skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
cool, good to know that raining down a bunch of probes in this manner would most likely be a pretty light show. still i wonder about the plutonium aspect of this?

it might be prudent to first consult with the legal experts and diplomats of the Galactic Council, to clear this type of activity with them first, minimize interpretation of this probing as a hostile interstellar act.
> "double kilometerToMiles(double km) { return km / 1.6 }"

What about:

toMiles (Kilometers k) = Miles (k/1.6)

Then you do:

let x = Kilometers 5
print (toMiles x)

And, of course, any calculation will only accept the correct units. At this naive implementation, you'll have to add the conversions to satisfy the compiler, but there are Haskell libraries that bring automatic conversions too.

Anyway:

> Like types that are null or non-null, or tainted (from the user) or non-tainted.

That's Haskell.

> Or two numbers that are kilometers vs miles.

That's my example up there.

> Or only accessible under a certain lock or other preconditions.

Yep, Haskell.

> And be flow sensitive (kotlin style null checks), not make me write even more code.

That's emulating what people do in Haskell.
Yet another example of key size not being the only thing to consider.

Also: OpenVPN's default cipher is blowfish? That would have been a great choice 20 years ago, but not now. It shouldn't even be supported in 2016.
Yup, the original intention behind lea is the & operator. Compute the address but instead of accessing the memory immediately (like mov does) just keep it for later use. Just what & does.
Also Proxima Centauri is a Flare Star. So it's light output can vary by +/- 8%. And this can change within a matter of weeks.

It is actually the most active flare star we know. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1063292/
Which one? I Netflix'ed my way through that whole show a couple years ago and didn't see any like that.

It does sound a little bit like "Space Seed" from TOS though, except I don't remember that ship having a particular destination. There was another TOS episode where they find a stray asteroid that turns out to actually be a generation ship inside. And there was some TNG episode where they find a ship with some 20th-century Earthers in cryogenic storage because they had just died of medical ailments. But I don't remember any ENT episodes like this, just some talk about "slow" Earth ships traveling at only Warp 1.5 or so, so that people lived their whole lives on them while on long-term trading missions (their helmsman came from one of these ships).
Exactly. What good does it do it the AI over-diagnoses something like (to take a relatively benign, common example) ADHD at just the same rate as human doctors? Would a nearly 75% miss rate really be acceptable? It would be a bit like 'Psycho Pass', but without any underlying competence.
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Yes. Our startup ran into these problems. Even worse, you don't even know if the labels of your truth table are meaningless
I'm still on OSX 10.9.5 (Mavericks). Don't really like the iOS-style UI stuff they added after and don't need any of the features. The next time I have an iOS project that'll probably force me to upgrade though...
I wish both parties would post "bounties" for tools they need that they don't have time to build. Much of it is built in the air for a highly specific context or bought off the shelf these days but there are some ongoing unsolved engineering needs.

Off the top of my head: I don't think there's a good solution to verify ad-buys in small markets. You could make a pretty penny sticking a webcam in front of an over-the-air broadcast TV in every county in every swing state and hiring someone to tick a box every time a candidate's ad plays.
Yep. I'm wrong. I'll stop sourcing that number from Noise. :)

(Clarified offline: I'm thinking of the 32 bit counter in GCM, which will wrap in tens of gigabytes worth of bytes under a single nonce. Not a TLS issue, a concern for custom protocols.)
Any bashing of C# is always because "Micro$loth" was involved with it, very rarely is it criticized on its actual features or tools. (And when it is, the criticism is usually something like, "it's too much like Java", which I don't personally see as very damning.)
The reason Vesper "failed" was because its popularity was based on who developed it rather than what it did.

But you can't just dismiss the issues with the App Store. Productivity apps limited to just the iOS App Store are doomed to fail. There's no money there.
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1) Speak for yourself
2) Python's from 1995
To hear Kary Mullis tell it (and yes, I've seen him do so in person), the change in perspective offered by LSD was worth a Nobel prize (which he was awarded in 1993 for devising the now-ubiquitous polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, used throughout molecular biology and forensics).

I can believe that low doses without the massive emotional upheaval could be useful for getting out of a rut and making progress on difficult projects. However, I can't imagine that daily use is a spectacularly good idea. Just my opinion, though, because thanks to prohibition, it's extremely hard to come by objective information at a population level.

I didn't see any examples of people with negative reactions, which is odd, because I've seen plenty of people lose their shit at the beginning or end of a low-ish LSD or psilocybin dose. It would be nice if we didn't have so many idiotic rules about victimless crimes in this country.
There may not be any significant atmosphere for aerobraking. This likely would not be known until long after the probe arrived.
...constant hurricane force convective flows going 24/7 between a scorching hell and frozen wastelands.

