skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It shouldn't account for enrichment because thorium is a fertile material (not fissile) just like uranium 238 (99.3% of all uranium). Unenrichced uranium can be used in breeder type reactors just like unenriched thorium.
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Sounds really useful. Anyone knows if such a thing is available for rxvt-unicode?
Deep learning is totally not a gimmick and does everything under the sun including winning Jeopardy! contests against humans and bringing the Holy Singularity in a few weeks.
Just did a quick test from London, comparing lon1 to ams2. Pleasant increase in speeds (25 MB/s up, 20 MB/s down vs. 15 MB/s each way for ams2, though these fluctuate) and a nice decrease in ping (3.5 ms vs 8 ms). Nice to see.

Not sure what the legal/regulatory differences are for hosting in London compared to elsewhere?
Thanks for kind comments. Yes, it was meant as a little light hearted fun. I've been writing a series of articles about solids inscribed inside others, and this seemed a (stretched) way of giving the article a different spin.
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Teamreporter is free for one Team up to 4 members. For more teams or members prices are starting at $19/m.

We launched in public today, but used it about half a year privately and think it is working :-)
Sit and watch the site run thru the full timeline. Every single red dot is an attempt at, if not successful act of, mass murder. It's a powerful message. Retaliation is inevitable, casualties unavoidable. So long as some Gaza residents keep shooting indiscriminately at their neighbor, regardless of any/all attempts at polite reconciliation, and other Gaza residents do not make serious attempts at stopping their fellow residents from such violent behavior, and the "police" (UN et al) will do nothing, the neighbor has no option but to violently eradicate the attackers thru a less-than-precision process. Gaza may have legitimate grievances, but indiscriminate shooting at innocents isn't a tolerable way to address them.

"Reflective contemplation is not required in the presence of an upraised knife."
If we forget for a second the completely incorrect behavior of the Comcast operator.

A correct response to a unsatisfied customer would be: My supervisor doesn't talk to customers. I am the support for the company, if you are not satisfied with me, you can talk to a different operator or file a formal complaint.

This is an actual correct response to a conversation that has gone awry,( of course again, assuming the operator is behaving like a decent human being ).
Hardly. LibreSSL works just fine on OpenBSD and doesn't have this issue. Portability to Linux is a secondary concern, and this is only an initial stab at the portability layer for Linux.
No. Google already does that, better than any other company on the Internet. From the announcement, this project is different:

We're not placing any particular bounds on this project and will work to improve the security of any software depended upon by large numbers of people, paying careful attention to the techniques, targets and motivations of attackers. We'll use standard approaches such as locating and reporting large numbers of vulnerabilities. In addition, we'll be conducting new research into mitigations, exploitation, program analysis—and anything else that our researchers decide is a worthwhile investment.

Unless the word "any" means something different to Chris.
The insight there is that one should always try to wrap criticism with praises: people don't like being told that they suck at their job, even if it's true. If instead of showing themselves as destructors, they'd adopted an image of mentors or teachers, things would've gone way better. Hopefully Google's Project Zero will be wiser than the IBM team on this point.

Note that this is even truer when criticism comes from an outsider, and Google's team will be doing exactly that. If they also deal with companies whose culture is very much reputation based (like in Asia), they'll have to be even more cautious.
This is common in Canada too. I've learned to cancel services in writing, by fax and registered mail. You save yourself a big headache.
Wow, really?

I left a PhD program to go into industry. I get to work on way more fascinating things in industry than I ever would have in academia. I also get to work on lots of different interesting things, rather than focusing entirely in one narrow field. Generally, my advice to PhD students considering working in industry is “if you’ve identified one specific problem that you want to devote years to, then academia may be for you. If you want to have a constant flow of challenging problems and don’t particularly care about sticking to one narrow field, industry may be a better fit for you.”

My experience is that the incentives in industry are aligned so that it’s nearly impossible to succeed without having broad interests that allow you to have impact on multiple projects. Incentives in academia are aligned so that it’s nearly impossible to succeed without being able to focus almost single-mindedly on one specific area and churn out the publications; there isn’t much time for exploration until you get tenure, at least.

Maybe I’ve just been lucky, though?
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You are correct about BSD /dev/urandom vs Linux /dev/urandom. But since LibreSSL isn't likely to be used at boot time, it doesn't try to work around that issue. Instead, the concern is "what should we do if we can't open /dev/urandom?"

