skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It hurts those who experience injustice more than it helps

I see this sort of "u r doin feminsm wrong" comment a lot from people who a) are not part of the population harmed, b) never actually help themselves, and c) have very little understanding of the topic. But perhaps you're different. Could you tell us about three ways you've personally fought gender discrimination lately? Bonus points for links.
That's a very good research methodology. Excluding non-stateside attacks and arbitrarily selecting 2002 as the starting point to arrive at a likely preselected conclusion.
very nice answer! thanks for having the pragmatism and courage to say out loud.
It's a friend's research project I'm tinkering with, so if I don't sound like I know what I'm doing I don't... :)

The first step is masking out clouds (morphological erosion + more), and then applying a haze optimized transform to the image data. I'm confused about making code parallelisable when the transform of a pixel relies on neighbouring pixels - how do you remove boundary errors (take extra pixels, then crop off each strip before recombining I guess)?

There must be something in-place to deal with boundary errors round the edge of the image, but so far I haven't grasped it!

Numpy, Scipy, and particularly scikit-image are where the time is spent - my dabbling was originally to try and speed things up, but I've also become interested in understanding what is going on.
i'm a business owner operating on thin margins and no outside funding. why should i be forced to pay for leave if one of my employees decides to have a baby? what if i'm a small company that simply can't afford it?
You have to understand the ASIC or FPGA design flow to understand why that doesn't make sense. For some reason, I struggled to find a Google result explaining it without being a tutorial on specific EDA tools. This one from IBM mentions many details, though:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.92....

The analog components were largely hand-made by pro's, simulated, and then prototyped. Today, there's lots of so-called mixed-signal blocks that combine analog and digital with extra complications:

https://www.cadence.com/rl/Resources/conference_papers/1.5%2...

So, I'm focusing on digital design with pre-made analog blocks at interfaces and minimal integration work. Getting to the rest with OSS will be... an uphill battle on top of an uphill battle. For now, we actually can use something like Qflow at least for larger nodes:

http://opencircuitdesign.com/qflow/

Still need standard, cell libraries for the target process. There's an open set or two...

http://www.vlsitechnology.org/

...but best is to have pro's (or top academics) to straight up design a set for you for specific nodes then open-source it once silicon-proven. Need common analog components which pro's will have to do, as well. Need to integrate the digital and analog logic plus make sure whole chip is working. Gotta do the design rule checks to make sure physical properties of each layer or between them is right.

There's a lot to it. I have one or more academic papers for almost every step in synthesis, re-synthesis, formal verification, gate-level testing... you name it. Plenty for FOSS-loving academics to build on and integrate. That will take time.

Meanwhile, my main recommendation is to finalize an open-source FPGA w/ plenty of I/O interfaces on advanced process node like 45nm. Then, target ABC synthesis and/or VPR to it. Let's us get open hardware while ignoring a large part of the design process. Archipelago FPGA's are already quite a ways there:

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/EECS-2014-43...

Can create a metal-programmed S-ASIC that matches it for easier porting. If it takes off, do one for 28nm. Those should cover most use-cases with standard cell model for others.

Personally, though, I think there will be a mix of proprietary and FOSS tools. Best model is getting vendors to make theirs verifiable by FOSS tools so we can ignore the complexity of how they do it to focus on what they did and its equivalence/correctness. Especially good to get a smaller vendor like Mentor Graphics on it as a differentiator in post-Snowden market. They keep secret sauce while we get verification. Win, win.
I encourage open thought rather than mob attacks on unpopular opinions. Anyone have a link to the original article?
Because a meme involving a god that doesn't care if you believe in him has low evolutionary fitness because believers have no reason to spread their belief.
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And you are conveniently forgetting that Japan is the biggest creditor in the world and the one that possesses more foreign net assets than even China.

So yes... definitely a bright future despite the colossal "debt".
apparently all the benefits that exist in europe and asia still don't work, so i'm not really sure what your point is here, other than you want some free money for having a baby.

society doesn't 'punish' you for having children, having children is simply an expense somebody has to pay for, and nobody wants to do it.

you clearly don't want to pay the opportunity cost, as evidenced by your post, so what makes you think the employer wants to do it either? or the taxpayer?
IS grew out of the vacuum of a civil war in Syria and is predicated on creating a Caliphate. They cannot physically grow if they are not able to gain ground. Their recruitment message is likely to be significantly weakened if they lose territory and battles. Unlike AQ or even the Taliban of recent years they are not able to avoid pitched battles, they can't melt into the background - they would have to stand and fight for their territory - thus they can be defeated.
It's not that they are preferable, it's just that these verbs were invented for a reason, and people often ignore that because they didn't RTFM.

