skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of the truth: Sterling lost his basketball team because of private recordings of him being a racist, not hearsay. Then he proceeded to dig a deeper hole publicly. That is: a lapel-camera would not have exonerated him.

Here's some advice, since you think you can take it. When striving to correct others: (a) Make sure you're actually correct (b) make sure you're doing it to reach a common goal, rather than to uplift yourself and (c) understand that a defensive reaction is not a weakness, it's an entirely normal human reaction, and try to empathize with the person as you deliver the hard news.

A lot of people think that others don't want to hear the truth, but it's not that. Most people want to know what's going on. What most people don't want to endure is the embarrassment of being wrong in front of someone -- which is an entirely different thing.

People get corrected on stuff all the time and take it in stride. It's when there is a blow to their ego or you're actually wrong that they get upset. So, you need to either make it clear it's not about them in particular (it usually isn't, hence the "common goal"), and even if it is, you need to make sure they know it's about making them better, not tearing them down. And, you have to be willing to consider counter-arguments -- that is, not pretend you are the sole arbiter of truth.

Bluntly stating an uncomfortable truth (or opinion!) with no quarter is not what people who seek the truth do, it is what people who want to be in control do.
Most website actually work okay with js disabled.

Obviously, in this case, it would not change anything since it is just an image and a link.
But on the regular web, disabling js does have a lot of benefits (no tracking, faster browsing, etc...).
I'm interested in that too
Personally, I would love to see a reimplementation of OpenGL on top of Vulkan that behaves more consistently and with uniform feature support vs. what current drivers offer system-by-system.
The Geox store next to Chipotle is up 42%.
Up-vote...

Not sure why you got down-voted...the New Yorker is quite famous for an occasional lighthearted "survey--type" article like this...maybe the down-voter is unaware of this...

I've been a subscriber for over 25 years...like you, I look forward to each issue...
Can you give an example of the sort of scene you have in mind? I often play around with 4x5 photography, where it would be trivially easy to get that effect for a subject 15ft away with a $100 lens, but I've never actually wanted to do it.
An IR LED is super cheap compared to even the cheapest radio chips. Also you need to have some sort of bonding between the remote and TV or you risk messing up customers with multiple copies of one device in range and that's an extra annoying step.
Morocco has rivers and dams already. Geographically speaking it has almost everything, from sand desert to skiing stations. This is personal publicity for the King himself.
right! you can't just put JWT in there. I saw that and was like...maybe we went too far? hehe
Gravitational Wave explanation that would make Feynman proud
Rand Paul would. Bernie Sanders might.
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If I point the local DNS resolver to Google's DNS server as a temp fix (8.8.8.8) in /etc/resolv.conf , will that mitigate the threat before the patch?
I definitely support that initiative. The more C++ programmers we can get to stop writing C the better.
Neat, particularly for urban applications, but it'll never be as cost effective as actual field planted crops.

The future of robotic farms is in the fields, not in the factory.
You will (inevitably?) run into factors when importing data from SPSS files... sure, you can discard them upon reading... but are you sure you don't want access to the value labels in the future?
Can we make the Linux load average overflow?
Is it just me, or does anyone else think those two icons look like toilet seats?
Like I said in another comment: in Morocco 50% is for the actual cost and 50% is for bribes. This is how "makhzen" works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhzen
Sold, sure, but possession is 9/10ths of the law, and both of those probes are currently on the moon. It seems more like one of those "buy a star" things than an actual bargain-basement sale of a priceless relic of the space race.
A big part of school is about creating worker bees. Do what you're told. Collaboration is cheating. Respect for authority is given, not earned. Cultural and national indoctrination mandatory. It's all rather tribal.

It gets a bit more interesting in high-school, but that relaxation I think only helps to solidify the worker bee concept, with this hard work comes some faux-freedom. Most of college is an extension of this but with a lot more tolerance for edge cases to pick alternate and innovative paths.
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This is potentially a powerful statement for Russia, though the article doesn't make it clear if the weapons are designed to break up the asteroid or redirect it. If the latter, it's extremely threatening: if you have the capability to deflect an asteroid to miss the earth, you can just as easily deflect one to hit.
So why do they need more money for this?

When my car wears out and I need a new car, I don't go to my boss and say "hey, I need money for a big down-payment on a new car, so I need you to give me a big raise." And then, 5 years later, come back to my boss and say "I need yet another new car, so I need yet another big raise to pay for it."

