skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's almost certainly true, but again I'd go back to the example of Russia, where the elite continued to put their wealth principally into competitive status symbols rather than industrialization for almost two centuries after the industrial revolution started. Elites siphoning off wealth for their luxury, rather than investing in society or the economy, has been the rule, not the exception, for the majority of human history, and the Mughals certainly had been doing that in India for centuries before the British arrived. Empiricism and scientific enquiry also got going centuries before industrialization, I admit I don't know much about Indian intellectual life in the 17th century, but did they really have an equivalent of the Royal Society, or of Newton?
Naturalization applicant here: Current N-400 fees are $680 including biometrics[1]. Used to be a lot more, closer to $1000.

(That is certainly not counting the thousands of dollars to get to the point where I was eligible for naturalization.)

1. https://www.uscis.gov/n-400
WashPo's Bandito
Does it have to be a highway? It might be better to add high-speed rail between Sea-Tac and Everett. Otherwise we just end up building more garages until our new highway is full again.
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Not sure if you are aware of this or not but Form 8938 is different from FBAR. FBAR is filed with the department of the treasury and the threshold is only $10,000.
I took a look at the code in the author's GitHub repository.

The data sources are CSVs in this repository: https://github.com/BobAdamsEE/SouthParkData/

Looks like all the data is preprocessed, with everyone mostly having only 1 line. (Actually, it appears the line you note in 10-3 is broken!) You can make an argument that the script isn't processed correctly, but that's beyond the scope of the analysis, although a note might be helpful.
Google Photos is great for unlimited videos/pictures, but it doesn't support documents.

You could buy an external hard drive and hook it up to Lima (https://meetlima.com/index.php?lang=en). That way, you can access your data from anywhere via a browser.
Whoa, there's a huge fact in here. A Googler is clearly quoted at the bottom:

> “The day I’m very excited about is the day where we are just as safe as human drivers,” he said.

That's a distinct recognition that Google is aware their cars currently are not.
Heh. He seems to be a commie, so we're probably not allowed to question him.
Maybe I'm reading this differently, but isn't this the perfect solution?

- If you want it, you can have it.

- If you don't, you aren't forced to.

- It's opt-in

This will probably be pilloried — as it appears to already be here — since I suspect the #RIPTwitter damage is already done, but this does sound like a reasonable compromise. New feature that might get more people using and engaging in the system but won't change anything for people who don't want it. How is this not a win-win?
Reading this made me remember Zed Shaw's rant on C-strings and his recommendation to use a "Safer" string library:

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex36.html

I'm not an experienced enough programmer to be able to evaluate how much "safer" the bstrlib library actually is. I'm sure the various HN Engineers can chime in with their insights.
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I don't think people care so much about the addition of anything so much as the lack of any possibility of permanently turning it off. At least in this case, it's optional, but the related 'stuff you might have missed' 'feature' isn't.

I personally really hate this kind of thing as it clutters up my feed, and it never gives anything I care about. The value of Twitter for me come from the reverse-chronological feed, not this kind of thing.
How is another provider "cutting out the providers"?
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Back in the 1970s/1980s cyclists had to struggle to carve out their legal place on the roadways. Part of the bargain was that they adopt certain car-like rules of the road, like riding in the same direction as traffic, not weaving in and out, obeying traffic signals, etc. Because of this, cyclists' behavior is more predictable to drivers, thus making the roads safer for cyclists.

When I see guys on fixies weaving in and out of traffic and blowing through stop signs I worry that all that progress is going out the window. These cyclists are making the roads more dangerous for themselves.
Nope, my lame state school made us check these as well.
If it was not to make money, then it was to save money due to increasing budget constraints. Allowing the poisoning of the water supply due to budget constraints is some third world shit.
It's a win-win if it means it replaces the 'stuff you might've missed' nonsense, which isn't opt-in.
Natron, an open source compositor: http://natron.fr/

LiVES: http://lives-video.com/

Lumiera, a re-write of Cinelerra: http://lumiera.org/

I think one also needs to clearly define the term "edit video." This list concentrates on Non-Linear Editors (NLE), but, for example, it is possible to "edit video" with ffmpeg.
I don't think "don't show them my stuff" is a legitimate option for a publication and broadcast platform like Twitter. It's so simple to evade the blocks that all it does is promote sockpuppetry, which just complicates attempts to control all that "harassment" (which, more often, is actually just simple disagreement) that Twitter users are concerned about.

If you don't want your tweets to be publicly visible, set your account to private. If you do want your tweets to be publicly visible, keep your account public. Those are the two valid options. "Blocking" someone from seeing your tweets just puts them an extra click away (the "logout" button). It's online security theater.
Yep, most of the small piston-engine aircraft are designed to run on 100-octane fuel. The only practical way to get the octane that high is leaded gasoline. However, the lead levels are lower than they used to be (avgas is typically 100LL for "low-lead"). Also, general aviation only consumes about 0.1% of the transportation fuel supply, so we're talking about a minuscule fraction of the fuel consumed.

