skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised at all the "piracy" objections.

With no human operable "helm" there is no way to divert the ship, short of posessing an engine more powerful than the ship's engine, and no crew to hold hostage. Potentially some containers could be opened and looted, but the practical amount of looting is a fraction of one container.

The real objections should be about failure modes of ships and what a crew can to to mitigate them. But even this angle is susceptible to the possibility that the safest crew and ship is an un-crewed ship. If you are not on the ship, you can't cause an accident, and you won't die in an accident.
Seems naive to think that your ISP can be trusted, since they can be compelled by law and sworn to secrecy.
'New money' is not a slur (at least in this case), I'm using it to indicate that these are people who came into money recently and have typically not progressed to the point where they are using it responsibly and thinking long-term.
"Commonly used" depends on who you ask. I use it all the time to help me look up units. It may not be 1000 calls/day, but it's still useful. Also the #/calls can be expanded with enterprise Mathematica.

It was added in Mathematica 8 (see bottom of http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/WolframAlpha.ht..., "New in 8").

Disclaimer: I work for Wolfram Research
Listening to Andreas, it sounds more like a feature than a bug and that's also why it hasn't been "fixed" since 2011 - organizations introducing blockchain technology into their stacks should know about that and develop work-arounds:

https://soundcloud.com/mindtomatter/e85-mtgox-and-malleabili...
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Why isn't it considered a syntax error for dead code to exist?
Could somebody school me on this, because from my limited understand it would seem like this simple step would have avoided the latest TSL bug (as well as potentially millions of other uncaught issues).
Agreed. This is the kind of op-ed that poses as hard science, or at best, scientific journalism.

The opinion of the writer is pretty obvious, which is really okay, but it is framed as "research", and a set of conclusions he arrived at, rather than began with.
"Electric cars aren't green" is a myth spread by a few op-ed pieces written in the LA Times and WSJ. The production of a battery is a tiny constant in comparison to the lifelong use of fossil fuels.

Electric vehicles become more environmentally friendly as grid power becomes more renewable, and grid power is becoming more renewable every day. When you invest in an electric vehicle you're investing in the future of renewable energy.
To view the redacted content directly on the Scribd original, just put this in your URL bar and then press enter:

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Edit: I noticed that when you paste the above text, chrome removes the "javascript:" part, so ensure it is present before hitting enter.
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""The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve, and informally as the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907"" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System

The common argument is that the modern, global economy is too complex to govern itself, and prone to disasters.
> We are, as far as we can tell, the only thing that actually notices the universe!

Yes, but that could be quite common as well. The universe could be littered with intelligent beings who all think exactly this.
What are they doing with 3.6M in subcontractors and 3.3M in accountants/lawyers/consultants? Did they have just one employee at 105K? (I assume the CEO?).
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Only if fundraising is your endgame, which admittedly it is for a lot of wantrepreneurs.
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Which was one solution to the then very frequently asked question "How do I get the email addresses of all my visitors?"
Yes, we're thinking about how best to do it. This is the kind of thing where ideas are quite welcome :)
You're looking at it from the perspective of a person that can't really afford a Tesla. When you look at the world and say "What's the best bang for the $100k I'm going to spend on my next car?" then you may feel a Tesla is a good monetary value based on resale value or other factors even though it's not the most economical way you could transport yourself back and forth to work.
Do people take anything consumer reports says seriously anymore? I was under the impression they started losing all credibility when they had a series of reviews where they ranked name brand products higher than their generic counterparts then it turned out the generic and name brand products were exactly the same (in some cases having come right from the same assembly lines) but with different badges.
Only if you're using that foundation as a way to funnel the money to your heirs. The Gates Foundation is spending a lot of that money right now, while Bill is still alive.
If, however, we don't engage in circular reasoning

I agree with the point you're making, but you can also turn this idea around, after which it serves to highlight how insanely inadequate our current tools and infrastructure are from a security standpoint.

Basically, you can only reasonably hope to verify a patch if you're not already owned, so you also have to assume you're not in order to verify. It's as if there was a contagious disease that has a good chance of killing you after a number of years, but the diagnostic tests can only be counted on to work if you don't have the disease in the first place. So then why would anyone ever bother getting tested? Our current situation is that uncomfortable.
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Oh God, I remember.

