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Great scientists including Oppenheimer and Einstein drew inspiration from Hindu texts, the Vedas and Srimad Bhagvatam goes into very specific detail of how the Universe was created. They go into detail of how many Universes actually exist in the causal ocean, these are created and destroyed in an instant, but their lifetimes seem an eternity to us inside the Universe. i.e space time being curved and all that. Hindu texts went into this detail long before any other scientists "discovered it" and Aryabhatta a Hindu scientist also elaborated on this.
For many researchers, "understand" relates more to the underlying math. Things like "what kind of convergence properties and guarantees are there" and "formality, what can this model learn and not learn"?
The signature scene did not make it to the film I saw, and the whole scene where she writes unaided and which is explained afterwards was a bit lacking. It should have been a pivotal moment, but was too easy to miss the significance of it.

OFC my opinion.
All right, we had an ecological crisis in the 19th century, and the collectivist attempt to fix it (i.e. state intervention) gave us wars, inhuman labor conditions, another ecological crisis at the other side of the world, and no solution. The actual solution came from technology (Haber-Bosch a hundred years ago, and phosphorus reclamation from sewage today).

Now we're facing an even bigger crisis, but this time, the proper solution for sure is to have an even bigger collective (all the states) prescribe a solution. So far, it's actually given us expensive and unreliable electricity, useless ethanol fuel that competes with food for arable land, trade in carbon indulgences, and again no solution. Yeah, sounds legit.
Here come the tin foil hats with the extremist title that is intentionally misrepresenting the truth.

Information distribution on the web is broken. Where's the startup to fix that?
I'd suggest there has been far better coverage of the protests that can be found from non-comedic sources, but you're not going to find insightful coverage from the mainstream news.

Overall, the best coverage I've found has been from TYT Politics. Whilst I dislike the clickbaity nature of the main TYT channel, the TYT Politics channel is surprisingly decent. Here's one example of the coverage from TYT Politics, giving clear evidence that the police have been lying to the press:

http://youtu.be/TarWzK2Swxs
Why do you ask this question? Just curious...
I get to hire the team.

Good point re: equity, I was trying to say compensation is competitive for both situations.
This way it always ends with "Well, schools have to teach that, too". While critical thinking surely is something schools should teach, for the foreseeable future there will be an underclass and we should take some intermediate steps.

I think the root of the problem is that attention equals money and you get the most attention with shocking news or extreme viewpoints. There are some media types less dependent on money, which seem to work better. I think we should think about ways to expand their audience.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. When I first started learning Rails, I found that a lot of the automagical stuff hindered my understanding of how Rails actually worked. After building a few projects in Sinatra, it was easier to see how much of the heavy lifting Rails does for you behind the scenes.
My dream job is CTO / founder at a tech company. I've attempted a few ideas but nothing's taken off so I'm trying to do the next best thing in someone else's company.
The point is that this is an intentionally misleading title and story. This fake news stuff is out of control.
I'm not totally sure, but I'll take a shot. The second link describes these as "loss events." So it's not just tracking storms and floods in general, but rather storms and floods that result in some sort of economic loss. Since this is from an insurance company, I assume it's tracking insurance claims.

As you note, there are a ton of confounding factors. Growing populations and increasing wealth mean that the same number of storms would be expected to result in more losses now than before.

This seems to be the crux of the dispute between the author here and his critics. The author has analyzed the data and come to the conclusion that the increase is entirely due to these non-weather changes. His critics see that some of the increase is left over, and thus due to climate change, after accounting for all other confounding factors.

Note that a small change in the climate could result in a large increase in the number of loss events. For an example I find easy to understand, consider the influence of sea level rise on tropical storms and hurricanes. Making up some numbers, imagine that an area suffers major damage once the storm surge hits 10ft, which is expected to happen in 1% of storms. If the sea level rises by 1ft, then major damage happens at 9ft of storm surge. Since these events can be expected to follow something like a bell curve, we can expect 9ft storms to be far more common, maybe 10% of storms.

