skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first moved to the bay area 5 years ago, I used Meetup.com, Facebook groups, OKCupid, etc. very heavily to meet new people and find things to do, and it was definitely helpful. But now that I have my favorite hangouts, social network, and so on, I just find that I don't benefit as much from these anymore. So I'm very glad they existed when I did use them; but at this point of my life, it's not working as well for me.
Wow thanks for that link. It is really begging for a visualization with the US city comparisons.
well, it can be used as a home protection device - once home security is armed anything the computer identifies as intruder can be chased and Tasered by this thing.
What does "moving on to ECC" in HTTPS have to do with the weak crypto in DNSSEC?

It seems to me like they're brushing this issue aside, especially with their "but seriously, you don't really expect the NSA to spend tens of millions of dollars to crack a server's security, do you?" comment.

Um, if it's a site that serves millions of people I most certainly do! I'd also expect them to spend that much on any tens of thousand to hundreds of thousands of users Lavabit-like service, too.
A common argument against EVs I've heard repeated is "Sometimes I forget to plug in my cell-phone, and it dies mid-day. What happens if I forget to plug in my car?"

This will address that concern, as silly as it is.
Add me to the list. I'm currently contracting for a group called "Client Services", our Clients are devs and our Services are servers. So those 2 words can mean almost anything today.
Boy, that sure is a parallel universe. Did you know striking up a conversation with a stranger in real life can still get you laid? Less efficient, I know, but if you're already saving so much time replacing food with Soylent you should have some wiggle room.
Real estate investments are a bit of a musical chairs game. A temporary positive side effect for anyone who may leverage the gains before the rug is pulled out from the seemingly inevitable market force of the "business cycle" bubbles and waves.

Conversely, if it were investments in infrastructure, businesses, and tangible productive goods that create real world value, we could rest a bit easier.
People like to complain even when they create their own problems.
> I suspect that depends entirely on the site you are visiting.

Yes, that's obviously true. But for my part, whatever overhead these tools do add is low enough that, even for no-crap sites like HN, if I can notice it at all it's within the page-load-latency noise threshold. Moveover, the increased browser stability, laptop battery life, etc. is an overwhelming win.

FWIW, I just fired up Chrome on HN and messed around with the dev tools a bit to see if there was any obvious overhead. Without taking the time for anything like rigorous analysis, loading HN with all extensions disabled vs. uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger had no immediately obvious effect on page load+render times. The superficial results agreed with my intuition: I'd have to collect data and run an analysis to uncover any added page load latency.
I think I was 13 when I met a Bulgarian guy over a psychology forum who stayed a regular email pen pal for several years; I helped him find his MBTI type.

I wonder if there are actually a lot more weird Internet friendships like that than people think, or if it's just another expression of my bizarre high school experience.
Thanks for the info, I didn't realize the connection between hash array mapped tries and persistent collections. Are you aware of any open source (ie. linkable) implementations that work that way?
Exactly!
Our brain may be our center of computation but the models it develops of the outside world and hence about itself are based on the signals it recieves from the senses.
http://www.icrw.org/media/news/commentary-does-access-contra...
Heh...

I think it'd be more accurate to say that he feels that not every human is TREATED equally. Especially where sex and intimate relationships are concerned.

When I was younger, a lot of guys wondered how so many really scummy guys could get lots and lots of beautiful women ??? I did too. After many years I've come to realize that... well... sex and intimate relationships just might work differently than polite society believes they do.

There are probably entire industries built on exploiting the chasm between propriety and desire.
Does anyone else have a feeling of total alienation from the people and behaviours described in this article? I certainly do.
But I did and that is what is happening. And just keeping quiet about it, does not make it better.
I found it useful when I saw myself on the top of the list some months ago and decided to take some days of because I was working way too much.
Looks like an actor framework, built directly on top of stdlib asyncio, and is designed to use multiprocessing first instead of tornado's cooperative multitasking.
Some of the HN comments have observed that it's not only the police that need to be disarmed, it is the populace as a whole.

Gun violence seems to be so deeply ingrained into the American psyche that the Congress has found it necessary to pass a law preventing the Center for Disease Control from studying the epidemic of violence. See, for example,
http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2013/02/gun-violence.as... and elsewhere. People get so worked up about this issue when they fear their guns will be taken away that they will not support anything which will help mitigate the violence. So much for rational thought.
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> filtering using the hosts file on older Intel OS X which works for other browsers does not seem to be effective for Safari

Could you clarify this point? I may well simply be misunderstanding, but a quick check of a hosts-blocked site using Safari, in El Capitan, does indeed not resolve (or rather, resolves to localhost, as specified).
In a British accent too to make it all the more frightening
Hiroshima had a major naval port and military headquarters. Nagasaki had a large military garrison that accounted for a significant percentage of casualties. Never mind by this stage, degrading military industrial centers was widely considered the best way to end the war. I don't see how you can claim these targets had no military value.
@bertnb:

like this: https://www.dealbeds.com/serta-motion-essentials-ii-adjustab...
Fog of War, the documentary that inspired this page, is amazing. If you have an interest in history, and how powerful people make decisions, I recommend watching it. It's rare to see someone who once held an office of significant power be so frank in what they did wrong.
Ah, interesting. Never mind then, stupid idea on my part :)
We saw this in Chess engines about 20 years back (when they started getting seriously strong) they play Chess incredibly well but looks very little like what a human playing does.

