skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet no one doubts Brainfuck's Turing completeness, and it can be easily demonstrated to anyone with a passing familiarity with the langauge.

The post-structuralists, on the other hand, are trolls. They claim grandiose results that fail Chomsky's simple personal test, and similar personal tests of many others, myself included, who have a demonstrated capacity to understand ideas across many fields, including in my case epistemology with a knowing subject, which comes close to some important post-structuralist or post-modernist ideas regarding subjectivity.

But the "critical theoretic" political program is so important to post-modernist program they they deliberatly distort their accounts and ideas for the sake of goals that have nothing to do with the topic at hand, and results in the whole body of their work being incoherent nonsense with a few gems embedded in it. There are well-meaning people who see the gems and argue passionately that the rest of the mass simply must be meaningful and important, and there are people who correctly observe the incoherence of the mass and miss the gems.

These two groups then spend a great deal of time fighting with each other, while those of us who have picked up the gems and moved on are ignored by all.
Holy crap, the LWN comments are extremely vitriolic. I have stayed away from the systemd hatred - is it still a huge issue?
"The Australia Project" from the novel Manna is one possible future in a post scarcity economy, it also shows one of the others.
Introducing Ironhide, an Android user interface automation framework
> I think a lot of commenters here don't appreciate that prosecuting a large bank involves sifting through literally tens of millions of documents looking for patterns of intentionality, which as you say is very hard to prove, and where the subjects of the investigations in question know it's hard to prove

And to reiterate, this isn't something that you can 'solve' by throwing machine learning or data analysis behind it. It means sitting down and reading through tens of thousands of emails between potentially hundreds of people, sent over the course of years, to understand the inflection in a given sentence, or to understand if anything is insinuated through the use of a given word. Then matching that back to actions. Then explaining to the judge and/or jurors as to why it's correct, and defending again the opposing counsel saying 'Oh you're just reading too much into it'.
The disgusting 10-ton ‘fatberg’ that broke a London sewer
Facebook Is Hiring Like Crazy
regrets, I've had a few...
Of course FB and various government agencies track and know all about them.
I think the omission of deterministic destructors is one of the biggest mistakes the C# designers made. The Dispose pattern feels like a band aid.
> systemd has replaced Upstart as the standard boot and service manager on all Ubuntu flavors except Touch. At the time of the 15.04 release there are no known major problems which prevent booting. The only service which does not currently start is Juju, which will be fixed in a post-release update soon; all other packaged Ubuntu services are expected to work.

> Upstart continues to control user sessions.

> If your system does not boot after installing or upgrading, please file a bug report and tag it with `systemd-boot`. Please see /usr/share/doc/systemd/README.Debian about how to debug early boot or shutdown problems.
Is the 500 error I'm getting some kind of meta humor?
I'll consider it - I do like CertSimple - there's BankSimple for banking (though they're now just Simple) and DNSimple for DNS, and also: the domain was available! That said, if you think of anything better feel free to email me - mike@certsimple.com
It's very easy to compile any port. I personally recommend you to try Chocolate Doom.
Videos of such experiments would be greatly appreciated.
SF is only 7x7 miles. Completely walkable if you have good, strong hips for those 42 or so hills ;) And when you've decided to stop walking, make your way to House of Prime Rib for a hearty meal and 2000 calories...
These things are usually counter intuitive. Although it benefits all, the benefits are not intuitive or readily apparent, thus it is never acted upon.

For example, paying workers higher wages benefits the economy as a whole and in turn benefits the business owner, but this is counter intuitive logic and business owners tend not to desire raising wages.
I did software coop at UBC, and I can say without a doubt that the coop model is purely an invention of a highly conservative business culture. For those with the skills and the desire, I say skip it. The loss of community with the rest of your class is huge, and the extra time is not worth the money compared to a real post-graduation career.

Additionally, most post-college hiring here in the Bay Area, and elsewhere, is focused on your inherent personal skills, and not on some aspect of "I've done it before". In other words, a coop buys you not much on your first hire out of school, and little post that.

Now this is all bracketed as a computer science coop. If you are seeking to do civil engineering in Canada, by all means stick with coop. Canadian companies are extremely conservative and (typically) won't hire you for what you can do, but what you DID do.
It could be used to paralyze communication networks and, in conjunction with other actions, could be catastrophic. Or even just used to interrupt iOS service for anyone that uses it in part of their job. You could go small and interrupt a small business's iPad POS, or you could disable an airplane's usage manual running on the cockpit iPad. There's a lot of stuff you could do with this exploit.
I've never had to do that myself, but I'd strongly warn against turning off anything without first chatting to your lawyer.
It was: but the actors (and possibly others) weren't told that. As Red Letter Media says in their review, it actually tries and has some competence... just no budget. http://redlettermedia.com/best-of-the-worst-supergirl-captai... (worth watching just to see the insanely bad Supergirl movie get torn to shreds).
Not asking about Starfighter, but have friends who have and/or might in the future consider applying, and while I have a very crisp answer for the ones that expect to raise, have less of one for the ones who don't.

