skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. Similar things have happened to people I know, and I recently went on a rampage, locking down a ton of things related to third parties due to someone attempting to get access to my accounts.

A lot of people hate this answer, but do not entrust Google, Yahoo^H^H^H^H^HOath, or any other big free service with gatekeeper status to anything financial or, really, anything more important than chatting with pals. Host it with someone trustworthy; if that is not you or someone you personally trust, then someone you pay, who will listen to your instructions to, say, never change credentials over the phone, or however you wish to structure it.

> And you tell me this was to protect me?

...In the same sense that the managers of public buildings' preference for you to piss yourself in public over cleaning formerly public restrooms is "for your protection".
Isn't this a bit of a Chesterton's Fence situation? There must be reasons other than "VCs are greedy!" for employees not being able to sell off their stocks immediately.

The most obvious way to abuse this would be to join or create a startup, go through the ICO process, then sell off your shares, and, well, exit. Leave the company. You're rich, now - why keep working to build the product you (or your boss) promised to deliver?
No, the laws will only affect new car sales, not the old tech. That doesn't affect the secondary market for used gasoline cars in the slightest.
Nice! Maybe rational functions rather than polynomials though, because division is allowed. Anyway, equality of rational functions is reducible to equality of polynomials.
In short, as I understand, because history, cost, and the Constitutional priority of property rights over administrative convenience.
Far-over-median priced vehicles will still drag up the average.
Crash plan is great for my windows computer since I can't use time machine on it. I do have a giant spinning drive with windows history backups for non catostrophic backup. As long as the transition is seamless, $10/mo seems fair.
>I'd have called that a PRNG, because to me there were only two main categories. Pseudo-random, where it's designed to be unpredictable, and actually random where it is based on an external hardware source of true random information.

PRNGs produce numbers that seem hard to predict. CSPRNGs product numbers that actually are hard to predict, assuming P != NP (kind of).
A Professor Laments That Teaching Is Not the Priority of Teachers
The .net naming debacle is still raging between .net core, .net standard, .net framework, and their various versions. Sort of makes sense if one followed the previous 50 episodes but if you missed one...
Note that the original sentence is a one-way equivalence.

Just because you pay for the product, doesn't mean you can be the product too.
To be fair, one of the "features" is streaming Spotify, which may require a constant dance to keep up with API changes.
Sorry, I don't agree it is crazy thing to say. This ship is not beyond repair and is actually not hard for repair. A sinking ship or a ship on fire or a ship with half of the deck destroyed or a ship with a hole in the middle would be considered in serious condition. This ship would still be in active fighting if this ship was in the middle of a naval battle. No one would be crazy enough to abandon this ship just because some compartments were flooded and under control.
Is there any reason to buy stock in a company if they don't provide dividends, besides the bigger fool theory?
That's not really comparable at all. A color tv is a fundamentally more distinct product as compared to a b&w tv than a ICE cars is compared to an electric. Especially for the foreseeable future.
> In some games you'll see real subdivision surfaces

Cool! What games are using subds? I thought they were mostly relegated to offline use due to evaluation cost.
I would like to see a TV comedy - perhaps in the vain of Who’s Line Is It Anyways - where actors act out these NN scripts.
Love it. Somebody please trademark that, and: Metaico, an ICO price pegged to other ICOs. Slogan: "We eliminate volatility while preserving anonymity."
I don't get how people in this thread think "paid enterprise support" means that much. In practice, it typically means having an unempowered third-party enter your problem into the robo-form instead of entering it there yourself.

That, and where does it say he was using a free account? A lot of universities are on the paid google suite.
I'm guessing two variables here; I didn't look too closely.
x=3, y=8

x*(y*(x/x)) = f(x,y)
x+((x*y)-x) = g(x,y)

These are pretty obviously both xy, but rather than solve it, find the maximum degree, which is 2, and make a few points:

(1,1) => 1(1(1/1)) = 1 = 1+((1*1)-1)
(1,0) => 0 for both
(1,2) => 2 etc.

It's an old technique; Alan Perlis taught it to me. If two polynomials of degree d agree on more than d points, then their difference (of degree <= d) has more than d roots, so their difference must be 0.
Don't b, c#2, d, and e apply to this also?
>stuff like PCG

PCG is cryptographically secure, though. Or at least, it is as cryptographically secure as any other PRNG in the sense that nobody actually knows how to predict it, many have tried, nobody has succeeded, but nobody has proved it impossible.
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zstd uses ANS [1][2] to encode its (literal length, match length, offset) triples.

[1] https://github.com/Cyan4973/FiniteStateEntropy

[2] https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/doc/zstd_compressi...
My very first startup I was naive and just did cold calling. Got a huge number of no's (200+) before getting a yes.

