skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Startups are not for that mentality, no startup has ever won by playing it safe and making sure people get plenty of sleep.

Who's saying anything about playing it safe? It's all about strategically using your resources, not squandering them. Be it time, money or sleep. It's about engaging your afterburners when you actually need them, not when you are flying in circles.
If the paperwork was that sufficient then you could compile they paperwork.
It's easy to imagine scenarios where this continued classification could be appropriate. Remember, classification doesn't just attach to facts; it also attaches to how that information was obtained.

If, for example, the censored paragraph was "a US agent placed within the Soviet Communist Party participated in the design of Soviet ciphers and deliberately weakened them", and that agent continued working in the USSR for several decades, then it could only be declassified if everything that agent had ever been involved with was no longer sensitive.
Here's a paper on the topic:

"Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string" [1]

From the abstract: "We performed experiments in which a string was tumbled inside a box and found that complex knots often form within seconds. We used mathematical knot theory to analyze the knots."

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17911269
I wonder if anyone has used this as evidence that Bitcoin should not be regulated under FinCen rules (as its property not currency). I guess it would depend in part how the Marshall's service treats foreign currency they seize.
We had similar issues when I was at iHeartRadio. We got reports from a number of users that were getting a lot of playback issues. Once we saw that the users were all in a relatively small area in the southeastern US, it took a few days of dealing with local ISPs to sort out the issue: all requests on a certain local ISP were being rewritten and certain headers were getting removed altogether.
Cars are a lot more efficient than they were a few years ago, and motorcycles have gone the other way. You can still get a motorcycle that gets 60 MPG or better, but the mainstream has decided to use their thermodynamic budgets to build engines with very high specific power and hold the line around 40 MPG or even less.

Nobody should buy a motorcycle imagining that they have lower operating costs. Aside from fuel, motorcycles have high budgets for tires, engine maintenance (due to the aforementioned appetite for high specific power, and relative lack of scale in their manufacturing), insurance, likelihood of theft or other total casualty, need to continuously refresh your riding apparel on approximately 5 year basis, expensive consumable items like drive chains and sprockets, and so on and so forth. Also there is generally a lack of miles over which to amortize the time-denominated costs like insurance.
That's how it's supposed to be. Speedtest is measuring essentially that you're getting what you paid for. If you have 50/50 Fios, you're paying for a 50mbps connection to the Verizon network.

> So you are really testing the bandwidth of the last mile to your house and the ISP's internal network, which is not representative of your real network bandwidth to the rest of the Internet.

There's no such thing. If you were downloading a file from a friends computer and they have 2mbps upload, your connection speed will be 2mbps. How would your ISP have anything to do with that?

Fast.com just measures your connection to Netflix, which is valuable if that's a service you use a lot.
United States vs Bitcoin wallet?

I hope the bitcoin wins.
Yes, but they have already sold them (tens of thousands) in previous auctions. This auction is from another bunch of coins seized from other law breakers.
Well, I'm actually pleasantly surprised that the media is reporting this as joke, and not as "Trump openly threatens to kill Hillary Clinton."

Why is this news again? Is there nothing more to be reported on than another Trump off-color insult? Couldn't we, you know, actually have a serious discussion of "issues", or do those not exist anymore?
CO2 emissions alone add ~$0.50/gal or ~25% if you had to capture all that carbon.

[1] Can't find a great all-encompassing source, but e.g.: http://www.c2es.org/publications/cost-us-forest-based-carbon... says $30-90 per ton

[2] Burning as is about 9kg CO2 per gal. http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=307&t=11
This is a hostile action against their users. When someone installs software on their computer specifically to block ads from being downloaded, presented, or seen.. and then some corporation goes to extreme lengths to bypass that software, that is a hostile action. I wouldn't be surprised if it's illegal.

But regardless of legality, I think it's a sign of how much contempt these companies have toward their users, and it's a good window for someone to take a bite out of their market share.
Distinguish them to human viewers, not to computers. If the aggregate effect of all the CSS and element classes is to make ads look one way and non-ads look a different way (each with slight variations), it's an AI-complete problem infer an answer to "given these elements and this CSS sheet, which subset of them looks different and add-like to a human?"
This is true for the time being, but there is a small percentage who will switch if the advertising becomes obnoxious past a degree.

Several of my non-tech-inclined friends have switched to using only the mobile site (on their own, not from ranting on my part) due to concerns about location tracking, constant notifications, and battery life.
just checking to be sure, your example is essentially

original.filter(...).map(...).sort(), which in python would be `sorted([... for x in original if ...], ...)`.

