skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this brought back a whole pile of not-so-happy memories. Great to hear she's doing ok and I'm super happy that you asked the follow up question about monitor being correct. If I interpret your recollection correctly that was one very important thing you did there. Very scary that it should hinge on that.
Anything could happen but I don't see any indication. Other countries seem content with China as a cheap source of labor. The ruling party is obviously content to be in power. People aren't happy but are having trouble unifying. Protests are in pockets and always silenced thus far. I could see it happening with some technology that leveraged the internet in a manner that was unblockable and untraceable by the government. Not really sure what that'd look like though.

I'm in Taiwan and have been to China a couple times. Taiwan got lucky and a former leader installed democracy here in the late 1980s. I'm probably oversimplifying. Before that, for 80 years, the Taiwan government, which used to be in China before they fled after losing a civil war after WW II, touted democracy. But it wasn't until the late 1980s that they actually did what they said they believed in. It was a loooong process of releasing power.
> In the EU this business model has been gutted by regulatory changes which have pretty much fixed the percentage fee at such a low level that there is no margin to offer rewards.

Thank goodness. I only hope we can do this in the US. The amount of time, money, and human creativity that goes into complicating what should be a simple business--transferring money--is absurd.

Were it in my power, I'd also make consumer loans and money transfer two entirely separate businesses. If somebody wants to buy stuff without hauling around cash, great. And if somebody wants to consciously go out and get a consumer loan, also great. But conflating these functions takes advantage of cognitive biases to trap people in debt.
A simple pastebin
As far as I can tell, Standard ML doesn't have much of a feature overlap problem. Off the top of my head, the only redundant feature is `abstype`, which I think is a leftover from the 70's, when ML didn't have its module system. If Standard ML had first-class modules, then modules and records could also be considered redundant.

What Standard ML suffers from is lack of expressivity. The lack of (pattern) guards sometimes forces pattern matching blocks to (nest more than necessary and) contain redundant clauses. The lack of polymophic recursion forces non-uniformly recursive data types (as well as the functions that operate on them) to be rewritten in a way that makes the type checker a less effective bug-finding tool. Without higher-rank types, you can't express the Day convolution, free Applicatives, or Traversals (from the lens library). On the other hand, I don't find myself missing higher-kinded types much, since they are mostly useful in combination with type classes, which modules can adequately replace.

What 1ML does is unify features: (0) records and let expressions are now particular uses of modules, (1) core language functions and type constructors are now particular uses of functors.
> How do you guys pay the bills with no premium features like all the other calculators on the app store?

We license our calculator API to people who want to use it to make math content, or integrate it as a tool for students into their books, exercises, assessments, etc.

https://www.desmos.com/api
Pretty much what I said about ali - he was a hatchet man. Gould making Medi Ali CEO in 90, or whenever it was, destroyed the company. Tramiel was generally disliked, but they did pretty well under him until he left.

Engineering was decimated both in manpower and budget by Ali. Morale was wrecked too - lots who weren't pushed just left. I don't know how many were left in engineering, but it wasn't many. It was also Gould/Ali that destroyed the Unix deal with Sun.

AAA was specced 10x or more faster than original chipset, and way overdue. It was meant to land 91/92 of course. I think the reason they looked at RISC 3D was also cost - budget to get AAA to silicon under Ali was never going to happen, so buy in something. It wasn't 3D so I've no idea how it'd compare with voodoo etc.
My consumer storage RAIDs already take 1-2 days to rebuild. I can't imagine larger enterprise ones!
Similar laws in China and Thailand.
My point exactly.

The fact of the matter is that prepaid phone use (much like encryption) is used by people for pretty banal purposes: they want to make sure that their private life stays private.

Maybe they are carrying on an illicit affair. Maybe they are running a side business their employer wouldn't approve of. Whatever the reason, people have a certain right to privacy.

