skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dopamine is not uniquely associated with social media.

Furthermore, dopamine isn’t addictive and “In studies with rats, where dopamine was suppressed, rats showed “normal hedonic reaction patterns,” and still showed normal pleasure responses even though dopamine was suppressed.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/women-who-stray/201701/n...
Given the number of articles I have read about homeless people with benefits who could afford to get back into housing if they would just move elsewhere, but they won't because they want to remain in the city they have long lived in, I don't think this is a given. It is actually an option currently for some people. Most don't seem to pursue it. And lots of start-ups feel they can't succeed if they leave the startup ecosystem in Silicon Valley.
I liked this part of one answer especially

> Still, I hope that this sheds some light on the question that is implied: "What really is the difference between proving some theorem and writing a program?" (To which a careless observer of the Curry-Howard correspondence might say: "Nothing at all!")
To shed some light on why they won, they chose a character (Shadow Fiend) that heavily relies on tight timings to execute moves. Naturally, AIs beat humans in events where timing is the key differentiator. Even so it’s quite impressive
The two different sentences do not look different for me in Lynx. I guess Lynx just passes the raw characters on and any Unicode handling happens in the terminal.
Maybe they shouldn't have started merging the patches in the open if they weren't ready to disclose the bug.
Muslims, just like Christians, range from so-secular-they-don't-even-pray to fundamentalists eg Wahhabism. So regardless of the blatant unconstitutionality of such a law, it's also just laughably ignorant to suggest that all Muslims believe the same thing and have the same attitude about "western ideals and culture" (whatever that means).
Yeah, definitely. Math proofs are above all else about being just rigorous enough to convince other people that the proof is correct, at least in the sense that small mistakes or oversights don't destroy the overall validity of the proof. That is, the idea is sound even if all the steps aren't 100% rigorous. And I don't mean to belittle; programs are similarly meant for other people to read and understand, but with the additional restriction that they have to be formal and unambiguous enough for a machine to understand them too!
A true super-human AI would take over without humans realizing anything is happening. If that's true, then it might be that AI is already taking over.
As someone who plays a lot of games, I can't wait for the day when Steam gets replaced by something better. And given Steam's current state, "something better" is a really low bar to go by. At this point I would prefer individual installers for each game, without any "platform" whatsoever.
A big mac costs €5??
My biggest problem with Markov chain generated text is the amount of simply grammatically nonsense output. For example “Grew up your bliss and the world.” as far as I can tell just doesn't parse
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Oops. My bad
I use LibreOffice and these appear as grey characters (at least some of the characters do). I've wondered what the grey characters were in the past and now I know.

Copy and paste the examples into LibreOffice and you will immediately see them.
The ones I frequent include financialindependence, headphones, coffee, mealprepsunday, running, bicycling. They all tend to cater to their audience fairly well.
Link to paper (“Using deep learning and Google Street View to estimate the demographic makeup of neighborhoods across the United States”):

http://www.pnas.org/content/114/50/13108.full.pdf
It does seem to be rather poorly written, e.g. the next paragraph

> they actually don't follow Newton's Law, they follow Schrodinger's Law so that theory is what we call quantum mechanics. The quantum mechanical interpretation tells scientists a lot of insights.
For anyone wondering how you could write a solver in 1500 lines of C, the answer is here: https://github.com/DennisYurichev/ToySMT/blob/master/ToySMT....

(i.e., use 'system' to shell out to an already existing solver, which is at least documented in the readme).
saya akan mendoakan anda agar bisa lebih baik di tahun ini dan mendapatkan donasi yang lebih kuat,bukan seperti kesombongan tim facebook dan, saya sangat perhatin dengan apa yang dilakukan facebook terhadap nasdaq, saya komentar tentang ini karna anda adalah bagian dari facebook,
Maybe not my favorite, but a fun one I wanted to mention anyway:

New Tech Start-Up Bubble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7vrCpWbmDw
If true, this is pretty huge. As if the AWS "You blew through your budget" emails right around midnight of New Years were only an appetizer.

