skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this satisfies you better then: "Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf."

I suppose the problem with taking a position that says 'I'm not going to work for the military because I disagree with current US foreign policy' is that if/when an existential threat does arise the US might find itself far behind its foe, no?
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BBC is state tv. They report fairly on stuff that doesn't matter and report the establishment line on the rest.
Unfortunately it is pretty clear that the EU Commission will lose this.

Daimler, for example, has already stopped all activities in Iran.

It's a shame, really. I wish our governments would put real pressure on companies to resist America.
People should just know by now, if you need to communicate something in private, you should just never use any electronic device that uses public networks. All of these "secure" tools that are being used must be understood in that context. They are "secure" against honest people.

What I mean by that is that it's a lot like your home or apartment. Sure, you should lock your door and turn on your alarm system when you leave. At the same time, if you know there are three letter agencies surveilling you, it's probably wise to go ahead and assume they broke into your home and placed bugs in it despite your security precautions.

Because they have.
There are a number of studies that show that implementing new guidelines / yearly rote training is about the least effective thing you can do to change corporate culture.

The most effective tends to be non-adversarial, regular peer meetings where actual discussions can be had.

And yet every enterprise I've ever worked at has the same canned training systems. Or implements them in response to an incident.
Too bad. My favorite part about Facebook was the false assertions that shooting victims were paid actors, and the never-ending torrent of twitter's recycled hashtag spam.
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My preliminary research shows it's in the realm of homeopathy and folk medicine. But still might be worth a shot if it can reduce anxiety.

Can you elaborate a bit on how to find it and how it changed you?
I think the top-level comment is unfair, but I also think you're misreading it. It's not defending abusive exes, but saying they are, though a lesser threat than major governments, still a threat worth defending against.
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Your last statement simply isn’t true. I’ve been using Spring Boot for years in a variety of configurations and it works absolutely fine.
Most of these things are just packages. Just install FFTW.jl to get that FFT. https://github.com/JuliaMath/FFTW.jl

Julia's Base is for the language, not for every little detail so this is all handled by the package ecosystem.
The only part of the New York Times worth paying money for is the crossword. I was a subscriber for a couple years, but after a while you start noticing that all the opinion pieces and non-A section articles seem to be on about a six week loop, and you just keep reading the same piece that's been dusted off and reworked over and over and over again.
This is starting to be crazy. There is almost nothing you can do without having to worry about what some other party may do with your data. Walk in the street and have a video taken that's then processed and analyzed. Buy something and probably hundreds of companies will know about it.

In this particular case the insurance company should not be able to request data from the past. If they want any data they should order tests themselves and only use that data.
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what it really shows is how old and large the Church is

It's like trying to maintain a codebase for 1,700 years with only one major revision.
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Yes. And 1.5-based indexing, though I would recommend using rational numbers instead of floating point numbers for this one.
It's not hard to automate 2FA. Especially if it supports offline google-style 2FA. But SMS are doable too.
See this a lot. Well if you really take it as a personal affront that many frontiersmen did this...please also refrain from taking credit for any collective positive accomplishment of humanity, like the US constitution, ending slavery, or more generally Science, computers, jeans, or bubble gum. If you wanna stick to the things that you personally did, by all means.
Great! Except that if you stop chasing those kudos, you will promptly find yourself unemployed and thus unable to do any research at all.
Author here, this is a fair criticism. Other alternatives (which I have not reviewed in depth) include Tox, Telegram, Wire, and Ring (not an endorsement of any of these). I'm an old curmodgen who just uses IRC+OTR and GPG, though, so I have to depend on others for recommendations.

Also, Matrix enables end-to-end encryption by default on clients that support it.
So, any chance to blacklist them from HN? Or at least offer an alternative for EU-members? There must be a couple millions on this platform, I guesstimate.

I'm still hoping for the "Outline it" link right after the "web" one.
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HN is my starting point, because everything new gets mentioned here, but whenever something new emerges, I subscribe to the blog/feed of whoever is behind it. Always go to the source.
Will the Blockchain change the way I vote in elections?
https://blog.cryptoaustralia.org.au/2017/03/21/run-your-end-...
DNA testing companies like 23andMe sell your data – how to delete it
Federation is not some sort of magic dust that would fix signal, you'd be just exchanging one problem (centralization) with another (spam).

