skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd put Look to Windward in the "best of" category. It addresses with the issue by introducing a character who has been personally, very poignantly affected by the Culture's meddling, and seeks revenge for it, a bit like a reverse Use of Weapons. It's also the only book to directly reference the events of Consider Phlebas.

I also liked how Matter described a very-low-on-the-civilizational-ladder (literally: It's a located on the lower level of a "shell world", an artificial planetoid constructed of concentric layers of habitation, each home to a different civilization) society whose players discover the Culture and ultimately seek to improve on themselves, while the book concurrently illustrates the other civilizations' underhanded attempts at playing the Culture.

Minor nitpick regarding Consider Phlebas: The Idiran Empire are militarily vastly superior to the Culture at the outset of the war.
its not within legal purview to force someone to continue doing something, is it?
Cyber Monday and Black Friday Are Merging
>standard corporate desktop applications would probably perform pretty well.

Don't say such evil things.

Spend half my days being frustrated by corporate software. .net software that runs on a modern i7 ultrabook with SSD. Doesn't do anything wild (mostly buttons & menus)...yet its bloody slow. HOW???
This.

In Germany, Kabel Deutschland can and does regularly update your cable modem remotely. There's a even a list of "censored websites" pushed down to your own router. They provide a Fritzbox but it's slightly more locked down (feature-wise) than normal so you can't even use it to a full potential.

I bought an Airport and stuck it behind it to at least isolate our home network from this backdoored mess. Good to know that Ubiquity provide a reasonable replacement.
No, because European and Asian schools also have these general ed requirements. Asian colleges have a fairly deserved reputation for being easy.

The real answer is tradition and the reason it's not going away is money and because a 2 year degree in the USA is considered a lesser degree called an associates.
They're also moving towards everything wireless. I can't remember the last time I plugged my iPhone into my MBP. It syncs to iCloud and updates are all OTA.
JEP 254: Compact Strings
No Wireshark? No TCPDump? No Problem
Slack Engineering Syscall Auditing at Scale
Yep, The NES's original rendering is 256x240, naturally stretched to a 4:3 aspect ratio. Since TVs tended to be a little "off", Nintendo also recommended not putting anything important in the top+bottom 8 pixels, so all the important info should be in an area 256x224. The hardware used 8x8 tiles, 16x16 color zones in the background, and could group foreground sprites into 8*16 pairs. Games also triggered various interrupts and flag registers based on tile location+overlap, so you'd need to render at the full size, then scale down for display.
Live coverage of tsunami approaching Japanese coast
According to the article Canada will actually be reducing the amount of regulation:

"He proposes therefore to cut existing regulations on carbon, such as vehicle efficiency standards and carbon dioxide standards that mandate carbon capture for new coal-fired power plants."
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Donald Trump’s New World Order
You'd be called a RINO or DINO (R/D in name only).

People do that. Arguably, the parties used to be more ideologically diverse than they are now.

For example, the "boll weevils" (conservative Democrats) during the 80s aligned with Reagan on more issues than not. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Democrat#1981.E2....)

The Log Cabin Republicans (Republican LGBT advocates) declined to endorse the party's presidential candidate in 1992 (Bush), 2004 (Bush) and 2016 (Trump)...except in 2016 a lot of local chapters that reversed the national organization's decision (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans#History).

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So....there's a lot of deviating from party lines. Candidates have run on multiple political parties at various times. But presumably, you'll usually get the most support if you run elbows with the side that you agree with most. And feigning political beliefs is possible, but ew.
Does your BT hub still contain a backdoor? https://cryptome.org/2014/10/BTAgent-cpe-backdoor.htm
Exactly.

Some beef simply won't be tender like that from that amount of cooking that leaves the center of a steak red to pink! For lightly grilled beef to be that tender, it simply has to be tender to begin with (i.e. even if you consume it raw).

Some cuts of beef benefit from a good 45 minutes in a pressure cooker to be "fall-apart" tender. That's a great approach for stews and such; but of course nobody in their right mind does that to a tender steak.
Opinion: It’s Time to Take Action Against Distracted Driving
Does this mean that the human simulating the Chinese is a Chinese p-zombie?
if counties in Florida are like certain Northern states there are agreements in place between the two parties to run or not run in some districts. Granted in some there is no point to run but then that is an area where its allowed to give the other guy face time.

Watching my cousin go over the ins and outs of moving from city to county was more than enlightening for me, as in frustrating and aggravating. For the most part who gets the seat is all about connections or worse, to get someone out of the way to a place many will think them harmless. There is also "owed a seat" mentality.

tl;dr two party politics has got to go. the level of manipulation at the local level is shocking and more widespread than many understand. there are break out candidates but even some of them are engineered
My point is that if a machine can "create" consciousness through computation, but computation itself doesn't make the result any more real, then didn't the created consciousness exist all along?
They're reporting a 3 meter tsunami is expected in Fukushima.
Undoubtedly due to blocking the UI thread on I/O.
A lot of innovation occurs in Asia.

