skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that kept bothering me about that novel is that it treated the entire human race as if they had the emotional maturity and stubbornness of a toddler.

I was also a bit annoyed that the Trisolarians could mass produce these godlike sophons and never thought to use them to find non-inhabited solar systems to colonize. The third book did slightly explain this by having regions of space that broke their connection to home, but if you can produce thousands or millions of these things it doesn't matter so much if you lose some.

The logic of "in order to prevent other species from using up the resources in our universe we have to destroy the universe" never really worked for me either. The third book had a low level flunkie in an alien race launch an attack that would doom the entire universe at the speed of light with only the approval of a low level middle-manager. I'd almost say it was a parody except that the books took themselves so seriously.
We aren't at full feature parity, but we're pretty close. There are some big things we are missing (ODE, FFT), and we have a bunch of things they don't have (statistical distance measures being one example). We are trying to be pure-go, so it's not at simple as providing a wrapper API. Working on it though!
Your assumption was the correct one.
You haven't thought about this much have you...
It has no effect on either Chrome or Firefox, Ubuntu laptop.
I was talking about tank man...
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Sorry for the confusion on this.

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Surely this is an obvious thing to control for; if they didn't, it would conversely be extremely implausible that they would find any sort of "piracy is harmful" effect for any other category, which the article seems to say they did for "recent top films".
If I may commit sacrilege here, I think the problem is more market based than government based. The problem in many cases is that technically incompetent people are in power who view software as a commodity and choose the lowest priced version, no matter the later problems. I'm not even sure what the solution to this is.
Why are you bothered by it? The 70 teams that joined the hackathon did it out of their own free will, and probably enjoyed it?
Thank you. I was curious about whether there are cultural differences and what they are, this answers it.

I did not knew about c letter being taboo.
> We tentatively plan to randomly select 3,000 individuals across two US states to participate in the study: 1,000 will receive $1,000 per month for up to 5 years, and 2,000 will receive $50 per month and serve as a control group for comparison.

That's 66 million dollars, if you're wondering.
This is literally the decade and context in which I had the same discussions!
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Web shell via put, still quite common.

Just as common as dorking for common webshells with no or default passwords.

If you need a VPS fast googling for c99 is faster than spinning up something on AWS ;)
These museums went to war online and Twitter loved it
what is the kind of infrastructure that needs to be built ? Very curious to know what are the big tech challenges if someone wants to build a VOD startup in a niche.

How did Viki make it ?
It's simply impossible for me to believe that they would try to ban Bitcoin for any other reason than to prevent capital flight. Any Chinese national with a significant amount of money has already shipped most of their assets overseas, or is in the process. Getting money out of the country with Bitcoin is effortless, and thus an easy target for regulators. The articles you've linked to don't touch on the clampdown on capital flight. Here's a recent one about that:

https://www.ft.com/content/3a638d1c-8405-11e7-a4ce-15b2513cb...
Who in their right mind would ever trust the NSA?????
This would be a really useful feature in C if it was made more general, even if the scope of the definition remained limited. But with GCC 7

struct { int arr[n]; } s = { 0 };

gives

error: variable-sized object may not be initialized

And

(struct { int arr[n]; }){ 0 }

gives

error: compound literal has variable size

GCC still doesn't even permit a simpler compound literal like (int[n]){ 0 }. I understand that compound literals and VLAs are distinct, and that the above limitations are, strictly speaking, consistent with the standard constructs. But I would think that once you have variable-length struct members that it wouldn't be too difficult to unify the semantics of VLAs and compound literals. If GCC can't be bothered to improve language consistency, then that's pretty strong evidence that VLA struct members are a dead-end and I can't fault clang for avoiding it.

But if GCC did improve consistency, it might significantly help push C toward safer array semantics. The last hurdle would be definition scope and working out how declarations worked. Presumably the ABI would require fat pointers that embed VLA annotations. Getting there would be a long, winding road, but this is how it would happen. It's complex, but the cost+benefit ratio would, I think, be better for both compiler writer and programmer compared to the complexity of C++.
We probably should have linked to this in the post, but you can see the details of Ivan's findings on our public issue tracker: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/list?can=1&q...