Plus in all likelihood even if they did federate, it would just be like email with gmail that the Open Whisper Systems is the dominant player so most conversations have at least one party running on Moxie's hardware.
Is it?

https://le.utah.gov/audit/12_01rpt.pdf

As of 2010, riders paid about 13% of the total cost of public transit operation. (Page 7, heading "Farebox Recovery Has Improved Since 2006")
> the technical reason we started counting arrays at zero is that in the mid-1960’s, you could shave a few cycles off of a program’s compilation time on an IBM 7094. The social reason is that we had to save every cycle we could, because if the job didn’t finish fast it might not finish at all and you never know when you’re getting bumped off the hardware because the President of IBM just called and fuck your thesis, it’s yacht-racing time.

http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation-needed/
Cryptography is a trivial example.

The entire field of computing was invented by pure mathematicians like Turing and Church working in the 1930s. At the time, no one had any idea what the applications, if any, would be.

It's like any science. Some work has immediate applications. Other work is pure exploration of the unknown.

And it is pure exploration of the unknown that leads to the truly revolutionary discoveries. You can't set out to discover penicillin when you don't even know it exists.
numpy wiki summaries that well [1]. Too many things especially with complex math cannot run in parallel unless one spends a lot of time on workarounds.

One starts with quick and dirty solution, makes it work on a small dataset and then struggle to make it utilize at least 4 cores to cut running time with more realist datasets. Surelly I can code numerical calculations in C++, but then the code cannot be maintained by python-only guy. So I hope that Julia or anything else with better parallel support replaces Python for scientific calculations when scaling quick and dirty solutions is straightforward.

[1] http://scipy-cookbook.readthedocs.io/items/ParallelProgrammi...
I don't think that is a fair summary of this critique at all.

The author has laid out specific, actionable items, such as putting Signal on F-Droid and allowing federation. Maybe he doesn't like Moxie, but it's not so simple as attacking his character. Instead, this is a reasonable summary of steps Signal can take to win his trust (or, to give him a true impression that he needn't trust it).
Just because some member of the Church believes or says something doesn't make it doctrine.

This is a problem for most religions these days. Some random person says something is part of their religion, and everyone on the internet and the media believe it.

It's like whenever some Catholic priest in some backwater says something that is not in line with Catholic teaching, the news picks up on it as if it came out of the Pope's mouth. Then it gets repeated ad nauseam across the internet by people who don't know, or can't be bothered to find out, if it's true or not.
Many things in Base have moved to separate packages to make it light-weight.

FFTW is available in a package under the MIT license [1]. Also its author is a top contributor to Julia ;).

[1] https://github.com/JuliaMath/FFTW.jl
I don't think any information or power disparity is required for this. If someone (person, or company, or government) can legally get money out of you, or pay you less, they will. Just like if you had an opportunity to leave your company and take $10,000 or $100,000 with you, it's hard to imagine two identical scenarios where you take the smaller amount.
https://le.utah.gov/audit/12_01rpt.pdf
Page 7, heading "Farebox Recovery Has Improved Since 2006"

If riders are only paying about 1/8 of the total cost, where do you suppose the rest is coming from?
This containerization and virtualization thing is repeated without evidence. There is nothing systemd specific to running containers. Containers and VMs work perfectly well on Alpine, Gentoo and any distribution.

Namespaces and cgroups are provided by the kernel. Any init system can use them. Cgroups are mounted at /sys/fs/cgroups and while there continues to be some friction on how these are mounted and used with systemd going its own way, other init systems like openrc manage them perfectly well.

The rest of it is standard networking, mounts and autostart services started by the container managers like LXC, Docker, libvirt for VMs and these can be done by any init system.
I want you to watch hundreds of hours of drone videos, and rewatch the Collateral Murder video and determine if you could decide if those were or weren't journalists.
The author expressly endorses Matrix.
Salespeople will (often) say anything that - with some explanation and wordsmithing - is a true (albeit typically unverifiable) statement.

I feel like this is the start of explaining the why: "...architects didn't want to use it because it put too much power into the client's hand."

That's likely true for many more traditional Architectural professionals considering early AEC success case studies with AR/VR. I have to imagine the average Architect in a leadership role is battle-hardened by the changes that have displaced much of their fee, influence and involvement in the existing building construction framework. Giving up more of any of those likely feels like a loss for those individuals. Just as early IT professionals felt the loss of their wizard powers as computers and mobile became consumerized, Architects are feeling the loss of their wizard powers as clients become more informed and engaged.

