skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both reasonable responses, but not necessarily valid.

A is addressed by the nature of a hash. The person who needs to know, will know. Those who don't, can't be sure. If the source of the hash was communicated by other means (out of band), then the hash itself might be serving to confirm that Snowden himself does influence what's sent over that Twitter account.

B is possible, yes, though again, the tweet and hash itself can be replicated across multiple systems, and were. You'd have to look not only at Twitter access, but at all recipients of that message across all possibly channels. Though the likelihood of one of Snowden's followers who accessed the tweet while it was up being the intended target is probably fairly high.
Basic online usage like web searches, text messages, emails, etc. None of which are data-intensive.

It's almost unbelievable how disconnected from reality we've become if we think that 500 MB per month is useless. Ignoring gaming and media, 500 MB is more than I use per month on my phone, and I use it a lot every day. I remember when the web first became a thing and I was first able to contact people using IMs and emails. It was a huge, life-changing deal. You need to think back to your own experience with this, assuming you lived through it anyway. The difference between no Internet at all and 500 MB of Internet per month easily captures 95% of the total value that the Internet actually delivers to your daily life compared to the difference between 500 MB and unlimited.
To an extent, yes. It's possible to spend very little on these - of course, shelter will vary by region.
I've given a copy of 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', Rhodes, and lent a copy that didn't come back. The gift recipient has urged the book on various managers, as the book has much to teach of scientific and technical management, as well as much, much more.
I mean, it's a French organization, give them time to establish a presence outside of Europe. I think they're only just taking notice of us here in the colonies. dry chuckle
nah, I choose not to do this, or really anything else that I can avoid doing, in Java.
Great article about the discovery of light spectra lines and their impact on astronomy. But the article should have also mentioned they lead to quantum physics.
Ever read speaker for the dead?
> I think the American people are looking at what they have a choice of next and wishing that the 22nd amendment had never been passed [1].

Americans had a great candidate, who was sandbagged by the DNC. They deserve the president they get now.
For those interested in OCI-compatible runtimes, I'm currently implementing rootless containers for runC[1]. This would allow you to get the same sort of unprivileged sandboxing but with a popular container runtime.

[1]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/774
I'd forgotten, but back in the day I gave several people the Science Fiction Bookclub omnibus edition of the first five Amber books. Seems like you could always find them in used bookstores...
My example was "plain" custom elements, nothing to do with Aurelia.

Last I checked Aurelia used a lot of the Web Components terminology, but didn't actually create or use custom elements. Did that change?
Yes. But none of those countries are communist.
Selected Translations from “Factory Stories”
Do you mind sharing the Tech stack behind this .. does Android app is uploading data every second and how you are ingesting all this data in realtime .. which Database are you using?
Maybe, or maybe it will just be a reason to build a wildly expensive, "National Drone Defense Network".

Haha... who needs roads, bridges, and sewers anyway?!
I give Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to High School graduates. It's a good book for that time in a person's life.
Yes (a), and so does Cuba (b) today. But that is either in the past (a), or a very small example (b).
DIY electronics, the Boldport Club project 5: The Tap
The American people have some decent choices. They just refuse to look past the big two parties.
Or because poor people are generally not using up 5-10 additional years of peak reproductive age in education and career building before starting a family. It's complicated, but starting to produce children at 18 vs 30 tends to mean that you have more chances and those chances are somewhat higher quality, due to fewer complications, lower chance of congenital defects, and lower rate of cesarean section, among other factors.
Thomas Sankara was no slouch.
This is how Snapchat Reminders works » Technohacker
Work frustrations: find a better job, if you can. Not every software job in Italy has the problems you mention. Of course, its easy to say that, hard to find a really good job. I think honestly most people are frustrated one way or another with their job. Some are better than others though. A steady job though, in a way, is a good job, even if its a bad job.

Focus: its healthy to try lots of different things, there are lots of interesting areas. Maybe if you can get a better job, they will be using a particular new technology, and then that will motivate you to focus more on that.
Wow.

Three people pushed the little down triangle on me, because...why?

Because my response violated HN guidelines? No, actually it didn't.

Because it didn't introduce new information? Actually, it did, didn't it? bunderbunder incorrectly asserted that the last 16 years has been a period of deregulation, and I pointed out that compared to the 80's when at least three major industries (airlines in 1978, telecommunications in 1984, and finance in 1980), almost nothing was deregulated similarly in the last 16 years. On the contrary, two fairly major examples of new and disruptive regulation that we did get in the last 16 years were Sarbanes-Oxley and the ACA.

<sigh>
Trump jumps to mind.
Bradbury: Now and Forever: Somewhere a Band Is Playing & Leviathan '99

Gleick: The Information

Michener: The Source

Martin: A Song of Ice and Fire (all of them, digital)
I don't know about you, but I don't see watching 5 hours of TV per day as being compatible with the living healthily and being intelligent that the poster you're replying to offered as an alternative, so putting TV on that list seems appropriate.