As expected from DOM fuzzing there's lots of overflows, use-after-free, and type confusion issues.
The contracting company who provides the IT people likewise views IT as a cost and not worth the trouble to do well. Only small companies give a damn about technical things. The contracting companies view their value proposition as mountains of documents, tons of forms, processes, ISO9001 certifications, etc. The people who write software or work with hardware? All they do is type. Their work isn't important in any of this.
The post office will do this only for a year, and only if you explicitly register a change of address with them.
Faster, newer generation CPU (Zero moved back to ARMv6). Additional microcontrollers (2x PRU, 1x M3). ADC. More I/O capability. Open hardware with a (yet to be proven, but I'm very confident) much higher availability for use in projects, etc.---and also simple to clone/extend if you want to make your own. Also, better processor documentation.
Couldn't they research and study people who already don't work for a living? I mean those who already own capital and don't expect the government to steal some for them?

That would sure be cheaper.
Portugal legalized all drugs years ago, and addiction rates have gone down.
Oh I agree with you.

I was originally responding to the person that said the iTunes store doesn't sell DRM'd stuff. The movies definitely are but I don't know if the DRM restricts the movie to being played on an Apple device or if it uses some non-Apple DRM making it playable elsewhere.
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I haven't heard anything since the announcement. IMDB's last update was in January. It's not just Ron Howard though--it's also a bunch of the people who worked on the Apollo 13 film, which seems like a very good fit.

Unlike a lot of folks, I liked the second part of Seveneves, but I won't miss it if they cut it from the film. I don't even know how they'll fit the whole first part in without a 3.5 hour running time.
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UBI is great, now everyone will be able to pay for healthcare!
If the thing that most deeply interests you is Knowledge (with capital initial, and understood in the broadest sense possible), then Anathem is like catnip for your brain.

It's the book that shows how deeply the author understands what motivates knowledge geeks - be they active in science, technology, or any other field.

Reading it, nearly at every page I was like "wow, this guy gets it!"
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> all of which is easily traceable by the government

This goes back to my original point regarding capital controls: previously discreetly tolerated, their violation is now openly acknowledged. If you stroll through Hong Kong you'll find invoicing services being openly advertised.

Why they're tolerated is more murky. My guess is it's a vital tool for China's movers and shakers. In that regard, one could argue that hiding under their bulk is a safer bet than flagging oneself as politically impotent by using outside channels.

> It’s also expensive, and has a central point of failure (the lawyer)

I haven't heard of any big frauds in the invoicing business, though there's no incentive to publicize it. These lawyers are typically providing other services to the capital providers, so it's--all in--probably less expensive than trying to surreptitiously purchase and dump large numbers of Bitcoins. From what I've heard, they're typically associated with internationally-reputable firms.

There's an interesting conversation about the strengths and detriments of invoicing versus Bitcoin for purposes of laundering money. But this isn't that conversation. The reality is most capital flight occurs through the former, to the point of making the latter numerically irrelevant. Capital controls were almost certainly not a significant factor in China's moves against Bitcoin.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice, not advice of any other kind. Do not launder money.
Considering that address and date of birth strongly predict most of the digits of the SSN, this is pretty bad. Consider further than even name can predict SSN (people named Stein more likely to have been born at the Jewish hospital, and SSNs are sharded by hospital).

SSN is not a secret. End of story.
That's an interesting fact about power. Is this due to the inverse square law?

I was recently reading about Russia's new ICBM, RS-28 Sarmat 2 (Satan 2). It is said that one could wipe out Texas or France. [1] I'm not as optimistic about our prospects.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/26/europe/russia-nuclear-missile-...
I completely and totally agree.

Most people have no desire to look at a wiring schematic, troll around a junkyard, plasma cut, sand body panels, etc.

I do these things on a weekly or monthly basis when I am working on a new project car for myself or to sell or for my friends.

Maybe other people value their time and effort differently from me, but they don't realize just how much money and freedom they are sacrificing by buying a DRM car.

They either don't know that they are signing up to be exploited, or they feel they have no other choice.
Your average user will be unable to make those "rational decisions" as they are often not made aware of the downsides. This is intentional
I agree that some boundaries, licensing, and potentially security requirements make a ton of sense. I'm cautiously for them. (Only cautiously because the govt can't get their own act together most of the time.)

But as of now, those requirements don't apply to them. So acting like they do is distracting at best.

Let's figure out ways: a) to know what they have, b) to force them to accept corrections, and c) add major negative consequences if/when they f* up.
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I think churches are more likely to emerge as the new government. Arguably worse.
Uber doesn't offer service in much of the rural US now. There's a ride service specifically for rural areas called Liberty:
http://libertymobilitynow.com/

But even these are for micropolitan areas with populations on the order of 40,000. There is still no service for more remote areas.
>Soft skills include things like being able to empathize with others, which is quite important for building usable interfaces

And, as with leaving product management to the professional product managers, it is usually better to leave the designing of UIs to the professional designers.

