skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that SAT is NP-complete. The fact that they reduced from SAT to Ising spin suggests that Ising spin itself might be hard.

And indeed https://www.siam.org/pdf/news/654.pdf shows that Ising spin is NP-complete. So this result looks like a case of "all NP-complete problems in this class can be reduced to another NP-complete problem". Which sounds pretty unsurprising to me.

I'd therefore need more context to figure out why the result is so shocking.
I was kind of ambivalent about the whole VR deal and Sony's attempt in particular.

And then... Rez Infinite.

Then I was like SIGN ME THE FUCK UP.
I'll make sure my next router is not TP-Link. I'm upgrading in about a month.
Are there real reasons not to turn them back on once the cleanup is complete? Or is it just the matter of politics/popular perception?

AFAIK, fukushima was actually a very small "disaster", with negligigle human life loss (if I recall correctly, no life loss, except due to the evacuation panic)
What I want is RFID tags on all of my pieces of kit for when I go kayaking. Before I leave the house I scan my bag and see if I have missed anything. I was going to write a phone app to do it when I got a phone that had NFC, then I read up and found out the range was way too short.
We're working on "Hard Tech" over at Playa. If you're interested in AI/Cybernetics/ML/Ambient Intelligence come check out the platform we're building out. Http://getplaya.com/
Ask HN: Why are strong OOP fundamentals important?
I’ve personally seen that being strong in certain fundamentals is important – understanding things like testing, SOLID, Code Smell, design patterns, etc.

But I’ve never been on a team where I’ve thought, “If only that person had a better understanding of inheritance/encapsulation/polymorphism than s/he would be more productive.” I’m not questioning whether these form the philosophical foundation of OOP, but can anyone please provide an example of how they practically affect an individual’s ability to contribute?
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> Regulating the proper use of a shared public resource (RF spectrum) is sort of the FCC's thing. Tragedy of the commons, your rights end where the next person's begin, that sort of jazz.

Right. So they should go after people who actually misuse the spectrum, and not people who install their own firmware without doing that.

Or go after the people who are distributing firmware that misuses the spectrum.

> This will probably evolve into the baseband firmware being closed, and the higher abstractions being open (with an API to interface to the baseband). Just like cellphones

The problem is including separate hardware to lock only the baseband is more expensive than locking the entire device. Smart phones cost several times what consumer-level routers do, and that's after the phone is subsidized by advertising and app store revenue.
To be fair, most "dumb" thermostats still require an external power source to continue to operate.

Very few actually pull operating current from the 24v C wire if it even exists on the given system. If it doesn't, R (the switched 24v power for Heat and Cold signals) isn't guaranteed to continually have current. Only when your Heat is turned on (probably a standard toggle lightswitch on the side of your furnace) will there be current on the Rh line, and only when your AC is enabled (possibly a breaker shunt on the side of your house near the condenser unit in a small box) will there be current on the Rc line.

Nest tries to recharge it's battery by trickling the C wire, if available, and if not it will try to charge off of one of the R wires, either during normal operation, or it will try and "pulse" the heat signal to pull a little bit of current to keep going. Thermostats were designed at a time where they didn't even consume any electricity on their own. We're trying to retrofit computers into signaling system, not a circuit.
According to some definitions, AI is just "the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages." So by some definitions, a linter is absolutely an AI.

Semantics aside, it's not important to slm_HN's point. We can call it an AI, an algorithm, or just a computer, and in any case it's still possible for it to find errors beyond spelling ones.

"... there is a small part of me that enjoys playing Mr. Party Pooper when I see a mob of enthusiastic programmers trying to tie down some great cultural Gulliver with a thousand tiny little automated, black-and-white rules."

I'd reexamine that part, if I were you. I suspect it may be bigger than you think it is, especially since you've already pigeonholed the creators.
>"Bye, Wired."

If you are blocking their ads and not paying a subscription, their response is "don't let the door hit you on the way out."
Frameworks are all or nothing.

It's better to use libraries. That's also the right kind of abstraction.
I had actually never checked out any YC demo day presentations, so this post pushed me to do so. I watched about a dozen of them from the latest batches and I must say I did feel that they were very underwhelming.

Sure, I understand that my expectations of how a company looks so early on might be skewed and they have only about 3 minutes, but all the speeches were so templated (stressing ridiculously overhyped market values etc.) that I thought they were really uninspiring. Might be the fault of the VCs who are just looking to randomly jump on the next potentially successful ship endorsed by YC, but I honestly got tired of hearing about the next app that will change the world of X within 10 minutes.

As you mentioned, some of these products have been genuinely amazing and winning lottery tickets that on average bring huge profits to YC, so we should probably look at it more pragmatically rather than expecting them to make the future better.
Sigh.
Look. they have bad grammar, but i'm telling you what the intent is.
Please read the GPL compliance guide:
https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-gu...

