skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In probability you have take attention to the very details. The statements "the next crash occurs on 3 August" and "there is a crash on 3 August" are not the same. Only the latter is independent from a crash on 2 August.
I for one can no longer eat an octopus. Perhaps a 100 million years from now our ancestors will be food on the future planet of the Octopi.
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Do you find the law degree interesting? If so, I'd recommend continuing with it, and focus on doing well. You already have the interest in computing, you don't need to go to school for it. My personal opinion, if I was in your situation, would be to continue mastering the law, and working on computation in my spare time, and then start getting involved in computational law. Having a niche like that is great, since it helps you focus.
> Of course, people still need protein. You won't get that from a cheap vitamin pill, and it's tricky to do right with a vegan diet

Not really - lentils, beans, peas, seeds, nuts, tofu and tempeh are all good sources of protein.
I'd like to see this picture redone with dumptrucks and semis. My commute each day forces me onto a road clogged with shipping routes and truckers with little regard for a tiny 2-door Honda. They take excessive space, excessively pollute, and contribute excessively to congestion and it's only getting worse [0]. They're unfortunately necessary, but I'm hoping that in the future the driverless truck will be programmed to stay out of the left lane.

[0]http://www.tstc.org/reports/thetrucksarecoming.pdf
Well, you don't need a mentor.
Since when is desktop 2D graphics rendering a performance an issue ?

I understand the mobile story - they need to conserve energy + work on low end devices - but I doubt you're driving those 4k screens with ARM/Atom CPUs, low end integrated graphics chips and 2GB ram - once you have those giant screens you can fit a desktop machine somewhere as well and those aren't lacking the horsepower to draw 2D graphics.
Thanks for calling me silly. It may not be efficient, but I tell you what. If it weren't for the ability to drive by car, public transport would more then double my daily commute.

Driving by bike in a very rainy environment would about tripple my commute.

I really love having my own home with a garden and can't stand the idea of living in these cramped loud dirty inner city dwellings.

And driving has one real great upside for me:
It takes care of my mental state, as I really hate these idiots inside these cramped busses/tube-cars, that smell like chemical shit (having forgot to shower and doing deodorant en masse) or listening to their music over shitty headphones, so that everybody get's noise polluted.

Not having run amok during my public transport commutes over the last 5 years (before I switched back to driving 'cause of a new job) was really sometimes hard.

People are obnoxious, loud, smelly and egomaniac. Having to endure public transport showed me, how bad humanity really is. At least here in Hamburg, Germany.

So tl;dr:
Being an ambivert i really need the quite time of my private car commute to function well in this society.
I read the same thing, sooo i put em in, they might work for an hour they might work for 10 mins.... great
Who do you think? Taxpayers, of course.
Yes! Add offsite parking requirements / minimums to the list.
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Realistically improving facial attractiveness manipulating geometry and texture [pdf]
Dark Energy Survey finds more celestial neighbors
I have a 24" UHD screen and have no trouble reading at 1:1 scaling.
Am I severely misunderstanding something? Doesn't the warp drive move the ship at e.g. 20c according to the ship's frame of reference? Given that, at 20c it would take the inhabitants of the ship 53 days to reach Alpha Centauri (4 light years). Multiply that by 18000 for the other side of the galaxy (72000 light years): 261 years. You most likely couldn't make that in "one hop" so you'd have some crazy multiplier depending on the maximum travel distance of your drive. Even if you didn't want to travel colonize the other size of the galaxy you'd have to search some 400 billion stars for a habitable planet.

That's what I'm saying: once you move past the "local neighborhood" things become quite ridiculous.
Google delays DIY smartphone initiative Project Ara until 2016
I had this idea before basically stacking balloons, but the math does not work out as a space elevator. You could use it as a launch platform though.
that was one example he gave, you've not diminished his point in any way by questioning only a part of his argument.
You say that like its a bad thing; I make that tradeoff consciously.
It just isn't bad enough yet. If you look at the past it seems that humans will continue to ignore their predicament until it actually becomes unbearable. Take for example Russia in wwI or the French revolution. Action only started happening after people were dying in the streets and everyone was generally miserable.

These days you might feel a bit uncomfortable with sending pictures to a friend. But life in the western world is not uncomfortable enough to spur the masses into direct action. I think the change with regards to spying/hacking/bugging will come slowly and not as a result of mass protesting.
If my smartphone were modular in the same way as a desktop PC, I would worry that minor bumps would cause disconnections or shorts. In theory I'd love to upgrade parts at low cost, e.g. upgrading to an AMOLED screen, but ease of disassembly doesn't seem compatible with the durability/weight/size requirement of a device I carry around all the time.

