skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw the bidet seat attachments being hawked in the aisle of a CostCo
recently, so that may be a sign that people in the US are willing to
consider the purchase.

http://www.costco.com/toilets-washlets.html

Re the "flushable" wipes - many US municipal waste plants would
reportedly like that word removed from the labeling - while they will
flush, they do not decompose readily.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/flus...
The bull actually appears to move, to have rotated.

Look at the floor of that segment and you'll notice a cobble stone being revealed over time that was definitely covered in the earlier photos.
The Great Recession....
Depends on what you mean by "sufficiently rigorous". There's a sense in which an algorithm description is just a more detailed spec, but if a spec is just "specify all properties of output", that can be described in predicate logic. The spec language doesn't necessarily have to be turing complete (I think).
They can be folded over and thrown out.
I was thinking the exact same thing - the failure cases are possibly more interesting than the 'successful' ones. The Wan Chai skyline particularly seemed to pulse between day and night in a very interesting manner.
Ditto. I mess Seth a great amount and this too makes me sad a bit -- though his code and advice lives on in scores of people.

His belief in Ansible being a decent idea really kept me going with it after the first 2 months or so, otherwise I might not have continued it as a side project, and over the course of several years, he helped me a ton with various issues and was an amazing sounding board, including sharing a lot of advice when I as being plagued by nuisance CVE reports and wondering what to do about them. We had occasional arguments and he was usually right, and we always resolved things. (We had also previously worked on Func together with Adrian Likins, who wrote most of up2date, which was also a great experience - Seth knocked out most of the fun SSL parts). Back then used to meet around Duke to come up with crazy patent ideas to supplement our low Red Hat salaries (mine was anyway), and ... yeah, so much fun.

At his service, what was super amazing was pretty much everyone said the same thing about how he had helped them, dozens upon dozens of people, and it was really one of the most moving things I've ever seen. One of the few that made you come out saying "whoa" and wanting to be a better person and care about helping other people more than I did. And I think I did. Or I'm trying hard to.

Seth got a lot of hell for yum and shared many of my frustrations with the nature of the OSS community at times, but I still prefer it than a lot of idioms in apt. Things like yumdownloader, createrepo, --enablerepo, --disablerepo, and many things like it, just made it click for me, and it worked so well. And working with people like him at Red Hat made it really feel special to be there and to be able to learn from them.

I think about him every time I run yum, and every time something in apt doesn't work the way I want. Folks should just enjoy the metadata refresh time as a reason to get coffee, and blame PackageKit for your silly yum locks. (ALWAYS. REMOVE. PACKAGEKIT.)

And I agree on keeping the name, and it doesn't clash with "disjunctive normal form" that way too :) .. not that I remember what that is so much.
Do you have a cite for someone going to prison for "a racist tweet"?

Because I can point to US citizens spending time in prison for similar online messages.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/12/tech/social-media/facebook...

other arrests:

http://www.wired.com/2007/12/xbox-live-trash/

http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/02/16/xbox-live-threats-lea...
The article claims that a well-known person in Linux kernel etc. communities has a 4096-bit RSA private key with two "factors", one of which is 231 (which is itself not prime).

Standard RSA involves a private key which is the product of two prime numbers, and when we talk about "4096-bit RSA", we generally mean that the private key is the product of two 2048-bit numbers. Due to randomness, they might actually be 2047- or 2049-bit or something, but having one 8-bit prime and one 4088-bit prime -- let alone one 8-bit composite number -- is generally not what we mean by 4096-bit RSA, nor what software is intended to generate. It's well-known that the strength of an RSA key is restricted to the size of its smallest prime factor. (When I TA'd a crypto class a few years ago, I gave a homework assignment to break a "512-bit" RSA key that was intentionally generated as a 50-bit prime and a 462-bit prime: the entire class was able to factor it without even thinking about hardware beyond their personal laptops.)

So the mystery is not so much how it was factored, but how the key was generated that way in the first place, and whether this was even an intentional part of this person's PGP key. Other comments here imply that this particular subkey isn't even usable, so the answer to the second part seems like "not really".
I get the premise of the article, but not sure I entirely agree. A week or so ago I went to a live music show at a pub, I got up for a minute to go to the washroom, and when I came back someone was taking my chair from the table. Not such a good feeling. Stuff like this happens sometimes when people go to restaurants alone, I guess.

Maybe the important thing is to do things alone if necessary, but try to form connections with people. Human beings are social creatures, and we all need some form of interaction. Like my dad's mother-in-law told me, "Don't get too used to being alone." I asked her why, and she didn't really give much of an answer, but as I've grown older, I see the importance of friendships and relationships.
Dart or NodeJS (only for given requirements, not in general).
Too computationally intensive for what?

