skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presentation was exceptionally well done, I would pay for more content like this!
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/do-cold-drinks-...

I don't think cold water is actually bad for digestion.
It's about trying to preventing you from accessing encrypted content while having to hand you the key somehow.

They are giving you access, so somehow you should be able to get the stream should you want to.
The machine is self-assembled, and the motherboard manufacturer doesn’t provide updates.

I don’t run windows, though.

> Well, firstly, don't connect your machine to networks you don't trust the members of :)

I’ve already had issues with the intel card, so I’m running on a RealTek ethernet card for now anyway. But that’s no long term solution.
Have you heard this remix? It's so incredibly catchy...

https://youtu.be/URxzu8EFBVY
So secretive because its so vulnerable as any of their shitty low level nonsense features. Would be nice if they just focsed on ipc and efficient throughput instead of making it swiss cheese!
World at Cyber War by NSA-Powered WannaCry Ransomware – | Hacker Nucleus
Would it be possible to assess the musical repetitiveness by doing this type of analysis on midi versions of the songs?

I'd also be curious which songs were the least repetitive for each decade.
NASA's 2017 budget is $19.5 billion. The Alaskan Way Viaduct is estimated to cost $4.25 billion.

Trump's proposed EPA budget is $5.7 billion.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Way_Viaduct_replacemen...
As I understand the situation, the agents that are placed this way have only the shallowest cover and their job is to interface with the agents and sources that are actually secret.

The overt description of covert operations, made by the CIA, in their career description, is that agents handle sources and sources do whatever dirty deeds the agency really wants done. Of course, the CIA has entirely different sections with military or hacking capability but basic "game" of embassy based agents interfacing with covert agents interfacing with actual sources remains.
how is a specific computer linked to a payment if they reuse addresses? If they do not reuse addresses, why did those 4 receive so much btc?
As a contractor, I've seen these before - and more frequently, the indemnification clause. I've always just sent a apologetic but firm email saying that I cannot accept those clauses and they always get removed without any drama or handwringing.

Admittedly I'm on the upper end of the experience scale, but I think there's a lot more wiggle room than most people realize. Also, this is a pretty decent litmus test for an organization - I would avoid companies run by their legal departments.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14323762
It's not bad writing, and it's certainly not a Sokal-style hoax. These are the kinds of things that philosophers think about and this is how they write about them. I take it you're just not familiar with modern academic philosophy? Is it the terminology that's throwing you off? For comparison, here's a random snippet from the Wikipedia article on algebraic geometry:

"Like for affine algebraic sets, there is a bijection between the projective algebraic sets and the reduced homogeneous ideals which define them. The projective varieties are the projective algebraic sets whose defining ideal is prime."

Wouldn't that also sound like nonsensical or bad writing to someone unfamiliar with the field? But of course, it's not nonsense.
I'm running VMware on a whitebox with a H87 chipset and vPro capable processor. MEI shows up in dmesg.

Has anyone else checked their VMware box accordingly?
The original opinion came from a billionaire monopolist. Even the very best humans can have bad traits. Should we really wait/expect that to change and should space exploration wait?

We're still floating around on a single planet in a single solar system in a universe we know almost nothing about. Like a fly crossing a highway, it seems dangerous to me.
The Hughes Mining Barge (HMB-1) was originally developed by the CIA to salvage the Soviet submarine K-129 from the ocean floor.

It then had a second life 25 years later as the hanger for the Sea Shadow. Then they were both put in mothballs in the Suisan Bay fleet. Someone broke in and photographed it.

http://scotthaefner.com/beyond/mothball-fleet-ghost-ships/

The Sea Shadow was sold for scrap to Bay Marine for something $2.5M. But Bay Marine got to keep the HMB and that's what's on the Estuary.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185831/Declassified...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Shadow_(IX-529)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-129_(1960)
>Those who do not already have lots of capital have almost no access.

explain how the Russian immigrant Sergey Brin had "lots of capital" or how the South African immigrant Elon Musk had "lots of capital".

Yet they are billionaires. So what do we do about this unequal outcome? Turn off people's right to make startups without requiring any capital?

The simple fact is that while Marx wrote in the 19th century when you needed millions to start up a factory, today the cost for starting to create dynastic, millionaire or billionaire wealth is: $0. It has no capital cost. Of any kind. At east, in silicon valley.

what is to keep this from spreading in the future? What is Piketty's response?

In fact there is no such response. There is no way to stop unequal wealth except by taking people's computers away.

You state that you follow my argument but I don't believe you are able to follow it.

Can you agree with this statement please: If owning a purple rock gives people unequal utility (some people get great pleasure out of it while others do not) then if everyone owns a purple rock, people will have unequal purple rock-related utility under this world scenario. Please agree, it's quite specific and formal.

(I realize this is only the proxy argument.)

