skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one (well, almost no one) ever got fired keeping something confidential. Agencies always get referred to as "The NSA" or something, as if the collective consciousness of everyone working there should be merged.

Let's replace "The NSA" with "Joe, who happens to work at the NSA, doing a spot check".

Joe, who happens to work at the NSA, while doing a spot check decides to keep redactions in 20-year-old document confidential doesn't sound like as much of a headline, though.
Recreating the Doctor Who Time Tunnel in GLSL
> Cycling is up to 5x more efficient than walking

"Up to" doesn't mean much. Biking is explicitly considered in the original piece:

> Surprisingly, from a pure energy perspective (using the methodology mentioned above), biking, walking, and running are the three most expensive types of transportation listed
>If you're meeting your tasks and deliverables, your hours as a butt in a seat shouldn't matter.

Alas, there are many companies where that's directly against the culture of 'shared torture'. If you're not killing yourself like everyone else, "you don't believe in the dream and you're only a clock puncher".
> FOR SALE

> 2,719.32669068 bitcoins

> The required deposit to participate in this auction is $100,000.00 USD.

As of today 2719 Bitcoin equals $1,597,793 (Source: google)

This is a weird auction, putting Bitcoin risks aside, Bitcoin is a currency. Is there auctions such as "FOR SALE: 1,000,000€" ?
(S)he.... ate it? Not sure where you were going with that story.
I wonder when the performance degrades.
Consider a angular app which contains 100-200 components (shadow-roots) on a single page.

I mean theoretically it will still be faster since incremental-dom now see's less Node's for every root, but I thing the memory usage will probably way higher.
software is gardening, not sculpture.
There is also the cost of getting the food to you. Often the most efficiently produced food will be produced some distance from you and a surprisingly large fraction of the cost will be shipping.
Of course, this assumes that you're perfectly fit already and that every calorie burned translates into additional consumption.

For the vast majority of Americans, that assumption is incorrect. From personal experience, it's actually the opposite: I eat less on the days where I go for a long walk.
Your food expenditures vary with the amount of work you do, no different than your car's fuel expenditures. They are most certainly not a sunk cost for this purpose.
I suspect there are psychological reasons for this. Excessive classification projects more power than may actually exist. The longer the redaction lasts, the more credence is lent to vast conspiracy theories: aliens, illuminati, take your pick.

Either way, the message is clear: "don't fuck with us."
King of the Ether
This is a good point, petrol is clearly way too cheap.

(We have of course long improved on bicycles. An ultra aero lowracer recumbent can get 30mph on 120W, covering the 100k for a mere 1kWh at average 25% efficiency)
I'd guess the 100 grand is just to ensure they have only serious bids.
That's not particularly realistic. The first answer obviously can't support a dismissal for cause; the prosecution could burn a peremptory challenge, but that doesn't require the judge to "agree" because peremptory challenges are numerically limited but automatic.
That interesting because in most metrology clock applications, phase noise is not a concern, rather long term drift. Here they are going to the difficulty to maintain low phase noise (jitter).
> Python also has map(), but the lack of lightweight block syntax (like Perl's and Ruby's) makes it more cumbersome to use.

Yes. Additionally, I prefer the clear directionality of control and transform denoted by the dual capabilities of `map` and `grep` over list comprehensions, especially when chaining. Even better, IMO, is Perl 6's ability to use the feed operator to go left-to-right, so if the map block can be read the same direction as the flow of list items.[1] Having to scan back and forth to determine what is happening is a real detriment to the readability of these types of expressions, IMO.

> I don't see how list comprehensions are less powerful, though.

You're correct. Not strictly less powerful, just that the single expression for transforming the item may require multiple comprehensions where a single slightly more complex map block could get away with a temporary variable. Given that I dislike the way multiple list comprehensions read, this may be a bigger deal for me than most.

1: E.g. my @new = ( @original ==> grep { ... } ==> map { ... } ==> sort { ... } );
This is not a terribly substantive comment, but a Kindle Fire might make a little more sense than an iPad. I'm thinking it's less likely to be stolen, more likely to have extra available charging cables.

I wouldn't have guessed this, but after looking it up it seems the battery life of the iPad mini is advertised at the same length as the Kindle Fire.
> running as a local admin on a domain controller

To nitpick, domain controllers don't have local accounts at all. It was probably running as SYSTEM which equates to the domain controller's computer account for AD.
The exclusion from being a digital currency business for online games,

> (2) Online games or gaming platforms that use digital currency that (A) have no market or application outside of those games or gaming platforms, (B) cannot be converted into, or redeemed for, fiat currency or digital currency, and (C) are not redeemable for real-world goods, services, discounts, or purchases.

raises a question. First note that the three qualifying conditions are joined by AND, not OR, so it seems a game must satisfy all three to escape being a digital currency business.

