skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you conclude that it's "black inner-cities" and not just "inner-cities" that are this so-called "void of civilization"?
a) overloaded site

b) very nice, but is this "Hacker" News? More like Discovery Channel. How is this interesting from a tech point of view? High FPS cameras. Got it. Got it long ago.
Nice. Very similar to https://githunt.io

Btw, I had an issue logging-in with my username after signing up. It wouldn't let me, I had to use my email instead.

Edit: When I submitted a new "git", I found the "Add a new git" input confusing, also, I tried to add a few hashtags, space-separated, but it did not work, it added one big hashtag... I hope this is useful feedback.
The issue is that humans are not deterministic machines. We are often presented with internal urges and cravings. We are faced with stresses that lower our ability to maintain discipline. We have different needs, so you can't just adopt a one size fits all plan. And we do have different microbiomes that will create all sorts of issues with respect to our ability to make decisions, exercise and recover.

So while it is fundamentally true that a calorie deficit will lead to weight loss, it's not trivial to create a consistent deficit while maintaining good nutrition.
The poor are an easy target for governments and private entities, simply because they are easy to abuse and there are so many of them.

Unlike the wealthy they simply do not have the time, money, resources, ability to unify and fight back as a single block (save some outraged protests and rioting resulting from attack or mistreatment by police, but those one can argue do more harm than good). If they don't have an extra $20/month, chances are they will not have time to sit and write a letter to a senator, or to call a lawyer or organize campaigns.

As the article put it, adding these fees and doing this is really an administrative step, it's just too easy not to do it. If they, say, tried to raise taxes on top tax bracket, that would turn into a long uphill battle probably. There would be local town meetings, letter to legislative representatives, calls to country club networks of friends and so on.

So as a result there are lots of payday loans places, high fees for courts, jail time (unless fee is paid on the spot), for the poor. Even once they go to prison they are turned effectively into slaves, they can't even call home because they nickle and dime there as well.
Not a great article, and I think it misses the one big thing that is genuinely revolutionary about the Silicon Valley form of entrepreneurship. And that's that venture-backed entrepreneurial companies are, by and large, the new Research & Development Departments. Acquihires can in fact be great deals for VCs, founders, employees, and acquirers. Many companies are curtailing their own research agendas and relying upon smart technology investments to position them for the 5-10-15 year time horizon. I suspect we will ultimately consider this a vastly more efficient form of capital allocation than the old-fashioned "R&D Department" at IBM, GE, DuPont, AT&T, etc.
Create a single-point-of-failure for my entire digital-life? Thanks, I'll pass.

People are completely free to use password managers, but that's their individual choice.

Additionally: There are how many songs in existence today? Apparently some tech dude said there are >97 million. [1]

How many of those are lyrical? How many unique excerpts are possible of those lyrics?

You can chose an excerpt of your favorite song as a pass-phrase, and the chance of a computer guessing that is infinitesimal (though this statement is very hand-wavey without any maths to back it up), and it is supremely easy to remember. It's also highly unlikely that you'll ever share it with anyone on the planet, let alone the same site (also hand-wavey).

If you're smart enough to remember more than one song, you can probably build up several pass-phrases that are supremely easy to remember, nearly impossible to guess, and easier to type than some rando-group of characters.

Like I said, you/anyone is free to use a password manager, but I'll continue to prefer other means.

[1]http://www.marsbands.com/2011/10/97-million-and-counting/
From the help page:

"TalkTalk will also NEVER

Send you emails asking you to provide your full password. We will only ever ask for two digits from it to protect your security."

AFAIK, you can't verify two randomly selected characters to a hashed password. My bank is also guilty of this.

Edit: direct evidence from TalkTalk: https://twitter.com/TalkTalkCare/status/514417284560191488?r...
Also check out https://containership.io as a scheduler. The core of the system is open source, has built in service discovery, dns, and load balancing.
Encrypt your backup using a secure password that's stored in the backup (in your password manager), and then just have a physical copy of the password stored in a fire safe, or safety deposit box, or something else of that ilk. As long as you haven't suffered catastrophic computer loss, you can recover your password using the password manager. If your house burns down with all your stuff in it, you can use the physical copy to access your backup (or, ya know, some other mobile computing device like a laptop or smartphone that also has access to the password manager).
See, you're talking about the fundamental limits of the economy (or the human environment), and the rest of us aren't. We're talking about the economy this year vs the economy last year (or next year). We aren't anywhere near the fundamental limits of the amount of material, or the amount of space. Therefore, what the rest of us mean by "the economy" has plenty of room to grow. And that's where "the new pie" comes from - it's the growth in the actual economy as experienced by actual humans participating in it, not growth in the fundamental limits of the economy.

