skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dug these up and posted them in the last Chiang thread I saw, here are some links to his short stories:

Division by Zero: https://web.archive.org/web/20110319012240/http://www.fantas...

> A brilliant mathematician wrestles with the consequences of her earthshattering proof.

Understand: https://web.archive.org/web/20110527120639/http://www.infini...

> An experimental treatment bestows a regular person with superintelligence, propelling him into a dangerous series of mindgames.

Story of Your Life: https://web.archive.org/web/20101206050220/http://guccipiggy...

> A talented linguist reflects on her life as she struggles to grasp the meaning of an alien language. Nebula Award (Best Novella). [this is the story the recent film Arrival is based on]

Seventy-Two Letters: https://web.archive.org/web/20010802144026/http://www.tor.co...

> In a world where mystical scrolls impart animating power, a shocking discovery threatens to upend society.

Hell is the Absence of God: http://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/70896/Chiang_-_Hell...

> An unbeliever struggles with the question of faith when God is scientific fact and angels routinely visit the earth. Hugo, Locus, Nebula Awards (Best Novelette).

What's expected of us: http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/21st_century_science/lectures/w...

> A simple time machine undermines the concept of free will, with disastrous consequences.

The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate: https://web.archive.org/web/20120911120914/http://www.dregst...

> An ancient alchemist introduces a traveling merchant to a mysterious time-traveling gateway. Hugo, Nebula Awards (Best Novelette).

[I looted these from here, fixing the broken links I could and excluding the ones I couldn't: http://www.metafilter.com/98974/This-isnt-your-grandfathers-... -- there are a few more links in there, including some essays.]
As always, the applicability of the assumptions is key.

If you can go back to an earlier partner, that changes things quite a lot, right? Hey, what if you can date multiple people at once?

Also, is your judgement of a given date atomic? You meet, you immediately know how good this one is, you hit or stay?

Not sure that's how it works.

Also, what about the chance they don't want you? Does the secretary game solution allow for the other part applying the same rules?
Sell downloads with 100% royalty. No hidden payments or sale fees
Obviously unethical too...
I'm not sure what "pimping out" means if not "selling".

Google runs the ad network, so they don't have to sell or "pimp out" personal data to advertisers. They use it themselves to make sure the ads are being seen by the people the advertisers want them to be seen by.
I got the audiobook from Audible [1] after reading about it on HN and that's the only story I asked my wife to listen to - she loved it and she's not a science fiction fan.

[1] http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Stories-of-Your-Lif...
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Oh, it absolutely is. Scott Adams does this kind of thing all the time.

Paraphrased, but this is something else he posted: "Let me say that I am a Hillary supporter..." ok... "because if I supported Trump, then Hillary supports would kill me." wtf?
That was a huge thrust of the 90s Linux nerd thought. Call it a lazzeiz faire countercultural perspective. esr provides a certain window into that time, although he seems to me to get more and more right-wing libertarian over the years.

The culture has shifted and moved, but the "avoid politics, it's evil" mentality still hangs around, a lot.
Which was a problem for the British back then in what sense?

Looking back at it now with our current look on things, for the other countries involved, sure.
Actually I found it. It's called Windows 10 Virtual Secure mode

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Windows-10-Virtu...

(or Windows 10 isolated user mode, which seems kind of similar)

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Mitigating-Crede...
Original Research paper: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00042
you can achieve anything if you're willing to pay for it; still doesn't solve the broader issue here.
Awesome! Kind of like a microscopic version of a full scaled recycling sorter facility.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIVKmwzWSuc
I just found my old TI-86, TI-89, and HP-48G+ calculators. All of which were great, when I needed them.

What I want to find is my old TI-30X Solar. Basic, bulletproof, and does everything I want a calculator to do without getting in it's own way. Anything more complicated than what it will do I'm likely to use other tools anyway.
Desperate John Deere tractor owners downloading illegal Ukrainian firmware hacks
whataboutism was famously used as a deflective defense to redirect conversation from the USSR's (major) issues to the US (not quite as major) issues.

