skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably the worst thing about the new EMET is the speed hit. The new functions (EAF+) in EMET 5.5 can slow application loading from ~2 seconds to around 30.

I'm starting to wonder if Microsoft actually tests anything before releasing it these days.

For more read here:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/itmanagement/en-...
To take this phenomenon further down the Rabbit Hole, if you pay close enough attention, a defined sense of self is just a feeling or thought that rises from time to time. However addiction/compulsion to perpetual thinking (which 99.99% of humans are caught in) plus the smoothing programs that provide a sense of continuousness and continuity begin to act on that sense of self firmly establishing a deep continuous sense of me. And there is a tremendous amount of conscious energy wrapped up in the perpetuation of a continuous sense of me. Certain states and activities more deeply lock the sense of me in including anger, conflict, proving yourself right, proving someone wrong.

Meditation and Hallucinogens can quiet the mind (or more dramatically short circuit habitual mind loops) and allow you to see the gaps in the self-ing process. The self-ing process never really stops. You never really stop having a sense of self arise from time to time, but when you see the frames and gaps of self-ing you begin to question a lot of who you think you are. And you begin to see the amount of time and energy you spend protecting the self from paper tigers.

Spiritual circles generally call this awakening and tend to over-emphasize it's specialness and idealize those who have deeply conditioned themselves to reside in that state. But it is real and mostly desirable phenominon (with a few drawbacks). Putting aside questions of full enlightenment and mind blowing transcendent unitive states, simply freeing up the consciousness that gets locked up in perpetuating the continuous sense of self and all the efforts to defend as if you are defending your physical body from harm allows for a richer, higher resolution and more textured moment to moment experience of life.

From my subjective experience it is the same sorts of filters that smooth out reality, that also give you a continuous sense of a psychological self which basically manufactures the vast majority of our problems and suffering.
I had this problem with Shakespeare, as well. No internal voice. He's very hard to read unless spoken aloud, probably because it lets you experiment with intonation and emphasis.
Which still isn't very descriptive, sorry. We are working on a website.

Angel might be a bit more of a description. https://angel.co/gearlaunch

Anything more, feel free to contact me privately. =)

We are not stealth, but we also aren't the type of company that goes around pushing ourselves down people's throats. The people who are primarily interested in our product know about us through other channels.

That said, we are building the website out more really more from a hiring perspective. It is hard to hire people when all they get is a logo on a homepage. For now, just know that we are a startup that is actually profitable, building a great product that people want and we're growing like mad.
Video based Application Security training doesn't work, play and learn instead
second this. At an early stage, pre-PM/fit or revenue, is articulating this good story-telling? I mean, we're going to give it our best shot and try to wow our customers and stay ahead of competition. Examples would be great, if any of you have some.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11161311
Bill Gates is a globalist POS. His company Microsoft has been in bed with the NSA and surveillance state since it's inception.
Indeed. But the book was nothing to write home about.
Fewer than a quarter of Spotify users are paid users. The P2P model makes a lot of sense for a data-rich service like streaming music, where most of your users do not pay anything.
Functional programming in a browser
Yes, that is the way we started out, but at this rate, if we do it right, we will be a moderately big company by the end of the year. =)
Missing from all of this...

Hey, you may not be ready to take investor money and that's completely fine. Maybe you've realized you'd rather have a bootstrapped business instead of a unicorn. Cool, actually think about what taking investor money means. Figure out what's best for you and your team.
Eight decades of Helen Levitt’s New York City street photography
I've have experience with both reading with sound and not reading with sound. When I drop the sound when I read, it stays a stream of concepts, and I can read fast. On the other hand, it also drops pretty much all of the emotional nuances. I don't read much poetry, but I don't think it makes much sense to read it without a voice. I don't think I have tried typing without voicing things out, except maybe when I'm writing code.

I don't read without vocalizing in my head much anymore. I found that without hearing that, my EQ in relation to communicating with a person drops. On the other hand, if I'm visualizing some systems interactions in my head, it's not going to be verbalized. Until maybe, I try to explain it to someone.
I would agree, but have a look at this:

http://reactivex.io/documentation/operators/flatmap.html

Granted, this refers to a higher level abstraction on a sequence of realtime events, but as we delve more into green threads and lazy evaluation, these kinds of solutions will become more common.

I really don't believe that there is no obvious way to guarantee the ordering of a given flatten command without looking into its implementation. Of course, I'm admittedly partial to Python's solution - use an explicit list comprehension:

>>> g = lambda i: (i, -i)
>>> [x for y in [1, 2, 3] for x in g(y)]
[1, -1, 2, -2, 3, -3]
Our Google hosting costs are a rounding error compared with our revenue. That's all that matters. Build business that make money.
Funny that you bring up spelling. I have absolutely no subvocalisation when reading and have always been an impeccable speller. When I read, I have trouble with fiction because I can't imagine pauses, emphasis, or any other non-textual cues in dialogue. I read a lot of non-fiction.
I have one word to say to that bet... no, wait... five... um... how many words is "]]]~3H^\x0b]]"?

