skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would prefer much more control.

I once tried a print service over the internet and the result was disappointing, to say the least. With this app, I couldn't even choose another print service.
Ah yes, thank you!
If it hurts, do it more often
I presume few people outside Britain know how "Scilly" is pronounced, so for their benefit: like "silly".

(I've heard "Scilly Isles" far more often than "Isles of Scilly", but I'm nowhere near local.)
> individual sessions are typically much shorter than route change intervals

True for web traffic, not true for large file transfers, many multiplayer games, VPNs.

> live connections can get rejected and closed immediately by the new server allowing for rapid recovery

...if the client protocol allows recovery.
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Awesome. Already got an invite!
Of course, the main purpose of an alberca is not to swimming. A piscina is a swimming pool.
Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk (2008) [pdf]
Google Voice censors swear words. You can switch it off though, but it is on by default.
Yes and no. KakaoTalk, LINE, and WhatsApp were not blocked in China at the time, and WeChat was, in its early stages, essentially a Chinese clone of those others. WeChat's success had a lot more to do with

* Being able to login with your QQ account and import your QQ friends (WeChat and QQ are made by the same company, and for many people, WeChat replaced QQ)

* Catering to Chinese users, including Chinese payment systems, Chinese train/plane tickets, Chinese taxis, and pretty much everything else local

* Network effects within the Chinese community

* Aggressively targeting Chinese distribution channels
I just wanted to say I reaped a ton of benefit from some of the comments here. Thanks bros.
You should try My Talking Tom - http://talkingtomandfriends.com/tom/. (links to stores in the link). If you're more keen on female cats, there's also My Talking Angela (or other virtual pets from the series).
Check it out, it's really well made and tons of fun ;).
>I would like a security camera that is not able to connect to the outside world

The whole point is to have offsite backup. Very first thing more sophisticated thugs do is disable and steal your DVR setup:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/the-chut...
I owned one of these. I remember them being a genuine problem in school. Some parents would actually agree to look after the pet while the child was at school - not bad for such a simple algorithm.
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Interesting. Did any of these showmen find their way into GDS, by any chance?

Would love to discuss over a pint sometime. Do you attend HNLondon?
I never said they broke any law, I asked you to consider a parallel situation and consider the outcome of that theoretical situation.

If it wasnt a protest against muslims why were they protesting outside a mosque? If they wanted to protest extremism is being an extermist yourself the best way to do that? Surely they should be protesting against someone who is espousing extremist beliefs and not just the nearest collection of muslims who have not been accused of any extremism.

Is america really becoming islamized? is there any evidence of this? Or does their definition of islamisaztion mean any muslims living in America at all?

Could the same protests be carried out without face masks and weapons? These seem to be included just to cause fear.
He's not coherent enough to be any one thing in political terms.
The qualification is not fake. To quote from this tutorial[0], the author says:

I have been using org-mode as my personal information manager for years now. I started small with just the default TODO and DONE keywords. I added small changes to my workflow and over time it evolved into what is described by this document.

I still change my workflow and try new things regularly. This document describes mature workflows in my current org-mode setup. I tend to document changes to my workflow 30 days after implementing them (assuming they are still around at that point) so that the new workflow has a chance to mature.

> I'm curious, what, specifically, has it changed about your life?

It changed my life by consistently improving my workflow and I've become way more productive by doing it. I got impressed on my self when I automate things that seems difficult and time consuming to manually track. Extending emacs never ends when you keep on finding better ways on how to use it.

[0] http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html
An interesting assessment of safety considerations is:
http://intelligence.org/files/AIPosNegFactor.pdf

I've submitted it for HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10637207
I interpreted that part as being relevant given some of the statements from the Presidential nomination process going on today. That said, this point in the nomination process is not very indicative of where things end up.

Potentially more directly related is that there was some wholesale imprisonment that occurred in America a few years after Russell wrote that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10623861
This especially goes for complaints about bullying or discrimination. Get a lawyer and a recruiter if it comes to that, but stay well away from HR. Your expenses might be investigated for anomalies.

Workers' unions can also be risky. They have their own agenda, leverage over management, and will encourage you to speak up often without considering your own best interests.
> Kind of sad this aims for low calorie

That's not exactly new, there's a ton of low-calorie stuff out there.

> instead of low $/calorie

Obesity epidemics are caused by the over-availability and over-consumption of low $/calorie.
Some kind of public key signature seems essential, doesn't necessarily have to be elliptic curves. There's already talk about using post-quantum algorithms.

