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Light bends and travels slower in matter because it has (QM) interactions with the particles of the matter. Gravity is not involved.

Light bends due to gravity because gravity is the bending of spacetime so that light's straight line path is curved. QM is not involved.
Landing on the moon is a bit different than landing here on earth.

If you wanted to say that SpaceX had done 'nothing new' then you're about a year late to the party, they are definitely innovating.
2FA (including U2F and whatever else) has one big problem that this article fails to mention. And when 2FA is suggested, this really should be said explicitly.

Users aren't warned enough about the fact that everything fails, and they will have to go through 2FA deactivation/account recovery process sooner or later. They must be really reminded to DO BACK UP the recovery code(s). With "back up" as in "keep not just somewhere, but where you can actually find it, when you'll need it". (But not in your password manager)

This is true for SMS 2FA as well, but completely losing the number (as long as one's a paying customer) must be significantly less common than losing a device.
Could you explain how gender stereotyping and gender equality is on topic with the text in the article?

Or to phrase it in an other way: if there was a bot farming karma by commenting with "Why is there no male named virtual assistants" in every article posted on HN with "virtual assistant" in the title, would the bot be on topic just because of the title?
Yeah, that's exactly what came to mind as well.
Who is butthurt in this example?
>> People still are trying to "infer rules" and do logical, rather than
probabilistic reasoning. I get why that is.

That is because it's very hard to collect statistics on something that you
can't really quantify- meaning, in this case.

There was a thread on HN a couple of days ago about a blog post where someone
was experimenting with, among other things, training an LSTM network to generate Java programs [1].
In one example, the LSTM did really well in reproducing the structure of a
Java program, with import declarations, followed by a class implementing an
interface with a few methods with structured comments and throws declarations
and everything- and even a test!

On the other hand, this program was completely useless. From a cursory glance
it would probably not even compile (e.g. it refered to undeclared variables
etc). There was one method named "numericalMean()" that took a single double
and returned an (undeclared) variable "sum". The class had a nonsensical name
- "SinoutionIntegrator". The test was testing something called "Cosise",
presumably a method- but not one defined in the class. In short- a mess.

That might sound a bit harsh, but I think it's a very good example of why
statistical NLP is really bad at doing meaning: because there is nothing, not
a shred, of meaning in examples of the data we use to train statistical models
of language, i.e. text.

Because, you see, the relation between meaning and text (and even spoken
language) is completely arbitrary. Or, to put it in another way, there are
potentially an infinite number of valid mappings between structure and
meaning, of which we, human beings, somehow by convention or some other crazy
mechanism, have agreed to use just one. And even though the various forms
language entities take (inflections etc) are used exactly to convey meaning,
right, the rules of how meaning varies with structure are, again, completely
independent from structure itself.

Now, we have done very well in modelling structure, from examples of it (which
is what text is). But it's completely unreasonable to expect our algorithms to
be able to extract meaning from it also.

And that is why people are still trying to put down the rules of meaning by
hand. Because that's the only way we can think of, currently, to process
meaning automatically.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14526305
Yes.

Someone who waits until things are easy before trying them is not pushing the world forward.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower_(surname)

It means Iron Hewer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewer
Pretty weird statement to make. Why are people buying into the drama? The US government funds all sorts of basic research, implementation, and infrastructure work. Modern web would be impossible without government funding. I see no problem with the government funding work on Signal.
The definition comes from the Stanford-Binet IQ test.

> is Keith Richards blessed with an IQ of 140? I think that it is generally agreed that Keith Richards is a genius, but his ability to make decisions is... questionable.

How do you feel about it? I don't really care for the Rolling Stones or that type of rock music in general, so I'm not qualified to make an opinion here

> Van Gogh is another, a life of terrible decision making, huge creative transformations, interventions that turned painting forever.

I'm not really a big fan of his work. It doesn't elicit a strong emotional response in me. Perhaps because of its ubiquity, it seems like "default art". Then again I don't know much about painting or art history to offer a strong opinion.

If we're going to be subjective, and I know this will be very controversial, I consider Arnold Schwarzenegger a genius in his field. He's the greatest bodybuilder of all time and will most likely remain so if the tradition of doing as many steroids as possible continues in the Mr Olympia competition. Arnold did steroids as well, but he sculpted his body to look like Hercules, as opposed to modern winners who look like Abomination( The Hulk's major foe).

Also, in a very narrow way, his acting is genius. He plays the role of an assassination robot better than anyone. Note, I'm not saying he's great at portraying a synthetic intelligence in general (like Ava from Ex Machina)

The point of having a technical definition is not to exclude those in the past, it is so that going forward it has a precise, empirical definition that everyone can all agree on. I'm not wedded to the word so it can also be brilliant, prodigy, virtuoso, etc. Many words in common parlance once had specific medical/clinical meaning like idiot, moron, etc.
I fact hard drives and similar rotating disc media are not random-access according to your otherwise reasonable definition.

