skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you'd have to define "Geek", then somehow enforce the terms just in case someone invites a member who isn't sufficiently "Geeky." Otherwise you'll have people bickering over who belongs there and who doesn't. How about car geeks? Sports geeks? People who bite the heads off chickens for a living? Will prospective members have to prove their "Geek cred" somehow?

It's sort of like how Hacker News is for "anything that good hackers would find interesting," which sounds like it means something but really doesn't mean anything specific, and probably just resolves to "anything that correlates with the interests of the mods," like every other moderated community. Other than branding, what even is the point of using "Geek" at all?

But to actually answer you question, personally, no. I think there are already tons of sites which cater to "Geek culture" (or nerd culture or... whatever) of various niches, and of course if what you want in HN, but with invitation only, there is lobste.rs. Someone can basically set what you're describing up as a subreddit. I also don't like invite-only communities on general principle.
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At the risk of humor, this cartoon exactly summarizes my reaction to this post: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3805
But that is perfectly fine! That only means that you cannot have an automated install procedure that the company can rely on. There is really nothing wrong with a little manual labour at this stage. Do not spend weeks and weeks on automating this without having the environment to test your code.
A ton of bullshit in the article, and the cancellation reason is never stated. Why is it even here?
1) Looks like a submarine.

2) Someone who wants to record the show could easily do it even with these checks. I expect there's another motive.

3) Dave Chappelle has had some difficulty with audience interaction in the past, and this may be a way to keep the audience more focused on the material and performer, increasing their enjoyment of the show.

I hope he's as funny as he used to be.
I think Go is optimized around this idea: that the average reader will have an accurate mental model. (This of course implies trade-offs with other considerations.)
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I'm afraid there are only two options here:

- A life-long educational program for the people, starting with study of basic logic, rhetoric, and obscurantism. Consider collaborating with people trying to do the same in e.g. Russia.

- Joining the burgeoning autocratic bureaucracy and playing by its rules to bring change from within. If you don't feel like you have the energy or skills, consider supporting a like-minded, but more capable person in their career. It's never a crime to support a growing bureaucrat.

The biggest challenge you're going to face is defining a common idea to unite the people with whom you want to collaborate. "Like-minded" should mean something specific, or else. This idea should paint a picture compelling enough to motivate people to act, even if only a smallish number, and big enough to eclipse the lesser differences among the collaborators.

The only easy option is emigration.
>27 million people watched the League of Legends world championship[1] which is on par (or better) than MLB & NBA championships.

That's part of what's depressing.
All of our theories are single-threaded in the sense that the reader begins at the beginning of the paper and reads it through to the end. Theoretical physics at this level has always seemed to me a kind of weird mirror of this fundamental constraint on the 1-D nature of theories themselves.
This car stuff still doesn't make sense to me.

One big thing I don't understand about these Apple car rumors is what is Apple supposed to be doing that current automotive groups are not? If you're new to a product area, building a car using CMs (makes sense) with subsystems sourced from the CM or outside suppliers (also makes sense), where's the je ne sais quoi that makes the Apple car compelling over other options? How can you have an advantage over the established manufacturers, if you're sourcing parts/knowledge (e.g., BMW's nifty CFRP material) from your competition? What's the sustainable competitive advantage?

An obvious answer would seem to be design, but I don't buy that Apple producing a better UI than the current car manufacturers is fait accompli. On infotainment, CarPlay is pretty frustrating to use, to the point that I question if anyone from Apple has actually used it while driving: legibility is awful (especially for Maps), Siri doesn't work well in the noisy car environment as a primary navigation tool, and touch operation takes too much eye attention. Some of the usability failures are due to current Apple styling choices (e.g., fonts that are too thin), but many are (as I see it) due to the unsuitability of the Apple multitouch UI paradigm for the car. For comparison, I'd rate both Chrysler's UConnect and BMW's iDrive as superior in usability. I have no doubt that CarPlay can be improved (e.g., physical jog wheels), but I see those improvements as teaching away from the Apple's UI paradigm and towards the existing competitors in the auto world. As to interior or exterior design, I also remain skeptical: Apple tends to pick materials that don't wear well in use, and we're talking about a product that will have far longer lifecycle than anything in the current Apple lineup. I'm sure Apple could produce something that looks nice, but plenty of marques make nice looking cars. Nice appearance for cars is commoditized.

