skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biases caused by modulo reduction are dangerous when the source integer is relatively close to the target distribution. This bias is unlikely to be useful for attackers. The probability difference between the most likely output, 0, and the less likely outputs is 2^-32. For comparison, Cryptocat's bug had a much larger distance of 1/251 ~ 2^-8, which greatly reduces the amount of samples needed for distinguishing the output from random. EdDSA itself uses modulo reduction for the nonce, using a large enough source (~2^512 modulo ~2^252) value that renders the bias irrelevant.
To expand on this, if you give an employee stock rather than options, then they'd have to pay taxes on the stock value. It would suck to pay thousands in taxes for stock that ends up being worth nothing when the startup fails. With stock options, the tax issues are deferred and only come into play if the company succeeds and you want to exercise+sell.
> Because internet.org's proxy server gives Facebook monopsonic control over the internet.

You mean control over the internet access they're providing, that otherwise doesn't exist?
Not really SF? Do you say this because you don't like SF, or you do? Dhalgren is one of my favorite novels, and I think it's definitely SF.

I think it works to read it a whole bunch of ways. When Katrina happened, it seemed like New Orleans was Bellona for a bit.
Really underwhelming. YC is such a high-profile incubator yet none of the startups are terribly revolutionary and some are just uninspired or even outright terrible.

Edit: I thought I was just being curmudgeonly but I reread the list and still feel the same. Still a curmudgeon, I guess.
Except logging your keystrokes across the board is not what Microsoft is doing. Do you realize how absolutely useless that data would be? They are monitoring search queries, specifically in Cortana. They probably do the same for auto correct instances. They aren't logging all of your keystrokes.
So you agree that you have no such rights and freedoms.

No, I think that just because we can do something, it doesn't mean we should.

In a literal sense, you have no rights or freedoms that you are not prepared to protect with your life. You can lose anything else to someone willing to try hard enough to take it from you. Fortunately, in civilised societies, we do not generally require everyone to die to defend basic human rights that most of us think are worth protecting. Instead we adopt laws and punish those who would break them.

The alternative is the path of craziness, filled with things like the "right to be forgotten".

And as you can probably guess, I support the basic idea of the right to be forgotten as well. I have no problem with requiring companies that specialise in providing easy access to data -- and that make huge amounts of money because of the immense volumes of data they deal with -- to make it harder to access information about, say, victims of abuse or mistaken identity. When the statistics came out about who was really making use of the right to be forgotten ruling in Europe, contrary to all the naysayers, it mostly wasn't people like criminals and politicians who arguably invited negative publicity.

That said, I have no problem with reducing the profile of criminals with spent convictions either, nor those who have done things that were not criminal but which society frowned upon at some point in history. A society that never forgets, full of people who want to hold everything someone ever did against them for all eternity, is not a healthy society. I believe most people can be rehabilitated even after a dark past, and the evidence about how successful different legal systems around the world are at preventing recurrence of damaging behaviour overwhelmingly supports that position as well.
In a book that opens with "Unlike The Rust Programming Language we will be assuming considerable prior knowledge", you don't need the simple ownership example.
You should read your sources:

>"The expected decrease in global temperature would be 0.1 degrees Celsius at most, compared to about 1.3 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times by the year 2030"

A grand solar minimum would have little to no effect on our warming climate.[1][2] The work this paper is reporting on did not even make any claims about climatic changes, and the impact of a grand solar minimum has been extensively explored in the literature with the conclusion being that it will be a fraction of the anthropogenic warming trend. It's not entirely your fault, that's some pretty bad pop journalism from livescience.

1. http://www.skepticalscience.com/grand-solar-minimum-barely-d...

2. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-...
This was a rather canny ad campaign from Progressive a little while back, but it grows out of something that the big insurers and actuarial community has been becoming more agitated about over the past five to ten years, which is that the forecasts for life expectancy are becoming every more hedged with uncertainty. The people in that industry are very aware that there is great uncertainty in the development trajectory of aging-related biotechnologies over the next twenty years. Any time now a collection of therapies could be developed to add a decade or two to life spans.

A combination of senescent cell clearance (demonstrated in mice), immune rejuvenation through either selective destruction of cluttered bad immune cells (demonstrated in mice) or thymic regeneration (demonstrated in mice), and next generation stem cell therapies (demonstrated in mice) might do the trick if it turns out that accumulation of metabolic waste (amyloid, cross-links, lipofuscin) is less important than thought. For example.
> To be fair, they reset all defaults. For images, video, everything.

Oh god. Kubuntu's KDE4->KDE5 transition did that to me. I really don't want to go through that again on my video game machine. :(

I guess I'll wait a month or so to see if MSFT changes their mind about the value of their "Replace the user's preferences with our defaults." position.
Depends on precisely where they're deployed, but this kind of thing can damage the local market and slow down the roll-out of normal infrastructure. A zero-cost "Facebook internet" is a partial substitute for real internet, which worsens the market for a local ISP trying to get off the ground. A kind of price-dumping, basically.
I don't think that's true.

