skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember a time when apparently you could just navigate to get.cm on your phone and it would download an .apk specific to your phone which would perform the rooting/unlocking and install of cyanogenmod. But that effort seems to have failed. http://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-install-cyanogenmod/
I have to take this comment from whom it comes ie: the creator of the library obviously finds it intuitive. But there's definitely a big "brain paradigm shift" with ggplot2 which IMO would be a challenge to impose on the new user. I would argue that even you acknowedge this, since you start your Springer book with your own imperative qplot, and only get into the declarative grammar full-on in Part 2.
We analysed self-medication variables from the data and found that indeed men tend to self-medicate more. However, our findings regarding cannabis self-medication for suicidality are opposite, i.e. women were much more likelt to initiate cannabis use after reporting suicidality, but not men. Of course, self-medication is but one of the possible explanations for this finding.
> The biggest barrier to entry is getting a mainframe to experiment with.

Is there a barrier to emulating these systems? It's probably difficult (illegal?) to emulate the various Tandem operating systems on virtual hardware, but I'm sure there's a way.

I'd be shocked if there wasn't a turnkey AS/400 VM available.
With no legal way to purchase most of the games on these systems -- and certainly not in a way that the original creators would benefit -- most people would be O.K. with pirating games.
Please don't post off-topic comments like this; instead, you can vouch for the dead comment by clicking on its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'vouch' at the top. (To do this requires being logged in and having more than 30 karma.)
Not knowing anything about this, is the end effect the same?
Consider a Steam Link, http://store.steampowered.com/app/353380/ or similar system to mirror the content from your PC. It will handle sending video/audio to your TV/arcade and sending the inputs back the desktop.
Your comments on the APEC BTC program are a little off-base. The entire scheme is based on reciprocity. The requirements for participation, and for having foreign nationals' cards endorsed for visa-free travel to a particular state, are up to each participating state. In your case, Australia has imposed very stringent requirements for participation by its own nationals, which in turn apply to foreign nationals wishing to have their BTC endorsed for visa-free travel to Australia. I suspect it has done this because it doesn't want every Dick, Tom and Harry in, say, Thailand or Vietnam having visa-free access to Australia. But because of reciprocity, you must suffer the same requirements your government is imposing on other APEC nationals.

Likewise, the US and Canada have joined on a provisional basis and since they are not providing visa-free access to other APEC countries, holders of US and Canada issued BTCs don't receive any visa-waiver benefits.

Don't discount the program just because your country is an outlier in its (lack of) participation.
Transactions should be logged to something that can't be tampered with. Then you can go back and recover state by re-running transactions. Sarbanes-Oxley tries to require this, and it produced a boom in write-once media, such as DVD writers. There are also DAT tapes and even disks with controllers which supposedly enforce write-once.

It's not clear how good compliance with this actually is.
I don't buy it. This is a typical tactic -- "Oh look we were hacked by ex-Soviet supervillains, nobody could have resisted this attack."

When we got what looks like a FAQ blog post from Guccifer 2.0 ( https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/faq/ ) and I tried to guess some things about him:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12009544

Here is what I came up with:

"...there is a high chance he is from Moldova, and now works for one of the big IT companies. Probably in his mid 30s. Lives in US or Canada."
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Quite a few, but the worst would be the custom logger. I got lost trying to trace the inheritance graph. which spans projects, and the dependency graph, loggers within loggers within loggers. I gave up when I ran out of space trying to sketch the relationships in my notepad.

Being encapsulated means you don't actually have any control over the logger, or the threads it spins up. Creating a logger for a new app requires inheriting from a application logger (which is already 3 or 4 layers deep in the inheritance hierarchy.

The distinction other loggers make between the log interface and the appenders are non-existent. If you want to log to a new source (say the event log) you have to add a new layer to the inheritance tree.

Then there's the fact that it's handling the application state, in an "on error resume next" kind of way. And this is a global state, so don't even think about multi threading.

Naturally, actually accessing the logger is done via a singleton.

It causes more problems than it helps resolve, and the ones it causes naturally don't have an diagnostic information available.

There are plenty of others, but it's hard to top this tour de force of OO anti patterns. If only there was some free and stable alternative...
Okay...let's take all this at face value, even though there is absolutely no evidence for a hack whatsoever. Russia is showing the American people how rigged (at least) one of their major political parties is. So...we should feel sorry for the party that rigged their own supposed open choice of candidates?

Hell, let's take it one step further. Imagine the Russian political world actually wants Trump to win. Is that the end of the world? Does it necessarily mean it is something bad for the USA, and good for Russia? What if it meant it would something good for Russia, and good for the USA? Didn't like half the world want Obama to win in 2008?
If we're not allowed to say anything without citations, all conversation will stop.
I love Arch Wiki. It's always useful even if not using Arch.
We are using Checkbook.io for collecting payments from our customers.

