skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest offender is timestamps - compiled binaries, documentation, archives, etc. often contain the time at which the file was built.

Other problems include non-deterministic filesystem order, randomized hash algorithms, and even the fact that Markdown processors mangle email addresses randomly. A highly vexing problem that I'm currently trying to solve is that libxslt implements the XSLT generate-id() function by taking the memory address of the XML node struct, which makes documentation generated with XSLT non-reproducible (memory addresses are non-deterministic because of address space randomization and randomized hash tables).

(I'm the author of strip-nondeterminism, a tool in our custom toolchain that attempts to normalize files after they're built.)
Entanglement on a Chip
This is the sort of apparatus that, once installed, lies dormant until one day it is called into action and springs shut, clamping down on freedom.

Just because they're building the gallows slowly and using such wonderful rope doesn't make the eventual hanging any less troublesome.

EDIT:

You know, 70 years ago today the Red Army found out what could be done with good record keeping and decent surveillance, and at what scale.

Imagine, just imagine, if you could type your favorite demographic into a terminal, get a list of everyone fitting that and some other criteria, and then a list of addresses and doors to knock on.

Mankind and government has never done well with such power.
After knowing the answer is beige, it's not actually surprising after looking at the spectrum. The spectrum they show is mostly flat so you don't expect one color to dominate much over another (maybe a bit more red than blue..).
Netronix Debutes 13.3 Inch E-Reader with Stylus at CES
Joining or was bought by?
I almost forgot. You can see all the people who finished Staffup Weekend at: http://staffupweekend.org/2014/11/22/report-on-staffup-san-f...

If you are looking to hire someone just let me know. I cannot vouch for their skills but I can attest to their grit. As Woody Allen says, 80% of success is showing up and these folk did way more than that.
The basics of Basic Income
7-Zip is open source and available for most major OS
Do you read the news? Because here are some things that other states are up to that we aren't (at least, not in this decade):

- Systematic execution for the crime of belonging to a particular ethnic group or religion

- Open and openly arbitrary disappearing, detention, and torture of intellectuals for the crime of writing articles critical of state-sponsored religious and political doctrine

- Use of force against people who commit such crimes as selecting their own sexual partners, disobeying their parents, being seen in public with members of the opposite sex, texting members of the opposite sex, being homosexual, etc. Or, more commonly in the "developed" world, failure to investigate or pursue family-based vigilante "justice" against same.

- Failure to acknowledge women as people and rape as a crime

- Committing violence against, or being complicit in violence against, children who dared to go to school

- Corruption to a degree that renders the public health infrastructure so dysfunctional that tens of thousands of people die needlessly

- Outright censorship of any reporting that paints the state in a negative light

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"Knowing things about citizens" is dangerous because it enables the state to be far more effective in pursuing policies like the above. We ought to limit the government's knowledge of the lives of its citizens because that makes it much harder to effectively implement policies like these.

HOWEVER, HN sounds downright ridiculous when it declares that being listed in a database is comparable to being summarily executed for criticizing state religion.
Rise of “acqui-hire” in Venture Capital?
> We have no problem upholding the bill of rights

Who has no problem? The gov or the people?
The debate on free speech is complicated because it is presented in different ways depending on the circumstance. For example, an video that could be considered anti-Semitic might be quietly removed for violations of terms of service, or blocked in some countries (e.g. "Jews Lead Gun Control Charge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zy227hN5B0) while a video that could be considered anti-Muslim is only blocked with loud protestations (e.g. Innocence of Muslims https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au6tbb9Zgkw).

Which issues are cast as free speech issues is a highly political matter.
Will this provide a guaranteed method for reproducible builds, or will it still be technically possible to create build scripts that produce different results (e.g., by pulling from /dev/random, or grabbing timing information from various sources, or by writing a multithreaded program whose threads all write to a single file)?
Looking Backwards
Ask HN: Coworker works to unhealthy exhaustion. Should I say anything?
I'm really worried about his health. On one hand he's an adult and I feel he should be able to take care of himself, but he has a history of depression and pushing himself too hard (and feinting from exhaustion). He works 80+ hours a week to keep up with his work, often works all night and the entire next day, and doesn't tell anyone because he doesn't want to get fired for appearing to be slow at his job. Even at 80+ hour weeks he's still behind. He's just not a very fast worker.

I feel like maybe I should mention something to his manager. I would feel super shitty if he winds up in the hospital because he pushed too much and I said nothing. On the other hand, he's an adult and it seems sort of shitty to talk to his manager about it.

Any opinions?
Next challenge... make it a real string!

https://0xcd80.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/linux-x86-shellcodin...

https://code.google.com/p/alpha3/
This is of interest to me as a member of my family, here on the U.S. (totally non Japanese) fits the syndrome quite closely.

