skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this also applies if you run a password generator and choose a generated one that you like.

I'm sure there's some math that could be applied here to determine how much a user selecting from one of n generated passwords. Human intuition in cases like this can often be wrong as human psychology hasn't evolved to solve problems like this, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but mine tells me that a user choosing a password from whole cloth has much less entropy when the user is taken into account than a user choosing a password from a small set of those generated with high entropy.

While the latter is less than leaving it up to be chosen purely at random, I think it's much closer to pure random than it is than from the one that's created by the human. It's likely not your intent, but your note comes across as not acknowledging this. Am I reading it wrong? Or are my intuitions wrong? If one were to choose between (a) human generated or (b) human chosen from a set of non-human generated, how much stronger do you think (b) is than (a), and how much weaker is (b) compared to (c) randomly chosen from non-human generated?
http://www.zavtech.com/morpheus/docs/ - The Morpheus library is designed to facilitate the development of high performance analytical software involving large datasets for both offline and real-time analysis on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The library is written in Java 8 with extensive use of lambdas, but is accessible to all JVM languages.
This made me wonder what the top speed would actually be had they not put a limit on the car. I came across this interesting discussion in their forums: https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/real-top-speed-model-s
A state doesn't really have control over the value of its currency. It may control how much of it exists in circulation. Likewise, the Bitcoin software tightly controls how much Bitcoin is in circulation. Both limits are done by fiat. Whether the institution doing the fiat is what you personally would recognize as a "state" seems to be a pretty arbitrary distinction. "States" are not the end-all be-all of institutions with power over individuals.
That is understandable, to some extent. Though, I never see that as the listed reasoning. The closest that I see is that it's about the whole experience of loading the record and examining the jacket and linear notes while listening.

Well, that and cassette players aren't really all that interesting - at least not to me. A mechanical watch can be a thing of beauty. A cassette player probably could be, but I haven't seen one that is.

Though that makes me wonder if someone would buy a cassette player that was made so you can see the internal mechanisms in action and with the mechanical pieces being milled from things like brass. An ornate mechanical cassette player engineered for precision, if you will.

Anyhow, beauty and art is subjective - so I could understand someone finding the mechanical workings of a cassette player to be interesting and enjoyable. It may even be more enjoyable to someone who didn't live through those years and has mostly been exposed to all digital devices. Though, I don't think I've ever seen that as the justification.

Of course, they don't need to justify it for me. They can do what they want. I just find it strange.

Though now I'm kind of curious about a precision made cassette player that has exposed mechanical components. I bet someone would buy it.
Impressively, QuickTime could play multiple movies in multiple directions simultaneously on Windows 98.
How would the attacker know that you mashed the keyboard when answering 'What high school did you go to?' ?
Parts of China have some cool stuff. The arts community in Yunnan is a good example. Many sculpture parks, weird spaces, reinvigorated industrial, etc. But gentrifying quickly now, so creativity is waning.
> It's pretty much memorising an A-Z

The A-Z (pronounced 'zed') was the most popular London streetmap in the 20th century.
Last time I did it it was 30c for a course (8 pills) of Cipro in Cambodia. I assume that's fairly cheap for locals too - you can't buy much of anything for that even in Cambodia.
Concert venues in industrial buildings sound great until you have a fire and people die, thanks to a lack of attention to fire safety.
What if someone made an exact copy of you? Would your consciousness gain a second body?
Gold has rarely been used in retail transactions. Generally that's been limited to silver, copper, bronze, or even iron coins, or other materials.

Not exclusively, but for the large part.

If you look at historical English prices, prior to the 19th century, the penny was 1/240 a pound, and the farthing ("four-thing" -- one fourth a penny) was 1/960 a pound. Call it 1/1000th.

A labourer's wage might be 20 pound/yr. It's more useful to think of the farthing as roughly equivalent, at least in work-time, to a dollar, and 20 pound as $20,000.

A pound, then, was a lot of money. And even it was (in English currency) silver. Gold were guineas: 1 pound 10 shilling.
Trig to do surveying at 12 is the exact opposite of well rounded. On the other hand very many students today indeed have amazing breadth of knowledge from math to literature and civics (which you can see in their writing, extracurricular choices and volunteer work) - something that gets much rarer as you go in the past where students had to pick up work at age 12 to 16. Regrettably, today in the US, schools that are not in affluent areas have trouble living up to this standard.
Why do they permit it...? Because they aren't our parents and shouldn't be responsible for all the stupid shit that users could do.

