skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always find these articles interesting, especially the idea that most psychopaths aren't particularly dangerous. If we look at mental illnesses as a whole, I feel like untreated depression and bipolar disorder are FAR more costly for American society.

Also, I think it's somewhat dreadful that the tech industry seems to elevate/celebrate psychopathic traits such as ignoring rules, impulsiveness, and lack of empathy. I'm pretty sure that are people with psychopathic tendencies at the top of the ladder of some of the giants.
I would go further: it has a very strong religious/spiritual aspect. A manifestation of 神道 practice.
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Hmm... I checked the dictionary. I think this qualifies? I checked because I agreed with you, though I wasn't sure of the actual definition. A waterway could also be called a trail.
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> ...think of all the artists who could contribute to social good through culture enrichment who are stuck in the stereotypical barista/retail/waiter job who have no time to contribute to their community outside of their two jobs.

Is there any evidence that there's an explosion of artistic and other innovation happening in any of the economically depressed areas of the US where a significant percentage of the public were/are already on public assistance? Has Appalachia or Detroit or similar places experienced an artistic renaissance? I certainly see no indications of any such thing happening.
Wheelbarrow creatures? I don't see how that would be advantageous at all.

Also, try running around with a wheelbarrow in a dense forest.
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rolling UTXO set hashes: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017...

high-performance merkle set implementation http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/sf-bitcoin-meetup/2017-07-... and https://github.com/bramcohen/MerkleSet

"Making UTXO set growth irrelevant with low-latency delayed TXO commitments" https://petertodd.org/2016/delayed-txo-commitments

"TXO commitments do not need a soft-fork to be useful" https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017...
As the note at the bottom of the article implies, "hashes" of files on an encrypted disk? WTF?

"Bleeping Computer users have pointed out that you cannot match file hashes to encrypted content. The article was updated with a link to court documents from where the prosecution's statement was cited."
Have you figured out a way to make a mature implementation of the JVM start up fast? Nobody else in the industry has.

Is there some way I know of to package Flash games so that Firefox users can play them without downloading Flash?

I get that done of the examples I mentioned are arguable, but some of these are pretty unambiguously stack intrinsic. Some usability concerns cannot be addressed in some stacks.
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From their About page:

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> In Sanskrit, "Samsara" is the eternal cycle of life and rebirth.
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Nice array of hobbies there, and I hope you keep some of that up as well as programming.

I'd comment on your actual work, but I'm one of the non-tech folks that are sitting here reading HN. Reading this stuff helps my artwork's creativity, oddly enough, and I'm guessing for some it works the other way around as well.
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Wolfram, Stephen. A New Kind of Science. Wolfram Media, 2002. [1]

Wikipedia:
"The thesis of A New Kind of Science (NKS) is twofold: the nature of computation must be explored experimentally, and the results of these experiments have great relevance to understanding the physical world.
[...]
[Wolfram] argues an entirely new method is needed to do so because traditional mathematics fails to meaningfully describe complex systems, and there is an upper limit to complexity in all systems."

[1]: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/
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Well, it's a competition. Why not.
Most "developed" governments recognize some right to privacy. Counter examples that come to mind would be censorship by governments who surveil internet traffic & lock up "rebels", or governments that go into people's houses without warrants, checking to see if you're harboring people of a "banned" sect. I worked with a developer who had just moved to the USA from Cuba, he told me stories about how they would go around in vans, if they detected illegal wifi signals they would kick in your door & put on a show. If you were sent to prison it would of course involve various forms of torture, like being forced to stand for days on end, according to him.

Your question is loaded though, because of course the common person will follow the law & avoid going on the internet.
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You can even use it for Android and IOS development if you use Flutter which is basically Java swing meets ReactJS but written in Dart which is what Java syntax would look like if it was created today.
The sibling post linked here - "Emulating Dragon Quest X Online" - is also a good read: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/08/23/emulating-dqx-online...
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> Well, sure there is: return on investment. If there is one thing history shows us, it is that scientifically minded investment is almost never wasted.

The weasel words in that are "almost never".

If something has merit then let it stand on its merit.

> Our lives are better in many, many ways because purely scientific (or even engineering) endeavors we're funded by the public.

Sure and I'm not saying to block them all. I'm saying it's fine to take a look at them individually, there are no sacred cows, and labeling something "____ Science" doesn't make it beyond reproach.

> Unlike, say, funding Nazi political campaigns under the guise of "freedom of speech".

That was quick. Usually it takes more than one reply before the Nazi references come out.

> When you're optimizing a program, you identify the biggest performance problems, address their root cause, fix those, then re-evaluate. You don't start cherry picking tiny constant gains out of the system and expect to succeed. All that does is waste time and misdirect effort.

Everything about how the Federal government operates is a form of cherry picking. It's a side effect of having limited time and funds. The executive branch decides what they're going to follow up on.

