skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Aren't attorneys rather like champions?

They have the same relationship to trial-on-law-and-facts that champions have to trial-by-combat (and, like champions, they are optional.)
Hmmmm, interesting that google picked up the post before it even reached ~10 votes.
>alle the condyscyons of thys foule conflycte

I'm almost positive this is "All the conditions of this foul conflict." which also fits with the passage knowing that "y" = "i" and that the silent "e" was present in far more words than it is present in today. "Translating" in that way tends to make more sense of old English.
Sounds like me. On the couch or walking around I'm at 10-12 inches away. I wonder--do people who don't prefer high information density hold their devices farther away?
Economic Inequality (2016)
Please consider the guidelines:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Ich close it every few hours.
The Updated Pioneer Offer
AOL's web properties were heavily dependent on Naviserver with its embedded Tcl interpreter, which they bought cheap and turned into AOLserver.

The Vienna based university, TU-Wien, still runs AOLserver and serves 40K users with it. OpenACS.org and dotLRN.org still use the same Tcl-based webserver today.

Gustaf Neumann shepherded the development of the use of OpenACS/dotLRN at TU-Wien, I think: http://nm.wu.ac.at/nm/neumann
A book provides multisensory learning through sight, touch sound and smell. Alexa being voice controlled provides only auditory stimulation and is going to be the least good tool for the job. http://faculty.ucr.edu/~aseitz/pubs/Shams_Seitz08.pdf
Not a particularly special connection, but there are interesting combinations of the two. See also:

https://github.com/HackerFoo/poprc
I've had quasi-lucid dreams. I have free will in them (and certain "learned processes" such as flying), but I am not aware that it is a dream until I wake up. So far as those go, I can "physically" escape settings that I don't like but I can't decide what settings I end up in. I'm generally stuck with the people the dream starts with and they always have their own free will.
Performance _or_ resource conservation.
Which one is it?

Application design and domain knowledge are more
important than rote optimization. I think that is
what Ousterhout is getting at.
And if you’re into classical music you may enjoy the Makropoulos affair, an opera by Leoš Janáček based on a play of Karel Čapek about the inhuman inhuman concept of eternal life.
Witty and beautiful.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Makropulos_Affair_(opera...
Is there any kind of sabotage other than malicious sabotage?
RxJava and RxSwift are Reactive Programming, not Functional Reactive Programming. FRP includes behaviors and hence truly continuous values and intercepts. RP has to use subjects, side effects, hot and cold observables and other nonsense. They’re quite different even though most online commenters tend to be unaware that there is a difference.
They aren't hedge funds and shouldn't be speculating in public companies. Shareholders of record companies want exposure to music labels - not streaming. Very few conglomerates work long term.

If the shareholders want to own a different business they can buy the shares on their own.
I agree with you. I've worked on drivers for virtual NICs. Every performance boost was well received by customers
The Evolution of YouTube:On-screen live comments
I am the author of commandeer[1], which does similar things and has been around since 2013. Try that, too, if you're interested!

Seeing another library that makes it easier to access things from the command line is awesome, and finding that there are even more I didn't know about in the comments is even better.

[1] https://commandeer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
>>If we cannot successfully earn revenue at a rate that exceeds the operational costs, including royalty expenses, associated with our Service, we will not be able to achieve or sustain profitability.”

This is very thoughtful stuff. And people say MBA are no good. Or team of MBAs.

