skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well a halving halves as much value you get per kwh of energy spent if the hashrate stays the same. So it will eventually hit a point where a halving will make a lot of miners unprofitable and the overall hashrate will slow down until it reaches a balance again.
No, I don't have it installed. But by testing addons, I figured out that Noscript is causing it.

It's weird because in its settings, there is nothing in the "force https website" list, and the "forbid http" section is set to never.
Well in my example the AI doesn't have to interact with the world at all. To pass the Turing test simply requires imitating a human, predicting what words they would say. You only need to know the relationships between words.
Google Chrome is officially killing Flash starting next month
On the flip-side flexible rules allow for regulatory agencies to adapt and respond to changing conditions without having to wait on a legislative body to get around to updating its rules.
I had the very same thought last week when I drove by their office in Weston, MA. Figured they must be making VCR's like Polaroid.
Why Isn't Rent in Tokyo Out of Control?
You can also launch the TUI after-the-fact using the key sequence 'C-x o'. (It is no accident that it is the key sequence bound to other-window by default in Emacs).
>Do you ever find yourself interacting with a carpenter and asking him why he doesn't build additions to his house, or his friend's homes in his free time?
What about an accountant? Ever quiz them or deride them for not going out of their way to balance budgets and crunch numbers for family & friends?

These make no sense. There's a huge, huge difference between building an addition to your house and building additions on all your friends' houses. I like to do all the maintenance on my own car, and I'll do it on my spouse's car, but I'm not about to volunteer to do maintenance on all my friends' cars too unless they're having a real hardship and need a little help to get out of a bind. I may know how to work on cars, but that doesn't mean I have infinite time to help everyone I know with theirs; there's other stuff I'd like to do with my spare time. If a carpenter has no interest in doing any carpenter-ing on his own personal house, that doesn't sound like a top-notch carpenter to me. I knew a guy not too long ago who was a carpenter/woodworker, and he absolutely did have a bunch of stuff in his house that he had made himself.

For an accountant, I would really hope that a decent accountant would want to do a great job balancing their own personal household budget for their family. If you're an accountant but you can't manage your own family's finances, then I wouldn't want to hire you. But that again doesn't mean you have infinite time to balance budgets for all your friends and extended family.

If a guy is a plumber but then calls another plumber when he has a leaky pipe, instead of just fixing it himself, what does that say about his professional abilities? If someone is an auto mechanic but doesn't even do his own auto maintenance and repair, what does that say about his abilities?

If someone is a professional and passionate about their career and work, then I absolutely do expect them to carry that into their off-hours to some extent. I would not expect them, however, to spend all their free time doing free work for all the people in their life. But I absolutely do expect them to make use of their skills for themselves and their own household. I'll make an exception for dentists, however (just for themselves).
> As of 2009, nearly 90 percent of American homes have air-conditioners, and use about 6 percent of all the country’s energy.

Home energy use. Since home energy use counts for ~23% of US usage[1], that's about 1.4% of total usage. Quite a bit for a single segment of residential use, but not as crazy at 6% might make it sound if you assumed it was for total use.

> And once developers could rely on heating and cooling technologies, they often built less energy-efficient homes, which means that you have to use more air-conditioning or heating to get to the temperature you want.

We've just covered that air conditioners use a lot of power. That costs money. When I bought my house, a a selling point was the extra insulation that helped keep it a stable temperature, so less air conditioning was needed to keep it comfortable, yielding savings in the power bill. I'm sure some builders skimped, but I doubt it had much to do with air conditioning, and more to do with it just being cheap housing. I would be interested in seeing some more concrete evidence regarding air conditioning and development of the US South and Southwest though. The South at least seems to have been fairly heavily populated long before its prevalence.

So, really the article boils down to click-bait. Air conditioners are closed systems (WRT refrigerant) when working correctly, and even better refrigerants are on the way. They use a lot of power, but that's its own thorny issue, and we are working on that through renewable energy sources. Beyond that, the answer to the title is a simple "not very."

1: http://www.eia.gov/consumption/
Okay, I bite. Which exact part of Facebook's sign up process informs you that you are obliged to look at ads, install cookie beacon and not block any of that? Do I automatically agree to all of that just by typing fb.com and hitting enter?
Yeah right. Just wait until a user visits fast.com and unthrottle their connection for 20 minutes.

I strongly suspect some ISPs already do that with speedtest.net.
Facebook exists with that policy, though.
> Sometimes it's best to just take control of the physical layer and call it a day.

