skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
legal name in which country? name order varies between UK and China. What's a "call"? Whose company? what kind of address?

Following this line of thinking, communication is impossible because everything is ambiguous.
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I see, this is very interesting. Thanks for the link and explanation.
Seems to be down for me.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:93GWNN8...
He just means that great philosophers tend to talk about relationships in the abstract and not historical artifacts that become dated. Murder is wrong is not going out of date any time soon, and yet "murder by electric chair is wrong" is hardly going to be considered a great philosophical statement because it depends on incidental artifacts.
Reading the post made me feel I was reading a P. G. Wodehouse short story set in contemporary times.
A must have.
Like 58% faster than iTerm2 in my Late 2013 MBP retina.

find ~
iTerm2 1m20s
alacritty 47s

where the find command itself uses between 40% and 50% of a core, the TERM emulator process uses is 5x in iTerm2

iTerm 130% (peak up to 140%)
alacritty 25% (peak up to 29%)

I'm very excited with this and I'm going to follow the development of alacritty :)
Slow load but eventually got through.

Here's a direct link to the PDF with examples of the coffee stains provided:

http://hanno-rein.de/downloads/coffee.pdf
Not sure about that. While I am an engineer myself, many among my family, friends, and family friends are artists, including writers, and as far as we've discussed, none of them like these sorts of questions. Even my English teachers in school complained about standardized tests and indicated that you had to game them and figure out what the test writer wants to see.
On the other hand, since these methods are not compatible it will create certain split in the ecosystem.
>I do not think it strange, or snobbish as you put it, that we should prefer to have Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and Langston Hughes in our public schools.

Yet you provide no argument supporting these choices. The only reason Shakespeare endures as well as it does is due to the dose administered to children in the school system.
You're not wrong - I jumped to fedora (which did not have any of the bugs I experienced). But FWIW, many of them already had been identified elsewhere. Fedora has had it's own bugs of course - though minor ones. I have taken the time to raise them within the Fedora community, but I couldn't do that with debian and it's descendants because the system was in an unusable state (the bugs)
The key insight from Adleman is that DNA complement binding allows for massively parallel "brute force" for the HPP. This exploits the fact that chemically, complement pairs will "find" each other given enough time, so if we encode all pairs into complements, then we know that every matching corresponds to a path.

An unanswered (although touched upon; unanswered I suspect because it is in the source paper) question in the paper is: why does this not mean P=NP if we only require O(m) test tubes and "mixing" operations on a formula of size m? The answer I suspect (I haven't read Adleman's paper) has to do with the amount of time it takes for the "mixing" operation to work. I would imagine that as the number of clauses increase, the number of DNA strands in the test tube increases, and the time it takes chemically finding your complement would increase exponentially. I'd be interested in the real answer though.
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I agree with the teacher.
That is not what I said, I said choose treatment not experiment. The mother states that she consulted with various medical professionals in the article. Once you have consulted you have the right to choose treatment.

The article says She consulted with people specifically about the risks involved and was advised they were extremely low. How is that equivalent in any way to experimenting on children????
Xiaomi's locked bootloader is insecure and useless
Switching to an SPA will cause resource problems, if you have leaky memory use (i.e. maps or arrays that continually grow). An app that refreshes pages a lot (non-SPA) will have those bugs masked, because essentially every page refresh is a clean slate (release of memory). Don't blame the SPA-pattern itself for that problem.
> But yeah, commercial CAs are (were?) money printing machines.

Which is how we got Canonical/Ubuntu (and how Shuttleworth could afford to be a space tourist):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thawte
I haven't read a ton of philosophy, but I'm almost always surprised by how different the original is from the interpretations. People are weird and surprising. Textbook explanations smooth out the rough edges. And they always take out the jokes.
Only one ipc primitive (fifo) can be used with man 2 read or write. Sysv ipc cannot, sockets (any domain) cannot (unless there is a kernel interface via /proc or another pseudo fs). What is meant by this saying (and the way it is has been used in my experience) is that everything in unix _looks_ like a file. That is usually meant in reference to the C API which has some r[ec]v|read|write|snd type namespace.
> they'll need to install a keylogger or brute force your master password

Not true, they can simply dump the RAM on your browser while your passwords are decrypted, which is probably the case when you run their malware anyways. It's a completely pointless half measure to encrypt those passwords. Worst case they have to patch it or hook it with something like Frida to do it next launch cycle. Keyloggers just ain't targetted and automated enough for me at least, but it's fairly trivial to just grab what you need from memory and run.

