skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's representative of the ability of a civilization at that point in time, to think in the long term, having the capability to join knowledge with economic resources through the will to improve the lives of people. It brings the modern day into stark contrast, where we seem to have many critical areas where we are awash with knowledge that is not meeting up with the economic resources and the will to make progress.

This seems to be a problem both at a grand scale, climate change, and more local scales like the Oroville dam. As a technology alone, the cistern is neat, but the building of it, and later abandonment has maybe more to tell us in the long run.
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Its not as simple as that. I will reply later with a more detailed response but a common religion most certainly helped the Islamic empires (whether Arabs or Persians or Mughals) immensely by providing an almost contiguous corridor of co-coreligionists stretching from Anatolia all the way to India; this greatly facilitated trade.
> You'll note that a large proportion of these are due to the evacuation, and we do not know how much of that was necessary.

Exactly. The biggest (general-population) health effect was almost certainly overreaction.
The all caps was painful to read. I'd reconsider.
Should women work at paid jobs, care for their families and homes or do both?
"it would be far more productive for all of them to work together" -> not necessarily. It's not very common but there are examples of having multiple teams try to solve the same problem in parallel. It ends up speeding up development - they will come up with different approaches, and the best (or a combination) can be selected.
If I were a musician, I'd write a song titled, "What's boobs got to do with it".
Much of the same can be said of impoverished inner city citizens. It's human nature to find external causes to your pains outside of your control.

There's a double annoyance with inner city residents, though, in that many just expect the government to solve the problems, leaving them without motivation. Almost robbing them of it in some cases. Anyone working hard towards their dreams, no matter how large or small, will naturally resent such mentalities.
Does the Kobo have bluetooth? I bought this keyboard around 8 months ago and the internal batteries last weeks between charges.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/IVSO-Lenovo-YOGA-10-1-Inch-Keyboard...
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The programming discussions are really sad there.
I like the dom wrapper this guy came up with: https://hackernoon.com/how-i-converted-my-react-app-to-vanil...

I adapted it for myself here:
https://gitlab.com/heycato/domjs/blob/master/dom.js
>Bangladesh doesn't have a synthetic opiate problem

I feel that's the key here. That oxycontin was over prescribed for about a decade. We are talking people getting in a car wreck and waking up in a hospital addicted to opiates.

I'm assuming we are in agreement that the pharmaceutical opiates are way more addictive than their illegal analogs.
Snorting a pill is way less work than shooting up or "chasing the dragon" but once you're addicted and your brain tells you need dope to live, you'll do whatever you need to do to live.

>As for the raw numbers, 0.3% of Bangladeshis consume opiates at least once per year, compared to 0.57% in the US.

I wonder what the opiate use rate is amongst the Appalachian population. A few days ago there was a map posted of heroin overdoses in the US and West Virginia was the hottest hot spot. Anecdotes of OD's and pill heads in WVA abound. When I showed the map to one of my friends, he told me has had 12(!) people that he went to high school with die of pills and/or heroin.

I can't help but feel that the pharmaceutical companies and their executives are complicit in the current US opiate epedemic.

Thanks Obama(care)!
> people have genuine smiles but own less

That's a great observation. I think it's hard to argue that someone happy in their life is not successful just because they haven't advanced economically.
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charles-salvia- the following is not directed against you because you seem to have some insight into your own prejudices.

Just about everyone is bigoted against some group or other.

The fascinating thing is that this now has a meta-component, that is, the perceived bigotry of an out group is one of the rationales for the moral acceptability of bigotry against them.

Of course to most people who have such bigotry they would never call it such.

I do hope down voting this comment helps others deal with the cognitive dissonance.
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The distinction is that slavery is actually bad — a human rights atrocity with centuries of fallout — whereas globalization is (according to the liberal worldview) good.

I mostly share the liberal worldview.
Dutch law enforcers access millions of encrypted messages
I don't have a huge amount of exposure to current malware trends, to be honest--it's not the area I work in at the moment. So tl;dr I can only guess.

You're right that unsophisticated malware may be thwarted by per-app disk encryption or credential stores like Keychain, but it doesn't represent a security boundary. That's why I would describe the Chrome team's approach as being "principled"--they're refusing to implement an ambiguously useful security feature because its bypass would not represent a bug.

Whether such a feature is nonetheless valuable for the user is unanswered by that discussion, however; as you say, it may have value in some circumstances.

However, remember that by volume most exploitation is (as best as I can tell) economic--people who do it for business. And people doing it for business can buy whatever malware is on the market. If stealing in-memory secrets is reliably accomplished (which it is), malware vendors have a strong incentive to implement this and sell it as well.

