skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, a purge is a good step, although it's not a total solution. It feels like spring cleaning.

The privacy/notification tools on each site update over time and so do our interests in people and topics, so it makes sense to go in and jig things around every once in a while.
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https://oeis.org/A046253 agrees, but adds 0 and 438579088, using 0^0 = 0.

Also, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MuenchhausenNumber.html gives an explanation why they are called Münchhausen Numbers. It states:

these numbers "raise themselves" analogously to way in which Baron Hieronymus von Münchhausen allegedly raised himself by riding a cannonball.

I would think it refers to bootstrapping (the baron pulled himself out of a morass by pulling on his bootstraps)

And for those playing with this in their favorite language: I would precompute an array of ten d^d values and hoist the d^d computation out of the loop for a very nice speed up.

Finally: int may not be sufficient in C if you iterate up to 9 digits. 9^9 needs 29 bits => 999,999,999 would need over 32 => unsigned int already is living very dangerously (probably too dangerously)
Well, 9^9 = 387,420,489. So a ten-digit Munchausen number that had enough nines in it could be as big as 3,874,204,890. So going to 500,000,000 isn't quite enough. You can stop at 4 billion, though...
The same MitM update attack can be leveled against all Firefox users, and not just Tor browser users?
A more dangerous side-effect of branding Tor as a "human rights" tool is that whereas if it's a "privacy" tool, people in oppressive regimes can legitimately use it (e.g. people working for such regimes), whereas as a "human rights" tool, its simple presence on a computer is evidence of guilt.
I wondered when Matthew Garrett would pipe up and deepthroat Microsoft again. He duly obliges.

When I first heard this I thought this was what I always thought would eventually happen with Secure Boot, but we haven't quite arrived at that point yet. Give it time when we eventually end up with critical mass.

What seems to be happening is similar to Kaby Lake in reverse. You restrict hardware and drivers needed to no only exclude other operating systems, which is a side-effect, but build in hardware obsolescence so you'll find yourself without any drivers or means to upgrade in future Windows versions.

You don't lock any chipset into an idiotic RAID mode in a laptop with a single disk. To claim this is done for power management reasons over perfectly standard AHCI is so stupid it isn't even funny, but Matthew likes defending stupid. He swears blind that Secure Boot will always be in a position where it can be turned off and Microsoft will not try anything on with key access. Because, you know, Microsoft's word and all that.

Be in no doubt, Microsoft and OEMs together want us all to throw away hardware and upgrade more regularly.
>> "...impossible..."

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

"...famed for one of the best records in investing history, returning more than 35 percent annualized over a 20-year span..."
Have any tips for us solo, first time founders, besides "no needless meddling"?
Dogs are capable of... if left unattended. Read TheOatMeal then fill in the dots ;) http://pleated-jeans.com/2012/09/17/my-dog-the-paradox-by-th...
Remarkable in the same way a future gray goo invention would be. And it was a military initiative, developed for military reasons.
Then it's a good thing they did more than that.

Even that meeting, titled "An Examination of Wells Fargo’s Unauthorized Accounts and the Regulatory Response", was more than three hours long, and with three other witnesses.

Why, it's as if it were part of a larger effort to change the laws.
I would guess that having everything online might help in some areas, if executed well (open-source style), but I wouldn't be too optimistic, as we could end up with something more like the comments section of a major newspaper.
Most of the issues seem to revolve around accessing clearnet resources through Tor. Hidden services within Tor still seem secure (whatever that word means these days).
Not bad, but not enough to cover the current levels of household debt in Norway, while a large portion of the debt is tied to mortgages the mortgage debt in the Norway have been increasing faster than income for quite a few years now.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/norway/households-debt-to-gd...

This isn't a problem unique to Norway, Norway is just one of the biggest offenders, even in the Nordic countries there is a trend of creating a new generation or class of indentured citizens.

Many EU countries need to look at germany and start reducing housing prices, one of the main contributors to Germany's low household debt is a 10 year cap on mortgages.

Countries like Sweden and Norway just now starting to cap it, Sweden capped the mortgage term to 105 years (no this isn't a typo) this year and the current average mortgage term in Sweden is still over 140 years, and Norway isn't much better off (It was slightly higher than Sweden IIRC I just can't find a source atm).

While the Nordic countries take pride in their model the current economics are pretty bad under the surface, you have a combination of inflated housing prices, extreme housing shortages, and mortgages that can span over 3 generations.

To some extent the Nordic model isn't a choice it's an outcome of the economic policy to the point where a lot of people that appear to be wealthy are actually in dire debt and dependant on the state.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/personal-banking/mortgages/sweden...
It's curious/disappointing that none of the respondents suggested that a good criteria for joining a startup is being on the founding team.