The burden isn't on US to demonstrate why we need privacy. The burden is on the GOVERNMENT to demonstrate why they need to pull back the curtain on someone else's privacy to further a legitimate government interest. That's the crux of every argument opposing the government keeping records (or forcing the record-keeping by business) on everything a person does in the course of their life.

The VAST majority of prepaid phone use is legitimate and non-controversial. Why burden all of those uses with a specious need to identify themselves when conducting perfectly legal business?

You don't need an ID to buy a hammer or a knife. Why should you need one to buy a phone?
There's no way that those other sports are more dangerous than boxing. That's ludicrous. About 5-10 people die per year from boxing [1], while about 1 in 1.06 million people die per day of skiing [2]. That same source estimates that 1 in 1.2 million boxers die per minute in the ring.

1. http://ejmas.com/jcs/jcsart_svinth_a_0700.htm

2. https://www.nsaa.org/media/68045/NSAA-Facts-About-Skiing-Sno...
Can someone provide some context here? I did watch the explanation but not really sure what it's about since i'm not familiar with console games
A dashed lane marking means that both sides may temporarily use the other lane to pass -- provided that they can see it will be safe. A solid center line means you cannot do that. A double line with one side solid and one side dashed means that the dashed side may attempt to pass, not the solid side.

All of these things become more clear once you realize they are primarily about sight-lines.
You're free to reach out to me if you'd like to talk. I'm not a therapist but I might be able to provide some encouragement and advice on finding a path to wellness.
I thought of using the term technical skill, but given Collin’s opinion on modern art I felt artistic was more appropriate - his views about modern art is more than a critic of a lack of technical skills.

I do agree with you the distinction between art and craft is a very interesting topic :)
The comment/abstract on this says:

Streamed live on Mar 25, 2016

"I'm going to try to go from zero to enough
elliptic curve so that you can understand and
possibly implement an important real-world
attack on elliptic curve cryptography."

It's long, but promises much. I hope to get the chance to view this some day.
"Many folds"?

The benefit to the co-brander is "many folds"? I'm not familiar with this term and nothing in the dictionary made sense. Is this industry lingo or the author's inability to bother editing and reviewing the piece?
For a decade of container control, cAdvisor is really not a good product. Fundamentally flawed and seriously lacking documentation. This is an area where Google is a miss, they leave to many projects dangling and half working. Luckily there are better alternatives on the market.
An interesting article, though I was surprised by the assertion that Google regrets Hadoop and Mesos being developed and controlled by groups outside of Google. At least for the last decade, I got the impression that Google deliberately didn't open source their code because they saw it as a major competitive advantage. Perhaps that is changing now that data is the new competitive advantage?
Are you receiving a salary as well or not? In my book, a cofounder without salary should not have a cliff.

Even if you are receiving a salary, a two-year cliff is very unusual.
Leaving aside artistic merit, a lot of modern art is poorly constructed out of unstable materials. We may not have much of todays modern art in 50 years purely because the artists don’t know how (or don’t want) to make something that will last.
Irish guy here who was taught all of this history in school. My overriding sense is that of disillusionment with the commemorations. The media outlets are trying to induce a sense of patriotism that I cannot feel because it's too far removed from our modern lives, the internet has brought the world closer anyway so these acts were for what? Being branded one nationality instead of another. What difference does it make when the vast percentage of my Irish friends live in Canada, Australia, UK, Germany anyway, forced out by a government that nationalised banking debt and ruined my generation's chance of a normal life that the previous one enjoyed. My friends won't return because none of them can afford a house and could never raise a family on the taxes we have here. Its like being told by an abusive partner that "No, I wont hit you again". Maybe others will have good counterpoints but this is my perspective on it.
What connection do you see between Arabs and Han Chinese that would make them follow suit? Also China has tight controls over its internet. They watch it very closely, and anyone attempting to circumvent these controls to promote civil disobedience is dealt with severely. They're smart and not smart at the same time. They don't crack down on people who use VPN to read news, use Facebook etc. But they will throw you in prison, and threaten you with the safety of your loved ones, if you seem to be "causing trouble" among masses. Not smart because this keeps their country weak. But that's who's in power.
This page has a lot of thinly veiled blackhat SEO. I suppose that doesn't say anything about the project's technical merits, but it really puts me off. There are three separate paragraphs that consist of lists of technical terms and nothing else.
That was definitely one of the more readable articles on the front page. IMO if more web developers where blind like this guy then maybe the web would be more readable.
Reads like an individual quirk to me, a bastardization of many fold.

