skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird. IIUC, it looks like they removed (partially?) the spleen to get some room to put an additional kidney, not to replace the functionality of the spleen. Do someone has a link with more info? Can any biologist/medic folk explain more???
More like 100+ years. We've known about this for a really long time.

http://www.snopes.com/1912-article-global-warming/
How anonymous is your vote in the blockchain(s)? And how can you still verify the vote is counted correctly and exactly once while lacking hard proof to others about what you voted?
Uber's product is the company's stock. All of their "AI" and "self-driving" stunts so far have been transparent hype fuel that anyone with the slightest domain knowledge knows have no practical significance.

Their PR department are, as can be expected, top notch though. I especially like how they put a populist spin on their announcements, like the beer delivery (yay, beer!) and now picking up passengers with their proof-of-concept vehicles, to make it look like self-driving cars are already part of their business.
Just FYI

UK: Knocking up - visiting, in this case going door to door to canvass voters

North America: Knocking up - making pregnant
> My point is that developers should wean themselves off linux

I assume you meant to write Windows, or are you proposing everybody switch to FreeBSD or Mac OS?

Still, it's an odd response to someone answering your question of why they use it.
Since the human race is no way near a decline in growth, reducing fossil fuel use is like pissing your pants to keep yourself warm.
Despite how cool Elon's companies are, don't forget for a moment that Elon Musk is just another crony capitalist who likes government money.
>Can any biologist folk explain how this is possible?

Italy
That is what I was coming to post.
This is awesome - thank you! I went through a similar exercise described in your link in evaluating the utility of the tool I described above. This is a nice write up of the logic.

In my case the % occurrence of the defect was very high and the False-Positive cost is also very high so my tool could provide value without being too stellar of a model.
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Considering that Trump thinks higher of business-men than career-politicians, this is actually not that far-fetched.
Seems like he's just asking for their opinion on the actual state of economy.
...college offers an opportunity to enhance your own critical thinking and problem solving abilities, which are paramount to success in some fields.

What does this actually mean in concrete terms? I.e., what measurement could I make that would prove this true or false?
if you're hashing with PBKDF2 and 100k+ iterations, it can take that long anyway.
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I ended up memorizing my home's old WEP key simply because, since I was the "tech guy" in the family, everyone would ask me whenever they needed to add a device (never mind that I was mostly just going to the password booklet and reading it out). Eventually I just stopped needing to look it up. I've since used it in some places, blended with a mnemonic for the specific site. 10 hex characters plus a string might not be the highest-security thing, but at least it's not going to fall to anything less than brute-force.
No, the size of the array doesn't need to be a power-of-2 if you use modulus to derive indices. But you need to deal with the overflow somehow. For instance:

0xffffffff % 7 = 3, but (0xffffffff + 1) % 7 = 0.
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As someone who usually sides against Apple-isms (see my previous comments), I can somewhat understand the logic a little. The analogy I can take is a water bottle, you don't typically consider the amount of water in "how many hours will this last me", you just look at the amount and tamp your drinking rate accordingly.
Perhaps all voting should be public. All voting 100% public. 0% funding from any source other than individual citizens. And even that should be heavily capped. So each individual citizen over 18 can give say $100 dollars and that's it.
Sure, you don't have to. But you can (and many people do).

EDIT: also, the mail goes to one of these places where people are standing around watching the people counting (your community's townhall, usually)
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If you take the time to enter the voting booth when it opens and verify that the ballot boxes are empty at the start, and stay in the voting booth until it closes, you can verify yourself if everyone put at most one ballot in the ballot box. Later on you can double check if indeed every ballot is counted correctly and can thus conclude that at least your own ballot is counted correctly and exactly once without having to let anyone know what you voted.
Get a password manager already, and let it just generate random passwords for you. Typing in passwords is so lame. :) If you are on macOS I highly recommend https://github.com/ravenac95/sudolikeaboss (and by extension 1Password).
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C too offers language features for writing good code, but is also cursed by the power it gives the programmer.

It's fantastic flow controls allowed us to move beyond ASM and its convoluted jumps that can become difficult to reason about.

C++ gave us abstraction models that made reasoning about state easier in many ways, but spoils us by allowing us to try and abstract everything, and still possesses unexpected dangers.

Rust gives us abstraction over memory addresses, protecting us from ourselves, but still giving us some power, but sometimes getting in the way of the programmer.

There is a place for all of these.

I like that my RTC uses ASM, I like that my watch uses C, I like that my word processor uses C++, and I like that my web server uses Rust.

