skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it known that a cell can be "accurately" simulated? Quantum systems are very difficult to simulate (exponentially complex for a classical computer, I believe). What does accurately mean? There are a near-infinite number of possible quantum states a cell can be in. We don't even have the technology to measure the quantum state of a cell, let alone predict its time evolution.

If a cell's emergent behavior is dependent on quantum or chaotic or otherwise subtle phenomenon, such a simulation may not accurately simulate a cell. The only hope we have of simulating a cell is by throwing away low-level information and then experimentally comparing our simulation to the real deal. At this stage, I don't think this is possible, so I consider the possibility of accurate cell simulation to be an open question. Do we have any way of knowing at this point? I'd be happy to be educated if I'm missing anything.
It stuck out to me too. I think it may be the case that the writers at NYT legitimately believe that any responsible adult is a progressive, and if you aren't a progressive, then you're probably one step away from being declared incompetent.

It's not so much the insult to the states, but equating of solving problems in a mature manner with progressive politics. There doesn't seem to be any wealth redistribution or protection of underprivileged groups involved, so I'm not sure what's progressive about it.
My guess is that it's to prevent compilation of code which is unused. If code which isn't actually called anywhere is amalgamated and compiled, compilation time could actually increase instead of decrease.

Seems easily avoidable though through basic dependency analysis, though.
I'm not sure I buy the first two explanations. Taiwan is culturally Chinese, but if someone takes a crap on the street it'd be a small news story. Usually it's blamed on mainland tourists.

I'd say it's more to do with development than anything else.
Yeah it should just be a switch or something. I agree.
Obviously some did.
For that to be a fair comparison, wouldn't you need to look at all the energy consumed by the human brain over the many hours it took them to become a Go champion?
> And NULL pointers are just a consequence of the ability of pointers to take numerical values.

Not at all. The C standard doesn't allow pointers to take arbitrary numerical values; while you can cast back and forth, the only guarantee is that casting a pointer to a numeric value and back to a pointer still points to the original object (and even then only if the numeric type used is large enough, which couldn't be portably ensured prior to C99, and is only conditionally supported even now).

In particular, one thing that the standard does not guarantee - and there have been implementations that did not do so - is that casting a null pointer to int will produce zero, or that casting int zero to a pointer will produce null. Nor does it guarantee that a null pointer is an all-bits-zero value.

The fact that you can write "p = 0" in C is not because pointers can take arbitrary numerical values, but because the language syntax and semantics allow you to do so, with 0 being treated specially when assigned to an lvalue of a pointer type. But you can't write "p = 1", for example, because there's no such special treatment for any other integer literal.
Do well, really piss off your manager, and get fired right away. Of course, if what you do is so good you get a lot of visibility from higher ups, then your manager may slow your work for a year or so and then fire you. Without the visibility, really good work can get you fired right away.

But if you play along, you have a good chance of lasting for some years before the manager fires you to hire someone else he wants so he can have an excuse to pay more so that he can get paid more.

So, right, can get fired either way.

Maybe a big lesson is, do things that are good AND very visible to the higher ups. That also is politics.

And then the other lesson, start your own business.

In a lot of organizations, the worker bees are encouraged to believe that their job is secure, secure enough they can get their kids through school, pay off the house mortgage, etc. For this, the worker bees are willing to accept less pay. But in such a company, firing people starts to convince people that their their job is not secure and want to leave to get just the extra money, what they are really worth.

Generally, a job in a large business organization is one heck of a poor source of family financial security; a lot of people get lucky, but many get badly hurt.

Generally young people should aim at owning their own business.
I find it hard to believe you can't imagine any valid scenario where at least one of those scenarios shouldn't be using pubic CAs.

I've got personal experience with the first two (embedded devices and mobile apps) having pinned certificates (or limited sets of supported CAs)

There's millions of internet-connected set top boxes, tvs, and dvd/bluray players deployed around the world that run with a limited set of supported CAs. (e: Also, don't forget the tons of 'smart' phones out there running ancient versions of whatever)

If you're someone who supports applications that run on those, then your choices for what CAs you offer on your API/Media/etc endpoints is extremely limited. Some of these decisions were made more than a decade ago, and migrating off those is going to take another decade (i.e as old hardware dies).
They sure do! We have an offline root on an HSM for various reasons.

We looked at various systems to manage intermediate ca issuance and reminders for renewal and the cost was incredible... most were >$200k!

Using scripts to automatically generate certificates and using the ugly but effective Windows CA web interface for "vanity" stuff does 90% of what those solutions do. I think we had an intern write a monitoring plugin to open tickets for soon to expire certificates and a few other things that covered the remaining 10%.
highly-skilled immediate team members
Are you using KW, MW, or GW of power?