If you're upset that your particular cherries aren't the ones being picked, and it really seems like that's the root of your dissent, then so be it. That's hardly scientific though. That's just being a sore loser.
I'd be interested to see an example of an AI having a fairly coherent conversation. Most of the impressive seeming examples of this based on response ranking. When a message from a human comes in, the system ranks the responses in its repository of human-written responses to find one that fits.

Because the responses are human-written, they can seem locally coherent, but since the model generally isn't tracking any state, the conversation never really goes anywhere. Also, if you try to talk to one of these response rankers about something it doesn't have any canned responses for, obviously it doesn't work.

Natural language generation on the other hand, where the model writes each response character-by-character or word-by-word, has the potential to do something much more interesting, but the state of the art there isn't quite at the level of "fairly coherent" AFAIK.
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We just seem to be quibbling over how we interpreted the points other posters were trying to make about prioritisation for London and rents now, which I don't think is going to get us anywhere, so perhaps we should just agree to disagree on this one.
This is certainly an awesome and generous gesture and Drive Savers wholly deserves all the attention they get here. (No sarcasm!)

Meanwhile, this is the donation page of Save the Children for the victims of the South Asia Floods:

https://secure.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.95...

Clicking on this link is probably not much harder than clicking the upvote button on this story.
> this claims Edge sends all visited URL to Bing?

Yes. So if you instead of attachments of large files in email send an URL such as https://acme.pri/?id=cafe-babe-deadbeeff00d, which is not secured by any other method than obscurity, then Edge will submit it to Bing, which indexes it and then the content is available if you can come up with some keywords that match.

It is fairly well known in Norway, due to having been in the national news earlier this spring, but I have no reason to think it doesn't apply universally.
Almost certainly a repost, but it's a tremendous little book. Mix of dry chemistry lab notes with hair-raising anecdotes. The history of early NASA rocket fuel research by someone who was there.

See also https://archive.org/details/gergel_isopropyl_bromide
> I don't think PD is part of your optometrist's prescription; it wasn't on the prescription they gave me when I walked out the door. I can't remember who measured it but I copied it down from my optician's order when I ordered some glasses.

It wasn't on mine either, but on advice given to me I called up the optometrist to ask and they gave it to me with no problem at all.

I've started keeping//tracking my prescription some time ago just for good measure.
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Not sure how everybody else feels about it, but I find that optional typing is the enemy of readable code.
>Other than having their holidays enshrined federally, their words in official documents and anthems, and holding widespread majority not only in the general populace, but particularly among presidents and legislators?

You have a point, but I don't think those were the "social" protections the GP was referring to. The left in the US has scorned and ridiculed and actively sought to inflict pain on Christians and Christianity for decades. (Google "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence" and "Memories Pizza" for examples.) The left would never engage in similar actions against Islam or Muslims.

Edit - hey downvoters, if you find my logic flawed, how about a few words as to why?
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I didn't mean to imply that any of them challenged my world view. Only that each shaped my mental models.

Foucault's Pendulum is about semiotics on one level and cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics on another.

Critique of Pure Reason put radical philosophical skepticism (and hence empiricism) in perspective. I find the model of the human mind useful in some situations.

Thank you for the recommendation. My philosophy reading days are mostly in the past or perhaps future. Currently, my reading interests seem to be elsewhere.
I tried doing it myself as well and came up higher than what my reality was by a couple mm as you describe. I ended up calling up my optometrist and provided my correct number no problem.
I wonder, did they include a solar filter with all their rentals? If not, I wonder if that would have saved everyone some trouble.
I tried the method in the article and got a pair of sunglasses online from FramesDirect that were incorrectly made. I'm not convinced that it works.

My optician has a tool that measures my PD correctly every time. Unfortunately they are reluctant to give me the PD measurements for fear of losing my business.

So we meet half-way. I find frames online and I get the optician to put lenses in them.
It would not grow the economy. You grow the economy by creating more goods and services. When you inject money without adding goods and services, the result is inflation.
It can create demand and a some sort of nexus for planning.

The North Country Trail in the US was established in 1980 and still isn't really close to done yet.

An aside, the annual opportunity to actually hike the Lake Michigan crossing is coming up on Monday, the Labor Day walk over the Mackinac Bridge.
That would be an ideal implementation, though I wonder if part of the reason it hasn't happened is similar to the reason that the Taptic Engine hasn't been implemented on iPads, which if I understand correctly is the difficulty associated with scaling to larger screen sizes.
Homomorphic Encryption 101
Companies like Facebook publish their libraries so they can hire people who are already familiar with the libraries they internally use. As an outsider you can't be an expert in <company internal library> if you don't even whether it exists.
Just like the picture of the pope not smiling for a moment.

Or when the Queen of England is at an event and doesn't smile for a moment.

Or "woman wears shoes"

or "look at the number of people in this place compared to this other picture where the numbers were different at a different time of the day"

it's all so tiresome
"I also wish my parents had encouraged or forced me to exercise more. I do now, but only after health problems forced me to start paying attention to my body!"

For my part, I just wish I'd have read some good books on health and physical fitness. I think I would have gotten it, and been in to it, if only I understood how much health and physical fitness mattered -- not just to protect your body from disease and injury, but also to improve your mood, give you more energy, and help motivation.

