skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pay about 1000 employees and host a ton of infrastructure for a bunch of open source projects (including of course Firefox, but also things like Rust, Valgrind, Opus, etc.).
At what point does adding a 17th aircraft carrier increase the effect of deterrence when you pretty much are already maxed out.

Is there a single nation on the planet that will look at our defense spending, and decide that if we spend $100 billion less, then they can attack us or our allies?

I'm not arguing that a deterrent effect isn't valuable, I'm just saying that it's absolute, 100% overkill that is useless.
Firefox is the "default" browser folks install in many countries.
As far as digging out attachments across multiple messages in Mail.app (described here[0]):

- Select a group of messages (could be Command-A in a smart folder, for example).

- Then choose "File -> Save Attachments..."

- Finally, choose or create a directory where you'd like the attachments to reside.

As for managing them, I would imagine that would vary for each person in how they like to work and what they seek to accomplish.

0 - http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailtips/qt/How-to-Save-All-...
Is it really uninhabitable? The territories in the north maybe too harsh, but with global warming helping too I think the southern half is quite alright, which is huge. It's all forest, lots of lakes, no lack of water and not too high, and no desert.
How is it not? Its very existence relies upon its membership continuing to choose to pay membership fees, after all.
Team Foundation Server “15” Preview Released
If Google manages to prove it works and there are no better alternatives later on, then it will probably become the de-facto standard.

However, the second condition seems to not be met if Google is right, because they mention there are promising papers published.

­>Since we selected New Hope, we've noted two promising papers in this space, which are welcome.
I think most people fail because the focus so much on "opening" the business they forget to plan for the 6mo-2 years to get the business running. How are you going to get customers? how many are going to keep using your products or services? do you have enough cash to last until you get to break even? is your market even big enough to support you?
Here is a '12 survey: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0246
You don't get abrasions post-mortem, however, and if it were post-mortem bruising, you'd expect it in parts of his body that were lower than others. Having bruises and abrasions on his front, back, sides and face is not a natural thing that happens after death. It's a thing that happens when you're roughed up - if you read the autopsy report there are a variety of injuries that you'd have to try pretty hard to inflict on yourself, but are absolutely consistent with being beaten and thrown to the ground, and then having someone dead-drop knee-first into your back.

Honestly, I understand him killing himself. In the same scenario, potentially facing 15-25 years in prison for a felony (being white would likely help keep him out of jail, but being a geek with aspergers would not), I would likely do the same, as in the US there is no life after prison.

This is interesting, actually - unsurprisingly, the US is the most punitive place on earth if you assault a cop, although I can't see how you could assault a cop in the US, given that they're armed to the teeth and usually in full armour, and usually sat in an armoured and armed vehicle.

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/city_index/215849-ci...
Excellent question.

If they buyer is interested in maintaining a search presence, they'll almost have to negotiate an extension right away?
Timeline of How LinkedIn Shopped Itself to Microsoft, Salesforce and Google
The Large Hadron Collider is quietly having a phenomenal year
Capitalism leads to some unfavorable outcomes.
Algorithms do capitalism better, leading to more unfavorable outcomes.
Therefore, algorithms are the problem.

I don't know what I missed, but it looks like algorithms merely provide the reductio for something you already don't like.
You could draw a straight line across any country that divides the population into 6%/94%, but I doubt there are many countries where the 94% side would be smaller than the 6% side for any line.
That's called 'FUD' and it drives lots of decisions. What if ... all of those are small possibilities even added up?

Instead let me ask, What if you, as a thoughtful and responsible person do not raise another thoughtful and responsible individual? And instead leave it to the thoughtless and irresponsible. We have to live with that too.
I could see that, but at the same time Mozilla and Google already work together quite often when it comes to implementing and standardizing new browser features. It's been my understanding that their relationship is more chummy than it is competitive. Though maybe this is different at the engineer level than "corporate".

Same goes for the IE team: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/10/27/mozilla-sends-the-i...
My understanding of compilers is somewhat limited, but I'm curious how the compiler can detect "just the portion that changed", given that Rust does heavy inlining.
Pure crap spam...
Similar to the opportunity cost model, Minsky proposed that boredom with tedious tasks is a guard against getting stuck in an infinite loop: http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/som-6.13.html
Details are hard to find, but I've heard that the price tag for the Yahoo deal was high due to a bidding war with Bing.
The Society of Mind
Yes, this is a common problem to all industries. Formats can be figured out or obtained from the OEM, then a gateway is created to transform into a digestible format (my guess some XML schema). In the article, the author states his company [1], where in the tech section he describes this very scenario.

