it.
This reminds me of the recent Planet Money "The Experiment Experiment" and they pointed out some journals requesting pre-registered experiments (pre-commited experiment methods and analysis submitted to somewhere online before the experiment is run), it's at the 18-ish minute mark.
Most likely cheap consumer devices wouldn't get it, but prosumer, enterprise and industrial gear should think twice about cutting corners on peripherial protection circuits and make sure to test vcc ground reversal and application to data pins... because commercial engineering boils down to risk management.
Exactly. The problem is that it's hard to find a good balance between having too many hyperparameters, versus basically telling it the answer beforehand. In particular, it was hard to figure out how to let it learn the stride of the convolution, but perhaps we could have done without it.

The other problem is that to get a reasonably-sized convnet by pruning and tying a fully-connected net, you need to start with a huge fully-connected net, which slows things down.
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The allegations sound very bad if true, but that's table stakes for a wrongful termination lawsuit. Given the timing, most likely this gets settled for a tidy sum.
You can develop your own IQ tests if you want, but chances are any IQ test you create will have a high concordance correlation with other IQ tests, and chances are the predictions you make from your new test will match the predictions of other IQ tests. In other words, it will probably validate the suspected construct behind IQ tests.

The construct behind the IQ test is known as g, or general mental ability, as opposed to domain-specific ability. While it's true that repeated practice with a specific IQ test will boost performance, it won't boost it that much, and it won't generalize very well -- that kind of domain-specific improvement is not that interesting.

One interesting IQ test you might want to peek at would be Raven's matrices. Raven's matrices involve a 2-dimensional grid of figures which progressively change due to some hidden factors. The goal is to rapidly generate hypotheses as to what factors might be controlling for the figures, and to make a prediction as to what comes next.

On an aside, I think that the golden objective of AI is to develop a general thinking machine. Such a machine, when bounded by a goal, would be able to develop its own hardware drivers or make software better than itself. It would be able to tackle a game like Go without fine-tuning by expert Google employees, and that same machine would be able to look at scientific data and develop its own causal theories -- as opposed to a domain-specific Go machine, or a domain-specific Chess machine.
This is of course one of those things that is interesting, but of no relevance to the future of your life and life span. If all goes well in the research space, the pace at which rejuvenation therapies arrive over the next 20 years will be the dominant driver of your mortality rate for the rest of your life - even just one narrow treatment after the SENS model capable of repairing one form of cellular damage that contributes to aging should have considerably more impact than exercise or calorie restriction.
First test-tube MEATBALL revealed:
I believe a NFC Yubikey paired with a smartphone app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yubico.yub...) supports TOTP by using the smartphone's clock.
Because projects don't force you to use OS X or Windows or whatever in order to contact the maintainers. Using Slack exclusively does force people to do that.
Going dark has a significant effect on law enforcement. It'll force them to rely on active investigations instead of passively collecting data that they can review at their leisure.

I think this will reduce their ability to target people for political reasons.
You intervene. Aware creatures eating each other is just a hack the universe needed (apparently) to get energy flowing into more and more complex, intelligent organisms. We can and will, given time and non-self-destruction, figure out a way to get all our energy from non-living sources (given some definition of the word living). With that kind of power, perhaps we could end warfare in general in our sphere of influence.

Although it is undeniable that there is a vast beauty to the living systems on Earth, that doesn't mean there couldn't be something more beautiful and alive... without so much... digestion.
nice work :) i will use it
For those who want to bypass the modal, you can type this in the javascript console:

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This is definitely a concern--in fact, it's one that we need to solve in order to have distributed tracing work at all.

A standard for in-process context propagation is not planned for OT1.0rc spec, but I'm a big proponent of including that down the road.

It sounds like you may have some experience and/or interesting use-cases, if so, happy to chat sometime, or feel free to drop by gitter/github and join in the discussion.
>PHP Object Injection in PHP 5: don't ever pass user input to unserialize(); use json_decode() instead.

>PHP Object Injection in PHP 7: either disable object loading or whitelist the allowed types; i.e. unserialize($var, false); or unserialize($var, ['DateTime']);

I'd stick to not unserializing user input in both cases, that's a can of worms you just don't want to open.

Also, RNG bugs are common and exploitable enough to be worth noting: Never use mt_rand, stick to openssl_random_pseudo_bytes.
I'm certain WriteRoom serves a niche. If it indeed was such a pain point in, WriteRoom should've achieved the scale of a .. Evrernote? Just saying that as developers, we tend to believe that our own little quirks is how everyone on the planet likes things to be.
Tens of thousands of dollars total is far less than it costs a company just to moot the question.
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Sorry hadn't seen your message earlier. Everyone pretty much covered it but basically I have multiple reasons why:

- an app on the app store can be pulled out at any moment.