Modern (ie. anything that was ever intended for personal computers and probably every harddrive ever sold by IBM as "DASD") hard drive does not known where given sector is physically located on the platter and does not care what is the current angular position of the heads. Instead it seeks to correct track and reads whatever data is there until it gets to sector header with correct sector address and then either reads or overwrites the sector (ie. it does have to touch irrelevant data).
The part you are missing is that the mark is not the one being socially engineered. The attacker is getting a completely random telco to hijack the mark's phone number by socially engineering the telco. There is nothing 'the mark' can do to prevent this.
I not once have entered that subreddit; my opinions were formed completely by myself; shocking I know.
Not saying it didn't happen since there's no way to verify/falsify it, but I'd take it with a giant grain of salt. Telegram vs Big Bad USA is a great marketing story for Telegram.
Like with all the sciences, the role of the individual has been diminished. Interesting technology may be seeded by some individual genius but it takes a huge number of people coordinating to build something like a self-driving car, a breakthrough AI, the LHC. And it takes a lot of really smart people spending most of their time doing relatively banal tasks to pull these off. I think the bar for innovation is just so much higher than it used to be, there is so much knowledge required across so many fields that you either end up a generalist, who rarely gets a chance to dive deep into any one thing, or a specialist who is forever stuck in their one area of expertise.
True, you could still run the PCB footprint out to the edge and have a support socket on the motherboard to grab it.

Then we could eliminate the cost of the USB components by building contacts into the support socket that connect to pads on the PCB!

I dunno, ease of inserting and removal just isn't on my list of desires for a GPU. I install one maybe every 2 years, and I don't want to worry about it falling out and smashing around inside my case if I pick up my computer or something.

Whatever mounting shenanigans are necessary to lock it in place with weaker connectors feels like a solution looking for a problem. The somewhat high force of PCIe slots is a feature, not a bug.
Whoever was getting a ride on Oliver's dick, of course...
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I think the laconic reply to this is: 'yet'
>If the bugs are obvious why do you need extreme programming to find them

Because sometimes you've already worked for a few hours and end up wasting time with stuff, which could have been spotted easily by help of a fellow developer.

>What frenzy?

The frenzy I was talking about was referring to working on a project for weeks on end and forgetting that of course you are now skilled in that domain you built yourself, but at some point other people will have to work with that system too and for them your answers might not be that obvious. Having other people check in regularly can prevent this.

Also, please don't 'wtf' me, you could have just as easily framed your question in a more humane way. I wasn't trying to defend extreme programming here, but merely stating that a focus on open communication will lead to more robust software. Don't abuse my comment for furthering your personal hate against some software development methodology.
The is a direct correlation between security and fraud related interest/insurance in regards to the cost of use and exposure to fraud.

They aren't out to "destroy" your security, it's a liability threshold calculation. At the end of the day secure yourself in life, this include choosing banks that are more stringent based on your needs and what you want to pay.
Anyone have some good little snitch profiles?
I'm not a developer, SEO person, etc, who has insight on the many, many clients and servers trying to collection information from my macbook. Ad Blockers do a good job with published white lists. Does anyone have a good set of Little Snitch profiles?
Wrong forum. Ask on security stackexchange.
Am i right to say that this is just an XServer within special application acting like tiling WM?
This problem was solved in 1999 with client-side certificates. Your browser would simply refuse to log you into the fake bank site.
Hadn't heard of that before, I'll look into it
Wow, that actually works. I had to go through many ancient web interfaces, but it works.
It's good for us Android users to realize iOS still doesn't have proper sharing.
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Could you please dial back the snark a notch? We're aware of the extent that you do this already, and greatly appreciate it. But I've noticed it upticking recently.
This seems to be a simple wrapper around subprocess, but I'm afraid it is not changing things dramatically. Overall, I don't agree that Sultan's syntax is any more Pythonic than subprocess itself.

+1 for https://sultan.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sultan-examples.html...

