skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the early '90s I wrote the embedded software for the first versions of these hand-held color measurement instruments:
https://www.byk.com/en/instruments/products/color-measuremen...

From what I can see of the screen shots it looks like at least the core of that software is still in use.
What's the catch aka business model?
"shibboleet" https://xkcd.com/806/
articles with this identical thesis and conclusion have been published from time to time for the past 25 years.

i started coding in the early 1980's and began coding professionally just after graduating from MIT in 1992.
The "guidance counselor" at my high school recommended that i major in something other than computer science because he has read several thoughtful pieces that suggested the job of professional programmer would become "extinct" not because programming wasn't important but because it was too important (to leave to programmers)--sort of like the way many companies 50 years ago had large "typing pools"; these are gone because everyone can type.

looking across the span of my career so far, it seems these predictions are correct, in a horizon sense--ie, we've reached this distance line we pointed to 20 years ago, but there's no horizon there, it's still far in the distance.

here's what i mean: in 1992, my first job involved writing small extensions to numerical libraries, in C and FORTRAN. Probably 90 percent (if anything it was higher) of my time was spent "managing memory"--allocating it, deallocating it, pointing to it, etc.

now, the time i spend on those sorts of tasks is de minimis. So the march of technology never took away my job (the only job i have ever wanted to do) but it did take away 90% of it.

With 90% of my former tasks now handled elsewhere, far more interesting and challenging tasks have taken their place.

this is the trend i see--not the one-sided (or perhaps short-sited) trend described in the Wired post--but a continuous iteration of the programmer's work characterized by swapping well-characterized, routinized tasks for more challenging ones, most of which are would take some thought to foresee.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin will like to have a word with you. There are both surnames and hyphenated second names.
Something's weird in the code samples displayed for mononoki. The last </div> and braces are highlighted there, but not for other fonts. Also the digits in the first two lines have different colours.
too bad it's not available at my country yet
HotBits: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/

Also quantum 'randomness': https://qrng.anu.edu.au
Cronyism
Yeah, I too came in expecting the authors to develop philosophical framework of some description. Was disappointed to find the paper instead talks about NSA and hacking and the military and... ugh. I can't even.
To the contrary I think there's a decent argument to have about the idea that if we cloned a few billion people into being, it could help solve our problems faster, through their brain power and the increase in competition. There'd be less to eat, and more short-term pollution, but it might be beneficial long-term, since most of the CO2 to have been released has already been released cumulatively during the last century.
As I recall it was Intel driving the soft power button with the ATX standard, it was used to support the low power sleep modes. I don't think it had anything to do with knees :-)
My music lives on my iPhone. If it can't manage device libraries then it's useless to me.
More work for humans used to something else.

At this point it's worth reminding that ML syntax was originally designed to make programs more palatable to maths students...
There was a somewhat recent case of someone having their amazon account with all their media they purchased licenses to view via their Amazon account taken away from them permanently for issuing a charge back due to some disputed activity on their account. So, before you go around issuing charge backs, you should think of the consequences of disputing your account status with that merchant. You may end up losing access to ALL your Steam games just because some kid cracked your password and purchased a $1 game with your account. This is the danger of having an account on these digital distribution sites everyone seems to be so fond of. Sure, you can download your movies without having to leave your house to go to Blockbuster, but what do you do when you get your entire account locked on the Microsoft Zune Marketplace because of one charge? You could lose your entire iTunes library because you failed to recognize one charge that your kid made without your permission. Any such event could (and very well may) actually cut you off from your entire media library while you resolve your situation, if you actually manage to solve it. What if someone cracks your Battle.NET account and uses your copy of World of WarCraft to run a gold farming bot or a cheating script, and now you lose access to your entire Diablo 3 Real Money Auction House funds. You could literally have thousands of dollars taken away from you without it being your fault in the slightest. You know, provided you have a time machine and go back to 2013 when the D3 RMAH was actually a thing. In any case, this is a real danger where you can lose a lot of value over a simple charge back, and there is little to protect you from this retaliatory account locking that distributors of digital goods are so fond of lording over us plebs. Again, this is a serious issue. Do consider it whenever you think about issuing a charge back on your accounts. Now, the more faithful a customer to a digital distributor you are, the more you get screwed over by complaining about them mistakenly charging you for things you didn't purchase, or other such situations where you are forced to issue a charge back because you couldn't get the vendor to resolve an issue with the money they charge you for transferring some data to your system. I won't even touch the discussion on how physical media cost the same as the digital access despite the obvious lack of printing the medium, producing it, shipping it, warehousing it, displaying it in a store, securing it in the store, advertising it in the store, and selling it via a cashier. Running the download and billing servers has to be several orders of magnitude less expensive, not to mention that some distributors (Blizzard) use peer to peer downloads to make you distribute the software for them in addition to downloading it. And somehow they are the same price. Go figure.
When I left my former employer in 2014, they were still attempting to get their invoices off a FileMaker database and into Quicken or something of the sort. That particular database was in service when I started 10 years prior, running in FileMaker 3 on a Mac clone. It's been upgraded over the years, and was running in a Windows VM when I left - but it's likely still there.
The entropy of a single object is a meaningful concept. It is usually called Kolmogorov complexity.
I've often visualized a Trouble Pop-o-matic[0] hooked to a webcam and a solenoid. The solenoid would pop the die, and simple computer vision could count the pips or number on the die. I'm unsure how many would be needed to make SSL work.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/fL9Bg0M.jpg
In the web app I work on, we have a toast component that we use to show the user status messages. It's usually used for showing error messages. I've been aware of desktop notifications being around or a couple years now, but I haven't used em.

