skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These tools should tell you 98% of what this .exe is doing!

Rootkit Analysis Tools Collection by usb
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Process Monitor v3.2
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processmoni...

Process Explorer v16.12
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I really can't follow this logic. If anything, at least automation and deflation are strongly pushing towards everything getting much cheaper. So soon, 2k/month will be plenty!
That wouldn't be any kind of a punishment though, people would be queuing up to leave.

The world outside of the US does not consist of "overcrowded hell-holes"
I took a look, and it does seem many of Postbox's features are renditions of Thunderbird addons, just with a slicker UI. Nostalgy has clearly been a big influence, and possibly Expression (though both are inspired by Gmail). I haven't found an addon for the focus sidebar, but I bet that's out there too.

My only issue is that during the years I used Thunderbird (pre Postbox) & exploring the addons, I never even knew about Nostalgy or Expression. For me, it's worth $20 for someone to design a pre-loaded Thunderbird with the best addons & make it part of the default UI & support docs. I would have easily taken $20+ of billable time just to discover & decide between the TB QuickMove and Quick Folder Move addons.

[But I'm really glad Thunderbird can do this, now I can recommend Nostalgy & TB to folks who don't want to pay for an email program.]
I think they're planning an app store. Got an app for folding dresses?
The American Dream was narrated by banks in the USA as a way of fighting "the Red terra" and to make the populace wear the yolk of a mortgage. People with mortgages generally don't protest or strike.

As American hegemony spun the globe so did the "own your acres".
Parent was posting about buying a house with land. Your example is for a (small) condo - way cheaper than what he was talking about.

Edit: Parent was posting about buying a house in Switzerland - and that is really expensive in the surroundings of Zurich. Buying a condo is cheaper in any case - I just made a statement that you can't compare oranges to apples.
ironic that this comment needs an appendix
Damn ASUS that's a real shame, because that Royal Blue Zenbook 3 is god damn sexy

https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/ASUS-ZenBook-3-UX390UA/
Did I once mention proprietary software or Microsoft?

Is that really how you see the software world, GPL vs Microsoft/proprietary?
noscript author's response:

"It's a story of FUD and sensationalism, which got reported in such a careless way that now makes explaining and correcting readers' perception an uphill battle."

https://hackademix.net/2016/04/08/crossfud-an-analysis-of-in...
There is a pretty good case that a vacuum of talent created by the brain drain in poor countries makes it extraordinarily difficult for those countries to reform their governments and develop in to functional economies.
Why are people "already in the country" more deserving than those outside? Why is this a meaningful moral distinction rather than "already in the right religion" or "already of the right race"?

I propose helping the millions by not using violence to prevent them from performing labor for willing employers (an action which makes both them and the employer better off). That's all.

Sure. Let's open the doors so we have more harassment of women, homosexuals and increased Anti-semitism.

If we have adequate law enforcement, isn't this a problem that will rapidly solve itself? The solution is simple: immigrant assaults a homosexual, has his possessions confiscated, goes do jail and is then permanently deported on exit.

The ones who don't commit crimes can continue to peacefully trade with locals.

If you want to impose collective punishment over statistical disparities in crime, should we also collectively punish Black Americans due to their high crime rate?
It's hard to make a case for long term support of commodity hardware sold into the consumer market because the most shiny things at the lowest first tends to drive purchases. It's as true for laptops as it is for Android phones.

BestBuy doesn't care if it stocks ASUS or not. It cares about sales and margins. If there's an extra dollar putting Gateway on the shelf instead of ASUS they will. And their customers won't care. "BIOS updates with TLS!" stickers aren't going to improve sales.

Buying a laptop creates a consumer not a customer relationship. I want to pay the least, the manufacturer wants to deliver the least. A few years out, shiny-low-cost will drive my next purchase more than brand loyalty.
Maybe put in a keyword arg to cache bust?
Computing optimal road trips on a limited budget
I think this is a nice demonstration of how well direct democracy can work.

