skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of companies built the platform, and populate it with some of their own apps to set a minimum bar of quality, like with Apple (Reminders) or Google (Keep). One might say the same discussion applies to language creators -- bake it into the language, or have 3rd parties do it? Not always an obvious discussion, and so perhaps the statements about ignorance and arrogance come too quickly.

Some things are too important to not at least put out a standard-bearer.
European Bank Cuts Funds to VW Because of Emissions Fraud
This was based on my own assessment of the whitepaper when it first became prominent. The way that transactions were formed was to build on an existing transaction in the mempool and mix the results together with the ring signatures. Looking at the coin now it appears that there's some optional (soon to be mandatory) protocol changes that will mask the output addresses, but I have not looked closer.

The Wikipedia article has two papers that draw similar conclusions about the traceability:

http://monerolink.com/monerolink.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7e8g-wJId8md3FYUGF0TlB5NjQ...

RingCT claims to conceal the amount, and "stealth addresses" claims to obscure output addresses, but I have not verified these claims because I'm reluctant to spend more time verifying a coin that I am skeptical about.
If you're considering python and ruby then you might want to consider crystal (and the python equivalent that I don't remember the name of) and avoid the runtime costs of a VM. Can you give some examples of the kind of utilities you're talking about? Is it something you'd load up and have running all day or a command you'd run frequently? VM overhead wouldn't matter in the former, but would in the latter. What are the performance needs of the utilities?

Manual memory management isn't really a problem for small, simple utilities, it becomes a problem on larger scale systems. C is a rather simple language to learn.
Really? Does it really seriously look like a render? As it happens _I_ sometimes create renders for my 9-5 of medical equipment (in solidworks and c4d), these Theranos minilab images look like photographs to me, not renders.

> Nobody will ever buy anything from them. Nobody should.

Oh, trust me, a lot of people will buy things like minilab if it's marketed well, there's a lot of money for these things. A common price for any medical research hardware of the serious kind is tens of thousands (my lab got a confocal microscope only recently for $200k; our sister lab bought a diamond turning machine for about 2 million to create glass lens).
if you have yarn run

yarn why crossenv

to see if you have it in your dependency tree
The O(n log n) bound only holds for comparison-based sorts. It's not a matter of time; it's an assumption/precondition of the proof.
MP3.com anyone? Hell, I had an "album" on MP3.com and even sold three copies.

The other day Standing in the Sun's album showed up on Spotify out of nowhere. That was the music of my teenage years and I had fully lost track of it. So many other artists I still miss.
My company and I could have used your knowledge! Got sent to Europe to debug some problems where we had an ISDN card from a third party installed in our systems and got to visit UK, Germany, Belgium, and France to look at different issues.
I use VimFx on Firefox, I guess that scrolling issue doesn't bother me because I hadn't noticed it until I visited the link you shared.

I've started looking for VimFx alternatives since the following doesn't sound great:

https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx/issues/860

https://github.com/akhodakivskiy/VimFx/issues/860#issuecomme...
Which they can easily price into the cost of the device, or into the cost of the app.
> Of course, you still need something for leaders so they can dole out whatever limited bonus or promotion opportunities, so it isn't a panacea.

But, how do you ensure that that feedback even plays a role in one's review? In most companies I've worked, I'm skeptical. At the end of the day, one's job performance is judged by a human that is free to use or ignore all this feedback. And that human is usually your direct manager, so they often already have their own biases and self-generated feedback in their own head. "I think this direct report of mine is performing badly, but all of their feedback is good so I'll give him a raise" - said no manager ever.
Debian 9 “Stretch” Release Features and Updates
You might as well open it's options and disable SSL Observatory since it's exactly what cause slowdown.
I really love solar powered watches. I have 3 (Citizen eco-drives) and the g-shocks. The fact that the battery never needs replacing.

I solar have a g-shock too, but that atomic time setting (by radio) never worked for me. The g-shock is so thick though, I actually find it a little off putting sometimes.
Stagit – A static Git page generator
In that case, then you can to go back to

int mid = (low + high) / 2;

but you'd have to constrain low and high to be in the range [-2^30, 2^30 - 1] so as to not overflow a (assuming 32-bit) signed integer. (And you're probably using 64-bit floating point, or similar, which has other fiddly bits.)