But verifying the signature is part of the validation algorithm, so "validated transactions" already covers it.
Hm.. as opposed to Germany, Turkey, UK and the US?
Small nitpick, but not necessarily everyone here identifies as a man.
> [...] isn't Nazi Germany the product of a small group of highly intelligent individuals?

Yes, a small group of intelligent individuals, who succeeded in rallying the "stupid" masses behind them.
Why is @yc1010's comment downvoted? It's exactly where Russia stands right now.
Most expendable launchers are just dropped into the ocean anyway. SpaceX is the only company that has plans to completely recover the first stage.

I can also assure you that they did do everything they could to locate and recover the debris from this launch. But for some altruistic environmental concern though
... They wanted every piece they could find so they could figure out what happened.

EDIT: Based on analysis from /r/spacex, this is from CRS-4 (not CRS-7), which successfully boosted its second stage, then performed a retropropulsion to test rentry (it didn't have landing legs, so a barge landing couldn't be attempted). I suspect SpaceX still tried to recover as much as they could of the stage, in order to see how well it handled the rentry.
"We have a webpage with three icons, yay; now gimme yer address." Not convinced.
Oh yes, but those are through coaches[1] and they're still fairly common, especially for sleeper trains. The whole fun with slip coaches is that they'd be detached while the train was moving.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_coach
Moderate? Hardly.

- The war on drugs is utterly radical, as well ineffective and brutally oppressive.

- Assassinating people (including Americans) by Drone strikes, based on "meta data". No due process or oversight.

- Disregard for the Geneva Conventions (Bombings of hospitals and other civilian targets)

- Torture. Including public defense of torture.

- NSA. Privacy used to be an inalienable right.

- Military bases in 200+ countries.

The list goes on, but I think I've made my point. The US is only "moderate" for the most creative definitions of "moderate".
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I will do everything in my power to ensure that corporate-backed, ivory-tower, anti-philosophical, techno-enthusiast academics do not figure out some kind of formula to dominate the world of human affairs with their so-called "super intelligent machines". I'm not saying that this specific research group falls under this umbrella, but they are all credited as being associated with Facebook AI research, so take it FWIW. I do believe that a certain Elon Musk would back me up here:

"I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess like what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful with the artificial intelligence. Increasingly scientists think there should be some regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish. With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like yeah he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out."

The classes of algorithms that are meant to directly interact with people in a way that appears authentically human must obviously be highly regulated, and I certainly agree that these kinds of regulations should be on par with international nuclear oversight bodies.

It is always important to give end users the option to figure out for themselves how the algorithms that they interact with actually function. In order to encourage this kind of thing, I have been working on an online, distributed operating system concept for the past several years, and one of the apps is a simple, "Hello World" kind of an AI that goes by the name, Bertie.

I am working on making the underlying system code (which is mostly JavaScript) completely editable by end users. They will be able to test out their edits in an application window inside of the web page, and will be able to share their changes with each other over the distributed, web-based filesystem that I am actively developing.

If you are running Chrome, you can try out the OS by going to https://nacl-pg.appspot.com/. To see the AI app, just click on the Applications folder, and then click on Bertie's face. Alternatively, if you are feeling lazy, just click on the following link and the Bertie app will automatically open: https://nacl-pg.appspot.com/desk?open=Bertie.
> From what I can gather this will have virtually no nutritional content whatsoever. I really do struggle to see how it could be considered a "health" food.

When the alternative is more energy-dense food and you've already more than filled your caloric budget, it's healthier to eat this. Plus konjac and wood pulp are high in dietary fiber.
Not necessarily. When company transitions from a small consulting shop to a bigger org, HR is really there to protect the company from compliance lapses.

In the US, many regulations kick in at 50 employees.

That said, HR is never your pal. Then again, the owner of the company that you drank with in the smaller days wasn't really your pal either.
> the philosophical radicals formed a school of intelligent men

Does anyone know who these men were?
> Surely they should be protesting against someone who is espousing extremist beliefs and not just the nearest collection of muslims who have not been accused of any extremism.

But, per article, they actually believed they had an information about the specific extremism happening exactly in this mosque, so it's not "just the nearest collection of muslims" it appears they did exactly what you suggest to do:

"he was convinced that Irving’s mosque had established the country’s first Islamic court earlier in the year—a false rumor that started online but grew in popularity after Mayor Beth Van Duyne made it the focus of speeches to Tea Party groups."
>he's willing to have strong opinions about controversial issues.