I like the product because it helps to reduce the friction for us. CB team is proactive in adding features and getting back to us with our queries and doubt. I think this product is having a lot of potentials.

Good luck with the product!!!
Completely off-topic: I'm caught with your comments, can you, please, send a ping to me to s.seletskiy@gmail.com? I want to chat with you.
Also, there isn't even evidence of an outside hack happening. For all we know, it could be a disgruntled IT guy who wants to be a mini-Snowden. Who the hell knows. All we know is that the DNC tacitly admits that those emails are real.
MD5 is long-broken as a security mechanism, but as a broader identifier of hashes, a soft match (or matches with potential false positives) might actually be preferred. In this case it might not inherently be a bad idea to use (as opposed to for password hashing).
We can't show causation using this kind of methodology. Longitudinal association may suggest causation, but it does not imply it. In the discussion we offer some possible mechanisms for this association, not all of them causal in nature. We do know from previous studies that the endocannabinoid system is altered in suicidal individuals and that sex hormones both affect suicidality and have a reciprocal relationship with the endocannabinoid system. These suggest how and why intense cannabis use can affect suicidal behavior.

I've posted a link which should allow for full-text access for the next few weeks.
HTTPS is adequate to protect you against X-UIDH injection, but many sites still don't support HTTPS.
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I'm a bit out of the loop on kdbus, why didn't it get merged? It was my understanding that it had a brief stint in linux-next, so it must have been getting close...
We changed the submitted title ("Counterintelligence Links Russian GRU to DNC Leak and Putin") to the current article title and threw in an "allegations" for good measure.
You may have misunderstood me. I am saying that while attribution is a very tricky, difficult business fraught with guesswork and spectra of probabilities, in this one instance a ton of infosec people are throwing their typical caution about attribution out the window to claim full confidence in attribution to Putin on the basis of a shared IP address in France and a Romanian who says Guccifer2 doesn't write like a Romanian.

It is a great demonstration of what politics does to the minds of nominally cautious, reasonable people.
No, FP is great for analyzing your code! Internal state and side effects are the main things that make code hard to analyze, and it's exactly those things that FP avoids.
What games? Maybe I was too young or simply didn't care, but every game I tried that ran at all (without immediately obvious bugs) in ZSNES were playable and fun with modest hardware even in the 1990s. Of course I would use BSNES now, or just a real SNES. But back then it was like magic.
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Ok, we'll use that suggestion; incorporating a subheading is a good idea. Thanks!
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That seems like only a partial solution. How do you allocate the resources efficiently where they are needed most? How do you avoid waste? How do you avoid kickbacks and corruption and pork-barelling? How do you minimise administrative costs and delays?

Patents are good in that they tap into market economics to provide those functions, but they seem incomplete in cases like this.
It guess it isn't super baity, yet it felt that way to me. I'm not sure exactly why, other than that it invokes the "they promised us flying cars" meme.
I find their math extremely questionable. They estimate an 0.1% chance of outright human extinction every year--not just a global disaster, like a plague or a nuclear war, but the death of every human. The only things that could really plausibly cause that are events that humans have no control over--a supervolcano, a rogue comet, a gargantuan solar flare, a nearby supernova, etc.--which means that the human race should have been wiped out about once a millennium. But here we are.
Flippant answer: Who cares?

Less flippant answer: In the vast majority of cases, the content literally cannot be purchased. Downloading ROMs does about as much harm as violating the speed limit to keep up with traffic flow. Some megacorp's lawyers might prefer I didn't do that, but see the flippant answer above for the response.
I'm impressed that Google/X has been willing to give the self-driving car group enough time and money to do it right. They have about 60 self-driving cars, being driven by paid employees. They have their own proving ground. All that can't be cheap.

I'm disappointed that Google bought all those robotics companies and ran them into the ground.
Perhaps if you have to go to the jobs page, you are not qualified?

(It's like, if you have to ask for the price, you can't afford it?)
The DNC being to the left of the Republicans does not make it left wing. If you're going to grade on a scale, the US Democratic party is centre-right by world standards. '

It's not leftist privilege to demand better from the government. It's centrist privilege to accept uncritically the status quo.
This argument and counter is just so damn meta..

But, seriously, people were never interested in facts. They were only ever interested in the status that comes with them.
Isn't Unsong by the same author as Slate Star Codex?
Ok please share what was in your opinion the major factors...

