skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In other words, America’s “middle class” did start largely disappearing in the 1970s, but it was because they were moving up to a higher-income category, not down into a lower-income category."

Is this for real? Are you actually serious?

Go talk to some ordinary people, or maybe tour some of the country outside whatever rich coastal enclave you inhabit.

Edit: to clarify: I don't trust the source. Doesn't it make you suspicious that AEI and their orbit are the only ones saying this while everyone else says otherwise? All I'm saying above is that my anecdotal experience clearly supports what "everyone else" is saying, not what AEI is saying. When I read stuff like that I'm like "uhh... what parallel universe is this from?" Pravda always had graphs that made the Communist Party look good too. (Side note: during the Bush years it really struck me how oddly "Soviet" the American right is in its thinking and character. I guess, like Nietzsche said, when you fight against something you become what you fight against.)
Most people here (and people I know in the industry) use programmable debuggers --- Ruby and Python libraries that implement the OS debug hooks.

If you're on a Mac, like most people who do software security, Hopper.app is a fantastic alternative to IDA.
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Some background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
Disassemblers aren't at all hard to write. Tripping up IDA might be a decent bang-for-the-buck countermeasure, given how straightforward it can be, but it's a speed bump.
Manhattan is a heuristic for measuring distance, not an algorithm to find a path, so I wouldn’t really say it “loses”, rather it “is less applicable”. Manhattan, Euclidean, and Chebyshev are all just different ways of measuring distance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_distance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev_distance). Each algorithm uses the heuristic to measure how promising each possible path is (how close each path is to the goal according to that definition of distance, ignoring walls), and prioritizes the most promising paths.

Based on those definitions, I would guess that “Chebyshev” distance is almost always the most accurate heuristic to use when you check “Allow Diagonal”, because it will always be perfectly accurate if there are no walls in the way, unlike the others. Similarly, when “Allow Diagonal” is unchecked, “Manhattan” distance is the most accurate. And “Euclidean” distance is always the least accurate in this demo, because in this demo, paths are always constrained to 45° or 90° turns so that they stay on the grid, whereas Euclidean distance assumes that it is possible to move at arbitrary angles like 18.2° right from east.
Sure, tabs can load static assets from a read-only cache instead of re-fetching everything from the origin (be it an in-browser cache run by the browser kernel, or a Web cache somewhere between you and the origin). But surely, the tabs run private instances of the layout engine and javascript VM when they process the page, no? When would it ever make sense for multiple tabs to directly access each other's runtime state?
Same with Canada... 5 years for contempt of court if you refuse to reveal password.
I have a theory about why some games give players that magical feeling of infinite possibilities, and what causes players to lose that feeling over time. I think it has to do with learning a game's visual language.

When you first start playing a game, or just look at the trailers and concept art, the visuals might promise you tons of possibilities that the gameplay doesn't actually support. But as you play the game, you learn to pay attention to only those entities on the screen that are relevant to the gameplay, and filter out those that are just scenery. When your brain realizes that the beautiful mountains in the backdrop are just a painting and you'll never be able to go there, you no longer react to them emotionally.

That theory suggests several ways to improve immersion in games. You could make a conscious attempt to mix up the game's visual language until the very end, like in the old adventure games, where anything on the screen could eventually become relevant in surprising ways. You could make the graphics simpler, to avoid suggesting possibilities that are not supported by the gameplay. Or you could pay attention to which possibilities are suggested by the graphics of your game. If the mountains in the background are so beautiful that the player wants to go there - let them!
Was just looking at this myself. There seems to be stuff happening in issues but the main website's most recent post if from 2011. That kind of old-ness always freaks me out.
It's the physical pixels that suck most of the power, so "77% more pixels" is more accurate.

Certainly the GPU on the iPhone 6+ is going to take more power because it's rendering at 1242x2208 rather than 1920x1080, but that's a minor effect compared to the physical screen power draw.
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Similar extension for firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/amazonsmilere...
"This time the money is largely coming from private equity and there's not a lot of splashy IPOs happening."

There's a lot of public wealth caught up in the stock market in general right now. Technology is especially overvalued (e.g. Amazon at $150Bn, Yelp and Pandora at $5Bn, etc.) despite having more earnings than bubble v1.0. But even if you believe that the downside of a tech crash is limited, you're forgetting that technology is unlikely to crash without dragging down the entire market -- the same forces that are propping up tech are propping up everything else.

Moreover, people keep talking about hedge funds as if they're completely dissociated from the larger market. But a lot of pension, retirement and other "conservative" wealth has been flooding into these funds seeking a return over the last few years. Grandma's retirement not isolated from the health of the tech industry; it's just harder for journalists to see the risk this time, because it doesn't look like last time.