Money isn't the only currency we use to pay for our current lifestyle. Time, attention, energy, passion and such are all necessary to participate in the kinds of life we want to be living. TVs may not cost a lot in money, though as another poster rightly pointed out, TV also includes programming charges too, but that sedentary activity (both physically and mentally) has a lot of non-monetary costs that prevent you from doing and experiencing other things.
The software-related books I've given most often are Gerald Weinberg's 'Becoming a Technical Leader', Brook's 'Mythical Man Month', Demarco and Lister's 'Peopleware', Hunt and Thomas 'The Pragmatic Programmer', and Mconnell's 'Code Complete'.
Everyone directly benefits from most innovations. Even this one will see the 318 million people directly benefit from drastically lower transportation costs to their goods, where ~2 million will need retraining, or likely transitioning into related jobs.

I used to be a truck driver and before and even during, I worked the dock. The only difference between me and the guys on the dock was I could always pass a pee test, I'd spent 5 minutes studying the CDL test manual, and I spent an hour passing both parts of the CDL test which was about as difficult as 6th grade spelling tests. And cheaper truck transport will increase the demand for dock workers.
The short answer to your question is 'possibly.'

Ownership and borrowing are actually two complementary systems, not one. Because of the ownership/initialization rules Rust has we know that mallocs occur when the object is constructed and that the data is freed when it goes out of scope, but for the borrowchecker dynamic memory has really been abstracted away - and the borrowchecker is guaranteeing the validity of pointers into the stack just as much as pointers into the heap. In fact a language could have ownership without having borrowing (at one point, Rust did).

The main thing performing borrow checking on MIR allows for is actually a more expressive lifetime system, particularly what are called single entry, multiple exist (SEME) or non-lexical lifetimes - that is, knowing that in one branch a borrow lasts longer than in another branch. The classic example of how this is useful is that the naive way to write "get or insert" for a hashmap is a borrow checker error today. With non-lexical lifetimes it won't be an error, because it will know that you are only performing the "insert" when you didn't get a reference from the "get."

Its possible that because the MIR has stronger guarantees than LLVM IR can normally assume, there will be optimization passes that make sense on it to reorder codepaths to be more optimal, like what you were suggesting, but I don't know.
> But still we have to understand that it's our conscious effort, not just the "natural force of Progress".

Thank you, yes.

That so many people in the 'intelligentsia' seem to think it all happens automatically is a really dangerous meme. It is a big part of why so many TED talks are kind of fraudulent.

Society has to fix complex problems, but first the people in it have to recognize problems are actually real instead of pretending everything's great. The risk of being 'glamoured' (like the bewitching of the Lords and Ladies in Terry Pratchett's books) is real. You have to either acclimate in places that that live outside of the narrative (the flyover states, the continent of Africa), or use your imagination. Otherwise you risk being in an optimism bubble with your contemporaries, much as people bemoaning the world tend to wind up in bars together. It is super important to understand that reversals in fortune occur starting at the peripheral of an economic system rather than at the heartland, at the city. That is why whole countries are going into disrepair while almost nobody in the West notices. They just think it is shit because it was always (relatively) shit in the 3rd world or in the 'stix', but it is at the peripheral that things start to break down, that models start to not correspond to reality!
Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein, I've recommended it to four people and all came back with it being their new favorite book.

It has all of science fiction classics, but focuses on a guy who can live forever and attempts to experience everything. Of course this leads to some strange events, and is definitely worth a read.
I agree that it's debatable, mostly because we don't have good empirical evidence about UBI.

However, it can be reasoned about. I have two arguments:

1. It is hard to start a company while working for someone else, particularly if you're working in a low-wage job. There is definitely evidence for this phenomenon, as unemployment leads to more entrepreneurship. [0]

2. It is hard to start a company while starving. Starting a company requires a longer time horizon than finding a job. Hence, if there isn't a adequate social support in place, I think a lot of people will prioritize finding a job over starting a company. This is born out in some empirical studies. [1]

[0] https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/rs394tot.pdf

[1] http://www.kauffman.org/~/media/kauffman_org/resources/2016/...
How are fingerprint's supposed to be generated? Just another hash?
Agreed. The article says:

> there’s a certain point at which it just starts to look like absentmindedness

Yes, but there's also a certain point at which a computer is fast enough, powerful enough, capacious enough, has enough battery life...

The 2012 MBP is by no means state-of-the-art, but it is objectively good enough for most purposes.
Use display port instead of HDMI. I have a Late-2013 and there's a huge difference between DP and HDMI.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Díaz (fiction) - At face value, a story about a nerdy outcast in love, which means most people I know will relate to it. Pulitzer Prize winner.

