skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When someone "cashes out" into USD he doesn't really want to cash out in a lot of USD as it's a poor store of value by design.

No, he really does want to cash out in a lot of USD, because its a very good medium of exchange, by design. They then proceed to use the USD to buy things that either provide immediate utility or provide a good store of value, but that's after "cashing out", which is an act designed to secure something useful in general exchange ("cash").
No, there is no such limit, but it's confusing.

Core2 had an 18 x86 instruction "loop stream detector".

Nehalem went to a 28 u-op (not instruction) LSD.

Sandy Bridge has a 1500 u-op "decoded instruction cache" plus a 28 u-op LSD.

Haswell is the same as SB, but doubles the u-op LSD to 56 if hyperthreading is disabled.

The confusing part is why there is still a tiny loop stream detector in addition to the much larger decoded iCache. Perhaps there is a small additional power savings for code that fits the smaller LSD?

But in general, you no longer have to worry about instruction decoding speed if your loops are less than 1500 u-ops. With some caveats: https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/docum...
My sophomore year roommates did Everyman for about 8 months. They got horrifying good at Call of Duty.
Epic still keeps winning "Best in Klas"[1] which is based on user vote.

[1] http://www.klasresearch.com/Vendor/54
>The result is whether or not the program type-checks.

Ok, you are very confused. Type checking has nothing to do with program execution. Type checking is done at compile time. Any program with no side effects, the compile can safely optimize into nothing, since it does nothing. The compiler does the type checking, not the program.

>Your new claim, that programs must have side effects to do anything, is still wrong but more debatable.

It is the claim I made and you replied to. If you want to be pedantic and obtuse you can't expect people to not call you out on it.
The README should read:

Q. Can someone detect that a file has messages encoded in it?

A. If the file was generated with an encoder whose code is public (i.e. Github, bitbucket, ...) then yes. Always. And even if the code is private, it may not be secure. Unless you come up with an encoding scheme that's never been thought of before, then law enforcement will likely be able to detect the encoded messages unless they're trivially short.
It would be a fallacy if I had a point, and an argument to make. I have neither. Only a question, with the purposes of placing the comments in some kind of context.
Thanks. Yeah, there's the whole English Common Law thing as well.

I got to see one of the exemplifications (as they're called) of the Magna Carta -- apparently a number of abbreviated copies were made, the original is lost. In particular it establishes rule of law (rather than arbitrary decree) and due process. Fairly awesome, in the true meaning of the word, to be in its presence.
why not make it easy and call it escrow since that's what it looks like it is?
The endgame of effectiveness of stego with this framework of published techniques versus customized detectors for those techniques specifically is going to be much, much more difficult for the detector than it is today, if not outright losing. As for your claim that it isn't easy to stego techniques: Seriously, go read through the docs before making claims. You're just plain wrong, and obviously so.
Incase you're not looking specifically for Spotify, Rdio is available in Canada legally.
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I always ask this whenever someone makes one of these:

Why not a subreddit? (a topical section on the user-drive news aggregator Reddit)
They turned it around to see when it falls apart if not re-lit but falling down the right way (engines first).
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Anecdotally I was snubbed at a younger age when the school district was looking for a security system to prevent manipulating school grades. My suggestion was to remove the disk pack (ok so it was a while ago) that contained student records while the students had access to the system via dialup, and replace it at night when the various accounting programs ran (attendance, grades, etc). Imagine my surprise when the contest ended with no winning solution, but oh by the way we've changed our policy and will not make the student grades data available during the day.

We did get them finally fess up that it was my suggestion which they had adopted and they gave me the prize (which was a $250 scholarship as I recall). But it has never ceased to amaze me that people don't think of security as holistically as they should.
When I relocated to work for my current employer, they put me on a temporary house which had three floors. When I arrived from the airport with a huge suitcase, I almost died of exhaustion taking it upstairs (it was really large and heavy!). Only then I realized I could have left the suitcase downstairs and taken my stuff upstairs in smaller batches...

Doh!

On a related note, I wish my wife was with me at the time. I often tell her she's the smart half of the couple, since I repeatedly have these "Doh!" moments but when she's around she is able to correct me and show me there's a simpler way :)
You probably want to look at a couple of good undergrad textbooks (calculus, linear algebra, probability). The good textbooks explain the notation and have an index for all the symbols.

