skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have a look at http://genode.org/
The Ultimate in Garbage Collection (1995)
Tesla gets hit with discrimination lawsuit [pdf]
See also: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/how-many-x86-instru...
>> Land is expensive to protect.

So you use your wealth to ensure that local authorities protect your interests. You setup people in power, vassal kings, to protect land interests above all others. Who is in charge now? Who are their friends? Do they own property scattered all over the globe? Do any of them care about a box of gold?
And in one simple meme:

[1]: http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/37/37b0641f1cb0ae77dc9b8fc8c8458...
How is this different than China, where the party has retained an iron grip despite a multi-decade boom?
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Interactive textbooks have pretty much always been garbage. Education companies want to pretend they are some Bret Victoresque interactive VR learning experience but instead they are basically just regular textbooks with videos and maybe computer graded homework problems.
That is the same in Germany, and other countries I regularly visit, but on the shop I regularly go to, when they show up at some corner in the computer section, they tend to be part of discount actions for several weeks until someone finally buys them.
Their own language prevents any kind of expensive queries.
Besides that, they limit the amount of anything you can think of (queries, cpu time, memory, call, querytime).

Killing connections can be done in postgresql too. The reason for sf to be on oracle is probably history.
> It may have happened years or decades later, but overall scientific progress is very rarely strictly dependent on one individual.

Which brings up an interesting question. What is the most "far out" discovery that someone has made? In other words, had that person not thought of it, what idea would take the longest amount of time for someone else to arrive at? My bet is on Godel's incompleteness theorems, but I may be missing something even more bizarre. (I don't necessarily mean obscure though; inter-universal Teichmüller theory might take forever to reach independent reinvention but it's also very niche.)
I think my issue with it, as that wiki article states, is that it's prophetic. Nobody knows how long this state will last, so, applying a time metric makes it unscientific.
Not exactly, fructose metabolism does happen in the liver, turning fructose into DHAP and glyceraldehyde. These products are then further metabolized elsewhere in the body. The reason Fructose is used as a sugar substitute for people with blood sugar control problems is that due to the liver enzyme mediated metabolic pathway, you don't get the same instantaneous insulin spike as you do with glucose, which passes right through the liver and is metabolized directly in other tissues.

However, consuming too much fructose can lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease which is much like cirrhosis.

Pretty much tl;dr: all sugars are bad for you. They're better for you in fruits because they're trapped in plant fibers which slow down their absorption into the bloodstream allowing your body to spread out the load over time. Fiber also makes you feel full so you're less likely to go back for more.

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose
LaTeX was never meant to be used as a word processor. It's amazing for Math and other scientific writing, but apart from that, it's just much faster to open up your basic Word Processor and get on to playing the keys.
> That's not how buy it now works.

Except that it does. Observing that other people use it another way, doesn't change the existing functionality.
Patents are cancer.

Also, GPLv2 does not say anything about patents.
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I love LaTeX, but I disagree about that WYSIWYM.

It's really WYGIWYAF. What You Get Is What You Asked For.
I played with that chip as a kid, probably still have it somewhere but not in good condition as I recall it becoming very hot during operation.
One day I built the full demonstration circuit similar to the one in this pic.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/76477_De...

It took forever to finish as I wasn't that skilled at the time and the number of switches and pots was simply beyond everything I had soldered before, but I managed to succeed it and spent some good evenings playing with its effects.
I just put "School of Hard Knocks" on my LinkedIn and leave it at that. If that's unacceptable to a prospective employer, I've successfully weeded out a bad fit.

So far it hasn't been.
That's finance and trading. In web services, "Oracle" is a bad word. Like. Paying money? For a database system?! That sounds extremely alien to me
This is a after-it-therefore-because-of-it argument/survivorship bias.

Inversely, not knowing the technical questions doesn't mean that alone is the reason the interview "failed". /r/cscareerquestions had good discussion yesterday about the realities of interviewing: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/68czkl/w...
Yeah, the pixel line of devices seems in part to be about weening Google off their Apple product addiction. Never mind dogfooding their own software products.
$44 billion current US dollars worth of gold can back 10 to 100 times that amount of "money" (depending on how far you stretch the definition of money) in a fractional reserve banking system. It's no trivial amount.
Yes, I did write most of the text, but without his guidance on the research and on what to write about more in depth, there would have been no article. He's been the best advisor. Don't you dare say bad things about him! :-)
Yes, it's a gimmick. The question whether it's a useful gimmick is an open one. I'd try it out probably, but probably it would end more confusing than helpful after the novelty wears off.
> The irony that the US has a much worse situation because there is so much less competition (despite it being the home of capatalism).