The Lagrangian approach is kinda great. If you can describe the potential energy and the kinetic energy of a system as two functions of whatever variables, Lagrangian mechanics allows you to derive the differential equations that govern the evolution of that system for free.

There's absolutely zero fucking around with forces, torques, etc. to get yourself a set of equations with which to model system behavior. You do have to add one constraint equation for every constraint on the system, but this is way easier than trying to formulate a set of differential equations that just happens to satisfy an arbitrary set of constraints.

I don't know of a reason why Lagrangian mechanics would tie one to a particular algorithm or class of algorithm; pretty much no matter how you do it, if you're modeling a mechanical system, you're solving some differential equations in one way or another.

TL:DR; can't confirm at this time
And 3 million of malaria, and 38 million due to aging. Enormous sums are spent on removing the former, very little on removing the latter. None of the priorities are correct, and it isn't even a matter of resources going to one or the other to get it done first - it's a matter of convincing people to direct more than the present tiny fraction of a fraction of a fraction of overall resources to these goals.

Early stage medical research funding and programs aimed at prevention of poverty are both small potatoes in comparison to the throughput of the alcohol industry or the professional sports edifice, for example. In a world in which the beer and the circuses are a massive expenditure, there is plenty of room to convince more funding for things that actually matter without taking from one beneficial program to prioritize another.
How pathetically weak are all of them? And certainly doesn't need constantly running analytics or even only opt-in.
>i think you misunderstand.
>clearly, it is C++, not C.

I got that, what I said is that you wouldn't have that problem in C because it arises when you are doing OOP, and most C devs would not use OOP. Also, keep in mind that it is perfectly fine not using OOP in C++.

> instead of a simple malloc and free, you will invariably end down the rabbit hole learning about rvalues

That's not true. Actually you can be a very decent C++ developer without knowing the notion of what an rvalue is. Move semantics is just an optimization to avoid extra copy of objects, so it is completely optional.

At the moment of writting this, there is an entry on the front page with an example of a modern C++ piece of code. You would notice that there is not a single explicit heap allocation nor any other crazy stuff.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9560667
But the mathematical ones are the best ones :)
The Lemote got stolen from him in 2012:

http://www.devthought.com/2012/06/09/richard-stallman-robbed...
Aaaand we found another two. One of which belongs to a GNU dev with some public presence...

Still think it was 'cosmic rays' on SKS's machines? Do cosmic rays preferentially strike public keys belonging to major Open Source figures?
Haha. From the requirements for the "free software certification"

http://www.fsf.org/news/endorsement-criteria

Specifically, the seller must use the term "GNU/Linux" for any reference to an entire operating system which includes GNU and Linux, not "Linux" or "Linux-based system" or "a system with the Linux kernel" or any other term that mentions "Linux" without "GNU". Likewise, the seller must talk about "free software" more prominently than "open source."

....am I the only one, or does it seem petty to anyone else?
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There are other factors here:

Automation. East asia remains the manufacturing powerhouse of the world, but even that region is losing production jobs in absolute numbers. Low skilled labour opportunities are disappearing everywhere.

Transport. Free trade doesn't cause a sudden loss of jobs to abroad. Cheap and effiecient logistics did. The incentives for moving jobs abroad is there with or without trade treaties.

Regulation and incentives. Not sure if it remains the case but most of the major US tech companies including the likes of Microsoft, Dell and Intel used to be headquartered on Ireland due to tax incentives.

Unions. Love 'em or hate 'em, they do cause disturbances in the market equilibriums.

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All of this has happened without treaties with either the EU nor the pacific countries. Some automotive factories may have ended up in Mexico, but NAFTA is hardly the reason that the US is where it's at.
AEADs: getting better at symmetric cryptography
Sorry, should've given more context. In this case the trie was for Aho-Corasick, so we built it from the most unique subsequences. Since there was no need to add or remove patterns at runtime, the subsequences were precomputed and the trie built server-side, then sent serialized down to the application.

On a different occasion I tried a few kinds of entropy coding, but their value was pretty limited, and obviously not applicable if you need to operate on a stream with Aho. In that case I only needed memory-optimized set membership testing, though, so ended up going with a Golomb-compressed set from pgs. 7-8 of [0].

[0] http://algo2.iti.kit.edu/singler/publications/cacheefficient...
Sorry, I was unclear. Franz Lisp compiled to 68k binaries, there was also Cambridge Lisp for the Amiga.

I just wanted to point out that this class of computers was a valid target for a good Lisp system.
Why do so many sites use Raleway font. I get that it is free on google font, but it is very hard to read. You want to be elegant? get a real font or UX designer.
Introduction to Higher Order Functions
NASA Wants Your Help Figuring Out How to Build Space Habitats
I agree with both of you, and both are equally valid reasons because ultimately they're cause & effect.