No one must be superior to the other. They aren't successors to each other. I think we find ourselves here: [0], and I think you and I may have to agree to disagree, because none of these languages is perfect, and they all impact each other.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13173723
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You're making a general argument that we should impose injuries to people in order to incentivize them to not produce a negative externality. Not a transfer from them to someone else (like the government) in order to align their incentives, but literally a dead-weight loss, as if the government smashed your windshield in every 10k miles you drove in order to incentivize you to drive less.

Actually, it would be more like the government randomly picked a thousand motorist on the road each day and executed them in order to disincentivize driving. Literally half a million people per year die of smog in India.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...
Have you seriously never ran into a situation where your IDE does almost what you want, but you still have to do some bit of it manually just because IDE can't handle this specific thing or format or whatever? If so you are either spending way more time thinking about your architecture and code before writing anything than most people or your IDE is fucking amazing.

While remembering long button combinations seems hard and tedious and "strain on cognitive capabilites" they really are just chained commands. In the idea world you don't think: "now I just have to hit v4w"+y to copy these things to clip board", but instead: "I'll copy next four words into clip board" and then just execute the commands. Same goes to longer commands, instead of hunting down some hidden feature in your IDE, you can just bang out chain of commands you wish to execute.
TIL! That's good news. We'll see what it does for popularity of the platform.
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I'm pretty sure that's not a satisfactory biological explanation.
Yes, this is just a way to push the problem further away (in time and place). The best thing to do is probably to add some decent filters to capture small particules before they arrive in the air. I wonder why this is not a solution, maybe a prohibitive cost, or patents.
But as i understand there is a workable update-path ( also automated client? Experiences anyone ) - and as far as i am just starting working with angular2 the general concepts are still pretty close to angular1. I stopped developing ng1 about two years ago, because i ran into concerns i couldn't fix - ultimatly breaking my use-case. But all of them are fixed in ng2, so i will give it another run ( with high hopes )...
Complete guess based on [1], but wouldn't

git diff HEAD $(git merge-base HEAD master)

work?

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1549146/find-common-ance...
If you can call for a driverless Taxii then there is some level of remote access. So, it's going to be a concern in either case. However, you can set the car to dial out when it's confused rather than waiting for remote connections which reduces the attack surface.
This is C, not POSIX. POSIX defers to ISO C but has extensions and more strictly defined behavior/return values.

Example (first function I randomly looked at)

remove() - PDCLib won't remove directories or currently fopened files. ISO C doesn't mention directory support and removing an open file is implementation defined. POSIX says it is equivalent to unlink() or removdir() as appropriate.
> The general attack model is what's known as an offline password-guessing attack.

Most of the time these days we're talking about online services or devices where there are practical limitations (or software limitations) imposed on how quickly we can "guess" a password. This is the most important use of passwords, their strength within a hash should be a concern of the proprietor rather than the user.

Specifically using a salt + pepper, and a hashing algorithm that can be made computationally expensive (or use some other finite computing resource like a lot of memory or even GPU power).

> This is why the oft-cited XKCD scheme for generating passwords -- string together individual words like "correcthorsebatterystaple" -- is no longer good advice. The password crackers are on to this trick.

Them being "on to this trick" doesn't defeat it. It is mathematically stronger. The US-English keyboard has 100 common characters on it. A eight year old child knows over 2,600 words. The key to an "XKCD password" is that one letter in a "random" password must be equal to about half a word in an XKCD-style password (e.g. 8 characters = 4 words, 6 characters = 3 words, and so on).

So:

"12345678" (8 chars)

"OneTwoThreeFour" (4 words)

Are equally as secure (still terrible passwords, but the maths works out). That's because, assuming a "bad guy" knows your trick, the search space is much MUCH larger for an XKCD style password than a traditional password.

Schneier is just mistaken, word-based passwords assuming a reasonable length almost always perform better than random characters, and the maths shows that pretty steadily. We ASSUME a bad guy knows what we're doing, that's a given, but again it is still a much harder task for a bad guy even with perfect intelligence.
There needs to be an explicit mode for using 'secure' storage. If you dial in a code that is incorrect it just shows an empty partition. But if you don't put it in 'secure mode' (i.e. just press play) it will show the holiday snaps.

It needs to have a have a default timeout on authentication, like 15 minutes, and ideally a 'zeroise' button to flush the key, or optionally erase all.

I'm reminded of those fake SD cards that say '32GB' and report 32GB but only have 128MB chips. I'd like the opposite, something that says '16GB' but has a hidden memory segment.
Did not see that coming...

The cynic in me says this is entirely about PR, but if it's not, this is a suprisingly positive step in the right direction.