And the <hr> tag. And I remember I made a Java applet that consumed so many resources that everyone who visited my page thought their machine had locked up. Good times.
My understanding is that Agda will do it for you. I think GHC is getting something similar with type holes, too.
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Nit: I wouldn't say we won't, but there are currently no plans to.
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Aren't reviews on consumer products basically always going to be subjective?
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If you configure that hotspot name with WPA-PSK, it should not attempt to connect to hotspots with the same name that are not WPA-PSK. If the hotspot it tries to connect to does not have a matching PSK, it should fail the handshake (and no, the client isn't disclosing the PSK to anyone during the handshake). If any of this is not true, that would be another vulnerability.

Also WPA-PSK is useless for coffee shops because you have to give the PSK to everyone, and with that the ability to impersonate the AP. For that purpose, EAP/TLS is better, assuming you take care to verify the AP's certificate.
Yes.
Only that we want to target people who are not renting their flat 'professionally', but only when they are away from their own home. This people don't have property managers and many of them don't have maids. And even if they have a maid, she might not be able to let people into the property or do the checkout.
Unregulated currency is only new to those who refused to stay awake in their history and humanities classes though.

Unregulated currency by cryptography is novel, but doesn't create an inherently new concept any more than digital cryptography did not innovate encipherment or authenticity checking.
We were still using these techniques a few years ago for emails. :(
The page only lists full time partners. There are many more part timers.
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Chrome - getting better and better (and more importantly, pushing competitors to improve - like IE10 vd IE6)

Search - knowledge graph and answer cards

Android - Google Now and voice interface

Hangouts - the original product, for video chats
My take-away was that D-Wave II can beat the classical solvers in a subset of problems, but not all. The OP hopes to examine his data set and isolate the set of problems at which D-Wave II is consistently faster than the classical solvers.

Perhaps at that point the classical solvers could be furthered improved to become faster than D-Wave II. As the set of problems is further narrowed, someday we may have a set of problems at which D-Wave II cannot be beat by a classical solver. Perhaps that will be evidence that D-Wave II is a quantum machine.

Or not.
Yeah, sorry - I wasn't implying anything bad about Gates, I think he's doing great stuff - it's just unclear to me whether it's possible for someone to use a foundation like that as a tax dodge. I don't know if he represents the average or if he's actually a positive outlier.
I wasn't aware that Tesla were planning to go that route! Awesome if true :)
You can't honestly believe that pry-bars and screwdrivers are as similar as LaTeX and Word are. It's a ludicrous argument.

LaTeX and Word are for documents - making documents. How they operate is very different. For example, Word includes it's own editor, LaTeX does not. But they are both used for producing documents.
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I had a buddy whose Dad was an Industrial Engineer who specialized in efficiency systems. He worked a lot in the mid 90's on completely revamping UPS's warehouse sorting and ability to get packages into the trucks and on the road faster.

I'm pretty sure what your referring to was probably the next phase on a larger scale of what he was originally working on. He always joked that, "When your an efficiency expert, people don't like it when you show up at their business."
I thought DHTML was "dynamic" HTML, as made popular by the Dynamic Duo:

http://grox.net/doc/web/javascript/dynduo/
Thank you for your patience. I am not sure it helps because I think what I do is data driven but it comes from another direction. I am not sure I understand any better or know what I need to be asking, really.
I thought DHTML stood for Dynamic HTML?
Occasionally I get MMS messages via my email, no idea what the conditions are for this to work. I also have recently had instances of people asking why I did not respond to the MMS they had apparently sent me.
What a delightful stroll down memory lane! :-)
Another one of my favourites for those that remember:

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> Have you ever shoved a <blink> into a <marquee> tag? Pixar gets all the accolades today, but in the 90s this was a serious feat of computer animation. By combining these two tags, you were a trailblazer.

Except that blink only existed in Netscape and marquee only existed in IE, and you could not have a webpage with both before around 2004, when firefox got support for marquee. At that point both tags were almost universally despised.
The friends and family test might be useful.

"Would you recommend this product to your friends or family?"

