skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah these design documents always look nicer than the actual implementation. In practice Windows 10 looks... lifeless.
I know there are lots of rules with racecars. Is "can't have AI" one of them?
> Accelerationism is interesting to me insofar as it is transparent about the fact that technology is an a-human (not in-human) force.

I think that's a really good, pithy way of phrasing it.

> this kind of thinking ends up getting wrapped up in NRx and inevitably, the alt-right.

I would say that accelerationists are very closely aligned with NRx, and only tactically allied with the alt-right. I would say only tactically aligned with the alt-right because they view the alt-right as "identity politics for white people", which is fine insofar as it restricts immigration (because most of the immigrants coming to the US come from cultures that do not value personal liberty as highly as Anglosphere culture does; and do not have mean IQs as high as US whites); but the NRx and accelerationist ideal is to take all (and only) the smart people regardless of race and build a techcomm utopia.

NRx / acclerationist immigration policy would probably require scoring at least 130 on an IQ test.
Strange, I don't see anything in that menu. Haven't been able to figure out how to do it, maybe there's some sort of rolling update happening?
There's no reason to cite a Google-translated version of this article when a suitable, well-explained English article exists in the New York Times: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/technology/fingerprint...

As the article notes, you really need more than one imprint in order to get into a phone - the authors suggest that five distinct imprints could get into about 40-50% of phones, which fits within the 5 try limit imposed by many systems.
In case anyone else is trying to find the original source of that HN comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12728168#12729864
I skimmed the paper but I don't see which iPhone they were able to unlock with this method. Do you know if the resolution of the fingerprint scanner differs between iPhone models?
Every time you eat, take a moment and think about it, even photograph it if you wish. It's easy to eat well all day and feel good about it, to then just stand over the sink and eat 4 fun-sized Snickers as a snack at 4PM. (I've never done that of course)
Your link seems to be malformed.

I think it was this you wanted to link to:
https://www.ted.com/talks/bj_miller_what_really_matters_at_t...

EDIT: Just finished watching it, it's really a great talk and I found it touching, quite rare for the cynical individual that I am. The frankness and honesty of looking at things was moving.
When I read the article, my first thought that I'd let them keep the phone. Mine is quite old and I've been debating buying a new one since it is giving me trouble. Something like that would just be good excuse to get a new one.

If it were a brand new phone, I might think harder about it - but we really need to stand up to crap like this.
Well, it had one good effect. It forced developers like me to start thinking about spaces in path and file names.
They can find it later. How long does it take to copy the entire contents of a phone and hand it back to you?
Reminds me of this from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

> Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.
To complete the picture, you might've been taught a completely different mnemonic in other countries. The one I was taught was BODMAS ( "B"rackets, "O"f or "O"rder, "D"ivision, "M"ultiplication, "A"ddition and "S"ubtraction) and some African countries teach this as BIDMAS [0]. Caused a lot of confusion when I came to the US and drew a blank when someone mentioned PEMDAS in an example.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations#Mnemonics
Sure, sort-of. I can't kill my best friend's wife and expect to maintain his friendship. So that's a condition.

It's unconditional when it doesn't feel like there are conditions, and when your friend doesn't require anything extra of you beyond the things you do.

If you just want to argue some petty semantics, then your point stands.
why do people support this company still? sorry to be that guy, but i will never use a product from them after the jwz fiasco. and no, new leadership doesn't make up for decades of behavior.
It's a typical engineering fallacy that if you build it they will come.

The public, including doctors, have so much information to consume that if they aren't re-educated on treatment choices the drug will die and so too may the company.

Advertising is absolutely critical in recouping R&D costs. And that's assuming the drug makes it to market (which a majority do not).

>In the United States, it takes an average of 12 years for

>an experimental drug to travel from the laboratory to your

>medicine cabinet. That is, if it makes it. Only 5 in 5,000

>drugs that enter preclinical testing progress to human

>testing. One of these 5 drugs that are tested in people is

>approved.
Also seen in the Jerry Seinfeld bit about night guy and morning guy.
My hunch after starting a few side projects, and taking the leap in to a full on failed company is that while things must be tried, you should secure some level of real customer interest before diving fully in.

I'm not sure how much it takes, but there should be real evidence.
I think you're describing most KDF attacks, of which password hashes are particular (and easy) example. I can't think of an instance of this attack that isn't password hashes that is so widely deployed that it would be economical to invest in 9-figure supercomputers to attack it, but that obviously doesn't mean one doesn't exist.
Opportunity costs are real. Promising hypotheses are abundant and cheap. Exploring each with grueling, resource-intense, high-standard science is expensive.