Apple's current supply chain and manufacturing processes are a hell of an advantage in consumer electronics, but there would seem to be very little overlap with automotive. I guess that applies broadly too, there seems to be so little overlap with Apple's current corporate experience and advantages in consumer electronics and the automotive arena.

edit: Also, JLG's point on maintenance is poppycock. Electric cars may have reduced maintenance, but to suggest that tires and wiper blades are all one has to worry about is plain wrong. Part of the product lifecycle considerations includes recalls, e.g., Takata airbags.
Serendipity. This morning, in another context, I learned for the first time about E.T. Jaynes' work and downloaded a copy of his unfinished tome. And now, this afternoon, in Shalizi's review, I again see it honorably mentioned. Thanks for this link.
electrospaces is an absolutely top tier resource if you're interested in OSINT about US surveillance programs
Won't work, not for stopping leaks.

Moreover, by asking people to put their phone under a lock, the venue implies that they view every attendee as a thief. That sure as hell won't go down well with some and they will find a way to record and post to YouTube purely out of spite.
So 30% of my current job is writing technical user guides for large, custom, automated research systems (the rest is design and development of those systems).

Each one is slightly different, and so needs its own guide. We currently are stuck using Word b/c it's so fast. Yes it's ugly. Yes it's a pain to work with sometimes. But I haven't found anything that's faster to produce these docs with.

The reason we haven't switched to html, latex, or xml etc... is because I haven't found a typesetting program that is as easy to drag and drop images into and out of. Each guide has 30+ images on average. I _need_ that interface to be drag and drop otherwise it's too tedious to write the guide. The formatting of the text I'd love to do in some sort of markup language, but the images have to be dead simple.

Short version: Anyone know of a typsetting solution with some markup language, version control, print to PDF happen at click of a button, and drag and drop images?
the rear turret had 20mm's from what I recall
Radiation hormesis is at best highly speculative. And even if it were true, you'd still be far better off providing that stimulation in measured doses through some sort of medical intervention rather than some insane scheme where you screw with building materials.

This scheme is indefensible, please don't try.
Is the internet as profitable as you think?
I think it has to do with the concept of computable vs non computable functions. One stand is that if the Universe is a simulation then by definition it is computable but we can clearly define and reason about non computable things (which suggests that it is not in fact just a Turing machine and may in fact the hyper computer running the simulator. But you can't really get above that. So the speed of light is just a defined constant which no meaning and we can't pierce the through hypervisor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality#Computationa...
Could this have anything to do with the crackdown on for-profit (and often poor quality) universities that used to vacuum up low income students?
From a cognitive point of view, learning a large number of idioms is more manageable for human beings than having to reinvent the mental constructs from primitives every time. This human capacity of dealing with idioms is what called "chunking" in psychology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_%28psychology%29)

Human has unlimited memory capacity and fast memory access, whereas human logical processing power is fairly limited and error prone. That's why any real human language has a large vocabulary.
It's not serverless if you use Amazon; it's just that you're using Amazon's servers. There is hardware, and there is the signal, and then there is a chain of software between the two. That is all there is in computing, and all there ever will be.
Why would that be depressing?
This is lame news.
But what I'm curious about is: What are they going to do (if anything) to validate the upstream certificates?

- What will their upstream root certificate policy be?

- If they MITM any old upstream certificate, how will they mitigate the huge target they are painting on Kazakh Internet users?
Why the hell is this so negative ? He is very clear "This is for all the founders who know they have built something that people want, but the rest of the world hasn’t recognized it yet." It must be tough as a founder to prove yourself and others that there is an certain value to his/her business. Isn't a good exit is what an investor's or founder's option ?
No one should get away with abusing anyone else. Yet, this term (domestic violence) has been coined as a man's thing. It also neglects mental abuse that are very destructive. If you search Google, you'll find plenty of links re-enforcing this view (eg. men need to be told to stop doing it, we need raise money for women who are impacted, etc).

There is no doubt that there's an agenda behind this particular term. Unless there's a very good reason, nothing should be attributed to one gender, yet, it happens all the time.

I did manage to find this link about the incidents with Bill Murray in question. I suggest you read these articles as they paint somewhat of a different picture.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124968/news?year=2008

Here is one quote "The police report continues, 'I then had the complainant meet me at the police station to talk with the juveniles. They informed me that their mother had been drinking heavily and had (become) physical with them.'"

The mother in question was Bill Murray's wife.
I'm with you. The majority of these videos are just fluff and filler. I don't need 51 seconds of video (with maybe 10 seconds actually demonstrating the bit I might be interested in).

If you want video, go for it, but make sure to also include text somewhere because if the only way to find out what your product does is to watch a video I'll probably just close the tab.
That might be, but it changes the game for security guards. You go from "17,000 people trying to film" to "a few dozen troublemakers trying to film", which is actually manageable.
The parent article contains this line:

> "trust your numbers and growth to give yourself confidence in the face of rejection"

I don't imagine the people that you're worried about this being dangerous for can always find comfort in their numbers and growth.
Twitch also fits in great with Amazon's overall strategy of distribution across all verticals - from retail and Prime Movies/Music, to cloud services and esports.
American tournaments vs. world tournaments.

