skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While a lot of the blame falls on management for, well, completely failing to manage anything or establishing a proper feedback loop where the developer(s) could contribute to management and deal with clients in a more organic way (to prevent the requirements creep, mostly), there's still a lot to blame on the developer. He evidently wasn't the genius he (and the company) thought he were and, in the eagerness to prove that he was, he made a mess.

For my part, I'm glad I'm way too lazy to be a Rick; I would never want to grab all that responsibility and, as such, I hopefully won't ever make a mess of that proportion.
> (i forget the English word) so if you do get sick it's going to cost you 2,500 CHF before the insurance kicks in

I think the word you're looking for is deductible
Can you provide a link to any? I'm drawing a blank; the (high level pop science writing) consensus appears to be that while there are obviously powerful ethnolinguistic features, what limited evidence there is for inter-racial physiological voice features is swamped by the evidence for intra-racial vocal differences.

It might be tricky to de-confound the ethnolinguistic stuff from the physiological stuff, because some of the ethnolinguistic markers are subtle.
Is it just me, or was that huge bug with serious implications if you don’t know it exists? I don’t often use MySQL, maybe its well know in the community.
I've had a couple of recent XPS 13 laptops, and they seem pretty solid to me. I've seen plenty of crappy HP and Dell machines, but the good ones are pretty good.
VPN, with a local server for speedy access.
You should read lean startup before you build a company again :)

Should be getting sales very early in the pipeline. Say after 25k or 50k development.
Anyone Remember Creatures? A mid 1990s alife game with a neural network?
Meteor has the op-log-driver which calculates query-result for changes instead of running the wohle query again. Same comes with rxdb where it's called query-change-detection.
>"Moreover, they’ve been able to do it for less than $30 per metric ton of CO2."

If my math is right this means that with ~5% of the cost of the fuel you could offset car emissions to make transportation carbon neutral. Seems quite cheap if that's the case.
It doesn't sound like NsJail does that; maybe try FUSE or SECCOMP_RET_TRACE?
I'm not sure I'd still recommend them now, but when I read them many, many years ago I really enjoyed David Morrell's [1] novels about highly trained assassins. They had titles of the form The $GROUP_OF_PEOPLE of the $THING: The Brotherhood of the Rose, The Fraternity of the Stone, The Covenant of the Flame, The League of Night and Fog (and maybe a few others whose titles didn't match that pattern, I think Testament was about the same characters, but can'lt really remember).

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[1] David Morrell is probably best known for First Blood, the novel Rambo is based on.
There are at least two problems. The first is that the banks are going to charge the agency a transaction fee. The second is that you start having to put in all kinds of anti-fraud mechanisms (think about someone riding around on buses with a negative account balance that never gets checked because the card scanner is only synced when the bus comes in to the depot). Not saying more user-friendly systems can't be rolled out, but this works good enough for most systems.
I have T-mobile prepaid and my caller ID info pops up as someone else's name. I've called to complain but they claim it's not possible to fix this for prepaid plans. I'm sure it's a massive E911 violation but, you know, computers are hard.
Most states estimate the cost per mile of an automobile at above $0.50/mile for business expenses. When gasoline was >$4, that estimate was estimated to be $1/mile.

You're also not estimating the liability very well. Likelihood and cost of death or injury of 5 people MV to SF and back added with chances of uninsured drivers leaves most drivers well underinsured. Also, the statistical unlikelihood of having a fully occupied vehicle.

Other costs include road subsides, parking subsidies/real estate costs.
> So I can understand that Mozilla might want to keep themselves off mailing blacklists

So can I, but the desire/need to do this does not imply a "right" to track the opening of messages in the manner initially planned. The reader does however have a right to privacy, whether they link know about a 1x1 image and its effects or not.

Email deliverability is a giant pain to have to deal with, of course, so the motivation to overlook this small sacrifice of privacy is pretty high.
And the two parties spent $2.5 billion on an election in which about 125 million votes were cast. $20 per vote.