I'm not sure what to make of it and wonder what will come of it.
I have a hunch Trump is influenced by whomever is standing in front of him at any given moment.

His attraction to wealth and celebrity might actually be beneficial to the tech scene here. The more he meets with people like Musk, Cook, Gates, hell even Kayne West, the better in my opinion.

Honestly, I think the Democrats could actually turn Trump into a left-leaning President given enough careful attention and subtle manipulation. The GOP has been in a mode of "our way or no way" the last eight years and it's a hard habit to break. It could backfire with Trump.
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At least his accent is static
That would bring out of the woodwork all the people who disagree that the lisps and schemes have a common syntax as well as all the people who disagree that lisps have a syntax at all.
> most people who clip expensive accessories to their ears don't usually go jogging or commuting through very crowded trains/buses

Get on any rush hour subway in NYC and see how very wrong you are.
Hey look, it's yet another movie advertising campaign masquerading as social politics. Social media takes the bait, because of course they do.
Its trying to change. There is a programme to support digital start ups being developed, a recognition that the single reliance on Oil & Gas is not healthy and significant investment being raised to support next generation energy technologies...who wants to hunt for oil using ML ...we will be opening up a lot of data next year so if you want to know more drop me a line at steve dot harrison "at"scotent dot co dot uk...but I do understand that NZ is lovely...
Yeah, this is such a huge issue it's worth mentioning twice.

When it comes to EVs, Ford's efforts are afterthoughts at best. They just take their existing hybrids, drop a underpowered-and-oversized battery in the trunk, and ship it to California. It's easy to have the biggest lineup (in terms of number of models) when you aren't actually putting any thought or effort into the EV portion of any of the vehicles. Ford doesn't really make EVs, they make compliance cars.

Chevy has plenty of issues too (the Spark EV, for instance). But in contrast to Ford, Chevy also sells some real EVs. It's immediately obvious that someone at Chevy spent more than 5 minutes thinking through the Volt / Bolt as an electric vehicle for people who really want an electric vehicle (and not just a compliance car) before it was shipped, which does not seem to be true of Ford's offerings so far.
> The car has all those cameras covering the outside of the vehicle

This raises a good point i never thought about. If in some day all of our cars have self driving or self aware features, then that means nearly all locations in the city are within reach of cameras and possibly microphones. I'm not "a paranoid" about privacy stuff, but that is quite impressive nonetheless.

The future is going to be quite interesting. I always thought we'd end up with cameras on every street corner monitoring everything. I never thought our own cars could become every present monitoring devices.
Gotcha, thanks for the clarification. I guess I don't use very many "exotic" packages, so I haven't had much of an issue with old LaTeX files not compiling. Though, I also rarely have to go back and recompile them.
It might even be possible to use multiple key-combos and select one depending on the circumstances. Perhaps this way the adversary gets some info and sets you free again.
Any capitalist likes any money. Being crony or not doesn't change it.
> counting ballots is rather boring

So is pulling down a lever and watching spinning wheels. Permit placing bets on the outcome. Turn it into entertainment. That always works. And if money is involved, people will triple check. [oh the Humanity. I forget now if this comment started as an /s.]
I worked for a State government about 10 years ago. Some asshole managed to lock every single user's account by having a script attempt a login with an invalid password 10 times. Nobody could work for ~7 hours.
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I was kind of wondering that as I read the article. I went in expecting it to be some sort of modified jet engine that sucks crap out of the air and sequesters it or something. Then reading I thought "wait, are they just shoving all the pollution further away?"
Yes, they said that in the email they sent about self driving service:

> I heard there is a camera in the car. That’s correct. To learn more about how we can improve the self-driving experience for our riders, your trip may be recorded.

When picking up a ride they notify it's a self-driving Uber and let you cancel for free.
The biggest problem human drivers have in winter weather is simply driving too fast. Self-driving cars won't get impatient and will presumably never exceed safe speeds for given conditions.
The Italian link has more info. Thanks. Autotransaltion: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%...
Because "you get what you select for". Instead of getting more of the chemical, you'll get a host that has hacked and disabled your error checking code.
I don't know if this is a good idea (really, I know very little about this, save having read about the concept a long time ago), but everyone jumping to the conclusion that this must be a bad idea should look up thermal inversions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_(meteorology). As I understand them, they prevent the dispersion of smog, and create much denser pockets of pollution than would exist in a city that didn't have a thermal inversion.