The real question: Perhaps we can politely convince these services to display safety warnings & blur the sensitive bits? Want to be proactive about it: Help develop a plug & play library for services to use to accomplish this feat.
I'm a white, U.S. born, citizen and I read it the first way not the second. The context of "Hello Londoners" makes it pretty clear.
That’s easy to calculate. If you generate, say 4 password of 32 bits of randomness each, and you pick one of them, you must assume that the 32-bit password you chose has 30 bits of randomness, since your choice between 4 options has 2 bits of information in it.
I used to think like that, turns out things get out of hand quickly once it has to be used by non technical users. I also build a backup app, but in my case for virtual machines [0]

As feelix says it is easy to burn 1000 hours on it. In addition to what feelix says you need to write help, build a site, do a lot of testing, write an installer etc.
It does not compare at all to writing a script for technical users.

[0] http://www.vimalin.com
> There is a very simple question here. How much cheaper is this lower quality food?

That's the kicker -- it isn't. Some stuff is more expensive.

E.g., Milka chocolate - 1 EUR in Germany is also 1 EUR in Bulgaria. But in Germany it's good and in Bulgaria, it's shit.

So, the question should be: How much higher are the profit margins in Eastern Europe?
I will quote here from Julia Reda who got the report.

"At first I was willing to give the Commission the benefit of the doubt that the study had simply fallen through the cracks, since the responsible department underwent significant restructuring in 2014, after the study was commissioned.

However, now all available evidence suggests that the Commission actively chose to ignore the study except for the part that suited their agenda: In an academic article published in 2016, two European Commission officials reported a link between lost sales for blockbusters and illegal downloads of those films. They failed to disclose, however, that the study this was based on also looked at music, ebooks and games, where it found no such connection. On the contrary, in the case of video games, the study found the opposite link, indicating a positive influence of illegal game downloads on legal sales.

That demonstrates that the study wasn’t forgotten by the Commission altogether.

They also failed twice to meet the deadline for responding to my freedom of information request.

One cannot avoid the suspicion that the Commission intentionally suppressed the publication of publicly-funded research because the facts discovered were inconvenient to their political agenda."

Tl:dr
Hidden on purpose to further their agenda.

EDIT:
Sorry source.
http://www.journalismonline.gr/eu-paid-for-a-report-that-con...
I'd rather see something like Spotify or Google Music for movies. I subscribe to Google Music and I have no idea if the music has DRM applied. I assume it does, but since it's never gotten in the way for me, I really don't care. I want that experience with movies.

I'm not interested in being a digital librarian. I just want access to the collections in a way that is inexpensive and close to universal.

At one time I thought Netflix was the answer, but they've carved out a much more interesting place to be - making excellent serialized television. They could drop all the movies from their collection and I would stay subscribed.
Ah yeah, The Raid is an excellent example.
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Well all of DVD and Blu-ray sales makes about $15bn per year and the App Store makes about $30bn, heavily weighted towards $2 or less content. I think the premise that there are industries that don't maximise profit should be of no surprise to people around HN.
> Teleportation in principle is not a death sentence if (like me) you're a reductionist who believes that the mind is a pattern which happens to be encoded on a physical substrate. To copy the substrate perfectly implies copying perfectly the pattern encoded on it, and hence (since I'm a reductionist) copying perfectly the self.

A copy of you is not you, one need only not destroy the original for you to quickly admit that the copy is not you. If I copy you, and ask you if the copy over there is you, you'll say no. If I then kill you, you have just been sentenced to death. The copy will live on feeling as if it is you, but it isn't you, it's a copy of you. That is unless you believe there can be any number of you; but the second they're created they are by definition no longer you, they are them, and your experiences are no longer identical, you are instantly separate beings so they are instantly no longer you.
The problem here is a lack of prudence. When the town was flush with cash from the manufacturing sector, they expanded the budget and became inefficient. When that money left, they still had all of these long-standing inefficient agreements and processes.

Detroit is a well known example of it because they are still trying to uphold these parasitic relationships despite being basically evacuated.
Statistically, yes, if you're wearing a red shirt.

At least until they re-did all the wardrobe so that Security wore gold or navy blue :)
Feel free to hit me with any data you gather, if you choose to do so, of course.
Yep. Both are me; they start diverging as soon as the copy is made.
Teleportation is a fiction and you can just invent the necessary details to decide whatever you want, but I still like this webcomic treatment:

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
My funds have been (partially) moved to other exchanges. I regularly withdraw money from Bitfinex though, and it has never been a problem.
Your assertion depends on what you mean by "government". There are groups of people who are in control. The ability to fork peacefully is not unique to Bitcoin--see the governments of the UK, Canada, and Australia. And given high enough stakes, there's no reason to believe that the interested parties in the Bitcoin blockchain would not resort to violence to protect their interests from forkers who would impact their profits.
I agree, maybe the title could be editorialized in this case.