>And, soft skills are incredibly important for getting along with others

Not having good soft skills is not the same thing as having a toxic personality.

I've known many developers who rarely talked, rarely spoke up during meetings and just quietly got on with their job - building code to spec - and did it really well. They were, sadly, always highly underrated as developers and judging by what I've read in this thread, this is a prejudice that isn't likely to disappear any time soon.
Title is technically correct (the best kind of correct) but jellies do have a nervous system. Its a net if a few hundred neurons.

Here's to hoping this research helps is discover why we evolved to sleep.
Yes, but the argument that just releasing the database is responsible is based on the notion that private sector businesses have no right to use the identifier and can't complain if their usage is compromised. But extensive use by the public sector means that an alternative system needs to be put in place before releasing the database.

If you think about it, there's virtually no purpose to a SSN without the IRS's current usage. The whole purpose of it is to track contributions into and benefit distributions out of the fund. The SSA tracks the benefit distributions, but the IRS's usage is squarely within the raison d'etre for the SSN existence in the first place. Releasing the mapping database would essentially break Social Security since they'd no longer have a working way of tracking contributions into the fund.
> My point here is, when I'm driving a car, I can control my personal risk.

Yeah, if you never looked at the evidence or psychology then I suppose you would come to that conclusion.

> With flying, most of the risk factors are completely out of my hands.

Why do you think flying is so much safer than driving?
My assertion is supported though. Google tank man video.
The Trisolarian world was definitely shitty, and it's pretty improbable that life would manage to thrive there, but I thought it was still interesting.

My problem with those novels shows up anywhere someone uses "pure logic" to solve some problem, but the logic is totally insane and nobody ever calls them on it. In fact the entire universe follows the same insane logic for some reason, and it dooms the whole place.

It does get kind of funny near the end when the author decides that the big crunch is going to happen after all. But then all of the alien races have stolen too much of the mass of the universe to hide in their own little pocket universes so it won't happen. The protagonists at that point return their mass to the universe, but given the logic of the rest of the series there is no chance that the alien races will do that, the universe remains doomed.
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If that were the cause it wouldn't be unique to games.

There's little difference between piracy and the demo/shareware model that is common in gaming, the pirated version often lacks updates and online play leading a fan to buy the game.
How would you control for that in a real sense? Often "we controlled for" means we made some pretty big logical leaps that we justified with statistical handwaving in my experience.
With a sufficiently loose definition of "church" is that so different from today?
To me, the basic user experience question is "does the user want to fill out a form?" If the answer is 'yes' then provide the user with the experience of filling out a form. If the answer is 'no' then give careful consideration to an onboaring process that requires filling out a form.

To me, the hard part of user experience is putting what the user likes in front of what makes life easy for the developer.

My advice: Pick one or two topics and just let the user pick one or the other or both or none and go from there. Some people will click on topics that they are not interested in, just to see what the platform is like. If a few people find the topics interesting then the platform can grow...and if no one finds the topics interesting then display some different topics.

It might even be worth picking some topics that the software team is interested in and having the team engage with users as users just to make the conversations balance when there is only one outside user.

In other words, my advice is to make simple experiments to see what works for a few people rather than trying to build something for 'everyone' before there are at least a few people who like to use the platform.
Anathem > Cryptonomicon > Snow Crash > all the rest

I have read through Anathem at least three times and still enjoy it with each reading.
Making music isn't virtually free though. It's just the copying of music that has already been made that's basically free. Plenty of labor still goes into the production process. Copyright has plenty of flaws, but is there a better alternative to incentivize the creation of music and art?
Another Book, but from 2003, which is good to have in printed format when the internets stops working locally: U.S. Armed Forces Nuclear, Biological And Chemical Survival Manual -- http://a.co/0nKTR76

And, a good item not generally available locally - but is a simple, inexpensive and important remedy after an attack (keep in mind fallout may travel by wind hundreds of miles) is having some potassium iodide pills. Edit: get one pack per person you're trying to protect - each person needs 10 pills (1 per 24 hours for 10 days) -- http://a.co/eOmNJ8Z

"Iosat Potassium Iodide has been FDA approved since 1982. Stockpiling of potassium iodide (KI) is highly recommended by health officials worldwide to prevent thyroid cancer of those exposed to radioactive iodine following a nuclear reactor accident or detonation of a nuclear weapon. Radioactive iodine can travel hundreds of miles downwind, such as it did after the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters. The thyroid is the only part of the body that absorbs and stores iodine. By taking FDA approved potassium iodide prior to exposure of radioactive iodine, your thyroid will become saturated with safe, stable iodine. This will prevent your thyroid's absorption of any additional iodine (radioactive or not) long enough for the radioactive iodine inhaled or ingested to be safely dispersed through the kidneys."