Instead, I save money over time so that when I need that new car, I have the money already saved up for it. In fact, I've saved the money because, over time, my old car has gotten cheaper to own (lower insurance, lower registration fees, loan paid off), and I've budgeted for transportation expenses over all that time so that the new
car cost isn't a big surprise.

So please explain to me why the existing taxes for police services aren't enough for them to save up and budget and buy new buildings as necessary.

As for boomtown rents, that's not a problem either. The boomtown means that property values are skyrocketing, which means that property tax revenues are also skyrocketing, so they're already making more money without even having to raise taxes. So why do they need even more?
So sync to a server that stores your remote layout based on your wifi name/some other criteria?
I am confused. How's the app logo nowhere on the homepage? Did they go with UBER, black square, and the weird backward C thing all at the same time? In addition the font for Uber front page does not match the Uber logo once you log it (where the U seems to have a little curve to it). Get it together, people!
If you are talking about phonological categories, then you are almost certainly correct. However, somewhere between choosing to produce certain phonemes and the actual sounds you produce, there's some process (maybe just the physics of your vocal tract) that gives rise to tons of variation in what linguistically is a single phonological category. IPA doesn't capture that.

Of course, IPA does capture unstable vs constable.
>You just keep the data digitally on some media and every few years you upgrade the tech to whatever technology and formats are "current" before the old format and tech is completely forgotten.

"Just". Have fun justifying the cost of re-encoding and re-archiving all of the laws of the UK every few years. The advantage of vellum is that once it's written, that's it. You don't need to go back and re-encode and upgrade to the latest storage technology. It's there, and it'll last literally a thousand years if it's stored in a reasonably dry, cold, and dark location.
> What do you think "add[ing] it to Google Maps" would accomplish?

Give us better publicly-accessible seafloor maps for that bit of ocean?

>> there will be a swarm of autonomous submersible robots doing detailed scans

> Why? What would be the economic case for doing this?

Immediately? Who knows. He did qualify his statement with an "eventually/100 years," though. I can imagine such robots would be useful for environmental monitoring, mineral prospecting, and defense reasons. Especially if the cost decreases.

IIRC, there already are automated scientific buoys that drift with the currents, do programmed dives, and transmit their measurements by satellite.

Edit: here is a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_glider

Edit2: here is a paper about installing mapping sonar in such a vehicle: http://www.physics.mun.ca/~bdeyoung/Zhou_Icebergs_2014.pdf
> The robots will do everything from re-planting young seedlings to watering, trimming and harvesting crops.

Has the author been to a farm in the past 20 years? Most crops today are not planted by hand, or watered by hand, or harvested by hand. (Harvesting is still the most labor intensive part of farming for a few fruits, but automation isn't far off.)

I think the most interesting part of this farm is not the automation, but the water saving, the reduction in pesticides, and the decision to use grow lights indoors instead of sunlight.
Coded aperture
The shell in the Shell Oil logo represents an actual sea shell. The founding family were originally sea shell importers and pivoted to oil in the late 1800s. (The story is told in Daniel Yergin's book on the history of the oil industry.)
They should add birth control to the list :P I think I've had maybe 3 nights of uninterrupted sleep in the year and a half since my son was born.
Well that's the question good calculators have quite sophisticated "rounding error" fixes that ensure that large calculations don't end up being off by a light year, it's not just a simple question of rounding up/down because if you always do that staggering errors or even a short calculation with a large exponent can throw you quite a bit off.
Artificially-lit indoor farming is neato and will be a great technology to bring into space, but makes almost no sense on earth.
Basically, it requires expensive infrastructure and way too much electricity (https://gigaom.com/2015/12/29/indoor-farming-good-for-cannab...).
Maybe robotically-farmed greenhouses won't have this problem.
Rarely do you find a scientist able to explain in superb clarity something as mind bloggling complex as detecting gravitational waves. Richard Feynman is famous for his wonderful explanations, I would propose that Dr. Gabriela González Professor of Physics and Astronomy at LSU has met this standard.
nice... but i'd be willing to be some of the "crappy" features of gogo was a business requirement from AA in the first place.

lets hope competition will give us customers a better option than gogo did.
"concentrating on yourself and your own development"

Agreed. Always baffles me to see people complaining that they can't find "a good guy/girl" as if it was self-evident that they deserve a good partner in a first place. What do you bring to the table? Why would a "good guy" want to be with you? Work on yourself first, I'll give that a +1 :)
Japanese farming is notoriously manual, inefficient, and protected by heavy tariffs.
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This information is super useful. I have an ST3000DM001 and only trust it because its smart stats are still all in the green (and of course I have local and cloud backups of anything important).