Unfortunately, in most cases, you have to know a little bit about the field in order to be able to parse the notation. The upside is that having some background is pretty much a necessity to not screwing up when you try to implement some algorithm.
Do you have a history with Yahoo answers? How do you compare it with other Q&A sites? Also, the vicious HN-FB cycle, we all empathize with. Thanks.
I will try to dig it up. Another person I interviewed was Ed Moldt who ended up years later being the head of the Wharton Entrepreneurial Center. At the time he was working on telemedicine a way that doctors could remotely diagnose patients by video.
Thanks. Part of the inspiration came from my personal experience of dealing with many data sources (type and quantity) and wanting a single clean interface to all of them.

We're looking into adding both BigQuery and Google Cloud SQL integration. The latter should be out pretty soon.
How does that curtail spam? It's not a lower barrier than a Captcha. Although it takes longer to set up a throwaway login, many spammers have lots of throwaway accounts on hand.
I would have liked to have seen some references to the research in the field in the explanation or comments. I wrote something like this around 15 years ago (https://github.com/tokenrove/steaghan/; horribly broken, do not use) but quickly abandoned it when Niels Provos started doing much more sophisticated stuff (http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/stego/).

Since then, there has been a fair bit of really interesting research in the field; I recommend anyone interested read Peter Wayner's book Disappearing Cryptography. Might be a good place to start for enhancing this provocatively named framework.
No. Because you cost yourself 2 points and you give the ball to them. Essentially you gave them 2 points at the cost of being able to "punt" the ball at the 35.
Or you can take the route of Standard Oil: negotiate special rates with railroads (through rebates, a process later made illegal), force out your competition, and where that failed, literally blow them up.

Microsoft got itself lucky with an exclusive licensing arrangement then played that hand for all it was worth. Court documents largely from the Novell lawsuit (though there were numerous others) reveal just how cut-throat the company was.

In general, finding some initial advantage and leveraging it is what has tended to work. Government contract, sweetheart deal with an existing major player (Google's search deal with Yahoo early on, for example), patents, strategic lawsuits, FUD, and others.

Altman's premise really doesn't hold water.
My friend texted me as soon as I did this. Maybe it's just me but Reddit always feels so distracting.

Mostly I'm just stubborn and wanted to have control over look/layout.

In all reality nowadays it takes about as long to make a subreddit as it does to make one of these haha.
Clj-ds: Clojure's persistent data structures modified for use outside of Clojure
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Hi, I just thought I would update everyone on my experience and the last 12 hours.

At the time in which I found the bug and was not awarded for it, I was quite upset, evident from my tone in the email in which I decided that I did not want to receive any of their "swag", but rather give them some constructive criticism.

I wasn't expecting the blog post to get as noticed as it did, but as it has, I was able to observe great points on both sides of the argument of whether or not I should be received the bug bounty. These discussions were definitely required as they brought out some important issues with bug bounties today and how security issues should really be dealt with.

Prezi, has now both apologised to me and also have offered to pay me for my findings. I have updated my blog post to show this, as well as the emails exchanged between us. I'm glad that it ended this way - all within the last 12 hours.

Initially, I did not redact the developers names, and after the blog post became I had to rush to make sure that I had removed them from all places which were indexed by Google. My intention was not to negatively affect the careers of the Prezi developers affected from my findings.

I thank everyone here, and generally on the internet, for looking closer into my findings.

Thank you,
Shubham
A majority of 30% of more?...
> If I bought Intellij IDEA, does that mean I can download free plugins to get the same functionality as PyCharm?

Yup, pretty much yes.

> Does PyCharm support Javascript? If I want to do Django and Javascript, do I need to buy IDEA?

PyCharm does support js so you don't need IDEA unless you target jython.
That's because the meaning of "right" got subverted. The right used to mean "the government can not prohibit you from doing it" - right to free speech, right to bear arms, right to elect and be elected, right to own property, etc. But these "rights" mean something different entirely - when people say "right to minimal salary" - they do not mean the government should not prohibit you from earning minimal salary. They mean that the government should force your employer to pay you certain amount or fire you. When they say "right to education" they do not mean government can not prevent you from studying. They mean the government should take money from other people and pay for your education (that if they do not support enslaving the educators so that their work for free). When they say "right to housing", they do not mean the government should not remove you from your own house - they mean the government should take houses from other people or take money from other people and build houses using this money and then let you live there. Etc., etc.
Python on a micro
Definitely worth supporting:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micro-python-python-for-microcontrollers?ref=live
Here's one way it might go down in practice. After law enforcement seizes your computer, they'll scan your computer for any encrypted containers, along with any code that looks like it's used for steganography. They'll find DissidentX, since its README mentions "steganography," which is a keyword that their forensics tools will search for. Then they'll use each encoder in your DissidentX folder to scan your computer for any encoded messages. Unless the message is trivially short (<50 bytes) then they'll come up with a list of suspect messages. This list will include any encoded message you've created using DissidentX, along with some false positives. Then, if you're in the UK, they'll have a judge demand you cooperate with them; any plausible deniability you may have had is gone at that point. It's "cooperate or go to jail."