The argument against direct democracy (referendums on any subject any sizeable group wants to put on vote) is that people will be economically irresponsible and vote themselves popular, expensive goodies with no regards of financing or cost.

This shows otherwise.
>If Basic Income is to work then it needs to be actually liveable and adjusted based upon the CoL in each area.

What's the point of that? Moving isn't difficult.
With regard to deposit scams, the system we have in the UK works pretty well - the landlord must put the deposit in a government-approved escrow scheme, which then decides any disputes over how much of the deposit should be held back (anecdotally quite fairly).

If the landlord fails to protect your deposit, and does so in what might be considered bad faith, a court will often order them to pay you 3x the deposit as compensation - so they all end up actually doing it.

See https://www.gov.uk/tenancy-deposit-protection/overview
Yeah, I think I forgot to select Zurich as the Canton of residence. Either way though, that helps my case.
Yes, I agree that one can question why you should use Hugo as a Service.

One obvious use for my SaaS is when you don't have your developer box or laptop with all your DevOps pipelines and tools and just want to write a post on the run on your mobile.

Also, if you are not a developer and want an introduction to static websites and blogging without a steep learning curve I think it could be useful.

I have improved a lot of things, but still it can be a challenge to have a theme behave as one would like.

Thanks for the comment!
> Deep Neural Networks can learn features from essentially raw data. Usual machine learning starts with features engineered manually.

What does this mean? What is "raw data" and what is a "feature engineered manually"?
My username is nailer not xe, but you're right, I meant default login shell when I wrote 'default shell', rather than what bin sh is linked to.

Even if bin sh links to bash, bash will still run a bin sh script in Bourne shell mode, stripping newer features, in some cases. Hence why proper scripts alway specify bash explicitly.

However I meant Bourne shell when I wrote 'ignore all the good things bash brings and write everything in Bourne shell.' Bourne shell being the original /bin/sh (though it's murky).
To do increasingly fancy things with feed forward neural networks, we require increasingly many layers. But with many layers, it becomes increasingly difficult to train it (vanishing gradient, explosive growth of connections, etc). But Hinton et al. found a few tricks to go past those obstacles and that's what 'deep learning' encompasses. Current state of the art of deep learning is at 150 odd layers with a new trick called 'residual learning' by Microsoft Research China.
> Question, how does Switzerland avoid becoming more polarized country with so many referendum questions each year?

As a Swiss, I would say a high number of referenda works against polarization. This Sunday, we had to vote on five national questions and additional local ones. This high number of questions makes it very unlikely that you agree on everything even with your family and best friends. Thus, we automatically learn to disagree without getting polarized.

My grand-father always encouraged his children to vote even though he knew they nomrally had different opinions and "neutralized" his vote. To him, voting at all was much more important than what the vote was, as long as you vote for what you honestly believe is right. I fully share this view.
I'd be interested to see low-power voice recognition. My PowerShiri demo uses ~12% CPU on a Core2 Duo laptop when it's listening.
And on the opposite, I never understood how people can not own a house and waste money on renting for decades. Where market for houses in western countries is very limited due to stupid regulations and every year a few millions of people move to that country causing renting prices to increase by XX% each year. It decreases my financial stability. Losing a job for less than a month is a financial disaster, I still to have to pay for car-fuel, insurance, life insurance, pay bills. On the other hand, having a house without mortgage, yes, keeps me in one place, but value of my house due to the same reasons is increasing for my benefit, not for my landlords benefits.
Nah, that'd be green with the ! icon.