POST can be thought of as pasting a file into a folder from your clipboard, without necessarily knowing what its filename is. It oughta tell you the filename after you paste so you can retrieve it later. Typically, in a REST setting, you'd POST a thing to a collection (e.g. POST /api/v1/things)

PUT can be thought of as piping stuff to a file, when you know the filename ahead of time. It completely overwrites any existing data in that file. You'd PUT to the path where the resource should exist (e.g. PUT /api/v1/things/1)

PATCH can be thought of a version control diff. It's actually really powerful, but unfortunately, there's no widespread format to express diffs of deep structural data often seen in REST APIs, so most people avoid it. A PATCH request should contain instructions on how to add and remove sub-fields from a resource. It can be used on collections to batch-add/remove items, and it can be used in single resources to modify them without overwriting other existing fields (or even do all of those with a single request)
They specifically mentioned that they were firing retro-jets in the opposite direction at the same time they fired the cannon, and I imagine that the cannon was mounted on the outside; they weren't pulling a trigger by hand.

The aluminum cans have to be strong enough to withstand making it to orbit - I imagine they're not as flimsy as an open coke can.
It could be, depends on the circumstances. Of course you have a point, there are always family ties and so on. But even without leaving Syria I guess you could be at safer places than Aleppo.
An LCD has to buffer the entire frame, then process it, then display it, and there's also a small delay for the crystals to transition to the new frame.

Meanwhile, a CRT shows the frame as it's still being transmitted, while the source computer is streaming each line out from the video buffer, with only a negligible delay (analog electron beams are fast!). This means a maximum of a 1/60-second delay even if the source is composing the whole frame beforehand (double buffering).

If the source is doing computation between the scan lines (very common and even necessary on old systems, like the Atari VCS) that delay can be shrunk even further.
>Democracy or staying-politically-correct or show-mercy-to-the-murder are all useless to combat this level of violence, the only way to really fix it, is either they evolve and modernize quickly, or get erased by a war at a large scale. It seems more likely the latter will be the case as they're turning everyone against them quickly.

Who is "them"? ISIS or Muslims in general? It's absurd to think that there aren't "modernized" Muslims in the US.
The after-accident investigations of the shuttle disasters don't exactly inspire confidence in NASA...

You probably were downvoted because you are mixing a lot of issues.

Energia and Buran were good and probably superior systems. That doesn't mean that the soviets didn't do other things "badly" (technically, morally, ...), but that isn't directly relevant.

>>because astronauts lobbied against any and every automation for fear of being made redundant.)

> Well, when you don't live in an autocratic state, you actually get a say on what gets done especially when its your ass on the line.

Buran could fly without "asses on the line", so I don't see how that argument works. Which also means the owners of said asses aren't getting fame afterwards...
The question is whether it's normal.
I can't help but feel like Docker is lacking focus and a proliferation of tools with overlapping roles are emerging. So we have Docker Machine to provision nodes from command line, Kitematic as a GUI version, Tutum, which is similar to both (albeit more powerful) but hosted by Docker, and now the Universal Control Plane.

I'm having trouble understanding exactly what the Universal Control Plane does. There doesn't seem to be much available in terms of documentation, just the beta signup page.
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> History proves you wrong again. A lot of environment built on fear produced rugged dependable products.

I think he meant political fear - in modern terms, the fear of your manager yelling at you, or firing you, or demoting you - and back then, of your manager sending you off to break rocks in the far east.

That's not the same thing as a fear of your hardware killing a man, and over-engineering as a result.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoilless_rifle

I'd imagine the gases vented to space, not the living quarters.
We define away the problem. White people shooting others is not usually considered terrorism (such as a mass shooting committed by a white person). Terrorism is used to label actions by people you don't like. Some politicians even make statements calling the president a terrorist because he does something they don't like. We don't call it terrorism when the American government kidnapped people, took them to other countries, and let them be tortured (rendition); I do think that was not only wrong but was something you could use the T word for.
It looks really bad in fact. Their place in terms of GDP per capita is a disaster.

In 1987 they matched and then surpassed the US on GDP per capita. Within ten years from today they'll be at half (or less) the GDP per capita level of the US.

If Japan continues with their blatantly failed Yen destruction policies (meant to debase their debt), they'll rapidly sink below other countries they used to tower over on GDP per capita, such as Spain or New Zealand.

Preliminary 2015 figures peg their GDP per capita at 24th, at $32k. The US is nearly $56k by comparison.
I wonder how true that is. For Christianity at least, most dominant theology takes the view that the things that exist in the world can be used for good or for ill and aren't inherently one or the other in and of themselves.
You guys could also try Justworks. It's a really nice product.
If you want real SQL on top of Elasticsearch have a look at https://crate.io/ (https://crate.io/blog/sql-for-elasticsearch/).