For (A), "have no market or application outside of those games or gaming platforms", is that limited to official markets? Many an MMORPG has tried to keep their game currency game only, going so far as to ban accounts that are caught trading game currency for outside currency, but nevertheless markets outside the game for their currencies have invariably arisen. If unofficial markets are sufficient, I wonder if any significant game will be able to qualify for the exclusion.
Mattermark Daily – Tuesday, August 9th, 2016
When 99.99% of ads on 99.99% of sites are horrible monstrosities of Javascript and browser tracking and fingerprinting scripts, they will all be blocked and stay blocked.

I'll look at an ad in exchange for viewing your website. I will not let you digitally rape me in exchange for viewing your website.
Did you read the article? They compare bicycling too.

Also, a lot of fossil fuels are used grow and transport food the food you eat. It's not immediately obvious to me that the fossil fuel impact of growing the food, transporting it, and packaging it is less than the fuel to move a car in the first place.
You cannot understand apples by analyzing the word "apple". Language is just the paper trail. There are plenty of examples: You can't understand a bank or money by just analyzing bank statements. You can't understand food or supermarkets by analyzing their receipts. You can't understand the internet by analyzing TCP/IP.

Regardless of the rich context a word may reside, or the infinite sample pool of text upon which we may unleash our learning robots, as long as they are all words, you will never encounter the real apple to which the symbol is linked, nor reach the reality to which all the symbols are linked. The machine will learn something. It just won't be anything like what we know or understand, or what generated the paper trail in the first place. They will be awkward simulations, which is exactly what we have.

My now 20 month old son wasn't born literate, but already spoke. A grunt, a groan, a giggle, and a moan. These are his words. There is nuance, there is rhythm, there is intention, and there is tone. Not that I'm any good at writing baby books, but there is a reason babies enjoy rhyming and puns and silliness. The point is, words offer so much more than their meaning. This is the language they understand. They don't know English, and we aren't teaching them English. But they are slowly but surely articulating themselves, be it that they're hungry, lonely, or just want that grape. In fact, who is teaching who? Parents learn the language of their child first to be any good at parenting. Their expressions of their intelligence precludes the expressions of our own. Maybe all we need is a machine that groans.

I find it no coincidence that the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein evolved with his experiences teaching children. And if I were to make a bold prediction, it appears the field of AI will benefit immensely from all the young and talented AI researches who start having kids of their own. The comments here already seem to attest to this. It's either that or giving up and deciding to teach preschoolers for a while. Either way, we'll soon have our book on AI that will do what Philosophical Investigations did for philosophy. And I can't wait.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain
Do you think the fossil fuel subsidies benefit the agriculture industry hence also making for cheaper food?
Wow, the first thing I think of is that this could be a fantastic vector for malware. Anyone who implements this should make it very clear the underlying data can change.
A missed opportunity there to have larger sizes with lower mileage.
Yes. Microsoft offers source access to Windows. IBM and Oracle will rent you people who know the details of their software. None of those companies' offerings are particularly ‘black box’-y, in spite of being very closed source.

‘Open source’ is more about the development model (and freedoms) than about the nature of ‘knowing what the software is doing’.

Heck, I could argue that Linux is a black box to most people who aren't well-versed in kernel development. OpenSSL is notoriously difficult to understand. Sometimes huge bugs look relatively innocent¹ even with people looking at the code.

¹ e.g. https://lwn.net/Articles/341773/
Does it consider the health benefits and therefore reduced medical costs we would have if more people walked/biked?
I blame the end of a problematic day of vendor relations for the misread.

[edit] I will say that I don't use Apple Music because software that deletes things from your computer in the background has always bit me in the butt.
Paper folding is something just as fundamental yet it wasn't until 1893 that humans started mathematically analyzing it.
>I was replying to the wrong post.

No problem, though we clearly arrive at different conclusions, I thought we were having a interesting conversation.

>The "code is law" was the main point of the marketing. They repeated it constantly.

To be a little pedantic that is a misrepresentation as code isn't the law, "law is law", at best "code/DAO is contract" (not the marketing material). Nevertheless, I am not denying their disclosures/disclaimers all along, just that legally the contract will not supersede inconsistent representations.

>What was the inconsistency?

Just to pull some statements from the DAO white paper:

"the DAO Token Holders can elect to ‘pull the plug’ on the Contractor at anytime and for any reason. This is a major advantage as it considerably minimizes risk."

-In the case of the contract that took the funds, the token holders, were not able to pull the plug (unless you consider the fork pulling the plug, but that is what most people are complaining about, but it was the intent for token holders to have - what I will call - this contractual right).

"This standard DAO framework is simple, decentralized and 100% secure."