The Elements of Typographic Style by Bringhurst (design) - Most designers I know already own a copy, but interesting for laymen.

The Little Schemer by Friedman & Felleisen (programming) - Fun and educational for anyone interested in programming, at just about any level.
Because a competitor will come along and do so
I've added sublime text. I'm not sure what you mean by "(2,3)": I downloaded "Stable Channel build 3114".

I've also added notepad++.

And I've added Visual Studio Code.
Being a scientist is a mindset and someone that follows a certain approach.

Existing institutions do not have a monopoly on who is a scientist.
In a strict language, non-terminating computations aren't values in the first place. So you can't substitute `x` with bottom.
Carol Dweck's Mindset. Really gives insight into how our limiting self-beliefs can stunt our growth and potential, and how to fix them.
Or perhaps the market was first ally saturated, and what we see now is the normal upgrade cycle sans people buying their first computer.
I was going to say the same thing. "What Do You Care What Other People Think", another Feynman book, is also pretty good.
Trucking is so big because it is far more efficient than trains. Lol trying to just in time your inventory using trains.
"As a matter of arithmetic, the slowdown in growth has two potential components: people working fewer hours, and less economic output being generated for each hour of labor. Both have contributed to the economy’s underperformance."

Really? So it's basically the workers fault because they're lazy?
The treap, aka what people should learn instead of red black trees (because they're a lot simpler with similar performance).
Quick question, how did the book influence you to stop smoking?
Quality food is more expensive than junk food, but it's still not very expensive. People just don't eat strategically. A gallon of whole milk is 2400 calories well balanced between carbs, fats, and proteins. It costs < $3 and can be purchased at any convenience store, gas station, or grocery store. If you're lactose intolerant, you can achieve the same number of well balanced calories with cheese, nuts and yogurt for only an additional $1 or so.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Because we are focusing more and more on sustainability, which means more conservation, less consumption all around, and therefore low growth.

Beyond that, the entire foundation of economics is flawed. Computer scientists and software engineers should seriously examine the underlying assumptions of economics and revise them to be in line with technical reality.

Money is a technology. Think about the design from first principles. If you are an economist, you probably can't do that, because the design is fixed in your mind and first principles aren't known or considered unchangeable.
I strongly believe that open sourcing the analyses that are intended to influence policy would be a big step to mitigating the 'money problem' in Washington. If we could see exactly which assumptions policy researchers rely on in their analyses, we could judge the analyses more easily and more accurately.

Disclosure: I work at the open source policy center at aei.
SpyHunter+4+Crack+Patch+Serial+Keygen+Free+Download
Wow I'm at the bottom of the page and this is the first post about the actual article. One thing I was wondering was whether the approach they are taking might actually increase the complexity rather than decrease it. For example, when writing games, it's pretty common to have your physics engine and your rendering engine run at different frame rates. You get the incremental rendering by separating the two. This approach seems to tie the rendering of the internal model to the final rendering.

To be fair, I haven't really spend much time considering the JS animation API. I suspect this is really what's at fault here -- there may be no easy way to update the animation after the fact. Still, I can't help thinking that it would be better to try to separate the screen rendering from the internal model rendering...
there are a lot of gotchas that don't seem like errors but completely invalidate analysis when done without a thorough understanding of a technique.

For example you can learn regression from a stats textbook but unless you've gone through a thorough (and painful) graduate-level stats course, you probably haven't seen the edge cases that invalidate assumptions and necessitate a more complex regression e.g. your regression may suggest there is no effect but when you look at the residuals, you may find systematic bias that you can model using a subject-specific random effect or some transformation as a generalized linear model...

That isn't to say you need a graduate level stats degree but applying statistics without understanding the pitfalls can lead to seriously wrong conclusions.
Well with the current voting system it is hard to make a change. A vote for for one of the non-big two is unfortunately equivalent to not voting at all.
I'll second this. The book provides some fundamental ideas, sort of first principles, that anyone can use to prove to themselves the workings of evolution, and perhaps the inevitability.

Another is CODE, by Petzold. It explains computers from the ground (literally) up. After reading this, one can go buy some magnets, relays, and wire and proceed to build a rudimentary computer.
I read your links and appreciate you sharing them. I didn't see any compelling arguments against UBI.

> What is wrong with it is that it is directly related to the lack of affordable housing and rise in homelessness.

Yes, in the status quo it is because economic centers have high demands for housing. However, you can't dispute that there is still plenty of affordable housing in the country if your income isn't tied to a location.

> It allowed me to move someplace cheaper, a stepping stone in my plan to get off the street. I think UBI is not a good solution.

I think gig work is great. I'm fortunate enough to be able to work from anywhere in the world and agree that it's very helpful.