However, the article specifically talks about merge sort in arrays, so low (your "a") is always >= 0. The discovery was "oh, we went decades before someone had to sort an array with more than 2^31 elements". Frankly, it's akin to when we ran out of IPv4 addresses -- when it was originally built, there was some range over which the computation was defined to be correct, and we later discovered that we wanted to do computation outside that range.
Apple defends complying with China over VPNs
I know some of your type at work. The worst part is I make more than them 1 year out of school...
Today Google disabled a Jordan Peterson's account, including his YouTube channel with millions of views. This is a clinical psychologist professor who is openly anti-Marxist (but also openly anti-fascist, and anti-antisemitic). No explanation given. Just plainly said he wasn't following the ToS but not particularly what.

Only after hours of pressure from many people they reinstated it silently.

We need anti-trust laws to curve this authoritarian Internet rising.
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The processor in the first gen Apple Watch is so slow that the Series 1 actually included a faster processor :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Watch#Second_generation

The good news is that Apple Watch appears to hold its value like other Apple products. I just spotted a recent one on eBay that's exactly the same as mine which sold for $135.
Classic programming defect !
Right, but a generalization of discrimination-based sorts didn't exist until earlier this decade. So it was a reasonable statement to misinterpret or relegate to "say you have a 30m character string you wanted to sort as quickly as possible" interview questions.

I certainly didn't realize how generalized discrimination-based sorts were. Many people I've talked to outside of the Haskell community don't know at all. I'm still working through the papers, the base of that chain is like 86 pages long!

This search fallacy has been corrected. I'm mentioning one that hasn't.
I'm tempted to suggest

(low / 2) + (high / 2)

but then I have to think about rounding error. Ugh. I guess you could write a bunch of nested `if`s to handle the parity errors, assuming you know how your language rounds when dividing negative numbers. (I wouldn't be surprised if C leaves that "implementation-defined".) If you're really searching an arbitrary range, maybe just use bigints. Then at least you can stop worrying about overflow altogether.
Sam Harris did a good interview with this outfit:

https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/meat-without-murder
I assume it means any of the larger pools in Bitcoin could switch over to one of the smaller altcoins and overwhelm the much smaller pool of miners there.
Be properly waterproof, never need a charge, and take abuse for 30 years like a $150 automatic?
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There are lots of apps smaller and better than some of these. Consider the running app? Or using facebook in Safari.
> Which Snowden leak showed that the NSA was being used to aid piracy investigations?

I'm not aware of any assistance rendered to piracy investigations, but there is ample evidence of them sharing intel for the purpose of domestic law enforcement - which is way worse. So the call for direct evidence is nice (and silly considering the nature of the evidence), but the logic of "our boys would never" is pretty soundly blown out of the water. They have every reason to - and no reason not to, as there is no punitive action even after being caught.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel...
When you get a notification saying you've increased your daily move goal streak to 200+ days, you're tempted to not break it. There are already quite a few people I've seen hitting 800 days.
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It seems like in that field you can use some of your knowledge of system programming. Overflow and underflow happens a lot with the big data volumes you face. Another systems programming topic discussed in most big data courses is floating point accuracy.

Understanding floating point arithmetic is even more important than over/underflow of integers in dynamic languages such as Python (see e.g. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0237/).
You never had the right to a platform for your speech, starting day one of the country you profess to love. "Freedom of speech" was always intended as freedom from the doctrine of seditious libel, freedom from the government shielding itself against inconvenient speech.

