skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did feel like it has been a waste of time. He just mixed it in with a bunch of textbook problems. It wasn't a particularly elegant or insightful, just something technical he wanted the answer to. I don't think anyone in the class got it right, as we didn't really have the tools to make progress on it. It was a first year grad class.

It was one of the only times I had a really bad professor in grad school. He was visiting for six months, and you could really tell he didn't want to be teaching. He used an out of print book (Graph Theory With Applications by Bondy and Murty), which meant I had to go to the library to even read it. He lectured at a level that was beyond us, and he literally wouldn't tell us where his office was, so he wouldn't have to answer questions. Maybe with a different teacher I would have been less annoyed about the research problem.
Facebook takes wrong images for posts, and the company cannot fix it for days
Wait, MacKeeper is actual software? I just thought it was just another piece of malware with a strangely good pop-up in comparison to other malware pop-ups.
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* unless the DRM implementation being a secret actually does provide security.*

It Does, because it is illegal(at least in the US) to reverse engineer it.
Python still lets you get working code faster than anything else; it tends to be less maintainable in the long term / large codebases than something with a stronger compile-time type system, but with this kind of small bot you're likely to completely rewrite it as the API changes rather than wanting to maintain and add features to a codebase.
and I'm sure there are no incompatibilities when one swaps out v8. and I'm sure this core works under Mac and Linux as well. You know, because the web is supposed to be a ubiquitous platform?

otherwise, how is this not just more Embrace/Extend/Extinguish?
Amazon states that AWS is not vulnerable, no details but presumably they patched before the public disclosure.

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/XSA_Secur...
Amazon needs to offer these quad-CPU motherboards and with four Intel Xeon E7 8800 v3 so I can start using these 144 core machines in our render farm...

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10...
> the anti-taxers want others to pay the cost of living in the modern world

This simply isn't true. Anti-taxers want to choose where their dollars go - each and every one.
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Seen last Monday and my first thought after reading the title of the post :-)
And you expected different?

Nope, just agreeing with angersock without wearing my misanthropy on my sleeve.
You're not wrong, that's pretty much all it is.

(Oh, and it bundles a bunch of inferior versions of features already built-in to Mac OS X, like backups, file searching, data encryption, secure delete, login item disabling, default app selection, etc.)
Will all programming languages become extinct eventually?
I work in a multi-cultural office and there are many different languages spoken throughout the day. That sparked the question "why are there so many languages in the world?" Because if there had been only one then I would be able to understand everyone without hindrance..

Someone took their time and wrote this article about it, which was a short and good read. TL;DR we speak so many different languages just so we can identify what group a certain individual belongs to http://www.academia.edu/8652559/Why_are_there_so_many_different_languages_in_the_world

It did make me ponder whether the same is happening to all programming languages but the internet suggests the reason why is because they all do some things better than others. It then made me wonder whether all of the programming languages will become extinct one day and we will have one superior programming language to use throughout all software domain. From web sites to mobile apps, car ECUs to washing machine chips - any programmable electronic device basically.

Does anyone think this is possible? If so, what would the implications be?
Why not promote them here? What are the "the really good open source options"?
Your Start-up's name is everything
Microsoft frameworks deprecation
It's more like, "Student has a standard 15 credit semester, means 15 hours of classroom lecture + 45-60 hours of study/assignments outside of class. Student is micro-scheduling the number of minutes they have to answer each of the standard 20 Calculus questions (God, it was always 20 question) which they have to have in to the TAs before next lecture. 60 questions/week, every week, and you have about 12 hours allotted, which works out to no more than 12 minutes per question. Any questions you go over that 12 minutes, you need to steal from other questions and somehow solve more quickly, and remember, this is all new material for the student. If you blow your budget on math, it either comes out of other classes, or sleep.

That's the context in which being thrown a heretofore unsolved problem in calculus is not particularly amusing for an undergraduate.
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also the code tends to be highly SIMD, code with a lot of data dependent branches benefits very little from higher memory bandwidth when the fetch latency from ram is on the order of hundreds or even thousands of cycles.
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> I'm not sure how I feel about using "game-y" things to convince people to do stuff, especially when we're talking about serious stuff.

I see it as a tool, usable for both good and bad. Taking manipulation of others out of the equation: Would you have concerns "gameifying" things for yourself, on your own behalf, as a form of self manipulation?
Singapore Minister for Environment and Water Resources Releases JavaScript Sudoku Solver
ObamaCare was pretty much the same thing as RomneyCare so yes, we'd probably have the same thing. Can we stop pretending there's a difference?
Why those two dates?
I really like this response.