So yea, residential customers get a fixed rate but that's because there is no point in demand based pricing. They simply charge you enough that it makes little difference what time of day you use slightly more power. In the future the same is likely to be true.
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Bristol Ridge does support ECC BTW, but one problem is that you can't use ECC with x16 chips (because ECC is 72-bit), so with 8GB of RAM and 8Gbit chips you have to choose between non-ECC/ECC single channel with x8 chips and non-ECC dual channel with x16 chips. 4Gbit don't have this problem but will become obsolete especially when 18nm ramps up, and while DRAM prices should decline when that happens...
> not doing something is allowing the previous lack of security standards to put all of those people in danger.

So glad others are making this point. Not to mention that the CA system is one who's sole feature and only purpose is trust. There is zero security if you can't trust the root. We'd love to live in a world where providing security didn't require a trusted third-party, but that's not the world the internet operates on, today. Transparency is provided by establishing strict guidelines and expectations for CAs. Maintaining this trust is enforcing those guidelines equally among the CAs regardless of size/scope and punishing (preferably severely) any violations. Otherwise the old saying of "rules that are not enforced are just suggestions" comes into play.

Because it's a trust-based model, the consequences for violations of that trust have to be strong enough to make a compromised actor willing to refuse government intelligence divisions, corporate criminal actors or even organized crime that has the resources and could stoop to any level of blackmail/bribery to squeeze out a certificate that would allow one to spoof a connection to a high-value target like Amazon, Google, Paypal or Microsoft.
Java Clean Code – Null Safety
Android OkHttp Mock Server – Throttling
I ride as well (about 1000 miles a year) and normally will not exceed speed limits on surface streets while diving. In some cases, I'll actually ride faster than I drive on some roads. I practice vehicular cycling when riding.

But when driving on a limited access highway,I will speed most of the time because the speed limit is based on a now defunct national motor vehicle maximum speed law that was repealed over 20 years ago instead of an actual traffic and engineering study.
Android OkHttp Mock Server – RecordRequest
Uber Engineer's Family, Lawyer Say Race and Company Culture Led to Suicide
Reminds me of a program I had to write earlier in school to implement an AI that would create hangman puzzles and then cheat on them by lying to the person playing, but in a way that they wouldn't contradict themselves and would have a valid word that matches what they've said so far.
That was the month they got rid of sharing and encouraged Reader users to share through Google+. It also inspired this tweet, which I remember fondly.

https://twitter.com/jkottke/status/131434505947979776

Looking like @newsblur is the @pinboard of Google's deliciousing of Reader.
1 Nov 2011, @jkottke
> What would be a better thing to say?

"Sorry"
There's tangherlini relativity which doesn't make these assumptions and is consistent with existing observations! The math is crazy hard.
The ugly truth in Twitter's earnings: it's shrinking into irrelevance
On the one hand, it could be nice to have it all in a repository or two.

On the other hand, a repo history is normally immutable (with force pushes on rare occasions), and comment spam is way to common. Do you really a repo with all the usual link spam in its commit history? In case of public hosting it may trigger some spam filtering automation and block the repo/account. While perfectly possible, I'm not sure a DVCS repository is a well-matching concept for storage here.
How about the linked article at the top? Don't you think if React Native would have solved all of those engineering issues they would have said, "I guess we use React Native!"?

The comment I replied to read, "Why didn't they use react native?" As if this would have solved EVERYTHING.
Good thing ryzen supports ECC OBO. Just waiting on motherboard support for it.
> Do liberals have any genuine principles at all?

The principle they adhere to most strongly is that the ends justify the means. Virtually everything they do flows from that.

Of course, that leaves the questions of what the ends are, and whether their means will effect them. From recent history, it would seem that the answer to the latter is, to some degree, yes. However, there is now significant pushback, leading to further polarization on both sides. The two sides do not ultimately desire the same ends, although many politicians claim that they do in order to establish a "moderate" position and retain their seats.

We may be in for some rough times ahead, politically. However, the Constitution has seen us through worse; as long as it is respected by those in office, we will ultimately come out intact. But I'm afraid that is not a given, since one side now sees the Constitution as "living" and evolving to meet the interpretations that will help effect their ends. If only they would pursue the amendment process instead of...creative interpretation.
He has some good ones, my favorites though are the ones that run in <64k of memory. In particular the Apple ][ desktop http://toastytech.com/guis/a2desk.html, which he comments on finding on a IIGS, but in reality it would run on the IIe and IIc as well. Although, it qualifies more as a "launcher" than a GUI/desktop because outside of the apps it comes with I don't think anyone every wrote anything for it. Meaning all its apps were just normal 8bit prodos applications that took over the whole machine. Given the timeframe though, the mac didn't have the multifinder until system 6 a couple years later.