For what it's worth, the "exploit" requires (1) the user deny access to both /dev/urandom and the sysctl interface, (2) multiple levels of forks (a child never has the same PID as its parent, but a grandchild can have the same PID as its grandparent, and (3) the grandparent must exit before the grandchild (PIDs uniquely identify all running processes). It's not something that will happen by accident, even to incredibly careless programmers.

But I do agree with the BSD guys that Linux should have another way to get entropy in this case (note that they have a similar file for OS X for similar reasons). And I hope it's not named CryptGenRandomBytes().
Also, cities that are longer east-west than north-south should be in landscape, instead of portrait, orientation. Berkeley, CA and Cambridge, MA are examples. (And the San Francisco print should probably be a square.)
Do both parties have to agree to a cancellation? Does anyone know?
get suggestions from more informed people (e.g reading groups, professors, news aggregators :p ).

work smart, not hard.
> How can one emphasize that it wasn't a 'drop out', but rather 'decided to leave'?

There is no difference between these two things, unless you're focusing on the not always implied "dropped out before I got kicked out." Realistically, this is not something you can emphasize until the interview. With a completed MSc, assuming you're in a STEM field, it will not be difficult to get to the interview step at least as often as you would without that year of PhD study.
Can't you just use the monthly tables published by HMRC for the exchange rate (IIRC, packages like Xero do this automatically for you?). For the reverse charge, wouldn't that always just balance out i.e. input and output tax are always the same?
Maybe Ryan read down to 9 b (3):

"you may terminate this Agreement for any reason at any time by notifying Comcast in one of three ways: [...] (3) call our customer service line during normal business hours"
SMS verification of a phone number?

Barring that, detect mining and terminate it with system monitoring tools, and prevent port scanning/flooding at your network border (your netops team is active on NANOG and seem to know what they're doing).
triiiimmm hold on, I have to take this call
"Tell me more, fellow brother in Christ! Stay with us, we are especially holy, which is why our speeds are so high!"
Why is mining in particular disallowed? Aren't you allocating a set amount of CPU to a paying customer?
>>> I wouldn't expect Brazil to be a market for this sort of plane, but rather more countries which currently primarily purchase used or refurbished soviet fighters.

I would presume this means a lot of middle eastern and northern African countries - most of whom are engaged in some kind of civil war.

I'm wondering how this affect a company's conscious to know their planes are being used to support some pretty sketchy governments.
Sometimes you need to just pick up the fucking phone
Bank charges are also reversible.
I think it is a great project and I hope it will be a reality. I have backed your project. On the other hand, I also hope it can be used for different model of devices in future. Keep it up.
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He said he told the rep in the first 10 minutes, which is not recorded. It's also irrelevant.
Speed limits only apply on public roads. They are a condition of using the road, not a condition imposed on your vehicle. You could build a private race track and drive as fast as you want.
Couldn't it use librlibc then?
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Some of them are gender-neutral (e.g. "the Programmer" in 3.3).
The question of course is in how to determine when a short article is a stub. Some short entries are sufficiently complete for the purposes of WP, whose English guidelines say "there are some subjects about which very little can be written."

Consider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muati

> Muati is an obscure local god in the Sumerian pantheon. He is associated in some texts with the mythical island paradise of Dilmun, and becomes syncretised with Nabu.

That's unlikely to get much longer. For one, the "Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings ..." says "Muati, a god about whom we know very little."
I can't tell if this comment is a joke or not.
Yes, now we have to make the world understand what a lie it was.
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There is no such thing as a free market: it is an idealistic theoretical construct.

And even if it were real, it would only be efficient if P=NP[0].

0. http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2284
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BART starts running at 4 AM - but that's at the terminus, which is Pittsburg for trains going to SFO. The first train doesn't get to the airport until about 5:30.

(I know this from a painful morning where my wife missed a 6 AM flight.)
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Lots more here:
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and then there is this?
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The problem with nuclear power is not the primary fuel; it's the economics, especially the economics of big engineering:

http://www.carbontax.org/blogarchives/2013/11/21/why-officia...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2014/02/20/why-the-...
Are there any good online resources that someone experienced in this field would recommend that go through the basics of how to perform this type of bug hunting?

I have a background in computer science but was never given the opportunity to take any classes in reverse engineering and exploitation of software. Thanks!
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If iOS didn't have apps that generate revenue in those ways you might have a point, but it does.

The question you need to answer is why you think the platform with the lower user engagement stats, lower online purchasing metrics and lower app revenue stats is likely to benefit from them more than the leader in all those other metrics.
I don't want to disable it system-wide -- just for the terminal!