AR remains from what I can see, the fodder of AE start-ups and larger firms placing their bets on the technology to address project design and coordination challenges. VR has already inundated every firm I work with - big and small - on most projects they undertake.
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They aren't unified against the lower classes - more apathetic to their impact at worst. They don't rent or buy out of a desire to screw over those who can't afford it but because it is a good deal for them. Palo Alto was once the cheaper alternative in the start up space. Once. And they aren't unique in this at all. Even artists and same-sex couples have had gentrifying impacts on neighborhoods. Even if they indirectly drive out old residents it would be rightfully regarded as insane homophobia to suggest it is the result of some gay agenda instead of the natural results of living their lives. The uncomfortable fact is everyone in the same position (better off but not so good to grab the premium) does it and one can't simply keep communities in stasis regardless of what measures are taken.

That wasn't a criticism of free software at all just a note that it hasn't materialized into any sort of career enforcement or fencing in contrast to existing professional movements and demands. Free software is for the software's sake more than levers of power. It shouldn't be expected to really in the same sense that one wouldn't expect to see doctors kidnapping unvaccinated children to immunize them - even if it would technically help with the problem it misses the primary purpose and causes other issues.

I was trying to detach my analysis from my own viewpoints for concern of tooting my own horn.

I had considered pride and exceptionalism as motivations but decided not to delve into them as too speculative and spinny in the same sense of "Did he become a firefighter to impress women, for the pension, or desire to save lives." The why is ironically immediately irrelevant when it comes to society - they are just glad to have someone fighting fires. The relevance only comes in when trying to calibrate numbers.
Yes, they only publish the signed binaries produced from public sources according to a recipe anyone should be able to follow.

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/
I have recently switched to Riot (built atop Marix, which the author endorses at the end) for some family communications and yeah, I think I do prefer it to Signal.
Intel corporation is still larger than DARPA and DARPA is much more diffuse. The impact shouldn't be that great.
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Blasted time lords making it difficult for the rest of us
I’m pretty sure that isn’t true. They can be used to compel you to build interception capabilities.
I don't think it's so bad as to count as horrible. QueryPerformanceCounter promises to count microseconds at worst: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644904(v=VS.85).a...
NASA’s newest spacecraft will fly through the Sun’s scorching hot atmosphere
5 steps to more interactive deep learning
Connecting Yeti and Amazon Alexa
Signal did what those things failed to do which is to actually gain some popularity outside of HN. I hope Matrix takes off! In the meantime if people are convincing their families and friends to get on Signal then that's a net positive to me.
This presentation is more than five years old, and some of the details have changed. See https://julialang.org/learning/ for more up-to-date introductory material.
Heavily subsidized transportation that hemorrhages money doesn't work.
Great, I can play too! Corporations should be about improving the public good, as they used to be [0], not chasing monetary value. Your turn!

[0] Not just "in my day"-ism. According to "We the corporations", demonstrating this was originally part of the legal requirement for many governments' approval of articles of incorporation.
Also those bindings were developed by Steve Johnson himself!
Can we add [2013] to the title?

Julia has changed substantially in the past 5 years…
How quickly we forget the year 2000. Between butterfly ballots, "lost boxes of votes" and general tom-foolery an entire presidential election was stolen.

The current system is broken, and it seems like folly to stick your head in the sand and reject all attempts to fix it.
That looks like a no given the article has a "Create a new secure room" section where you have to explicitly enable encryption for that specific room.
Very entertaining. It would be so incredible to figure out how the brain does this.

Or the age-old fantasy of being able to see with someone else's vision. The problem here being that you would have to see with their whole brain for it to make a difference, haha.

And how babies for example might perceive the world, as they do not have that much data to fill in the gaps with yet.

Fascinating.
When you look at the stats, it’s hard not to conclude that the current PhD system is fundamentally broken. Mental health issues are rife: approximately one-third of PhD students are at risk of having or developing a psychiatric disorder like depression. The high level of dropouts is similarly worrying – and possibly another symptom of the same problem. Research suggests that on average 50% of PhD students leave graduate school without finishing – with numbers higher at some institutions.

The biggest risk factor I've found for a PhD student is lack of research experience during the undergrad degree.

I've seen it over and over.

A newly-minted bachelor's student without research experience has no preparation for the frustration, isolation, and sense of futility that real researchers face.

When it hits them, many discover they lack the temperament to actually move a research project forward. By then, they will have sunk 2-3 years of their life (or more) and a major amount of prestige into a failed attempt.

If you're an undergraduate and harbor the slightest ambition to get a PhD, drop what you're doing right now and start looking for a research group to join. You're going to need 2-3 years of experience actually doing research to know if it's something you'll enjoy long term.

You may well discover that you don't like what you find. If so, better to know that now than when you're in your late 20s.

