skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, maybe the only spy detail he'd have is to protect him, make sure he doesn't accidentally die or get killed by someone wanting to frame the US for it.
"btw, the halting problem is provably intractable, not suspected intractable"

Yeah, I know. I was (unclearly) trying to draw the comparison to the research into correctness. It's impossible for the general case, but people still try to make useful progress with the specific cases.

"A large reason why these have not been commercialized is because of the strong IP culture that permeates biology, and the chilling effect that has had."

I sort-of agree with this. I think one major difference between biology and CS is that CS has a long history of public knowledge about systems that tends to build on in ways that become more abstract (and more powerful) over time. A lot of biological knowledge is public, too, but most of the commercially relevant knowledge is locked up.

"This also creates a bias towards intractable problems. The more difficult your problem is, the less likely it is to have been patented, so there is an incentive to work on those problems."

I totally disagree with this. I've never encountered anyone in the research world who has shied away from a problem simply because there were patents involved. There are a lot of patents in software too, and in my experience, we treat them the same way: we ignore them, and deal with the consequences later.

"Among academics and in industry, I OFTEN see that the operator's understanding lacks depth"

Yeah, OK. I grant you this (I've encountered it, too), but I still don't see how this is meaningfully affected by the stuff we're talking about. Bio hacker-spaces and robot-rental startups do not make this problem go away.

"I'm not saying we have a comprehensive understanding of biology, I'm saying it what we the culture have is enough that simple, useful, garage operations are really in striking range."

Yeah, well...I'm still waiting for examples. ;-)

I tend to believe that the market for good biotech ideas is efficient: there are enough extremely talented people working in the space, and enough money chasing plausible outcomes, that if there's an idea out there that doesn't take decades of basic science to find product-market fit, it has a company working on it already.

More to the point, though, I definitely do not believe that the rate-limiting factor for the creation of new biotech startups is access to machinery. It's access to knowledge, and therefore, this kind of "we're on the cusp of a biotech revolution!" stuff is, well...hyperventilation.
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> does the USG feel a sense of relief now that all this mass-surveillance stuff is out there and the general public doesn't care that much?

This.
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less is great, and I'm certainly comfortable using it (nice snippet btw!). Other devs on my team who are more web focused would probably find rtail easier to use.

We also have a Vagrant box for each project, and rtail would be trivial to add to the Vagrant template so that every development box has this running on a specific port without any setup or fiddling needed by each developer. At least that's the direction I'm thinking of going in right now, without having actually tried it out. :)
Wait I think I do.. Can't say for sure but they look like two small yellow marbles stacked vertically. What can I say about the polarization of my lcd?
This is the same as in any organization. The wealth filters to those who run it.
I had the same thought, but am curious if you've solved the following problems:

Would you bake the private key into the container or set it at runtime? If you set it at runtime how will two containers in different places know who to talk to?

Perhaps you generate the keys at build time and add the public keys to the partner containers, then at run time you inject the private key into the container via an env var. Now you have to securely manage and transport private keys and you've got two problems.

There must be other things I'm not considering.

And, of course, whatever system is running the container can step into it and read the private keys (or any malicious containers running on the host that are able to break out of the container). But we can just avoid that by saying they are our own hardware.
so are they afraid that snowden could reveal even more secrets and thus compromising their "tailored access" capabilities?
Using typeof(foo) === "undefined" is actually something that comes from back when it was pretty common to pollute the global namespace. There were actual javascript plugins/libraries/snippets that defined undefined and thus broke code that compared to it.
Heap sizes 32gb+ can't use compressed pointers so don't forget about that bit of overhead. 48gb is just in that annoying zone where you need to go above 48gb heap to get real benefits of 32gb+ effecive heap.

But I only maintain EE apps on at most 10gb heaps, so I'm not hugely experienced with tuning this. All I can recommend is heap size and CMS thresholds (no G1 exp) set so that at steady state you don't end up hitting full GCs.
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Isn't that an example of complexity that is being successfully coped with, thanks to the abstractions provided by the various industries and institutions that provide raw materials, processing, shipping, etc?
Well, problem is there is no room for a third place IMHO. This happens in general when a dominant design wins and I think we are witnessing one. Of course they can fake it with their new windows sales, but that opportunity is lost.
I don't entirely understand why 'int' is the new 'short' here; int hasn't been a particularly good way to store sizes since C99.

Good spot though; I kind of doubt that this was a conscience design decision and probably just a slip up.
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And Coral8 got bought by Sybase and became Sybase CEP, also still available. (Sybase is now owned by SAP.)
"Mobile apps and operating systems’ power usage continues to rise", Citation please.

