skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I didn't say troll => NPE. But I will say that NPE => troll and StreamScale isn't an NPE. You might be able to say they're a troll via some other approach, just not NPE.

The University of Tennessee Knoxville isn't a one man shop. The paper even has three authors. What I'm freaking amazed about is that the UofT intellectual property office didn't send back a registered letter saying:

You don't fuck with them. You fuck with us.

As for the Wikipedia definition, they also go on to say:

Patent troll is currently a controversial term, susceptible
to numerous definitions, none of which are considered
satisfactory from the perspective of understanding how
patent trolls should be treated in law.

> If a particular technique for a problem isn't novel

Ok, if you're going to attack the patent on novelty grounds, you have an easy case to make:

produce an example from before the priority date

Obviousness is harder; you can argue obviousness both ways. But I think the Usenix paper (6 years after Intel's announcement) makes an obviousness attack harder and not easier.
I think the key observation is this: everything you say is true, and yet many rural areas still have terrible economies.

It's hard to square that circle -- that rural areas are heavily subsidized but yet still economically depressed and under-served. Hence, comments like the one from VLM above.

Of course, it all boils down to economic fundamentals: cities and metro areas create a network effect that's difficult or impossible to compete with, no matter how well subsidized rural areas are.

The fact that rural areas suffer in spite of their greater representation and massive economic subsidies is a difficult pill for a person from a rural area to swallow. A "they are screwing us" mentality is a much more compelling narrative.
And this is exactly right, popping out some PIC code is "easy", no need to figure out Cairo or Webkit or some third party graphics API, pipe it into plot and boom, picture.
I also tried to figure out how some parts of the editor work and why they are so fast, but I couldn’t figure out much from the assembly.

Those who are interested in text editor design may find this series and the links therein useful:

http://www.catch22.net/tuts/neatpad
Yes exactly like this, and reminding myself of this singularity helps me become more concious of my own heart and mind and I hope I will not be led by my ego, greed or lust. That's all. In this universe I'm insignificant, and yet every action I do take reverberate across the entire universe in ways I never intend and can never imagine. And I think my belief helps me to reduce "damage" or "suffering" my actions may cause.
Off topic: I love vim and use it for everything from writing love notes to assembly. Lately I've picked up using Vue.js with the new .vue files using ES6. What code highlighting plugin have y'all successfully used for the JS/ES portion of the file that does highlighting well and doesn't just stop working if you scroll up and down in the file? It's driving me a little batty.
How Redis suits Centrifugo
These aren't exactly big secrets. Anyone can get copies of The Linking Ring, the magazine of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, and see ads for many of the tricks that require special props. (There used to be a competing publication, the "Magic-Gram", but it may be defunct.)

Realistically, if there's a video of a trick, you can usually figure it out. If there are multiple videos from different angles, it's easier. For that matter, there are explanatory videos for most of the big tricks on YouTube now.

I once saw a professional magician having a miserable time performing on the stage on the Santa Cruz beach. He was doing a levitation, and in brilliant sunlight it was embarrassingly obvious how it worked.
Senate Responds to Anti-Semitism by Targeting Students Who Criticize Israel
That's my setup.

vnoremap <C-c> <Esc>
inoremap <C-c> <Esc>
inoremap <Esc> <nop>
vnoremap <Esc> <nop>
I prefer to use <,><e> to escape out of insert mode.
Elon Musk tops Bezos and Zuckerberg as most admired tech leader
Oakland is more of a systems security conference, so peer review here speaks more to the architectural thinking, and says little about the deeper math. Same thing for Usenix. I'd want to see somewhere like Crypto/EuroCrypt, or maybe IACR, to call it peer reviewed. Even then, it may pass largely on novelty & prestige.

(For background, I used to publish at this conference and others, did my share of paper reviewing, and my colleagues were working on e-cash crypto around the time of bitcoin's rise.)
That was one of the points in the article. Since the merchant implements the limit and not the bank itself, you work across N merchants and you get plenty of attempts.

And if the merchant is trying to be "consumer friendly" and accepts a relatively high number of failures before blocking the transaction, the allowed number of attempts is probably staggering.
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> we have a long tradition of support the urbanite and crush the ruralite whenever possible

er, what? the opposite is true. at the federal level we generally give more consideration to sub-urban and rural needs, which i agree with, because cities are social and economic bubbles.
Completely valid comment. They've already been told to STFU until the regime change is complete. The FCC has been awesome under Tom Wheeler. It won't last much longer.
Yes absolutely! We started with a port of the AS3 runtime for DragonBones but were not happy with the code quality and the performance. Therefore we started the StageXL runtime for DrageonBones from scratch. The downside is that the new runtime does not support one or two of the features of the official runtimes. But animations like the one you showed in your example are completely covered. If you need something that is missing, just talk to us here: https://github.com/bp74/StageXL_DragonBones

Edit: Animation run at 60fps and look smooth because those animations are using bones and key frames. The runtime interpolates the motion of those bones between the keyframes.
When you say "fuck those guys" is that a gender neutral idiom? Not sure about contemporary English.
They mention unsecured Wi-Fi?
Either way, openly attacking citizens accounts seems... surprising for a government agency confronted to peaceful protesters?

