skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure! Happy to explain it. Although I have to say I'm not sure what textbooks are saying these days. When I talk to programmers right out of college sometimes there's a bit of confusion as they talk about patterns I know, but using different names. I grew up programming on an 8088. :)

In a podcast called College Info Geek and recently in I did a talk at Northwestern (The Garage) and I called what I'm doing "Emergent" because there are many competing little pieces. Let's see if I can explain it quickly here, though please don't be too hard on me I'm trying my best to answer a lot of questions, but I'm really happy to go more into later after all this dies down :) Conceptually, you could think of it as first creating what I'll call "song-bot", which acts a kind of overlord, and has some instructions from me (like maybe there's some specific chords I want it to use, keys to avoid, tempo, brainwave protocols, genre, etc, etc). This song-bot guy then spawns a bunch of little other bots that compete with each other for the right to play/fade in/or generally be a part of the final result. These little guys have different characteristics, like a "drum-bot" might has different places it "wants" to be placed, and so generally competes with other drums, but not always. Sometimes I'll even have little "bots" for individual notes of a certain instrument. They obey certain rules of course, to form a background, drum line, or a simple melody, and then they pass that information along to subsequent incarnations (there's some learning involved in that process, though I hesitate to give it any textbook term - man, you have me terrified here of defining something wrong! :) ). Through that learning, the pattern the original little guys made has more weight and will tend to repeat. But again, not always.

After a while, a song... emerges. A kind of "emergent intelligence."

The resulting song can be quite complex and varied. Of course there's more to it, because songs have sections, but all in all the genres I'm using are very structured. Techno especially, is very easy for the AI. Sometimes I'm tasked with creating a theme in a particularly difficult genre, and that's when it gets really tricky/fun (such as some of the Indian ones, which were labors of love). In these cases, I may have to re-rerun many "generations" of the AI through the same song from beginning to end, with different parameters/instruments, but with the same patterns/learning, because what can happen in these cases is that it starts out simple, and increases in complexity as it goes, so the start can sometimes be a bit boring.

Also keep in mind this is just a conceptual explanation. The code is much less amusing. Thinking of naming processes "bots" though just for fun.

I hope I explained it OK. Listen, I'm not saying it's Watson or anything, it's really just a necessary step I had to take in order to make the computer do what I wanted it to do. I tried out some different ideas, and this one worked the best. I like the result at least :)
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The "debris" would a fine dust scattered over millions of square kilometers at that speed.
If you saw what

In a nutshell, what are networking devices doing that mixes network and transport services (other than NATing)?
"A guaranteed minimum income will without question lead to higher prices on consumer goods"

Why? BI does not increase money supply, it takes from the rich and gives to the poor. An increase in the money supply is the only thing pretty much guaranteed to increase inflation.

BI will definitely have localized effects on prices. It may increase money velocity, which could cause inflation. However, that's not "without question", and almost definitely wouldn't "put us in the same position as before"
The users passcode is entangled with a key unique to the hardware of the phone to generate the actual key used to encrypt the device. The hardware key is implemented such that it's impossible to read out via software.
> It's too soon to get a feel for the media narrative, but, what do you think that will be? Doesn't Apple buy ads?

Apple buys Ads but Apple "cares" only because of the PR value of encrypting things and the fact enough of Apple's younger crowd would ditch them that it would eat into their quarterly profits. However, if its in the corner of losing 5% of their customers vs. a major legal war with the US Government, I'm not sure they'll choose to fight much [if at all].

Apple buys Ads, yes, but so do 29103423904092334902 other companies. If Apple stops, they can get their money elsewhere. I've already heard tons of people insisting Apple shouldn't be allowed to encrypt phones, so I'd say the media narrative is already playing out to Apple's detriment.

> Our media isn't always pro-government, thankfully, so let's see what comes out. So far I see reports of Cook's statement, the Apple Q&A, and Comey's letter. Some are opinionated but most are just telling the story.

The vast majority of people IRL think I'm paranoid for believing:

1) Our law enforcement agencies are engaging in unreasonable levels of domestic mass surveillance.

http://abc7.com/news/anaheim-police-eavesdropping-on-persona...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/anaheim-cops-spy-program...

http://www.allgov.com/usa/ca/news/top-stories/lapd-has-had-s...

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2930731/security0/surve...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/12/heres...

2) Terrorists are less dangerous than medical errors and other problems. The emphasis on their existence and the threat they pose appears to be intentionally propagandized to enable #1.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/02/us/oregon-shooting-terrorism-g...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/2...

http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/deaths-by-medical-mista...

