skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be this background idea here that "If you can't disprove it, that means it's plausible," which is totally mistaken. Not every idea that we can't disprove is worth seriously considering.

Let me put it this way. If a fundamentalist Christian made the same kind of arguments, and said "therefore God probably exists", would you believe that it really was probable? Most likely you'd say "I'm pretty sure that God doesn't exist, even if I can't prove it, and I'm not going to change my view of the probability just because this person says something that sounds good." But if you think that's a reasonable response, why is not the same approach reasonable in response to this "the universe is probably a simulation" stuff?
The episode of This American Life referenced is well worth a listen if you've ever been curious about what trying to do good work inside a crushing bureaucracy sounds like.

1: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/536/t...
Honduras 911 – Community Crime Watch Project
Or some watchdog system will detect an abnormal behaiour, stop the simulation and report the bug to the developers. They'll fix bugs and run the simulation from the last non-corrupted backup. And we'll never know that someone did that.
Go is always statically linked at the moment so it makes more sense in that scenario.
Ticket prices are based on demand, not cost of providing.
From the annals of uvm
Someone has maliciously posted a package with illegal content.

Someone has accidentally posted a package that contains a 2TB file, and now all mirrors have to sync it.

Someone accidentally puts their personal information in a package.
It's about Goldman Sachs and I thought it gives some good general view, but sure, here is an article related to the topic:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-20/latest-scandal-gold...
Believing in the possibility of a god doesn't exclude you from being an atheist.
Maybe it's better on an iPhone 6, but there's a lot more scrolling than most other iOS news apps. It's pretty and all, but I'll take a bit of ugly to be able to see more than three headlines at once.
This is really fantastic progress. I've always wanted to build a fully automated home, which would include a laundry robot like this.
it gets 3scale marketing traffic. it doesn't offer anything useful or functional just a viola effect.
I think there could be some interesting conclusions or capabilities from being in a simulation.

First, we would expect that the simulation may use heuristics; that some things not "observed" may be simulated in a quicker or more crude way.

Second, there may be a way to access the computational substrate. If the universe exists within a simulation, is there a way to run software directly against the universe "computer"? Are there security vulnerabilities in the simulation that could allow access to the higher level substrate, either to discover more about it or enact otherwise impossible changes in our universe?

Finally, there is the potential for external threat. In a simulation, one time step may take a variable amount of "real" time to complete. If we do find a way to tap into the computational substrate, or otherwise find some actions that burden the simulation excessively, the amount of time each of our universe's timesteps takes to complete in the external host "universe" will increase, possibly to the point where the author of the simulation interventions to correct the problem.
This is one I've been recommending to "Aunt Tillie"-types, because it involves fairly little computer-savvy:

1. Memorize a single prefix that has at least an uppercase letter, a number, and a symbol, to be used with all passwords. (e.g. j8$F)

2. Use a physical journal or pad of paper to note down each site's password restrictions (e.g. "no symbols") and a personal hint to the rest of the password.

3. Your password is the prefix (minus any unsupported characters) plus the answer to the hint.

So the hint "No symbols, They All Float Down Here" might become j8fPennyWise. "Feet On The Road" might be j8$fFlintstones.

___

This minimizes what people have to memorize, is secure against casual attacks by people in the same physical area, is strong against attackers who might try to replace "password4hn" with "password4reddit", and doesn't require any sort of special software.
KinectKannon – Semi-autonomous Robotic T-Shirt Cannon
$5 - $15 CPM is way above average.
> We know what happens when humans are free to have all the food we want. They get fat. Next question.

Nope, not even close. Access to food is not a causal relationship with being fat and fat people exist even when food isn't easily accessible. Fat people have existed since people have existed.
Yes. Sampling profiler + reading generated assembly are the two prongs of my optimization approach.

Sometimes the compiler does something really stupid and inefficient, but other times it does something really clever that I (who never wrote any serious assembly by hand) would never think of.
> He would be the CEO/sales/bizdev guy and I would be the developer

You should read this fascinating article:

http://www.codingjohnson.com/hex-lies-and-startups
There is no standing extradition order to move Assange from the US to Sweden. (Assuming you meant from Sweden to the US, which is the more likely scenario the minute Assange sets foot in the country.)

Next, you'll tell me that Microsoft in no way, shape or form had anything to do with bankrolling SCO!
"However, Bostrom recognises that a complete emulation of reality on every level is likely to be impractical, even for powerful computing systems."

Doesn't this assume that the simulation is running in a universe where our laws of physics apply? Couldn't what we think of as our laws of physics be a programmed part of the simulation, running on computers in a completely different universe where it's impossible for us to do more than speculate on matters of practicality?
> not to follow a fad who lasts a short time (which is essential to cargo culting).