More modern aircraft can often get by with 94-octane premium unleaded. However, they cannot tolerate ethanol in their fuel, and due to congressional mandates for ethanol blends it's become increasingly difficult and expensive to source ethanol-free premium gasoline. Paradoxically, this pushes general aviation back to 100LL, which can easily be sourced without ethanol.

Modern aircraft also have a trend towards diesel engines (often adapted from automotive diesels) that can be run on Jet A-1 fuel. These are actually very promising because they have good performance-to-fuel economy. See the Diamond DA62 for an example.

http://www.gami.com/g100ul/avgas0211.pdf

http://www.aci-na.org/static/entransit/smallairports2011conf...

The root problem is that the general aviation fleet turns over incredibly slowly due to intensive maintenance requirements imposed by the FAA (eg annual total overhauls). It's pretty normal for your average single-engine aircraft to reach a lifespan of 40-50 years, and there's still plenty of aircraft that are pushing 70 or 80 years old.

As such it's very difficult to achieve a phase-out of a fuel type within timeframes that people consider reasonable. Like I said, the shift towards 94-octane premium unleaded and diesels is already happening, but it will probably take another 20-30 years for the fleet to naturally rotate to engines that support alternative fuels.

FAA oversight requirements (parts sourcing and mechanic labor) make everything airplane-related insanely expensive. You could mandate engine replacements, but this would be so expensive it would basically total 50% of the general-aviation fleet in an instant. At the end of the day we're talking about <0.1% of the transportation fuel supply so it's just not that big a deal.
Ah, I stand corrected! That's definitely more interesting... begs the question if there's bias in handing out the award, of course, but...
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It's flexible, can't you read?
It's my repository. I'll look at how the python script handles flashback events later today. Thanks for the feedback!
> "No taxation without Representation!" (perhaps the worst political slogan of all time?)

No, a true sentiment always.

I am talking about actual MPs from the colonies not the consult after the fact system and definitely not the way they ignored and ridiculed Benjamin Franklin.
Probably not. It's an interpretation that the word "driver" in one particular legal context does not necessarily mean a person, not a decision that computer programs are people.

This simply seems to be (without the text of the letter, just several news reports) an interpretation of law which is a basis for NHTSA to subsequently rewrite vehicle safety equipment requirements to support fully autonomous vehicles at the federal level.

Because of the way legal definitions are context-specific, it doesn't necessarily mean anything to anynof the other laws regarding drivers, much less anything outside of that domain.
Also http://lumiera.org/
Pretty interesting. This Large Scale Study of Myspace (http://www.cc.gatech.edu/projects/doi/Papers/Caverlee_ICWSM_...) paper shows a similar method for finding characteristic terms, using Mutual Information.
gender = {biological sex, social structures, gender identity, ...}

There's no reason to assume that the author has any ill will toward the LGBT community. It's a misunderstanding that people are (with good reason) very passionate about, but something that the author probably hasn't given much thought to.
Yeah, this seems like it might be useful for people who follow loads of accounts. I follow about 40, and I want to read literally everything all of them say. So long as it doesn't fuck up that use-case (e.g. by remaining optional), I'm fine with it.
Corporations are legal persons, but they aren't algorithms (or even concrete programs), so they don't represent algorithmic personhood.
It once occurred to me that it's possible to encrypt the disk completely and put bootloader/kernel/etc on a flash drive attached to your keyring (the physical kind).

Then it all boils down to BIOS security. With physical WP pins on flash chips it ought to be possible to make BIOS reflashing a reasonable PITA, especially for someone who wasn't prepared for such surprise.
I am British, and am married to an american. My wife moved to the UK and has never worked since. I had no idea about her obligation to file anything. She's been here for over a decade.

Like a lot of people we use a joint bank account. My salary, and anything else goes in there.

A couple of years ago I sold my flat in central London, and had 400K (600K USD) in there at various points. I have no idea how to bring my wife into compliance, as if I do, she will be expected to hand over 25% of the maximum balance of this account for every year it was undeclared to a maximum of 5 years. I.E. 125% of the maximum balance!

She remains unaware, and I don't file for her. We'd risk losing our house (brought with the proceeds of the previous sale), if I attempt to fix this. I live in absolute dread of the IRS, and what they may do to our happy family.
Thanks for the heads up, looks like P had some false information.
"The Starry Station is a sleekly designed device with a touchscreen interface that allows people to track the devices on their network and the overall health of their network on a daily basis, and lets them install things like parental controls and, possibly, even ad-blocking technology at the network level."

Sounds like it (lack of focus, i.e. just meant to attract money).
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The whole point of corporations is juridical personhood -- that's not a US quirk.
How does the US enforce this?