There are (probably) fundamental limits to the economy. That's a different topic than the one the rest of us are talking about, though.

You keep using the same words ("pie", "economy") to talk about something different, and then you argue that we're wrong. It's tiresome, and also not useful for actual communication.
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There are a bunch of scale limits in Kubernetes itself that are being chipped away at; the bottleneck is not the scheduler, so plugging a new scheduler in won't make the system more performant.

Here's a blog discussing the current state of K8s scale: http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/09/kubernetes-performance-mea...

Note that Bob Wise at Samsung has been driving some horizontal scale testing, and has got a 1000-node cluster up and running, so that's a current "best case" scale number.
Thanks

Many younger people have no idea what modern medicine does for us that was not available when I was young. I had Rubella (german measles) that almost killed me, mumps which I remember being very sick, and ChickenPox. We still have to fight the flu but I had the Asian flu when I was very young as well. Many people died that year, 1957. Estimates are about 70,000 in the USA. http://www.britannica.com/event/Asian-flu-of-1957

An interesting story about the German Measles. Our family physician at the time told my mother to expose me to my next door neighbor that had the measles because I would get it anyway. So I remember sitting with him for an afternoon. I don't remember anything else from the next 2 weeks. My mother apologized till the day she died for doing that to me.

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Or at least that is the lie that I remind myself once in awhile.
If you include names, the word list becomes pretty immense. Most of the words any one given person knows are names. If you include at least one name, you're pass phrase is pretty secure.
Good idea. I'll justify the text. What's wrong with the font?
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They do, not that it has any noticeable impact.

Weed is definitely widely tolerated. Many people are in favor of legalization not just among those that enjoy weed but also among people working in the justice system that recognize that prohibition isn't working. Legalization would make it easier to deal with addicts, make it easier to prevent children and teenagers getting weed, would make many parks nicer to visit and bring in taxes. I think that it's just a matter of time until public opinion shifts to the point that it will be legalized.

Nevertheless the time isn't there yet, the senator responsible for police is member of the CDU, conservative and in favor of prohibition and unfortunately, while it's mostly weed, it's not just weed and many people aren't too happy about the aggressive sales tactics.
your body is much smarter than you in adapting to changes to calories getting in and out

I'm not entirely sure if you're alluding to it but starvation mode is a myth.

I would also suggest subscribing to /r/loseit or /r/progresspics for a while and seeing how many of the success stories involve anything more than "I stopped eating so much and now I'm thin!". Sometimes it's "I started keto/paleo, which meant I wasn't eating many calories and now I'm thin!".
If Saudi Arabia were on board, maybe the Hajj could be a good opportunity to get vaccinations to some of those groups of immigrants?

Imagine if they made it a visa requirement and they were the ones doing the vaccination rather than the US.
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I've got something for nanopore sequencing coming out in the next few month. Stay tuned.
So the Eel uses the Zeno effect to observe it's prey, and therefore immobilize them-- Quantum Fishing.
Israel - 8522 sq miles

Singapore - 278 sq miles

You are off by quite a bit there. Besides, whether you are willing to admit it or not, a LARGE part of the Israeli swagger is the understanding that they have the full might of the US army behind them (be it right or not). Singapore does not have an equivalent relationship.
I once had to do a team project with another student who did all his coding in Wordpad, god knows why. His indentation was more or less random. I wanted to murder him.
What were the game mechanics? I've never heard of these slow games before.
But in this scenario BigCo isn't the one needing outside financing, is it?
One man's spam is another man's treasure.
Having a Austrian father and a sister who lives in Austria, I say: the Austrian cops are said to be more civil than their Bavarian counterpart (and I'd prefer to live in Austria than in Bavaria).
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Judges and juries are frequently under pressure. Popularly desired outcomes aren't unusual.
I took a CPR class several years ago before our first kid was born and within a week I couldn't have told you 100% how to perform a Heimlich. You drill it a couple times and are somehow expected to be able to perform it in an emergency, months (or in my case with a one-off class, years) later. I would attempt it if someone was choking with nobody better qualified around, but I always doubt that many people are going to be effective with this maneuver. I also couldn't imagine me doing much of anything on someone 200+ pounds (I'm all of 155). I'm really glad to hear there's an alternative.
I know you are being facetious, but the attitude you are making fun of is pervasive across the internet. In this specific case, people are not considering that lesser and greater amounts of ingested calories are excreted depending on how much was absorbed during the digestion process. More generally, people cargo cult some scientific sound bite and then stubbornly defend it without considering that they may be wrong since they are backed by "science".
They generate a random 60-bit number and map it to a poem, so it has exactly 60 bits of entropy. If you want to double it, memorize four lines instead of two.

