skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cosmic background radiation as observed by a sensor connected to the computer is not random. All I'd need to mess with the randomness is to put a focused radiation source near the device. Sampling randomness from the environment surrounding the physical installation of the device is not good. I hope no one is doing this.

There's no reason why you wouldn't want to use truly random numbers for cryptography. That's what /dev/random is supposed to provide.
WHY PEOPLE CAN'T RELAX
In terms of fairness, it's only unfair if we hold some people in the industry to moral standards we don't apply to others. Our choices to maintain fairness are either to hold all economic actors accountable for their actions, or to hold none of the economic actors accountable for their actions. You seem to favour the latter, I favour the former, neither of us is wrong in terms of fairness.
Why? Once /dev/urandom is seeded, you can use it for an unlimited amount.
So you still have to name the bot you want, vs the system figuring out which bot(s) are able to handle your request, which the parent post seems to suggest.
Design has many dimensions; performance is only one of them.

Text protocols tend to grow ambiguities, but that's because they're evolvable. That's a feature, not a bug. A binary protocol would likely have already collapsed under its own weight. (Name a binary application level protocol that has achieved adoption as wide as HTTP)

HTTP also wasn't designed from scratch. The message format is shared with e-mail (RFC 2822, RFC 822), presumably so people could reuse existing code. HTML wasn't designed from scratch either; it was based on SGML. There are lots of good reasons that e-mail was text.

You're basically arguing against nature. Humans ostensibly design protocols, but it's really the laws of evolution and economics (nature) that determine which ones survive. It's like complaining that human knees and backs are fragile... yeah that's true, but there's nothing you could have done about it.
That's fine because that's what he did.

If, however, you want to argue in that direction, links to socialism and the party's name containing the word socialism is different from actually being a socialist and implementing socialism.

Its generally accepted that Nazism is a form of fascism. It's ludicrous to say that fascism is socialism and that Hitler was a socialist.

There might be arguments that stem from the the genealogy of fascism through national syndicalism. I guess that's like saying my grandfather was x, therefore I am definitely x.
Also, you don't need to go about changing yourself to match someone's arbitrary ideals. If you keep trying to change things about yourself in response to what people say, you'll never be happy and you'll never run out of people to try to please.

As another posted mentioned, some of these cheap, generic insults like "you're not enough of $x" are absolutely baseless and shortsighted. A lot of them are based on preconceived notions that this person holds for reasons unknown to even them.

I think the important thing is to know who you are and find people who appreciate what it is that you bring to the table. Try to to get stuck on casual insults, move on and keep dating/meeting people. The only thing worth working towards in life is becoming an increasingly considerate human being.
How exactly did they come to the conclusion that it is 4500 years old?
I agree completely --- they look "human friendly" but parsing them is a huge pain. A simple binary protocol, while not as easily human-readable (but that's what hex dumps are for), could be just as extensible without all the ambiguity. It doesn't even have to be something as complex as ASN.1; a similar sort of TLV-based protocol would fit the use case very well. E.g. [1 byte request method; 2 bytes URL length; variable-length URL; [1 byte header name; 2 bytes header data length; variable-length header data] 0 terminator]

On the bright side, at least IP, TCP, etc. weren't designed in the same way...
Yes, I have first hand experience with this.

These are more sophisticated than traditional phishing attempts. They are targeted and personal. The phisher researches his target, finds out the email address of the CFO or other key people in accounting, and then targets the organization accordingly, spoofing email addresses to commit wire fraud or similar exploits.

The payoffs are huge, and the victims, having never been targeted before, are naive and vulnerable. One organization I was involved with lost mid-5 figures to one such scheme, and almost lost double that again before someone got wise.
> As grim as watching decapitation might be, I expect the ratings would be huge.

I don't recommend watching it. Someone I know posted an ISIS (or similar) video on Facebook, which popped up into my feed while I was doing something on the other monitor, and it auto-played. By the time I realized that it wasn't fake (it wasn't a clean, axe-lop decapitation, but rather done via sawing away with what appeared to be a camp knife) and it literally froze me, then left me quite out of myself.

I consider myself fairly stoic, and entirely un-squeamish, but that bothered me in a way that I didn't realize anything could. For your own sanity, I recommend avoiding it where possible.
It's generally accepted that a "hydrogen economy" [1] doesn't make sense, and isn't going to work. I think we can say with reasonable certainty that that's true for cars where it looks like batteries are going to reign supreme.

I'm not at all sure that that's true for large jet aircraft though. Storing liquid hydrogen is a non-trivial exercise. On the other hand the larger the tank you're storing it in, the easier the problem becomes -- and large passenger jets would by necessity be using very large tanks. These tanks would be so large that they would impact jet performance in terms of increased drag. However, even with the larger tanks, liquid hydrogen will still provide a much better energy-to-weight ratio than you can get with jet propellent. This means you need less lift to fly the airplane and you have lower energy losses to lift-induced drag. I don't know that this would get you to break-even, but it seems likely that a hydrogen powered jet can get comparable performance to a jet using conventional jet fuel.