As far as I can tell, a combination of social anxiety, depression, pressure, laziness and lack of pressure (enabling behavior from his parents) has led him to not work in over 20 years and live with his parents, socializing online but showing no interest/ability in socializing with people in person... Or doing any productive work.

As time goes on, it becomes harder and harder to join society - my relative now is almost 40 but has very little experience in the 'real' world. He has no experience doing things like buying a car, negotiating a mortgage or lease, applying for a job, working at a job, maintaining a household in general, sustaining or building a mature romantic relationship, or any of the other skills he should have learned in his twenties. It's harder to be a 40 year old 18 year old than an 18 year old one.
You've posted things like this multiple times. I realize that, to be pedantic, you're correct. But in every instance I've seen it's plain from context what is meant - I haven't heard file sizes referenced in bits in, I was going to say a long time, but ever.

Similarly with a comment on downloads on cellular networks and caps - again, if someone says "I have a plan that limits me to 4Gb", who actually, sincerely thinks that that means "four gigabits, i.e. 500 megabytes" as opposed to 4 gigabytes?

I guess I fail to see what value you're adding to the conversation, particularly given the tone. It's clear you know exactly what the poster meant, but rather than acknowledging it, you've offered some fairly unhelpful, sarcastic remark instead.
You're crazy. How easily you can lose the funds in a hot wallet is not part of the definition.

Also, I feel safer using a business that can't lose 3% of its assets in seconds, no matter if it would be stable either way. I'm surprised that you don't. (And yes, safety is the same thing as protection.)
In the us all tires have a number stamped in the rubber that indicates the year and week of manufacture. This has been there for a very long time. I'm sure the idea was efficient inventory management more than anything (easier to read without unstacking tires.). Pressure (TPMS) is a very different active device. They're battery powered and the batteries need to be replaced after some time.
User-Agent still changes, and since people enable it for various sites, you can try to load it from different domains and see what is blocked/loaded.
Yes, we can definitely do a better job at explaining the concept and how templates work in conjunction with product data. The mechanism is pretty standard for this type of service - all the data that you introduce through the admin is available as template variables. Adding products, categories, vendors, checkout options is simply done through a UI interface. We will add some screenshots of the admin pages to showcase what is available.

Actually the target audience does not need to know any python. Jinja2 is a template engine written in python, however you do not need to write any python code to make the templates work. HTML, CSS and some understanding of how to use the Jinja2 templates to output variables is enough. We should definitely communicate this better!

Web based editing is something that is on the roadmap. FTP and Web Based uploading is available in a lot of competitor’s products and we really wanted to do something different here. Git allows you to have multiple branches, you can work on a new version of the website and showcase that to clients while still not modifying production and have it all integrated in the version control system.

On the pricing - noted! We’ll think of a more compact way of presenting the info.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to review our product! The info is really valuable to us! If you are interested in trying out the full version, send us an email and we will give you the first 3 months free of charge.
The problem is even prescribed penalties against authority figures are rarely enforced. There are a few low-level people in jail for torture of prisoners, but not one administrator. Bush and Cheney should have been hauled before The Hague, much as they would have demanded of any leader of any other country that had unilaterally broken the Geneva Convention, but Obama wanted to "look forward," not backward.

There is/was almost zero prosecution of individuals involved in the global financial collapse of 2008. Occupy Wall Street protestors, on the other hand, were beaten, arrested, maced, and so on.

Rules against authority figures in this country are for show at best. Didn't used to be that way, but here we are.
Isaac Asimov's Robot and Foundation Story Chronology
the chinese could have been selling the cubans Wuawei gear for YEARS. That stuff is comparable to US stuff from cisco or whomever. So the argument that US restrictions inhibited their net access is pure propaganda. Is there a fiber link to cuba from anywhere else in the Caribbean ? I know the NAP of Americas link in Miami goes around cuba.

so assuming the US eases restrictions, how fast could a true blanketing of the country or at least Havana occur with modern grade Wifi gear? Can solar be used to supplement the poor electrical infrastructure?
Reactiflux: React + Flux Community on Slack
If you are outgoing, you might find some success as a technical recruiter. I have had positive experiences dealing with a recruiter who came from a programming background. It would certainly not hurt you.

Otherwise, business analyst, QA, other type of analyst that requires some level of technical ability and in which you can shine by having more technical skill than the average excel pusher. I've seen positions like this in the industry I am in. You might find this type of development to be just the right amount.
"Sometimes he fought the constant pull of sleep, forcing himself to socialize when his mind was in a fog. But by denying his problem, he sometimes put himself — and others — in dangerous situations. One day he was cruising toward the mountains at 100 miles an hour on Red Bull, his large, cherry-colored motorcycle. One moment he was staring at the lush, green foothills ahead; next thing he knew, an older woman on a bike slowed down in front of him to make a U-turn. He tried his best to stop, but couldn’t, crashing into the back of her bike. They were both thrown to the ground. She was injured badly, bones visible on her shins and hands. Lloyd had only a few cuts and bruises, but he was rattled. How had that happened? he wondered. Did I zone out?" What an asshole.
> Net metering can be a subsidy, but the act of paying for power is not inherently a subsidy, and should continue. There is no reason why people who generate power should not be paid market rate for it.