Now suppose our most important value were equality of outcome. What shall we do? We must measure people's utility, and somehow take from people who get greater utility from purple rocks, enough of their purple rocks, that they end up with the same net utility. So someone who gets huge utility from owning a purple rock might need to be given just a gram, whereas someone who gets almost no utility from it may need to be given a mountain.

Okay, now apply it to money. If someone gets huge capital out of almost capital, do you have to take it all away? If you took away 99.999% of Sergey Brin's capital away when he was founding Google, then today's $50 billion net worth that he has would be $50 billion * 0.001% = $500,000. Unfortunately, that is still too much - it's more than average.

So should he have had 99.9999% taken away, since taking away 99.999% does not lead to an equal outcome?

This is not a theoretical question. It's a practical question you must address. In 2017 there are no capital requirements of any kind that are necessary in order to create billions of dollars, dynastic-level wealth. Zero.

I am afraid you are not following my argument, and that's okay. You are simply wrong that "those who do not already have lots of capital have almost no access." It is similar to saying only a white male can become President. Why would you say that, when it's demonstrably false?

Since you are arguing from false facts, and also don't seem to follow my argument, this is not going to be a productive exchange. Sorry - I tried.
Great idea. If the drone gets sloppy and the headstone hits someone, that's just another sale.
Would a lot of robotics jobs go to where the factories are, according to the popular narrative during the campaign, in China? I don't know how to check this.

Also, it's not just robotics but machinery - the coal mining jobs in Appalachia disappeared to lessened demand but the number of jobs would have gone down severely in any case due to mechanization made possible by mountain top removal. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/coal-co...
You must have been on JAL 787. The economy seats there are incredibly tiny. I assume this is because Japanese people are not big.
Many people left viable farms for better opportunities in industrial jobs though, rather than getting laid off from their farms.

My great-grandparents were homesteading in the 1900s.

My grandfather was still using some horse drawn equipment in the 1940s-1950s, to farm on maybe 110 acres.

So the barriers to farming for survival didn't go up very fast.
After playing the exact same game on x86 related patents for decades, Intel is now complaining that Qualcomm is doing something similar?
Thanks a lot for this comment. It made a lot of connections form in my brain.
I would expect an n-grams approach to be a better measure.
I remember reading about undersea manganese mining in an illustrated science book when I was a kid! It even had pictures of the mining craft.
Qualcomm are known to abuse patents, and claim "that's just how we do it" argument to justify their aggression. That's what they did with attacking Opus codec with completely bogus claims. So I don't feel sorry for them even a bit.
Oh, I was talking about companies that are certainly bivger than that.
Here's the link
https://youtu.be/GxS-viqsXqU
Ask HN: What are your best tools to scrape articles on a particular person?
The research that is necessary for space exploration leads to terrestrial technology as well. Another poster above mentioned how solar panels would not be nearly as efficient as they are if Bell Labs didn't spend the time researching them for satellites. That's just one example. Nasa is currently working on a ton of different research projects with an extremely small budget. One of these projects is designed to take water from waste products such as human sweat, urine, and other gross stuff and recycle it back into drinkable water.

Here are some more examples:

> NASA’s microencapsulating technology enabled the creation of a "Petroleum Remediation Product," which safely cleans petroleum-based pollutants from water.

> In the 1990s, NASA scientists at JPL developed software capable of correcting for GPS signal errors, enabling accuracy within inches. The software is called Real-Time GIPSY (RTG). John Deere licensed the software and used it to develop self-driving farm equipment. As of 2016, as nearly 70% of North American farmland is cultivated by self-driving tractors, which rely on RTG originally developed at NASA.

> Dr. Alain Gachet founded Radar Technologies International (RTI) in 1999 to use satellite generated data to identify probable locations of precious metals and during its use found it could also detect water. The system developed with this data, WATEX, uses about 80 percent of its data inputs from publically available NASA information. This free information allowed RTI to develop the WATEX system to successfully locate water sources, such as in 2004 at refugee camps during the War in Darfur.

> So-called space blankets, developed in 1964 for the space program, are lightweight and reflect infrared radiation. These items are often included in first aid kits.

> Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company developed a fibrous material, five times stronger than steel, for NASA to use in parachute shrouds to soft-land the Viking Lander spacecraft on the Martian surface. Recognizing the durability of the material, Goodyear expanded the technology and went on to produce a new radial tire with a tread life expected to be 10,000 miles (16,000 km) greater than conventional radials.

> Firefighting equipment in the United States is based on lightweight materials developed for the U.S. Space Program. NASA and the National Bureau of Standards created a lightweight breathing system including face mask, frame, harness, and air bottle, using an aluminum composite material developed by NASA for use on rocket casings.

> NASA developed a cloud compute platform to give additional compute and storage resources for its engineers, called Nebula. In July 2010, the Nebula code was released as open source and NASA partnered with Rackspace, to form the OpenStack project.[42] OpenStack is used in the cloud-based products from many companies in the cloud market.