Red's for heat death of the universe.
Related: How do you compute the midpoint of an interval? [1]. PDF [2]

[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2493882
[2] https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00576641v1/document
the idea of artificial intelligence achieving consciousness sounds completely ridiculous to me

if a computer program that plays go counts as "artificial intelligence", what about chess machines? haven't those existed for decades?
Because five years ago you could Google search for "picture of the priest from fifth element" and get relevant results, instead of pictures of priests, photo frames, and boron. Right?
However, that isn't to say it's the sole factor. Not by a long ways.
That's (one reason) why standard containers use < instead of <=
It's funny that programmers treat zero-indexing arrays and things as normal (even "correct"), but suddenly zero-indexing versions is something wacky. What's weird to me is that 0.0.0 isn't more common in the developer world, given how frequently we start counting from 0.
>If UBI is to be instated, we would also have to implement harsh laws to prevent the upper classes from evading taxes. Moving wealth to a tax haven should be made a criminal offence (with jail time).

Moving out of the country should be a criminal offence? Pretty strong North Korea vibes right there.
At first, I thought this was a terminal version of Powerpoint, akin to mdp[1], which has been my favorite. (I actually use mdp over powerpoint/keynote on my laptop at work these days, since I can checkin the markdown, write the presentation easily, and spend zero time on all the formatting garbage.) I do not work in marketing (can you tell?).

[1] https://github.com/visit1985/mdp
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Well, therein lies the rub, yes.
If you purchase music from the iTunes Store, I think it can appear on your iOS device without involving a desktop/laptop. If you subscribe to iTunes Match, music added to iTunes on your desktop/laptop will be transferred to Apple's servers and can then be accessed from iOS devices. Non-music content like contacts and calendar can sync via iCloud, a number of non-Apple apps can only sync using iTunes.

I just use iTunes over USB to sync, my wife syncs over WiFi but not very often.
Better outcomes for cancer in some cases
If those countries wish to keep their slaves inside, they are free to build their own Berlin wall or other barriers to exit.

Meanwhile, back in civilization, people aren't property. Similarly, I'm an American working for an Indian company attempting to disrupt multiple US industries. I have no plans to remain remotely attached to the US once our demographic issues start to collapse. Should the US create some sort of barriers to my exit?
Putting the cart before the horse a bit. Borders exist to establish a separation between inside and outside. An awful lot of different things will fall on either side of the line, but to pick out just one of those things and pretend that's the only, or even the primary, reason the line was drawn is silly.

It's also disappointing to fundamentally misunderstand what's going on. There are four major elements to national power: Diplomacy, Information, Military, and Economics (the DIME). The author is mostly looking at economics and pretending that's all there is.

A nation has a responsibility to act in the interests of its citizens. Sometimes that means acting against the interests of non-citizens. It's a simple, if painful, concept. Analyzing immigration without acknowledging it is silly. Additionally, in a nation supposedly run by consensus of its citizens, it's silly to pretend that the process has failed just because you're unhappy with the speed or the compromise. Slowness and compromise are features, not bugs.
Or you can buy studio in the city and huge farm house with land 1 hour drive away... Then weekends spend in your farm house and weekdays in your studio... It would be close enough to pop in in week days also. 1 hour drive aint bad.
Thanks for noticing, I upgraded the "Alternatives" section at https://github.com/elgalu/docker-selenium#alternatives
I'm happy to see the 0.0.0 release - it means that I might just be using this some day. Few weeks ago, having not heard about the project for a while, I was afraid it had become vapourware.
MSFT, if we ignore Windows10 :(
Progressively Less Progressive
As technology advances, I would assume that work will become more scarce. Taking this scenario to the extreme will mean that the majority of the world will at some point will be unemployed in the future. Some form of basic income will result.
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Wisdom of the Crowd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd#Problems
> I'm not sure that's a downside, unless you prefer hearing prayer 5 times a day

Is/Was prohibited anyway in Switzerland, so this vote didn't change anything on that fact. Though this argument has been used during the campaign before the vote.
Newer motherboards with ASUS EZ Flash can do that. I don't think it's automatic though.
Yes I agree it was misleading. At most the article established that the US government was making statements that implied a greater certainty than what they had.
I didn't say it was easy to do, if anything I was just taking a pot shot at the laziness of using the term as a label for all of modern machine learning.

