skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You mean less useful and smaller denominations, not "newer". They are trying to make cash unappealing to use by requiring more bills to carry out a transaction.

They removed Rs500 and Rs1000 from circulation, yes. A newer _Rs2000_ is already in circulation and a newer Rs500 soon to follow. So this statement is inherently wrong.

> If the government came and said "Because terrorists drive cars between the hours of 1pm-3pm, we are banning all car use between those times."

The govt actually said "Because terrorists drive fake cars of model A and B, we're making it illegal to drive A and B on the roads. Anyone who has a legit model can take it to the manufacturer to get it replaced by a newer model." I'd still be upset about the discomfort, but at least the example used would be more accurate.

> The government is unjustly punishing the whole class because some individuals made the decision to break the rules, and as punishment, it is now harder to maintain financial privacy. Yay. Just what I wanted, less privacy in the age of everything is in a database and everyone is on a list.

It is currently estimated that just 1% of Indians pay their taxes [1]. I don't have any views on whether there will be a drop in financial privacy (since I see the govt tracking bank accounts, which they were always able to do), but I'll be glad to see that number rise from a paltry 1%. Also, cash transactions aren't outlawed, so you're more than welcome to keep you transaction "private" if you please. There are talks of a cap to cash transactions, but nothing has really materialized yet.

And finally, I'm not for or against the measures the govt is following. I'm glad _something_ is being done, but am also skeptical about how effective it will be in the long run. It will depend on what additional measures the govt. brings to curb further accumulation of black money with the new denominations, and the ability to buy and hoard assets bought by said black money.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/03/guess-how-many-people-pay-tax...
On 6 you can also just put a space before the URI and it seems to trim the string before loading it.
It's amazing that there is so much trust put into WordPress's security.

Reading about how WordPress updates can be used to compromise websites got me thinking; does anyone know how people ensure that Canonical won't push out a signed update that installs a backdoor to their servers?

This seems like it would be very tedious to do (recompiling and checking they're the same), but also more and more important now that major governments have shown their willingness to force companies to betray their customers.

If the open source nature of Canonical stops it from being able to push out poisoned updates (I suppose all mirrors compile stuff themselves and verify against a hash so it would be found out quick), how would one deal with securing non open source software stuff like Windows? Do you just not trust any machine (virtual or not) in your server farm running Windows?
Congress?
As a nuance though. one could agree with the notion of negative externalities naturally occurring in a free market economy (perhaps in a total laissez faire environment the affected third parties could retaliate in kind though) but disagree with the form of policy to address it. In principle the market should be able to select appropriate fixes if the costs are internalized, but governments have a tendency to focus less on the internalize costs part, and more on selecting fixes. Pragmatically it might be the best way forward, but in principle it goes against free market resource optimizations and instead becomes a gamble that whatever fix is made policy actually do have an impact on the problem, and doesn't make things worse.
I can't help but feel that this is a reactionary move by google against Facebook Work.

Although they aren't similar products, they both are internal networks and Google sites can and is used as an internal site/communication tool at some smaller companies.

On a side note, I don't understand the deal with designers @ Google. They take the ugly(?) material design to the extreme.

I am not a fan of the Google play music app or the web interface.

sites.google carries on the tradition.

Compare it to the deisgns of say the MS Office 365 products, or with Facebook both of which I find pleasure in using.

/End personal design taste rant
The_Donald has the exact same problems and worse.
And the good kind of advertising, because it's accurate. Apple did the hard engineering work across their entire software and hardware stack because they knew it was important.

They didn't settle for good enough.

They didn't weasel out of it by blaming "ease of use" concerns.

They didn't argue that maximum security wasn't a high priority for their customers.

They didn't deploy marketing slogans to pretend like they had done the hard engineering work. (cough Knox cough)
Well, I can try. ;-)

If you were to examine the contents of your awareness systematically you would have "subject" after "subject", and you could make sentences about them (there are thoughts and feelings which lack names but these would still be subject to your awareness.)

But there is always this other "thing", the awareness, that can never quite be subject to language. (In other words, if you were not "aware" there is no way I could describe awareness to you. It has no qualities.)

So this is the first aspect of the "Hard Problem of Consciousness": the foundational fact from which flows the veracity of all others is this indescribable "self" that is "aware", what is it?

The second aspect is the puzzle of "why qualia?" What the heck is "red" anyway? The subjective experience of "red" (and all the others) is kind of impossible. Yet there it is.

It's like a paradox. One the one hand, there is no doubting that our organs mediate the contents of awareness. But on the other hand subjective experience seems impossible.

Anyway, all that to say, in order to make sense of people who flat out claim that the brain generates or creates consciousness, I have recently begun to entertain the idea that maybe, just maybe, they don't have the experience.

