skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, that ACM paper is a scan of a printed out paper, with half-toned images, ruining the comparison images. Is there a purely digital version of that paper out there?

EDIT: Is it this color quantization algorithm that is linked on Wu's own webpage? http://www.ece.mcmaster.ca/~xwu/cq.c
They have some decent network effects. People follow each other and there are curated boards that are almost sub-brands on their own.

There have been some fairly well funded attempts to build a competitor (eg, Fab at one point tried it), but nothing really got close.

It's probably not as sticky as Facebook, but OTOH there's a lot more purchase intent.
Why is putting char* into a union a bad idea?
You can unbind most of the intents, but I've not worked out a reliable way to stop youtube bouncing me to the app from the browser.
And they could have found the security bugs and report them to OpenSSL even after they forked. If they actually did some serious security investigations of the code they took and kept in their fork, it should be natural to discover such issues and not just wait for others to find them in OpenSSL.

Does anybody know of any such report?
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While technology and politics have rendered many of his answers obsolete, a few of his answers would be considered quite outrageous now:

134. Who discovered the Pacific Ocean?

Balboa.

And what of the people living by it for millennia?

(From http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/take-the-intelligence-test-th...)
I wonder if there's a similar thesis about why homosexuality is now well accepted in many societies. In Denmark for instance they pride themselves on being at the front of the sexual revolution as well as being free and open about gays. The change also happened at roughly the same time as De-Stigmatization.

I can't quite make out the analogy though. Why would there be an economic disincentive to be gay in the past, and how has it changed?
Surely it should be `thing_t* thing`!
It's fun to look back at that time from today and think how primitive it looks, but the important thing to realize that in the 1980s we were getting real global networking working pretty well between universities and it was... amazing. What this demo can't give you is the feeling of being able to connect with all those people around the world.
Originally they allowed more than 10 users... My account lets me have up to 200 users.
Because, as surprising as it may seem, humans are still more intelligent than computers.
As to the spam filters, on the other hand in Gmail I'm getting more and more proper ("ham") mail landing in the spam folder recently... thus I have to tread the spam bin ~weekly to make sure nothing important/interesting is lost... particularly, it seems to like having certain persons on a blacklist (probably based on some misconfiguration at their email provider?), regardless of the fact that I always patiently go through them and mark as "Not spam". (Notwithstanding that I had them trigger a "send to gmail team for spam filter tweaking" dialog countless times, obviously selecting "yes" always.)
Sorry about the edit... I decided refuting the arithmetic was a fairly blunt way to deal with the debate.

I moved from an older (50 user) free GApps account to Fastmail. If I had been paying I would have saved $150/year, but just saving my time, and avoiding the now shitty experience of managing my mail via Gmail, was well worth the cost to me. Early on Gmails web interface was a revelation, now it's just below standard... and any momentum from their multi-GB storage giveaway doesn't cut it anymore.

I think the final nail was one of principle... Google just aren't interested in offering premium personal mail services, like own-domain hosting to families or individuals. Using free GApps made me feel like an unwanted freeloader... a second-class citizen.
Not sure what he's saying. That the OpenSSL group are going to send the LibreSSL group vulnerabilities? That the LibreSSL group are about to disclose OpenSSL vulnerabilities? Just a bit confused!

Okay, a later story just appeared, I quote:

"This or earlier LibreSSL releases may also address issues that are to be revealed
by The OpenSSL Project Team on the 19th of March, 2015."

This story is probably redundant now, then.
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There are three data structures unsystematically blended into one (that is, one cannot unambiguously tell which fields go into which "virtual" type, and cannot formally check the correctness). The name thing_t is indicative that you indeed cannot really tell what that entity is. This kind of data structure design begs for errors, while being conceptually wrong.
He is referring to https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2015-Marc...
The issues with part flex during the build process seem inherent to the "printing" technology. I wonder if the best way around this for metal might be to print a wax (or similar material) part, and then cast. Lost-wax casting would be difficult for the consumer, and if I'm to believe "How It's Made" is largely handwork even in industry. However, it might also be a process that could be improved by new, programmable tools.
I guess I've been very unlucky in my exit node selection then, the last few times I've tried to access arxiv through tor I've gotten a 403.

It's very common for sites to use third-party blocklists, and all those lists compete on number of blocked addresses so they all include tor. So lots of sites are not accessible through tor. I'm glad if arxiv is not one of them, though it sounds like their blocking system is a bit overprotective.

I wish these sites would just give read-only access instead of blocking access to content.
> Or instead of just forking OpenSSL then should help develop/submit patches to OpenSSL and improve the existing code base.