3) I believe a large part of why people believe I'm paranoid is they largely operate in a soundbite environment when it comes to the news [largely by watching news from news networks, etc] rather than bothering to read it. The surveillance related issues seem to be largely only reported in written form and have relatively low circulation outside of media coverage of Snowden. People have already mostly forgotten / stopped caring.
This just means you haven't met enough people. You probably met some people who worked on embedded systems where they only need to use a simple set of instructions predefined by the device. But imagine doing that for your laptop. Personally I learned assembly when I was into hacking operating systems (not as in the diluted 'hacker' notion people throw around nowadays for merely being able to write a simple html code, but as in actual 'hacking' to make the OS work in ways its designer had not intended) and from my experience it is the farthest thing possible from being simple. Teaching 14 year olds to write assembly code? Read up on my analogy above.
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We added Federal Québec support this year and plan to add the provincial component next year: https://simpletax.ca/jobs.

Québec is a challenging province because of Revenu Québec and Bill 101.
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I'm sorry this is confusing. We're working on a better, more clear website. You were looking at the CI Runner, which is a part of our Continuous Integration.

Simply go to https://gitlab.com/ and click in the top right to sign up for a free account. You can use that instance or set your own up by following the instructions at the download page [0].

[0]: https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/
> even if you install something open source you're still trusting the hardware

Not for the encryption. That's done in software. A seized linux laptop with an encrypted partition using a strong key is effectively snoop proof by the definition we're using here.

It's true that hardware could have other attack vectors: a key logger to intercept the pass phrase would be an obvious one. But again, that's just my point: Apple is in no privileged position here. If they get compelled to backdoor the iPhone then no amount of security architecture along the lines you posit is going to help us, because they can just be compelled to defeat it.
This is DNS server version of the excellent host blocking rule maintained here: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

This was setup in mainly to stop my android loading ads all the time. This is no way standards compliant (for starters, it caches everything for a fixed time and discards TTL values) but worked well so far.
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Oops, thanks a lot! Logged the bug, should be fixed soon. Sorry about that.
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So if it take an array of laser to get there, how do you get back? Bring lasers with you?
What jobu probably means, is that Mars' atmosphere is too thin for parachutes to slow a reasonably sized craft down to low speeds (that's why MSL's landing required additional rocket propulsion [1]). Compare with Earth: Here, the terminal velocity of a reentering capsule is slow enough for parachutes to take over, which in turn slow it down enough for touchdown.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory
I would love to learn Ruby -- it is a beautiful language. But I am unaware of the scientific and data-science world for Ruby. I am not seeking front-end work, and Ruby has a (perhaps undeserved?) reputation of mainly providing jobs of that variety.
> In this respect I really, really miss the days of Pidgin and those other similar applications...

Given that -AFAIK- Signal documents its protocols, I expect that there will be Pidgin support for it not long after the Signal desktop client moves out of population-limited beta and is officially released.

But yeah. It's a goddamn crying shame that this new crop of devs have decided to not only reinvent Instant Messaging, but to do it in such a way that leaves us back in the same situation we were in in the 1990's. [0]

That wheel keeps turning and periodically crushes us all, I guess.

[0] Of course, one could do the very same thing that was done back in the 1990's and reverse engineer the new wave of chat protocols. We still possess general purpose computers that can be used to snatch the plaintext of conversations that they're a party to that are sent over encrypted channels.
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You're right, I need more roadmap details on the site. I will add detail this evening.
Wouldn't your idea, at best, null-out the forward propulsive force, but not actually decelerate the ship?
man can't help with many/most? languages. Though I agree a node dependency on lean computers is too much.
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That's quite fascinating, and thanks very much for posting.

But it's still not argument why countries which fortunately aren't mafia-run shouldn't have regulation for Uber-like activities.
I have tried a both a 15-minute "quick relax" session and a full 8-hour sleep session. Based on the "quick relax" session, I assumed this music was based primarily on binaural beats (hence the need for headphones), but the sleep session didn't seem to use the beats as strongly (if at all). I have trouble sleeping at night due to both stress and restless leg syndrome, and while this music didn't put me to sleep right away (and the headphones definitely didn't help), I do think I was better off last night with the music than without.

