skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But many people are part of a family or a group of people in some way, and gambling, alcohol, drugs “that only hurt themselves” tend to also hurt other people.

If we are going to be liberal, we also need to ensure society as a whole isn’t damaged in the process. War on drugs, as an example, have more or less destroyed other countries. Legalised drugs are probably better, but could be taxed and those with problems should be treated as they have a sickness. Gambling could be state run and be handled the same way.
> I have no idea why the extreme brexiteers find this idea so objectionable?

Because it's a slippery slope that looks very much like ceding territory. It's not just border checks, but Northern Ireland would be effectively in the EU as far as customs rules and tariffs. Otherwise, you could circumvent the EU tariffs by importing in the UK, moving the goods "internally" to NE then loading them on a truck and unloading somewhere in the rest Ireland.

This differentiated regime would strengthen economic ties with Ireland and weaken those with Britain.
Autokill detached anonymous EC2 instances
2003, I was about 10 years old, I didn't speak any English and I just thought it was the coolest thing ever to have my own e-mail address so I somehow registered for a Yahoo account. I still have it.
What's DDG's business model?
I'm still irked that CBS, Warner, CW and the DC subscriptions aren't a single service. Talk about milking it. I did a year of DC and didn't look at it before the preview was up... I mean, Titans was meh, and I'm happy Young Justice is back, but totally not worth the price of admission for how many DC things are missing...
Tesla leases those parking spots to only be used by Tesla owners. Your non-Tesla vehicle can legitimately be towed away if you park there. They aren’t merely a convenience, but are in fact an essential piece of infrastructure for some Tesla owners who count on being able to charge there. While some Tesla owners enjoy free supercharging, most need to pay for it. In fact, they charge Tesla owners idle fees if they block a supercharging spot after being done charging.
Caregivers are great, but I think you need to be pretty far in before your family figures it out and gets that kind of thing setup.

I don't think it's reasonable for a person with dementia to schedule and manage their own care giving staff, there really needs to be a very competent person double checking their work and making sure they are doing their job adequately.
So, just to clarify, you're arguing that Donald Tusk has offered exactly what you want (except - in the absence of viable alternative solutions - to Northern Ireland in order to honour existing bilateral agreements implying no new customs borders there).

Do you think this offer is more or less likely to still exist if the UK insists that it doesn't need the EU's stinking trade, defaults on its financial obligations to the EU and enrages an Irish government with veto power over any hypothetical future deal by re-erecting customs borders with the north?
(Even before considering the UK's ill-preparedness to attempt such a gambit means the direct short term consequences would hurt the country)
As recent history shows, polling is unreliable in heavily politically charged issues like this one. Oversample here, undersample there, and you get "95% probability of winning" the night before the loss.
Is there any hope beyond developing nuclear (fission / fusion) tech for this world to sustain 10 billion humans consuming as much energy as an average Californian?[0]

As the gp said, the objective is maintaining and improving our quality of life. I don't know if solar/wind + storage can do that[1].

[0] Ok, "maybe" this is a high bar, but the point is: unless it gets too cheap to measure, energy will be scarce for large swathes of the world population
[1] I honestly don't know. Any pointers to how much energy per capita would be produced in peak renewable?
My thought for shorter trials: If something more important derailed the trial then the product isn’t solving a problem with enough urgency for you and you were unlikely to convert.
They could have rolled out their own (privacy-focused) map service. The data is open, the stack is open as well.
> _don't stock pick_, because if you do, you're the dumb money handing it over to the HFT firms.

I think you mean _don't day trade_. HFT is a tax on changing your bets. If you pick a stock and stick with it for years, it's negligible.

It still might be good advice not to stock pick, but I don't think HFT is the reason.
Thanks for the feedback - seems obvious in hindsight! Updated to include brief 'Results' section
Very interesting, and I like the interactive graphics. I've been looking at this problem recently with an eye towards what it looks like to translate scene descriptions from an SDF (signed distance function) representation of a CSG (constructive solid geometry) scene to a triangular-mesh representation. I've looked at marching cubes, which has another page on this site that is linked from this page, but it seems kind of inelegant.

The obvious problem with this method is that it relies in the underlying object being smooth, and many CSG designs have cusps and other non-smooth artifacts that are very hard to derive from an abstract representation because the SDF is not well-behaved around those regions.
Depends on how broken. If the hour and minute hands are swapped it could be right many times more than merely twice.
Well, for myself, I've changed the law in several countries in ways that have greatly improved the lives of the people affected by them.

