skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Translating from x86 on the fly to run most existing desktop apps combined with switching to an under performing platform would be a one two punch that would make apple unpalatable compared to the competition. Further it would disable the idea of installing windows in a partition for gaming or other purposes. It would further require supporting software on both x86 and arm unless apple is willing to wholly surrender the high end.

Apple laptops already have a good battery life. I don't think people would be willing to give up performance relative to competitors products to have better battery life.

Basically in sum you are expecting apple to support 2 different hardware arch on the desktop/laptop, have inferior performance compared to windows, give up bootcamp etc in order for people to have 14 hours of battery instead of 9 when they will just do what they currently do and plug their devices in when they go to bed.

Its certainly an interesting idea but I think the downsides outweigh the positives.
The receiver of ill-gotten gains refusing/being unable to pay them back is not a new legal problem and certainly not unique to blockchain.
Let's find something better then LaTeX
You can be productive driving nails with the handle of a screwdriver, too!
I think by far the biggest benefit is being able to check the "no insecure crypto algorithms used" box. Even though the way md5 was used wasn't really that concerning security wise, it constantly comes up.
If only. That's lying for financial gain though (or a job or whatever). Burden is on the consumer - you - to get Equifax to correct it. Credibility may destroy their business if competitors are better, but in the meantime you can't refute by default on a presumption of inaccuracy.( Not trying to sound lawyerish here, I'm talking generally.)
I had a small company that did software consulting work for one of the provinces. Around 10+ years ago governments started requesting "off the shelf" solutions instead of custom-developed software. This led to a situation where they didn't own the code, were tied to vendor upgrade schedules, and had to pay a premium for customizations. This had the result of spiralling costs.

Each time there's a scandal, they tighten the rules so that ultimately only large companies with teams dedicated to writing proposals can compete.

To be fair:

- we worked on smaller projects of a scope where one person could maintain a mental model of the system

- nothing so mission critical as payroll

I expect the pendulum to swing back toward more internal development and greater ownership and autonomy. So far, not much has changed.
So the Hernandez family's ability to sue should be linked to what kind of person Aaron was? How does that makes sense?
He's ignoring that intentionally, in the context of evaluating the merit of the lawsuit
Unqualified anonymous internet answer: it's probably too busy.

I believe the brain actually shrinks slightly and channels expand to aid in the flushing.

Anectdata: note how when you're really tired you can't think clearly? Also, how (apparently) if one goes without sleep for too long then the brain suffers irreparable damage.
If by nobody you mean nobody outside the specific, targeted people Russia paid Facebook to show them to, sure. There are a lot of examples of them on the internet, but funnily enough only Facebook has the whole lot.
I am not sure IBM should do something they were not asked to do. Not what they quoted for, IMO.
Not a priority for 2Q at the moment. Still general interest in the community, but hard to predict right now.
Anyone know if there is a similar rash of problems or study on CTE with professional boxers? Surely they face comparable levels of head trauma throughout their training/career.
Probably not, I don't know. There's a better paper from a couple of years ago [1], which even manage to include code [2]. One of the attacks on NORX [3] was essentially exploiting a bigger-than-expected invariant subspace, it might be easier to get the gist of it that way.

By the way, I have the feeling that these attacks are more the consequence of these sort of designs becoming more popular than any particular breakthrough in cryptanalysis. For example, the symmetry properties of the AES round were already well known long ago, but it wasn't until people started taking the AES round and building primitives out of it without adding symmetry-breaking constants that this became a problem.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/068

[2] http://invariant-space.gforge.inria.fr/

[3] http://dx.doi.org/10.13154/tosc.v2017.i1.156-174
Basically because the velocity of money is variable and depends on societal factors (lending practices, payment technologies, even psychology). What the central bank is really looking to do is keep the amount of money that's in flight supporting transactions at any given moment roughly stable. When velocity drops the money supply needs to increase faster than inflation to keep the amount of cash in flight the same. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1V
> Yeah, babies exhaling (and all people too) are producing CO2 which is a greenhouse gas.

Compare this to the methane emissions of a single cow. You're being reductive to the point of being offensive.
It is work in progress, the Java 10 dev branch already has much better support, including macOS and Windows, according to the Java Languages Summit 2017 talks.