Of course just handling liquid hydrogen is no easy task. But a large airport should benefit from considerable economies of scale. It wouldn't be like trying to provide liquid hydrogen to cars at your local gas station.

There has been at least one experimental liquid hydrogen fueled aircraft, the Tupolev Tu-155 [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_economy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-155
It depends, I prefer switches with a single line, which call out to some service to be preferable to the State pattern. This is because the State pattern encourages you to design these "everything and the kitchen sink" style classes.

It's a bit crazy to implement the State pattern than have the various state object just do single calls (or no-ops) when the switching has been implemented to be readable.

Note: if your language doesn't support enumerations and switching over them then the OO pattern may be better. If I didn't had static analysis telling me when I've missed a state then it's a bug waiting to happen. The State pattern makes a missing state hard to miss ;)
> unless it cheats by using my wife's private information, in which case she's going to hate me either way

The should be no such thing as private information. The fact that you're saying that access to it is "cheating" seems to indicate that access to it is the best outcome on a productivity point of view. Why makes things more difficult in the name of privacy when transparency makes everything easier?
Sure, if it's not actually reactionless, most objections fall away.

The problem with reaching for exotic particles or the like is that we don't see them in searches which involve tens of orders of magnitude more power, and we certainly don't see them in, for example, electric toasters or radar sets. So what would need explaining is what's peculiar about the EmDrive with respect to (extremely) unusual particle interactions, and there is [a] nothing obvious and [b] nothing at all in the "theory" paper.

Likewise, reaching for non-local physics answers raises similar questions (why is EmDrive doing non-local whatever but my kettle isn't; or alternatively, why is EmDrive coupling with whatever much much much more strongly than my conventional oven is).

I have another pair of things that you can add to the list: [a] EmDrive somehow violates causality in a way that other similar arrangements of mass-energy-momentum does not and [b] EmDrive somehow escapes logic in a way that other similar systems under study does not. These are neither more far-fetched nor more unpalatable, compared to abandoning local physics (causality and logic preserved, but hidden non local variables proliferate) or abandoning the Standard Model as an accurate low-energy theory of matter (causality, logic and locality preserved, but now what happens in the molecules and atoms of cars, computer chips, and light bulbs? we no longer can be quite so sure!).

There is A LOT of known physics and almost exactly zero examples of violations of the known invariants at low particle energies. You are re-testing relevant parts of all that in reading this comment.
Look up VIA's mini PC's too. VIA has been shipping low-power, multi-core, VT-enabled, crypto-accelerated x86 for a long time in boxes that were $100-300 new. You can always find some on eBay, too. I used to use them for physical decomposition of secure systems with non-DMA links & KVM switches.
I agree. But I don't think it's "tribes" exactly that create the effect, it's sustainable subsistence living within a community. You will find a few people doing a variation of it in every bioregion on the planet. I just came across this[1] video about Satayama, a Japanese village. They're not eating whale blubber,
They're eating gourmet food and living in designer homes in paradise basically. Someone pointed me at Sepp Holzer the other day who is doing it in Austria[2]. There's a good chance someone is living that way within 100 miles of you.

What's interesting to me is that I believe we are less than a decade away from a time when AIs will be able to instruct you, step by step, how to live sustainably on just your own power, with maybe $1000 worth of financing and access to a tool lending network.

At that point a lot of "rules" of economics start to break down.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcpdi1geXuI

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GMXqgQIU9c
Name a binary application level protocol that has achieved adoption as wide as HTTP

DNS?
Why should "they" have to give Twitter a call, and from my experience how are you actually supposed to even call someone at one of the big companies. Twitter should be reaching out to them prior to cutting off their access and letting them know how they need to proceed. I've developed lots of huge apps on FB platform and this is why I would never touch Twitter platform.
Thanks for the example! I didn't understand it, but then I asked about it on cross-validated and the cross-validated hive mind helped me get it: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/209057/independence...
Regardless of the instructions, I think that's the way most people would fold it into quarters. Notice that they rearranged the sections from the first wireframe to the final version; the same folding steps would have hidden the ads in the first version.
Here's a news article actually about the headline
http://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/Box-living-Peter-Be...
GNU Make Jobserver Implementation
Carl Sagan’s Childhood Sketches of the Future of Space Travel (2014)
Orthogonality and biology aren't friends.
Quite interesting that the words "new body armour" brings "sport" associated before other stuff...
One of the Interix guys gave a talk at my local Unix group in 1997 or so. He said they had a support contract with Microsoft. Once Windows NT came out, Microsoft stopped answering calls for about 6 months. Because NT was going to win, right?