I was browsing the /r/London subreddit so assumed too much context for a global forum
Both were you, they stopped being both you the second they started diverging which is the second they came into existence.
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Some of my funds are, some i've moved to other exchanges. Not because I don't have confidence in them, just because there were opportunities on those exchanges that weren't on Bitfinex. But I have absolute confidence in my ability to withdraw however much I please from my BFX account whenever I want.
My point is that the simple fact Apple is even thinking about the possibility is wrong.
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Berlin in the 90s, and to some degree today, may be similar.
I started writing a detailed rebuttal and debunking of the author's points, but then I noticed others had done it already, so I didn't waste my time. Suffice it to say that many of the things he says simply aren't true, and for the rest, his reasoning is poor. For details, you can read other posts in this comment thread.
The United States is not a particularly wealth-unequal country by world measures.
Dealing with measles outbreak cost 20 times that of increasing vaccination cover
Here we go :)

Your fundamental misunderstanding of my viewpoint is that there can only ever be one of me. The "copy", as you put it, is also one of me. The two are different people by the time you come to threaten one of them with death, but at the instant of creation of the second, they were the same. They diverged since (just as identical twins would, immediately after their brains began to form in the womb). The question of "which one is me" is meaningless: they are both me, in the sense that they have a common "ancestor" (i.e in the sense that I am who I was five minutes ago), and they are both not me (in the sense that I am not who I was five minutes ago).
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No way in effing hell I'd teleport, even with tech 1000000 years advanced from today.
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Per the parallel thread: the word "are" is misleading, and you should distinguish between the two things you mean by it. (I should have done that myself in the grandparent to this comment.) I am who I was five minutes ago, and I am also not who I was five minutes ago, for two different senses of the word "am" which happen to have the same word in English.
I'm confused. Do you think the OP is black?
And they're from 4 days ago... What about the arXiv papers that were posted yesterday?
which company is behind this application?
No way in effing hell am I getting into a car, even with tech advanced 100000 years from today ;)

Not saying I'd ever get into a teleporter willingly. But remember that people have said this about most inventions at some point.
It's like having superpowers, but with physical abnormalities. Like so many things, this was explored in the comics!
Cheers :) See? I knew there was some math. So how do you feel that compares to a user-generated password? That's the question I was getting at.
It's certainly true in urban India (and becoming more true in rural India). And this has the added bonus of bringing people into the banking system because you can store, send, and withdraw cash from your mobile account (this started in sub-saharan Africa but is becoming more of a thing in rural India too).
You're just playing a semantic game with the word "me" and "self". Saying they are both me and they are both not me is saying nothing, it's a meaningless statement devoid if any value to communicate anything at all. Put the semantics aside, and try and address the actual underlying issue, identity. The second a clone exists, they are unique individuals, they cannot both be you anymore.
I think the point of the article is that most "fiat" money doesn't really match that definition.
Agreed, but the context was using memorable phrases from literature, in which case they are guessable. Post edited to clarify.
It comes down to the philosophical question -- are you better defined by the pattern of matter and energy that represents you, or are you the matter and energy that represents you?

I personally believe it's the former. I.e. if I had a terminal illness and I made a copy of myself (the same except healthy), I like to think I would be happy to let it carry on my life and work.
I wish there were an easy way to browse the most recent papers by category. Or get an email of the daily digest of what's added today for my favorite categories.

I know arXiv does this, but it's in such an unreadable format that it makes me just want to read it on the site.
The full title is "Dealing with a measles outbreak cost 20 times that of increasing vaccination cover"
Think about it again. You said T-Bills back currency today like gold used to, but that's not true. T-Bills are just notes to pay back more dollars. So it is dollars backed by dollars if you really are honest about your statement that USD is backed by an asset.
Is this the film (The Raid: Redemption) you're referring to?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1899353/
> Through an analysis of naturally occurring markings on the juvenile’s first left upper molar, Rosas and his coauthors concluded that the child had almost certainly died between the ages of 7.61 and 7.78 years.

That seems remarkably precise. What is it about the molar that allows that level of precision?
You are all missing a key point: food additives and misleading advertising.

Here in Canada:

Carrots can have added orange paint, legally disclosed on the packaging.

Yogurt can be from other stuff that milk.

Bread has to be labeled as 'whole granins' if entirely from grains, otherwise it's still sold as bread.

McDonald's fishburger, isn't made from what is technically a fish.

Bacon bits can be from other things than pork.

Coffee, doesn't have to be from coffee beans.

Things can have taste enhancers, color enhancers, odor enhancers.

They can be sold unripened as ripe.

Etc etc. I can count all day.

When you compare food between continents, you can't ignore the above.