In practice, it's easy to buy a new phone every 1-2 years, and give the old one to a relative.
Lovely! It reminds me of some methods of generating images with genetic programming, e.g. Karl Sims, http://dahart.com, and http://picbreeder.org. The main difference being a stack-based representation versus a tree-based one. Some people do use stack-based genetic programming, so it would be fun to hook this up to one of those systems and evolve textures.

One nice feature in the above strand of research is that the output value, instead of being mapped to a greyscale, is mapped via a colour map to produce colour images.
I found the Khan Academy course on algorithms to be a good introduction. It doesn't get too in depth, but does explain things well and has some interactive coding examples.
They used to. Patent models were required from 1790 to 1880.
I think the key word you use here is "guide" - I completely agree that a mentor shouldn't _guide_ you down the wrong path.

...but maybe the mentor wasn't _guiding_ you, but enabling you (by answering your questions) to follow a path _you_chose_ and that turned out to be wrong.

This is important because if you always see yourself as following the mentor's path, you'll never take ownership and become a leader yourself.

As an experienced developer and personnel manager, I find it particularly frustrating when someone comes to me and says "you told me to do it this way, and now it doesn't work - fix it" because it shows that they're not taking any ownership.

Instead, I try to ask questions and make observations about their proposed approach to guide them to what I think is the best solution but, ultimately, they may choose an alternative route... and this might fail. At that point, they normally come back with "I've hit this problem, and it's mine to overcome, but can you help?"

...and I do, gladly. ;)
You can move at least 500 people every 3-4 minutes from A to B, but nowhere in between A and B.
Language vs implementation is Sufficiently Smart Compiler phrased differently. The main difference between Rust (and say C++) and .NET/Java is the former has a stronger performance model baked into the language which makes it easier to make an implementation fast.
I thought there was some sort of requirement about "reduction to practice."

But according to [0], there is also "constructive reduction to practice", which "occurs upon the filing of a patent application on the claimed invention."

That's not the same thing! Someone definitely got the meaning of those words mixed up.

And yes, I would love to see them try.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction_to_practice
context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead
How can they patent an idea everyone's already had before?
What we should remember about Blingee.com
I went through the floppy hell my self with something called minilinux first, then slackware. After failing both I went out and bought a slackware book with a CD and everything went much better.

Been a linux user ever since :)
Each mode of transport is just optimised to a different metric. Nobody ever claimed cars were the most space efficient mode of transport, so this argument is very much a strawman. They are however much faster, easier and have longer range than bikes and walking, and have more spatial and temporal freedom than public transport. This is why they are so popular.
Estonia's Internet voting is worse, because it uses cryptography, so people assume it is safer.
That is so cool.

L-systems could work as a stack system too perhaps ?
There is plenty of evidence that patents do not promote innovation
Aliens cause global warming...
Here's something that I've been mulling around for some time:

Instead of a vertical structure, as pretty much every single space elevator contains, why not make one that is tangential to the surface of the planet?

Yes, it will be substantially more materials, but if made such that the 'tail' of the elevator is trailing the rotation of the planet, it might be partially self sustaining. (Think of a string attached to the edge of a merry-go-round whipping outwards)

One would literally pick a point on the planet and build due west.
Due to the curvature of the planet, after X number of miles, you'll be several miles up in the air.

Is this not anymore farfetched than a 100km tall tower?
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cheating on an exam

I was talking about coursework and dissertations. Cheating on exams is harder, although not impossible (e.g. bathroom breaks).

it was made abundantly clear

We also make this abundantly clear. But when they get caught (which is already rare), we issue warnings, send them on courses where they learn how properly to quote and so on. 10 strikes and you are out ...

so why not with you?

Because life is short because I don't like tilting at windmills, because I have better things to do, and because I believe in specialisation. I didn't sign up to be a police man, and I have no skills in this direction. Our department actually used to pay somebody to scan rent-a-coder.com and we also used turnitin.com. The former was abandoned and the latter was reduced to a student service (i.e. they could check their coursework before submission)! We were never really given a reason why. One has one's suspicions ...

having those kids expelled

What in your opinion is the cost, financially, in terms of time and reputation, of dealing with all the law-suits that the aggrieved and high-paying parents of the expelled students are sure to launch? (Aka "my precious child a common cheater? Never, we raised her well, it must be your fault!")

