skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChucK is great, but Sonic Pi is where it's at ;0D
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> Also the Genoa and Venice seem to have played a big role. I think this relates to how they based their economies on naval power, but had strategically very bad positions. So they had to stay ahead in technology.

If that were the case "Italy" would have taken the place of "Spain" and Portugal at that time regarding seatrade and clearly they didn't neither then nor in the future being almost irrelevant.
Why Torture Doesn't Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation
on the one hand I agree with you.. death is a personal affair. on the other hand I feel like if they are going to put it in the public domain, they should expect that people will want to know the cause of death, especially (as someone else pointed out), if their death seems to be at a reasonably younger age...
In a geopolitical and historical sense, Africa is usually taken to mean sub-Saharan Africa. Egypt in particular is historically bound up in fortune with the Middle East, but if you look at the general trend of political conflicts and especially technological diffusion in pre-modern eras, it's clear that the barrier between Eurasia and Africa is not Sinai but the Sahara.

Even France, Germany, and England were outside the Eurasian core, exhibiting lags in technological diffusion (although decreasing over time) until almost the eve of Early Modern. It's only in the Early Modern that European countries (and by the end of the Early Modern, this is mostly focused more on England, France, and Germany than Spain, Italy, or the Balkans) began to match and pull ahead of the rest of the Eurasian core.
I mean basic stuff. Users need to know that they have both public keys and private keys. That public keys allow other users to encrypt stuff to them. So they need to share them. That private keys allow them to decrypt stuff encrypted to their public keys, and also to sign stuff. So they need to protect them, keep them private. Failure to get those basic facts accounted for much of the craziness and confusion in the cited study.
But why would they? They are ruled by the very same upper classes and large corporations that rule all other countries... And their ideology is that of the "competition" (that is, supported and subsidized by the state) and profits at all costs.

They make their own class everywhere, no matter their nationality.
What's stopping someone from Filing BK (bankruptcy) to wipe the jail debt clean?
and when it runs to 0%, it goes into "watch only" mode for a day or so , where it just shows the time
Indian astronomers detect dying, giant radio galaxy
They are talking about Varnish:

https://www.varnish-cache.org

Or, you can start with this to get the general idea first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_software
"This is the key. Most arbitration clauses in contracts, however, seek to prevent going to court."

Most mediated settlement agreements have the same clause.

The goal is finality.

"And, in addition, arbitrators side with companies what appears to be far to often."

Based on what data do you think it is far too often?

IE why is it bad that they side with companies often if the companies are right?

In my experience, most of what our justice system deals with are bullshit or worthless claims, and so if the private arbitrators agree with the companies, instead of the company settling, that's good not bad.

I'd love to see some independent org do an independent review of the strength/merit of the claims of each arbitration case, and whether there is still bias "accounting for that"

I realize how difficult such a thing would be ;)

Without such a thing, at least, given what i've seen, i remain unconvinced that most complainers are is not just the whining of plaintiffs lawyers and people they sold a bill of goods to.

Because arbitration is cheaper, faster, and probably better for everyone.

(plus, you don't need lawyers to represent you.
In fact, i could start a company that handled thousands of arbitration claims for folks much more effectively than i could handle thousands of class action lawsuits. Because i don't need $500 an hour lawyers to manage the case, legally.

It happens that lawyers are really slow and haven't noticed this yet, but i expect arbitration will end up better long term for people once they do)

"If people are required to seek arbitration, but can still go to court afterward, I have no issue at all with arbitration.
"

If they could, there would be no point in arbitration!

Someone is going to lose.
If the next step is to go to a judge and have them re-decide the whole thing, why bother with the arbitration step?
While we're linking to the NIH: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24026574

"Recent randomized controlled re-challenge trials have suggested that gluten may worsen gastrointestinal symptoms, but failed to confirm patients with self-perceived NCGS have specific gluten sensitivity. Furthermore, mechanisms by which gluten triggers symptoms have yet to be identified. "

So, yes, there is a lot we don't know - about a lot of things but there really isn't any evidence, even in your linked search, that people without wheat allergies or celiac disease should care about gluten. Not enough to justify slapping gluten-free on everything - which makes it a fad.
Laws that compromise privacy are irrelevant.
Do these look like "economic weapons" to you?

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

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

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

http://qz.com/374138/these-are-all-the-countries-where-the-u...
I'm guessing this is yet another case of "the engine had 2% confidence that it might possibly be X, so let's call it an X and delete it" antivirus brainfart. I say throw the URL at Sophos' "virus report" thingy, them about the false positive, and wait.