Record companies might keep them barely alive, or alive enough to leech as much as possible from them. Killing the host might not be smart, unless a new service is created.
Was taking a brief look and just wanted to let you know that most of the links in your footer are broken.
It does not work as written. How is |O_up> defined in terms of the basis of the global Hilbert space? There is infinity of directions in space which we can choose as the defining axis of the ket |O_up>. You could calculate the inner product for any of them. Does that mean that the inner product is typically zero and to get a non-zero probability, one has to talk not about probability of possible results of measurement, but about probability on the space of possible measurement setups? If so, why bother with the concept of quantum measurement at all? Why not just say any configuration of the world from some measurable set has probability int |psi|^2 dq? That would be the other, non-projection Born rule (or interpretation of psi), which doesn't have the problem of preferred basis and does not need it to be chosen by the classical apparatus.
"Barely a few weeks"? Ha. Many places it's days, hours, or a few minutes.
I actually have one of these "Up!" boards as well, it is pretty awesome to get decentish x86 performance in an identical form factor to the Pi, along with built in storage, 4GB of RAM and 'real' gigabit networking. It cost at the time approximately the same as 4x Pi 3s, but was well worth it for the massive increase in performance. They deserve to be far more popular than they are.

> http://www.up-board.org/
Push Projects
Combinatory Logic in Programming (2003) [pdf]
In a dream, it's possible to gain and lose lucidity repeatedly, and in varying degrees. In the "breaks," one concocts all kinds of nonsensical strategies to regain it. I suppose one of mine is arguing with others about the nature of consciousness and its relationship to QM. In the best case, other people catch on and contribute missing pieces of the puzzle, which alleviates remaining doubts that were dissuading me from pursuing it in earnest.
I don't understand how their readmission rates are so low at 2.9%, I was just checking some stats on that at the link below, typical readmission rates are 15-20%:

https://data.medicare.gov/Hospital-Compare/Hospital-Readmiss...
I don't see why you would waive your voting rights. It's not even necessarily a good thing for your co-founders, as they get diluted as compared to future investors (i.e. they might WANT your vote later).

Investors care about deadweight on the cap table from an economic perspective, much more than from a voting perspective. This does nothing to help that.

Yes, future investors will want you to sign a drag-along with respect to a future M&A transaction, but that might be perfectly fine. Maybe you can offer some form of agreement to a weak drag-along?

Is the company a Delaware corp? If so, maybe suggest the company agree to exchange your common stock for something like Series FF Preferred (or sometimes called Founder Preferred). If an investor may be willing to buy you out in a future round, this would be the best way for you and the company.
This is one reason why it's prudent to scout rapids before running them. For example, sections of the Brule River in Minnesota are runnable above and below Devil’s Kettle.[0] And by the time you saw the drop, it'd be too late to avoid the falls or sinkhole.

Even so, sinkholes can be subtle enough to miss, and still fatal.[1] Karst is some dangerous geology for boating. Although riverbeds are generally quite smooth, which is pleasant enough if you go for a swim.

0) http://www.startribune.com/scientists-think-they-ve-solved-t...

1) https://www.boston.com/news/national-news/2018/06/12/sinkhol...
Is there a woman, even a woman in history, that is the equal of Elon Musk in terms of accomplishment?
The Other Brains Behind Tesla and SpaceX
that's a pretty loose definition of imperialism. Conquering markets is not coercive, it's not an act of one group dominating another (beyond the realm of permissible competition that is the whole point of markets existing). Every company wants to reach the top of its market so at what point does the average company become "imperialist"? When it starts trading overseas?

It weakens the concept of imperialism to the point of almost meaninglessness - it essentially becomes the same concept as globalisation. The nasty element of old-school mercantilist imperialism was its subjugation of the native people of other countries. If you remove the harmful element from the equation but continue to use the word for effect, you're playing games with words to cast something as bad without due cause.

If you want to suggest that, say, oil companies moving operations into African nations (I forget exactly which ones, but read about it a few years ago), hiring military contractors, and reaping another country's natural resources is imperialism, then yes I totally agree. Putting something on the internet and letting people from other nations use it? Not even slightly.
Correct. Plus the required drivers in config.sys, and using a SD card as the C: drive, all in a slimeline, silent mini-itx case. I've added a text gui (think Curses) to easily select games and apps. It's not done yet, but I'll probably knock up a webpage all about it at some point.
- Multiple Windows

Yes. https://stackoverflow.com/a/29965036

- Telemetry opt-in

Yes. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-di...
I'm saying that this should really be a function like

def train(
data: File,
arch='resnet18',
workers=4,
epochs=90,
start_epoch=0,
batch_size=256,
learning_rate=0.9,
momentum=1e-4,
):
...

that could be exposed as a cli if __name__ is main but otherwise can be imported in a notebook or another script.
Thanks for the link. This is hilarious!

