skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's designed to identify economic regions. The way they do that is to graph all the connections between cities and cut the least-connected ones until 50 clusters emerge.

It doesn't, as you say, mean that someone on the edge of a graph commutes all the way to center---after all the drive time for some of these routes is more than 8 hours.

You could argue that choosing 50 clusters is arbitrary and it would make more sense to severe connections below some threshold "quality" and see how many clusters meet that criteria.
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> seems kind of lazy for journalism

Note this important comment at the end of the article:

... we've really got to get back to writing about
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budget should probably take it from here.

This is Cracked. While their writing is often a lot better than their clickbait headlines suggest, they are still primarily a comedy/culture based site. This story is way outside their usual style, and they know that.

Why isn't this story being covered by other reporters that do have experience investigating government, technology, the oil industry, etc? Cracked is reporting on this because it's important and the only coverage the larger media has given to the pipeline protests has ranged from "nothing" to "reading the police press release".
I haven't received any spam at all yet, so I can't comment on how their spam filters compare to Gmail.

I receive more spam in my inbox than in Google Mail (I used Google Apps), but it's not extreme. Typically two or three spam mails per week.

Of course, you get a lot back. As you say, I better web interface and standards-conforming IMAP.
The electoral college makes a lot more sense when you think about electing a President that represents the states, rather than the people.
Yes, failures were pretty common. According to this article, the Lockheed Constellation averaged 2-3 engine failures per year:

http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/longest-airline...

And from what I can dig up, the Constellation had one of the more reliable engines at the time

According to this press release, the GE90 engine which powers the 777 has a mean time between failure of one million hours:

http://www.geaviation.com/press/ge90/ge90_20120119.html

If an airplane had four of those engines, it would expect to see an engine failure roughly every 30 years if it was flying 24/7. That makes it two or three orders of magnitude more reliable than the Constellation engine.

One visible consequence of this is that it's now common to see twin-engine airliners on long overwater routes far from any emergency airport. It used to be that these routes were served by airliners with three or four engines, because the risk of a twin losing both engines before it could make the long flight to the nearest airport was just too high. Thus the popularity of the 747 on Pacific routes. These days, the risk of losing two engines is low enough not to be a worry, and aircraft like the 777 can serve those routes.
Hmmmm.. 4 pro surveillance comments in this thread so far from a user account created 13 minutes ago...

Astroturf much?
So:

"Galois Field arithmetic forms the basis of Reed-Solomon and other erasure coding techniques to protect storage systems from failures. Most implementations of Galois Field arithmetic rely on multiplication tables or discrete logarithms to perform this operation. However, the advent of 128-bit instructions, such as Intel's Streaming SIMD Extensions, allows us to perform Galois Field arithmetic much faster. This short paper details how to leverage these instructions for various field sizes, and demonstrates the significant performance improvements on commodity microprocessors. The techniques that we describe are available as open source software."
XMPP exists. Most major IM networks are built on it, but without federation and without being-your-own-client.
That doesn't have to stop them. Europe's borders are also constantly redrawn, even in the 21th century. Next to the usual independence movements and annexations there's also a number of land swaps that happen due to referendums or in order to produce more sanely shaped borders.

I guess the key is that the initiative has to come from the individual states. If it was dictated from the federal level it indeed wouldn't work
Thanks for this post! Perhaps I should make it clearer that I've built directly on top of tokio-core, which is the lowest level of the tokio stack.
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The dataset includes things like NYC-LA, so it clearly includes non-daily commutes as well.

The final clustering excluded trips between points >=262 km from each other though.
The creation of Maine from Massachusetts shows that there is a way to redraw the borders of a state already admitted to the union. It may not be an efficient or repeatable process, but evidently it can happen regardless of how many times you say "states, not provinces!".
That website is from 2001 though
Open redirect in bulk edit
While I do not disagree with Fowler's criterion as being one of several to consider, The ability of function (and identifier) naming to make code "easy to understand at a glance" is frequently overstated, including in this article. Once code reaches a size where it is moderately complicated, the reasons for some action being done in a particular way are not necessarily locally obvious (or obvious at all.) One common reason for this is that things are being done in a particular way to conform to a contract that is relied upon in multiple, disparate parts of the program (and any reasonably large program does have such contracts, even if it was not produced by an explicitly design-by-contract methodology.)

