skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anthropic bias doesn't explain anything. It just says that you can't use your own existence as evidence of something. Because if you didn't exist, you wouldn't be able to make the opposite argument. It's basically just a wider application of survivorship bias. It works whether or not there are actually other universes (although the existence of other universes definitely makes it more intuitive to understand.)
Hey,
Investors protection in India is enforced by SEBI (Indian capital market regulator). AMFI is the self-regulatory body to enforce regulation and adherence to codes in mutual funds Industry in India.
So are there pictures of what a distant mountain actually looks like over 500km across the Earth; that is the point after all?

Or is there already a YouTube video of this?
Facebook lets over a million companies get their products in front of people who are inclined to purchase them.

When those Facebook users do in fact click and make purchases it is often (not always) a profitable exchange for the companies advertising. Those companies take the revenue from the sales and use it to pay people to do other work for them. Wherever it is you work, they probably advertise on Facebook.

Creating a profitable revenue engine for a million companies is absurdly useful.
While I appreciate the optimism in this sentiment, the similarity to the early atomic age gives me pause.
Human beings have shown time and time again that they cannot be absolutely trusted.
I found getting halfway decent funding since 1980 to be quite a chore. - Alan Kay (2016)

... from my fortune clone @ http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
I almost never complain regarding downvotes, but I can't really understand why on a supposedly civilized place like HN, your comment is already displaying grey (downvoted).

Your argument is quite powerful, really.
Why would you throw away the biodiversity of our species? You're forgetting about the huge bulk of mutations that have been tested (and were embryonic lethal). Our rapidly growing species has only accumulated mutations that don't cause us to die, and that's an immensely valuable resource to have. The evolution rate of a species is proportional to its genetic diversity.
There’s nothing wrong with jQuery. It’s a perfectly good library to use if that’s what you know. Get your code shipped.
The primary cause of that sort of thing appears to be the significant leaps forward[0] they've made with their ARM hardware every year.

At some point it will plateau the way PC hardware has, and new major OS versions won't be as much an issue.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/06/review-10-5-inch-ipad-...
sourcegraph.com is your friend, at least for some languages.
ZFS on Linux v0.7.0 released
This is a giant photo op good will by Foxconn. Just like the Carrier announcement. My bet is that there won't be any factory, and even if there is it would be a small outpost employing a handful of people. All financed by giant taxpayer subsidies
It's because people at SNAP made a lot of money and {HN_user} did not.
Gene editing is probably the only way humans can colonize space. By adapting people to different gravities, air chemistry and pressure, radiation, etc., the need for life support equipment can be significantly reduced, and the quality of life of the colonists can be improved.
As someone who spent a ton of time in this space(working with most mobile GPU vendors from Android E to L) you're talking about things just at the surface.

The way the drivers + backing architecture are built contains tons of IP and things that they would very much not want their competitors seeing.

Our team built our reputation and relationship on keeping that data separate and confidential despite working with just about every vendor out there.
you'd still probably have one of those coordinates (of the tall mountain) remain the same, then find a tower that goes even further than the second point - although I never assume my logic is correct in geodesy/astronomy, especially when I'm tired

edit* - in practice you're probably right
shamless plug: i've also written a high level api on top of the chrome remote debugger chrominator [1]

similar idea. chrominator use promises instead of a fluent api. it also follows the selenium w3c spec where possible. it does cool stuff with evaluate and evaluateAsync where it resolves the remote object to something usable.

to be fair there are a few other projects i know about that wrap chrome remote debugger with a high level api:

* autogcd [2]

* ghostjs [3]

[1] https://github.com/jesg/chrominator

[2] https://github.com/wirepair/autogcd

[3] https://github.com/KevinGrandon/ghostjs
On other side I can ping IPv6 address of the tethered laptop. And for tethered devices ripe reported IPv6 matches interface. Indeed, transparent proxy / media gateway could be the case for the phone itself.
Have you read some dystopian fiction? For example, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake?

I'm excited to see what we can do with CRISPR, but we should do it fully aware of the ways things could go wrong (so that we can prevent those things from happening).
Deaths at the Ohio state Fair just now.: Columbus
It's a million dollars for 4-5 jobs, for whatever that's worth.
Yeah, I had the same thought a few days ago when I got this:

{lWfcM@Ko|u?;=hcYZr

> Error!

> The password is too weak. A good password must contain at least one digit, one uppercase and one lowercase letter.

Their requirements actually reduce the entropy here haha
I'll make a tableau public viz with these when I get home
The Most Effective Practices to Ensure Health Data Privacy
I hate the term "high level assembly" when applied to C since it's loaded against assembly (in the sense of C as its superset) which is obviously not true.

