skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived some time in Amsterdam. I was not fit and almost couldnt ride a bike. I was sweating like hell first two months. After half a year you will learn to ride pretty fast without sweating.

You wouldnt believe how fast some if the dutch natives are - in suits and without hands of course. They can even turn without holding a bike.
Your anecdote describes a very bad behaviour, but the generally simple requirements banks have is a necessity of dealing with the general public. The more complex the requirements, the more customer support with tech naifs you need. And overall, it generally kind've works for them; there are some slips through the cracks, but fraud isn't rampant - banks accounts have been successfully run this way for years for the vast majority. Make it harder for people to get their money and you've created a significant friction point that will see your less tech-savvy clients almost literally flee to other banks.
For the same reason the rest of the majority of the population believes it;

It's generally true.
One thing to keep in mind is that in 1997, HK's GDP was about one sixth of China's (even though China has 200x the people), and it was a very important conduit between China and the world: In the early 2000s, HK's port had about as much volume as Shanghai and Shenzhen together.

Today, HK's GDP is barely 3% of China's, and the ports of Shanghai and Shenzhen together have 3x the throughput of HK. (Just have a look at these pictures: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478975/Shanghai-por... )

In other words, HK used to be hugely important for China. Now, it isn't, and with rising Chinese nationalism, HK is being seen more and more like an unruly and spoiled child.

The grievances of HK's population are real: a political and business establishment dominated by property tycoons (and increasingly mainland Chinese political factions) keen on maintaining their privileged position; huge economic inequality; a slow erosion of political liberties ("salami tactic").

That all, of course, gave rise to the Umbrella Movement in 2014.

However, given that the Chinese Communist Party is not inclined to weaken its grip on power, and extremely protective of the (perceived) territorial integrity of China, I don't really see how this will end well. :-/ Here's hoping.

Sources for statistics:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/09/hon...

https://www.vox.com/2014/9/28/6857567/hong-kong-used-to-be-1...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world%27s_busiest_cont...
That's exactly how it works. They've already cost-cutted and streamlined it all about as much as it will get. Yet, it all reduces down to people pulling pallets from manufacturers off trucks, putting them somewhere, other people making custom pallets for stores from those pallets, shipping them, and then breaking those down at store for sale to customers. The only time I saw real innovation in that was Costco and its predecessor's brilliant decision to eliminate the store to just let people shop off the pallets and such in the warehouse.

I think Amazon did try some stuff like having storage containers robotically come toward workers. They might have some tricks up their sleeves. The fundamental model is pretty basic and optimized, though, with competition driving margins down making it harder to optimize over time.
> The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story.
As in the sense of Dr. Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror.

http://www.donhopkins.com/mediawiki/index.php/Timothy_Leary%...
I'm very surprised. I was sure -fstack-check was on by default. The fact that it isn't secure without it is known for years. Windows compilers have had that check for years. The bug isn't in any executables, gcc and all other compilers should have -fstack-check on by default, with optional disable. I'm even more suprised that people who are supposed to know what they are doing don't compile with it.
Sometimes I think there should be a list of sites that don't allow long passwords - so that people can be aware of sites that don't take passwords seriously.
All of HK proper's food, water, and power came from the mainland, which China was threatening to cut off. Short of war there was no way the U.K. could have retained HK
A similar project is shumway, an implementation of Flash with JavaScript: https://github.com/mozilla/shumway
My bike was about €60 in Copenhagen, and other than some ~€4 supermarket lights (after I accidentally smashed the built-in one into a bike rack) I haven't spent anything on it.

It looks roughly the same as most of the bikes in the racks at home, at work and around the city.

If you visited people in the suburbs, it's more likely they own nicer bikes. Or, you might see people riding nice bikes at the weekend.
I'm not seeing any experiment. China was to take HK regardless and do as it pleased. The Falklands option was no option. A Tibet-style occupation would have been disastrous. Its orderly handover was in everyone's best interests if only for a time. I think its unlikely HK will ever be fully integrated into China's provincial system. I believe there would be strong opposition by other provinces, and fear in the central party about long-term HK influence on communist party policy.
First, is there a point that you are trying to make because I didn't see any.

Second, 200k USD for a vulnerability of such caliber is peanuts.

Third, you must have missed this: http://blog.trendmicro.com/results-mobile-pwn2own-2016/
http://elections.sos.ga.gov/Elections/voterabsenteefile.do

That file will tell me when you voted, if it is a primary which party ballot you pulled, and if you voted in person, absentee, or early in person.
And having contacted them now about that offer, they've come back with $.56/day supply and 13.3c/kWh. I'm not complaining.
Using Certbot to automate the creation of certificates for OpenVPN
Can Panpsychism Become an Observational Science?
These kinds of statements unfortunately depend on your personal credibility. Anyone can claim to be doing anything in order to feel good about themselves. I'd suggest keeping this to a circle of people who personally know you and know that this is true, not a bunch of strangers who will doubt your every word.
Is the Universe Conscious?
Global Entry is a service that only works in the US, and it doesn't include a dedicated agent meeting you at the gate, luggage assistance, or assistance booking/finding your car.

