skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of VC dimension kind of stuff for describing binary classifiers.

That first example w/ 5 points necessitating a convex 4 sided polygon is like the VC dimension proof that an axis aligned rectangle can never correctly classify 5 points, since you can never arrange 5 points w/o one of them being in the body of a rectangular region surrounding the other 4 (and that interior point's label therefore can't be arbitrary and still correctly classified). more: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring13/cos511...

Wonder if the 2^(n-2) + 1 rule is somewhere in the VC dim lit
Unpredictable is my cat weaving its way downstairs every morning in front of me and suddenly stopping. I'm sure something puts his senses on high alert but you'd think after the first few times I tripped on him, knocking him down the stairs, he might learn.

He's been a great addition to our family but, to sum up my experience with a cat: he's an overly neurotic animal with some of the finest reflexes I've ever witnessed.
Where it’s particularly striking of course is when people respond appropriately much faster than the speed of thought. You need only think of a piano player or a tennis player to see that the impression that they are making a conscious decision—“that ball is coming in this direction; I’d better move over here and hit it”—couldn’t possibly be.

If it isn't conscious thought and motor signals, then what is it?
There is a law that says their identities can't be revealed in news accounts?
In the rearrange example, can/does the compiler do the rearrange, padding automatically?
A small cup of apple cider vinegar cures it for me, and is much easier (imo) to get down
I care about public attitude towards sex.

But that's not the reason that I'd be interested in teledildonics.

You hit the nail on the head with your second point - the money to be made.

Just think about how much money the online pornography, and camgirl, sites pull in.
Also iOS support is needed for Chrome on iOS. Since the same engine is used for Safari and Chrome in that platform.

That's the other easy explanation as to "why iOS?"
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As I understood the article, he's neatly sidestepped most of those proofs with his definition of "the flow of time". He agrees that certain properties are associated with their direction along the time axis (e.g. entropy increase in the futureward direction, memories are only available of pastward events). Is suspect that he would also argue that throwing out the anti-causal solutions to the wave equation is nothing more that customary, and that Merlin and Chris Nolan would customarily discard causal solutions and keep only the anti-causal ones.

What was frustrating for me was that he didn't seem define "the flow of time". I would have defined it as the idea that the universe is not translation invariant along the axis measured by clocks. The truth of that statement is practically tautological, as he already agreed that clocks do measure intervals and that measurement inherently breaks the translation symmetry. Then again, cosmology isn't my field so maybe I'm missing something.
This is a great example of growing executive power at the expense of a company's (in this case the USPS's) credibility. Across most industries, technology and tracking are used to make businesses run more efficiently and provide better services. That's great and definitely adds value.

However, law enforcement seems to think that now that companies are collecting all this data, they should have access to it, too, without restriction. The problem is that once these sorts of programs become common knowledge, the companies start being viewed as just an arm of law enforcement. Do you trust the local police? FBI? NSA?

No? Then don't trust these companies.

The solution to this is not to stop the mail tracking (tracking numbers are an awesome feature), but to curtail the reach and powers of the executive. Law enforcement shouldn't be able to request whatever they want from these company datasets.

So how do you fix it?

First, the business records laws on which these data requests rely are incredibly antiquated and not meant for huge networks of communications. So a solution is to update these laws to better protect user tracking data when it is in the hands of a company. However, Congress doesn't seem to want to do anything, so the legislative branch is losing power more and more.

Second, the judicial branch could step in and rule that these searches are protected under the Fourth Amendment. However, the executive has been claiming privileged on most of these cases, which means they get dragged on for years and years. Kudos to the EFF and ACLU for sticking it out, but the judicial branch is simply not keeping up with executive power grabs.

Third, users of the companies can start fuzzing or encrypting their data. In this article, a solution could be for someone to offer an aggregated address to which people can send letters. It's basically a manual VPN or onion-routing technique. Unfortunately, this tactic is very difficult to hide all metadata, so I'd prefer the first two options over asking users to fuzz their data.

Disclosure: I volunteer for Restore the Fourth, which is a 501(c)(4) organization advocating for greater barriers to warrantless or broad surveillance. We are currently focusing on getting local cities to pass privacy policies that limit what data local law enforcement can gather and share.

EDIT: I realize that the USPS is a part of the government, but it is not an arm of law enforcement. It should still require a warrant to obtain user tracking data from the USPS just like any other business.
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No problem, I got it from Wikipedia which in return cites a bloomberg article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor#Aftermath

Finding actual damages proved really difficult on this subject.
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On Youtube there is a channel called "Cat Mojo" by someone called Jackson Galaxy. He also has an animal planet show called "My Cat From Hell".