- I can't backup a specific version of the software that I like (I've seen before software become overly bloated in future versions forcing me to keep using an older version)

- I do not want to support Apple's policies on the app store and do not want to ever end up having a system that's as restricted as IOS (although if that happens I'd jump ship back to Linux so I guess my non app store purchases would become useless anyway)

- my experience with ios app store reviews told me that Apple rules are idiotic, the review experience is poorly managed and they don't give a fuck about keeping developers happy now that iphones are massively successful (very different than when they were trying to court developers back in 2005ish...). I don't want my money to help finance this with the 30% cut that Apple takes.

It all really boils to control, being able to keep backup of the software I use, having access to that software even if the developer stops selling it for whatever reason. I dislike the fact that end users have less and less control over the platform they buy and I do not want to be part of that.

I'm a tad hypocritical since I use a mac and I have an iphone lying around to test and software dev on but buying on the app store is where I draw the line.
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FWIW, this is why I generally recommend running on a "cloud" provider like Digital Ocean rather than running physically in your own home. But of course that requires trusting the provider, which is a trade-off.

<vaporware>Once we have all our federation plans in place it will be easy to have multiple Sandstorm servers that connect to each other so that you can restrict critical secrets (say, your PGP key) to your home machine while putting less-critical stuff in "the cloud", but still have them all connect to each other (essentially: federated Powerbox).</vaporware>
"We admit we have no vision for this company, or its purpose, outside of maximizing shareholder value. Literally, we have no reason to exist other than preserving capital."
Drucker had this idea of a "Business X Ray". Yahoo needs to apply that concept to the business: the most profitable 20% lines of business today and tomorrow need to survive: the other need to be axed; the money flowing into those 80% can be now redirected towards the profitable few.

What Yahoo has is breadth of platform: leveraging that can be done, but it will involve pay-to-play for consumers of the platform, something that is always taken badly by the freeloaders.

It's time for some hard decisions that won't sit well with ICs.
It's possible to not use the CDN when you are developing in your local environment, and use the CDN in your production environment. That way you can keep developing even when you are on an airplane.
Hey Sid- Just submitted an application for the Dev Evangelist role. I'd love to chat more!

https://crc.io
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead
Why the assumption that BABA keeps declining in value? Shareholders probably have more faith in BABA than Yahoo core. Would make sense to sell core yahoo and keep Yahoo Japan and BABA under the Yahoo ticker. Reason being the tax from selling the latter two affects your PV more if you believe they will keep growing.
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This looks really awesome, will test it out. I like that they let you download the trial. Don't like you have to go into the Apple Store to buy the app.

There is an app called Dash[1] that has a lot of source code and api documentation stored offline and searchable. It also boasts that you can put your own code snippets in it. So I really wanted to use Dash to keep all my code snippets in, as well as the documentation lookup feature. But adding code snippets to Dash is a somewhat involved process, and I eventually gave up on using it as a notebook. But it might be interesting to see about converting the freely downloadable docsets into something readable by Quiver. This might not be easily doable since these docsets are in a myriad of formats, and quiver only supports markdown and latex currently. Adding reStructured text would probably open up some possibilities.

https://kapeli.com/dash
The Nexus 5X supports the new 15W fast charging USB-C standard . It takes about 15-20m for my phone to go from empty to full from the wall charger, and considerably longer from a USB A port.
Anderson also says he may have been terminated because he reported that an employee tried to bribe him to reduce a co-worker's performance score. The lawsuit says that employee had a "personal relationship" with Anderson's manager, who later gave Anderson a low score.

This is the most believable line to me.
http://games.usvsth3m.com/binary/

UPDATE: seems like the game is broken now. It used to work and it was quite fun.
I think you're right in general, but keep in mind that my question was in response to this quote:

"The idea is to get your entire mentality in the tip of their finger so they can wind you up and down whenever they need to."

Let's deconstruct this:

- get your entire mentality in the tip of their finger.

- wind you up and down when they need to.

The first part of that is an extreme level of control. The second point hinges on the word 'need'.

The OP previously claimed that he/she knows many trolls and they are among the most intelligent and sanest (his/her words) people he/she knows. This comment does not jive with that.
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I'd love to see integration with uploads of backups to Backblaze B2!
These are the wonders of globalization. USA consumer protection laws don't apply to foreign manufacturers using noname brands.
i tend to agree with that. it does seem like there's some general instinct in people that other things (animals, "artificially" intelligent machines) could possess human-like intelligence and subjective experience. i mean, we both seem to be tacitly agreeing to that here. there's also obviously a general instinct that's completely the opposite, and i'd guess that's probably the more prevalent instinct (in the population at large and in many conflicted individuals).

i think the opinion that humans are less special than we once thought, especially on expansive time scales, will only become more widespread.
It would be cool if browsers simply created easy-to-find temporary files on disk that mirror the contents of the text box, and can be copied or edited externally. Then you could use whatever editor you want, or simply copy the file to edit later. Hm.. maybe a FUSE filesystem could be used for this.
Thanks, you can view a complete list on Google finance if you sort by market cap.[1] The top 10 are still US companies though.

