skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Story of Your Life" is horror, about a memetic virus that turns humans into p-zombies. The aliens are infected, and following the meme they infect the main character, who goes on to infect others. Consciousness is impossible unless remembering the future is more difficult than remembering the past, because remembering the future depends on calculations on the state of the entire universe instead of just your own brain, which implies that the psychedelic experience of "everything is one" is literally true. Louise is not human and she is an existential threat to humanity.

The story of the remaining humans fighting back would be much more interesting. How can you defeat an enemy where learning too much about it makes you automatically lose? I read a story with a similar concept: https://archiveofourown.org/works/6178036
I use rsnapshot to aggregate a bunch of machines on my NAS.

I've been intending to for a few months O:-) to then save this aggregated backup somewhere on the internet. Not sure if e.g. tarsnap, or a minimal vserver with rsnapshot or rsync yet again.
IPFS, use a junker VPS you buy for a month. And share the IPFS link via Hacker News.

It should end up in enough caches to be self-replicating after an hour or 2.
OS market is quite fragmented. Even larger comm companies (e.g. Webex) does not support Linux.
Yes, it turns out it isn't #\O. I missed the real #\O at the beginning of the same line.
I'm considering this too, Windows 10 still has some annoying UI inconsistencies but its getting there, and with the Ubuntu subsystem its viable for Linux based dev's without setting up a VM. I mean technically its closer to my target production environment than macOS is.

I haven't spent that long trying it out but managed to get a Rails 5 app up and running without much fuss, I'm with you on it being a game changer.
You've owned several smart ovens? Sounds like they aren't very durable.
I can see how this proves that 20 is possible, but not that 20 is the largest possible, which is what the question asks. How would that be proven?
We're a long way off from a system where a rising tide would lift all boats.
I like to see Ted Chiang's writing ("Story of Your Life", "The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate" and "What's Expected Of Us") as "free will as a perspective", rather than anything objectively existing (or not existing). And secondarily - "free will vs knowing future as a trade-off", not unlike Lagrangian vs Netwonian mechanics, or as rotating space and time in Special Relativity.
Why would a GUI library need a physics engine?
Blizzard blew it from the moment they started downloading/syncing their games via BitTorrent - using their customers bandwidth to support games that they paid for.
IRCv3?
that means changing the design of our cities, and ensure that people who can't use cycling or walking can make use of public transport and / or individual cars if necessary.

The vast majority of people could live in a situation where individual transportation isn't necessary. In fact, cities like London are showing it's possible, simply by making cars unaffordable.
> I'd invite everyone to actually read the story instead of the linked interpretation.... it will destroy your experience of reading it.

Agreed.
WebEx: I have to use a VM on Linux to be able to speak with corporate bigshots <sarcasm>who advocate diversity</sarcasm>.
> If it's so difficult to determine ownership, shouldn't it be easier to release? Throw it up on a free service somewhere and respond to DMCA takedowns in the rare event the owner shows up out of the woodwork.

You just described archive.org ;)
I like the Aeropress, but my favourite coffee production method is the Kalita Wave.

Again, it's beautifully designed - almost impossible to damage, very simple to use, comparatively quick (about a minute longer than an Aeropress for one or two large mugs of coffee), arguably even easier to clean than the Aeropress (invert over bin. Done.). The pouring jug's great, too: tough, well labeled, fits perfectly, easy to store.
C++, especially modern standards of the language, offer far more than OOP features.

/If/ you know the language and tools well, there is no reason that C++ won't be as efficient in space and time as the equivalent C code. C++ offers real gains to be had over C for embedded software, with rich (if a bit cryptic) zero-overhead abstractions, and higher level constructs that can eliminate entire classes of errors.
I'm a big fan of my Schwab account too. But I'm a bit angry at them recently. The standard protocol for an expired card... I believe... Is to send a new one a month before expiration. I was caught in a foreign country without my Schwab debit card of choice. Spent thirty minutes on an international call only to be told that my card was expired. I know, I know, I could have inspected my card a little closer. I feel that this was a cost cutting measure on their part...
Webgram

Gramlet

Widgram

Teleget

Teleget

???
It is written by PR people ("Corporate Communications") not engineers. It is deliberately pitched in a non-technical and self-inflated way, presumably on the assumption that members of the public enjoy a jingoistic self-congratulatory tone. Maybe that is the only way to get that kind of press release into the press.
Solvable by basic information analysis

> answer at least N out of the 23 questions correctly

This represents S(N) = \sum_{i=N}^23 \binom{23}{i} acceptable states of correct answers out of 2^23 all possible states, which requires -log_2(S(N)/2^23) bits of self-information transmittable with a code of alphabet size of 5400. Therefore the largest N that satisfies this is 20.

