skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's not the case with SPECK and SIMON. They're mainstream designs, and, more importantly, if you can hide a backdoor in a simple ARX Feistel block cipher that can be implemented in 100 lines of code, we probably have bigger concerns than these algorithms.

Isn't the bigger concern that the NSA may be proposing these because they already know how to break them, and not necessarily that they'll sneak back doors into implementations?
UK banks to check 70m bank accounts in search for illegal immigrants
It's divisible to the 'satoshi'[0], but could be changed in the future.

[0]: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/114/what-is-a-sa...
For small vectors and matrices the cgo overhead swamps the assembly speedups. For large vectors cache misses dominate, and the assembly doesn't matter as much. It does matter significantly for medium vectors and large matrices. In that case we provide cgo wrappers and are working on SIMD kernels.
i don't know about the 'real' journalists either.

after having done marketing for my own company, i just expect that anything that makes it onto a screen and into my attention span has an agenda and special interest behind it, spending money to make it visible.

literally nothing you see is unbiased, not even personal blogs. i think this is the most valuable takeaway from the 2016 election.
Scary to think these effects only get observed in short lifespan animal models where multi generations can elapse in a reasonable time. Think about all the complaints and difficulties with running long term (individual) studies butting up against the next scale of multi-generational studies that are required for human lifespans.
The solution to that is to write a C-batcher. Gorgonia uses that (optional) - https://github.com/chewxy/gorgonia/tree/master/blase

(also it's undergoing major reconstruction/refactoring right now)
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> This feature will not make your coins more secure

It does make your coins more secure, by requiring 48 hours and additional confirmation emails before they can be withdrawn.

If a hacker manages to get your password and (if enabled) the Google Auth app on your phone, they will now additionally have to wait 48 hours, while you are receiving email warnings about the withdrawal, before they can withdraw any of your vaulted coins.
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This is something Robert Reich wrote about in his books, but he described it in terms of a postwar "pact" between labor and management wherein in exchange for stability in labor availability (no strikes and revolts), management would accede to unions' demands for living wages and other benefits for workers.

The idea was that this provided a mutual benefit for both sides by enabling both growth and predictability. As another benefit, better pay allowed workers to increase their own consumption of goods, which also fueled growth, continuing a pattern stretching back at least as far as Henry Ford.

But according to Mark Blyth, the result of this was major inflation, caused by a positive feedback between between the cost of labor and the cost of goods. This inflation was great for debtors (predominantly labor), who saw the real size of their debts (mostly mortgages) whittled down [1], but bad for creditors (predominantly capitalists), who saw the value of the debt as an asset crumble.

Blyth claims that the globalist system was fashioned by the creditor class to hobble inflation by lowering the costs of production by lowering trade barriers and allowing goods to be produced in the places that could do so at the lowest cost. The idea was that it would simultaneously lower the cost of goods and labor, while also checking inflation, creating a more favorable situation for the debt owned by creditors.

The upside of this has been a dramatic reduction in the number of people living in poverty globally, especially in Asia. But there were unintended(?) consequences, including the demise of entire US domestic economic sectors (i.e. textiles) that used low skilled labor.

The part that segues with the demise of Communism was that at the time (the 80s), there was growing belief among labor that the advocacy of unions was unnecessary, that they could get by, and perhaps even do better, as individuals without such organizations fighting for them.

This probably was and is true for certain industries where workers inherently had more power due to either the uniqueness of their skill-sets or some other factor. But for a lot of workers, this has not been the case, and their total compensation as employees has diminished over time. This doesn't even consider the situation with the growing segment of lower-skilled "gig" contract workers.

[1] As a corollary, those who couldn't get favorable mortgages in those days due to the systemic biases at play was not able to participate in this upside of inflation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
>My taxes are already pushing oppressive. Raise them further, and I'll seriously consider "going Galt"

Under UBI that would be your prerogative. Most highly productive individuals and all corporations will carry on producing.

>You're subsidizing the unproductive, and punishing the productive.

You may have moral qualms with a UBI system. You will need to come to terms with these doubts in the midterm future, as UBI will be the only system (we currently know of) capable of sustaining a market economy in a world where automation has displaced the workforce.
Is the NFL in decline? From CTE to low TV ratings, warning signs are there
The somewhat funny thing is that the article you linked kind of supports the person you replied to, because the article makes statements like this:

> But, the suggestion from a sitting President of the United States to the FBI Director that journalists be jailed for reporting on classified information is, in and of itself, a stunning statement that goes beyond even Trump's most virulent anti-media statements to date.