There is a reason every single state constitution has provisions on the abuse of speech, and that is because we always saw the potential for this. (Why not the constitution? Because the Federal government has no jurisdiction over speech. It's up to the states. See e.g. Federalist #84)

This idea that "freedom of speech" means "I can say whatever I want, and any and all platforms must amplify what I say" is a completely misguided idea that has no basis in reality, the constitution, or even the debates the founders had.
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Why's everyone in this country so incompetent?
You can fix the sticky crown by rotating it and clicking it a few times under a stream of running water. This method is recommended by Apple themselves:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204639
I think this is a problem with the "fad" approach to dev. As a sysadmin I try to stay on top of tech at a 50k ft view, so when node and angular and MEAN stack started showing up everywhere, I tried my hand a bit, and walked away remembering how much I hated the javascript ecosystem that existed before these things, and how the community seemed to be younger, newer devs trying something shiny and repeating fuckups that had already been through other langs/environments. Security for these kinds of devs is not even an afterthought, it's someone elses problem.
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I think you're reading a lot more into my comment than I wrote. It's not "vigilante justice" to ban known scammers and circulate blacklists of them. It's how our community functions.
I don't need a car, but I want a Tesla
I saw it too, it starts as a dark dot at the top of the cloud.
The Series 1 and Series 2 CPU/GPU are identical. The Series 1 lacks GPS, has a dimmer screen, and is less waterproof.

The original Apple Watch is sometimes referred to as the "Series 0".
What does vegawarian mean?
I believe "don't compile," in this context, is short for "their compilation doesn't halt." That seems like a bad thing to me. ;)
Mossberg and Jobs were pretty close friends in Job's later years it seems.
Huh, is this the stuff you're talking about:

http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/henglein/papers/henglein2011a.pdf
http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/henglein/papers/henglein2011c.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz9ZlZIRDAg
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/discrimination

I didn't know about this until I read your reply and googled; I thought you were just obliquely referring to radix sort or something like that.
Yeah, having scrubs corrupt good data is basically the worst-case scenario for an FS whose selling point is checksumming for data integrity.

I ran btrfs for several years, and while the features are great (per-subvolume RAID policies, lightweight snapshots, unRAID-style RAID), I got sick of testing my backups regularly. I wouldn't be surprised if that's not uncommon.
Just got back from 9 days in China. My observation is that some services are blocked on local Sim card yet available on international ones.
I grew up in Houston where hustling is a word that is heavily used in various contexts. In my experience it has a dual meaning of working really hard and also doing anything for a buck. I've heard it used either way and both.
Agreed. This was a very underwhelming article.
I replaced my wife's Fitbit soon after the Watch came out (dog at the Fitbit), soon after bought myself one. We were ahead of the curve, and then last Christmas, four of the other six adults in her family all got one.
I purchased a 3rd party milanese loop from amazon for $15. As far as I can tell it's indistinguishable from the Apple product. In any case, I agree, it's a great watch band.
Visa and MC are not card issuers. They are card networks.

A card issuer is a person that issues a credit card, so major banks, and Amex who happens to be both a card issuer and card network.
I wonder how similar automatic censorship would have affected the Spanish civil war.
> I've said it a few times when the topic comes up but one of the best features is the magnetic milanese loop.

I can't stand it, because I keep mistaking the tiny rubs as the band shifts against itself for notification vibrations. I reverted to the silicon band because of this.
From my own experience and reading that of others, it's the device that no one can justify until they get one. Then it becomes the device that the vast majority love and some can't live without.
The problem is that users downloading the package can't verify that the developer used TOTP to publish. Really, it takes minimal effort to make and use a GPG key.

You can write a fairly basic script to automate the signing of stuff as well. Here's an example (it even signs the source archive): https://github.com/openSUSE/umoci/blob/master/hack/release.s...
a) I'm pretty sure you just made those numbers up

b) Yes, Nuclear power is heavily regulated and this affects the cost. But that is the world we live in - and the world we build generating capacity in, so deal with it.
Thank you for your explanation but I do not misunderstand. ”Natural Rights” is just a concept political philosophers came up with to suggest there should be some minimal set of identical rights in all legal systems. It is a suggestion, not a source of law.

Case in point: in a thread broadly pertaining to the law in the UK you bring up the US Constitution, and its enunciation of rights in the first batch of amendments (otherwise known as the Bill Of Rights). No such analogue exists in UK law because (despite being a constitutional monarchy) the UK has no explicit written constitution (at least not a single specific document whose amendment or modification requires special supermajority in parliament).