Paper: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/mt/memorize-random-60.pd...
e-commerce changed the way people buy things here in remote places in India. They could buy things that was not even in their dreams few years back. E-commerce advertisements cover most front pages of newspapers now. More startups are coming up in logistics space. Amazon, Alibaba etc has started investing here seeing the market potential. Logistics here is a big problem. Since local sellers are feeling the heat, they are doing everything they can to stop e-commerce players.
Is any of these platforms useful for a small company that wants to have a basic self-hosted environment for the usual stuff?

They are looking for services like e-mail (SMTP, IMAP, maybe webmail), website (static + maybe wordpress), source code hosting (Subversion) and reviews (?), CI (Jenkins?), devops, and CRM...
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Outside investors don't invest in 'marginal lawsuits.' One of the absolutely critical considerations for lawyers undertaking contingency cases is that they believe the case isn't marginal. I fail to see why an outsider would embrace more risk than such lawyers.
The "bringing invention to the public sphere" is the least persuasive argument for patent law. Trade secrets are actually protected under our current system. So companies can patent technology that is easily reverse engineerable, and then keep the other stuff as trade secrets--never giving the info the public domain.

Google has tons of patents but their secret sauce is private. Intel has patents on their devices, but their semiconductor processes are closely held secrets.

Companies have their cake and eat it too.

The more persuasive argument is that patents encourage invention by rewarding it. If it costs 1 billion to develop a product that create 10 billion worth of value but the inventor won't be able to capture more than 500 million of the value, the inventor won't spend the money.

The other good argument that nobody seems to make is just a fundamental property right. You create the invention, you own it. Real estate property was first doled out like that. First to claim it, keeps it.
Reality is not idealism. It would be ideal if people didn't have to care what they were wearing and I don't think people disagree with "that would be a better world".

The keywords are "that would be a better world" compared to "this is the world we live in".

You don't see people going into a ghetto at night wearing a Rolex watch, a 20kt gold chain, a money clip in their suit pocket, and another wad of cash sticking out of their back pocket.

Those sort of people, the kind ignorant of reality, end up being mugged or robbed. While nobody thinks "they deserve to be robbed" people will say "what the fuck was he doing walking into a ghetto wearing $25,000 in jewelry? Of course he was going to get robbed."

Recognizing reality for what it is instead of what people wish it to be is different than victim blaming. People will try to conflate the former for the latter though.
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That very much depends on what you're doing. For front-enders, probably yes. There are other job functions though. UI is very tedious to get done and Kendo offers an easy way out, leaving you to do your main job, be it business intelligence, custom predictive analytics or something else.
You make some good points, but I'm not sure that non-repeating and rhyming actually need to affect entropy at all. If you randomly generate a sufficiently large number, then break it up into smaller pieces (as the article suggests), and then apply some mapping algorithm that goes from those pieces to a poem, as long as every possible number would generate a distinct poem, you haven't lost any of your randomness. More specifically, constraints like "must rhyme" don't have to lose randomness, they just have to have an algorithm that can map every possible number to a distinct rhyming phrase, which can easily be done by adding words to the poem (e.g. if you have 300k possible words, don't use an 18-bit number to generate each word, use a smaller bit size and map the number to a subset of the dictionary. Now you can control which subset each number maps to, and the only penalty is adding a word or two to the poem.

The only real constraint here is every single number must map to a viable poem, and every single poem that can be generated must represent one and only one number. This means the poem is truly just an encoding scheme for the number, and as long as the number is sufficiently large and randomly generated, the poem should be just as secure as the original number was.
There are other countries with passports that convey much of the same benefits without the same tax obligation.

"If they get into legal trouble abroad, they may enjoy consular protection from the US State Dept". FTFY.
Isn't the downside of using any information that is personal to you that it massively reduces the scope of potential words and phrases that you would end up using?

There might be >97 million songs, but how many songs does one individual know well enough to decide to use them for a passphrase?
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No. A passphrase constructed from 5 words /randomly selected/ from a 300k word dictionary has approximately 2.4 × 10²⁷ possibilities or 90 bits of security. Trying all combinations is effectively impossible. Even assuming you happen to know the exact dictionary that was used.