This is some pretty strong "how dare he?! Trump is making wild, evil statements that no other president would ever make!" rhetoric, and it's also absurd considering Obama's (and Bush's) entire presidency was plagued with issues where he wanted to prosecute reporters that reported on classified information [1].

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/sunday/if-donald-...
It's not for coinbase being hacked. It's for the much more common case of user accounts being hacked.
Seems limited?

"AOT compilation of any JDK modules, classes, or of user code, is experimental and not supported in JDK 9."

...Unclear (to me) what that means
well sure, you can falsify my statement by simply not classifying anything as racism. i think the gleeful enthusiasm shown by people relentlessly china-bashing is telling, especially since they seem to do it all the time, as if they've found a loophole to freely express their hatred.

if nothing else it's a great little vehicle for racists to hop onto guilt-free.
It is difficult to see a case where housing crashes and the economy in general doesn't. They see a housing crash as desirable, for sure, but too much economic activity right now is tied up in real estate and infrastructure investment, they know how painful it will be. So they keep pumping up housing....
I don't, unfortunately.
So this almost made me register for a Coinbase account to finally buy some Bitcoins. That is until I got to the ID verification section. Am I wrong to be worried about uploading a picture of my passport to a US company?
I'm not really distinguishing between NSA knowing how to break a conventional block cipher and NSA having snuck a backdoor into it. To me, the implications are basically the same either way, as is my rebuttal.
It's easy to add a special party to a block-chain which does have the power to make arbitrary transactions.

Can that be abused? Yes. But all such abuse will be evident in the public record, and then the usual legal system can easily get involved -- which it already did anyway, if you're doing a proper IPO just with stocks tracked on a "block chain".
What specific components do you think are problematic?

I've worked as a developer with health care providers and insurance companies for 5 years, and other than it being annoying as "some regulation exists" no one I've talked to feels it's a bad solution to the problem.

Asking industries to be happy about privacy regulation seems an unreasonable goalpost.
AOT initial release in JDK 9 is provided for experimental-only use and is restricted to Linux x64 systems running 64-bit Java with either Parallel or G1 GC.

Initially not, but, iOS is specifically mentioned here http://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8167428
Generics wouldn't necessarily bring in operator overloading, though. I haven't seen a Go proposal for generics that actually included it.
it becomes quite warm storage
The question of if they should be compensated each time it's played seems easy to me. Let the people who create the content decide how they want to monetize it. Unless I already had a contact with someone, if they told me I wasn't allowed to decide how my code got monetized I would be dumbfounded
To those working on and contributing to the goat DB PostreSQL thanks a lot
The same "displace the workforce" arguments abounded during the Industrial Revolution. Most everyone is still employed (biggest impediment isn't lack of jobs per se, it's oppressive regulation making employment of low-productivity people untenable).
(Your link is only for e-filing.) Millions of returns are still processed via mail.
Do you require finger printing in order to volunteer?
I wonder if one dominant visual dataflow language will ever emerge. It seems like a generally useful idea across many different domains but it's something that's always reimplemented from scratch. Stuff like how to visualize and layout the nodes seems to be pretty domain agnostic?

Game engines: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Rendering/Ma...

Graphics:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Gr...

Robotics: https://xod.io/

And many more: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/461796/dataflow-programm...
I'm using it in a B2C shop with low-value transactions ($20 to $200) and I really don't care about the sort of volatility that BC has shown.

But, yes, the time to confirm is annoying: 1 in 24h/transaction_time orders miss that day's shipping deadline and are delayed by a day. More importantly, any delay > 1m requires the UI to accommodate for transactions that aren't instant.

But, as a retailer, these are rather small issues. What matters more is simply the lack of demand. We've offered BC as a payment method and its use has always been a rounding error in our statistics.
So if healthcare costs are benefits, some portion of the compensation is growing just because healthcare costs are growing. But that doesn't really provide any net gain in positive economic effects (such as through added disposable income).
Elisp maintainers and how to support them
Well you sortof for legal compliance of "know your customer" laws. I wouldn't be too worried...there are many other things to be worried about...I don't think this ranks too high in the grand scheme.
"The idea that you're a better/more moral person if you get paid more is a fallacy."

You are making arguments against things I never wrote, which is a strawman fallacy.
Are you actually medically treating the underlying condition? Advil?
Agree, but no need to only point down.