Again, numbers totally made up, but the point is the idea that small changes in severity can potentially result in a large change in frequency. And this combines with other effects, like climate change potentially pushing the distributions farther out (so that perhaps 10ft storms become vastly more common, because what used to be a 9ft storm gets slightly intensified) or a shift in severity causing a net increase (worse storms in region X plus milder storms in region Y could result in more total storms being over some damage threshold).
So this is where people live? https://xkcd.com/1138/

Nothing going on Montana?
Are generators really an advanced feature? I've used them pretty often (instead of returning a list) and they're pretty simple.
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For me session manager sessions (in firefox) are the new bookmarks.

i try to split different fields of interest into separate windows. Then i save that window as a suitably titled session and close the window. If i need to add a new tab to a session, i use the "append to session" feature. That way i dont clutter up my bookmarks or my primary firefox session.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13086908
Please learn first how cryptographers attempt to solve problems in voting,
and, more importantly, what these problems actually are. Blockchain is just
a timestamping protocol. Voting has nothing to do with timestamps and
everything with (1) not knowing how your neighbour voted and (2)
validating that your vote was properly counted.
How is StreamScale a patent troll?

They're most definitely not an NPE, non-practicing entity. They developed their technology and they sell it. Simply because they're asserting their patent rights for technology they've developed doesn't make them a troll.

I can understand, even if I don't agree, that some people are anti-patent altogether. Fine. We part ways. But if you're going to incent inventors+developers with patents to take risks then you're going to have cases like this. And folks, everything looks obvious after the fact.

Is what StreamScale did novel? Apparently yes. If you have a counter-example to novelty then an ex-parte review will probably be a slam dunk. Also, the paper passed the Usenix papers committee review and they kinda like novelty.

Is what they did non-obvious? Intel announced these instructions in 2007 and, by the Usenix authors' own admission:

>I have verified that StreamScale's solution is faster than GF-Complete or Jerasure in at least some respects.

There's more to non-obviousness than performance but I'm only looking skin deep at this. GF field theory ain't my thang. What it does look like is that the Usenix paper, of which one of the authors works for a competitor of StreamScale, can't even replicate what would be supposedly obvious.

StreamScale filed their patent Dec 30, 2011. The Usenix paper is from 2013.

Troll is not the word I'd use. This just looks like a first to file patent.
Another one of those technologies which hasn't kept up with the evolving tech landscape.
Because Vice's motherboard is a pillar of journalistic integrity.
Do you mean to say the Zcash trusted setup shouldn't have used MPC? Or do you mean to say Zcash itself is fudnementally flawed due to the trusted setup?
> I don't see a point in your comment

The point of mathetic's comment was to point out that a lot of ("computer science") mathematics goes into the design of the compilers and interpreters that software engineers use every day. And that it's rather ignorant for a user of one of these modern interpreters or compilers (even of a dynamically typed language!) to claim that this math doesn't matter or isn't useful.

> Remember the last couple of bug studies?

Which studies? There have been at least half a dozen high profile empirical studies about type systems in top tier conferences in the last 5 or 6 years, and probably dozens more in journals/conferences I don't follow.

The empirical evidence is predictably mixed. E.g. Hanenberg has published papers cutting in both directions re: usefulness of type systems.

Also, there's still very little empirical evidence about many type systems. There's a lot of Java vs. X comparison papers, but very few rigorous empirical studies on Haskell or SML or OCaml or Scala, for example. And I'm not aware of a single empirical comparative study on a dependently typed language.

> They didn't show type systems having an effect on reducing number of bugs

Actually, there are empirical studies that show type systems reduce bugs.

Also, as a separate matter, your summation of the available evidence is inaccurate to the point of absurdity. There is not a single shred of empirical evidence for your unconditional claim that type systems don't have an effect on reducing bugs. That hypothesis has never experimentally tested. Furthermore, the empirical data we have suggests that hypothesis is wrong.

Science works by looking at all the evidence and coming to informed conclusions. Cherry picking the N out of M studies that confirm your priors and then generalizing their results far beyond the parameters of the actual study is the opposite of scientific thought.

> but instead showed only significant correlation being number of LOCs.. And yet dynamically typed languages require fewer lines to express the same thing.

My OCaml programs are very often far shorter than my Python programs. Again, your unconditioned claims are getting you in trouble.

You probably mean to say something like "Java programs are usually longer than Python programs", in which case you have a reasonable critique of Java's type system, but not of type systems in general -- or even of the half dozen type systems that are radically different from Java's and in wide-spread use in production environments. And in fact, most adamant supports of type systems are probably some of the most ardent critics of Java's type system, so rejections of type systems on the basis of Java comparisons are a bit of a straw man IMO.

If there's a single thing that ALL of the various empirical PL design researchers could agree on, it's that the sort of unconditioned claims that are made in your post should be avoided.
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Thanks. It's pretty much just a part of my life at this point.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13084229
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I think this depends entirely on the Extradition Treaty with said country and what offence has been made. Just because what you are doing is legal in you own country does not mean you are necessarily protected from extradition if you break a law in another.
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13098432
It's pretty unfortunate that there is absolutely no federated, popular, and secure payment system in the US due to consumers and merchants simply sticking with older systems simply because "it's what we've always done."
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I'm sure that President Trump will be a wise and careful steward of his all-pervasive intelligence apparatus.
No chance the EFF is pushing one specific extremist agenda. I'm sure they are doing their best to give a neutral unbiased description.