In fact according to this bug, the master password is stored in cleartext in RAM when your firefox is logged in so a simple string search on a memory dump could potentially do the job for someone without even the smallest RE capability:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539608

If you have the RE capability to do one, it's not really any more than is required to do the other. It's not another hurdle. Just doing it at runtime instead of purely on disk.
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Confused. Alexa doesn't order anything unless you do it manually. It just creates a shopping list. So somebody say "Alexa, order me a dollhouse" and the viewers' shopping lists got something scribbled on them. Nobody bought anything.
Charles Simonyi has been trying for over 20 years

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-dea...

http://www.intentsoft.com/us/ <-- in "stealth mode" for 10 years!
Not really - to sudo, your shell would have to be setuid - and constantly fork stuff as you to get user permissions. Alternatively your shell could maintain a separate process for privileged access, but that puts a whole lot of your security on the assumption that your shell has no bugs that might allow escalation.

In short, you could do it, but it'd be ripped out of every server that's been hardened, and for users that don't want to care - they're just running 'sudo su' anyhow.

Speaking only for myself, the thought of my shell having a magical escalation process would scare the bejeezus out of me - and I'm supposed to have root on our boxes!
wrong thread?
Let's Encrypt automation for NearlyFreeSpeech
I pretty clearly said it was controversial, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

That said, moral relativism has a very low status in philosophy. Many philosophers think it is simply incoherent (the fifth paragraph here dances around one reason: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-relativism/#MetMorR...).

It is much more common for philosophers to hold that there simply are no moral facts, or that moral statements are merely expressions of approval or disapproval, or some similar position (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-cognitivism/).
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>>The online stuff was in addition to GP care, not in lieu of it.

And it made no difference.

From the article:
>> There was no significant difference between usual GP care, Beating the Blues plus usual care, or MoodGYM plus usual care at four, 12 or 24 months.

So I would say there was no indication that the online CBT was of any benefit whatsoever.
I refuse to ever pay for their products again because of this. I shouldn't have to call the phone number to unsubscribe from a web product.
- Did not educate myself about market rate for my position.

- Did not negotiate compensation.

- Over-identified with my work.

- Trusted employer to match my level of selflessness.

- Underreported hours worked.

- Did not limit the number of hours worked in a week.
Your are dramatically underestimating the number of deaths due to drug violence. Mexico alone accounted for over 100k as of several years ago. I suspect millions could be a bit of a reach, but it's probably within the range of reasonable estimates. I can't seem to find any good estimates.
There are many other things which are also biggest crime against humanity like human trafficking, terrorism and racism.
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Sure, but what do those functions do? In clojure they manipulate data. That's pretty much the gist of the language: using pure functions to manipulate data.

Almost all the work I do these days as a software engineer is data transformation. Going from a HTTP request, which is data (even the header is a hashmap), and a HTTP body, which is data, into some business logic that eventually writes to a database in a different format.

Even the most complex systems I've built containing dozens of servers and multiple databases, queues, http servers, etc. All boil down to transforming data from format A to format B perhaps with conditional logic applied.

So yes, Clojure is a functional language, but functions are just a tool to be used to get the actual work done of transforming data.
I'm not sure empathy is relevant understanding another driver's mind. This thread is still about driving right?
Clojure's rich persistent data structures together with protocols facilitates functional programming in Clojure. When Clojure is called a data-centric I think most users mean that it encourages functional programming applied to rich immutable data.
> If she had known the answer, would that make the question any better?

Maybe yes, maybe no.

Reasoning here is the implications which goes in single direction only: since she doesn't know the answer we can conclude the question is bad; had she known the answer, the question might be good or it might still be bad.
> He'll write about what he knows. I'll get a glimpse into this life and what it's like to live it. Maybe he has more time for oil painting and reading fiction than any Musk or Zuckerberg I've ever read anything by. Maybe I'll decide to do things the same way he did.

He made and maintains Ruby on Rails and in 2014 won his class in the 82nd running of the 24 hours of Le Mans. Other things he has more time for are listed at the top of http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/
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Huawei android phone uses Alexa rather than Google
> Our culture loves the safety of recurring revenue more and more every year. It's not a technical problem, it's a business one.

Both statements absolutely true. But the problem here is shady unsubscribe, not recurring revenue per-se, right?