In any case, the other JDK vendors with AOT support are still around.
Or a lot of tribalism?
The first parts (and also Anathem a bit) reminded me a bit of Isaac Asimov... in the sense that his sci-fi is often more about exploring society and human plight over long time periods, rather than focusing on laser beams and teleportation devices and specific characters who die off in a short galactic timeframe.
I just pulled up the crime stats example data: How do you tell it that a given table can be plotted on a map? I don't have the file with me at the moment, but I do have an SQLite database with coords and datetimes I'd love to plot.
Would love to know about FDW push down. That could be really good for specialized applications where you want to use a relational db and wrap a specialized data store outside postgres with a FDW.
Smart Contracts to Remove the Middleman
This article was really insightful. I never thought of the tech industry's pushing for coding education from this POV.
It turns out the hacker stole a dealer's ID which meant the OTP sent to my phone was never needed / used. The dealer id overrides the need for a password.
For a civil case you don't have to prove it, you just have to be able to convince a jury that it's probably true.
Not a doctor. But based on what I've read and seen a diagnosis requires tissue samples of the brain and analysis through a microscope. So it might be possible with some kind of brain biopsy, given there is no treatment for it cutting open someone's head and cutting out some brain to diagnose it is pointless. Without taking tissue sample diagnosis could only be based on behavior.
It's an unfortunate allusion, though, as many people do buy into Multi-Level Marketing schemes.
BET is a horror agglomeration of MTV, E! news, and crude commentary so prevalent on the internet today. Show after show features a display infantile and disgraceful behavior, which I am sure that most rational, educated people would not enjoy. I'm black and I'm not even going to pretend that I enjoy the portrayals on TV as a stunted, emotionally-challenged stooge that is ever pervading on cable TV today.

Why marginalize us to an ethnocentric echo chamber free from exchange of values, aspirations, and customs? Content creators can just keep hitting repeat on the same political, depressive drama from the 20th century (which we have not progressed from). What I dream is for popular TV shows to have a black lead, where not every character has to be black, nor words spoken in a "black" vernacular, nor a need for the show to be transmuted into a platform for social justice or black values. We need shows with black leads that rival enterprises like Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones, Simpsons, etc. I want something that everyone can get behind and imagine themselves as being.

As an individual of African descent, I stand against the attitude of viewing the world through a bitter lens of color, where issues are "white" or "black". Their issues are our issues and vice versa. That is that. We all live in the same society, we are all entangled, exposed to the negatives and pressures of prevalent problems. There's no need for anymore juvenile "us vs them" dialogue in this society.
The reason none of us have seen them, could be that they were only targeted at the gullible dumbasses who could possibly vote for Trump? Maybe that was a special target group? Maybe it's the same group that gets ad-targeted for e.g. hemorrhoid cream and mobile home skirting?

Frankly, given the revealed political preferences of FB executives, I'm pretty skeptical of any fruit from this tree.
The array capacity and length are stored inline before the contents. So you chase one pointer to get the capacity, length, or something stored in the array.

Swift does have ArraySlice, but I don't get how borrows factor into that. Seems vaguely similar in concept, except ArraySlice exists to represent a subset of the original array, not just so you can pass arrays by reference. Since arrays are already passed by reference under the hood, that wouldn't really be useful.

I'm not dismissing the concept out of hand, so I'm not sure why you're warning me about that....
Anatomy of a Moral Panic
> does anyone know if this could ever be diagnosed while the person is alive?

I don't believe that's possible (yet) but the good news is that several Research Institutes are said to be conducting on going research into diagnosing C.T.E while the person is still alive..

> At this time CTE can only be diagnosed after death by postmortem neuropathological analysis. Right now there is no known way to use MRI, CT, or other brain imaging methods to diagnose CTE. The CTE Center is actively conducting research aimed at learning how to diagnose CTE during life. Find out more about our research here.

Source: Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Research Center => https://www.bu.edu/cte/about/frequently-asked-questions/
If only that were the actual dogma they followed.
Odd, I would have flipped that statement.
probably closer to 15. Parents these days start their kids in pop warner/little league starting in 1st and 2nd grade. I find it to be asinine myself, given that there are cases of mild CTE found in high school football players...
That is where it "started" so to speak: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_pugilistica
> If anything goes wrong, it's extremely likely to be on the customer side.

Since this is also true of their ordinary wallet product, I think "security theatre" isn't totally unfair here. The only thing this really adds is the 48 hour delay.
The purpose of pesticides is not to add healthfulness to food. I doubt even the most scummy Monsanto PR rep would claim that. I think the goal is to make the yield/health tradeoff equation balance out. Usually that's done by claiming the pesticides have little to no health consequences.
I have read that CTE is more closely correlated with a high number of smaller (sub-concussive) hits than any number of concussive hits. Do boxers fit this profile?

After football, I think soccer players might be next in line for CTE risk.
The nervous system is mentioned in the OP:

>Cassiopea has no brain to speak of — just a diffuse “net” of nerve cells distributed across their small, squishy bodies. These jellyfish barely even behave like animals. Instead of mouths, they suck in food through pores in their tentacles. They also get energy via a symbiotic relationship with tiny photosynthetic organisms that live inside their cells. //

From a very cursory glance I can't see how they're differentiating low energy level from lack of "sleep" when they're keeping the jellies "awake". Can that behaviour (resting more the next day) just be explained by low energy reserves, and the jellies needing more time to glean energy from the photosynthesising organisms/cells?