I don't doubt the US (or German, or UK, etc) have the technical capacity to do such things, but would they risk it be discovered for such a "low" target as a natural site?

If true that probably means they have much more powerful tools at their disposal for "true emergencies"...?
Yeah, I had the same thought when I saw my own region, Chattanooga, TN. This map shows our whole city as commuters to Atlanta. Almost no one commutes to Atlanta from here. It's a 3 hour drive without traffic and a 5 hour drive with traffic, and the only time Atlanta doesn't have traffic is 3 AM in the morning.
Are the subsidies over-rated? We have energy coops (which we pay for entirely); we have a road system (the most expensive parts used by everybody); there are some agricultural supports (insurance programs?) but only a tiny fraction of rural residents are in farming. What else?
you can make the site look 2017 and still work at incredible 2005 speeds by just sprinkling some CSS3
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I think that x64dbg is pretty good http://x64dbg.com/
As a customer they are also entirely to your disadvantage as in any 3dsecure transaction the customer is liable for unauthorized transactions as the assumption is they are the only ones with the ability to authorize. This makes disputing charges extremely difficult for the customer, and shifts liability from the bank and merchant to the customer end.
Even if NASA had made every link a 56K GIF they would have slowly lazy loaded with an image outline and Alt text shown allowing you to navigate.

Compare visiting a simple blog post on many sites now. You visit the page, get a brief period of NO text while some slow JS loads. Then all the page assets will bounce around as other elements and JS is loaded, then there's a major refresh as the lazy loading font shows up.

The images are now often deliberately blurred and detail free (Medium) - to show how clever they are using lazy loading. Well, when it triggers successfully, which I find isn't that reliable. Had they provided a very low res starter image rather than blurry obfuscation it'd give something over progressive JPGs.

I'd say the user experience has worked out to be a lot worse. Of course it's higher res and prettier. That's avoiding even mentioning the many who still pay for bandwidth.
AFTER WATCHING THIS YOU’LL Never EAT ANOTHER HOT DOG AGAIN
I don't have any basis for equivalent comparison, but it feels fast. Hitting around ~20000 sprites in their bunnymark test before it drops below 60 FPS. Also, for whatever bad rap it got, I still miss Flash. :)
My impression with Crypto is that people who focus more on the applied side of cryptography have found it difficult to get papers accepted there.

[My own background is firmly in systems security – I've had papers at Oakland and CCS – and I'm not as familiar with the crypto side]
No one's really good at it. There's nothing wrong with thinking (or being thoughtful), but there's a difference between choosing to think about something versus reflexively judging, labelling, ruminating etc. Not being the master of your own thoughts, instead just being along for the ride.

To me, 'living in the moment' sounds awfully similar to the goal of Vipassana Buddhism: accurately perceiving reality (i.e. enlightenment). In that sense, 'living in the moment' is a passive rather than active act: experiencing your life without reflexively (often unconsciously) judging or labelling your experiences. Neither ruminating over the past nor obsessing over the future. Observing without judgement and thinking only when you choose to. A 'skillful' state of mind.

I doubt many, if any, of us are able to perceive things this way, without deliberate cultivation of a non-judgemental mind. I guess that's why the phrase is 'practice meditation'; it is literally 'practising' a specific way of perceiving the world (one that doesn't come naturally to us), just as you have to practice any other skill.

If this all sounds a bit strange, maybe even untrue, give this a try: go somewhere peaceful (a park, your backyard etc.) and just sit down somewhere and 'watch the world go by' for 5 minutes. Try to observe impartially, without labelling, judging or letting your thoughts drift to work, your social circle, what you're having for dinner etc. I suspect most of us (myself included) wouldn't make it past 20 seconds before some thought intruded. If you're a real masochist, try actually meditating for 5 minutes. It's torture.

If you try the above, I think you'll realise how little control you have over your own mind. I don't know much about stoicism, but maybe the stoics had a similar notion to the Buddhists. The word 'stoic' has modern connotations of outward calm and impassivity, despite the boiling emotion within. That sounds exhausting, maybe even impossible. But perhaps the original idea was similar to Buddhist philosophy: to master your own thoughts, and outward composure (maybe even 'happiness') would simply be a side-effect.
That is not true in every state. Colorado requires a vote of the residents of an area to form counties, most recently exercised when Broomfield County was carved out of three other counties.
Well, technically, all scientific knowledge is belief. There is no "knowledge" as some guaranteed to be correct entity. Everything is a belief in the brain. The difference between religious belief and scientific belief is confidence level. What we refer to as "scientific facts" are beliefs with very high confidence level due to countless testing in real world. It may not be apparent that laws of physics are a shared belief, because we are so certain of them being true, but there are plenty scientific results that are barely higher than religious beliefs. Especially medical, sociological studies, etc.

