skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In cycling frame weight is not a big or factor. Wheel weight on the other hand is very noticeable.

Also note that frame efficiency is more important than its weight. For instance there were silly light, silly expensive bikes around which had crap performance, because they twisted like noodles in the wrong places.

Super light weight is a great magnet for dentists.
Myth busted.
Life isn't an action movie. Killing (in?)famous people without getting caught or creating repercussions isn't a simple sure thing, unless you're bombing shepherds with drones.
LabLit – the culture of science in fiction
>What's a sugar baby?

Someone financially supported by a sugar daddy/mommy in exchange for a sexual relationship.

>What's a trophy wife?

A much younger woman married for looks usually after divorcing one's first wife.

>Are these terms sexist?

Probably not helpful to label the terms sexist (given that they describe real phenomena) but the mentality that seeks out those relationships might be.

>If I date someone with student loans then am I a sugar daddy?

If you cover/displace significantly more of their finances than in a typical dating relationship without reciprocation, yes.

>Some of my friends have wives who stay at home but don't have children. How do you define those relationships?

Childless marriages, distinguished from sugar daddy relationship by the expectation of permanence and more complex mutual obligations.

>Do all cultures fetishize the young? SeekingArrangements is in UK and Singapore too.

Young women, yes, for fundamental biological reasons.
Have you seriously not heard the terms "sugar baby/daddy" and "trophy wife" before? They're not exactly new. Here's a google ngrams: http://tinyurl.com/zyohtp3
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Just bought it after being quite impressed with the online demo, and figured it was worth a shot for $25.

First impression after downloading: an unsigned OS X app? Really? This is commercial software; it's not that expensive to get a dev certificate.
You're missing the point completely. Not having to deal with rent means the money from basic income can go further than for anyone who doesn't own their own housing.

Meaning it's essentially for rich kids who've inherited their own housing, or those with enough dispensable income to pay off their place.
Basic Income in this scenario wouldn't help the poorest, it would help the rich enough to get further with that money.

I am not against Basic Income, but it has to be in a situation where the poor will benefit from it, not the rich enough to make the best out of the money.
This seems like just another shit the modern bourgeois leftist have cooked up for themselves thinking it applies to the poorest. What a joke.
I have limited exposure being a junior web dev, but I find Laravel to be very well structured and what some might describe as Elegant. Jeffrey Way discussed his opinions on it that I agree with last year at a Laracon: https://youtu.be/mDotS5BDqRM?t=1539
Not really. These are old sites build before CloudFlare even existed or the encrypt-ALL-the-traffic movement started.

I myself prefer non-HTTPS over CloudFlare for sites like this. As for best practice:

> Back in 2003, Lee Holloway and I started Project Honey Pot as an open-source project to track online fraud and abuse. The Project allowed anyone with a website to install a piece of code and track hackers and spammers. We ran it as a hobby and didn't think much about it until, in 2008, the Department of Homeland Security called and said, 'Do you have any idea how valuable the data you have is?' That started us thinking about how we could effectively deploy the data from Project Honey Pot, as well as other sources, in order to protect websites online. That turned into the initial impetus for CloudFlare. -- Matthew Prince, CloudFlare CEO
Exactly

For those lucky enough to have managed to secure a place without rent/mortage -> essentially those lucky few with ownership <- will get the best out of basic income.
I'm the author of Pingendo. Which is this "similar atom project" you mention ?
Swiss citizens will be asked to vote, the vote is currently scheduled for fall 2016.
Google shutters My Tracks outdoor activity-logging app
waf (https://waf.io/)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_component
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I wrote this in response to much of the hoopla around the 'threat' of A.I super-intelligence, and other unlikely disasters.

The future of humanity as a species is worth thinking about, but we also ought to be considering the very real possibility of getting stuck in the awful conditions humans endured in the past, alongside more farfetched (and less likely) scenarios.

I wish I had some unique idea about how to do that, but I suppose discussion is just as good.
Hackathon on script-based questions that make use of various APIs
You may have to be 55 or so; but the work was done 20 years ago.

"What's more, after 1985 about 60% of physics, 52% of chemistry, and 49% of medicine prizes were awarded following a post-discovery delay of more than 20 years."

[ source : http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/n... ]
Been thinking about / working on the email design problem for a long time. Email is a great medium with a startling lack of good design tools. Here are the features I look for in an WYSIWYG email builder:

* Drag and drop with common content types. Text, HTML, image, button, divider, social icons.

* Controls for fonts, colors, borders, padding, etc. You don't want to adjust CSS after the CSS is inlined.

* Control over email structure. Most email layouts are a single column or pre-built with a multi-column area. A good editor allows you to add new sections that are single or multi-column.

* Responsive by default. For email this means that multi-column layouts can "collapse" to one column on mobile. So a 3x3 grid becomes 1x9 and the content of each cell isn't tiny on a phone.

