skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It will be huge, but the gravitational waves LIGO would detect are not primordial or from inflation, but rather from supernovae and compact binary mergers (neutron star pairs, stellar-mass black hole pairs, etc.)."

I missed this. How do they tell the difference? (Interferomety?)
I need to rewatch Primer - it managed to twist my mind into a knot, so I honestly say I didn't understand much of what was happening. Moon is on my list, of Pandorum I haven't heard. Thanks for the titles, I'll definitely see them :).

RE shortening, I remember watching Ender's Game and leaving cinema angry, because the movie had compressed the book so much that I felt it won't make any sense for a person who hadn't read the novel. I now imagine that the Martian may have seemed similarly poor to you because of that. If you happen to read the book and find the text being crap, please get back to me, I'd really like to hear your perspective.

We, or rather - some of us - are talking not books, but book+movie combo. The Martian was quite a thing among space geeks even before the movie was announced, and doubly so after the story broke - so, like me, they probably implicitly assume others read the original too. I guess it's a lesson for me for the future, to bring up explicitly whether one had or had not read the book :).
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Not to be forgotten is d3, which in addition to selectors allows you to very easily bind data to the DOM. And with the big 4.0 refactor that is underway, you can very easily pull in the selection[1] stuff only.

[1] https://github.com/d3/d3-selection
The discrepancy is probably due to different definitions of "reserve".

In the end of the day, that probably means that we'll get our gallium, but we'll have to pay more for it.
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I don't think that's the case given a number of them are being sued by both Chinese and Foreign Broadcasters and media companies.

Others are pivoting into netflix-esque licensing businesses. They are like to media companies what Uber is to taxis, they are ignoring the rules to bring a better service, and it's working.
But their motive is to sell books and lessons, not necessarily code that works in a production environment.
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I appreciate your point and don't disagree.

I guess I'm just saying that even though I have a record of every payment made to my children, clearly showing the legitimate destination accounts, and there is no other activity they queried, and I explained everything in writing to the bank, they still chose to classify my account as an MSB.

It reminds me of how the Inquisition types used to "prove" a woman was a witch: put her in a ducking stool and throw her in a lake. If she floats, she's a witch, so burn her at the stake. If she sinks and drowns, she's innocent, but she'll go to heaven, so it's all ok. Either way she's fucked. That's kind of how I feel: the more you prove your innocence, the more guilty you are.

I suppose I'm making a fuss to make a statement about our steadily eroding freedoms, and the gradual onset of totalitarianism in the USA, all in the name of protecting we, the people. (I shouldn't complain, though; I could still be living in South Africa.)
Feel free to come ask questions in the various IRC channels on irc.mozilla.org (#rust, #rust-beginners, and dozens more for specific topics). :)
I can't believe I was able to find this (I didn't upvote it at the time, apparently.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845068#up_10849346

edit: it was actually a tablet
>the service's impact in Seattle was negligible. More than 80 percent of Seattle hosts were sharing their primary residences,

That second sentence doesn't follow from the first. I know people buying houses in Seattle today who are willing to pay more than they would otherwise for a place with an extra bedroom, or even better a basement apartment, because they'll make it back and more in Airbnb rental income. And they absolutely don't have any plans to rent out the third bedroom to a regular tenant ever, so this is potential housing now off the residential market for the foreseeable future.
I'm just exploring other things that we seem to take for granted despite them being terrible. Of course China has that too but it's a huge "unexotic" problem in most countries.
How many meetings do you have a day and do you feel that you need to be in all of them? And does this include only formal meetings or informal ones as well?
I've started to limit my meetings to a maximum of 3 a day and usually 1-2. I've also cut daily standups to 2 days a week, although I suspect that 3x a week may be better fit.
That's interresting but it's a bit sad they don't release the data...

For people who want to explore the data directly, I published my own scraping (less complete than than theirs): https://medium.com/@dam_io/16d3670fd75b
I agree it's probably a human universal. But the TV and cinema are special here - as you said, they're a very effective delivery vector, but moreover, movies usually cover vast range of things, and we watch shit ton of them. For instance, have you ever seen a real assault rifle? Maybe you have, but I haven't - so all I feel about them, i.e. my intuitive knowledge (as opposed to stuff I read on Wikipedia) comes from movies and videogames. I haven't seen a live round fired from a gun in my life, but I "know" how it sounds, how the bullets behave, etc. Half of it is probably wrong, but barring a real-life experience, that's all I've got. And while campfire stories could cover things in the abstract, movies let you cache images of just about anything - from how to bake pancakes, to how to deal with angry people, to how planes work. I think we're underestimating just how much "life experience" of an ordinary person comes from TV - and thus how much of it is wrong.
Australia doesn't have Fair Use provision because it doesn't need it.