But I suppose at least you only had to press one key to type it ;)
If you think this is interesting, definitely read "Generalizing From One Example" at Less Wrong [1].

Turns out that people have varying degrees of ability to mentally imagine things, where the range seems to be from "purely abstract" to "number of stripes on a tiger".

Also; Feynman noted that people keep track of time in very different ways[2], either visual (imagining a clock) or symbolic (counting by talking to yourself inside your head).

And that whole internal monologue thing? Turns out that some people report not having that...

If anyone has more examples, please add them. This stuff is endlessly fascinating :)

[1]http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/

[2]http://generallythinking.com/richard-feynman-on-thinking-pro...
So long as the fine structure constant remains the same, your desk (and ruler) won't change size. Rather they will heat slightly as the expanding universe stretches the chemical bonds and those same bonds spring back to average rest length.

/nitpick
No. No matter whether you're doing additive or subtractive color, there will be perceivable colors that you can't reach just by mixing a finite number of primaries. In fact, CMYK printing has a rather small gamut, with more colors that are clearly unreachable than RGB has.

Perceivable colors are a three-dimensional space, and colors you can make out of three primaries are a three-dimensional space, but they're different shapes. Mixing primary colors is a way of interpolating between them linearly, and the space of perceivable colors doesn't have convenient linear edges.

Here's an example. Your printer has cyan, magenta, and yellow ink (and also black for convenience). So it can print any color, right? It should be able to print bright lime green, something that looks like RGB #00ff00, right?

No, in fact, you can't print that color without "spot color" ink. When you mix cyan and yellow to make green, it will necessarily get darker. If you use enough cyan and yellow to get full-saturation green, it'll be too dark. If you use less ink, it won't be saturated enough.

Lime green is outside of the CMYK gamut. Similarly, the deep cyan you'd get by printing with lots of cyan ink is outside of the RGB gamut.
App Engine requests time out after 60 seconds (that's 60000 ms).

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/articles/deadlineexceeded...

(I work at Google, but not on App Engine)
In Haskell? I'm afraid the bare minimum is the most abstract possible engine with business rules added on as data or high level function application.

But I'm not really disagreeing. It's just that those people will spend months and months on some stupid repetitive concrete code, while the smart way would take a week, and the OOP way would take 3 weeks in Java.
It worked after clicking on lock mouse. Using the latest firefox.
Menhir is really amazing. Being able to use the high-level rules to parse lists, without needing to use recursion, was super nice. It also gives decent error messages when it detects an ambiguity.
I can read very quickly and not hear a voice, but usually I read slow enough that I can. The tone usually depends on what it is I'm reading (Hacker News sounds different to Harry Potter), but I think the actual voice is the same. I've never really thought about it before.
> Terence Parr, author of ANTLR, often uses the metaphor of parsing as a maze

As someone who had a technical but "not real CS" curriculum, I enjoyed Parr's "Language Implementation Patterns" book [0] because it illustrates how certain grammar-forms become recognizable code-patterns and control-flow.

Granted, it's definitely got a bent towards Parr's ANTLR project and the Java language, but I still found it made things "click" a lot better than my daunting lack of progress an old "Dragon Book" [1] which IIRC tended to float along with more mathy-notations and theory than concrete examples.

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/Language-Implementation-Patterns-Domai...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniq...
The real reason half of America supports the FBI over Apple
Doesn't seem like you can look at issues? There's an activity section that shows comments, and from there you can look at the related issue, but not view all of them.
That's what I heard about JRR Tolkien's Silmarillion too. I tried reading it when I was younger, and when I tend to drop sound conversion when I read. It seemed impenetrable. Years later, when someone told me it was meant to be heard, not to be read, I gave that a try, reading it aloud in my head. It was a much different experience. Reading Silmarillion felt like reading a magical book of creation, where the speaking of the words themselves create the world.
Spotify drops support for APIs and SDK
Advertisers are in control of whether they show their ads for brand queries. Google has certainly been pushing for it, but there are many legit reasons for advertisers to bid on brand terms, even when they rank highly themselves.

A couple off the top of my head:

- Helps push competitor's down that might bid on or rank organically for your brand term

- Gives you control over sitelinks (you have much less over organic sitelinks)

- Helps build account-level Quality Score which ultimately helps control CPCs account-wide

- Let's you control your message

- Let's you control your audience (such as by using RLSA to retarget to specific audiences, exclude others, etc.)

- Gain a MUCH deeper level of understanding on how people are searching for your brand in context with other touchpoints

- Gain some very good data on brand query volume and composition that could lead to other insights

The list goes on. There are definitely some cases where it isn't necessary or warranted though. However a savvy marketer will weigh the pros and cons and not make a snap judgement that "brand terms are bad" since they are often worth the minimal expense.