I would be willing to pay for this, but the current price is too high. I think about $24/year would be something I could justify (but still not an impulse buy). I listen to a lot of DJ mixes for free on Youtube/Mixcloud and buy a few tracks a month to support the producers I like. If I were to add your service as well, that would more than double my cost of music.
Do you know of more involved examples that use claim based authorization? So far I have only seen simple use cases that at most involve if a user works for a certain company, or that a user can only delete his own postings (userID == authorID), which I can easily handle with permissions. But I have not seen slightly more complex ones yet like the example in the OP or really complex ones. But will definetly look into it, the .net implementation seems fairly easy to understand (after skimming through some files).
It's also important and useful to know why you don't agree with her. So many people have never read her writing but have very strong opinions about her but only based upon some blog they read or what their friend told them.

It always reminds me of fundamental Christians patting each other on the back about dinosaurs not being real and knowing better than to have to read the literature on it.

Rand has some great points, one thing that bothers me is when in Atlas Shrugged and her philosophy is that she always attributes everything to a single amazing person. It's like a 50's version of the Steve Jobs biographies.
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> Similarly, Apple has already admitted that a backdoor exists for all iPhones. In my opinion, this is an inexcusable security hole at best, and at worst an implication that Apple intended at some point to comply with government requests for encrypted information.

A backdoor does not exist and Apple is fighting the government to create one.
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Ditto. I signed up for the free Prime offer, after a while decided it wasn't going to be worthwhile for me (a lot of the total delay between ordering and receiving seems to be on Amazon's warehouses' end of things, and not USPS/UPS physically moving it to my house), canceled, and kept using it for the rest of the month without problem.
Here is the relevant passage in the paper, for the convenience of other readers:

> The photon driver is a laser phased array which eliminates the need to develop one extremely large laser and replaces it with a large number of modest (kW class) laser amplifiers that are inherently phase locked as they are fed by a common seed laser. This approach also eliminates the conventional optics and replaces it with a phased array of small optics that are thin film optical elements. Both of these are a follow on DARPA programs and hence there is enormous leverage in this system. The laser array has been described in a series of papers we have published and is called DE-STAR (Directed Energy System for Targeting of Asteroids and ExploRation). Powered by the solar PV array the same size as the 2D modular array of modest and currently existing kilowatt class Yb fiber-fed lasers and phased-array optics it would be capable of delivering sufficient power to propel a small scale probe combined with a modest (meter class) laser sail to reach speeds that are relativistic. [...] As an example, on the eventual upper end, a full scale DE-STAR 4 (50-70 GW) will propel a wafer scale spacecraft with a 1 m laser sail to about 26% the speed of light in about 10 minutes.

(I like the idea of DARPA putting together a 70GW orbital laser array — "no no, this is purely for scientific purposes, trust us!")
This is kind of like saying, if Elon Musk doesn't recycle, he isn't helping the world. I don't mind the inherent hypocrisy because you need those jets and to go to Davos in order to influence policy etc in the right direction.

Abstaining and vowing an ascetic life to practice what you preach only puts one at a disadvantage to the opposition.

Of course, the powerful who don't actually care about they solution are going to fly on jets no matter what.
Saw this earlier this morning but just had to use it and boom! It worked perfectly. I really like the idea of using things on the console and the user interface is nice and sleek. would love to see this getting even better over time!
This is a clear move against WhatsApp? With Jibe, Google is going for the kill, 'cause WhatsApp just went life-time free for everyone with an eye on earning revenue from their enterprise APIs.
I'm sorry, I thought it was hilarious.

We wanted to acknowledge some people's frustrations with our chosen way of writing Todos.
You're reading the docs for the continuous-integration runner :)
Sorry, I might misparsing your replay, but are you saying that std::chrono is overly strict? Or that because C++ (and its C heritage) has allowed unsafe implicit conversions in the past, it should continue doing it in the future?
Certainly claims to be a different Apple than the one that released the iPhone3 that claimed it encrypted Exchange 2007 data (when it did not).
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> He also doesn't believe the Snowden leaks, and thinks that when it comes to the pursuit of justice, the government should be trusted with everything.

Not believing the Snowden leaks is akin to denying the Holocaust IMO.

It's completley delusional to reject the validity of empirical evidence on the basis that it does not align with your preferred political narrative.
No, but the aliens were discovered because one of them built a ship based on this idea ("solar" sail with a ground-based propulsive laser) and happened to arrive in a human-inhabited system.

https://books.google.com/books?id=lKt5laoj1coC&pg=PA55&lpg=P...
Only certain parts of the hardware responsible for key storage and verification are architected to be resilient against physical and electronic attack, but the entire phone is not.

For example changing the WiFi or Bluetooth MAC is not locked down and effects the UDID. Because the UDID was never intended to be a way to bypass the device encryption it was not designed with anywhere near the same level of care and sophistication as handling the encryption key itself.
If I think of SA - this is what comes to my mind ... women aren't allowed to drive cars, Bloggers being whipped, homosexuals being prosecuted and south-eastern asian workers being held like slaves ...