The example valid offer:
"...
This offer is valid to anyone in receipt of this information."

"Second, note that the last line makes the offer valid to anyone who requests the source. This is because v2 § 3(b) requires that offers be “to give any third party” a copy of the Corresponding Source."

This changed in GPLv3, which specifically mentions people who possess the object code instead.

It was changed explicitly, see the rationale for the third discussion draft of the gplv3.
No, that's in there (near the end).
Hah, yeah right. The general consumer simply doesn't care they can't flash open source firmware. For every 1 star review from someone who does care, there'll be plenty of 5 star reviews from regular users who have their needs filled by the router with default firmware.
I usually eat at the restaurants, but order more food than I can reasonably eat, so the fridge is great to take leftovers home and then enjoy them for breakfast.
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At least in consumer usage, SWIFT transfers are "push", not pull as you may be used to with American ACH. So the concept of verifying a request doesn't make sense.

It sort of sounds (from the public information) like the Bangladeshi bank's credentials were compromised and used to make fraudulent transfer requests to the NY Fed.

That's not really a problem with SWIFT. Arguably the NY Fed should have flagged the requests as suspicious, but that's probably a best-effort kinda thing.
Gold's not a great conductor. It's used because unlike copper or silver it doesn't tarnish.

And because it's shiny so it looks good in adverts.
I don't know if my journey can be called self study. I keep taking classes at community college when I can. I am not a fan of the emphasis on technique over understanding concepts but staying on track is hard when I try to do it all alone!
The same could be said of programming, or anything really.
Unity + a couple of Asset store plugins - SSAO, ColorfulFX.

It's written in C#.

The engine handles all the voxels internally, but some of the models like the characters and Jellos are created in Blender and Magicavoxel.

Photoshop for textures.

Visual Studio Code for the IDE.
Exactly. They found it living in plastic eating bugs and it will do good for say - sea turtles, which mistakenly eat plastic and choke. Just force the turtles to ingest a pill with Ideonella Sakaiensis and if they'll be lucky - they'll get new symbiotic pals!
Hardware is difficult. Investors are wary of difficult problems. They will invest if the problem is difficult and they think they are speaking to a team of people who can deliver the technology to market no matter what. Lots of good inventors are terrible implementers.

If the invention is good but the team seems incapable that would be a reason for non-investment.

Also - "hard tech" seems like the wrong thing to be aiming for. There are lots of hard problems to solve with simple tech and disrupting markets. Are these not valuable targets?
That is amazing. Wow. It almost makes me wish I was still working in Java. This was one of the biggest pain points back when I was.
> But that doesn't mean it justifies making my desktop a crap experience too. Do you guys see this as a race to the bottom?

No. I see it as a tacit acknowledgement that software isn't free, but no one actually wants to pay for it. If you'd be willing to pay $500 for a mobile phone OS, maybe. But then that'd have its own problems.

Everyone wants to pretend software is free. Apple's busy making iOS software unsustainably priced. So we find other ways to stay in business.

And then listen to people like you tell us, "What you're doing is ethically wrong because I sang 'free the software' with Richard Stallman." Either I find a way to instrument and monetize and keep our payroll going or you are running shit like gentoo forever and your experience is terrible.

> What makes me angry is not so much that you are stuffing your OS with this shit.

"My" OS? Why is this suddenly "my" OS? Do you think I am on the payroll for Microsoft, Google or Apple? My identity is well established and my employer is trivial to verify.

> Happy to pay a premium to avoid it.

It's nice being rich and leaving the poor to suffer, isn't it? Yes. I know.
TP-Link appears to be doing the minimum as in "minimum effort", as opposed to "minimum restriction to firmware modifications".

The article you linked shows that people saw it coming:

> Open source projects might not be fully out of the woods yet, though. A few commenters on the FCC’s post have pointed out that some manufacturers might choose to lock down the whole router—as opposed to just the radio—as a cost-saving measure, even if that’s not what the FCC intended.
> It's the sort of physics advance that Sauron might appreciate. [...] That "Ising model"

They're taking the models to Isingard?
I usually have someone's business card on me, so I'll stick that in the card slot so that I can head to dinner while stuff recharges or the room cools down (for places where the A/C is tied to the same switch). I have yet to see one that's anything more than a simple mechanical switch.
This is a random question, slightly off topic, but I was looking at the No Man's Sky videos and wondered how video game programming worked with regard to a server and interfacing with multiple users at once. Does the team design the game to run on the console and also a version to run on the server or is it two separate applications each with its own set of business rules?
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I've only seen DF on YouTube, could someone explain how another game would hook into it? Any examples of other games doing this?
We're open to paying once we're rolling. It's more that you've so far only said "basic is $400" and it isn't clear what that means or what will drive people to "more than basic." It's hard to get suprised, and then be waiting for the "fool me twice" pricing to come. I've been a fan of your work since Typhoeus and that's part of why I was happy to bet on you making influx amazing. I just didn't see the pricing risk coming (maybe I should have). For our perspective, the pricing issue is scary because a load test can be high volume without the normal correlation to "really big enterprise business" that makes it a good way to price.