What I mean is that self-awareness is not automatic. You have to notice it, then work at it. So maybe the reason they don't see the hard problem of consciousness is that they don't see the hard problem of consciousness.
I'm not talking about spez.

I am talking about the fact that the pizzeria owner and his staff have had death threats against them from members of the Reddit /r/pizzagate sub. The FBI should be investigating this and charging people.
alt.religion.scientology of course.
> Reddit is known for censoring subreddits the admins do not like

r/The_Donald mods were censoring all comments against Donald Trump (hence why they didn't reach r/all)

> the CEO mocked Facebook's knowledge of their users data saying that at Reddit they know not only what one publicly speaks (such as in Facebook), but also their users "darkest secrets" (in an interview about advertising on Reddit).

It was clearly a joke taken out of context from conspiracy theorist.
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>Thanks to the Internet of Things, the ability to collect massive amounts of data and use it in new and profoundly different ways also enters the picture.

http://blog.rackspace.com/internet-of-things-why-connected-t...

No thank you very much.
and what is reddit without drama?
> Also, ceo of reddit looks like a horrid job.

You could not pay me enough to be CEO of that cesspool. People take Reddit way too seriously.
I read what you wrote as affirming my thought.

The constraints of DoD CSI, DO-178B, and the smart card industry focus are all embodied in regulations, which precede legal retribution.

If a company busts the regs, it can be sued. But the first line of defense is that companies are required to do it right - by the regulations.

I agree regulation needs clear definition and followup to be effective. I continue to regard regulation as a better mitigator of damage than post-hoc penalties.

Regulation is about preventing a mess. Litigation is about cleaning it up. I'd rather not have the mess to begin with.
Thanks for the reference - can you provide an example where one would use the Martingale CLT, if you are aware of any ?
This seems extreme. I've had lasik and do not suffer from seeing halos around celestial objects
The company was formed in 2001 by three IT professionals, Gareth Williams, Barry Smith and Bonamy Grimes, after one of them was frustrated by the difficulties of finding cheap flights to ski resorts.[1]

Lessons: scratching a trivial-seeming personal itch can pay off handsomely in the long term. And it takes a loooong time to make it big in travel.

Like most travel startup founders who've attended industry events over the past few years, I've crossed paths with Gareth and Barry a few times, and found them to be thoroughly warm, supportive and decent people.

This result is fully deserved.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscanner
The content was subject to a large amount of wordfilters at the time, which would alter half the posts.
I'd be wary of calling things anti-american in the context of politics, that label has something of a history.
NASA Space Poop Challenge - $30,000
The background notes are pretty interesting.

http://okgo.net/2016/11/23/background-notes-and-full-credits...
Jill Stein is trying to raise $2.5M to audit the vote
Agreed that the line between unpopular and inflammatory can be a matter of perspective.

Regarding shadowbanned accounts not getting the same treatment: are you saying they weren't warned beforehand? Or not treated fairly before the banning? How long should those who have contributed negatively (wrt community standards) tolerated? Those who keep showdead and have enough karma can and do vouch for substantive and civil comments from shadowbanned accounts. Btw, are there particular instances you have in mind that you can point to? I've been following sctb and dang for the past month or so to see how they interact with the site and don't recall seeing anything grievious about their banning decisions.

I completely agree that there's some tension between an policing a community forum and perceptions of anti-
intellectual behavior, which motivated the additional questions in my previous comment. Would you mind weighing in on those? (And I'm not saying shadowbanning is the only tool they can use. Perhaps only voting and flagging should be used? I'm not sure if that's enough.)

Thanks! (Please pardon any lack of proper editing or phrasing. I'm on my phone and having issues with commenting.)
You say that like this is some new phenomenon. SRS has been around for as long as I can remember. It's probably one of the most vile harassment engines because it disguises itself as a wholesome cause.
Will do! Im very excited for this. Containerization and safety is a very important problem to me. Im not particularly interested in running a docker instance or a vm just to use an application. And if I do, id prefer it being automated.
> Statistics can tell you whether a model is consistent with the data.

Yes, that's true, but it badly misses the point. The power of statistics is to tell you when a model (the null hypothesis) is (most likely) inconsistent with the data so that you can confidently rule it out. Any finite data set is consistent with an infinite number of models, so knowing that a model and the data are consistent tells you absolutely nothing about whether or not that model has any relationship with reality (which, at the risk of stating the obvious, is what science actually cares about). This is the reason that rejecting the null hypothesis is considered a positive result.
Theoretically, yes, but if you're going to make that claim you'd need some hard data showing that exploitable bugs either happen less frequently or are going and patched earlier.

Care to show your data and analysis?
Hacker news with a lot more users and cats?
Fortran eventually gets every useful feature, but 5-10 years after it's clear that it's useful.
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How about you guys are both right, sort of.

There are both Bayesian and Frequentist approaches in statistics!

