skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same reaction, but you have to keep reading. He's building a stack. He's not saying that thoughts and mental images don't actually exist, it's that they don't exist before the game of language is played. And the game of language is turning sensations of physical objects into auditory representations of them. There's no reason to start constructing the abstract objects yet, we're not at that layer of the 'stack'.

It's kind of like saying that when you dive down to the network layer, video doesn't exist. It's up to the application running the network to assemble all the packets to turn it into video.

Thoughts are constructed from the stream of physical experiences that get formed into words, not the other way around. It's perfectly possible for the brain to still operate without thoughts the way we experience them, in fact, deaf people think visually rather than auditorially like most of us do.
"Experts believe that neutrinos and anti-neutrinos have super heavy counterparts" - is this one about supersymmetry?

Then, "some experts" not "[all] experts" since supersymmetry is not universally accepted with its lack of evidence.
Supply and demand is a strange notion?

And yes, the secretary would suddenly have a valuable set of skills that would command more in terms of "wealth".

Generous social safety nets are a compromise between "everyone gets the same because all inequality is wrong" and "If you're not doing something important you should die in poverty".
> It's quite simple. If you own land and other people manage it, you just collect a paycheck from the land without any impact on its profitability.

In many places in the US, due to property taxes and other things, land is a burden that you will spend your paycheck on, not collect it from (until you sell). Granted if you are using the land for something profitable you might collect on it, but rarely is that use passive (often only if you have mineral rights, even e.g. landlords in the multifamily industry have to work to maintain livability conditions). Using others to manage the land rarely maintains an inherent value to keep you wealthy, at least in the US.
I've always heard that theaters make the majority of their profit on everything besides the ticket since most of that goes back to the distributors/studios. So I would imagine more butts in seats == more overpriced popcorn sold and potentially more profit.
Putting butts in seats is a value add. It sells overpriced snacks, which has been the actual profit center for theaters for a couple decades now.
Butts in seats is a huge value add if those butts are buying concessions.
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Glitch.com has a few good starter projects. Here's one: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/alexa-skill?path=README.md:1:0
The only thing I can think is that they assume they will make the money back in concessions. That plus the "gym membership" situation where you keep it because you want to know you have it but often go long periods of time without using it.
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In the real-world the attacker has a hardware capability at _least_ as capable as you, not the other way around.

In the real-world, at scale the only relevant metric to his cost is the entropy of the password, which iterative hashing doesn't magically increase.

If you find it cost-effective to slap a `for (i = 0; i < 10^12; i++)` loop around your hash, you should assume it's cost-effective for your attacker as well.

These are fundamental assumption you should make in the absence of very specific exceptions not typically applicable to attack modeling of public internet services.

The use of these overwrought hashing schemes doesn't change the fundamental cost dynamic for brute-forcing password hashes. At best it's the same today as it was 30 years ago. At worst, because of botnets, he can scale must more cheaply than you.

The arguments in favor of these schemes are pragmatic, not scientific. But they're predicated on the defender constantly keeping up to date with hardware advancements as that margin is thin and evolving rapidly. Worse, it completely ignores the fact that if I've recovered the password digest for one account, I've likely recovered the digests for dozens, hundreds, or perhaps thousands of accounts with equivalent authorizations. Because of exponential cost differences between good passwords and bad passwords, and the prevalence of bad passwords, I can profitably filter out the good passwords by setting a fixed absolute per-password cost ceiling, substantially lowering my asymptotic costs.

Iterative and memory-hard password schemes are simply fighting an uphill battle. Once you move beyond salting you're just throwing good money after bad money by attempting to secure bad passwords.

Good passwords are already secure; bad passwords can't be fixed by the hashing scheme du jour.
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The main thing I'd want to know is which false incentives are in the system, eg. subsides, bribes. Those are things that can really be disrupted by the stroke of a pen. If this is the naturally optimal way to build things at scale, then I'm all for it. Also, rail and ship costs are marginally low, but it's hard to get past the visuals created by picturing the vehicles themselves (ie. it's a marketing problem).
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Hi ameister,

I've read this comment and your sub-comments. I agree with your assertions. I am ruminating on ideas your comments have sparked and questions they have raised, but as I go to type them I can't clearly communicate them yet.