A better comparison would be the World Cup.
I think you should be scared only if you feel you are not ready and users won't like your service, or may be you need a co-founder to get things going.
> "And incidentally, your classless utopia has a new crop of "influencers" (read: leadership-class) with disproportionate power. With no structures in place to restrain them but other members of the leadership-class with disproportionate power. That really only ends two ways - warring warlords or the leadership class unifying into an oligarchy."

The power of the "influencers" depends on the education level of the general population, does it not?

> "Oh, and you've overlooked how readily people are led into supporting positions directly contrary to their interests. It happens all the time. Tribal social structures and group identities make it easy and common."

As I've said to you before in an earlier comment, it'll take time to undo our earlier programming, to make us less prone to follow hierarchical structures (and to think with a mob mentality). The education to enable this can start today, we don't need to change our society in order to start changing ourselves.
Reminds me of nobackend.org
Mm, League has events maybe 20 or so weeks of the year (matches mainly on weekends), for probably 8 of those we see very high numbers. But Twitch also hosts other stuff - SC2, Hearthstone, and CS:GO also draw large crowds. Dota 2 also, but Valve does have their own streaming platform for that.
>for people who don't want to waste time with college

s/time/time and money/
I went to a Prince concert a couple years ago that had a "no phones" policy announced ahead of time.

At first I thought, "bummer," and although I would love to have pics from that night, I think audience participation was much higher than it would've been if everyone had their phones out.

This pouch would've been great, because I had to leave my phone in the office a half mile away as I walked to the venue.
Does this set of all turing machines contain the given turing machine? If yes, then it would seem that you can never simulate even a single iteration of the inner loop. If no, then you are not actually simulating all the programs are you?

This goes a little beyond NP hard complexity, I believe.
>>The notion that if you do your best, you will succeed, is dangerous to naive entrepreneurs.

That is dangerous to any naive person in the world in any area of work. Doing your best, means your boss will look at you like a threat that you might take their job, or some political cartel in a big company will treat you like a pawn who does all their work, while their yes men reap benefits.

Start ups are only a area of work where the heart burn is amplified because of a lot of work is done in a very short period of time.
man this guy has practically zero karma after pitching hundreds of stories
Next: How to spell Pronounce ;)
Fuzix definitely was end to end. On the other hand, the QNX kernel is a more capable foundation to build on.
B29 was built to bomb Germany from the USA in case the UK had fallen.
His sentiment is worth much more than the raw numbers.

Raising a round is a very very hard thing to do. As an entrepreneur, you look around and all you see are the 1% in the media. On the other hand, the fundraise feels like you go door to door getting your idea shot down by everyone you talk to. The passion and tenacity to fight through this negativity is what Justin is trying to elicit.
Redshift is based on Postgres 8.0.2. You constantly run into stuff you're used to from modern Postgres that you can't do. :(
It shows that Lisp programmers really don't care about balancing parenthesis, because editors do that for them.
China is a large enough market that Chinese services (Baidu, Weibo, QQ, etc) can fill the gap. And there's many companies that did play ball (Microsoft).

Kazahstan could just use Baidu, but it's really best for Chinese speakers, and it would give leverage to China (which they might be leery of).
I was just listening to an Episode of the Nerdist podcast featuring Aziz Ansari today and he talked about the issue of people taking pictures or filming his live material and leaking it to the public. He said he had no issue with people recording material that is already public, but that it really stinks when new material is leaked because it waters down the humor for future attendees of his shows. To combat this, at the beginning of his shows, he asks everyone to take out their phones/cameras and stands there while they take pictures of him. Then he nicely asks them to not use their phones/cameras during the rest of the show. Obviously this doesn't stop everyone but I think it's a pretty low-cost, high reward option.
Yeah, it's a great story. As far as I know it came from an excellent interview with Kelly Lynch on the Onion AV Club

http://www.avclub.com/article/kelly-lynch-on-imagic-cityi-jo...
You don't need to run a "backend" if you're trying to empower the people who use your software rather than just hold them captive.

Who ever thought hacking meant "building centralized services to sell to plebes"?
"Hamilton suggests folding the baby's arms across their front and holding them with one of your hands. Next, grasp the child by the bottom with your other hand, holding the child at a 45-degree angle. Then gently rock the child up and down. The doctor also suggests gently shaking the child's bottom back-and-forth"

is he confusing crying babies with installing new toner cartridges?
> most people wouldn't understand the full implication

So attack that. Tell a story. What does this allow the government to do? Could a jealous ex-lover who works for the government read their ex's messages? Could the local mayor find out if you've got a medical problem? Get an illustrator to draw these up as little comics. Make images that people can understand.