* Cross email client compatible. It handle Outlook, GMail and Apple Mail out of the box. This means lots of <table>s, that's just life.

* One-click export to HTML with inlined CSS.

* Image hosting. You can host the images yourself, but most of the time that's an extra step you don't care about.

* Allows for saving and re-editing. It's not fun creating a variation of a template from scratch.

For the last three years, we've been working on our email builder: https://www.klaviyo.com/email-templates. I think it has all of the above.
apt-get/yum/pkg install firefox?

And most people install firefox/chrome on windows rather than use IE.

Installing Tk/Tcl is easier than installing firefox/IE/chrome. Tk/Tcl does not require a lib to handle inconsistencies between different browsers and different versions of the same browsers (ff).

Btw :
Tcl/Tk = 29Mb
Firefox = 40Mb
Chrome = 52Mb

Memory footprint: Tcl/Tk is low usable in embedded system // most browsers have memory leaks.

Tcl/Tk // browsers:

- Positioning elements: Tk/Tcl 3 geometry managers (grid, packing...) while W3C CSS box model is an inconsitent mess

- Canvas: native // can or cannot be there (old versions) requires js

- Vectorial: Native // SVG

- Async : observers on variable (bind) & is aync by nature // callback in js
- Numbers : string coercion is sane // String coercion is inconsistent float by default (crypto does not like float)

- Functional : who cares? btw lists are lists not object

- Scopes : sane vs insane

- Modularity : Supports C binding AND module // $.getScript(url, callback)

- IO: accessing local files is possible // is not

- Widgets: you can make your own & reuse them by design

Tcl/Tk is way easier to learn than angular.

Why angular pop suddenly? Because angular bloated code aims at doing what tcl Tk does natively: makes UI components communicate together... without burning both CPU & RAM

So ... given the level of wtf in web development, tcl/tk seems pretty a smart choice nowadays ... if you care more about coding functionalities that works in a small footprint with less bugs than eye candying.

Edit: Bonus my C+tcl/tk code from 1996 with nice graphs still compile and work in 2016 ... 20 years stability.
I think I have an intuitive explanation why word2vec works. I tried to write it down, but I'm lazy.

Don't think of it as a 2 layer neural network. what it really is is a physics system. like a universe where each word is a planet. when words appear in the same context, that will assign some gravitational pull to the "planets". eventually, words with with same meaning will clustered as a galaxy.

for example, look at the following 2 sentences:

1. I pat a dog.

2. I pat a cat.

dog and cat, they appear in the same context. when the first time we see the word dog, we calculate center of mass of "I", "pat" and "a". Think of them as little planets.

then you give the planet "dog" a little force to pull it to the center of mass of the previous three words.

when you see the word cat, you do the same as it's in the same context.

Eventually, cat and dog will be clustered and form a galaxy, with other similar words. and the galaxy will be called "pet".
HP synonyms?
The study reported that even the tested devices which were enclosed still emitted plenty of VOCs:

"Interestingly, the presence of an enclosure only moderately reduced UFP emission rates from the MakerBot–ABS combination, with a ∼35% reduction in the median emission rate (although this variation is within the estimate of uncertainty). Larger reductions were not observed, perhaps because the enclosure was not completely sealed and large gaps were visible. While these two comparisons provide preliminary data on how printed shape and presence of an enclosure may impact particle emissions from 3D printers, no other definitive conclusions can be drawn given this limited data set."
So if Snowden isn't the whistleblower, then who is the Snowden behind him?
We've got a room at work that's filled with different breeds of 3D printer. Luckily this room is kind of special in that there's no ceiling, which would allow fresh air to come and go from the rest of the building.
Optimizing HTTPS performance
Apple already thought of this and tbe Swift runtime + libraries are embedded inside every app that uses Swift. No worries :).
I don't know when to apply these terms. Most of my male friends have younger partners and make at least twice as much them. It happens when a software programmer dates outside of tech.

EDIT: wow! Trophy wives took off in 1990.
That's beautiful. Thanks.
"Engineering" advantage of webstack over Tcl is that it's actually running various, daily used apps on those 99% (or more) computers so lots of kinks were ironed out.
Guess what, it is that one exception. Also, now we have lots of apps developed using electron, so welcome to 2016.

http://electron.atom.io/
The vote is on the 5.6.2016: https://www.bk.admin.ch/aktuell/media/03238/index.html?lang=...
This wouldn't be that big of a story if Theranos just failed. The story here is that they lied repeatedly to the press and possibly to investors.