His approach to behavioral problems in cats is quite fascinating. And it seems to work. For anyone involved with cats, this is a must-see.
Are you sure there's nothing objectionable in your (rare) comments or submissions? It seems unlikely a moderator would bother to hellban you for not commenting often; why would they go to the trouble?
From an engineering perspective that contraption is cool.

From a practical perspective... what would Steve Jobs say?
There are plenty of decent sources of entropy, like webcams and sound cards. However, they all add parts we don't need, and they don't take any care to design with security in mind. Eventually, a good open hardware TRNG should be cheaper, more reliable, easier to use, and more secure than any of those solutions, IMO.
It doesn't make me any less respectable or a bad person in my own eyes... but other people's eyes count for a lot.
You mean they've been click-bait BuzzFeed-y kind of publication the whole time? :)

I was never a Wired subscriber, but a lot of content now seems garbage I used to joyfully consume as a teenager.
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As our users (mostly non-tech) spend quite a lot of time searching different categories, we created this completely new function last week to make it more fun and possible to discover new business tools by chance. And if interested, bookmark, and view them later.
We might assume it is faster than the speed of thought. Our mind works with and without our help. The same as our breathing.

For example, our mind processes thousands (or millions) of signals coming from our senses without us needing to "think" about it.
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In both C and C++ fields in structs must be outputted in the order they are listed.

There is in C++ a freedom to rearrange fields whenever the user switches between public/private/protected, but I believe no compiler takes advantage of it, because (I believe) it is believed too suprising for these kinds of changes to change a class' size.
> Frankly, you don't really want to live in a world where the government can impose criminal penalties on businesses for such loose facts as these.

We're already there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8519060 It might help if we spread the cheer to more high-end criminals.
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Yea their citations are to paywalls RE the costs to US. But well written wikipedia page nonetheless. Prob the most accessible journalism I've read on the matter.

Definitely worth more investigation. Definitely a part of our world that needs more light shed on it. Got to be some interesting angles there too ;)
Literal cloud computing...
"For example, there are famous experiments in which people apparently make free decisions at certain moments and yet it’s found that the decision was actually made a little bit earlier, but their own perception of time and their actions within time have been sort of edited after the event"

This would also be the only way to simulate consciousness in AI. Makes total sense. We're AI.
In conscience thoughts and motor signals. I think the point is, that after the match, the player can be asked "what went through you head when..." And they will answer as if during the game they made a conscience judgement of the entire situation.
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Its a morning greeting thing - cats get up and greet one another by weaving around and brushing sides together, perhaps sharing scent.

Your cat can no more learn not to do that, than it can control its sleep.
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He thinks that after a few times you should learn to pay attention to what's happening in front of you. What kind of hunter are you if you constantly bump into other hunters? ;)
You are correct. If you try to go to inbox.google.com, it says "Sorry, this only works in Chrome."
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"This is because cats evolved as solitary hunters with little need for reading social cues, especially those for behavior modification."

[...]

“How the hell is your cat supposed to know that you’re yelling at him because you want him to stop scratching the couch?”

[...]

"When your cat does the thing you want her do to, reward her with a treat, or affection."

If we accept that cats can't learn from negative reinforcement, why would we think that positive reinforcement would work?
Rumors of these sort of things have been around for a few years. If YouTube had enabled channels to easily take $X/month subscriptions years ago, they'd be making a killing by now, but it still hasn't arrived.
Except, a stable population (not currently coping with a change from their evolved circumstances) doesn't really contain "weak" individuals beyond the normal lossage to infection, harmful mutation, violence and old age.

It may well contain groups that biologists project human cultural ideas on and call weak. But the continued presence of those groups shows them to be a useful part of the species diversity.

(I strongly recommend "The Genial Gene" and "Evolution's Rainbow", both by Joan Roughgarden, for further reading.)
Shame on you. Nobody should be discouraged from trying to dabble in things that aren't their field.

Having the background of being extremely well-trained in one field gives a different perspective than the typical "echo-chamber" of the elite in any specialty.

If you know something they don't, why not try to start a dialog instead of criticizing and dismissing?
Better would be to separate decaf and fully caffeinated grinds into numbered packages, keep a sleep journal, and then after three weeks see if there were any meaningful difference. Otherwise the results are going to be heavily influenced.
"You won't believe what happens after Wired turns into Buzzfeed".
Do you have information on what algorithms are being used for encryption?
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The question that's always in my mind is if the perception of the flow of time is really just entropy. As long as state A is different than state B we have a perception of time.
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Because positive reinforcement does work on cats -- the problem is, finding the positive behavioural pattern to reinforce!