The US Constitution's Bill of Rights famously proclaims US citizens' rights to bear arms. No analogue exists in UK law. What is a natural rights proponent to make of that? That the UK has implemented less of the natural rights than the US has? That bearing arms is not a natural right? That the US allows rights that are not natural rights? These would all be spurious conclusions because rights need not map across legal systems and certainly do not ”inherit” from one golden standard of ”natural rights”.

I think it is easy for us technologically-inclined people to think of various legal systems as differing implementations of a ”natural rights specification”, and come away with a feeling that there are various levels of correctness or preferrability. That's the wrong mindset, though. A better one would be that each legal system is a formal system built up from different and sometimes incompatible axioms, so that some support some theorems and others don't (but support other theorems).
I love this! I would love to integrate this with a deduplicated, taxonomized, and crowdsourced database of facts I am working on - branches-app.com/theplan. Would love to get in contact with you
It will be amazing when people start doing correlation like this across stellar distances. Mars, just for starters.
Absolutely, but I think you're being a bit naive. I like to hear different opinions (I like that /r/ChangeMyView is a thing), but there's a difference between reading a different opinion and reading "Kill yourself, faggot".

If you advertise being a place of COMPLETE free speech (Like Voat), you're gonna get assholes that think free speech means having a place to be an asshole.
Passive funds are still actively managed -- just not by the end consumer. I can see the appeal of a passive fund manager being able to make active decisions to benefit their investors.
Natural gas might be as bad in terms of climate change as burning coal due to losses of methane during production/transporting, so it would be great to eliminate its use. Unfortunately we are far, far away from having grid storage that could accommodate only having renewables. Grid storage has been worked on for generations and even so, right now, the U.S. has about 24.6GW of grid storage, 95% of which is pumped storage hydro. That is a very tiny fraction of what would be needed.
The latest commit in the github repo has an example of an irc client: https://github.com/octaspire/dern/commit/fab2f5a2766a16fffc7...
> If the AdS/CFT conjecture is demonstrably proven, it will elevate it from "useful computational technique" to "law of mathematics, probably how nature does it, too".

Gauge/gravity duality under particular circumstances is certainly interesting, but unfortunately our universe is not AdS and in particular does not have a boundary on which the conformal field theory can be constrained. So being able to define string theory nonperturbatively on a Minkowski space defined on the boundary of spacetime is certainly interesting, but as far as we can tell our spacetime does not have that boundary and moreover it would be much nicer if we had a background independent formulation for a nonperturbative string theory, and the gauge/gravity duality does not really offer that. One might draw the analogy to being able to define a patch of Minkowski space around a point on a geodesic through a general curved spacetime: General Relativity explicitly promises only that a smooth coordinatization (e.g. Fermi coordinates) is possible in an infinitesimal neighbourhood around the point although in weak gravity the patch can be much bigger (and the system of coordinates more "Cartesian"). The worry (by this analogy) should be that gauge/gravity correspondence falls apart in strong gravity.

Moreover, it is an enormous stretch to argue that if a large class of bulk theories have the same symmetries as certain boundary theories (or are related in some other way) then therefore there background independent physics are recovered. Rovelli enjoys pointing out that in GR you can always select a preferred frame and map an SR theory over that and do useful computations, but that doing so gives no insights into proper Lorentz-invariant physics, so how does choosing a preferred spacetime and mapping a field theory over that providing insights into quantum gravity?

However, some string theorists (notably Verlinde recently) have been trying to get out of the AdS "box" and think about other chosen spacetimes (e.g. asymptotic de Sitter) to see if some gauge/gravity ideas are even workable for those spacetimes. Maybe they are.

> I'll take any proof, as early as I can get it, in order to guide our experimental work.

If you assume -- because General Relativity survives all observational tests and is expected to be completely correct in weak gravity -- that the string theory has to reduce to (or at least fully reproduce) classical GR in the appropriate limit then you can't expect any experiments which could distinguish between the two in the near future. But if you have a string theory that departs from GR in a testable limit, then sure, compare that with existing and future evidence.

However, string theory might testable outside the gravitational sector if the bulk-boundary correspondence covers more than that sector. Given that string theory tends to come with infinite fields, extra dimensions, supersymmetry and other theoretical objects that are not in the Standard Model, then BTSM experiments may have something to say about such string theory models.