C is full of undefined behavior, assembly is not.
Micropoly!

https://web.archive.org/web/20010615183227/http://www.microp...
> Also, an 8k server is a big unit

My point was that it's peanuts compared to the labor costs it saves. I've worked quite a few places where a single $2-3k server would have saved every employee around an hour a day. In some cases several machines would have saved an hour each.

Every person you don't need gets you more than one person worth of increased productivity due to scaling limits, (see also Fred Brooks, IT and HR - more employees, more support staff).
No matter how bad source code is it's will still make it much easier for other implementations to get better compatibility.

Plenty of people in game development used Scaleform and it's have much better compatibility than any open source Flash reimplementation while it's codebase is solid.
When we first sent probes to other worlds, many people seriously expected to find life. The first astronauts on the moon were quarantined for weeks afterwards. Instead it seems like the vast majority of space is dead.

There may be lots of other planets like Earth, sure. But that's a very different claim than "life is an inevitable outcome of thermodynamics". At best it's "life is an inevitable outcome of very specific conditions that happened to exist on ancient Earth and Earth-like planets, under specific combinations of chemicals and temperature..." You need a lot more than just thermodynamics to have life.

It's probably entirely possible to create a self replicating machine using only components found on the surface of the moon. In fact that's been a serious research project of NASA for a long time. But such a machine will never form by chance, because the probability is so incredibly small. And so the moon is lifeless.
You can access lastpass on mobile and desktop without a subscription now
Org Mode looks cool. I'm a vim guy and I hope vim-orgmode is as good. Will give it a spin! Thanks! :)
Interested in this as well!
Don't worry, you will still be able to run SWF files after 2020 using the latest Flash Player Standalone Projector, Swiff Player, iSwiffy, Eltima SWF Player, Gnash, etc.
Mastering Ethereum is coming out Feb 2018
Does this mean that there is no known place (point) on Earth from which you can see some other point that is more than 538km away?
You don't need to clear 12h worth of snow in a few hours, you send the plows to work early when it starts snowing and keep plowing until the snowing stops. This is how it's done in snowy places and people never stay at home due to snow.
>In the paper McCarthy mentions also:
>'6. A ``program feature'' allows programs containing assignment and go to statements in the style of ALGOL.'
>'7. Computation with floating point numbers is possible in the system'

This part is about the status of LISP I and not what Graham is referring to. Did you look at the article by Graham?

http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html

He is talking about the core of LISP that he found in the 1960 paper that is pure.

>Basically the paper is more a collections of ideas around various ways to describe parts of LISP

There is clearly a gem in the paper that is viewed as a pure LISP.
Adding the double blind optimizations leading to absurdly complex drivers that tries to guess how user code tries to guess driver logic... maybe vulkan will help open source GPU drivers in the end.
The idea that centralization leads to better UX results is demonstrably false. Popcorn Time is a great example of distributed streaming providing a considerably better UX than most commercial solutions.

Additionally, the notion that the necessity of making group decisions on a protocol must lead to stagnation is not guaranteed. There's plenty of space for Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter to form an an industry working group and make a protocol that meets their needs, and then throw it out and say "this is what we're using. Keep up or get left behind".

However, to more directly answer your concerns, there's nothing stopping Facebook from exposing basic functionality via an established and fairly firm protocol, and keeping advanced features as their competitive advantage. Textual Timeline posts, IM's and event RSVP's are good candidates for things to be exposed by the protocol. Facial tagging of images is a good example of something that a core social protocol could skip.
I largely agree with what you're saying. Out of curiosity, what makes you think I don't see the value? I omitted the 'pros' of having children simply because they seem self-evident. I don't think I'd bother asking this question at all if I didn't appreciate the argument in favor.
If rich people just stashed they money in housing, you would see a higher gap between housing and rental prices (because if there isnt demand to rent those places, but there is demand to buy them, the gap would increase).

I dont think thats whats going on. Concentration of work in cities is a global effect, and although china erupting cash over the world might change some numbers,it wouldnt explain the migratory movement from rural to cities.

The easiest and most classical explanation of housing prices in the US is that construction took a huge hit in 2008, and getting the whole system to produce more housing for the demographic growth is lagging. I remember seeing some data about that happening.

A more esoteric one is that we are living in a world with a curious monetary policy, with low interest rates but no inflation, and that as money gets more expensive, housing demand will lower and so will its prices.
Assuming one has additional browser vulnerabilities, sandbox escapes and privilege escalation bugs. "Broadpwn" doesn't exploit main processor __anything__ by itself.
I have no idea where that number comes from. I seem to remember that a naive implementation would have required 10x or so the existing resources (proportional to the characters in the average query at the time... We know they've been getting longer over the years). But that's not at all what was released. Also remember that this is just the serving path. Crawling is not affected, while for indexing...it depends.

My service did not get 7x the resources for launch. We did bring up more capacity, but we also improved things here and there. That's work that would have been needed anyway.