But I think I'm done with this conversation. Thank you for your time.
I think it was a joke...
> I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932: Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

This is some Reddit level humor.

> VI.14.43 (atrium of a House of the Large Brothel); 1520: Blondie has taught me to hate dark-haired girls. I shall hat them, if I can, but I wouldn’t mind loving them. Pompeian Venus Fisica wrote this.

Amusing to see the blonde vs brunette debate even back in the day.

Overall, the sense that I get from this grafitti is that people back then aren't that much different than us. They too believed they had invented sex very much like our generation and every other generation that came before it. To be honest, it seemed like they had a much better time.
The colloquialism of the translation makes it more familiar of course, but a couple millennia of social upheaval, scientific revolution, and cultural change notwithstanding, and we are still the same bunch of noisy, trollish jerks we have always been. Strangely comforting.
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Yes, the differences are massive. There's a huge signature of "bulky adduct" repair in smokers' samples. This looks different than, say, UV damage. See, for example, signature #4 from this paper:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7463/full/nature1...
I learned about the phenomenon you're describing in English class. The professor's thesis was that the desire to create a narrative is a fundamental part of the human experience. In essence what you're saying is that The Social Network's narrative--the entirety of Facebook [is] about [Mark Zuckerberg's] rejection by a girl--is not a compelling enough narrative for you. For you, you would much prefer a different narrative--that he was building something cool for its own sake. As an engineer I can relate to your preferred narrative, but Hollywood doesn't consider us its target audience.

This raises the question: what's a good metric that's used to decide what the narrative is?
I don't think so. Having the Bengali counterbalance would have significantly reduced Pakistan's veering towards theocracy, imo.

But that's speculation, neither here nor there. Who knows how it would have actually played out.
Fun fact: he is (or maybe "was", now that his fiction is so successful) a technical writer.
Man, if this was a thing I would definitely run it. All the plugin approaches fall down for me as I use FF and Chrome interchangeably for different tasks.

This would be a good additional feature for Pinboard perhaps (which I've been intending to subscribe to for ages but never get around to).
The prices for print copies of this on Amazon are just out of control, hundred of dollars. Fortunately they are available online. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Chiang#Works
That would be one way. In the VPN provider scenario if the ISP can snoop on both the incoming and outgoing traffic that can correlate the two by analyzing the timing and packet sizes. This is how Tor can be defeated as well but it's much simpler to do to a VPN service since they prioritize speed over privacy more than Tor.
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If you do I'd be interested as well, perhaps check for articles citing the paper? I've not heard of any more recent research myself.
I am trying to understand here, what more information ISPs can get other than they have access now? Does this policy let them do man middle attack? Can they access my SSL internet data too?
Also, whenever calling anyone like this I have been programmed to keep a specific call log with timestamps and who I have talked with. Makes it much easier when speaking with management later on.
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In general, dropping a sample into a VM and executing it is an obvious - and dangerous - approach. Real-world malware has been known to detect VMs and refuse to run. Or attack the VM, escape, and infect the host.

Broadly, it's not a reliable approach and relies to a surprising extent on the cooperation of the malware package.
As a relatively new programmer and one who went to one of those mediocre bootcamps, resources like this are invaluable. Thanks!
I read a handful of articles a day covering several disciplines. I usually am reading two or three books at a time. Reading a few chapters of each, setting it down and round robining through threw them.
You are embarrassing yourself. The concept of natural monopolies and why they are bad was settled economics in the 19th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly

Also, I was talking about the oil industry 110 years ago, not the modern energy industry. A similar modern industry to ISPs is telecom, and the only reason that those companies haven't all merged together is because of antitrust law (which you would also want repealed if you were consistent at all).
They cut short term profits in order to cement long-term ones, so yeah, they were maximizing profits but over a longer time-scale than one transaction.
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A teardown wouldn't be too interesting; it looks like the calculator is basically just one chip inside:
http://www.datamath.org/BASIC/LCD_Modern/JPEG_TI-108.htm
Of course, it might be interesting to look inside the chip...
Do you have a quick synopsis of what happens?
Redemolished, which is a collection of short stories and articles by Alfred Bester.