Remember: This Time It's Different! (tm)
Bah. Rich kids and their floppy drives.
lol yeah exactly.
its quite obvious looking at what they were doing: http://www.osirisnet.net/tombes/el_bersheh/djehoutyhotep/pho...

but it is cute that they 'figured it out with science'.
Thats...what...the graph says. Do you have an actual counterpoint, other than the fact that non-higher-income people exist?
Looks good, and works good too! It would be nice to see if a particular item is from reddit or hackernews, and maybe what section or subreddit. And perhaps the number of other comments in that thread?
Usage of the site is going to pick up, but I was mainly interested in seeing if anyone had feedback on the UX / workflow of how it works. You can play around with test problems in the 'Challenges' section and pick from a variety of different programming languages.
Apple Pay Human Interface Guidelines [pdf]
Moreover, capital was far scarcer then than now. If you needed to raise money for an enterprise, there were fewer places to look for it. Consequently, Ol' Pierpont had a great deal more politial power than someone with the same amount of cash might today.
And, you know, they can tell that there remains an encrypted volume on your storage device.
Thanks for responding. I get the sense that you have some expertise in this field? As I said above, I don't, so if you do please forgive any ignorance on my part:

> CAs make >$30-40 per certificate and validation takes max 30 minutes spread out over a day or two (typically).

$30-40 isn't much, and 30 minutes doesn't seem nearly sufficient to reliably verify someone's identity.

> I will say there are very few maliciously issued EV certificates.

How do we know? And is there a lower fraud rate for EV certs than for standard certs? (Probably there is little fraud in any set of business transactions -- otherwise nobody would participate -- but I don't think that's what you mean.)
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If the programming language has any web presence at all, it will quickly bury the game. Also, it's not like people are going to overhear the word "nim" completely out of context and then google it. If you know it's a programming language, it will be easy to find resources.
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Ok, but they're not the same thing. Odd might just mean a different set of underlying assumptions that cause the numbers to misalign, or perhaps a bug.
Honestly, smart move. I'm kind of embarrassed to say that I decided not to look into nimrod much, despite hearing great things about it from a few people, all because of the name. Figured that it would never gain any semblance of wide adoption under "nimrod" so why bother when there are other languages that are just as cool and may be a marketable skill someday? Or maybe I'm just rationalizing my shallow knee jerk reaction after the fact.

Either way... nim sounds much better :)
We know they've been bailed out indirectly. Among other mechanisms: as counterparties to bailed out banks, as money market investors, and as holders of corporate and GSE debt.
So then that implies that there is a threshold below which class mobility becomes increasing harder.

Otherwise there should be a new middle class composed of the formerly working class's children instead of a void.

Either way polarisation is still happening.
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Couldn't you say the same of J2ME?
It's not like people arbitrarily said, "Fuck it, no more negotiating." There are reasons.

An obvious one is that the Great Recession has shifted power toward companies and away from workers. You won't negotiate if it does no good.
Hence the tragedy of the commons.
Botulism is one risk from honey, and it's a good reason to avoid it until the child is a year old.

It's also mostly sugar and thus is not needed by tiny children. Avoiding it is probably a good idea for tooth health.

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/foods-...

"English teeth" is a bit of banter, but it's true. Tooth removal is the main reason to hospitalise (primary school age (4 to 11)) children. One in four children at five years old had some decay.

Being strict with sugar - especially in drinks - and proper toothbrushing will reduce this.

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Dental-decay/Pages/Introduction...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10964323/Tooth-...
There is currently no released version of Android that uses ART out of the box. It's available behind the development options in KitKat and as default in the L developer preview, but that's it. The "optimizing applications" screen comes after system upgrades also with Dalvik.
hey, i made something like that! http://stats.timgallant.us/
Comparisons work, but Ruby's == isn't the same as Java's; what I was referring to was

250.object_id == 250.object_id # true
(2**70).object_id == (2**70).object_id # false
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On the other hand, the most popular version control software is called "git".
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Hence my putting 'compel' in quotes, and proceeding to define it.

The whole "testify or we'll make your life a living hell" thing should be prosecuted via "violation of rights under color of law", which can carry some pretty severe penalties.
Wow great to hear.

I've been learning Ableton Live 9 on my Mac, along with a Push controller, which I can't recommend enough.
It's not convenient, but you can always go back to their 5s review to see the 5/5s difference.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/5
It really helps to roll with friends whom you really like, but just can't express that usually.
On MDMA you can talk about all things, even those that normally scare you, those where you are afraid - but your friends will understand. Once you've been to that place you can still return to it when sober, because you know the compassion was real. This can really crush your insecurities.
Wow, why? Is it offensive somehow?
Has anyone here used Polyglot? If so can you describe your experience and use case?
They could just, you know, give it to them?
If you don’t prototype then go home
Fourth row down, far left, there is a guy standing on the sled pouring blue stuff in front of the sled, with dozens of others pulling the sled he stands on.