Yup, pretty interesting stuff. In some ways we're more free; in others, more restricted.
We've heard this story before. In the West, the line (for years!) was that China's economic growth and foreign trade would _inevitably_ lead to democratization and widespread human rights improvements. That didn't happen -- the Communist party adapted quickly. They learned how to use economic growth as the base of their continued legitimacy, and as a fig leaf for continued political oppression (Internet censorship, jailing human rights activists, intimidating journalists, etc). With China as their mentor, I don't have high hopes for a different scenario unfolding in North Korea.
And thus there is a thriving market in third party cases...
Interesting. I dropped out of a CS degree so I thought the theoretical knowledge was preventing me from getting jobs. If a Stanford Grad has trouble with interviews it seems that CTCI and tools like Leetcode are the way to go.
Not sure when you downloaded it but the contacts permission was added under iOS 6 in 2012.

http://www.imore.com/how-restrict-apps-access-your-contacts-...
Aumann's agreement theorem
Why is it in all these stories about people being detained by law enforcement or border security that any questions about whats happening are just being ignored. I almost get the feeling that they willfully want to make people uneasy. Anyone can see that if you make people feel helpless in this way it's the prefect recipe for panic.
Disclaimer: huge postgresql fanboy, use it whenever I get the chance

A few things I've found great in Oracle that aren't (AFAIK) available in PG:

- Straight better/more reliable performance on average
- More advanced parallel queries (obviously this is changing in PG right now)
- Flashback queries
- Better materialized views
- Plan stability (maintains predictable query performance, rather than the nasty jumps you sometimes see when plans change)
- Better clustering story (RAC is super expensive but pretty good)
" I don't know where you got this idea. It's not a good one."

The idea is that a law can't be applied if it's invalid. This already happens in contract law. It can happen with nullification. I'd argue a law passed due to a bribe is invalid and should be nullified by default.

"you give full power to conservatives"

They're already the ones writing these laws. They just convince or pay a handful of people in the states who are unaffordable to the masses. Convincing a judge or a jury of our peers might be easier. Almost all the gains of civil rights and against corrupt companies have started in the courts in past decade or so.
If you have enough experience to guide me wrt what the interesting questions in a field are and how to make potential answers to those questions "meaningful", then I'm happy to write and have you as a co-author.
This is, of course, complete nonsense, because humans are notoriously inefficient at the process you describe, de novo lipogenesis. You've been listening to that fructomaniac and dairy shill Robert Lustig, haven't you? Too bad!
Sugar doesn't cause obesity in humans. This is a trite and dull myth which is easily disproved by researching "de novo lipogenesis" in humans. It only takes a few minutes to do, and it will unburden you from the propaganda you regurgitate.
> I volunteer in an after-school supplemental program for kiddos in public housing. Three years ago we scared up a grant to buy four iPads to help the kids do their homework.

> Then a local teacher intervened and said, no, no, no, get Chromebooks. We did. We got six for the same money. They're compatible with the local school IT systems. They reset themselves when somebody logs off, so we don't have to worry about what the kids install on them.

> THEY HAVE KEYBOARDS! Kids can use them to for written-word assignments without futzing around with the onscreen keyboards.

> They aren't quite as game-focused as the iPads. That means we get less squabbling over who gets to use them and for what. (I've taken to leaving my iPad at home because it's an attractive nuisance.)

> They're cheap enough that it's not the end of the world if one gets damaged.

> The chromebooks are a big win for us and the kids we serve.

How did you only get six Chromebooks for the price of four iPads?
If it was bill gates or ballmer's microsoft they might have gone on. They lost billions on Xbox and Bing, but they still kept at it. I guess Xbox turned out pretty good, but they sunk a ton of money on it. I guess the new Microsoft management is not interested in losing money. Google realized their core business is search and getting google search on phones was paramount even if they had to pay manufacturers to put their search engine there.
somebody please finish the sokoban.c from the "unfinished" folder :) . whatever is done by autosokoban [1] is really good, but there is no source.

[1] http://www.linusakesson.net/games/autosokoban/index.php
Gold isn't going to save you from a zombie apocalypse, nor can you eat it.
It will however transport your wealth from one side of a currency crisis to the other while retaining value - as opposed to plastic notes with arbitrary numbers of zeros printed on them.
This isn't crypyography; probably the listener won't notice the difference.
I always imagined that if you were stockpiling large amounts of gold in your home it was more of a survivalist thing than a risk management thing.
" They are not content provides or censors... at least not directly. "

They are if they determine what content you can get. They've already reduced that in the past just to save bandwidth costs. Then there's the content side. So, direct or indirect, it's equivalent in the sense that letting them have control over what you can receive makes them the content provider or censor in practice. A key middleman who might help you out or harm you instead of being impartial.
Think about a cell-phone which has a built-in battery you can't replace. Isn't that bit like software you can't modify?

