skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A leaky head gasket will usually produce a white smoke that smells a bit like pot smoke. That's the ethylene glycol in the antifreez/coolant being burnt.

The new anti-bleach craze is laughable. I had one woman at the local dog beach tell me "You know bleach is the same chlorine they use in swimming pools and we know that stuff causes cancer." I spend at least an hour a day swimming laps. Have done so since I was eight. And I at one point lived in a country where we regularly added small amounts of bleach to drinking water to disinfect it. If chlorine causes cancer I am doomed.
Did M&M's steal my Doritos contest commercial or am I crazy?
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The English language is one where words are defined by popular usage. Who gave you the right to call the definition you prefer the real one?
5 Part Guide to using Sketch App
Batteries won't help. Because a person (to which the circuit is attached) is a very good antenna picking up the hum from the wires around.

Filtering the 50Hz/60Hz from the power supply is relatively easy.
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11x17 at least gives a sense of dimensions (provided you recognize those as a standard imperial paper size). With the A series of paper sizes, most people know A4, then don't remember if sizes go up or down numerically.
Speaking of "underdeveloped social skills", there's plenty of ways to disagree without coming off as a belligerent ass.
> both definitions are valid and commonly used

In my experience there's one definition used by the general public, and another used by social justice warrior academic types to prove they have a more mindful world view than you. But that's just my experience.
Batteries or very clean PSUs help, but you can pick up mains hum even if your measuring device is not connected to the power grid. Every cable and even the body your measuring on pick it up. Simple demonstration: hold an oscilloscope's probes in your hand and you'll clearly see 50/60 Hz showing up.
Also interesting to read this while BBC are ending their centenarian relationship with the Met Office for weather forecasting due to new privatization demands: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/23/met-office-lo....

At least they can continue to work together for severe forecasts.
> I think that what most Americans don't realise is that when people threaten to shut down the American government over women's healthcare - the craziness shakes up the risk calculus of the world and people start searching for alternatives.

That's a pretty poor summary of the controversy. It's not like the U.S. is debating whether women should have Pap smears every two years or every three years. If that's how the international media is presenting the controversy, it wouldn't surprise me that the U.S. would come across poorly.
The quantity of world-changing tech that came out of the late 70's has never been matched. In fact it's hard to come up with more than a handful of innovations in tech of the same magnitude that have happened since. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-in...
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The non-paywalled version of the paper is at http://media.withtank.com/1b58f0becf/white_man.pdf .
Mumbai NGO uses martial arts to bring about change in mindsets of slum children
I may be mincing words, but I've heard the last sentence frequently enough that I have to respond.

What does the ability to change a "label" have to do with anything? Just because you can't change something doesn't mean it isn't relevant. Just because something can be changed doesn't mean it is.
How about Harvard specific entrance exams? I did extra exams for Cambridge.
I believe you have good intent. To that end, other headlines that might better balance "grabbing attention" and "not being a lie" are:

"An innocent man is serving a life sentence."

"Imprisoned for life for a murder he didn't commit. Help bouy his spirits while he appeals."

I wish you the best and if the facts are as you believe, I way, way wish the defendant in the case to be freed. There are few things worse than being imprisoned for life for a crime you didn't commit.

The problem with a pure utility argument to support what you did is that you're stating that your cause is worthy of attention and that's what makes it different from the others. I'm sure the others would make a parallel argument that their cause (even if it's just "making money by selling ad views so my kids can eat and have shelter") is also worthy, because the test merely requires the author of the headline to judge whether it's worthy of attention. You genuinely believe, but you're hardly an unbiased judge.

That very quickly escalates to a tragedy of the commons where no one can rise above the cacophony of clickbait screams. Instead, I go by the community guidelines, which include two relevant ones:

"Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."