For our part, we have our hands full just shipping. :)
Even the "randomness" is deterministic. The fixed, repeating table is an optimization, but it's also completely necessary for multiplayer to work.

Doom does things very differently to how more recent multiplayer FPS multiplayer works. Every player's host machine has identical state. That's not as superficial as things like score, who is alive/dead, etc - it's exact positions or all entities, their metadata... all the way down to the next number to be picked by the random number generator.

This is updated every tick (30Hz? can't remember) and every machine needs to synchronize with every other within that tick, or the game slows down. If you've ever played Doom over a modem, you know what it's like when someone has bad settings which result in high latency - in this case, poor frame rate. The data sent between machines consists of the inputs - e.g rotation, movement, fire, talk - and not higher level constructions such as motion vectors.

So it's entirely necessary that the "random" number generator is not so random at all. It's fairly hilarious to see the results of messing with it, though :)

It does make me think that cheats (not that I ever cheated) were missing a trick. If they knew what the next number to be pulled from the random number generator was, they could, for example, delay firing a weapon by a frame or two, to get more damage. Probably other more interesting things I can't think of immediately. If there was ever a bot vs bot Doom competition, this is something you'd definitely want to consider.
4 months seems a bit short for this continuous cycle. I go to Northeastern University and they do 6 month cycles of work/school. They also start off with a year and a half to two years of classes on a traditional schedule when you first enroll in college. This seems less relentless than the 4 month schedule described at Waterloo.
> really the only way forward that doesn't result in eternal loss of control of your efforts to sociopaths with no interest in your happiness or society's well-being is to blaze your own path forward

That is exactly why a lot of academics chose the academic career in the first place. There was a lot more freedom to pick your own problem and work on it than you'd enjoy in the average corporate job. There still is, for the most part. But if that advantage is eroding, it's worth talking about.
What about when police officers wantonly kill people or CIA operatives torture the innocent?

Of course they should go to jail, justice is blind, the law applies to all, look up the magna carta. When some are more equal than others injustice and corruption occurs, we see it vividly throughout the US corporate-fascist complex.
Because it's much faster to build functionality in Rails than in Golang, and not every feature of an app has the same performance requirements.
I'm moving to Seattle, and impulsively ordered 1Gbps residential internet service "just because" (from CenturyLink - IIRC it's ~$110/mo).

I since realized that I had no idea what to do with a 1Gbps residential pipe, other than "download things really, really fast."

So, I Ask HN: does anyone have any ideas for interesting use cases for Gigabit home Internet?
I've continued to inflict Linux upon myself as my main (laptop!) OS for 12 years now, but you're deluded if you think it has any place on normal human being's computer. Windows works and is expected.

Expecting the user to spend hours/days learning a new system for reasons that aren't their own is bad assumption to make.
Your Tor session should change exit nodes at least once every 10 minutes.[1] Ignoring everything else (e.g. pressing the new session button on TBB, restarting the browser, failed connections etc.), this gives us

p(using a bad node)=1-(.973)^(t/10)

where t is how many minutes you've been using Tor. So if you've actively used Tor for more than 4 1/2 hours over the past month, it's more likely than not that you've used one of these nodes.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#ChangePaths
>What happens if you remove randomness from Doom?

tl;dr: Nothing intersting.
Googled it.
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I understand what Function.prototype.call() does (and I'm an amateur ruby dev), I don't know what .bind() does but could go for a wild guess. Explaining something like this, might be more tricky. However with 10+ years of experience I'd expect someone to make rounds around things like that.

On the other hand an excellent hire might be a cheat that put the effort to become a good developer once he joined the company or... You might hire a very promising young man who (because this or that) he ended up being a bad hire.
Nah, I'm pretty it will be more efficient to just grow meat in a lab.
Only by people who don't know better. Netbeans is a better IDE than Visual Studio.
It's interesting that such a simple implementation of randomness works so well, in particular enemy in-fighting and their decision to pursue or not. I'm sure when you're playing, you end up anthropomorphizing many of these decisions.
I think that 'whatever breaks 2048 bit RSA will also likely break 4096 bit RSA' is pretty reasonable. I know at least one person using 4096 bit just for the SSL Labs score.

That said, do measure this on your own kit, particularly for SSL handshake latency: eg latency caused by additional CPU work during handshaking will likely be worse on a mobile site. Or someone might be reading this in 2019 and handshaking performance has increased significantly.
What is a typical reason people don't want to raise money?