Is the double-write architecture the nginx solution shown here? https://influxdata.com/high-availability/
This is a good explanation and may even get you excited about jigsaw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8bpKYDrF5I
At the very least they could start selling some DD-WRT routers to appease the critics and make them forget all of their other products are closed, but they aren't even willing to do that.
What is a circumstance in which the assets under management for a company 401k would need to get out of a very large position?
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We have a lot of junk in Low Earth Orbit.

http://stuffin.space/
An aside, but I wonder how much of that behavior, particularly in the 2008ish period, has contributed to wages stagnating.

If you are getting paid peanuts, and not getting raises because "you should be lucky to have a job" and then you get forced to do even more work, and they don't hire more people because you're gritting your teeth and taking it, wage stagnation seems a pretty obvious outcome.
To give credit where the credit is due: the mascot was created by a great graphical designer - Tatyana Alexandrova (https://twitter.com/Alextanya)
Skybox rebranded to Terra Bella on Mar 8th 2016. They were acquired and placed in the Geo organization (Maps) so they aren't just floating about as a one-off:
http://spacenews.com/googles-skybox-imaging-has-new-name-bus...
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http://lesswrong.com/lw/nz/arguing_by_definition/
>AI, biotech, and energy

The problems you described with these fields are known as "barriers to entry". They are bad for competition and foster lower-order market structures and/or price distortion in virtually any industry, not just those in the tech sector. Thus they're generally frowned upon by all but the most extreme laissez faire capitalists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barriers_to_entry
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Is this really that much of a problem? Circumventing the block sounds like it could be a rather interesting technical challenge.
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>In its emails to drivers, Instacart said drivers could still earn “$18 or even $20 or more per hour” based on its expectations for tips.

FFS. "We aren't going to pay you because the people that we are charging will hopefully make up the difference."

Looks like the world isn't actually ready for on-demand delivery services yet.
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Entirely agreed. This whole thing is frustrating. I just went to apply to YC but ended up closing the tab. A significant portion of the process seemed geared towards "We want highly visible projects with highly charismatic individuals."

For example, I'm required to post a video of myself/group talking about the project. I'm not posting a damn video. Fine - I get that you want to be able to see the product/s up close with the passion of the founders, etc. But, hell - the project I'm working on is dirty, "hard", far from glamorous and isn't very presentable - especially on camera where my strong anxieties come out. Though, because of my personality I'm effectively disqualified, despite all else.

If I'm missing something I'd very much like to me corrected.
I just finished reading Ringworld for the first time and had exactly the same thought.
Correction, he stayed in a SHITTY hotel. Not much else to report here.
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Sounds like a great discovery until you get to the end of the article

> Mincer said the study was impressive and did a good job showing that these organisms were eating the plastic pretty well.

> However, he said it was not immediately clear whether or not it would help keep plastics out of the ocean, for example.
"When I think it through, I don't really know where it gets us," he said. "

>I don't see how microbes degrading plastics is any better than putting plastic bottles in a recycling bin so they can be melted down to make new ones."
I suspect it's an argument about where "production" is done, leading to a tax break or change of duty.
Terra Bella is under Geo, which is where Maps resides. Seems like a pretty good fit to me, given that satellite imagery is presented in Maps. Why do you think Terra Bella should be in Alphabet?
Sure. Just like we did with SOPA. Wait...
"If he doesn't own BMW car, he didn't receive a written offer and can't really act on it.
"

This is not correct ;-)

(i'll just point you at the other comment, rather than repeatedly quote the gpl compliance guide in multiple comments)
Yeah, I think a lot of the problems are because HTML was designed for documents. But it obviously wasn't designed well. I'm not sure how to do it better, but I know that I like using real UI toolkits, and I hate fighting with HTML.

I don't know what benchmarks say about Win32, Cocoa, or Qt rendering, but I'd be surprised if they were "much worse" performance than CSS. Layout isn't great with Win32 or Cocoa, but I love Qt's Layouts (except until you figure out how to change the default margins), and Swings seem okay from what little I've used.