P.S.: I'm not affiliated with that company.
For me Facebook has generated approximately 70 happy points but only 15 unhappy points so it's a net positive. #Data

More seriously, there is no way to respond to "show me the data". The data for Facebook being a net negative is weak as well. Despite living in the age of big data not everything can be quantified.
I'm gunna defend the otherside here. As a recent post on HN pointed out, when Google Maps happened people were outraged that you could look into their yards. Same thing with Street-View. Zuckerburg just understands that we're moving into a post-privacy world and they're really pushing the envelope here. For example I think people were outraged by Graph Search, but I think if they were to have released it in 2 years it would have been received differently. People were at first creeped out by Google Now and Amazon Echo, but now most people don't mind.

The thing they should worry about is pushing the envelope too far and too fast. I think for-instance WeChat would have totally destroy Facebook if it weren't for its Chinese-gov't tentacles. It has a much saner privacy model where you only see things from your friends ( not to mention it has a much simpler and nicer interface )
And also – easily tweakable.
As a citizen of the US, I prefer to talk about my own country, since I have more historical context. And 9/11 was a one-time event that hasn't and can't happen again, now that we've done things like reinforce pilot's doors. Removing outliers is a pretty common thing.

Furthermore, it makes sense to start post-9/11 since "we're in a different world now" and all that rhetoric that politicians have been spewing since. This is about today's political context, where 9-11 was the defining moment.
Unless you mean a skilled back-end oriented web developer which doesn't want to spend much time in the front-end, I can't agree with you.

I don't think a skilled front-end developer would take Bootstrap just for responsiveness and extras. I mean, 3 or 4 mix-ins for building columns, offsets and rows? Button defaults and tabs? Would you grab a behemoth for this?
Can you destroy bitcoins "after the fact" in this way though? Not claiming the block reward seems more like never mining them in the first case than "destroying" extant bitcoins.

(The distinction is relevant because I can imagine wanting to visibly destroy bitcoins that were e.g. proceeds of crime)
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> but it doesn't make them not-bad.

I disagree. I've never found a coherent absolute ethical framework. Not even "Don't kill people."

When anyone is arguing that something is bad, that person has to appeal an authority or belief. Often the reasoning leads to utilitarianism: "If we want society to continue, we should ban murder." But that's still an if/then statement. Beneath the if/then is an appeal that society is good or desired.

> And humanity definitely has base instincts - if we didn't, we wouldn't need governments and police.

This viewpoint becomes popular with Hobbes in the 1600s. I disagree with the term "base instincts," which negatively connotes those things. I'll change it to "randomness"; i.e. in a society of nondeterministic people, some will try to kill the others. Government and police try to reduce that kind of randomness. But from that same randomness we get music, science, justice. I'm speaking loosely of course.

I think of my American government as social contract, not as protective parent.
IS = an ideological network of individuals hiding among civilian populations across the globe

US = an nation state with an identifiable military subjected to rule of law

>and both sides are very clearly not very precise in who they actually target (the bombing on Doctor's Without Border, anyone?). Both sides cause tons of civilian casualties

For better or worse the US is operating on intelligence specifically designed to avoid/minimize civilian populations, which is very difficult when IS doesn't wear military uniform (as required by the laws of war to distinguish military actors from civilian populace) and hides among civilians. I don't know if it is "tons" or what that even means in relation to human death figures, but I'll concede it happens, still it should be defined as collateral damage because the goal of US operations is not to kill the civilian populace but those individuals bearing the most responsibility.

On the other hand IS specifically designs its quasi-military attacks to be inflicted directly on the civilian populations with the goal of maximizing civilian casualties.

These are not just differences in justifications, but differences in actions...at least according to the law. Now I could see your issue if the US was secretly funding, training and arming non-identifiable combatants and recruiting/embedding them all over the globe to specifically orchestrate indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations.
Honestly, that was the best anecdote they could come up with? Whatever PR person approved that should be fired. I'm pretty sure 90% of 10 year old boys would pass that test.
To get the $1.000.000 (one million dollars) he just has to send a small amount of money to cover legal and administrative costs.

(sorry, it's good to hear (edit: if true...) that science is going strong in Nigeria)
I'm pretty sure they are trying to push for encryption with government backdoor access. SSL certificates are issued by centralized authorities that can easily provide access to governments (if they don't do so already). Not that I agree with what they're trying to do.
He asked "why" and then answered it. That's analysis. And his slam against feminists in a footnote explicitly drags it into a discussion on sexism. If his primary purpose was pure description, he did a pretty poor job of it.
bootstrap provides a solid design and layout grid that's easy to use for a pure developer. Fonts, colors, margins all just work. Alerts are properly aligned, forms are laid out in a clear and concise way.