I will say, I hope my question that you responded to did not prevent you from taking in the rest of my comment. The question was not meant to dismiss rentiers, but to remind myself that the inequality I am aware of is a problem that goes far beyond how the 1% accumulate their wealth. <----this brings up one question of timescales
It's a politically-charged selection from the data and was quoted out of full context on a non-scientific, mass-appeal paper.

A lot of things are possible. Maybe Trump supporters are more likely to harass or maybe they surprisingly aren't; the most dangerously effective misogynist is one that adopts the language of political correctness but not the beliefs. This requires further study.
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The mindmap file formats are usually zip archives that contain xml files. These can include relations between the data you might want to export.
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I had assumed the theater wasn't a part of the exchange and that MoviePass is merely making money on the percentage of people that don't go to 1/2 movies in a month. If too many people do, they can up the price per month. With this approach, movie theaters don't know what's happening, can't prevent it (it's a normal ticket purchase), and, most importantly, don't care because they're still filling seats and getting concession monies.
> The first three are from countries where Eads doing well is a political thing: Britain Germany and France own chunks of airbus and have a lot invested in it doing well. The former flag carriers are only nominally independent from the state.

OTOH, Lufthansa was the initial customer for 747-8.

So while you correctly pointed out that influence, carriers aren't quite as dependent on their host nations as you assume.
Yes, I believe we are likely in agreement :)

Though what I'd say about "accumulated wealth" isn't exactly as you put it. If there are two people of equal means, and one chooses to work all summer growing and storing tasty food for the winter, and the other chooses to play all summer and survive off of tubers all winter, this is fair. This is freedom of choice. But this sort of fair difference accounts for only a small fraction of the difference in income and wealth in our world today.

The authors of the OP also have similar concerns, once you read past the first few paragraphs.
Thanks for asking this gbacon. It's a question that came to mind for me as well and one that ameister's big picture response below satisfies.
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The good news on that front is most board manufacturers abandon updates after a year or two. My ASUS mobo right now was released in 2013 and saw its last firmware update in late 2014. With the exception of the most modern boards, you can generally assume there will be no more updates for your hardware after a year or so.
IMHO, it looks like a data play.
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>> Nest, which never worked because I guess you have to use Heat/Cool mode on your thermostat which is dumb.

I have mine on "Heat" mode right now and it works fine. I think the problem is the name of your Nest. Mine was originally "Dining Room" (I only have one thermostat, so that was a dumb name, but recommended by Nest). I changed it to "Home" since I got the Echo, and it works fine.
> Doing all the stretching work on a server scales poorly. And predicting how many users will try to log in is impossible, unless you set up drastic limits. One way or the other, this makes the whole service vulnerable to very cheap denial of service attacks.

Can you point to an example of a (nontrivial) site where a DoS attack against the password hashing service was the primary point of failure? I'm sure it's happened, but it strikes me that most systems will go down hardest and first from pressure on other parts of that system.

> This also has the advantage that the server doesn't see the actual password.

This is the more compelling thing, to me, about this approach. Doesn't play super nicely with the established API tooling out there, but it's something to consider.
> https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4k994j/if_....

Alternative version:

Interviewer: Are there any tables you construct in spare time and expose for public use?

Carpenter: huh?!

Interviewer: To proceed we will need you to construct a chair for us, for free.

Carpenter: [starts throwing chairs]
Using the `Open Government Portal`/`Open Data Portal` rather than the `Open Data Inventory` will result in a more intuitive view of available data sets and their formats.

Keep in mind, the language used is to make the information as accessible as possible to the largest possible range of interested parties. So if you're to ask why such an inventory exists, the answer would be that any number of differing purposes exist for any number of potential inquiries. IE—not everybody who wants information from this kind of database is an engineer or scientist.
So, no matter how good your password, by default they shorten it to a 40-bit key, but they also allow you to override the encryption method?

Seems similar to what Office XP and 2003 do (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_password_prot...).

Did Adobe and Microsoft design this together?
What the hell buys concessions in 2017? I don't know a single person throughout my entire life who doesn't just bringing something in from outside.
I've seen my share of downvoted and closed questions from others, and often it comes down to users expecting the site to adapt to their needs rather than realizing they are a guest on someone else's site. SO doesn't exist to be your personal support site where others are obligated to help you on your terms.