At that rate, even if the Russians ads we're discussing had all been targeted at the Presidential election in those 3 states (far from true), that only equals about 5,000 votes.

Further assuming that 2/3's of votes aren't changeable and the $2.5 billion was spent to influence the remaining third, we're talking about 1500 votes influenced.
author here:

Not exactly, you can technically overwrite a file with bind mounts, e.g. use

nsjail --chroot / -R /dev/null:/etc/passwd -- /bin/sh -i

This will make /etc/passwd empty, but nsjail doesn't rewrite syscalls. In order to do that, you'd have to use SECCOMP_RET_TRACE (TRACE(number) in kafel config lang), and then add some C code to nsjail which will use ptrace() to intercept and rewrite your syscall. It's possible, just not implemented, because it didn't seem like something that's required by users.
Also worth nothing that the attack in the OP is on TKIP, but the KRACK attack that will be revealed tomorrow is based upon problems with the RNG (the example RNG, which apparently everyone used, is trivial to break and the protocol is also kind enough to provide you with a huge chunk of the entropy used in seeding the RNG. D'oh!)
Unified Parallel C is definitely oriented towards supercomputer markets, where ARM is not a major player and never has been. Supercomputers used to be heavily based on POWER, MIPS, and Sparc, but around 2003 or so, x86 dominated the market. According to TOP 500, something like 80+% of supercomputers are running Intel processors (not even AMD is really competitive anymore), with POWER making up most of the non-x86 crowd (there's a handful of Sparcs running around, plus some Chinese home-grown architectures).

Something else that's happened in the past 6 years or so has been the rise of NVidia boards to get high TFLOPS counts. If I look at the mailing lists, it seems interest in UPC drops off somewhere around 2011-2012, and I don't think it's a coincidence that the rise of GPGPU in HPC applications has something to do with it.
Depends what that means, it sounds like it's meant to sound hollow.
Their brain have slightly more neuron count than a c-elegan worm.

Source: http://creatures.wikia.com/wiki/Brain

You could use the supplied tool to view their brain https://creatures.wiki/Brain_in_a_Vat (The screenshot in that link shows the structure of the creatures brain in the game).
Will that produce a bounce (and so.. graylisting/blacklisting)? I think not, but I may be wrong.

BTW the OP said "dead", not "inactive but still open"
I believe it is competing initially with ARM. There are already RISC-V chips that are competitive with Cortex M4 and similar.
There are also a BlackHat Europe 2017 paper that is apparently a strong foreshadowing on the attack.
Don't forget his girlfriend.

To paraphrase: "Usually a comprehensive knowledge of UNIX and a girlfriend are mutually exclusive."
My only take away from this article was PostgreSQL doesn't use a bug tracker. I didn't even know there are large projects out there not using some tracking system for bugs/issues
Or you could spend the time reading the papers of many groups.
This is a 2016 paper. Tomorrow's details are apparently about forcing nonce reuse in most WPA2 implementations. Don't let the date fool you into thinking it's old news being discussed!
The performance is the same because the core loop in both cases is identical:

loop:
vaddsd	(%rcx), %xmm0, %xmm0
addq	$8, %rcx
addq	$-1, %rax
jne	loop

There's more setup required for offset arrays, but otherwise there's no difference. I'm not sure why arrays having an offset would be any more work: array indexing in general involves adding an index to a base pointer; having an offset effectively just changes what the base pointer value is.
Binary numbers are written on the phonograph records sent with the Voyager spacecraft [1]. Perhaps twisted logic but if it's so universal that aliens can understand it, then I suppose other people than Leibniz could have invented it.

[1] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/images-on-the-golden-...
It's possible, but FWDs are not really a viable solution for "pluggable storage". It also limits what the planner/optimizer can do, and (obviously) it introduces latency because there's network communications.

FWD are a great thing when you need to occasionally access remote systems, but it's not a drop-in replacement for storage.