You'll need to like, or be open to, 50s-60s style sci-fi, however.
So what Modulo is there to catch people out. If you were a front end developer do you really need this?

The fact employers will reject based on a test that is fashionable just because a few coding blogs said so doesn't mean they can't provide value. What about their past work or qualifications?

Cocky. Sounds like a clique i'd want to avoid at all costs.
You should give Golang a shot. It checks all your requirements.
Spoil it for me, I don't have time to watch at work..

Also, what kind of fat? Saturated fats are very stable and easily used by the body -- in my opinion they have very very different health effects compared to cheap, polyunsaturated fats.
I started beekeeping a while back and put two hives in the back yard. I had one sitting on top of cinder blocks. Next thing I Knew, I had several Cane toads sitting in front of the hive gobbling up bees as they returned home.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13980272
I skipped to the last few minutes of that, they seem to do a nice summary...

"avoid processed foods"

"All faddish diets are wrong and exercise is important"

"the combination of fat and sugar is bad" (not just one or the other but foods full of both like donuts are bad)
Why not both? Why not neither?
> So, I'm not quite sure what the popular use cases are here. Fast queries of relatively static data?

Yeah, and... their "impressive" benchmarks (which they don't publish near enough information about to be anything like impressive, and I'm sorry, but the idea that Postgres is something like seven times as fast as MySQL on a straight-up JOIN is not something I am going to believe without evidence) look a lot impressive if you add the time it takes to transfer your data out of an actually useful database to this read-only replica for querying. What is this intended to do? And what do GPUs have to do with it?
Wow....any chance you could post a screencap????
VMs are extremely useful for malware RE, but there are a few potential concerns:

- VM breakouts are a security concern. While fairly uncommon this is a risk. Most of that risk exists in drivers and VM acceleration tools and can be mitigated.

- Some malware packers will detect virtual machines and refuse to run. You can bypass this by cracking the VM check of course - but that can sometimes be harder than dumping it on real hardware, depending on the protection and specifics of the situation.

These are much bigger concerns if you're working with 0 day high level stuff and not just typical skiddie malware you pulled off usenet or a fake crack in a youtube video. Most of that stuff is just iStealer or a shitty DDoS-focused RAT and whatever "FUD" RunPE packer was on sale for the cheapest price on HackForums or similar that day. Some people will play this up to be a bigger concern than it realistically is - but a VM will protect you from the malware in almost every case I've seen. Just remember to keep your VM software up to date and avoid using unnecessary pieces.

My paranoid setup is a dedicated machine with 2 VMs, one victim VM and one router VM, quite similar to their setup there. The difference is, my router VM goes over Tor and doesn't allow traffic from the second interface out in any other way. I also use libvirt with kvm with as few extensions and drivers as possible to prevent most VM-based attacks.
I'd love to see this replace the current multi-bin setups I see most places. The ones where you spend so much time trying to figure out which is the right bin that inevitably some people just dump everything in the easiest location. It doesn't take many mistakes to ruin the efficacy.

An automatic sorter could solve that and training could be tailored to the location.

Starbucks seems like a good pilot location.
> "You own the computer from which all your valuable data is generated."

That might be true at the moment, if you're using a good computer, but many computers do not provide full access to the system, including: Android, iOS, Windows 10. (Almost all mobile devices block root access as much as they can.)

Watch out for attempts to appify the WWW and reduce the ability of consumers to block ads and tracking: AMP, FB Instant Articles, etc.