(It still doesn't read very sensibly, but it isn't a huge leap from many folds->many fold->there are several)
Well, it's Digg, so maybe each key is a comment? That's entirely reasonable. I can think of any number of sample web applications that would require loading dozens of objects from a DB per page load.
Pigasus Award
Hmmm, on a surface level that sounds "ok"-ish.

As a person working in the IT industry for more than a decade, being intimately involved with several major Open Source projects in demand, it sounds debatable (perhaps even wrong), as many in demand skills last longer than fads (eg PostgreSQL clueful-ness).

So, what you're saying doesn't sound right to me. :(

Thoughts? :)
gotta follow this up with a shout-out to flux balance analysis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux_balance_analysis
I'm TAing intro Bio right now, and I really wish teaching metabolism with toy FBA models was generally part of the pedagogy:
http://www.nature.com/nchembio/journal/v8/n6/full/nchembio.9... (my apologies, that probably isn't open access).
I think it would go a long way towards getting students to think about metabolism rather than just memorizing it, and it might be a good way to also teach the strengths and limitations of modeling.
How Journalists Can Help Hold Scientists Accountable
Unlikely. Many kinds of cheating are basically using systems as they're built. Social systems, accounting systems, computer systems. Those systems are just a (fallible) embodiment of the relationships we choose to create between one another.

If somebody abuses a system to shift a relationship to one that's parasitic or harmful, they shouldn't expect the rest of society to blame the system rather than the system's abuser.
In terms of pure readability I find breaking the list comprehensions helps in more complex cases (and is still valid Python), e.g.:

octets = [bbs[i:i+8]
for i in range(0, len(bbs), 8)
if i%2 != 0]
I doubt it's because they don't care, more like the cost of a concierge service/personal shopper, free airline tickets, etc all end up being MORE than 1% of their credit care bill. And they are probably buying those things either way.
Another good source on procrastination and deadlines: http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_mast...
One of the big issues with the credit card business is fraud. Fraud is around 1% of all credit card transactions. Fraud tends to be higher on online payments where the "card not present" rate that merchants pay is higher than the "card present rate" enjoyed by brick and mortar stores.

In addition to fraud, credit card companies have to contend with the purchasing power of large companies (e.g., the Costco example ditching Amex) and also their own expenses as many people like concierge services and other "perks" that cost money and are becoming more standard on cards for people with higher credit and income.

In practice, it's fairly difficult to offer much of an incentive beyond 2% cash back (which Fidelity Amex and the Capital One Visa Spark Card offer). However; these cards are closer to being loss leaders for their institutions as they want to incentivize you to do your banking with them as well (Fidelity does this fairly well as the cash back must be deposited into a Fidelity account). Charles Schwab was the first to have a 2% cash back card many years ago and they discontinued it, likely because they lost money on it.

Travel-based rewards cards can get away with offering seemingly better incentives because of their margin. Starwood is a perfect example of this as hotels have a high fixed cost base and low variable cost base. The variable cost to stay at a high-end hotel is something like $50-60 per night if the room is vacant. So while Starwood seems to be paying out 2 cents on the dollar (e.g., 10,000 points for a $200 room), they are really only paying out 0.5 cents on the dollar. This is why the Starwood Amex is seemingly the best Credit Card. It's all about the economics of the company that brands it.
I read your requirements.