Now should we require the cell-phone manufacturers to make their batteries replaceable on ideological basis? It probably makes it cheaper to produce the cell-phone if the battery is non-replaceable.

Similarly making your software open-source probably has costs associated with it.

Should we insist that every producer of software must make their product open-source? If it is unethical to produce closed-source software then clearly we should. No?
Through the course of a decade I've seen my country run into the ground. It certainly was a flawed one to begin with, but now we've lost any dignity or respect. I'm embarrassed of our leaders, and those who continue to support them.

Online, I've seen the Wikipedia ban being discussed among AKP supporters and the others, and a lot of people responded "what, should Wikipedia be above the law?". That is what we've been reduced to - propaganda is not even necessary anymore.
Sounds like a case of survivorship bias. For every Floyd and Hendrix, there are probably dozens of then contemporary pop artists who never made it out of the 60s.
Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.

I think is the better point or rewording of your point.
Same here. Cannot reach ipv6 from my current (between places) home line even and the local mobile network providers never offered ipv6 integration as far as I can tell (dual sim, different networks, no ipv6 access).
I'm a big fan of the EFF, but for every good thing they do they seem to follow it up with some baseless paranoia. Nowhere in that article do they actually back up their claim that google "data-mines" student's browsing history.

Chrome sync is enabled by default, which sends browsing history through google servers. Google says they don't use that data for advertising purposes. The EFF's position here seems to be that it is literally impossible for the data to exist on Google's servers without it being used for advertising purposes.
It's not so much the license per se. It's that the setup is done by a third party that can be blamed when something goes wrong. I saw one one contract that was specifically saying that they are insured for 1 mio. in damages.

The company for the longest time wouldn't even touch basic firewall rules without having the firewall contractor implement it.
And this is how another smart person dedicated their life to solving puzzles, just so that they could get a job on an obscure feature in a giant company.
It's not about technical merit or cost - it's about service contracts.

I was a Sybase point person for years at a fortune 50 medical devices enterprise company (we had revenues of well over $1B annually on devices running Sybase dbs). There were dozens of bugs/issues I found that I pushed up the chain to an engineer and had special patches turned around within 48 hours, sometimes even hours.

Before I left that job I started playing around with Rails and mentioned MySQL and Postgres for a potential greenfield project. I was told it would be fine for internal use but no way, no how were they going to deploy any software without that kind of parachute based on economic leverage.
When I used to juice I did a combo. I would eat some raw veggies while cutting them up for juicing. Then, I would eat a can of rinsed beans for protein(warmed with pepper).

I've tried to eat the same quantity of raw veggies as what I would juice; LOTS OF WORK.

Did I need that much juice? Was I getting the equiv or better of benefit from drinking juice as I would have eating entirely raw? IDK.
For those of you interested in Financial Technology and money transfer. Check out the UPI system in India. It's basically an API for banks. It's designed in a way that start ups can approach it. Each user can pick up an ID, say zuron7@bankname and transact with it.

[0] https://indiastack.org/upi/
But this isn't about freedom or democracy. This is about foreign investment. The wealthy New Yorkers who subscribe to the times care about foreign investment, not freedom or democracy.
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More accurately "exotic" food. For most native Chinese, if you ask them to have western food a few days in a row they'll be desperate to find Chinese food again
You would not have guessed that guy was one of the most scheming and ruthless CEOs of the PC market.

Heck, that video may well be more enjoyable than any keynote Jobs ever delivered.
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I'm not sure I would say more complicated, but you're completely right things are bit different on the byte level. For example there are certain prefixes that can be added indefinitely. Because of that there is a maximum instruction length x86 CPUs will decode, which I believe is 15 bytes - no valid instructions will go over that without adding unneeded prefixes, but without such a maximum the instruction set is technically infinite in length.

That said, as far as the CPU is concerned (And keep in mind, x86 CPUs are stupid complicated so none of what I'm about to describe would really tell you how a particular x86 executes a particular instruction. This would apply better to simpler CPUs) an instruction with multiple widths is generally treated the same way for all of the widths. It decodes the opcode identifier for the instruction, and then would go on the decode the width from a separate part of the instruction. (Though I mean, commonly simple CPUs don't even support multiple widths). The hardware that handles that would commonly be the same or very similar. Debating whether or not that makes them "different" is just matter of definitions I think. But at the end of the day they are generally treated very similarly.

