skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The phone itself wakes up and listens for the base; if it finds it (and the ID matches) then it goes back to sleep. No need to transmit. If the ID doesn't match, it pings the new base to register and the network will inform the old base to drop that client. If it doesn't find the base at all it initiates a longer scan to find active bases on other frequencies. Once it finds the best one it has to re-negotiate and auth before the base will start accepting traffic on behalf of that client. Handoff bypasses the delays by having one base communicate to another to bypass the negotiations and the backhaul network automatically re-routes packets when this happens. The clients also get info about neighboring cells and towers which makes handoff easier and faster. As the baseband wakes up in its lowest power mode every minute or two it senses its connected base signal getting weaker while simultaneously one of its neighboring signals getting stronger and during one of these wake sessions it will elect to power up, transmit, and hand-off. Then it can go back into low-power monitoring mode until the next boundary. (This is an extremely abbreviated description of a complex process.)

The minimum ping time (let's say it is one hour) is just so the base can prune its client list.

When an SMS or call comes in the network doesn't broadcast that to all cells in the country. It knows where your device was last registered and sends it there even. If the base doesn't get an acknowledgement after a timeout period the SMS is dropped / the caller gets voicemail. If your device isn't near that location it should have handed-off on its own which means it is probably turned off or in an area with no signal.

As far as I know none of the current generation of cell systems bother to broadcast SMS, phone, or data packets to a wider area near your last known location.
Coldbox is only for theists?
I noticed coldbox put bible verses and strong theist (christian, to be specific) messages in their readme.md file. Does anyone else think this is disgusting and a smack in the face to everything that OSS culture has accomplished?

https://github.com/ColdBox/coldbox-platform/blob/development/readme.md
How to Create Simple Twitter Bot in Node.js
Thank you for that article. It's fantastic - I'm assuming you also read KrebsOnSecurity? There are similar kinds of stories there.
Coding is not a Magical Cure-All
Anyone working on any cool edtech-related ideas/side projects to create something cooler than the stuff the author is referring to?
I find this to be a great list of resources.

https://www.rstudio.com/online-learning/#R

For the Hadleyverse or Tiddyverse this is a starter book based on dplyr and other tools.

Hands-On Programming with R http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028574.do#
This article is basically a corollary of the Robustness Principal, "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others". In this case we're accepting certain dependencies from others and we SHOULD be liberal/tolerant of dependencies that work but generate warnings.
Rejection sampling is not necessarily a bad idea in general, but in this particular case it would be bad.

You are going to choose 300 random numbers between -1 and 1, and then throw away this batch if their norm is greater than 1. As you increase dimension (in this case 300), you are including more numbers that give a non-negative contribution to this norm, and so you are increasing your chance of rejection with each dimension.

Re-reading your comment, I notice you made a higher-level note regarding the volume of the hypercube vs. hypersphere. While my comment was right, I now think you are right that the volume ratio of hyper sphere to hypercube is, in fact, always over 0.5. I'm gonna run a quick simulation anyway, but you can convince yourself of this by considering that the line segment connecting (1,0) and (0,1) in 2D lies within the unit circle, but a similar construction will always work for high dimensions (I think).
This sounds like pseudo-science so I'd be extremely wary. Small study making bold claims based on an extremely subtle effect almost always turns out to be statistical noise or a flaw in the study.
You are correct, but the statement you're quoting can be easily corrected: replace "elasticity" with "The elastic limit of a material". The elastic limit is also conventionally called the "yield strength".

"Plastic limit" is not a real term, but if it were, it might be a synonym for "ultimate tensile strength". There's also compressive strength and shear strength.
Reminds me of a time in Hong Kong when I accompanied a friend buy or trade used games at the train station. We were outside of the paid area and the other guy was inside the paid area of the concourse. It seems to be common practice there.
Possibly daydreaming/napping might achieve the same thing.

In fact, I think napping is possibly more useful than meditation in terms of compensating for lost sleep in general.
Why do you hope that we never get to that point?
Also, there's a startup opportunity here -- making self-hosting super easy and convenient.
> For a budget of $100 to $300 – maybe $500 if you want to get extra fancy – you can have a pretty great classic arcade and classic console emulation experience.

...if you are OK with pirating games. Its a bit odd that for the number of times this article talks about how cheap and easy it is to get this setup going, they kind of handwave away the fact that even old games are still copyrighted with "Add additional ROMs and game images to taste."
The joke, which reveals a deeper personal value judgement on behalf of the person telling it, speaks of a "good gay" as if to stereotype gay men by a particular behavior, denying the possibility that you can be a "good" gay man but have a different cultural outlook. That, to me, is unquestionably a form of intolerance. Making light of someone can be a form of intolerance, depending on what property it is by which you make light of them and whether or not it is based in a harmful generalization. Another way to say it is: you can't claim tolerance if you're happy to propagate harmful stereotypes or generalizations.