I'm happy to talk about this, but you just seem to be looking for straw men to knock down, and are in this thread to push an agenda. My other post, made hours before your reply, says:

"The right thing to do (long term) is to treat those feeding power back into the grid as commercial customers/producers, where they're compensated and charged based on current market rates. Anything else distorts the incentives significantly"

i.e. my position is the exact opposite to what you're claiming, and agrees with your rebuttal to a point I never made.

> You're right, this is absurd. You've just declared power generation to be a cost free exercise.

No, net metering does that (more specifically, grid maintenance, and backup power generation). Which is my point.
One bit of advice I can give is to not use IPS displays. They are terrible on the eyes compared to VA panels.
I never said they were good fighters, just that they practice with real swords, while in Kendo they don't. But of course they fight even less than the guys from Kendo, because nobody wants to get a scratch nowadays. So people only have two options: "fight" with fake swords, or learn to use real swords but without fighting. I'd take the second option, but I think both are pretty much useless.
These points are horrible, but have no bearing at all on whether or not the US government is friend or foe.

The existence of worse does not make better good.

The state of things in the US is scary, and Saudi Arabia existing doesn't make it less so.

Edit: I'd argue that corruption of The State by lobbyists, special interest groups, and shadowy Super PACs cost thousands of lives a year in the USA.
This one was easy. Just drop Turkey on Facebook. The fact that they didn't was weak - Turkey does not represent a huge slice of their userbase, they could easily afford to lose it in support of free speech. At one point Google dropped China - a much larger potential market - because of China's demands for Google to become complicit in their censorship.
There is no strawman because I was asking a question about your position, not asserting that you held a certain position.

Please, if your position isn't what I asked, state what it is.
Not just that, but they are conducting online propaganda by fake commenting, fake news and manipulation of ranking and news feeds. And not just USA - they do it on an even larger scale in China. (here's a wiki source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party)

Search keyword: "wumao" which means paid internet commentator or "public opinion molder".
I know you said first five, but if you think there is at least a little chance to do more here is my web app http://bgpatterns.com/

Thanks)
This conflation of "anti-Islam" and "criticizing Islam" is what's holding us up. Those in the West should reserve the right to criticize the tenets of Islam (of which there is plenty to criticize) without being slandered as anti-Islam.

Similarly with Judaism. There is a distinction between 'criticizing Judaism' and being 'anti-Semitic.' Let's figure this out.

In both cases we should be making these distinctions without resorting to slurs and violence.
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Pond works through Tor, and Pond servers are hidden services. I consider that using Tor makes me a target, so I go through at least three VPN services.
NCache: Highly Scalable Distributed Cache for .NET Open Sourced
About 8 or 9 years. Getting back into coding wasn't hard, since I'd been doing some coding (mostly fighting fires so my team could concentrate on their main projects) while I was in management.

Also, going into management wasn't really my idea - I was approached by upper management and accepted the promotion without really knowing what I was getting into. (I've heard the same story many times from other developers.)
Just accommodate their "culture," yes. Just the beginning of west's thinly veiled appeasement of the "religion of peace."
Do you know why? IPS is usually presented as having the highest image quality.
Same here. I have a really lovely Italian-made hand-cranked roller that I've used to make fresh noodles for lasagna or cannelloni. You can't beat the flavor or the texture. And they cook up very quickly and are ready to go... once you've put the effort into making them.

...but, here's the kicker: I haven't touched it in years (and I mean years!). Premade noodles are far too convenient to pass up. And if I'm making a few other things at once, I often don't want to be bothered with fiddly stuff like making noodles (and the counter space is usually at a premium anyway). I love cooking, but I often don't have the patience I used to for some things. These days, I'd rather sink my time into making some really amazing breads or trying out new recipes.

I'll have to clean up that old roller. But gosh, the time investment sometimes makes me dread the thought. ;)
I wonder if one could write a header file containing definitions that would make the following possible.

char main[] = {
movl(1, eax),
movl(1, ebx),
movl(message, esi),
movl(13, edx),
syscall(),
movl(60, eax),
xorl(ebx, ebx),
syscall(),
};

Obviously there are some technical difficulties like handling literal values and code sections, but it could be a fun hack, and I've love to see what someone could come up with.
Dynamic Casting in Swift
Life expectancy is a mean value, and it's skewed by people dying young. So the life expectancy at the Paleolithic doesn't mean that people didn't survive past menopause: it means that a lot of people died young.
> How can Zuckerberg say "Je Suis Charlie", and then censor the very kind of content that Charlie Hebdo published?