What happens if someone with no plans to visit the US and no income from the US that could be garnished says "So - come and get it if you want it"?
Way to miss the point. And a very important point it is. But lets just snark about vocabulary instead. Its the activist way - invent a new jargon, or redefine the old one, as a way to draw a circle around the in crowd of savvy activists, and all the rest of us jerks.
Interesting these are coming around now. Some services (i.e. Pubnub) have been doing this (for money) for a long time and what I noticed were at the end of the day, the use cases were actually rather limited.

Apart from stock quotes, bitcoin quotes and multiplayer games - polling just isn't that bad. And it's actually a very good place to start when developing as it's simple.
Even more you can probably compare these users to the "sneaker heads" that keep the Nike brand going by waiting in line for underpriced limited edition sneakers.
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Google's not particularly marking them invalid though?

The not-being-authenticated indicator is just replacing any avatar with a question mark ("we're not sure this person is this person") and a tiny indicator that warns you that outgoing mail is sent in the clear.

As long as you're not sending mails to spam for this (which Google doesn't seem to be doing, unless of course a DMARC policy tells them to - I imagine) then I don't see the issue?
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An image of the actual charred remains, and audio of Komarov as he died? I love NPR, but this is bordering on snuff. It seems far more graphic than is necessary.
Although probably frigid cold now, the US has the Appalachian Trails, over 2000 miles, from Maine to Georgia.

There was a movie featuring it recently too: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1178665/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Sacramento Bee Puts Google Self-Driving Cars to the Test
Code reviews are cultural
Relevant line in code:

# remove sparse terms
all.tdm.75 <- removeSparseTerms(all.tdm, 0.75) # 3117 / 728215

I believe it corresponds to the tfidf factor.
I couldn't agree more and it'll probably remain that way for awhile longer.

3rd party scripts can be included via a CNAME record at the root domain level.
I think the update puts some context around events and calls some of the details into question, but it does not really dispute the basic thrust of the story. I think that it is categorically unfair to say, "This isn't true," but it is also inappropriate to put too much stock in this version of events.
I agree that it's not guaranteed to be a slam duck investment strategy. Maybe it turns out that YC cannot scale and trying to expand it ruins it. But at least he's trying to innovate.

Remember that people were quite skeptical of YC when it first started, and their strategy turned out to be genius. Sam could have easily sat on that strategy, but is instead trying a whole new thing.

As you point out, there's no guarantee that this strategy works. (That's why I said "might.") Trying something awesome puts you in the running, but it doesn't guarantee a win. For that we need to see returns (including returns to the broader ecosystem and society).
I'm sorry I was half asleep and drunk. I have no idea what I was talking about.
> Obviously every third-party service is trusted, that doesn't mean one "doesn't care".

No, I'm serious about this. I wasn't trying to be flippant. If you care enough about the integrity of your email content and it not being used to further a company's profit, the only way to be sure of that, to the extent that you can (which may not be much), is to run your own mail server. If that seems like it's way too much trouble, I think a you should take a close look at your motives for wanting a gmail alternative. Is it about the integrity of your email, or sticking it to Google? If it's avoiding Google because they specifically cause you concern, that's fine, and there likely plenty of choices, but I'm not sure what they are (as I said, I just use Gmail because I don't care).

> By your logic even a private mail server isn't enough, you'd have to use PGP.

Well, by my logic you have to do enough to make yourself comfortable. Depending on your reasons for avoiding some other companies that will be different things.

> If you don't have any recommendations just say so.

I don't have any recommendations for Gmail if you consider a good UI, responsively web based, and free as major components of that. If you are willing to give up one or more of those, there are options. The local ISP I mentioned is Sonic.net. By all accounts (including mine, I've worked there multiple times in the past), a great company, and with great EFF ratings. An email account there is not free though.
Given that syntax and core API changes still occur, it's quite amazing that Compat.jl can achieve a very high level of source code compatibility between versions. This and the solid deprecation system are some of the things which make me confident enough to start using julia in production.
Publishers can opt out of the book indexing, too (kind of like robots.txt) https://www.google.com/googlebooks/publisher_library.html
Ah, well that could definitely be the case. I haven't watched it in a few years.
It can. The domain name is not sent in the clear in an HTTPS request. Instead, the connection is opened against the IP address and the domain name is moved to a Host: header which is encrypted.
I'm not in a panic about the lead in aviation fuel, but the relatively tiny amount of fuel used isn't really the thing you want to consider, you want to look at the absolute harm done by the use.