Cargo cults are groups who follow rituals they don't understand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

If a group is following a diet without understanding it, I think it's apt (though perhaps needlessly divisive) to call that group a cargo cult. If someone doesn't eat gluten and can't describe what gluten is and why it's bad, he or she is exhibiting the behavior of a member of a cargo cult.
> She also buys “organic” in the belief that it is better both for her and for the animals raised in that way, even though the products are markedly more expensive than those from the local grocery store.

Is anyone really eating organic food because of a perceived health benefit anymore? Everyone I know who eats organic (myself included) is doing for the sake of environmental consciousness or animal welfare not personal health.
Mr. Sysadmin, I have four questions:

1. When was the last time your sshd was hit with a 0day?

2. Why aren't you running grsec to prevent buffer overflows (amongst other things) ?

3. Wouldn't it be easier to DOS your host with excess traffic (like all modern DDOS attacks), rather than find a remote-code-execution buffer overflow 0day and use it solely to starve resources on a bastion host?

4. Why don't you use a VPN? If you used a udp-based VPN nobody would even know the port was open (connectionless) and you could even require a preshared key, which is the more secure equivalent of port knocking.
Just a reminder that the hidden wiki is, indeed, a wiki. People can go in there and change the onion link to a fraud site such as the ones referenced in the article. Since onion addresses are not nearly as memorable as domain names this is actually a pretty big problem.
Print Thyself: How 3-D Printing Is Changing Medicine
gave up trying to add an api.
Isn't the rotating thing little cumbersome, when you have to fold it back?
> Our intuition does a very poor job of answering questions like this (well, almost any questions, really) and we can spend a lot of time fooling ourselves that the way the universe actually is "makes sense" in some intuitive way. It doesn't. If it did, we'd have had correct physics in 1687 BCE instead of 1687 CE.

This is excellent.
You assume that our [observable, hypothesized] universe isn't a pittance of matter and energy in a larger universe. Suppose your Conway's Game of Life simulation gained what it considered sentience, and with this sentience contemplated whether this world it inhabits was the universe or a simulation. Now suppose that it deduced that it would take universes of energy to simulate its own universe. Well, it'd be right.

That doesn't mean it's not.
That sounds like a load to me. Pursuing happiness is often a good way to achieve it. There's no reason science can't account for different kinds of happiness, nor is there any reason science can't account for the beauty of music.
> How much of this is more easily explained in that Betty is conservative and her granddaughter Jennifer is liberal?

Perhaps the author is trying to explore why they prototypical conservative believes one way and the prototypical liberal believes another. I'm not sure just calling one "conservative" and the other "liberal" really explains anything.
>It's fundamentally much better to just harden every system and implement proper federated authentication

Much better? Yes. More practical? No.

Once you have a network of more than 3 hosts, host security can quickly become difficult to maintain. This means not just keeping up to date on patches but auditing all your configurations and carefully reviewing applications and services.

Every organization in the world has serious host security issues. For example, a company like Google has an excellent security team and presumably world class endpoint security, but there's almost no question that an attacker on some segment of their internal network would be able to pivot and take over hosts (the lateral movement would likely be noticed by their SOC, perhaps within an hour or less, but it would still be after-the-fact).

Proper network segmentation and architecture makes most of those issues much less risky though, as it is much harder to actually get to any of those hosts.
Do you have a source for this? I'm just curious because while it sounds reasonable, a quick inspection of the light boxes on Amazon shows that many of them advertise that they filter out nearly all UV light.
Knowing the Snowmobile Basics
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There are also a multitude of other special situations to be aware of when going Breckenridge snowmobiling. Keep in mind that in deep snow your machine will cause you to lose some traction, you will need to watch out for hard-packed snow in drifted areas, be weary of whiteout conditions that cause you to lose visibility and maintain slow and steady speeds when tackling icy areas.

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Like provemewrong pointed out, 2560x1440 is 16:9. I also much prefer 1920x1200 over 1920x1080, but I find it's not so much a preference for 16:10 over 16:9, but rather 1080 simply isn't enough vertical space. I think a 25" 2560x1440 might be pretty nice.

resolution size width x height ppi
2560x1440 25" 21.8" x 12.3" 117
1920x1200 24" 20.4" x 12.7" 94
1920x1080 24" 20.9" x 11.8" 92
> At which point, the question becomes, why not just observe the real universe?

I don't think the 'why' is the right question to ponder. It's really a matter of 'if'.

We lack the context to adequately answer 'why' one might decide to create a simulation of a universe. Any(one/thing) capable of putting such a simulation together is about as different from us as we are from bacteria. Therefore, considering motivation is a bit of a dead end.