It's my understanding that power usage trends are going down on mobile.
Roughly the first half is background. In the second half he gets into a "how to make AIs nice" track. He talks about a few concepts, which may or may not be interesting depending on your level of familiarity with the friendly/unfriendly AI problem. However, I expect MIRI in particular (Eliezer was apparently in the audience) has gone far beyond this basic outline, and I haven't heard any reassurance that the problem of potentially misaligned motives/incentives (humans vs the AI agent) is solved.

He compares the voluntary self-restriction of the recombinant DNA technology, at Asilomar in 1975, and even references CRISPR as a new technology that complicates enforcement of those limits, but I don't think that's really instructive. Artificial General Intelligence research is necessarily going to be conducting extremely dangerous experimentation... that's entirely the point of it. Until someone comes up with a way to make AGI guaranteed friendly, all AGI research is like high-risk genetic research experimentation, all the time, and with no obvious way to contain it (unlike most biologics which, no matter how pathogenic or ecologically disruptive they get, have a difficult time getting through good containment procedures).
Whether I agree with the number or not is irrelevant, but the implication I get from the article is that the judge is more upset that after TWC was sued, they still made 74 calls. I assume that the per-call fine was upped because of that.
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Is part of the deal to "never speak about NSA again for the rest of his life" or something like that? I doubt he would take it then, nor should he.

In the meantime, those who leak to Wikileaks will apparently face execution - so how much can we really trust the US government on this?

http://alexanderhiggins.com/us-military-warns-personnel-cont...

Also, hasn't Holder quit already?
Paying lip service to the 'Asian Century'
How the Planetary Society Helped Send a Spacecraft to Pluto
I don't watch TV. Not much into movies either. My impression of what the USG routinely does to particularly bothersome people is based on a history of those kinds of people having convenient accidents. As long as it actually looks like an accident most Americans accept that it was and quickly forget about it. And the wet workers in secret government are good at staging accidents. I would say that kind of end would be a stronger deterrent to future leakers than any legal consequences.
Thank you for the reasoned reply.
Huh. I thought all humans could see polarisation.

Further evidence that I should stop presuming other people are like me.
It was inspired by Cedar.

Wirth took sabbatical years to work at Xerox PARC in the two occasions.

After the first visit when we learned about Mesa, we designed Modula-2 and its OS Lillith.

On the second visit he got to use Mesa evolution, Cedar, which was his inspiration for Oberon and the Ceres workstation.
This is true - the compatibility boundary for OS X is at the link-against-libSystem layer. The actual interface between libSystem and the kernel is private to Apple and is not guaranteed to stay argument or ABI compatible. (this includes the syscall() function)

Several xnu syscalls are actually paired with a userspace wrapper function that does some extra stuff. Existing syscalls may even become wrapped in a subsequent release if needed.
The problem is that you have to take into account that those values are biased because mortgages exist. The value of a home is exactly what a person is willing and able to pay for it.

If mortgages never existed then people would value housing much less because it's no longer $x monthly, it's the whole thing up front.

You're right that a portion comes from material cost but the cost inflates to fit the budget of the expected buyer. Without mortgages the typical suburban house would be built so that a middle-class person could afford it.

From this you can argue that mortgages are a good thing because they allow a person with less wealth to get more/better houses by leveraging future income, but the trade-off is that buyer takes on more risk, there are no low cost homes in good neighborhoods which could be reasonably bought outright, and people are more dependent on their credit rating.
PipelineDB is actually licensed under the GPLv3. We accidentally updated our files with the AGPL earlier today by mistake but have since rectified that. Apologies for the mixup!
He mentions getting rid of cursors, but I'm not clear how he would replace the modification side of cursors. i.e. I can see how a system like he describes supports nicely querying data, how do it help a component that needs to trigger modifying data?
Ask HN: Which web analytics tool are you using and why?
This is the tiny computer the BBC is giving to a million kids
I found the tests pretty interesting and thankfully not puzzle-like, though a little like an advanced fizzbuzz as it was a series of unconnected methods. I was really hoping for some feedback at the end as to how I did and what the weak areas were, do you offer any feedback at all?

Perhaps as well as take home tests you could consider a longer form one which builds a feature using several methods, offering help if required so most people don't get stuck. Say parsing a set of data files, something like that.