My general advice is to apply if you want your startup to succeed.
I would say that having a couple of billion annually to invest in cloud infrastructure and the economies of scale that it enables is a pretty big barrier to entry.

At the moment the only realistic challengers to AWS are Microsoft and Google.
This seems to me a lot of trouble for "documented" behavior. It is much better to design your classes in a reasonable way and stop worrying about const issues. If you rely on const to write good code, I guarantee you that sooner or later you will be in a lot of trouble.
>If they knew what the next number to be pulled from the random number generator was, they could, for example, delay firing a weapon by a frame or two, to get more damage. Probably other more interesting things I can't think of immediately. If there was ever a bot vs bot Doom competition, this is something you'd definitely want to consider.

If you're interested in that kind of stuff, check out tasvideos.org, a community dedicated to beating old videogames as fast as possible using that type of knowledge. Since all videogame 'randomness' is really deterministic pseudo-randomness, the kind of RNG-knowing you described is ubiquitous

In fact, by coincidence, it looks like someone just recently published a DOOM (second episode) run: http://tasvideos.org/2825M.html
"Levodopa" sounds like a Harry Potter spell. The abstract says "the role of dopamine in modulating executive function, working memory and associative learning has been established", I wonder if there are side effects to mucking with your brain chemistry in this way.
Here is an excellent speech on this by one of the best people to speak on this topic (Steven Pinker): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcdFI6Sda0k

FIRE is an EXCELLENT group.
Yes. It is my understanding that the nephew of al-Awlaki, also a US citizen, was engaged with the resistance on the ground. Not that that's necessarily okay then to kill without a trial but the argument for assassinating him is perhaps slightly easier for the administration to make.
And just because people took their kids doesn't mean they didn't find it frightening. The two claims have literally nothing to do with each other. It's like saying people pay good money to see horror movies so they aren't scared of being hacked to bits by psychopaths.

Native peoples in the Great Lakes region mostly enjoyed torturing prisoners of war to death in variously fairly horrible ways, often over days. The whole tribe participated and it had something of the carnivalesque atmosphere the link you provide mentions. Yet there is also evidence that fear of capture loomed very large in the minds of warriors because of the fate that awaited them.

One of the things the post-structuralists (especially Derida, who is really nothing but a troll) are good at is distraction and indirection. Foucault's bloodthirsty descriptions of torture in D&P have no scholarly value and could easily be replaced by a one-or-two-line sketch of the reality without loss of utility... except that people would then read the rest of the book in a less aroused state of mind, and would be more calmly critical of his unsupported and frequently implausible claims.
Why damp them? is there any reason to believe that these anomalies actually matter?

The article doesn't seem to establish that the flash crash mattered at all in the sense of having any impact, positive or negative, on anyone not involved in the particular trades.
>"Since its inception, Amazon has refined and expanded AWS while competitors including Microsoft and Google have tried to replicate its success with similar projects. Those companies have only recently started to deliver basic services on par with Amazon’s."

They could have summed up the whole thing as First-mover advantage. Amazon created this new market and when MS, Google etc saw a real opportunity in it, they wanted a piece of it and thus moved in by replicating the best features. Meanwhile for Amazon it was all about maintaining its majority share refining and expanding.
I love the idea, is part of the fee Heynay takes covering insurance if theres something wrong with the deal?

Even if you weren't renting items but were just loaning them to friends it might be nice to have all your loaned/rented items in one spot. For this, making private listings might be a good feature.
yup they actually made a site for the show
How to Operate the Apple II Plus
I've been doing Java development for over a decade and have dabbled in the C#/.NET ecosystem a handful of times. My knee-jerk reaction is always sort of similar (and I write posts about stuff I miss [1] about what I miss), but I don't actually think it sucks at all - it is mostly just about getting used to a new environment.

I'd fully expect someone coming from a .NET ecosystem to have a similar reaction, and the truth lies somewhere in the middle: both of them have their things they excel at and things they are less good at, but a lot of it comes down to what you are used to.

Even though my gut reaction is sometimes similar to yours, I'd jump at the chance to do C# full-time, because I think there is some really nice stuff in the language and the platform seems really interesting once you get past the parts that feel unfamiliar.

[1] http://www.spenceruresk.com/2011/01/visual-studio-2010-a-bun...
People believe there's a dog-nature, just as much as they believe there's a human-nature. Regardless of the philosophical position they profess.

(It is part of our nature to have constraints keeping us from being dogs. Anyone who wishes to prove otherwise is welcome to become a dog.)