The 'if' is a question we can at least theorize about. Is a simulated universe possible? If we accept that it is, then we also accept that we are most likely currently in one.
All of that is true. But when I pull a package on Ubuntu or Fedora, it's checked against a key that came with the the system at install time as part of the whole package authentication infrastructure. The root of trust is rather stronger than running the output of some random unencrypted HTTP URL. And the distros recognize that and publish hash values for their install media in lots of obvious places.

This is just a bad habit from the OS X world that needs to die. Really there should be some part of the step that allows a typical user to at least try to manually authenticate the root of trust, via a published hash on a bootstrap package maybe (that's what third party RPM/deb archives do, for example).
I agree. When it comes down to it, I would pay 100$/m for the top 10 ad supported websites i use the most.

The thing to keep in mind is that the ad supported model is amazing for trying things out, so we really need both.

Having used gmail since I was in high school, I would not have been able to pay for it then, but nowadays its invaluable, and 10$/m is a drop in the bucket.
If you hadn't learned and discovered lots about the universe it would have been a waste.

He's not saying all of your views have to change over 30 years. Just that they shouldn't all be exactly the same.
I like the mouse-over effects here. They aren't obtrusive, messing with the normal functioning of a webpage.
Charges were originally dropped within 24 hours of filling. As the original arrest warrant was written for the incorrect crime "Molestation" instead of "Rape".

Also yes both women admit there was no rape. They were merely inquiring about obtaining HIV tests.

>The woman of whom Mr. Assange is accused of the offence of "lesser rape" (a technical term in Swedish law) sent an SMS to a friend saying that she "did not want to accuse JA [of] anything" and "it was the police who made up the charges". The other woman tweeted in 2013 that she had never been raped. Both women’s testimonies say that they consented to the sex. A senior prosecutor already dismissed the ’rape’ accusation, saying that there were no grounds for accusing Mr. Assange on this basis. But a third prosecutor, lobbied by a politician who was running for attorney general, took over the investigation and resurrected the accusations against Mr. Assange

Yes you are correct.
Yeah, they were just random thoughts, I'm not sure they are all good ideas. The stuttering only seems to happen on long comment pages, when I give it a push and let it scroll. It seems to just hiccup every 100 ms or so.
There is a very general argument that we can't simulate anything remotely resembling our universe inside our universe: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1220 Short version: at the precision required for the degree of agreement we see between theory and experiment, we could simulate at most 0.5% of our universe, which simulation would not be capable of star formation because there wouldn't be enough matter in it, and a universe "above" ours that was simulating us would collapse immediately after the Big Bang because it would contain at least 200 times as much matter as ours.

The responses to that argument are two-fold:

1) start madly making up increasingly implausible auxiliary assumptions to save the claim that we might be living in a simulation

2) admit that the odds we are living in simulation are rather low, and in particular the argument that we almost certainly are thanks to recursion is extremely poor.

I favour the latter response, as the former seems to involve either claiming that the universe that is simulating us has fundamentally different physics, or that the simulation isn't actually a simulation but rather a game-like approximation that somehow gets updated with sufficient local detail that no matter what kind of experiments we do or observations we happen to make, there is special-case code for ensuring the results look like a consistent underlying physics.

Claiming the universe simulating us has fundamentally different physics requires that we drop any claims about it based on the physics of our universe, in which case it becomes untestable because anything we see may or may not be due to a simulation being run in a universe whose laws are not like our own.

Claiming the approximation is fixed up by special-case code whenever anyone thinks of doing an experiment or making an observation that might reveal the lack of a full physics engine is likewise putting the hypothesis beyond testability.

So either the simulation hypothesis is wrong, or untestable. Neither of these is very interesting.
Your CPMs are innacurate for view based web content.
Carmelo Anthony Means Business
yes, and that something is to scrunch the right side not one tab to the left of the left side. Act like every other program on the platform using tabs.
Let's say you accidentally published your name, address, and social security number.

If it is only up for 1 hour, the chances that anyone malicious sees it is low.

If it is there forever, the chances that someone malicious eventually sees it approaches 100%.
Preloading a version that alternates between two buffers is clearly Wrong, but I'm not sure what the right solution is - do you/does anyone have a pattern that they find works well for them?

Our codebase has quite a few functions like inet_ntoa():

/* returns ptr. to internal static storage */
const char *type_to_str(const Type *type);

You could pass an explicit argument, but that's pretty ugly:

/* Explicit buffer argument */
char msg_buf1[256], msg_buf2[256], msg_buf3[256], ..., msg_buf16[256];
char *type_to_str(char *buf_to_use, size_t buf_size, const Type *type)

Alternatively, you could give C99 a workout and abuse compound literals as anonymous storage:

#include <stdio.h>

struct foo {
int bar;
};

#define FOO_TO_STR_SIZE 256

#define foo_to_str(foo) \
foo_to_str_((char [FOO_TO_STR_SIZE]){ 0 }, FOO_TO_STR_SIZE, (foo))