If you want to stop your every day user from plugging in USB drives then this is probably all you need to do.
In a scenario where you're concerned about insider threats with even a minimal level of computing knowledge, you have to lock down the BIOS and the OS layer as well.
"Oh the IT guy put epoxy in the USB ports, guess I'll just take the case off and plug into the USB ports on the motherboard"
I think HP's main platform these days is Microsoft Windows on amd64. But yeah, NonStop seems a lot more alive than Itanic, HP-3000, Alpha, VMS, Domain/OS, the HP 9000, PA-RISC, PDP-11, the PalmPilot, the VAX, the Convex, webOS, maybe even HP-UX. In that context, maybe you can see how NonStop's remaining vitality surprised me?

And yeah, the Guardian Programmer's Guide you link there was the thing I read the most of last night. I don't suppose you know of any material covering the details of passive failover in process pairs? Because the current version of the Guardian Programmer's Guide pretty much only covers active failover, saying that passive failover isn't compatible with heap allocation.
Chrome 53 Beta: Shadow DOM, PaymentRequest, and Android Autoplay
It's not that the development techniques are so special, it's that the malware was clearly designed to penetrate ultra high security environments. If you are just making malware to try to steal money, or even most corporate secrets, you don't need to go to all that trouble, so there's little financial incentive for someone other than a nation-state to build malware with those capabilities.
Ahh, well, then it appears I have to manage a directory of packages myself, as well as any dependencies outside of the Guix store, right? Would be nice to just have a secondary source, as I do with MELPA for Emacs, or overlays for Gentoo.

Is something similar/comparable planned to be added?

Orrr should someone step forward and volunteer to add it as a feature...?
DC is a horribly laid out city. Indianapolis adds 2 diagonals which is tolerable, but DC is a mess.

Top 10 worst traffic for X years running, which is sadly an improvement it used to contend for #1. It does not even have an interesting pattern with roads at seemingly random angles. http://www.apco2015.org/hotel-travel/shuttles-and-parking/
At least one major one, it appears-- in the form of substituting the backdoor parameters with attacker selected ones.

http://dualec.org/DualECJuniper-draft.pdf
Put USA at the top. Clipper chip says "Hi".
> Miners are looking to profit.

This is true in a sense, but a majority of the mining is done by Chinese pools which do sell at a loss to the electricity costs even there. The losses are acceptable because it is used as a way to get currency out of the country.
Similarly, Python 3.5 is (for me and probably others) the biggest reason for not using PyPy
Everything you said is true, but I'd like to elaborate a bit further: sometimes state involvement can be inferred when the exploit involves computing resources which could only be reasonably wielded by a nation-state.

For example, suppose that this exploit involved the reversal of an MD5 hash (and this is simply an example, I'm not saying that the actual exploit did). How much computing power would be required to do this? I couldn't do this reliably on my home machine, nor could I afford the cloud-compute power to perform it. However, assembling a vast array of machines is within reach of a state sponsored intelligence agency.

So, that's often it: at some point, the computation would be so expensive that you'd have to infer that only a nation state could have financed it.
Hows this for a discrepancy
https://i.imgur.com/7SX2Wro.png
I don't believe they do map that easily - in a face to face interaction I'm not enabling your advertising with my bandwidth and my rendering device.
>There is a class of functions that are simply not learnable without some prerequisite knowledge. This is directly analogous to a one-time pad in crypto. It is entirely possible that the function 'language' is in this class of unlearnable functions.

I don't understand how this could possibly be the case. We can already make great progress on language understanding with simple methods like word2vec, or perhaps even markov chains. There are tons of statistical patterns in text that can be learned by computers.
Looks nice, but my worry is if they'd be alive in a year. I have actually used an e-mail provider before that's no more.

I'd like the European level of the data privacy but also a company that is set to live long, and the web site looks too much like a startup that can disappear tomorrow (as in "it didn't grow enough, who cares, it's just a web address, let's kill it and do something else.")
He's saying that facebook feels entitled to my data, even if I'm not using their resources. Why shouldn't I, then, feel entitled to their resources without blocking ads?
>LPT though: have friends at work but don't flirt with them.

I'm a software engineer, and a hetero male. Why would I want to flirt with other men?

I frequently wish I had gone into another career (probably medical) so I could try out this flirting with coworkers thing I keep hearing about.
CryptDb offers DB querying without having to load certain parts of the db to your local machine, which is the model of operation by zeroDb in its current incarnation.

Which is more secure? Does zeroDb use non deterministic encryption?
If the consuming application (and thus, keys) exist in the cloud as well, does ZeroDB offer any additional benefit over other encrypted at rest dbs?

