skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, Bernstein actually disagrees with (almost) any use of rdrand. Consider, as a toy example, an rdrand that poisons a register, so that xor'ing it with anything results in a known value; this might be worse than useless.

(http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html: "imagine RDRAND microcode that's looking at the randomness pool that it's about to be hashed into")

I'm not sure I agree with Bernstein here.
I didn't find this model particularly compelling compared to the many that have been developed in the psychological and therapeutic literature, or in the esoteric spiritual traditions.

However what I think is valuable, and is what the author is experiencing, is that thinking about emotion and how it works, and developing our own model of it that makes sense of your own experience, is a profoundly helpful thing to do. Developing your own personal model is fundamentally different from learning someone else's, wherever it comes from.

So, whether this model does or doesn't work for you, it may be worth figuring out why, and making your own better one.
Strange. I get that too. Certificate is signed by "Apple IST CA 2 - G1", with 256-bit RSA. Of course accessing their website normally doesn't go through SSL so most people won't see this.
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about the equalizing role of technology (well, horse and bow was the technology back then :)

"But, on the steppe, “the horse was the great equalizer, along with the bow and arrow, which meant that a woman could be just as fast, just as deadly, as a man,” "
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I'm sorry, it seems like you haven't been paying attention to the world stage. America's is definitely not the only government putting itself before its citizens. Look at Australia, Canada, the UK, and arguably, many of the TPP nations.
Awesome! Thank you for that!

That benchmark is more interesting to me.
Speaking as a 37-year-old programmer (writing code since I was 8), just because you share the same 2 years' experience on Node with a junior developer doesn't mean you threw away the 15 years' experience on web applications, databases, performance, scalability, maintainability, system administration, etc. And that's looking at it from a purely technical point of view. As unoti says, there is also much you learn beyond that.
Does this mean no new iOS apps for those people who choose not to upgrade to iOS 8?
I'm not sure this refutes the main point - it does appear to be a team of research scientists, they have likely been working on it for year++ and (since upthread mentions it not id'ing Big Bird or a peacock) it's not finished yet.

Someone else mentioned in another thread that "check whether they're in a national park" is only easy now, thanks to 30 years of monumental effort (launching satellites etc). To bring this back to Hacker News, I wonder how long until vision processing will be in the same place? Where it can be taken for granted?
I think modern perl was (is) all about standardizing on what frameworks and conventions to use. It was a unifying of ideas.

I suppose for python, with its motto of 'one way to do it', doesn't suffer from a need to unify.

That is one of the reasons I have never been able to pick up either ruby or python. I just find them boring.

I was given the chance to take over some ruby projects at work recently. I powered through some popular ruby and rails books over the weekends, not in an attempt to learn ruby, but trying to learn cool hacks with it. You know, stuff to impress people with. The 'hubris' that perl people love. And well, I couldn't find any.
Remember the State Dept's Passport/Visa Database Crash?  Here's What Happenned
First of all, believe me, I would love it if publishers came and asked me how to beat Amazon. A new online bookstore (with a radically different approach to DRM) would definitely be on the list. I agree with you that publishers are not necessarily beat.

But you can't wave away the power Amazon has in that fight. The number of businesses that can survive, say, a 50% drop in sales for a year is pretty darn small, and the number of businesses that will tolerate a 50% drop in sales for six months without tossing out the CEO is even smaller. That means Amazon has a lot of power right now to decide how practically every supplier in the book market behaves. And they are pushing in exactly the opposite direction with all that power -- they're trying to consolidate.

So this is dynamic in both directions -- it's a tug of war where Amazon's monopsony power will either increase or decrease. I feel like the smart money has got to be on increase. (See Amazon's P/E ratio.)
iOS 8 apps can still be built to support iOS 7
Assuming you just need it while traveling, running a VPN server at home is a cheap and effective option. In particular, both DD-WRT and RouterOS have OpenVPN support.
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Go to https://www.apple.com and not https://apple.com to get the correct site with the proper certificate. apple.com != www.apple.com
It wouldn't surprise me if they had intended it as a homage/boast - both are statistics-related, after all.
Visio? That terrible UI that makes drawing even a simple flowchart or network diagram a total pain in the ass? I have not seen 2013 but earlier versions were not MS-ified as far as user experience. It always stuck out. In fact, I use Word's drawing editor for some diagrams because it's easier than Visio. It was not PnP and took them a few versions to even make it look like it might possibly been made by Office.
I wonder how much time is needed to learn C proficiently to make use of Cython properly.
Did you read the link?

New apps must include 64-bit support. That's it. It says nothing about not allow backwards compatibility as well.
No - it just means new iOS apps must support 64-bit and be built with Xcode 6. Those same binaries/archives can also support 32-bit and older OS versions.