Seems like this would allow surface habitation some way onto the bright side. Wind at the surface would be blowing from cold to hot, with the return at some altitude.
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I like how Apple can't win here.

If they publish, they aren't doing anything new and they haven't innovated since Steve died, and they should really just give up because there's obviously no point to anything they do and hasn't been since 1997.

If they don't publish, they're evil secretive bastards who don't contribute to the ML community and probably drown puppies or something because who knows what goes on behind closed doors?

I don't really have a dog in this fight, except inasmuch as I'm a generally satisfied iPhone owner. I just think it would be really neat if people would settle on one narrative or the other, instead of keeping on with both at once.
http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/

Here is a really interesting episode where the technology was able to backtrack from the assassination of a police officer to the perps and resulted in arrests (iirc).

I know what my gut reaction to the always on camera in the ski technology is, but after examples like the above I'm not sure how my thinking brain feels about it yet.
And so many of those people were injured because they went to a window to see the spectacle, not knowing about the shock wave that was coming.

It made me realize that the civil defense films we watched in the '50s weren't so misguided after all:

https://www.google.com/#q=when+you+see+the+white+flash+duck+...
The correct answer is to dress as you would dress any other day in any other approximate location. Why should someone else's beliefs influence their behavior to such an extent?
I can't imagine what grounds the plaintiffs would have to appeal... if he didn't start painting until after the claimed meeting, Q.E.D., suit dismissed, money grubbing plaintiffs pay the defense's costs.

(I know it doesn't work that way, Doig is out of pocket to defend himself and that's the shitty way it turns out.)
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I think the "scale" being discussed is semiconductor manufacturing, where the area matters and the unit count does not. Each of Intel's CPUs is between 100x and 10x larger than each of those ARM chips. For example a Xeon E5 has a die area of > 450mm^2, the Apple A9 is about 100mm^2, a Tegra 2 is ~50mm^2, and a Cortex is < 5mm^2. Those unit counts you mention are dominated by those smaller parts.
Some companies engage academia, many others do not. I find it very surprising how willing companies like Microsoft and Google are to let their best and brightest invest in publishing. I get the long term benefit, but in most companies secrecy is the default.
S390x (IBM System z) is an arch distinct from POWER. They both have Go ports, though.

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There are so many potential reasons why life would be incapable of existing on a planet in the "Goldilocks Zone" that we can't even fathom. It could even come down to something as simple as the infinite potential variations in elemental composition for a given planet. Not to mention the sheer enormity of time required for something like abiogenesis to occur and those forms of life to evolve into something we could actually discover, even when the conditions are suitable.

We can't calculate those odds. We can't even start. It's like trying to calculate the likelihood that future AI will destroy humanity. We just can't know because it's so deeply theoretical.

For that reason, it seems absolutely absurd to me that someone would say with certainty that life exists elsewhere in the universe. We just can't know. The unlikelihood of its existence could be infinitely high and we might just be lottery winners. Who knows?

And frankly, I hope we're alone. I really don't want to share the universe. It would be so much nicer just to have it to ourselves. Let us do what we want, wherever we want, without interference until the heat death of everything.
Add:

* * * * * WASM

Dare to question the pragmatics of diverging web dev practices into a whole new realm of complexity and drown in downvotes - and a litany of people being downright personally insulting/condescending. This is sort of a corollary to JS being * (I think you ranked ES6 too high) and I've been inured to people hating/ranting against JS to a point - but even I was shocked by the personal rancor that oozes out if you try to have an objective discussion about whether the web really needs one more language.
Disingenuous is insulting. It isn't something you try. Its something you live. Also the what you eat is actually most important, much more so over working out but working out just makes you look nice too. There are precursors that definitely put us in the right position for social acceptance. Go ahead and list the ones that have worked for you. If none have worked, I am sorry about that. Also, I'm not selling anything, just noting what worked for me. My advice is free and without agenda. Its completely free if you fuck off as well with your insulting bullshit.
I'm imaging an age of discovery-esque expeditions to the center of the Solar Plane.

They'd likely have radically different definitions of poles. One hot enough to melt lead, one cold enough to freeze C02.
You could say this about athletes and steroids, too. But if you want to be the best, you need to beat the best, which is very difficult if you concede advantages.

On the other hand, there is no reasonable doubt that steroids can enhance athletic performance and recovery, while all this piece offers is a bit of history and some anecdotes.
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> For those languages is not people who reindent code but it's the editor or the IDE. There is usually a key to force reindentation.

