skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author is questioning whether that is a good thing or not. Do we want to be in a culture of posturing and derision?

I for one do not think it is a good thing or something to be proud of. Criticism and derision are different and being toxic or caustic just brings the level of communication down. It does not reflect well on our industry either.
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You are likely to need quantum computers to demonstrate that they can feasibly break encryption in order to get people to switch to post-quantum cryptography.

The fact that an algorithm exists for a non-existent computer system does not meet that bar. Conventional computers can also break encryption given enough speed and power - it's just not yet feasible as with quantum computers.
No.
There is nothing wrong with the induction and the second argument is the correct one. This is a well known puzzle that became very popular on Terrence Tao's blog (http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/the-blue-eyed-islan...) - where you can also find the solution (and various wrong attempts) in the comments.

With 3 blue-eyed people:
Everybody knows that there are other people with blue eyes.
Everybody knows that everybody knows that there are other people with blue eyes.
However, prior to the visitor's statement, nobody knows that everybody knows that everybody knows that there are other people with blue eyes.

Because, consider the case where there are 3 blue eyed people named A,B,C.
A knows that B knows that C has blue eyes.
However A cannot possibly know that B knows that C knows that somebody has blue-eyes, because that somebody can either be B - in which case B has no way of knowing that, and therefore no way of knowing that C knows that, A - in which case A has no way of knowing that , and therefore no way of knowing that B knows that C knows that, or C, in which case C has no way of knowing that, and therefore B has no way of knowing that C knows that.

Following the visitor's comment - A does know that, and eventually everybody kills himself.

Formally this new information is knows as "common knowledge": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic)
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The problem with this is that (1) + (2) means the server now knows the user's address book. They're trying to avoid that with encrypted bloom filters and blind signature queries.
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taste is subjective, but peating levels are not. the standard levels for the Trinity of Peat are as follows:

Ardbeg: 55ppm (this has changed over time)

Lagavulin: 40-45ppm

Laphroaig: 40ppm

however, it's important to distinguish between standard levels and novelty bottlings. the Ardbeg Supernova is peated to over 100ppm, twice the usual level. Bruichladdich, which is a relatively lightly-peated malt, produces the highly-peated Port Charlotte line, as well as the Octomore, peated to about 170ppm.

so, unless you're talking about the standard line, you can't simply talk about the peating level of Ardbeg.

finally, since all single malts are aged in a charred oak cask which acts as a filter over time, in general, the older the malt, the less smoky it will taste. compare a Laphroaig 10yo cask strength to a Laphroaig 18yo, and/or 25yo, if you're ever lucky enough to do so.
Hmm what if the strip was damaged or say brushed against a magnet at some point. Would it reject those bills? Are they still valid bills even with a damaged magnetic signature?
Ubuntu Will Reach True Convergence Before Microsoft, Says Shuttleworth
If the NSA broke RSA, they'd know that it was only a short matter of time before other intelligence agencies did the same, so it would be pretty stupid of them to not hint to industry that they should upgrade their algorithms.

While the NSA wants communications to be vulnerable to them, they certainly don't want communications to be vulnerable to others.
Hey man - Thanks a lot. I really appreciate that.
If it's a small company in California they really don't want to take a bus to Texas to get into a legal fight with you.

This is one of those cases where you can't have both sides compromise. They want things jurisdicted (izzat a word?) in one state or the other. And the company is the one with the lawyers who have crafted things specifically for their home state.

You should give them this, perhaps in exchange for something else.
What's the big deal? In the age of surveillance, all data is public.
Can you go into further detail about the nth abstraction of "he knows that I know..." and what effect that has on the population? The way I see it is that as soon as everybody knows that there are blue-eyed ppl and everybody knows that everybody else knows there are blue-eyed ppl the countdown begins... additionally, at that point you can already get to an infinite number of abstractions of the "he knows that I know that he.." statement because you both know that the other knows blue-eyed ppl exist, so you both know that the other knows that you know that blue-eyed ppl exist, so you both know....
powered by teens living with their parents who will grow up to get professional jobs and pay off their student loan and donate to Snapchat looking back, remember the good times, let's donate $100 each to Snapchat for releasing all of our usernames and phone numbers and not apologize for it. yes, our economy depends on companies that focus on future potential profitability that we are kept being told we'll get there when decade old companies with billions of dollars in profits decline in value because they are not focused on cash today because somehow inflation has disappeared and money today will be less valuable than money several years down the rode with a big if and cause another market crash but that's okay, we are the all loving, all seeing, venture capitalists, as long as we get filthy rich, nobody else matters.
All right, I'll take the bait:

You take a few links, make a few jokes, and somehow draw the conclusion that the Android OS sucks ("It's just not fun to use" doesn't really persuade me much). The only objective point you really make is about Android screen size fragmentation. Maybe it's just me, but I'm a little sick of that argument. Yes the OS is fragmented from an upgrade perspective (and this sucks), but what does that have to do with screen size? Almost every decent web-based app is designed for multiple screen sizes, and I rarely see an issue with that. Maybe you could've discussed the challenges in designing an application that is beautiful across all these screen sizes.

