skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is probably impossible for a lay person to understand how a court is likely to interpret statutory language. I prefer my analysis from folks who devote a substantial amount of time to it.

Marcy compares the CISA liability protections to the very similar Section 314(b) of the Patriot Act financial information sharing liability safe harbor.

It seems at least plausible that they will operate in a similar fashion if CISA becomes law.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/10/14/time-to-get-very-conce...
Hopefully you might be able to find local resources similar to Leonardo's Basement

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leomoves/help-more-kids...

the Bakken Museum

http://www.thebakken.org/youth-programs

or the Works Museum

http://www.theworks.org

Or if there aren't such available in Frankfurt, get some other parents together and start something!
> The main argument against inflation is that if people see the value of their money increase

this is the main argument against DEflation, is it not?
Ah yes, the old tactic of framing those who disagree with you as outsiders in an attempt to discredit them.

You know what? Screw you. I grew up a nerd. I was the computer kid. I had shitty social skills.

I'm not an outsider.

And I care about diversity in tech, as do many of my friends in identical situations. Stop it.
> Although wage growth has slowed in Switzerland, it was 0.6% on an annual basis in the second quarter

A big part of the reason that economists think that deflation is bad is that people are very resistant to cuts in their nominal wages (much more than to cuts in real wages, like getting no raise with positive inflation). If the price of everything else suddenly dropped 10%, then cutting everyone's wages 10% would make them exactly as well off as they were previously, but the more likely outcome is that wages would drop by less than 10% and unemployment would increase.

If nominal wages are still increasing in Switzerland, maybe that's part of the reason there haven't been many adverse consequences.
> The theory that deflation is bad for an economy doesn't say "but only when that economy is over a certain size". It is an absolute theory that claims to apply everywhere.

Please cite an economist saying that.
What I do for SVG logos is coding them directly in a live editor: http://www.gamesfrommars.fr/live-svg-editor/
There's always a cost to complexity, and it's usually in interop. What happens if you want to share a quick technology demo with a non-technical person over e-mail? What if you want your business cofounder to be able to tweak CSS by herself, and not have to learn what "setting up a toolchain" means? What if you're leading a team (or worse, a department or company) of people who aren't familiar with the latest in the JS world, need to do minor tweaks to the frontend, but can't justify learning a whole stack of technologies for something they spend 20% of their time in? All of these are real scenarios from my professional career.

I like Babel too and the bulk of my new development is in ES6, but ubiquity is a really nice feature for development tools, probably the nicest of all.
I used to ridicule my sister for liking Barbie dolls and books about ponies. She grew up to become a physician despite playing with dolls in her youth, so I think all is well.
One of the weirdest things I've found about America as someone who grew up in Europe is racial segregation.

When I look on Facebook pictures of my european friends, they tend to be in a big mix of colors. Sure, there's more Indians at an Indian wedding in London, but you will see the little gang of white/east asian/black kids there too. Go to a majority (ie white) wedding and you will see they have a bunch of Indian/Chinese/Black etc friends.

When I look on the Facebook pictures of American friends, they are quite clearly color segregated. I really find it odd that out of maybe 300 guests at a wedding in SF, only a couple are not from the same minority.

America is also the country where I've found the strongest racial stereotypes. In Europe it's not really the stuff of comedians anymore, but when I went to a comedy night in NYC, the guy looked at me and said "Why aren't you doing homework?". Funny, sure, but it says something about what the audience already believes about various people.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/22/europe/viking-sword-norway...

> 1,200-year-old Viking sword discovered by hiker

> ... The rusted weapon was lying under some rocks on a well-known path across a high mountain plateau, which runs between western and eastern Norway.
You are absolutely right. It should be easy to brush off homeless people, belligerent drivers, random drunk people, immature teenagers, dumb co-workers, etc.

Minorities tend to be more sensitive because their armor has already been pierced multiple times. That's why "the confidence of a man" or "the confidence of a white man" is a saying.