For a flavor of how this works, read the article [1] below, in response to Tom Cargill's classic article 'Exception Handling: A False Sense of Security'. Even though the code example here is small enough to be understood in one go, I doubt that the reasons for it being the way it is are immediately obvious to most programmers, unless they have been primed by exposure to the issue before (note that the first answer given was not entirely correct.)

[1] http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/008.htm
Seems fair. I like it! Will definitely give this a shot.
Scale it for your own voting requirement.

Maybe Bitcoin will fit as a template, maybe it won't.
Can you take the blockchain as an idea , and start with an empty one?
Reading this I was immediately reminded of the Del Rio Water scenes from Sleep Dealer [0]. I find the prescience of that film quite remarkable, although I suppose events like these have played through before, just without the technology aspect.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Dealer
https://www.academia.edu/1276752/The_causes_of_brain_enlarge... didcusses that bigger brain could have evolved as it was easier to keep brain functional under intense heat.
I've complained to T-Mobile a lot about their policies and the responses I get are basically "we can do whatever we want". I'm glad to see the FCC cracking down as these companies have been walking all over them for too long now.
It'd be a radical departure, I think there is a good chance that it would also improve governance.
Source code for evaluating decoder-based models: GANs, GMMNs, and VAEs
I have worked with people who commuted from Sac to Oakland or SF a few days a week.

edit: Original post said Sac, not Chico...
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04273
If you want fair voting (one person - one vote), instead of rich voting (one dollar - one vote), you absolutely must map actual people to their voting mechanism.

You could, for instance, create 1 billion private keys, and distribute them individually among 1 billion people. And then they would vote by signing their voting choices on your voting website. Of course, you don't even need Bitcoin for this scheme.

It's much more complex than that though, since you have to deal with things like

1) Private key theft

2) Private key sales (rich people buying individual votes)

3) Issuing new keys to the new voters

4) Blocking keys of the dead voters

5) Make sure your DB of everyone's private keys doesn't get stolen

6) Not issuing multiple keys to the same person

7) Making sure individual voting records don't become public, only the aggregates

And all of these organizational things are much much harder than the secure voting code.
READ_PHONE_STATE is precisely what the app in question uses.

https://github.com/harjot-oberai/MusicStreamer/blob/master/a...
If CA were to divide, this would imply that two more Senators would be added to Congress, and coming from this region, it would imply more representation of the west coast ideas in congress.
I would imagine their commute data finds the area problematic.
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Wow, thanks so much! End of part 2 is so amazing :). Looks like I can wait for the translated version before I buy a print :)
> There are deeper reasons that readiness was chosen over completion as a model, but I won't get into that right now.

If you've got some time, would you go into those reasons a little bit? Thanks!
I don't know about the Russian system, but the Chinese system is much closer to individuals being citizens of different regions than the U.S. system. Residency in the U.S. is simple to change and unrestricted, and most effects are immediate (though some in-state tuition requirements can take longer).

In contrast, in China it is difficult for rural workers to change their Hukou, and as such they are often stuck with major disadvantages even after they move. A rural worker in Shanghai might live as a second class citizen there for years, because they're not considered to be officially Shanghainese. This isn't the case in the U.S.
There's also a screenshot of an iPhone lock-screen in the Cracked article (running iOS 10 too), but it's dated November 11. It seems odd that it would appear in an article on December 01.
Yes, potion. It's a better rewrite of lua, as luajit.
Same op and data layout as lua, just with a simple method jit (luajit does tracing and optimizations), plus a msg send based OO.
My memory is fuzzy, but I believe this depends on an issuers and acquirers. There are acquirers who do not check for anything but card number, expiration date and optionally CVC. And there are issuers who do not have AVS (address verification) support, which I think is almost all issuers outside the States.

Most modern payment gateways will enforce CVC check, and require the name to be present, though.
Fast food chains aren't primarily sole distributors of other businesses' food.
So much for "drain the swamp". More like "build the biggest swamp ever".

I'm not a Clinton supporter, and in this election both candidates were horrible, and the following seems almost cult-like. They seem to believe everything.
Yeah, I'm not sure how people would handle having half of their guns made illegal, having to learn new traffic laws, having you taxes completely change to the point where your state income taxes can go from 0% to 15%, your house becomes illegal because of different building regulations, public schools become charter schools, marijuana suddenly becomes illegal and you're a marijuana farmer, and this happens every 10 years or so. It would be chaos and require a fundamentally different kind of government organization.
My religious belief is based on several categories in this post - the universe is created by God's observation of it, as God's experience, and this universe exists [in comparison to God] as much as our own experience of our reflection is real. And God is the ultimate reality, and our reality is merely a reflection of Him/Her. I.e. By analogy, As a man observes himself in the mirror, a reflection is created.