EDIT: For the downvoters, its like trusting peta for a neutral stance on animal welfare on a farm.
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This will be an everlasting topic, as being inside this system we call a universe, prevents us from looking outside of it, and thus deriving the outer rules that drives it.

Universe, uni verse, one song.
"Absolute" timestamps. If you're using a double to represent, say, epoch time (technically relative to the relatively recent 1/1/1900), your precision has dropped off to about half a microsecond or so. I read GPU profiling results in nanoseconds.

You can work around the problem - time since program start, time since capture start, etc. - of course, this can lead to fun edge cases, where e.g. Windows 95/98 crashed due to a 32-bit milliseconds timer rollover after around 50 days. For comparison, pow(2,53) nanoseconds is only a little over 100 days. Of course, a floating point value won't roll over in quite the same way, but...

The problem is surmountable if you throw enough edge case handling at the problem. Force the devs to be vigilant about choosing the necessary precision, the proper time to measure relative to, for each possible application of anything time related, etc...

... or you could just throw more bits at the problem, and suddenly my accounting software can accurately calculate compound interest on both a 400 year old debt, and a 49 nanosecond debt clearing HFT trades, if that's your kind of thing - without as many edge cases to worry about.

EDIT: Use pow(x,y) formatting since HN collapses x double-star y to simply xy ...
This is most likely the merchant choose to enable 3-D Secure for large transactions so they're not liable for frauds.

3-D Secure flow is separate from the normal authorization flow and require the merchant (or payment gateway) to set it up. The merchant (or the gateway) is required to build or purchase an MPI from an approved vendors to make it work.
It has been reported, yet the government has still not backed down in attacking its own citizens over legal and morally correct actions.

The news should continue to be reported until it is no longer news, especially given the large scale anti-American technological effort being mounted by our own government to protect the interests of Big Oil.
At this stage, this book is an introduction to introduction to introduction to machine learning. It has not math/theory background. I'm curious to see the final product. However, I'm worried about the bias to NN. His plots on perf for NN vs traditional algorithms is too general and false depending on the problem.
> Where's the startup to fix that?

Right, because companies whose founders' sole goal is to get a big payout and move on is going to fix journalism/news/information distribution.
You could probably get a phd in math using only textbooks with some variation of "introductory" in the title, so when dealing with math textbooks I recommend ignoring any words that normal people would interpret as indicating a certain level of difficulty.
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Yes. My belief is that the balance of power has already slipped too far against us and that actively attempting to change the situation is no longer possible without tearing down the bulk of modern society at the same time. I may be viewing things too negatively, but on balance I think that I am not.
I (and the rest of the team) don't really see it as a feud at all. There's always room for more languages, and we're fundamentally pluralists. There is no reason at all that Rust and Go can't or shouldn't coexist just fine.
Well, perhaps the New Yorker knows it attracts a multinational readership, and perhaps it also is aware that the rest of the world tends to view the US customary system of weights and measures as rather silly.
This seems pretty hand wavy. I'm not seeing any actionable insights from this.
He's probably right about Global Warming. We "solved" the soil depletion issue by making it irrelevant. Topsoil isn't relevant to large-scale industrial farming. Soil is tested, petro-fertilizers in the appropriate quantities are added, and voilà, massive crops. The dirt is mostly there as a growing medium. Its closer to hydroponics than traditional, topsoil-fed farming.

If we take a similar approach to GW, Magic 8 Ball says Outlook is Dim.
> People are very willing to convert time into savings (on housing). And sometimes they have no other choice.

May be, but they aren't commuting from Chico! That's a 3 hour drive in good traffic.
You folks are talking about HSTS and Browsers, but with phones there's a quite simpler attack vector for grabbing email credentials: IMAP. If the FBI has a certificate for imap.gmail.com that is signed by a CA, they can MITM that route.

Even for my 2FA GMail setup (where each non-2FA enabled app gets an app-specific password), doing IMAP MITM will get the app-specific password, which would enable further IMAP access.
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> Does it just mean to be unfettered by thoughts of what has been/could be?

As said wonderfully by Marcus Aurelius: http://directingmind.com/meditations#8-36
But again, it's not causing harm.
> When people think Cal has too few senators for it's pop., one solution is to divide.