We can substitute (no internet + desire for internet) in for the right side, and I think that's better than (some internet + lessened desire for full internet)
OMFG, you reinvented the startup incubator!
Computer hardware innovation is a textbook example of diminishing returns. With each improvement in processor performance, size, energy usage, and heat management, it becomes more expensive to push the tech further. We're currently witnessing this effect in action with the recent stagnation in consumer processor speeds. They are still getting better in size, energy and heat management, but average speeds have hovered around 2.5Ghz for years now.
> If that was the case, the market would find a way not to replace coal, but to consume the extra on top of coal.

That's not how PPAs and generation works. Nuclear power is already barely viable in the Illinois market (dominated by Exelon) because wind sells its power so much cheaper.

There's a new generation facility coming online near Vegas that's going to be selling solar at around 4 cents/kwh, the lowest price in the nation.

Cheap renewables don't get consumed above existing fossil generation; cheap renewables push out existing fossil fuel generation. For an example, see Germany and how their utilities can barely keep some generation running because they don't get enough revenue with solar dominating during daylight hours.

Solution: Continue to heavily subsidize solar, wind, utility-scale battery storage. Continue to shut down coal plants. Purchase peaking combined cycle natural gas generators, put them into non-profits (because they won't be profitable) to meet the generation gap until enough utility-scale battery storage can allow renewables to be firmly dispatchable resources (they can be relied on to provide power at a constant rate, vs intermittent resources). Profit (or rather, help stop climate change).
The links in this article go to some very good case studies on getting the correct tone for downtime status updates.

However, I found the most interesting link the one about open salaries [1] - are there any other businesses doing similar things? I'd be inclined to consider it a very strong mark in their favour as a workplace.

[1] https://open.bufferapp.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buff...
IBM z/OS team did an AMA on Reddit today
That's single precision, which the DOE doesn't care about. The latest NVIDIA GPU's do 8 to 16 times better at single precision (32 bit) floating point compared to double precision (64 bit).

The best next generation DP GFLOPs/watt from one of the big players will most likely be the 2016 Xeon Phi, at ~10-12GFLOPs/watt... You are also forgetting that GPUs also have a ~100W+ CPU sitting next to it, which brings down total efficiency significantly.

Shameless self promotion: My startup (http://rexcomputing.com) is aiming for 64 double precision GFLOPs/watt, and 128 GFLOPs/watts single precision for its first chip next year.
I noticed as a kid that while 60 seconds/minutes seemed odd when we live in a base-10 number system, it was incredibly convenient when dividing into parts: 60 is divisible by 2,3,4,5,6,8,10,12,15,20,30. Always thought that was sort of clever.

24 is similarly divisible by 2,3,4,6,8,12, whereas 25 is only evenly divisible by 5. So those odd-looking "constants" are good for something after all.
> I'm a Navy veteran and a liberal.

Are you a liberal? You seem to be incredibly supportive of the United States military establishment, which isn't a very liberal position to take.

(Though I suppose it might be by US standards.)

> The tone of this article really makes me cringe because not only is it anti-military,

What's wrong with being anti-military? Ignoring absolute pacifism (which has obvious problems), opposition to the military (and the military-industrial complex) is a valid political position to hold.

The article isn't "anti-military", anyway. It's not against the US Military, it's against these specific actions of the US Military. Criticism of something and opposition to it are different things.

> it thinks our hearts should bleed for the so-called "Chagossian people."

Basic human empathy, is it not? If 2000 people next door to me were kicked out of their homes, I'd be sad for them too.

> These types of attitudes give liberals a really bad name.

What attitude? Non-unquestioning support of institutions which can and do have flaws, and having human empathy?

Usually, these are valued attributes in people.

> I'll bet a sizeable percentage of Chagossians were very happy to get off that god forsaken patch of land in the middle of a vast ocean

Do you have any reason to actually believe this? Why would they enjoy being kicked out of their home? After all, this "god forsaken patch of land" is probably not all that different from the "god forsaken patch of land" they were moving to: Mauritius.

> The Navy, and it's sailors, welcome such a place,

Which has no bearing on how the occupants feel.

> and given modern realities, it only makes sense for the U.S. and Britain to make use of this strategic asset.

Well yes, it makes sense from a strategic perspective: the US wishes to remain a global superpower with control of all the world's oceans. The BIOT is of strategic importance.

That being said, it has no real bearing on the morality of the action,

> Any Chagossians complaining now are most likely looking for some sort of reparations

That's rather cynical of you. People don't forget injustices, they're right to continue complaining.