And since all the intelligence and conciousness on Earth is part of this reality we experience, and Earth is such a small part of this reality, being more stars in the universe than sand on Earth, this reality is very intelligent and conscious. And this only illuminates and reflects the eternal and infinite power of God, the One, the most High.
Anybody can recommend a cheap printer for home use?
I'm surprised of no mention of mapping <esc> to <caps> -- it's such a sweet modification to Vim. I'd do it regardless of Apple's touchbar announcement.
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This used to be correct, in Android 1/2.x. It no longer is, there is no compelling reason for it to need it now that there are audio focus APIs.
I think for a "titanothermal" system, you use the right density hydrocarbon as the working fluid in the "boiler", and 3-D print the components out of H2O :-)

Except water ice isn't a very good heat conductor, so the evaporator / condenser might have to be something else. Ice could be used for other parts, though.
Agree except (5) - if it's even possible then you're already fucked. There should be no such thing, by design
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13094317 (and another submission less than 30 minutes earlier!)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13094317
Not GP, but iiuc he is just stating: In order to prevent these kinds of race conditions you can just use any regular locking mechanism. (As you could with many other cases where you'd like to introduce atomicity manually.)
Remapping caps lock to ESC has been my preferred method for this, I'd suggest giving it a try!
It actually is the classic definition of peer reviewed! The paper on Zerocash (renamed Zcash) was published at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy:

http://zerocash-project.org/media/pdf/zerocash-oakland2014.p...

It's a peer-reviewed conference and basically the top venue (along with Usenix Security and ACM CCS) for academic computer security.

I'm not sure what you mean by "for something that ground-breaking"?
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One major school of thought in formal methods is the type theory tradition. The one-sentence formal methods interpretation of this program is that types are theorems and programs are proofs. The idea, basically, is to choose a type system that is expressive enough to encode interesting properties. Then, if your program has that type, you know that your program is correct with respect to the specification that is encoded in the type. It turns out that there are type theories in which arbitrary mathematical properties can be encoded and proven, so this approach is very versatile. Systems such as Coq, NuPRL, Idris, and Lean are in this tradition.+

Obviously, there are also other approaches to formal methods that are not built upon type theory. However, my experience is that the type theorists have been incredibly productive, so if you spend enough time doing formal methods you'll probably find some work done in the type theory tradition that's useful or relevant to any particular approach.

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I'm not a type theorist and have reason to believe that certain type theorists would perhaps disagree with this characterization for reason that would be rather difficult for a non-type-theorist to understand, but hopefully this gives you a rough idea.

Also, it's worth noting that those in the Milner tradition see their agenda as being far more than just one approach toward formal methods, and also as not being principally about types. But thinking about that tradition in terms of Coq et al. and props-as-types is the best way to understand its place in Formal Methods.
I might have done the due diligent poorly, is there any alike service (twitter auto reply) around?
I wonder, is it wise running NSA scripts on my computer, but then again, most probably the NSA has already backdoored it.
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The LZW patent expired more than 12 years ago, and I'm sure most people would rather be able to produce a fully-compressed animated GIF rather than an RLE-encoded one. I wonder if they are really holding on to their anti-LZW stance, or if it's just that no one has bothered to update the programs and the web page?
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My understanding is that tricks aren't copywritable, but performances are. So magicians have sometimes successfully sued each-other over copying not just a trick but their delivery of said trick. That was the justification for the Penn and Teller lawsuit mentioned in the article

But I think the issue with the site discussed in the article is mainly just copyrighted material:, books, videos and the like.
I doubt your implication that they've broken the TLS layer just by having a honeypot. It sounds like they are taking advantage of exploits to own the phone itself based on their power on/off ability and may be stealing credentials straight out of memory. Or they are putting up a fake gmail honeypot as well and grabbing the passwords from there, but this seems less likely since most people use apps on their phones. Worst-case they actually do have a Google certificate and have in fact broken Google's TLS.
You're expecting a lot from cracked which until recently was owned by Demand Media. Having worked there, I wouldn't trust a single thing they put out.