I would also blame regulatory & policy screw-ups by government and central banks that cause gross mis-allocation of resources as huge contributor.
An Overview of Phong Shading in GLSL
Windows Keyboard Driver for Chromebooks Rev. 2 (based on Code from ReactOS)
The beginning of an article showcases a photo of a man eating by himself and is captioned: "Not as sad as it looks."

Well, wapo, that depends. If the other two extra plates of food next to him are for imaginary friends it puts a totally different twist on things that might be sad after all.
In the case of classical mechanics, the Lagrangian approach leads to exactly the same equations. The reason to learn it is that the Lagrangian approach generalizes and is used in nearly all physics[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian#Selected_fields
GIMP.
Nope, it starts playing after a bit. I'm afraid I won't be at my desktop, where this is more egregious, for about a week, but I'll investigate and reply again when I'm back. It does sound like the problem is what you describe, although I think I'm running Aurora on the desktop.
For numeric solving, perhaps. This book is focused on symbolic computation.
>Speak for yourself

I think that was the case here.
Turn every streetlight into a camera
And note that the population of London is nearly twice that of Scotland.
Neural plasticity or How to ride a backward-bike
I understand both sides. In the end banner and interstitial ads need to either get better or publishers need to find another revenue model (happening already). With the rise of programmatic and more layers between publishers and brands we’ll just get shittier ads with worse targeting. IMHO banner ads are a relic from the print era where publishers had monopolies of distribution (because of substantial distribution cost and cost of entry) and could get away with some holy split between editorial and advertising. I’m not saying the internet erases those boundaries, but the culture around this division is fading (see BuzzFeed). In the near future I see massive consolidation around native and data (scenario: why wouldn’t NYTimes or whoever be better off publishing under the BuzzFeed tech which is lightyears ahead and generates real revenue by sharing DATA with advertisers not a banner-sidebar/interstitial?).

Sorry, hijacking the conversation into a slightly different direction. I use adblock. If you want to discuss at more length email me jokull@solberg.is
Never give any info to the police you don't need to if you are under any sort of investigation. They will always use it against you, it is their job.
You don't find it useful in ruby or javascript?
Maybe root was the wrong word to use - I didn't mean some singular event that happened to you. It takes 2 seconds to recognize that that makes no sense.

By root I mean by changing one aspect of your life - you'll see considerable results. There may be 2-3 root causes, maybe even FIVE!

Point is it's not insurmountable. If you talk to people who were depressed and aren't anymore, they won't claim it was alchemy that fixed it. More likely, they'd attribute it to feeling empowered, rather than helpless and being a victim.

As a personal example - I know a lady who was deeply depressed, food disorder, alcohol problems, a lot of stuff.

Everybody was at a loss for what the fk to do about it. Then comes my friend who happens to really like her. Guess what, they're engaged and she's doing A LOOOOOT better.

Why? Because now instead of feeling like her life is over and that she's worthless, she can see that what she wanted (family and kids and being loved) is not some unattainable dream. She got some professional help for her disorders and while it's a long road ahead, she's in a different place.

So while there's many things left to unroot, ONE root of finding somebody who she can see a future with, is giving her the motivation to get better.

These are the kinds of stories that make a lot of sense - finding something to look forward to AND feeling like you can get there, along with some help in terms of logistics goes a long way.

I went off on a tangent there but I'm all for CBT or whatever other techniques. Point is - if you don't have a conscious break-through of recognizing what the problem was and how you're fixing it and WHY it's working, you are still lost. Just that you're receiving some mythical help at the moment.
> Also interesting: the game company "transitioned to C++ for future projects" according to Wikipedia.

They did after Sony bought them, to improve code sharing with other Sony game developers.

After they found out that this was not the case, they have been using Scheme (a dialect of Lisp) again in their development.

http://www.naughtydog.com/docs/Naughty-Dog-GDC08-Adventures-...

http://de.slideshare.net/naughty_dog/statebased-scripting-in...
And why don't other plants in the same forest also synchronize their flowering to the same time, so that all trees in one forest would flower say every 60 years?
A bit like bird colonies that have many different species, enjoying the protection.
Maybe they would not be synchronized to the same part of the year, losing most synchronization benefits.
> Automation
> ...
> Transport

Now combine them. There was an article on HN yesterday about autonomous semi trucks.

about the only thing that will stop this is the cost of energy, which is all but artificially low right now. If/when it climbs, the economy is in for the mother of all "resets".
And constantly pan left and right? Pass.
packaging software for distribution at scale is really hard and really manual
Can't say that this has been my experience. I moved to the other end of the country 2.5 years ago and still haven't really formed a social group. I started off heading out and doing stuff on my own, but it gets pretty depressing pretty quickly, and definitely isn't as fun as doing the same things with others. I now don't really do public things on my own at all.
Totally agree. A great debugger can be a godsend. It amazes me that for the longest time you can not see return values when debugging in Eclipse. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=40912
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Rather than forcing us all to install an outdated distro and do a major version upgrade then trying to guess the particular element of the process you find disconcerting could you may be tell us?
Marketers can use Apple Watch to extend visibility and engagement
Thanks for the slides (the second link)! What I can conclude is that only the game scripting was ever based on Lisp, never the whole engine? This sounds much less impressive and makes the achieved FPS claims almost irelevant.