Elizabeth Holmes' ability to raise money also seemed to be based entirely on nepotism, rather than the meritocracy that people want to believe SV has accomplished.
+1 for the apt, beautiful quote
-1 for the blanket over-generalization

I'm a loving father of two brilliant girls (7 and 9), and while I strive to be a "stable bow", parenting is an ongoing, dynamic and constantly-evolving relationship. And I'll never apologize for trying to instill them with my most deeply-held values and ideals. I try to do so by living and demonstrating these values, and encouraging them to discover their merits for themselves. It's not about merely enforcing rules. But until you find yourself responsible for another human being's very life, making assertions about the nature of parenthood is futile.
Oops, it's exactly what I need. Thank you very much, I'll strike out this text in article.
The Law defines the existence of a basic income for all citizens and the conditions it should meet, literally, "to allow any citizen to live with dignity and participate in the social life".

The exact amount of the income is unknown and not part of the Law and any press article is basically reporting based on speculations.

The source of the income is also not part of the initiative. It is the Government's duty to find a way to finance it once the Swiss citizens have decided there should be one.

There are two major suspected targets for collecting the necessary money. First source would be the VAT, through an increase of the current VAT. It is currently set at 8% and it's among the lowest in the world (the Swiss public administration workers are very efficient and working in a public office is not typically the kind of job given to people with personal issues as in many other countries).

The second potential source is a taxation on trading operations. Even the slightest taxation rate on trading operations (aka 0.00001% capped at 0.01$) would immediately solve the issue of funding the revenue.
The original title to this article is completely accurate: "There's a lot of vulnerable OS X applications out there."

I bet if this were a Microsoft story, it would have been left alone.
What about reinforcement learning? It seems neglected to me. There are only one or two good reinforcement learning resources I'm aware of compared to the hundreds of books and blogs on supervised learning. Most machine learning books will mention supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning in the first chapter, then never mention reinforcement learning again. This is my experience at least, and I've read a few introductory machine learning books.

Reinforcement learning can drive you car and mow your lawn. Supervised learning can tell you which of two pictures is a cat. Granted, supervised learning techniques can have an important place in the broader framework of reinforcement learning.

Reinforcement learning is one of the harder problems.
C in my day job.
The diplomatic immunity is what mattered in this case. If it was someone with American citizenship but no other special status it probably would have gone differently.
The world's first robot-run farm will harvest 30,000 heads of lettuce daily
What is up with every app requiring 10.8 and above? It's fine for others but very unsettling for developer tools. I still know devs on 10.6.x!

This is even more weird when you consider that laptops that came with 10.7 went out of AppleCare a few months ago.
Hyperloop: MIT students win contest to design Elon Musk's 700mph travel pods
Yes. Thank you (also to the sibling commenters).
Well the phrase "trophy wife" doesn't exist on this web page and I would say that the expression itself is not sexist (because you could also have a "trophy husband" and everyone would understand what it means), but of course the practice's prevalence suggests a cultural sexism where the expression doesn't.

The term "sugar baby" comes idiomatically from the opposite of the terms "sugar daddy, sugar mama" as the person who is the target of the affections of the latter. Obviously, "sugar baby" is not a sexist expression because it is not gendered. As for what it means, to be clear: Alice is Bob's sugar-baby (conversely, Bob is Alice's sugar-daddy) if Bob is an affluent older person who is both dating the younger Alice and is gifting her with financially-expensive gifts. The gifts could be as immaterial as "I have this car I never drive, you can use it as if it were your own" or as material as "I will pay off your student loan debts." Usually, if Alice has her own professional career and is providing well for herself, then we'd not call it a sugar-baby relationship even if the gifts are expensive and one-way. Furthermore if she is taking care of the household and/or kids, that would tend to mollify the judgment. The essence of the judgment is the belief that if the sugar-parent were not providing the gifts to the sugar-baby then the relationship would not persist; the very terms themselves suggest that the relationship is too uncomfortably invoking a parent-child dynamic in a romantic context.

A stay-at-home wife is generally not a "sugar baby" since they are married and not dating; you could potentially extend the term to cover married couples but even so, if there are no expensive gifts or they're of comparable ages you wouldn't normally say that he's her sugar-daddy.
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Source link (Desert Island Discs interview): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35442969
First 3-D printed part approved for AWACS
Have you ever studied this field at all?

> In fact, most of them aren't since the majority of deaths worldwide are either age related or age related illnesses.

Have you ever heard of the grandmother hypothesis? Just because an organism is done directly reproducing its genes doesn't mean that it can't help its descendants successfully reproduce their genes.

Please do some reading on a topic before pontificating on it.
How does The Atlantic get all their data?

Do Sugardaddies and Sugarbabies publicly confess their activities??

Maybe I'm naive but I can't imagine that the average student goes this path except she has been already escorting semi-professionally or professionally.
Contrary to what Om Malik @om and Joshua Topolsky @joshuatopolsky and the New Yorker @NewYorker say.Twitter's model is sustainable

Now I'm going to tweet this.Stevep2007
I tried using Pinegrow for my hobby stuff. It seems to work great but the price is a little steep for someone who is just playing around with side hobbies.