/* Implementation detail */
__attribute__((nonnull))
static char *foo_to_str_(char *buf_to_use, size_t size,
const struct foo *foo)
{
(void)snprintf(buf_to_use, size, "%d", foo->bar);

return buf_to_use;
}

int main(void)
{
const struct foo foo = {
.bar = 42
}, foo2 = {
.bar = 43
};
printf("%s %s\n", foo_to_str(&foo),
foo_to_str(&foo2));

return 0;
}

(Warning: this is probably too clever. Note that you need the explicit size argument if you offer a library, or you risk your callers using a different FOO_TO_STR_SIZE than you do. There is probably a very minor performance penalty to this solution as the caller must, in general, completely initialize the string. Note the gcc warnings about compound literals in C++ - see https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html for a discussion.)
I agree that this premise is very short sighted. Why would a universe of such apparent magnitude be created just so some post-humans could simulate us humans? Who even thinks that? (apparently most simulationists)

In my opinion it's obvious that some intelligent life form decided it would like to create a simulation where life and other interesting behaviour could emerge.

Well, at least I know that I (and many others) would do that if/when we have the means to do so!

Of course, we could never simulate our universe to the same detail and scale (or even close..) within itself. We would have to create a more modest simulation.

So, they could have a highly logical argument for us being in a simulation, but instead they put the words "ancestor simulation" in it. How human of use, once again, thinking the sun spins around the earth!

> Now, how does the "real" world work? Where did it come from? How do we know it isn't a simulation?

That's very easy to answer. Our parent "world" is most likely also a simulation! And so on and forth... ( https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5389450/1/The_Finale_of_the_Ult... )

Now the real question is.. Who spawned the first simulation? And where the F*CK did they come from.

This wont help our life on the day to day, but why would you say people who think about these subject should take a fresh look at the world? For those who like to think deep, this is the most interesting subject there is.
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the article, why would you assume either way? I think she's got some very interesting points but I'm more inclined to think the phenomenon she addresses has more to do with humanity's newfound ability to work their way up Maslow's hierarchy, and the issues we encounter while society evolves away from trying to reduce risks (i.e. stockpile this food so we have something to eat during the winter) to managing them (i.e. plan global agriculture infrastructure to be able to provide a constant level of food for the greatest amount of people).

If my original point wasn't clear, it's dumb to pattern match based on supposed political affiliations and then make judgements without allowing the arguments to stand on their own. On the same note, I think you are projecting your stereotypes of "conservatives" onto her observations of society... I don't think she's necessarily advocating for one side or the other.
Web hosting with Git version control system
But will it be any easier for them to get permanently residency after? There's no point in doubling the number of people going through college and working on OPT if there's a hard cap on the number which can convert those to H-1Bs or (eventually) into green cards.
Does cargo support alternative package repositories? For example, at $EMPLOYER we have a DevPI[1] installation, so company-internal packages can be shared between employees as easily as public packages can be shared with the Internet at large.

[1]: http://doc.devpi.net/latest/
The Food at the Top of the World
Well, the first reason is because it would take a complete rewrite. :)
This looks pretty cool, I went ahead and gave them some money. I'm hoping it hits the stretch goal and gets the server side open sourced.
Yes, you could grab all this code off of GitHub, spin up your own instance, and then set up your `.cargo/config` file to point at your copy, and it Just Works.
Why I'm Coding for America
Exactly. For a being that is capable of simulating the entire universe at the quantum level we may be no more "sentient" in their minds than ants are in our minds.
Dave Sirlin had a recent(ish) post about balance in fighting games here: http://www.sirlin.net/articles/game-balance-and-yomi

He mentions a few different Street Fighters.
Well, the API doesn't support viewing those posts yet.
I'm a little confused how them getting their passwords help feed your kids after the employee is gone. I think what they did afterwards was definitely great, but that doesn't change my opinion that if that happened to me some passwords would be the last thing I would want to talk about.

Money, finance, jobs, passwords, it all seems so pointless when I think of it against that loss.
Recent court cases distract from timely and safe integration of small UAVs
When I have to use Privacy Mode, I do. But the sheer fact I have to is mildly infuriating.
What Makes a Great Logo?
In my experience Muskovitz was probably three weeks to three months too late in saying no. It's a really hard thing, culturally, socially shutting down people face to face like that is something we are all wired not to do, on top of which he probably derived a lot of personal identity and kudos from being the goto guy - hard to turn off.

But the pressure had to be immense to react like that - and one suspects that it's only because of good well balanced people around that they could take the social shutdown and come back to work still focused instead of suddenly fostering a poisonous atmosphere - something that can easily happen if the no was taken as "no I don't value you" instead of "no we have to find new ways of working"

Would be interesting to hear others views of this formative time.