This test is used as an important indicator for healthcare. Improving this score is nationally important in England and all NHS providers have to try to ask all service users this question.
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I did a trial project with the goal of walking around a lab having readings appear for each piece of equipment as you approach it. Proximity detection was terrible... as it is, I don't think it's useful for anything but very gross distance estimations. Walking into a store will likely work but even then, the distance between stores would have to be pretty significant (or else other stores are presumed to not operate the same beacons).
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Email could be fundamentally broken when you want to talk casually but during business communication it is great.

In the email - you list down all the participants, subject and body which really helps in getting your message across
> The only reason the Model S appears to have such a good resale value is that there was a huge backlog for a while

I'd be careful calling it the ONLY reason. It's true - for the mid-term range (6-24 months?), resale values will be inflated due to backlogs. I have a hunch that the cars will hold their value well, especially if the main depreciating factor is the battery pack getting tired.

Another factor, as well, is the potential for Tesla to produce another luxury car that's either heads and tails better than the Model S for a similar price, or of the same quality for a significantly lower cost (scale + battery prices dropping?). Either of these cases could whack resale values of current Model S's down.
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> HTML For Dummies doesn't cover the <IMG> tag until chapter four?

Ah yes, HTML For Dummies. For me, the book that started it all. Reading that book during my elementary school Pokemon craze led me to create my first serious website from scratch, Mew's Hidden Lair [1]. Except back then it was Dummies 101: HTML [2]. And I do remember how magical it was to type in that command and see an image of Pikachu show up on my screen.

Reading the article and writing this post has been a serious trip down memory lane. Great, now I'm nostalgic. Back to work I guess...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20010518071345/http://www.fortun...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Dummies-101-Html-Computer-Tech/dp/0764...
No mention of "Made with Notepad" badge images?

...or the thousands of other badges that I, for whatever reason had to shoehorn into my website?
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How does that discredit Consumer Reports? Customer service is a completely reasonable factor to include in product rankings. If you've got two products that are physically identical but one comes with a good warranty for a small premium, then the latter will be a better long-term investment unless the odds of failure are very small. (There's also the question of how long you can expect the no-name product to stay identical - they're more likely to cut corners without letting anyone know, whereas the name brands will usually at least tweak the model number included in the fine print.)
Not that it was necessarily the case in the situation you are thinking of, but I believe that different brands often come off the same production line after QA is done.

So a factory for Duracell AA batteries might simply rebrand the batteries that to not meet their QA bar as "off-brand" batteries. The slightly defected or substandard batteries could then be sold to the consumer for a much lower price than the Duracell branded batteries, without risking damage to Duracell's brand.
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Dead code certainly could be removed, why it's not is a matter of speculation. It's not trivial to detect unused code, but it IS generally done by compilers during optimizations or semantic analysis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_flow_graph). For example, as part of it's optimizations, a compiler my remove unused code.

I'd guess there simply hasn't been a large enough issue to warrant it. There maybe strict/secure academic languages that do what you suggest, I'm not familiar with any though.
And every one of them is (probably) tiny, and every one is important.
I also did an RSVP app many years ago. I did mine for j2me - http://kybernetikos.com/bookreader-and-bookreaderdeployer/ and read books from gutenberg on my mobile phone at the time. It had pause and jump forward/backward as many people in this thread are saying is important to them.

The FAQ tries to make the claim that Spritz is not just another RSVP speed reader (although I'm not sure how much I believe it).

> Reading with RSVP is somewhat stressful and the reading speed is limited. Reasons therefore are the word alignment and display times. Briefly, RSVP still forces the eye to perform saccades (eye movements) while removing targeting these saccades by peripheral visioning. Spritz instead takes saccades out of the game by applying a new method of word alignment. Our technology is based on the science of how people read, how they learned to read when they were young, and what your eyes expect when you are reading.

http://www.spritzinc.com/faq/
What won me over was the fact that the else statement is "BULLSHIT".
People normally trot out this quote in other circumstances, but it fits here too:

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

John Steinbeck

Seems like some of them could be billionaires, too.
Their auto testing is some of the best, even the automakers look to them. Having read an extensive article in Automobile magazine about the facilities CR has and who actually does the testing I have no problem with their views. Doesn't mean I will always follow them but I damn well know what not to buy.