-Again I believe where I say the funds were not secure because they were taken, I know the other side of the coin is that funds at all times were 100% secure because they were intended to be taken since that is what the code allowed. However, why even mention 100% secure, when really what they meant was what ever happens to your funds (invested, taken without being invested, etc...) you consented to contractually.

"The first, an informal vote on whether a DAO would like to switch Curator or not. The second, a confirmation vote to give a chance to DAO Token Holders to confirm the result of the first vote, or a chance for the minority to ‘split’ their DAO into two and retain control over their ETH."

-The whole concept of voting discussed at length (not the quote I gave above) is a misrepresentation, because investor funds were taken without their vote, and the protections (above) were not actually available to the investors. Unless, again you consider the fork the protection discussed in the white paper, but we know the objections to that.

>DAOs are formed by groups of like-minded individuals with specific projects and goals in mind.

The DAO/smart contract that took investor funds didn't include specific projects with goals in mind by like minded people, it siphoned off investor funds without consent/voting on the specific proposal or the protections as included in the white paper.
They are the U.S. Marshals. They are most likely acting on a federal court order that says words to the effect of, "Auction this stuff." They sell vehicles, boats, buildings, anything that can be seized by the government. Auctions are the only method I've ever seen them use, I think because that allows the public to bid and avoids conflicts of interest (e.g., an agent's brother-in-law gets first crack at whatever they're selling).
Dammit! The fruit looks so delicious!
"The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) offers property for sale to the public which has been forfeited under laws enforced or administered by the United States Department of Justice, its investigative agencies (Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms), and certain other federal law enforcement agencies. "

My guess here is that bitcoin is considered property and not currency, and there are laws around this.

Edit: Looks like they are treating bitcoin as property -https://www.usmarshals.gov/foia/directives/asset_forfeiture....
Someone will jump through the hoops, and "earn" a profit in the process. Then, because the marshals set up the hoops just like they were told, some of that profit will find its way back to one or more of the more senior marshals involved in this farce. In USA we prefer our corruption giant-sized.
abc.net.au links - are you in Australia?

I live in Tasmania and have been meaning to find an edible field guide to mushrooms or some such. Mushrooms here in Launceston are frequently popping out of the ground in my front and backyard and on the grass verges by the road, and if you walk anyway in the national parks and state forests you're up to your knees in mushrooms.

Would love to know if any of them are edible.
That still doesn't allow the ISP to tell the difference between e.g. wget and a browser via a current User-Agent-String, thanks to HTTPS.

The domain is exposed over various ways, yes, but that's the point of the idea to connect to fast.com regularly to trick theoretical shaping based on it.
Any real grocery store near me will set you back $5-$6 for a gallon of organic whole milk. That's without factoring in that neither of them are along my commute, adding time.

I think most people who are willing to consider Soylent are well aware of the costs of the customary diets they have been eating for many years. I also think that most people who are willing to consider Soylent are looking to optimize differently from you.
If you show me a method of quantification, I can derive the definition.

Value is being discussed (even though you appear to be using an unrevealed definition) as a quantity (maybe, I am wrong, and it is not a quantity), which means there must be a way to quantify it.
This analysis should take the additional calories it takes to walk vs sit to represent a fair cost of walking. Or add the cost of calories for sitting should be included in the driving option as these are part of the process.
Do you?
This is a typical assest forfeiture auction. They don't want to deal with multiple buyers or non-cash-on-the-spot buyers. They value disposing of assets quickly and cleanly over getting market value.
Maybe someone would pay a premium to own Ross Ulbricht's BitCoin.
No, not a mere crass joke.

Trump's style is to try saying different nasty things in order to see which sticks and makes his opponent to lose balance.

Trump did this on Ted Cruz, insinuating threats to his family. It was something that affected Cruz and contributed to him having a bad campaign. Cruz even mentioned this recently when he refused to endorse Trump.

Trump and his media team repeat adjectives when refering to opponents, like "crooked hillary".
Cruz was the "zodiac killer".
But the argument could be made that the average American runs a calorie surplus so some percentage of the food/fuel cost could be deducted, for Americans, at least, no?
But then you also have to account for the reduced earning potential due to dying younger :P
Because they openly state: "It’s free and always will be.", not "It’s free and always will be if you view the ads we serve in your browser.".

Also my country's civil law (along with any other reasonable civil laws) throws out the three links below out of our contract, as they're neither at a reasonable length nor clearness when the context is considered.
Someone who wants to go shoot Secretary Clinton doesn’t need Donald Trump to tell him (because it’s always a man who does this sort of thing)

That is incredibly sexist.

Well, it could be a former man, or it could be a female partner of a man Clinton has had an affair with.

Is it beyond imagination to think women might at times choose violence too? Or is in Will Wheaton's mind, women are simply incapable of violence?