I've been studying up on deep neural nets recently though and there are a bunch of very cool tricks (and I don't mean that pejoratively, I think real intelligence consists of just such a grab-bag of tricks), which make it effective in a wide range of cases.
> Advanced in what respect?

As a platform to use and develop for, basically.
If losing a job for less than a month is a financial disaster, you're probably not in the market for a house anyway. It's perfectly possible to rent for decades and have years of runway in savings.

Also, the burden of being rooted, and of having to maintain a house, could be such a significant detraction to quality of life that it totally makes up the difference.

Also, at least in my case as a relatively young American, living in a house is pretty much to opposite of the lifestyle I see myself wanting for at least the next decade.
It's exactly how it should be! We generally, like in this case, vote for a change of the constitution. The constitution should not contain specific monetary values like this that need to be regularly adapted anyway, nor would it make sense for people to vote on specific values. We should vote on general ideas and the government, together with specialists, impels implements them. Otherwise it's some kind of micromanagement by the masses.
> Why are people "already in the country" more deserving than those outside?

In average, they aren't. But life isn't fair.
You might as well ask why those that came are deserving of help and not others, and your ability to help before it gets detrimental to the collective.

> I propose helping the millions by not using violence to prevent them from performing labor for willing employers (an action which makes both them and the employer better off).

I don't disagree with this, and I'm sure several do that under the table already. But it seems some have a "rosier" idea of what you'll get http://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/Exakt/Falsche-Versprechen-lock...

> If we have adequate law enforcement, isn't this a problem that will rapidly solve itself? The solution is simple: immigrant assaults a homosexual, has his possessions confiscated, goes do jail and is then permanently deported on exit.

If it worked like this I would be satisfied. But it's usually not so effective.
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which is why the people who do this (if it happens) will be the people who make (and certify, sell and deliver) "automatic" washer/dryers.
If a vendor provided a physical switch with which I could turn off the mic, that would be a feature that I at least would consider very attractive.
It's very simple in Singapore too, arguably simpler. You go to the Small Claims Tribunal (you can get a date within days, anecdotally), the Registrar decides the claim in a few minutes, and it costs you a total of 5 quid to file the claim. The whole thing takes a couple of weeks at most [edit: or a day - see 1].

I think something similar exists in Switzerland, but the (German) landlady correctly guessed that as a non-German-speaking foreigner, I would not take the time and expense to attempt it. Imagine attempting to contest the necessity of "dusting the sides of books on bookshelves" to an arbitrator in a foreign language...

[1] "For a tourist claim, the Tribunals may fix both the consultation/mediation and the hearing within 24 hours of filing of the claim." - https://www.statecourts.gov.sg/SmallClaims/Pages/GeneralInfo...
Everywhere less and less jobs vs more and more people unemployed because of automation and stagnation. Industrial and immaterial output you can't sell because priced out of the market. Wages going down. It will be cheaper to give 10 euros/month where the poor live now than 2k euros/month (or 300 euros/month as for Italy plan) after they migrate to rich countries. Every place has its own cost of basic life and a grandtotal needed not to starve. It is 300 euros/month in Italy, it may be 500 euros/month in Switzerland (instead of 2k/month), it is half the daily benefit given in the UK, it may be 10 euros/month in Congo. You allow this universally or millions will come from poorer to richer countries destroying their welfare state.
Populism is just another name for the very basic feature of democracy: giving everyone the right to vote means that the country is effectively governed by idiots, because they always outnumber smart, reasonable people.
As a Swiss, I feel like there is much less corruption than in other countries, even though we have less strict laws against corruption. The reason for that is simple: Switzerland has a very decentralized and democratic system, ensuring that power is widely dispersed. And there is no point in bribing or otherwise influencing a politician without power. It's the power that corrupts. If you take it away, there is also less corruption.
I'm pro-taxation, but cryptocurrency with built-in state surveillance doesn't seem like a good combination.
Then keep on doing what you are doing. You are the one who started this discussion on buying land and building houses. We were talking about Switzerland.
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Healthcare is guaranteed in Switzerland in the sense that you are forced by law to have insurance (you can get subsidies if you're poor enough, though). And the basic insurance coverage may not be up to USA standards (you may share the hospital room with five other patients, for example).
A referendum resolution did pass with a small margin and it was controversial. Said initiative was the "initiative contre l'immigration en masse", or in English "Against mass immigration". It was accepted by 50,3% of Swiss voters and 12 Swiss Cantons outright and 5 cantons counting half towards the vote (out of 26). It is controversial, as the implementation of said vote means bringing back immigration quotas for all EU citizens, meaning Switzerland would need to leave the Schengen area. To the EU this means Switzerland would be rejecting a whole set of bilateral agreements, so the implementation of this particular vote is causing a headache for the Swiss government.