The title in this URL seems a little simplistic, but this is what I hand people on this subject (I'd advise reading at least the first 8-10 PgDns of it): https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/3e16h7/what_is_th...

Also while we're on the subject, are there any effective techniques out there (binary fuzzing, injecting nops, or rearranging the code and adding jmps, for example) to mitigate this? I'm guessing categorically not...
I installed Chrome in ~/Applications and saw what you are talking about. I believe they are really just shortcuts for Chrome for various Google services. I deleted them and haven't seen them since.
Debian.org RTC: announcing XMPP, SIP presence and more
AFAIK atomic reads, writes, and read-modify-write instructions still need alignment on x86.
Philosopher doing his job which is partly to decompose our worldviews. Natural vs artificial false dichotomy is an important topic that has been explored by several well-known philosophers. Off the top of my head the 'noosphere' concept seems related.
I think you are right that there are still disadvantages to within-country inequality, but I strongly disagree with the dismissal you seem to be making of the massive reduction in country-level inequality and accompanying massive reduction of extreme poverty, which has plunged from ~40% of the world population in the 1980's to <20% now.

> it's the inequality within each area that one would expect to have the harmful or beneficial effects on democracy, civil society and so-forth.

You seem to be implying that extreme poverty does not also cause adverse effects on democracy, civil society, and so forth. My guess is that having massive populations of people living at or below subsistence is also harmful to democracy and civil society. If you look at the kind of problems they have in relatively equal [1] Sudan (mass malnutrition, militias literally raping and pillaging) to relatively unequal [1] United States (police violence, poor health care provision), I hope we can acknowledge the problems in the US without denying that they are orders of magnitude less severe. The difference is in the amount of absolute extreme poverty, not the inequality.

BTW if you click on the images in the links you can access the high res versions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
Back before I could afford the minor increase in cost of ECC ram, and the larger cost of using RAID 1 or 5 or 6; I got bitten by this very issue in my personal hardware.

Just one of many times that I've been taught. Any data that is actually /valued/ should have a backup. Redundancy in operation is more a hedge against hardware failure, and unplanned downtime.

Integrity costs; pay for it. This is true everywhere.
Kickstarter is not a casino. The TOS requires companies to deliver. Those that don't open themselves to lawsuits. My recommendation to anybody who does a kickstarter is to price it at the retail price or even more if you're talking about limited or first run sales.
As there have been a number of discussion on slack, irc, xmpp/jabber, matrix etc - I thought many might find this large scale deployment interesting.

Also, I wasn't aware of the lumicall client for Android.
Sorry buddy, but arbitration rules don't work that way.

For all the arbitration hate here, i'm going to guess that basically nobody here has any experience with arbitration past reading articles about how they are "company friendly" or whatever.

I'd really love to know what's wrong with arbitration in theory (it's definitely more effective and efficient than going to court for 7 years).

Most of the complainers are the plaintiffs lawyers who can no longer sell sob stories to juries and get millions because juries are easy to sway.

IE you present statistics on how "company friendly they are". These statistics do not take into account that maybe these people should be winning these claims. Given how many claims are completely worthless, ...

And please, read the normal JAMS or AAA arbitration rules, which are generally quite fair, before complaining.
Because i would suspect most of the suggestions that get made are already the way things are.
Cornerstone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_(software) was the database Infocom released. Is that what you're thinking of?

It could also have been the first versions of Progress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_Software
Having one of the parties to the dispute being the primary and continuing source of income for the decision-maker does seem likely to improve those two measures of the process.
People still use spinning rust for databases?
A decade and 1Bn into a project to digitize US migration forms, just 1 is online
Most arbitrations are binding.
That means they can't appeal the facts and the result.

If the arbitration process was unfair, they can appeal that.
But if the process was fair, ....
The oldest tree in Britain may be switching sex
"The dots represent information in binary form, a standard that should be comprehensible even in the distant future"

Said by someone who never had to import Word files into OpenOffice.
Personal finance books are often a lot of garbage with a little bit of wisdom thrown in that requires effort to extract.

http://badmoneyadvice.com/2009/03/whats-wrong-with-the-milli...
Verified. ProtonMail received no additional requests for money. And, those are the attackers' words. The original attackers claim they stopped. They hit many other Swiss companies and stopped after they were paid, as well. They are screwed now (and seem to be panicking a bit) because the size of the secondary attack was enough to knock a portion of Swiss internet infrastructure off line, anger some high profile businesses (including banks), anger the Swiss Government, and cause the matter to become a high profile case for Europol.
Actually, it didn't resolve the crisis. In fact, categories, computability theory, and most mathematical findings of the last 150 years are a direct result of stepping around the crisis, namely Russell's paradox.