That may not be in the spirit of the question, but I've found that the best way of finding a culture & mission which really matches what I want/need from a job is to create it.
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Yet again, TOR gets blamed for a Firefox vulnerability. Surprise, surprise...
It is actually a huge difference. Raising kids, for instance, it isn't enough to just reward good behavior. You have to actively and fairly penalize bad behavior. And if you are setting up a losing game or your kids, expect bad behavior.

Which is what most of this comes down to. For most participants, they are in a losing game. The absolute best they can do is get through with their project and move to the next one. About the worst they can do is spend more time on what they are currently doing.

So, I don't want my comment to be a "screw this article, they got it wrong." No, contrarily, this is a discussion that needs to be had. I personally think it is not enough to just look at the rewards people set themselves up for on the bad behavior. You have to look at the penalties they have for "good" behavior.

This is not new. Few years ago the lament was we don't teach how to fail. That is all I am echoing. Failure is heavily punished. Maybe it shouldn't be.
> This combined with a overly-enthusiastic do-gooders gaining more and more prominence in the Tor organization has led to the dangerous situation of promoting inherently insecure software as a security solution to vulnerable people.

What is the inherently secure alternative available to these vulnerable people?

> I really hope the new boards steers them back to the academic realm and slaps a big red USE AT YOUR OWN RISK warning on the tin.

What causes you to believe that activists and vulnerable people would stop using Tor if this warning were in place?
That's what I have been saying after every single episode this season. I agree completely.
Posts like this are why I always check the comments. I don't think I would have had this thought shared with me anywhere else. Having said that, I'm still unsure how to interpret the Oscar Wilde quote.
FTA:

links are stored in a file
- compact storage
- no database required
- easy backup: simply copy the datastore file
If people were to pay only for the government services they actually used, we would need some way to determine which ones they used. How would that be accomplished? The only way to do it would be to evaluate everyone's usage of government services. Some kind of bureaucracy would need to do that, and it would be large, because there are a lot of people to evaluate.

How would we pay to run that bureaucracy? More taxes.

So, even if public education didn't benefit society as a whole, there is still a pretty good reason everyone should pay for it.
password rules are enforced client-side too. You are right that a determined person could circumvent the client-side validation, but my thinking is that if someone really wants to do this, it doesnt really hurt me any.

FYI I also do recaptcha for signup+resetpw.
Why not just turn off all notifications but e-mail (or at least make them silent), and then only set audible notifications for emails that match a filter? There will undoubtedly be false positives and negatives in any such filter, but it seems like it would enable you to open the email app to check email far less often.
Why not just turn off all notifications but e-mail (or at least make them silent) and then set a filter for what types of message you want?
They enabled something by default that I have not seen on any other system and disabled a way of changing it, which virtually every other system supports.

There is no good reason for this. Whatsoever.
I think Google lately spending too much time in the Silicon Valley bubble and less time in the real world. Solutions they are coming up with have so little value outside the small bubble. WhatsApp solved a real world problem without being fancy or trying to do too much.

It kept it simple, efficient and treated everyone equal in its ecosystem.

I don't think Facebook will try to change WhatsApp. They are mostly interested in WhatsApp's user base. But even if they ruin it, success stories will not change. The next big thing will come from people that have similar mindsets like the ones created WhatsApp.
Mars would be great. Though if things to go as usual it would be future soldiers and Fukushima&Chernobyl cleanup workers. May be not Fukushima(Japan), yet definitely at least in countries where people are cheaper than high-tech robots.
The police fabricated witness reports of him brandishing his weapon, THEN discussed what to charge him with given that lie.

> there's no indication that anyone made up any charges, the cops were deciding what to charge him with given the situation. That's what cops do every day.

Which is a crime. If the police don't believe you've broken a law before they arrest you, they're doing it wrong. They should never need to discuss it at this point.

> That said, I don't know if he was actually breaking any laws.

Right, and you know from this article that the police were breaking the law. They assaulted him and tried to break his camera, even if you don't believe the false-arrest aspect. But you're still trying desperately to make it look like the victims fault.

> The line between legal/legal and appropriate/inappropriate is really thin.

Not really, it's always been massively illegal and massively inappropriate to frame someone and knowingly file false police reports.
Continuously? Ok, perhaps that would be almost impossible, to pull off 20% for 20 years without missing a year.

However, Buffett and Soros managed to average above 20% annual returns over 30 plus years.

For example in the 1960s Berkshire returned 28.3% per year averaged. In the 1970s it returned 22.2% per year averaged. In the 1980s it averaged 39.1% (!) per year. In the 1990s it averaged 20.5% per year.