For example, how exactly would you do consistent backups?
To Reveal or Not Reveal: Should we share our salary history with recruiters?
Freedom of choice is better than having to stand on the bus, even if it is possibly better for your health. Which it probably isn't, as public transit is how infections spread quickly and efficiently.
Developing web applications today is at least a twofold gain over what it was 10 (edit: oh, more like 15 I guess) years ago, and that mostly has to do with available tooling (browsers, frameworks, etc.) The same is true for many other areas of software.
We do still spend the same amount of time building things, but the things we build are far larger than what we would've built 10 years ago. That, however, is a different phenomenon, and it's not the one that Brooks lays out in NSB.

Also, it's worth noting that the Brooks thesis is also somewhat vaguely defined because it's never clear what is meant by "productivity". For example, if we increase the quality of software by an order of magnitude (e.g., by completely eliminating huge classes of once-common vulnerabilities), is that an improvement in productivity?
Why can't the city just run smaller vehicles, like minivans or airport shuttles, on less popular routes? Sub-contracting may be cheaper for the city but would make for terrible PR. Since driver salaries are the biggest cost, the only way private companies could make these routes profitable is by doing the very same things Lyft/Uber are criticized for: low wages, no benefits etc.

EDIT: Reading some of the other replies, I suppose making rides on these routes on-demand instead of fixed timetable services may change the economics of less popular routes.
Ha! Newbie. You still have 99% to go :)
> In the games, the Norns have their own simulated biochemistry, haploid genetics, and neural network to serve as a brain. From Creatures 2 onwards, Norns also possess organs determined by their genetics;[31] mutation and injury can render these defunct, with typically fatal consequences. Each of these has grown somewhat over the course of the series, allowing the creatures to become more complex and intelligent. Norns are omnivores and eat a variety of foods, including carrots, lemons, seeds, insects, fish, honey, and other things. The Norns that the player starts with require some degree of training and discipline from the player in order to make good decisions to maintain their health; however, later on they can evolve to be more independent and hardy, with better-developed instincts and a more robust biochemistry. The player can take advantage of this to breed certain colours or traits through artificial selection, and through many generations the changes can become quite pronounced.

Source: From wiki link above.
Conversely, every nutjob with a gun argues against basic supply and demand analysis, saying that restricting the supply of weapons that simplify killing won't reduce the number of killings, when everybody who has gone through Econ 101 knows that shifting the supply curve to the right will result in a new, lower equilibrium number of killings.

If you care so much about freedom, why aren't you arguing that Walmart should be allowed to sell ready-made phone-triggered bombs to anybody who wants one?

The EFF makes a good case for why Rosenstein is wrong, and it's not some black and white freedom issue.
I'm not sure if that's a fair comparison.

You're essentially comparing the cost of fuel versus the cost of: road infrastructure, costs of a vehicle, costs of a driver, costs of risk (insurance / safety), parking and servicing (cleanliness).

The train's parking space at the station and during off-hors is paid for your ticket, as are the tracks and tunnels it travels through, its trained driver, its safety measures, the cleaning and security personnel.

What you'd have to figure is, that the fuel might be $20. But you need to buy a car, pay for it monthly, pay for insurance, pay taxes indirectly to fund your roads, pay for your license and the police who ensure safety of the environment you drive in, enforcing the rules, you need to clean your car yourself and park it during off hours. All of those costs and some others (like say, maintenance/repairs) must be averaged into your car ride. And you'd need to divide that by the average amount of occupants, which is something like 1.2 for trips to work, not 4.

And then you get a typical long-term situation. I agree, it can be frustrating to think 'this car I already paid for, on a road which I pay for anyway, with this monthly insurance I already have, the license I already have, the 3 people I already have lined up to make this exact trip, and the police that's already in place to ensure a safe road, this trip is cheaper than the train'... But there's a lot to it as you can see, and it's not even a typical trip.