What guidelines or general rule of thumb do you use when deciding if something is worth a notification?
So I have "Show Apple Music" set to off in Settings, yet still when I get out in the boonies with a really weak cell signal, opening Music will result in a black Apple Music splash page that never fully loads, blocking me from accessing all the music I've synced to my iPhone. I end up having to turn on Airplane Mode to access the songs on my device. It's so stupid.
Biosphere will recover without all the pesky humans in the way.

That's kinda the point - if reducing human population is the goal, then wars are way more efficient means.

I think ultimately both those path lead to same road. The same road China is on.
Great story. It's not often I find myself reading through to the end.

>Hilbert arranged for the FBI to rent Popov an apartment near the beach and pay him a $1,000-a-month stipend to continue working on Ant City.

Talk about cheap! They offered him ~$3,000/mo compensation for work that was saving the US potentially hundreds of millions of dollars per year in fraudulent credit card charges?

>One victim was the Boston-based multinational EMC, where intruders had stolen the source code for the company’s ubiquitous virtualization software, VMware. If the code got out, hackers everywhere could plumb it for security holes. VMware’s purpose is to allow a single server to house multiple virtual computers, each walled off from the others. So in the worst-case scenario, a hacker might find a way to “escape” from a virtual machine and seize control of the underlying system.

And this just screams of the need for more open source projects.
The silver one was presumed his, but not confirmed as such.

But Bill being Bill, he might be collecting them. :)
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Wow, do they have any legal leverage (as in, sue you for 10$) to get their money back in this situation?

I would just ignore them, or if point to the relevant point of license agreement and/or law (if there is such point/law).
Damnit! That means it was stupidity that they never really recovered from. That should be more rare than it is. ;)
30 years of for-rent ads transcribed. Here’s what it taught about housing prices
Shameless plug (of my FOSS): if you like Diceware, you might like Molis Hai even better. Maps the 56-bit sequence 0x556bfdce0148c9 to "wrowd aut settea". I betcha the corresponding diceware passphrase is way longer and less memorable. cf https://www.brinckerhoff.org/molis-hai/pwgen.html, or download FOSS repo from github.
And just because two words sound similar doesn't mean they have similar roots. The word for “dog” in the Australian Aboriginal language Mbabaram happens to be “dog,” not because they have the same root but by coincidence.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UtFqXQosVP0C&pg=PT283&lp...
Fortunately archive.org has it https://web.archive.org/web/20150814041918/http://controlpak...

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much detail. :(
That Chromecast line is what does it for me. Google Music or Spotify are my only options. Fortunately, I like them both pretty well.
There are websites where you share your twitter or facebook page and users their will follow/like your page in exchange for you to do the same for their page...exchanging likes/follows. After few days these users will unlike or unfollow you to keep their follower/following ratio balanced.
I second that for anyone considering these things.
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Heymann was the one that bullied AaronSw to death, right?
I have the opposite problem with Google Play. I use it as a backup system for all my MP3s and it feels like when I hit play sometimes a Google employee is having to go to the shed out back, riffle through some DVDs, find the one that has my song backed up, bring it back, load it in the computer, copy it off, upload it somewhere, and _then_ I get to listen to it. Half the time the track will just sit there and spin without ever playing, and Google will just give up and progress to another track on the album. It's awful.
> cannot predict the time, energy, and direction of decay all at the same time

The uncertainty principle isn't the aspect of quantum mechanics that is used in these RNGs. They only need the fact that they can perform an action (measurement of some observable) whose outcome is not predictable. They do not attempt to measure different observables, since this would not help produce randomness. It is in essence just a (theoretically ideal) dice roll.
The dmd D compiler has some pieces of code in it going back to the early 80s. Some of my Empire game code, written in the 70s, still gets used.
Note also, from the JetBrains side:
http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2016/05/gradle-meets-kotlin...
This is great, I hope you retained 100% rights and are the one raking in that $?