I've had it for four years now and there are no warnings of any kind yet, so I guess I got one from a good batch.
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> Why is Israel being criticized of this when any other country including the UK, France, Germany, Iran, Egypt are doing the same?

Because Israel could not do five percent of the things they are doing without the massive amount of military and financial welfare and protection they receive from the USA. The other countries you list do not have that luxury to nearly the same extent.
> I'm sure these disputes are at least as common inside the NSA

Given the NSA's contradictory mandates to both improve and weaken security, I think you're definitely on to something.
Wild guess - it's a strategic thing for Europe.

1) They're very leery of whatever's Russia up to, and much of their NatGas comes from there. Any alternative energy is good energy.

2) It shores up the economy in a relatively stable part of northern Africa that'd be a prime location for people wanting to immigrate to spain. More refugees are not a good plan.

3) It helps Europe to hit Carbon reduction targets without having to deal with the NIMBY population.

Or at least it was a strategic thing. Reading some more, European investors pulled out, and it's the Africa Development Bank now. Maybe the money is too nuts even with strategic goals in mind.
In an ancient workshop, discovering modern ideas (2015)
Way too many languages are trolls, or have troll features. Or in other words, too many languages have features that don't do what a reasonable person would expect them to do.

I've long considered implicit type conversion to be a troll feature, especially how Javascript does it. Another one is how differently Java treats primitives and Object types. Oracle databases treat nulls and empty strings the same.

At times like this, all I can do is lament and search in vain for a language with no troll features.
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Yea, definitely. The part selection mostly came down to what I had on-hand from previous projects.
This was the original blog post where we analyzed hard drive reliability and saw that it followed a bathtub curve:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/
Use the Uber redesign as the standard of poor redesign and you won't go far wrong.
How would you represent categorical data then? R's primary use case isn't text processing. And HW isn't always right.
Person of Interest is, to my knowledge, the only show to have successfully and naturally transitioned between two radically different genres (Monster of the week style crime procedural into overarching plot based sci-fi).

It is beautiful. And it's such a good show, too. Highly recommended, most of the HN audience would enjoy it - very technical, pre-snowden, talks about mass surveillance (ethics, implications, ...) and AI. Original and sci-fi oriented while remaining grounded in reality (Mr Robot tech quality, no CSI bullshit).

PS: If you do watch it, give it a few episodes to grow on you while it transitions genres over the first season.
I'm just going to file this one away for 20 years from now when electricity is 10-100x cheaper than today and indoor/underground farming is the most economical due to pest, density, and environmental concerns. Could you also say this technology will never make sense? That would be very helpful.
It shows - in a good way - in the quality of the produce, though.
Not sure why you're downvoted - that certainly seems like another likely candidate for why this is happening.

The moment you read the quote “At around 2pm, the king will press a button, the parabolic mirrors will start turning, the heat will begin to turn the turbines and the plant will come to life,” - you have to wonder how much of this is a vanity project.
I have lots of Apple II AppleWorks files on floppies.

I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to open them. I don't even have a way of getting them off the floppy.
I'm much less forgiving of the format. Every example I've seen has been a colossal and seemingly deliberate waste of the reader's (my) time. Even when it is reasonably skillfully written and contains information on a subject I'm interested in, I vastly prefer the writing style of, say, Wikipedia.
I think NSA is mostly staffed with residents of Maryland. Technically.
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A factor already is a vector of numeric values, which happen to have names.
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I'm one of those weird ones who enjoys being on a plane. Like the Seinfeld bit goes, it is a tiny snapshot of life... tiny tables, tiny cramped seat, tiny bottles, tiny food.
Anyway, I feel like this article just throws everything at you.

The following works very well for me:

1 - Adjust your sleep to reflect your destination. Advance or delay your body clock according gradually prior to your trip.

2 - Water. Drink lots of it inflight.

3 - High-Protein, low carb meals just before travel and inflight.