My guess is that the number of people in the picture will turn out to be exactly the right number needed to pull a full sized replica of the sled

And thank you HN - obscure reference to Pyramid tomb art, "oh here is a link to the very image, three minutes later."

Gotta love HN !

Edit
I expect water pourer was the cushy number right up until the sled got stuck because you poured wrong - whips were probably involved then.
It's a slang term for "idiot" in American English.
I guess Go is doing well enough sharing a name with an ancient board game, and the two languages are occasionally compared, so it's a bit fitting that way.
The derogatory meaning of the word is US-specific. To the rest of the world, Nimrod is simply the mythical character. Nimrod's author is German. It's not surprising that he wasn't aware of the American slang usage.
Yes! And I take in many quadrillions of them!
Wow!
I've been saying this ever since I saw the paper pushers at school taking a "fika" break every 15 minutes making us queue for hours just to turn in papers to our teachers.

We call those "filfak" in Sweden. The "philosophical" faculty.
Basically non-value creating personell that leeches on those who add value.
Unless you are using it regularly, there aren't any long lasting negative effects either.
Exactly, they have zero evidence it was ran outside the competition. And if they downloaded it and ran it themselves, then they've given express consent, or if someone else ran it on someone else's machine after modifying it significantly to be work and be malicious, they're the ones culpable, not the students.
Any commentary on stagnant wages in the United States that does not mention health care is essentially not worth reading.
It's noon somewhere.

(I don't know where you get your ATC feeds but maybe you can get ones from across the world)
This might have something to do with the fact that we've outsourced much of our trust to the federal government. And no one trusts the federal government.
The only way to get the market value for what you are worth is to put yourself on the market.
Except it's slamming the barn door about a decade after the horse bolted.

The EU cookie case is indeed an excellent parallel - cookies are so thoroughly entrenched into the business models of the web that all that's been accomplished is the more compliant websites throw up a big annoying banner you must dismiss. If you try to hamstring javascript the same way, the shady websites that actually run the stuff you want to worry about will take no notice. And the nice websites will explode with infinite regress trying to figure out how to obtain consent to run their cookie banner javascript...
This looks absolutely stunning. I wish I could train the brain by myself and see how it operates in as an artificial neural network. Anyway, great job!
Technically, `nimrod` means someone who is a good hunter; I don't know why it is viewed as a derogatory term.
What social functions do hedge funds provide, indeed?

Renaissance Technologies avoided $6bn in taxes by using derivatives to pretend their ultra-high frequency trading profits were actually long-term capital gains.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-21/renaissance-avoided...

Renaissance is one of the biggest and most successful hedge funds of all time.

SAC was another of the most successful hedge funds of all time - government couldn't get anyone to prove insider trading directly implicating the founder, but they got enough people around him to confess that they've basically cut the fund down to a personal funds only shop - Point72.

What else ...

Plenty of socially questionable legal strategies in HF land. Big one is stock buybacks - rational responses to Federal Reserve interest policies. If debt is priced too cheaply, HF will push companies to lever up to buyback stock. This is a socially useless form of activity, which increases business risk based on capital structure theory. Short term payoff, the debt will never go away.

Returns - the Hedge Fund industry in aggregate is so far off the S&P500 over the past 5 years that perhaps it ought not to exist?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-17/hedge-fund-performa...

So - to deliver middling average returns, the hedge fund industry will charge 4x to 20x the cost of an index fund.

Much of the money for the funds comes from public pension funds.

We can go on...
Can I vote for both?
The problem for me with such a strict view is the special status of pid 1. You can not have a reliable process manager without either putting it in pid 1, or having restart logic in pid 1, since a process manager outside of pid 1 can be killed without taking down the system, and thus can die unnoticed unless the init includes restart logic.

You also have a second problem: How do you log failures reliably? Your process manager can not do that, or be responsible for spawning something to do that if it itself is pid 1 - it could be brutally murdered the instant it spawns the next process, or at any random time, unable to pass on any temporarily collected data while waiting on a suitable place to store said data.

There's a lot of thinking behind the systemd architecture that actually make substantial advances over what we used to have, and that solves issues that are not at all addressed by most other init systems. Your suggested sinit + svc + perp for example would suffer from both the dead process manager problem and the log problem. They are real - I've run into that more than once.