I know the crap I go through it's not even a fraction of hers but this is a good example.

https://thsppl.com/why-i-m-absolutely-an-angry-black-woman-2...

It explains why some of my friends are super sensitive.
I don't think that even total nuclear war would actually wipe out human life on Earth. Keep in mind, 0.1% of a billion people is a whole million people.
The best way to do this, which I didn't know about until recently, is

gcc -fverbose-asm -g -Wa,-adhln=sum.lst sum.c
You should read the article, it talks about the causes.
BWR reactors like Fukushima are all passive-safe in at least one way, since water moderates the neurons coming off the critical materials, slowing them enough to continue the reaction. If the water boils away, sure the thing will almost certainly melt but there won't be a runaway prompt-critical event like Chernobyl, and if the concrete "bathtub" around the core holds, there won't be much radioactive material released into the groundwater either.

From what I heard the concern at Fukushima was that the earthquake had compromised the integrity of the containment structure, so allowing the core to melt down was judged as too risky (I'm not sure if I agree with that decision, but of course my opinion in hindsight is not relevant). In fact the majority of radioactive material that was released in the incident might have leaked from the spent fuel storage, which was also damaged in the earthquake:

http://web.mit.edu/nse/pdf/news/2011/Fukushima_Lessons_Learn...
Ok. That's still only a handful of people in the worst cases.

Now what is the cost to the healthcare system of the coal power generation that replaced the nuclear power stations that were shutdown after the tsunami?
Provisions: how Bitcoin exchanges can prove their solvency
Ok, that actually does make easy intuitive sense. I can understand being more sensitive or less self-assured. Thanks.
I love that saying. However, don't forget that a lot of really, really smart people put money into Homejoy because they felt Homejoy had solved the market (i.e. there was a market in the gap). It's not enough to just say, in retrospect, "... they may not have spent time thinking about the second (or didn't research..."). That's just clearly not the case here - they spent plenty of time on that as did their investors. Sometimes it comes down to the fact that they left out key components, the founders weren't capable, the market didn't react as anticipated, etc.
Did/does Handy promise to provide a particular individual?
Thats a great idea!

Have you seen newsdiffs?
Not like the drought is limited to the Syrian border. Israel is their neighbor and they have been doing fine through the drought (the non-occupied part that is, still sucks to be Palestinian) because they had the foresight to build desalination plants: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/science/.premium-1.659949 Like wine yards in the middle of a freaking desert: http://www.israel21c.org/winemakers-revive-ancient-negev-win... So maybe it is climate change's fault, maybe it is stupid politicians not investing in the infrastructure their people need...
For the vast majority of Americans, surveillance and internet security are pretty close to the bottom of their list of concerns. This is a forum is an echo chamber full of a tiny concentrated group of technical people many of whom are very extreme single issue voters about this sort of thing which is a gross micharacterization of Californians or Americans as a whole.

People elect Feinstein because they think she is doing a good job. They might even agree with you that she's wrong on your pet issue but that issue just isn't as important to them as it is to you.
Trouble is kids are taught from an early age what things they should like. Even if you don't tell them they shouldn't do certain things, their friends, society, the media will.

That's not to say you should force your kids to follow the career of your choosing. Nor is it to say it's necessarily because of the above that they have developed such interests.
This depends in part on how big the process that's forking is. http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/server.s manages to get quite a bit more than 2000 forks per second out of Linux, which might be in part because it only has two to four virtual memory pages mapped. (see http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/httpdito-readme for more details.)
Thanks for the support. :)

The sad part is most of them are nice people. They just lack life experience. It's almost comical. One guy got offended when heard that a black director made a movie called "Dear White People". :/
It would have been awesome if they had quantified the results somehow. It makes a big difference if the human DNA suggested 5% of the food was of a human origin or 0.000001%.