As for the Tesla, eighty thousand dollar cars better be damn good. If Tesla can snag similar praise making a car for thirty thousand then I might become a fan.
It really is awesome! If you see a value with this type:

(bool -> bool)

You know it only has 4 possible names, only 4 things it could possibly do: false, true, not, id. (Ignoring infinite recursion or exceptions.)

The list functions are a rich place to explain this to people.

(a list -> (a -> b) -> b list)

If a declared function has this signature, there's only one reasonable thing it is: map. (It could return the last element only, or an empty b list, but those aren't so reasonable.)

What about this?

(a list -> (a -> bool) -> a)

It'd seem it returns the first item from the list that matches the predicate. Possibly the last item. (And an exception if the list is empty or item isn't found.)

Other people aren't as impressed by this as I am, though.
weird.. the user cromica created his profile 2 days ago...
and this guy, Romulus Crisan... as well... I wonder how they made it to the front page
Sometimes I long for the simplicity of the 1x1 transparent gif. Combined with tables for layout, it really brought the notion of "design" to the web and helped transform the web to mass medium.
Now please make a $10k model so I can get one.

Either that or I'll have to wait a decade for one with a depleted battery and rebuild the pack myself.
Maybe it is really ray-traced. Notice that the simulation allows you to control camera focus and aperture.
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I remember when I realized the <hr> tag supported a color attribute...it was like pulling Excalibur out of the stone.
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Most folks in the field don't believe it's quantum. Benchmarking is a truly stupid way to test something's quantumness. It's a bit like a company selling fusion reactors who puts their reactor in a car, and then races it, and when they kinda sorta beat their competitor, they say "clearly had to be fusion." Ideally you'd try to use the zeno effect to watch the thing slow down as you "turn off" it's quantum behavior, but d-wave haven't given us that dial. There are then papers from d-wave that say that the thing is quantum because in an 8-qubit spin chain, they see an avoided crossing. I don't know what to think about this, besides that the thing they are selling has many many more qubits than 8, and the whole problem in quantum computation is scaling, ya dig?

The ones I find the most convincing are the ones that try to find a "signature" of quantum computation, by setting the system up with a certain connectivity that will cool down into certain ground states with certain probability iff it's quantum. I like these. There was one from Boixo, but I guess Vazirani's group at Berkeley figured out that this test wasn't good enough to differentiate. There was another, again, which Boixo is on, from Ronnow et. al. which came up with another signature, and they decided that it wasn't quantum.

If you've been doing superconducting qubits for a while, you notice that they're using a qubit design which even the inventor has abandoned at this point. If you're an experimental physicist, you notice that the whole thing is a poorly designed scientific experiment. If you're just a casual observer, and you listen to the language they use to describe their product, you notice that their wording is very slimy. I don't believe it's quantum.

I also think a room temperature annealer ASIC could be very, very cool. An analog computer sort of thing. Would LOVE to see this.
Sweet. This is perfect for those of us who still have some money we didn't put into MtGox left to lose!
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Thanks, I'm looking forward to it :)
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Specifically, there was a hit-job white paper (I think it was from a marketing firm, can't remember the title) published in the past 5-10 years arguing that Hummers were more eco-friendly than a Prius.

The paper was thoroughly debunked, but it got a lot of media traction initially. That sort of headline sticks in the back of someone's mind, particularly if they never follow up on it.

EDIT: Right, it was called Dust to Dust. Here's a pretty simple rebuttal from Slate(2008): http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_green_l...

And yeah, it was a "market research" firm. I feel confident saying I write with a closer attention to facts and accurate calculations on my personal blog than their "business" did in the report.
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Screw Frontpage, it littered your markup when you went into design mode. Hotdog Pro or Coffee Cup Editor was where it was at!
Bad management of multiple presences is a crying shame when one considers that Google Talk used XMPP which has that well solved...
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A few years ago?! We're still using a lot of that for emails now!
> It's unfortunate that many people lost money (and some might have lost a lot), but if the ecosystem can recover from this without governmental regulation (as I expect it will), we have the first evidence (ever) that there is no need for a central authority to conduct oversight and ensure a robust currency.

Define "robust."