So is Rush Limbaugh. A lot of people are, in fact. Being today's Bertrand Russell should require a bit more than that.
Sam Harris's book on free will was quite naive--he missed a lot of the key points of today's debate, while being fairly emphatic as though he had just discovered something crucial. I certainly don't hate him, but he remains a dilettante, to me.
Throughout the last hundred and fifty years, individual Germans have done more to further civilisation than the individuals of any other country; during the latter half of this period, Germans, collectively, have been equally effective in degrading civilisation.

Russell here is making the same mistake as most people today. It wasn't the "Germans collectively", it was the German government, tolerated by a mostly ignorant population with a few "hawks" to show support for the government action.

Contrary to the top post here right now, this is the same thing happening in the US right now. The government bombs another country every 1-2 years and people let it happen. We're still in appeasement times but the state already gradually disrespects individual liberties and soon America will become a collective much like the one described in the article.
Many will argue the Roman Empire just shifted to the East where it continued to have an impressive, long-lived empire. You certainly can argue the Western Roman Empire declined over a period of centuries, but that is nothing like a 'fall.'

The 'dark ages' witnessed the high mark of Western Christendom, which had its own fascinating form of 'international' unity and an impressive legacy of achievements, and it certainly shaped modern Europe. I mean, I think everyone knows that 'Dark ages' is a made up label from centuries ago during the Enlightenment era.

Either way, neither of those labels are endorsed by any serious modern historian as far as I know.
The talking-point you repeated is well known: conveniently leaves out who the targets were.
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Same here. The only people dismissing TCP anycast at this point are folks who haven't been running anycast deployments.

It also helps to respond to DNS with multiple VIPs within your anycast /24. Browser retry logic is pretty nifty and solves most of the real world problems.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.namcobanda... might be a pretty good substitute too.
Little known fact: you can't have objects all the way down. At some level you need to add machine integers together. For that you need the internal representations of two different objects at once, not just their responses to a bunch of methods. If your language is objects all the way down, that's fundamentally impossible.

In fact, Smalltalk's VM has special code that detects when you try to add two small integers. That's similar to "abstract data types" in ML or "class-based encapsulation" in Java, as opposed to "object-based encapsulation" which is the cornerstone of Smalltalk.
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You're right and I'm wrong. Thanks!
Unsourced gif appears to be from the series "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey", episode 2, "Some of the Things That Molecules Do". Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I-PQxuPkjA
I am quite curious about the OODA loop. I understand that the concept was pioneered by John Boyd and was actually borrowed by Steve Blank (who cited it in developing the 'customer development' approach to starting a start-up).

How central is the OODA loop to military methodologies?

I ask because in the biography of John Boyd it was portrayed as being somewhat ignored by the Air Force (but foundational to the Marines).
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Another very popular one is Pou.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.pou.app&hl=...

It's also an impressive story of a single developer.

http://www.wamda.com/2013/05/the-24-year-old-lebanese-entrep...

I think Pou is much more similar to the original Tamagotchi, and very impressive too.
In the drug case people are not self-selected, because anyone can easily become a trafficker himself.

Same for the gun regulation case.

However, as soon as there is a legal structure that exerts regulation, it's very hard, basically impossible, to enter the regulatory institution. This staticness is one of the reasons, regulatory institutions fail after some time - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
> Do you buy orange juice at the store? If you do, I’m sure you’re careful to buy the kind that’s 100% juice and not made from concentrate. After all, that’s the healthier kind, right? The more natural kind? The kind without any additives? The kind that’s sold in the refrigerator section so it must be almost as good as fresh-squeezed orange juice?

I'll tell my experience when visiting the US a few years ago. I'm from the Netherlands, and here almost all orange juice is "from concentrate"[0].

It doesn't quite taste like freshly pressed juice, but I was never quite able to put my finger on it what was missing.

In the US I saw cartons of "actual really real juice not from concentrate really" for the first time, in a Whole Foods supermarket in Manhattan, NYC. So I got one of those and it was delicious. Still not quite like fresh juice, but really close.

(I don't think you can actually get the "real fresh orange juice" experience if you don't have fingers that smell like orange peel, and this vague worry that you should really wipe the kitchen counter before it'll dry all sticky)

So two days later I got another, different brand carton of "actually really real juice for realness totally not concentrate really". And it tasted pretty much like the "from concentrate" stuff at home (which still isn't bad, IMHO--unlike that "nectar" crap).

Next time at the same Whole Foods supermarket, I took a good look, and discovered there's basically (at least) two kinds of orange juice in the US: made from oranges in Florida, and made from oranges in Brazil (I think it was Brazil, 98% sure).