I feel pretty confident in my right to criticize Tesla for it's presumptive and poorly executed overreach.
Article 50 exists. The UK can leave on WTO terms and the EU cannot stop it. The EU has some incentives (money) to give the UK some other deal than WTO terms, and it has some incentives (avoiding a rush to the exits) to give the UK nothing more than WTO terms. As it happens the UK is wealthier than other EU countries that might head for the exits if they thought they could get as good a deal as the UK, but no one thinks that Poland can get the same terms as the UK, so fear of a rush to exit is not a reason to give the UK nothing. It's not at all clear that May tried to get a better deal than the one she presented to Parliament -- the brexiteers in her previous cabinet were sidelined and ignored, and no attempt was made to make clear that the EU would not yield (if that was the problem).
The results themselves are powered by Yelp (and have been before the map switch). The only difference is that now their location is displayed on Apple Maps, not Mapbox.
We should rebrand it- people forget that the original name for an MRI scanner was an NMR scanner- nuclear magnetic resonance. Of course nuclear scared people so in response to patient concerns nuclear was dropped from the name and now people line up to stick their appendages in them. Instead of nuclear we should be saying 'Molten Salt Reactors' and similar accurate (but less scary) names for what we want to have built.
>stop acting like this is the 'will of the people'

Well, unlike how people like to complain about US politics where it's a representative democracy... Brexit was a real democracy, and you can remind me if you like how that vote worked out...

Sorry, but you don't get to wave away "will of the people" as nonsense when the majority did vote for it and majority system is what they used.

It's only your prerogative that now straight Democracy is bad because you don't agree with the result.
Juncker tweeted about an hour ago that “time is almost up” for the UK. That means that the EU won’t sweeten the proposed deal.
It may not make an identifiable difference, but it will make a material difference. I’m not sure what tangible means in this context.

What was the effect of Columbus sailing across the Atlantic? Maybe nothing! Maybe another sailor would have come 20 years later and American history would have played out just the same with different dates.

Or would two decades of Aztec rule made a difference? Two more decades of Nagualism before the Church started eradicating the libraries and the language? Could books have been copied and hidden? Would political bodies have had more time to adapt? Were there tipping points on the horizon?

Or was America in a steady state just waiting for Europe to come plunder it? Are forces at play which are so much bigger than individuals that nothing we do really matters?

Personally, I think it all matters very much. History does not repeat itself, it’s a story built on every word that came before it. Brexit will frame everything that comes after it, and if we had swapped this decade for a different decade in UK history, we would have a very different story.
Maybe the second referendum should just be between soft leave and hard leave, as the first referendum already settled the question of leave or remain.

Call it a runoff referendum.
Link the area, someone will add something if it comes to this thread :)
It is in the best financial interests of Apple to protect user data. Mr. Cook has a fiduciary responsibility to do so.
It's painful to admit, but many of those people may have passed away already. In my own experience with my own relatives, they have all been in their nineties and in many cases their children had already passed away or moved out of state. Many friends are near the same age and have fallen out of touch, etc.
The model was in production for 6 years. The lottery has been discontinued, so is no longer viable
Actually, I believe the armed forces of the UK actually take an oath of allegiance to the ruling monarch rather than to the state/government - I did think this didn't mean very much but I have raised the point with a serving army officer and he was rather insistent that they take it seriously:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_Allegiance_(United_Kin...
> Homosexuals don't have some special monopoly on honesty, nor are they immune to using emotional string pulling when they try to get you to believe what they are saying.
The reply would have been better without the first paragraph.

I believe the point was that he was advocating for a cause which doesn't benefit him or directly affect him. I think it's a valid point: it's easy to fight for things that benefit you. It's like you'd be less skeptical if a rich person fights for higher taxes on the rich than when a poor person does.
Yes it is more or less considered complete. I may do a pass over it to see if it can leverage or support span<t> better sometime soon.

Performance deltas should be similar on .NET Core.
The solar resources in Kuwait are exceptional--this may be more about pragmatic cost optimization than anything else. With the falling cost of solar, if they can save the oil that would otherwise be used for operations and then sell it, I imagine they come out ahead.

The irony is that the same forces creating this profit opportunity for them will eventually lead their customers to seek new energy sources as well, and shrink their market.
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This lack of interaction and response to put a hold on my excited trial run.
What books can I learn CTO?
What books can I learn CTO?
Yes I wrote about this on my blog:

[ Is a Builtin, But [[ Is Part of the Language

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/10/12.html

I didn't know that before I started implementing a shell :)

I knew that [ could be a builtin or /usr/bin/[, but not about the difference between [ and [[.
There are two issues in tension here. One is a right to privacy, but the other is a right to audit who is actually voting. If the voter rolls were secret, there's nothing to stop a massive fraud by those in power to stay in power.
There's elsewhere in the thread where people discuss knowing Leave voters and just how strongly they feel about it. Some comments are even talking about civil war on the mainland if we back out of it.

I feel the British media have gone back to hiding significant swathes of the UK from being shown on screen or print/online, so us more liberal types are deluding ourselves that there's some sort of consensus about a 2nd referendum.