So, there's an analog loophole: in order to "write", the filesystem has to receive the data to be written - otherwise, it's untestable (if it doesn't get the data to be written it could write whatever it wants and pass all tests) which is a roundabout way of saying that if it doesn't get the data it can't possibly work. So it has to get the data. At that point it could be saved if the filesystem is modified (patched) to exfiltrate it. So we have to assume that you kind-of trust the filesystem not to be patched.

But if the filesystem is not modified, though, that means you're fine with the path that that data takes all the way until your filesystem writes it -- however, in this case your requirements are 100% met by encrypting to the public key and writing that out.

#jakobdabo's requirements

#include <pgp stuff>
#include <filesystem stuff>

public key = arg0
private key = arg1

read_file(filename){
if (have_private_key)
try decrypt(private_key, read(filenename))
return result
except "didn't work"
else
"I wasn't called with a private key."
}

write_file(filename, data)
towrite = encrypt(filename, data) //encrypted metada inside
try write towrite
except "didn't work"

so this should meet all of your requirements. If you wanted the filesystem to do stuff like hide whether a file is even modified, hide timestamps, etc etc, those are almost impossible. Consider:

I want to determine whether anyone is accessing a server at the moment.

Server is idling, with sockets listening to answer web queries.

Suddenly 5,000 Reddit users show up and look through the site, generating lots of logs which nginx dutifully saves - only you're saving it in your encrypted filesystem.

Now.

How would you make it so that the fact that all of this traffic is being saved is hidden? The updates to the drive image would have to happen like clockwork regardless of what was happening. But this isn't a reasonable requirement, as the amount of entropy entering the drive is bigger while Reddit is hugging it than normal. You couldn't make it so that you are saving as much information as at top load. so what do you do? Reduce the top average to some level that you can continuously fabricate?

It doesn't make sense.

So you wouldn't hide whether any data was being saved by the dash-cam at all. but it's easy to save an encrypted version. the dash cam doesn't even need the private key.

but you do have to trust the software running on it. (for example to correctly do the encryption and not also write the underlying data somehow.)
If you travel, AMEX has the highest value of rewards if you apply them to airline rewards.

On the other hand, if you're spending enough money to get a black card, futzing with points is probably unproductive.
Please shout when you have got a draft :-)
Rust doesn't consider exception safety to be a matter worth 'unsafe's time. All code must simply be memory-safe in the face of unwinding. RecoverySafe is basically "it's hard to leak busted state out of a region of code that panicked". That is, mutable references aren't RecoverySafe, and mutexes and the like poison their contents if they witness a panic while locked.

But RecoverySafe is just preventing things like "your binary heap was only partially heapified" and not "your heap is now full of uninitialized memory". You can get poisoned values out of mutexes just fine, so everything needs to put itself in a memory-safe state if a panic occurs.

One can bypass RecoverySafe in safe code with the AssertRecoverySafe wrapper.

It does however turn out that safe code in Rust is generally quite exception-safe by default. This is because safe code can't do anything too dangerous, panics are generally only caught at thread or application boundaries (so data that witnesses a panic is usually well-isolated) and there's way less places that can unwind compared to "override everything" C++. But exception safety is indeed something unsafe code needs to fight for (see the aforementioned binary heap in std).
Technoutopianism, Counterfeit and Real 2: Categories of Leftist Technoutopianism
If this passes, somebody's gonna make a buttload of cash selling grey-market anonymous prepaid phones bought before the ban
The Belgian state security service which is responsible for both internal and external security (MI5+MI6, FBI+CIA, Mossad+ShinBet etc.) has 150 employees and has seen budget cuts last year despite the Paris attacks.

Belgium (and many other European countries) has ghettos which are filled with "immigrants" many of them of 2nd and 3rd generation predominately Muslim.

Those ghettos aren't policed as the police in many cases is afraid of going in to do their day to day policing and even simple warrants require the use of SWAT if not the army.

The population in those ghettos ranges from being supportive, to sympathetic to plain refusing to cooperate with the authorities for what ever reason which means that there is almost no penetration as far as traditional HUMINT sources goes.

