skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Trump Administration is anti-science and anti-technology. It denies reality, ignores evidence, and places delusional people into positions of responsibility. Congress, by approving unqualified and ill-educated candidates to decision making positions, is complicit. Denying facts and reality is no way to run a nation.
I haven't used corel painter in a long time but I hope at they took this as some sort of inspiration about how paint mixes.
Ask HN: If I work with applied mathematics should I still study analysis?
Is studying analysis helpful for those people who aren't working on proofs every day, i.e. engineers, people in finance, etc, who still need to apply mathematical techniques?

The speculative answer if I had to guess is yes, because understanding the theoretical basis of something can't hurt, but I'd like to get some answers from people who actually work in applied quantitative fields. Has your study of analysis helped you, either directly or indirectly?
Be aware that Redis runs on OpenBSD and OpenBSD fixed this problem 10+ years ago. See: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631&w=2
If it makes you feel better, i made my 8 and 11 year old daughters watch it, and they loved it. i was afraid it was going to be too slow because of my childhood memory, but surprisingly it wasn’t.

We then watched the Soderberg cut, cause i always thought 2001 had too much dead space. Again, surprisingly, we all agreed the original was way better. Soderburgh took too much out.
Judging by Apples track record for supporting iMacs, i don't see this as an issue. I owned a 2007 imac until 2014 and it was still getting updates. It was running the latest version of OSX until 10.11

This machine launched with, as i remember, tiger. There's machines barely newer that are literally still supported. How is a 9-10 year support window bad? You can't even do that consistently with windows(look at how many atom machines that were only 2-3 years old were cut off from windows 10, or recent updates therein)

And there's nothing stopping you from turning off the security controller and just installing linux, either. In 9 years almost all of the hardware will be well documented and old hat.

This could have a full 3-4 year or even longer life as a "pro" machine, then a long life as a backup/secondary machine, get donated to a nonprofit, or even as your parents cool looking desktop and be completely obsolete in a lot of senses before it will stop getting updates. This has been a proven track record over the past decade for apple.

And for clarification: i'm not shilling here or anything. I think they're screwing up a lot of stuff, and i refuse to buy one of the current macbook pros and am still riding along on the old style retina pro. But OS support is something they do a great job at. There's original-style silver keyboard macbook pros still supported on high sierra.
People who praised him yesterday are not the people praising him today, rather they now denounce him, despite his remaining steadfast and resolute. The opposite is also the case, people denouncing him anti American now see him as an ally.

It's to exemplify that people will ignore what you see as incongruent, if it does not align with their motives.
Scott Alexander calibrates his predictions http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/02/2017-predictions-calibr...
This is intriguing and aesthetic and I've read it until the end because of that, but I didn't understand it. Is this the story of the author, who quit a startup? Why did she quit? She writes that she believed in her company's work, and was good at her own work, and liked it. However in the end she says she actually means the opposite. Why?

I'm quite confused :\
technically, raptors don't need to intend anything in this instance. they merely need to be attracted to burning sticks long enough to carry them some distance away. in that case, no adaptive justification is really required (aside from that pertaining to the attraction itself (curiosity, or whatever).

still, one can come up with at least a few stories that might "explain" it. outing prey to where they can be caught might be one.
Interesting that joining the military grants the same benefits and has the same risks you mention.
Well, a) shifting traffic patterns from 2D to 3D has potential to reduce congestion, and b) straight lines ares shorter.

Also, if we do get flying cars, it'll probably be in part because of a drastic reduction in energy use of flying over driving (e.g. reducing the energy gap between flying and driving).

I think however, in most regards, making almost all cars self-driving will bring most of the benefits
Correct. Edited the title.
Play your cards right, and you too could be part of the second billion-dollar mistake related to nil.
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Correct. Edited the title
Unofficial FAQ on CPU Speculative Execution Bugs
Could you provide a reference as to how "human genomics can easily refute the idea of brain functional changes in the last 10K years"?

Furthermore, this is why Cochran is considered a racist; correctly so.

I'd caution that this isn't actually an argument, but merely invective: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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"...they were trying to jail Phill Zimmerman for writing PGP."

Writing it or exporting it? Sure, their motivations may have been due to the former (is there even documentation for that?), but IIRC the technical reason was that, because it'd been made available online for anyone on the planet to download, they tried to pin "export of munitions" on Phil.
Plants release pheromones when being collected, cut etc...[1] which some people argue is a way to express suffering and has lead some people to "eat only fallen fruit" [2]. The whole debate of vegetarianism vs vegan, is exploiting animal for food (milk, eggs) ethical? Some people argue that a pure vegetarian lifestyle is unhealthy...