I still remember sitting there the day after the referendum and thinking "these people on TV are like they're from my home town. I've never seen people like this on TV before".

I haven't seen them again.
What books can I learn CIO?
What books can I learn CIO?
Don't all the Starks say that? Those are their "words".
Cautionary note for seed selection:

>Tropical milkweed available at many retail nurseries is not native to the U.S. However it has naturalized in the Southeastern U.S. Science is discovering that its long bloom time may have some detrimental effects on monarch migration and possibly be a source to spread disease within monarch populations.

https://www.nwf.org/Garden-For-Wildlife/About/Native-Plants/...
Apple is probably going to buy DuckDuckGo this year
Oh, looks really interesting.
>>"Most people don’t turn on their car’s headlights and think, I wish they were brighter."

I guess I'm not "Most people" because I have desired more light since I got my license.

I've installed 100w Hella Euro projector lights for straight-line distance (appropriately calibrated as to not blind incoming traffic); and replaced my foglights (not particularly useful in Toronto, Canada) with corner beams - short distance, wide spread, installed at 45 degree angle, so I can illuminate slow speed turns into dark abyss that many drivways, hwy off-ramps, or small city streets are. At night on country roads, I never ever think "well, that's enough, I don't need more light".
I'm guessing the thing from '96 was a Java applet, so indeed an app.
I should have been more clear, I meant in your typical engineering offshoring shop.

Of course you can find talented engineers with product sense elsewhere...though so far a majority keeps flocking to the pacific north west.
But maybe better pre-2009:

> Surprisingly, modern Linux systems no longer collect entropy from IRQ timings. The Linux kernel maintainers deprecated the use of this source in 2009 by removing the IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM flag, apparently to prevent events controlled or observable by an attacker from contributing to the entropy pools.

> Although mailing list discussions suggest the intent to replace it with new collection mech- anisms tailored to each interrupt-driven source [21], as of Linux 3.4.2 no such functions have been added to the ker- nel.

> The removal of IRQs as an entropy source has likely exacerbated RNG problems in headless and embedded devices, which often lack human input devices, disks, and multiple cores. If they do, the only source of entropy—if there are any at all—may be the time of boot.
Wow, I hadn't heard about any of this before now... that's awesome.
Microsoft is preparing for foldable Windows devices
I can see that. However, it's just not how we try and do things in the UK - major policy changes have been caused by rioting through history, and governments do what they can to minimise it.

Remember, we don't have a codified constitution. A system such as our requires trying to find middle ground consensus above all else.

The people who want to Leave are way, way, way angrier than those who want to Remain. It's easier to just let them discover the lie in their deathbeds in 20 years...
The one with the reflection really stuck with me. I know a lot of chess research in psychology in praise of it(1).
This channel is quite entertaining to watch research papers in conventional 2 minutes videos. I remember he said once in a video that the point of going into AI research is that he will have his mind uploaded in the future or some stuff like that, which I found very similar to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13240811

(1) Barbara Oakley - learning how to learn.
Looks like we both touched a nerve there but I’ve no idea why!
It seems to me that brexit was for some people a populist movement which put national pride ahead of economic interests. (We don't need the EU to do trade agreements, the British Empire ruled the world back in the day!).
> far and away higher quality than streaming of any type

Absolutely. Blu-Ray usually have ~18-25GB of raw video for a standard 2 hour 1080p film.

It's usually actually more because of the container format but the actual video itself is usually about that size.
That's too extreme, though. Also some of the top links are useful but a bit old. I do love how the WaPo says to give the middle finger (figuratively) to the Terms and Conditions of sites and lie about your birth date.

Definitely change you birthdate on Facebook and family associations (remove the 'this is my relative' type of status)
I am deeply afraid of the impact of this law. The amount of meta-work required to consolidate and annotate data we collect, in order to prepare it for public consumption, seems likely to hurt government efficiency.

In addition to the administrative burden, it appears to ignore the fact that non-sensitive information, in sufficient quantity and correlation, becomes sensitive information.