I think this is a fair point, and one I'm quite sympathetic to. I agree that it is all too easy to say "it's a joke, ha ha" when people say very offensive things.

I think you've persuaded me that it was pretty bad judgement to say that.

BTW, I think this one is inexcusable: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/7643

It's frankly shocking to me that someone would suggest it's just boring gossip to be unconcerned with. I cannot reconcile that with any notion of caring about even the tiniest component of civic duty

I think that this is a great ideal to stand by, but I can't imagine finding any large group where this kind of behaviour doesn't occur.

Maybe I'm too old and cynical to fight that kind of fight any more. Maybe I shouldn't give up so easily, but I just don't see any possibility of an organisation existing with ideals as high as that and yet still be able to win elections.

Bismark said: Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.
Nope, I was wrong --- the volume of the hyper sphere to the hyper cube is not always over 0.5.
Compare these two statements:

"A defendant, who is running for office on a promise to get tough on Mexican immigration, questioned the neutrality of a judge from a Mexican immigrant family who is presiding over a private lawsuit against the individual."

"A politician, who is running for office on a promise to overturn carbon emissions legislation, called into question the credibility of climate scientist on the grounds that he was of Mexican descent."

Paul Ryan's comment applies to one of those statements, not the other. We don't need to discuss the overall merit of Trump's argument, I'm just saying it's not good evidence of Trump being racist.

(The liberal left is anything but fringe... as far as I can tell, American political discourse is dominated by liberal hysteria, with a few other oddities mixed in like hero worship of the police and military, and unswerving support for Israel. But I digress.)
Erlang is a good choice for doing massive parallel computing, and it is a functional language.
Flexport is hiring a senior full-stack engineer
Slightly OT, but The article alludes to xenophobic violence in South Africa. South Africa already has a de facto open borders policy and its local black population has been squeezed out of many business opportunities by people from the rest of Africa, as well as Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and China, and there are spasmodic eruptions of anti-foreigner violence. The similarities with Brexit and Trump are striking, and show something more complex is going on, than simple bigotry.
Sue the person making the accusation. Note that Google is not the one making the accusation.
The Arch Wiki[1] has some good docs on power management, it's an interesting read even if you're not using Arch.

The short of it though is as you suggest, even just installing TLP makes a monumental improvement to battery life.

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management
There are some legitimate reasons for leaving -Werror enabled all the time. In the embedded world, for example, I'm less interested in supporting a wide variety of compilers, and more interested in rigidly complying with my particular toolchain's definition of "correct." In that case, I'm going to ask it to be as pedantic as possible because I'm never going to compile the code with any other toolchain, and I'd like to minimise the possibility of a bug because the code is going somewhere that a human won't be able to follow.
That you're so unwilling to leave your text editor makes you unsuitable for Smalltalk, because Smalltalk without its image and IDE stuffed into text files that work with all your normal tools isn't Smalltalk. It's missing everything Smalltalk'ers love about developing in Smalltalk. Someone who wants to learn Smalltalk should try Pharo or Squeak, not GNU, GNU will just leave them with a bad taste of weirdness for no good reason.
Wow, what an insightful post! What are some of these "big books" you alluded to?
You'd think they would move to a better hash function by now... MD5 has been broken for many years. There's a little program from a few years ago that let you create colliding blocks in seconds on a PC of the time.
I'm thinking, isn't the robot somewhat unnecessary? Can't it be done by software instead? Maybe connecting into the inventory management system / POS if the grocery store and do the AI processing in it.
> There would be a huge number of people in the area and no prospect of feeding all of them.

I'm currently in NYC, where clearly there are way more people than edible plants. Even if you look at only the 1% or whatever who know which plants are edible, there still wouldn't be nearly enough plants to feed them.

But in any sort of post-apocalyptic scenario, the first thing that would happen is that people would be unable to mow their lawns and the parks. So within two or three weeks the amount of edible plants would go up 100x. Still not enough food to make staying in a city viable for the longterm, but probably enough that you could feed yourself while hiking or biking to a more remote area.
This person has been doing class oriented programming for years and calls it OO. He will try structured programming with recursion and call it FP now...
Good point. I did walk out of a McDonalds w/ touch screens by Union Square a few months ago. It wasn't a statement on robots. I just didn't find the experience very good. I remember being a bit confused by the process.

Funny, but now I remember ordering at touch screens at McDonalds in France last year. Even though it was in French (I speak no French) I found the process simple. Simpler than face to face ordering, to be sure, since I could order by picture.