It was fascinating to watch the changes in chess theory through that period as the machines validated or invalidated concepts and ideas that GM's had posited but been unable to prove one way or the other.

John Speelman wrote an intro to The Mammoth Book of Chess (that thing was awesome,I think I wore out three copies) which (paraphrasing horribly) that Chess is a realm of pure thought and that computers play it the way an alien might.

The best engines on commodity hardware now require offering pawn odds for a top human to even have a chance and their strength is accelerating[1] (stockfish now has a distributed test architecture to test for regressions which is incredibly cool[2])

[1] http://www.chess.com/article/view/how-rybka-and-i-tried-to-b... (Rybka was/is one of the strongest engines and in concert with a human it still couldn't beat Stockfish).

[2] https://stockfishchess.org/get-involved/
What would be really cool too, is something like http://himawari8.nict.go.jp/ with the (more-or-less) real-time pictures from DSCOVR.
It's difficult to know the target space needed for this rev of the device. Also, it's probably less than 30cm vertically - I'm quite sure some engineers at Tesla know the height of the charge port, even given the differences with the air suspension.
> In that case, my mental execution of the code will depend on a mental model of the third-party component that's probably incomplete.

That's the whole reason why you would want execute the code mentally. If you don't execute the code mentally, you might not realize that your mental model of the third-party component was incomplete to begin with. Mentally executing code is a great way to test your own assumptions.
Encrypted Square Reader to Credit Card Skimmer in Under 10 Min
Interview with Dorothy Breininger of Lifetime and A&E’s 'Hoarders’
As if we're exchanging sparse depth by regular shallow, thinking their quantitative substitutes.
This is incredibly uncanny.
As a thought experiment, and to illistrate the point so it really sinks in:

How many Americans were taught in school the White House was burnt down by an opposing army?
That's pretty good. I wouldn't say things are impossible, but there're a lot of conversations happening about the problems with our current approach. Leon Bottou gave a great talk at ICML that covers stuff like this. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...
Mutable strings are a double edged sword from a performance perspective. It sucks to have a bunch of un-needed string allocations due to string literals that are only used for one method. Sometimes though, mutating and re-using strings when possible can yield some pretty large improvements like https://github.com/mime-types/ruby-mime-types/pull/93.

I would love to read a post written in simple(ish) terms about how V8 handles string allocation and what string performance optimizations helped the most. Would be really neat to see it compared to python/ruby/etc.

It's also worth noting that the majority of the speed here comes from getting rid of hash and array allocations. The bulk of the object count came from string savings but the bulk of the "memory" came from more complex objects.
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Meanwhile, in the gay community, Tinder's occupies the niche of the somewhat less sex-obsessed alternative to Grindr, the purely gay hookup app that even Tinder's name seems to have been inspired by...

I'm not sure whether the author of the article would be more shocked by the revelation that many Tinder dates actually don't end in sex[1] or the revelation that ten years ago, the same demographic of men was bragging about the ease of chatting to multiple potential one night stands per night in bars

[1]especially ones with men that consider getting a female phone number (with emojis!) to be a major accomplishment
Interesting idea. Before Shai Agassi's electric car company (Better Place) folded there was talk of a similar motorized arm [0]. I don't know whether that ever got past the discussion stage at BP, and they're out of business in any event.

[0] http://archive.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/magazine/16-09...
This article makes a big assumption that women only use sex to get to relationships, and men only use relationships to get to sex.

Plenty of women casually date with no interest in serious relationships, for the same reasons that men do: They value their independence, they're focused on their careers, they like to be able to travel or meet new people.

It's antiquated to think that women who go on Tinder are hopelessly pining for love and commitment, and it's equally antiquated to think that there aren't men out there who want those exact things, but can't get them because the women they're dating aren't interested.

In fact, I'll posit that there's a much more positive outlook on this: People nowadays are much more suspicious of moving too fast, of losing parts of your identity and independence for the sake of just being in a relationship. The warning signs are more visible, and we act on them with less hesitation, instead of letting resentment of a bad situation fester into something awful. We break up easier, divorce easier, and refuse to live unhappy lives because the idea of being alone is no longer terrifying.
Another reason that neural nets do crazy things: they have little knowledge. We see a dog, by looking at it's shape etc. The neural net by looking at features.