This is why I am saying that one needs to draw a line, and that it isn't necessarily easy. It sounds like you made your choice and that it was easy for you, but that isn't the case for everybody.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2013/12/secret-language-of-plants/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitarianism
Probably Jetsons nostalgia.
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So it's basically one big game of prisoner's dilemma. :)
Because publishing journals requires a great deal of non-academic work that is not particularly glamorous and which becomes increasingly difficult as you scale operations:

scheduling, organizing, communicating, file management, vendor management, budgeting, large scale data conversion (e.g., Microsoft Word --> XML, image conversions), editing, proofing, and correcting articles, not to mention running a fairly content heavy website with appropriate search/browse options, etc.

Basically, throwing 1 monthly journal (~1000 pages/year) up on a WordPress site is pretty easy (except for the part about dealing with the authors) and could probably be done by a couple people putting in a few hours a week.

Creating a useful web platform for 100s of journals is an entirely different proposition and almost certainly a poor use of universities resources.

Now, they could pay someone to do all that work, but that is pretty much what they are negotiating with Elsevier.
Don’t count out depression, especially in this group. Nobody will talk about it, which makes it more insidious.

There is nothing at all that I recall in the time management literature about being a friend to yourself. Finding ways to find the energy (and thus the time) for your priorities means stepping back and taking care of yourself first. When I started this I dreamed of getting three times as much stuff done as I do now. Someday I hope to do maybe twice as much, but I’m pretty happy with the idea of getting a little bit more done than now instead of many times as much. I’m giving myself permission to try to do things right instead of trying to do everything. I’m also, as you say, accepting that some things I think I should do simply bore me.

There’s a little bit about knowing your limitations and doing what you can, which is a start, but it’s grabbing the stick by the wrong end IME.
I was surprised that this wasn't already submitted -- and then surprised again that it's not being upvoted. To give some color: this doc contains the first public disclosure of some new MSRs being added to allow system software to help mitigate Spectre. In particular, these are the controls to limit speculation including Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) to restrict speculation of indirect branches; Single Thread Indirect Branch Predictors (STIBP) to prevent indirect branch predictions from being controlled by the sibling hyperthread (!!) and Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB) to limit influence on later indirect branch predictions. For those who need to implement system software support for the new microcode, this is very important information!
Is there a service where I could pay around $5-$10 a month and get access to all (most) relevant papers?

I'm not a scientist, I'm not affiliated with any academic institution at the moment (I still TA here and there though).
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Never tell anyon that the movie you are about to show them is a classic, or your favorite, or that they’ll love it. You are setting them up to be hyper critical and easily disappointed.
Any archival project worth its salt would never store just the tweet text, but also all associated metadata. The best way I've seen to do this is to just save the JSON returned by an API as it's easily parseable. You also have to consider that the utility of Twitter isn't in the single tweets, but rather the whole comment chains. Lastly, Twitter has images as well.
Hello 3D Printing
Flying cars are a terrible idea. People can't be trusted to not drive into things or run out of gas while driving _on land_. I wouldn't want the average person flying their car anywhere near me or my property.

The only conceivable way I could see flying cars being a 'thing' is if we carved out 'air roads' for them that didn't cross over buildings or other cars. At that point, what's the benefit?
Gary Johnson says Trump marijuana reversal could doom re-election
Cultural hegemony strikes again! What is distasteful to Americans is not distasteful to Brazilians.

Go watch TV in Europe or Central/South America. If an American company ran some of those shows, their heads would be on a stick.
YouTube is not just a video hosting site. They are a primary conduit through which global human culture is conducted. Their actions to actively control and manipulate human culture (as Eric Schmidt said in his book The New Digital Age it is Googles responsibility to do because they are rich and therefore know better than humanity how human culture should go) is something they bear total responsibility for. And, at least for me personally, "but we thought it would make more money this way" is not a legitimate reason to facilitate mass murder.
Docker, Inc isn't Dead
I suppose I'm in the cult. About the only complaint I can lodge against Nolan is that the exposition is heavy handed in a few of his films, which he spoke to in the article, and I agree he was forced into that position with the intense story he's often trying to communicate in a film's runtime. He's also not a cinematographer, and has generally worked with Wally Pfister or Hoyte van Hoytema.

I would disagree if you're saying the cinematography won't be remembered; van Hoytema's work on Interstellar and Dunkirk is something I remember quite positively even while typing this comment. I would also disagree on character development, as Nolan directed Robin Williams into one hell of an antagonist in Insomnia, a spectacularly underrated film.
No, they're not.

The Discorientating Use of the Word "They": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_xVAqJ-NY0
> Youtube is a video hosting site, it's not a political platform and has no obligation to host content it doesn't deem suitable for their platform.

