skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
sounds familiar - we found that one 1996 when doing system programming on NT (NuMega SoftIce was your best friend together with material published by Mark Russinovich prior of him working with MS - remember when you were doing e.g. a file system driver at that time there was close to zero documentation by MS and half of what they provided was wrong). Demonstrated then how to use it to log onto remote Windows systems over the I-Net and gain Admin rights. I thought this one with all what was published about it long ago would be well known since.

Astounded that it took so long to fix and that it passed on through generations of Windows version.

Almost certain similar can be said of other low level "bugs".
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Not to be disrespectful - I know that cPanel and similar have their place - but no real business that expects to have a presence is using cPanel or any other "easy setup".
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The Site : http://www.tourismcambodia.org/modules/mod_map.php -- This is not linked anywhere that I can find, the search does not work. But the site is legit. https://www.evisa.gov.kh/Cambodia-Government-Ministry.aspx has a link to the Ministry of Combodia site. These guys are using joomla, http://www.tourismcambodia.org/admin/login.php --- Some guy or vendor running this thing is making money getting some SEO juice to some shady sites. They're obviously not that tech savvy.
I have tons of deductions too, but the tax authority just assumes I want to do them (interest rate, pension savings, a deduction for home repair ...) so they are filled in so I just accept them. If there is a deduction the trick is to e sure the burden of reporting is placed on the receiver, so charities report donations etc. Because there are fewer charities than donors, that makes the total burden smaller.

Taxes are always social engineering.
Not everyone uses it of course, but TurboTax includes your effective tax rate in the Tax Summary they provide at the end of the process.
>I have even seen it suggested that the employees could even have gone by taxi, though I don't know if that was really practical.

I have a feeling the contract with the Pilot and FA unions squashes that idea rather quickly.
There's a stark difference in what you're allowed to do and what you should do. A parent is allowed to ground their child for a month for every C they make, but when you explore the context of why the child made the C and the alternatives to grounding them for a month, is that really the best option? In some cases, I'm sure it is. In most, probably not.
Well, here's another fun one for you then: Regular polyhedra/polytopes. In zero dimensions the special case is that it's a nonsense question, which is pretty common special case for 0D. In 1D you can't help but have a line be equal to itself, so still a special case of it being nonsense. In 2D you have the special case of being able to form an arbitrary number of regular polygons. In 3D you get 5 regular polyhedra, the five Platonic solids, which also turns out to be a special case.

However, in four dimensions, you have six regular polytopes: video [1] webpage [2] I only found this out relatively recently; while this is no secret it only seems to be recently getting around in the math general interest video channels and such.

After that, the regular case takes over and you only have 3 forever more; the tetrahedron analogue, the cube analog, and the octahedron analog. So here's a case where 0 through 4 dimensions is a special case, and 5 is the first that fits the general pattern.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ7uOj2LRso

[2]: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/platonic.html
"There’s nothing illegal about breaching a contract."

No there isn't. But there is something illegal about lying to police, filing false police reports, and using such false pretenses to assault and batter someone by proxy. There is no question United did this, it's illegal, and it's criminal. They should be charged by the prosecutor as should the cops who did the actual beating. They are equally responsible as United. The police failed to investigate and beat up an innocent person because of their failure to understand the situation. They should lose their jobs and pensions; ideally they should go to jail.
If you need a real good alternative checkout https://github.com/arachnys/athenapdf
it's based on electron.
You're playing armchair lawyer as well though.

There are valid reasons an airline can forcibly remove boarded passengers. It's not clear that the United situation(s) were valid though.

It's fairly complex due to "common carrier" laws, airport city laws, as well as United's own contract of carriage. I can't claim 100% that they weren't technically allowed to do what they did. But there is more than one aviation attorney chiming in and claiming they had no legal standing.

United's CEO said as much himself.

"We are not going to put a law enforcement official to take them off, to remove a booked, paid, seated passenger -- we can't do that."

The word "can't" versus "won't" seems deliberate.

Edit: Also, a pet peeve of mine. You've probably heard a flight attendant tell someone something along the lines of "It's illegal to disobey instructions from a flight crew." That's complete bullshit. There is a federal law about "interfering with a flight crew". But it only applies after the doors are closed, and only applies in situations that involve "assaulting or intimidating a flight crew".
Not trolling you. It's a thing here. I did when I was a kid, and still happens today.
Well, the only change that was made was to the email and I was able to create that with gmail so I control it now.