I can remember when 51% ownership was announced that suddenly the grocery stores (which is international companies) didn't have basic products like maize and salt on their shelves anymore because the companies didn't want to invest operating capital into the stores anymore.
Err, not exactly, Berkeley and Mit use python now and have been for a while.
What makes you think they failed terribly? We haven't seen full analysis (or much of anything yet), but there are mentions of potentially specially targeted malware. Very few organizations will withhold a direct targeted attack by a government which possesses zero days and resources to hand craft attack software and can find personal information of specific people attacked.
How is that related to easily proving theorems about the code?
Looks fascinating. Does anyone want to summarize?
There's zero proof of this assertion in the article

Yeah, the only thing missing in that totally unsubstantiated article was Hillary saying directly that Putin and Russia are now part of a "vast right wing conspiracy" trying to keep her from returning to the White House.
i thought the gist was 'avoid giving unhelpful feedback.'
Is it not possible to make it clear that your 2 cents is just a suggestion? This just seems like bad communication, and regardless of whose fault that is, the boss might as well try to solve it.
Well, when the person who probably oversaw those acquisitions leaves, what do you expect to happen? The people who took over probably didn't have the same vision.
The "proving theorems" stuff is definitely overstated. People always toss that term around, and it's true in principle, but in practice hardly anyone ever uses correctness proofs in real world code.

But to flip it around and make a less grandiose version of the same point: the majority of bugs are to do with state. (I don't actually know if that has been "proved" but it's definitely what I find in practice!) Pure FP gets rid of a whole swathe of potential bugs at one stroke. Of course it makes programming harder in some other respects, as often it can be hard to figure out a pure function that's as efficient as the obvious imperative algorithm, or even to figure out how do a state-y thing in FP in the first place.
Just define your own equality operator?

Eg in Haskell, whether things can be compared for equality depends on their representation. (Eg church encoded datatypes do not lent themselves to the built-in derivation of the == operator.)
I suspect they are talking about metadata pieces found in the Office documents. It could serve as a relatively strong proof that documents where processed by someone at least Russian-speaking.
Please don't post snarky I-know-better-than-the-author comments on Hacker News. We're hoping for substantive, thoughtful conversation here. It's quite the extra degree of rudeness to deliver such a middlebrow dismissal directly to the person who did the work.

If you really wanted to know why the study was done, you had a perfect chance to ask a polite question of its author.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12154645 and marked it off-topic.
Software security in the age of IoT, embedded applications
Color me impressed. That's pretty cool. I think there's plenty of room in the world for devices like this.
Stringr is probably the one tool from the Hadleyverse that removes the most frustration. String manipulation and parsing in base R is nightmarish.
I sometimes convince my boss that he is wrong. I think it's a sign of a healthy team.
Non-nuclear EMP weapons are not going to cover a large part of a country, of course.

I guess a lot of this is "what's your threat model". I can well imagine: 1) Survivalists planning for continuity of bread toasting in remote areas following a nuclear exchange. 2) Survivalists defending against Them(tm) targeting the camp with a conventional EMP, to disable radio communications and power generation etc.
Yeah, wild, I didn't know this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_of_an_n-ball

Jeez, my intuition stinks. I initially thought it was obvious why the 3D sphere to unit cube ratio is > 0.5, by analogy to the 2d diamond embedded in a square, but in 3D the embedded octagon volume isn't 0.5. Obvious now, but that'll teach me not to guess.

Indeed, rejection sampling the 300 dimensional unit sphere will suck really bad.
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It's good we (still) have free-ish movement of labour within the EU. (And closer to the ideal of free in IT than in almost any other sector.)
I have a G4 and I can feel myself getting emotional and doubting grandparent. I both want to and don't want to know.
You think a few weeks will turn lawn grass into an abundant food supply?

Actual wheat takes months before it's ready to harvest. If, on the day of the apocalypse, every single person in NYC dug up the lawns and parks and planted every inch with edible grains, they'd all starve to death long before getting any bread. If they planted before the apocalypse so that the harvest came in just before the shit went down, they'd still starve to death, because a city doesn't have enough arable land to feed even 1% of its occupants. The amount of land required to keep NYC fed is larger than the city itself.

That's putting aside the fact that there's nothing in lawn grass that humans can get enough calories out of to even make up for the effort of harvesting.
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Yes, close enough*

*except for when it's not, of course :-)

Loaves of bread in Japan are still sold using 斤 (kin). A standard loaf is one "bread kin" which is defined as 340g or more.
Here's a possibly silly question. Is upscaling old games possible? In the past I have seen papers on upscaling algorithms that do amazing things to old pixel art and 8 bit sprites. Is it possible to run these in real time on something like a pi?