Perhaps my skepticism is misplaced, but my initial reaction is that this sounds better in the abstract than it will turn out to be in practice.
Not sure what machine can possibly completely test a problem with a 32-bit input space in any "practical" or "reasonable" time. Once states are added in, it quickly explodes beyond a simple 32-bit input space. I have yet to see any literature showing that "Exhaustive" testing is even marginally feasible. I know in my own work, we don't even bother. We come up with the test cases we can and leave the rest to the Software gods.
One of the effects of Brexit that is overlooked by people outside of the UK is the effect that it will have on the Union itself. In 2014 during the Scottish independence referendum those favouring remaining in the UK prevailed by about 11%. One of the strongest arguments made by those who favoured remaining was that an independent Scotland would not accede to the EU automatically, according to the EU itself, but would have to apply as a new member (in part the fear was that other regions of Europe such as Catalonia would follow Scotland's example). Now in 2019 the Scots who favoured remaining in the UK so as to maintain EU membership are being told they'll have a hard exit. If there's a replay of the 2014 referendum in the future there's no assurance that Scots will choose to remain, with Brexit increasing the possibility of a disintegration of the Union with only England, Wales and Northern Ireland remaining. Over the horizon it's even possible that Northern Ireland (given the appropriate demographic changes) will peel off and join up with the Irish Republic.
there's a fun kim stanley robinson book gaming out climate change (called 50 degrees below, or in that series anyway) where they dump a ton of extra salt in the ocean near there for that exact reason.
In the book, iirc, it sorta stalls some bad stuff from happening but doesn't end up being that helpful long term.
again, cute. $250K. very cute. Try $5mil for a box, at least, after a 50% vendor discount. VSAN has nothing to do with SAN, and no one on a SAN uses VSAN. You are again showing your lack of enterprise experience, yet you are strongly trashing what you don't understand. A server sees many arrays, over a SAN. That is called horizontal scaling. You can't do that with internal disk.
Thanks for the feedback - included 'Results' section with an idea of worst bankroll draw down

Also, as mentioned by @falsedan, 20 * 20k = 400k (if that's the math you were attempting, which is not a sophisticated way to determine bankroll, but a good starting point)
Personally - I find Apple maps (now, not at all in the early days) much better than Google maps - except for one thing: On several occasions where I enter a street address and if it's in a heavily populated area particularly if it's on an intersection the pointer will be in the wrong place on the street - I've reported these when I've encountered them and Apple has fixed each one within 24-48 hours but it's still a bit annoying when it does happen. My guessing is that because Google farms a tremendous amount of public and private data from Android devices and Google searches / services they are able to use their privately held wealth of peoples information to improve street numbering especially when new roads are added or intersections have been changed - that combined with Google maps being 14 years old and Apple maps only being 7. Still, a sensible move for a privacy focused system I believe.
this is the general principle behind the EU Commission: that of a technocracy

the head of the Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, on the 2005 French referendum on the Lisbon Treaty:

"If it's a Yes, we will say 'on we go', and if it's a No we will say 'we continue'."

the result being that the French rejected it, but it was adopted regardless
Trump can’t do anything right, can he?
Shake hands or resign and let another person lead Apple.
May hasn't been held responsible for this, yet. She's survived an internal party vote of no confidence, and she is clearly confident that her government will survive tomorrow's parliamentary vote of no confidence.

Right now the PM (and the EU) gets to go back to the drawing board. And Parliament gets to try to force various things, such as a second referendum, or a delay to brexit (which the EU would have to acquiesce to). May can resist Parliament for a while, if she wants.

Obviously I won't try to predict the outcome of anything. I'm not in that business.
I guess DDG are angling for Apple to purchase them. Personally I would have preferred for them to stick with OSM. Also, after a quick test, the Apple maps load slowly and driving directions are offloaded to another provider (Bing, Here, Google. or OSM)
> because they are prepared to do work locals are not, at a price that locals will not consider.

Fortunately, those locals are able to purchase their produce at a lower price, with the benefits they claim which is being paid for by the migrant's taxes.
What are the characteristics of those who generated an RSA key sharing a prime factor? Can they be linked back to a few bad CSPRNG implementations?

What are practical steps to be responsible about it?

It's contrived, but I just imagine that if I'm generating some particularly important keys, that I should somehow find a way to give /dev/urandom a kick of some kind. Even if that were possible, it's more likely to make things worse than better. Still, it makes me a little paranoid to even hear about theoretical weaknesses -- especially like collision attacks. I have no idea how long it takes for the CSPRNG to get properly seeded. Does it take a microsecond after booting? 10 minutes? A day?
The problem is when they have dependents. As a society we have decided that it is a bridge too far to make people pass a test before they can procreate/own pets/etc... so we have to make sure that most of them will be able to maintain their responsibility via lots of bans and regulations.
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Indeed; a lot of people subscribe to the view that the vote delivered the 'incorrect' result because one side was more effective at lying than the other side.

Very difficult to know where to draw a line; my feeling is that even if history shows the people were wrong the government should not be allowed to (directly or indirectly) do something other than what they were elected to do - i.e. serve the people (on a plate, it seems).

And I write this from the losing side (in the referendum); about the only way it could get worse if it turns I'm on the winning side in the end (cf. Boaty McBoatface; the people were asked to vote for the name of the vehicle, but the powers that be didn't like such a frivolous name so they reneged and called it the RRS Sir David Attenborough instead. The parallel should be obvious).

Edit: toned down the rhetoric.
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