skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One reason he doesn't browse the web is that non free software javascript would somehow hurt him.

Not using social media is considered a badge of honor by many. Not using the web (although that's not entirely true in RMS' case, he just heavily limits it [1]) should be considered a commendable feat, too. Since it's RMS, though, it's just another opportunity to disparage him.

He thinks that non-copyleft licensed projects can't work when there are tons of counterexamples.

Where has he said they "can't" work? The FSF lists scenarios where they endorse non-copyleft here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html

RMS himself has encouraged use of non-copyleft in the cases of e.g. Qt and Ogg Vorbis, either as transitional licenses or as means to free up the software when the alternative would have been remaining proprietary. He says as much here: https://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3

[1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
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1. You said, "He doesn't do CRISPR research." If you are going ad hominim, it's usually better if you get your facts right.

2. FWIW, I think you are largely rewriting history by your comment. The dominant feeling I remember about the HGP at the time was that it wasn't worth it and we didn't learn any new bio. This feeling is still widespread... And biology has always been "hypothesis free"??? Really? Anyways, both of these points were largely ancillary imo to the early history of the field that I thought was an interesting viewpoint.
It says "cross-platform" but every screenshot is Windows, the only installation instructions are for Windows, and there's no mention of any other platform except Android, which is not yet supported.

Update: Linux seems to be pretty well supported.

http://www.ultimatepp.org/www$uppweb$download$en-us.html

via Google I found some evidence of early support for Mac OS X:

http://www.ultimatepp.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=9...

I also note that it doesn't support Clang.
Isn't that just a matter of passing the SA_RESTART flag to sigaction(), or not, for the self-pipe approach ?
You seem to have a belief that Iran is worse that SA for some somewhat undefined reason. I can not aruge with that.
Did you read the thread? No one who read the thread would think that there are hard-working maintainers who have been working hard on the project. That's clear.

However, there are very clearly some governance issues that those of us using Express or evaluating it should be aware of.
You're comparing apples and oranges. The vast majority of those 50,000 public chargers are slow L2 AC chargers, not L3 fast DC chargers. Many of those 50,000 public chargers are Tesla L2 chargers, too.

If you want a proper comparison, filter PlugShare to only show CHAdeMO and CCS, and compare that to Tesla superchargers. And consider that "only near highways" is exactly where they're useful. And that Teslas can use CHAdeMO chargers too.

Edit: and go through the non-Tesla fast chargers and see how many are broken down, how many are actually available to the public (some Nissan dealers limit theirs to only LEAFs bought from them), how many are frequently blocked by non-EVs, how many have pathetic power levels like 25kW or less, and in general just how many of those are actually useful for long distance travel. No need to do this for the Tesla chargers, as they're all good. (Except Bethesda. You can count that one out.)
Someone else fold your close for you? Moving the clothes from the washer to dryer takes 15 seconds.
Why can't you just read any cert regardless of where it is hosted and send an alert when it is under a week? Why tie it to AWS?
On OpenSuse it was a software install that went bad. The much vaunted snapshot feature didn't work out of the box! It actually could not boot snapshots in that nice little grub menu. I had to reinstall after spending hours trying to rollback to a snapshot.

On Ubuntu it updated the kernel, which made it unbootable. I could still boot the old kernel, but after taking out a ticket and being asked to upgrade my BIOS, that became unbootable as well.

On Debian it was just too much work to get to a point where it supported the real resolution of my displays and my multi-monitor setup. I eventually just threw in the towel and went and installed Ubuntu in a VM, which at least got me up and running quickly.

I'm leaving out a variety of colorful failure stories, but the bottom line is very little worked out of the box, it was insanely time consuming and difficult to get things into a decent state, and then it didn't stay in that state for long.
Typical CHAdeMO chargers are half the speed of a Supercharger or less. They're also often installed in single units, making them highly vulnerable to breakdowns, queueing, or blocking by non-EVs.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10849544
Upvoted. Thanks for saving me from typing a few paragraphs, you hit my sentiment spot on, esp, re: options from 20-40. It sounds like he/she needs to sever a few anchors (job, location) and just do something that reignites some life fire. It damn sure is not going to get easier as time passes. Worse, he/she may become less sensitive to the obviously dysfunctional situation and just live a life of learned helplessness.
That's a good point! I forgot about SA_RESTART.
I haven't dug seriously into it, but I think Qt has decent accessibility support: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/accessible.html
I use a desktop.
Your comment about you probably doing the same as police shows empathy (police are people from the general population), and your comments on finding root cause shows rationality. Your comment did not deserve a downvote.
I see Trump's rhetoric as so detached from reality, that I can't think of any current, relevant people on "the other side" that would come close. Who do you have in mind, exactly?
Thats certainly one thing we could do, if we value the druggies lives enough. Honestly I don't see why we, as a society, should help those who won't help themselves.
I'm not sure design is necessarily the problem. Most of the auto manufacturers (even the Korean and Japanese) have design studios in the US and hire the best candidates from the same auto design schools. Concept cars often look fantastic.