random ex: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/security-encryption-at-...
And that's why you can still buy new i7 and Xeon motherboards with PS2 keyboard connectors--because some sites don't want there to be USB ports on the computers.
4. Use Facebook anyways, and render its markup on my computer and my internet connection as I see fit.
Under the hood, they are both using CUPS so should behave pretty similarly. Apple may well have crippled their version since I last looked at it in detail though (I used to be involved with the Gutenprint inkjet printer driver project).
http://www.wsj.com/articles/congratulations-player-one-your-...
As far as I am aware, all ad creative is hosted and served exclusively by Facebook anyway.
This is a trap. If you make your ads content-like, and integrate them into your content, then people will say your site is deceptive, hiding ads in content so people read them like factual articles.
Sure. One example is that someone doing a speedtest will have accessed fast.com before starting a download of video streams. This can be detected despite the the encryption, e.g. via looking at the SNI of the requests. It doesn't matter what the video stream looks like, since those separate TCP flows can be cross-correlated.
It can be the case if Chomsky was right, and Universal Grammar and other similar structures are a thing. That would mean that part of our ability to understand language comes from the particular structure of our brain (which everyone seems to by and large share). That would mean that some of our ability to understand language is genetic in nature, by whatever means genes direct the structure of brain development.
High-Frequency Trading Is Nearing the Ultimate Speed Limit
> I feel my tools isolate me from the people I would like to be working closely with.

I don't understand this tools argument. It seems akin to saying the reason I find myself isolated from collaborating with particle physicists is due to the fact that I don't know how to operate a large hadron collider, while completely ignoring the fact that I can't even read a Feynman diagram.
Does Microsoft use deterministic encryption for searchable encryption? I'm sure OPE, Pallier etc. schemes are in use for columns that require those properties
Reverse engineering visual novels 101
Totally not weird at all.

Users need very compelling reason to switch off any kind of platform. And usually one of the compelling reason is better performance.

The reception towards Python 3 would have been very different had it launched with everything Python 3.5 currently have,
more performant GIL, OrderedDict, decimal operations, the new asyncio, etc.
Not a tool and Maybe not for photos. But I'd recommend doing potential edits instead. Where possible (comments and text posts). As this will screw with a lot of the undelete aspects and archiving. I do this in a variety of places and is far better than "delete" in most scenarios.

Tl;dr; better footprint reduction method than delete: Replace all text posts with a single letter or word.
Netsil launches public beta
PlayCanvas FPS up to 4x Unity WebGL, loads 43 times faster
Only knowing the relationships between words alone would just be a poor proxy for knowing the meanings of the words, e.g. what real world concepts the words attempt to represent. You might be able to get pretty far with this technique, but I would bet a lot of money you would not be able to get reliable, in-depth human level communication. The system needs to have an understanding of the world.

And then there is the fundamentally dynamic aspect of language, which strengthens the need for a rich understanding of the world that words describe and convey.
That's nuts! Does that indicate that your ISP is playing games?

I get an insignificant discrepancy: 91 on Fast and 91.99 on Speedtest.
Even law is not above a re-interpretation. The Germans had a lot of «unlawful» laws. «But I followed the law» didn't interest anybody at the Nuremberg trials – and rightly so.
>Maybe you can get away with doing just your job and going home to relax. I would wager, you may have difficulty finding your next job however.

That's just not how it works outside the Valley. I've only crammed extra hours in to meet a deadline a few days a year, and only at one company. I've worked at 3 different companies in two different cities 400 miles away. Nobody expected 80 hours a week or whatever and I, quite frankly, wouldn't do it because I value time with my family and I'm not productive 80 hours a week. We also highly value experienced programmers and they command a higher salary. I don't have a government job either and I never have. "Valley culture" isn't synonymous with programming as a profession.

Any Marissa Mayer? Isn't she mocked for her poor leadership?

There's a lot more to running a successful business than people being physically present on Saturdays.

You're running into quite the hyperbole. If programming literally makes your lungs stop working why keep doing it?

>You are most likely in your early 20s.

I am in my late 30s.

Programming in general is a really good cushy job. Valley culture is what is toxic. I'm sure it you worked construction 80 hours a week for however many years you'd be in much worse shape than if you were getting paid a large salary to write some CRUD app.
The paper is badly written, and so I haven't invested the effort needed to clearly understand what they're proposing, but I see no indication that the authors understand the nature of the difficult problem solved by what we are coming to call Satoshi Consensus. Until they can give a clear description of the problem and why we struggled to solve it unsuccessfully for 15 years (to the point that most of us dismissed Bitcoin when it came out) I don't think it's worth listening to their proposals for solutions.
> It's not like it's illegal to, say, run a noncompliant browser that misrenders things.

Actually it may be, if their terms of service say you aren't allowed to use devices such as that. For example, lynx, or some programming language user agent.

That said, I wasn't really specifically addressing legality. There's a legal argument, and a ethical argument. The legal argument is quite clear IMO. The ethical argument is what's interesting in my view. People have justified actions that are clearly against the expressed interest of the content providers and producers in some cases, and I find it interesting to explore the reasoning. I myself do this, as I use an ad blocker, but I've drawn my own line and reasons for doing so, and have my own complicated feelings about it.

Having has this conversation multiple times here, invariable security comes up as a big reason for some people why they feel justified, when they do feel conflicted in other areas. Having a content provider serve their own ads weakens the position of security argument quite a bit, so I'm interested in seeing how people react in that case.