What Adobe is doing is pretty low and shitty, and I'm as averse to signing up for subscriptions as anyone, but
software businesses do have recurring costs. The recurring part is actually simpler and more straightforward these days than the buy version 4.0 for $199 model of yesteryear, so I can see why it's popular from the business perspective. Updates and releases are continuous now, they didn't used to be. Forums, online help, support, upgrades, patches, servers, cloud storage & backup, etc. all things that cost and all things that consumers have much higher expectations for than we used to a decade or two ago. Saas businesses all run on AWS or whatever other cloud provider, and AWS charges monthly for their services.

For a business to make the buy it once for a fixed price model work these days, they have to do the equivalent of an actuarial table, and use statistics to guess how much a customer will cost on average, in order to set the purchase price. Customers that cost the company a lot in terms of support and upgrades are actually being subsidized by customers that cost the company less. It starts to sound a lot like insurance.

Looked at this way, a subscription might appear more fair, because the customer is charged for what they use, as opposed to the average of what everyone uses.
They should probably release an americanized version called "swell" - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=swell
Most philosophers will readily acknowledge the pitfalls of early philosophy - many pre-Socratic views are indeed falsifiable, and Aristotle makes all kinds of silly physical qualifications surrounding virtue and its prerequisites.

The view that empiricism is what divides science and philosophy is a controversial one. Many philosophers and students of philosophy (including myself) think that there exist empirical truths in the fields of ethics and metaphysics, the latter of which is not scientifically testable by definition.

I like to distinguish science and philosophy in terms of their object of study - the sciences inform our knowledge of the external world, while philosophy informs our knowledge of ourselves and (the rightness of/the reasons for) our behavior within that world. I don't think that's a perfect definition, but it comes close to explaining the need for empiricism in both fields.
Cl has fset for persisten collections
Please do not use tiny URLs for links; your link redirects to:

http://saces.ly5.ch/saces.pdf
No, but potentially significantly more valuable, depending on how much the product cost.
Mathematicians bring ocean to life for Disney's 'Moana'
It seems to me that most (not all) people who are truly "addicts" are running away from a traumatic experience in their lives. Wouldn't it be more useful of everyone's time and resources to try to help them cope with their emotional distress rather than pile on more by jailing them?

As for people using drugs recreationally - if they're functioning adults then who cares? It's no different than drinking alcohol for a lot of people. If you do it in excess or irresponsibly you can die. Part of being an adult is taking a little personal responsibility.
> If you agree upfront that a correct society should seek to e.g. maximize individual happiness, or maximize economic output, or whatever, there are scientific arguments that would support one policy over another.

And that's the key. How do you define what a 'correct' society should seek to do? What might make some people materially/'objectively' better off may also make them miserable. What makes people happier may make the world worse by encouraging people to 'waste' their lives on meaningless things (like say, virtual reality experiences). What makes most lives better might make a lot of other people happy (the utilitarian issue).

Science cannot say what the goal you're trying to achieve is. That's where philosophy comes in.
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Agreed, but the war on drugs has fueled a lot of those things.
If you name a variable with broad scope "record", though, you deserve hell.
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So let's go straight into calculus because kids should be exposed to the good stuff, and skip going through the developmentally appropriate material that prepares for understanding and absorbing the advanced material.

I'd like to see some scientific studies that prove that teaching the classics, and skipping the "terrible" stuff, is a useful way to teach literary skills, as opposed to pushing a class (snobbery) agenda.
IMHO something is broken with these guidelines and the IDE's we have. Isn't this a contradiction? On the one hand it is argued that long variable names are needed to improve readability. On the other hand tools are needed to read the resulting mess.

I've had to develop team codebases in both Eclipse and Visual Studio, and the experience was not good. Not only were the IDEs slow and buggy, but also the code (which followed the long names cult) was terrible to work with. No cohesion, no separation of concerns.

Personally, most of the time I'm happy to use vim without any plugins. Most time is not spent typing, but thinking about factorization of the program. Depending on scope I mostly use short variables. I don't expect to be able to dive into code without understanding the context -- the idea that this is possible is a misconception.

But it could very well be that the people arguing for long names do e.g. business code (where concepts might or might not be less clearly scoped and cohesive) and people arguing for short names do e.g. more algorithmic code. Without proper scope (ha!) this discussion is worthless.
Thanks! Is there a better way to view these images (with captions) without lots of manual scrolling fit each image on the screen?
I guess he means entropy as in probability of uniqueness. Which is related to length.
I ran into so possible reason recently. Because Linux is case sensitive. So if you're making server software locally you can easily run into a bug where you reference "SomeFile" in your build/package/website locally but on disk it's named "Somefile". Everything works. Then you push to your server and things break.