The problem seems to be somewhere between design and production. Traditionally it's been a problem with cost... unless it's a luxury model, costs are usually cut as deep as possible and that means aesthetic details get marginalized (literally and figuratively) for higher profits.

That said, manufacturers seem to be slowly realizing that interior design is important to customers and production interiors have slowly improved over the years. It's hard to cut costs in production these days, everybody wants a great car at every price point.
I see, without CommonCrawl paying for S3 (or AWS maybe eats that cost to help the public); this would be an expensive project.
Or as the article states and links to if you're cycling and pulled for a traffic violation, which using a cellphone while driving is in California iirc, you have to provide identification. Not justifying the force used afterwards but requesting ID was perfectly valid here.

http://www.bicyclelaw.com/road-rights/a.cfm/road-rights-iden...
I suspect that in the consumer space specifically there aren't a lot of obvious tasks that are amenable to being done by robots. Vacuuming is one of the obvious ones--which is why we have Roomba etc.--but even that requires fairly specific types of layouts. Laundry, cooking, loading and putting away dishes, general cleanup. We have appliances to help with some of that and we can buy, say, food that's prepped to a greater or lesser degree. However, pretty much none of those are things that one can imagine a practical consumer robot doing.
I think any change has to be relative to your current way of working.

How are you measuring productivity?

There are a lot of tools in the list, what methods are you using?
But what's being second guessed here is the state of mind of the pilot, or the protester. You don't know that person, only what you read in the accident report or the news article. You don't know what was going on in that person's life or head at the moment of crisis.
> They use it, it's cool, but then it gathers dust for months afterwards.

Where I contracted last year, this was my experience. The team I was on had a GoPro, and we used it no more than twice in a 9-month period -- and I'm not even sure if the second time actually happened, as I personally only ran the first go-around.
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I wouldn't have down voted you. You stated Hancock's position and your post should have been treated as a point of debate. But I agree that Hancock's arguments are pretty much refuted. Occams's Razor -- the archaeological evidence, which seems to be mounting in many different sudies, trumps any vague theories about comets.

But hell, this is science. Come up with enough evidence to the contrary and it will be backed. But the archaeological evidence is looking pretty good at present.
I'm just going to repost what I wrote 17 days ago:

"Why are they against militarizing robots? It pays the bills. They could start with consumers or business but it's harder to build a market. This makes it harder to fund further development.
Once the technology is developed by anyone for non-military use, transitioning to the military is easy. There's not some magic that prevents consumer developed technology from reaching the battlefield."
Robots are expensive and the DoD has nearly infinite funds?
If we take addicted to mean "need to function normally" I have family members who are addicted to anti allergy drugs, the problem isn't having to take a particular drug for the rest of your live, the problem is needing heroin to function.
He's right in spirit but wrong on particulars. It's hard to gauge exactly how much influence money has on politics. Certainly being able to buy ads has some impact.

But people consistently make the mistake that established money and influence can buy you control. It does not. It will get you a seat at the table, make it so they can't ignore you. But it cannot and never could actually give you the ability to, among other things, change the political narrative unilaterally.

First off, there are too many other people out there with wealth and influence that will move to counter you. No one controls everything in America. Otherwise-smart people think nothing of invoking "the elites" like they're all one big, shadowy Illuminati-type construct. But nothing could be farther from the truth.

Second, the masses form a giant bloc of influence that can just completely overwhelm attempts to co-opt the narrative. It's really, really easy to throw millions of dollars at a campaign and still bomb at the polls. Candidates have to play ball with this, and it's not always pretty.

As an example, George W. Bush's image has been carefully crafted to give off that folksy vibe, because Americans simply do not respond to intellectuals. (until they do, Obama changed all that.) Bush Jr. is much much smarter than anyone gives him credit for. He went to Harvard and Yale. He did not just sit on a barstool in the National Guard, he flew fighter jets. People with stories of meeting or serving with him that underestimate him consistently report that he just totally schools them.

He did not hide these things out of some duplicitous agenda, it was simply to fit America's ideas of what it's presidential candidates should be. His biggest failing was that he did not exercise his judgment and intelligence enough, and allowed the neo-cons to set his policy agenda, not that he didn't have any.
One key to happiness according to several studies is to devote a bit of your time to others. Advanced senility deprives you of this once you're unable to actually help another, and I understand how one could want to end it, even without hubris.