I do realize that in this case the harm is likely extremely difficult to even estimate.
In, "Stumbling on Happiness" [0] Gilbert's explanation of conditioned actions we just perform without it registering in our "awareness" hit home with me and may provide a model for understanding how animals (humans included) can do something that looks like it requires this invented empathy, awareness, etc. but can in fact be done without any "awareness" of what you're doing. Exploring consciousness isn't the point of the book at all, but the one section where he touched on it seemed to speak to your question some.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Stumbling-Happiness-Daniel-Gilbert/dp/...
I think it's more hypocrisy, if you're going to get out of shape due to drivers not obeying the laws then you better damn well follow them yourself.

I've almost hit bicyclist blowing stop signs multiple times. While they don't have the mass of a car you can bet that in the case of an injury there's a high probability that the driver is still going to be on the hook for insurance + damages.
America was different in a couple of ways. Due to its geographical position, America's cultives were similar to the ones in England. In this way, America didn't become a mono-producer to serve England's economy, as was the fate of colonies closer to the equator.
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Is a wavetable synth a musical instrument? It's just manipulating samples. Is a mellotron (1960s/70s tape-based instrument) an instrument? When you listen to the "flute" part on the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields", is that a musical instrument? Mellotrons are much more primitive than modern samplers.

When a musician plays a "real instrument" to exactly imitate the part played by another musician, is it real music? If not, is classical or other forms of note-reading "real music"?

If you drop the prejudices and actually think about it, of course a sampler is an actual musical instrument.
I'm normally very much a skeptic and not prone to conspiracy theories, but one that's always really fascinated me is the "lost cosmonauts" theory.

The idea that Yuri Gagarin wasn't the first human to travel into space, he was just the first human to return safely from space is haunting.

The concept that the USSR got ahead in the space race by a willingness to sacrifice a number of souls to the perils of space, and went to great lengths to cover it up, still seems plausible in my mind.

Putting humans into space is incredibly dangerous, and there are so many ways for a human to die in space. I've always felt there was a curious lack of death-in-space in the history of the early days of the space race, on both the Soviet and American sides.

Even though it is almost certainly warped by Cold War fear mongering, the idea that the Soviet Union shot capsules out of orbit, frequently had cosmonauts burn up on reentry etc just seems to fill in the gaps nicely.

Anyhow mostly conspiracy theory nuttiness, but I still believe there are nuggets of truth in there somewhere...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judica-Cordiglia_brothers
I'll triple down on my sinking ship.

I, personally, wouldn't be shocked if a company lobbying for something with potential controversy (Uber, an e-Cig company, whatever) used the data at their disposal to advance their cause.

It might start short of blackmail, sure. My e-cig company is going to face a panel of government officials. Might I check my sales records to see if any of them are customers, to help identify someone on the panel that might be more sympathetic? If I had access to other data, might I push farther?

It's not that I think Google is particularly more evil than any other corporate entity. It's the scale that scares me. Aside from the products I mentioned, there's also Google Fiber, a fleet of camera equipped cars, the Nest home products, and more. And not much in between all that and something scary other than corporate policy and personal ethics.
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They do quite a good job at picking out the "best tweets" aleady for sending weekly summary emails.

So having that selection of tweets in the UI is a good idea, I think.
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You mean I could've scored upvotes by posting my wiki on here? Well better late than never...

https://github.com/autotune/wiki
Skip to 8 paragraphs in.
The big point I wanted to highlight out of this article is actually at the end:

> “The day I’m very excited about is the day where we are just as safe as human drivers,” he said. “The next day, guess what? I come in and work on making it a bit safer and the next day after that a bit safer and it just adds up.”

This is a quote from Nathaniel Fairfield, the software lead for their Self-Driving Cars. I am not the only one saying humans are still safer drivers than self-driving cars. The guy who's in charge of the software on their team says so too.
As well as the conclusion...

"'We're just doing this for curiosity'
Curiosity eh? Maybe that's why the cats aren't cooperating."

Great read, enjoyable. I just love reading about big cats and small cats in general.
Seconded. I regularly prune the list of accounts I follow, so that I don't spend too much time with Twitter but still get to read everything from those people that I find interesting.
What are the stretch goals? If I donate the highest tier, will he land in my backyard?
Had an interesting experience a few years ago.

Me and some friends visited another friend that had a parrot.

* When we came the parrot said hello to everyone.
* One of my friends aggravated the parrot by
standing on the far side of the cage and making funny
faces.
* When we left the parrot said bye to everyone but him.
* When we came back a couple of weeks later and he had
forgotten about the parrot and came too close to the
cage it tried to bite him.

Would hardly have believed it if I hadn't been there on both occasions.
Because the conceptual difference doesn't exist for about 99.9% of people.

Also, most languages have no such distinction. For example in my native language Hungarian we either use the English word "gender" or say (the equivalent of) "social sex" and "biological sex".

It's a niche thing. I understand that some people feel sensitive about sex/gender or the differences between transsexual/transgender/transvestite/queer/crossdresser/drag-queen etc. But for the vast majority of the people this just isn't a topic of interest.