Similarly, today, you must build your app using at least the iOS 7 SDK and xcode 5, but that does not prevent you from supporting iOS 6 as well.
I know, but I always just type apple.com. It is still a problem.
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I don't see it as a goalpost for poverty, more of a milestone -- it's the first symptom of poverty that IMO humanity wants to relieve
Can you give an example of the copy/paste you're worried about?

I agree that working with numpy arrays in cython introduces some semantic overhead, then again in newer version of cython they've introduced the more generic concept of typed memoryviews [0]. I had a lot of success recently using this to generate some very efficient multithreaded code with a minimum of hassle.

[0] http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/memoryviews.html
Tear gas is used because it's incredibly effective and non-lethal. It disperses crowds without having to resort to other potentially damaging or lethal means, ie. sonic guns (deafness), rubber bullets (broken ribs or death), batons, etc.

Not every "riot" is peacefully gathering citizens. Most start that way, but often go far off the "peaceful" trail. That is when things like tear-gas are deployed.
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Indeed. I work (remotely) with a gentleman named Wizard. It's still surprisingly difficult to take seriously.
As a homebrewer $1800 can get you an amazing setup.

It looks to me that the picobrew is for those who don't want to do the 'heavy lifting' of homebrewing and want to say that they homebrew. The automatic bread machine of this generation?

For that price tag you aren't going to get people who want to test out homebrewing. My first homebrew setup was ~$150. This included two buckets (fermentor and bottling), kettle for boiling the wort and hops, bottles, basic bottling accessories, and my first extract kit (fat tire clone).

On the other side they claim this is a professional tool. However, I would highly doubt any real brewery would use this. They have their own pilot systems where they typically make 20-50 gallon test batches. The output of 2.5 gallons is no where near ideal for a test batch. A gallon of beer gets you roughly 10 (12 oz) bottles.

I'm not quite sure who their market actually is. Maybe it's rich people who want to make their own beer? Seems like a small market.

Their machine (from what I gather in the video) comprises the following features:
Brewpi ~$60 (http://www.brewpi.com)
5 Gallon Keg $60 used $110 new (http://www.homebrewing.org/5-Gallon-Cornelius-Keg-Ball-Lock-...)
PicoBrew has a small mash tun (~3 gallon?) 10 gallon mash tun - http://www.homebrewing.org/10-Gallon-Converted-Igloo-Cooler-...

I don't understand where it boils the wort and how it actually mixes these ingredients.

Realistically, anyone who is serious about homebrewing most likely won't be using this. You can get the same amount of control that they advertise with fermentation chambers, your own brewpi, and with detailed logging. Also part of the fun is the actual brew process of boiling the wort and throwing in hops with friends and never having to drink the same beer again.

It'll be interesting to see how this thing actually does.

Just my $0.02
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Good thing we've been cutting science funding across the board! Doubt the NIH and NSF grants were helping science much anyway.

As a matter of fact, science should be privately funded and privately run. What idiot thought it was a good idea to make scientific research a government mandate?

To thy weary, I say: The market shall provide.

P.S. Yes, I am bitter about the current state of science. I've written about it in great detail before [1][2], but the current fascination with free-market everything has truly made me lose hope for this iteration of society. The free market will work, until it doesn't. Some activities which are absolutely crucial, will not be profitable until it's too late. Medical research is a good example, but there are others (energy sources to replace oil, overproduction of consumer waste, pollution etc.)

Seems like today's societies must learn by sticking their fingers in the proverbial wall socket. So be it.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8337837

2. https://hn.algolia.com/#!/comment/forever/prefix/0/by%3AFD3S...
For Python there is pex [1].

[1] http://pex.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
It seems to me there's much less to risk in terms of mistreating your own populace than a foreign one.

For one, outside countries don't get in the middle of internal/civil disputes. Only in extreme cases does an outside country intervene on behalf of people that aren't its citizens, when most/all the civilians are in favor of intervention, and only when the outside country will gain more than it could lose.

Two, mistreating enemy combatants will not only escalate the conflict, it will reduce the support of your allies. Mistreating your own people goes back to point one, so most people just don't get involved, and the citizens have no recourse.

Three, citizens have to obey the laws set down by their government. Trying to fight your government's abuses of its people is essentially going against your government, which will just get you punished.
I think you'd agree that having hypertension at 17 is not typical, but being 17 and consuming a LOT of salt (junk food) is very typical.

So which is more likely; you're genetically predisposed to hypertension, which your high-salt diet exposed in your teens, or that your high-salt diet caused your hypertension?

I doubt your conclusion, but it does make me happy that you've found a solution that works for you!
Not anymore. They added a redirect.

OS X talks to plenty of apple.com subdomains and there really is no reason not to use self-signed certificates for this kind of thing.
Hmm, I don't seem to get that. While it seems unlikely, could you be getting MitM'ed?