If things do work out, you'll have a better idea of what to look for in advisors and schools.
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This doesn't even touch on the fact that Signal depends on Play Services. It has a websocket option, but the setting is actually not in the GUI
This looks interesting. I'd be interested to see how the set-up works when it is trained with someone that signs natively.

Most of my experience in the deaf community has been at trivia nights where the signing is incredibly fast (to me) and grammatically loose (just like everyone that's voicing at the bar).

In the end I think it's an invaluable avenue to explore, the tech is important no matter what the end device looks like. Great work.
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You suggest Telegram over Signal? Now we know you're spreading FUD.
I think the problem is that we assign too much importance to the last 5% of type safety. Go’s typing guarantees are somewhere between Haskell and Python, and it ends up being a very practical place on the spectrum. Further, have a great type system is just one of many competing factors; tooling has to be good, deployment has to be good, runtime has to be good, testing has to be good, libraries have to be good, code has to be readable, etc etc. Most languages drive hard at one of these; Go gets 90% of the way on all of them.
Unless it's a situation like 2000, and the infamous "hanging chad" issue. It sure looks like you voted, but whoops your ballot just isn't counted because of a physical failure.
On a tangential note, I'm learning Clojure and kind of just getting started on using it.

I like it how its a Lisp, and ever since I've learned Common Lisp, I've been wanting to use Lisp at work for everyday projects, and Clojure seems to fit just perfectly well.

As with these new things you are always excited to explore further and see what's about to come next. After searching, I was not able to find anything on the Clojure roadmap anywhere on the internet. I understand that Clojure is largely an Cathedral kind of an open source project, largely developed in private at Cognitect and released to the world. But it was still a little strange to not see anything on Clojure's future plans. Sometimes you also see the Clojure repo on Github go without commits for weeks, for example the last commit as of today is July 4, 2018. Which is like strange for a programming language of this size.
My own view:

It is "a not a secret secret" that a lot of party higher ups covertly own big parts of Chinese industry, including export oriented ones.

The squabble is about them being caught in the crossfire. Their message: "make peace with USA for as long as we make money." Now the talk is over them being thrown under the train. Naturally, they are frustrated by that.

I want to remember that Xi Jingping himself came to power on the promise of "making party membership great again" and rode the wave of anger of minor and midtier party bureaucrats over them being sidelined during Jiang and Hu's eras. But now, he himself is busy throwing its own "powerbase" under the train.
It sounds like the philosophy is "don't break your consumers", which I agree with. Somebody else already linked his Spec-ulation talk, but I think somewhere in there he compares the 10 minutes a library author spends on deprecating or removing some piece of code versus the 10 minutes each and every one of your consumers spends trying to determine why a dependency they put trust in broke their application.

I do think it can be very difficult to know if you, as a producer, are breaking any consumers. I'd love to see some sort of OSS build tool and CI system that automatically rebuilds and tests all consumers of your library to give you, the library author, more information about the changes you make before releasing.
I am happy to see I am not the only person in the world that feels like this about Signal.

The interesting fact is that I "Ctrl+F" this page for Wire and I have seen nothing, even though this comment is about something that made me switch over Wire from Signal: to date, that's the unique instant messaging that has FOSS'ed both the server and the clients. (OK, the article also says about Matrix.)

I admire Wire for a number of reasons, but certainly FOSS'ing all their code is one the main reasons. (The other is... Haskell! And also Rust.)

And just to point out, not only Wire bug-fixed the library implementation of the Signal protocol, as they use the Signal protocol. And their web interface is very good!

Oh, yes... And they are not based in USA.

EDIT: I am not affiliated with Wire, but just a happy customer. :)
Don't get too excited.

Beans also partner with nitrogen-fixers, but farmers fertilize them with nitrogen anyway. Why? Higher yield. And then the beans stop partnering with the nitrogen-fixers because they're already getting nitrogen for free without having to feed and house the microbes.

So this is great for people who don't have access to fertilizer (as the article notes!) but it will do nothing to solve the overapplication of fertilizer in industrial agriculture.

(Those "roots" look hella cool, though.)

UPDATE: I may have been mistaken about the exact relationship -- it's possible this could reduce nitrogen inputs somewhat for industrial ag, but maybe only if the soil isn't already saturated with N. Need to go back and look at sources... https://igrow.org/agronomy/soybeans/application-of-nitrogen-... has some of the info.
Google Bug Hunter Urges Apple to Change Its iOS Security Culture
Let's also not forget XMPP+OMEMO.