Source: Do this for a living and helped lead the paid search group at a top search agency
I am of course aware of Echelon. But it was designed around the limitations imposed by law. You've got to admit that the implementation of such eavesdropping since 9/11 is a huge difference.
I have not tried DMT and to be honest i do not intend to, based on what i have read. So my insights might not be so cleaver as i think.

But here is an article that makes sense to me.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unique-everybody-else/2...

Our brains are really not that good at letting us know what is going on in our lives. Our brains are however really good when it comes to making us believe that we know what is going on in or lives.

Just look at this list for some examples
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Sure lets hand the keys to a robot.
Actually I thought dozens of policemen were also injured, and police cars torched. Also a couple of paramedics were attacked if I got this right (I'm not native German).

http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/atomausstieg/castor-...

Anyway, I think that based on this it is not entirely unreasonable that the police does keep an eye on the protesters.

However, I'm quite doubtful about the wisdom of the "Trojan" plan:

http://www.dw.com/en/german-government-to-use-trojan-spyware...
Ethereum: The Rise of the World Computer
I wonder if they are still using Cassandra or moved that over as well.
First, keep in mind that the sentence you quoted was related to a possible ban on public servants wearing the niqab.

I found it bizarre that the Conservative government would double down on the niqab issue by suggesting that they may ban public servants from wearing it. Doubling down on an issue that Justin Trudeau was gaining so many points on struck me as an admission that either they were running out of money, or they were competing against the NDP to be official opposition. It didn't make much strategic sense, especially considering former-PM Harper's 'old-stock' Canadian quote.

But, nothing about the last years of Conservative rule - from his fight against the public service, to his fight against science, to the Mike Duffy kerfuffle - made a lick of sense. It shouldn't have felt so bizarre that Harper would run a disjointed campaign, but he was otherwise an amazing campaigner.

As for the niqab during citizenship, I likely can't convince you because you'll mention that niqab's aren't even necessarily part of Islam. And, you'll mention that there is a possibility that their use is coerced.

All of those arguments are true and, for the record, I'm not a huge fan of the niqab, but I'm Catholic and I was born in Canada, so my views aren't particularly informed.

Rather, my only argument is that the Supreme Court gave some very stringent requirements for making a witness remove a niqab during trial.[1] The Supreme Court ruled that an outright ban on niqabs during testimony was wrong as, "rights should be limited only to the extent that the limits are shown to be justifiable."

I don't believe that we should have a lower standard during citizenship ceremonies. So ultimately, I think that we need strong justification to make it okay to violate someone's freedom to get dressed as they see fit.

I'm not convinced that we need to see someone's lips move as there are other ways we can determine whether they are actually reciting the vow. If the Supreme Court argues that a witness whose face is covered does not always violate an accused person's right to a fair trial, I don't think we can argue that a person whose face is covered violates the sanctity of citizenship. Those arguments aside, I can't think of any other strong arguments against the niqab in citizenship ceremonies.

[1] - https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/12779/inde...
How Mokriya manages 40+ engineers and designers remotely
Are you sure? because I saw it on the front page
Could it be something like stock market values in specific dates?

If an actor can rig the stock market, the problems are different I Would think?

Does the cosmic source not have an issue of who actually can make that measurement? will you not require some sort of specific tools and knowledge? or you mean using some astronomy databases created by reputable institutions?
I generally agree with your blame TPTB first mindset, but in this case I think they underestimated Trump. Although he's not a deep policy thinker and historically has been indistinguishable from any other trendy NYC lib, he has two distinguishing traits. First, his massive ego, second, he's a violently pro-American nationalist, moreso than anyone in the past 50 years. That presents a major challenge for the globalist TPTB's current dialog - even his rhetoric is disruptive to their worldwide agenda. Maybe you're right and this is a cleverly planned dialectical antithesis that will be used to sneak in more Patriot Act style moves, but I think there's a genuine chance things have gone off script.
A big problem with this mindset, I believe, is the unintended-consequence issue.

No one really knows how things are going to eventually turn out.

History is utterly littered with the debris of feel-good movements and ideas that, once implemented, turned out to have negative outcomes unforeseen by the original instigators.
Major problem is there is a substantial lack of tooling to handle this. Meanwhile, managing updates for all of my servers is pretty painless with the plethora of system management tools out there - puppet keeps all my packages updated from my local yum repositories and restarts services as needed (aside from critical ones like postgresql that require manual intervention).
I would appreciate a reference with an explanation about why that has changed. Is it to support code transformation?
A few years ago you could have said the same about japan.
Pro-Apple protests in 50 cities
I'm pretty sure the authors aren't suggesting that Curve25519 has been tampered with, because the FAQ for this paper suggests (a) that they continue to recommend Curve25519, and (b) that they are proposing this curve because they're concerned that there aren't any good alternatives to Curve25519 with trustworthy seeds.