My point is not that category theory is more fundamental than set theory (though set theory can be described in terms of categories), but rather that it isn't derivative. You don't need the formalisms of set theory to have category theory.
Cygwin/OpenSSH crashes/dies frequently (at least for me on Windows 7 / Cygwin64). Putty doesn't do that.
There's plenty of room at the lower end. Of course if you're already a millionaire, investing and loans are easy. But if you only have $100, they're not. Traditional investing and banking are designed to exclude the lower class/working class, to prey on them, and to be a losing game for them.

Even if you can get by the minimum balance limits, when you have to pay a $10 fee to buy and a $10 fee to sell, you need to beat a 20% return just to break even on a $100 investment, let alone make a profit. But without the fees and the minimums millions more people could be investing a bit here and there and growing it.

Predatory payday loans and rent-to-own businesses are enormous - even though they depend on exploiting people who really can't afford them. If there were a better alternative, millions of people might use it.

With the middle class shrinking, the market is growing.
Something something Rust.
Thanks!
Not sure who would use it :P
It was just a fun project.
But I do think there should exist such a service which aggregates and organises all social accounts.
To me, a phrase like "sign away control" implies a limited ability to change course. But the treaty requires the ongoing consent of each country.

As a citizen of the US with a certain employment profile, I believe that the TPP mostly benefits me. Which doesn't mean I support it, I don't have a strong opinion either way. I think much of the criticism of the process is fair, but I think a lot of people are also looking past the broader motivations of it (bringing countries towards the US before they go towards China).
I prefer to refer to him as "The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince". Or TAFKATAFKSP, if you want to shorten it a bit.
QE in Japan is another beast altogether. The Bank of Japan openly buys Japanese stock ETFs:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-28/owning-hal...

Ponzi himself would blush in shame over this.
Not a citation, but here's a soviet depiction of that time: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/
I'm not that impressed by this.

They talk a lot about "mesh networks" in the "Related Works" section in the introduction. Their work is in fact not related to any kind of mesh network. The words "mesh network" are a very loose collection of concepts, and are used to describe certain classes of IP routing protocols, large volunteer-run ISPs like guifi.net and Freifunk, and p2p messaging apps like Firechat. The authors do not seem to understand the distinction, and their analysis of this "related work" does not rise above the level of "wow, cool decentralized stuff".

On to the actual work being presented, it looks to me like the researchers just put an Android compiler into an Android app (Maybe this is a big accomplishment? I don't know much about Android development). In any case, it has an interface to select a few superficial options for the app, like the icon, and then it will compile a new copy.

Using NFC, the compiled app can be transferred to another phone. This has nothing to do with mesh networks in any sense of the word. They also present an analysis of compile times on various phones, which top out at 330 seconds. Useful information?

In any case, it's cool that they put a compiler in an app, but this paper feels like a massive edifice of fluff built up around a cool weekend hack. I hope that they can pass their class or get their certificate or degree or whatever they're gunning for here.
I had to get to the article using google.

Well, I suppose India won't be sending that many engineers to the US on an H-1B once the Indian companies lobby the Indian Government cut off the export of their local talent.

The only losers here are US tech companies which will have an even tougher time importing tech talent from India.

Additionally, US companies will now have to compete against Indian companies with Indian C-level counterparts making a fraction of what they make.

Africa may start to look good long term source of tech talent to US tech companies, but I suspect that American companies using H-1B visas are going to have to pay more or use American engineers in the short term.
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Maybe avoid null in C++. I have no clue.

But null is a useful concept in SQL.
same link posted 8 hours ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10528119
> We're all incredibly lucky that the soviet union folded into dust [...]
> People were welcoming Nazis as liberators back in the day

You should consider, though, that the late Soviet Union is nothing like it was in Stalin's time. Almost a different country.
Well, I think that you would be wrong in that assessment.

Jack Dorsey calls himself a computer programmer and so does Douglas Englebart. Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Stallman and James Gosling all call themselves computer programmers and not one of the people I have mentioned calls themselves an engineer. I think that if you are a lowly computer programmer then you find yourself in some good company.
Actually, in most of European countries, AFAIK.
So I guess the disk platters used a glass substrate, coated in a layer of magnetic medium?
For an Amazon pre-order, you risk nothing. You aren't charged until/unless it ships and you get price-protection. Neither of those is true for the crowd-funding world.
Pebble is great for that. They went for e-paper-like screen and buttons instead of backlit screens and touch, and you can easily pull 5+ days of battery life while having it work as an actual watch (i.e. screen always on = time always visible).