Check out http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/jsac98-limsteg.pdf and related literature. In particular this quote:

Shannon provided us with a proof that
such systems are secure regardless of the computational
power of the opponent [43]. [...] Yet we still
have no comparable theory of steganography.

The problem is that there's no such thing as perfectly secure stego (undetectable covert messages), even though there is perfectly secure encryption (unbreakable encrypted messages, regardless of the computational power of the adversary, when implemented correctly, and when not defeated via side channel attacks, and when not compelled to cooperate by a judge).
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If I'm the Secret Police in some oppressive state, then I just need to find out whether you seem to be using stego — which is naturally against the law, itself, and hence grounds for arrest. Then, I can use rubber hoses, bamboo splinters, the threat of violence against your loved ones, and what-not to "brute force" your passphrase.

Me? I'm the entire population of the country. Which one of us is using stego?

To my reckoning, the search space would put the number of atoms in the universe to shame.
Because it's not an escrow. Take a look at https://www.bitrated.com/faq.html#is-this-an-escrow-
Ask Nick Saban how trying to kick a field goal with 1 second left in the Baylor game is working out for him. There are plenty of people saying that any other coach would be fired.
Hey,

Thanks for pointing out the title slip, I didn't mean to rig the election - quite on the contrary... Well, I would change it right away, if I could(I can't seem to be able to edit the submission, is that normal?)

The data part is, initially,not that hard. Brazil has stringent laws regarding candidates' informations and it's relatively simple to access it (see http://www.tse.jus.br/hotSites/pesquisas-eleitorais/candidat... for a .csv database of all candidates in the country). Going to the next level (more informative, insightful, information) will be challenging - I am planning to ask for help from political NGOs that might help with that.

I would really like the social aspect of the app to flourish: I have the feeling we are often very apathetic and having tools to engage friends, family, might help igniting debate. Social apps find Brazil incredibly receptive - we seem to crave for all things social.

Anyway, thanks for the input!
Interesting. Will check it out. Found Javascript adaptation at http://www.rogerandwendy.com/roger/dynadraw
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> You seem not to have read my post. The reason it exists is to allow the arbitrary destruction of kids lives, preferentially as a weapon against minorities, undesirables, the poor, often all of the above. You're treating the primary purpose of that feature as if its a bug.

I didn't respond to your post. But you are wrong about the reason "it" exists. The school administrators that create the zero tolerance policies are usually not the same people that are on the ground enforcing the policies. It might be used as a weapon by the teachers on the ground, but they aren't the ones creating the policies.
That is if they're not paying him for it.
People who think that REM sleep is "all" you require are invited to develop obstructive sleep apnea.

Let me know how that works for you, dreaming for 16 hours straight and waking up tired.
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Never fear. I have it on good authority that new security codes are reasonably secure alphanumeric combinations: "123456qwerty". It would be interesting to find out how it is really done though. I suspect we will not know until new more secure system is in place.
Most code, even more for a sandbox game, is made to be modified.
If it's not well made, it will be hard to modify it, you will add mistakes to mistakes and it will become harder to develop. The last Minecraft update is probably a sign of that (they remade everything if I understood correctly).

Terraria is currently a good example to compare with the situation of Minecraft. I don't know how both is made (except some stuff that my friends told me about Minecraft) but all I know is that most Terraria player made fun of Minecraft in the last big updates because they had SO MUCH content added when Minecraft had nearly nothing more.

If he's trying to write fun games that won't be updated, yeah, it's fine. Except that it's not the goal of Minecraft (at least I hope it's not...).
The solutions presented were better and more mathematically sound. This might work, but that algorithm maximizes the exposure of deserving posts and optimizes the tradeoff between testing new posts and sticking with proven ones. This is just arbitrarily throwing new links to a top box that everyone ignores.

And reddit's solution doesn't seem to be working much better IMO, tons of posts get buried with little exposure. The rising section seems to be usually empty or just 2 or 3 totally random posts.

Reddit's algorithm is often criticized for heavily favoring quickly consumed content like images because they get vote quicker. Also easily manipulated by bots/sock-puppets.
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My point exactly. There are numerous situations that could doom their product.
We do understand it bitcoin.

You can think of bitcoin as "backed" by speculators. It has a market price, because speculators will give you other currencies for it. That is what makes it useful for value transfer (trade).

