skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. Maybe three or four times when I was in high school. The beginning of the game is usually hard, then it gets easier when you are strong enough and get the artifact weapon and a good armor. You play until you get to the wizard, and after that the game gets pretty hard and you need to escape fast. The elemental levels are very complex and I've died many times in the last level, almost finishing the game and finding myself throwing my keyboard to the wall...

Of course I've read lots of ascension stories and some spoilers about the game to succeed. It's a fun challenge and very rewarding, when you finally ascend.
i co-founded Mimir (YC S15). We're deploying tools like autograding and plagiarism detection in college classrooms to bring Universities into the 21st century.
BS.

There is no contract if I have not signed anything. Viewing a website does not constitute a contract.

Websites can take their TOS and shove them up their asses.

If they don't want me seeing content without blocking ads, they are free to refuse to send me that content without me proving I've viewed the ads.
Which means internally browsers are probably dying a performance death of a thousand cuts, too
I was thinking about encryption the other day. It struck me that whenever the topic came on HN we tended to see encryption as 100% or nothing.

I however think we should instead focus on creating good enough encrypted communication for email, chat... for two reasons.

1. It'll make things a little bit more expensive for the "watchers."

2. It will create noise. I.e. right now, if one person is using encrypted communication, he automatically becomes a target. With everyone using some level of encryption...

3. It'll serve as an intro to security. The same app that provides base level encryption can give TIPS on how to become even more secure. Think Windows "Tip of the day."

There's no perfect security. An insecure world-wide, easy-to-setup encrypted communication is better than nothing. Because, it'll at least make people more security/privacy conscious.
Think about this. You've just gone through a lengthy and highly selective interviewing process. You've succeeded where many others have failed. The company has invested a lot of its employees' valuable time in interviewing you. They've decided you are a good fit and are skilled enough for the role. There are no red flags (like a criminal history, ineligability to work in the country, etc) that would prevent them from hiring you. Then they ask how much you made at your previous company and you refuse to tell them.

Do you really think that after all that time and effort, after sifting through a mountain of undequalified candiates, they would now turn around and let a qualified, well-fitting candidate slip through their fingers over a bit of irrelevant trivia? Not on your life.

Demanding you tell them your previous salary or they'd cancel your application was a bluff, pure and simple. Same with them pretending that you were in no position to negotiate once they'd chosen you and make you an offer. Companies always start low and expect to be negotiated up, at least a little. And once they choose you and made you an offer, the power is in your hands. "Take it or leave it" is a bluff.
Could you fall in love with this robot?
Corporations and governments aren't actual concrete things, they are labels put on certain actions of people (and corporations, specifically, are just names for certain actions of people through government.) So "people and corporations" and "people and government" are both just people.
Based on my own experience and that of my family members, what you buy and return is irrelevant. The monetary value also seems irrelevant. My account was closed for returning around $100 worth of junk, mostly broken shoes and clothes that don't fit. A lot of shoes and clothes on Amazon are just cheap crap and break all the time, but they'll still close your account for returning too many of them. The point is, returning 10% or even 30% of the shit Amazon sells is not only reasonable, it's to be expected given the quality--or lack thereof--of products on Amazon, especially in certain categories. And even returning big ticket items happens all the time. I bought a 4k 40" monitor that was broken and multiple Roomba-like robots that all broke amongst other things.

There is just absolutely no excuse for what Amazon is doing here. If they want such a policy it should be public. Otherwise, they're just fucking over their customers arbitrarily. It's that simple. If people want to defend Amazon in this matter, that's fine, but let's be perfectly clear about the fact the customers have done nothing wrong by definition in all these cases. Amazon policy clearly does not state any limits on returns. In fact, the availability of a paid Prime membership whose only purpose (that's actually worth any money) is to allow for quick shipments and simple, quick returns would suggest that they have a policy that accepts returns.

For all intents and purposes, Amazon does not allow returns. If there is a chance you might be stuck with a shitty, defective product because Amazon refuses to follow its published policy, they might as well not even have such a policy since it's meaningless.

This company can't even follow its own written policies. It's clear they don't give a fuck about any of their customers. And yet we still trust these assholes with our computing infrastructure, digital goods, and worst of all money?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11322070
They probably just model it as the building being torn down and a new one appearing. I don't think there are any inherent properties to a building that needs to persist across a move?