A solution to this I think would be splitting up the taks, like "finding eyes", "is this fur", etc ... freeze these networks, and use these as input. This would prevent most errors given in these examples.

A lot of animals know what eyes look like regardless of the species, not saying nature always has the best solution. But it probably had a good reason to have a specialized-build-in "head/eyes" detector.
Google is simply another avenue for information. You could just as easily change the title to "Television Could Steal the Presidency".

If you asked 2,000 undecided voters (BTW, if you're undecided when you go to the polls, don't vote) to read news articles in a left or right wing publication, I'd bet the voter would likely be persuaded.

This is why we see so many commercials on TV right before an election.

To me, the real issue is people not spending enough time researching a candidate.
Plus, computer chess, with its alien moves, opened up human thinking on chess, which ties in with the article's point about neural nets causing humans to see our own world differently.
Upload it to your creative cloud and get a license to play it from Apple or Youtube.
Would the claw still work if it was coated in soft rubber?

Alternately, I'm imagining the cute-but-ridiculous solution of making the claw and the car magnetically repel one another, so as it the claw plumb-bobs downward and swings toward the car, it just sort of naturally veers away from the surface, rocking around it in an arc until it stabilizes.
>a big factor was reading the biographies of some of my heroes, e.g. Dirac, Feynman, etc., and realizing that they spent a lot of their time working alone in their offices uninterrupted, and communicating with people either in real life over meals, walks, etc. or by postal mail

Of course they did, there was no such thing as internet back in the 30s. Feynman in particular, I'm positive he would have had a big social network presence if he had lived today.

But I think we can all sympathise with that feeling. I think it's not so much a problem with the medium (communicating over the internet is faster and cheaper than meeting people live, and it lets me engage in conversation with you, for instance, who probably live halfway across the world from me, so why not use it?). I think it's a problem of saturation. With our phones and computers ringing dozens (hundreds?) of times a day, with mounds of interesting stuff to read in websites like reddit or HN or your favourite newspaper, with information overwhelming us 24/7, maybe it's not such a bad idea to, once in a while, silence the phone, ignore your 1000s of facebook friends for a while, and just take a walk and read a newspaper in a park.
The hyperlink URL text could contain a secure hash of the gimp.org home page. Or a revision number and the hash of a public key used to sign gimp.org home page revisions. Or of a document containing three public keys, the majority of which need to sign a home page revision for it to be considered a valid value for the link. Or, as in onion services, the hash of the public key of the server hosting the document, along with a document path to send to that server when you manage to reach them. Or a name unique within a certain namespace, and a public key used to sign new versions of the document listing the name-hash mappings for the latest version of the namespace. And maybe a list of IPv4:port pairs to contact to ask for the document. Or the name of a decentralized pub-sub channel where versions of the page are periodically announced — maybe the Bitcoin blockchain. There are lots of possibilities.
Some of us don't want wirelessly connected cars.
For the most part, I think everything should be designed to be updated in this way.

I have a Harley-Davidson motorcycle that I can update simply by connecting a USB drive, turning the ignition switch on, and waiting about five minutes.
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We also are looking for IOS and Android devs full-time. Reach out to me as well.
When most women think " Ew, a dadbod" ,it's expected they will encounter the most "despicable" kind of men.

Such paradigm is not a consequence of a misogyny; quite the other way around.

Downvoting me won't change this.
What the Flux? Let’s Redux. (or why Redux is awesome)
If I were the CEO of Twitter
The huge benefit will be when this is used in conjunction with the self parking system. You drive up to the front of your house, get out, and the car drives itself into the garage and plugs itself in.
A dystopian welfare state funded by clicks
I'm just saying, in a world where self-driving cars go rouge, we're gonna want to deny them access to charging stations, and the charging snakes make it just that much harder.
>There were many ways the allies could have ended World War II in the Pacific theater.

There weren't really all that many ways it would end given that the Soviet Union operated independently and was in a position to invade much earlier.
> that's what humans are, options on legs

Saved for future robot-training dataset, thanks.
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Apple Music is a terrible disaster. Apple Music is a storming success
> why are they hanging out online with these people?

hanging out, in some cases, for twenty hours a day, according to the article.
I'm not sure I would optimize for liquidations.
`instancetype` is relatively new addition to Objective-C/Clang.
I assume their version just doesn't support it yet, since the regression to `id`.
Relevant username?