For "not a political platform," Youtube has quite a lot of political content, and it's not at all clear to me why someone would think that the idea of a general interest video hosting site and a political platform are somehow exclusive at all.

And as far as obligations go... I'd imagine that there's no legal obligation, and maybe there shouldn't be, but that isn't the end of the question. As far as I know, I'd have no formal obligation to stop and render aid or even contact emergency services if I came across someone unconscious and bleeding on the sidewalk near my house, but that doesn't mean I might not be under some obligation.

And one problem is that organizations like Youtube often don't put themselves together in such a way that there's anyone interested in and capable of responding to these questions.

It's almost like they come across a turtle in the desert, and it's flipped over on its back, belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not with out their help. But they're not helping. Why is that?
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Spotify’s chief content officer is out
Go Funcs – Baby-Gopher’s Visual Guide – Learn Go Programming
Likely political. Two other employees dressed as characters from the "White Chicks" movie got suspended.
Cool. I've seen similar stuff done with bugs. Just set up a bright light on a warm night and leave the shutter open. The bugs leave trails against the black sky as they swarm around the light.
How We Score Leads for Values Alignment
The information does have to be useful or original. If there was something innovative or original about the way the random information was created, then that might be copyrightable, but if it's just arbitrary randomness, there's no reasonable claim.
One of the other comments had an archive.org link; there's a fair section on that.
I really like riotjs.. very nice and practical..
We've seen many HN commenters lose their manners if not their minds when posting about Uber—this very thread is full of it. But "if your mom was raped in an Uber" is off the charts: uncivil and utterly gratuitous.

Had you posted other uncivil comments I'd ban you, but since you haven't, we'll treat it as an isolated lapse. Please don't do it again though. If you can't remain scrupulously respectful of the person you're replying to, please don't post.

If you'd read the HN guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart, we'd appreciate it. That spirit is intellectual curiosity: considering things for the pleasure of considering them. That doesn't fit with flamewars and is incompatible with personal attack.
I'd really like to click on the "other" door for switching and on the same door for "staying".

The message "You have won 0/3 by staying and 2/3 by switching." is confusing. I'd prefer to have the number of win/loose separated by my decision to stay/switch.

Also, the "retry" buttom and the number of doors is not visible in a small screen. Can you put them on top?
Russia pushing to partner with NASA on lunar gateway
There's so much valuable research that can be done with aggregate Tweets that you can't do with just lone accounts. For example I've seen flu outbreaks being predicted by hashtags. (http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/11/technology/tracking-flu-twit...) The possibilities are really endless, but depend on whether you have the data and whether it's over a large enough timescale for your use. Twitter represents a large portion of our culture and just because you don't personally like it or have a use for it, doesn't mean we should just throw away archives of it.
Dell EMC Patches 3 Zero-Days in Data Protection Suite
For some reason, humans get testy about this.

Acknowledging both the blindingly obvious point that we are the apex species on this planet and that we do a lot of complicated, interesting things we have yet to observe in others does not mean observing similarities to other species somehow diminishes humanity. On the contrary, telling ourselves just-so stories that appeal to our arrogance and need to be special discourages research and progress. If I "know" that we're the only species that talks (because some other human convinced me that god, some super-researcher or whoever said so), I'm not very likely to go looking for counterexamples.

Drifting into aesthetic/religious/philosophical territory for a second, I personally feel that humans are deeply interesting because of what an odd mishmash of traits we have. If one is prone to anthropomorphizing evolution, one way to still appeal to human vanity is to view it as a pretty risky slow-burn strategy that, after succeeding, made us our own worst predator/environmental risk[1]. If we were just some toy made by $deity for whatever reason, it becomes a lot less interesting of a story.

[1] Of course, evolution doesn't work that way, but it makes a nice story.
The only one of those with even the remotest chance of happening is the Cryptocurrency one.

A Robocop by 2020? If you had a Robocop by 2090 I'd be shocked. (A remotely controlled Robocop is not a Robocop, you said helped by AI, and that's the part I'm focusing on.)

Just try to talking to one of those assistants like Google Home, and you'll realize just how far away we are from AI.

> [Driverless cars] Today, in 2017, I believe that at least 19 out of 20 people would agree.

Nope, not happening. Driverless cars (except in dedicated lanes) are not going to happen for 20 or 30 years if not longer.

What I do agree will happen is dedicated instrumented lanes for them on freeways (little point in doing it in cities). Kind of like train rails.

But your vision of them transforming cities is not going to happen for decades, if ever.
I'm glad to find someone else who agrees. I find Nolan to be an unremarkable director. He has inventive ideas but the actual direction is fairly pedestrian. I have a hard time remembering what his Batman films were even about let alone any outstanding direction (the terrible voice Bale used and the Sean Connery impression Hardy did show he needs to tell his actors no sometimes.)