Maybe, like the self-checkout lines at the grocery store, which I hated at first but usually choose now because the line is quicker, there's a learning curve. In fact, maybe McDonalds in Colorado should have waited before pulling those touchscreens?
The title is inaccurate. According to the article, researchers made the link, not any counterintelligence organization.
Many people in infosec (epitomized by the Swift On Security account) normally circumspect and cautious about attribution, are claiming with 100% certainty that Putin is behind the leaks.

Politics have a tendency to really mess with a person's nominal judgement.
217.11.178.38 – Tajikistan – Babilon-T – IP address location and data
I like David Deutsch's idea of an effective form of government too: how easy is it to eject the current one and try something new? Then, if we must be subordinate to the idea that we're just making small changes, aking to "the art of the next best" that you quote, at least we make it easy to displace bad ideas and try something else.

I think one way of ensuring no bad forms of government entrench themselves, thus making it impractically difficult to ever even try that next best thing, is to be vigilant when it comes to all of this.

Am I expecting zero gossip? Of course not. But do I think the opportunity of a massive email leak that exposes behavior that is, at minimum, inexcusably unprofessional, should go by without trumpets blaring? Absolutely not.
I am a big fan of Hoffman and Kunze. I also think many would benefit from reading a book on ordinary differential equations after they read a linear algebra textbook. Much of the elementary theory of linear ODEs consists of combining relatively simple observations with linear algebra. Coddington and Levinson is the one I used for a course in college, but it is quite detailed. I am sure there are less ponderous options available, but I don't know any off the top of my head.
Can anyone explain what they mean by the word "confirm"? I looked at the paper to find out and ended up even more confused:

"HAT-P-56b (EPIC 202126852b) is a hot Jupiter confirmed by measuring the planet’s mass with Doppler spectroscopy (Huang et al. 2015). Our analysis indicates that the planetary hypothesis is the most probable explanation for the signal detected, with the next-most-likely scenario being an eclipsing binary (FPP=65%; see Table 9). However, the radial velocity measurements of Huang et al. (2015) rule out the eclipsing binary scenario favored by vespa and so confirm the planetary nature of this system."
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~ianc/docs/crossfield_K2s_new_pla...

So this object was previously "confirmed", yet they are still considering that it may not be a planet at all. Then they say some other measurements do "confirm" it is a planet...

Either an object is confirmed to be a planet or not (presumably according to some gold standard measurement method). I don't understand using that word when they may waffle back and forth as to whether the object is a planet.
Groups of cells are tagged with what is known as a "location area." The phone monitors a list of neighbor cells during its periodic wake ups (around 1-1.5 seconds) and reselects the strongest one. If the phone needs to reselect to a cell that is in a different location area, it sends a message to the network known as a "location area update." The network updates a database known as the HLR (home location register) that tracks the location area where the mobile last checked in. There is a policy called a "cell reselection hysteresis" that keeps it from ping-ponging between location areas if you are on the fringe of two.

The mobile also needs to send what are known as "periodic location area updates," to keep its entry up-to-date. Most networks I've seen have a 56 minute interval for that.

When the network needs to page a mobile, it sends the message to all cells in a location area.
It's their project, they can do as they want. There is nothing preventing non Christians from using it. There is also nothing stopping you from forking it to be secular-coldbox, or whatever you like.

Having said that, who in their right mind is still using cold fusion? It's as old as the bible.
From NYT I'd expect something better than "Evidence so far suggests" with zero evidence presented.

Anyone who's done anything related to security knows that it's impossible to discern much from any trace of an attack left behind - at best you might have IPs of proxy servers they used and you might be able to figure out the vulnerability exploited, but if the attackers were any good (and they're saying "evidence" suggests it's government agency level type stuff) - there is no chance they'd leave anything behind other than false traces to confuse the investigation.

Real evidence would be a corroborated confession, but even an excerpt of logs and/or a little description of what happened other than the "Cozy Bear" story would be great.

So basically someone hacks the DNC servers (and my guess would be that it should be trivial given that this is primarily a volunteer-operated organization), and NYT blames it on GRU. Because being hacked by Russia is cool, compared to being hacked by a nobody because your security is sloppy.

BTW - crowdstrike.com was registered in 2010 with GoDaddy, not exactly trust inspiring.
> Mark was smart and bought puts to protect his stake and then sold it so that he wasn't tied to Yahoo. In retrospect he was really smart.

Also questionably legal. There's this little thing called SEC Rule 144 [0], which forbids this kind of action (attempting to preempt pump-and-dump IPOs and mergers). I have no knowledge of the specific details involved, but I find it unlikely that Cuban was not subject to Rule 144 - especially since you say "bought puts to protect his stake", which indicates he couldn't sell Yahoo shares at the time, and thus was almost surely subject to said rule.

SEC enforcement was a joke (and possibly still is), but illegal actions are only ever smart in retrospect, post "statute of limitations".

[0] https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/rule144.htm
Coulda fooled me.