Also, South Korea has a similar college funding issue as the USA with rising tuition. However it's blunted in Asia because parents are expected to pay for it so the loans are more bearable. Pay and status tends to be seniority based so the burden doesn't fall on the recent grad living at home.
No, the Polynesian colonization of the pacific islands just happened pretty late in history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesia#History_of_the_Polyn...
I understand that you have no opinion about this particular topic, and I like that you are trying to understand how a supposedly educated person can reach the conclusion I reach. By the way, thank you.

> A group solving problems in 169s is clearly better than a group solving problems in 177s.

Sure, but the BBC article is titled "Women 'better at multitasking' than men", which is a deformation. I would have no problem if the BBC article were "Women were 4.6% than men on a given multitasking test", because it would communicate how small the difference is.

If I remember I discovered the article because of a BuzzFeed share titled something like "Yet another scientific study found that women are more clever than men, but they are still grossly underpaid", which is no less a stretch than the BBC article. Every word is factually correct, but they far from describe reality. Studies don't find that women are paid .77 per $1, if you take the time to read more than the title: That's an average all jobs confounded. When a study neutralizes by field, education, experience both in career and in the job, and time spent at work, they are fair to my eyes, but I havent found any yet. Averaging female factory workers with startup founders doesn't mean anything, but that becomes the headline of the newspapers and becomes an unquestionned truth, unfortunately.

The fact that you "can imagine how women can be harassed at work" is the result of hundreds of newspapers making the same mistake in article titles: Have we equally researched and communicated whether men are subject to male-specific difficulties? What if we found a relationship between x3 suicide rate, x2 homelessness rate and x17 prison rate and being a male? Would you start doing something if there was a link? What if we gave funding for those studies a much as we give funding for woman-specific studies?

If we could apply pure scientific rigor to analyzing males as much as women, I would bet my whole life's savings and 60% of all my future salaries that we'd find men are subject to more violence, physical and emotional, and more unfairness than women. If any day you start opening this can of worm, you'll notice that people don't accept your results, saying "because you have a grudge against women".

If everyone could react to the title of such BBC articles by protesting for misrepresentating the study, then the science itself would get more credit.
Instead of looking for anti-authoritarian services to hide from authoritarian government services you should probably blend in with the fish like Mao said:

> The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

It's better to create false identities that are seemingly legit and fully fleshed out, for example: with back stories, and utilize regular services as a normal person would. The key is disconnecting your own identity from the false one. Rather than trusting your security to a 3rd party service that makes a name for themselves on helping people trying to hide their identity, thereby attracting scrutiny.

That being said there are ways to use encryption services in a way to protect your communication but the bar for doing so is very high and most people will either make mistakes or get lazy. Fortunately services like Whatsapp and to a lesser extant Signal are so popular that you could easily blend in using them, while still having high-quality data encryption. Although they both use phone phone numbers for authentication and the device itself is always a weak-link which is why the identity part is so critical.

thegrugq posted an article a long time ago about how CIA agents in Lebanon [1] got caught because they used burner phones in a way that was unlike the way anyone else used cell phones, if I remember correctly: they were turned off the device most of the time except to make a few calls to other phones that were similarly not used often - not in the way normal people make calls. So anyone in control of the mobile operators would be able to ID potential evasive behaviour an zero-in on those devices/people for extra scrutiny.

That type of behavioural analysis that applies to real life can even more easily give you away in the digital world. Which is why it's important to not stand out from the crowd by using services like Riseup when your entire goal is privacy.

[1] http://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/03/12/anonymity-is-hard/
I like a series, English Grammar for Students of X, where X is another language. Don't be fooled by the title; they are great bi-directional references for dual-language learners. I personally have the German [0] and Spanish [1] versions.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0934034389

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0934034222
He called the fire hose a water cannon!
The problem with Apple's internal culture is that even though engineers are brilliant and fully capable, products are designed from the top down.

Apple employs people who are a very passionate about wireless technology. VERY passionate. They just don't get the resources or freedom to take their products to the next level. They have to wait for someone from above to be sold on the idea. Yet, it never happens because the engineers are told to keep fixing bugs and keep things humming along. File a radar, and keep doing your job.