Don't plants in winter "sleep" according to their definition; they can wake with a "false spring".
I really like this! I think the star of this show is actually the Input portion of the visualization details.
Understanding the data format required to produce the visual result is often overlooked until the persons act of actually trying to produce the visual effect. Often times that leads to a lot of frustration and abandonment of the actual project.

I noticed some of visual cards don't include any Input details. Are there future plans to continue developing those?
I don't know if we have reached equilibrium. But I think it's more complicated when it comes to the labor market to just say "oh ok, we'll raise wages to get rid of the labor shortage." This is especially true if the shortage is in a high skilled position. For example, if there is a labor shortage in software engineers, raising wages won't help, at least not right away, because people will need to learn the skills required to do the job and maybe go to college before they can fill the shortage gap. I don't think people are sitting there saying "I need a job, but you won't pay enough so I'll stay unemployed," at least not in the higher skill fields.
RISC-V, in general, excites me very much!
What is the current best option for Postgres failover? I looked at this at the start of the year, and found lots of options, but all of them seemed to have various drawbacks, and none were natively supported or built-in to Postgres.
Sounds like yet another argument trying to deny the law of supply-and-demand, like those who quote the laws of thermodynamics and then claim they have a perpetual motion machine.

Instead of having to work for that first $1000/mo, it just...appears. Yes it was earned elsewhere, and whoever earned it won't miss it as much as the recipient will appreciate it, but since the recipient has done nothing for it, its local value plummets. Instead of some low-income people having $1000/mo for rent, now everyone has $1000/mo for rent - and basic prices will rise accordingly.

I won't notice much change for losing a sub-1% of my income, but those for whom UBI is really intended can go from really struggling to renting (even buying) housing. With limited housing supply, suddenly prices will rise.

While I'm a staunch advocate of "move already!" for solving economic problems, I don't see enough people moving - nor enough housing for them to move to - to cause "the price of housing on avg will plummet for UBIers".

Imagine the poor section of town. Many/most rent. Suddenly, with no additional productivity, everyone is getting checks for $1000/mo. You think rent etc prices aren't going to suddenly skyrocket? I grasp your theory that people can now move to more affordable locations, not needing to be near jobs - but will they really? before they can, rent prices just shot up, consuming their newfound income. Destination rental prices similarly increase - still relatively attractive, but higher than before since there is more demand and more money to pay for it.

Yes the supply of acceptable housing for UBIers increases, but those markets already existed and were already priced for a low-demand market; now you've "exploded" the demand - prices will rise, matching people who now have $1000/mo and few expenses.
There seems to be an in progress patch for pluggable storage:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAJrrPGdMu8TzxpRZQKK5E...

The PostgreSQL 11 roadmap also mentions "multi-model" database

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Fujitsu_roadmap#Multi-model...
The "smart contract" is still reacting to things in the real world. It's not going to magically cause the stock market to not fail. And, as we've seen, they are vulnerable to hacking.
1. Murder sucks. CTE sucks. NFL sucks.

2. His girlfriend should not get a single dime. She was complicit in dumping evidence for Hernandez. I don't know how it would work but their daughter should be the only one who gets to touch any money from this case.

3. Someone tell me otherwise but I thought initially the reason Hernandez killed himself was because he thought that his death would payout some money to his girlfriend and his daughter.

4. Going back I don't see any severe head injuries that could have led to concussions. Not saying CTE is impossible but I wonder if the NFL could argue that...
Atrazine research has an... interesting past:

http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/atrazin...

The big Atrazine manufacturer was caught hiring investigators to dig up dirt on researchers and regulators who were not on board with the "Atrazine is safe" narrative.
> weaker unions

In Canada, where we have experienced wage stagnation that mirrors the US quite closely, our unions started to get stronger after that stagnation began. The peak union years in Canada were in the 80s and 90s, more than a decade after the incomes stopped growing. While unionization has declined slightly since that time, unionization remains quite strong, and Canada is named the 6th strongest union country in the world.

Despite that, wages have remained stagnant regardless. It seems this one is completely beyond what unions can achieve.
As someone who has lived in China I can testify that this is a falsehood.

The issue is getting the money out of the bank into some other asset in the first place. If you have that much purchasing power in a Chinese BTC exchange you probably already have a number of other means by which you can extract your money.

The hard part isn't what to do with your money -- it's what to do with your money to get it out of the bank and get it into another asset.