We help with fast track immigrations and customs and safety when traveling international. On my last international flight, I landed and a guy grabbed my bag and started walking off yelling "fast track" hoping for a tip. If I wasn't already used to this is would've been alarming. Our mission is not just the speed of immigrations/customs but comfort and a hassle free experience when you travel.
The Supreme Court Just Protected Your Right to Facebook
Why is cycling so popular in the Netherlands?

I stopped cycling in the UK when they forced me to share the bike paths with cars. I then (eventually) got the fuck out of the UK.
There's no reason that can't be done as an amendment.
I think you're blowing grovegames' original post out of proportion — he asked some pretty reasonable questions.
I can't say for sure as I haven't read it, but my general impression of Sapolsky is that he's very good at explaining things - in other words not unnecessarily abstruse.
Yeah, but what I'm saying is how is the scale of a move of x86 to ARM comparable to oil to batteries?

From the outside, looking in, it seems like the two leaps are on massively different scales which I feel is important when talking about things that will kill a large corporation.

I guess my key question is what makes ARM so much different than x86 that it invalidates Intel's existing knowledge? Batteries have a completely different product life cycle than oil. For one, batteries don't burn away and they recharge. This creates completely different business models. Is there some major difference between ARM chips and x86 chips that I am missing?
Just to be clear, you're saying someone was complaining about a site that suddenly got popular through network effects and then started showing adverts to make some money off it... on Facebook?

Getting initial traction using free stuff and then introducing ads or other revenue streams later once you're big enough is pretty much the dominant business model online today, unless you are a vendor of real products or services for which you charge real money in return.
Ohio Is Pumping Out Startups
a) The problem is more distribution more than abundance.

b) I bet that we'll have wars even if everyone has all they need. I'd like to be wrong.
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Algorithms and data structures are inherently hard to implement correctly and safely given low-overhead, bare-metal designs.

Rust tries to guarantee that you've implemented things correctly and safely, and therefore makes all the formal verification of such into a requirement.

Other low-overhead-bare-metal languages, meanwhile, trust you to have done the formal verification yourself using non-compiler-toolchain tools like linters and static analyzers.

The people who use these other languages who do ensure correctness+safety, will have done all the same work they do in Rust—just using third-party tools instead.

The people who use these other languages but who do not ensure correctness+safety, might seem to have an "easier time", but they will almost always end up with algorithms/data structures that—while seeming to work in most cases—have fatal flaws or vulnerabilities.

To use Rust is simply to sign up for "doing the work" of formally verifying your code up-front, rather than brushing it off as something to think about in some vague, undefined "later."
I cycled in London for several years, before I left.

Don't consider the route you drive, or that the bus takes. That's the awful main road.

Look on opencyclemap.com or similar, and see where there are quieter routes. Many areas of London block off residential roads with bollards, which let bikes through. Over half my commute to work was along the Thames Path, and most of the remainder along a road so narrow most cars avoided it, with these bollards in the middle.
"Global Entry [0], if you are a US citizen or permanent resident."

Ok. But how are they (Solve) going to do it ?

Or is the US entry side of things not part of their product offering ?
5c from me:

1) why CTR mode was chosen? I would probably go with something like GCM: privacy + integrity check.

2) IV ideally should be re-generated on every re-encryption. It doesn't have to be secret, but has to be random (securely random).
How do we apply that special responsibility to open source software? Say, Metasploit.

I'm proficient with both commercial and open source tools, and in most cases the open source ones are more powerful.

Not saying enabling isn't a shameful act, but it is a slippery slope. As you pointed out, at what point does AWS need to start investigating customer workloads.
Tech wise I don't know. I used to think so but on my main device (shield TV) I cannot reliably watch it any more. They have been largely unhelpful in getting it working and seem to refuse to roll back the software to a working version. The latest shield update even removes my previous ability​ to pin the working version.