Last but not least, there were infrastructure improvements that helped reduce resources in search and other products. Bob Wyman's LinkedIn page says that his team helped with Instant, but also saved AdSense 100k+ cores, while increasing serving capacity and reducing latency.

As for the value: speed, differentiation and sheer coolness.
looks like it is $14 on amazon with free shipping
By itself that may be true. As they say, "painting the target around the arrow" proves nothing.

But what if the target was there before? Then you have to explain how the arrow hit it so perfectly. There is a difference.

The difference is, is there anything special about the target's placement?

One can argue that alternative universes where soups of particles didn't give rise to life are all uninteresting.

You can of course say that life is needed to make the judgment for what is interesting.

But are you sure there is no sense in which the target can be said to have been painted before the arrow was fired? It all rests on that.
200 years is a decent chunk of time from an evolutionary standpoint. We feel it's short because of how long our history has been. But within 200 years you can manufacture N new breeds of dogs, for example. We just underestimate how much change takes place in the world.
looks like someone posted this pic from the same site https://beyondhorizons.eu/2016/08/03/pic-de-finestrelles-pic...
>What are sites' motivations for blocking AWS IPs?

I block AWS. So many crawlers up to so much nonsense!
I don't block by IP, but by hostname.

$block='.amazonaws.com';
$ua = @$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];

if (stripos($rh,$block)!==false &&
stripos($ua,'Silk')===false &&
stripos($ua,'Safari')===false){

$block_visitor=true;
$message="Blocked Host:Amazon Web Services";
}
I think he is saying that this is not capitalism. The existence of bailouts and government programs to direct the markets is not capitalism's 'need' for those programs, despite any politician's attempt to sell that idea.
Marxists think they have a total understanding of society and economy. They don't see the future as uncertain, but rather as a series of inevitable steps that proceed towards a global communist state of society where human nature no longer applies and people are no longer self-interested.

So they've got this weird verbal tic where they discuss present events as though they're historical events. After all, when you know everything, why not?

Of course, they've been predicting this 'late stage' and inevitable 'collapse of capitalism' since the 19th century.

Somehow these theories just don't go away no matter how many times they get it wrong or how many countries they ruin.

Anyway, if you want a peek at the type of mind that believes they know the future well enough to discuss it like history, post something mildly questioning in /r/latestagecapitalism and try not to let your eyes bug out at the absurdity of the response.
I have no idea. Whenever I try to open the file, firefox and chrome just download it. It used to work fine.

(Also even back in the day some flash games had built in DRM that required contacting an external server to run. And I have no idea how to fix that.)
> If your ethics include reducing human suffering, deciding to conceive is unethical due to the quantity of pain your child is almost certain to endure.

If your ethics are limited to reducing some simplistic measure of suffering, that seems clear.

OTOH, under such an ethical system, if there were a means to immediately and painlessly eradicate humanity, it would be ethically obligatory to execute it.

If, to go to an opposite extreme, your ethics is limited to maximizing human joy, refraining from having a child would, in most situations, be unethical.

Real world ethical systems (both as expressed and the things people actually believe) tend to be more complex, though, than either extreme simplification.
This is very cool. I'm told you can see Mt Fuji from Tokyo on a clear day, but I never managed to see it. I did manage to see Mont Blanc from my Kitchen in Lausanne, Switzerland a few times - such a beautiful sight.
Airbus Launches Commercial Drone Services
I think it's common knowledge that perl6 is basically rare in deployment, whereas perl5 scripts are everywhere in legacy systems. Former CPAN author myself.
But you could give the money to a company that already has a plant to develop new jobs. They don't because its untenable to see the government just write a big check to a private company.

Its a fictional difference that is used to make it seem more palatable.
No need for converting existing SWF files - you will be able to play them after 2020 using the Flash Player Standalone Projector or Swiff Player.
I didn't get to read the article but wonder about the "Mastermind" notion. Norman Foster is not exactly a push over architect. Was the claim that Foster + Partners had nothing to do with this design?

A delicious aspect of this design is how closely it resembles the English spook central:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/GCHQ-aer...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V4KSNOGfDN0/UTnFgqoi24I/AAAAAAAAAe...

Let's hope form is not following function here ;)
Surely the longest distance would be, from the top of the highest point on Earth (top of Everest), to the horizon?
Iain Banks' Culture series (sci-fi novels) explores this subject in a way I enjoyed greatly.