Edit: AWS Spurious Budget Email Barrage: https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/7ndvli/anybody_get_spu...
Shouldn't cloud-grade computers be immune to rowhammer (or at least rowhammer should be much less efficient) as they typically use ECC RAM. Switching ECC RAM in a way that also modifies checksum in a deterministic way is (was?) not practical?
Link is auto-blocked by security software. Is this a known-misbehaving domain?
Sounds like a great direction to be moving towards. Much more grip on your social media, and you using it rather than the other way around.
I usually employ the same rule of thumb (although I don't know who "1488 types" are - my rule of thumb is that if a gamergater is passionately defending an opinion I default to the opposite until I learn more).

But I've made an exception for Peterson. He's not as super left wing as much university staff, sure, but to call him extreme right is very far fetched.

My impression, if this means anything to you, is that his political opinion fits well with that of centrist Christian Democrat parties in Europe (eg Merkel's CDU). That makes him more conservative than me, but because he's also totally brilliant, I don't mind.

I don't know why the alt right likes him, but my guess is that he's a great speaker who presents something like a very moderate version of alt right opinion.

I guess the most extreme thing he did, that he's somewhat infamous for, is refusing to use different singular personal pronouns than "he" and "she". While I think that he was an ass about that, to call someone far right for not wanting to say "ze" in a classroom is a few bridges to far for me.

EDIT: I got 4 downvotes already but really tried to make a balanced argument. Maybe I missed some of his "oeuvre" that would change my mind, maybe I'm outright wrong somewhere? Would appreciate someone pointing it out.
That's what you have on gog.com :)
DEOS: The digital exokernel operating system
Just wait till someone writes a bot that runs under a 'tux' user by default...
Individual creatives and individual technologists should be natural allies, in opposition to corporate middlemen. But this "Why, let them sell t-shirts!" attitude means we'll forever be at odds.
Enough people will say that it's fine because of cheaters.

The gaming or software equivalent of justifying bad legislation because of criminals.

Based off of the previous DNS false banning debacle, they'll ignore any negativity about this unless it reaches critical mass, at which point they'll say that combatting cheating is hard so give them carte blanche.

The GitHub response is merely the "stop pointing out the Emperor's lack of clothes" aspect of the first part.
A fun fact is that the thumbprint text box in the certificate viewer in Windows starts with an invisible character.

So if you have cert and just want to copy paste the thunbprint to some file or application which needs to load it, then copying the full thumbprint probably won't work.

When I said fun I meant frustrating.
> Their treatment of women, lgbt groups, free speech, for example are conflict with a harmonious western society.

That's true of Christianity too, yet there are no serious calls for a Christian ban.
I spun up a pageview notifier just for fun by creating a webtask to ping a service on my home automation system. This enables the usual stuff - real time UI, audio alerts, webpush notifications, history, etc.

The webtask keeps the HA connection secrets but also works on static sites. On the HA side, the custom service pulses a binary sensor device created from {title, pathname}.

https://github.com/theatersoft/test-device/blob/master/webta...
no clue what this is, anyone can explain? thanks
Google's infrastructure is geared towards making enormous services cheaper to run, at all costs. As a result, the maintenance burden of Reader was far higher than you might have expected.

That should explain at least part of the decision.
I missed what happened with AWS? Any details
https://www.typewolf.com has a showcase of sites with nice typography, and a bunch of other really good typography resources.
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That's a great list. How was your experience with self-publishing? Any stats you can share?
It doesn't matter whether it actually affects voters. The media companies with lots of money will "donate" millions to politicians willing to defeat such a bill, and maybe even run ads/frame the discussion as if it's against voters' best interests.

There is no large concentration of wealth on the other side of the issue to support it, therefore it will never happen.

Sorry folks but that's how politics in the USA works.
I thought a fundamental characteristic of basic income was that is was redistributed wealth from within a community. This is money that comes from outside Kenya. It's an influx of wealth into their community. And shows very little about how effective it would be to take $1000 from someone to give to her neighbor.
Zero width non-joiners are also a great way to bypass swearing filters in most games and forums.
Everything has a failure rate. This introduces another set of heuristics (and another false-{positive,negative} rate), another set of potential implementation bugs in those heuristics. What if being able to run the program on a particularly memory-limited computer could save the universe, even more slowly than the project manager originally wanted it to run?