They no longer, to me, have a working streaming service.
You obviously did not go past the literal interpretation and he was talking about the literal interpretation. What I'm referring to is his choice of a number to represent the answer to life, universe and everything. Not a magical number, but just A NUMBER. It shows how futile it is to try and answer some questions in a mechanical/mathematical way. Some questions are not computable, and there is more meaning to life beyond the rational.
The vast majority of my usage of tools like Slack, as well as my teams's usage, would fall under the response paradigm you described above. Maybe it's because we're remote workers and we appreciate the fact that we don't have to engage in silly political games like the one you mentioned in the reaction scenario.
GERT: Run Go on Bare Metal ARMv7
No, that's not how laws work. The law comes first. Then its application to behavior. If they didn't break any existing laws then there's nothing to do but propose a new law.
Thanks, not sure how I missed it.

Prices seem to be highly variable even within the state, which I didn't realise. My rates in VIC are about half those quoted for VIC, well under the price of NZ. It would be interesting to see these prices broken down in more detail geographically.
Lessons from Writing Documentation (2007)
They wouldn't, but they do. Frameworks upon frameworks upon frameworks, and nobody knows what happens underneath. If you are a gmail.com user, have you ever tried the plain HTML version? The difference in speed is mind-boggling. Yes, the Javascript version is doing more, but it should also be able to be faster as it doesn't have to load the whole page each time.
> bless your heart

Did you mean this in good faith? Where I was raised throwing that in is fairly insulting.
Nationwide Cell and Internet Outages
How medical co's recruit drug trial participants
And specifically mentioned in the constitution (twice!) as something the government can't do.
From the article How to Read Mathematics [0], that kind of statement "is a signal to the reader that what's involved here is perhaps tedious and even difficult, but involves no deep insights."

[0] http://web.stonehill.edu/compsci/History_Math/math-read.htm

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14232977
i believe the narrative that everyone has to work for a living, and that the way to help everyone obtain the basic necessities of life is to somehow create jobs for them, is an increasingly dangerous fallacy. there is simply less and less need for everyone to be working in order to produce enough to support everyone, and the ideal producer/consumer ratio is only falling with every increase in automation.

if we weren't trying to cling so desperately to this sort of capitalist setup, we'd all be better off. it's just that the incentives for it aren't yet aligned with the immediate interests of whoever has the power to make changes.

as someone working and leading a middle class lifestyle, i'd be even happier, and feel a lot more productive, if i thought my work was helping other people lead the same lifestyle sans working (or even better, by working on whatever they felt like, without having to care about whether someone valued it enough to pay for it).
"Flat" may be a matter of perspective:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=728621

(A discussion of how "hilly" Boston is with respect to the Boston Marathon.)

"If you live in Kansas Boston is hilly. If you live in Colorado Boston is flat."
"AMD beat Intel with their K6..."

I cannot speak for the K6 vs original Pentium but the K6-2 was what I had as a kid and even though it was cheap and cheerful it seemed handily bested by the P2. Synthetic benchmarks which took advantage of 3DNow were roughly even but games were pretty poor - with otherwise equivalent hardware (128MB ram, Voodoo3) my friend's Pentium II 300MHz outperformed my K6-2 366 @ 400-ish MHz comfortably in every game we played. The K6-3 maybe edged the P3 according to the magazines I devoured at the time, but I don't think it was pretty popular and it seemed like a stopgap until the Athlon came out. Athlon genuinely bested the P3 and P4 on price, power and performance for a good while. I still have fond memories of picking up a sub-GHz AXIA core Athlon for under 100 GBP and taking it to 1GHz and slightly beyond. That was pretty fun :-)
I found some data for the UK: each year, ~2.7M cars are sold [1], and ~70k stolen [2]. In the same time, 3.5M bikes are sold [3], and 400k stolen [4]. In France, there are ~1.8M cars sold [7] vs ~110k cars stolen each year [5]; 2.8M bikes sold [7] vs. 400k bikes stolen [6]. Meanwhile, in Montreal, half of all active cyclists have their bike stolen [8].

[1]: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38516247
[2]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/11558743/Number-of-cars-stolen-in-the-UK-falls-to-48-year-low.html
[3]: http://www.cyclinguk.org/resources/cycling-uk-cycling-statistics#How many people cycle and how often?
[4]: http://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/412/bicycle-crime-statistics
[5]: http://www.lefigaro.fr/automobile/2015/10/29/30002-20151029ARTFIG00145-en-france-300-voitures-sont-volees-chaque-jour.php
[6]: http://www.veloperdu.fr/statistiques
[7]: http://transports.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/04/07/10-chiffres-meconnus-sur-leconomie-florissante-du-velo/
[8]: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2014/04/these-8-depressing-bike-theft-statistics-show-just-how-bad-problem/8890/
> Another agent will go stand in line a head of time and you can cut in with them, or they'll know the immigration officer and simply walk you to the front.

No offense, and maybe I'm not the target customer, and my international travel outside the US/EU is limited, but this seems like the kind of behavior that's going to make other travelers angry.