Regardless of whom or what is doing the indentation, people still prefer reading code which is indented, even in a language which relies on braces or parenthesis for flow. The indenting is not for the compiler's sake, it has no problem understanding this: http://www.ioccc.org/2014/maffiodo1/prog.c

Also people get very picky and personal when it comes to indentation in ways that a computer can't always choose. I prefer to almost always indent and format my code myself, rather than letting the editor choose. Python is the only language I actually let my editor auto-format, because of PEP-8.

> Is there any automatical indentation function in some editor for Python?

Pretty much any editor will have a feature for this, or allow you to install a popular plugin for it in less than a minute.
> * There's some legacy cruft (e.g., segment management) that's generally unused by anyone not in 16-bit mode.

OpenBSD uses segments(while in protected mode!) to implement a line-in-the-sand W^X implementation on i386 systems that don't support anything better. The segment is set just high enough in a processes space to cover the text and libraries but leave the heap and stack unexecutable.

This mentions this implementation: http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/now-or-never-exec
Actually the 1000 year number comes from Project Orion in the 1940ties and 50ties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...

An updated design from the 80ties calculated a time of 100 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Longshot

And a nuclear fusion design is calculated to achieve 12% of light speed, thereby reducing time to reach the fourth nearest sun system in 46 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus

So there are concepts that could make unmanned interstellar travel possible, even within a humans life span, it's just that it costs so much and the incentive is pretty low compared to the incentive countries had for getting objects into space. (primarily military incentives - get spy satellites and nuclear warheads into space to not fall back behind adversaries)

I believe that given a strong enough incentive humans could do it, no matter what current consensus is telling us.

Humans set out to work on reaching outer space without even having a design on how this could be achieved and we did it anyway.
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I had to pull out the CD and double-check, because I thought so, too. You're right, he very distinctly pronounces the final "t".
>> "Apple is so strict about privacy that it doesn't even let itself see your data, let alone anyone else. I support Apple's stance, but I worry that this will have repercussions on the size and accuracy of the models it is able to build."

I don't think this is something we should worry about. If you want better models use Google. If you want better privacy go with Apple. It's fantastic that we actually have a choice and don't all have to sign our privacy away or live in the dark ages.
That's what the top level comment said, you are only adding noise.
I'm wondering why gambling(except for lotteries and casinos, etc.) was made illegal? Was it a 'we must protect people from themselves' type of law? Or a 'casinos have lobbied for protection of their business' type of law? Or 'this type of industry requires regulation but its too damn expensive to regulate' type of law?

I say this as the guy who consistently makes fun of the lottery while also buying video game 'this is totally not gambling either' loot chests.
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Well you should really have that out with them! If you feel they're needlessly switching and putting your project at risk, have them justify it.

(Or just have a rule that as a team you try e.g. '1 new thing' per project).

Again this shouldn't be a reason to hate on the JS community.
> Nor were all of the mentioned facts in the pre-trial coverage.

Which actually should never have mattered, because the trial never should have happened. Doig said, no, that is not my painting. That should have been the end of it, but the other party didn't like that and tried to get the court to say otherwise because they thought they had basically won the lottery.
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Glad to see R-CNN and its follow-on work on the list. We've been using R-CNN for a few weeks now and have seen great results on object detection and localization. A few papers this year have played around with substituting different convnets and different classification schemes and improving the network in various ways. I'm excited to see where this specific architecture goes in the next few years.
> Flat fares are designed to cover full fares for almost every trip, with a $20 limit for uberPOOL and $25 limit for uberX. You’ll be responsible for paying portions of the fare that exceed those maximums on each trip.

The pricing felt convoluted even before I saw this part. I can't see this being worth the effort, if you can't even guarantee the $7 prices.
I've noticed it get drastically better. I never used to be able to use it at all. It was just a pointless exercise. Now it works for everything I use it for, which isn't a lot, but I don't get any issues.
If somebody pours the foundation, somebody else frames the walls, a bunch of other people hang the drywall and run the wires and hook up the plumbing, and then I come along and lay the carpet, I'm obviously an idiot if I try to take credit for the entire house. But I certainly deserve to be paid for laying the carpet. How much work was done on the house before I got there has nothing to do with whether or not I, in my turn, spent my time and knowledge and effort to make something that was valuable too.

Incidentally, did you really mean to say that you spent your life around the smartest person in the world? If so, well, I'm skeptical but also curious who you think the smartest person in the world is.
> Is it common these days to nest inputs in labels?

Been developing websites for almost 15 years now, and I recall this always being a common thing to do.

> To me that's conceptually as well as semantically broken, the two are separate things why is the input inside the label?

I agree that it's conceptually broken, but it is not semantically broken -- since the HTML5 spec and screen readers all recognize this as an equally valid way to define a label on an input.