Next time I'm much smarter, seek partnerships and even better if your product is an upsell, then you can have others sell it for you
Less middlemen is also why so many people are getting scammed out of $ in ICOs.

There was a thread on HN a while back where HNers proposed regulation for BTC trade.. comment by comment rebuilding the (legitimate) reasons for regulation.

I'm not saying the SEC is a force of good, just saying that good and bad can come with less regulation.
True, I ignored division.

I believe this is used in symbolic solvers to prove identities; that's the context where I learned it.
No, it isn't, for the reasons stated in the article. Is it possible "for any X application"? Absolutely; you could write a tutorial on how to do any one thing, but that's not what the question was.
So happy I finally found a well managed company to work for!!
Bah, 256 bits is already so vanishingly small it's hard to comprehend. If you put a thousand disks into a pool you might reach 2^40 blocks, leaving you with 256-80=176 bits of margin. That is never going to collide. You could make such a filesystem for each atom on Earth and the odds of a single collision would be less than 0.1% You could put a billion disks in a pool and still have 136 bits of margin.

512 bit hashing is basically placebo.
You can only say that after you have tried a dry run of Tarsnap to see what your actual usage would be. You can't take the rate Colin charges at face value because that is not what you will actually wind up paying.
I saw it the other day when the eclipse came to Oregon, and the population suddenly increased by 25% for a few days.

I'm guessing that if the number of electric cars surged by 25% for a few days, it would be much less of a problem.

[0]: http://www.kgw.com/news/eclipse/gas-shortages-long-waits-rep...
Honest question to your statement:
"It would be useful to pair this with license plate readers, and notice cars whose license plate/tire ID relationships have changed."

How/Why?
> This sounds like basic Huffman encoding. What am I not understanding?

The smallest item in a Huffman encoded tree is a single bit.

You can end up with fractional bits with ANS.

And this puzzled me too, till I ran into a fractional bit-shift problem in some of my work.

We encounter fractional bits very often when dealing with number systems which don't encode very well into binary.

When encoding a (yes, no, maybe) into a binary structure, it uses up all 2 bits, while we do know that it doesn't cover the entire range properly - because we can pack 4 values into 2 bits, while this loses a single value.

Basically to encode tristate data into booleans, you need to be able to shift the input by Log2(3) bits - or 1.58 bits, so that you can use the other 0.42 bits into the next one etc, until you get to a point where you end up with a whole bit in real "bits".

Shifting by 1.58 bits sounds rather odd, but that's what a CPU does when you do a * = 3 (and the other one was really * 4).

So instead of being able to store 8 (yes, no, maybe) into 16 bits by using boolean logic, instead you can store 10 (yes, no, maybe) by using *3 as a multiplier instead of 4. Because 3^10 is 59049, the maximum encoding still comes in way under 65536.

Anyway, I'm currently juggling with a fractional bit problem of my own - but with a more familiar numbering system, Decimal.

I need to represent 38 digits and a sign within two 64 bit registers, however splitting those two across Decimal values wastes fractional bits.

To represent all positive 19 digits in binary, you end up using 63.1166338029 bits.

So if you store 38 digits in binary as 2 independent 19 digits, you end up consuming 128 bits, because you round up the 2 representations to 64 bits each.

But if you store 38 digits in straight binary, you only end up needing 126.233267606 bits = 127 bits rounded up, which leaves a bit available to do a sign bit.

Decimal(38,0) doesn't encode very well into 2 Longs in decimal, but it encodes nearly perfectly by straddling the sign bit across the two values if you're careful to encode it, so that you can squeeze in a sign bit into the higher value.

Anyway, fractional bits are super interesting because it jumps from engineering, all the way through computer science to end up with pure information theory in mathematics.

PS: Genetics data is probably the next place where I'd look at this - ATGCU, for instance
200+ miles ought to be enough to get you out of the disaster area. Plus if you can charge at home you'll almost always be near full, whereas most people let gas tanks get low before filling them back up.
(1) Cont: WAS PLANET X THE ECLIPSE AS THE MOON WAS SEEN ELSEWERE
The problem with differential privacy is I have to trust the person aggregating the data to actually do it.
True, I liked it though, but it wasn't populated all year through. When there were some people in up season it was alright.

I just interpreted off-the-grid not just by it's mechanical definition, but also conceptually.
Let's say you're a strong company ,one that can manage to achieve a lead of, say 5 years over competitors with the tech. Does anybody think you won't(most likely) manage to bind yourself to a stable competitive advantage in this industry, if such exists ?
> Maybe it is also in your best interests if the street is modified to accommodate modern use cases.

At least in the UK, in a lot of cases that's just not feasible. Take the image I posted above for instance: http://c8.alamy.com/comp/DXHF2G/terraced-street-in-hillsboro...