Not only will an old person never grow out of his state, he has to carry the burden of being aware of it. This is another huge difference.
My mistake. You're right, Qt does implement accessibility. Fixed in the comment.
Not using social media is considered a badge of honor by many.

Sure, but why? Because it's difficult? Because it's useless newfangled morally-corrupting stuff?

Not using the web ... should be considered a commendable feat, too.

Again, why? The web is useful. Is it also commendable to cook all your own food from scratch, do all your laundry by hand, avoid use of electricity, etc?
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Scientists discover that our brain waves can be sent by electrical fields
>One reason he doesn't browse the web is that non free software javascript would somehow hurt him.

I run a script blocker and ad blocker for exactly the same reason. Do a quick google search for "malvertising" and you'll discover he's got a point.

Stallman is extreme in all things. He doesn't use mobile phones or credit cards either, IIRC. I can't afford to be as extreme as him, I use a pre-paid visa card for online purchases and temporarily whitelist scripts on the web as I need them.

However, companies like Google, Microsoft, Comcast and Paypal would have you believe that an existence without the products they are pushing is completely impossible, and I think it's both an important and worthwhile thing to be the man standing at the other end of the spectrum proving that they are full of shit. That's what Stallman is doing.
It's indeed becoming a thing of the past. Unfortunately, the web version is not there quite yet feature-wise. But it's definitely getting better all the time.
I assume you don't have any close personal experience with addiction?
hmmm....I think it's more than that. Ants, bees and other insects cooperate. The defining characteristic may be an awareness of mortality, which is probably what prompted the rescue.
From my (probably naive) point of view, robotics sits on top of three pillars, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science.

To even get off the ground, you need strong people in each of the three pillars. Additionally, you need a leader who is sufficiently knowledgeable across all three pillars. Purely from an HR/talent acquisition perspective, this is difficult logistically and financially. Uber raided NREC to accomplish this, essentially creating a second headquarters, and paid quite a bit to get the talent.

Then, you need a prototyping facility for both the ME/EEs.

To start from scratch, a very hefty investment has to be made before product development has even begun. Then you're bleeding money through the product development phase (hopefully with some pre-sales, but odds are pretty low of this). After product development, you hit manufacturing, which is extremely difficult. Bolt.io has some good reading on this.

To get to a product driving around, you've spent millions over the course of a year or two. To amortize that cost in a reasonable fashion, you've got to produce thousands of units. Fanuc took over manufacturing early on and was able to accomplish this, but for a lot of companies, the sales volume just isn't going to be there.

The DoD, with SBIRs and other long term contracts, helps fund a lot of the product development, often provides you with a paying customer, etc. The risk and amount of monetary bleeding drops significantly as soon as you partner with the DoD.
I interviewed at GoPro in mid-September 2015, a hair-sliver before stock trouble began being discussed in the media, the hiring manager mentioned that "they [HR] might take my req away from me".

I took it with a half-dose of "not my fault" when the process fell through when news of this news article started to come out, since this wasn't my first time at interviewing with a company shortly before financial troubles become publicly known.
Perhaps the designers are too far from production and "over design." Production folks then pare their designs down but try to keep some spirit of the design intact, yielding half a kitten which as we know is not half as cute as a whole kitten.

I know the same thing happens in architecture and yields a lot of ugly buildings. These buildings look like they are falsely aspiring to be something more... because that is exactly the case.
I'm not sure I understand the question.
it will not help for data transfer pricing but for cpu/vm time spot instances can be amazing value for these short lived projects. typically 1/8 of the price of the on demand. always take care to not set your bid higher than on demand price as wild fluctuations can happen. also if you are afraid of losing your work, there is an api you can query from within the vm that tells you 2 minutes ahead that its going to get killed. also, price is per ZONE, so there are zones in the same region that people use less.
What do you mean by "blind auditions" in engineering?
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Since you seem to have put some thought into this: how do you change how your brain operates? I feel like my brain could use a restructuring.
The Chademo standard supports up to 100 kW of output, while Tesla Superchargers are up to 120 kW. Most of the L3 chargers out there are hooked up to 125A and put out 62.5 kW, but they can be upgraded with no change to cars, and provide comparable recharge times to Tesla's chargers. There are relatively few EVs on the road, and none that have the range of a Tesla, so no customer base to necessitate those upgrades just yet. It's awesome what Tesla has done, but there's really nothing wrong with how the infrastructure is growing for all the other EVs and the standards they've all chosen to support. If the Chevy Bolt flops, it won't be because it takes early adopters 45 minutes at the rest stop instead of 30 to make an occasional long-distance road trip.
This is neat. I wish there was a way to zoom in/out of the canvas area, so I could go deeper with my fractals.
I wonder if part of the problem is people going outside of the OS's curated repositories.