Part of the early LibreSSL work was auditing and merging security patches which had been in the OpenSSL tracker for months or years.
This comment is why we need a "DERAIL" button here. To split it into a different area.

The comment is perhaps valid, but deflects from the discussion. Yet here it is sitting at the top of the comments page. Not ideal.
char* points to some mutable buffer of char's that is supposed to be allocated somewhere. In this particular case they are assigned string literals, but in general it would be quite easy for someone to break consistency of allocations/deallocations in such code.
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I'm a happy Fastmail user but one thing I wish they would bring over from Gmail is SASL OAuth. I understand it's still in a draft extension but any improvement to the state of email authentication would be great (restricting read/write access based on IMAP folder on a token by token basis would be even better). The idea of handing out my email credentials in plain text to email SaaS products just gives me the willies.
The conversion itself is very relevant because you cannot establish a default conversion that should happen, therefore the conversions should be explicit, answering the WHO. This is why I asked you about what should the conversion produce in those examples.

And also in the conversion from "1.1" to 1.1 there is loss of information, because the two representations are not isomorphic. Care to guess why?
> Isn't that largely because the LibreSSL team refused the invite to the exclusive OpenSSL security list?

Would you have a source for that? And for their reasoning behind it? Was "last time" poodle or something else?

edit: in the sister thread[0] rlpb suggests the point of contention is that OpenSSL embargoes but Theo/OpenBSD (and thus libressl) does not take part in embargoes (and other issues including Theo being Theo), linking to http://lwn.net/Articles/601958/ as supporting evidence, which looks to cover just about all grounds.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9217022
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After reading it, I don't think anything like that is suggested by the article.
You mean the octothorpe character? [1] That symbol seems to go by a lot of names!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign
Coffee mug :) I was thinking X-Files alien fetus.
There's also this Polish (startup? company? hard to say) Elementa Critica Sp. z o.o. They are basing on microbes discovered in one unusually safe coal mine in Poland - these bacteria eat methan and produce ectoine among other things, and the company attemp to use them on industrial scale (they already have patented process to isolate the ectoine from grown bacteria).

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,400629,polish-ect...
Hmm. I'm not too crazy about it by default - my initial reaction was negative, of the 'I know what I'm watching, isn't there enough clutter on my screen already' variety. But looking at the applications, I can see a lot of value to this, even though I don't care to discuss TV on social media or closely track live events, though I do like a baseball game and this could be great for sports - although again, you're competing with all the visual cruft that broadcasters insist on slapping onto the image. What I wouldn't give for being able to watch a game without any overlay and using my own instead....

From a UX point of view, it's very good. The biggest problem is that you're competing with everyone else's attempt to own the TV, so you need to be careful it doesn't become like a battle between competing iFrames, the way the web was a few years ago. I thought your platform + plugin approach struck a good balance between accessibility and power which most people would find easy to connect with.

Gesture control - maybe. I feel like I'd rather talk than flail my arms about. If something happens on the game/show/movie and one of us sits up suddenly, I don't want playback to stop or menus to pop up. I'm sure it works well in the lab, I'm less optimistic about how it responds to two people and a dog or a bunch of couch-bouncing kids. Voice control might be easier and better. Better come up with some sort of privacy statement in order to forestall the inevitable tinfoil hat concerns about all the data you're going to be gathering, and presumably selling back to the content originators/broadcasters.

Price....$149 seems a bit high. I don't think it's unfair, because it looks like you're actually delivering a lot of value here. But for that it'll have to be seamless and deliver real utility, so that you don't wind up as last year's overpriced gizmo, especially given that manufacturers are trying to build this functionality into new TVs and consoles. I would be trying to get the price down to half that and building the business model on the data gathering - but you do ave a good presentation here, and it might be wise to price for early adopters than the median consumer right now.

Sorry for being a bit handwavey, it's long past bedtime :)
>just look at Sweden.

Note also that in Sweden 60% of divorces are initiated by the woman, and that it's the men that suffer more from a divorce and suffer long-lasting severe negative effects on mental health.

Source: Gähler, Life after divorce: economic, social and psychological well-being among Swedish adults and children following family dissolution
https://scholar.google.se/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl...
What you're looking at is an LED and a reflector. The camera is right next to it behind the black glass rectangle.

This black glass rectangle is a piece of liquid crystal glass and it stays opaque when the camera is not in use. It turns transparent only when they want to allow filming.

And the rotating button on the top of the device mechanically controls the direction of the camera. Switch it to 'off' and the camera will not face the interior of the car.