> This World Of Ours: Wherein it is revealed that 1024-bit keys cannot prevent people from sending their credit card numbers to Nigerian princes. (I think that 1025-bit keys might solve the problem, but nobody listens to my common-sense advice.)
Yep. The value of Given When Then ends, not begins, once you have implemented the steps with some automation.
Exactly.

It should be theoretically be possible to call C++ via interop:

[DllImport("<MANGLED NAME>")]
static extern void Foo(IntPtr @this, int param1, ...);
His "projects" page also lists "Log Structured File Systems" (which inspired LSM used by many databases) and Raft (the consensus protocol) as things he made significant contributions to.
I think it's implicit in that proposal that the amount of software available would massively decrease. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
Personally, I prefer not to use any project that has no way to make money. Life is expensive and time consuming. Projects require at least a little time and money. If that isn't reimbursed in any way, the rest of life will nearly always take precedent at some point. Affiliate links seem like a good way to solve this. I don't see where the conflict of interest lies.
I’ve been using [Instaread][https://instaread.co]. I find it to be a pretty good source of high quality book summaries, which you can read or listen to.
TCL is a great systems programming language. When I need a glue language for an imperative model program it's my first choice.
The curious case of a revolutionary, but imaginary, superconductor
Dynamic scoping is useful for things that resemble shell I/O redirection, where you want to be able to refer to some resource in an indirect / implicit manner such that an actual resource can be injected at any time. For everything else it's just no good.
"We all need to be respectful of people's time," said Willingham. "We need to keep both lines of communication open and be honest with each other. It might not be the right opportunity today, but there's no reason to burn a bridge."

Sure, now they talk about respecting our time and communicating...
The tweets that stopped Google in its tracks
In my experience, we're already past the point where DNS is too complex.

I worked with a customer who had a postage meter that refused to work correctly. After tons of troubleshooting, it turned out the issue is that the postage company had DNAME records in the mix ... and the DNS server on that network doesn't support DNAME at all. That troublesome DNS server is the (then, at least) current version of Samba.

I tried contacting the vendor to report the issue and, in typical fashion, I don't think I even got a ticket escalated to somebody who understood it. We put the postage meter on a VLAN with different DNS to work around it.

I've also seen major issues with US government websites advertising AAAA records for websites that aren't actually available on ipv6 - and again, no way to report/resolve it, we just disabled ipv6 on the workstation we file those reports from.

Both experiences made me realize how fragile DNS is, how hard it is to get anything fixed once you do diagnose it, and that a lot of "flakey" tech probably suffers from DNS issues outside either the vendor or consumer's control.
When the requirement to entry is being a billionaire that's not really a fair assessment imo.
This is truly amazing work, I'm glad you chose Nat as your NF example. One minor question I haven't seen answered anywhere: For vignat, in the git repository and the paper, I see no mention of software license.

May I assume that it is in the public domain, or if not, BSD licensed?
Yeah, I saw the title and was excited, then I saw

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

This makes it C interop.

If it were C++ interop, I would be able to DllImport a C++ library (without the C linkage) and get a C# wrapper class of the C++ classes automatically.

It's not C#'s fault. C++ is the one without an ABI. To properly DllImport C++ you would need to define the so/dll name in the import and also the specific C++ compiler version and build, since the binary changes underneath, e.g. foo.msvc_x64_debug.dll, foo.gcc_x86_release.dll, etc. Then C# might have a chance of importing a c++ library, but not today.
I love Mickens' work, and think this is overall a great presentation, but I feel like it misses (or maybe just doesn't fully explore) an important point.