So I think you have the right idea, but answering the question is nontrivial. If Chrome implemented file encryption (or, more likely, used the platform APIs where available), would the engineering cost (and complexity--e.g. different behavior on different platforms) be counterbalanced by the increased cost imposed on malware authors? Or would one or two malware authors quickly adapt and malware prices/effectiveness would remain fairly static?

You get the point.
The article does not mention specific exploits. I'll change my mind if they actually close vulnerabilities because of this, but as of now, it seems like a PR move without much substance.

Never mind, look like I'm wrong :-) http://bgr.com/2017/03/08/cia-wikileaks-apple-iphone-hacking...
http://bgr.com/2017/03/09/google-says-many-android-exploits-...
IBM stores one bit of data on a single atom
Data Engineer at Shopify here.

We use ML in both streaming and batch use cases to do things like fraud detection, app/theme recommendations and to give merchants insights into their customers and business.

Our ML architecture is very similar to the OP, we use PySpark to train models and fill some of the missing gaps using scikit-learn. The batch jobs consume and produce data to HDFS and our streaming pipeline read off a Kafka Stream.

We've been experimenting with exporting models to PMML and using the JPMML Evaluator to serve them. However in some use cases we've had to rewrite models in ruby so that they can be used in synchronous paths with our rails app, these are usually very simple things like logistic regression.

Our ML pipeline is in its infancy, theres still a lot of work to be done, if this is the sort of thing you'd like to build shoot me a message at

franklyn.dsouza@shopify.com
Isn't that bad for employees with stock options though? The market could tell them how much those options are really worth.
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there's also a kickstarter page https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/278795341/timebound-the...
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Islam helped drive large projects that wouldn't have been completed in one's life time. One admirable attribute of Islam is that they can plan ahead like the west use to do with tunnels and bridges for example, nowadays projects are not planned to take more than 20 years, in the Muslim world they still are.
What we see here (in the parent comment) is someone parroting standard nuclear industry propaganda: coal is bad too.

While those line at least made a bit of sense 15 years ago, it is totally pointless in 2017.

No new coal plants are being built now. It is in phase out mode. All new generation is wind, solar, and to a lesser degree methane. Coal is going away; like nuclear, it can't compete.
China has already licensed every available nuclear tech from the French, Russians, Canadians and last but not least the US and has trained a generation of nuclear scientists overseas.

http://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profile...

They also heavily invest in renewables.
The demoscene is (in my opinion at least) one of the first true global digital art movements and what I believe is the 3rd great software movement of the computer revolution (after commercial, and open source). As an art movement it's now nearing half-a-century old, has multiple sub-movements, produces visual, audio and in some cases physical art. It started in the piracy scene, computing's version of graffiti, but a bit like how some graffiti is turning into a serious art form, the demoscene broke away from piracy and is slowly moving towards high art legitimacy.

It's virtually unknown due to it being almost impossible to monetize in the way traditional art movements have been (where a single instance is made by an artist and you can purchase and own that one "true" instance, all other versions are just copies). It doesn't seem to have strong political or philosophical aims like many art movements do. Most "demos" are produced by small teams operating almost entirely under pseudonyms so single authorship and artist identification is also very hard to pin down.

The art is usually highly abstract, or plays with familiar forms in abstract ways. If there's a statement to be made it's usually in terms of create productions that push what we think computing can do, and to do it in a way that's not of any particular use to purely commercial or utilitarian interests.

Demoscene music has a variety of identifiable subgenres, often based in non-scene genres, but with several identifiable themes that don't generally exist in non-demoscene music.

It has some loose "rules" for what is and isn't a demoscene production, but it's kind of like pornography, you know it when you see it (or hear it). There are literally hundreds of thousands of productions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

https://www.scenemusic.net

http://www.scene.org/

http://www.pouet.net/
looks interesting
Sometimes we need to step back and try to question what we perceive as meaningful information. Without recalling the hilarious and very smart article about a dead fish that was shown as apparently being able to read journals (if we trust fMRI a little bit too much), an ECG signal does not always mean that there is a brain activity.

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>Swift is fast and the language is nice and all, but this feels more like propaganda. Let's not forget IBM and Apple have become friends recently.

Let's not forget it. How does that make presenting their product propaganda any more so than any other product presentation? Heck, they even use it themselves for their backend.

>I really don't see Swift becoming a popular full stack solution outside of environments invested in iOS and macOS.