23 - log_2(S(20)) = 12, log_2(5400) = 12.399
A question to RF people here - if I want to snoop on the 433MHz and 868MHz signals in the air, what's the cheapest setup I can get that would let me do some useful work? I've been reading up on the RTL-SDR thing, but there seems to be so many variables to consider that I can't even estimate what's the minimum set of hardware required, and whether the cheap modules are of any use.
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I suspect the mix of CPUs in use back then had an impact.

After all, you had the 6502, Z80, 68000, and various x86 generation all bouncing around (the 486 was introduced in 1989, this game was released in 1993).

The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive for example had both a 68000 and a Z80 inside it, while the SNES used a 6502 clone.
> It should not be a real phone. i.e., No baseband or actual cellular connection

That's going to severely limit the usability of the device. If you want to make a device for practical security, you'd need to find a way to isolate the mobile network chip. IIRC, better USB 4G dongles are standalone and expose expose either serial interface for PPP or an USB ethernet device, so the attack surface is limited.

If you build the phone around the chip from one of these, and make sure all data is VPN'd (and voice is VOIP'd), I think you should be able to contain cellular/baseband related attacks (to be clear, the baseband is still vulnerable, but won't be able to make the jump in the phone proper, and will only be able to see an encrypted data flow).
It seems "Discover popular books" would be more accurate? Within my specialisation, it didn't uncover the hidden gems, as much as the usual suspects of academic textbooks that are dreary as hell.
This might help: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12999934
The last part of the review says it all.
Imagine a person was engaging in civil disobedience and speaking to the public in order to eliminate segregation laws and gain the right to work higher paying jobs, to sell products to white customers, and similar financial reasons. I could equally well characterize that as a "calculated money grab".

Various businesses also didn't want to deal with the (costly) hassle of segregation, and opposed segregation for that reason.

Would that mean they "aren't fighting a moral cause"? Were the only people who were fighting for a moral cause the white northerners who had nothing to gain?
You can actually, on a per application basis: http://m.imore.com/how-make-function-keys-default-touch-bar-...
Yeah, just to balance out the arstechnica view of things, the register article goes in to some of the detail:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/10/csiro_patent_trolls_...

Long story short: CSIRO did participate in the process through a third party (the first company they licensed their tech to). They also agree to the IEEE's request that they would licence the IP on 'fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms' (note: not free). When they approached vendors and made an initial offer of $4 a pop, vendors refused to pay and ended up in court. Honestly I think wifi vendors simply misjudged the probability of CSIRO taking them to court if they didn't cough up.
General macOS users don’t have a need for F-keys, true. But the people that use F-keys, typically use them frequently. In my IDE, some shortcuts use F-keys. I use them regularly.
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As an aside, for those that may not be aware, id Software has source code for some big games on github.

https://github.com/id-Software
Thanks for the clearest (and still mysterious) explanation so far in this thread.
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Heyo! Founder of Baremetrics here.

Wanted to touch on a couple of things in this sub-thread on Baremetrics.

It means a lot that literally _anyone_ has ever used Baremetrics. I started it over 3 years ago to scratch my own itch and hot dog it kinda took off. So, I'm grateful...certainly for the nearly 700 happy paying customers, but also for the others over the years who's experiences were less than stellar.

We've had some growing pains, but the majority of the painful ones are far in the past.

I did want to address the specific things folks brought up here, just to clear the air.

* Regarding changing our pricing "a lot"...we've changed pricing just once in 3 years. And that was based directly on customer feedback.

* Regarding us being "notoriously slow for the past 2 years"... We had some temporary scaling problems over a year ago, but that's just not the case any more. We've got a whole suite of server monitoring tools that show we have, in fact, not been "notoriously slow for 2 years".

* Regarding us being "inexperienced"...busted! I've never built a complex analytics platform storing and processing in near real-time terabytes of data! ;) Every single entrepreneur is winging it. You'll make some good decisions and some bad ones. That's life. :) But to be clear our team is very equipped and extremely talented. We're just solving a complicated problem...much more complicated than anyone who's never built this sort of thing before realizes.

At the end of the day, though, there are obviously some people who haven't had the experience they wanted with Baremetrics. I hate that that's the case, but we're constantly improving and innovating...most of the time for the better.

If anyone has had a less-than-positive experience with Baremetrics, please email me. I'd love to chat: josh@baremetrics.com

Thanks again for all the feedback!
Ughh, you're making me feel old. RSS is (was) an amazing system for tracking website updates over time. It lost out to Twitter and Facebook (which don't remotely replace the use case), though it is still what makes podcasts work.