The only ways to widen the road would be A) prohibit parking -> now residents have nowhere to park, or B) start demolishing houses.
I found this to be a very well-written piece with a nice live demo. That's valuable. Having a few explanations of the same thing is good for learning, especially when they are at varying levels of detail.

For stuff that's novel, you could always browse through this year's SIGGRAPH papers. http://kesen.realtimerendering.com/sig2017.html
> Cooperating means compromising to maximise total utility.

I don't think this is a useful definition of cooperation, because "total utility" is not measurable, and might not even be well-defined.

I would define cooperation as people working together towards a common goal.

> It's rare enough that two people want the exact same thing, even less a group of people

It's rare for multiple people to want all of the same things, yes. This is why collective action should be limited.

But it's quite common for multiple people to have some common goal, in which case they can cooperate to achieve that goal, without having to share all of their other goals.

Your definition of cooperation appears to be all or nothing: either everybody agrees on everything, or people have to compromise. But if people don't agree on a particular goal, they can just choose not to pursue it together. They can go off and pursue their own goals separately. Nothing requires everybody to agree on a common set of goals and only pursue those.

> the alternative to "government oppression" is oppression by individuals/corporations/groups

No, the alternative to government oppression is voluntary choice. You can't be oppressed by individuals or corporations or groups that don't have power. And who gives them that power? Governments. Individuals or corporations and groups get to oppress others because they have bought the privilege of doing so from the government--which was supposed to protect people from oppression.

> you don't get a vote

My vote doesn't make any difference anyway; neither major political party in my country (the US) is willing to touch any policy proposals that I would advocate. The best I can do with my vote is to choose the candidates that I think will do the least damage. But I would be glad to trade the loss of that dubious privilege for a much smaller government that didn't try to meddle in so many things.

> I think there are a lot more good things than just that aspect that our collective invention of government brings

Governments do do good things. But that doesn't mean all good things get done by governments, or that governments doing them are the best way to do even those good things that governments do.
Is the cloud the universe now?
In this specific case: if you own a sonos, try to get your money back over this.
Markets need to figure out a way for good artists to get discovered + profit from that since if everyone pirated, no revenue from transacting the stream.
A friend who is a materials engineer told me that there aren't enough rare-Earth metals in the world to supply the demand for magnets to replace all of the current petrol based cars with electric cars. No sources unfortunately, but this thing might not scale.
The liability question will be an interesting one--far more so than trolley problems IMO. There aren't a lot of examples where we just accept things sold to consumers killing people when used according to directions and properly maintained because "hey, sometimes stuff happens." Drugs are probably the best example. But even that isn't a case of your drugs killing someone else.

I do think it will figured out in some future where there's true autonomy and they're proven far safer statistically. But you're right that the general public isn't going to shrug when $AUTOMAKER's car runs over a skateboarder and the company says "We are committed to safety and we'll try harder next time."

There's also the uncanny valley when no one's paying attention although they're legally supposed to be.
$50/device?? With that said, I suspect Facebook is working on a browser...that could compete well with Chrome...any reason why Facebook hasn't developed a browser?
> Yes, the laws only apply to new vehicles.

>because laws will ban the sale of the "old tech".

?
Metajack mention power usage with parallelization briefly here[0], but doesn't provide the data.

[0] https://youtu.be/7q9vIMXSTzc?t=35m (2015)
(Remember that this also includes your phone, if you're on an Android device).

Is that inherent in using Android, or only if you use Google's own apps and online storage for your calendar etc?
Translation: the dudes made a diode, and the writing guy wrote transistor.

Where's the third terminal, yo.
The $30 is a charge from the 3rd party company iCare. An actual Apple Store would not charge such a fee to remove firmware password.
I doubt it's one simple thing but any number of simple things and they can't tell you for the fact that they like their job.
Y'all should check out https://b612foundation.org
your cartoon explanations are wonderful :)

By the way, what program are you using to make your art?
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That's part of the reason why practically all electric cars currently in production use induction motors, which only require copper.

Yes, it would require more rare earths than are currently economically feasible to mine if we replaced every fossil fuel engine with a permanent magnet electric motor of equal power.

The only real difference between the two is the design difficulty of the drive circuitry for the VFD to run the induction motor. That's largely a solved problem.
'Compatible with service X' is a feature. If it stops being compatible with service X because service X changed their API, then you either need to fix it so it's compatible again, or refund to your customers.

If you want to announce you are compatible with service X as a feature, you should have an agreement of compatibility with service X.
It's funny, there were people saying this exact thing 20 years ago when people were demanding ala carte channel buying from cable companies. They were saying "yeah you are not going to like paying $x per channel."