Oh that's easy when you become a hypocrite.
I recall from somewhere:

int main = 0;

This code compiles (cleanly!), but segfaults.
Nvidia  GeForce GTX 970: Correcting the Specs and Exploring Memory Allocation
In order to disable this in FireFox -> about:config
media.peerconnection.enabled set to false
Does anyone who was born and raised in Japan have anything to say about all this? I've read several threads over the last couple of days on this topic and it seems that the only people who comment on these kinds of stories are at best foreigners living in Japan. Is this a taboo topic for native born Japanese?
I believe the comparison is that a website loaded with useless, distracting junk that functions is a similar situation to Windows laptops that come with distracting, useless software that pretends to be something desirable. In each case, the user experience is significantly degraded in exchange for the vendor receiving payment. This comparison make sense to me.
I believe you could get around the problem of finding the address of the string by pushing 4 (8?)-byte pieces of it onto the stack and then doing "mov esi, esp".

On the topic of "executable ASCII", the EICAR test file is an interesting example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file
Being able to read and write are the minimum skill you have to have to be called literate. I think that the ability to write and read code is a minimum skill for you to truly benefit from our new information society.
Sex is not fun. Someone needs to say it. Unless you and your partner are devoted to sex it is not fun. In a society where one of the partners doesn't have a voice (woman, usually) that doesn't matter because consent is per-definition not necessary to produce children. Games probably trigger a lot more endorphins than sex (over the span of a day, or week).

Education means to care about things other than the immediate future and we learn to sympathise with each other. We do care about the opinion and about other goals which is why we spend time caring about the bigger goals more than about the fun ones. After all: fun is for children... This whole
combination makes enjoying sex incredibly difficult imho.

Making sex fun is an effort many people don't go through. I talk with Japanese friends (I am living in Japan for 4 years now) and many just don't know the least about it. I am guessing that its similar for other cultures.
The guy is simply an Apple fanboi who like to rehash the same old tired security tropes while providing almost nothing new or of much value.
I think that sets the address of main to NULL, so it segfaults as soon as `_start` jumps to `main`. It's known for being one of the smallest compilable C programs.

EDIT: Your original post contained

int main=0;
> to the total exclusion of any third place

there were Arcades, but they pretty much all closed in the nineties
Inform – A Design System for Interactive Fiction
More cogent is the comment on page 17: "I wanted to remind people about Eldo Kim here ( the Harvard bomb threat hoax ). He had pretty good Concealment ( was using Tor ) but had no cover to explain WHY he was using Tor at that time, and then gave it up under questioning."
Isn't that pretty insensitive the large number of Turks (at least 20 million) who identify more with Western values than the conservative Islamic values being imposed on them by the current leadership? Not to mention, FB is very popular over there...especially amongst that demographic.
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Can somebody good with their logical fallacies let me know if this falls under "Fallacy of relative privation"?

This definition [1] even uses this very argument as an example:

"The counter to the relative privation argument when applied, for example, to compare America with other more tyrannous countries is to note that the proper comparison to make should not be between America and other tyrannies but between America and the ideal of freedom."

I find it a scary way to look at the world and to me it always comes off as less an honest argument and more like somebody who understands fallacy using it to persuade the reader for their own benefit.

Like the sort of thing they'll tell you as they are locking up your cage. "Hey, you're lucky it's dry unlike the cages the bad guys use!" the voice under the helmet said.

[1] http://www.hevanet.com/kort/KING6.HTM
Don't tell your manager or HR. If your true motivation is concern for his health, you're unlikely to change his behavior that way.

If you really want to help him, you first need to talk to him about it. Tell him you've noticed how hard he's working, and you'd like to help if you can. Be clear that you don't mean you're going to help by doing his work for him. Rather, you'd like to listen to his side of the story and see if the two of you could brainstorm some solutions.

After you've done this, you may discover that some additional learning/training could help him move faster. That's a best-case scenario. Perhaps he's just not equipped for this job, and he could start job hunting while he's still employed with your firm.

You're more likely to notice some things that can't just be fixed. You may discover that anxiety or excessive attention to detail (perfectionism) are causing him to take much longer.

Those are issues that only he can work on, and he'd need to work on them only with psychiatric professionals.

No matter the size of your company, you're going to encounter people who can't do their jobs very well and are harming themselves and/or the company. It's really none of your business unless A) they're in danger, B) they're doing something illegal, or C) you're their superior. Be very certain that your coworker is in danger before you proceed.