skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article does not say that. They seem to have implied this by mainly the evidence the builders ate a lot of meat, but their own assessing that the lodging was absurdly dense says otherwise. Sounds quite a bit like cherry picking to me, which is not uncommon for people working on the same subject for decades. At some point you are just too willing to accept your own confirmation bias, no matter how trained you are.

And this is just me guessing from the article, there are other reasons to think twice before reaching such conclusions. The concept of "slave" is not as set in stone as we think, it's a generalization of a broader concept.

And cattle is not necessarily for the rich: livestock is a pretty good way to store energy. In hot places like the tropics, vegetables go ripe very quickly so the logistics of feeding an army of builders with crops might have been difficult enough that it was just easier to feed the crops to cattle then move the cattle to the people.
From 2007. Back when Microsoft really was at war with OSS and called Linux a cancer.
When you get a spare half hour to figure it out well enough, add the uMatrix extension to your browser. It is like an old-school software firewall, except it is for your browser.

There is a learning curve, but it's fine once you get up to speed. It's a bit like NoScript, but on steroids.
It should be obvious that analog hardware is more efficient than digital one. No explanation is needed there. I, on the other hand, would like to know how spiking helps when dealing with dense input signal matrices of common deep learning applications. It seems to me that analog non-spiking hardware is better suited for those tasks, especially when you're able to arrange processing elements in a large crossbar array, and colocate memory and processing (e.g. weights and multipliers) in the same element. Representing a signal value (of a certain precision) using a constant voltage level, or a current magnitude seems to be easier, more natural and more efficient than using either timings between spikes, or spike trains (spiking rate encoding the signal).
>But nowadays, people confuse Microsoft Windows, the successor to DOS, with a Unix operating system, and want to run mailx on it.

...huh

>If you want to use mailx, there is the technically and morally sane option of using a free Unix implementation.

I mean it's really not that hard to release a Windows compatible version. You change a single file name?

This just sounds like throwing gas on the flame war that is unix vs windows.
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I guess that would be a reference to the scams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam
It's interesting to see a somewhat widespread shift away from the separation of code, templates, styles, and text model of publishing things (mostly websites, but most publishing can be boiled down to that if you squint), where code/templates/style get merged into one. React does this. Pollen seemingly takes it even further and sticks the text in the code, too. Or, rather sticks the code in the text, I guess.

It's a surprising shift. "Separation of concerns" is still a thing everybody wants to do, it's just flipping the idea of what should be the same "concern", where React considers every piece of a component to be one concern...and, it seems to work. I'm not sure I'm on board with this for writing, but the results certainly do look very nice; the books the author has published with Pollen all look gorgeoues and are very navigable.

I've been tinkering with Hugo for converting my projects docs to something that isn't in a wiki or a CMS (because I find I dread working with either a wiki or a CMS for large documents). I think it's probably "enough" for all of my needs, so I doubt I'll take the time to learn a bigger system like Pollen...but, it's hard to argue with the quality of the results.
In the German Language you'd say "Buddenbrooks syndrome". The phenomenon is as old as the ages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddenbrooks
CFAA is wholly or at least primarily a part of the code focusing on criminal violations. So unfortunately it would require a motivated government attorney in order to invoke the CFAA. This likely falls beneath their outrage level.
I know it's fun to be edgy, but it's even more fun to be pedantic and provide links of what those actual locations look like today:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8265393,-73.9077102,3a,75y,7...

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8107336,-73.9187274,3a,75y,1...

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8187207,-73.921799,3a,75y,13...

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8228232,-73.9165044,3a,75y,3...

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8104059,-73.9199855,3a,75y,8...

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8147291,-73.9166855,3a,75y,3...
This is just silly. If the local entertainment isn't very good, then people will find something better that isn't controlled by the Chinese government or shaped the rest of the Chinese culture, which is how you get Western values along with Hollywood movies. And you also get a culture that ignores censorship laws, because they are stupid, which can lead to ignoring other laws that are stupid.