They represent very different methods to statistics, but they are also quite similar. My apologies, I couldn't find one link that gave a good description of Bayesian vs. Frequentist. Here are a couple links to get started:

https://xkcd.com/1132/

http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/03/11/frequentism-and-bay...

If anyone comes across a link that describes Bayesian and Frequentist clearly, please share it if you don't mind.
How does it take up so much space? What if you just download the epubs to your Google Drive?
How does it work with N people ?
Do I see other with Vive or hololens on their head ?
or the head is actually "reconstructed", and in that case, the eyes are not tracked ?
It reads like that in part because I was aiming for that vibe (something along the lines of http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ravenben/humor/historyofnet, or https://www.astro.umd.edu/~avondale/extra/Humor/ComputerHumo...). But also because my knowledge of Usenet history is very limited. So thanks for the crash course.
My point is that it's feature set is not from this millennium.
I just bought this bundle, which is all O'reilly, so I'm assuming the ePub's are from them. Was looking at the Emacs one, and so far not too bad. But there are still issues, such as I came across a table that had the headers line at the bottom of one page, and the rest of the table on the next page. Things like this, you can probably put hits / rules in the ePub file for, but it still benefits more from having a human do the layout.
and boobs and penises
"I made a motherfucker of a spreadsheet"

Love it.
a time bomb in plain text? hmm
I dont think anything, it was a genuine question and I'm out of the loop. I don't go to reddit much so its the first I've heard of this.
Oops it was Nokia's EPE optics I was thinking of, not Nvidia.
Bit harder to astroturf with green names.

https://www.reddit.com/user/julingks/
http://twister.net.co/ is a twitter clone in bitcoin, so not a reddit clone. I've not seen a reddit clone yet.
C++/Boost does that
I had to try many brands. Finally found one I can wear 18 hours a day. Hard to think of a benefit to Lasik. Maybe open water swimming I fear losing a contact, but has never happened yet.
...but those were public. It's one thing to have a computer run search and replace on every post in the board. It's quite another to have a mod specifically edit your post, making it look like you said something you didn't.
Yet another solid example of the spreadsheet being the best programming tool for the masses there is out there
I just used a data URI for the last one.
I've looked at the_donald a few times to escape my own filter bubble and it's very much censored - stuff like Trump's recent reneging on the persecution of Clinton didn't appear at all, and comments calling out Trump's lie about having saved that Ford factory from relocation to Mexico were promptly deleted. It's in their rules and that's part of the package, it's extremely controlled.

Use uneddit.com on the_donald if you want to laugh.
Moderators can run their subreddits however they see fit. They're the ones who create the rules and they're the ones that enforce the rules, as long as they don't break the rules of reddit itself. Admins, on the other hand, should not favor one subreddit over the other.
Fair enough. If this is limited to that kind of flattery (and I haven't read enough to verify either way) then we can write that off as good ol-fashioned "working a source" and not particularly worrisome.
Any other bands (or music videos) that does this sort of thing? I am ready to love them!
I would do this as a Chrome extension, something like https://getnewsbot.com but geared more towards a historical context (vs. similarity)
I think you're being a bit over-dramatic with the "wretched hive of scum and villany" stuff. The commonality of this sort of behavior varies from forum to forum, depending on the mood of that forum. For instance, this sort of thing was not abnormal at all during the hey-day of Something Awful (One of the largest forums around some years ago, still #5 in membership numbers).

As far as the editing Spez did, if they were really out there calling him a pedophile, they should have expected some backlash. You can only push an authority figure so far before they're going to go on the defensive. This will definitely make things worse though.
The governments want to get involved - the simple fact is I don't think they can. Software can be much more complex than humans. There are systems out there that are already so complex, no one human can reason about the entire system.

I don't think law could even keep up with the space it wants to govern. They would be better trying to govern the application space as they have already been doing, such as vehicles, nuclear, etc.
The word "model" is being used here in two mutually incompatible ways. Yes, the null hypothesis is a model, but it is not an explanatory model. A scientific hypothesis has to meet two tests to be considered a valid theory. It has to be consistent with the data, and it has to have explanatory power. The theory that cancer drugs work by aligning a patient's chi with their chakras is rejected not because it is inconsistent with the data (it's not) but because it lacks the explanatory power of alternative theories based on molecular biology.

The null hypothesis never has explanatory power. The null hypothesis is always a statement of the form, "The explanatory hypothesis under test is wrong for some unknown reason." This is why rejecting the null hypothesis, i.e. showing that the data are (with high probability) inconsistent with the null hypothesis, is considered a positive result.
How World War III Could Begin in Latvia
That's the kind of site they're running though. Make your own community with relatively lax rules and freedom of speech, even if the speech is low brow. Kind of like some of the *chans.