I haven't seen Dunkirk so maybe it will totally change my mind
I read this as Obama's tone, lol.
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I can't supply a specific example, but I'm thinking of writer/director types like Joss Whedon, JJ Abrams, Bryan Singer, who are able to understand the larger story elements and at least work within the individual scenes to excise the worst dialogue, give characters meaningful and believable motivations, etc.
This.

Elsevier is not stupid. January without access means:

* most scientis realise it's not necessary

* the smaller rest of them, learn how to use scihub

* elsevier is 10% less on revenue (contrary to giving it 'free access' now and retrocharging later) for every month

* people start publicize in different places, diminishing elsevier value, and proving that you can print elsewhere (sic!)

In result elsevier strong grip ends in a bing bang. Would scientific world hold them for just 3..5 months, and they're out of the business. Simple.
Ah yes, that was a big hurdle, but that's actually fully supported now with DOM Ranges - basically codified selection boxes, those regions that highlight when you select with a mouse. There's still some extra leg work though to render whitespace in the same way as the browser.
First off, everyone has something to hide. Otherwise people would be fine with allowing the police to randomly search their houses. See: Three Felonies a Day [0]

A few years ago I went back to carrying more cash. I had realized that debt cards don't provide enough protection against the card info from being stolen (it could take a week to get your funds back). Credit cards have more protection, but after having to replace my cards multiple times, it was just easier to pay for my lunch and gas using cash and not have the hassle of contacting all my recurring payment businesses repeatedly.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704471504574438...
> Speculating on currency prices is a business; it is not however the business that digital currency infrastructure companies are in

Yes it is. It may not be how they market themselves. But it's the principal risk they take and, directly and indirectly, the principal determinant of their profitability.
Since he brings up a number of Elon Musk initiatives, it seems to relate in part to the public conversation that Elon has been having about AI.

For those who don't know Rodney Brooks, he was faculty at MIT for years, co-founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics, where he is working on collaborative robotics (robots that can work with humans without maiming them.)
Bugs don't cause security leaks, it's the hackers that do!
Software security is really just a social problem.
The notion of what is acceptable and good fluctuating throughout time and cultures doesn't remove the fact that the distinction is made. And your nitpicking criticism that misses the forest for the trees is an excellent example of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil, with its implicit value judgements.
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He's referring to the "WE WUZ KANGZ" meme, in that he sees the research as not believable.
Ask HN: What “new” programming languages will you be using in 2018?
What has changed since this question was asked a year ago?

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13310699]
2FA, 2FA, 2FA!
SAML and SCIM achieve two different use cases.

SCIM is specifically used for identity management (hence the name: System for Cross-domain Identity Management, or "SCIM"), whereas SAML is used to securely pass user information from an IDP to an application.
> GDP only includes things that can be counted and taxed

Unlike gross output, GDP only includes final outputs. All B2B activity is excluded by GDP, but capital is still involved. I wonder how things look if you look at gross output instead.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11565691
Cool, but practically useless.
The Mill computing people seem to have figured out quite a lot of elegant yet fast security solutions[0][1].

One simple example is the zero-bit. I don't have time to look up the exact details now, but IIRC, it's a simple hardware bit-flag that is part of the metadata of any value that can be read. If set, reading out that value returns zero. If not, it returns the actual value.

Data defaults to having the zero-bit set, and the only way to unset a zero bit is writing new data into whatever you want to read from. The exact mechanism is probably a bit different, but that's how I remember it.

Regardless of what the precise implementation is, the point is that by adding some smart hardware-based metadata like this in the form of bit-wise flags, you don't have to worry about having to manually wipe the data in memory once you are done with it (and have the speed benefits of not having to do so as well), yet still get all the safety benefits of never having to worry about buffer overflows and whatnot again.

[0] https://millcomputing.com/

[1] https://millcomputing.com/docs/security/
If some nefarious actor has the users credentials (e.g. username / password) won't they then be able to circumvent both of those checks?

Maybe it's possible that so many people are signing up for Coinbase right now that it's flooding out the fraud?
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So would bundling large numbers of people into a single vehicle for the bulk of the journey and finding other ways to tackle the last-mile problem. Just imagine: transportation for the masses!
The Delphi compiler used the constant expression folder to evaluate debugger expressions; it had hooks for converting symbol references into values, and for performing method calls, but a good chunk of the evaluation was interpreted that way. I thought it was a nifty reuse.

(Obviously, the expression is parsed, typed and bound using the compiler front end using the same symbols as the compiled code, so that bit is easy.)