Curve25519 follows roughly the same generation procedure as Microsoft's NUMS: it uses minimal parameters that satisfy a performance/security goal. NUMS starts from a security level, selects the smallest prime that satisfies that level, and then selects the smallest Edwards 'd' that passes security criteria. Curve25519 selects a prime of sufficient security as close as possible to a power of 2 (making it sparse and thus fast to do math on in software), and then selects a minimal Montgomery A given security criteria.

$1MM and 25519 represent two different schools of thought about how to generate curves. $1MM says, generate random unstructured parameters, and come up with a randomness procedure that is difficult to impeach. 25519 says generate minimal parameters that achieve particular performance goals. Both schools of thought address the concern that the curve generation procedure might be untrustworthy, but in different ways: the former by somehow proving randomness, the latter by removing degrees of freedom.

25519's school of thought has pretty much won the Internet.
With Lambda entering the space, I don't think they will remove app engine. Sounds like they should work hard on improving it.
Every time this is brought up people say "there is no effective way to test impairment". What ever happened to good old 'walk the line'. Road-side maneuvers are still used extensively with suspected DUIs, but the logic is that if you can perform the certain complex set of tasks they give you, you are fine to drive.

How is this any different for weed, or anything else?
So pulled this up from my Chromebook - rather interesting to have Chrome running Windows rather than the other way around. Of course the big leap will come when it gets Win XP up and running and then folks will have an answer for their legacy systems...
> Reducing a parser to a DFA (deterministic finite automaton) provides it with measurable performance per character parsed. If an NFA (non-deterministic finite automaton) is used instead, then an attacker can abuse backtracking to increase parse time, often exponentially.

An NFA does not use backtracking - at least in a sensible implementation. The problem is that most implementors of RE engines prefer "obvious hands-on" implementation that uses backtracking instead of understating the elegant theory behind NFAs. Here is how to implement an NFA without using backtracking:

> https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

Addendum: And it is also a bad idea to convert am NFA to an DFA for parsing because the number of necessary states can explode exponentially by this transformation.
What you don't have is priority when things go pear-shaped. That's when status matters—status passengers go to the top of the list when rebooking and have priority over others.

Flight is cancelled and there's one more nonstop that night? The platinums and 1Ks are getting that. Everyone else gets scraps.
Object-oriented thinking in a data-centric world
Uh, pardon the stupid question, but isn't it safer to consider the fine structure constant to be the IR fixed point of \alpha (i.e. \alpha(\mu = m_e)^-1 = 137...)?

\alpha(\mu = M_Z) is about 128. But m_0(photon), h, and e are the same at both energy scales (we can determine the numerical values experimentally). To the best of our ability to measure, none of them (including, if we ignore the main posting, \alpha_em) varies anywhere in a background fixed by the isometry group of SR (where we find c as the sole free parameter, corresponding to the speed of a particle where m_0(particle) = 0).

So I'm having trouble understanding your assertion that "Alpha is the fundamental physical constant: c, e and \hbar are the derived quantities" (in your other comment, but also reflected in your second paragraph above).

I think we both totally agree that varying \alpha_em at different points in space or time leads to a mess.
NEW YORK LEGISLATION FINALLY PASSES RECREATION MARIJUANA BILL
> Its not their core business.

Its the heart of their core competency. Its not their principal mechanism for monetizing that, though outside of the core advertising business its also an avenue that they seem to have made one of the most significant, longest push to make a route to monetization, even in the presence of large, dedicated competitors (behind Apps for Work.)

Obviously, any insufficiently profitable business from any vendor will eventually be closed down, either voluntarily or by business failure, but Google Cloud Platform doesn't seem like a particularly likely candidate for closure on any timescale on which any existing cloud platform would be reliable.
Sure, it was something of a side-point, but the more relevant point (which I may have forgotten to make..) was that in the UK 'mobile' is still common.

Although actually a contraction of 'mobile phone', it doesn't have the same 'problem' going forward, since we can just decide or assume that it refers to a mobile computing device.

Possibly though things will get even more blurred than that - everything a computing device and almost all of them mobile... Time will tell!
The Fight Between the FBI and Apple Is About Setting Precedent,Not Breaking Tech
I've had problems with their customer support. It got to the point, I just gave up, and left my videos on YouTube. (My problem was that slick move they made when they bought YouTube, and messed with the login names.)

I just try to forget they are up there. I got to one person at Google, and when they realized I didn't want to advertise, it was "Go to the help boards. I don't deal with that stuff."

Do I still use their products--yes, but don't trust them like I used to. I usually avoid customer service like the flu virus, but thought Google would be different?

I guess they are big enough to not care?