(whats pretty scary is that I've run (or at least booted) nearly all of them, all the apple and x86/PC ones for sure, plus quite a number of the others). GEOS was pretty cool too.
Reminds me of another phone game I've played, 0h n0. Quite fun.
An easier way around this sort of issue is to change their web app to use a different domain, and only put the new certificate from a different CA on that domain. It's not necessary to update every device.

Embedded devices => https://api.example.com (Symantec cert)

Browsers => https://new-api.example.com (New trusted cert)

Another approach is that if the devices are old enough they're probably using a deprecated version of TLS, so the existing https://api.example.com server could choose which certificate to issue based on the version of TLS offered by the client.
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> An average peasant in the feudalism had more free time than an average 9-5 office worker now.

If you want the lifestyle of a medieval peasant, you can do that now. No one is stopping you.
> drivers have developed a sense of entitlement to speed at least 10 mph, and regard the posted speed limit as a speed minimum.

This is the result of underposting highway speed limits for decades. Had that not happened, then dotted limits would have a lot more respect today.
#startups on Freenode IRC. There's also a #hn channel, but there's never anybody in there.
I did assume that in your case the rewrite was valid - after all, you laid out the case. I was just surprised that it went as well as it did - I've seen so many rebuilds that went to shit that it was a genuine shock to see one go well.
Palantir will shell out $1.7M to resolve discrimination claims
> There are no atheists in foxholes.

This is just a thing that people say that doesn't stand up to even cursory scrutiny.
Vanguard lets you buy Vanguard funds and ETFs without a commission in their accounts.
Wish I was hanging up my spurs.
He's a broke <20 years old and lives in Croatia. Stripe was created to solve the payment problem because it's HUGE and doubly difficult outside north America and on a tiny budget. His first "real" game.

Sure, you're right but something like this happened to you or someone you know and you learned that lesson. He learned it , hindsight is 20/20 cut the guy some slack. It's not like the other dev was the first developer to let a deadline slip
A fat belly is literally called a beer gut or a beer belly in English as well.
You can't just walk up to coal or nuclear plant and blow it up either.

If you wanted to take a power plant offline, solar included, you would target the grid connection wiring or the high volatage transformers.
Unfortunately your fears are not unfounded. I have been to a village which is supposed to be model village for the constituency (adopted by the ruling party legislator). Open defecation has not reduced significantly. The toilets built are in a deplorable state and if people are not using them it is understandable. I think the public is also to be blamed for this but if the legislator can't introduce/inculcate mindset change in just one model village in their constituency it is not encouraging.
Did you just translate the grandparent comment into silicon-valley-speak? It means the same thing, but sounds so much more marketable :)
Iirc you can have certs signed by multiple roots though, right? In which case these sites can just get their cert signed by the pinned symantec root and a real still-valid root. Nobody's stopping symantec from signing new certs, they just won't work in Chrome (and likely other browsers)

Or maybe I've misunderstood the situation.
The ingots were distributed for free, and likely cost under a dollar each to manufacture in bulk.
Buying new pans is such a stupidly colossal waste of money for low income families. They already have pots and pans, and definitely don't need more. An ingot is something they can easily accommodate. And it probably costs a whole lot lesser than 20 USD.
> How is it wrong? Look at VFINX for example:

That's like looking up last night's lottery numbers and picking them for tonight's ticket because they won last time.

It's not hard to find stocks that have done well.

It's hard to find stocks that will do well, and do better than the market as a whole, and to never make a mistake and pick one that goes bankrupt.
I don't see how you can call an AI created by humans that humans can understand, "super-human"? By definition, a super-human AI would be able to stuff we could not understand.
I did a big project involving InDesign and the XML import a few years ago (CS4 times). Once I learnt to be very careful when editing the templates, it was pretty satisfying.

I remember that certain XML tags had to use the exact namespace defined in the Adobe spec, but other than that it all seemed pretty XML compliant.

I was using Python / ElementTree, and had to override the namespaces to make sure the exact name was being used. Or something.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html...

What other problems did you encounter regarding XML compatibility?
Why are you putting every other word in italics?
They set the terms for licensing Android, and have used leverage for other things they want or don't want.

Edit: Yes, really. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/new-android-oem-lice...
The story appears to be complicated, and there is some disagreement about basic points. The introduction to this article has a good recent summary: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/4/e1501385.full
You can use Quantopian to write a Python script that trades on a live Robinhood portfolio. Their target audience is algorithmic traders, but I've written a simple script that just rebalances my portfolio among a small set of index funds each day. Pretty simple to do and completely free.