I especially like that you validate their question and then convincingly explore the nuance to the situation, framing your response around their question. Then you make your ultimate position subjective ("Personally, I prefer...") instead of trying to make it some objective truth ("it's better to be kind."), which allows that the others person's position is also subjective - merely a personal preference - and thus changeable.

A+, effective communication.
There were a few unsolved conjectures presented on the board on occasions. What was more common, as a first year maths student, was to be presented with homework that had 10 questions on of which one would be marked "hard" and one "very hard". Some of the "very hard" questions would be unsolved research problems.

Some interviewers would present unsolved problems in interviews as well, if a candidate was happily eating their way through the regular material.

Cambridge is a little unusual in that the only mark that people cite is the one on the final year exam. I believe US universities operate by continuous accumulation of marks? And that ongoing disputes over marking are more common because of this?

It's also already working with a highly selected group of people from the far tail of the ability distribution, and looking for a way to identify the exceptional among the merely very high ability.
I think the consensus here is that TextSecure (and whatever the iOS client is called) is the Right Thing.

Personally, I'm doing a last effort to use xmpp right now (just in the process to migrate to the unreleased prosody 0.10 for some features that I require) and otherwise Telegram looks like the 'sanest' option so far.

Doesn't require a phone number as identifier

Clients for ~all~ platforms that I care about
Yeah, people say Rust is slow to compile, but when they say that, they aren't generally talking about C++.
The slow death of static security detections: Beginning of SIEM deployments
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It's still hard if you don't know/recognize the name of a problem and mathematical form is usually easy to disguise.
There used to be no usage limitations except the 512Kb/s speed limit mandated by the regulator but later they introduced session length limits (60 minutes) and started requiring captchas on every connect. It's not very convenient or useful any more.
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Data breaches lead to surge of spoofing attacks
I honestly thought it was an out of mind number, but thinking about how aggressive is their advertising campaign, sometimes almost misleading and the average knowledge of a user, well, I am not sure is out of mind anymore...
Even if the money were sentient and capable of arguing for itself and defending its own case better than a good lawyer, here's what would happen: You can only authorize a legal person to use computer equipment. It is impossible to authorize a pile of money to use computer equipment. Therefore any computer equipment that is used by the pile of money (including that of the owner of the money) is used without consent, and therefore runs afoul of anti-piracy / anti-hacking laws, and your money will be charged with High Tech Fraud.

Since the money is not a legal person, legal responsibility would probably fall to the owner at the time of the crime (just like it falls to the "owner" of a child, their parents) and you would get punished along with your money. On top of this the money is automatically guilty and must pay reparations and punitives, which means you need to pay more of it as legal guardian of the now-bankrupt money.

And on and on down the rabbit hole it goes...
Your imagination immediately jumped to only bad possibilities.
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There is a bias there. The reporting is often disgusting - "hot teachers fuck their students".

A small part of the problem is that rape is defined as penetration by a penis. See for example the UK sexual offence act which jas several very serious criminal offences that carry the same penalty.

Rape: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/1

Assault by Penetration: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/42/section/2
It definitely is relevant because psychiatric drugs are how people get onto heroin.
Ahh, I must have misread; it seems you and I are on exactly the same page :)
Yes, 64 GB for vsphere is "small", mainly because of VM overhead for various pieces. Bosh-lite shrinks that down a lot by using Linux containers. Lattice shrinks it more.

Lattice is nice because it strips out the security layer, multi tenant controller, and BOSH ...but no other configuration framework has a rich Vmware/Openstack support. It suppose it's possible to whip up some Chef recipes / Ansible play books with Fog scripts, as BOSH really is a wrapper around Fog.

I found BOSH hard to learn at first but now I love it, it's my favorite config framework AND supports Vsphere/Openstack. The Pivotal version of CF wraps BOSH with a web GUI to make it easy (no bosh-lite sadly), barring that I'd suggest looking at some of Dr. Nic Williams' blog posts and github repos for learning: https://github.com/drnic/bosh-getting-started/blob/master/RE...
The underwater search for MH370 has just found a shipwreck, too:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-13/search-for-missing-mh3...

(but this one is in 4000m of water, not 32ft!)
Homework is for dorks and nerds. Have fun nerds.
It reads as though it were written years ago and just re-touched for a new release without much in the way of updates
I wasn't aware of this.

I had read the overview page on wikipedia, where the numbers aren't broken down by men and women for China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...

instead, they provide a link here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_China

It's a bit of a shame, because I had scanned the first page in the past and the higher female to male ratio would have jumped out at me since it's unusual. I'm not suggesting in any way that there's any deliberate suppression of info here, the reason the male/female numbers for China aren't printed in the summary is because reporting is controversial (official govt numbers are at odds with other independent studies), and so is complicated enough to warrant its own page.