One of the most dangerous threats to privacy is the increasing restriction on access to devices' hardware and software. If it isn't stopped, there won't be any way to block tracking.
I fed it the most recent command posted on commandlinefu.com:

grep -i s2enc /etc/vcac/server.xml | sed -e 's/.* password=\"\([^\"]*\)\".*/\1/' | xargs -n 1 vcac-config prop-util -d --p 2>/dev/null; echo

Given the height of the result, scrolling up and down became a real pain. Maybe collapsable sections or position:fixed for the command or something like that?
http://www.drbriffa.com/2014/01/30/my-take-on-the-horizon-do...
It's arguably the most common family of guns on the planet. I have owned some but it's still an odd unit of measure to me.

Along those lines, how many Libraries of Congress is that?
Even though I'm fairly experienced in bash, this is the ultimate cheat sheet we all need. Thank you!
Coding bootcamps are not training real software engineers
I've yet to have the chance to read any of his work, mostly because I'm working on my own things now and don't have a lot of time for pleasure, which would be the point of reading these first and foremost.

That noted, I'm happy to see people take an interest in reading fiction again. It was nice with Harry Potter. It's nice with Ted Chiang. My hope is that the accessibility and popularity inspire additional interest in fiction reading, and I'm sure it happens as with music. There's a catch though.

The unfortunate part is that both JK Rowling and Ted Chiang are, practically and reasonably speaking, genre authors and that can be limiting to growth as a reader. I love genre works of quality, because, just being real here, the signal-to-noise ratio of quality-to-sub-par in certain genres is abhorrent. It's like finding a great "Metal" proximity band like Tool, checking out all their work, and wanting more, going back into the category and finding...definitely not more Tool.

I'm very happy for him and hope he enjoys the success, fiscal rewards, and, best of all, freedom to write!

Take careful note, all would-be writers:

>In 1989, he attended the Clarion Workshop, a kind of Bread Loaf for sci-fi and fantasy writers...

Sure, he's a hobbyist but that's a hobby that's been going for almost 30 years. Practice makes better. He's no overnight sensation...y'all just finally found him.

>“But what makes any human being a good, reliable worker?” he asked me. “A hundred thousand hours of good parenting, of unpaid emotional labor. That’s the kind of investment on which the business world places no value; it’s an investment made by people who do it out of love.”

This is an absolutely wonderful perspective, and can truly be applied to creative endeavors as well.
> ...so you only really have to worry about theft for purposes like terrorism.

That's a pretty big worry. This stuff is super dirty and in the wrong hands could cause a lot of problems. Unlike a pressure cooker bomb which either kills you, maims you, or doesn't do anything to you, a radioactive bomb might kill you anywhere from now to twenty years from now and everyone exposed to it will be left wondering when their number comes up.

The smarter thing is to come up with better ways of reburning the fuel and storing it long-term on-site at the reactor which is already a secure facility. The total amount is small. They don't need tons of space to deal with it. The less you move this stuff around the better.

The risks there are more Fukishima in nature where if they lose power (at a power plant!) then they need some mechanism to circulate water in the cooling tanks to prevent a boil-off.
Neither by themselves, but when combined...

I read somewhere that when they want to fatten up lab mice they feed them a mixture of 70% sugar and 30% fat or something similar. When you make something much more delicious and available than what appears in nature, it screws with an animal's energy balance signals.
Most of these sound like Falsehoods the law believes about families rather than programmers
I'm amazed how raunchy and explicit it all is.

I guess you can blame Christianity (maybe Catholicism in particular?) and Victorian propriety for pulling it back the other direction.
If they are used, and if they don't break, etc.

Sadly, among wealthy and famous men, there are even cases where the woman uses the contents of the used condom to impregnate herself - and then successfully sues for child support.