I guess my point is: I was hoping for an article that detailed some nuances about how to successfully design an Android app or why you think that's impossible. But all I found was a an article hating on the Operating System with a few links to other blogs that agree with you.

To answer the only question you posed: "Where's the showcase for the actual operating system?"

It's at the bottom of the page you linked: http://www.android.com/versions/kit-kat-4-4/
They simply need to own up to a poor implementation of a useful feature and take protecting user data more seriously.
At n = 3, every blue-eyed person knows everything every other blue-eyed person knows and that every blue-eyed person knows it, so you can already construct an infinitely-long chain of "I know that he knows that I know that he knows..." at that point.

(Of course, I am assuming that all the people think/reason exactly the same and that they all know that they think/reason exactly the same, which are assumptions of the original problem.)
I'm probably with you, but there's not a lot of information here. Where did you buy it? Could it have been from a dealer that wasn't authorized to issue this warranty? If they couldn't agree to it on Toshiba's behalf the contract would be null, right? And what is the problem with the laptop - though that is of course a separate question from that of honoring the warranty.
Interesting idea. But the address book "friends" must be mutual for this to work. You would miss those contacts that don't have you in the their contacts.
Thanks for the link. It doesn't surprise me that the NFL has it available, but I'm particularly interested in a non-proprietary (albeit poorer quality) version becoming available through aggregated footage from individual cellphones, rather than state-of-the-art tech.
There would be six times as many senators, but presumably the number of representatives wouldn't change that much.

The question might be "a good thing" for whom? American devotion to more proportional representation is and always has been somewhat qualified: the "gerry" in "gerrymander" remembers a signer of the Declaration of Independence...
We do some guest blogging which drives part of our traffic to http://www.wishbooklet.com, the rest is mostly viral links in social sites.
Wow, that helps.

"Principal components are linear combinations of original variables x1, x2, etc. So when you do SVM on PCA decomposition you work with these combinations instead of original variables."

"What do you do to the data? My answer: nothing. SVMs are designed to handle high-dimensional data. I'm working on a research problem right now that involves supervised classification using SVMs. Along with finding sources on the Internet, I did my own experiments on the impact of dimensionality reduction prior to classification. Preprocessing the features using PCA/LDA did not significantly increase classification accuracy of the SVM."

I can see how that relates to currency detection.
Wow, you are the first person that's figured it out.
In my opinion, this is pretty dumb. It serves no purpose other than as a piece of interactive art. I guess it is pretty though.
It's a business that doesn't have any business.
And none of them have any knowledge about anything?
Also, you need "everyone knew on day X that..."
Ask HN: Why are Oracle products so bad?
I work at a company where all the enterprise software is Oracle based. Its not browser compatible, it doesn't work on OSx at all, and there are so many problems.

Why is this normal and how come there hasn't been a disruptive alternative?
Employers are taking WAY MORE RISK than the worker.

The term is called Employment-At-Will http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
that turned down a $3b sale. staggering that this call was made.
like the web.. android apps are meant to be responsive. its the job of the designer to take into consideration that the same app (or website) will be viewed on different screen sizes and orientations and remain usable. its not trivial but that's why designers are getting paid for.
How Do You Teach Students To Read An Artifact?
Teaching with artifacts can be simultaneously fun and enlightening. Students learn to use critical thinking and analysis skills. They learn the stories of objects. Teachers can show students how to use artifacts in the classroom in a few simple steps. It’s helpful to have 3D artifacts in the classroom so all students can examine the same one at the same time. This works great on iPads.