Another thing to keep in mind that the easiest time in one's life to get stronger (something that will help protect you from injury later on in life) is when you're going through puberty, when your body is filled with natural growth hormones. People in their teens are able to very quickly achieve results that older people struggle for much longer to achieve (if they ever do).

Instead of exercising when I was young, though, I focused exclusively on intellectual pursuits... even kind of buying in to the whole "nerd vs jock" dichotomy, and proudly considering myself a nerd, and felt like any kind of physical pursuits were below me. In retrospect, that was a really narrow-minded, ignorant, and harmful point of view. There's no reason you can't pursue both the intellectual and the physical -- and you'll probably be a lot healthier that way, and suffer a lot less later in life.

Exercise also affects one's weight, body image, and self-esteem -- things that so many people suffer from (especially in fields like tech where most people sit in front of their computer all day). You could get a head start on avoiding all that if you start exercising young and turn it in to a habit that you maintain throughout your life.
Maybe if you kept a live Linux USB bootable drive plugged in at all times, you could say that you can't access the installed OS...might have a problem with time-stamps and such but that should be fixable
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I wish the blog post had talked more about that. I'm curious about their repair process. What capabilities do they have in house? Can they replace a broken sensor?
So, if they can get file hashes from encrypted file on HDD, does this mean, Apple worked together with NSA to "plaint" a backdoor into encryption?

It seems it's time to ditch Apple and start using Linux instead.
Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions, 1999.

I first encountered Borges as a 15 year old student in high school. I am now 56. The book was ficciones. It changed my life.

Borges read everything. What made him the genius that he was, is that he remembered everything that he read, and he was consequently able to make droll observations across cultures and epochs.
The danger of the white American liberal
Replying to my own post here, but my initial post totally focused on the "are the contents of this guy's hard drive going to make him go out and abuse children?" question.

I totally ignored the question of the harm that the continued availability of this pictures might do to the victims in the pictures.

The ramifications of "revenge porn" are well known; it can be really hurtful to the victims for that stuff to be out there. It is, essentially, an ongoing sexual assault. (Jennifer Lawrence is one celebrity who has spoken about this at length) So, it was wrong for me to ignore that very important aspect.

Of course, it's not a given that this guy was distributing porn - there's a difference between saving a picture on your hard drive, and distributing it. If it was a torrent download, obviously, then he did both. And there might not even be people involved -- aren't underage hentai comics considered child porn in many jurisdictions? Barf, I don't want to think about this.

Because this is the internet and words get turned around so easily, let me be super clear that sexual contact with minors is wrong and I'd like to see it eradicated.

I have known victims of childhood sexual abuse. The lifelong damage caused can be absolutely devastating.
"Are you denying that the Fifth Amendment only applies to witnesses"

Yes, because of the first two words of the entire amendment - "No person" that 100% excludes any qualifying status and grants everyone immunity from testifying in any effect against themselves.
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On the Ineffable
I wrote this nearly a year ago.

https://therealsamizdat.com/2016/10/02/on-the-ineffable-2/
This. A thousand times.

For me, and I suspect many (if not most) others, side projects have made all the difference. College was great, but the fact that being a student "gave me permission" to work on side projects really made me get my hands dirty. I only wish I'd started when I was 13. Keep on keepin' on!
And Scala, and Groovy...

Furthermore iodine is already the name of a popular IP-over-DNS tool.
A lot of comments in this thread make it sound like if you're not going to perform rote memorization of what you read then it's not worth reading at all. Learning is more than memorization. To simply write-off all knowledge as just regurgitating facts is exactly what's wrong with the modern education system. Read for the sake of reading, explore new ideas and grow.
That's the ideal. But if you've spent much time in academia, you'd know that the personality types that choose science usually do so to wallow in certainty. High School doesn't tell you much about the real history and philosophy of science. I trust everyone who added a downvote has actually spent some time inside a math dept of a University (but I highly doubt that.)
Things Reacters do that Re-framers avoid
Of course to make sure, you have to tie them up and throw them into a pond. If they float, they're a psychopath. If they drown, then they weren't.
Consider something like this: https://github.com/kbrsh/spark/blob/master/Spark/losses.py, https://github.com/kbrsh/spark/blob/master/Spark/layers/Dens...

This isn't just a "young maker". This is university-level stuff.

# Back Propagate into Dot Product
dY = np.multiply(dO, self.activationPrime(self.o))

The breadth of knowledge and demonstration this person has just seems out of the realm of a 13-year-old unless they are a legit genius. I'm skeptical, but they'll have to take it as a compliment.
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Actually, previous to the Wright brothers, the dominant theories of flight involved studying how birds flew and theorizing what parts were important and trying to replicate them. You could get a degree in this area of study.

I do agree that different approaches are needed.

In the case of flight it was the realization that the airfoil is important and the rest is window dressing.
Could you explain? I'm probably not familiar with C to get why even if I tried it myself.