I'll just have to get used to cmd-opt-q.
Thanks for the heads up. Although it looks like their product name is actually HP TeamSite
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threads.h are the lowest common denominator. If you want system specific functionality you can always wrap those functions.

Static mutex init can be emulated with call_once() function, with some limitations of its own of course.
Ah, the famous "Only doing its job" excuse.

Yes, their job is shitty, but when your job is to bully people (by phone or otherwise), don't expect rainbows and unicorns.
> and it's so easy that a child can do it.

...

> then using a corrosive liquid to etch away the unwanted copper

Do I then dump the wastewater into the stream in the backyard?
That's how they're selling it but at the end of the day it's just a search engine with some NLP up front to parse the query.

The reason why I said that it was a gimmick is because they still partly rely on a rule based system and hand engineered features.
The influence of Emacs.
This reminds of a guy who was on Leno back in the early 2000's. He got a bill from his energy company telling him he owed $0.00 and should pay immediately otherwise his service will get shut off.

He ignores the notice and every couple of weeks, he starts getting threatening letters from the company. When he finally got the shut off service warning letter, he figured he'd better do something.

He sent the company a check for $0.00 and within a week got a notice back thanking him for his payment. He not only brought all the notices, he brought the canceled check and the final thank you letter.

Automated billing systems can be unreal sometimes.
I've been looking into this, and while it's an impressive piece of engineering, I'm disappointed at the lack of flexibility there is. You can determine your budget with Througput Units, but you lose out on a a very large group of cases by needing to configure Partitions up-front. This, and a few other guidelines (like having 1 worker process per partition), make it a much more specialized service than it would seem at first glance.
Comcast ran the same scheme on me when I cancelled. Sent me to collections for "unreturned equipment" after sending me a receipt confirming receipt of equipment. My assumption was that it was retaliatory since I had the bank stop payment on a recurring monthly charge they billed me for after I had cancelled my service. Took months to sort out. Stuck on DSL now, but when you count the time I don't have to talk to Comcast, it still feels fast.
I agree with the fact that per hour model is not perfect but its really hard to predict the effort that will be involved in the project. I don't think even I can be sure of things I want before commencement of project.

Plus, you may have to deal with client asking trivial changes which I specially find hard to refuse. Is there a model where you can charge more if it exceeds your expected time of completion?
For many cases, yes. (At least in the US.) It's an easy way of earning points if you have a reward card.
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I'm going to be canceling Comcast around the end of the month. You're telling me I can just send a letter to my local service center and say, "Peace out!"?
Actually Δ ADE is not a right triangle. (Unless A is infinitely far away from D and E.)

Edit: thanks TheLoneWolfling, I was looking at the wrong angle.
I am a current DigitalOcean client and I was recommending DO to my friends and professional contacts.

New policy of requiring scanned documents is unacceptable in the environment of pervasive nation-state level monitoring and destruction of privacy. If this is a permanent change, I won't recommend DO any longer.

The solution is extremely simple: accept bitcoins for payments and/or fair use verification for free tiers. Also there is a market for forged document scans, just read krebsonsecurity.
Too bad i don't have my HD Rocker Softail yet. I would join.
I also made NextPrev.it a little while ago with a friend. It gives you option to host a PDF and control which page the viewer sees, perfect for presentations or looking through contracts etc.
It may also matter that the service being provided by Digital Ocean is in the UK as well, although I haven't had a chance to read all this yet.
I can't speak for this specific solution, but veroboard drives me (personally) bonkers and it's not enough of a hobby for me to justify investing in photochemical etchers. Being able to design a project on a computer, and get a PCB for a few dollars, would be great. I'd definitely play around with electronics projects a lot more if I could do more prototyping on a computer.

The other thing that would be great is something like a Shapeways for PCBs. People could upload their own projects, then they print the PCB for you (and even ship you a bag of components), for you to build yourself.
The big problem with a molten salt LFTR is the materials necessary for the plumbing. Any metal will become brittle as it is exposed to the radiation emitted from the reactor core. And manufacturing ceramics into the precision pieces called for is not a solved problem.

LFTR designs are fantastic, amazing, and solve a lot of problems. There is a lot of materials science to be done to make them viable, though.
> (although no one's going to fit a GAU-8 onto anything but the A-10 airframe I suspect).

Depending on the flight characteristics and just how strong the airframe is, it's possible it might be able to carry a GAU-13 gun pod, which is the GAU-8s 4 barreled little brother. The F-20 Tigershark mentioned elsewhere in the thread could carry it in a GPU-5/A gunpod and it was only slightly larger than the Scorpion. The 25mm GAU-12 from the Harrier or -- more likely -- the GAU-22 from the JSF would be more likely though.