"please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."
Full text here http://odube.net/papers/White_man.pdf

TL;DR: Sierra Leoneans' behaviour is influenced by how they want to be seen by others, with an aim towards maximising their own benefits.
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I don't know. Is going to jail based on your race suffering more or less than not getting into Harvard because of your race? I tend to agree with OP's comment, but one important aspect is left out when talking about things like this: Class.
Link seems to be dead. Edit:
https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2015/09/22/the-future-of-writ...
A big source of confusion is dimension as mathematical vector element vs spatial dimension. These are different concepts.

Still it is interesting that x, y, and z seem identical while t is intrinsically unidirectional. Why?
That simplicity (both the lack of client-side dynamics and the lack of unnecessary images) renders nice and fast, too. Too many sites waste time with "shiny" javascript tricks, way too many images and other bloat.
Yep, this is the "easy" way to chloride silver wires in the lab. I've chlorided silver wires by immersing part of the wire in bleach (regular household Clorox) and taping it in place so it sits for ~10-20 minutes.

Silver wire is pretty cheap online, so it's not too hard to get started.
Note to self: don't describe strider (https://github.com/mpdehaan/strider) as Vagrant for humans.
At that scale, we're talking about companies becoming nations.
I think so. There are a few of theme floating around Youtube. This is what I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveTy4EmNyk
Did I write something that was offensive? If I did, please point it out; otherwise, why the ad hominem?
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I have a similar project https://github.com/ihapp/intro (it's just a prototype now) and I am curious if we can join our efforts and make one project.
Submission from 19 hours earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10321396
All that can be, is. A mathematical proof is a statement about what can be in a particular system. A system can be anything that can be dreamed, by yourself, or indeed by the universe. Therefore mathematics in it's widest definition is the study of what can be in the universe.

Its like this: If something is to exist, would it not be absolutely absurd that only this exists? This universe in this particular configuration, out of all the possible configurations? It cannot be. Either there is nothing or there is everything. If there is everything then all possible configurations of thing are. Some of those things have patterns within them that 'percieve' the world to be time like. When really the whole thing is timeless, it is like all configurations of thing saved onto one giant hardrive, your life in bits on a 2 dimensional substrate. From the outside its timeless. From the context of you at x,y,z it is timefull.

Is this not totally obvious? How can this not be obviously true to everyone?
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This was a fascinating read. I found the initial bit interesting that other models were ahead because they simply had more raw computational power, though it later adds that there may be other subtle differences.
McDonalds is hyperbolic language. There is no market in space, even for SpaceX. Private incentives don't exist in a pure market fashion. Only the ultra-weathly would be the market and they are a small bunch (in the thousands of people) as opposed to the billions in the bottom/middle classes. Also, I wouldn't say the government is the market because that's inflated and not real (always a budget cut away from disappearing).

Hence why private interests won't work.

P.S. I think SpaceX has a difficult task to appeal to the public. When they can do that, on a regular basis, I'll change my position. Or if some weather company is trying to be disruptive with technology and innovation, then I'll modify my view. (But most of us know innovation in the private sector doesn't always reach the public)
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Typeform is awesome ! Glad to hear about the Series A !
My mother finally got a leg up on depression after 30 years of incompetent treatment. After 3-5 years of the first moderately happy years of her life, the side effects of 30 years of psychiatric drugs reared. She developed tardive dyskensia and peripheral neuropathy. Now she lives in constant pain and is basically disabled. And ironically she's handling it fairly well, since she really did eventually find some inner peace.

It's too bad she can't enjoy it. In particular, she's not getting to be the grandmother she wanted to be, after depression robbed her of being the mother she wanted to be.
Making an anecdotal contribution. Kenyan here. I have observed that white people are given preferential treatment and have (strangely) experienced racism against black people in my own country. I have, more than once heard people, mostly uneducated people, saying how much better things would be if we were still colonized.

Examples of preferential treatment/racism include, faster service for white people at restaurants and clubs, being denied entry to a club because 'it is full' and seconds later a couple of white people walk right in, and in one memorable instance a security guard had the gall to try and deny me an open parking spot so that a white person could have it instead. The latter got a stern talking to by me.