That's all problems that need solving for pure utility interfaces and bootstrap is very solid at solving those, especially if you don't care that your utility interface looks like "just another bootstrap site".
"He also once designed the prototype of a silo for peasant farmers and discovered a scientific technique for detecting and tracking someone on an evil mission."

I would be very curious to know how someone can detect that another is on an "evil mission". Or more specifically what his criteria for evil was.
> "“If the NES is just looking at the state of the photodiode, can I just point my gun at a bright light and score a hit every time?” This is another good question. The NES engineers took this cheat away by first writing a black screen and looking at the state of the photodiode, ensuring this would not be allowed. If it sees anything other than the black screen, it will record the shot as a miss. It is rumored that some very early versions of the game might not have had this bug fixed, but there has been no demonstration of such a bug to date."

It's funny that they mentioned this because my first memory of the NES was when a kid in my neighborhood got one for his birthday soon after they came out in the US. This was the kid who got every cool toy and we were all a bit jealous. At his birthday party we hooked up his NES Deluxe set (the one with the console, the light gun, and the robot that you used for Gyromite) and spent the afternoon messing with it and fighting over turns.

At some point, we found that pointing the light gun at the lamp in the room really did register as an automatic "hit" every time. Maybe this was one of these early versions or maybe it was something else. I just remember distinctly seeing the "bug" because it pissed off all the other kids when birthday boy started doing it to get the high score.
Seems not: https://www.quora.com/Has-the-Riemann-Hypothesis-been-solved...
Was the purpose of the cannon to take down other satellites or just for research purposes? Presumably whilst this appears to be a weapon with a considerable range, satellites don't operate that close to each other?

The mathematics to calculate hitting another satellite traveling in a different orbit and at a different speed sounds like an interesting challenge.

If you were trying to disable a satellite what would be the best target? Solar cells?
Yeah, I mentioned MCNP elsewhere... MCNP's terminology for the different sections of its input is to call them "cards."

I've never seen a punch card in my life, but the term is still around.
Have you tried building your own grid system or importing "just" a grid-system/mix-ins which generate grid and columns?
Anders Behring Breivik had a long manifesto that was meant to provide conceptual landscape behind his killing of 77 people. Unsurprising is the appearance of Geert Wilders, Pamela Geller, Daniel Pipes et al. in there, but its remarkably instructive that the likes of the respected George Orwell are also cited.
Part of his worldview (and not necessarily his course of action) is shared by a substantive part of the people coming from ethnic-European origin. Much of the less-than-graceful themes in the manifesto were from the doctrinal elements that contributed to the unprecedented carnage across Europe during the WWII, particularly symbolized by the horrific sufferings of the hapless humans of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (There are similar aspects pertaining to the thoughts of Dylann Roof et.al). I wonder whether these affairs and the associated ideological terrains have been examined as widely and with as much interests.

The recent horrific criminal acts in Paris have connections with France's colonial past with Algeria (https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/reflections-on-the-recent-pari...). And Daesh, the brutal group implicated, has its genesis in other brutalities, not unlike other similar affairs in the past (http://johnpilger.com/articles/from-pol-pot-to-isis-anything...). In different settings with reduced level of invasions and imposed/incited sufferings, such as in Malaysia, things have remained at least as decent as any other.
I think it's fair to say that Anatoly Zak did it. I've never seen it before, but look at all the renderings on http://www.russianspaceweb.com/ (browse around).

I would even guess that he shopped around first printing of it and they picked it up, that they didn't commission it.
Right, I also don't think it can be underestimated the useful power of Bootstrap's documentation: it is very well put together in terms of being a largely well organized palette of options with copy and paste code directly beneath living examples. It's much easier to point non-front-end developers and junior developers at Bootstrap's documentation and tell them "find what you need and use that" than with many of the alternatives.

Admittedly semantic classnames are nice to haves, but they become a vocabulary you have to teach others, whereas Bootstrap has built a useful enough shared vocabulary and strong enough documentation on it that it is rather reliable across the spectrum of developer skill level and familiarity.
Yesterday the same post without a source showed up.. What's going on lol? I don't believe this is real until I see a more trustworthy source.
You manage to "revolutionise game journalism" yet?
> I see precious little difference to an attack on Fallujah to 'liberate' it and an attack on Paris to murder a bunch of people.

Oh of course, they're the same thing.

Bombing civilians (without those being the explicit target) in a military context is exactly the same thing as just invading a concert room or shooting randomly at people

You're missing the context and the intent, just that. But I can see your ideology prevents you from seeing that
http://www.eugenesivokon.com/why-uikit-is-better-than-twitte...
And also the first and foremost sail. :-)
I think one reason a lot of conservative politicians are so fixated on worrying about Muslim religious laws having sway in the US (sharia law), is that they want christian laws to hold sway legally in the us.