4 - Walk around on a plane or use compression.
also, what can be done with the hot water coming out of the system?
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Things have at least taken a step in the right direction after the attention brought to Ferguson:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/muni-cou...

I think the problems are deeper than how much of a municipal budget can come from fines though.
It's kind of amazing to see someone admit to spending hundreds or thousands of hours using R, yet refuse to spend a couple hours learning the language a little better. Whining that your tools are hard without investing any effort in them is just dumb.

The R help even comes with code samples that you can run!
I was and still surprised they didn't grab a bit of Syria.

Does not seem to be Israel's mode of operation.
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The temporal scaling of Caenorhabditis elegans ageing
> Again, I'm not talking about performance.

But previously you said "because it can't be safe at such a low level without a performance penalty" which clearly implies performance is part of your argument. This is what I was talking about in my other reply, which mentioned "without narrowing the scope or clarifying your intent".

> I re-read what I wrote and I fail to see where I attacked or even (God forbid) criticized Rust.

This is more about backing up claims with concrete examples. pcwalton is a Rust developer, I'm sure he would be very happy to hear a specific shortcoming he wasn't aware of, or was undervaluing. That's how improvements are made.

> So far IME, the rust community is extremely defensive and antagonistic to anyone they perceive to have made the slightest criticism. It's immature and irritating. It's the only thing that really turns me off from fully embracing it.

There may be some of that, but I also see a lot of rust community members trying to explain where people's assumptions are wrong, and it being taken as being antagonistic. The fact that Rust has some compile time checking that could actually make some of the low-level code faster is what I think is being alluded to by pcwalton. Of course there will be things that rust won't catch, and will need to be done in both C and rust, and there's things that other languages may catch that rust doesn't and vice-versa.

> I can't participate in a community that's fundamentally hostile to skepticism.

That's an interesting way to put it. You've made assertions, and when asked for clarification or evidence, began your response by calling the other commentor's motives into question (is it a reasoned response, or was it overly emotional because they were "defensive"). Asking for evidence of assertions is skepticism, and to balk in face of requests to do so is actually what I would consider being defensive.

To be absolutely clear, I don't think you would have been downvoted if you didn't start your reply with "A little defensive, maybe?". I didn't downvote you, but my initial assumption was that the downvoting I saw was because of that.
Scaling of Aging
This is a great project, the only thing that concerns me about it is the very large loan from the IMF denominated in USD they took out in order to build it. Could well have been the work of EHMs

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/...
I tried it very early and it was unstable, but I'm following its development, and it seems that it'll be stable shortly. I'm using ratpoison nowadays, though I'll switch to it when it's stable enough and emacs gets multithreading.
I'm out of my element here but is it really so far fetched?

A quick search in the PowerDNS codebase [1] reveals four sites where getaddrinfo() is called. This isn't obviously the code for recursive lookups but that doesn't matter. If an attacker can trick it to query their rogue DNS they have won.

I don't want to suggest that Google uses PowerDNS, I just used is as an example.

[1] https://github.com/PowerDNS/pdns/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=get...
Metal was first unveiled in early June 2014[0], and thus probably in the works some time before that. AFAIK the "Next Generation OpenGL Initiative" was officially announced at SIGGRAPH 2014, in August 2014[1], and the private kickoff meeting was the month before.

edit: heh, some people really can't handle the truth.

[0] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8116/some-thoughts-on-apples-m...

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTc2ODQ
Clicked seven times. Saw two separate tweets twice. Either this is not very random, or I should get some scratch tickets on the way home from work.
now is the time to send out our pogs of humanity into the deepness of space.
So, as a code person rather than a stats one, my first reaction was that in the first example there is in fact only a single way to access a column but multiple ways to specify which one, all of which made immediate intuitive sense to me.

So I wonder if this is less about R specifically and more a feature of people approaching a language (any language) without that code geek intuition for the underlying affordances ?
Would have been nice to include a cost estimate.
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I doubt it will compensate for a lack of product-market fit for a startup. For a small business it might offer marketing value on a purely risk/reward analysis...that is it might average out across many companies that the total value of inorganic spikes exceeds the total cost of pursuing it.

Since it's a hype machine I doubt it, but it's possible. Mostly, I think it is a case of:

We must do something.
Product Hunt is something.
Therefore, we must do it.
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Out of six times, I got the same tweet twice. Considering that each tweet has an equal probability of appearing, this is an extremely unlikely event.