I was not one of them but they turned out to be right. When this gains momentum people are going to be subscribing to like 5 channels at $5/mo each before they think they are paying to much. And you will have to decide between those 5 channels or say NHL for the year @ $100 USD. Or maybe you want NFL for $150 or whatever crazy rate they charge. HBO?

It's going to add up fast and most people are not going to like the fact that to get all the channels they want they are going to need to pony up some hefty cash per month.

IMO.
> anyone who is attracted to you because of those things will be toxic company

It's naive to believe there exist people that don't judge humans and places by aesthetics. We just have different parameters.

Maybe Babushka dolls don't represent the aesthetics you like, but refusing to signal entirely isn't the path to less toxic relationships; it's the path to being alone in your bubble.
P.S. Has anyone gotten the typometer application described in the OP to work with a graphical emacs on OS X? Whenever I open the application, my Emacs just freezes till I close the application.
"Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms" (recent)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14975338
Be careful, there is the idea that the IT guy has of what the other employees "just need" and what they actually do. Unless you are talking about a really low level employee who is only authorised to use company hardware to press certain buttons on certain forms, it's likely that most employees deal with much more complicated workflows than their IT department realises.
>My understanding is that in theory two diodes can provide (at least some of) the functionality of a transistor.

very false. bipolar junction transistors have the structure of two diodes back to back but just because you sandwich two diodes doesn't mean it's automatically a transistor. the middle material has to be lightly doped and must be also very thin, or else it won't "trans" much.
Isn't it just crazy that we're gonna get all this cool tech in a browser that is completely free and open source?

And along the way, Mozilla created what is perhaps the most disruptive programming language of the past decade. For free. And open source.

It's really hard to appreciate the gravity of this.
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It's not inherent in AOSP, but it's true for most Android users.
I have only used Vudu a couple of times in the past. What I would be interested in is a paper or someone able to tell me about their HDX format? I was impressed with the visual quality of that when it first came out. Does anyone have any details on that format?
This actually has already been happening for years in places like Florida and apparently Texas now. There are 'parties' for getting your eye bags fixed which of course is at a discount.

http://andersonplastic.com/blog/2016/09/27/botox-parties-a-c...

When I think about it, I'm surprised that there isn't a web app that caters to this already.
The only people that should be affected by it are Sonos. They should sue Amazon for violating their service agreement to maintain Audible so it would continue to work.
Yes, but...

How many used cars are sold in a year? It's got to be more than a million, doesn't it? So, yes, that $15 million Porsche drives up the average price... by $15. That's not significant.
Given the lack of network effect in cars already, it's not likely we'll see a huge explosion of inter-car connectivity anytime soon. Even Tesla see their cars largely as individual machines, and not nodes on a highway network.

Example: Driving with cruise control on at 60 mph. The car in front is going ~59.5 mph, so you slowly gain on them. Why do the cars not communicate their speed, so your car can adjust speed to maintain a safe distance? Even cars of the same brand can't do this today. What will be the catalyst for this changing?
It says "Winter 1988"; the Morris Worm broke out in November that year. Security wouldn't really have been on people's minds so much yet. Which is perhaps why that word doesn't occur even once in this paper!

Clumsy system calls which start from first principles and traverse some data structures to get to the state they want can be verified for security issues. At every step they can validate each datum. For instance, a given integer file descriptor can not only become invalid between two successive read calls; it can point to a completely different object. We cannot cache/curry the resolution of that descriptor number to a descriptor object; we have to validate it from scratch on each call.

If you take any shortcuts via synthesized code or other tricks, you have to be able to convince yourself that security holes aren't created by skipping the sanity checks performed by the original system calls.
For a BJT which you're talking about, the structure resembles two diodes back to back (like this: -|<--->|-), but the middle material has to be lightly doped and must be very thin as well.

The rough mechanism of operation is that when you pass current through one of the diodes, the charge carrier current doesn't all get siphoned off through the middle terminal (base), and most of it goes to the other "reverse biased" diode and gets siphoned off through the reverse bias electric field.
Do you think there's a possibility of political agenda?

For examples of Google censorship that, IMO have political agendas:

Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14975338

and Google's "AI" censoring war crime evidence from Youtube: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14998429

Youtube "AI" censoring US Army destroying Nuremburg swatzika: https://boingboing.net/2017/08/14/film-of-u-s-army-destroyin...
These are great ideas to monetize now. As it grows, it will be the same as its been happening with the big companies, like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo etc., where law enforcement will force to acquire these data and naturally as its a company which owns it, its going to turn up to be used to scrutinize anyone in the name of security etc., and privacy at all levels will be basically sold for money. These guys start snooping around and project its a great tool for safety. True there could be a fraction of safety around this. But at the end of the day its just about money and becomes another surveillance mechanism to monitor everyone which is bullshit and nonsense.
Even Alexa 1k could be quite sensitive, for example there are many porn sites in that list.