All is not positive for the white man though. There is the 'white tax' where prices are instantly increased when a white person is the one shopping and people are always hitting them up for money because white people are perceived to be wealthy.
Submission from 18 minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10324311

Submission from 19 hours earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10321396
Voltaire never made his famous non-statement. It was a paraphrasing of his general philosophy written by Evelyn Beatrice Hall in The Friends of Voltaire (1906).

I generally do not side with this article's overblown credit towards democracy, and particularly representative democracy. A common crippling meme among democratic societies is to absolve representatives of responsibility and instead keep insisting everything is the fault of citizens for not going to the ballot box, voting incorrectly at the ballot, and to keep trying again and again until they get it "right", even if there are obvious inefficiencies in the democratic process that must be corrected. Where even the most ardent, statistically aware rationalist will succumb to their emotions and begin spouting feel-good drivel about voting. None of this is to be admired. It is to be condemned as insanity and self-hatred.
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, the blog of the professor mentioned in the article, Cliff Mass, is a must-read: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com
Job scheduling not really rocket science, so sure.

Job scheduling when things fail is harder
Nope, nothing leaves the phone. Everything is stored in Core Data.

However, I did plan on switching to iCloud in the next version. I realized now that some people might not want their data on a server somewhere, so I would make it an option.
Well I guess you could click through and find out?
> "for humans"

The earliest example of this that I could find is from a 2007 article by Jeff Atwood entitled "Sorting for Humans : Natural Sort Order". Coincidentally, Atwood double-dipped on it a few months later with an article called "Monkeypatching for Humans" (but I think he meant "monkey" in a different way).

I think in recent years, Kenneth Reitz has really taken "for humans" and run with it: "Python for Humans", "Deployment for Humans", "requests: HTTP for Humans". He's even gone so far as to (facetiously?) trademark it ("args: Argument Parsing for Humans™"). Now everything with syntactic sugar is "for humans".

If you think your API represents a breakthrough in simplicity then trust me: it will do the talking for you.
This idea sounds awesome, but what is this 'printer' or 'paper' that he speaks of? Is that kind of like a paginated web app?

Agreed, it's impossible to make decisions on 500 metrics. The art is focusing on a handful of metrics that matter most.
Yes, it is as zurn says. I use transmission-daemon primarily so transmission-remote was the only way to communicate with the daemon. Essentially what I am trying to accomplish with this script is to make using transmission-remote less tedious. Because the developers tend to aim their attention more towards the GUI or libtransmission, not much is added to transmission-remote.

Also, if anyone is interested, I put the manpage online: http://bkazemi.github.io/trop/trop_manual.html

Thanks!
Paraprofessionals are still trained. If that were about medicine that paper would be saying 'can we use a nurse instead of a doctor', not 'can we use anyone instead of a doctor'.

Is that what you're angry about?
Sure, they can help, too. But I wouldn't recommend it, because I have no idea which drugs would help and which would make things worse.

I'm not suggesting we deny anyone anything. I'm answering the question: "why do we try to convince people not to use drugs?".
I imagine that would make the server pretty slow in times of heavy load.
No, they can just reject prerelease versions without attempting to decode them, which is much more elegant (and safer).
This looks useful for routers that are abandoned by device manufacturers or run by people that can't update on their own. It just needs a privacy policy, terms of use and a sign up page. ;)

Aside from helping patch wifi routers, this is also getting RMS quoted in popular media. According to Symantec[1], code comments include: "To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden’s example."

[1] https://hacked.com/linux-wifatch-vigilante-hacker-infects-ro...
There is an electoral poster by the docks in The Secret of Monkey Island. On examination, it reads:

Vote No1 Governor Marley. When there's only one candidate, there's only one choice!

It think of it every time I fill in a ballot paper.
I'm Asian and I don't think it's possible. Jews on the other hand are confirmed with the most Nobel prizes per capita. :)
So just like go except with benefits.
Sorry to hear that.

I imagine the 'white tax' and better 'white service' are both caused by the belief that white people are wealthier. The club might expect a wealthier person to spend more, or a security guard might expect them to tip better. So it's somewhat rational (if unfortunate) to give wealthier people preferential service.