You have to make hard choices.
I am a Socialist myself and I often talk with people who are accelerationists; I am divided on the issue personally. Accelerationism in the Communist sphere tends to align itself with policies against working within the democratic system to improve conditions, as you noticed even to reject social democratic policies. The other argument for this from their point of view is that it would encourage complacency of the workers to be having these social democratic policies, as some view Keynesianism did to the Western capitalist nations.

An interesting point here is about Marx himself; he wrote:

"Moreover, the protectionist system is nothing but a means of establishing large-scale industry in any given country, that is to say, of making it dependent upon the world market, and from the moment that dependence upon the world market is established, there is already more or less dependence upon free trade. Besides this, the protective system helps to develop free competition within a country. Hence we see that in countries where the bourgeoisie is beginning to make itself felt as a class, in Germany for example, it makes great efforts to obtain protective duties. They serve the bourgeoisie as weapons against feudalism and absolute government, as a means for the concentration of its own powers and for the realization of free trade within the same country.

"But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade." (Emphasis mine)
Wow, for a second I thought I was looking at an old post since this functions almost identical to how repl.it[0] is working and they just posted their framework on here a few days ago.

[0]https://repl.it/site/react_native
That assumes that:

(1) Microsoft makes generic install media available (rather than just device-specific restore media, for devices that ship with Windows 10 ARM), and

(2) Windows 10 ARM will run on ARMv7 devices, rather than being restricted to ARMv8 (AArch64) devices.
Infinite Mixture Models with Nonparametric Bayes and the Dirichlet Process
Well, I blog to try to put out good info. It isn't exactly setting the world on fire though.

MAYBE SOMEDAY!
the intercept is probably not the publication for you my friend
Record every calorie you eat. Set a goal ~500-700 calories under your base metabolic rate.

Once you record everything it becomes clear where the extra calories are coming from and where to improve your diet. Diligence in log keeping is key.
In other words, they're just learning not to crash/failing to crash.
This is spam. Your site has very little content, a Contact button with a gmail address, and clicking on either the traveler or host links just say that "you caught us before launch" and want an email address.

Even if you meant it as a Show link there isn't much to see...
nice, that's why upwork is better than freelancer.com.. too many indian companies catfishing sole developers....
It was supposed toramp down under Obama. It didn't. The man was a fraud. Who in 2020 won't be the new boss, same as the old boss?
What is jwz?
Humans don't get depth information past some distance that is probably pretty small compared to how far away objects are in flight. Past that point it's all contextual.
CentOS 7.3 / Redhat 7 – ACPI broken because of systemd-login migration
If you google a question such as virsh shutdown not working CentOS 7 you will notice many people are running into this. And they are getting stupid answers like "is acpid installed".
here's the reason why. ACPID shutdown event requires ConsoleKit! If you have Distribution CentOS 7.3 and acpid installed take a look at /etc/acpi/actions/power.sh Take a look at the code that fetches the first active x11 session. The script uses ck-list-sessions and that's part of ConsoleKit. This is something that is usually tested, this will affect many that use libvirt, openstack, docker.. There must be a many admins with less experience that are scratching their heads why doesnt' the vm shutdown.
For now I updated my power.sh script to "shutdown -h now"

If you are asking why am I using ACPI to handle power down from a gui it's because upower is broken too!

So if any of you need this fixed immediately just update the power.sh script with deleting everything but "shutdown -h now"
Totally not relevant, but holy cow Google Translate is getting good.

I swear I've read articles in plain English that were less comprehensible than this translated on, by a mile.
https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/rbarip.html
That is a good point! We have import from Trello, but no exports yet. I will add that to our product backlog.
We will add more extensive keyboard support in a future update.
He's been dead for 10 years, but he didn't use it for those. As I remember it, in the 80s-90s it was more common for SSNs to be requested for normal consumer things.
GP's post reminds me that I fail to understand how people can come out and say they want their kids to be in tech like them. Just go through a few article titles: death, loneliness, diseases, therapy, antidepressants, OCD... Do you really want to put your kid in an environment like this, deny him the chance of enjoying life like a normal person?
Good point! We might rethink that.
Clarity is great. Clarity is really most awesome. Myself, I write clean readable code because the person who has to read it the most is me. Where I utterly disagree with the SICP drivel is its only incidentally nod to efficiency. What fatuous gratuitous twaddle.

Programs are meant to be used and only incidentally for people to read. Some programs, we'll call them closed source, can't even be read, not even by Richard Stallman.

BTW, SICP was a required text in 61A when I took it. Required but then like many bibles, never assigned and never read. A few years later, I tried to but couldn't and so I sold my copy on Amazon. Got $25 for it.
It takes 10 seconds to install unbound.
Yup, from my time at Microsoft, agreed.