Probably what happened, a few senior engineers got yanked onto the Watch project or this fabled car thing. They worked and worked and worked on it, and left the junior guys fixing macOS/iOS airport bugs. Then when it came time to build a new revision, they noticed suddenly they were WAY behind the market. Meanwhile, engineers continued fixing macOS/iOS bugs, this time for 3rd party systems, and bam, someone in upper management probably asked, "umm, why are we still building our own thing?" They probably merged the OS wireless teams with the driver team and called it a day.

So here we are today, Bloomberg most likely got a tipoff from a disgruntled employee who didn't like they were killing the project.
Im all for helping those that cant help themselves.

Yeah, no. This is incredibly insulting.

I am not incapable of helping myself. I am working damn hard every single day to resolve my problems in the face of a hugely uphill battle that is compounded by sexism, housing designed solely for the rich and a whole bunch of other entrenched barriers to ordinary people making their lives work.

You may be able to pretend that the homeless (and other poor people) are a bunch of utter and complete losers who can't help themselves, but your reply means you either didn't really listen or didn't really understand.

As these problems deepen, larger numbers of people are being pushed out into the streets. Perhaps if homelessness hits 50%, the world will stop talking like it is merely a bunch of fringe losers who need our compassion and charity and realize that, no, actually, the system is deeply broken and actively screwing over a very high percentage of people and chewing them up and spitting them out.

Or perhaps all the rich assholes will continue to be all LA LA LA NOT LISTENING, you must just be defective as it cannot possibly be the shitty company/policies I created that is somehow at fault.
That's one of the main reasons I installed Cyanogenmod. To get rid of Google Now and finally remove tgat annoying text input from my desktop.
I was going to say what I use Automator for in iTunes, but then I read the article and what the author does is pretty much the same thing as what I do.
Thoughts on the UX of Bots (from Chris Messina)
The benchmark used 4M or 12M records per node. For the 32-node test,
that would equate to 128M or 384M records respectively. Each record
consisted of 10x100 byte fields for the total data size to be 4GB or
12GB per node (or 128GB and 384GB for an entire 32-node cluster).

GridDB's write model keeps hot data in memory up to configured storage
limit but will continually write it to persistent storage at the
configured checkpoint interval.
Authorities are warning of at most 1m above high tide levels.

http://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=pacific.TSUPAC.2016...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYXGTCs8wZY

Poor Innocent baby kitten destroyed with fierce water Cannon!
One million transactions per second on a single CPU core
Unfortunately I've had a lot of trouble with the quality of the first and second gen Chromecasts (haven't tried the newest 4k ones). Whether audio cutting out or endless buffering over wireless its always felt a bit janky and unreliable, even after I got the wired ethernet adapter plug. The Chromecast Audio however has worked very well.
> People who do not actually care about learning or thinking

I don't want to waste money in our poorly-ranked, expensive schools where professors aren't even paid enough to live on. I instead utilize the resources available to me online to learn it faster and cheaper, supporting education reform. It's not apathy towards "learning and thinking" to take a more direct path. My goal was to learn to code so I could get a job, I've done it, plenty of people have done it. Do some people bootcamps and suck? Yes. Do some self-taught people suck? Yes. Have I seen people with college degrees suck? Also yes.
Anyone else reminded of FX!32 on Windows NT for Alpha? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32
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Wow. Now I'm wondering whether WoW64 does all that, then - one missed API call reference or data structure and boom goes the 32-bit app.

I actually forgot memory managers were a thing when I was writing the parent comment, and momentarily thought the lack of address space translation would mean all 32-bit processes were stuck in the first 4GB of RAM. AST is indeed more of a thunking issue.

Thanks for the info about Win3emu, that's awesome!
I considered satellite when I first started, but the cost is very high, the latency is very high (I have experience with satellite internet as I've helped design caching systems for cruise ships and other satellite linked networks; while the up/down speeds aren't terrible, interactive stuff is painful), and the places where you can't get 3G/4G data in the continental US has shrunk quite a bit over the past decade or two.

I spend a lot of time in deserts, which have surprisingly good coverage, even quite far from civilization. Being flat, and all, makes it reach quite far from towers. Mountains are problematic, but even then, you can often find a place to park that's in a pocket of coverage...or you can hike or bike to a high point where you can get coverage. And, as you note, mountains are potentially problematic for satellite coverage, as well.
The issue with enabling syscall auditing is the overhead it introduces, iirc some around two orders of magnitude, as in 200000/s -> 3000/s. I would just use seccomp-bpf filters on a per program basis as the overhead there according to benchmarks is much less.
You have a network — everyone has some start of a network!

All of my work has come through my personal network, or as a direct referral from it. I do more independent contracting than freelance work, so if that's something you're open to, I encourage you to reach out to founders and CTOs you know to explore opportunities. That's what worked for me in a "tier 3" startup city.