I guess the long term solution is to reduce economic inequality between racial groups.
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I got bit by this once: a factoid is an anecdote that people share thinking it is true, but it is not. From reading your comment, I think you just meant "... ok to propagate a fact as long as it's true.". Just a friendly heads-up :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
> Spread across the entire Tube system, that technology would result in savings of £6m, about $9m.

Ok, but my understanding is that doing anything across the entire tube system' would no doubt cost trillions. Repainting all the guard rails would probably cost more than 6mil. So the proposition won't save a dime. It might be environmentally friendly and might be a good idea for new stations/trains, but the money would be better spent on other projects.

In short: Does spending a million on this regenerative breaking produce more electricity than installing a million's worth of solar panels on the roof? Which saves the most carbon per pound spent?
Identity politics unquestionably applied to individuals is indeed dehumanizing. I hope we move towards an opt-in culture, where it's considered bad behavior to attach identities to individuals without them opting in.
Why the blind faith in NASA? They're capable of screwing up royally. And they're capable of great success. Pure money is not the only part of the solution.
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> So how is this different than people with different physical characteristics from birth?

That's because skin color and facial features are directly caused by the DNA. They are just different manifestations of the same trait. DNA is also known to correlate with intelligence. Just like flattening round balls will make them slower, picking embryos with gene combinations known to correlate with higher intelligence will cause the resulting humans to have higher intelligence on average. But imagine if genes responsible for genes correlated with higher intelligence occured million times as often among genotypes of white people than among genotypes of black people. Would then picking embryos based on skin color genes instead of intelligence genes themselves produced more (on average) intelligent people? Obviously yes.

I don't really know whether intelligence genes actually occur more often among white people. I just want to point out that if it's so, it's not skin color that causes people to be more or less intelligent. It's their DNA.
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By integrate I meant interacting with your program, whatever that may be. With the go server, you get everything this program has without the concern of the code going stale or dying should the author abandon it.
What you are suggesting is that the company could provide compensation while declaring it as a cost of doing business.

If they do that (legally or not), it wouldn't count as profit for the business anyway, so a tax on profit doesn't help the situation.
Blind? It's not blind [1,2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies
2. http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Spin-off_tec...
> The thing I most hate about JavaScript is how slow JIT is and I think we have wasted tons of industry resources trying to write better engines instead of pushing for lower level access to the client metal from the web server.

Like Web Assembly?
I spent a few minutes scanning news articles about this alleged memo. It appears that it was leaked to some news organization (Bloomberg?) by an anonymous source. I think I'll wait for the NYT to determine if the memo is accurate before I get all hot and bothered about it.
The (once) "free world" that boasted to have the Stasi put to an end, are making things much worse now.

The Stasi had paper files and maybe kilobytes of data, that had to be processed by hand of some people -- our today's surveillance systems collect megabytes or gigabytes of data of everybody and can process it in milliseconds.

We Germans should know, what surveillance is all about and how an oppressive system starts out small but grows bigger and bigger. But with all our luxuries and the distractions we get, we forget, what our fathers had to learn the hard way.

We also will have to learn the hard way.
And even further, having no effective means of delivery.
I think it's obscure because it solves a problem we don't really have. We take computers for granted, and mostly group solutions into "with a computer" and "manually" (with pencil and paper), because that's what we are used to.

Yes I think in a way this drives home the gigantic conceptual advance of 'stored program computer'. Even if your day job is 'isomorphic javascript', if you had no choice you could probably crack open TAOCP and, with a bit of work, understand what it has to tell you, even if written in MIX. A tiny temporal step back puts you in an incomprehensible world of clattering opto-mechanical machinery and bits of cardboard.

Are you publishing this research somewhere for all of us who will neither find nor read Punched Cards, vol 17?
People do talk about it. Read The Bell Curve.
Families were often separated through the slave trade. Slaves were expensive, so owners typically wouldn't or couldn't spend more than they needed to, which meant buying husbands but not wives, mothers but not sons, etc.