Ah wait, are you only getting it on "https://apple.com"? In my Chrome browser, that immediately redirects to www.apple.com -- but if the first one was self-signed, wouldn't it be untrusted by the browser, and wouldn't the browser refuse to redirect and give me a warning instead?

Confused as to if I'm seeing the same thing as you or not.
I don't think that's the most important factor. Influenza, along with ebola and rabies, is small, while smallpox is big.

http://www.lehigh.edu/~jas0/viralgenomes.html
Can't wait until homebrew is updated to try this out. A part of me is morbidly curious to try out the new web browser. This may be the impetus I've been needing to make the jump to GNUs for my email.
You didn't click the link, did you?
I was referring to the points that you brought up in your previous reply (anti-drone, anti-NSA and anti-drug war) ... I don't think that they need to disappear but a strong refocus is definitely needed in all 3.
This will be interesting. Presumably they are tired of fighting the lawsuits. But it opens up an interesting niche (and no, I don't think Blekko would step into that niche) of a more 'unconstrained' search. If Bing follows suit then it will get really interesting indeed.
Hi, Database Labs founder here. That phrase could be a little clearer, I agree. I'm going to update the site soon to incorporate the feedback I've gotten.

What we mean is that the Postgres system itself is "server / OS level" management. We set up a reasonable set of defaults for a generic workload per server type, and you get superuser access to the Postgres server to do what you like with in terms of internal structure (schema, indices, users/roles, and so on.)

We handle backups, OS upgrades, Postgres upgrades, monitoring, OS-level security, firewalling, intrusion detection, and other sysadmin-like stuff. We are on call 24 hours a day to deal with the issues that will inevitably arise, and we proactively work to minimize the frequency with which they happen.

The value proposition lies in how you want to spend your time. Our feedback so far indicates that a significant number of people would rather pay someone to handle all of the sysadmin chores and focus their time on their core app.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll be updating the page soon to try to make the value proposition clearer.
I read the link, I was focusing on the "built with the iOS 8 SDK" part. I'm asking the question whether or not building with the iOS 8 SDK would preclude that code from running on iOS 7 or is that only if that code uses iOS 8 features.

I'm not sure why this is news otherwise.
Brew in a bag (BIAB) is a great way to start testing the all grain method with very little money investment. Grab a paint strainer bag from home depot pack of two for $5 and away you go.
Oops, thanks for the bits to bytes correction.

It is simply incredible to me that it could be so small (in an information sense).

This article (gzipped) is 22KB, more than 4 times as much information.
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France and Greece have in recent memory. Pretty much any country that has hosted the G8 the last 10 years or so.
Might want to disable script tags in messages.
Dang, didn't realize that the formatting cuts off the quote, here it is in full:

"It’s hard to blame users for not being interested in SSL and certificates when (as far as we can determine) 100% of all certificate errors seen by users are false positives."
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Well seeing how it doesn't have to be a full 3 weeks, even doing it during that time would still be ok, since you'd miss the conference goers, but get the company shutdowners.
Any advice for easily communicating with non-technical clients who wouldn't use technical tools?
They must be built with the iOS 8 SDK so unless that runs on previous versions of iOS, then new apps for previous iOS versions will not be supported.
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Ha. I tried Big Bird too. Under "For Bird?", it said "It certainly wants to be."
> So you seem to be claiming that these are distinct legal categories which affect the admissibility of evidence at trial.

Ah. There's the hiccup. It wasn't my intent to be communicating anything about admissibility of evidence. Archiving, sharing, obtaining, perusing, using for original purpose and using for a tertiary purposes are all different actions, and which of these actions were taken and in what contexts would be evaluated differently by a judge ruling on a "borderline" case that is up to legal interpretation.

The Supreme Court, to reuse your example, has effectively ruled that DNA collection is, upon arrest, legal for use in all above activities, if I understand correctly. To throw in what I did think, no, I didn't know it worked that way, and I'm pretty happy no government database currently has my DNA data (time to look up relevant Canadian laws to see if this is true here as well).

I don't have anything particularly solid to back up the claim that most states would not automatically grant all the actions above as "legal" if any given one of them is legal in a given situation (like the Supreme Court apparently did for DNA swabs). It just seemed particularly likely given my priors and whatever equivalent situations or contexts I could remember (I've read two US state codes of law (Ohio and Texas), and I'd estimate 20% of USA federal laws, that are available online on their respective public websites).

EDIT: To clarify first paragraph: I'm talking here mostly about situations such as someone suing a police force or suing the state over privacy breach or somesuch, not about whether a judge would use what police did with phone records and whether they shared it in a Fusion to dismiss a case about child pornography, for instance. That's a whole other (and more complicated) ball of yarn, IMO.
'"Cards" in the java-card-OS are cryptographically "personalized" by the payment network (VISA, AMEX, MasterCard) with per-device keys and the device personal account number (DPAN)--the tokenized device only credit card.'