Doesn't Apple becoming friends with IBM ensure that it will be used at least by many IBM customers? Which is quite a large potential base (and not all are happy for how Oracle moves with Java).

I also don't see why a top notch, statically compiled, very fast language, with automatic memory management, and support from a huge vendor AND a huge community AND open source, wont catch up.

>Swift can indeed run on a multitude of systems but that doesn't mean it's a good option. For example it's not even close to being ready for Android. It can run, but that's it.

That's because the work for porting properly there hasn't been done yet. But it's more or less the same with Google's own Go, which is much older than Swift, Rust, D, etc.
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
Yeah, it'll be interesting here though - they potentially have some pretty major remote exploits and tech firms might be resistant to even patch as those who are unpatched will be left vulnerable to attack. The standard route then is to threaten to publish anyways... This will involve very careful treading on the parts of both wikileaks and the firms involved.
> Here is the interesting thing, none of us ever had to see an occupational therapist to help us with our hand eye co-ordination. Falling out of a tree was enough incentive to figure it out on your own.

Survivorship bias. I have poor eyesight, no amount of practice would ever allow me to throw a spear and hit a wild animal. Heck with lots of occupational therapy as a kid, I can kinda-sorta catch a ball. On a good day.

I'll say that falling out of trees was a lot easier (even fun!) as a kid though. I do worry that the current generation doesn't have much unstructured play time.

> We walked around barefoot, unsupervised, climbed trees, ate wild fruit, made spears from wood and once you were four you had to take your two year old sibling with you and look after them.

Growing up working class in 80s and early 90s suburbia was awfully similar. Except we had to wear shoes when it got too hot, concrete is friendly to cars, not feet. :( But yeah, we ran around all summer day long without parents getting involved. The littler kids were looked after (dragged home for diaper changes though!), we road bikes all around, picked berries from the woods, got hatchets and chopped down small trees to make clearings in the woods.

Now days? I am not quite sure what childhood is like for the current generation. I know that I've see less and less groups of kids running around every year, and I haven't really seen any in the last few years, but maybe I'm just not looking in the right places.
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I wonder if firms are going to start using these fixes to search for people who have touched the files in order to find... patriots...
OP's link is a presumably unaffiliated account, rebroadcasting a stream from the official Wikileaks Periscope account:

https://www.periscope.tv/WikiLeaks/1ZkKzEqeDMZxv
You make the assumption that failures will be covered by defensive programming techniques. Unexpected failures will take down a monolith. One bad db query can deadlock all consumers. The greater the separation between components, the more easily you can isolate all failures, not just expected ones.
Absurdism
The CIA pretending to be China, or China pretending to be the CIA, or someone else entirely pretending to be China pretending to be the CIA, or vice versa.
If they are already profitable, why raise money again?
Being around other people's children can be annoying if they're not well behaved, being around my own children would imply a 20 year sentence of that. I did not mean to imply I've left a trail of abandoned kids across my history :)
They do have exploits - they had lists of vulnerabilities in iOS and Android they were planning to report and release after patching has occurred.
Once you admit that keeping secret and controlling the release of sensitive information has some 'harm minimization effect' - and therefore that releasing information in the wrong way or to the wrong people is potentially harmful - exactly where does that take the philosophy of 'radical transparency?'
Don't believe anything from Assange until it's confirmed by the tech companies themselves. Ask the security teams at each of these companies if they received any information from Wikileaks. From the people I know at the affected companies, no one has heard anything yet. Assange should not get the benefit of our trust.
Relavent username :)
The standard practice for Wikileaks was once to publish everything no matter what. I'm happy they have changed.
Why is this interesting? Wild boars in Japan are common in areas where there are few people because they are generally scared of people. If you come across one in the forest, most likely it will run away from you.
Prevent? No. Continually add friction at all stages, from conceptualizing, staffing, funding, and interacting with the larger techsphere while competing for earned media, virality, etc.? Yes, absolutely, with predictable effects.

One way to understand the effects of systemic "isms" is that the targets have to continually deal with a headwind that others don't, and the cumulative effect of this is like compound interest. The supposed meritocracy of technology that's blindly present in the download screen hides all the non-meritocratic context leading up to it.
Do you need to feel involved at an emotional level with the problems of your fellow citizens - problems which limit their ability to participate positively in our society to the gain of all - in order to consider it worthwhile that our government take those problems seriously? If so, why so?

I ask because this seems a very strange fashion in which to approach such a matter. On the one hand, you seem by your comment here very concerned with the possibility that one effect of these issues going unchecked is the election of a president with whom I presume you gravely disagree on almost every issue. On the other hand, your analysis of the issues themselves, and the value of efforts directed at mitigating or resolving them, seems entirely colored by the degree of emotional involvement you feel with the people who are most directly affected.