It is worth a look, with some interesting implications.
For the record, my original comment never mentioned the NYT. I said, "large news/opinion organizations, especially those who started in print and are trying to maintain their business models, have become irrelevant." donohoe responded with an article in the NYT that caused the NY governor to take action on something. At best, that illustrates that they wrote a good article. It does nothing to provide an answer to my original comment. So yes, I argued one thing, and he argued something totally different so that he wouldn't have to answer the tougher question.

> That people are not currently willing to pay for it doesn't mean that it's irrelevant, just that the correct business model has not yet been found.

Just like the MPAA and RIAA a decade ago, they have been fighting market pressure rather than taking the hint and changing their business models. They want to keep the same profits they received from their captive audiences of yesterday, and they don't understand that people don't need to pay historical rates for the vast majority of the information they offer.

If the NYT fits that description, then I would love to see a reason why my conclusion doesn't apply to them. They certainly aren't relevant because of their name alone, are they? So I would truly like to know what percentage of their content comes from the real NYT reporters in the field, versus internet research, AP feeds, rehashes of yesterday's news, etc.

Joe Q. Public certainly doesn't miss out when he avoids paywalls. He typically gets better (and faster) information through his RSS feed than he ever has by reading the NYT directly. They might offer a unique opinion, or an extra line from an interview, but it's rarely vital information. He's not going to pay monthly for the privilege of reading an article written by a 'distinguished journalist' when it's really all about the information, not the prose. So what does that leave? Exclusive photos? Infographics? Op-ed?

I really don't mean to imply that journalists who go into dangerous situations aren't worth being paid. They certainly are doing important work. But to imply that the ones employed by one news corporation are any better than the others is just silly. They are all witnessing the same event from different angles, and I now have the ability to see the situation from the eyes of ALL of them through multiple sites (often within hours), not just the one who graces my newspaper's front page every morning.

So in the end, they have built a business on being a person's sole channel for world news, but the average person has many many many more channels available today. If they don't change their business model (indeed, their entire way of thinking about news), they will become unnecessary, extraneous, pointless... irrelevant.
I have a Xeon-based workstation at home, to compensate my relatively weak Mac Mini, mostly for machine learning.

I'd say that normally, you probably don't need it, unless you want ECC memory, large cache sizes, large amounts of memory, etc. (compared to Core i7)

However, they can be very price-effective. Many companies buy workstations for e.g. CAD and replace their machines every 2 or 3 years. Since they are then sold en masse on eBay, you basically get a machine that is still high-end for a bargain price.

E.g., my Xeon workstation was ~400 Euro, has a Xeon E3-1270 that is ~4 times more powerful than my relatively new Mac Mini, comes with an acceptable CUDA-capable GPU, and 12GB memory.
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No - it's not trying to make a point, it's a history of Eve. It would be like trying to tl;dr Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain.
Intel's Gordon Moore speculates on the future of tech and the end of Moore's Law
Who's spinning the ships?
Isn't all computer art pixel art?
"You've been smoking something really mind altering, and I think you should share it.

x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which barely has correct page protection. Then running your operating system on the other side of this brand new pile of shit."

The rest of the rant is here:

http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2007/10/25/virtualization-sec...
The Muse (YC W12) Raises $10M to Scale a Career Site for Millennials
My university had a pretty liberal withdrawal policy if you did so prior to mid-terms. Instructors who weren't competent, or who acted like jackasses, didn't get complaints - the students just dropped the class and focussed their energy on instructors who were both competent, and not inclined to sabotage them.
Nice :) Altough there is a lot of text content through the internet I would certainly be interested in buying quality content prepared in a form you mentioned.
>I'm also sad that this amount of energy is not put into something more meaningful.

Why are you on HackerNews in the middle of the day, lecturing people, rather than feeding homeless people and building shelters?
Bigger Than Heartbleed, ‘VENOM’ Leaves Millions of Virtual Machines Vulnerable
One of the trolls on that page says that it's impossible that Evas is faster with software rendering than other window managers are with openGL accelleration.

this means none of them have used EFL for anything more than a Toy; Every E convert knows that Raster's Software renderer is an absolute beast in performance.
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EVE can be played while you do other things, for short intervals during the day and spending $15 or less per month.

How would one organize free food for homeless people during one's commute, for example? Or build shelters in the 1h lunch break? Or make computers cheaper by expending less than $15/m?

My mother is a member of Refood (a org that redistributes surplus food from restaurants to people that need it), but she could never do it if she had a regular 9-6 job plus commute.
There are several reasons why this argument does not work. The most important is that US law says that US citizens must pay taxes, even those who live in other countries. The only way to avoid it is to give up US citizenship. That can only be done outside of the US, and by an adult.