The above is just a small sampling of some of the technologies born or improved by Nasa research. Nasa, of course, is not the only organization in the space research and exploration game. As you can see, research for space exploration almost always has some level of terrestrial utility.
It is kind of a necessity in some domains. For instance, I could cite Android applications in Java, or using Qt in C++.
I have it and "S". I thought House of Leaves was more difficult to get into and a bit pretentious, but that's probably just me.
That is true for almost all Telcos I worked for. As they are a result of multiple mergers, the internal environment is absolutely​ horrible and moved by chaos. I'm currently working, as a consultant, with a Telco that has the worst IT team I've ever worked for and whose only job seems to be to blame us (the integrator) for everything.
> But noone actually wants a "relevant timeline".

I want that
> Doughnuts (donuts to our US readers)

Uh, no. This isn't like cookies vs biscuits or fries vs chips vs crisps. The longer spelling is still commonly used in the US, but even if it weren't, we don't need an explanation on a minor spelling difference, thanks.
Rihanna pushes the boundary even farther in "work". I think there might even be a level of snarky self-awareness with the way she just dissolves that one word into a group of repeated noises.

The production is the legacy of max Martin and dr. Luke they have it down to a science.
When Apple is 2 years behind you, put your things in order
The title of this post is just annoying.
"Everything you need to know...".

Really? Everything?
Will anything wrong happen if I will be a bit more curious than The Author?
I think that describing Google Play Services (or Android? or I'm-not-sure-what) as "a google rootkit" isn't super conducive to a meaningful discussion, even if there's a technical interpretation under which it's true.

In particular, most users of Netflix on Android have a threat model that involves Google legitimately having the ability to push software updates to the phone that run as root. So "rootkit" is not a very useful term, any more than describing any Debian package maintainer script as a "random volunteer's rootkit" would be.
I thought patents were invalid if they were just "something you can do in the real world... but using a computer". I'm pretty sure grid layouts have been in mathetmatics, printing, etc for hundreds/thousands of years. It's likely a shit patent.
Exactly. All part of the hoax!
Rust FFI: Sending strings to the outside world
If you can, you should upgrade from DEFLATE (the compression format in zlib, gzip, zip files, png, office docs, etc) to something more modern like zstd.

If you must preserve ability to decompress by zlib, there are different implementations of a DEFLATE compressor that are better than zlib (either faster or better compression ratio).

A DEFLATE compressor needs to keep a data structure that is able to answer the query "where in the last 32,768 bytes of input there are occurrences of the exact 3 bytes I'm looking at? If possible, check whether the 4th byte matches too and find the longest match. Among matches equally long, prefer those which are closer". For a 32KB window, a data structure that always finds the best match is not large, unless you're on a microcontroller. The size of the data structure becomes a problem when the window is large.
(serious reply.) A university library. (So you can find old papers.)

I assume you know some modern techniques. If not then I would start with a modern textbook (like, the assigned textbook from a machine learning class) and then see if you can use the same exercises to see if you can improve classic paper results. It would make an interesting blog post.
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This is a fun analysis. One of the flaws with comparing only lyrics is that there are some songs for which lyrics are not the source of diversity​ in the music. For example, Send Me On My Way is very repetitive in its lyrics but has lots of non-lyrical diversity in the vocals. Turn Down for What is very repetitive in its lyrics, but the vocals aren't the melody. This analysis speaks to the following trend in music: how simple are the lyrics?
I don't know, but I can think of a few possibilities:

1. The amount demanded varies from incident to incident. Bitcoin is fractional to 8 decimal places, so it's possible to narrow down the list of victims by the last N digits of the payment.

2. The original demand for payment includes instructions to list the address you sent from. This would be a lame solution for many reasons, including (1) these victims are probably all new to Bitcoin and would have no idea what an address is, and (2) according to an article I read, some security consultants keep a Bitcoin wallet handy to pay on behalf of their clients, leading to duplicate payer addresses.

3. Same as #2 but demanding that the victim include the transaction ID, which is a long hex string. Similar usability issues.

4. It's possible to embed metadata into Bitcoin transactions. As with the prior approaches, victims would likely get this wrong.

Most likely there's a human criminal on the other end of the exchange, and that human matches up victims and payments.

Because the paying victims are surely unsophisticated about Bitcoin and terrified about what is happening to them, it seems likely that the risk of one victim claiming another victim's payment is small, so the manual match-up method is probably the most practical solution from the criminals' standpoint.
Do Intel and Samsung license their patented stuff in more fair terms than Qualcomm? I guess that Intel and Samsung want to get radio IP license for cheap (e.g. LTE stuff), and that's OK. BTW, can Qualcomm or Mediatek get x86 and OLED IP/patens for cheap, too? I would love Mediatek x86-compatible SoCs for 5 USD, and high quality 6" OLED screens for 15 USD.
I guess it's satisfying if you aren't into thought provoking media.
It may be easier for companies to change contractor contracts than full-time employee contracts. The latter is likely to be much more standardized (and companies may generally demand more conformity from FTE's).
I love Elon Musk's original vision. I think we need one backup plan as radical as that.