I would consider any of the marketplaces a last resort from the perspective of a good developer. (People are willing to work for way too little. Think about the advantages you have that those on the platforms don't.)
> other baskets

Which other baskets? There seems to be nothing out there today that Just Works the way Apple products once did. :-(
Sunil is legit.
General Assembly is a boot camp that does this.

ROTC does this for the military.

>Google sponsor some CS students and they sign a 4 year deal with them in return (somewhat similar to sports?

They would probably try to get fired so they can get hired elsewhere for more money leaving Google holding the bag or be lazy as fucks. Non compete agreements are difficult to enforce....you cant create a wage slave and expect it to be enforced by the courts.
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Why wouldn't they have a control group? While it would make intuitive sense that musical training changes the brain, brains also change a lot during childhood, even without musical training.
No money is needed to get the devices to communicate, because the devices are no longer expected to communicate. iOS has been fully independent of macOS (to end-users) for half its life.
Like you, I was surprised that this wasn't part of the author's analysis. VCs are more risk-neutral, due to their diversification. Founders are more risk-averse because they have a stake in just one company.

For example, if a company has an 80% chance of getting sold for at least $50M, the founder wants to make sure that happens. A VC is more interested in the 10% chance that the company could sell for $200M and the 2% chance that it will sell for $1B.

A faster burn rate doesn't materially impact the VC's odds of "success," because companies destined to be unicorns won't be hurt by a faster burn rate. But burning cash makes it much more likely that the company is sold for scrap instead of hitting the 80% chance of a $50M exit (which means life-changing wealth for most founders).
Japan has been mastering the art of picture-in-picture boxes for the last 30 years of television.
Huh? You could also make the case that a website should serve one master, the visitor.

I don't see the difference.
That sounds good.

Here is an idea for you to save space, it's popular in Europe.

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

Saves time and space.
Almost twenty years ago. And while Google hasn't yet been ruled against (outside of Russia), they're under investigation for "tying", the same anticompetitive practice Microsoft was found abusing, in almost every major first world nation.

And while Google bundles it's browser, like Microsoft did, it also bundles almost twenty applications now, which in most cases cannot be removed by the user.

So, yeah, twenty years ago, Microsoft did some bad things, but Google is doing much worse right now.
Ubiquiti gear is just a step above the rest of consumer gear. You can get similar performance and coverage with something like Asus or TP-Link hardware running OpenWRT, but you won't get things like staggered upgrades, seamless AP handoff, nice looking hardware (their AP's use PoE and look like a smoke detector), or a centralized management console. Basically, if you want to run more than one AP, save some money and buy a couple of UniFi AP's. It'll actually be cheaper than top of the line routers, and will be much more reliable.
More and more typical tools work just about everywhere... I really appreciate Cordova and Electron in that regard, putting thoughts of bloat aside. Not much ties me to windows, and even .Net is more portable than ever.
Theresa May will go down as the worst PM in history IMO:

- This

- Article 50

- IP Bill

- Repeal of the Human Rights Act

Is there anything else to add to the list?
and the slow database backend
https://www.ft.com/content/3f290294-0627-11e6-9b51-0fb5e6570...

I agree that Google has not had a court find them an abusive monopolist, but I would add "yet." As someone who watched the Microsoft case start out in the tech press, then move to the mainstream press, and then finally become indictments the similarity to the process with Google is pretty interesting. If you follow the dollars, you can see how much money Google is paying for search traffic which squeezes out organic growth of competitors and were it not for Microsoft's warchest of cash probably would have killed off Bing before it became operationally profitable. And they use that search engine dominance to push the browser of their design which favors their products? That feels very much like Microsoft using their dominance in the OS space to push their browser which favored their products and technologies.
Searle was never able to explain what exactly makes a human brain conscious, other than repeating that it is based on biological processes, rather than mechanical or electrical processes (which he says cannot be conscious). He just explains a mystery (consciousness) with another mystery (why is biology superior - in his view - to mechanics as a way of "doing" consciousness)
I think its a lot worse than this though; it isn't realistically a language for anyone.

Anyone working on almost any task in Applescript is going to be frustrated. In particular, just the ambiguities in the language for doing simple queries on containers makes writing even simple scripts needlessly painful.
Everytime something important happens I notice reddit is a better source of getting an aggregate of information than twitter or (sometimes) news outlets.

Relevant reddit thread for this incident.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5e6jzt/73_magnit...

Also, /u/TheEarthquakeGuy should be posting soon.
Follow that train of thought to it's logical conclusion, and you end up here, via Big Yud: http://kruel.co/backup/Ontological%20Therapy.png

Still cracks me up, that page.

(BTW you should definitely read Permulation City, and the 'sequel' Diaspora. Try not to found any cults tho.)