Also, the hackathon screenshots are just quick mock-ups. The developers didn't have access to a working prototype to make them. (Source : I was at this hackathon).
thing_t* thing_ptr, thing

imo, the star should be with the variable name. because, in this case, a reader could think that both thing_ptr and thing are pointer to a thing_t

"thing_t thing_ptr, thing, other_thing_ptr" is imo more readable
A very small piece of advice which I don't see mentioned here: OpenGL works in linear RGB (which is very convenient), while your monitor displays sRGB (which gives you better colour resolution due to how eyes work). This means that outputting the result of OpenGL directly on your screen is wrong (a lot dimmer than it should be). Use this little fragment in all your shaders to convert the final output to sRGB:

vec3 srgb(vec3 rgb) {
vec3 mask = vec3(greaterThan(rgb, vec3(0.0031308)));
return mix(rgb * 12.92,
pow(rgb, vec3(1.0 / 2.4)) * 1.055 - 0.055,
mask);
}

Edit: Here's a very good example of the difference https://imgur.com/a/g6qNI

Edit 2: And of course when you load textures you must tell OpenGL they're in sRGB colourspace (most probably they are, if you created them on a normal monitor), so it will do the reverse transformation when reading from the texture. All this trouble could have been avoided if monitors were 30bit linear RGB colourspace to begin with, but that's history now. C'est la vie.
You can file for exemptions.
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I think they're arguing that consciousness is an emergent property of a sufficiently large network, rather than being located in a particular cerebral structure.
I'm at a point with Gmail where I'd be happy that I'm getting a bit of spam in the inbox. Unfortunately I'm starting to see a lot of false positives recently. I was actually looking to move out of Gmail myself
- test your code :)
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I wanted to leave google due to privacy concerns.
Fastmail is based in Australia - not an option. I did not want anything EU based either. Got a Proton mail account but without IMAP, what is it good for?

An email service that is based in Switzerland and that you can use with you own domain:
https://www.infomaniak.com/en/workspace/webmail-messaging
I get some spam too (which passes both pobox.com's and fastmail's filtering), but it's much less than I previously had with gmail and I assume that spam has become more elaborate these days. Also, with gmail I had more false positives.
I graduated over 35 years ago, and nothing stays the same. But I'd be sad if it was materially different.
On Android, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.kismetwire... Kismet can help with this. I'd be very surprised if you had anything like this on iOS: the Sony app that can make my Android tablet connect to my camera instructs you to connect manually on the iPhone.
There's also the bit where you don't need the original card to shop. Overall the system seems secure with the exception of being able to punch in anyone's card and use it without needing the card again.

Nonetheless, you can keep it easy and get loads of people on board first before making it tougher.
I'm not sure "consciousness" really exists. A computer surely isn't aware of what it is computing and you don't need a global state of consciousness to describe its functionality. Why point to things like "consciousness" when our brains being biological automatons is a perfect explanation already?

It gets even sillier when you consider that the criteria for what things are considered conscious seems to be quite arbitrary. They say a human is conscious. Is a dog? I think most people would agree if a human is conscious a dog is. Is a squirrel? I think most people would agree. Is a lizard? Maybe. Is a spider? eh... Is a worm? well some might only have ~300 neurons... Is a plant? Well, no neurons, but they technically do react to stimuli...

How about a rock? Well it certainly doesn't have any neurons and doesn't react to stimuli but what is so special about neurons and reacting to stimuli anyway? The concept of a threshold for consciousness doesn't seem to hold any weight to it. It has nothing backing it up.

When two particles interact with each other is a barrier of consciousness formed? Are all systems conscious? Is the universe conscious? Are all possible systems made up of all the connections of all the constituent parts of the universe conscious?
I agree with you but there must be a bar there for a multinational company knowingly lying. It's fine (great) to make something unhealthy. Just don't lie about it being healthy.

There must be false advertising laws that can already catch them for this?
Sure. The big example is "climate sensitivity". Basically the models assume the earth's climate will amplify any CO2 heating by an extra 3 - 4 times. Without that extra heat there is no catastrophe.
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I have a feeling every time something is called a "snack" in headlines like this it's probably pretty bad for you.

My mother never allowed us to eat chips or other junkfood as snacks during the day. We ate them on special occasions (e.g. watching TV on saturday night).

If we were hungry, we could eat apples or other fruit that was around.

In retrospect a good habit to have.
Perfect occasion to point to the absolutely wonderful article "Mother Earth Mother Board" in which 'the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth' - Neal Stephenson.