Yes, it happens:

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/30392942/mistress-jailed-for-lif...
Also, driving your car increases maintenance costs on the vehicle, whereas walking decreases maintenance costs on the 'vehicle' (healthcare).
Earthquake certifications are just like other certifications, in that most of the process is not actually reviewed by any government agency. They check blueprints, sign off on the process, but they don't actually make sure that the ibeams are connected correctly and that the angles are just right. Done.
Table tennis is right after synchronized swimming on my list.
There was a story on HN just awhile ago, where it was ruled (albeit in Florida) that its not legally a currency: http://phys.org/news/2016-08-bitcoin-money-victory-backers.h... .
Since this is apparently what we're doing now, here's my move. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computronium
It would definitely be interesting to see the carbon footprint per mile of all of these options...
I'd recommend using https for the sign up form to improve the conversion rate. Some people(like myself) would be more likely to join.

Free certificates available from letsencrypt.org (no affiliation).
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Not sure about why not split them up, but usually there's a requirement that seized assets are auctioned off. Since the government can't treat that bitcoin amounts as currency doing an exchange like that probably violates some rule. I believe that they have to do similarly with any other security (stocks, bonds, etc.) that's been seized.
200 years ago world population was 1/10th what it is today making most events more common now. Something like 5% of everyone ever born is alive right now.

In terms of most kills by a single person one sniper is credited with ~700 kills and a mounted knight in plate was expedition to equal 100 peasants on average so 200+ in exceptional cases seems reasonable especially considering the Spanish conquest of South America where in the 1500's where ~300,000 vs 2000 and the 2000 won with minimal casualties. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Inca...
I don't think the US officially recognises Bitcoin as a currency yet.
Makes sense. It seems simple too. They don't have to develop any special skills on a per case basis. Sell everything the same way.
> Intel probably bought 'em to work on integrated GPUs or Xeon Phi or something.

Ha, ha. Yeah… no.

> there's no mention of its power consumption

Can't be tremendously higher than Pascal for reasons of physics.

> sure, you can get a million TFlops without cache, now try to get that chip to do anything useful

"Without cache" is certainly an exaggeration. It won't have a globally coherent cache hierarchy in the style of CPUs. It certainly will have various on chip memories to hold intermediate results. Neural net workloads are incredibly predictable and homogeneous and are essentially the perfect scenario for hand optimization of data flows to beat automatic caching.

> no CUDA support

You're just being silly now. CUDA isn't a standard, it's proprietary to NVIDIA and this isn't a general purpose processor anyway.
Or, maybe its just a factual statement that political assassinations in the US are, almost without exception, carried out by men, without any commentary on the reason for this fact.
Which is more efficient; a diesel running vegetable oil, or a human?
Wow, there's a lot going on here. It's probably just easiest to auction it off this way and be done with it.
> I meant more along the lines of a bug bounty

Ahh. Yes, that would have been an excellent thing to do. Even a binary future on "will the DAO be hacked" would have quickly revealed (via its price) the true risk, well before the dollar figure got so high.
Getting sensors, data and actuators to work for ONE usecase has always been easy. just use what you need.

The problem is still how you get these different company systems (silos) to cooperate. "how can you securely give the inside temperature from your alarm's smoke detector and feed it to the heating system to act upon". These services are provided from two different IoT companies.

Here XMPP is the simple and perfect match. Any device in any company can talk to any other device in any other company just as easy as you send email to some one you know in another company.

These companies can solve and hide there internal legacy systems with x500,modbus,coap, binary junk or whatever they need but when you pass the company xmpp server you pack it in a nice letter for others to easily understand what you are saying. With encryption and certificates. And you don't talk to servers/endpoints you don't do business with.

How can NEST homes talk to openHAB? Zigbee legacy with new coap things? And how can they all participate in a smart city ?
The very ordinariness of the institutionalised bias against declassification and its predictable result of large numbers of things remaining unnecessarily classified is the whole point.
Netsukuku is anonymous, while cjdns is not; cjdns uses an unused IPv6 block for addressing, netsukuku has its own addressing thing; cjdns has a very clever end-to-end encryption scheme, I'm not sure about netsukuku; netsukuku has fun Lain references on its website.
OT, but the Dyson Sphere was the first idea that gave me a deep sense of sadness knowing I'll never see it.

How can you feel fulfilled laying the groundwork when things like this lay in store? And I'm just a software developer, I can't imagine how people in more relevant roles feel about it.
If all the dimming star headlines are piquing your interest, you must read Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained by Alexander Hamilton. It's about the same event being observed but a couple hundred years from now in a post FTL society, so naturally they have to wander out and see what's up. The pair is one of the best recent science fiction stories to come out in the past 15 years.