That said, further referendums on the question of immigration, for example automatically expelling convicted foreigners after their sentence is complete were fairly convincingly rejected. From the Swiss I know, most consider the referendum process to be fairly normal and routine. They receive information booklets presenting both sides of the argument, the view from the government and the view from any political parties who are interested. They make their decision and they decide.

It is difficult to explain I think unless you've seen it in action. I am from the UK and we are currently in the middle of the Brexit/Remain campaign. There's not an iota of fact or reason in the current debate and our politicians do things like predict WWIII if we leave and waves of Turkish immigrants if we remain. The whole thing is moronic and embarrassing. There are without a doubt some stupid things said/done here (the black sheep poster by the SVP for example) but the level of political discourse is no way near the level of stupidity in the UK IMO. If you're imagining Trump-esque campaigns every few months, it's basically the polar opposite. Unless you speak the local language and know what you're looking at, you'd hardly notice. At best you will see billboard or two amidst the other adverts and perhaps receive an information leaflet in the post. That's it. Perhaps the Swiss guy or girl above might say it is more obvious perhaps, if you have more Swiss friends than I do or watch a lot of TV, but I don't think, from what I have seen, that it is anywhere near as vitriolic as any other country I know.

Source: I'm British and I live in a French-speaking Canton (in spite of my username).
Playback isn't the first use I think of for FFmpeg. I think something like "better fuzzing of FFmpeg" would have been a more descriptive title; anyone who doesn't at least vaguely know what fuzzing is or what FFmpeg is doesn't want to read this article.
A different was of thinking about it is with the log rules. Let's take 2.4% to the hundredth power, which is assuredly more than 240%.

y = 1.024^100
ln y = ln (1.024^100) = 100 * ln 1.024

Now, we can approximate ln x = x-1 for values of x near one, so we get

ln y = 100 * 0.024 = 2.4
y = exp 2.4 = e ^ 2.4 ~ 2.7^2.4
2.7^2.4 = (27/10)^2.4 = (3^3/10) ^ 2.4
2.7^2.4 = (3^3)^2.4 / (10^2.4)
= 3^7.2 / (100 * 10^0.4)
= 3*(3^6)*3^0.2 / (100 * 10^0.4)
= 3*(729/100)*3^0.2/10^0.4
= 3*(7.29)*(3/100)^0.2
= 21.87*(0.03)^(1/5)

Finally, (1/2)^5 = 1/32 ~ 0.03

y ~ 21.87 * 1/2 = 10.94

Pulling out Python, the actual answer is 10.72, so we're within a few percent.
It's not quite that nefarious. The Amiga connector and video output was specified in an age when the normal "expensive video upgrade" for a x86 machine was CGA [1] and VGA didn't exist. The reason a consumer had to buy their monitor from Commodore is that the closest thing in the market was CGA monitors, pretty much anything equivalent to Commodore's 1080 series would have been part of a proprietary workstation solution and more expensive, incompatible, and hard to obtain in a consumer channel.

The alternative to a monitor was an adapter to ordinary televisions. As for keyboards, Amigas from the Commodore era all included one in the box. It wasn't an aftermarket item.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter
There's a service for that: domestic worker. Pretty expensive nowadays though.