[1]https://www.farmobile.com
I'm not talking about the first $700 billion in spending and first trillions in defense assets:

I'm talking about the hundreds of billions of additional defense spending on top of that. You can't increase your "don't fuck with us or you will be annihilated" factor past 100% once it's already there. The largest Air Force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest is the US Navy's fleet of aircraft. At what point is this not enough?
Based on Apple's own presentation it looks like energy efficiency is pretty proportional to performance, so it's very likely that a faster algorithm (e.g. LZ4) would also be more efficient. In modern "braniac" processors, 90% of the energy is spent on overhead and doesn't vary based on instruction mix. Memory accesses consume both energy and time, so fewer are better.

(From the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11944975 )
> When people say kids are the most fulfilling thing in their life, is it because they are didn't have anything really fulfilling in their life before that?

No.

> Did you have something that gave you a lot of fulfillment before you had kids?

Many things, and I still do.

But it's certainly a trade off, trying to live out media images of motherhood/fatherhood need to be avoided, and kids don't have to be the most fulfilling thing in anyone's life.
Why do I hate it? Let me count the ways: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3905805/19746

And then multiply it by two, because the woes of email from the user side are just as horrible as what I've written from the developer perspective.
For the people downvoting the parent comment:

After an officer pushed me flat down from a sitting position (at an impromptu, peaceful sit-in), another pushed his knee in my back, and started punching me in the ribs multiple times (eventually bruising one) and crying "he's resisting arrest!" until I summoned enough strength to push up a bit, release my right arm from under my body, and put it behind my own back, at which point the officer stopped punching and crying. I was not resisting arrest, but the fact that my arm was pinned under my own body was enough to make the claim. Oh yeah, they smashed my glasses too.
Did they invent frites to accompany their neandersteaks?
A cynic wonders if a local pub or eating establishment has cut a deal with tour bus companies...
It is also something that mentally distressed people on lots of drugs do.

I think all of the evidence points to the official story being true.
This is amazing and contains so many gems.

I think this one is my favorite module:
https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/THE_LUN...

CAF	CODE500	# ASTRONAUT:	PLEASE CRANK THE
TC	BANKCALL	#	SILLY THING AROUND
CADR	GOPERF1
TCF	GOTOP00H	# TERMINATE
TCF	P63SPOT3	# PROCEED	SEE IF HE'S LYING

TC	BANKCALL	# ENTER	INITIALIZE LANDING RADAR
CADR	SETPOS1

TC	POSTJUMP	# OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD ...
CADR	BURNBABY
Your users.
It's easy to poke fun at this with 25 years of hindsight. :-)
A great read indeed, thanks for that.
Requiring visitors to leave themselves open to such malware attacks is actually a perverse business practice.

No web browser user in 2016 needs to excuse themselves for practicing good web hygiene.
Building a home automation (IoT) “product line” from start to finish
Here's a link to the NIH press release: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-awards-55-...
How to Put Machine Learning in Your Machine Learning
The Robot Afterlife: An exciting story about the post-factory years
I used to think that was necessarily bad, but I take a less dogmatic view of such things now. You might find this post by John Cormac (of Quake fame) of interest: John Cormac on Inlined Code [1]. I now think such an approach has its place in some domains, and this might be one of them.

[1] http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm...
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You are the Alexey Stakhanov [1] of your era. Unfortunately, there's no love for people like you :(

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Stakhanov
I think our first world society accidentally got arranged "bass-ackwards." We've inherited patterns of academia that were developed in a time before mechanized industry and telecommunications -- when mass communication technology consisted of auditoriums and only wealthy young men were expected and could afford to attend.

Why not invent another life-stage past childhood for young adults, during which they are expected to learn, find mates, and raise young children? Really, we're most of the way there with college, but with the weird and biologically contrary expectation that the students avoid having children. Our biology and our psychology seems to encourage human beings to have children at a younger age than our society would have it. Also, the removal of children seems to reduce sexuality to only its hedonistic dimension, which I think is a bit out of balance. (Nothing wrong with hedonism, but that aspect exists in a larger context of life.)

Why not restructure colleges and vocational schools in this way?
He mentions Visual Studio often in the page, and the code is several years old. Perhaps your alternative doesn't optimise well across the compilers he used, back several years ago when the author was developing the code.

In any case, there are unknowns here. Perhaps you should be less hasty in declaring people's work 'pointless' and telling others what they 'should' have done?
Yup, if your data is time-sensitive and newer data preempts older TCP is almost always the wrong protocol to use.
> As someone who gardens, and has a little 3 acre homestead

Unrelated to aquaponics, what do you find the effort/yield is on that?

I've always found with anything larger than a small garden is I'm basically buying a job that pays less than $10/hr. So I've never really felt the urge to go as big as 3 acres since I'd feel that was more than a hobby.