Positive and negative reinforcement patterns are not opposites, they're entirely separate processes.

(Cat owner here.)
Free cat advice: If your cat is going outside of its litter box, it is most likely because it isn't cleaned regularly (would you like to stand in poop to go the bathroom?). You should be cleaning it at least once per day.
Of course, such a stunt today would result in criminal charges of "terrorism" and lengthy prison sentences, all the while politicians would excoriate the hoaxers as enemies of the state.
That's why I loved the CBM64 floppy drive. The 1541 didn't have a light barrier to find its base position, so the stepper motor had to move against a physical barrier long enough to ensure it was at a known position. Brrrrrrrrttttt...pkTTTTTTTTRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRmkkkkkKKKKKKKKKKrtttttt... Loading... Ready. God I miss that sound.
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If anyone is interested in learning more about why no one goes to jail, and banks dont even have to admit they did anything wrong, etc., I recommend you go pick up a copy of Matt Taibbi's new book "The Divide"

He goes into great deal regarding why the most egregious white collar crimes such as HSBC laundering money for the Mexican cartels / terrorist organizations ended with a simple 1.9 billion dollar fine (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/11/us-hsbc-probe-idUS...), no one going to jail, and the bank not even having to admit they did anything wrong.

There are many reasons why (after all, he wrote a whole book about it) but to list a few

1. The Justice Department does not want to risk losing a case (for political reasons)

2.The unit in charge of investigating this type of crime within the justice department is staffed with defense lawyers who dont think out of the box (thanks to obama)

3.the banks committing these crimes are large, multinational institutions so there are complexities around the fact of who committed the crimes, what jurisdiction they were committed in, etc. the most disturbing chapter in the book was a about a hedge funds harassing (literally harassing) a Canadian insurance firm Fairfax financial. The judge ended up throwing out that case because it took place in NJ but the crimes took place in NYC: http://www.swtriallaw.com/press-releases/new-jersey-court-cl...

4.the banks have a lot of money to spend on lawyers

5.the same lawyers that are defending the banks create the laws and regulations they live by (Eric Holder and a few others)

6.this memo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/04/eric-holder-1999-me... - that is, anything that might hurt innocent bystanders—when deciding whether to bring a case against a corporation. "Prosecutors may take into account the possibly substantial consequences to a corporation's officers, directors, employees, and shareholders,"

7. That banks argue that a prosecution could be economically disruptive because they are "too big to fail" so basically if you hurt them, you are hurting everyone else also.

It is really a fascinating, and in some ways depressing, read.
Honestly, this is nothing compared to the banks getting caught fixing the LIBOR rate a few years back, and no one went to jail for that anyways.
"Exposing her belly is not a trap the cat is setting"

Nobody buys this.
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I second that. Paul Graham wrote about this in "How to do philosophy".

http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
They don't need to ignore philosophy entirely, they just need to recognise that it's a different subject, and that studying physics is not sufficient to understand it, nor is it necessarily going to give them any unique insight.
Or install a cat flap and let your cat go outside?
Well I think giving out information to a company over the internet isn't really privacy. They aren't collecting any information that you aren't freely giving up. So I think the debate is really skewing what the term "privacy" means. No one is breaking into your computer and finding out what is in your private files, they are just collecting data you are openly giving out. Your public record.
My first year in college I had a french press (a kind of coffee maker) and a tin of breath mints that had caffeine in them. One night, trying to finish a project, I drank an entire quart of strongly brewed coffee (~500mg)and ate the caffeinated breath mints like popcorn (30mg each)[0]. I recall walking down the dormitory hallways with extremely heightened senses. I was hearing whispers on the other side of closed doors and watching a fly buzz past me in what seemed like slow motion. I could feel the carpet texture through the soles of my shoes and time seemed to slow down.

At the time I thought it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life and vowed to repeat it sometime.

Thinking back I realize I was probably experiencing mild hallucinations and could have been on the verge of collapse.

edit: Added caffeine estimates.

[0]Can't believe I found this. http://www.wegotcoffee.com/mints/zingo.php
The 6809 would have been a better choice for a micro than the 8086 was.

An 8-bit CPU with a 64K address space, compared to a 16-bit one with 1MB? The 6809 is more comparable to the Z80.

As for why 68K didn't make it, at the time it was just too "big" and expensive of a processor for the market IBM wanted to target with the PC - more powerful than the 6502 and Z80/8085 systems that were common at the time, but not at the level of minicomputers.

Interesting article about this here: http://trixter.oldskool.org/2012/12/27/the-ibm-pc-5150-what-...
If you've ever had shingles you'd never name something you love shingles!