When you're a guest, you follow their rules. And their rules are fairly simple:

- Stay on topic

- Don't duplicate existing questions (look before you ask)

- Ask a specific question ("how do I fix it?" is not a specific question)

- Be polite (no one is getting paid to answer your question)

- Don't be a spammer (and avoid looking like a spammer)

With coding questions, it really helps to:

- Reduce the problem to a specific detail and be concise, if I haven't finished reading the question and have an idea of the answer in 30 seconds, I move on.

- Provide enough detail that someone else could reproduce your issue. So many people assume I have remote access to their laptop, not to mention what they are thinking inside their head.

- Write it in English, with punctuation, and capitalization. If there's a 10 line block of text without a single capital letter or period, I move on. Same goes for anyone with their capslock key stuck in the on position. I try my best to understand non-native English speakers, because I sure can't talk in their language, but sadly when there's a language barrier, I move on fairly quickly.
I think that figure for Alphabet is off by at least a factor of two. Are we including staff worldwide, or just US-based staff? Full-time employees only, or also all contracted workers?
It's just a pissing match.

Too bad our services vanish from thin air when it happens, instead of any actual resolution.
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PC Engines APU [1] and APU2 [2] come with Coreboot as firmware. As do various competitors [3]

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[2] http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm

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Interesting question. I've seen and used Excell myself so I would be interested in other's take on this.
Ben Carson, despite growing up in the slums to a single mother, became a world renowned neurosurgeon.

Statistically, Ben Carson's success is a rarity, but there were factors in his success that were not related to his upbringing, otherwise he would have failed as others in his position would have failed.

Should hard work, natural intelligence and giftings be punished in the grand scheme of things because others might not have that same inherent benefit? Should family wealth, connections, social status be punished because others lack?

Should Ben Carson be more deserved of his income because he came from worse background compared to his neurosurgeon colleagues?

I spent 15 years of my life studying my craft (medicine), while my contemporaries drank alcohol, smoked marijuana, traveled extensively, spent rather than saved, and otherwise wasted their gifts. Should they be rewarded and me punished?

And we can cut right to the meat of it: punishment versus reward, because this is exactly the direction that modern politics takes these studies and attitudes. It was part of Obama's class warfare tactics when pushing for tax increases on individuals making over $400k. I don't know how much you earn, but if you're in the 1% like me, you would feel the constant antipathy simply because you have a certain income (but a fraction of the wealth because of delayed gratification, student loans, opportunity costs, etc).
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I understand that you consider bitcoin to be sht and do not want it. It seems enough people have confidence in its mechanisms though. So that would be scarcity+confidence that gives it its value. But the same thing happens with the next crypto currency (your neighbors' sht) so maybe it is worth nothing after all. Not taking a stance, just trying to understand.
My bad -- I meant static sites with one additional functionality that all static sites try to outsource: comments.

(it would no longer be strictly static, but the idea is to decouple site from hosting/compute, so it would be easy to port a static/dynamic site between providers at the switch of a DNS entry).
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The article considers being "offended" equivalent to harassment

>Made remarks that some might consider sexist or offensive?
Was going to buy a PDF version, but after reading the requirements page [1] I decided not to buy anything from those authors. Also, the 5th edition of this book is not on Amazon.

[1] http://matrixeditions.com/Drumlin.html
As a general statement of fact, American companies do not pay their workers enough. We know this because aggregate corporate profits are their highest share of GDP ever, and wages from labor are at or near the lowest. There are whole sectors of business that exist by paying poverty level wages to their employees.

This is not about it being "morally wrong for the secretary in a medical office to be paid less" than the physician owner. It's about the secretary not getting appropriate wages in the first place.

As for "decisions throughout life," you might want to take a closer look at what poverty is actually like in America.
I don't see how that'd be the case. An attacker who has visibility into the client that has the salt can already see the plaintext password. And an attacker on the service side of things can see the salt anyway, it's in the database.
This might be one of those situations where code needs to be the spec. Unravel.io or TagUI are two tools for testing interfaces that have come up recently.
Pleasantly surprised by comments here which were lot more specific and relevant than the hive mind attitude of Reddit for the same thread.
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You don't have to personally know someone who does it to see people standing in lines at the concession when you walk in. I don't know how old you are, but at a certain point sneaking things into the theater is something you grow out of.
Do you realize that taxing only consumption means taxing the poor a lot, and the wealthy almost nothing?
> they sell tickets for way under what they cost, they take their cut and pass it on to the theater

That's not how it works. You select a specific movie in a specific theater in their app, it loads the exact amount on to the moviepass mastercard, and then you purchase the ticket with the mastercard. The theater gets the full ticket price.