> 1) I understand buying off the shelf parts for your prototype. But spending hundreds of dollars to be shipped parts I could have bought myself is just adding more middle-men into the supply chain. At this point, just sell the parts list and plans for $20. And when you have built parts with ease of assembly in mind, so this is 5x easier than DIY with parts from home depot... THEN sell the kit.

I've have to agree with this as far as routes go. DIY home assembled aquaponics is a pretty common topic that has plenty written 'bout it. It just isn't worth buying a kit without both of:

A) Detailed input/outputs & cost/production for multiple geographic areas so the TCO and lifetime product is basically known. (i.e. Substantial risk reduction greater than the cost of the middle man. The only margin on DIY is the experimentation phase.)

B) An actual kit that is substantially cheaper and/or easier than Home Depot and DIY. In other words, in addition to the reduction of risk due to better info, it also needs to be cheaper in at least one dimension than DIY.
Recent advances in post-selection statistical inference [pdf]
I do, in fact. There is extensive research supporting the fact that many (though not all) are accurate. The typical racist stereotype is about twice as likely to replicate as the typical sociology paper.

Here are a couple of review articles to get you started: http://www.spsp.org/blog/stereotype-accuracy-response http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Jussim-et-al-...

I didn't say that simply removing "racism" (by which I assume you mean disparate impact) is worth billions. I said doing so with the same accuracy as models which are "racist" is worth billions. Obviously you can do anything you want if you give up accuracy.

Why do you believe they are false? Simply because it's socially unacceptable to think otherwise?
The buyer will surely negotiate with Mozilla before they buy Yahoo and get a commitment from them (which might be worth extra $). That, or they will see it as sunk cost.

But Mozilla might have a bit of PR challenge on its hands if they walked away... :-)
This is excellent. It's not often to see a technical in depth posting.

The Dear ImGui library looks excellent with simplicity.
The outcome without kids is 100% up to me though. With kids, one can still raise them to the best of their abilities and still turn out awful for one reason or another.

The second part to that is a different question entirely, and one that goes beyond just one's own happiness.
It was named R because the entire language is an error and PHP was already taken.
How was the special DES key 0E329232EA6D0D73 found?
Apple Releases iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra Public Betas
Hacker extorts medical clinic
"The alternative was the head of the FBI deciding for the people of the United States who would be their next president."

I like Scott Adams, but he's dead wrong here.

Last I heard, the Sanders camp hasn't conceded defeat. Neither major political party has held their convention and officially chosen their nominees. Additionally, there are a fair number of third parties available.

And if all the above didn't apply and Adams was otherwise right, there still would be one individual besides Comey who would be responsible for "choosing" the next President of the United States: the individual at the center of the controversy who, even if innocent, has done almost nothing to avoid such an egregious appearance of impropriety.
Redux (among many others) uses an immutable log of messages (actions) to manage state and uses pub/sub to communicate between UI components and the state "store." This is significant because it allows the developer to debug the application by replaying messages/actions. Refraction appears to to take a similar approach with "history" and "replay" and "publish"/"subscribe". Both Redux and Refraction have a concept of middleware (such as a logger) that will log every messages that dispatched/published. One notable feature of Redux is the single reducer that centralizes all state update logic. It appears that with Refraction, subscriptions are scattered about the project and there is no way to inspect the dependencies between modules at a given point in time. So my question is: Why use Refraction in lieu of Redux or a Elm architecture-like pattern?
They should spend a few billion dollars greening the Thar Desert. They need it.
And hopefully saves some part of that for rainy days when search deals will no longer be this profitable.
Thanks, I'll try to make it more consistent. https://github.com/jpsingleton/ANCLAFS/issues/7
That's right. Especially in Germany, that is notoriously suspicious of Google, Firefox is the default browser.
You are mostly correct. In fact the key strength of something like AES is realistically not even going to be reduced by half. In terms of the query complexity (the number of calls to AES that are needed) using Grover's algorithm the key strength is half what it would be with classical brute force. In practice though these queries must be implemented as quantum circuits and run a on quantum computer which adds a pretty large overhead.

This article is about the implementation of an asymmetric protocol based on the RLWE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Learning_with_Errors) problem.
EEOC investigating Google for age discrimination
That's quite a presumption you have there.
On the western half:

The 'low' areas have minimal rainfall and are 1KM over sea level. http://www.chinamaps.org/china/china-map-of-precipitation-an...

The high areas get a little more rainfall, but are mostly 4-5+km over sea level. http://www.china-food-security.org/data/maps/dem/dem_h.htm

Combine them and you can see why the population map looks the way it does. http://www.china-mike.com/china-travel-tips/tourist-maps/chi...
My absolute favorite kind of writing is the kind that leaves me itching to try coding something myself since it now seems so much more approachable than it did before. Though I knew a bit about encoding, I never would have thought to build something like this, and yet now I find myself wishing I could carve out some time to try.