So they're both equally "correct", just a trade-off of ease-of-styling (for some designs) vs. saving a few bytes and mental overhead of assigning for/id attributes to them.
Nobody says with certainty that life exists. But they do say the probability is so high that life in some form exists elsewhere, you might as well be certain.

As for not sharing the universe: what a depressing thought.
IMO the most profound quote in the interview: “Our practices tend to reinforce a natural selection bias — those who are interested in working as a team to deliver a great product versus those whose primary motivation is publishing,” says Federighi.
jvm jvm jvm. Flink. Storm. Spark. Beam. projectreactor. Reactors. Samza. How spoiled are Java/Scala programmers but is there anybody doing anything similar in distributed computing frameworks that targets something other than the Java Virtual Machine? Go? Erlang? C? Ocaml? Anyone? Why always the JVM? Sure I understand that business loves java, but every single one?
Yeah, this seems like a step backwards from their promise of transparent prices ("what we do on UberPool, but for everything"). What the heck is the point of flat pricing if you have to pay for overages anyway?
Similar experience, in Canada.

Couldn't figure out how to legally watch the Olympics, using any available device.

If a provider can't be bothered to supply a legal, payed option using tools available to a large segment of the population, perhaps their marketing department needs an overhaul.
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Analyzing just the sound of a keyboard being typed on can yield the typed content as well:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/09/snooping_on_t...
This article made me think of the cultural path dependency in software design as well. Some comes from metaphor (e.g. desktop) which took (is taking) a long time to die, while the "small number of tools that do one or two things well, strung together" philosophy of Unix has not spread (and arguably, with examples such as systemd, is dying).

I will easily sit on a rock while hiking (better than the dusty or wet ground) but at home happily sit on the floor to read, talk, play etc. How do non-floor-sitters play with their small kids? Peoples' physiology is the same, but they have adapted their environment -- I presume there is some mechanism or affordance for this that I am not aware of. (Oh, and I use a chair when using my laptop, like now).

> Deep squatting is favored by people in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America,

My mother has never talked about her childhood in WWII very much but one observation she has made several times over the years how distinctive it was to her that the Japanese soldiers would squat in a group for hours having a meal, or meeting, or just relaxing. Out of perversity I taught myself to do that as a kid but never developed the strength to do it for an extended period and now cannot do it at all, though I am seemingly quite flexible and strong.
A minor setback is having to curtail the flight due to a faulty reading on a pressure gauge or a minor power issue with the engine.

A nosedive landing that damages the cabin in perfect flying conditions is about the very worst thing that can happen on an aircraft test programme, even if the flight crew walk away
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(Another site useless without JS enabled. Boo.)
Apple's core "product" is the user experience. Darwin is open source, Carbon and Cocoa are not.

I think that philosophy will continue as they use ML tools. They might share the ML equivalent of plumbing like Webkit/LLVM/Swift, but probably not improvements to the user experience like Siri's brain.
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I'm running Ubuntu. Would be interesting to see output from a Gentoo user.

[edit]
Gentoo: https://bpaste.net/raw/160c1fc57842
More Gentoo: https://paste.pound-python.org/show/BOVT5z1G93GRmGGfUyQQ/
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Convoluted tricks? Certainly. There's a functioning mov-only compiler [1], though.
[1] https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
Makes sense as a way to lock riders into Uber rather than Lyft. Wonder how drivers will react.
Prewett - true. But then, why make it "simple" but ugly for _printing_? It's absurd... just keep the complex form in books and reading printed text, and tolerate what people are writing out by hand in cursive. That's distinct anyway. It's as if we'd "simplify" the "-ing" at the end of words to some wiggle with a dot and a loop in printed matter.
> While you do support the oppression of others,

I never said I supported anything. On the other hand you are quick at forgetting our own moral bankruptcy when it comes to the treatment of minorities in your own country,especially black people. It's easier to point fingers at France than to fix the situation in US. And we don't have the death penalty either. Only barbaric countries allow their states to put its citizens to death. You're not even the pot calling the kettle black, you're worse than that.
Assuming the recently announced deep space travel project [1] works out and their estimates are correct (unlikely), it would take 20 years of preparation + 20 years of travel + 4 years of data transfer.

Also mentioned in [1] is that if Voyager 1 was headed for Alpha Centauri it would take 70,000 years.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/science/alpha-centauri-bre...
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I think we started a long time ago. The planet is a new find, Proxima Centauri is not. If there were anyone there capable of responding, I think we would have heard from them by now.
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Even more interesting, if life does happen there, the imagination required to picture such life would be a fun exercise.
I'm confused. What's the problem here?