Statically encoding something like a memory constraint sounds very hard for all but the simplest algorithms. What about a randomized algorithm that sometimes uses more heap? How do you get around not knowing how much it's going to use without running it?
Ditto. I wonder if anyone else here spends time on Sufficient Velocity?

It's an unusual place in many ways, not least for having been built by an idealistic (but pragmatic) lawyer who's been using it for, hmm, nation building?
No ones hiding anything, this patchset was developed in the open for many many months. The hysteria and intrigue in this random tumblr blog is completely superfluous. It's a hardware bug anyway.

Here is a good hint to when something is not being embargoed: there is a paper and a public demonstration.
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Haha got the emails too
I experienced something similar with McDonald's in Taiwan as well.
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It seemed pretty obvious that comment was meant to be satirical.
It has been obvious something is up for weeks now, and the disclosure is apparently going to be very soon, so it is a bit late to worry.
Ahh yes, Security through Obscurity that is always the best

If no one talks about a security problem that makes it disappear
i doubt visiting would change your view, because your view--ie, what is the "appeal" and the "values" sounds about right. I've been here eight years and if there's some magic, i haven't seen it yet--just stale ideas conceived in isolation and enough frantic iteration to convince someone to pay for more adolescent experiment
On the Strategy and Behavior of Bitcoin Mining with N-attackers [pdf]
Embargos do not make you secure. If the bug exists the only safe assumption is that it is already being exploited.

The faster the information gets out the better.
There was also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

The Thing was a bugged US seal built by the Soviet Union and given to the US ambassador to the Soviet Union as a gift.
AWS had scheduled maintenance requiring reboot of all EC2 instances in December. Maybe this is somehow related.
SaaS? Never ever I would trust a SaaS for tasks like that. Honestly speaking I'm pretty tired of SaaS-everything. It just does not make sense and negatively affects the progress of humankind.
Thanks for the upvotes. Though makes me wonder if indeed my first design draft was no good when comparing the old to the new?
See also this AMA, running today:

> "Hello! My name is Cerys and I am studying for a PhD in multispectral imaging applied to historical artefacts. This involves capturing images in ultraviolet, visible and infrared light to reveal hidden features, which can no longer be seen by the human eye. I was asked to do an AMA as my research on Egyptian artefacts was released yesterday on the BBC news (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42357259)

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7netyj/iama_mathemati...
In Team Fortress 2, there is a group of people who host multiple cheat-controlled aimbotting bots, which run around on servers, destroying everyone playing in the other team. These are called cat-bots.

To host these bots, you need to set up a Linux environment. Then you can use a script, which automatically prepares your system for hosting the bots. One of the things it does is it creates multiple users in Linux (to run multiple Steam instances), all of them starting with "catbot".

https://github.com/nullifiedcat/catbot-setup

And the script creators already changed every mention of "catbot" to "kisak" (name of the Github moderator for Valve)

https://github.com/nullifiedcat/catbot-setup/commit/58582f81...
Back in the Usenet days, around the late '80s, I had read somewhere/somehow a few years before about how classified information would be printed with tiny differences in spacing to track leaks to foreign adversaries. In some newsgroup, I happened to mention I had read about this technique, which while obvious once you think of it was apparently not well known. Certainly by that time, it was very well known to the KGB.

Months after my public comment, I got a phone call from an AT&T inventor who was prosecuting a patent on the same technology. They were very interested where I had read about the technique in the public literature. Alas, I could not remember where I had read that little factoid so I wasn't much use to them. It was disturbing to them that their patent claim was out in the open literature somewhere, but they could not find it.
This is a fantastic introduction.

https://medium.com/opentracing/take-opentracing-for-a-hotrod...
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- had my first child (now 3 mo's)

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It sounds like Intel, Google and Amazon are hiding something. Wouldn't want customers thinking that cloud computing is fundamentally insecure now would we?
That’d be odd though. HR usually have no weight on the decision making. If HR does, I wouldn’t want to work there. I wouldn’t expect the legal team influences me hiring a junior developer. It is rhe manager’s responsibility to budget.

HR / legal might have a say when it comes to hiring like a C-level executive.
I really like AvE (https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil).