I don't understand this perspective at all, and I'm hoping you will take the time to explain what about it you find as sensible as your comment here strongly suggests you do.
Note: I'm not taking sides, but just trying to be factual.

This is very misleading. It was, in fact, Islam that was the cause of the 'golden age'. The Arabs existed for centuries with ~nil progress. If you notice, almost 99% of the inventors were Muslims, and based on their writings, dedicated ones.
You might even remember when the hornet archive was hosted out of a random ftp server at the University of Florida.

I access it for a couple years via a gopher client installed on the 20-minute free dial-up internet account I tricked my local school district into giving to me.

hornet.eng.ufl.edu
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Raygun uses .NET Core to increase performance 2000% over Node.js
I meditate so I can run a startup
> "As a research aerodynamicist, I was dumbfounded when I
first started reading the sailing literature as a beginning
sailor and saw what a confused state sail theory was in.
Even the basic explanations of how a sail generates lift
were wrong. This I could understand, since even the
popular aviation books were wrong in their attempts to
explain lift. It is difficult to explain the generation of lift for
laymen. The simplifications devised in attempts to do this
seemed logical but usually turned out to be wrong"

He has a very readable section where he goes through the wrong explanations (e.g. Bernoulli effect) and explains why they are incorrect, and then corrects them with helpful diagrams.
>The town drained its water reservoir and all lines have been flushed, but there may be some residual colour in some systems, the mayor said, adding property owners may need to run their water for a few minutes to clear their service lines.

Why are you worrying about cumulative doses over years, when this problem literally existed for minutes?
Shadertoy seems to be widely used by the scene these days to rapidly prototype ideas that later make their way into full productions.
My parents were both teachers. When I was born, they were stationed in my dad's home village. We just lived with the whole family. It was village of cousins.

We moved to town which is 60km (40miles) away when my dad got a job working in a mine. From then I went to school in town and only spent holidays in the village. To this day we still own our own cows and our home still stands.

To answer your questions, yes more than half my relatives are still in the same village. We talking a village of 60 odd people. I organise a gathering every other Christmas, we slaughter a cow (apologies to the sensitive) and talk about the good old days.

Times have changed even in the village. Everyone has a cellphone even in the village :-).
When I was 5, I received a Game Boy for Christmas. It started me down the long road of computers, programming, and my career today.

I also had different building toys growing up. K-Nex, LEGOs, and Erector Sets were common. It gave me a place to explore creativity and building. As I grew older, I started learning how to use my father's tools for woodworking and basic carpentry.

In that spirit I would recommend fostering the impulse to create, build, and explore.
Of course the NSA looks for software vulnerabilities, and it's a vital part of both their core missions. And of course they don't neutralize their offensive capabilities by immediately revealing all of them to software makers. There's a balance that is struck between offensive and defensive missions with respect to each vulnerability.

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/obama-zero-day/
The company isn't compelled in any way to allow this though, and is actually disincentivized from doing so because it increases the probability of key departures as those people are able to extract some value.

If you're in such a position, you better hope that your founders _really_ like you.
That's an interesting distinction. On its face it suggests that some human rights atrocities are more morally acceptable than others, but I can't imagine how such a reading might be accurate to fact.
Most of the rest Europe also had coffee when Britain had it, so why didn't they also start it?

I'm far from an expert on this history, but I have read that Britain probably got there first because of institutions that favored free enterprise, such as rule of law and private property rights.

I'm guessing Turkey did not score as highly on those measures.
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I can imagine a bunch of armchair physics possibilities

normal caveats (not a physicist, chemist, lawyer, etc)

Since atoms are made of multiple components, if you can modify and measure those components individually, then it's at least theoretically possible to encode more than two states per atom. All of the following assumes you would want to keep the same atomic number for the duration, obviously if you don't care what type of atom you're storing then there would obviously be many more than two states.

If it was possible set and count how many neutrons an particular atom has (aka which isotope), then it would be possible to encode more. Even Hydrogen has three isotopes, and Xenon has nine stable isotopes (and many more unstable). Same for number of electrons (aka ions).

If there are more properties that could be manipulated for each of those individual components, then it would be possible to have even more states. (ex: electron spin).

For example, with a hydrogen atom and it's 3 isotopes, it's theoretically possible to encode 4 states (2^2, half-nibble, crumb)
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agreed, but not seeking employment that provides insurance is
You could use org-mode to manage that todo-list. ;-)

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