This is a great example: http://www.wordstream.com/images/what-is-net-neutrality-isp-...
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In Vim, I usually type <img src="images/…

and AutoComplPop[1] sets in, showing all files in that directory. As long as they have a descriptive name, it's probably easier/faster/more reliable than drag and drop.

In fact, I actually type img ctrl-E, which expands to the tag above and places cursor at the right place.[2]

I know other editor have similar features, so it might be an alternative

[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1879
[2] https://github.com/rstacruz/sparkup
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No, the assumption is that you are voluntarily handing over your data. It's more like, if you are in a cafeteria and a friend comes by, then you two begin shouting from one end to the room to the other and at the end demand everybody there to forget whatever you said. Not that any decent person wouldn't... but is still poor judgement and lack of common sense on your part.

To follow with your gun analogy, it's like walking into a police station in a trench coat with your hands in your pockets and yielling "Everybody freeze!" Any decent/professional cop there should strive to put you down without resorting to lethal force... but the situation is a little more nuanced than right vs wrong.
Thank you, I had forgotten how much I loved that book. Time for a new Greg Egan kick!
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Every time I try to open a webpage hosted by Microsoft i get an endlessly loading tab that says "Not expected". I use Edge on Windows 10 btw.
First, congratulations on shipping. Usable E2E encryption is something I care deeply about and Signal is the best Ive ever used. Completely agree fighting mass surveillance for avg users is highest priority.

What do you mean by "the velocity of the ecosystem is unlikely to make distributed communication mechanisms possible for some time"?
> margin-left: 25%; width: 41.6667%

Real good use of space! At least you show something without JS.
What are you basing your numbers on? From a quick look at the raw data [1], I see the high point in the 1992-95 timeframe as 13.74cm (early 1995). The high point in 2012-15 was 21.55cm (mid 2012). This is a difference of 7.81cm. The standard deviation among yearly high points is 5.62cm across all years, so this is not even close to being a significant change. If you look at the top 5 yearly high points starting with the largest, they occurred in 2007 (26.76cm), 2011 (21.79cm), 2012 (21.55cm), 2010 (18.56cm), and 2014 (18.24cm). Note the 2014 value is over 8cm less than the one in 2007.

Look, I get that living right at sea level isn't exactly ideal, and these people might need help. But let's not make more of this than there is.

EDIT: Also note the big difference in granularity across years. Most complete years had 36-37 measurements. 1992 only had 2 and 1995 had only 31. Thus it's quite possible (even likely) that timeframe's real high point was considerably higher than what is recorded.

[1] http://sealevel.colorado.edu/cgi-bin/table.cgi?q=content%2Fi...
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You are underestimating the complexity of water and land mass interactions.
Flask works just fine on 3.5 so you could easily update any breaking differences in this demo repo.
Personally, I've never regretted walking away from a deal I didn't feel good about and have regretted not walking away from several that I took...though I'll admit there is selection bias inherent.

My gut is that it's a red flag. Partly because your intuition is that it might be one and you're ready to walk away. Partly because moving the venue to Florida signals that the potential client (they're not an actual client until they write you a check) is more concerned with you enforcing the terms of the contract against them [a Florida venue is an impediment] versus a concern about having to enforce a contract against you [a Florida venue is an impediment]. To put it another way, a Florida venue hedges their non-payment over their enforcement. It's a bet that it's more likely they won't perform than you.

My experience is that people are able to live with not paying because they give warnings up front. That's why I like retainers. If a potential client balks over paying a retainer, then the odds are higher they will balk over paying an invoice. Anyway, there's only two reasons that a client would balk over paying a retainer: they don't trust me in which case I don't want them as a client; or they don't have the money in which case I don't want them as a client.

Good luck.
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You don't understand, It's Serverless all the way down..
Is there a technical limitation against having two phone numbers?

I live between two countries, and have two phone numbers - friends and family in one country have the one, in the other have another.

In places like Myanmar, people regularly have several SIMs with several numbers due to poor connectivity.
Try a product called Habitat made by a company called Inkling.

https://www.inkling.com/inspiration/

https://www.inkling.com/habitat/
This set of Turing machines is the set of all Turing machines. But you misunderstand, I am only simulating a single step (constant time) of a finite number of Turing machines in any given iteration of the inner loop.

It goes arbitrarily far beyond NP hard complexity, which is my point. Wolfram ignores complexity entirely, and that means this algorithm is fair game.
And yet somehow every gun that's ever been used in a mass homicide has found its way out of a gun safe.
Super cool! :)
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Thanks. That's a solid idea.
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