Unfortunately, the reality is that the majority of the populace likely does not have skills which would provide for gig work. I'd much rather give them a portable income of their own (UBI) so they can move to somewhere where housing is affordable, instead of either letting them slide into the cracks or forcibly constructing affordable housing through central planning.
The best way to learn how to wrangle data is practice, especially outside of academic settings, where the example data is not necessarily reflective of real-world data.

Helping others wrangle data is one of the reasons I publish my Jupyter notebooks open-sourced. A few examples my data wrangling with R:

Processing Stack Overflow Developer data: https://github.com/minimaxir/stack-overflow-survey/blob/mast...

Identifying related Reddit Subreddits: https://github.com/minimaxir/subreddit-related/blob/master/f...

Determining correlation between genders of lead actors of movies on box office revenue: https://github.com/minimaxir/movie-gender/blob/master/movie_...
I did a networkless approach for decoding DNS packets: https://github.com/spc476/SPCDNS No memory allocation (the user supplies the memory) and because it does not bother with the network at all, it's easy to integrate into an existing network framework (I think).
That's certainly true. But they're both examples of a community collectively deciding to learn and speak a non-native language.
(I'm the OP here.)

My source for the statement that "instruments were being tuned to this scale well before the invention of logarithms" is an article by Edward Dunne and Mark McConnell, "Pianos and Continued Fractions," Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Apr., 1999), pp. 104-115. They write: "Guitars in Spain were evenly tempered at least as early as the fiftheenth century, two hundred years before Bach. And Hermanus Contractus, born 18 July 1013, invented a system of intervalic notation that anticipated equal temperatment."

My source on Simon Stevin's work is a Rudolf Rasch, "Tuning and Temperament," published as Chapter 7 in The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory." Rasch gives an interesting account of the state of root extraction before the advent of logarithms. He attributes the errors to "Stevin’s sometimes rather reckless rounding of digits after the decimal period, which are often truncated rather than rounded."
Entrepreneurs doing what, exactly? If someone is making $2 per day, they live with other people making $2 per day, and there isn't much spending going on.

>$300 is more than enough for every tool an Internet entrepreneur needs

Oh, except an education. And a way to not be immediately steam-rolled by anyone with more money than you if your business is even remotely reasonable.
This would make a lot more sense to me to be the URL of this submission.
Isn't this the book that starts off with the guy claiming he (or his ancestors) could transform into Jaguars? IIRC, the book was littered with falsehoods.
Ask HN: How to capture screen output from a virtualized container?
Please excuse me if this post is really ignorant. Lately i've wondered, how, if its possible, to capture the screen output from a docker image running on a GUI-less debian distro. Is this even possible? How would the process work under the hood?

I am assuming that the app running inside the docker image needs access to the native GUI libraries for rendering, etc... Are these libraries availabla even on the GUI less linux distros? From there on I am completely lost at how I would actually run the image and capture the screen.
What about when tech can replace ALL jobs? Not just one small area. It's a very slippery slope were walking here with sufficiently advanced tech.

What then?
I'm still using a Mid-2012 Retina 15" Pro, which I upgraded significantly when purchasing. It was plenty of power to crunch database reports and compile my code then and its still one of the most powerful laptops available. I don't see a reason to get rid of it until either a significant jump in processing power or some massing improvement in other hardware, until then my Quad core 2.6GHz lasts 9hrs on a charge and runs every piece of software imaginable without skipping a beat.
I'll go ahead and confess that I haven't read the whole article, but I think it will still be valuable to relay that as a former philosophy grad student (though not a philosopher of science), my first response was "who the fuck is Andrew Pickering?"

Don't think that the initial quote is the norm in philosophy.
I don't like the term 'Data Scientist' at all. I think its far to loaded. Its a bad thing. Many developers already building sophisticated analytics and predictive systems will avoid identifying with what they are really doing in fear of being challenged as to whether they are a 'real' scientist or not.
I think [1] is a better link, which actually explains how it works.

[1] https://coreos.com/blog/international-friendship-day.html
Same here, typing this on a Thinkpad T42p 'maxed out' with 2 GB. OK, it does contain an SSD (connected using a PATA-SATA converter which just fits between the drive and the connector, no external modification necessary) so it has seen some updates since being hatched but the thing is about 12 years old and still going strong. Not that I'd mind a bit more memory or CPU every now and then, mostly when confronted with 'modern' web pages... fortunately NoScript comes to the rescue there. Running Debian/Xmonad on the thing, works fine.

I use a 5 yo phone (Motorola Defy+). It runs Android 4.4.4, thus far I've not seen a valid reason for wanting something newer. It still runs for about 4 days on a single charge, using the original battery.

Things start looking bad for the tech industry when people start showing off with 'old' stuff instead of brand-spanking new.
I was about to say that this guy is about 15-20 years late to the party with the polemic, but noticed from the footer that this essay is in fact 16 years old. Maybe someone could add a (2000) to the title?

For more background on the period this essay came out of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_wars