And the more it is demanded for trade, the more liquid it will be, leading to less volatility and less risk for speculators.

Whether the price holds up in the long run or crashes to near-zero is impossible to predict. But it is now safe to say that it could go either way. It depends on the choices of people and governments.

Bitcoin has already proven (or very close) that digital currency that is purely a financial asset (not demanded for jewelry, industrial use, or taxes) is viable.

I don't see how bitcoin not meeting certain a priori definitions that were created before digital currency was even a possibility, are relevant. It seems likely to me that the blogger is either confused about abstract ideas relate to reality, or is dishonest.
Nick Saban can call any number of schools right now and be the highest paid coach in NCAAF. He has a reputation for going for it on 4th down and taking risks. Also, it was Auburn, not Baylor.
I think the biggest difference is that on 3rd and 1, the defense has already assumed that they're going to get a 1st down. The main job of the defense is to prevent a big gain and then get ready for stopping the offense on the next four downs. I wouldn't say that they're cheesedicking it, but they're not going all out.

Meanwhile, on fourth down, the defense is amped up and ready to roll. You'll usually see a strong blitz against a sputtering offense, and the percentage of plays that actually get a yard is going to be lower.

Not only that, going three-and-out means that the offense is unlikely to do any better going from the 10 to the 20 yard line. Better to punt the ball, trust your defense, and have your offensive coordinator fix whatever is going wrong.
awesome but you absolutely have to fix the performance.
Xenon is actually pretty expensive.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=581982
Most of my life consists of "unnatural" things. This is hardly the right audience for an "appeal to nature".

That it is nearly impossible to maintain for any length of time explains why things that can make it easier to maintain is attractive.

The only real objection you are presenting is that it possibly is dangerous.

> Go hack something else. Leave your circadian rhythms alone. You cannot redesign them or improve them.

Do you have any actual basis for this claim, or are you just making another appeal to nature?
Best part of the article was almost a sidebar:

When you have Enough, the extra money means very little. I’ve been broke, and being broke sucks balls. Having Enough is awesome. How would I define “Enough”? Enough means that you can take a friend out to a nice lunch and not have to worry about how much it costs. I have hung out with a couple of billionaires—my experiences indicate that being a billionaire is just incrementally better than Enough.

Exactly.
Yep, that's mine. I'm a fan. :^)
Why do people think funding science is easy?

"They certainly enjoy funds orders of magnitude more."

Certainly? If they had the money already they wouldn't be asking for it. Perhaps they have had this proposal declined once or twice by the agencies. Science is very competitive and the majority of proposals are not successful: 10% acceptance rates are not unusual. It's also highly winner-take-all since winning funding tends to generate output which tends to attract more funding.

"$50K is like two YC startups' seed money."

Which is loaned in expectation of a return. Science funding is a gift in the hope of a long term strategic advantage. The government doesn't just hand out $50K to Prof. Doe on request. Besides, $50K would barely support one PhD student-year with 50% overhead and tuition.

Researcher profs spend a large proportion of their time on grant writing and only the best are successful, and while it does come in large chunks when it comes (in the US), the expected value of each application is not high. It's much easier for the currently in-vogue fields than others. It's also hugely easier if you have a little industrial funding, as there are many matching programs. This means getting the attention of the industrial players, if there are any in your field. Very time consuming!
George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946

While it's nothing new, it offers context into writing well that is as sophisticated and thought provoking as i've ever seen. English/American prose have changed dramatically in the last century and it's important to understand why.

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
Yeah. It is incredibly well executed. Well told, visually pleasing, very well structured.
> If I already have many lifetimes' worth of oxygen for my breathing apparatus, I might have no interest in and place no value upon your stock of oxygen.

And yet, clearly you value oxygen enough to stock up many lifetime's worth of it - a testament to its intrinsic value.

> Maybe the beings in question are some sort of alien life form that live in volcanos and breathe nitrous oxide.

You have no evidence that such beings exist, however - so this is purely hypothetical.

On giving this more thought, however, perhaps objects or substances are too simple to consider from the perspective of intrinsic value. So how about something completely different, such as wisdom? Does wisdom have intrinsic value?

Those who do not value it are not wise, and are therefore not qualified to judge whether or not it has intrinsic value...
That's the kind of combination an idiot puts on his luggage.
Kudos to Prezi. They were not obligated to respond this way but they chose to, and I think it is the best response they could have made. I particularly like their statement that they would look to see whether anyone else had found volunteer abilities that also should be rewarded under the new program.
Also: "and that their report triggers us to improve our code base".

Closing port 8001 isn't quite improving the code base.