Buildings are getting moved all the time, also in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_relocation
What does that curly brace pair mean in isolation?

auto ret = sp::call({"ls", "-l"});

It's not a lambda or a typical block. I don't think I've seen that before.
> If a service is used predominantly to facilitate illegality

I guess we should all stop using cash, then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminated_currency
That's not really going to fix these things - if you can open a mic in the background without any UI to indicate it's happening, it will be abused. If I write an app with a legitimate need for the mic and get permission to use it, I can abuse it.
It's list initialization: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/list_initializatio...
I'm not sure I understand what the motivation is for doing this with electronics? To try them out? Who would want a camera that you can only use for like a week or so?
What happened to Firefox?
It depends. See https://www.eff.org/wp/clicks-bind-ways-users-agree-online-t...
A couple things I would suggest. Besides places like Stanford's SNAP, I would check out Socrata's OpenData portal [0], which is a place where anyone can post datasets, and the Open Data Network portal [1], which searches across all of the Socrata city portals...it's stunning what's out there. The NYPD's release of felony data is nice (if many years late), but it's nothing compared to what cities such as Chicago, Dallas, and Los Angeles have, in terms of quantity of records and detail (and the NYPD's stop-and-frisk data -- which the ACLU forced them to release -- is also much more voluminous).

I would consider providing numbers about the datasets in the default view, such as number of observations and variables. That's probably the biggest weakness, IMO, of current data portals (including data.gov)...you have to click through every link to then find out there's not much data in the set. In your situation, this applies to several of the things you've included...that Gun Ownership and Crime Rates set, for example...unless I'm missing something, but that has fewer than 40 observations, and relies on highly questionable numbers from the FBI [2] on a nationwide level...that can't possibly be of any use in a machine learning context, can it? I'm surprised it's even the basis for an academic paper (though kudos to the authors for posting their work). If you still think it's worth keeping that dataset, it'd be nice to know # of observations before having to click through.

[0] https://opendata.socrata.com

[1] http://www.opendatanetwork.com/

[2] http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchdogreports/fbi-crimere...
Very false.

I'm from an area with tons of snow. As I mentioned before we not only got snow days, they were budgeted into the schedule.
I wish there was a curl to httpie converter or it did that for you natively
How can you even test such a service legally?

This is a general problem with banning things instead of simply regulating them somehow. How would one scientifically study methamphetamine, for example, in a country where it is illegal to even possess it?

Without arguing for or against CP, what if I wanted to look up evidence that use of CP leads to increase or decrease of actual child abuse, without setting off red flags everywhere? As a Psych major, that sort of thing would interest me, for example.
That's correct. I'm making the distinction because of the comment that we "need corporations".
funny how several papers from years ago end up on the HN top page
Paper is at http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07300
C++11 allows curly brace initialization: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1852519
It is standard. It being standard does not preclude it being sexist, but it is standard. Sorry if your world view doesn't fit the facts.
Stop buying junk! How many times do you have to be bitten before you establish some kind of quality floor on your purchases? There's entire categories of products that I won't buy on Amazon because the odds of getting shit are too high. There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

> Amazon policy clearly does not state any limits on returns.

Amazon is a private company. They are not required to do business with you. That's in their policy too. Returns are guaranteed; your continued ability to do business with them is not. Though why you keep going back to them after they keep selling you items of such inferior quality I can't discern.
How many pizza's does it take to catch a terrorist? This is some pretty shoddy reporting.
The SIS systems are almost all hosted these days so it's the same risk from an Internet requirement. Google doesn't track usage on students use of Chromebooks.
Does anyone know more about the history of Condor and it's original team?

Wiki says Condor was bought by Blizzard nine months before Diablo launched. Then, after Diablo II the team split into two separate companies?

Also, I'm guessing this pitch document was to investors for initial funding. I'm curious to know how much they raised and who from. This doc looks like it came from experienced game devs.
Not a fan of the pro-gov person not seeing the connection to the first amendment and writing code a software engineer does not want to write. I do hope this case gets thrown out early or ends up SCOTUS.
It's pretty normal to be more bothered by casual violations of the way the world works than by fantasy elements. It's similar to the Uncanny Valley. With fantasy elements, our suspension of disbelief allows us to accept them as part of an alternate set of rules for the world. But when a part of the movie that seemed to be the same as the real world suddenly behaves differently, that can be off-putting and feel inconsistent. For example, if a character couldn't carry a small bucket of water but could carry a large man, many people would read that as an inconsistency rather than just accepting it.
A magnetic field was critical for life on the early Earth
That's plenty motivation. Who doesn't want to keep up with the latest hardware? You can figure out most of what there is to figure out about something after a week with it.