I'm not going to switch my laptop to be case sensitive but I did just run into that issue.
Indeed. Quit Adobe like a drug and never looked back. I am fortunate enough to have a personal license of CS6 Master Collection but rarely use it. The people that are really stuck are graphic (non app/web) designers because InDesign is the standard and there are no viable replacement...yet. Adobe and Autodesk are both examples of "too big to fail" and it is only a matter of time before some company(ies) come along and take their market for good.
On my Thinkpad's X200 (VGA) and X220 (VGA, DisplayPort), plugging in external monitors has always Just Worked. I've been running Xubuntu on them for about 5 years.

It even worked on the first try from the X220's DisplayPort through a DP-to-HDMI-cable onto a TV.

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I've never had to use xrandr or any command line tool to select displays – on Xubuntu, there's this little graphical dialogue: http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xfce-mini-displays.png that pops up (or you can force it to show by hitting that key on the Thinkpad keyboard with the picture of an external display).

OTOH, I did just a month ago for the first time actually use xrandr, but this time it was because I wanted to write a script that set my windows and monitors up "just right" for how I like it when I'm at the office. I love how easy Linux makes it to do that stuff when I find I do want something automated.
What can Scribus or any DTP system can do that LaTeX/TeX can't?

I haven't heard of DTP, QuarkXPress in 20 years. I'm surprised they're still relevant today.
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Great. Atleast they learnt something after being lost their competitors. Nokia once loved by everyone for its phones but they failed to understand that Android is going to lead in OS race.
I really like my Lumia 925 and the lack of apps was not of problem for me. The apps that mattered were all there. What bothered me was that vendors didn't bother updating those apps or giving it feature parity.

When I dropped it for nth time and the display went dead, I bought a Moto G and have been happy with it (gave the G3 away and bought a G4 recently).

I miss Windows Phone, it was a really nice and fast OS and it looked great to me... but I guess it went the Betamax way maybe.
In addition to baddox's comment, your comment seems to suggest that extremely productive/intelligent people have a duty to society which extends into their private leisure time. I find that burden to be absurd.

If they were enjoying a light marijuana buzz (or a light alcohol/caffeine buzz!!!) during work hours -- or in a way that directly and visibly effects their work performance -- you might have a point.

But even in those cases, I would still strongly disagree with your rationale. The same line of reasoning also justifies jailing people for obesity, which "Has Been Known To Significantly Decrease Productivity". And it certainly justifies jailing people who drink alcohol, since even mild hang-overs have rather extreme effects on productivity. If you're too over-weight or hung-over or high to work, then you should be fired. Not jailed.

But justifying a law on the basis that individuals should organize their private life choices such that they are optimally productive as members of society? That's quite the burden, and if we're going to impose that burden, I suspect we'd have a compelling justification for jailing literally anyone.
A lot of the remarks before she tries to take the test are a lot more damning, but I read her remarks on her attempt the same as you. Plus, there is actually no evidence provided that she got the wrong answers anyway! She didn't say which answers she'd finalize on and didn't give her score, she just went through the familiar process of considering all viable options (and multiple choice format sort of requires that multiple viable options exist at first glance). The article would be much stronger without her attempt to answer the questions at all, but of course would then not have such a good clickbait headline available.

I will grant that it may be bad form for the test questions to ask about authorial intent, rather than about the actual effect the author achieved, and this actually puts the author at a disadvantage here because she is coming at it like a fact finding mission -- what was I thinking on that day in the late 90s -- when they are not actually testing that.
Great analogy.
Sorry. I understand your concern. I used goo.gl for easy tracking clicks. Here the stats: https://goo.gl/#analytics/goo.gl/J22sZP/all_time
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You're getting downvoted because you didn't read the article.
So we have:

a) Not enough evidence that it was Russia!
b) To much evidence, it can't have been Russia!

:)

Remember how Edward Snowden, a low-level contractor, was able to run away with all the NSA:s big secrets? Government enterprises are characterized by cluelessness, political in-fighting and not sophistication.
>THC-Vivarin

Huh?
Have a quick scan through the papers...
Bitcasa Drive appears to have shut down then, but that was only one part of the full service.

There was word that Intel acquired Bitcasa, but Intel has dened this:

http://venturebeat.com/2017/01/05/intel-acquires-cloud-stora...
https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/05/psa-intel-has-not-acquired...
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I can't remember the source, but I remember reading about a case where someone replaced a large hadoop cluster with one node running highly tuned C. Distributed computing comes with a lot of overhead and you might be surprised at just how much you can get out of a highly tuned C application.
You already have far worse (and much more dangerous) neighborhoods in the US.
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