This reminds me of the article about heavy metals in our drinking water. Analytical chemistry has made massive strides in our ability to detect different chemicals. Common laboratory machines can detect heavy metals down to the ppt (part per trillion). That's approximately 1 microgram in a liter of water. At those levels, who cares?
Lamar Odom Hospital workers fired for trying to sneak a pic
Agreed that even a continuous brick wall would be relatively safe for an approximately tangent collision at 30 mph.

The concern would come from a break in a guardrail or a series of concrete columns/bollards with a pedestrian crossing, where the car could strike an abutment. (Think of "Jersey barriers" lined up in a construction zone through which a zebra crossing lies. That's an easy abutment scenario and striking a line of Jersey barriers end-on at 30mph provides a deceleration approximately equal to a 30 mph head-on collision with an opposite direction car of equal mass also traveling at 30 mph. That's going to be a massive shunt.)

I agree there's an overhyping in the title, "programmed to kill", but the decision of "cause a near-certain harm to a pedestrian" vs "cause the car to leave the known roadway and suffer/inflict unknown and unknowable harm" is a very legitimate concern.

(I worked as an intern for Daimler on a completely autonomous bus. Our only fallback was "mash the red E-stop button [shutting off the computer servos] and manually take over", so we literally never let the vehicle exceed what the human safety driver was comfortable with, but eventually that's going to go away for fully autonomous vehicles.)
I think you missed the part where he said he is from middle east, so not a WASP.
It is hard to understand why someone feels bad about racial slurs until you experience it yourself. It is somewhat tolerable when the discrimination comes out of people's ignorance, but it is hard to tolerate systemic discrimination.
> Just found verbatim search

Even Verbatim search will happily lop-off search words.

Tonight I was searching for "raf ballykelly vulcan" and after a few puzzling results realised that Ballykelly had been discarded. Since it was the airfield in question the results were therefore useless.
Anyone can launch a DDoS attack, or worse, is already a part of one
You can find the original miniz [0] on github, btw.

Other small and/or fast lz* decoders are tinfl [1], stateless lz [2][3], lz4 (my favorite) [4], fastlz [5].

[0] https://github.com/richgel999/miniz

[1] https://github.com/richgel999/miniz/blob/master/tinfl.c

[2] https://github.com/haproxy/libslz

[3] http://1wt.eu/projects/libslz/

[4] https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4

[5] https://code.google.com/p/fastlz/
The flow of migrants to Europe as an interactive map
You can find some on The Intercept (https://theintercept.com/).
You and me and lot of other people too. Get in line! ;)

It was so nice to finally get inline SVG, instead of confined inside Adobe's plug-in. Crazy days.
That hasn't stopped console games in the past, why should it matter for mobile?

(all console games rely heavily on 'aim-assist')
Richard Branson says “legalize everything” – drugs and prostitution
That things like this can still be discovered -- a Mycenaean warrior's grave discovered at Pylos, complete with weapons, Linear B tablets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_B), jewels, etc. Don't forget that "sandy Pylos" was the home of Nestor, whom Telemachus consulted to see if he knew anything about his father, Odysseus. Wise old Nestor (90 years old) had also fought at Troy, but he did not know what had become of Odysseus. Interestingly, the "Griffin warrior" recently unearthed at Pylos had trappings of the Minoan civilization (Crete), although Pylos is more associated with the Mycenean civilization.
Moreover meritocracy doesn't mean having equal number of people at the top, it means equal chances for people to climb up the ladder. After one workplace generation, proportions will be equal. And them not being equal today doesn't equate women are discriminated (In fact, career is much quicker for a woman today than for a man).
What is needed is to stop pushing women out of STEM (believe it or not, many girls are attracted to it) and encourage them to get into it to the same degree we do for boys. You're absolutely right that force is not the way to go.
I wholeheartedly recommend anyone to comb through their samples and post them on github - https://github.com/voltagex/junkcode is mine. Occasionally I'll graduate projects to their own repo.