So it seems like one reading of the situation is that most cities "make the pollution someone else's problem" in the sense that their pollutants disperse in a way that pollutants from cities like Delhi don't.
It honestly fits his MO perfectly I think. He very much values enterprise leadership over political experience.
Downvoted for what? For trying to find solutions instead of complaining over something that probably no one is going to experience nowadays.
Knowing what one voted opens the door for coercion. Think of family members wanting you to vote a certain way. If you vote anonymously you can never prove to them what you voted, which protects the voter from any social, religious or other external pressure one might feel.
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We need to get someone intelligent to follow him at all times.
maybe this IS the role he is playing? It's likely he has the ear of the president elect.
nice. election day isn't even a holiday in america.
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The base AI that came with the card gaming engine that we developed agents for during university was called "thumb"...it always played the cards closest to an imaginary thumb of the hand holding the cards. Some people played 10+ games against it thinking it was really impressive :D

More sophisticated rules based card game agents can actually look very good unless you play a huge number of hands against them (depends on the game structure though, trick taking games work well, poker agents can usually be understood quickly even though an agent that simply plays very aggressively usually looks strong for a bit).
That's a common strategy for Intel: get the instruction out the door and let programmers build on top of it, and then in the next revision, make the instruction fast.

One benefit of this strategy is that it makes it more difficult for 'other' x86 vendors to maintain binary compatibility if the industry leader is constantly changing what 'binary compatibility' means.
Lots changing....

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We are working on a programme for digital founders, working on opening up the oil data so that data scientists and hackers can have a play at finding oil and creating lots of opportunities for folk of a similar mind to meet, mingle and work...its too late, but we are hopeful.

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You could also ask someone to print it out and send it to you by fax, if that's your vibe.
It has it, i use it, and people are FUDing based on hearsay or worse, their own failure to look things up.
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Remote job. I worked there for a month and a half and was constantly mobbed/bullied by the CEO. Code had zero documentation, no functional specs not even auto generated swagger docs for their rest api. No other backend developer. Previous developer only had 25 tasks open, out of which he finished 11. I was getting question marks on whats app when I would turn off my skype at 6-7pm, while working since 8am, getting questions like are you alive the next morning before I would wake up. I would not have mind him bragging if I didn't roll out a new heavy feature with massive tests, fixed 12ish bugs and added couple of small features in less than a month without any docs, help etc, the code base wasn't small. I got my access removed on a Sunday at 3pm, while I was working on the code as a sign of good faith, even though I had a serious tooth/cyst surgery on thursday and should have been resting. That just blew me away. I am missing out on a two week salary. While, I would let this go since the sum is not 10k, my gut is telling me not to let it go due to the sheer principle. However, I do not know any lawyer that would be willing to pursue something like a half month worth of salary, and I probably would not do that myself.

I want to act ethically - I still have the source code in a zip file, but I have deleted the copy I had unpacked and was working on, I still have the api key to their redmine so I can pull tasks out via atom feed etc. I do not want to do anything unethical. So far I have done the following.

* Spoke to the CEO, that ignored/stopped replying after I have asked for my money.

* Sent an email reminding him that he owes me money and that I will talk to a lawyer and pursue this - without a reply.

What can I do?
Usually when I'm writing a ring buffer, it's for tasks where the loss of an item is acceptable (even desirable - a destructive ring buffer for debugging messages is a fantastic tool). As such, I simply push the read indicator when I get to the r=1, w=1 case.

Using the mask method is slick (I'd cache that mask with the array to reduce runtime calculations), but it's definitely going to add cognitive overhead and get messy if you want to make it lockless with CAS semantics.
(from the press release)

> Members of the [President's Strategic and Policy Forum] will be charged with
> providing their individual views to the President — informed by their unique
> vantage points in the private sector — on how government policy impacts
> economic growth, job creation and productivity. The Forum is designed to
> provide direct input to the President from many of the best and brightest in
> the business world in a frank, non-bureaucratic and non-partisan manner.

There are an initial 16 members on this council, all current or former business leaders.

I wonder if having both Musk and Kalanick on this council signals anything about Trump's position on driverless car regulation, or will otherwise influence it going forward.
There's documentaries and other documentations. The one I saw showed a husband and wife fishing out of the sewer near a hotel. They take the gunk, boil it and then fry their street foods. Can't go there.
Google is about platforms. The auto industry will need a common standard and platform if V2V is going to happen.

Wouldn't Google want to be first in line to get something out into the field? Morphing Waymo into a V2V base would be a smart thing to do IMO.
Indeed. Though I don't think they intend to maintain them. The article cites donated 'retired' engines.

So this is an experiment, or a P.R. stunt. But if they'd take this seriously, it'd be so weird to estimate the maintenance costs. $5 mil per engine, 3-4 months uptime, 2 months downtime for rebuild so you'd need multiple engines, constant sandblasting by particles sucked in the turbines.