skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As it is a 25 year old who is clueless or green. The argument that the younger guy "can learn" whereas the older dude cannot, is just baseless.

In fact, an older guy who ends up in a junior position willbe much more aware of his lackings and will likely work hard and humbly to overcome them... whereas youngsters usually "know everything" already.
One of the most damaging things Clive Stafford Smith has done is to give public support for Moazzem Begg, who was almost certainly a high-ranking member of al Qaeda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moazzam_Begg). (Sure, Begg should have gotten a fair trial -- he would have gone to court had the charges not been dropped, probably because the intelligence services didn't want to reveal all the intel they had gathered on him and his associates).

In every human society in history, there have been people who choose to rob, rape and kill. There's no pleasant way to deal with such people, but it is the role of the state to deal with them, or you have anarchy. It isn't the role of the state to prevent "emotional damage", "bad wives" or "bankers".

Stafford Smith's position seems to be a twisted version of Christian morality where all problems are caused by meanness. Since the justice system is an institutionalised form of meanness, it must be wicked -- indeed, it's probably responsible for crime and terrorism.

This is a really evil worldview.
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Looking at that workspace I just need

- another large monitor

- my MTG cards collection back

- at least four magic cubes

- a nerf gun

and ... a VT220. At least I got that very same keyboard already.

Seriously, that looks like a really nice working space, completely ignoring the fact that I just learned about sway (I'm on i3 here) in the process.
I've been wondering what is the thing that will come along which Apple totally ignores and ends up dwarfing them. Who knows, but it seems like VR is a possibility. Imagine if someone ships a very immersive VR experience, that's going to be a lot more compelling than the 5" phone screen in your hand. And it doesn't seem to be a space Apple is paying any attention to, though of course they could just be doing things in secret.
Well the parent seemed to miss the point -- the real calculus is cost to the company if the exploit were to be used effectively, monetary benefit to the person who finds the bug, and the recognition you'd get in the blackhat community.
The last thing we need is a Python interpreter on an XBox. That just teaches kids they're second class citizens. Give them something like XNA where with C# they could make a proper title that could end up in the Indie Store.

The Micro Bit is way better than an Xbox in many ways. It's cheap: If you smoke it you won't be out hundreds of dollars. It's tiny: You can send it into space and use it on a small robot. It's simple: You can pretty much see everything on the board and understand it at a theoretical level with some studying.

It's like learning to drive in a go-cart before settling in to a full-sized race car. It's perfectly fine and a lot more fun since you don't have to worry as much about breaking things or killing someone.
That's awesome. All our splits were written down with pencil in our logs so I definitely felt that pain. I can definitely see a lot of places you could take it. Hope it all goes well!
Do the manufacturers change the UPC code when they update the ingredient lists? I doubt it. It's still technically the same item (and probably the same internal SKU too).
So you are calling a harassment campaign "trolling" and then are surprised that people are dismissing you?

As I said in response to your other post, this is something you report to the police. And I bet she did.

And about blocking:

> The messages were posted on a number of different sites, and continued after being blocked and or warned*

Exactly. This isn't trolling. Your social network can do nothing for you. You accidentally pissed off many people, now you are in trouble, you go to the police for protection, prosecute those who are serious and, unfortunately, ignore the rest because little can be done about thousands of people hating you personally for their insecurities.
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Are most of people locked up murderous maniacs or other constant danger to rest of us?
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Larry Gonick's "Cartoon Guide" series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gonick) is marvellous for this, to the extent that I'd assume that's what you're referring to–except that he doesn't seem to have one on general relativity. Do you remember what exactly the book was?
Ah, yes, agreed.
Well, reality can be inaccurate at times.
For embedded devices which run code off of ROMs, there are "romulators" [1] which emulate ROMs. They can be fitted into the ROM socket to work just like a ROM except that you can reload it at-will without burning a new ROM. Makes it very easy to recompile and try a new set of code.

Is there nothing like this for Flash memory?

[1] https://secure.transtronics.com/I-PKTROM.htm
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Include in that, alcohol. Is there a website for that yet?
Why would threading with GIL be worse than no threading at all?

As long as IO is your bottleneck the GIL shouldn't be much of a problem. And Python (and I'm sure Ruby, too) has excellent async support.

Not saying Node.js isn't useful, but I wouldn't automatically say no to Python or Ruby.
I never applied to these places, so take this with a grain of salt. But when I was recruited by Google several years ago, the recruiter was enthusiastic but got back to me several days later saying that she simply could not sell the hiring manager on me because of lack of degree. In LinkedIn's case, they mistook me for a recent grad due to creating a new profile on their website, and after setting up an initial phone call that revealed this error, I never heard back from them (truthfully, the latter opportunity was probably not what I'd want anyway).