I'm not saying pirated Marvel movies are going to bring down the PRC, but there's no reason to think that bad Chinese movies that no one wants to watch will help the party, either.
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iOS 11 is turning out to be a dumpster fire on my iPhone and iPad.
I still think Bezos wants a headquarters near DC and mostly wants nearby suburbs to outdo each other offering the biggest bribes. However, in addition to the free press I suspect Amazon will make use of the long list of cities most willing to offer large bribes since they are already building other stuff accross the country...
I second this. The panel includes true visionaries like Adam Kay and Seymour Papert. Seymour's comment about kids learning french in France remains one of the most compelling suggestions for the type of technology-supported learning we should be focusing on. The comments above contain many of the reasons why change is hard and slow, but education needs more of these kinds of big ideas rather than incremental improvements of the current system. I also find it useful to distinguish between the process of learning and the system of education.
Either argument can also be a thought-terminating cliche.
Did you hold the same view when the PM of Canada urged Americans to vote for Obama and went on TV to endorse him?
From what I can tell, Google's TPUs are boiling GPUs down to the essence of what they do in TensorFlow, namely a "higher volume of reduced precision computation" [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit
Homeschooling is the right entry point for disruptive change. The new home schooling community (as opposed to the traditional religion focused home schoolers) is large and growing and much more open to new ideas than the education system.
Cool idea. Has anyone else used Racket to make DSL's for specific business applications?
A scenario where Russia actually did influence our elections looks exactly like a scenario where Russia is merely accused of influencing our elections, barring irrefutable evidence. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Chrome has added throttling for inactive tabs. The problem is this is an active tab open for long stretches of time doing a somewhat cpu intensive task, so throttling isn't an option. I also doubt that be too adversely affected by slipping down the search rankings in this case.
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The choice for China is to either be an insulated and isolated country with little exposure to the rest of the world, or to reach out and contribute in the conversation. I think we're already decades past the point where they can close themselves off, but if they want their own people to appreciate their culture, they have to be just as innovative as the rest of the world. Otherwise, people will stop listening and believing in what the party has to say.
I'd say it's more like the US market of 20 or 30 years ago. They sell lots of Buicks.
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GPUs are generally much more flexible and can run something resembling a normal C program. From the little public information available chips like Google TPU or NVIDIA's Tensor Core (a functional unit on the Volta architecture) are essentially hard-wired to do exactly low precision matrix multiplication. Less flexible but more efficient when you know that's what your workload is.

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-volta/

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/04/05/first-depth-look-goo...
Chinese debt is a ticking time bomb.
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-debt-risk-to-financia...

When (not if) it goes off, it'll not only be a huge shock to the world economy, it'll most likely also result in huge unrest inside China. The only political tool the communist party has known is to suppress dissent. I expect things to get worse in the next few years... not better.
Every year when the new operating system goes onto the phone it churns away as it categorizes photos using image recognition tech, brings in email, sets up search indexes, slices dices and so on. Leave it plugged in for longer than normal for the first week.
Chrome now requires OS account authentication to show passwords
Can someone please update the discussion on Chrome's password store at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6165708
? Chrome Version 61.0.3163.91 now requires you to authenticate to the OS, to see saved passwords.
(My newly minted account can't update it)
> the compiler is making a dangerous assumption without proof.

The whole issue is that, from the compiler point of view, it has a proof! It can prove from the language rules that the pointer can only have NULL and EraseAll as its value; since a call through the NULL pointer is invalid, at that line the only value left is EraseAll; QED.

It might not be the proof you wanted, since you disagree with the premises, but it's still a valid proof.
One of your links https://practicaltypography.com/ redirects to this https://practicaltypography.com/graylist.html a site that has no content and asks to pay for something.
Lesson: always zero pad.
I'm still hoping for #3 with Disqus.
I always suggest the Learning Web chapter of Deschooling Society to anyone interested in ideas for technology enabled learning ventures. It's brilliant. It also helps to skip some of the more political chapters as they are likely to turn people off from his compelling vision for learning societies.

Edit: spelling
In the first section of his 1984 book 'Hackers', Stephen Levy wrote about the Signals and Power Subcommittee of the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club, which included quite a few computing pioneers among its ranks. Levy mentions that one of the skills of the subcommittee was in disrupting any meeting through creative use of Robert's Rules of Order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_Model_Railroad_Club#Syste...
Quite a few people seem hellbent on being permanently outraged. They will even go so far as to invent reasons to be outraged. Outrage is currency in our post-modern society.

Sometimes, the outrage is legitimate. It isn't isolated to one side of the political spectrum. The right was outraged by everything Obama did. The left will be outraged by anything Trump does. Some people are outraged at the idea of transfolk being in their bathroom, some folks are outraged that people are outraged about it. Some people are outraged about speech, some are outraged that they are held accountable for speech.

The media cycles on it, the people thrive on it, and it escalates with each showing more umbrage than the last.