After 6 months, their technical contacts were sheepishly apologetic...

On a personal note, I did my main FreeRADIUS development on XP with Interix for many years. It was... adequate as a Unix replacement. Not spectacular, but adequate.

When that system died, I replaced it with an OSX system. Which was enormously better.
Rule Based Stateful Testing
Self defense/personal fitness is a great start. May I add 'delete Facebook' and 'learn Game' to the list. The latter can be incendiary in certain circles (this one, for instance), but with my sample size of '1' I can attest that it really, truly works.
Ohh, yes, CloudFlare. Sorry.
"A large part of Ryanair’s revenue is generated by ancillary income, so allowing for ad space was an important business requirement."

They seem to care so much about their ad space, that I wonder if I can edit the boarding pass, remove the ads before printing it and still board my plane. How long before they start aggressively promoting stuff in the cabin for the whole duration of the trip?
I'm not TOR user.
The Gerontology Research Group, originally organized by the late Stephen Coles. The mailing list is a watering hole of sorts for the gerontology community and some of the surrounding advocates and entrepreneurs, though much less so now than used to be the case.

It is a closed list, so no link, I'm afraid.
No. Pharmaceutical research does not and cannot work this way. Over the last few years, there has been much reasearch on molecular interactions. The current consensus is that everthing interacts with pretty much everthing at some point, it is just the degree of these interaction that varies. Molecular pathways become more and more vague (which does not mean that they disappear, its just very complex). For example, we do not even know how many existing drugs interact with each other, because who would fund that? Some reasearch hospital now do it but it is tedious when you have hundreds of potential interacting partners.

For clinical trials, this leads to very strict guidelines. One of my university professors once told us about a drug they had to test in dogs for some side effects. Nothing happend to the dogs but afterwards they would have been eutanized because it was regulated that these exact dogs cannot enter another study. They finally adopted them, but still. Similar, people entering clinical trials are usually not allowed to take certain drugs, may need to abstinent from alcohol etc.

Keep in mind. This is not an experiment, this is a clinical trial in a human.
Imagine what it's like for the poor people that moderate those posts.

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
The designers and advertisers have gone full mental on this site:

http://i.imgur.com/1mJPxyK.png

This is after I dismissed the “click this to add this to your reading list” popover.
The reason why services and devices can't be totally separated as gunpowders and paint is software. Apple's recent software qualities have been facing many challenges and varied user feedbacks, Apple Map, Siri, FinalCut update, New Photos, iCloud hack issues. I doubt their organization structure is the magic fix to their software issues, in fact, a complete separation between devices + services might make some of their software challenges even harder.
Given how much focus he places on code generation and metaprogramming it's ASTounding that there is not a single reference to Lisp to be found in that wall of text. I agree with a lot of what he says, but his total ignorance (must be ignorance rather than deliberate) of Lisp metaprogramming weakens a lot of his arguments for GSL specifically.
what about wallpaper that was a battery, heat and energy combined in one easy to apply sheet...
Note that many works (e.g. Mein Kampf and many of the "banned" Nazi movies) are not actually banned by law, but via copyright rules.

You can sue against the ban of a brutal movie if you think the ban decision was wrong. You can't sue against the de-facto ban of the movies, and our parliament couldn't lift the ban by changing a law. A more-or-less private entity controls them, and many argue that some of not-banned movies are actually worse.

There are laws against Nazi propaganda etc, but for quite a few things they aren't even applied and tested.
I'm surprised he let them publish a photo of him at all, the sunglasses aren't going to stop people recognising him.
Back up and ask why you should want to learn. People sometimes assume we should all be learning everything but the reality is we can't and we won't. So we need to focus.

I've seen a lot of people that flit around and start this and that or take an online class but then never build anything with the technology. After a year or two they are pretty much no better off for the effort than if they had used the time to drink beer at the beach.

So my philosophy is now to spend a small amount of time investigating. How useful is this to myself or an employer? How interesting it? How much time and effort is going to be required to learn this well enough to work it? If it's more than I'm willing to put out or the thing has limited use or interest then I don't even bother. I know it's there if I want to come back later. But if I'm not going to learn it to the point it becomes a useful tool I generally don't bother starting.

I have found that half efforts are about half the effort of a full effort but they don't produce half the results. So they are by in large a waste of time and energy.
Does anyone know how this compares to the hardware random number generators built into most computers?
We don't really understand the "hardware" enough to create a legit programming language for life yet.

We're basically reverse engineering biology and that's pretty hard.

Believe it or not DNA/RNA knowledge is just the tip of the iceberg in how life works.

There's so many other factors that influence DNA expression like DNA folding/compaction, enzyme up/down regulation, the genes environment, all in a vary complex interacting system that creates life as we know it.