In your argument against human nature, you stated: "An essentialist takes the position that we can form categories of things by defining some set of properties". But that's seems a strawman definition in this context, because no one can even define a chair. Much less a human. Fortunately, people who believe in the concept of human nature (virtually everyone) don't need to sit around making futile constructivist definitions.
I just don't understand when people use TL;DR and comment on an article they have not even read.
Yeah I'm curious too. I however looked up how many employees they had in 2014 (http://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-tim...), and their quarterly reports for 2014 (https://www.google.com/finance?fstype=ii&q=NASDAQ:GOOG), and got that they profited in the ballpark of 13-14 billion, and had 47,756 employees, so their profits would be somewhere between 270 and 290 thousand USD per employee.

I'm not good enough at reading these quarterly reports to be surer than this :-)

.. and on that note, having the age data of 823 employees from payscale.com seems a rather small sample set for a company of ~50k employees. I also wonder what kind of bias the source introduces, ie. whether your interest in your salary is different based on your age (I don't know).
Here's a video of José's keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5fMQcSy3y8
What's the basis of your argument that Google Cloud is better?

My personal experience has been exactly the opposite - AWS is light years ahead of Google Cloud. Does Google Cloud provide Machine Learning service?

For the longest time, it was only supporting Java and Python SDKs. And the Google's API is still very much lacking in terms of features and stacks. In fact the better support and much comprehensive services presents more choices rather than "vender lock-in". Keep in mind, all the auxiliary services are simply the open source technologies builds on top of AWS EC2 - if you like to spend time and money, you can totally build your own!

And this is common, as we've just seen people complain about Google Cloud 4 days ago.

https://yourbunnywrote.org/2015/04/19/google-cloud/
In other news, Yahoo has more than 1100 employees. Presumably they spent their days wondering how yahoo can justify so many employees and playing internet pool on yahoo games.
The CRTC is about to review that, likely in early 2016 it will be at least 5Mbps down and ~1 up.

We (Northern Canada) are holding things back :)
> If anything, he seems to be suggesting the opposite, that the humanities should be returned to their traditional place in the public square, questioning and criticizing the prevailing ideologies of the day

Yes, he want to be nostalgically talking with like-minded people in an open space. That's my fault, I've misread it. A bit of self criticism from his part would certainly lead to the conclusion that such kind of study does never lead to any actionable result.

Anyway, there's no problem inherent in that. The only problems he faces is that he wants to do those things on the taxpayer money, and wants to sell it to students as some incredibly useful skill. People are stopping to accept that.
That's how it was done at Chrysler in 1935.[1] Toyota's Honsha plant has had an automated crankshaft forging line since 1988.[2]

I suspect this is a misconception. The Honsha plant was downsized in 2007. They have a lot of space there, and a "Museum of Production". They may have a manual forging setup as a training and demo operation, to give their employees a feel for how heated metal behaves during forging. A 1988-vintage automated forging line probably has too little feedback and too much brute power, and maybe too many die stages. Better employee understanding of the process may lead to a better. It's unlikely that Honda is doing manual forging for volume crankshaft production.

[1] https://archive.org/details/0555_Master_Hands_18_27_28_00 (start at 00:11:45)

[2] http://www.toyota-global.com/company/history_of_toyota/75yea...
Most analysts seem to think that AWS is way bigger than Google's public cloud. That channel lead may well be right in terms of total number of servers or MW of datacenter capacity.

BUT scale is not the only thing that the cloud brings. AWS is not just S3 and EC2. I think it's pretty clear that Amazon is much further along the road of productizing their cloud. i.e. providing all the products that businesses and most notably enterprises need to move to the cloud. It will take a while for Google (and Microsoft) to catch up in this area.
If you already have a lawyer involved to discuss your options, I would not do anything until after that meeting. Taking any action now could end up costing you instead of helping you. I can understand that you want "revenge" but that reaction can end up hurting more than helping. I hope this is isn't the case, and I don't think it is, but your post comes across as "This will teach them to screw with me!"

IANAL, but what I would recommend is talking with your client (calmly) to come to a mutually agreeable resolution. This may mean you compromise on the remaining balance to some extent. What you spend on legal costs to pursue not just financially, but in time spent fighting with it, will far exceed any reward.

Also, if you have a signed contract with them in the first place you can use that as leverage to negotiate the terms of a settlement. Most well-written contracts should have a clause in there regarding non-payment and the process for handling that. If that your case you can use that as leverage to negotiate with them. Nobody wants to go to court so they have an incentive to get it resolved as much as you do.
Global Identities on the Free Software Desktop
This is one of the upsetting things about the transparency of the accident. It's unique given the long held opacity of the civilian casualties racked up by the program, including innocent people making their ways to weddings and funerals. The apologies here are welcomed, but it makes the humanitarian miss them in the silence blanketing the deaths of non-Western civilians.
Headline term lost in translation; but well written concept.