GoDaddy hasn't a clue so I'll just update the email/pw/pin and add 2factor. They say it shows someone logged in but I don't believe that, it's likely a programming bug on their end
I would actually be quite scared to bicycle in NZ. Especially in the rural areas. The roads are often narrow and winding without shoulders to speak of.
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What does it have to do with the subject article? Again, there's no DU in this bomb.
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Hi, does anyone know if OctaneAI was funded by YCombinator ? I tried Google searching about this but can't find any information ...
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checkout https://github.com/arachnys/athenapdf. Its based on electron.
Wait, how did they file a false police report? Even if they are breaking the contract, they are allowed to ask the passenger to leave the plane (as the article points out). Once he refuses to leave, he is trespassing (again, doesn't matter that the airline broke its contract by asking him to leave). The airline called the cops and asked them to remove the passenger. Where did they lie or file a false police report?
I've been trying to develop my maths skills beyond the high school level I was last formally educated at. My problem is, that was 20 years ago, and I've forgotten a lot of the fundamentals, but every time I try to slog through Khan Academy I get bogged down in what would be many, many months of review to get to the undergraduate level. Can anyone recommend materials that contain a high level overview of those rules and concepts that are taught at the pre-calculus level, so I can jog my memory without endless manual calculation? Linear algebra and statistics are mainly what I'm interested in learning.

Edit: This book looks like a good candidate. :)
I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not. Mouse precision is so much more accurate than controllers that the Overwatch team literally considers using KB/M on consoles to be cheating.
It has runtime overhead whenever a move assignment occurs. You have to check if the target of the assignment is null (or otherwise call the destructor) and you have to assign null to the source. This is all overhead compared to a plain pointer assignment. An optimizing compiler will of course try to eliminate most of that overhead, but that's not always possible.
Indeed I missed that, my bad. But anyway the README states:

>"Patroni originated as a fork of Governor, the project from Compose. It includes plenty of new features."

But it doesn't say what those features are. So I guess I'm curious what those features are without having to watch a whole youtube video. Or why they didn't submit PRs to Govenor for the added functionality.
You've described the American tax system in a nutshell.

Employers withheld on wages, which is how most Americans "pay" their taxes. Most Americans also use a standard deduction, which is several thousand dollars. Taxpayers can alternatively itemize up all of their deductions and if the sum total is larger, use that sum instead of the standard deduction.

A US taxpayer with just W2 (employee) wages taking the standard deduction can fill out a tax return in 5 minutes or less. It only gets complicated when you try to take advantage of the many deductions and tax credits available in the tax code.
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Do you have any evidence that this effect results in machines making systematically wrong inferences?

Near as I can tell, your paper shows that these "biases" result in significantly more accurate predictions. For example, Fig 1 shows that a machine trained on human language can accurately predict the % female of many professions. Fig 2 shows the machine can accurately predict the gender of humans.

Normally I'd expect a "bias" to result in wrong predictions - but in this case (due to an unusual redefinition of "bias") the exact opposite seems to occur.

(Drawing on your analogy with stereotypes, it's probably also worth linking to a pointer on stereotype accuracy: http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Jussim-et-al-... http://spsp.org/blog/stereotype-accuracy-response )
>"Not being fired for being gay" is literally the lowest bar I can think of other that "not being imprisoned for being gay".

The point is that the community at large was willing to accept these people as role models for their children and did so with minimal hostility or interference (visible anyway, since I can't see what happens behind closed doors). Entrusting a teaching position is a little different than any other random job.

While I'm sure there are horror stories, in practice it would be very rare to find someone who was legitimately "fired for being gay".

The myth that Republican areas are hostile wastelands with poor quality of life for minorities has much more to do with confirmation bias and a desire to justify high cost of living than anything else, IMO. This is not to discount any personal experience you may have had, just my opinion on the sentiment in general.
You say social media is unforgiving, but is it really? In the short term, sure, but you think this will have a lasting impact on United? Social media is fickle, if nothing else. It will move on to something else soon enough, and completely forget about this incident.
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There are two distinct uses of "dude". One is as an exclamation (not a form of address). "Dude, I'd never do that" is the approximate example in the article, and a woman might say that to another woman. She is not calling the other woman a dude. Test this claim by trying the following: "Man, I'd never do that." "Gentleman, I'd never do that." "Fellow, I'd never do that." etc. The use of "man" and "dude" as an exclamation has made it into everyday conversation. "Man that sucks!" has become an expression of dismay devoid of gender and indeed not even directed at any particular human.

Then there is the use of "dude" to refer to a specific person (singular). This is a very rare use of "dude" in reference a woman, and usually is used as commentary rather than a literal descriptor, or ironically. "She's such a dude." It is definitely making a comment on gender or stereotypes.