And to continue on your point about religion - just because someone somewhere thought up of some idea, that translated to modern language and interpreted in modern knowledge framework sound similar to some of the obscure theories that are not yet falsified is nothing but unexpected. It would be hard to believe that from countless works of fiction that were produced during thousands of years around the world, none of them gad anything that resembles some strange theory. It literally shows nothing - neither that these unverified theories are right, nor that some ancient people had some superior cosmological knowledge we are just discovering right now.
Don't oversimplify. You understand the difference between treating a symptom vs treating a cause. In a complicated biological system there are long chains of correlated events, and throwing a drug at one part of a chain should only be considered an attempt at understanding and controlling the process.
The difference is this; when you go back to redefine 1, you don't change the nature or meaning of the number 1, it still fits everywhere it did before, in all cases operates like it did before, all the changes happened in you, in your understanding of it, 1 changed in absolutely no way, if anything, now it's bigger.

The same analysis applied to god had the opposite result. It shrink the idea of god, so much, that now no one defends the notion of god directly causing earthquakes any more, certainly no one on this thread, as you are all too smart to try to back that up. God has been at most, relegated to the position you just voiced. Certainly that is the only position left to retreat, because you have stripped god of so much, it has become so vague, an almost synonym with everything and truth, whatever that means, that you can't really refute an idea that is barely an idea.

The two are not really alike.
I primarily used Reddit for my news in r/technology. HN covers a large area of news and generally the comment section isn't people trashing one another but having an honest conversation/discussion.

Plus I've found far better apps that work when I'm on shit ("unlimited") data.
Nice! I think I need to do something like this.
Having checking archive.org it seems not to have changed.

NASA's main site from 1997 also has a nice interface:

https://web.archive.org/web/19970711085416/http://www.nasa.g...
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I hear your point about detaching, and I agree that these are cases where it has gone too far. It's a balancing act, and when we bump up against the edges we're more than happy to hear from the community and adjust. We don't always make the right calls, but when we don't we need the feedback to be constructive. Obviously we can't have this kind of commenting here on Hacker News.
So if they hack the Brazilian government, they're punished with poor vacation options? This is proportional?
I wonder if the concept is similar to what Buddhists call 'equanimity'...

EDIT: nope, looks like they had a different word for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equanimity#Stoicism
I would recommend you watch it in a theater (if it's still showing where you live), if only for the spectacular soundtrack.
The open source secret society
>Consciousness is a balancing system for the colony of cells that just want to pass their genes into the next generation.

is there anything in that which requires that it be a physical biological substrate rather than a model? Can't computer models follow the same behavior as long as that's how their environment / system is set up? (More specifically, can't they also have brains made up of cells connected to each other, in a way closely analogous or even an exact simulation of chemical pathways?)
Yah I'd read that, so I looked for signs of a piece table, but couldn't find any. Which doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't using one.

I suspect that Sublime Text either doesn't use a piece table, or uses one that only breaks pieces at line boundaries. The reason being that the highlighting relies on running regexes on one line at a time, and it uses oniguruma for this sometimes, and oniguruma requires the entire haystack to be in one array. However, Sublime doesn't highlight super long lines because it would be too slow, so it could break its piece table on incredibly long lines so that editing them could still be fast.

I was also looking for fancy rendering and highlighting tricks, but couldn't decipher any.
I have never looked up a MAC and had it not show up. Maybe in 2007 you were using an old copy of the file that came with your distribution.
US states are not merely administrative divisions (like provinces...

As an English Canadian I can hear in my mind Quebecers saying "Tabernac!"
Keeps the format consistent, yes. Also, word completion for characters, scenes, and other conventions (INT./EXT., DAY/NIGHT/... for slugs). Also, probably the most important reason, it gives you consistent numbering and revision system. This is important when doing a production breakdown. think of it as a reporting tool. There's reporting as well. How many action there is vs dialogue, how many characters and which in a scene or script, which scenes, which props per scene (not every tool does that), etc. Some of these reports are done externally in apps like MMS6 or Gorilla.