I ask because the suggestion of using 1080p resolution or higher for this sounded silly. But then I realized maybe it's not.
FWIW, I have owned a G5 since it came out (first LG phone I've owned since flip-phones!) and it's been working very well for me. Only thing I dislike is the GPS sometimes being slow to resolve.
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Would be pointless, the coating would just wear off.
You can't force another person or entity to host your content

Which literally nobody here suggested that they should be obligated to do so. What's your point?
Ha, not really. I think they ought to be ridiculed in a court of their peers.
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The government still is the only entity that can silence dissenters. All the entities you listed are limited to merely kicking you off their platform.

From the standpoint of the one being silenced, what's the difference?

The fact of the matter is, the Googles and the Facebooks and the Reddits of the world hold a tremendous and frightening amount of control over public discourse and public opinion. I feel less and less comfortable with them wielding that power unaccountably.

You know how we hold companies to a higher and more stringent standard when they reach monopoly status in a market? Perhaps it's time to look into something similar for large social media sites.
I find it difficult to reconcile the rageface you display in your original comment on this thread with your being a Krishnamurthi fan.
Do you have any plans to open an API for bots?
A better way to approach this situation: "That's great! Love it! Out of curiosity, what inspired you to choose those colors and fonts?" Then, they still have ownership, but they also are given the chance to justify their choice and it starts a conversation that could lead to improvements, if necessary.
This is an excellent mini-rule for habitual micromanagers. Like me :)
"I honestly don't see any innovation here, the tech is dirt simple."

Well, the point is not inventing something. The point is "selling" it. WeChat might not have invented cell phone payments, but they made it ubiquitous in China.

Counterexample: EBay.
What a shitty company. They always had stuff with great potential. Paypal, Skype. But they never made anything more out of it. (Skype was even a good starting point to build a social network).

Skype runs on the phone, combine Skype and Paypal on the phone to make easy and quick payments. Not it is too late. As far as I know eBay has sold Skype to MS and Paypal has been span off.
What this article misses is that genuine feedback helps us grow, and being open to it is as important as being able to deliver it in a way that doesn't take something away from the recipient. Getting others' input and adapting to it (or learning when to accept but not heed it) is crucial for getting better at whatever endeavor one is engaged in.

If you have a suitable level of trust and respect between you and the person requesting approval or feedback, then your input can be valuable without it being undermining of their ownership of their creation. In fact, the opposite; by soliciting feedback (preferably early, not just at the end of a project), you can help build a sense of ownership from the person giving feedback.
I doubt that they don't care about dropping 17% in a single day. Losing 6 billion dollars of valuation in a single day is enough to put heads on the chopping block. It is a staggering amount of money to lose especially with the possibility of getting de-listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange
No it's really not possible. Whatever you say, it's going to weight down their thinking.
> a little description of what happened other than the "Cozy Bear" story would be great.

Crowdstrike has published some information on what they found:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...

A second firm claims the same malware was used in other high profile attacks:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/second-security-firm-says-rus...

> BTW - crowdstrike.com was registered in 2010 with GoDaddy, not exactly trust inspiring.

Google Capital and Rackspace seem to think they are legit:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/13/security-company-crowdstri...

> From NYT I'd expect something better than "Evidence so far suggests" with zero evidence presented.

Well, they've been wrong before...

http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/20...
>>But have you noticed people that you work with go somewhere fantastic and then have nothing to say about it? Bad storytelling!!!

I'm not a bad storyteller. I just like to think about the future and discuss ideas with people, rather than think about the past and discuss events.
> After pulling out of the dock, the Planter stopped at the West Atlantic Wharf to pick up Hannah and the children along with four other women, three more men, and another child.

So this guy jacked a warship (without spilling a drop of blood!) to evacuate his friends and family out of slavery. Sounds like a proper hero to me!
I don't see who is hurt by this really. These games are long dead, companies that made them are often gone, and they've made 99% of the income they will ever make. It's difficult to obtain a copy legally even if you are willing to pay. And if you buy used, you don't benefit the creator either, so what does it matter if you pirate instead?

I've argued a lot in the past that copyright should only last 15 years. But at the very least there should be a fee to extend copyright longer than that. It shouldn't be infinite by default.
Please don't.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12155451 and marked it off-topic.
If you ask Google maps for walking directions from the rental car station to Bart, it says it's 1.9 miles and 39 minutes. Presumably there are significant shortcuts one can make?
> I can guarantee you Nintendo, as a tightly controlled company, could care less about this volatility.

couldn't* care less?
10 is pretty small sample size by small sample size standards.
Well, not exactly.
> Just define your own equality operator?

Have fun doing that in JavaScript. Have fun making objects/hashtables use your custom equality operator when comparing field names. Have fun making sure that every single part of your program respects the notion of equality defined by your custom equality operator.

> Eg in Haskell, whether things can be compared for equality depends on their representation.

In any higher-order langauge, that's a feature, not a bug.