I would be very confused if you referred to me as a dude in everyday conversation, wondering what you were trying to say. On the other hand, I did recently say about myself, "I'm such a dude" when making a comment about my approach to an unfortunately often-gender-stereotyped activity, housekeeping.
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They probably don't want to get into the realm of maintaining user contributed modules.

They do offer an alternative (Entity Reference) and asked if anyone would patch or maintain the module. They also added a warning on the module's page.
Author here.

I see potential for this specifically if combined with BEP46 (http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html).

Essentially, if we can update torrents via DHT mutable items, we can have distributed sites - similar to ZeroNet.

However this brings something new to the table, sites that can be queried without having to fully download them.

Since SQLite also supports FTS (full text search), you could literally also have a search engine -- imagine Wikipedia releasing their dumps in this fashion. Users could not only help host it, but also query for info in a timely manner - even full text search queries.
By saying or implying it is within their rights to remove the passenger when it clearly wasn't.
(From a Javascript-disabled perspective)

Page with actual link:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6334/183/tab-pdf

Link to PDF itself:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/356/6334/183.full....
As I recall (although it is only a recollection, so if someone's got better evidence than my unreliable memory I stand corrected), what drove the triumph of the PC was not that it contained an 8088, but the software available for it and the ease with which third parties could make compatible hardware (and indeed, clone the whole thing).

I suspect (but cannot prove) that both of those could still have happened if they'd gone with the MC68000.
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How does your employer compute your taxes without knowing your outside income in interest, dividends, etc?

Or do you have to share that with your employer in Japan?
Those vendor libraries are super ugly and take the fun out of a project.. I absolutely hate the tedious "work" programming where you plug bits of pre-built technology together without actually doing much of anything on your own.

A while back I had an STM32F7 (ST cortex M7) board that I wrote some assembly code for. Getting correct clock signals and power to all the peripherals and bringing up RAM and configuring devices sure was complex (and it's not explained by the datasheet in a particularly straightforward way), but doing it that way is certainly enlightening and interesting, compared to fiddling with a vendor-supplied toolchain.

However... I would recommend not using a Cortex M device if you decide to go the ARM route. Pick a full classic-arm-ISA device so you can use the more human-oriented instruction set. You can stills witch to THUMB if you want, but you won't be forced to deal with its quirks and limitations.
If you enjoy pondering this question you should definitely check out the works of Stanislaw Lem. One of the main themes of his work is that alien life would be fundamentally different from life as we know it and that human consciousness, bound by the concepts that we use to understand our own world, would be unable to comprehend it. His novels contain a lot of imaginative examples of that kind of alien life, the most famous perhaps being the planet in Solaris.
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Wow this was down voted when I made an actual point? Or just because it didn't come out right?
That's pretty much sums up (latter).
The U.S. threw ~$80M worth of missiles into Syria several days ago, just to damage an airfield. No one would blink at half a billion to take out bitcoin, and that's assuming that the NSA/CIA don't already have billions' worth of codebreaking hardware that could be applied to that purpose (they almost certainly do.) Taking control of bitcoin is probably "fun weekend project" level work for them.
Thank you. I do go through professional help, but I think switching job is the right path.
We came to to summer house today.

Needless to say, the equipment here is not the latest.

My wife wanted to put on some music - right, she can't connect her phone to the stereo because the missing jack.

I have to connect my Nexus and will be in charge of music all weekend.

No, i don't miss the jack on the iPhones...
Thank you. It's exactly what I am doing.
It's not the time off, but rather, how you fill that time off that I am arguing is career stunting. If you have to work on uninteresting, non-career aiding work for a few months to make ends meet, you aren't likely to be working on interesting projects during that time.

e: changed killing to stunting, because I do believe that it is recoverable.
Mixing sjw is in the abstract, must be shit. Didn't read.
If this hadn't hit social media, I'd be willing to bet good money that he'd have been arrested and facing felony charges.
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Props from me. I loved Desqview, it worked great. I didn't really use high memory other than for Desqview and SmartDrv.

Once the 386 came around it was so much easier, Watcom C++ was my favorite way to take advantage of my luxurious 16MB I could afford at the time.
If the top 2-3 miners are in China, it would cost the Chinese state zero dollars to issue an ultimatum to these organizations - say, requiring them run X modified software or do whatever.

China's legal system already contains provisions which could be summarized as "all your data belongs to us".
Cool, now you can help develop clever mechanisms to exfiltrate information and wealth from end users and consolidate capital into the hands of those who already possess more than they need, from the picturesque, rolling green hills of sunny New Zealand... Wake me up when the tech scene in Monrovia is booming out of control.
Just bought two copies, one for me and one for my son.