My conclusion is that if you seek umbrage, you will find it.
So this thing only can be trained with a the built in algorithm?
I'm no fan of imperialism. However, I think trying to paint Churchill as an evil man rather than an elected PM who inherited a half-millenia of imperial legacy at one of the most pivotal moments in human history is a long shot at best. You can believe what you want about the predictability of WWII. From an armchair in 2017, it's easy to predict how things play out from 1919 onward.

The difference between Churchill and Hitler is that Churchill didn't slaughter millions of people and subvert half the globe to totalitarian dictatorship. That supplies and shipments are limited under dire circumstances should come as no surprise to any student of historical warfare.
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This is from 2007. Things have changed
> Why is the overwhelming majority of networked software still not secure, despite all effort to the contrary? Why is it almost certain to get exploited so long as attackers can craft its inputs? Why is it the case that no amount of effort seems enough to fix software that must speak certain protocols?

That's interesting, but I'm not sure it's relevant here because downloading and executing arbitrary code without understanding what it does is a fundamentally insecure thing to do.

Unfortunately, the same technology is used by Facebook, Google, etc. to track people around the internet, so it's unlikely to get "fixed" any time soon.
Only punishment mechanism I can think of is the parents have to make sure the kid is actually doing his students. The software could have some some alert system that sends an e-mail saying "junior didn't turn in homework 3/5 etc."
Not if it's free and distributed worldwide. 99% of people don't even know what these coins are, regardless of what happens in the background when a computer requests content on a server.

I see it alongside ads.
Big whoop. KA is still education. This thread is about education startups, not necessarily in-person education startups.
am i the only one who finds it ironic (edit: stupid) that you're advocating storing secrets in an environment variable?

http://movingfast.io/articles/environment-variables-consider...
> The vast majority of the country were in ruins

The vast majority of USSR were in ruins? Reality check hello? I see you here from time to time, every one of them political load >> facts.

That makes you a Soviet person like the one you describe.
"think about the injection of feminine instead of masculine pronoun that was|is fashionable"

This seems to have settled, after a few years of mild confusion, on everyone agreeing to just use non-gendered "they/them" when the gender of the subject is unknown. Pretty easy, it has historical precedent, and it can't possibly exclude anyone from the conversation. Seems like progress, to me. Where's the harm in making your docs about everybody rather than just men?

I guess I just don't get the hostility toward inclusiveness as a value in our communities/companies/etc. It costs me literally nothing and might make someone else feel more welcome to participate in the things I'm working on. It just seems like a win with no down side.
I was a secular homeschooler, so I forget that this distinction even needs to be made. Thank you for bringing it up.

One subset of the homeschooling community is gifted kids who don't fit in well at school. They frequently have either a very high IQ, above what gifted programs are geared to, or are 2xE or both. Their parents are often well educated and comfortably middle class. The needs of this populatuon would likely be a good point of entry.
Nothing. Maybe. The magic happens in open() or createfile() (or a little underneath there, precisely). Nothing about the disk format prohibits such names, and they're accessible via other pathnames. But if you have a program that lists files and then tries to open each one automatically, it may have a bad time. I would hope AV software has tested this scenario, but AV software.
IIRC, you can look in Settings > Battery > Battery Usage to view which applications are responsible. Are there any in particular that stand out?
More like all we need to do is have it go where we want it to go
Cancer was 2001 actually.
How is that even remotely similar to a covert psyops campaign by an enemy nation? Totally ridiculous to make the comparison.
No matter how many browsers are working on it?
He is absolutely right and you can already see the tides shifting with the meteoric rise of "coding boot camps" and similar alternative educational models.
You kept firing and ran out of energy. That's okay. I'm from the 80's arcade days. It's a level of difficulty that's way too much for you younguns. I swear, I had Battlezone set up, and so many kids walked up to it, spend 2 seconds wiggling the joysticks then walked away. There was this one kid who was like, "what is that clock doing?" (That was the RADAR!)

Back in my day, at summer computer camp we'd wander around the college campus looking for a teletype that actually printed on paper to break into the system to play a game. We'd be so hard up for games, we'd type in source code listings from paper magazines. That's how we learned how to program!

It was just too hard for you! Them's the breaks!
FWIW, Google did use commodity hardware and tools when they started. That was actually one of the things that supposedly made them innovative at the time. Instead of spending lots of money on beefy Sun servers, they put together stuff out of corkboards, components you could find in a PC catalog, and Linux. Their programming language was Python; their webserver was based on Medusa; their distributed filesystem was NFS; their logs processing was all UNIX tools.