It's also worth noting that assembly langauge's aren't quite a one-to-one mapping. It's fairly common for the assembler to substitute an equivalent instruction for one you used in cases where it knows it is better, and it is also common that a instruction doesn't actually exist on the CPU, but the mnemonics for it exists for convenience. But this does mean that the assembly language can actually represent more instructions then the CPU actually has, meaning the 'byte level' version can in some ways be less complicated, depending on your POV. I think for x86 this likely doesn't really make much of a difference though because the number probably isn't extremely high.
Thanks for the input! Hopefully this high intake is balanced by the fact that I'm training for a triathlon and marathon, but I'm due for a blood test anyways so I will have a medical facility check me out. :)
>> fresh, clean water will be more scarce and climate changes will render parts of Earth uninhabitable.

If one wants to get all conspiracy-minded: Vancouver, Toronto ... not the warmest of cities. Neither are they in red zones for rising sea levels. And, being in Canada, have more fresh water per person than most anywhere on the planet.
Considering that you don't know whether you can be sure that you've used a secure implementation, then the answer is a resounding, NO! It is not, by your own admission, 'safe' to publish any data that needs to remain secure in a publicly available setting.

Once you can answer yes to:

<snip>
How can you be sure you've used a secure implementation? No idea
</snip>

Then you will be able to ascertain for yourself whether your encrypted data, placed in a publicly available location, is "Safe Enough", "Secure Enough" for your needs.

It would be naive to assume that any data placed somewhere, encrypted or not, is stored with a completely invulnerable method.

That having been said, one must rise to the occasion of determining how secure something needs to be, and then availing oneself of the means to achieve that level of security.

I hope that helps, but in reality, there really isn't a cut and dried YES|NO answer - only relative levels of reasonable assurance in securing your data and communications.
At this point, I'm looking for things that support ed25519. I'm a fan of SecureCRT ($) and have been for years.

On a related note, it's surprisingly hard to find a Windows SFTP server that supports modern ciphers when I looked recently.
If you ever want easy-to-update, high quality documents, LaTeX is what you want. You simply see the difference between word and LaTeX. With microtype, you can easily reproduce the quality of highly paid typography-experts.
The problem is that a lot of LaTeX zealots and fanboys tell you to use it as soon as you mention Word/Pages/Google Docs/etc. This can confuse beginners and the public in general as to what LaTeX is for.
I don't think so... I managed to get banned twice from AdSense and I still use all the other google services with the accounts that got banned.
There's a decent amount of work that's been done already in this area, see [1] and follow up work by the same authors for a good example.
While the approach is "cool" there are still many unanswered questions of what exactly it tells us about the brain.
See [2], a critical review of [1], for an indication of what I mean.

- [1] http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/27/10005
- [2] http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/48/15769
Maybe if Wikipedia would control the out-of-control editors, they would be more respected. Sadly, Wikipedia has always had a problem with truth because it documents everything and not everything can be checked without experts looking. There's a big issue with people removing good sources and adding bad ones or none at all to change the claims made in the article.
What I'm talking about would need almost zero extra work.
Man. I feel in these situations that allowing failure is the best course to enable people to learn from their mistakes.

But how do you let a whole country fail? Particularly when this attitude of preferring dictatorship seems to be growing in many countries. It's concerted, and I don't want that in my part of the world.
Sure, but just as these big tech companies have processes that's optimize for removing false positives, candidates end up having to study for interviews to optimize for being excluded as such.
For pdf deliverables regarding things like a resume, I am wondering if it is just better to create an html document using FE web dev skills, and render it to pdf (having done the latex resume thing recently).

i.e. for PDF's (like a resume), What are the advantages of latex over html+css->pdf?

(This is assuming I don't care about things like table-of-contents generation or precise chapter-aware commands)
In my experience with couple of banks, it comes down to support. Lot of systems in banks are written for longevity. So they frown upon software which might be obsolete or people stop working on them 5 years down the line. A paid software, they reason, can at most release a new version while free might not provide enough incentive for people to work on it continuously.

Many also think looking up issues on stackoverflow, google or blogs as unreliable. Then there are times when issues might be specific to installs or data, in which case sharing the logs/sample data (even masked ones) can be risky. They feel comfortable sharing logs/masked data with for example Oracle because they believe it to be safe and locked under Oracle's security guidelines.

The 2nd refrain I hear is - security. In case of a major security issue being revealed, there is a general sense that FOSS will be slower to react in releasing a
"stable" patch. Comparatively paid software take it as a reputation risk and work towards quickly releasing a "stable" patch.

If people have to use FOSS, then they try and search for the paid support flavor. Recently we were looking at MQ software. When we zeroed in on RabbitMQ we were asked to deploy only the paid Pivotal version and not the free version because "support".

Sure, these things might not be completely true but for many higher ups paying for something somehow makes them sleep better at night than a "free" alternative.
Worse than that it seems it's a global wave. Everybody is going wild. As if the world was big bubble, and cracks are too numerous it's blowing.