And there were some other opinions on usefulness of such approach:

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

"Despite its advantages, the concept of implementing the game logic in a separate scripting language and writing an interpreter for it was soon dropped (even by John Carmack who had implemented this concept) because of the overall inflexibility of an interpreted language,[3]"

On another side, there are a some games which used Lua for scripting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lua-scripted_video_gam...
Well, they eventually did finish Duke Nukem: Forever, right?
Previously, and better:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558615
I'm on a work gig away from home and have been spending most of my free time alone. I like it and end up in these situations on purpose, but after few months it starts to feel a bit strange. I usually try to go out to do things as I feel happier about it than staying in. Some things like museums and art galleries are nice to do alone, but most things city has to offer are culturally meant to be done in groups or together with someone.

I do get conscious about it every now and then and things like eating in a busy restaurant weekend nights can be uncomfortable. Or going to see a gig and then getting very bored while waiting between bands.

Sometimes I see great things or I fall deep into my thoughts and get some new insights, but don't immediately get to share them with anyone. When I get back home after half a year or so most of my friends comment that the time just flew by. They ask me what has happened and it's difficult to explain. It's like nothing happened to me, but for many many times.
For that matter, I don't really consider updating my iPhone "normal use" though I'm pretty sure it doesn't get an exception given his remarks about "iThings".
This isn't exactly true. For example, the article names declaration and assignment as among "statements", but such statements are not first class in Haskell. Nor are type, data, type class statements, etc. It is true that Haskell manages to accomplish many things with expressions that you'd use statements for in other languages.
I intuit that you're getting at the real answer with the self-dual. That makes a lot of sense. Also, from a practical perspective L2 is very nice because it causes the problem of error reduction to be quadratic, so it scales well.

Time to dig out Rudin.
"Decision-making algorithms are politics played out at a distance, generating a troubling amount of emotional remove."

This is absolutely key. Adding distance[1] between the point where a decision is made and where the consequences of that decision are realized make it harder for any feedback from those consequences to affect the person making the decision. This makes the decisions worse (from lack of information) and the implementation worse (error must be much larger before the feedback from that error reaches the decision maker).

You see this effect in many areas. An obvious example is the law enforcement mentioned the article (or military), where "just following orders" to the modern variant of "just following an algorithm" end up causing problems.

A more interesting example might be the existence of the derivatives market and the invention of increasingly-exotic financial instruments. A bank giving someone a loan has some fairly well-known possible behaviors, and is (probably) close enough to allow feedback between the parties for things like capitalism to work (if you don't like the bank's behavior, you let them know that isn't acceptable by refinancing at a different bank). On the other hand, bad decisions bundled up and hidden in collateralized debt obligations sheltered these bad decisions until the problem blew up and introduced the world to the phrase "too big to fail".

A very interesting discussion of this problem - focused on how this kind of distance relates to human honesty (and rationalization) - is this RSA Animate featuring Dan Ariely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBmJay_qdNc

[1] measured in either number-of-hops or time
I use lua for most scripting. A big reason for this is that the entire lua environment is in lua.exe. This allows for me to distribute scripts easily without having to include a C++ installer with them.
Yeah. Let's "back off from [] research on avionics". Maybe if we don't talk about it it'll magically all go away, and planes will secure themselves.

Apparently another case of clueless FBI agents afraid of what they do not understand.

Without researchers poking at possible vulnerabilities, we won't know about them until somebody uses them to do actual damage.

Admittedly the tweet was a big misguided, but please call me back when the FBI catches somebody not based on a public tweet.
Compare the number of government-level full-take Internet surveillance programs to the number of surveillance programs run by small "analytics" and "customer engagement" companies.

By this measure, browsing the web through an email proxy renders most surveillance methods blind to your activities.
There's a thing called the Principle of Charity. Basically, if there's two ways to read something, try using the more charitable way, the way that's kinder and nicer, the way that doesn't assume the author is a moron. You'll find things are a lot simpler and less confrontational that way.
Poor Little Rich Women
Also Perl has lambdas, and for some tasks like string manipulation is the best option out there. Sometimes you think you need to learn another language, but, sometimes the smarter choice is to improve the knowledge of the tools you already use.