I think it would be interesting if you could iterate on the results of "ls -l", where each row is represented by an object.
For me it isn't either and I'm certainly not advocating for "hacking" features together. The obvious bugs I mentioned were not design bugs, but simple slips that creep in when you've already worked for a few hours and your attention starts lacking.
What is the difference between taking artificial mood altering-drugs versus engaging in behaviours that result in the production of "natural" mood-altering drugs?
Free will has been proven!
I hope you don't consider mine a shallow objection. I rather liked the change :)
This is more proof of concept then actual practical implementation. Its runtime would improve the current state of art. See http://www.mit.edu/~aram/talks/10-invert-rutgers-print.pdf
Imo, depression is one of the largest drains on human potential. What can be done? Basic research on mental health patterns so we can understand the input output system and the effects on gene expression.
If you had the FB integration set up in a certain way, all your FB friends would become entries in your iOS/macOS Address Book. It can make a huge mess.
> And since you think the government should be trusted to mete out all force, I'm certain you'll have no trouble handing the government all your passwords and keys, right? Maybe mail them a copy of your car keys and house keys too, since they're so trustworthy?

> You trust them to protect your physical safety, to protect your life, if you're willing to hand over your right to self protection. Surely you then trust them with your data and property?

I don't think that's the same thing at all. I trust my parents with my life, but I wouldn't want them to read my online conversations. They don't have a key to my house, nor the passwords to my computer and various accounts, and I'd like to keep it that way. I see no contradiction here.
On the other hand, latency of DRAM also depends on the physical location of data accessed (precharge, bank selection...). But for DRAM case it only depends on sequence of previous operations and does not change with wall time, for direct-access media it changes with time.
I've found the best way to figure out who your top performer is is to ask your team. Sure, liking someone on a personal level is going to sway their answers some, but in aggregate they aren't going to give someone a pass when they know they aren't pulling their weight.
What things remain to be done for an OSS driver of Vivante GPUs (the fact that the support suffices to run Android proably does not mean that it is feature-complete).
A way to root out identity thieves by analyzing their mouse movements with AI
They are necessarily - they have to to make programs run faster.

For example, Alpha AXP, one of the least blown up ISAs, did not provided non-word aligned loads and stores, providing word aligned loads and stores and a way to extract and/or combine bytes and subwords from/to the whole word. And it ended having separate instructions for loading and storing every subword type. The reason I stated above - to make program run faster and to make programs smaller.

The same is true for every RISC ISA I studied.

For example, MIPS includes an instruction to store a floating point number in the reg1+reg2*arg_size address. This can be split into two RISC instructions and fused at runtime in hardware, but still here it is!
This is not surprising. Given that iOS now has "sharing extensions" in a similar way that Android has sharing intents, custom integration with arbitrary apps never made much sense; it is harder to maintain and useless in certain contexts (countries, etc). This had to happen sooner or later.
There's no way to verify that the Github code is what is distributed by the app stores. To look for backdoors you would have to audit the binaries, which you can also do with Telegram. And you have no visibility into the server code.
Not at all, I meant that if the title above were still "Google Plans to Demonstrate the Supremacy of Quantum Computing", there would be complaints about linkbait and whatnot. Of course the complaints are usually justified on their own terms, but they're predictable and therefore tedious, and they take threads way off topic.
I don't think s/he said it would result in benefit either way.
I think this relates to a time before 2 Factor Authentication, when Apple used 2 Step Verification. You could st that time (if you were using iOS 6 to iOS 8) chose various recovery options.

I'm no expert but this is my recollection.

In the scenario where you have 2 devices, one is iOS 9/10 and have migrated from 2SV to 2FA, the other is iOS 6/7/8, you can still access the recovery menus on the iOS 8 device, but it does weird things to the keychain if you mess about with it.
basically everybody
Outside of that context, it fails to have any consistent meaning, especially if relying on creative power.

The technical definition makes it so that

I'm not proclaiming that the Iq test is the measure, or even a good measure of intelligence. I happen to think it is heavily biased and what it really tries to measure, imprecisely, is your potential for success in the system in which it was created.

Doubtlessly, they were geniuses among people before the development of language and mathematics. For example, let's presuppose some genius hunter who had a knack for catching prey without breaking a sweat, made the best fishing lures and hunting traps, could predict migration patterns, could track any creature, can use his/her sense of smell to predict the weather, etc. It has been argued that hunter-gatherers were even more intelligent than modern humans as they had a larger skull, indicating a larger brain. However, the IQ test would not rate him well.

That still doesn't contradict the point I was trying to make. A technical definition means that being a genius becomes a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion. It could just as easily be another word. Otherwise, discussion just dissolves into subjective opinion.
Which banks should you choose? How do you decide?
Humans still eat insects today, in some cultures this is even a delicacy.
Yeah, me neither, though in my case it's based on personal experience. Whenever I go for a run, my alertness jumps way up for several hours afterward. If it's in the morning, I get a better start to the day. If it's in the evening, I am energetic and completely uninterested in sleep for 3-4 hours.