Nobody would hold their breath on another investor matching Buffett or Soros. It is in fact possible though. The big problem for the Norway fund is obviously the scale. Berkshire at $360b in market cap, will struggle perpetually going forward with keeping up with the S&P 500 over time (as is frequently noted by Buffett).
This is a very good point. A very simple scenario would be that all the money is placed in super-thrifty ETFs with .05% fees. When you have figures as high as $882B, those outside management fees get large. In this case, it would be 441M!
On the other hand, UK funded medical research is only about £500m a year. $3bn is a significant amount of money, and there's also potential that it could be spent in very targeted ways, or to pursue goals which might not get funded elsewhere. Seems like a very interesting project.
For example, there are US based asset managers with private funds that generate 20-30-40% per annum, for over 20 years.

Pure Horseshit. Plain and simple.

Or, in other words: "Pics. Or it didn't happen."
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New Version of Benchmarking State-Of-the-Art Deep Learning Software Tools
An early version of http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.07249v5 appeared here a month ago. Judging from the changelog (Section 7.1) the authors have fixed many issues. The results differ quite a bit from the original version. On the high end GPUs (GTX 1080) it seems that CNTK is the best for LSTMs and Fully Connected Nets. Torch is the best for Resnet 50 and Caffe is the best for Alexnet.
The only actionable advice in here for someone tasked with developing a curriculum for teaching concurrency is to make sure the prerequisite courses instill the idea of computation as a sequence of state transitions.
timed comments seem to increase with thread depth. Apologies if you think things are circular, I've just been responding where people replied to me with points that I felt warranted a response, which seemed like a reasonable thing to do in a discussion thread.
Why wouldn't they? You find out all sorts of things when you work for a company, strangely enough.
Indeed. I also leave my phone in another room and have a separate alarm clock. Really helps with quality sleep!
The one real downside of Apple moving to Intel is that it's quite difficult to get cheap-ish PowerPC hardware.

At least we have ubiquitous ARM now, if you want to test your code on non-x86 platforms.
Open source projects for the Internet of Things, from a to Z
Inside Mode Media (formerly Glam), the billion-dollar juggernaut that went bust
Currently, I run on a pair of Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus with 8G mem. It looks like they've moved on from the Ativ line. The 3200 x 1800 display works well with awesome+gnome. It also drives an external 1440p display simultaneously (at 30fps).
That's still a database if you ask me. Just a different type.
Google’s ‘Possum’ algorithm update
...20 researchers try to study something. But only one of them gets statistically significant results (p < 0.05), so they publish and the rest don't.

http://xkcd.com/882/

If we don't address this, then the whole research publication process is on fire.
Programmer might be a little archaic but to me it conveys a sense of humility possessed by the people I most admired when learning the craft.

Plus it's baked into the title of "the Art of Computer Programming" by Donald Knuth. How many people can really say they have mastered that art? It's hard to believe there's any qualification more worth striving for or harder to achieve.
This whole "JS and it's ecosystem is the worst"-meme is just awful. Same goes for the PHP counterpart. I think it's fine to search for better solutions for our backends, but there is no denying that 1) our browsers rely on JS and will do so for the close future, and 2) that there is an ecosystem for every programming language that can use it efficiently and proficiently.
They are using disk drivers to restrict what gets installed - not just Linux both other Windows - Windows 7 or future versions of Windows which they want to build hardware obsolescence into and force you into throwing good hardware away.

That's very likely.
From the diagram, Dropbox stores no passwords: it stores an encrypted hash (hasing in two steps, SHA512 and then "bcrypt") of the password. I.e. stored = AES256(bcrypt(SHA512(password), per_user_salt, 10), global_key).

I would like to know if "salted-bcrypt"+SHA512 hashing is really safer than using just SHA512 (e.g. because of the risk of making locating hash collisions easier, etc.).
I also use a set of colored posit "pointers" that I tag pages with, red for action items, blue for web site ideas, green for the current project and yellow for possibly patentable Ideas
The devs' justification was that if it was opt-in, most people wouldn't do it. They thought it better to turn it on and force users to go manually disable it.

I disagreed in the GitHub issue about this. Debian's Popcorn (package popularity analytics) is opt-in - a choice on install that defaults to "off". That would be the perfect solution. Ultimately those who agreed with me were told that the decision was made and there would be no further discussion - the issue was closed and locked.
To be fair it's the Firefox that comes as part of the popular official Tor bundle.
Are you asking what they should use instead? Because there is no alternative. My point isn't that they should be using some other specific piece of software, or even that they shouldn't be using Tor, just that they should be aware that Tor is old software with many known vulnerabilities, a poor track record of security including active RCE attacks by governments and private companies, etc. If you go to the homepage, you'll see none of that.

This might not deter people from using Tor entirely, but at least they'd understand the threat model a bit better so they could change their behavior accordingly, for instance maybe not using it at their own home, not using it for Facebook, etc.