Considering the rise of SSD's, what's your prediction of how quickly your revenue will decline?
> Are there a lot of admins who let their printers take IPs from the DHCP pool?

You mean just about every single home network?

Although, in an enterprise setting, if you count DHCP reservations then that's what we do, having our whole office use them has greatly simplified our network configuration.

I could imagine a world where printers had a built-in DDNS client which would make them truly plug-and-play in an office but that's probably more complicated than it's worth.
correct (mentioned in the wired article as well)
Cool, I like it! Thanks, Matthew!
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LessWrong#Roko.27s_basilisk
Some of them use a single story "a" for the italicized form. Consolas, Courier Prime, Envy Code R, Fantasque Sans Mono, Iosevka, Luculent and mononoki, and mabe others that i missed. You can check them out on the "Compare" mode on that page, "var" is rendered in italics :)
IT systems management
A pro wrestling simulator in 2003. It's terrible. The code is absolutely horrible. There is a small community of folks that still play it.
Regarding Seralini:

RetractionWatch, who are well-respected in the scientific community, has seven posts discussing his work (http://retractionwatch.com/category/by-author/gilles-seralin...). I won't go into the detail of the retracted article, its subsequent republishing without peer review, or his various conflicts of interest around his books or the funding of his group by 'pharma' companies selling plant-based homeopathic products claiming to be able to 'detoxify' Roundup residues (there's some detail on this in his Wikipedia entry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles-%C3%89ric_S%C3%A9ralini)

With respect to his 'court cases' - he won a defamation case against a journalist writing for a French magazine that had accused him of fraud and forgery. Incredibly few critics of Seralini have accused him of fraud; the court decision makes no statement as to the merit of what is the serious criticism of Seralini's work (in terms of the statistics, methods and analysis employed).

Regarding the German Federation of Scientists - he was awarded a 'whistleblower' award, not one for scientific merit. The jury/committee that awarded him this had a CRIIGEN board member (his host institution) and public supporter of Seralini as a member; there is not, as far as I can see, any information to suggest that she recused herself for this decision. The other scientist on the jury is a well-respected metrologist; all other members of the jury are legal professionals. For the sake of balance, the full decision of that jury is listed here - http://neu.vdw-ev.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Full-Reasoni...

On a personal note though - Seralini has several anti-GMO and anti-glyphosate books, releases papers in concert with documentaries, and appears to believe in 'detoxification' and homeopathic plant-based treatments in order to 'detoxify' Roundup residues. This behaviour and these views place him quite outside the usual behaviour of a scientist - it's simply not done that you write a paper and time it for an accompanying book launch and documentary release.
For concurrency I found this green thread implementation which uses libev or select for io:

http://ocsigen.org/lwt/2.5.1/manual/

Also, for parallelism, elsewhere in this thread this link was shared:

https://ocaml.io/w/Multicore
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I'm not sure if I know the precise definition, but I think I remember how it's used.

weakly random:

let X a random variable over {0,1}^n. That is, X is a distribution over bit sequences of length n. Distribution means I assign each of the 2^n bit sequences a nonnegative probability that sums to 1.

If X were uniform (true random), then each sequence in the 2^n such possible sequences would have probability 2^-n. Unfortunately, we have no such sequence generators, or life would be easy.

Let the min entropy of X be the largest natural k such that P[X=x] <= 2^-k for every x. ie roughly how likely are such sequences to take their most likely value. Or how biased is our RV.

eg: uniform random over sequences of length n would have min-entropy n.

Again, the problem is we have no uniform random sequences available to us. Instead, we have biased sequences. So there is a long history of asking how can we take a biased random sequence and turn it into a random sequence. You do this with an extractor.

For example, suppose we had a sequence which produced independent bits 1 with probability p and 0 with probability q=1-p. However, we don't know p. What we could do (an extractor!) is use two sequence bits to produce one output bit, as so: sequence 0,1 has probability p x q, and sequence 1,0 has probability q x p. Map 0,1 to 0 and 1,0 to 1, and ignore 0,0 and 1,1. Now we can produce 0 with probability 1/2 and 1 with probability 1/2, ie we have uniform random from an input sequence of unknown bias (but perfectly uncorrelated, which also doesn't exist in nature. Life is hard.)