All of the fancy homegrown ops stuff came afterwards, once they got lots of VC and could hire some really talented experts. GFS, MapReduce, Sawzall, the custom networking & server designs, the proprietary webserver - all of that was in the early 2000s, ~1-2 years after incorporation and 5 years after Larry first started working on it.
Could you give a common example from jQuery core that could be left away? I'd hate if I find a documentation about a method for a jQuery object only to find out that I don't have that extension yet. IMO its size is just about right.
"consent" can perhaps be buried, but I doubt it would be found to be informed.
If you want to access from china, it cannot get more speed without CDN. So give up china:)
If you read it and follow the instructions, you will see how to access the original link without needing to purchase anything.
Mostly a rant. Of course bad project management will kill a project.

The one good insight is that many products are not really projects; or rather, products that are treated as projects will eventually fall behind. Look at Google Docs. Revolutionary when it was created, now stagnant. Many software products are killed by success (they reach a certain point, then go no further.)
You're right that analogue non-spiking hardware in theory would be the way to go for deep neural networks.

However, when implemented in a modern semiconductor process, it is relatively hard to implement analogue computations with negligible noise; especially when connecting distant parts of the chip. Spiking neuron models have the advantage of producing digital output (either they are spiking at a given moment in time or they don't). Thus this pulse can be easily transported without information loss, and the analogue computation is confined to a relatively small region, which makes it possible to reduce noise in the internal analogue signals.

A different way to think about it: say you wanted to implement an analogue model of a classical neuron (as used in deep neural nets) and wanted to transfer its output as a digital signal to mitigate the noise problem. In that case, the required analogue/digital converter would be far more complex than the analogue neuron itself. As you continue to reduce the size and precision of the A/D converter you'd end up with a 1-bit delta-sigma A/D converter, and you're circuit would very much look like a spiking neuron.

Edit: Reformulated some parts for clarity
Subspace already has a remake on Steam.
I work in an education company. As ironic as it sounds, we've found the biggest factor that is stoping change in K12 education is that teachers systematically refuse to learn anything new.

It's not in the US though so YMMV.
Post-Quantum Cryptography Standard by NIST
You can even work around it without renaming the file. Cygwin and LXSS for example allow the use of file names such as "aux.c" without any changes to the mailx source.
Announced submissions to NIST's post-quantum crypto standardization project:
My take - the ads were used not to influence opinions but to gauge them.

$100k is too small to seriously influence something, but to measure flamebait level of various topics via CTR etc, it should be enough.

Also explains why they didn't hide.
This is a good misconception and undervaluing of what work means. Just because someone lacks a paycheck does not mean they do not work. Since my spouse retired we eat out half as much, we are both in better shape, we grow a non-negligible amount of our own food, have organic eggs from our own chickens, etc etc. our weekends are no longer packed with house work, small and medium sized home improvement projects happen at cost without paying someone else.

We have a fanancial planner and have gone through multi excersizes tracking our spending. The end result is the work my spouse does saves around $50k a year in expenditure alone, not to mention the physical and mental health improvements.

I think we often forget what work means.
http://silentcircle.co.uk/zero-hedge-hacked-emails-confirm-n...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Chessboard
Oh that gives me an idea. Let's make it so the blob can be decrypted 2 ways. One shows your tax receipts and spec indie-horror script, the other is your real shit.
I didn't suppress your main idea, I just critiqued the way in which you conveyed it. Highly emotional posts on this site aren't good because of the voting system; comments become voted on not because of their merit or contribution to the conversation, but because the reader agrees or disagrees with them, which is fine for sites like Reddit, but we try to maintain a more thoughtful culture on this site. If we want to advance the conversation, the best way to do that is to focus on the logic that determined your opinion instead of the emotion.
>For Bronx, we found that the violent crime rate is one of the highest in the nation, across communities of all sizes (both large and small). Violent offenses tracked included rape, murder and non-negligent manslaughter, armed robbery, and aggravated assault, including assault with a deadly weapon. According to NeighborhoodScout's analysis of FBI reported crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of one of these crimes in Bronx is one in 94.

>NeighborhoodScout's analysis also reveals that Bronx's rate for property crime is 19 per one thousand population. This makes Bronx a place where there is an above average chance of becoming a victim of a property crime, when compared to all other communities in America of all population sizes. Property crimes are motor vehicle theft, arson, larceny, and burglary. Your chance of becoming a victim of any of these crimes in Bronx is one in 54.

Take a walk down there some night and tell me what it looks like up close. Don't bring your wallet.

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ny/bronx/crime