This was inspired by http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/talks/junkcode.pdf - you may recognise the author!
Sure. I'm actually reading through (a translation of) The Logic of Scientific Discovery right now, but I am already familiar with the ideas, conclusions, etc of Popper, Godel, and others whom have done related work.

However, mathematical induction is different from "inductive reasoing" (as opposed to deductive, or "the deductive theory of testing", as Popper's translators call it). In fact, I don't believe it is a contrast to Popper's work; mathematical induction is actually a form of deductive reasoning (of course, this makes it rather confusing to talk about). Popper's method requires first formulating a system (axioms) in pure mathematics (logic). Then deriving the logical conclusions from the system and determining tests that could be performed that could contradict those conclusions. Popper also provides a schema for comparing systems, deriving contradictory conclusions, and designing experiments to distinguish between the various theories under consideration.

>The way this works is:

I don't mean to be obtuse, but it's not immediately clear to me at the moment what "this" refers to (although, from the context of the prior post, I would assume it refers to Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory). Is there another way you could clarify what we are talking about?

Edit: Ok, I read my last post again and I think maybe you are giving a physical theory that is not based on integers or number theory? My concern with that interpretation is that I'm not sure how meaningful of a distinction can be made between Integers, ZFC, or Logic within the context of physical theories. Doesn't Shannon's work allow us to collapse all writable (a necessary precondition to execute Popper's method) theories to integers?
The quote was about "destabilizing Syrian government" not simply "Syria."

And the important point is: five years before the protests.

U.S. happens to be the only remaining superpower, so others aren't that relevant, especially to understand why Obama insisted so long that "Assad must go" and why the "moderates" are "supported" or "trained."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower
If I wanted to smear veg options this is how I'd do it. Kickstart a small independent lab for transparency and health of food, run all sorts of food and pin select veg ones as being especially low quality and even having meat. Don't be clear on tests or results, don't be clear on process.

This is the sort of thing news loves to pick up, and before your pressured for full details it's already gone twice around the world. Do a full clarification later on how there was human containment and the only veg brands that failed were cause they weren't processed in vegan facilities, so it's expected. You come out looking honest, and it's just the media failing to wait for the full info!

Test other brands and items, do the same process.
Exactly. An outlier like that in any other context would be the #1 priority by a long shot.

But between their lobbyists and how much we all love artificially cheap burgers, it's a hell of an uphill battle...
It might depend on how wrong the answers are. If you ask, "How many HTTP requests per second can Python's standard library parse on a modern machine?" then answers in the range of 100 to 1 million might be acceptable, but if the answer is "10" or "1" or "1 billion", then you know the person doesn't have much of a clue, about Python in the former case or about computers in the latter case.
Quite neat to be able to see, the logic on the board instead of being hidden inside mass blob of transistors.
I still stand by my original assertion :

> because greybeard's IT stack and MO is entrenched, conventional, and defendable-against

this is utterly ridiculous
Handy's software is atrocious. I went to change a recurring cleaning schedule and they presented me with a modal pop-up to keep my cleanings at 50% off. I agreed, and my future cleaning pricing all showed up at $43/cleaning.

My next cleaning comes around, and I'm hit with a $101 charge. The receipt literally says "Price: $101, Discount: $58, Total Charged: $101". I end up having to go back and forth over Twitter DM because they refuse to respond to my emails and pick up their phone to get my charge adjusted. I ask if the remaining three cleanings that I was signed up for would honor the $43 price reflected in my account summary. They said yes.

The day before the next cleaning, I get hit with the same $101 charge. Again, I reach out to them and spend about three hours going back and forth finding out that the "last representative did not provide the right information", and that I need to "show the coupon code (I) used" (there wasn't one). I ended up getting my service cancelled for good.

Terrible. Never again. I'd rather pay a premium for a real cleaner to show up.
Can you translate these basic Spanish words?
It's the same guy.
Seems to?