But when you have others like Jeff Bezos jumping on the bandwagon, it becomes a race and I wonder about the true motives. Race for what? Humanity, ego or boyish dreams to conquer space? Let's not forget that Earth 1.0 is the best one we've got, by literally lightyears.

If humanity is the concern, let's start with fixing it. Fix poverty, fix the environment. There doesn't need to be a 'magic bullet' that solves all of this at once, because if we have enough rich people targeting different areas, the world will radically improve.

I respect Bill Gates for realising this. He's not perfect, but it's clear that he's less concerned about glamorous legacies. He chooses a few areas he believes he can make a difference in, and he sticks to them.

It's not just for rich people though. If you're interested, here's a link that someone posted a while ago:
https://80000hours.org
Welp, yet another company on my blacklist. Most of their content sucks anyway.
For marketing? Wasn't the whole book made in paint? The marketing part is talking about the tool used.

Not much different from programmers saying their software was done in X language for marketing.
There exists a strong fear of people who are perceived as having some advantage over others and even slightly suspected of maybe wanting to exploit it.
s/sort lists in a particular way/find the particular way to sort lists//.
You can do this, but probably not with midi because it would be hard to find. Check out Echonest. There are ways to pull immense amounts of audio information out of songs...
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> the idea of either Intel or Samsung complaining about some other company subverting competition is hilarious. But I guess that's how the game is played at this level.

Agreed. I think this is what's happening:

Big tech companies have realized they need to expand into other markets (intel and samsung being prime examples). The only markets left that are big enough are monopolies protected by patents, with Qualcomm being a prime example.

Entirely new markets are less interesting because they're not big enough. Even with massive growth, it will take too long for them to become big enough. A.I. is a maybe, but that market is hardly proven. The money in A.I. might be in reforming companies from the inside instead of selling products to those same companies.

There's going to be more money in invalidating patents and moving into the industries that suddenly opens than there is in actually benefitting from patent royalties. Winning the war on patent trolls would speed this process up.

Once people realize that companies that derive a large percentage of their income from patent portfolios are just big dead rotting corpses waiting to be dismantled, the world will be a better place.
More on the "scrollytelling" they used here: https://pudding.cool/process/how-to-implement-scrollytelling...

I personally found it a great way to tell the story. It didn't interfere with my reading experience at all.
An investigation into the economics of airplane seat reclining
Interesting that they only go back to the 60s - lyrics in the 50s were very simple and repetitive.
Similarly, on an Intel NUC with i5-6260U:

# git rev-parse HEAD
9aa755885093fc8ca8c822797a30ed98ffe2e166
# make
gcc mei-amt-check.c -o mei-amt-check
# modprobe mei-me
# ./mei-amt-check -v
Cannot open /dev/mei: No such file or directory
# l /dev/*mei*
/bin/ls: cannot access /dev/*mei*: No such file or directory
# dmesg |grep -i mei
#

A little confusing as the program is supposed to show "Intel AMT: DISABLED" 'If run on a system with no AMT'.
> You're talking less than $100/ton. How could extraction from space possibly compete with that? Obviously accessible iron on earth is ultimately limited but even at $10,000/ton it'll drastically change human society.

I think you misconfigured a word there, but what about the price of getting 1 ton of iron into space? If it's already there, we can manufacture in space. More important is the price of rare Earth metals like Platinum. We could build goods in orbit or build missions in orbit. Space mining and manufacturing should bring about a new era where 3rd world country slave mines shutdown and entirely new products can be made when the high price of rare Earth metals become the low price of common space metals.
Anyone who's claiming that there is no direct connection between the improvement of humanity's condition and space travel is right; there is no direct impact, but the indirect connection between new forms of society and an overall increase in human well-being is staggering, also obvious.

Look at the pioneers who left the oligarchies of the United Kingdom to start a new society in America. They took their lessons from the oligarchies and forged a new set of rules, a new way of running their country, democracy. They could not have created this new method within Britain! This is the important part: The creators of democracy did so within brand new territory, and then it spread to the rest of the world.

Humans are going to do amazing things on Mars, and the things we do there would absolutely be impossible to do on Earth. However, the incredibly strong and probably breathtaking examples we set for Earth will certainly inspire long term positive change on our home planet. I conclude that if you want to make large, sweeping, positive changes on your home turf, the best way is to set up a much, much better society and wait for them to copy you. Don't waste time trying to convince the people around you who are already comfortable enough!
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