AFAIK it is not trivial to purchase that much BTC in China, so the level of attractiveness isn't as you assume.
If piracy and theft were identical, there wouldn't need to be a separate word. Theft deprives the owner of their property. Piracy is creating an unsanctioned copy of their property.

"A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened."
The most vocal, notice I don't say majority, only seem to pay that ideal the barest minimum of lip service. The most vocal only want to love thy neighbor if the neighbor is Christian, heterosexual, and maybe even only if they are the same race.

Those appear to be the most vocal. You and I know they aren't the majority, but perception matters a lot. I have absolutely no problem with Christians, though I don't share their faith. I'm just aware that the most vocal people professing to be Christians are everything from White Nationalists to the Westboro Baptist Church.

We can probably agree that they aren't the best Christians to represent the faith, but they certainly are the most vocal and are the public face that many people see. For better or worse, you end up with virtual caricatures being the representatives.
How is not awarding millions of dollars for no reason a punishment?
MongoDB has filed Form S-1 for proposed IPO
I take this question much more lightly, as OP's innuendo leaves it unclear to what qualifies as normal behavior
Or a lot of jihadists?
Congratulations, you've just invented the IRA.
Just to throw another rock at WalMart - they also arranged to own offshore companies which provided loans to themselves to run WalMart - turning profits into loan payments and avoiding taxes. Estimates are that they hid double digit billions offshore without paying taxes. Sadly, it is perfectly legal - and it is consistent with what I've seen in the software and hardware industry. Several companies and executives where I've worked freely talked about how they transferred money offshore before taxes, so that it would never appear as income to them in US accounting.
> But Ockham's razor tells me I'm right.

_probably_ right. Wikipedia: "Since one can always burden failing explanations with ad hoc hypotheses to prevent them from being falsified, simpler theories are preferable to more complex ones because they are more testable." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
We're hoping to work with the community to add support for new databases. If you open an issue at https://github.com/hvf/franchise/issues we can track Teradata progress there.
There is now a daily restriction on the amount of cash you can withdraw in Macau (if you are from the mainland) in addition to your yearly withdraw and currency exchange caps.

These modifications were made earlier this year to prevent capital flight.
See also the mail from Mark Reinhold
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2017-Septemb...

This AOT compilation feature is interesting, didn't know that it is in JDK9 ... will it allow JDK9 libraries run on iOS? http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/295
I was recently talking with a neurosurgery fellow who claimed CTE is a bit of a controversial diagnosis to begin with. Not only can it only be diagnosed posthumously, but it cannot be diagnosed by autopsy alone. According to him, many brains display the pathology characteristic of CTE. What makes it CTE or not is a history of concussive/subconcussive injuries.

Of course, I may have misunderstood him and/or his opinion may not be in sync with the consensus in the field. Still, it's not something I've heard in these discussions.
organic farming uses pesticides, they're just organic pesticides.
That doesn't explain it.

Take total US GDP in 1950 and divide by total compensation (wages plus benefits) for all private-sector workers. About 50% of GDP went to workers, and 50% went to owners of capital.

That 50% ratio stayed constant until about 1975.

The ratio has steadily deteriorated until today, where workers now keep 43% and capital keeps 57%. That 14% is a massive, tectonic shift and shows no signs of reversing.
How does this play with Go's scheduler? My understanding is that the Go scheduler is not preemptive, and goroutines are switched out at yield point, like the start of a function body. So tight loops that don't call other functions can effectively hog the OS thread until it leaves that loop body (No idea what happens when doing FFI, maybe that's done in a separate thread pool?). For most cases where you would use Go you aren't generally doing a bunch of CPU-bound work so that doesn't matter, but here you might run into some hiccups. I'm specifically thinking of a case where you use this library to do some heavy matrix operations as part of a web service, and those tight loops hog the OS threads and hurt your bandwidth and p90 latency.

My question to the developer: is that issue something you've encountered with this library? If not, did you design the library to periodically yield in tight loops, or am I just completely wrong about the Go scheduler?
Dude, it says in the sentence you quoted that it can only be diagnosed once the person is deceased.

They need to examine brain tissue for evidence of degeneration, this isn't really possible to do on a live person.
> Do you know how you correct mistakes in your Equifax-TransUnion-Experian composite credit score? You mostly don't, and you most likely can't take them to court, because they think you are bound to arbitration.

Sorry, that's not true at all. I went to Experian late last week to set up a fraud alert because of the Equifax breach, they showed me my credit report and had a button to mark things that were factually incorrect. I did so and submitted it. They did some sort of investigation and removed the data because they couldn't verify that it was correct. It was as easy as filling out an online form. (Actually, I think I had to call about 1 particular item, but it was handled over the phone.)