Australia allows use of copyrighted material for research/teaching purposes (up to a % limit). As in it isn't against the law at all. Where as Fair Use Provision is a defence, when you are charged with breach of copyright (much like "self defence" in an assault charge).

(This is how even in Australia, Teachers are allowed to photocopy material for classes, and Journalists can report on other materials without being sued). The Copyright Agency tries to police and charge royalties if applicable.
Its how you sell it, we could claim that it Cisco Systems is selling technology to a hostile government with the aim of subverting American hegemony. Which FYI, is exactly what it did.
That seems to be referring to the study that was already conducted, if I'm reading this right.
Thank you for adding this other dimension; children of siblings that experience this type of loss. My mother lost her brother in his prime, so this gives Noah and Aaron's relationship meaning I can just now see. For me, my uncle, like other relatives that passed before my birth, only live through stories that came through in our family's experiences afterward. I have so much gratitude for my mother, that they shared so much in their lives together, and that she could pass on such a rich history for me to build on.
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I'm very happy to see this. I've seen people with serious depression issues be completely turned around by a single dose of psilocybin. I'm not sure I would have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, but I'm hoping that these studies will become more common and hopefully the efficacy of these treatments will prove out.
I'd love windows support on the control side.
The poll was, should it be dropped, given that fact. The fact was not the poll result.
> One of the greatest innovations of our time may ultimately undermine a key engine of innovation, the patent system.

If the author had led with that sentence instead of closing with it, we could have immediately identified the article as quackery and moved on.
> as well as IP network surveillance systems.

Wireshark?
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It has been attempted on a lottery where only ~7 million tickets needed to be purchased, but they only managed to buy ~5 million.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/25/us/group-invests-5-million...
It does! https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/blob/master/dist/sizzle.js
This is cool but I would have liked to see something in the description about why crowdfunding is needed when the fundraising target is pocket change for 1) any of the listed "public supporters", 2) Johns Hopkins. Surely the incentive is there for any of these parties to want to attach their name to such ground breaking research.

If part of the purpose is "show the public that they can contribute to science through crowdfunding", then that is legit and they should make it clear. Or maybe it's too controversial for JHU or NIH to fund, etc.

edit: additionally, a better explanation of what the funds will be used for would set a good precedent.
But you can declaratively specify a full system configuration in a real programming language, too. This is precisely what the GNU Guix system configuration API does, for example. You write OS configs in functional, declarative Scheme code.

http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/System-Con...
It is not the recruiters you should have interviewed in my opinion but rather the job seekers. There, you will find the problems and come up with a solution.
Besides the sandstorm, your examples are actually not ridiculous. But RE that Purnell scene, AFAIR he was trying to explain it to the PR lady - it seems totally plausible to me that she doesn't understand gravity assist. But yeah, that scene felt totally forced IMO, designed only to explain stuff to audience.
I mostly use it because it's a dependency in so many other stuff that I end up using in my projects.
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Sell computers, can confirm.
You can't fake empathy unless you have the skill of empathy in the first place. Otherwise your fake empathy will be seen through and won't be useful.
> eventually two black holes will merge ... as the two BHs circle each other closer and closer

I've heard this so many times, and I still don't see how it's possible! Because of time dilation this merger will take infinite time.

No one has ever explained this satisfactorily to me. Why do people just seem to completely ignore relativity when dealing with black holes?
Seconded.

I do have a stylus in my Note 4 phone. It gets considerable use because it's there.

The mouse doesn't work well for this use case. A track pad can... but marginally.

Google Sheets actually works fairly well for some list or discussion oriented WB tasks.
It's not the users fault for being stupid, it's your fault for assuming they are not.
Lot's of dependencies are used that they do not own the rights to do this with. Not practical.
Generally, the difference is direct vs indirect detection. LIGO aims to directly detect gravitational waves as they pass Earth by measuring the change in length of two parallel arms (using interferometry). In contrast, BICEP2 was looking for a polarization signal in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) which would occur if there were primordial gravitational waves (but this signal could also be mimicked by foreground dust).

So BICEP2's claimed detection wasn't a direct detection of gravitational waves. BICEP2 detected polarization (specifically B-mode polarization[0]) in the CMB. The BICEP2 team initially thought the amount of foreground dust was too low to explain the degree of polarization they observed, so they attributed the polarization to primordial gravitational waves affecting the cosmic microwave background. As you noted, Planck had multiple bands and so could more effectively determine the amount of foreground dust. Using a joint BICEP2+Planck dataset, the teams determined the signal could be explained by foreground dust.