It's therefore impossible for any US citizen to legally avoid paying tax at least once, assuming sufficient income to have to pay tax in the first place.

Do note that this law also applies to foreign born US citizens, who are citizens by blood but who have never even visited the US. For obvious reasons, many of these citizens either don't know about their obligations under US law, or deliberately ignore it.
A good point! resubs to spin more ships
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Women have been disposable throughout history too. Even in societies that respected women, maternal mortality (death during childbirth) was pretty common (and still is in the US). In societies that didn't like having so many women, abortion or infanticide were/are common (see sex ratios in China and India today).

Men get killed in wars and at work. Women get killed in wars and having babies. Both are exposed to different kinds of violence (men in the street, women at home). In your paradigm of meaning of life = reproduction, you fail to point out that women are disposable after they've squeezed out a kid. And whether they want to squeeze out a kid? You don't even ask.

Your dystopian view is not fun for anyone, let me assure you.
> This is exactly what my most outspoken-feminist female friend does.

Outspoken feminism can mean many things.

Examples of outspoken feminism also include Jezebel, a mainstream feminist website that is highly popular with my female friends. It publishes an article saying "Have You Ever Beat Up a Boyfriend? Because, Uh, We Have" that includes lines like "...slapped a guy when "he told me he thought he had breast cancer. (Okay, that one made us laugh really hard.)" [1] (Note that men can get breast cancer.)

I'm not quite sure it's only the so-called MRAs that 'have the wrong kind of thing'. Mainstream feminism can also be pretty ridiculous.

[1] http://jezebel.com/294383/have-you-ever-beat-up-a-boyfriend-...
Google and Metamorph created a multi-domain engineering tool for module developers
That's not the way my parent was talking about, nor something I'm aware of.

What's very common is people getting prescribed painkillers (oxycodone, etc.) and then moving onto heroin, because they are similar drugs. But those painkillers are not psychiatric drugs.
What? Opiates are not psychiatric drugs. You don’t get addicted to opiates by tasking other, unrelated drugs. That’s absurd.
This reads like a native advertising for Intel. Intel must be worried that there is something about the new OpenPOWER movement (such as Google and Nvidia starting to design their own OpenPOWER CPUs) that threatens them, which is why they are pushing this whole "Intel vs OpenPOWER" narrative now through "exclusive" articles with certain websites.

In case some people don't get it yet, the way these exclusive indepth pieces work is not that Anandtech goes to Intel and says "we would like to do an article about your chips and IBMs'". It's more like Intel going to Anandtech and saying "we have some great material to give you - would you like to write an article around it?"

And that's how Intel's side of the story gets pushed into the market.
Brazilian citizen here.

Do you realize that the news report thing out of proportion, right?
The way I read it, the 25% is not going to the user directly. It just simply goes into an account the manufacturer controls and is earmarked for the user. The user will only be able to spend it as the manufacturer allows. This is more along the lines of Google Opinion Rewards rather than being part of a mining group.
The main part is playing games as part of a team. The community exists to support the game-playing. You might as well make the same complaint about any sports team.
I don't see why apple doesn't ban them.

Even in the Mac App Store, Apple permits scammy apps such as "Memory Clean" [1] that consistently ends up in top ranks/top grossing. For one, "RAM cleaning" does nothing helpful and theoretically can make your Mac less performant. Bonus: the app calls home to push the developer's other apps.

I'm surprised stuff like this prospers in plain sight with Apple's tacit approval. Snake oil for non-power users who don't know better.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/memory-clean/id451444120?mt=...
What you are describing is entirely fair. The student has been fairly warned that they might not be able to solve the problem in the 8-10 minutes that their incredibly packed schedule allocates to it. They aren't being blindsided by an unsolved research problem masquerading as a standard question on a problem set. Fair game.
Your examples are completely wrong. The Netherlands is sometimes mistakenly refered to as Holland because this for a time this was the accepted way of referring to the country and its people. It has never been the accepted way to refer to Scottish as English or Welsh as English or Northern Irish as English.

The American comparison would be more suitable if you referred to the whole of the USA as Washington DC.
I've only tried the Shopify forums, creating posts, replying to people. Was thinking about starting a facebook ad campaign but I don't know how effective that would be.
If you stick to official software and don't care to scan documents for windows viruses and such, you won't need any antivirus.
I do however use CleanMyMac 2 to remove stuff I don't use, this is the only piece of "cleaning" software that I think is actually worth it.
I like how it helps me getting rid of logs and language files in a lazy way :)