It gives people something else to talk about, rather than discussing how the DNC made sure that Hillary won, no matter what the primary voters thought...
This makes even less sense.
This blog seems really interesting. Has anybody read the other content? I'm considering subscribing to it.
Do you have any evidence of this?

I don't understand why the Russians would be capable of obtaining this data yet not able to release it without revealing that they were the source.

Unless it was their motivation to be linked to it -- but what does that gain them?

It seems like the more likely story is that all of this talk about the Russians is just a method of misdirecting people to discuss the theoretical Russian link but not the documents themselves.
Still have no proof other than a spurious claim "Many people in infosec..."
The first amendment protects Americans from Government prosecution for expression their opinions. Freedom of speech is a principle that extends beyond the US Constitution.
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It in fact decreases exponentially
It may have made them happier in life and in love, but what about the rest of us? Does it make you happy to see funds wasted on "research" like this?
> pure functional programming; being able to easily prove theorems about your code

I believe you're referring to a type system. That is different. There is little about functional programming that allows you to easily prove theorems about your code.
I wish someone would ressurect crt or come up with similarly cheap tech.

I own lots of monitors, but after I tried my CRTs again recently, I fell in love with them again, the image itself, and the motion is much better than any flat panel that is affordable. (Also my CRTs aren't high end even! they were medium range, or outright cheap when I bought them new, one is even 1024x768, that now feels too small, but the image quality overall is soooo awesome...)
Because it's related to systemd.
Ben Heck(endorn) has been one of the bigger figures in the DIY portable console scene for years now, so it's kind of interesting to see a critique like this (even though you're 100% correct)! I wonder if he works this way because "this is just how I've always done it", in the same way programmers often will solve a problem in a much less efficient way, because they don't know what they don't know?
Nintendo says Pokemon GO's earnings impact limited
I wonder what affiliate links Jeff Atwood is shilling this time.
I think we all know that NYTimes is in bed with the Clinton campaign
We adjusted all analyses for depression and other mental disorders.
Well, the only part of a DMCA claim that you swear to be true under penalty of perjury is simply that you are authorized to represent the copyright holder of the work you're claiming is infringed upon.

Not saying you can't get in trouble for anything else, I just haven't seen that yet, other than some out of court settlements (I don't remember yours, but I've heard about others).

I certainly do wish that more people would bring some of the utterly bogus claims to the attention of the relevant courts or bar associations (assuming they bear the signature of an actual lawyer).
9th Circuit: It’s a crime to visit a website after being told not to visit it
Not sure how this is baity. The jetpack portion refers to an actual example of research done by X and the profit promise portion refers to the hit or miss nature of the research as it applies to Alphabet's main goal of making money. Am I missing something?
The Russian connection was just a deflection tactic to link Trump to Russia. There's no real evidence besides:

* Wikileaks leaked right before the DNC

* This makes Hillary's campaign look bad

* If it's bad for her, it's good for Trump

* Assange works for Russia

* Russia wants Trump to win

Trump has been accused of painting a 'dark picture' of America, but invoking the Red Scare is a whole other level of fear mongering.
I've attempted to do this. It's not as simple as Jeff Atwood states.

For starters, there is a lot more tinkering and messing around than is indicated in the article. You want to connect an old PS3 controller that's sitting around? Great...prepare to spend 3-4 days messing around with config file via SSH to get it just right. And even then, it fails intermittently and works in some games, but not others.

Secondly, while some N64 games do emulate reasonably nicely, most do not. There are either audio issues, or video issues. And on and on. PSX and Dreamcast games - I couldn't get those to work without lag at all.
The one thing that annoys me most about this isn't about who is doing the hacking, but how horribly the DNC had failed at security. Nobody has been talking about this and I find it annoying to see nobody has been focusing on greater security.
My experience is that a lot of really old C++ code fails to compile on modern compilers - generally not because of new standards, but because the compiler(s) the code was written against didn't enforce the standards of the time properly (especially old versions of GCC). C++ has been around a pretty long time though.
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This link should allow access to the full text for the next few weeks.
We started getting people do some python and javascript development for us on upwork.com. After some months one of them quit their full time job and now work for us full-time remotely.
In technical terms: What is process of remastering an old game? How much of the old game do you use?
OP is likely just Correcting the Record.
I imagine it's more politically motivated than "we don't want them to look like amateurs" but rather, look who is helping Trump, that bad Putin fellow. The unsaid part is, "we don't want someone Putin favors in the white house, make sure you vote for Clinton."

As others have pointed out, it's at least curious that when the Sony hack happened, and the administration came out a few weeks later and declared it was North Korea, lots of InfoSec stood up and said, wait, it's not that clear... We're not so sure... But here there is no such doubt, at least yet being raised --which is an interesting difference.