Great job!
> All of this excludes the fact that companies will probably maximise to profit, and will use "algorithm" as an excuse to turn down people disregarding ethics.

If companies are maximising profit, then they will treat a person _exactly_ according to everything they can observe about that person. How is that unethical?

The problem that people have is that they don't want objectivity: they want to be able to pretend that something false is true, because it is comfortable.
Startups can provide symptom relieve to those able to pay - they can't solve the problem. You presume too much of private enterprise. Here's an example for a huge commercial success story often attributed to private enterprise - Silicon Valley - but here is its real history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo (TL;DL: very big government spending on electronics R&D laid the foundation, only then could private capital start to work). This is a big policy issue first of all. Unless a miracle comparable to life itself happens and somebody discovers how to create energy from nothing requiring pretty much zero infrastructure (that has to be build all over the country), and how to create transportation that also doesn't require much infrastructure (that has to be build all over the country), same with clean water (India has a big lack-of-clean-water problem, and increasing).
The bugs we have to deal with today are a gift from god compared to the bugs we had to deal with 15 years ago when CSS was just getting traction and then we went through 7-8 years of stagnation due to Microsoft trying to leverage their position to hold back the web. Frustrating as multiple engines is to deal with, it's a small price to pay for the benefits of a true open standard. I've been burned enough by WONTFIX bugs in proprietary software (Adobe Flash I'm looking at you) that I know which double-edged sword I'll put my weight behind.
I think the Firefox OS project was just that, but it didn't work out.
Math 583: Mathematical Hacking
I've found each language, out of expediency, often starts with a comparatively crude implementation of GC, and then gradually improves upon their work, leveraging knowledge from other platforms.

That said, gc is very subtle, and each runtime has unique characteristics that mean that what works best for one might not be ideal for others.
Do you worry that it may really be time travellers?
oh, geez, yes of course. sorry, old habit from before the say command.
Wait did they talk about scaling _up_ to datasets of gigabytes in size? Those are the size of toy datasets I use to prototype methods...

If this is an accurate reflection of how people approach ML problems then I can understand the "growing pains" (heh)

I hope it's not.
> At what point is this not enough?

Excellent question, and as a far left socialist who would love to see more defense spending go towards universal healthcare instead, I agree with you that the current spending is excessive. I'm unsure of where that line is, but would love for someone to research it.
Could someone replace the link with the non-mobile version?

https://security.googleblog.com/2016/07/experimenting-with-p...
This Interactive Map Shows Gamification Interest by Country
Aw you ruined the fun that could've been had here :)
Because of you I am reading the article. It's pretty good so far.
aka, design.
Upvote for hearing "post-quantum" for the first time in my life.

I suspect Deepak Chopra is going to appropriate it soon enough.
Yeah, I'm not seeing it either. I see this:

> Affiliate Commitments. The Company is obligated to make payments, which represent TAC, to its Affiliates. As of December 31, 2014, these commitments totaled $2,087 million, of which $505 million will be payable in 2015, $401 million will be payable in 2016, $400 million will be payable in 2017, $375 million will be payable in 2018, and $375 million will be payable in 2019, and $31 million will be payable thereafter.

as a $375mm reference but that's to all TAC; not just Mozilla. Not in research so def could have missed it.
dang, how is this guy not banned yet? Saying "nigger" in every other post is way worse than anything Mike Church has done.
> I think it's safe to say it doesn't have anything to do with humans taking the bees' food.

> we don't really understand colony collapse disorder

Look at the bee expert here. ;)

But really, the parent post didn't make a direct connection to the two. More of an implication of a combination of the two being pretty disastrous.
Because the FSB will always have a backup.

Rehashed NSA joke, likely very correct.
Big-O Poster
Exploding demand and insufficient supply. Annual growth in electricity usage is around 6%.

Investment into electric infrastructure is not sufficient. Coal provides almost 3/4 of the electricity.
You are lucky it was only a medicine side effect. Many depressed people feel that way their entire lives.
This is the first time I have heard that science states that free will is an illusion: "According to the modern scientific view, there is simply no room at all for freedom of the human will." http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/som-30.6.html
I found Don Eyles' website[1],

> At MET 102:39:31 the best possible confidence builder occurred — throttle down, right on time. "Ah! Throttle down... better than the simulator" commented Aldrin, "Throttle down on time!" exclaimed Armstrong, their excitement palpable. In the official transcript of communications between spacecraft and ground during the powered descent, these are the only exclamation points[11].

goosebumps.

[1] http://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html