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?ei=BzuxVqG2ItO5euz2pMAO#stock...
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In general, it would not be acceptable. "A shrinking economy" can be interpreted as deflationary, and deflation destabilizes regimes in favor of something akin to "strong man" dictatorships. See the interwar period in the 20th century for details.

If you swing the value of holding just currency to where it grows relative to goods without doing anything, then people won't do anything. This spirals. Since nothing is being done, there's no work. You might have a black/grey market economy spring up but don't tell anybody about it.

Specific to Japan, I am not sure. Depends on whether the demographic slack is permanent or temporary.
Does this connect at all with the OPs point or are you just pointing out your Star Wars knowledge?
>I wonder if this one cable was miswired or it's something consistently wrong with the product.

He bought more to find out:
https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung/posts/EBGMagC46fN
Reversed polarity? So, how does that even happen? Are they assembling cables by hand, individually? And not testing them?
It's a tired cliche to share one's fundamentally incommunicable drug experiences in the comments when the topic comes up, is it not? Let's have a go at it.

The author paints an image of conflict between himself on lsd, and himself off lsd. Himself the perceiver, and himself the analyzer. I don't think these are integral to the experience. He mentions perceptions like '...the notion of “teetering” was meaningless too—I was on both sides of the precipice at once'. I can identify this dissolution of boundaries and commingling of opposites in my own experiences. If you try to interpret the experience in terms of dichotomies and distinctions, your words will be inadequate to describe it. The inadequacy of such understanding might agitate you. There is something here for the analytical mind to gain too: learning to coexist with uncertainty, doubt, paradox, and mystery and yet keep going and keep analyzing. You don't have to lose your head on LSD, but you'll find in the deepest places that there is no distinction at all between the analyzer and the dreamer.

In regular old life, too, I believe that distinctions, drawing a line between 'this' and 'that' can be as much a handicap to understanding as an aid. Distinctions tell things apart, but unity and continuity are as integral to reality as difference and change. The wholeness of being engendered by psychedelic experiences is difficult to describe because distinctions are the easy aspect of language, and wholeness the difficult. True ugliness and true beauty walk hand in hand in that strange place. It does one well to let go of the distinction between good and bad when one is on a trip. Forcing it won't help though. "Have you ever tried to relax? It is a paradox!"

I read Laozi for the first time at the end of a "bad" trip. It was a joy. To this day, it is the only text that makes perfect sense to me in the waking world and that other world, the world of dreams. That was my last trip. I wonder how the next one will be, when the time, place, and person are right for it?
That may have been what was happening in the OP?
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Just finished a detailed tutorial on how to quickly build a photo-sharing app using a bunch of off-the-shelf free and open-source components. Would love feedback on any of it so we can expand and enhance.

https://ostetso.com/blog/2016/01/29/how-to-create-a-photo-sharing-app-in-four-hours/
>The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered. In this way the result is weakened and in the end entirely cancelled out.
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"Open source" is a term that was created to subvert another political and social movement (the free software movement). So, it's inherently political in nature. You might see it as "only a license" but I would argue that is a shallow way of looking at the problem. Only in the recent past has it become possible to run a computer with only free software. Before then, users HAD to use proprietary software. To claim that free software is nothing more than a license is to ignore the fact that 30 years ago you couldn't use a personal computer in freedom, that all users were slaves to IBM and the other companies. This is a social and political issue, just like all of your other freedoms are social and political issues.

But maybe you don't care about freedom. I'm not sure why, but you probably have some shallow justification why "it doesn't matter for you".
We could also say that Americans have always had a right to encrypt their long-distance communications, and the government is now questioning this right for what may be the first time.

http://vjolt.net/vol2/issue/vol2_art2.html

As Eben Moglen also observed in a closely related context, Americans have also always had the right to use languages or shorthands of their choice when communicating, many of which significantly (perhaps even entirely) hindered the government from understanding them, and sometimes by design.

http://old.law.columbia.edu/publications/yu-encrypt.html
A society without growth looks like Mandarin China. You want growth for the sake of people, to provide a rising standard of living.
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I don't understand the testcase they provide. It opens a window at https://ssl.comodo.com/ and sends a message to it with `postMessage`. However, the whole point of postMessage is to provide cross-origin communication. Continuing, the message they send is:

{
command: "execCode",
code: "alert(document.cookie)",
}

Apparently https://ssl.comodo.com/ used to then proceed to execute that code. However, this is not a vulnerability in the browser, but in that website. Am I missing something? Was Chromodo breaking the `messageEvent.origin` property, breaking same-origin checks in JavaScript? Seems far-fetched.
Because editing text in a textarea is a horrible and frustrating experience?
<vaporware>Indeed, the plan is to provide an API such that apps can be written to push backups to different providers. The API will only provide access to already-encrypted data, so you don't have to worry about the app stealing your secrets.</vaporware>
The web is fantastic today compared to what it was when I started web development a decade ago.