"Biologically, the Culture's citizens have been genetically enhanced to live for centuries, and have modified mental control over their physiology, including the ability to introduce a variety of psychoactive drugs into their systems, change biological sex, or switch off pain at will. Culture technology is able to transform individuals into vastly different body forms but, for unclear reasons, the Culture standard form remains fairly close to human."
Weird Clown Guy wtf?
Is the diagram simplifying things? It looks like in a number of cases, coins were stolen, sent to a single wallet, and then sent to an exchange. That doesn't seem like a particularly ambitious attempt to launder. I must be missing something...
Tell that to the Open and guys who have been dying for wifi drivers for years. They are definitely not all open. Furthermore, not nearly as many people are running alternative OSes on their phones as they are on other types of computers.
On the flip side, if we have a problem with racism now just on the basis of skin color/ethnicity/(culture), just imagine what sort of conflicts would arise once there are actual different human races. Even more so if they cannot reproduce with one another.
Meg Whitman leaves HP board; Is she headed to Uber?
Intuitively it seems pretty rare for Midwesterners to live in cities or "urban" houses. Most of us seem to be in the metro areas, but in freeway-connected suburbs, not urban cores.
imagenet is a truly terrible dataset. Any image recognition task that humans are not >99.9% on is not an image recognition task.
Actually I don't have much in the book about doing your own maintennce, other that working on your car, painting your house, etc.

Thanks for the input, maybe it will make it into the revised edition.

My book is also on Apple iBook store and kobo. You can buy it off amazon and just read on your computer too.
That assumes there is not another, shorter mountain in the way blocking view of the horizon.
> Actually adding special characters reduces the search space. Most places adding them also require them, which means for one of the 10 characters the search space is just those 5 special characters, and for another the space is just the 10 numbers, and there is still one more where the search space is just the 26 letters.

But you don't know which slot has the special character and which has the number, and that choice expands the search space again (agreed not mathematically the same as with no restrictions, but then again users don't necessarily explore the whole mathematically available space of passwords).
If not with Facebook and Alphabet, there would still be most of those companies selling their products, with other means or site. There's not much that Facebook adds other than number of people it has using their site during their off times. If people needed to buy things, they could have easily looked it up on other sites or real places. There are many companies that do much more important things, produces more useful goods/productivity/services.
I don't dismiss NAT because I don't like it, I am just stating the fact that it does not provide any security, despite what many people, including you, believe.

Your list is missing one point:

4. They just send you a packet addressed to the internal address of one of your devices.

NAT does not prevent inbound connections. A NAT gateway is just a router with additional NAT functionality. When an inbound packet arrives, a NAT gateway will do two things:

1. Check whether the packet belongs to a flow in the table of NATed connections. If so, rewrite the destination address/port to the internal values.

2. Check whether the destination is in the table of port forwardings. If so, add an entry to the table of NATed connections and rewrite the destination port address to the internal values.

Other than that, it's just a router. If it receives a packet from the WAN that is addressed to the LAN, that probable won't match either of those two cases, so it's simply forwarded unchanged.

The only reason why you cannot just send anyone who uses such a NAT gateway a packet to their LAN is because their ISP doesn't route the address range of their LAN to their router. But the ISP or anyone compromising the ISP can just do that.

That is, unless the same device also contains a stateful packet filter firewall. Which you can have without any NAT, with IPv6 just as with IPv4.

NAT does not provide security, really.
GPU drivers are very bug ridden and 3D apps can easily cause OS crashes. Apps are tested so they don't trigger those bugs. Witness all the complaint comments on webgl posts about machine crashes - and that's with a thick driver bug workaround layer in browsers.
Sure. It can be done. I still wouldn't bike during such a time. Visibility is bad, cars may be sliding around.
College students lost access to legal pot and started getting better grades
This will get you banned, not a response.
Gilead managed to demonstrate how curing a major disease does not result in such a spectacular outcome (of the trillion dollar scale). They did very well by curing HepC, briefly, and now they're eroding back down after just a few boom years. The same would occur with curing HIV/AIDS. There would be a brief boom derived from sales in some developed nations (most nations would receive the cure extremely inexpensively, as with HepC). It might get a company to a couple hundred billion market cap short-term, nowhere near a trillion dollar outcome however. Further, attempting to charge a lot for the HIV/AIDS cure (such that you could get to a trillion dollar market cap), would result in a far worse PR outcome than what Gilead & Co. saw with HepC drugs; calls for nationalization would be overwhelming. Nations such as India and China would simply ignore all patents and proceed to copying the cure - few would support any economic counter/consequence against that move.

It is often said that companies would intentionally prefer not to cure major diseases. Then Gilead (Pharmasset), goes ahead and does so, while charging less for the cure than the cost of healthcare for living with HepC (much less all that is lost from HepC, including quality of life and economic contribution) - and for doing so, they were treated as a villain due to what they charged. For such reasons, I doubt we'll ever see drug prices high enough to deliver trillion dollar outcomes. Throw on top of this, that the last bastion of crazy drug prices - the US - is nearing an end on its tolerance for such.
Depends on the elevation of the horizon.