... and overly self-confident guys with big sunglasses driving super expensive cars or ridiculously expensive sky-scrapers and bullshit like artificial islands ...

could please - somebody - tell me anything likeable about this country? Anything ...
It is, but I also think it is worth it. I will point the few accountants I know in your general direction.
All you really need to do is publish good work and pay 6 cents a word for it as promised.

Writers will beat your door down if you do that much.
Know of an automated caddy docker reverse proxy container?

Here's an nginx one. Took about < 5 mins to add to my docker-compose file and start proxying my existing site

https://hub.docker.com/r/dmp1ce/nginx-proxy-letsencrypt/

Would love to see a caddy version of same

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hmm, I guess the current caddy docker images can do this though though they need a little more configuration
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Correct, thank you for summing this up so nicely. I would just like to add that, when possible, such a thing often already exists. Food for thought.
The fact that we haven't solved this yet is puzzling. It seems that we have actually gone backwards in some ways over the last decade. With languages implementing several broken distribution packaging systems trying to compete against each other. Not even to mention the horrible practice of piping random sh1t from the web with curl/wget into a shell.

It would be more or less trivial to implement a wget wrapper that downloads the .sig and validates it. Hardly anyone these days understands or cares which seems to be the bigger issue (not a technical problem but a people's problem as Gerald M. Weinberg would say)
For the government to make the necessary modified version of iOS, they need to have or acquire a team of skilled engineers that either already have detailed knowledge of iOS and the devices it runs on, or a way for their team to learn that knowledge. This would probably be somewhat expensive in both money and time.

To acquire Apple's keys, the government only needs someone who can replace the device key and re-sign a new iOS package, and a sympathetic judge that will sign a subpoena, warrant, or national security letter. This is practically free and shouldn't take more than a day or two (warrants are sometimes granted near-realtime).

I don't understand why would think taking Apple's keys (which wouldn't require "stealing") somehow requires more resources? A warrant or nsl is much cheaper than a team of developers.
As i mentioned it does work. And it is a good guideline to look at when you're stuck. But it's not the fundamental solution. TRIZ teaches you to emulate creativity. The whole idea is "how can an even ordinary person come up with creative ideas?" My point was that's all fine and it's good to learn that skill, but it would be better if you shoot for actually "becoming a creative person" instead of "ordinary person coming up with creative ideas". I suggested that book above because I found it helpful from that point of view.
My only anecdata is that I have only noticed it in the past few years, and it makes my skin crawl. Don't know how to get good data on the extent or prevalence of this practice, sounds like a lot of work.

I'm describing an extreme, but I reckon it's the case that in American society there has been a significant increase in the use of animals for emotional work. As in treating domestic animals as pets and members of the family rather than work animals (for deterring vermin, hunting, guide work, &c.). Referring to pets by familial terms is a linguistic reflection of that.
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How much do you reckon you save by going through an accountant instead of doing it yourself?
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tl;dr: "it's hard to verify code. therefore, we shouldn't even try!"
> So over-under on this being viable before fusion power?

There's nothing magical about human-built nuclear fusion power generation that'll give you noticeably larger or cheaper power output than nuclear fission.

Therefore, commercial fusion power will not bring us any closer to viability of this concept.
One thing that I don't think has been covered enough in this whole debate about forcing Apple to unlock the iPhone is that "Farook and his wife destroyed their personal iPhones, and the hard drive from their computer was removed and has never been found"[1]. The iPhone the FBI is after is one that was issued to him by his employer. It seems to me to be very unlikely that Farook and his wife would go to the trouble to destroy all their other electronics but somehow forget to destroy his work phone (assuming his work phone had incriminating information on it in the first place).

[1]: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/02/18/apple-court...
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Here is my configuration: https://github.com/majewsky/system-configuration/blob/master...

Domains with this configuration get A+ on ssllabs and securityheaders.io (test with "repo.holocm.org" if you like). It includes an autorenewal script wrapped in a systemd timer unit.

There is one bug, though: The autorenewal script fails because letsencrypt crashes when stdin is not a TTY. ( https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt/issues/2523 )
Ah, well, glad it worked then :)
Which does provide the interesting feature that if we could method of propulsion that gets to c/3 in a day or two, we could just use the acceleration of the ship to provide artificial gravity on-board, and flip the ship around mid-trip to provide artificial gravity during the deceleration.