Lots of really cool stuff if your into mechanical engineering or really just making/breaking cool (physical) stuff.
I first heard of a device like this as a kid reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Dunn,_Invisible_Boy
The bit flip would be done in a normal fashion - i.e. a command issued that changed the memory location, and hence updates the checksum. The occasional (about one bit flip per Terabyte per hour I think, on average) stray cosmic ray inducing a momentary over-voltage causing the checksum to now disagree would hopefully be within the design's ability to flip back.
This is probably a better link:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/741878/eb6c9d3913d7cb2b/
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16001476)
If they are professional and honest, the individual team is still the expert on the requirements, including on whether or not custom software development is needed at all.
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that would have been a withholder, not disclosure. you need to disclose the vulnerability to those who are vulnerable for it to be disclosure, and nothing else is responsible.
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Trademark doesn't restrict description. It restricts, well, trade. This thread contains numerous references to Disney, an even more valuable trademark than Mickey Mouse, and there's nary a problem.
I'm assuming the person you replied to is referencing emails that AWS sent out on New Year's, stating incorrect forecasted usage.

Some discussion can be found on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7ndlk7/aws_anyone...
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple - all need to be shut down in their present form. The biggest problem is that our anti-competitive legislation is ill-equipped to handle tech monopolies.

The extremely complex nature of modern software and its ability to offer unparalled distribution advantage is nothing like the world has ever seen. The ability of Google to push something like a chrome browser comes not only from its galleons of highly paid engineers, but also its ability to advertise/support it for free for decades to come. There simply does not exist another sustainable model to finance a complex product like an internet browser and provide it for free to consumers for decades.

The bigger problem is what is the form of regulation that could be applied to such behemoths. Its extremely hard to regulate it by a case-to-case basis, similar to what happenned in telecom, simply because the business models are too complex and different products monetize differently.

I think a line of thought which might yield some regulatory possibilities is to limit these companies manpower. No single company should be allowed to employ more than X number of engineers. If they go above, they should be required to spin of into multiple entities, each of which do no more than X number of engineers. I dont know what X is - but that is open for deliberation.

The impact that something like this could have on say Google is that Google is forced to split apart its search business with the ads business. This further allows the search business to collaborate with more ad providers to find the best fit. And on the other side, it allows its ads business to experiment with more search providers and open up a market for profitable search engines.

This is not something I have completely thought through, but whatever little I have, this seems to be the cleanest approach to fix tech.
It would be interesting to see the data as a heat map overlaid on a world map. And to see more countries included like this.

I also didn't see mentioned how the author arrived at one number to represent the price in each country. Guinness in the US can be 2-3x more expensive in some cities or neighborhoods than others.
They weren't really trying to uncover the exploit such that they can reproduce it. They were trying to learn who the exploit affects and what the impact is. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. If you're an AWS customer who depends on hypervisor isolation for critical security guarantees, it helps you to know that this is threatened and perhaps exploitable.

Please don't buy into the idea that embargoes and coordinated disclosure are sacred. They tend to just reinforce existing power structures, sometimes in an unethical (or at least unfair) way.
not sure on exact details, but I received one as well, on a free-tier account I had sitting around with an empty dynamodb table that was showing very high projected usage. it was enough that I logged in immediately thinking that account had been hacked.

nope, still empty table, deleted it and went to bed. glad I wasn't the only one who got that.
>"I know people who moved from Switzerland to Germany since it made more sense financially"

The Zurich market pays better, why would it make sense financially it salaries are less in Germany?
Hard to take politicians arguing for that seriously when they also attack LGBT or women's rights, free speech and press, and let Christian theocrats trample the separation of church and state.

Not to mention the unwillingness to acknowledge, much less address the huge domestic right wing, white supremacist and Christian terrorism movements here.
A lot of interesting content in this article, but think it could benefit from some editing. Maybe an article half the size, or two or three separate articles breaking out the various topics covered.
Ill defined probablistic assertions in the media
De facto public domain is pretty different from official public domain. One ends up on, for example, Project Gutenberg and the other does not.
A police scanner with ambient background music. It's perfect.
I did something similar years ago for my BSc thesis, but for assessing quality. I’ll keep an eye on this.
Diabetes drug 'significantly reverses memory loss' in mice with Alzheimer's