If you want to skip the DNA and jump straight to proteins and just start assembling amino acids then you run into an NP hard problem that the most advanced supercomputers and GPU clusters can't decipher.

So that's a brief summary into the challenges that are faced.

If we ever do reverse engineer life I think we would become what historic literature classifies as "Gods".
> "Is he lying about doing drug research?"

I would say so, yes. Note how none of the products that they're supposedly developing are in clinical trials, despite being Turing Pharmaceuticals indicating they should be...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2015/12/15/martin-...
Where is the comparison with some binary search tree such as RB tree? I wouldn't be surprised if the method in the article is faster but IMO it should be compared with RB tree or something similar.

Edit: My fault. I misunderstood the incremental sort problem.
Fantasy Math Is Helping Companies Spin Losses into Profits
you could still use vram for paging
The Banker Who Gambled Everything and Brought EVE's Greatest Empire to Its Knees
DōTERRA breach exposes customer info; including SS, DOB, and addresses
Just wondering: can beginning a startup with new people be considered a good way to find new friends?
A lot of the controversy about gender today only makes sense in light of broad historical context.

Gender was synonymous with biological sex until John Money introduced a distinction in 1955. That distinction has been amplified across the decades to a the point where cultural consensus considers gender to be primary and biological sex irrelevant. We can and should ask why this is happening in Western Culture first. The reason is because it is part of a long cultural war that is being fought over the idea that inequalities can and should be fixed by culture and the idea that inequalities will inevitably persist due to our nature as humans. The progressive impulse has animated a lot of positive change in the West but it stumbles when it comes up against actual differences. It either pretends that they don't exist in order to maintain the narrative or it assumes that differences must be bad and opts toward a view that any difference that leaves a group with less perceived power must be eradicated by adopting the trappings of power.

Transgenderism is ground zero for this cultural/biological clash. Boys/Men generate about 17x the amount of testosterone as women http://www.mayomedicallaboratories.com/test-catalog/Clinical.... Estrogen and oxytocin have real effects on self-perception and behavior. When someone says "I feel like a man" or "I feel like a woman" we are hearing them through the filter of their biology (do I feel the urge to smash things or nurture?) along with cultural self-perception.

In non-Western societies, without the overlay of our culture, hormones influence roles and sense of life without much mediation. In the West we struggle with this. Is the burka oppression or a choice? Is it a valid choice to forgo a career and feel fulfilled as a mother and then a grandmother if that feels right to you? Can you be oppressed if you don't feel oppressed? It's hard to escape our narrative and consider it something we impose on our nature.
wow, duh, i guess this shows how you can get into a headspace of trying to solve something that's already been solved :)
Why you should use adblock:

http://imgur.com/vKOQXOc
These tokens, like the OneRNG, are quite interesting from an engineering point of view, but as a developer all you ever need to know or do about secure randomness is to use /dev/urandom and nothing else (unless it's a wrapper for /dev/urandom).

Not /dev/random, not rand(), not something you found in a library. Just bytes, read from /dev/urandom.

Here is my CCC talk about why that is, which includes everything from kernel sources to authoritative quotes: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7441-the_plain_simple_reality_of...

EDIT: the talk is in English, but you have to select it from the video UI, in the bottom right.
Drop-To-Drop Variation Analysis in the Cellular Components of Fingerprick Blood
Most developers abandoned Twitter years ago after this policy
Plus the article mentions he's a "married engineer, who is in his 30s", a bicycling enthusiast, and six feet, four inches tall. That, combined with the photo, is a pretty thorough description.
Trying to avoid "extreme or sustained harassment" is in it's mission something much more narrow than clearing a place until it's "positive".

While I could agree with "We all become better people when we can share our own perspectives and hear the perspectives of others, especially when they are different from our own.", I don't think that the overemphasis on perspectives makes it a particular trustworthy statement. It feels like it's a preparation for the demand of a relativist language. A conversation where everyone feels right, even if they aren't. Which appears to me to be some kind of a no-grow area.
This is what we are settled to build at https://snips.ai -- by understanding your personal knowledge graph with privacy in mind, we aim to create an AI which understands you without leaking data.

As we grow our product, we will include commands to chat with the AI when you want to express a complex task, or a semi-specified task ("I want to watch a movie tonight" / "What kind of movie?")
I pick a part of a computer I don't know it works and try doing it myself.

Everything from making a cpu from 74 series logic to writing a toy compiler. If you don't have much free time, just researching how to implement various parts of a computer works is good as actual implementation takes a large amount of time (eg: the cpu required learning basic electronic skills). Now that I've gone through a basic computer stack, I'm doing that bits that interest me in more detail.
Meteor’s Apollo unites client apps and back-end databases
Not strictly true. Neither is really great if what you are looking for is TRUE randomness.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/insecurities_...