It took Belgium months to find one guy that was hiding in within only a few blocks because the local population is not cooperative and some parts of it conspired to assist him.

But any time that this issue has been brought up it pretty much ended as a political fiasco and often a political suicide.

When some one suggested that the security services need to build an outreach program that would specifically target the Muslim population to both build trust between law enforcement and the migrant communities as well as a network of informants, they are quite often being labeled as racist, islamophobic and could kiss their career goodbye.
Manyfold, is one word, no space between many and fold. I bet you are right about the author's intent. I know you are right that it does not read sensibly. Thank you for responding, for some reason "manyfold" did not come to mind when I read the article.
It's simply a misspelled version of "manifold", isn't it? And if you replace it by "manifold", the sentence makes perfect sense.
Sorry, but I trust the always fresh, usually picked under 24 hours ago food sold in the market here in China far more than at the end of a global supply chain dominated by multiple layers of near-monopolistic intermediaries. None of that cold chain, international shipping nonsense. Here we work on volume and speed.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Manyfold

I believe the author speaks English as a second language. Googling his name brings up a page describing him as an immigrant and his writing supports this theory in certain places.

I suspect you could have pointed the mistake out in a more tactful way. He knew what he wanted to say and he used two valid words, he just didn't know to make it a compound word and this would be easy to miss when self editing.
Interesting theory that Steve Jobs sabotaged the Apple II GS, but I'm not sure how that could have happened. Maybe he put a curse on John Sculley?

The price comparison is not accurate. A floppy drive was $399 (or $299 for a 5.25"), so the total is $1897, still about $700 less than the Mac Plus. Also, the II GS only came with 256 kB of RAM, compared to the Mac Plus's 1 MB. It was $129 to add another 256 kB, but I don't know how much a 1 MB upgrade cost.
> One of the big issues with the credit card business is fraud. Fraud is around 1% of all credit card transactions. Fraud tends to be higher on online payments where the "card not present" rate that merchants pay is higher than the "card present rate" enjoyed by brick and mortar stores.

These are things that will change over time. 3DSecure is standard in Europe because the EU pushes transaction fees so low that credit card companies need to reduce fraud because they cannot afford it any more.
Notably, this also prevents being able to implement functionality required for performant GC, like generational collection (as moving references is virtually impossible without controlling the runtime).
I fat-fingered a down vote on this; just apologizing here. The perils of browsing HN comment threads on an iPhone...
What allows some people to handle this pressure well while others collapse under the weight of it all?
Massive Robots Keep Docks Shipshape
saying that we should hardcode our filesystems into a single machine instruction and let the processor figure it out

I think he was rather saying that the OS could do it: persistent virtual memory as the primary abstraction. In Unix, files and processes are different kinds of things; in KeyKOS there were only processes; RAM was effectively a cache. As Unix directories have links to files, KeyKOS processes could be given capabilities to invoke other processes (passing capabilities and data as arguments). The different security model makes this analogy misleading, but you can see how you could emulate a filesystem.

What assumptions do you mean?
That's from Telefonica. It could be related to cable TV.
> Also, the new "gluten-free" diet fad scares me,

As a coeliac also, I freaking love the fad. Back when I was first diagnosed around 2004, it was nearly impossible to find GF bread mix. Now, I can buy 6 different brands of ready-made GF bread within a few km of my house - 7 once they finish building the Aldi down the road - and the larger supermarkets even have an entire aisle of gluten free stuff.
I finally figured it out: Privacy isn't criminality; it's vulnerability.
This is true because

Devout ?x aficionados tend to be a little... opinionated.

I've met plenty of devout Prolog, C, C++, and Java aficionados, and yes, they're opinionated.

Also, you're more likely to notice opinions that differ from your own than ones you agree with, these are more likely to be held by groups you don't belong to, and you're less likely to belong to minority groups, such as Lisp programmers.
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