They claim they're going to be harvesting the data from their customers and sell that to make a profit. I personally think it's a red herring, if I were in their shoes I'd aggressively undercut the price, secure a dominant market position, and then place pressure on chains to play ball, or raise the price of the subscription in small increments ala Netflix. Honestly, it'll probably be a combination of both.

This all can sound a bit nefarious but at the same time I don't see the movie theater industry surviving without some sort of subscription model such as this. AMC, Regal, and Cinemark are squandering their market dominance by not implementing some sort of similar plan for their own specific chain (cinemark's $8.99/mo plan isn't even comprable).
I've been trying to recreate the movie experience at my house for decades: Large screen high definition display, high-end surround sound, etc. but it just does not work. Daylight, phones ringing, kids playing, dryer buzzer, and myriad distractions diminish the experience and I'm always left with notion that it's never as enjoyable at home.

Theaters will always have a place in entertainment. And with the recent addition of la-z-boy furniture and reserved seating, there's simply no contest. Now, I want to experience all my favorite films in the communal environment of a theater. Would be great to be able to 'upvote' classic films and have them play at a local house, and watch along with others who like it enough to be there, place and time. Maybe that's where MoviePass is headed?
As long as there are more productive employment types available.

Anyway, I disagree. I think the sheer speed of the change will create a disaster much sooner than automation quality will make humans obsolete. It took more than a century for the steam engine to replace animal engines around the world, then the electric engine replaced it in half a century. Things are accelerating, and are already much faster than by that time.
From averaging the people who buy popcorn and a drink and those who buy nothing and those in between, I'd say the average person buys an icee, which is not a bad markup
>In conclusion, at the time of this writing, you need to inspect the generated code of your compiler, if you want to be sure that something is really calculated at compile time.

I don't get this. Why? Doesn't making a variable constexpr ensure it is a compile time value, or it will fail to compile?
Certainly not, especially if it is sent over an authenticated channel.
I'm sad to hear this honestly, I was hoping for this to fail to hasten studios accepting that straight-to-digital is the future. Charge me $50 per movie to watch them from the comfort of my home, please.
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Really, it's just easier to visualise it differently. I think it's our failing as beings rather than of the visualization method. We just aren't made for it.
I think the ratio is heavily influenced by the submitting department. The thumbs ups are 'upvotes' back to the submitting body that they should prioritize this dataset.

If you're really interested, you can pull down the csv data set and sort by date released.
I found it to be a game changer with respect to smart home.

Most of my stuff was underutilized, i.e., Nest, Wemo, Harmony Hub. Since I got my Echos, I've accelerated my timeline to put more smart switches throughout the house.

My favorite routine with the dark winter mornings is to use a single voice command to turn on my main floor lights and tell me the temperature outside as I groggily take my dogs downstairs to go outside. The temperature announcement lets me know whether my dogs need their coats on. It was especially useful today, as it was -23C this morning.
> Would be great to be able to 'upvote' classic films and have them play at a local house, and watch along with others who like it enough to be there, place and time

A theater chain in India is trying something similar, though at full price and not discounted like moviepass

http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-techno...
I also thought this was odd. US is the world's leader in manufacturing by GDP, but it's mostly automated compared to China.
> but at a certain point sneaking things into the theater is something you grow out of

Why do you need to sneak anything in though? Do cinemas care about people taking in their own food and drinks? Is it in their terms and conditions of sale that you cannot do that? If it is then it isn't enforced.

I don't think I even see let alone talk to any members of staff when I go to the cinema these days - it's all automated ticket machines and then you just go into the theatre for your film. There's nobody to enforce it even if they were going to.

People talk online like they're master criminals for sneaking in a packet of sweets but really I don't think anyone even remotely cares.
My impression as a layman is that quantamagazine.org is leaking a lot of ... ambitious ... physics headlines into HN; I've kind of stopped clicking on them after the first few.

Physicists in the audience, is that an accurate assessment or should I go back to excitedly clicking through when I see them?
> and then launch their own if desired version.

If that's what happens in the worst case, then that would be a significant change in the business model of theaters/theater chains - and by extension, the movie industry.

And that is possibly the worst case now. Keep in mind the data this company is collecting from their subscribers could be used to help smaller theaters fill their seats at the expense of attendance at larger chains.