They hooked me on the $49 price when I started playing around and I was ready to buy until I saw that the price jumps to $99 if I want master page support and some other nice things.

I realize it is well worth it but I just can't justify a $100 editor for my hobby projects. I just purchased this tool for $25 as its pricing aligns with what I'm willing to spend much better.
Read about the grandmother hypothesis.
I hate to be pedantic, but: the size of the salt is directly proportional to the amount of the message you want to consume (because, as you know, in food there's a certain fixed ratio of salt to other ingredients).

So if you want a person to not accept the premise, you should say "take it with a tiny grain of salt", which implies "accept very little of the premise".
if you look for sage advice from people working on commission, beyond getting the thing done that they're getting a commission for, you're gonna have a bad time.
If that is the picture of the winner, how does it comply with ADA?
Show HN: Pnyxter – a video app for debates and discussions
The hard thing here is reinforcing the right thing. I did a bunch of work on genetic programming and RL and it worked... uhh... too well. Once it succeeded in learning, near as I could tell, my hard disk geometry. There was a subtle timing difference between data sets and this seemed related to where they were on disk. The literature is loaded with anecdotes like that, some even more hilarious.

But you're right. Nature clearly does learn this way, at least for many things. Maybe the way forward is to combine it with supervised and unsupervised learning and let different forms of learning work together.
To the hardware hackers reading this:

It probably wouldn't be terrible idea to take a page from Beijing residents and keep an air filter around.

http://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-Long-Life-QuietCare-Purifier... works to 0.3um particle size.

Even better would be an actual fume hood if you're serious. They're a good idea if you like to solder stuff, too...
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VMware nested easter egg
Please stop underestimating A.I. power of destruction. A.I. is not danger itself, it's people using A.I. are. Like nuclear power, we use it for clear energy and we use it for destruction. Real AGI is 1000x more deadly than nuclear power in wrong hands..
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Why not a one-time fee? It's probably nicer for people to
have a software without a built-in kill switch that will magically activate if they stop paying money
This has definitely been discussed here before; if you're worried, it's generally agreed that PLA fumes/particles are much safer.
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Yeah, in Switzerland I live decently but I am not rich by any means. To visit friends I frequently travel to Germany and everytime I realise just how big a difference it is for many things.

In the beginning I always had the feeling of something wrong when going to a supermarket there, because for me the gap was so crazily big.
Hi,

We would love to get feedback on pnyxter (read as nixter) - a video app that allows people to discuss and debate on any topic by posting a video selfie talking about the topic or responding to existing topics via video selfie.

We are in Beta right now, so would love your feedback.

Thanks!

Trivia: "pnyx" is a hill in central Athens, the capital of Greece. Beginning as early as 507 BC, the Athenians gathered on the Pnyx to host their popular assemblies, thus making the hill one of the earliest and most important sites in the creation of democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pnyx
Many enclosures are not fully sealed. It makes a huge difference if the enclosure is air tight.
"and it has many benefits(simple example: ssh port changing at least reduces alert fatigue so I know when I get a lvl 10 from OSSEC I know I need to dig into it asap!)"

Interesting point. False alarms were small enough that I never thought to measure the impact of alert fatigue in these changes. Might consider it in the future.

"I'm convinced that its wrong to say there is no security in obscurity."

It might help to just call what we're doing obfuscation. That's the proper term. Security by obscurity is either defined as or is connected to the concept that only hiding the details would keep you safe. In our examples, we're using a strong, security technique plus hiding a critical aspect of how we use it. Take away the hidden part, it's still at least as strong as a good, security technique.

Hence, we're obfuscating otherwise good security rather than doing security by obscurity.

"Sounds like you are doing great work!"

Appreciate it! Email me if you want to see other solutions or essays I did. I let people copy them without fee so long as they give credit. No blog so it's currently a lot of text files and links to master copies on Schneier's blog.
> I knew everybody's licence plate

I have trouble remembering my own license plate number... but I'll argue that it makes me a better contractor, because I have to document everything, from the current architecture to the work I do.
Was having dinner with a Belgian friend, an older man that has seen a lot of life and is conversant in modern political economy. He didn't believe that: a. students in US mostly pay for everything with debt, b. those debts are impossible to discharge if students hit hard times.
I'm not sure I understand how exactly a human-equivalent AGI would be more dangerous than an actual human.
Good point. A lot of companies would definitely prefer a one-time fee. The pricing policy is not final of course.
Single-point urban interchange
Since this is a nerd forum and I am a nerd I will step up the pedantry by pointing out that a grain is a foundational unit of measurement of mass[0] equivalent to 64.798 milligrams, making discussion of both boulder sized and tiny grains of salt somewhat nonsensical.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_(unit)
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