A top school [...] could toss out half the current students

LOL. In 1837, Hong Xiuquan failed the imperial examination and was denied his dream to enter the Qing dynasty's civil service. This lead to the Taiping Rebellion, one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history. I really don't want to know what would happen if you fire 1/2 of Harvard students in the time of helicopter parents and tiger mothers, Lord have mercy!
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It's not what we would think of as a "space elevator", it's an inflatable tower 20km high with a landing strip on top.
There is a special place in R'lyeh reserved for all those baby Cthulhu eating barbarians.
Lossy compression for optimizing animated GIFs
Why is it that anytime LibreOffice or OpenOffice is discussed, it takes about 3 comments before somebody starts talking about Microsoft's ribbon interface? How is it still a contentious subject?

I think I probably read those comment threads because it makes me feel like some kind of genius. I have the seemingly rare ability to use either the LibreOffice menu+toolbar interface or the Office ribbon interface.

That said, I don't like using LibreOffice because it's ugly (IMHO of course) and beautiful things work better.
It's not here yet, but automation able to fully replace human beings for a huge number of jobs will eventually come. At that point a universal basic income will be the only option other than walling off the majority of humanity in ghettoes. Totalitarian "poverty state" or post-scarcity socialism, take your pick.

I say this as a somewhat-former libertarian, and partly out of libertarian sentiment. The totalitarian state that would have to be put in place to enforce widespread poverty in a post-employment era would be significantly less libertarian than the alternative. I imagine something that looks like a cyberpunk noir horror film with drones and scanners and gates everywhere. Since humans do possess empathy, the (few) rich would have to be surveilled and policed as much as the poor; your wealth would be absolutely conditional upon your support of the system. Ultimately the situation is unsustainable and would collapse and probably lead to something even more totalitarian.
> When you are the “Uke” you are taught not to give feedback to your partner.

Maybe in aikido, as I've never done it, but in the martial art I practiced for a while uke was feedback. The attacker sets the tempo for the technique, reacts to the tori's strikes, and while they're not supposed to apply the movement for them - they can lead the tori in the correct movement and suggest openings by being strong in some areas and weak in others.

While sharpening a movement, after both sides have some level of skill, they can provide feedback as to weak points in the technique - "I can stand up here, you don't have enough pressure or you haven't moved me off balance enough".

None of this feedback has to be verbal, but you can learn the techniques on both sides. Similarly, while people should learn from small failures, you don't want a catastrophic failure where you go and break uke's arm because someone didn't tell you that you were doing the wrong technique.
No, I didn't, nor distance, but it's a good point.

I'd like to hear how people go about solving these problems. I once knew a computer scientist working for a city council, she spent her days simulating the effects of changes to transport infrastructure. It was quite enlightening to hear that adding a bus stop could have a knock-on effect that would cause gridlock elsewhere in the city. It was a very hard problem.
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The generalized version of the fallacy (“Labour-saving technologies increase unemployment in general by reducing demand for labour in general.”) may be wrong or not. That’s kind of hard to figure out.

However, the micro level version of the fallacy is, I think, not a fallacy at all, but very much true and can be disastrous for a great many individuals: “Labour-saving technologies increase unemployment among people with my qualifications by reducing demand for labour for people with my qualifications.” (The consequence may not be unemployment. The affected people more or less only qualify for jobs where no qualifications are necessary, probably leading to unemployment for some, a reduction in income for others.)

Put another way, while the labour market in general may be left intact, the effect on specific individuals may be disastrous. In that context luddites smashing up machines may be entirely rational for them personally, because even though the industrial revolution lifted large swathes of humanity out of poverty (eventually), along the way many individuals had to suffer greatly and it didn’t get better for them personally until they died. Maybe it got better for their kids or grandkids.

That’s one reason why thinking about macro level effects is not enough (but there may also be better solutions than smashing up machines, i.e. it may well be possible to get the positive macro level effects over longer time scales while also, through other means, reducing or eliminating poverty or suffering on a micro level).
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There are always casualties when managers make decisions and policies based on things they have absolutely no understanding of. At least programmers were able to do it anyway with this particular case, as Steve had no way of knowing it was happening.
It's quite amusing that they try to bill this as a space elevator, when it has almost nothing in common with what is typically considered a space elevator: It won't reach space; and it's envisioned as a building rather than a tether to a counter-weight. Seems like billing it as a space elevator is a pure PR move.

Also, is 30% of fuel costs really going to be worth it? According to [1] Elon Musk claimed fuel is only 0.3% of the cost of current rockets. Even if we assume SpaceX slashes the overall cost to 1/10th without touching fuel costs, that still only brings fuel up to 3%. 1% additional savings doesn't seem like it's going to do much to help finance a 20km tower.

Of course if single stage to orbit planes are viable from it, then that may make it more attractive, but it seems peculiar to focus on the fuel cost.

[1] http://www.space.com/21386-spacex-reusable-rockets-cost.html
I haven't read through the patent, but I heard an interview with them that says they want to use it to launch SSTO spaceplanes. They also are hoping that some company like Boeing will pick up the actual building portion of the task.
so the spining of the earth would propel your cargo up/down the elevator into orbit?