One important aspect about public transport is that it subsidises low-popularity roads. e.g. where I'm from, a bus ticket is basically the same price in the entire province, despite some routes earning no profit due to them just connecting small villages with a bunch of old people with bigger cities. The solution of say Uber would be to stop servicing or increase the price there to where it becomes economically feasible. The public transport approach is to not stop servicing or charge ridiculous rates, but simply to move money around so that everyone has a semblance of affordable transportation available. It's similar to post delivery, it's under pressure because there's no money to be made in lots of low-density areas. But there's something to be said for the ability to cheaply send a letter anywhere in the country for a roughly standardised price. That context too should be considered when comparing prices to very specific trips. You'd often end up comparing an averaged out transport mode price versus a specific high-occupancy car trip, cherry picking without the intention.
The real problem here isn't text-only email, or even Mozilla being concerned about not being able to track who is opening messages sent to its mailing lists. The real problem is that certain large webmail providers are making a hostile takeover bid for the fundamental infrastructure that email represents. The likes of Google have decided that their own interpretation of how email should work is more important than things like following standards and delivering properly formatted and correctly sent messages.
I'm not religious, I only care about concepts such as "evil" so far as they are semantically useful lingual constructs.

> we have complete agency in is our own actions and that will ultimately be what we will be held accountable for

By who, and for what; consequence or intention? A utilitarian justification seems to me as good as any.
Yes, SECCOMP_RET_TRACE works, but nsjail doesn't have code to support that - it didn't seem that useful when mount namespaces can police access to files.

Otherwise, it's possible to make it support that. Though, a word of caution: ptrace() is complex, and sometimes buggy interface with a lot of corner-cases - iow: it's easy to make a mistake with consequences for security of the whole setup.

PS: It's possible to use SECCOMP_RET_TRAP (TRAP(number) in kafel's - nsjail seccomp-bpf cfg language - nomenclature), and rewrite syscalls in-process with help of SIGSYS signal handler.
They definitely can potential prodromal cases that might not otherwise progress to a full blown case of mental illness and do so in a way that exacerbates it. Many cases of schizophrenia in the prodromal phase don't necessarily develop into a clinical case so it isn't simply isn't a matter of psychedelic use being net neutral since they would have gotten it anyways

Psychosis is literally damaging and the earlier and more violently one is subjected to it the worse their lifetime prognosis will be.
No bounce. My reading of the article is that the problem is with accounts that are still valid, but inactive. If you send a lot of mail to such accounts, e-mail providers flag you as spammy, apparently.
>>I later learnt one of our "rival groups" attempted the same thing and it took three phd students working full time for a year to rewrite their code from fortran to C++.

I wonder if there are any transcoders for Fortran to C++? I wonder if there is even a market for something like that?
I've written alpha versions of transcoders for C to Java and Java to Objective-C and I think I could do the same for Fortran to another language but why?

Writing a transcoder first is the right way to do it and it should take you a couple of months to do it, especially if you already have some experience with this kind of stuff. Definitely less than a year for a single person. I would not try to translate the code by hand. It would be a never ending project full of bugs.

Edit: Apparently there are plenty of Fortran to C++ transcoders. Here is just one I found during my google search:
http://cci.lbl.gov/fable/

No idea how good they work.
Hah! Yes, totally. Haha I wonder why I said that?
Again, does it matter how fast you edit when compared to spotting what to edit, which change to make, and how to explain it to your teammates? I think it matters very little. Obviously, if you're so slow you it drives your teammates crazy then it becomes a problem, but really, I don't think the difference lies in learning VIM's shortcuts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar
> dynamically adjustable bus/van routes

This is basically what exists in third world countries with private mini buses. As cities become more wealthy they always transition to fixed routes with higher capacity buses because it's well known that it is more efficient.

No amount of ~machine learning algorithms~ is going to make mini buses driving random places more efficient than high capacity buses on fixed routes.
But we're not talking about "the USA and UK MotorBike and Car industry" now are we? Or, you know, really anything but software development methodologies?
Did you write your own libc and libm? Compiler? We are ALL using code we didn't write.
There's a lot of work on this, although no breakthrough applications yet.