I'll agree that sometimes the functional/chainable approach is nicer, but often it also isn't necessary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS_fiyKkAno
the one exception that I know of is president Ford. 2 different women tried to assassinate him!
Similarly, there is real tactical advantage to hide the fact that there is nothing interesting behind the curtain. It keeps the enemies guessing. This is why they say "I can neither confirm nor deny..." (Source: a podcast I listened to)
So far, as far as we know, 100% of them. We'll need more data for an accurate picture.
Doesn't that make key rotation painful?
Could they, connecting another clock, act as a "large-scale" LIGO ? Or is the precision not enough ?
But now you have to manage that deployment which is also nontrivial.
I agree! "Driving a mile is infinitely more expensive than staying where you are, from a fuel perspective"
List of supported ciphers is unencrypted and very UA-specific.
the original was done by pointing a camera at a monitor using the hall of mirrors effect
The Federal Reserve can probably deal with other foreign currencies.
My guess is that "United States vs Bitcoin wallet" could be an instance of civil forfeiture, where instead of going through the steps required to prosecute someone, US authorities are putting literally money in the defense position and effectively automatically taking it. Which yields some tragically comedic titles like: The United States Government vs $25,180 in United States Currency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...
Ask HN: Example good research poster?
I'm an Aussie and use one of the big bank's apps on a s6 edge (the edge is weird and I hate it). Contactless payment already works great in exactly the way that a credit card does as a store terminal. Anyone know if Samsung gets a cut?
I was more excited about them when I believed they were actually enforced. I guess they help with static analysis in IDEs, but you can still get type errors at runtime, so Python is still missing out on the main advantage of static typing.
I'm in England, but there are death caps in Australia, which unfortunately were introduced along with oak trees.

You need an identification guide for your area (Tasmania, or perhaps all of Australia). Unless you can safely identify the species, you cannot be sure it is safe to eat, and should discard it. Identification is usually done using a dichotomous key, which involves checking for the presence or absence of a characteristic (which involves understanding some jargon), then another, until you're down to genus level. Then you check visually to identify the species. It's a bit like an expert system, except printed in a book.

In some countries in continental Europe, you can take wild mushrooms to a pharmacist for identification.
Relatedly, why are you advocating using MLLib/RDDs when they have been deprecated in favor of ML/DataFrames (http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ml-guide.html)?

Note that the DataFrame version of MLLib (which is still called MLLib btw, even if the package is different) isn't feature complete compared to the RDD version.

For example, the DataFrame version of LogisticRegression is binary only, while the RDD one allows multiple classes. I guess the suggested work around is to use the OneVsRest classifier (in Spark 2.0), but that blows the memory out on fairly small tasks.

I like Spark a lot, but MLLib isn't as strong as it appears at first glance.
Can someone please build one of these around SF. We desperately need it. ;)
Not only that, but if I was creating some malware I'd mimic every single one of the TTPs that are supposedly used by all these "Advanced Persistent Threat" groups that are anointed by "threat research" groups. Sprinkle in some Russian/Chinese strings, and an obvious string for how I'd like everyone to refer to me (Sauron in this case) and call it a day.
> These bitcoins were forfeited in various federal criminal, civil and administrative cases, including:

>United States v. Carl Mark Force IV, Northern District of California (Case No. 15-0319)

>United States v. Sean Roberson, District of New Jersey (Case No. 14-565);

>United States v. Ross William Ulbricht, Southern District of New York (Case No. 13-06919)

>Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Case No. 776075-14-0028

>United States v. 178.95842915 Bitcoins stored in MultiBit wallet XXXX4XDAd, Eastern District of Washington (Case No. 16-07009)

>Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Case No. 2015 9400 500008 01 001

>United States v. Approximately $200,979.15 Seized from Tradehill, Inc., held in the name of Megan Thompson, et. al. Eastern District of California, Case No. 14-02950

>United States v. $309,305.24 in U.S. Currency, etc., District of Maryland, Case No. 15-03474

>Department of Homeland Security, United States Customs and Border Protection, Case Nos. 2015330700002501, 2015330700002701, 2014330700023701, and 2014330700027201

So some are from him along with a mix of several other cases.
Knots can also be identified with spaces that don't seem "knotty" at first glance.

See Thurston's Knots to Narnia[1] and Not Knot[2]. PolyCut[3] is a little applet that can visualize these knotty portals.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKSrBt2kFD4
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd_HGjH7QZo
[3] http://facstaff.susqu.edu/brakke/polycut/polycut.htm
Kuiper Belt
sounds like you neighbor is obsolete
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obsolete_Man
That's why they said "probably".

You need to look at things like the complexity of the malware, how many staff it would take to develop and maintain it operationally, the targets selected and what sort of payloads are executed.
Criminals tend to have simpler malware that used known exploits or a small number of zero days.
They generally cast a wide net for their targets and their payloads typically aim to directly raise funds(ransom, mining, card theft, etc).

In contrast, nation-states tend to have complex malware with multiple zero days, greater care is taken to avoid detection, their targets are chosen carefully and their payloads focus on gathering information and specialized operations.
> No malware will survive a power cycle.