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html

(Quite a long read though: over 40k words.)
I am aware of that, this is more to switch between the individual windows without bringing up all of the other windows of that program. Make sense?
Thanks! What languages are you especially looking for?
Speed is a very big market impediment for 3D printing.

You can't mass deploy printing kiosks at consumer stores if it takes four hours to make a mug or a trinket (you can, but it's absurd). If it takes five minutes you can and people will buy all sorts of custom products that way.

Someone on Reddit mentioned it taking 20 hours to print half a skull. That's ridiculous. This will do it in probably 20 or 30 minutes, and it'll likely get faster with improvements in the next couple of years.
Oh yeah, I considered mailbox.org too, but was a bit more expensive for the plan with ActiveSync (for mobile), but major argument was that I've found IMAP sync faster (basically instant) then Exchange push in my testing.
> There are three data structures unsystematically blended into one

The point is that they're not three completely separate data structures, they're a single data structure with context-dependent field labelling.
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Is this process really better than the one used in the Peachy printer? Peachy printer uses resin tank that is filled with salt water from the bottom (which raises the level continuously, resin floats on saltwater) and the UV curing is done from the top. One huge thing for the Peachy is that you can use any tank, and the size of the print isn't limited. Also, Peachy costs just $100.
Just in case it's relevant, I'm developing http://ownmycopy.com for cloud-to-PC backup, aiming at for backing up cloud-only services.
Given all unioned members are char*, where would the issue come from?
That depends what you mean by "consciousness". If you mean the "experience of awareness", then we can't even properly define it, let alone begin to explain it.

This whole question is so hard because we find it impossible to define the terms. It could be that by default, we cannot define consciousness. Perhaps that implies that the universe is made of consciousness, rather than the other way around.
"I don't personally know of any other field that does this sort of thing"

Filmmaking. I love my artform, but if you want an example of a culture where there are a lot of strong negative opinions about almost every potential methodology, it's definitely one.
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> Was "last time" poodle or something else?

Excuse me please, I see you are emotional about the issue but I don't think it's the good way to discuss it. Asking for the source for the claim is OK, this however...
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Depends on the class. They're usually less than tests but not insignificant.
How long US tech companies need to bring Sudan's sanctions easing into reality?
It's been almost a month since the US deparment of treasury announced the easing of Sudan's technology and communication sanction to help Sudan's people communicate with each other! [1] Which should give Sudanese students, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, journalists, civil leaders and others better access to the telecommunications tools they need to study, create, grow and serve their communities. [2]

People in Sudan been suffering from those sanctions since 1996, we can't access google play, apple app store, buy someting from Amazon, ebay, buy an album in iTunes, donate to our favorite open source projects, ...etc and now when that we finally are allowed to enjoy these services, companies (Google, Apple, Amazon, ... etc) don't seem to care much about updating their policies!

We still see the disappointing "Your country is forbidden from accessing this service" message everywhere on the interent! >> it just hurts!

So, did the world make a decision to disallow us the right to access those services for good? how long this is going to last?

[1] http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20150217_33.aspx

[2] http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2015/02/18/u-s-treasury-allows-personal-communication-exports-to-sudan/
The speed difference will make a lot of business ideas viable. Think custom fitting wearables 3D printed in minutes.
Would be pretty awesome to make a Swift playground version of a CV that is animated and interactive.
You don't need a cellular contract - and the simcard is presumably stolen as well or a pre-pay account created under a fake name.
We had AI systems that outperformed doctors in limited domains as early as in 1972 [1].

We've of course had massive improvements in machine learning in the 43 years since then. I think the practice of human doctors could be massively improved by having them stop spending time on things that machines are much better at. Hopefully things like IBMs Watson can make a difference in this regard.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin
"This story is probably redundant now, then."

given obsd has/is doing a post heartbleed code review on OpenSSL since April 2014 to build LibreSSL [0] is it wise to assume this?

[0] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/openss...
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And this should be the cable project that Neal Stephenson described: http://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/submarine-cable/flag-euro...
> The OpenSSL group do not tell the LibreSSL group about vulnerabilities
that they are fixing in upcoming releases.

> Why? Well, they just don't. That's the whole story.

Then the story sucks, security of core components underlying the internet is bigger than any one group.

Respect for end users would indicate that a simple heads up of a high severity bug to someone on the LibreSSL team would be the way to go.
IMAP sync? You mean IMAP push extensions? I only use IMAP and it is seconds between me sending an e-mail to my mailbox address and my devices going "pling".
Old news, but it is also worth pointing to Greg's Cable Map: http://www.cablemap.info