Isn't the whole point of the US Senate to prevent the more populous states from passing stuff against the interests of the less populous states? There is no such thing as too few senators for a state's population.
Edit: 2000 engineers and 8000 repos

http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/10/12/lessons-learned-f...
"The tricky thing about stuff like this is that the majority of people at protests (and in the general population) are incredibly tech illiterate."

Combine this with the fact that even those who are tech literate are in fact illiterate in many ways. As a result, sadly exploitation becomes in many ways trivial and virtually undetectable even when targeted at the literate. This year as an example it was discovered that if you use proxies on iOS or macOS because you are trying to protect your privacy, that opened you up to having your HTTPS communication fully intercepted:

http://fusion.net/story/337861/false-connect/

This flaw dated all the way back to the earliest versions of iOS. What else is out there? Here we are in 2016 and we've not even mastered 22 year old proxy technology when it comes to secure implementations and worse, as a technical community, told people that using anonymizing proxies was a way to protect themselves. There are likely hundreds, if not thousands of ways to intercept and tamper with traffic including HTTPS what we are not aware of yet.
> A 4 hour drive is fairly reasonable

Erm. No, it's not. I'm sure there are a tiny percentage of people doing this out of necessity, but spending 8 hours a day commuting is not even remotely 'reasonable'.
Not just nominal! The Constitution ensures the sovereignty of the states by restricting the federal government to a limited set of enumerated powers (among them: foreign policy, national defense, regulation of interstate commerce) with all other powers retained by the states (10th Amendment).
Link to the rebuttal by Bax, for completeness: https://stephenbax.net/?p=275
Not a lot of people in the Rocky mountains or the plains.
...and yet for some reason
there are a lot of programmers
who believe their job is to
produce more code. Fuck those
guys. Seriously.

I hope this isn't a potshot at languages that tend to be verbose.

Coming in cold on a program that someone else has written in a terse programming language that you know well, still sucks. You can know the language, but if you don't know the person doing the writing, terse code can be all but opaque.

With some languages you need some apriori information before attempting to read a thing. Whether it comes in the form of a vulcan mind meld with your best friend, or cultural mores and in-group conventions like managerially enforced coding practices.

Sometimes this is less of a problem with verbose languages, which promote habits and tendencies to be adopted by the author which attempt to indicate intent within code, although any turing-complete language can disappear down a rabbit hole, if the author willfully tries to confuse the reader.

Consider the expressions:

var _something = (data isNaN ? "string" : -1);

In this first example, who the fuck knows what that asshole intended? But there really are people actually expect a declaration like that to be useful?

Compare to:

private static String something = "string";
private static Integer aNumber = -1;
private static boolean numericDataType = false;

Okay, possibly also terrible, and apparently redundant at first glance, but maybe there's a mud pit ahread of us, and some redundant tethering will come in handy.

At least I can see indications of intent, and a separation of ideas.

Maybe the second example involved more keyboard activity, but I can understand it at a glance.

The first example, while shorter, is something I might re-read 3 times, question why anyone would do that, and then find myself re-reading it 10 more times while I debug the all-but-guaranteed garbage that comes immediately after that albatross.
This precisely fails to answer the question. Voting is commonly put forward as a use case for blockchains and indeed Bitcoin, so a simple "how on earth does that even scale" is hardly an unreasonable question. A helpful answer would be something more than "lol read up n00b" and probably more like pointing at a real-life working example.
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Do you guys know of a decent overview website for all these new hipster currencies?

But I mean a realistic one, including info such as:
- how much it has been pre-mined.
- why is it being pushed ( research, corp goals, etc)
- limits (does one need a GPU to use it or can it execute on a CPU)

I know of few places that have lists, but I get the impression that people start currencies lately as a shot at getting rich if they take off, and not from a realistic need to do so.
I don't think so. The phones connect to a honeypot network and send over their credentials. The person who controls the honeypot now has their gmail password and so can use it to login and change their password.
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The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Congress was a confederation of sovereign states. When that failed, the sovereign states ceded their sovereignty to form a new Federal government with a constitution that supersedes state law. There was a war fought over this.
> whether the amended rules purport to allow American officials to search computers in foreign countries?

How relevant is this question really, if we now know that they've been doing all this already for quite some time? What does it say about their need for legal rules?
There are people who commute for clusters of days, though. If you work a three-on, four-off schedule, commuting in to start the three and out when the three are done is perfectly reasonable for a distant job and doesn't preclude having a healthy home life, too. There are also people who are mostly remote and only come in once a week for face-to-face meetings.
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