> which most likely does not include being returned to live in the middle of nowhere on an island prison.

Island prison? I don't think they would have called their old home that.

> It's unfortunate they are living in poverty in their new home.

It's unfortunate. It's also a direct consequence of how the British treated them when they were evicted.
As I've heard it, RDS needs to support custom SSL certificates for connections. Not sure if there is a timeline for this, though.
not 20 real (64b) gflops/watt. and no, not much power is used on interconnect, and certainly not a PUE of 2.0.
More modern architectures tend to be. Apart from Itanium, other examples of architectures that store the return address in a register are Alpha, PowerPC and ARM.

Architectures that store the return address directly on the stack include 6502, z80, m68k and x86.
The twelfth root of ten contains a twelfth root of two, but it also has a pesky twelfth root of five. It might still be possible to use series/parallel constructions to cancel out the 5 and still save resistors vs' some other numbering scheme.
Yes, and is Apple required to open their platform to porn apps ?

This is USA where private property rights are supposedly important despite government's attempts in other direction.
My thinking as well. Heck, early employees are already vulnerable enough with linear vesting.

Frontloaded vesting would make the most sense, but that could be tricky to get right.
Growth in users or revenue does not always cause growth of headcount, but they are definitely correlated, especially in organizations with sales teams.
Are you okay with Comcast doing IP shaping and charging Netflix? If Comcast didn't exist, internet access wouldn't exist for many people.

That's why it's a false dichotomy. Internet.org could very easily be rate and data capped alternatives.

>connect the two thirds of the world that doesn’t have internet access. -Internet.org

This would give them monopsonic control over the internet.
Often they model how the warhead ages, rather than how it explodes.
That is half my job as CTO - catching snippets of conversation to help direct my staff outside of direct scrum or meeting times.

Two engineers talking to each other will share far more useful info than they will directly.
Wait, they make a pretty bad move, people complain (rightly so), they go back on said move in response to that feedback and "Reacting to backlash isn't an argument"? Or am I reading your point incorrectly?
I don't see what you're getting at. You're arguing that a contractor who put in a toilet (cheap or expensive... doesn't matter) 50 years ago is somehow at fault when it needs to be replaced with an unnecessarily expensive new toilet that meets California requirements?

I've heard there's an active trade in bootleg Canadian toilets in the Pacific Northwest.
I wonder whether the higher price for custom templates is warranted. I would think that this would be a very good data source for Ironclad to mine future templates, identify intricacies etc. On this front, I wonder how lawyers would respond, given that this might streamline their work but it might potentially, as a centralised data source, commoditise big chunks of it. I am saying that because I have a similar example. I.e. I am doing system implementations for Finance departments, and the cloud options definitely give the vendors an easier peek at the design decisions and techniques an integrator uses. Maybe this is not an immediate concern, but I would not rule out vendors monetising that data source of designs from specialised integrators. E.g. a vendor already performance profiles a huge range of their client applications and then provides a metric on quality given the comparison (quite rudimentary now.)
On the contrary businesses would prefer an OS where they will have to pay much less fee each year than paying one large amount occasionally. Vista and Windows 8 were needless OS which did not offer any value. Windows 10 on other hand has a lot to offer to both consumers and businesses.
Or the guys who will hack the trusted partners
GAO to Congress: Revisit Privacy Concerns Over Facial Recognition Technology
It's quite a bit more difficult. Last week I set a Windows 8 PC to use Chrome as the default; this was simple, two clicks and you're done. Now, it dumps you to a settings page which is a significant increase in steps required to set Chrome as the default. Those are the facts of this, however one can certainly make arguments as to why this is a better way of doing things for Windows.
Its the extra value added to the list, often called "collation value". If you take a bunch of public domain resources, and organise and classify them, your organisation and taxonomy is copyrightable even if the resources are not. It is tne IPR associated with the work you put into it.
> you'll also miss out on critical bug fixes and security updates for the old one within a few months?

I'm not disagreeing with your point, but can't you use the Firefox LTS releases for that exact reason?
Why don't we ask the people who currently have no internet what they'd prefer?
Even if assuming considerable knowledge, it's nice to be able to refresh the reader on basics here and there. That text is largely just reserving the right to not explain everything (also I'm moving away from it in general).

Also: what example? There's like a hundred examples.

Edit: If you mean the examples here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/adv-book/ownership.html

They're a recurring example that we deconstruct in later sections. There's no need to make them needlessly complicated.
Good question -- I personally don't know of anyone else who is doing the whole "Open Salaries" thing. Does anyone else?
"Reacting to backlash," a.k.a. admitting they made a mistake and agreeing to roll it back, is normally exactly what you want people to do when you criticize them.