Now it made sense to me. In the Netherlands, nearly all our orange juice is from Brazil (afaik). And it was the "real juice not from concentrate" stuff from Florida oranges that was the juice that tasted (to me) mostly like fresh juice. And the Brazilian "real juice not from concentrate" that tasted like the "from concentrate" stuff at home.

Unfortunately I couldn't completely test the theory that maybe Florida oranges just juice better, concentrate or not, because at this particular Whole Foods I couldn't find any "Florida orange juice from concentrate". I'd have totally bought it to test the experiment, but I just couldn't spot any.

Does this make sense to any US-people? That have more time to buy and try different types of OJ? :-) Otherwise, just disregard this N=1 anecdote (but do let me know :P)

[0] There's an even cheaper kind called "orange nectar" which is half juice-from-concentrate plus water and some sugar/sweetener, but I can't imagine why anyone would buy that, ever. You can add water to juice at home without the sugar and it'll taste better, be cheaper, and healthier.
It just strikes me as incredibly unhealthy as a society to make food that is designed to make money and... not actually feed people. So sue me for having an opinion.
This doesn't seem so uncommon for big projects at that department. I'm thinking for example about all the various tools developed by Noah Snavely and colleagues for the Photo Tourism project http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/ , that were later acquired by Microsoft for their Photosynth branded tools.
A Yagi antenna is probably the easiest directional, high gain antenna to build. There are a bunch of different ways to build them. Here is one using a tape measure http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Tape-Measure-Antenna/
It's interesting to compare this with Soylent: while Soylent provides nutrition without the pleasure of eating, this provides the pleasure of eating without risking overnutrition (in other words, getting fat).

I wonder why aren't there VC firms dumping huge amounts of funding in stuff like this (or maybe I'm just not aware of)?

On a separate note, why would someone eat Soylent? Oily farty flavorless sand milkshake? I wouldn't eat it even if it was free! Now this wooden noodles stuff? Sign me up!
Wow, just realised how similar this would be to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

I find android animals like that cool, but also kind of creepy.
> the "Dark Ages" weren't "dark."

I don't know. With the cognitive relativism of our times, we want to make sure each civilisation, and each of its ages, are "equal". They certainly can be equally interesting for studies, but if we take a simple way to measure its effect on the human race by checking out how many books that are still read today have been written during these periods, you'll see that ancient Greece and Rome (and ancient China, and French enligthment) have been periods of great fertility, while for the normally educated man it is hard to find more than 2 or 3 books from the Middle Age that are still read and having influence nowadays.

So, at least following a few similar criteria, the Dark Ages were "dark". And it is not very surprising: when all the intelligensia spend almost all its brain power in obscure religious debates, you get very few results.
It's great when cutting. After a long period of bulking it's very easy to get ripped with miracle noodles. You fill your stomach without getting the excess energy in order to stay on a calorie deficit.
Is there a web-based org-mode like application that can be used by more than one user simultaneously like google docs?
Ask HN: Why isn't gpg used instead of SSL/TLS for HTTPS
This fastlane tutorial was also published yesterday. It might also be of interest.

http://www.raywenderlich.com/116065/fastlane-tutorial-gettin...
Right. I think I've never wanted to name a variable "if".
Ask HN: What CS knowledge would be beneficial to a self-taught programmer?
I am a self-taught programmer, proficient in Javascript, Node.JS, PHP and Python. I never got a CS degree but have spent over the 4years programming for small startups. Currently I am 23 years old. What skills would be nice to have? I have been reading up on Algorithms, but I would like people who have gone down this path to share what tools and tutorials they used and probably a study curriculum they used. Thanks in advance
In a sense, one can see how the Nazis' commitment to a brutal racial hierarchy undermined their ability to win WW2 (i.e. Jewish physicists left the country). On the other hand, is this being put forth as a serious theory of historical change? Wouldn't it be better to look at objective conditions (e.g. austerity conditions imposed after WW1, rampant anti-semitism) rather than whether or not the Nazis were 'stupid'? As nasty as they were, I doubt that Hitler, Goering, Himmler, etc. would appear as stupid today. Also, wouldn't the decades long commitment to eugenics on the part of many of Russell's friends, including forced sterilization, suggest that the intelligent should be full of doubt?
> At some level you need to add actual integers together. For that you need to access the internal representation of both integers at once

Not necessarily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding
Well there is:

http://dealroundup.io/black-friday-2015/
Convergent oscillation between formal definition and aesthetic intuitions is my teacher's goal. Smoothly going up to pure theory so you can forget it and go back to playing music.

ps: I'm not a teacher. But I was I would ..
Your example of plastic surgery is definitively not genetic modification. Just modification.