Social security income is indispensable for the majority of pensioners now. It used to be only for day laborers who it was understood never had an opportunity to save. Things have changed for sure.

Similarly, most old people wouldn't be able to afford their healthcare if it wasn't for Medicare, even it they never even filled out a Medicaid application.
Huh, my TV kept dropping the connection while streaming stuff from my computer downstairs. I wasn't using the microwave but maybe neighbors were... didn't consider this possibility. :D
> C++ is fast, but aside from a shared value around performance, it has fairly little in common with the ideas that Rust is built on.

The core guidelines are very similar to Rust, in spirit and intent.
There does indeed come a point where taxation reaches high enough levels that people (and groups of them a la corporations) lose interest in exerting greater effort. The popular actor Ronald Regan famously noted that he would have produced far more movies, but it just wasn't worth it under the confiscatory tax rates. Most of the time, people will indeed continue producing without such drastic obviousness - but there WILL be a tapering off of productivity, and history makes that clear to those willing to see the objective facts.
Minor additional point - if you're trying to create dangerous shrapnel, don't you pick something angular & sharp like crushed gravel, nails or even hex nuts, instead of nice round ball-bearings?
I think people have the intellectual capacity to learn newer and subtle definitions for words. Give them some credit.
Yes, people could increase the subdivisibility -- and break a lot of JavaScript implementations in the process.

It's clear that Satoshi either had some affinity to JavaScript or was otherwise familiar with people who are crazy enough to do financial calculations using double-precision floating point numbers, from the fact that the upper limit of existing satoshis is so close to what fits into a double-precision mantissa.
Tesla has made a couple of things public which were safety critical updates, such as this one:

http://mashable.com/2017/06/09/tesla-ota-airbag-fix/

which also refers to an earlier incident where they made charging at home more tentative to avoid faulty plugs causing fires.
>you've just created communities of people absolutely dependent on UBI.

This will be the result of the steady march of automation displacing the human workforce regardless. Furthermore, the lack of a UBI system in a high unemployment due to automation scenario would lead to complete collapse of the market economy.
It looks like this is an unpublished post. It doesn't show up on the front page of idlewords.com, and isn't available as a "next" link from the previous story.

maxerickson, how did you find this post?
I anticipated that makeHilarious is more than once used method, even if it is not, once you look at it's definition, you understand the intent behind "xor -> rofl -> lol".

It is one thing to quickly be able to understand that the person is doing a xor, then a rofl and then a lol of each element of an array, and a whole another thing to understand what the combination of these three actions over an array means. The python school of "code is read more than it's written" heavily stresses on explaining how easily the code should be understandable the first time someone reads it, but not whether it's easy to reason about or not.

The beauty of declarative style programming isn't to get more readable code immediately, but rather that once you understand the vocabulary, how easy it is for you to understand and reason about the code.

For instance, imagine reading a novel which is written like this:

"After Jack was done from the place where he went to do things for money everyday, he entered an establishment which served drinks that get you inebriated for money. This establishment was one he frequented regularly and preferred it over the others. He asked the man behind the counter for a wheat fermented brewed drink. After putting the drink to his lips and pouring it in to his mouth, he felt a sense of calmness enter his mind. It pushed all the thoughts which occupied his mind away, as he earlier desired before entering this establishment."

As opposed to:

"Jack really needed a drink after hard day at work. He went to his favorite pub, and ordered his favorite beer. After finishing the pint, he finally felt relaxed."

The Python philosophy (which is permeated everywhere in imperative world) is to describe everything in the simplest possible terms just in case there are people who may not understand what work, pub, beer, bartender, and relaxed means. But this just prevents from understanding of the actual purpose of the code.

This is at least the basic philosophy behind not using for loops everywhere.
Sorry for implying intent above, we all make mistakes. I have spend some time in journalism, and it sometimes gets to me how much that profession is vilified these days, when my experience was that these are the most fair-minded, diligent, and altruistic people I've ever met.
I still want a Java Ring.
RoboVM, https://github.com/MobiVM/robovm

Excelsior JET has a free license for open source projects, https://www.excelsiorjet.com/

But the majority of good ones are commercial. All JDK vendors selling JVMs for embedded devices or real-time deployments, do support AOT compilation.
He subscribes to idlewords premium.
... but the details are very, very different. Unless I've missed significant revisions, data races and concurrency are a non-goal of the Core Guidelines, but are central to Rust.