Otherwise, what's the point of the criticism? Just to make yourself feel good?
The most things in JIRA I need to click probably at least 5 or 6 things to do something. So I didn't necessarily mean it's slow as in clicking on something takes forever to load (though I've seen that happen on self and Atlassian hosted versions of JIRA) but that it just simply takes way too many clicks to do anything in JIRA (except maybe creating an issue since that's always at the very top). In my opinion at least.
> a fundamentally different approach

Here are some ideas:

1. adjust the rules regulating the market (e.g. price greenhouse gas emissions correctly)

2. introduce a tax on advertising to discourage unnecessary consumption

3. ensure the price of products and services includes full life cycle costs of disposal and pollution

4. replace the whole "economic growth" philosophy with something else that is consistent and reconcilable with planetary ecological limits

5. encourage non-coercive measures to discourage population growth (e.g. access to contraception, family planning, give women increased options for education and employment), particularly in the more affluent countries which have very high per-capita environmental footprints

6. discourage population growth as above, and provide increased economic opportunities, for people living in less affluent countries, since people are able to move between countries to seek better opportunities for themselves. Or instead invest in the rather less ethical "Fortress $(countryname)" approach to keep out the people unfortunate enough to be born in the wrong part of the globe.

Tangentially, you may be interested in Donella Meadows' "Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System" [1].

[1] -- http://www.donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-place...
Acetone is an organic compound. Either somebody up there was distilling whiskey or biosynthesis was taking place wherever this slush came from right?.
This is a pretty huge deal. The plan is to build a fully decentralized compute platform. They have worked out the basics but the protocol is still in active development.

What happened today is they launched the mining network for the cryptocurrency that will underpin it. In a few days they will start allowing financial transactions. In the coming months cryptocontracts for messaging/compute/storage will come.

The title is somewhat inaccurate, as only the blockchain launched today, Ethereum itself is under active development.
Anyone interested in leaning more check out the talks from their 0th conference that was last year: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJqWcTqh_zKEjpSej3ddtD...

This episode of Epicenter Bitcoin with Vitalik Buterin, who is kind of the inventor, is also a good overview of the core contract and some immediate challenges: http://youtu.be/qPsCGvXyrP4
How is this not just a regular VPS with the word "cloud" nailed on?
I wrote something very similar a week ago actually, https://github.com/jhgg/pybloof

I'm pretty sure I messed it up slightly though. :|
Interesting. I applied to Google a while back and never got a call back (except someone called me trying to get me to move to Mountain View or NY for a devops team).

I know they are building a bigger campus[0] so maybe they are having a hard time because it is a bigger number of reqs than in the past?

0: http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_27063628/google-build-...
Wowza! So at $140k/year the effective tax rate in CA is around 40%? (Or maybe my math is bad.)

EDIT: And some that may not all be income tax? E.g. in Ontario one pays fed income tax, provincial income tax, Canada Pension Plan, Employment Insurance, and a few other I may have forgotten. In London, UK one pays income tax, national insurance, and council tax (property tax paid by property occupiers).
Baltimore has very serious and endemic issues with crime, drugs, poverty and government -- all of which combine to result in an extremely high murder rate. The numbers have improved since the historic peak in 1993 (353 murders), and Baltimore is no longer the #1 city in murders per capita in the US, but it's still not good.

If you're interested, there are several excellent explorations of the particulars of Baltimore's problems (which are present, usually to a lesser extent, in many other cities) from David Simon:

- Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (book)
- Homicide: Life on the Streets (TV series)
- The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (book)
- The Corner (TV miniseries)
- The Wire (TV series)
Were there urban cultures in the Northeast? The largest I've heard of seem more like "towns" than "cities".

There were full-scale cities in the Midwest and South, of course, but I don't think we know enough about those cultures to say what their property rights were like. I'd bet money they were a lot closer to the Aztecs than to a typical hunter-gatherer band, though.

The Tlingit of the Northwest also had a complicated system of property rights, including something akin to what we call "intellectual property" (though there were significant differences to our system). They also kept large numbers of slaves.
Try ESET Smart Security, they have a 30 days free trial period.
Maybe, start here:
http://www.slideshare.net/perlcareers/how-to-write-a-develop...

Also, there are probably more good posts on resume writing here:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=resume&sort=byPopularity&prefi...
> what data is actually sent?

It's important to remember that it doesn't matter what MS is doing today. What matters is what the force-updated version will do in the future. Or did everybody forget that you cannot prevent updates in this version?
I just tried installing openbsd for the first time. Was pleasantly surprised to get xfce working with no issues.
It might be hard to get hired writing perl in Boulder (I checked out your profile) but if you're interested in other languages, I can do some intros for you.

Or you could always move to Amsterdam: http://blog.booking.com/
Here's a crazy thought:

Maybe it's time to consider another location for startups. San Francisco is reaching it's limits, and let's be honest technology can really launch from anywhere. Let's get some other cities moving, San Francisco has enough.
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