I don't do it myself because I consider it against my ethical code to buy something with the intent of returning it in order to effectively get a free rental, but I totally consider the appeal. Hell, I'd love to have a fancy telescope to play around with for free for a week.
According to Wikipedia, "One gram of anhydrous lithium hydroxide can remove 450cm³ of carbon dioxide gas."[1] Also according to Wikipedia, a person produces some 1kg of the gas a day [2], which translates to roughly 550000cm³. That means around 1.2kg of lithium hydroxide per day per person.

The Apollo 13 LM canisters were rated for some 56 hours for two persons, but could only support three for less than 35 hours. That seems to fall somewhere between 5 and 6 kilograms, and apparently includes the scrubbers of the space suits onboard. Each suit was designed to support life for 6 hours (+ 30 minutes of emergency reserves) [3] which means some 350 grams of lithium hydroxide.

The longest EVA thus far lasted for just under 9 hours [4], for which you would need a bit more than 450 grams of lithium hydroxide. The Russian Orlan suits are designed to support life for between 5 and 7 hours [5].

An astronaut on an EVA might produce more carbon dioxide than the Wikipedia approximation, so you might want to round those numbers up.

Edit: I am also not sure how close to the theoretical maximum that absorption capacity is, so the numbers might really be somewhat optimistic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_hydroxide

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide#Human_physiolog...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo/Skylab_A7L

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extravehicular_activity

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suit
Dysphagia: it’s like being waterboarded 24 hours a day
Really warms my heart to see this. I first played Nethack around 1989 or so, on an ANSI terminal. (I remember thinking that the ANSI color was really cool.) Haven't even thought of it in at least a decade and had no idea folks were still working on it. Trying it again on the iPhone sounds like a riot.

I've never ascended, by the way.
Indeed, there seems to be some support for `link:HASH:URL` search operator, but only works for very large volume websites, e.g. it works on news.ycombinator.com but not on small and medium websites.

still... it could be partially useful.
The distinction is important because people in government and people in corporations usually have different motives than people in general. (Particularly people in leadership roles within these org's)
a billion users? 14% of the world population??
There is no point to securing the DNS. There are only downsides.
Ethereum is defined by a spec, rather than a reference client. There are seven independent implementations so far. So it's already a less centralized development model.

Once the transition is made to proof-of-stake, the incentives of its "miners" will be more closely aligned to those of the community.

The existing miners can't prevent that transition. They're also using general-purpose hardware that can be repointed to other chains or sold to gamers, so they don't have a strong incentive to fight it anyway.
Why stop at making dragnet surveillance "a little bit more expensive"? It's not much more effort to make dragnet surveillance impossible and directed surveillance extremely expensive.
a billion users sounds like too many to be true
are you sure? how else would you pipe to GPG?
It's a nice demo but when I moved one of the probability sliders from 0.5 to 0.9 my browser essentially locked up for nearly two minutes. (FF 45.0.1).

Seems we're still a ways from achieving native browser animation performance that Flash (for all its other problems) had a decade or more ago.
Some want to play with new cameras, show that they have them, post to forums but don't have the money.

Others order 5 cameras and lenses, select one, and send 4 back to Amazon.
I've always been annoyed at hitting a few accept dialogue boxes with first launch apps on iOS. Kind of glad now that they exist.
Yeah. The only things I've ever returned and didn't want replacements for were cheap junk. I took a gamble on a $5 pair of touchscreen gloves, and of course they were worthless (didn't work at all, and weren't even that warm), and I got my money back.

For parts like electronics, I of course want a replacement. I've had to RMA a motherboard and a hard drive in two separate instances over the past decade. In both cases I really wanted the replacements to ship quickly, because I was waiting on them to finish a build!
> The Wikipedia article for "singular they" [0] notes that, politics aside, it was a common recommendation.

I think you meant to say it 'has' become a common recommendation, historically the singular masculine pronoun for the gender neutral was much more prevalent.
You can do that with pure pipes, without cat:

foo < input

This replaces foo's stdin with a pipe reading from input.
> "in the regimes we have tested"
That sounds a lot like the qualifier so far as we know in your own example.

No, because the claim that I made was limited in the same way as the qualifier: I didn't claim that GR was valid period, I only claimed it was valid in the regimes we have tested. But in those regimes, it is valid, period, or at least that was my claim--even though we haven't run all imaginable experiments in that regime.