Pretty certain that this Dilbert strip was based on Microsoft too, Dogbert's "Battlin' Business Units" management philosophy:

http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-30
What, you banned my account because you noticed a word used "liberal"? Censorship on a full-on scale that will one day come around to yourselfs.
Ideally you create something that simply decides for you. If some human-created form of intelligence can best humanity through the lens of blind progression, then who are we to say?
This is a gratuitous digression, but the retreating blade stall is a key reason we don't have supersonic helicopters.

The Helicopter Speed Limit - Helicopter Physics Series - #7 - Smarter Every Day 51 -- starts at 2m46s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pbdwueqGp4
I didn't look closely at the link or url and didn't realize that I was reading Google Translate until I saw your comment. That's scary good translation.
A desktop/mobile convergence phone is my dream. I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
I've worked on a number of Xamarin apps. You can definitely make stable cross platform apps, it's just very tedious; sometimes it requires more effort than developing 2 separate native apps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski
> his favorite suggestion is that communists should be dropped out of helicopters into the ocean (cf Pinochet).

Very frighteningly, I see this suggestion echoed around seemingly seriously by certain groups of libertarians, especially on Reddit, and those libertarians on the "alt-right".
Human pilots don't really use vision to see depth when flying - most things in flight are too difficult to judge distance/size, so one learns to fly without.

As for radar, most planes don't have their own radar. About all you're gonna get for anything close to depth is al altimeter.
"Clicking" on the little "x" to close the application window is near impossible with anything other than the mouse. We can't​ pretend interfaces like touch are gimmicks anymore. They're ​pushing a decade now in mass market.
Then you have to solve a very difficult resource allocation problem. Capitalism solved it with a distributed scalable universal reward mechanism (profit). At least in European societies drug discovery is then still financed by society because there exists universal healthcare, which is subsidized by the state for underprivileged people.
Is there some clear benefit of using it instead of normal VM or running Linux directly?
Honestly, I've never cared about the fingerprint reader for security. I just see it as a better way to prevent my phone from turning on in my pocket and butt-dialing someone.

I never put a password on my phone before the fingerprint reader. The apps that I care about protecting have password functionality built-in.
It is native code.
So why haven't those other countries done so?

The sad reality is that capitalism provides the required incentive to motivate smart, talented people who can actually innovate. There are of course exceptions, many people are doing this work because it is their passion, and would likely continue doing it even if they weren't paid well, but such people are rare; most people simply want to do a job and receive the maximum compensation they can get -- based upon free market dynamics and relative rarity of someone with their experience, ability, and knowledge.

Nothing in life is free, asshole.
I think terms of service have something to do with it. In most profiling scenarios, the average consumer has no idea what's going to happen to the data collected on them. I'd be much more comfortable participating in a value-exchange involving your product if I knew precisely what information would be collected, how long it would be stored, who would have access to it during that time frame, what would happen to it at the end of that term, and precisely how that information would be capitalized upon. That probably seems ridiculous to you, but from my perspective, it represents a precise definition of the value I'm yielding to you, and a reasonably precise definition of the risk I'm incurring by doing so.
AngularJS is great but not without flaws. (cough..watchers) We are either going to jump to Angular 2/4 or React
hilarious comic, new to me, thanks for the link! :)
That's a really good guess, but no cigar. Think the male "companion" of a very popular female doll.
Mailing Driving Directions on a Postcard with an API
HP laptops covertly log users’ every keystroke, researchers warn
Thanks for the reference. I think it's a slightly late. We have already posted several announces here in last 2 years.
DHS funds three projects using mobile devices for digital identity
I am seriously impressed with Microsoft. I haven't used windows in years but they are releasing tons of useful things. VSCode is great on Ubuntu and every version of OS X I have run it on. Plus tons of other cool things like bash on win; etc.

Also, I have a bizspark Azure subscription and it's not a perfect UX; but man does it beat AWS
I appreciate the explanation from schoen, I can grasp the argument more clearly.

I do believe that is an aggressive reading of the paragraph, out of its context, and that "malpractice" is unfair.

The paragraph you quoted is followed, after just a single intervening paragraph, by this, which I would argue speaks explicitly and accurately to your point:

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A very important question remains: What exactly could WindsorBlue, and then WindsorGreen, crack? Are modern privacy mainstays like PGP, used to encrypt email, or the ciphers behind encrypted chat apps like Signal under threat? The experts who spoke to The Intercept don’t think there’s any reason to assume the worst.

“As long as you use long keys and recent-generation hashes, you should be OK,” said Huang. “Even if [WindsorGreen] gave a 100x advantage in cracking strength, it’s a pittance compared to the additional strength conferred by going from say, 1024-bit RSA to 4096-bit RSA or going from SHA-1 to SHA-256.”