In contrast, LIGO is attempting to directly measure gravitational waves from:

1) discrete, individual events, such as a merger of neutron stars. As the objects inspiral, they emit gravitational waves, with the emission becoming stronger (and, presumably higher frequency) as the objects near final merger. At final coalescence, a burst of gravitational waves is emitted. It is hoped/expected that this burst (plus some GW emission leading up to the merger) will be detected by LIGO for individual sources.

2) A gravitational wave background from the ensemble of events too far away to detect individually, but whose sum adds up to enough to be detectable. In contrast to the above, this will be some linear combination of all the passing waves from distant individual events, from a variety of directions.

The frequency of the gravitational waves depends on the bodies involved. With LIGO's 2km arms, it is sensitive to a range of frequencies which correspond to expectations for stellar-mass compact binaries. The LISA project[1] would have longer baselines and so would be sensitive to mergers of more massive objects, such as supermassive black hole pairs. So, the baseline of your gravitational wave experiment determines what you can possibly measure. This graphic shows at which frequencies various phenomena emit[2]. Based on that graphic, LIGO may be sensitive to the frequencies corresponding to primordial gravitational waves, but they are likely far far below LIGO's detection ability. My impression is that direct detection of primordial gravitational waves will not be possible for a while, if ever. Rather, they may be detected indirectly, via the imprint they leave on the CMB polarization (as BICEP2 tried).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background#Po...

[1] http://lisa.nasa.gov/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Gravitational_wave_sp...

EDIT: Added new first paragraph and reworded the rest for clarity/flow.
Right. Looks like the first item in [1] under the 1968 Act protects me, but If I'm wrong, [2] will see my computer destroyed.

I'm not able to find anything regarding DRM, but I think that's what they mean by decoder.

IANAL.

1: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/...

2: https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/C2006A00158/Html/Text#para...
Personally I'll stick with RPM for all my JS packaging needs.
Probably because my 8 year old core2 based desktop is still fast enough for everything but gaming.
They need to stop hiring scientists just to make technobabble plausible - the creative writers need to start treating them seriously instead, and consulting them on the story flow. Like in Interstellar, when Nolan would tell Kip Thorne that he needs something for his plot, Thorne would outline the necessary physical conditions and developments, and then the two would argue over it until they could figure out a path for the story that reaches the creative goal while staying within the constraints of science.
I commend the idea (assuming the leadership was being honest) but you don't just install a black box on someone's desk and not explain what it is before hand.
Same here. Ansible has been added to my short list of life changing programs in my tool belt along with Mercurial and Emacs. These types of applications come along every 10+ years or so for me.
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Yup. Same reason tablet sales are slowing... Though at a slower pace.
What about documenting the requirements to rebuild it from scratch? Not trivially done, but these are exactly the types of games that attract the people willing to put in the work.
This has happened to me a lot in my life--in fact one of my high school teachers called me my brother's name the entire school year. But I didn't feel belittled. Some people are just bad with names.

I've figured out how to break people of the habit: call them the name of their sibling. This fixes it real quick like.
From what I can tell, you were downvoted because you either didn't read and understand the article, or you didn't understand the context in which it was written.

1. N. Korea claims it has a "Hydrogen Bomb".

2. The U.S. and others respond skeptically.

3. The New Yorker points out that the U.S. has made this response before (earlier in the cold war) and that the term itself has some ambiguity because of the different types of weapons that could have a fusion based element. Readers learn more about cold war history and the differences in different types of atomic weapons.

4. You make a snide comment that doesn't seem to register the entire context of all this, and get downvoted.
True, but I think TV and cinema are the last generation's special with the internet now this generations like a couple of generations ago radio was the thing. The vector is a little more amped now with the imagination level down on the audience. I guess frequency is up mainly because of external factors (e.g. fear of strangers for parents).

I have seen an AR-15 (which is not really an assault rifle, but the media is not very accurate) and handled a gun (my mom's) and shot one when I was 7 (I sucked) and hunted (we apparently ended up tracking Sun-Tzu the deer). I'm very worried by our "I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express" level of knowledge.
Doing generators, or async functions without the modern syntax is relatively painful.. same goes for spread/rest, and a lot of other bits.
Yup, the only thing that I've been buying bi-annually is a new video card, everything else works perfectly.
Automated deployments are worth spending time on. A good deployment/release process frees up dev time, makes it easier to debug production issues and removes a whole class of bugs. Most languages/frameworks have some prebuilt tools to do deployments. This is one of the few things I would spend personal time on doing because I know how much time this frees up
Do you have connection pipelining enabled?:

[ssh_connection]
pipelining = True

Ansible 2 is extremely fast for me.
It seems clear Cisco knew their systems were going to be used against Falun Gong. Leaked Cisco presentation:

"Cisco Confidential 57 © 2002, Cisco Systems

The Golden Shield Project:

Public Network Information Security Monitor System

• Stop the network-related crimes

• Guarantee the security and services of public network

• Combat “Falun Gong” evil religion and other hostiles

[Note: Statement of Government goals from speech government offical
Li Runsen]"

Then again it's going to be hard to show legally they were doing much more than helping China enforce it's laws. Still at least the embarrassment factor may put companies off from getting involved in this stuff.