Myself, I don't mind multiple devices but not each with a single feature. I would also like them displaying things through the watch, and not just the phone.
Yes i started using Pebble last month. I like it. I had to charge once per week, charges within an hour and its not a smartphone juice drainer (i use BlackBerry Z10). Though number of applications and support is good in Android/iOS for obvious reasons.
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posted yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526137
> I don't think he's being insightful at all. All his observations seem to be shallow and his conclusions are weak.

Thank you; you put it better than I could.

A small example that demolishes his crackpot theory: we just had a kid a few weeks ago. We have a cat, who has never been around children, and who has never had children. And yet, when the child cries, the cat comes running; and if the cries do not subside soon enough, she'll start howling. And then there's this example: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30893297

Is the cat following some religion too? Hogwash.
I drive a Nissan because I trust it more than an American made car in terms of reliability. I have had several experiences from my friends who drive an American made car. The recent Chrylser exploit nailed it. This article smells like an aptly timed smear campaign coming from an American mediahouse.
Lots of friction when it comes to financing just about anything nowadays. But everyone has pockets so if you connect them via a platform, it becomes possible to crowdsource anything: project financing, student loans, stock ownership, etc. A less relevant but interesting point is that the future job of a broker will be entirely automated.
Help this girl get back to normal life by crowdfunding her medical charges
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Boss haters, weed smokers, new phone numbers etc.
Letter to a Young Woman in Engineering
Sorry Tony, you're absolutely right. Got my acronyms wrong. Thank you :)

(The parent is Tony Finch, a very smart email guy who runs email for the university of Cambridge)
Focal points, culture, and cities
Yes, the idea that we must be fair to all opinions, no matter how silly, is also a bad one.
And I just found this :

https://youtu.be/IjmostrFetg

Thinking Machines parallel computer Fluid Dynamics demo, the Lisp OS and GUI can be seen live half way. Pretty pretty.
Looks about the same on Android Chrome.
I really don't think so. Fermentation is something that happens at room temperature and warming a stew (even as much as 40°C) would kill all the yeasts.

Also, fermentation would render the stew sour, which I don't think is a good quality for a stew.

I think that the idea of the perpetual stew is the contrary: to keep the stew always boiling on the fire in order to prevent the microorganisms from growing and spoiling it.
As always, prefer prebuilt recursion scheme combinators instead of making your own. The following, using `forever`, is IMO much more readable because you don't have to mentally resolve the recursion:

main :: IO ()
main = withFile ledFile AppendMode $ \h -> do
let put s = hPutStrLn h s >> threadDelay 2000000
forever $ do
put "0"
put "1"
where
ledFile = "/sys/class/leds/beaglebone:green:usr0/brightness"
3D has always been a gimmick back since the first stereo photographs were produced. I don't see any reason that will change.
My favourite was the roguelike ADoM, which went up to 0.99, then alpha through gamma, then up to gamma 16, for a final version of 0.99gamma16 before tripping over to 1.0.
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Looks good. Where are the pictures?

By the way I am very interested in online newspaper design. Let me know if you are interested to work on a side project like this, where we enable anyone to launch online newspapers. (info@followme.co)
Beyond Happiness (2009)
One of the interesting things about the 'Uberization of money' is it shows another way that social organization can be high-tech. And integrating high tech into society better allows us to benefit more from technology. Ultimately this should mean society evolves along with technology much more quickly. Which should provide more opportunities for testing high tech solutions to societal problems like inequality and resource management.

Where I think this is going is towards better holistic accounting for society that will eventually mean keeping more than one common point value (money) for each entity. I think having a consistent system for tracking resources is something that can enhance (rather than replace) the utility of universal trade technologies like currency.

A big challenge is getting technocrats and moneytheists to synthesize their ideas.

Systems like Ethereum, bitcoin, Resiliance seem relevant. I think we may be able to get a common web assembly platform or something to help us evolve an IoT/resource schema and module system. A common, deeply semantic and high tech platform, integrated into social regulation and physical reality generally, will allow society to take holistic measurements from various viewpoints and quickly adapt to improved or diverse ideas for organization.
Don’t Blink the Hazards of Confidence (2011)