I do agree that exercise increases your quality of sleep. I've found that it improves my sleep so much that I don't need nearly as much of it. But that's a separate question from whether it delays the start of sleep.
The initial way that I solved it was periodic, extended sabbaticals (the first one was 15 mos, but that's obviously a little extreme: I like taking 4-6 mos off between jobs). Since then, I've moved to smaller companies that are more conducive to healthier work schedules. I gather that the marginal sale of an hour of labor isn't perfectly efficient, but fundamentally you are still selling hours of labor and there should be some point between 0 and 40 that an employer would want to buy for some value between 0 and $[full salary]. If you can imagine making 20% less without being horribly financially insecure, then trading that top 20% for something that you consider worth it should be doable. This is obviously more feasible with smaller companies, where the cost of managing custom employee contracts isn't infeasible and they're able to be more pragmatic about win-win situations. My current employer is getting someone of my skills for a steal, even if I'm not working a full 40, and I'm getting a work environment that's more than worth the lost salary.

In my current job, I make about 35% less than I did in my last job (incl. expected value of equity). This is probably an outlier due to various details of my career. But it's illustrative of how much I'm willing to walk the talk, since I was very clear on the reasons for the switch and decided that they were worth the cost to me.

I'm not suggesting that everyone has a magical dream job waiting for them at the perfect point on the salary/quality-of-life spectrum. I'm just saying that, at least among all the people I know, it's a lot more in your hands than a lot of people realize (with the caveat reiterated that some industries are just too slow and dumb collectively to treat workers as anything but inflexible cogs.
Maybe an ER that will not charge an arm and a leg?

The minimum charge one can expect for just walking into ER is in the ballpark of $20k. Just for having a nurse look at you and administrate an IV.

If you have insurance, it may come down to something like $2k. It's silly money, unless you know you are dying otherwise.
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Where do people with an urgent health problem on a weekend go outside of the US? It doesn't sound like cost of treatment was the problem, at least based on that.
because... history?

he was a Genius, but his IQ was probably average, according to what we know about him
doesnt mean it won't either.

minimize is already shoved in the debug api. sigh, in the end I really hope nobody but qt/gtk/sdl devs are even getting close to this.
>how about living and working without air conditioning near the gulf coast of Texas or someplace like that

The primitive adaptation to these conditions was to not live in them. Population and economic growth in the South is largely attributed to air conditioning.

Many of the places we settle are not suitable for human habitation without substantial terraforming, energy expenditure, and medical care. Chicago, for example, was built on a swamp. It took a massive Army Corps of Engineers project to make it livable. Other cities had massive baseline casualty rates until a combination of medical research and sewer projects got pathogens under control.

Early universities let out their students in the summer not because they needed to work as farmhands (the origin story for summer breaks in K12) but because they would all die of infectious disease if they lived in such close quarters while it was warm outside.

There are ways to live without modern technology, but it's foolish to try to do so regardless of where you currently happen to be.

To find a suitable site and methods for this experiment, look at where and how the homeless thrive. In particular, places where the temperature regulation problem is more or less nonexistent, like the SFBA.
An interesting read.

I only became familiar with the term 'trap' recently - though I was already familar with the idea. I think that most people are. One of the best commentators on it that I have come across is David Simon - creator of The Wire. If you get a chance to read any of his articles or interviews on US society and the economy I highly recommend that you do. It's worthwhile if only to be reminded that the economy isn't just about government, corporations, and finance.
I am not aware of any hash function with that name. Are you referring to skein maybe? (it uses the threefish cipher internally and was made by the same person who made twofish and blowfish)
Seems like we're heading into semantic argument territory here.
> Bad people can use tools to download/restore the repository to gain access to your website’s sourcecode.

So if I post my website's sourcecode on github, I'm equally vulnerable? I could see problems if said checkout contained a credential cache, but that doesn't seem to be mentioned.
I get this question a lot.

PCFDev[0] if you just want a dev environment to tinker with. You can also tinker with cflocal[1] (unsupported) or BOSH-lite[2] (somewhat-supported) if you're looking to practice ops as well.

A lot of Cloud Foundry teams do integration testing with BOSH-lite on large single VMs, because it essentially presents BOSH with a "VM" interface that spins up nested containers instead.

You can, in theory, deploy however few or however many real VMs, or bare metal servers, as you wish, by editing a BOSH manifest.

By default the cf-deployment[3] manifest uses something like 23 VMs of varying sizes. That's because the default manifest is intended for production use with multi-AZ HA as the minimum level of reliability. If you don't need that, one of the alternatives I noted will get you what you want.

[0] https://pivotal.io/pcf-dev

[1] https://github.com/sclevine/cflocal

[2] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-lite

[3] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-deployment
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