Translation: Older encryption methods based on shorter strings of numbers, which are easier to factor, would be more vulnerable, but anyone using the strongest contemporary encryption software (which uses much longer numbers) should still be safe and confident in their privacy.

---

If someone read a sentence saying encryption users are unlucky that the U.S. government is buying supercomputers to crack encryption, which used RSA as an example of something the government wanted to crack, and concluded that this means RSA is broken, they would be cleared of this misreading within a few paragraphs, no?

We are diligent in our reporting, research, editing, and fact checking; this piece involved no small number of staffers doing all of those things and more. A term like "malpractice" we take seriously, but seems to have been tossed off a bit casually here.
Windows 10 on ARM would allow Apple Bootcamp on ARM-based MacBooks. There have been rumors about Apple moving to ARM and potentially bringing processors in-house. I wonder if that influenced Microsoft's thinking.
Lots of Black Mirror is commentary on where we are now, not where we're going, even if the episode itself is set in future (15 Million Merits is an easy example).
Swift Cross Compilation: Mac = Raspberry Pi
That's a paradox of efficient or effective practices: they can simply fall out of measurements.

GDP is notorious for this.
re:more effort
Did you have the freedom to recommend going native or was Xamarin a requirement or was it too late to switch?
Thanks! Thats great advice and I absolutely agree with you. We have some plans in action for both the size and the performance of the app.
Microsoft announces its own motion controllers for mixed reality
I think I get it; but could you expand a bit on what you mean?
Why Doesn't Harvard Want to Talk About Its Mystery Microsoft Azure Project?
Pushing yearly bonuses back to May so that they can do layoffs in April is a hugely dick move.

If it isn't salary, don't budget for it.
Once upon a time I came to the conclusion that self-esteem was the worst invention in history.
Startup Graveyard:
A website for cataloging failed startups

Reason for failing:
"Error 508. Resource Limit Is Reached"
The Tom Hardy movie Legend is about the Kray twins (he plays both), and is well worth watching if you haven't seen it.
I gave a big hint in another comment. FWIW, I'm quite happy my middle name is not Wayne or Duane.
It concerns me a bit that at some point, there are fundamentals concerning simple yet effective approaches that may be forgotten (or a least not taught) in favor of black box neural nets, like Kalman filtering, PID control, etc.

Institutional memory is something of a weak point in the software industry compared with other fields.
We don't have to give up being human. The cells in our body haven't changed drastically in the past few millennia. They perform a necessary function and are given the energy they need, in some convoluted way no cell need understand, by the conglomeration of "the body". In today's world, humans have a similar relationship to our societies/governments. I view accelerationism as augmenting our "higher-order" entities with AI, not replacing humans themselves. We, as socities/culture/nations are merely adapting new cells...
Does this have to do with German being such a structured language? Just a guess here, but it may explain things a bit.
Profitability funds the next generation of drugs. It pays the salaries of researchers and clinicians and funds human trials.

E.g. A drug like Kadcyla that gives six months to late stage breast cancer patients. 20 years ago that option wasn't available but now it is an option, in part, due to profits of other drugs.
Probably most notably the Slack App: https://www.xamarin.com/customers/tech
True but isn't the job a lot easier because it's going from German to English, which are closely related? I don't want to take away from Google's achievement but wanted to point that out to set expectations.
As much as I hated to hear it a few years ago, it's a lifestyle choice. Within 10 months, I had wisdom teeth removed and a knee surgery. From this is developed a) portion control, and b) exercise habits (for rehab). I lost 75 lbs in ~18 months.

I found that calorie intake monitoring is a great first step. I used MyFitnessPal religiously because it helps with calories and really exposes nutrition to you in an accessible interface. It also allows you to set goals for weight loss and will adjust your daily calorie intake recommendations based on how physically active you are. It also "gives back" calories based on exercise (and will even count steps for you, or it can connect with your activity tracker, which I do not have), but I didn't consume more than my daily allotment, even if the app allowed me to do so.

With this app (and not eating solid foods for a few days), I've trained my brain to realize that it doesn't need as much food as I was eating. I learned portion control. The comment about nutritionally dense food is also great. Simple proteins and veggies were my primary diet for a long time. Finally, I didn't eat after a certain time (for me it was 20:00). Having that personal rule helped quite a bit.

My second overall strategy has been accountability. I hate "checking in" as accountability. It makes me feel like I've been a bad person if I gained a pound, or didn't lose, if that's my goal. The accountability I find works best for me is joining something active. Find something that appeals to you: indoor soccer, kickboxing, regular camping/hiking group, rock-climbing group, frisbee golf friends, etc. Something active that's scheduled that you can do with others. It's less checking in and more being active together.

Finally, and according to my spouse, most effectively, I gave up beer and other malted beverages.