Not true at all.
I was about to write that, then I thought, "Wait, I'll bet they've heard that joke a thousand times, and not only that, I'll bet they made that joke when they decided to use the name." So I decided against it.
I think that the difference between the article is very big.

The quanta article discuss what they have saw in December and what they have saw now, in the section "The Bump that went away". Also that and why they expect to see a new particles due to supersimetry in the section "Missing Pieces".

The Backreaction article discuss more about the influence of the lack of a experimental evidence of an unknown particle in the physics community, i.e. that without an experimental guidance is difficult to choose between the different theoretical approach, and some ideas for future research.

Total different articles.
Chris Bumstead Has an Incredible Physique for Only Being 21
And Jane Jacobs spent a significant portion of her life proving his ideals at best short-sighted, and at worst out-right wrong. History remembers Jacobs far more fondly.

Death and Life of Great American Cities is now town planning 101.
It does mean that key rotation = address rotation
Poor connectivity? Low storage? Don’t fret, the new Google Maps will still work
> Thinking about it i guess schools may be some of the most hostile computing environments in civilian life.

Long time ago, I've briefly managed an environment like that. It was crazy. Kids are really good at breaking stuff in creative ways.
Pinterest opens engineering office in Seattle
Wow, did nobody watch Star Trek TNG? I learned about them when I was about 10 watching the Relics episode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relics_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Ge..., or amazon prime: https://www.amazon.com/Relics/dp/B00R143VHC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UT...). Very cool concept.
I agree with this. It reminds of a post I read a little while ago from Cognitect:

> When you’re working with high leverage, you don’t have to put as much investment in to get the same functionality or value out. Because your code is simpler and easier to create, it can be considered disposable. And with disposable code, you don’t feel the compulsion to keep it, like you would with the old paradigm boat anchor projects. It all adds up to this: data orientation drives antifragility, enabling you to change individual vectors, and your entire organization more swiftly.

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2016/6/28/the-new-normal-data...

The implication is that when your code becomes less important the data model becomes more important in response.
This is what I came to say. My children love playing on our large lawn. I consider them lucky given the number of dirt (drought resistant) parks these days.
The article touches on this, but doesn't directly address it: whether they're using gross calories or net calories. Gross is the total calories you burn during that mile. Net is how many additional calories you are burning as a result of walking versus being sedentary.

Glancing at the wikipedia article which the author uses doesn't clarify this, nor does Wikipedia's citation. I didn't check the citation's citation.

Clearly we want net calories. Average humans burn ~100 kcal per hour doing their normal activities during the day, so that could potential change the figure from 210 kcal per hour walking, to 110.
Potato seeds slipped through the cracks for centuries! http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/chris-mccandless-...
The Unity Linux beta has been working quite well for me. It is lacking certain things like asset store support, but otherwise it's been solid in my small hobby projects.

That said, I'll be taking a good look at Godot. Most of my projects are in 2D, and I end up filling in a lot of what Unity doesn't provide. Godot seems to be a better fit for 2D provided the rest of the engine/editor holds up.
How do you know? I mean, how do you test for false negatives in the hiring process? Perhaps you're rejecting lots of people without side projects, but they go on to be successful anyway?
How would counting with Gray code [1] change the math?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_code
Thank you. I can relate a lot.
why is that weird, this is the smallest amount of bitcoin the US Marshalls have ever sold...

Their last auction was 44,000 bitcoin worth $20 million
"There's no such thing."

Yes there is. The Internet is not an abstract cloud with unlimited bandwidth everywhere. Your ISP runs their own network, peered with other bandwidth providers or other ISPs. You may have a 50 Mbps downlink from your ISP, but it doesn't mean the real-world usable bandwidth to all hosts on the Internet will be 50 Mbps, because your packets will be going through these peering links when they leave your ISP's network.

"How would your ISP have anything to do with that?"

Well, simply put some ISPs have terrible peering and/or intentionally throttle. So speedtest.net will show you awesome numbers, but in practice anything you download will be at much lower speeds. This matters, this is precisely why fast.com was built, and this is why the GGP is seeing different bandwidths when testing with speedtest.net vs. fast.com.
> These banks want to maintain complete control over their customers.

And Apple want to maintain complete control over their customers. No-one has clean hands in this.

I trust that Apple's cage has much nicer gilding than the banks', but I'd rather not live in a cage at all, thank you very much.
I'm not sure I understand how using ego ensures that it is fast. Could someone ELI5 please?
I think you're over-romanticizing the problem.