You could, and people do, write screenplay in Word or whatever. Trouble arises later when you need to go through revisions and work with other people that work in those production-oriented apps. For that reason alone it's better to do it all in a specialised app.
Indeed it is fast :) And yes, many AS3 developers are missing the capabilities of Flash. Therefore we built StageXL on top of Dart to have a similar developer experience.
The next big leap in space travel will use hypersonic planes
Trane: a language for automating data science [video]
I'm not really on board with the whole anti pipeline narrative but this kind of action is really inappropriate. The FBI can't catch two Russian kids with a pressure cooker before they become a problem but they can spend god knows what screwing around with protesters. If it was just doing "back-end" stuff to help out the state police who should be running the show then I'd be less not ok with it. If it was the typical dragnet eavesdropping bs applied to everyone they see come or go then I'd chalk it up to business as usual but I'm going to call foul on using cell site simulators anything but sparingly. The FCC should be very pissed off about the FBI for this. The Telecom companies should be very pissed off at the FBI anialiating their QoS.
Yah the work day before I did this I actually was using Sublime on a portrait monitor where the line length limit in our source guidelines fit at my font size, but since the shadow kicks in slightly before the line actually goes off screen, it created a shadow. So I was pleased to find that as well.
This. They're worried that if they let their dev's google everything their devs will defect.
An alternative is to generate a bunch of recovery keys, encrypt the PGP key pair with each of them, and store the result (but not the recovery keys). If you go for the 1 password solution this should be a no brainer, but still way too complicated for the utterly non-technical user (so most of them).
“Only the paranoid survive.” – Qubes OS signature mismatch
Research articles on the system are:

http://dai.lids.mit.edu/Trane.pdf

http://dai.lids.mit.edu/Pred_eng.pdf
Any feedback on how well Amazon's SaaS solution for screenwriting [0] works as a replacement for the ever-present Final Draft?

[0] https://storywriter.amazon.com
Research shows material living between classical and quantum worlds
A significant subset of people in the US insist the federal government has overstepped its powers, using "interstate commerce" to inappropriately expand federal authority. With the forthcoming change of federal government, in the years ahead it's likely there will be some paring back of federal overreach. Whether that's a good or bad development remains to be determined.

US states were intended to be semi-autonomous regions which reflected cultural distinctions of residents inhabiting the original colonies. The different "flavors" of American culture have more or less persisted, even in today's mobile population there are still nuances that make the cultures of states unique.
I agree, that is why I wrote mistake in cursive. But there is a difference between blind belief, like the one described on op's comment and, as you put it, scientific belief.

Ignoring that difference is the mistake.
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I used to call myself an agnostic, but one day about 20 years back I sat myself down and asked, all bullshit and personal feelings aside, which narrative I thought was really true - evolution/chemistry/physics or the invisible hand of spirits. Since then I call myself an atheist.
For real though. We already knew that neurons can do binary logic, they either fire or they don't and neurons higher up the chain fire based on converging inputs.

Also what do those plots actually 'show'. The authors claim repeatedly that the plots show the existence of 15 clusters, but without stating p values relating to any sort of classification for many of the plots.
Positive reinforcement is hardly "radical".
My doubt is how do they hack the computers and how do they know the ip of the target? Maybe they have a secret list of vulnerabilities of linux and windows?
This is an awesome book. I read it online back in 2006 (one of the few books I followed from start to end). Even though I mostly programmed in other languages, the approach and techniques in this book enormously improved me as a programmer.

Thank you for writing this book and sharing it with the world!
a million extra upvotes for this for including the most important feature

Numberwang!
Now we get to play whack-a-mole script blocking.

Been noticing less 'Print' versions these days, too. So much for convenience & 'save the trees' if you want to print out a page without the secondary cruff.
> cities are social and economic bubbles

In what sense do you mean this? Taken as a comparative statement, I find it a pretty dubious assertion.

Suburbs are sort of the ultimate bubble. They suffer from all of the typical things that make cities economic bubbles (a few major employers, geographic clustering based on income, ...), without any of the social or (typically but not always) racial diversity that's common in many cities. Oblig PG link is the one about schooling: http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

The social bubble of rural areas is rather extreme -- white Christians are massively over-represented compared to the rest of the country and certainly compared to the rest of the world.

The economic bubble of rural areas tends to be far worse than the economic bubble of cities, IMO. Cities can certainly be economic bubbles, but at least those bubbles are typically made up of multiple fairly large sectors. Rural areas tend to have between one and three non-service industries -- farming, maybe some natural resource extraction, once in a while a small hospital, and in very rare cases a major white collar employer in a single sector. The echo chamber is real.

If we think in terms of politics, I never have a hard time finding conservatives talking politics in a bar in a city, but I've never once found a group of (US-style) liberals have a political conversation in a country bar. Cities might be as dark blue as the countryside is dark red, but the sheer size of cities means there are still far more conservatives in a given city than a typical rural area of similar size.

Basically, my impression is that cities are only bubbles in-so-far as they contain representation of almost every cross-section of society -- including the cross-sections that dominate rural areas! Calling that a bubble when compared to suburban and rural areas bubbles seems... dishonest.