I'll try to do a blog post when I get the chance.
It deeper than that. What are you calculating the checksum of? Is it corrupted already?

If you can't trust your RAM, you have no hard truth to rely on. It's only probabilistic programing or living with the errors.

(Although, rereading the GP, he seems to be talking about corrupted binaries. Yes, you can catch corrupted binaries, but only after they corrupted some data.)
The Boy Scout Rule: "Always leave the campground cleaner than you found it."

I've always tried to do this in every environment I've worked in, from programming, documentation and planning down to the details of the coffee/snack bar.
Exactly. Some shipments even have pallet-level tracking if the products are expensive enough to justify it.
> Water is [...] highly illiquid

Do you mean ice or steam? ;-)
Don't give Robinhood the credit - fees have been dropping for decades. http://www.businessinsider.com/historical-trading-commission...
>You do not, in fact, get general intelligence by accident by throwing a lot of connections in one place, just like you do not get a human just by throwing a lot of organic molecules and water in one place.

Don't tell that to the deep learning cult! They'll have to think about how it all works!
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14208159 and marked it off-topic.
It's not clear to me how true this is. There are definitely individuals that exhibit savant skills in one area and mediocre to poor skills in other areas. But there are also true polymaths who can turn their hands to just about anything, I suspect that those people would do well on aggregate in any period of human history
Welfare makes people feel bad. People want jobs. People want to be productive members of society. People want the pride and self-respect that comes with supporting a family. You might say that economic self-interest means voting for wealth redistribution, but the cost is feeling like a worthless thief. That would be depressing -- this should suggest why opiates are so popular in Appalachia and the rust belt these days.
Yes to ride their entrepreneurs.
Show HN: Generate titles and abstracts for science journals (for fun)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy
>As nature itself has shown, it's not necessary to understand it to create it.

Unless intelligence itself conforms to natural principles, unless it "cuts with the grain" of nature's preexisting laws.

Which, frankly, it does. Information theory and thermodynamics are a thing.
Unless your ass is in the shape of a bunch of curved piano keys.
The post that I was replying to in the first place said "blasphemy is indeed punishable by death in Islam," full stop. All I'm trying to do is make it clear that no major religion is a unified monolith. We both know that the crimes of terrorists and fundamentalists are used to condemn peaceful Muslims in the US and Europe.
The Klamath Native American tribe has legends of the eruption of Mt. Mazama that formed Oregon's Crater Lake - which happened in ~5677 BC [1]. If oral legends that reflect real events can last seven and a half thousand years, is there any reason to think they couldn't last 15ky, or 20ky? It seems to me all that's needed is a continuous cultural line.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llao
Tufte Story: AnswerBook (2008)
I think it much more likely they will be moving to packaging the web like they package cable television. This way they can charge both ends of the transaction, the company providing the service and the customer of that service.
Impenetrable deserts aren't known for their abundance of fresh water. Just having resources available isn't everything either, you have to know how to extract those resources, this is a massive barrier to a primitive (excuse the term) culture landing on an alien continent, separated for millions of years.

Living off the ocean is also incredibly dangerous.
Melvin's and Maurice's were always must-stops for my family. Maurice's in Columbia on our way to the beach (either Myrtle or Charleston or Hunting Island) and Melvin's regularly when my dad was working in Charleston for a couple of years. Both at their original locations, AFAIK. I didn't know anything about the politics of Maurice at the time, but read about it later (that very article, I think, was linked on HN a while back).

So, yeah, even vile racists make good BBQ in SC, and nobody held their racism against them through decades of successful operation. I always found that history pretty fascinating, even before the racism came up...brothers kinda duking it out in a BBQ turf war, in a state where BBQ really matters.
Alongside the comments about Aboriginal legends, a copy of my comment from elsewhere in the thread:

The Klamath Native American tribe has legends of the eruption of Mt. Mazama that formed Oregon's Crater Lake - which happened in ~5677 BC [1]. If oral legends that reflect real events can last seven and a half thousand years, is there any reason to think they couldn't last 15ky, or 20ky? It seems to me all that's needed is a continuous cultural line.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llao
Hard to grok was probably one of the main requirements in this case, so this whole sidebar doesn't mean much in this context. The writer of this code has no interest in safe or lucid.
Device intervention
That's a good point. However it's also worthwhile to consider that you are a criminal and so is pretty much every single adult US citizen. The massive expansion in criminal code over the past 50 years has ensured that crime is very commonplace and that enforcement rates are very low.

Harvey Silverglate, a Harvard law grad who works as an attorney, estimates the average American commits three felonies per day. He published an entire book on the topic[1]. The number is probably a lot higher for people who have built or served as directors of a company.

1) http://thinkaboutnow.com/2016/07/average-americans-commit-3-...