I hope the EFF case makes them release documents related to it.
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I agree. Judging by my personal experiences, I think "faking empathy" is really mostly about compartmentalization - and so it actually is real empathy, but only applied when you chose to. Real skill of empathy is a prerequisite here.
You can choose to sell less of the asset but you can also quite simply buy up massive amounts of reserves in a different currency. The CAD's value relative to the USD was motivated by the need to buy CAD in order to purchase the oil. This can be offset by using the royalties, and more, to buy up USD-denominated assets to balance the demand and lower the relative value of the CAD.
As an example, there is a reason that the Chinese government his such a prolific purchaser of US treasuries, and it is not because they are particularly bullish on the US.
A funny counterpoint is when an apocalypse occurs in a video game world accidentally. Take, for example, World of Warcraft's Corrupted Blood Incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident

Through an exploit, a viral debuff can escape and infect any player or NPC in the world. Cue entire cities dying with no way to stop it. It was interesting enough that the CDC investigated.

Blizzard ended up repeating this event intentionally as a promo for the second expansion (a zombie apocalypse) and ironically, people hated it because it made the game unplayable!

Another funny accidental apocalypse in early WoW was kiting raid bosses to cities, letting them wreak havoc until a GM despawns them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl0VWJdE01M
"more than 1,200 whalers stranded until they were eventually rescued by other whaling ships in the area. No one died in the incident."

That just amazes me, how diligently seamen sought to protect their own (and explorers) during that era, under the most extreme conditions.

Ernest Shackleton's failed South Pole expedition is another example -- every single man returned alive.
Very impressive. It worked very well for me.
"But as it turns out, the best predictor of a programmer’s ability to notice and correct an error is not good error-message text—it’s accurate and precise source locations."

I believe a part of this is training not to read the error message text, by years of error message text not worth reading.

I certainly wouldn't go so far as to say that this accounts for all (or even most) of the effect, though.
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I just retried, and it does now gets it right for me too. Wow.
That's an absurd proposition. Even if you have an incredibly cynical view of humanity, it's extremely unlikely to be unable to find someone in a government with power who holds any reasonable common position of the general populace.
One reason why it might be much higher in the US is the prevalence of swipe and sign. In Australia signatures are no longer allowed and essentially all transactions are chip and pin (or tap if its under $100). This basically eliminates in store fraud as a chip cant be skimmed. No idea why ACH is so expensive / terrible in the US compared to other countries, I guess its the number of banks?
No, it happens with my parents. My sister and I are many years apart though, and once I went to college there was only one kid in the house, so I can kinda understand.
"His device is a tiny fan which recirculates air out of the cabin rather than pumping stale air around continually."

How does just a fan control the recirc/fresh air controls for the aircraft as a whole?

How is this different from airlines simply choosing a greater fresh-air percentage, at the expense of some fuel?
Seeking community at Defcon is kind of a misstep in my opinion. It feels an awful lot like Highschool to me.
Doesn't ACH processing cost a lot less than that? If I remember right, Dwolla used to charge $0.25 and I think they made it free.
Just an FYI to everyone accepting payments: Fighting chargebacks for ACH payments is a lot harder than just calling up a cardholder's bank. With Stripe now making ACH payments easier, I suspect the card shops " " will see a rise in routing/account numbers for sale.

And as always, just a friendly reminder Stripe's "fraud protection" is beyond trivial to get circumvent, so don't think they're doing you a favor.
I actually just started a new job and my first day was amazing. First, my boss gave me a tour of the office. Followed by showing me to my desk. On the desk was a working phone, monitors, folders, pens, paper, sticky notes, a tape dispenser, and two documents. The first document was essentially everything I needed to answer my spouse's questions about the new job (holidays, vacation accruals, pay dates, where to sign up for benefits, etc.). The second document was an org chart with everyone's name and title which was nice for reference when meeting new people. Shortly after wiping down the desk a person dedicated to getting my new laptop setup came in and made sure I had access to everything I would ever need. She literally brought everything new in box and started laying it all out for me. Next my immediate co-workers set about getting me access to systems and internal applications. By mid-afternoon on my first day I felt like I could start diving in and solving problems. It was a truly refreshing experience especially when you consider it was December 28th.
Good luck! If you need helping with mapping, let me know.