Do you work in the teledildonics space?
I find it ? wiley.com is in it.
I see a cheetah in the static, too...
If we look at how people currently share links in social media then url shorterners are very common in use. That would point towards either local or centralized services providing the share-ability of links which would translate between a local address and a global name which may simply be a hash string. There are also QR codes and magnet links which neither rely on a domain name service to operate, but which are used by people to share the address identification for a resource.

They are not trivial solutions to the problem, but the fact that they are in use makes its plausible that a solution can be found.
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Indeed (was just editing to clarify on that :) ).

It led to something of a renaissance in chess theory.

What I'd love to see (and have been tempted to take a crack at) is an engine built purely to play like a strong human with variable strength (things like not always taking the strongest move but not playing like god and then blundering either, not always avoiding mate in 27 plies and such).

Shredder does it pretty well but it still feels like a machine, ChessMaster with The King got the closest I've seen.
Is the war of 1812 not commonly taught? We learned about it and how the First Lady saved some important paintings from the White House. We didn't spend much time on it relative to bigger wars, but I understood it to be a standard part of American History.
lasers! http://www.space.com/29271-space-station-laser-cannon-orbita...
I bet if you exposed another mammal like a monkey or a cat to that recharging tentacle, it would be frightened by it too. We are wired to be afraid of snakes and snaky things. It's one of the most common phobias. Sci-fi horror merely tapped into that fear.
The dead-simple solution for aligning the car is to make it drive onto alignment rails. Or, given that it can auto-park, just give it an auto-pump-align routine based on that.

The true benefit of a "smart pump-side alignment" system, I think, is that it copes with different models of vehicles (e.g. EV SUVs, EV 18-wheelers, etc.), with their charging ports in different places and orientations.
Exactly... the upthread mentioned that you could do it without a TTP, and I just don't see how that would actually protect someone without it.
I work at home, and if I wanted to, I could have a computer
right by my bed, and I'd never have to leave it.
But I use a typewriter, and afterward I mark up the pages
with a pencil. Then I call up a woman named Carol out
in Woodstock and say, "Are you still doing typing?"
Sure she is, and her husband is trying to track bluebirds
out there and not having much luck, and so we chitchat
back and forth, and I say,"Okay, I'll send you the pages."
Then I go downstairs and my wife calls, "Where are you
going?" "Well," I say, "I'm going out to buy an
envelope."And she says, "You're not a poor man.
Why don't you buy a thousand envelopes? They'll deliver
them, and you can put them in the closet and get one
whenever you want."And I say, "Hush." So I go to the
newsstand across the street where they sell magazines and
lottery tickets and stationery. I have to get in line
because there are people buying candy and all that sort of
thing, and I talk to them. The woman behind the counter
has a jewel between her eyes, and when it's my turn, I ask
her if there have been any big winners lately. I get my
envelope and put the pages in it and seal it up and go to
the postal convenience center down the block at the corner
of Forty-Seventh Street and Second Avenue, where I'm
secretly in love with the woman behind the counter. I keep
absolutely poker-faced; I never let her know how I feel
about her. One time I had my pocket picked in there and I
got to meet a cop and tell him about it. Anyway, I
address the envelope and mail it in a mailbox in front of
the post office, and I go home. And I've had a hell of a
good time. I tell you, we are here on earth to fart
around, and don't let anybody tell you any different.

— Kurt Vonnegut, (Harper's Magazine Nov. 1995)
Much of it depends on the person writing the textbook/commentary and their political affiliation. For example, just yesterday the speaker of the Russian parliament suggested trying the US for the attacks. I'm pretty sure that the textbooks in Russia are going to be updated soon to reflect a similar point of view.
women used to hold the power in online dating

Anyone who has ever seen a pretty woman's okcupid inbox can attest that being dog-piled by hundreds of desperate men is an odd definition of "power".

Tinder at least requires a mutual match.
This is pretty cool, I kind of wish it pulsed a little, like it was feeding, while it's plugged in and charging.
So it will seek out and plug in without driver input? I guess that would only work if they are in everyone's garage. Isn't there a smartphone ap that can remind owners if they part at home without connecting?
When effective cultural participation requires keeping up to date with at least some of Hollywood's products, choosing not to view/listen is the same as choosing to be just that much more socially disconnected.

I think that's a stretch.

Some things in life are essential to functioning effectively in modern society, like the abilities to have a stable home, to travel, to communicate, and to transact financially. Some infrastructure is then necessary to support these things, like sources of power and water for your home, effective transport and communication networks, and reliable currency. Losing access to these things is very bad, and so it is reasonable to consider measures like government regulation and universal/unbiased provision to protect that access.

On the other hand, the world is full of people with different tastes and different cultures. Sharing some specific entertainment may provide a bit of enjoyable discussion around the family dinner table or office water cooler later, but it's hardly essential in the big picture.