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I have done some numeric programming in Go and compared to Python it's really hampered by the lack of operator overloading.

Of course, it just provides convenience, but it's what makes writing stuff in numpy, Tensorflow, Eigen, etc elegant.
I think the parent comment I was replying to was more concerned about the situation where we have UBI without full automation. In which case there may be a push for jobs not yet automated to be split into part time positions. If society really feels like keeping people employed is a moral good in the face of increasing automation, then there may be pressure to increase workforce numbers and reduce working hours. Especially possible if UBI can close the gap and maintain a safety net.

In addition, full, 100% automation doesn't seem likely to me. Service sectors of the economy may simply keep smaller human staffs in order to keep their hospitality atmosphere. Not enough to offset job loss in other sectors, but there are already plenty of businesses today that have a human element that don't _actually_ need them. It might even look like a luxury business model. No reason that will go away just because robots can do it better.
REAMDE was surprisingly good and I learned a lot about gold farming in the process.
Telling people what words to use in a dialogue is toxic. :V
Moderators: the title should be changed to the actual article title, which is:

"Scientists just discovered the first brainless animal that sleeps"

The submitted title, "Scientists just discovered the first animal without a brain that sleeps", is ambiguous. In addition to the correct meaning, it could also have meant the first animal whoe brain does not sleep.
The tech stack is Perl+MySQL. Ancillary tech is Go, Rust, Java, C. Lots of Javascript.

Very high delivery velocity (You will be expected to roll out code in your first week).
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I've been in that situation, close to closing time. I was alone, many stories down in the depths of the complex, when without warning the lights went out. I've never experienced such utter, black-out darkness. I was instantly paralysed with fear. The lights came on again after too many seconds of blackness, and I dashed out into daylight as fast as I could. I had to pause several times on the way out while the attendant switched off the lights a few more times.

If you ever get a chance to visit, do so - there are several underground cities in the region, all slightly different. They're fascinating.
Glad to hear you are ok. The largest car I ever owned was a 2006 Lincoln Town Car, which was a great car to drive if you aren't in a hurry. Built like a tank, with old-school 'body bolted onto frame rails' construction. My mom had a Miata for a while and I always felt safer in that. Driving one does require that you pay constant attention to your surroundings (performance is no good if you don't use it) but its ability to manoeuvre was just amazing.

Your Golf probably had decent performance too, but we are discussing your statement about the relative merits of a Miata versus a SUV and there's no comparison, safety-wise. The stats are very clear.
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Now if we could just do something about those housing prices, that might even be possible. (What percent of homeowners do you suppose bought their homes without taking on some debt?)

Paying rent is also bad for you.
> It's simply impossible for me to believe that they would try to ban Bitcoin for any other reason than to prevent capital flight

Fraud? Massive amounts of fraud occurring through ICOs? American investors, even retail ones, are markedly more sophisticated than Chinese investors for having generations of cultural knowledge of conmen and securities.

Capital flight is happening, but from what I can tell the PBoC is currently encouraging it. Over the last 2 weeks, many screws have been loosened in a bid to (a) appease dealmakers and (b) push the yuan back down. The number of Chinese investors I work with who, over the last month, for the first time in years, were able to once again stage capital is massive.

TL; DR I am thoroughly convinced the "Bitcoin was banned in China because of capital controls" argument is being pushed by people who stand to gain from ICOs. Framing it as a China-specific problem, as opposed to an issue the Bitcoin community must address, sequesters the problem (for the time being).

Note: not saying you're doing this. I bought the argument for a bit. The facts, however, speak decisively one way.
AFAIK Nuclear Winter isn't discredited, it's just been called into question and challenged. The question isn't settled one way or the other.
Do you have a plan for installing safety-critical updates?
Do you mean Equifax? I'm having a hard time keeping Equifax, Experian, and Expedia straight. And poor Expedia didn't even do anything to deserve my confusing them with those other two.
If you commissioned a study for 420K, got it, ignored it cause you didn't like the results, and then refused to honor freedom of information requests by ignoring them, too, I'd be trying to find a way to put you in prison.

It's really no different than just stealing the 420K directly, unless you had cohorts at the company doing the study and it was just plain corruption, which is no better.
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You could apply this exact argument to software. Would you?