Edit: s/moral/ethical/
Does anyone serve adverts using websockets yet? I'm surprised it hasn't been tried and intrigued as to why it doesn't work if they have.

Might take a day or two for adblockers to catch up and start inspecting websocket streams anyway.
Good question. Someone beat it. He and his games as training sets were part of the development of AlphaGo development.

I edited the post, did you read that? You are making my point, you can't bootstrap a definition for artificial intelligence by comparison to humans, when human intelligence is not well defined either.
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can anyone corroborate this?
Clipper chip is the classic example...
Not just open sourcing, because if they just open source and ignore the vulnerabilities, that's more trouble. Device should be allowed to be uploaded with code by the user or by the community, and the original people should just write good code in the first place.
Well, of course this doesn't give you a get out of jail free card. You still have to pay attention to the other layers in the stack. This is only about paying attention (or not) to the physical layer directly (as opposed to handling physical security indirectly in higher layers).
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> adversaries except governments

Considering that governments are made up of people this would be quite a trick.

Regardless, even if it were so-- the objective would be to be unbreakable strong except to lawful and transparent actions of governments. The lawfulness of an action is undecidable by a cryptosystem. And we know that government frequently behave unlawfully.

Moreover, since cryptographic communications can be hidden very completely unless free access to computers and communication is almost completely suppressed; those who really want (and can afford) communications which are secure against government intrusion (lawful or otherwise) are able to obtain it. So the decision to purposefully weaken cryptosystems has the primary effect of amplifying unlawful intrusions by governments (and paries that steal the governments keys).
My connection point is about 1.5 miles away. I get about 4-6ms latency on my end device. That's going through my router, wireless access point, to my device.

and it's also very consistent. It's not dealing with the million redirects and other traffic that going through the phone line or cable line will have.

In very heavy rain and hind wind, my direct TV dish was out at the start of the storm, my internet p2p connection never lost signal, didn't even slow down.
First cracks form in Denuvo’s previously impervious DRM armor
Yea, I know what you mean. When I first played I got into it and burned out fast. Now I just play pre-made Duel Decks with my buddies, or we go out and do a draft at a store. Just $10 and half the time I break even from selling the cards I drafted/won right after we finish.

I mostly posted my comment because I saw he had the same complaints about the RNG in Hearthstone, which personally drives me crazy. I figured he'd enjoy MTG more because it doesn't have such flaws.
Having training camps and wrapping women in opaque blankets is two distinct things. Bosnians mostly did former and not latter.

> was able not to wear a headscarf in the presence of the rulers

There's a lot of things even I won't do "in the presence of the rules", but luckily I don't see much of them, so I'm free to do whatever I please. Wasn't same true for them?
Here are some details about their upcoming chip:
http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/08/08/deep-learning-chip-up...

Summary:

- 28nm

- looks similar to P100 (interposer with HBM)

- 55 teraops/s performance

- custom number format (variable length fixed point?)

- simplified memory architecture (no cache?)

- no info about power consumption
Nope not any just subpoena the person who owns the keys...
ZeroDB doesn't use deterministic encryption (neither Hadoop product, nor open source database)
The essential must-ask question for your software engineering interview
It was dependent on having modern technology, like a truck and cheap fertilizer; it's a lot harder to kill 168 people (and wound almost 700) with an oxcart and a crossbow. Even with a carriage and black powder you need a _lot_ of people to be in on the plot. (Black powder was not cheap, not deniable, and not easily transported or concealed.)
> All of the information of our world is contained in text.

This statement is false. There is a well known thought experiment called Mary’s Room the gist of which is that knowing all conceivable scientific knowledge about how humans perceive color is still not a substitute for being a human and perceiving the color red: https://philosophynow.org/issues/99/What_Did_Mary_Know

The experience of seeing red is an example of what is called “qualia”.

In Google AI systems that identify cats, birds, etc it is reasonable to imagine AI technology evolving towards systems that can discuss those objects at the level of a typical person. However with an AI based on text only there is no possibility of that. It would be like discussing color with a blind person or sound with a deaf person.
There's a lot of islamic regions which were never a part of Caliphate.

Their interpretation of what being Muslim means in practice might differ significantly.
Chinese capital controls seem to be distorting all kinds of markets. Around here (SoCal) I've heard of Chinese "investors" buying houses at 5-10% over asking sight unseen and not caring about possible depreciation because it's a way to get money out of China. Losses as high as 25% are apparently acceptable to some people looking to get past capital controls.
They appear to only publish it by ISP. Part of my problem is not knowing comprehensively what ISPs serve my area, so I need to look it up by zip code or city.
And the GP is asking who will be tortured if you can't get the identity of the interlocutors.

You can even hide that a conversation took place.