I highly recommend Inoreader as a great RSS reader.
If I hadn't seen this comment I would have posted something similar. I can't see why it should be downvoted.
I think one of the important points the story tries to make is the way we perceive/react to the idea of free-will vs destiny is very anthropomorphic because we have sequential consciousness. The heptapods have simultaneous consciousness and do not even understand the idea of free-will. They are not troubled by it because it is a purely different way of perceiving the world.

The subtle difference Ted Chaing tried to get at is that humans think knowing the future means we are doomed to enact a choreography; but the hetpapods perceive knowing the future as creating the future.

So maybe in a human's mind, we think of the future as a geographic feature that we are heading towards. And the inability to change where we go to is troubling. But in the heptapod's mind, the future is just an abstract concept they know in their minds, but do not exist yet; and they seek to create it by acting it out.
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Labs are using nanotomographic and X-ray microtomographic of 3D structure of brain tissue.
Here are some demos of interactive 3D Fruit Fly brain with neuron network visualization: https://neuronlp.fruitflybrain.org/
I wonder what's the point of this article? Any big city (Beijing, Tokyo, New York, London …) around the world has the similar issue - a lot of people come into one big city, the resources becomes a big issue, and then, the similar thing happended, maybe in a different way. So, I wonder if the author is too ignorant? Or just too sensitive?
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It's particularly bad for those of use that run Windows/Visual Studio from a Mac. Microsoft products are historically heavily dependent on the F keys with well known conventions (F1=help,F2=rename,F3=find/next,etc).
For the past few years, I have been using a mix of rsync against an in-house and an external server + encrypted USB drives[0]. The key to encrypt the external drives is using a simple algorithm based on the serial number of the drive and a very long string stored in a Yubikey.

I never reuse the drives, just accumulate them.

[0]: https://www.ceondo.com/ecte/2016/09/simple-secure-backup/
I use Backblaze also, for my virtual machine backups as it would be time-consuming to recreate them (I have several for various clients, server set-ups, etc). The seriously important stuff such as source code is in Bitbucket, and I also have a nightly AWS batch job that backs them up to S3.

I haven't seen anyone mention password managers yet. I use lastpass day-to-day but for my recovery codes I have a Keepass vault.

I have backups of that dotted around but I have also asked a couple of my friends to keep their own copies of this vault in the event I somehow lose all my computers and phone. I think that resolves the chicken-and-egg problem quite nicely.
>> "The usage of HTTPS in combination with HSTS can reduce the effectiveness of QI. Also using a content delivery network (CDN) that offers low latency can make it very difficult for the QI packet to win the race with the real server."

Above is from the researchers:
https://blog.fox-it.com/2015/04/20/deep-dive-into-quantum-in...
There is more to this story. Kim Dotcom didn't made his money with megaupload. He made his money hacking companies around the year 2000 and threatening them to release the information to competitors or the public if they didn't pay without X amount of time. This is payback time and Kim Dotcom knows it.
Good points. It would be great if there were two separately available suffixes, one to signify receiver mutation and one to signify raising vs nil. I certainly think Elixir went the right way here on the latter front (as it doesn't have to worry about receiver mutation).
Last year I tossed my Western Digital external hard drive in the trash. Who needs it when I have multiple clouds (iCloud/Amazon/Google)?
It's completely clear that by encouraging civil disobedience against stupid rules he actually meant breaking all the rules.

Similarly when MLK supported Rosa Parks after she broke the law against sitting in the wrong place, he definitely meant for everyone to break the laws against rape and murder.
We get around this by using a dependency injection framework (e.g. Guice) and initialising the module statically, so it will only get called once when the JVM loads (i.e. when the Lambda 'warms up') and then inject the dependencies into anything that uses them

For example in one Lambda function, we use Guice to get resources from S3.
Yeah, this is what I figured. However, being a one man hobby project, I doubt I'll even get a foot between the door. Even finding the contact information for the different data sets would be next to impossible.

I have considered enrolling to a university just to get access to the library, data sets and journals as well as get in touch with professors and scientists that could help.
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i don't know, maybe different approaches could be combined. Maybe the layout provides a clue for some types of court documents? You could calculate the probability function of prediction a certain type right (or just use the outputs of the NN, that depends on the problem) as a confidence value and only do the OCR as a last resort.