Start with the Internet of Things example. He chalks up the abysmal security record of IoT devices to two factors: it keeps IoT devices cheap, and IoT vendors don't understand history. And there's a lot of truth in both these assertions! But they are both just expressing facets of a deeper, more fundamental reason: IoT devices aren't secure because their customers don't demand security.

This deeper problem completely explains why the two higher-level problems he observes exist. Making your product secure makes it more expensive and slower to come to market than just leaving it wide open, and the IoT vendors know their customers care about cost and availability and don't care about security. So they do the rational (in the homo economicus sense of the term) thing and optimize for things their customers are actually willing to pay for.

The same causality can be observed in the ML world. Mickens asks why people are hooking ML systems whose operation isn't fully understood to important things like financial decisionmaking and criminal justice systems. The answer is that the customers demand it. ML is trendy and buzzworthy, so if you're a vendor of (say) financial systems, and you can find some way to incorporate ML into your offerings with a straight face, now you have an attractive new checkbox on the feature list your salespeople dangle in front of potential customers. And once the effectiveness of having that box checked becomes clear, you kind of have to do it, even if you know it'll be ineffective or even worse, or risk losing business to a competitor with fewer scruples.

All of which is to say that what we see playing out in both these scenarios isn't really the vendors' fault. They are instead classic examples of market failure. People end up buying shoddy products because spotting their shoddiness requires technical expertise they don't have; responsible vendors who try not to make shoddy products lose sales to irresponsible vendors who don't; eventually all the responsible vendors are out of business and the only products available to buy are shoddy ones. There are lessons to learn from this, but they're economic rather than technological.
Yes, since things like DNSSEC, DNS has become more complex for sure.
Facebook shadow ban hits Prageru 99% drop in reach
I know there are plenty of different boards out there, like BananaPi, Odroid, etc, but a lot of them have questionable driver support and are still bare PCBs. The ODROID-HC1 does look interesting though.

I guess what I'd really want is a x86 device to get a more PC like experience. I can buy a tablet with battery, touch screen, and Intel Atom X5-Z8300 CPU for less than $90 [0], but there aren't any good cheap x86 alternatives for simple home servers.

[0] https://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_298397.html
Dynamic scoping by default is a bit insane (although not as much as you may think), but optional dynamic scoping is amazing, as it can be used to customise behaviour within a call.

E.g. in Lisp one can do something like:

(let ((*request* (make-request http-stuff))
(*tracer* (make-tracer)))
(set-up-response)
(handle-request)
(send-response))

And each of those functions will see the request object, as will each function those functions call, and so on down the call stack, without having to manually pass in a request object for each. And everything will see the tracer object, even functions whose callers have never even heard of tracing, even when those functions are in libraries which have never even heard of tracing.

If you're familiar with Go's contexts, this basically gives you a typesafe context for free.

Dynamic scoping is actually pretty awesome. I'm not a huge fan of it by default, but it's definitely a powerful capability to have as an option.
Fig leaf. Implement package signatures.

>ESLint

Glass houses. SSH Decorator was much worse, it stole SSH keys.
Redux is verbose but there are far less verbose options for React+Typescript.

I find clojure/script to be too dense for my taste in most examples. I actually really prefer a few more LoC, so that's a poor metric for effectiveness. Your IDE can deliver far more savings in time while encouraging more LoC often.
"it could make similar arguments to force companies to rewrite other popular encrypted services such as Signal and Facebook’s billion-user WhatsApp"

Umm... Signal is open-source, so unless they outlaw encryption across the board, the worst-case scenario is someone just has to fork it.
Haven't read the papers yet, but it immediately reminds me of Anna:

https://databeta.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/anna-kvs/
Creating a Dynamic Vertical Gradient in PHP
Don't forget he was also one of the original authors of Raft: https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/raft-atc14
The concern is that TLS is a complex protocol and if there is a bug in the code then the attacker gets access to the kernel instead of only a user process.