But one thing I know about cats is they really have a set routine, getting them to change it is near impossible, you juat have to go with the flow.
The channel hoping is just a bit of software. It costs $0.00 in additional hardware. Software complexity is a big deal in a TRNG. The KISS rule applies big-time here. The more complex the software, the more likely it is a significant flaw will be found and exploited. It remains unclear to me whether there should even be a microcontroller on a USB TRNG. Without one, we can eliminate the complexity from the USB key itself, but we have to move the whitening and health monitoring to the driver. It is unclear to me if making the driver more complex opens it up to enough additional attacks that the system is less secure overall.
Yeah that's great and all but I've tried that. 3 litter boxes. All cleaned twice a day, and he still shits on the carpet 2 feet away from the box. Lid on, lid off, big sidewalls, different cat litter. I've tried it all. The little shit just likes shitting on carpet I guess. And putting the fear of god into him does nothing.
For what it's worth, I saw the same thing happen to a coworker with essentially the same circumstances. The doctors basically called it exhaustion.
How will the quality of your results be different from Wolfram alpha who do it without crowd sourcing of course but are quite good?
I've been using flask lately and I could compress four of those imports into one import in flask. And the settings aren't even necessary.

All these things, when compared to a true microframework, contribute in legibility of the code.
great reply, awesome project. I really hope it takes off, github aquires you, and starts rolling these kinds of features into the base product.
Thanks Icmatt ad NicoJuicy. I will follow those lines of advice seriously. Once again thanks for your time and valuable words.
If I ever get a cat, it's name will be Dr Buffington. But only because Chairman Mao is tacky.
So that the cat can go outside to play and come back to shit? :) (happenes from time to time)
There's a joke in here somewhere. And I don't get it.
"survival of the fittest" only really applies in a population sense anyway, which is often part of the confusion I suspect.
To the contrary, the facts in that case are a slam dunk. You have a box full of hard evidence, and the crime of selling counterfeit goods has no particularly onerous intent requirement. The crime is predicated on an objectively verifiable fact: are the goods licensed or not? Meanwhile, what's the difference between a legitimate financial transaction and a fraudulent one? You can't tell just by reading the deal documents. Ideally someone slips up in an email that reveals their knowledge and intent, but usually you're stuck building a case on circumstantial evidence.
Do you have any idea why? I realize that almost all companies will not tell you -- but, thinking critically about the interview and process, do you have any ideas.

I would recommend doing informational interviews with friends at places that might hire a tech evangelist and seeing if you can get a no-stakes mock interview from someone who will provide actionable feedback.
Perhaps because yelling isn't necessarily interpreted as something negative, while food is certainly something positive.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
why would you even bother repeating what the police claim or thought?
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Awesome. I look forward to it! Keep up the good work
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embedded software project chooses a new cpu architecture has a lot of risks:

hw risks: When will the chip be ready? Will it work, are there any engineering samples, eval boards? How long will my hw engr learn the new design rules for the new chip?

sw risks: Is my favorite RTOS (Linux ports ) available? How stable is the port? Are my software engineers familiar with the system? In not, how long would it take?

Each of the risk listed can add a lot time and money to the project.
This is all wrong though.

Domestic cats have been domesticated for a long time. Cats which live with humans (or even other cats - they do naturally form colonies) adopt a number of pro-social behaviours to interact with us.

They are in fact very adept at reading social cues - but conversely they are not pack-animals. They don't have the same instinctive need to identify a hierarchy of command, so much as "mess with" and "don't mess with".
Reading that article, I can't help but think most of those problems would be a lot less likely to occur if your cat was allowed outside with a cat flap or similar.

If you're cat goes outside you tend not to need scratching posts and litter trays for starters.
Well personally, I am probably not the average HN reader in that I have little problems giving up personal information in exchange for access to new services, free services, etc. So in that regard, Google more or less fits my mindset. As far as improving, I don't know - Firefox is already an excellent browser that is fast, secure, and pretty standard-compliant. It definitely beats IE.

What I've been trying to communicate is that I think the general consumer tends to be drawn to tightly integrated services - one provider can handle their email, their calendar, their browser, their phone's OS, etc. While this raises issues within the HN-crowd, my anecdotal evidence* supports the fact that the average user has little knowledge or desire for efforts to "protect their privacy." In general, they trust Google and don't have a need to switch. I've yet to convince anyone to switch from Chrome to Firefox over privacy arguments, but I have managed to get almost everyone I know to switch from IE to Chrome simply by telling them "it's Google."

* Family, friends, and family's co-workers
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