Like female BC, this is something that is completely invisible and does not rely on an external or mechanical method of prevention.
How much coverage did they do of Trump's scandals as opposed to Clinton's emails?
Thank you :) Don't get me wrong, I'm not frightened away from it. I have a GP appointment on Tuesday for a referral. I think it'll be some time on the NHS but no doubt less time than this contraceptive becomes available.
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How much is that data worth? Combine Google and Facebook's market cap and then maybe multiply by 2 or 3?

We're talking about EVERYTHING you do online on your devices. It's no longer limited to what you're doing on Google or Facebook or any other place who's primary product is your data.
Pretty neat! Though it would be nice if it brought into the view the part you highlight when it doesn't fit on screen, otherwise you have to scroll (and highlight is lost).
He has found 3 problems in the last month with LastPass. Not good.
> It is rare that a member of the Lords is in the Cabinet

As GP noted, it is always the case that at least one member of the Lords is in the cabinet, so not rare at all.

More broadly, there have typically been 1-2 Lords in cabinet in most governments of the past several decades (not counting the Leader of the Lords and, before 2005, Lord Chancellor, who always are/were cabinet ministers and members of the Lords.) John Major's government and the 2015- Cameron and May governments were notable in not having any "extra" Lords.
Sugar. Hands down. Dr. Atkins is right.
It's actually POSIX standard. See http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3...
> And don't get me started on all the keys of a piano.

Have you come across the Jankó keyboard? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard
> It is rare that a member of the Lords is in the Cabinet and it seems reasonable that the Leader of the Lords is from the Lords doesn't it?

I was just fighting literalism with literalism; you and I both know that this isn't what's usually meant when talking about "unelected bureaucrats" (keep also in mind that most prominent MPs are in safe seats where, as the saying goes, you could get a donkey elected on a party ticket). There are plenty of democracies around the world where members of the executive are NOT members of the legislature also and where this is actually discouraged (separation of powers and all that). Members of the executive also being members of the legislature has never been a criterion for a democracy.

> Again the main point I'm trying to make is that the EU falls short of typical democratic standards which is a reasonably direct connection between the ruled and the rulers.

Not sure where you're getting this from. The European Parliament is elected directly by the EU citizens. The Council of the EU comprises members of the governments, which are indirectly elected by EU citizens. The Commission President is chosen as the result of the European Parliament elections (as the candidate of the largest party that can command a majority in the European Parliament). The other Commissioners are proposed by the governments of the member states, again indirectly elected by EU citizens, and are then elected by the European Parliament. The European Parliament can also remove the Commission through a motion of censure (and that's not a paper tiger, it happened before).
And yet anyone who says crime is not a problem worth fixing because we have guns will be laughed out of the room.

And that's despite crime being a very hard problem to fix. The privacy problem we're talking about here is actually trivially fixable with legislation alone.
I generally agree with you but sugar also tends to make you crave more sugar as it does more crazy things with insulin.
These twins also did one on Alcohol (Casual but Consistent vs Binging) which was pretty interesting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05wdfhk
I'd give it a solid B+ for the last 240 years. It's only had a single civil war which compared to the last 240 years of Europe is downright amazing!
Just choose your preferred radioactive half-life range and we'll match you with compatible nuclear waste producers.
If US withdraws from Korea, it's forfeiting it's sphere of influence in the region. Will it happen one day? Of course. But until that day comes, the US will not budge until China too is conquered (unlikely).
Long term, the UK, or what's left of it, will do fine, as it has for the last thousand year.

Then again, long term we will be all dead.
This is directly addressed in the linked article.
Their competitors that sell info will be cheaper, so there's a good chance that the trustworthy ones will be pushed out of business. Then you're left with only cheaters, but you won't know that at the time. You'll only find out that everyone is cheating long after your info has been sold.
Obesity is killing you.
This is silly... those restrictions are there because they don't want everyone to just form one large family and share everything.
At time mark 57:20 in the DailyMotion video they say that it is neither of them individually but the combination of fat and sugar that is the problem.