There is also the problem of conservative distributions using very old kernels. If you want your application to work on those distributions then you will need to have two versions of your program, one using a TLS library for those distributions and another using the kernel implementation. And this will persist even when current kernels make it into those distributions, because then they'll support TLS 1.3 but by then there may be a newer version of TLS the current kernels don't support and you'll still need to use a TLS library on those distributions if you want to use the updated protocol version.
I don't get it. Your list doesn't even include the RK3399 which is the fastest SoC you can nowadays get on an SBC for $100 and even that only has a geekbench score between 3k to 4k (RPi 3 is 1.2k and my 5 year old i5 has 10k). You'd expect to get at least a 5k score from an SBC for it to be viable.

Also this whole announcement is really petty... Qualcomm and Apple already have SoCs with scores higher than 9k on geekbench so why does ARM have so much trouble making good cpu cores? They are comparing existing 14nm CPUs with theoretical 7nm CPUs that they haven't even released yet. Of course it's going to perform better. It would be embarrassing if it didn't...
Chinese national took stolen secrets to China firm Elec-Tech  Jury: $66M damages
Show HN: Noobs Term – A Terminal Configuration for Noobs
The proposals seem to be about tapping the breaks. Good idea. It’s not good to leave so many people hopelessly in the dust.

His way of framing the cost/benefit analyses in terms of who bears the costs and who receives the benefits seems sound. It’s nit enough for something to have benefits.
I would suggest that it's not appropriate to tell other people how to view their own history, particularly history that is recent enough that living people either remember it or spoke to those who did.

I do think there's definitely a real debate about when an artifact passes from "hey, that's ours, give it back" to "what a fascinating bit of world history, belonging to the world".

There's also a very real history of literal colonialism going on here, that simply can not be discarded. It is probably an accurate concept to contexualize this as part of a country decolonizing itself and asserting that it has a valid history.

Contextualizing for American audiences, the Summer Palace was burnt in the same time period as our civil war, and those ghosts are not near laid to rest.

Anyway, like I said: if someone stole the Constitution, I'd generally be sore about it and see it as a patriotic good to get it back. even tho' there are a ton of copies everywhere, and the value is in the ideas.
overly? I'm sorry, but I fail to see how defining "funding secured" to mean actually having secured funding is overly strict.
Samba shouldn't be trying to deal with records it does not understand, and those AAAA records aren't exactly a DNS issue.

The Internet has become way too complex lately and DNS gets to carry the burden of gluing everything together. It may be wise to rethink its role, make it more general, and stack things on top of it, instead of inside.
I don't think so. I feel like the Pi is dragging down the rest of the industry by using broadcom chips based on a GPU that has been obsolete for a long time.
Apple servers hacked – 90GB of secure files stolen by high schooler
Introduction to Fraud Detection Systems
Indeed. Some of the ideas for LFS made their way into ZFS and btrfs: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/file-lfs.pdf
Would [perfect] forward secrecy prevent a government from asking an entity from decrypting intercepted and recorded transmissions?
> reading [War With the Newts] was just about the only time I wasn't slightly bitter about having signed up for the [Eastern European SF] course.

Really? War With the Newts is great, but there’s a lot of other great Russian / Eastern European science fiction. What else did you read in the course?
"Tiny hospitals" have low readmission rates, because the complicated patients with lots of readmissions get transferred to tertiary care centers.

This also came up in things like Consumer Reports and their analysis of hospital acquired infection data. Small community hospitals with uncomplicated patients end up looking really good.
Colonialism was a bad experience for the colonized. :-/

You seem to be very up on current Mainland thought - do you have any web sites in English you'd recommend for a genuine (not exoticized) information source?
Press leaks during Google's all-hands meeting enrage insiders
I think it has become abundantly clear that a fully peer to peer, encryption required (non-optional), no single central server infrastructure solution is the answer.

No points to tap.

No point in tapping the data.

If they want to capture conversations it's time to go back to the proper old ways of actually spying on high-value targets.
Ready Player One is on this list so it is immediately excused from validity.