Is "place in line holding" just more common in other parts of the world?
Curiously timed after the US downs a Syrian fighter and Russia declares all Syrian airspace a no-fly zone.
That's not a bad idea, but the specifics would be pretty hard to nail down.
While I presume you mean to say that you think that people who go around calling others morons are the real morons, you've written it in a way that suggests you think such a thing is linked to clinical mental retardation.
What bit of this is supposed to be Blockchain? What bit of this is uniquely Blockchain dependent? If Gavin Wood is involved, he surely should be able to drill down into the actual tech bit that requires Blockchain.
Not in Copenhagen, the bike lanes are cleared first :-)

(I mean, we need people to get to work...)
The human brain's electro-chemical makeup and its response to stimulus, both from the other organs and through the external sensory organs, are the reasons we act the way we do.
Like the Human Genome project before it, this mystery can be solved with large amounts of personnel, money and time.
Do not complain that it's complex (it is, we know, the sooner we commit the appropriate resources the sooner we'll be finished).
[And yes, I am doing something about it - I'm a returned to school STEM-neuro student]
Moscow is definitely an outlier. Our services in Johannesburg, for example, are $140 for the first two travelers and $60 thereafter. As we continue to grow, we're pushing our suppliers to bring their prices down and we're deploying our own teams. The problem with airports like Moscow is that they are not doing enough bookings each week to operate at (minimal) scale - so they're up charging the limited amount of business travlers coming into the country that are using the service. Definitely something we're going to change.
> how many people are really comfortable having roommates live with your family and children?

Is it not also a choice when (or whether) to have children? I put off having any until I was well established, to make sure that I could provide for them without the kinds of tradeoffs we're talking about. It's amazing what a difference it makes to defer major spending - houses, kids, etc. - until you're further up the salary curve.

> who doesn't aspire to that for their children?

We can all aspire for many things, but we all have to make choices - where to live, who/when to marry, which job to take, which house or car to buy, which trip to take, which money to invest where, etc. Few of us get to have everything we aspire to, for ourselves or our kids. If safe schools are a priority, as I agree they should be, maybe some of those other choices need to be made differently. It's all about priorities.
I live in the SF bay area now which has amazing climate and I still need rain shell and pants to bike all year. Better than the snow where I grew up but you still need gear to arrive comfortably and ready to work. When I went through all the costs, bike maintenance, lights, locks, pannier, rack, it was about $300 to get setup for comfortable bike commuting.
> We need to avoid the slippery slope of blaming the tools

If you are designing, developing, marketing and delivering a tool for surveillance to a government agency, you have a pretty good idea of what it will be used for.

I think you also have a pretty good idea that all governments, to a greater or lesser degree, cheat. They'll pinky-swear to use it only against teh terra, or pedophiles, or drug dealers, or sidewalk-spitters if that gets people's dander up. And then they use it against anyone who threatens the current power arrangement.

So yes, I blame NSO, Hacking Team, and the rest of them. They deserve the blame, because they design, develop, market and sell these things knowing full well the use to which they will be put. They also know these tools will leak and be used by third parties, because that's how this works and they analyze third party malware themselves.

Arms dealers are awful people, no matter who's flag they wave.
The way Hong Kong has turned out has surely made "one country two systems" a lot harder to sell to the Taiwanese.
That Phoronix FFmpeg test clearly measures 2 - 4 threaded speed only, so Intel's fast quad core CPUs shine there. The test description is "H.264 HD to NTSC DV" where the main bottleneck is slow H.264 decoding (CABAC decoding is somewhat difficult to parallelize).

You should look for x264 (H.264/AVC encoding) or x265 (H.265/HEVC encoding) tests. HandBrake is often used as a frontend for these, so the test may be named Handbrake H.264 HQ encoding or something like that.

x265 benefits a bit more from Intel's faster AVX instructions, but Ryzen (or Threadripper/Epyc) is still a very valid choice for high quality HEVC encoding. The GPU alternative would be Intel Skylake's GPU-accelerated encoder through Media Server Studio, which has scored well in MSU's test: http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/hevc_2016/

As for H.264 encoding, there are no GPU encoders that could approach x264 quality.
Exactly! If you'd want to do data analytics on this I'd be happy to expand the API to fit your needs :)
Thanks for clarifying and congratulations on paying off your student loan!

If I may offer one piece of advice that worked well for me when I was starting out in freelancing: "On the internet nobody knows you're a dog". You don't have to tell people that you're homeless, if you think that diminishes your chances of getting a freelance gig.

In my experience, for a lot of things that would harm my chances at getting gigs, people never asked. So I didn't say anything myself either. They often come up in the course of normal conversation later once you already have a relationship with the client, but by then they no longer care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...