One thing is that west, east, north, soyth up and down are really on relevant on earth. As soon as you are talking about space everything is up(or down) but in relaity regardless of which whay yo go to get there you are fighting against gravity. I assuem this would be the reason your idea would not work but i may be wrong.
CloudFlare starts discussion about LuaJIT project governance
This seems like a cool way to hide received emails until some time in the future.

I read the OP's ambiguous question as meaning they wanted to write emails now, which would be sent later.
I love how the renderings completely fail with physics. There is no way that you can land on top of a space elevator like that because of the lack of a centripetal force to hold the planes and rockets in place.

Edit: Oh, that's because it is not a space elevator...
Think of going vertical like just attaching a line to a geostationary satellite (but one in much lower orbit.) Now put a larger mass where the satellite is. It's supposed to be like putting a ball on a string and flinging it about in circles - the mass (ball, station) actually helps hold the connector (tether, tower, cable, w/e) "up" while counterweighting against the central anchor (your hand, earth.)

There's no drag in space, so trailing Earth's rotation isn't necessary.
Well, actually...

http://blog.codinghorror.com/a-ssd-in-your-pocket/
How I came to find Linux;

Rented a "C Programming Language by K&R" from the library. They said I need something called cc, to really grok the book I must type and try the examples, the "Practice" questions did ask "What happens if you omit ;" or something similar. Keep in mind, I had no idea what programming even meant or what it was, it was just curious exploration, "you mean to tell me they have books in libraries with recipes for things to do with a computer!?".

Windows 98 had no compiler, being poor there was not a chance we could even afford one, the PC was the investment of several years, but at the library there was a RedHat book with RedHat 6.x CD in it, which had gcc.

So after a few months, and after installing dgjpp (? some gcc or similar free compiler for windows so I ran the hello world program) finally, I could do what the book said, cc fahrenheit to celsius.c program. Ah the joy.
I really don't know. I wasn't there long enough and didn't have full insight into the workings. But my guess is that they eventually settled on a solution that met most of the specs at a reasonable cost.

However, what that opens up, is a way for corrupt officials to favor a vendor and use the others-did-not-meet-this-particular-spec as a justification.

Just my 2c. I really have no idea if it actually was ever used in this way.
Erm, i'm confused, is ngrok really currently proxying 17 million tunnels?

How are they supporting so many IPv4 tunnels? Presumably they don't have the IPv4 space to assign standard ports to them. HTTP is easy but they say they let you "expose any networked service".

Why are folks only worried about the closed source client, which likely does nothing interesting, when all the magic must be at the backend?
Going by the wording on a similar licensing structure for another programming tool:

Individual allows you to use the tool commercially and you (the individual) owns the license

Enterprise allows you to use the tool commercially and your employer (the enterprise) owns the license
I find it hard to look at their windows UI and think "native".

I'm wrong, as it was explicitly designed in windows 8's "Metro" style in mind [https://github.com/blog/1151-designing-github-for-windows]. Nevertheless, the concept of a "native" windows style is currently such a mixed mess that I can't bring myself to think of this app as "native". I don't see why being native to Metro is desirable enough to give up the convenience of having a single cross-platform app.

[I'm not saying I don't like the design, I do. It's just that I care about its features — simplicity and github integration — as something I can recommend to git newbies — much more that "nativeness".]
Speaking of weakening wireless communication, what ever happened to the Gemalto sim card revelations? This was big news 6 months ago then it just disappeared.

As far as I know, no recall ever happened. So we are all still using the compromised sim cards?
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For those who don't immediately understand (I hope I got that right):

- the 'Try It' button disappears behind a text box if the browser window is too narrow, making you unable to use the tool. (edited after hobs' reply)

- 0 is black, 1 is white (and so is larger than 1).

- if a,b is on top of the stack, then - pops b and a and puts (a-b) on the stack

- the value on top of the stack (after the entire string was processed by the stack machine) will determine the final colour of the pixel

- the algorithm runs for every pixel, that's why it's kinda slow
Not sure what you mean by "live editing of inline data structures" here (care to give an example?), but the interactive debugger in Emacs/SLIME can do quite a lot of nice things, including modifying arbitrary data on the fly, live.

For instance, if I have a hashtable returned from a function I called in REPL, I can inspect it and modify its values and properties. Also, within the REPL itself, text is "smart" and copy-paste tracks references, so I can paste the "unreadable objects" (i.e. #<Foo 0xCAFECAFE>) directly into REPL calls and have it work, because SLIME will track the reference linked to a particular piece of text output.