If that's not what they want to have (as its clearly making the CEO on edge), why not enforce some strict rules? The people they don't like will simply flock to other communities that will allow it and it becomes their problem.
I think the "alt-right" term has its use. After all, not all of the people we are talking about here are sadistic monsters. Even among those engaging in the juvenile, antagonistic bigotism and bullying that is pervasive on /r/the_donald are a large group of otherwise reasonable people who feel alienated by the progressive left, and have simply bought into the all of the recent rhetoric against political correctness.

Those people have been mislead, to be sure, but it isn't accurate or useful to assume they are malicious.
The interesting thing for me about this video is the math behind "scaling up" the rhythm of the song, syncing that with the "events" (popping balloon, splodin guitar, etc), so the 6000fps cameras can cut down to, idk, 500fps or something in editing and have them all reflect the actual rhythm. Pretty cool stuff
It's an abuse of power and ethics and is a line that shouldn't be crossed.

It is much more honest and within reason to take steps like deleting posts, suspending or even outright banning users.
I agree with your comments about grsecurity making the kernel much more secure. However your comments about remote exploits and Qubes are somewhat contradictory. You claim that a remote kernel exploit is very rare/difficult, therefore the Qubes NetVM must be very difficult to attack because it runs no applications or services. It functions as a router and does essentially nothing else. By your own argument it would be very difficult to attack the NetVM. It is only the AppVMs or any others which run applications that are vulnerable, and if these are attacked, Qubes's design will likely prevent a permanent backdoor from being installed in that VM and make it difficult for the attacker to gain access to any of the other AppVMs.

I still think Subgraph looks promising and I look forward to your future work.
software itself isn't intractable, it's that the field is young, and we are stuck with choices made when nothing was understood, and its gonna take a while to turn the ship. but i think we have a pretty good idea of where we are trying to go wrt writing secure software.
In daylight its fine and at night I just turn down brightness.
A Rebuttal for Python 3
Ctrip, a Chinese corporation
thankfully its a free market. those angry at spez can tske their business elsewhere.
$1000 is what a well paid software consultant makes in about a day. I can't think of a single person that does daily payments for consulting, and I feel like this would be a huge red flag if they asked for it.
That cartoon is actually a pretty good illustration of why frequentists are wrong.
You don't need to "own" a workstation to take advantage of cloud processing. It's the cloud. You rent the CPU cycles when you need them. And they can even be crunching away on your most difficult engineering simulations while you're mid-flight.

The number of people on this planet who need to have 16+ cores of CPU power on the tray table of an aeroplane could probably be counted in single digits.
If you're shipping binaries to end users Microsoft's optimizer is pretty fantastic, especially if you build with PGO. Plus MinGW sometimes lags behind with things added in newer Microsoft SDKs, so there can be some friction there. I think things are getting better with clang-cl, so that might be a feasible direction in the near future.
Ticker Tape
I lost all trust in the NYTimes after Wikileaks revealed how they sabotaged Bernie Sanders and acted as a PR agency for the Clinton campaign.

http://observer.com/2016/10/wikileaks-new-york-times-propped...

https://medium.com/@Starkweather/new-york-times-edited-berni...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bernie-sand...

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/11/sharyl-attkisson-ny-...
Some do, most don't, I just enjoy it for what it is.
In the video he makes an excellent point, that i think is valuable to highlight and repeat here again:

Device insecurity is in aggregate very similar to environmental pollution of devices.

It is a latent danger that in some cases can stick around for many decades, it is caused by many people invidicually adding a tiny bit to the problem, it is created because right now accepting insecurity makes the product cheaper without directly hurting either the manufacturer or the buyer.
Digital Ocean tutorials are probably the best and simplest ones to follow. Neat idea.
Do they use ITA as their back end software?
We're making some headway with /r/EnoughTrumpSpam though, which is often at the top of /r/all too. Personally I enjoy the /r/all war between The_Donald and EnoughTrumpSpam. Everyone has a "safe place" to retreat to now, so it's all more funny than harmful. (I read The_Donald, and EnoughTrumpSpam lets me post similarly-styled comments and get massive upvotes, so I generally enjoy it. Kind of an Internet performance art.)

Reddit is generally best consumed by selecting small subreddits. I really recommend against /r/all unless you enjoy internet drama and subreddit wars.
Slight nitpick - web2py has a database abstraction layer (DAL) rather than an ORM. It's kind of like SQL except written in Python.
This is not what happened in this case (although I have seen this pattern in other situations in the past). The Rust version is a faithful port of the feature set of the Python version. (It had to be, we were using essentially the entire feature set in production.)
And here he is boasting about knowing "all your dark secrets" at TNW - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lALKRayDLuk - meant in jest but shows incredibly poor judgement as a CEO
Exactly. It's not even trying to be non biased.

The bigger issue is with subreddits like r/politics that you would think to be at least somewhat non partisan but was controlled by correct the record during election.