Nice textbook in Computer Modern just gets me all jazzed up. :)
sorry mixed it up.

If I look at glove & WordNet usage e.g. for topic extraction, bagging / clustering or semantic similarity would you say we would need to get rid of such a bias, e.g. create something like a Geiger counter for NLP.

Alternative view - when doing sentiment analysis / classification would you say that such a bias actually helps to identify a type of sentiment in a doc / sentence.
I would attribute that more to Intel's revenue than anything special about the company though.
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Good One !
I would be willing to bet good money only a tiny percentage of people have income outside their employment. People who have real estate or bitcoin profits could always file an andendum.
Funny how cops and corporations have difficulty lying and/or abusing their power when there's video evidence, huh?
Since some people feel I'm being unfair to the midwest, I'll mention:

* Chicago has a pretty decent public transit systems.

* MSP and St. Louis both have decent light rail systems for their size. Still pitiful compared to most of western Europe or Wellington (the latter due to the comparably poor bus systems in msp and stl), but also cheaper on the tax base of course. And not too shabby compared to Portland for example.
> frequently the overhead of syncing machines and setting up software repeatedly can become significant.

It takes some discipline.

I run a small consultancy/agency, in any given week I'm switching between 3-5 projects (and odd bug fixes to others).

I've automated my entire workflow with vagrant and ansible.

I have

/projects/<client>/<codename>/site (pr /app)
/projects/<client>/<codename>/vagrant
/projects/<client>/<codename>/<others>

Each client gets a "team" in bitbucket and orchestration becomes no harder than

git pull && vagrant up.

It works great on projects that have a simple structure (webserver/db) and projects that have complex configurations with ES/Redis as well.

The trick is to always treat configuration as code and never make manual changes to a VM (or more correctly, always make a manual change then a change to configuration code).

As an entirely added side benefit I can pull a project from two years ago down and be up in a fraction of the time without polluting my host OS.

Even when that project is currently on 14.04 with particular weird dependencies (exactly this version of wkhtmltopdf etc).

Longer term I'll probably look at docker or something but vagrant/ansible has worked out great (some projects aren't even using ansible, just a bash script).
I'm terrible with reading these kinds of essays - can anyone summarize?
re: Delta's solution, last week my mother effectively got her summer vacation flight to NYC paid for this way.
I did that and pretty much earn what I used to earn in London. Perhaps a little more. There are excellent options for talented techies, need a little bit of trust in yourself and you're all set.
All other developed countries have no problem doing ________.

Why can't the US do _________?

Lobbying.

Works for simple tax returns, healthcare, labor laws, unionizing, etc.
This looks fantastic! I'm a high school grad with a 2 year college degree but in college I took only a single math course (I was required to repeat Algebra 2 because my college didn't accept my high school's transcript for whatever reason) and I've felt behind from many of my peers not knowing enough "maths".

I need to brush up on my former knowledge and this look slike a great way to learn more!
>which is decidedly Trump's America

Look at the results for something like Kansas City, MO.[1] It's about 50/50 between the two candidates. If you look at the Bay Area counties[2], it's 1/6th to 1/5th of the voters supporting Trump.

So in a room filled with a random ~10 people will have 2 Trump supporters in the Bay and 5 in Kansas City.

>they were just the people I was obligated to spend time with.

I suspect this is the only actual difference between the two. On your visit to the Midwest you were forced to hang out with people discussing politics. This is no less unpleasant if you are living in the Bay and aren't a rabid Democrat.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/missouri

2. http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/california
Ivan's books are always in my reference library. He is the Silvanus P Thompson of our modern day. Looking forward to reading Linear Algerbra and as always learning something new. Jjcona
Shout out to Windows Real Mode, which had a built-in virtual memory manager that swapped out unused memory to disk. All of that required apps to participate, of course, but it could multi-task in the lower 640K.
Is his name Simon?
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Well, if we're comparing their stock price hit vs. paying for alternative transportation for the 4 employees; United could have sent all 4 employees to the ISS and back for far less[1] than the $1.6 billion market cap loss.

[1] http://www.space.com/20897-nasa-russia-astronaut-launches-20...
> own initiative

That covers a lot of ground. No-one prompts us directly to draw or tells us what we must draw. Still, something does prompt us. Something does determine what we draw. It's our reactions to those somethings that defines us.

The unanswered question is whether there is something in our nature that differentiates our "initiative" and our "reactions" in a qualitative way from what can be achieved with current computational concepts.

I think the answer to that is probably yes. But still this work is impressive and every step like this elucidates the argument more clearly, reducing it to its fundamentals - rather than to crude heuristics about what constitutes a particularly human ability.