We measure the quality of extractors by calculating how bad (lower entropy) a sequence they can take and how close (statistical distance, which has a technical definition) they can output a distribution close to uniform.

Anyway, I got distracted, but in general weakly random means distributions or sequences which are biased. The less biased they are the more they're called "almost random." In general, you want to build extractors that run on sequences with unknown bias.

hth
Christina from RethinkDB here (I work on all things community)... I'll pass the kind words along to our co-founder Mike G. who worked countless hours on the website, plus Annie Ruygt who does the artwork! It's wonderful to hear positive feedback since we do most of our design in-house :D
I think the sanitisation of the headline is in keeping with the spirit of the following guidelines:

Yep, it's just not consistent with the actual observed practices here. In reality, if a submitter "fixes" a bad headline, it almost always gets reverted to the exact title of the original post, no more, no less. But on this occasion, somebody submitted the exact original headline, and it got "sanitized" for no apparent reason.

The frustrating part isn't the guideline, it's the inconsistent application of the guideline.
> So it's not a problem w/ openoffice.org, cups, or the brother printer drivers. It is a bug in the `file` utility, and documented at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/file/+bug/248619.

This bug had nothing to do with OO. This was just a cute manifestation of the actual bug.
The only problem with blackblaze is that they are on osx and Windows only.
I'm using Linux so the only cheap backup is from crashplan, kudos to them that they support us.
Awesome! Was it Mike Seid's demo? Will have video up soon. Thanks for stopping by our meetup :D
You've made that comment once on this page with nothing backing it up.
Kolmogorov complexity is definitely meaningful, but it's not (Shannon) entropy, just conceptually similar. Many people think of something like Kolmogorov-complex sequences when they think of "random" sequences, which is (IMO) why they have trouble thinking of entropy as being about a probability distribution.

The one case where they coincide (sort of) is if you believe your random sequence is generated by a randomly chosen Turing machine, which I've only really seen in philosophical settings.

A uniformly chosen 64-bit integer still has exactly 64 bits of entropy, regardless of how much Kolmogorov complexity the actual bits you generate have.
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how do you know the two colors of sand will weigh the same amount ? if not, over time the heavy sand will sink and "sort" the color.

Over time the sand could (perhaps) grind itself into flour and not exude the same mechanical properties anymore.

Finally, even if that worked, it might be good for what, 2,3, maybe 5 samples per second. If you take too many pictures before the sand moves, it's no longer random. What if I need millions of random numbers ?
Doesn't make it false though.
I'd like to think that is the case... When I was a child, we got a phone number that was one digit away from the number of a major hospital. That would have been bad enough, but Norway had area codes that covered very small areas at the time, and were optional within the area. Lots of people didn't remember the area code and so always used it, but would guess based on location of the person they dialled. The one digit difference was in the area code..

As a result we started getting calls about medical emergencies in the middle of the night.

The local phone company did not see this as a problem either for us or the hospital or people calling with emergencies, but offered to put us on a waiting list (!) potentially for months before they could be bothered to change the number.

Until my dad had hounded the reporters at the local newspaper until they wrote a piece about it - suddenly it was fixed within a day or two.

So public attention worked back then too (this was early 80's) - there was just fewer outlets and more work to get your problems published.

These days it doesn't take much before I go for social media.

Another option I've found works (but is pricey) is to sign up (temporarily if you don't otherwise need it) for one of LinkedIn's premium tiers and use that to get access to top execs at the company you have an issue with. Often the issue is not so much to draw public attention, but that drawing public attention is the simplest way of getting the attention of and access to a senior enough executive.
Probably wasn't photoshop but to be fair they did say "started in 1988", not "released in 1988".
You'll end up with 80 alarms though.
It does not boil down to that I think. It was a good question which got enlightening answers.
Mathematics and the Imagination
Do authors assign copyright to SSRN? (If SSRN is not trying to turn a profit why would they need an assignment?)

Will Elsevier require copyright assignment?
Since you're a REAMDE fan, I'll let you in on a secret:

The character of Peter is largely based on 3ric Johanson, who just happens to have been in the news this week:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11703350
Localized hardware, nice!
It got one other answer, which was not terribly different.
New Intel chips use a special bistable circuit to generate random bits in hardware, but many people don't seem to trust it (talk of back doors and such).

Frankly, it seems to me that if you're worrying about the intentions of your CPU manufacturer, you're screwed anyway. I guess that I also haven't put that much thought into it though.
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Warrior’s Pilgrimage: The Creation of Playable Art
Boosting your followers will not boost your SEO ranking - where did you hear that?
What's that? Gaelic? Old English?

I'd certainly dispute the "memorable" part for most people on Earth.