When hiring I've found walking through something like real work with candidates most useful, and also crucially using the same challenge for all for comparison.
Notables: The EFF, ACLU, and Glenn Greenwald all shilled for big tobacco.
Lisp Machines. I am reading the book, 'The Architecture of Symbolic Computers' written in 1990 by Peter M. Kogge. Amazing book. It's really teaching me a ton of computer science at a level in one shot that no other book has. People fail to realize at times, that Linux was a choice in the road, and people just stuck with it. There could have been so many other ways to go: smalltalk machines, Lisp machines, Minix vs Linux, etc... Love this stuff.
The nominal value of the notes in the derivatives market is extremely large. However, we can't equate $500B notional of e.g. CDS written against Apple debt with $500B of Google stock. The CDS represents (1) to the seller, an small initial premium and a large, extremely low-probability liability requiring some collateral, and (2) a stream of future payments from or to the buyer, depending on the cost of insuring the debt. Up until a credit event, the only money exchanged is the premium, and perhaps some collateral, both of which are (for highly rated debt) orders of magnitude smaller than the notional value of the contract.
White House wants to expand people's access to solar energy
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Batteries have been getting bigger, hardware has been getting more power efficient- and yet:

Since the first iPhone in 2007, net battery life as measured by iPhone standby time has remained flat
I think that's because vanity publishing is typically very popular amongst programming and "romance" authors.
Here's a screenshot of the Oberon UI, cropped from page 16 of the book:

http://i.imgur.com/uRLHiJj.png
Is N1QL the successor to UNQL?
What is the difference to using websocketd [1] to stream to a socket.io client?

[1] https://github.com/joewalnes/websocketd
We're using KissMetrics as we track each users behavior over a period of time. We started by using GA however it didn't get us any informative data regarding our users.

With KissMetrics, which I believe is also a feature on other tools, we can see the users timeline view of how day act on our website which is a great feature.

But I believe it depends on what your company wants from an analytics tool.
Eliezer bet some people that if he played an AI he could convince them to let him out of a box, on the condition they not reveal his method. He actually won the bet twice IIRC. Do you know if he ever revealed his secret or at least what some popular theories are?
Shortly after independence, Zambia also briefly had an unofficial space program:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/old-we...

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-almost-forgotten-zambia...
For those who would like a summary of the paper: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/08/security_giants_publ...

I'm grateful for the fact that these pioneers took the time and effort to gather write this paper. If anyone had the ability to send a strong message, it's them.
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You can definitely build a whole house from scratch for less than 400k. You can build it for less than $100k - http://www.zillow.com/oh/home-values/

No, most of the value in a home comes from the land underneath it. The point being made above is that the availability of credit leads to asset inflation, as more people are able to compete for the same scarce things (desirable living locations).

Mind you, credit does have a purpose - if your income and your house's value appreciate faster than the interest rate being charged to you, then you were able to gather the resources for it.
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HN doesn't make money right now but they can certainly do it if they start to charge companies for making job posts. Currently, companies are posting under a post called who's hiring regularly which will be a significant source of revenue stream for HN. On top of that, there's a separate tab called jobs with a fewer number of companies which HN can charge at higher price. That being said, I think HN offers lots of values not just for average users like us but also for the companies. This can translate into a huge valuation if it were a startup.
The Great Crash comparisons are tiresome not simply because of the difference scale so far but because history is full of crashes, some with 1929 outcomes, some with other outcomes - well, naturally all fairly bad in the short run but still with important differences. Japan's meltdown in '89, the little Dragon's crash, the 2006-8 crash, etc, etc.
Swannodette never disappoints. If you're interested in this approach, you should check out re-frame: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame. The README is a great resource, regardless of whether or not you intend to use the framework.
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>Financial innovation make our lives more predictable and less sensitive to chance.

lol.
The stock market can support more and bigger IPOs the higher the stock prices are. Companies can also issue more stock offerings as their stock price goes up to get access to that household savings.
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"The core purpose of status quo finance is to coax people into accepting risks that they would not, if fully informed, consent to bear."

This. If you have money, and let it be known that you have money, you will be offered a large number of stupid deals. There is a huge range of financial products out there which underperform the market. Amazingly, people buy them. Wealthy people.

The deals offered poor people, such as payday loans, and crap auto loans, suck even worse. Most Americans were better off when we had regulated savings and loans, tightly regulated banks, and a much narrower range of financial products.
A full unconditional pardon from Obama would be more appropriate.
How do we save the state?
Am certainly not aware of mechanics of a rocket but from below quote and [1], seems they weighed in around 1250Kg , given its 1960's and its a tiny state , seems like something few could do .

>> Cedar III launched in 1962 had a length of seven metres and weight of 1,250 kg

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_rocket
Firstly, so - the writer is geek_slop? - let me get this straight about you?:

· You adopted a girl at some point.

· You are not law enforcement, and are not authorised by them in any way.

· You disclose, here in this webpage, that you ran a hidden service site, via Tor, explicitly for paedophiles.

· You have admitted the above, to the FBI.