The almighty quest for profit will cost you health.
Nice list! These are pretty useful. I found the experience of using protobuf for frontend <-> Go communication to be good, since it forced me to do the work of 'writing my own protocol' but without all the encoding/decoding. There was some issue with naming in protobuf and Go's conventions though.

To add my 2 cents: I think mining Monero is actually very reasonable (you seem to have thought through the impact on your users), and you've nailed the most important thing: making it opt-in.

I'm fine contributing CPU cycles when playing a game, as long as it's in the foreground and I agreed to it.
I think Uber should do background checks. I think the chances of sexual assault are considerably higher walking down the street than getting a cab/Uber the same distance.
That's a grim thing to say for no reason.
We rely and place so much trust on the traffic system to do all of the decision making work. We just follow its orders. But what if the system experiences a failure unexpectedly? Accidents probably will occur, traffic grinds to a halt. I have been in a situation on a highway intersection where the light was stuck on red and it was a horrible experience. This is the problem with a centralized traffic system. I have noticed that even I have started to place too much trust in the walk signals while crossing streets. I have caught myself failing to look both ways. While its nice that the traffic system reduces some cognitive load, It's not 100% working in favor of our safety. I think the US ought to conduct more experiments like this to see if traffic accidents can be reduced. I'd like to see an experiment in NYC! So many bike accidetns here.
Single salary households existed because women were out of the labor force. Those slowly disappeared as the internal labor market grew, as you could get away with paying women less
Their site was broken one day. I could not login. I told support that I had not forgotten the password since I was using a manager. Then they told me about the terms. Ooops. Luckily they didn't ban me or anything.
In theory it still shouldn't be possible. The passenger owns the ticket, not the purchaser.

But that doesn't mean a smile and polite word won't get you around that...
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Sort of like 2d printing (laser, ink jet, dot matrix, thermal transfer, plotter).
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> Yet strangely, before mass-market supermarkets existed, people in rural areas ate fresh produce directly from farmers

Before mass-market supermarkets existed, rural people ate fresh produce often only because they grew it themselves, not because they were able to buy it direct from a farmer. To buy from a farmer, you need cash, and a lot of rural families were cash-poor. Instead, people in the countryside maintained their own gardens and they made a lot of pickled foods for the winter. However, that is all a lot of work, and in fact historically a lot of rural families had poor nutrition in terms of fresh vegetables in spite of living in the regions that these vegetables came from.
You would have an identical twin.
I think it made sense since html email was much like html on the web. Who knows, maybe in the future people will think it strange that the email reader had an editor to send mail?

I think it is fair to say that not forcing people to have a web authoring tool that reminds them they are the author contributed greatly to the new web of walled gardens.
Detecting the randomness of a user-generated password is like detecting randomness in general; it can’t be done¹. Is a number like 392872956 random, or is it derived by using some obscure but guessable procedure? You can’t know just by looking at the number. Even if a user thinks they are choosing randomly, subconscious biases are very powerful. The same principle applies to word and character based passwords, so the only safe course is to assume that anything chosen by a user directly is not random at all.

1. http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25
Market economies are good at allocating resources, but they're also good at concentrating resources, which kills the market. And in some sectors, markets don't benefit the social fabric as a whole, hence why intervention into markets is often necessary
The exchanges investing client money does not surprise me at all. I worked in UK finance for 6 years or so where you have mandatory "CASS" training to warn you what is and is not OK to do with client money. I remember when I first started I was like "well obviously you keep client money and assets separate from the corporate accounts..." and EVERY year in the "refresher course" our Compliance dept gave they had new cases of banks fucking this up and getting insane fines for it [0].

If these supposedly respectable banks managed to repeatedly do this (this is after the financial crisis btw) then it's anyone's guess what goes on in the Wild West that is Bitcoin exchanges. That said, the stupidity and lack of common sense in UK financial industry continues blows my mind.

[0] - https://www.moneymarketing.co.uk/why-the-fca-rewrote-the-rul...
I do this pattern a lot

for x in $(seq 1 10); do long_process file${x} & done; wait

It doesn't take care of not saturating my cpu or anything; when I need to care about that then I try to remember how to use parallel.
The software for those WebSDRs can be found at http://strezhi.ru/temp/2015/websdr-dist11.tgz, might be an interesting project to add such features to it.

Though there is also OpenWebRX at http://sdr.hu/openwebrx, which does essentially the same thing but is more open source. It has some decoder plugins already.
A lot of fiction that deals with consciousness copies finds that copies are far more willing to "die" knowing that another instance of the pattern will live on.

Ultimately our desire for self-preservation itself only comes from our evolutionary history. That desire itself is mutable, and you could expect that the portion of it that cares about being the original would slowly evolve away if transporter use were a significant component of the fitness function.