As much as we might want to believe that we can code our way out of anything, human rights demands more than software.
Unless you're looking to buy a house in 5+ years putting your down payment in the market is super risky. When you have $100k+ in a savings account $1k/yr isn't bad.
I haven't looked but I also very much doubt there is a Windows 7 driver for this.......... ;-).
Software doctor almost sounds like it could be a useful term for someone whose role is diagnosing and curing software defects. But the term "software engineer" is already suitable for someone who applies scientific/engineering rigor to the production of software.
The thing that seems a bit weird to me is that the constant light intensity graduation (fig 1) appears much more even/linearly monotonic to me than the perceptual one (fig 2) which seems really off at the ends, kind of sticking to really really dark black for too long at the left end, shifting to white too fast at the right end.
The biggest red flag to me seems this: "second founder ducked out after about 8 months—with a sizable percentage of the company." The founders should have been on a vesting schedule to prevent this -- or every founder has an incentive to just duck out and keep all their equity. IIRC YC requires such vesting agreements, and for good reasons.
For an 11-digit number, Mun(N) <= 11 * 9^9 = 4,261,625,379 - which only has 10 digits. Therefore, no Munchausen number can have 11 (or more) digits.

For a 10-digit number, Mun(N) <= 10 * 9^9 = 3,874,204,890. So you can stop there.
Those three are claimed as necessary conditions, not sufficient conditions. I agree that "engineer" also implies some degree of technical skill (like understanding the difference between sufficient and necessary).
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> If you're comparing like with like, that shouldn't make a difference (unless you claim widespread small-scale soap production is somehow actively hurt by more people doing it).

No.

As best I can tell, the GP post was claiming that those considering making their own soap should not, due to environmental concerns. Exploring a scenario in which everyone in the world suddenly converting to home lye soap might be an interesting thought experiment, but has nothing to do with the real world.

> You're talking about solving a huge coordination problem. They're talking about keeping on using a solution to a huge coordination problem that already exists.

Perhaps I am, in a world in which everyone abruptly started making their own soap last week.

In this world, I'm talking about arguments that fail because they are predicated on extremely weak claims of economy of scale.
I agree that the statement is elitist, but since gravity is a conservative force I think that the strict definition of "work" from physics (W = \int_a^b{\vec{F} \dot d\vec{s}}) would mean you get as 0 a result.
Who the Hell Is This Joyce (1928)
Reddit tends towards sanitization because it's so easy to kill something on /new and so hard to break into /hot on bigger subreddits. On any subreddit where new posts aren't immediately on /hot, only the cadre that browses /new is going to influence what is allowed, and only the things that pass that cadre and are massively palatable are going to become popular.

On /r/nosleep, I think this plays out just as somewhat more tame stories becoming popular. People are going to downvote stories that actually make them uncomfortable. The demographic on reddit is older and so a lot of the stories are family-centric which I think takes away from the horror (there aren't many Lovecraft stories where his adorable 3 year old is actually something else, because Lovecraft wouldn't want to write about an adorable 3 year old in the first place).

To see this in the large, you can check out the top post on /r/nosleep of all time, which is this ama-style bag of short anecdotes told from the point of view of a search and rescue ranger: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search...

It's very much in the style of a usual reddit post, making it accessible to redditors. It has many short, shallow anecdotes, which is good for upvotes because if someone likes at least one, they'll upvote it, but it's bad for the horror, because rather than something longer-form that expands on a single theme, you get these little snippets that aren't very immersive. It's creepy, but not horrific.
I agree completely with that. I responded because I partially disagreed with your earlier statement; I think it misses the point.

It's a locked UEFI setting causing a problem: true. The setting is causing a piece of hardware to behave in a mode not handled by the current Linux driver: also true. So there are two ways of looking at it.

First: It's a software issue that Lenovo should clear up (i.e. remove the locks on the appropriate parts of the UEFI configuration)

Second: It's a hardware issue that the Linux community can address by writing a driver for the alternate hardware mode.
Probably worth pointing out that Google Apps at one point was called Google for Family.

Maybe also view this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwqDlvJyGI8 that's Google's apps team telling people as recently as yesterday how to turn your Gmail account into a business account.

Imagine you're a small business owner, and that's your only email... you're just about to lose a hell of a lot of things you may take for granted.

Also... https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/play/86WVa8b_... that's a lot of people complaining about this. That topic grows daily.
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It doesn't like like it:

1. You'd need to be able to MitM all of them (where controlling a ton of TOR exit nodes comes in handy)

2. You'd need to know an extension lots of people have (I'm guessing NoScript is default on TOR browsers)
Anyone using Guile for their projects? Any feedback on their experience with it?

I only know Scheme from reading SICP and enjoyed Clojure but hated the java/JVM part of it. I currently use Erlang for when I need concurrency/performant backends. But I'm not totally satisfied with it (for ex: the weak type system and records).

Edit: oh looks two programs I use all the time are written in Guile: GNU Make and WeeChat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile#Programs_using_Guile
And they used algorithms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
It's only a hop-skip-and-a-jump from this to creating real life murder robots.