I won't touch the qualia aspect, but everything necessary to flawlessly pretend to understand the color green, the sound of a dog's bark, or the experience of hearing a sonic boom can be represented with text. As an existence proof, you could encode an adult human as a serial stream of characters.
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But it's an auction? Assuming that there are enough buyers with the multi-hundred-k around, they will get close to the market value.
Anyone who has used godot and libgdx care to give their opinion how it is better (or not) compared to libgdx?
Your arguments are not true, frankly.

Examples:
Regarding hardware support,
there is no guarantee that a particular configuration of hardware and software is going to work just because you were forced to pay for it. "Improved Stability" is a lie that commercial software vendors have been spinning for years. I've been building computers for decades and even using brand name parts, compatibility issues, particularly with proprietary drivers, have often been a problem and that has continued to this day.

At least in the case of Debian, there are now free generic drivers for many devices, which are not entirely worthless, which actually improves compatibility.

Regarding The Gimp vs Photoshop,
I've recently decided to ditch photoshop in favor of the Gimp and I am still learning so I can't speak as if I were a Gimp Expert, but based on things I've read from people who are, The Gimp is just as capable as Photoshop, but the toolset and workflow is slightly different (and that is intentional). There are some things missing that are represented in photoshop, for example inset shadows in photoshop are trivially easy to create, and in The Gimp require about 2 or 3 additional clicks. That isn't because photoshop costs $600, and it isn't why photoshop costs $600. Most of the $600 from each sale of photoshop is not going to the developers who create it.

Stallman's "rhetoric" is extreme sometimes but so what, that just gives him character. If you set aside your personal whimpering and examine his points objectively, he is 100% right about everything. When there exists an unsolved problem, the _right_ answer is to program a solution. Buying closed-source proprietary solutions is not the right answer, not when you look at the grander scale and consider the long term social effects of these two options. Stallman is right, and I think when people don't like that it's because they're afraid of what it means.
I think that some day the humanity will grow too much and will get tired of overpopulation (I'd hope 30 billion would be the number, but if the humanity is arrogant, they would push it up to 100 billion or more), some people will just die because the planet can't provide enough resources, some rich people will buy other peoples live and kill them (give them a ton of money only if they are willing to die soon) and the world population will agree in not growing anymore but enjoying and preserving the planet as it is, maybe staying in a billion population. After that the world will start to restore and men will have to do nothing because machines are already doing everything, and the only jobs the humanity will have are going to be science and entertainment (incluiding arts and sports)... humanity will no longer grow not because they can't, but because they don't want.
This is really cool. I like how simple it feels the datastructure is. One thing i hate about some storage..things is that they can sometimes feel like you're locking your data in. This format looks simple enough that you could write a bash script to pull your files out of the database if you really wanted.

Any idea if it's possible to duplicate/backup a noms database to an encrypted remote? Eg, if you wanted to just encrypt and duplicate the database to cloud storage, how might that work?
I was just wondering to myself "How the hell does the government win judgements against sums of money?"
The stated capacity of 10^6 submissions per hour seems utterly ludicrous - the sums shown in this article imply that the suppliers are incompetent. It will be interesting to see how the fallout from this is played.
I was wondering if there were any other government regimes to host the olympics that are now considered unfavorable, from a US perspective
Not sure which bank you are with but mine seems to have some exclusivity deal with samsung phones which it hides under the guise of 'other phones are not secure enough to do contactless payments'. Not a hard fact but it would also lead me to believe they get some sort of kick back.
My understanding is that the first intro sequence[1] was done that way, with analog video feedback, but for the Fourth Doctor's intro they were using slit-scan.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75V4ClJZME4

ED: just realized that's probably what you meant by "original." Oops. Yeah, that's right. In camera effects!
Wish I could upvote this twice. The trend of using electron for desktop apps seems to waste a lot of battery and RAM. Between Atom and Slack I was losing between 3 and 5 GB of RAM. Ended up going back to Sublime and it rarely exceeds 300MB.
I worked on an anonymous P2P research project many many years ago now, and we were shocked when we saw how much funding they received compared to us (3 mil EUR!) - but I'm super happy to see that their project is still alive and kicking! I guess the money was put to good use.
You can never truly get rid of false negatives efficiently. However, false negatives are orders of magnitude better than false positives. So just try to minimize false positives and try not to lose sleep on the false negatives.
Yeah but unless you tunnel your DNS traffic they can modify responses very easily. Not that this is super common yet.
UVA OnlineJudge – A collection of programming problems and solutions
No, LIGO works on a different principle. It bounces a single beam between mirrors at great distance and them measures the interference pattern that results from the phase differences because the light traveled a different distance in each direction.
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There's the cost of an extra node, since a shadow root is a node. It shouldn't be too much overall though.

Angular doesn't use incremental-dom, but yes, incremental-dom could walk smaller subtrees. incremental-dom could also walk smaller subtrees by calling it on small containers too. That's probably already the common pattern for componentized users of incremental-dom. I'm not sure why the memory usage would be much higher.