· You haven't considered what child protective services' post-adoptive services might think of your doing this?

Um, I am a trifle concerned that you may have let your emotional investment get in the way of good research, or good sense, thinking this vigilantism through to its logical conclusion.

Secondly, I think I'm enough of an expert on the topic of malware to say that the software, designed to cause a privacy breach upon whomever runs it and to disguise that purpose so that they may be tricked into running it voluntarily, is definitely malware: what is technically known as a "Trojan Horse", essentially doing the same job as the FBI's "CIPAV", but worse.

Thirdly, I've spoken with law enforcement on this topic before, in the context of discussing anonymous networks like Tor. They are frequently displeased about vigilantes ruining their operations by doing shit like this - it makes the paedophiles more paranoid and careful, actively disrupting ongoing law enforcement investigations.

Fourthly, it's not valid research. geek_slop doesn't appear to be familiar with how Tor actually works, in fact, they actually list the wonderful exit nodes they got, apparently unaware that the list of exit nodes is public and by design doesn't tell you anything at all about the visitors to your site. Web crawlers (including "Dark Web" - a wording which is another sign that the author does not have a strong background in anonymous networks - it's correctly "onion site" now, formerly "hidden service") naturally find related sites that link to each other, if you're going by links, which they might have done. If they're neutrally HSdir crawling, most of them are dead (because they're ephemeral services created by a P2P chat app?). We know all that from previous research (Dr Gareth Owen, University of Portsmouth, Tor Hidden Services and Deanonymisation, 31C3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZdeRmlj8Gw ).

Finally, this crawler might in fact be the exact same "dumb crawler" I previously identified as doing repeated HSdir directory service lookups (instead of caching) while refreshing paedophile sites, causing disproportionate load on the Tor network's HSdir services and strongly skewing Dr Owen's results on this topic (if it's not yours, it's probably IWF's). So, um, thanks for that.
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I agree. I think people hate pedophiles in much the same way they hate(d) gays. Because it's disgusting and perverted, not because it harms people. The fact that some children do actually get harmed and that many people have children themselves that they feel very protective of fuels the emotion of labeling all pedophiles as "evil".

If viewing an image of child abuse is wrong. Isn't viewing an image of ISIS beheading someone also wrong? In both cases the crimes were committed and the images produced to satisfy an audience. But one is illegal because it's perverted while the other is legal because presumably far more people have blood-lust than a minority sexuality.

In Australia it's especially bad, with somebody being convicted for possessing hand-drawn Simpsons porn. There might be a copyright case there, but it's hard to make the connection between that activity and actual harm to any children. The defense argued that they weren't humans because they had 4 fingers and misshapen faces. This kind of case is what happens when the "evil pedophile" mindset overwhelms people.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/simpsons-cartoon-ripoff-is-ch...

You could go a step further and ask what's the difference between a parent taking photos of their naked child playing in the bath, and somebody doing the same thing but then having a wank with the photo later? I think the difference is that one is "normal" and the other is "perverted", so we make one legal and the other illegal. I probably appear in some baby bath photos and I certainly wasn't scarred by it. If they got onto the internet and people got some pleasure from them, is that really going to scar me for life, assuming I even know about it?
It seems very geared towards non-fiction. Is there an equivalent for fiction writers or would you recommend going with them for fiction as well? The platform looks excellent but I'm not sure if it's the right fit. I love that they recommend exploring other options (excellent company philosophy)

Fantasy has one entry, scifi has no entries and fiction has a total of three entries.
What is "full cooperation" -- enumerating all docs?

Gag order I imagine. As it stands, the masses don't really understand what's happening. Put him on Colbert's Late Show and make jokes about what's really happening in front of millions of viewers - you've got a platform for converting people. The court jesters [1] like Stephen Colbert and John Oliver can make deep cuts while avoiding reprimand. Oliver knows this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester#Fool_in_literature
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Get in when the market P/E is 1 or 2, and dividend yield is extraordinary high, and market capitalisations are less than current cash holdings. (I've actually done that and so far my money in that company doubled.)
Could you... round to the nearest hundred?
> I heard from somewhere that technically, OS X does not preserve backward compatibility for system calls, so you should use libc function's instead, otherwise it is an undefined behavior.

I believe this article[1] definitively answers this as being the case.

> Whereas Linux keeps a hard compatibility guarantee.

Not being a troll here... Why would anyone care unless they are writing a libc replacement? Before anyone objects regarding compatibility with programs written for older versions of OS-X, there have been compatibility libraries distributed for every version I can recall. To wit, I run the Pages app from iWork '09 regularly.

1 - https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/qa/qa1118/_index.htm...