But, yeah, nothing else is going to lug around 1200 rounds of 30x173 like the A-10. :)
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But will there be taxis there when the trains aren't running?
Er, did you misspell one of their surnames?!?
And those countries will keep buying those derelict Soviet planes because those are dirt cheap to the point most are hand-me-downs obtained for free. In those cases the countries have a bigger problem fueling the planes.

And I wouldn't subestimate those old Soviet planes, the Indians have updated and overhauled the old Mig-21 to the point that is a very capable fighter jet able to compete against a block 50 F-16. There are many companies offering updates for such planes and those are much cheaper than brand-new units.
Is your goal to sound like a robot?
> GAU-8 onto anything but the A-10 airframe I suspect.

You could fit it but considering the thrust of the Scorpion you'd fall out the sky everytime you fired it ;).
Here in the UK most large (and many small) organisations let you pay bills (one off or recurring) by credit card, debit card, direct debit, bank transfer (and occasionally cheque in the post). Some will charge a small fee for credit cards, but most won't.
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Try these courses/exercises:

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~redwood/OffensiveComputerSecurity/

https://pentesterlab.com/

http://exploit-exercises.com/
Just a guess: mining produces less than $5 per month of bitcoins, so it's fairly strong evidence of a fraudulent credit card or hacked account.
Do 'tptacek's challenges? They seemed pretty popular at the time.
A good point. Didn't thought about this case.
Getting rid of Comcast would definitely be "making a gain". Ugh.
> The problem they're going to run into, though, is the same one the A-10's constantly facing - the USAF doesn't really want to be in the CAS business. Personally, I'd be in favor of just axing the 60 year old Key West Agreement and giving the A-10s (and potentially the Scorpions) over to the Army.

Absolutely agreed. The Air Force has three primary missions: 1) bomb shit for the Army; 2) haul shit for the Army; 3) stop the enemy air force from performing missions 1 and 2 for their army. If the Air Force would like to focus on being a giant intelligence agency with hella expensive but cool toys, than the Army absolutely should take those missions into their own hands to ensure the shit gets done properly.
How is HAProxy's IPv6 support in an IPv6-only stack? I've been using OpenBSD in conjunction with CARP and relayd because IPv6 load balancing under Linux was lacking when I was evaluating options some years ago. I can find that it features IPv6 support, but not much more than that other than use cases for IPv6-to-IPv4 translation, which I'm not interested in.
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honestly I have jQuery experience but not so much Backbone.js or Angularjs experience which seems to be the norm. I have used Meteor.js but then it's not much of a demand than the other two
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That was the intention of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, too. It failed in the long term, but from the perspective of its architects, most of what we call its disasters were actually its successes.
As described in the article the Scorpion doesn't have any beyond visual range capability, only short range infrared missiles and guns. A fleet of Scorpions would only stand a chance if the opposing force ran out of long range missiles and if the Scorpions were able to get to close range. Even then it would likely be outclassed by the F-22's maneuverability.
Uganda had to ask the US for jet fuel to be able to pursue Kony and his LRA, where are they going to get the money for new planes?
Facial recognition is exactly the kind of "simple pattern matching" that I'm talking about. It's definitely useful, and definitely fits the label "artificial intelligence" (at least compared to other solved tasks), but it simply is just one minuscule piece of what actually constitutes human intelligence. Bear in mind that the original post referenced the "singularity" -- when artificial intelligence is smarter and more capable than actual human intelligence.

To be clear, I'm not saying that new AI paradigms are needed to improve that facial recognition score from 97.25% to 99+% (the existing techniques might actually be optimal anyway). I'm saying they are needed to even be able to attempt other tasks that actual humans find effortless, such as interpreting literature, creating a song, carrying on a conversation, decorating a room in an appealing way, understanding symbolic math, having this debate with you, etc. (Certainly symbolic math software has been developed, but no artificial intelligence has been developed that "understands" it and can put it into larger context, particularly one based on neural networks a la the real human brain.)

I don't think my thinking is outdated (or even that controversial). It's mostly informed by a Deep Learning class I recently took taught by Yann LeCun, who is definitely at the forefront of the field (although these opinions are entirely my own).

EDIT: Also, when I mention new "AI paradigms", I do expect them to build on the deep neural networks currently being studied. But more sophisticated architectures than feedforward nets or even the simple recurrent nets that I've seen so far will be needed, I think. And that will likely require some breakthroughs in theory as well as engineering.