Win32 has had opacity since Windows 2000, Qt has opacity since about then. Cocoa has had NSView.alphaValue since OS X 10.5.
You also don't have to worry about things in geostationary orbit crashing into each other ;)
What you describe is already how the iPhone works. The FBI has vaguely threatened to seek the signing key (not any master encryption key, which doesn't exist) so they can make an operating system that disables software-imposed wipe-on-10-incorrect-attempts and software-imposed-delay-ramp-up, so they can run a brute-force attack. If the phone had used a long passcode, this would be impossible. The only reason this is even a case is because this phone has a numeric passcode, which is within the reach of brute forcing with these UI barriers removed.

The mathematics already impose an 80ms duration ("delay") of each attempt. The FBI knows there is no way around that.

Contrary to other replies, even phones without the secure enclave are protected in this way.
That argument makes some sense for the "make us a backdoored OS" demand (IANL), but doesn't make much sense for the "give us the keys" demand.

In the case where they order Apple the company to make a backdoored OS, the engineers who have the skills to do that can quit, and Tim can order it all he wants but the company isn't able to comply anymore.

But if they want the source and the keys, theoretically Tim Cook himself could clone the source repo and put the keys on a thumb drive. They can hold him personally accountable, so they can send him to jail if he doesn't.
I think you'd still get charged for it.
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The first graph shows that hotels are cheaper in New York: the difference between hotels and AirBnb is -29.5. However, the graphs further down the page show that AirBnb is cheaper: the difference on these charts is 66.

The fourth graph on the page is mislabeled, which adds to the confusion.

Is the New York data a simple mistake, or is all the data on this page suspect? Or have I just read something incorrectly?
So, then, i guess they are going to stop using GPL/LGPL software or will soon be enjoying the wrath of the SFLC.

Time to go give some money to bradley :)
> Right. So they should go after people who actually misuse the spectrum, and not people who install their own firmware without doing that.

I don't want the FCC trying to obtain the resources to patrol the RF spectrum across millions of US square miles. Cheaper to simply regulate control over the RF hardware.

Ham radio operators have to take tests to operate in certain areas of spectrum. I'd be willing to allow experimentation with RF hardware if RF hackers want to go through the same licensing requirements that already exist.

> The problem is including separate hardware to lock only the baseband is more expensive than locking the entire device. Smart phones cost several times what consumer-level routers do, and that's after the phone is subsidized by advertising and app store revenue.

The baseband is proprietary in all phones, even those in the $10-30 range. Cost is not the issue.

Full Disclosure: I have a technical ham radio license, and own a HackRF device for experimenting with RF (I only receive though when hacking; AIS, ADS-B, and other such traffic)
I'm fairly certain they didn't get swindled. GM may or may not have paid a high price, but does anything suggest deceitful or fraudulent behavior by Cruise?
Right?? A trip into an exotic market full of mysterious and intriguing ingredients... A dream. Different strokes for different folks.
Wasn't Twitch around one billion as well?
A paper clip and a binder clip are usually sufficient to open any keyed furniture lock in the office where you found the clips. It actually takes longer to bend the paper clip into the proper pick shape than it does to open the lock. You can also pick them back into the locked position afterward.

That's a case where having an actual key is less useful than knowledge of how the locks work, because the key won't actually open every lock in the office, whereas the clips will.

This is why you make a distinction between privacy locks and security locks.

Most of the locks in daily use by humans on this planet are barely better than privacy locks. I once unlocked the car, got in, and started it up before the country music station on the radio made me realize that my car was actually parked in the next space over in the parking lot. It was a different brand of GM car that coincidentally had exactly the same body style, paint color, and locks as mine.

After that, I thought about trying my key in every car in the parking lot, but I never quite overcame my fear of getting arrested for it.
What's the "tremendously long piece of data as the encryption key"? Are you refering to the 6 digit code?
Are you bringing some professional background to this assertion?
Do you really think a tanker filled with crude oil is much safer?
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Dont do the coursera one.
Try this one instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E&list=PLA89DCFA6A...

Follow up with cs224/cs231 if interested.
> " popular criticism of Silicon Valley, usually levied by people not building anything at all themselves, is that no one is working on or funding “hard technology”."

Wow. Passive aggressive much?
Because of this[1] Chrome extension, I wasn't sure whether you were talking about Donald Trump

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This is exactly what the GPLv3 protects against.
I'm in sort of the same train and am getting slow but steady progress. If you want to talk about things (without giving away anything) feel free to email me.
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Sure, but history will also forget Sam and Ycombinator (Dropbox, AirBnB, give me a break).
If you live in the SF Bay Area, Detroit, Austin, DC, Pittsburg or Chandler, I disagree. Try the TechShop and its host of classes.

http://www.techshop.ws/take_classes.html?storeId=4
It will vary based on the game but generally servers would simply store data and verify inputs to make sure the clients are in sync and haven't been hacked for example. The clients get sent data like all of the players positions and update their internal state based on it.

No Man's sky probably does a lot more server side, as the world is persistent for everyone.