The teacher can choose an artifact related to the teacher lesson plans and ask students what they notice first. Help students stay with observations, and list the characteristics together. Next, guide them through a series of speculative questions about who they think used it and for what, when, where, and under what circumstances. After form and function, ask students how it might be relevant to what they are studying from the teacher lesson plans. Reading 3D artifacts in the classroom is simple and fun.
Bought it from Amazon.com directly Feb 19
Out of curiosity, did you notice a bump from being mentioned in the movie Drinking Buddies?
Lawsuits don't care what you are, but they tend to happen to startups and business which have cash on the balance sheet. This is no joke. Investors have a fiduciary duty to their LPs, and even if its the wrong move, a managerial "change" transmits investor diligence to the LPs.
To quote the source:
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Verify: the email address of the Registered Name Holder (and, if different, the Account Holder) by sending an email requiring an affirmative response through a tool-based authentication method such as providing a unique code that must be returned in a manner designated by the Registrar, or

the telephone number of the Registered Name Holder (and, if different, the Account Holder) by either (A) calling or sending an SMS to the Registered Name Holder's telephone number providing a unique code that must be returned in a manner designated by the Registrar, or (B) calling the Registered Name Holder's telephone number and requiring the Registered Name Holder to provide a unique code that was sent to the Registered Name Holder via web, email or postal mail.

In either case, if Registrar does not receive an affirmative response from the Registered Name Holder, Registrar shall either verify the applicable contact information manually or suspend the registration, until such time as Registrar has verified the applicable contact information. If Registrar does not receive an affirmative response from the Account Holder, Registrar shall verify the applicable contact information manually, but is not required to suspend any registration.
====================

So there are other methods that ICANN outlines in order to verify the account holder information to activate the domain, not _just_ an email address like the article states.
The opposite. To be legally enforceable each party to a contract must be receiving something of value.

Duress would apply if someone is forcing you to sign.
For an application that... does what? Shares short-lived picture/video messages?

Maybe I don't quite get Snapchat, but color me unimpressed.
Excellent work. I enjoyed the visualizations.

On a somewhat tangential note, I've always been curious about sentences like this: "Contact me at ross underscore rosen at revelision dot com"

Are sentences like the one above an effective way to prevent spam? Or are most spambots sophisticated enough to account for slightly obscured spellings of email addresses?
How would you do (2) without iterating over all registered contacts on the server?
Having previous employers as guaranteed positive references can be pretty valuable. On the other hand, if it's standard, what's the value of a positive reference?

If you get extra pay and the non-disparagement goes both ways, for most people individually it's probably a good idea to sign it. But for society as a whole? I'm not so sure.
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Thanks for the kind words, we're really happy to have Linode support!
You have to boot into your recovery partition (Cmd+R on boot), then there's a menu option to set the firmware password, which will be active on the next reboot.
Processes already should be running as different uids so they cant actually do anything to each other, so not being in the same namespace makes no real difference. There is slightly better information hiding, you cant see command lines of other processes and other info from /proc but no "significant" enhancement.
Hmm. That seems right. With 3 blue-eyed people, a blue-eyed person observing that the 2 blue-eyed people did nothing does add the additional knowledge that there are a total of 3 blue-eyed people.

So the additional knowledge added for 3 or more blue-eyed people is a lower bound on the total number of blue-eyed people (which grows over time), but it's not exactly clear to me why the foreigner's statement triggers this.
Very nice and useful to boot!

While you might have forgotten some programming, and quite a bit has changed over the last couple of decades, what is quite interesting to me is the efficacy of the result. Although I don't know what your word looked like 20 years ago, this probably shows that over the last couple of decades your sense of how to do something useful and present it has developed.

I would have guessed that a "what I did to catch up after 20 years of non-programming" project would have had a lousy UI (presentation), which yours does not. And while the presentation tools are better, the decision of what to present and how are still up the programmer.

So the 20 years weren't wasted :-).
They can all see everyone else's eyes. That is, person N can see person M's eyes, for all M,N.
[I don't know whether it's possible or not - it feels not, but it has been hinted to me that it is possible.]
What is your budget and time-frame.
I think this is exactly why there are concerns. People probably don't want a service relaying 400m message daily to be run carelessly.
I like the Toshiba laptop I got.. but the Toshiba Thrive tablet which came out at the same time as Xoom has not received any updates! Xoom is on 4.4, Thrive has been abandoned.
"Any country in charge of its own currency can always fund a war without a vote by simply printing more of it for itself"

Really? How? Who will fight in this war? Their own population, for the worthless currency? And where do the weapons (and gasoline to power these) come from? Or are they going to spray the enemy with bonds and futures?
I don't think it's exactly the same. The tone in the Wired piece is way over the top, "hyperaffluence" and what have you. Can you see the difference between saying "Everyone's going to be rich! All our problems are solved! Utopia is here!" and saying "the technology market will continue to be a reasonably sound investment" ?
Libraries and operating systems have APIs.