Disclaimer: pretty new to ML
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The interesting parts of the content are in their "Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation" pages:

- Neural modeling as a way to advance long term studies in artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces
- Pattern recognition neural circuits
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"We make a step towards an algorithmic theory of neuronal function, which should facilitate large-scale neural circuit simulations and biologically inspired Artificial Intelligence."
The Mega Drive's Z80 was essentially just powerful enough to play music and sounds - it couldn't really be used for much else, leaving the 68k to focus on gameplay and manipulating the sprite-based Video Display Processor.
I used to buy the cheap 2-knob ones but they are the cheapest for a reason. After light use, the knobs would inevitably disconnect from the internals. The shop replaced it for free but my time is more valuable than a microwave, so replacements are not really satisfactory.
One of my favorites of these is only showing the speedup..."scales linearly", without comparing to a non-parallel baseline. First time I saw this was with Clik, which reported linear scaling. I was impressed, until I found out that the parallel version was 6x slower on a single CPU than the sequential version.

Similar with a SPJ talk on parallel Haskell (can't find it right now). Big claims about this being the One True Way, and then required four cores to match C sequential case. Hmmm.

UPDATE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWSZ4c9yqW8 around the 1h 10min mark. Four cores to match sequential C (previously had written six, was wrong)
It might not seem like something worth arguing over to you as a straight white man, but Jewish people and gay people don't have the same luxury of being able to ignore these issues.
Does the U.S. Constitution protect someone on the Mexican side of the border?
It sounds like you're stretching to make the use case fit inside a Lambda.

Have you considered extracting the assessment functionality into an SWF activity, invoked from your Lambda via StepFunctions?
Yes, this frank description of NYTimes' journalistic philosophy is vastly more important than the Pao controversy.
Nobody has mentioned the Minimoog Model D and its modern variants(Voyager, Sub37, etc.), so I will. As synthesizer instruments go, it's astoundingly hard to match the number of "sweet spots" the genuine article has. There are lots of synths with more complex architectures, polyphony and timbral possibilities, that are more affordable and ship with lots of presets, and there are lots of bad digital knockoffs that don't reproduce the sound correctly or correctly handle parameter changes, but an original one in good condition sounds good from nearly any starting point and allows for continuous development of a sound just by holding one note and turning knobs. You don't "program" a Moog and then play, you "perform" it as you play - and that's a key difference between their style and what most other synth makers put out.
Backblaze on my MacBook.
Also have a time capsule at home.
Pretty simple setup.
Fun story. I ran "rm -rf ~" by mistake just the other day. A misconfigured program had created a dir named ~ inside of my home folder and I was a bit quick to type the command. No harm done because I had setup a cron to rsync everything daily as late as last weekend. Upgraded my backup solution to rsnapshot, still looking out for even better solutions. Phew!
I always love seeing answers to this question!

I'm all about Duplicity:

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

Sometimes I feel like it's a bit complicated, but I've yet to find anything that will do any better.
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Google shutting down their Reader didn't really help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader
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> Every reputable news organization follows the journalistic code of ethics that puts institutional barriers in the way to counteract bias.

What about editorial policy: who decides what item is taking the front page and what is published on page 11? Apparently that also has some importance. Has every journalist the opportunity to embark onto several months of research without editorial oversight? I am not sure about that.

> Instead of labelling all news media as generically biased and therefore not to be trusted,

Red herring, labeling: I haven't labeled anything, why is my question received in such a hostile way?

> It is the news media's job to TRY to be as unbiased as possible. It is the news reader's job to TRY and be as informed as possible by reading varied news from different sources.

I can agree with that. Can we agree that journalistic output cannot be trusted blindly?

> And if you do not agree with what I have said here, I have a follow up question for you... if the current news organizations are so terrible and inherently biased, what alternative would you propose

I think that journalism is currently searching for ways to adjust to the realities of the net: on the one hand established journalists don't quite like the loss of authority and fact checking that does occur, on the other hand established journalists have some codes of conduct that are lacking in the online world. I hope the net result will be more transparency and a higher quality of writing, and a more informed public: the current state of the art is far from an ideal state. However i think that nobody should be exempt from critical questions.
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Or, you know, we could wait to see if Eric Holder and Ariana Huffington actually do nothing about this before we assume they're merely paid shills for Uber.
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I have a large (24TB) RAID6 at home and backup all my files there. It's large so I have room for all my DVDs, BluRays, and developer VMs. I have a smaller (6TB) RAID1 in another state at my parents house for off-site backup of important files. Both are running mdadm and set up to email me with any events. I have a cron job that runs rsync once a week and emails me the result. Both systems are on an UPS. I have tested to make sure they are working as expected. All my systems are running Linux, so I can access with sshfs or sftp using ssh keys.
It seems cool. Have you consider letting us trying the demo without asking for credential? The login form have stop me since I do not want to be contacted by your sales.
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Yes, that's a very good idea, especially if code uses lot of floating point operations.
But their users won't be able to talk to signal users. It is hard enough trying to persuade people to use signal. Getting critical mass for a fork would be even more difficult.
Try duply (http://duply.net). It's a nicer frontend for duplicity that makes it very usable at last.