I dunno. My success rate was 25% at best. Found a few contractors I really liked and kept contact info for. And had a half dozen that only used the "deals" to try to land big remodeling jobs.
Your first port of call should be equality.

Your job postings are quite rightly designed to filter out people that lack the skills you are after. However they also serve as an unwitting barrier.

One thing I have seen that is successful is actively going out and recruiting people who are different from you. Universities are a great source of untapped talent. More importantly they haven't been beaten down by classism/sexism/*ism.

Being surrounded by people who look, act and sound like you is a boring boring life.
IMO, even the owner of a share of common stock is merely a one-for-one replacement of the person(s) who originally put up the capital and took the risk originally, so they get the same standing in my book.

If person A takes the risk, founds and grows the company and then sells their stake to person B, person B has purchased the claim that person A once held. If person A was entitled to the rewards for prior work without current effort, they can reasonably sell that claim to person B, whereupon B is entitled to those rewards (at the risk of the capital B put up).

In fact, being able to do so is critical to the current funding structure for many ventures (because it provides liquidity for person A, increasing the EV for A to originally start, because they can get liquidity later rather than having to hold the share for eternity to receive the value they created).

(I realize that not everyone will share this point of view, which is OK.)
I don’t have one specific query – it is EVERY query where Google will ignore 90%+ of the words I entered, and show me around 5 related results, and otherwise completely bullshit results, with no way to see more.
This looks interesting. And the 5 day diet they link to makes some strong claims about slowing aging.
Crazily fast hashing with carry-less multiplications
Just noticed that while reading this very article - I think it's a good idea, relatively unobtrusively implemented.
Programming can be shit for sure.

But we shouldn't push out people who want to do it. We don't tell boys not to.
> Since heat is a major concern in CPUs, the ability to be superconducting (and thus producing no heat) would be a huge boon for computation.

But (if the superconducting transistors worked like current CMOS, which is a big if): While there would be no power draw or heat dissipation at steady-state, there would still be some when gates switched, correct? And if so, you could still wind up with pretty significant heat dissipation...
SXSW cancels panels on overcoming harassment in games
I really hope he had full disk encryption and left it powered off. At least your data would be safe from prying eyes, even if the device itself is no longer safe to use. If not, then that is really terrible practice, particularly for a security researcher. Doesn't everyone know to keep mobile devices encrypted and turned off when not in use (e.g. airports, border crossings, hotel rooms, etcetera)?
How exactly is this guy able to raise money, as a practical matter? He lied his ass off under oath, testifying before Congress. It's likely he'll disappear overnight with all of his investors' funds.
It is exactly this kind of issue that I am talking about. Even DuckDuckGo manages this better than Google. It’s seriously an issue.

And with Google Maps being already worse than Bing, OSM, or even fucking Apple Maps, all Google products I actively used are now useless for me.
As a customer of homejoy and handy, first of all I have to say Handy is cheaper and better UI.
Second, the key of the business success is about Quality of Service. If you can not control it, you will not succeed. For Uber, their service quality control is much simpler. The skills of the driver has been qualified by DMV. People only care about whether they arrived where they want. I do not care too much about the condition of the car as long as it is not full of shit.

For home cleaning, it is much harder. My experience with Handy or HomeJoy's service is really bad. I am not picky person, but I can see the persons they sent are not working well. And it is my house, so I care a lot!
Does that happen to Russian scientists in America often, though? Because there is precedence for baseless accusations against professors from China:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Ho_Lee

Though to be fair, there is also precedence of actual cases of espionage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in_t...
Judging by their work, I am sure they have some top talent. Most of the products are well polished. How would a brutal story go?
You don't even need overtly racist comments in movies to satisfy a structural system of racism. The absence of strong minority leads is enough - I can't think of any Asian or Middle Eastern actors with strong leading roles in America (unless they're really hot women serving as exotic temptresses, which isn't really the same)