Edit: I don't mean to say it's not possible this happened, just you should take their reporting with a grain of salt.
Gmail credentials are supposed to be delivered over an encrypted connection. Controlling the network should be insufficient to see passwords in transit. That said, passwords are a poor form of authentication that is prone to interception by poorly configured clients, HTTP downgrade attacks, and typosquatting login forms. I wouldn't jump straight to "0day".
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Unfortunately there are no plans to support Linux :(
> The FBI can break into your house so long as it gets a search warrant. So why shouldn't it be able to hack into your computer with a warrant too?

The huge difference is that when FBI breaks into your house you always know it.
jk works pretty well. Actually faster to type than jj
The article talks about the period "between 1830 and 1870". Karl Marx was born in 1818, socialism as an idea only began around the 1850s, and actual stable governments on socialist principles didn't happen till the twentieth century.

Attempting to frame this as a socialist vs libertarian issue, as you appear to do, is seriously ahistorical. Furthermore, I'm not sure how a solution arising half a century after the period being talked about it supposed to be useful to the people living during that time. Similarly, if a solution to climate change follows the same timeline and is discovered 50 years after we cross the tipping point, how will that be of any use? The point the article is making is one of short-term vs long-term thinking.
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You don't really need to swap the keyboard to swap layouts and in fact it can help with learning to touch type when you are unable to rely on the markings on the keyboard. You might also want to consider going with a more dramatic change if you want to find something really convenient in the long run and don't mind losing QWERTY.

I'm using COLEMAK with a customized layers from Neo2. Neo2 would probably be a fine option if you want to write in german and COLEMAK with Dreymar's symbol layers might be the option I'd start with solely for programming if I wanted a ready solution with some support from OS vendors.

Look up TARMAK for an easy way to gradually move to the new layout If you decide to go for COLEMAK. It's much better for retaining most of your productivity during the process than just swapping the whole layout at once.
True, but even without Moore's Law, using neuromorphic chips instead of general-purpose CPU/GPUs would likely be much more efficient. In the meantime it makes sense to use large server farms to emulate candidate neuromorphic architectures.
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I mapped <esc> to jk, though I don't use vim that often.
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> You are shameless alright

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This is why I'm religious.
I would be interested in helping out as well. What are your goals for the project? Contact me.
Self-evidently it is possible to gather a high quality repository of knowledge; it's been done many times in history.

I suspect that the real solution is an absence of secrecy - indefinite hoarding of information is no help to anyone except those who want their egos stroked by the number of "things" they have, and knowledge that nobody can access is barely knowledge at all.

As far as noise goes, you can never hope to rub it out completely. There will always be transcription errors, deliberate mistruths and gaps - the most you can do is carefully curate the repository to make sure you catch and repair as much as possible.

Essentially, the closest thing we have is probably Wikipedia. I don't know if that's especially complimentary to us as a species.
Speaking of radio... one of the water protectors has been flying a small drone with a camera to try to monitor the pipeline progress. He explained that sometimes this was difficult because he would lose control when the drone was within a small-ish (10-20m? maybe?) radius of a specific building or work site. The drone was programmed to auto-return if it lost signal, so the operator was usually able to regain control a few seconds later.

Does anybody know what legal status is for jamming? I believe the FCC usually considers interfering with other transmissions to be some sort of violation, but it's been a very long time since I studied radio law (my amateur radio license expired >20 years ago).
> By thinking about death – even the seemingly unbearable death of one’s own child – within the much wider context of a series of natural and inevitable processes of birth and decay that permeate all aspects of the cosmos, from microbes to galaxies, we might be able to gain some consolation that this is simply part of a much larger natural order of things.

This strikes me as a little bit similar to the comforting fiction that the article criticizes. Certainly disease/suffering/death are patterns, but patterns point to underlying mechanisms that can be understood and potentially controlled, not just accepted fatalistically as "the natural order of things".
Putting quotes around Einstein discovering spacetime is insulting and totally incorrect.

Hindu cosmology is based on religion and supernatural concepts, it is not science. It's interesting that Hindu mythology included references to a multiverse and other concepts that sound similar to modern theories. It's also interesting that science fiction writers have foreshadowed future achievements, but Jules Verne is not a scientist.

A lot of scientists are inspired by fiction, that doesn't mean you start putting their accomplishments in quotes.