That said, I always welcome tooling to make C++ safer; the end game is making programs better, not language partisanship!
Better range/higher velocity with something more aerodynamic, maybe?
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If you have an app shell being served from a Service Worker, you can also assume the browser supports most modern features!
Some organic pesticides are dangerous. These seem to mostly be problematic when natural ingredients are industrially concentrated. Also, seems some companies sell synthetics that can be derived from plants, but aren't for economic reasons, and still call them "organic".
(Personally, I think calling an substance derived from plants but which is extracted with a number of synthetic and toxic chemicals is kind of stretching the meaning of the term 'organic' to the breaking point).

There are many that are much more safe: neem oil, citrus oil, tobacco, salt water, baking soda water, chili powder, soap.

I think that the presumption of danger from pesticides derived from plants humans have been living alongside for millennia should be less than novel synthetics that may have only existed for a decade or two.
Most forest fires don't create strong enough firestorms (if they do at all) to funnel material high enough to have an effect -- most of the ash falls back down in a matter of weeks (even sooner if it gets rained out of the atmosphere). I'd compare nuclear blast firestorms with volcanic eruptions -- we do have a record of eruptions funneling material high enough into the troposphere and stratosphere to have a noticeable, longer-term effect on the climate (over the subsequent months and years).
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1282419
Someone on Twitter found a presentation detailing the design of this device https://webpages.uncc.edu/~jmconrad/ECGR6185-2013-01/Present...

> GBA Display used has small size
and light weight... GBA Gaming displays have
excellent graphics processing
capability for plotting... The proposed system has
relatively lower cost
No I have not seen this, but it looks awesome and like a great place to start. This structure is pretty much exactly what I envisioned at a high level. It would be even more useful if there were a finer degree of granularity between concepts, and each vertex actually directly linked to a video. I think the killer feature for a partially ordered learning resource is going to be keeping people within the ecosystem (i.e. watching embedded videos or reading embedded articles/guides/etc.) so they can grind out on your website, not repeatedly have to go to other websites where they may get distracted or become reluctant to return to the original.

Really appreciate the links
I'd eat it for the same reason I prefer more used open source packages: my threat model ranks "not enough smart people looked at this" a lot higher than "only a few people in the world know a secret about this."
I've never heard of this product but it's sad to see it not work out. There is a huge gap when it comes to black media representation in the United States specifically and I believe it will be a huge opportunity to whoever can tap into it's potential. Black millennials in particular are such a driver of culture in America it's surprising to see how little they are catered to in terms of product. Especially in regards to social media, the impact of Black Twitter is well documented. Also, for anyone who used Vine it seemed like Black creators were really the base of the content that Vine was known for.
Two birds, one stone?
> WikiLeaks does this every time they choose not to publish evidence damning people they support, which I'd be willing to bet happens more often than we all know.

I'd bet it doesn't happen all that frequently. If you were a source and Wikileaks refused to publish, wouldn't you just take your material elsewhere and make it known Wikileaks tried to squash a story?
This was recently posted to /r/rust with the engagement of the author (mutabah) if you'd like to ask questions or get involved. In particular here's him answering why he started this project: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/718gbh/mrustc_alterna...

One of the interesting things about this project is that because its initial goal is to validate the reproducibility of the main Rust compiler it doesn't actually need to implement a borrow checker, as the borrow checker strictly rejects programs and has no role in code generation.
I've tried a number of things, including physical therapy, but nothing has really helped substantially yet. Chronic pain is very difficult to treat. I haven't given up and I am still trying things out. I'm hoping I can qualify for benefits so that I can focus more on recovery.

For anybody else with similar issues, the best resource I've found is this: https://www.painscience.com/
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> Cassandra is an eventual consistent database.

No. Cassandra is a database with selectable consistency.

You can set it to be strongly consistent (ALL or QUORUM) with the tradeoff being worse performance.
I wouldn't use Coinbase to buy BTC. The IRS already tried to obtain all customer data before, and they conceded with "only customers who spend over $20,000".

Even outside of privacy issues, Coinbase goes down during critical periods often. Price crashing and you want to buy/sell quick? The site will likely be down.

Outside of accessibility issues, Having Bitcoin on coinbase is more like an I-O-U and defeats the purpose of cryptocurrency imo, which is having the private keys to your funds which only you control.

I recommend this guide to set a multisignature wallet through CoPay and Glidera. And managing your keys with a password manager like Enpass.

https://gist.github.com/paOol/d6c78c339cc5c4df6dd745d3bc2cc5...