While I'm not in love with, or convinced by, how much stuff they've added to it, also keep in mind that systemd is not just a pid 1 replacement. The systemd project includes multiple components, only the core of which runs as pid 1.

Maybe it'd be nice and useful to see that decomposed with clear API's connecting them, but for now they're developed and shipped together, and I understand why they don't particularly want to have to deal with that, but seeing systemd-the-project as just an init replacement is not really the case (though pid 1 in a systemd install still contains more than you suggests it should).
Yes, not to mention, when was the last time you heard someone call somebody else a nimrod? The 1940s?

It can't hurt and Nim is a short and memorable name. Realistically it will probably have very little impact (and the core devs likely know this). Whether Nim gains widespread adoption has a lot more to do with whether it can compete successfully with Rust, C++, or whatever is remotely similar to it. D, for example, has a really good name (the successor to C), but hasn't become heavily used in industry despite what advantages it does have and years of development.
Yes, that's a great point. It's like Cypher in the Matrix: "All I see now is hallway, backdrop, arena..." And the more games you play, the quicker you're able to condense them down to their bare essentials.
NY Times has been blocked in China ever since the former released information about the ex-premier Wen Jiabao's family fortune.
It's not hyperbole when it's accurate.
For those interested, Beekeeping For Dummies (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470430656) is actually quite a good way to start.
We've had our queen replaced by our swarm and it was quite an amazing thing to witness.
Our hive/swarm gave more than 40 pounds of honey a year and we kept our whole street well fed with local honey for a few years.
And my garden almost doubled in productivity once the bees were in place.
A win all around.
Sadly a family member developed an allergy so we have to discontinue keeping bees, but it was amazing while we had them and I strongly keeping bees to anyone interested.
Developer here. Would love to hear your feedback, especially on what could be improved.

Tweet @neerajwahi if you'd like someone to try it out with.
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A hedge fund is a fee structure, not an asset class.
On behalf of everyone at LessWrong, I wish to convey that "Destroy all nonhuman life in the universe and force all humans to play a tie-in licensed video-game nonstop for the rest of eternity" is most emphatically NOT what we have in mind when we say "Friendly AI".
You're assuming Apple's complicity in assisting the police. Is this assumption reasonable? If you suspect Apple, why use an iOS device?
The repo with the code in it. Link to the original post already posted, but here it is anyways.

https://github.com/feliam/CVE-2014-4377

http://blog.binamuse.com/2014/09/coregraphics-memory-corrupt...
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Not if you also laugh and point.
I like the other title better, "Abstract visualization of biological neural network"
Honey is a natural expectorant, however - used in cough drops like certain Ricola flavors, so assuming your child is > 1 year old, it's actually beneficial to administer occasionally.
And it is not whether an organsiation is a bank or a hedge fund that determines if it is bailed out - it is the expected social cost of it's collapse that determines it - hence LTCM was bailed out, because the smart money thought it would take us all with it and why Lehmens was not (mistakenly?)
Yeah, the fed loans money to banks at, essentially, zero interest, and the banks then use it to invest in the stock market, or some such. They make money, because the market isat all-time highs. They pay back the fed, and keep their profits.

All the major firms do this. It's nuts, but our government literally lends free money to investors on Wall Street so they can make millions of dollars on trades.

Of course, this all comes tumbling down when the markets are in bad shape. And, unlike most people in this thread, I fully expect any and all bubbles to burst due to some outside influence: Ebola, 9/11, war, etc. Something big happens to scare the markets, and the big party here in the Valley is over. Who know when that will happen, but it feels like the next year or so will be the time frame, if my gut is any indication.

Burn that capital while you can, folks!
Psilocybin mushrooms can cause allergic reactions: http://www.lycaeum.org/mv/mu/allergy_psilocybe.html
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And yet loads of us use "git" without an issue.
Really Impressive. I wonder if you could use this to visualize a neural net that's solving actual problems.
Is Nimrod mentioned in any historical texts outside of the Bible? It seems like Bible trivia that very few people would know, perhaps especially outside of the US.
> Yes, not to mention, when was the last time you heard someone call somebody else a nimrod? 1890s England?

I hear it all the time. Probably nearly daily. It depends on your circles, I suppose.
Very cool, what's the backstory? Just a fun side project?
> But surely, the tabs run private instances of the layout engine and javascript VM when they process the page, no?

No.

For example, you can get direct access to another tab's "window" object in this way, as long as it's same-origin: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window.open...

> When would it ever make sense for multiple tabs to directly access each other's runtime state?

For Web compatibility.
Ghostery is great and I use it too, but I would also suggest NoScript if you use Firefox, it blocks a lot more.
You're conflating 'social' with 'moral'. Everything you mentioned is morally questionable, not socially harmful.