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"Quantum Machine Learning"

Jacob Biamonte, Peter Wittek, Nicola Pancotti, Patrick Rebentrost, Nathan Wiebe, Seth Lloyd

Recent progress implies that a crossover between machine learning and quantum information processing benefits both fields. Traditional machine learning has dramatically improved the benchmarking and control of experimental quantum computing systems, including adaptive quantum phase estimation and designing quantum computing gates. On the other hand, quantum mechanics offers tantalizing prospects to enhance machine learning, ranging from reduced computational complexity to improved generalization performance. The most notable examples include quantum enhanced algorithms for principal component analysis, quantum support vector machines, and quantum Boltzmann machines. Progress has been rapid, fostered by demonstrations of midsized quantum optimizers which are predicted to soon outperform their classical counterparts. Further, we are witnessing the emergence of a physical theory pinpointing the fundamental and natural limitations of learning. Here we survey the cutting edge of this merger and list several open problems.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09347
It's interesting that you refer to Bernie refusing to clear a path for her as "things going wrong". As if her coronation was expected and the path was supposed to be free of competition.

I think tough primary competition should be the norm, and she should have faced more than one strong challenger.
I'm intersted in knowing how the revocation of access to data at a later time could be possible. Also it seems likely that any organization you gave access to could simple store and sell the data.

The biggest problem I can see from the article is that once someone loses their key their identity is lost forever and they must rebuild the data. The first few times that happens the public will be turned off to the idea.
To do such a rewrite one needs domain knowledge much more than you need software engineering knowledge. This means you need to get research physicist to contribute major effort into such a rewrite. To get there one needs to make them see a clear benefit of translating a system (that works fine today, thank you), from language A to language B.

A Ph.D. student or a young researcher might be more interested if a rewrite lets them run experiments using Amazon / CUDA / whatever for a few thousand dollars instead of spending scarce grant money on dedicated hardware.
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I interpreted that as fighting against other civilizations that are trying to stop your progress and protect the universe.
I guess the immediate question everyone has for such tools is how does it compare with clang-tidy for C++?
Three Ways I’ve Adopted the 'Teach and Learn' Lifestyle
Encrypt and Decrypt 802.11 on-the-fly
And it was the community that drew me in. Very early in my database career, I was having massive performance problems with my postgres install. I sent a very sharply toned message to the postgres performance mailing list. Within hours of that message, I was trading stack traces with Tom Lane. He was under no obligation to help me; in fact, I was, in hindsight, kinda a dick about it. But he did.

You probably can't buy support of that caliber, no matter how much money you throw at it.

YM, as always, MV.
"We reap what we sow" assumes an old testament concept of multi generational collective guilt and picturing your migration scenario penance, or divine(?) punishment sounds a little weird.

Also, give Africa a little credit, literacy rates are up, maybe the problems can be tackled right over there?

https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/ourwor...
Having more mass tends to smooth out the ride quite a bit.

Being longer has both upsides and downsides as you can get a lot of torque, but you also resist that torque better.
I don't understand the problem: mozilla is basically saying "we need to track you, otherwise gmail/yahoo/hotmail thinks we are sending spam".
But if that's the case, isn't the problem the to aggressive spam filtering of gmail/yahoo/hotmail? _Or_ mozilla is really sending spam. But knowing them I don't think that's the case.

So the real problem here is that everyone is using gmail/yahoo/hotmail, and those providers have broken spam filters. They should fix them.
At the very least, they can use Cell-ID
My response to that is "tough nuggets" or auto-unsubscribe if the user doesn't perform an action to keep it active.
CMU 15-819 Homotopy Type Theory
Ponder for a second what it means for the Fed to "buy" Treasury Notes by simply increasing the database entry for the seller's account. I think you will see that Wallace is right that this is effectively "printing money".
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What Is Customer Health Score?
The native code python extensions for numpy are written in C, but numpy often links to matrix libraries written in Fortran like BLAS and LAPACK