Is this 'tokenized device only credit card' the same concept as the Point-of-Sale seeing a unique CC # (generated) for the transaction? (What I believe is one of the selling points for Apple Pay). Are there other products that do this?
Strange, but someone else saw it, too. Maybe they have fixed it on some of their servers.
Check the store part. $1799
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Totally unrelated to the topic.
I'm a big fan of PHPTheRightWay as a primer, so I'd kind of would love to see the same thing for Python. Helps get folks up to speed.
All grain isn't that much more expensive. All you need to step up to a full all grain setup is an igloo cooler and a false bottom - ~$100 USD worth of gear.

If you're batch sparging you can use your boil kettle to heat strike, then sparge water. You just need an extra vessel for the first runnings.
Thanks for the reply. I'm not that familiar with iOS development but have a jailbroken iPhone on iOS 7.
> I'm not sure why this is news otherwise.

One reason is that, I believe, currently if even a single 32-bit app is loaded on a newer iOS device, all the standard 32-bit libraries have to be loaded into memory as well which causes increased memory pressure. This is a problem given that current iOS devices only have 1 GB of RAM. Getting older apps migrated to 64-bit is therefore a big deal for this reason alone.
Chrome, last I checked, mostly relies on the OS list of trusted CAs in OS X and Windows, and brings its own on Linux which uses NSS.
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I usually wash mine.
The cartoons are a big part of the New Yorker:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker#Cartoons
Can you point to other models that are so clearly and concisely explained? Would really like to read that.
We handle the system-level administration of the server itself. Wal_level, for example, can only be set at server start. We set that in the config file, which users can't edit.

Users receive superuser on a blank slate Postgres, and they can do whatever they like within the already-running Postgres server -- create/delete/update databases, users/roles, privileges, and so on.

We are seeking users who don't want to worry about wal_levels and things like that -- users who just want a Postgres server to use, with the assurance that backups, OS patches, and so on are all taken care of for them.
It's not worth being #5 on HN. You can target older versions of iOS.
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Yes. I learned recursion from drawing "trees" with it when I was about 12...
Aleynikov worked for a specific trading desk at Goldman-Sachs, which carries out high frequency strategies in some equity markets. High frequency equity trading is the sub industry I'm referring to. Since you're apparently confused about this: Goldman is a large bank. It has many lines of business, same as Microsoft produces many software products. Some of Goldman's business endeavors fall within the US high frequency equities space, but you'd be making an enormous error of scope if you confused one of their high frequency equities desks with their entire business.

I call shenanigans on the claim that Aleynikov was single handedly running the trading infrastructure for even a single one of their desks. That's complete nonsense.

As for Jim Simons: It's generally believed that the main cause of Renaissance's success is that they have a couple hundred of the world's smartest people all working together. It's not a 'key man' shop at all. (Also: You seem to be suggesting that Simons himself did all the work. The fact is that he spends most of his time smoking cigarettes and handing out wads of cash.)
Yeah, but don't forget the complexity of the hardware you need to run ebola versus a website. Our bodies provide most of the implementation details.
You can build against a higher SDK version than your minimum requirement with OS X/iOS. For example, your deployment target is OS X 10.7, but yo're building with the OS X 10.10 SDK.

More info: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Develo...
Honestly, looking at my state's centers (as linked in another comment) they all look pretty benign. Like, just regular inter-agency communications. But after reading the WIRED article, it seems much worse than that. Assuming that you buy that the NSA needs to look at my texts to my wife about buying milk for national security, that the local cops need to beggars belief. Especially when they are elected officials and fellow citizens that are here to enforce laws and public safety. Are drug dealers and bored teenagers THAT big of a threat? How can I relate to the local constabulary at the PTA meeting when they know all my private medical issues and marital problems? The power differential is too great.
It's a New Yorker thing - they've had whimsical cartoons mixed with serious reportage in their printed editions for decades, if not over a century. It is odd but I suspect it gets people to read more articles than they otherwise might.
I think HN has trained me to be very pessimistic about technology news. When I see a link posted like this without much commentary voted to the front page my first reaction is that it must be bad news.
Why this convoluted scheme instead of the obvious thing staring all of us in the face: build more housing!!! Huge swaths of the CITY are lots with single family homes and even the prime water-front real estate sits as empty warehouses and parking lots. There's a lot we can do to make the city affordable just by giving people more housing. Housing prices go up when more people want to live there than there are houses. Why are we all overlooking this extremely basic fact??
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My parents visited his farm a few months ago, and told me that the potatoes don't taste salty at all. "Just like normal potatoes," they said, "they needed a little bit of salt added after baking for the taste." I'm hoping to visit it myself, if I have the opportunity next spring/summer. It's quite a spectacular start of rethinking food, imho.
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