The problem with the original claim I responded to is that it wasn't limited that way: the claim was made that something is impossible, period, but the supporting argument had the "so far as we know" qualifier in it. So the claim was going beyond the regime in which the supporting argument applied.
The "Explore" link is also hidden unless you sign out.
I don't see what the problem is: if the advertisers only pay the site owners based on actual click-throughs (rather than impression), what's the problem?
Like the move to self-hosted websites made finding websites harder? /s
It's ruined the quality of the Amazon brand to me. I used to buy a lot more on Amazon than I do now. There's so much junk on there, a lot of it of such poor quality that it should never be sold at all, and then there's also a lot of counterfeits. God help you if you ever want to buy, say, a replacement phone or laptop battery, or charger.
No. The safe harbor only applies to copyright infringement.
So how come botnets aren't legal?
A landing page consisting of nothing but a hold-harmless sort of agreement is off-putting. Perhaps it would be better if it provided information about the game in a way similar to the traditional ways that landing pages to games do and the terms and conditions came after the person had a reason to agree.

In other words, putting the user's interests first might lead to more engagement in at least one case.

Good luck.
Given that compensation in the Valley can go up 10% a year, and a significant portion can come from stock and bonus, I find data on GlassDoor to be fairly useless. The h1b database is a good source on base pay, but doesn't show stock and bonus.
Sounds interesting :-) But is there any Github repo or Dockerfile cook book available ? Last year, I have noticed these 2 repos: https://github.com/kevinlin311tw/caffe-cvprw15, https://github.com/kevinlin311tw/Caffe-DeepBinaryCode

How different are they ?
Yes, I stated beforehand that the implementation is wrong. My point is that it is not obvious from the implementation (and certainly not for beginners).
The complaints people have about millenials are, as I see it, a reflection of the social policies of the schools they attended. People talk about the "everyone is a winner" attitudes, but I think the effect of that is less than of other attitudes that public schools perpetuated. Because while giving every kid a trophy is going to influence their development, most kids realize that's bullshit by age 12–14.

The subtler things count more. The no tolerance policies are reflected in the SJW silence-everything philosophies. The overly-aggressive anti-bullying campaigns resulted in a "go to a teacher in the case of any conflict" approach and is reflected in millenials who demand to be policed — most prevalent in universities, but also found elsewhere. The restrictions and omnipresent supervision inspired by overly-intrusive laws and liability precedents. The mantras repeated to children from birth "it's OK to be different", "be yourself", "you can be anything you want to be" can be seen in the "personal brands" that millenials create — brands that they live in all parts of their lives, not just as a mask when they need to charm someone.

I'm not saying that all these things are regressions: older generations have as much bullshit to offer, but we're used to their bullshit. But millenials think that they're creating a culture that liberates them from their parents' bullshit, but their dogma is just as bad.
Safely store secrets in Git/Mercurial/Subversion
Nice how they cite their git repository in the references.
How to Spot Research Spin: The Case of the Not-So-Simple Abstract
A better Google AMP test
That's the core problem. Generally speaking, when you've got some questionable/debatable restriction like that, you want to err on the side of being permissive rather than restrictive.

But the way we do things now just happens to be the way they are done. For instance, there could be restrictions on where and when you're allowed to advertise, and how you're to present the information. I'm not saying that's the way things should be done, just that alternatives to the status quo are not necessarily infringing on your rights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgSwu6ZOYFs&feature=youtu.be
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Very cool, though I find it a little odd. If someone is going the extra mile to store the file encrypted, it stands to reason that trusting the service with the initial unencrypted byte stream is a no-go. The file being uploaded over HTTPS, and your assurance that the stream is piped directly through encryption, is of little consequence if you or an infiltrator to your server were to choose to be malicious.

I understand it's impossible to tool the concept to work with a very simple shell one-liner, and without a further dependency like an openssl binary. I like the concept, but I'd rather have to perform a one-time install of openssl or similar and copy a 10-20 line bash script to have true security rather than your current setup that comes with a technically flawed security model.

Obviously you are aware of this, and chose the path of convenience and "good for most uses". Kudos for a clean tool!
From the article: "In some high-profile instances, usually after news organizations filed expensive federal lawsuits, the Obama administration found tens of thousands of pages after it previously said it couldn't find any."

One explanation is that the administration is being dishonest. Another is that the administration is just inefficient, sloppy and slow at handling these kinds of requests.

Obama has taken a "civil rights action hero" approach to being president.

A different president might have taken an "efficient administrator and process reformer emphasizing high quality service" approach to being president. But that sounds pretty boring.
Specifically in this case it calls

template<typename... Args> int call(std::initializer_list<const char*> plist, Args&&... args)

Where "ls", and "-l" form the contents of the initializer list.
Redistribution through taxation feels like charity to me. Here's to kicker: why should anybody care about your feelings if they are wrong? Or if they only serve yourself?

If there's a good reason to think that redistributing wealth will improve people's ability to mitigate risk and make good decisions, then your feeling would really be irrational and should be ignored.
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