With Debian at least the curation of the repositories is one of the biggest attractions for me. Everything in there is tested at length and is known to work well together. I've never had problems staying within the repos.

Friends on the other hand always want to install the latest version of whatever package and install tens of external PPAs to achieve that, without consideration for what that means for the stability of their system.

They still carry their windows experiences and think that to install software you have to go find the software authors website and read their instructions - which much of the time apply to other distros and not the one you are using. I have to keep teaching people the Linux way to install software, use your local repos.
> It's simply not a matter of opinion whether or not the holocaust occurred.

Not that it actually occured, no. However, I think this is obligatory, if a bit obvious:

> "If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?"

You know who :) George also wrote this ( http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/george-orwell-explains-in... )

> Already history has in a sense ceased to exist, ie. there is no such thing as a history of our own times which could be universally accepted, and the exact sciences are endangered as soon as military necessity ceases to keep people up to the mark. Hitler can say that the Jews started the war, and if he survives that will become official history. He can’t say that two and two are five, because for the purposes of, say, ballistics they have to make four. But if the sort of world that I am afraid of arrives, a world of two or three great superstates which are unable to conquer one another, two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it. That, so far as I can see, is the direction in which we are actually moving, though, of course, the process is reversible.

Remember, you don't have to convince everybody. You have to convince (or force, or brainwash by force) a few million people, and then you simply need weapons and robots to slaughter all the rest. We have no serious safeguards against this, it would require everybody to be able to think critically, to be able to choose their jobs freely, and other things we don't have (not for everybody). I'd wager we have more than few million people who'd be up for it, given half a chance and one order, and given current trends, I'm fully expecting a big purge "at some point" (even in 500 years it would be like it happening tomorrow, compared to the near-infinite empire that might follow it) that might make Stalin and Hitler look like choir boys. Pessimistic, sure, paranoid, we'll see, and I guess off-topic for sure. But alas, it's the one fear in my heart. We tend to take the best people in their brightest moments as the standard, instead of thinking of it like security: it's the weakest links that really matter. Being right didn't help the people killed by brownshirts for being right. Also see this bit from "Mortals and Others" by Bertrand Russel: http://russell-j.com/0583TS.HTM
Why is the crescent Moon sometimes lit on the bottom?
That's why I said the traditional Linux desktop. Android uses the Linux kernel, but has a completely different stack on top of it. Also, more and more functionality is moving to the proprietary Google Play Services and proprietary Play Store apps. Chrome OS switched away from X11 and is just a system that boots to Chrome for the average user (and its normal use case).

(Yes I know that you can switch Chrome OS to developer mode and install Crouton.)
I hope Stallman focusses on mobile now. Desktop, laptop & server are pretty satisfying free software platforms.

But mobile is incredibly dissatisfying, and it's quickly getting a decent share of users.

Incidentally, FSF is running a vision survey to establish strategic goals:

https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/profile/create?gid=403&reset=1
Maybe downvoted because things changes on the space of 10 or more years...
You cannot argue in probabilities when you have zero prior events to go on.
I have about the same amount of data in a Postgres database as part of the TLS Observatory project [1].

observatory=> select count(distinct(sha256_fingerprint)) from certificates;
count
---------
1239943

observatory=> select count(distinct(target)) from scans;
count
---------
6483386

The scanner evaluates both certificate and ciphersuites and stores the results in DB, so we can run complex analysis [2,3]. There is also have a public client [4].

I don't have a good way to provide direct access to the database yet, but if you're a researcher, ping me directly and we can figure something out.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/tls-observatory

[2] https://twitter.com/jvehent/status/684127067005390848

[3] https://twitter.com/jvehent/status/686938805413232640

[4] https://twitter.com/jvehent/status/687429007680376833
Original article by Kaspersky Labs here: https://securelist.com/blog/research/73255/the-mysterious-ca...
Implementing your own k-nearest neighbour algorithm using Python
Since Sanders still doesn't seem to have much of a chance of beating Clinton on the Democratic side, I'll confine my comments to Trump:

Trump hasn't said a single thing that would lead me to believe that he will disrupt the establishment elites. He doesn't talk about the ethics of the elite and how they need to be opposed. Effectively he says, "Give me the Presidency and I'll do their job better than they do." Trump is an elite, he just hasn't been in elected office previously. He will use and increase the levers of power as best he is able.

The article is an interesting concept to ponder and I'll definitely be looking out for some type of critical mass where the power of the Internet and democracy have overcome the entrenched inevitability of the elites... but for now it's jumping the gun.