Web sites have Web Services using REST, XML-RPC, SOAP, whatever as communication protocol.
Yes, this point cannot be made enough.

Technology will probably eliminate privacy. But the same organizations who belabor this point also claim they need total secrecy to operate.

The sword cuts both ways. And it should cut their way first.
I love that for some reason I can't downvote you for being a jackass.
Even without surveillance, I have always assumed that if I am putting something on the Internet, it is public.
Anybody that wants one of these: this looks like it would be /trivially/ easy to build. An attiny85 and a vibration motor would do it.

The only "hard" part would be fitting a battery in this form factor.

Go to your local hackerspace during some open hours, and tell the hackers you want to build one of these. I bet they'll do it with you!

(Hell: I'LL do it with you if you come down to heatsync labs [in Phoenix])
Have this guy ever designed for the web? A lot of people seem to be able to make a decent living doing that, and they have to support a lot more screen sizes and resolutions than his nifty illustration shows.
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See also Prof Timothy Noakes, a professor of exercise and sports science, also a marathoner and ultra-marathoner. He struggled with his weight and pre-diabetic status until himself switching to a ketogenic diet.

http://www.runnersworld.co.za/nutrition/novel-dietary-ideas/

He doesn't say a ketogenic diet is right for everyone, rather that some people are very sensitive to carbs ("carbohydrate-resistant") and would be best served avoiding them.
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What you say is true.

The important aspect is that the "project" has millions of dollars in investment and employees. Thus, they are accountable to investors and employees who may care about what the public thinks.
But not the work. The lmctfy team is pretty awesome.
Accuracy is not the point. It's sensationalist and it gets clicks, which generate money for the website. Why would you fire your most profitable content generators (i.e. journalists)? That would be insane.
It's a really nice idea, but why buy a watch when you already have a vibrating computer in your pocket?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nedzadhrnj...
While I agree that less code is better, is it the highest ROI on your time compared to actually improving the app, or maybe making a new one? It might break in the future, it might not. What you change it to might break in the future too. Why not wait until it breaks to rip out and rewrite working code?
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Designing for Android for people who won't let go of how they design (and develop and test) for iOS.

Oh, and nothing about scaling the UI with Fragment, either. Feh.
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jqPlot works for me, but I'm not a UI person (as you can tell <g>) and I don't really use many capabilities. The library seems to be relatively big by current standards.

The dirty little secret why the UI is so sparse: this is a purely static site generated once a day by a Haskell program. The is no real browse feature, although you can click to some other "random" pages from actual price pages (e.g. http://kruipen.com/wyred-4-sound-dac-2-5.html). But those links are more intended for search engine crawlers than humans - that's why they appear "random" <g>.
Perhaps the author could have looked here http://androidniceties.tumblr.com for some inspiration
Maybe you don't have anything disparaging to say now.

Maybe it comes out that your ex-employer was engaged in fraud. When you hear the news on social media you say "wow, Joe in accounting always did strike me as funny." You didn't mean it as disparaging. But the company does.
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Sorry is an emotion and this is a business. I don't care about how Snapchat "feels," I care about what they've done to fix the security issues and how successful that effort is.
I'm not a typographer, but I am pretty sure Helvetica looks nothing like Roboto at the size that appears on the phone. I've used both iOS and Android; I'm not just assuming they're different. Arial and Helvetica don't even look similar at around 12pt. At 48pt, sure, but who is using 48pt on a phone?

The claim that Roboto and Helvetica look similar gets me rather annoyed.
"Even my Pebble which I'd never wear in the shower is water resistant"

One of the things I love about my Kickstarter Pebble is that I have gone swimming with it, and I've even gone diving down to about 20 feet with it and it still works brilliantly. It's nice to not have to worry about it around water.

I'm definitely a risk taker with electronics and water though. I actually put my new iPhone in a ziplock bag to see if it would make an effective underwater camera while diving. (Just so you know the ziplock bag did succeed in keeping my iPhone safe, but the video was too blurry to be useful because the lens didn't focus right under water.)
finally someone gets it? amazing! If I was a functional language guy I'd apply.
> It makes me wonder what more sophisticated criminals can get away with.

A lot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar
It's a little strange how much vitriol that article contains. It's as if the author is just itching for someone to finally put one of those 20-something entrepreneurs who didn't have to climb the corporate ladder for decades in his place.