And, I would be shocked if the poem constraint takes off more than a few bits of freedom. (Only 1 in 128 words are compatible for your rhyming pair? That's 7 bits. Compensate for it in full by just adding one more word to the passphrase.)
Their passwords do have 60 bits of real entropy, but the estimates in the article aren't based on how long it would take to brute-force a 60-bit password - according to the paper, that would only take 11.3 years on a single (2011-era) GPU, rather less than the 5 million they told the Washington Post. At a guess, they're counting the entire 79-bit poem pool they're culling the actual valid passwords from, on the assumption an attacker will have to test all of them. (The algorithm maps those 60 bits onto one-million-poem wide slices of the pool, and returns only the one that looks most like valid English.)
You're right, is it a logical outcome. Its inevitable if you let market forces dictate everything. There is a such a strong anti-government 'libertarian' streak to US domestic policy, that is essentially anarchism though. Which quickly defaults to oligarchy / despotism.
One of the primary purposes of nations and governments is (or ought to be anyway) to protect the poor and powerless from the excesses of the rich and powerful, to level the playing field somewhat and ensure some modicum of fairness.
Those in the US should look to extremely well run countries like Denmark with more socialist governments and strong legislation protecting its citizens. That is how a country ought to be.
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> The actual data paints a different picture

To what? That doesn't contradict what I said at all.
I was always curios about it: does reading Chinese requires better eyesight because glyphs are more complex?
Asking for the solution, and asking about the process they've used to solve a problem is not the same. Learn the process so you can solve similar problems in the future. I wouldn't consider it cheating or "not counting", they've had to learn how to solve those types of problems somewhere.
I think the price point seems reasonable. It's a patented medical device without much competition. They have a target market that would spend the $150 without thinking twice.

They may eventually want to target individuals and those not in the high-risk area -- in which case the price will need to drop. However, for their current stage and what they're after it makes sense.
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The whole point of this paper is that it makes a 60-bit random password which is easy to remember.
It doesn't work quite like that, because there is a negative feedback loop. When you increase in weight your metabolism goes up. If you are at a steady weight and increase your consumption by 50 kcal a day, you will reach a new steady weight where your metabolism is 50 kcal more.

50 kcal extra a day means steady state weight increases by about 3 pounds or 1.5 kg.
Maybe I'm confused, but reality definitely includes several independent certification organizations.
e.g UL, NSF International.

And of course when I buy a house the government doesn't provide an inspector, instead I have to choose from any number of independent home inspectors (some better than others).

Now of course they're often confirming that construction has been done to code (plumbing, electrical, etc), but it's not a far jump to say that these codes could be established and maintained by independent groups like IEEE rather than the specific city and state authorities.
For $150, it seems very overpriced to me. I expected this to be in the $30 range.

Am I missing some profound piece of engineering that warrants this price? Or is more of a "I think I can charge $X and make s 9x profit" move (which I don't fundamental object to.)
Do you believe the press release is dead?
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2015/02/04/Woman-becomes-obes...

35 pounds gained from changing her stomach bacteria.
Do you really trust any significant number of people to do that without killing the person?
When I'm hiring I'm grateful for inbound job applicants. And I've hired some. If I had to hire four people per day I'd probably be OK with it, especially if it was from the applicant themselves instead of a hiring agency.
I really do hope this works out.
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I've always been rather skeptical about how well that would actually work in practice. But even if it does, presumably the person still needs immediate medical care, as having a hole cut open in their throat is still a pretty serious condition. If you're 100 miles out at sea, you're probably not going to do so well trying to breath through a makeshift tube from a hole in your throat.
There's a significant difference, in that you choose to take on credit card debt, but you don't choose to be fined. I don't have much of a problem with credit card debt ballooning if you screw it up, but state-mandated punishments shouldn't be that way, especially if failure to pay is because of an inability to pay rather than simply not wanting to.

(To head off any "don't commit the crime, then" replies, do keep in mind that traffic enforcement is extremely arbitrary, filled with cases where following the law is substantially less safe than breaking it, and rife with profiling.)
any language with mutable values will drive an unwarned mind insane

methods of disassociating mutable objects before printing will save you from some heisenbugs

a la javascript

console.log(JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(obj))
Hence my suggestion to memorize two such passwords.
Sidenote: This was figured out ~4000 years in the PAST according to Ayurveda(edit: and TCM as the cultures were sharing information), its documented in Sanskrit texts which themselves were recorded after only millennia of oral tradition
What does it mean in a one-vote/voice-per-citizen democracy when a small number of people with money can buy more "free speech", allowing them to dominate the political dialog and crowd out dissenting voices who have less money?

To me, that seems to create a political field where citizens of great wealth are "more equal" than citizens with less.
Worth noting that the Dechoker covers a wider age range. LifeVac says not recommended under 40 pounds (probably age 3-5), Dechoker goes down to 6 months with the toddler version.