You're right that I'm lacking in some skills, but it seems like the skill bar is set much higher for a person without a degree. You have to be truly exceptional to warrant consideration.
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You can't bypass with syn floods or udp flood. And if we are talking about size of attack in context of bandwidth, look at spamhaus and cloudflare case. That wasn't small. I admit that specialized, sophisticated attack from lets say top3 botnets would make damage and probably bypass cloudflare http protection. But if someone is making such an attack on you then probably you can afford getting prolexic.
Obviously you did a lot more than disagree there, but I think we can come up with a simple heuristic:

> How would you prefer that I make my opinion known of Rayiner

Just don't. People making their "opinion" of other people "known" is basically pro wrestling without the fun.
A lot of married people use birth control.
code quality is context sensitive. There's a lot of crap in the Linux kernel that makes sense in context that would be terrible in any other context.

Come up with a general purpose algorithm for evaluating the quality of code and we can get somewhere. AFAIK that's the whole point of being a developer: you can compare the code intelligently.
And good luck getting the locals to agree to compete with unpaid forced laborers.
Hmm, seem to recall Wyse had a gas-plasma display. The Googles do nothing to turn up a model #, though. Several vendors made them, with Wyse being the more popular brand IIRC, and early Toshiba laptops used them (had a 386 with a gas-plasma display).
I'm a little worried: is anyone familiar with the info passed to google docs sharers? As soon as I click the link Google will connect the document to whatever google account is open on my machine. Does the OP then see my google account, (which is my name)?
That is what one could call Nice (R). :)
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Not sure it counts as an appeal to emotion, he pretty accurately stated the facts from the article posted down thread, if reading it makes you emotional that's on the reader.
Since this is about OCR'ing the ingredient lists, I think that it would be much more likely to have false mismatches than false matches.
They are using it to create a pretty impressive system that provides oncology treatment recommendations. I saw a live demo.
No you don't. Double tap also zooms.
A rewrite automatically makes things worse because you start with no code.

I figure it's one of the signs of programmer maturity, that you start to look askance at rewrites. So tempting, yet so rarely even finished let alone better.
The mental trauma of the crimes is stronger in some crimes than others but it still exists so to say, we'll restore to is a bit naive.
At least here in the U.S., the odds of getting any punishment at all for "white collar" crime seems very low, and even if it happens, long prison terms are not likely. It seems the main thing holding people back is cultural, not fear of punishment.

That sort of system is very biased towards the upper classes though. Those who have access to the education and resources and connections to pull off this sort of crime end up punished lightly if at all, while those of similar character who are stuck robbing liquor stores are locked away for years, even though the overall damage they inflict may be minor in comparison.
Yes and No, I'd sooner my taxes pay to keep someone away from society who needs to be than pay to execute them even if it costs more, I'd sooner living that society even if it costs more.

Fortunately where I am the death penalty is a settled issue.
This is particularly annoying when you travel abroad and the driver may not be capable of sending messages to a US phone number.
I have had my Meyers Parrot for about 12 years. I always try to talk people out of getting a Parrot if they express a lot of interest in mine. I work a light schedule (for the last 20 years I average perhaps 25 hours a week) so I have lots of time to devote to him. He takes up a lot of time but is a lot of fun. I have a bird specialist who takes care of him when my wife and I travel and she and her Dad have agreed to take my Parrot if anything happens to me.

Edit: also, you really can't leave a Parrot alone. I work from home at least 90% of the time and my wife is retired and is at home a lot so we basically have the little green guy covered as far as company goes. But, for couples who work all day out of the house, having a Parrot would not be good.
Security through obscurity will not get you very far. This map just removes that false protection and potentially gets more bug hunters' eyes on their services.
Except McDonald's can't find any workers that are willing to work for $8.15/hr any more. I think prices of most things will go up, not because of inflation, but because you have to pay more for the people to serve them. On the other hand, customer service will probably go up, because nobody is there any more because they have to.
Because uninitialized variables are allowed to change values arbitrarily over their (nonexistent) "live range". Your proposal would force them into having a real live range, with a stable value. See this section for an example, which shows examples of the kinds of optimizations this opens up:

http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#undefined-values

There's also the issue that having a stable value forces the register allocator to keep a live range for the undefined variable, which can cause unnecessary spills or remat in other places. Especially on 32-bit x86, this can be a problem.
Author here. I got the pictured one refurbished through vecmar.com, and I just bought a second one on eBay (for use at home).
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Would you say it's good enough/stable enough for production use yet? I've been keeping an eye on ReSwift for a while now, but i've been hesitant about using it for anything serious because there doesn't seem to be any real apps out in the wild using it yet (AFAIK). Would really like to model my app state with the Redux-like pattern, from a single source of truth.
There aren't translations for a lot of German words then...
Some state-of-the-art industrial speech recognition [0] is transitioning from HMM-DNN systems to "CTC" (connectionist temporal classification), i.e., basically LSTMs. Kaldi is working on "nnet3" which moves to CTC, as well.

Speech was one of the places where HMMs were _huge_, so that's kind of a big deal.

[0] http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/09/google-voice-sear...
My take-away from the parent post is that some people are extracting monopoly rents from 'conservation' efforts, and this waste is partially responsible for neglect of other endangered species.
When I saw this, I was guessing at first that the author had confused physics calories with nutritional calories; they differ by a factor of 1,000 and cause many back-of-the envelope calculations like this to come out the wrong way. For example, there was someone who had calculated that the caloric content of a scotch and soda was negative and so consuming them should cause weight loss. But the hidden flaw was that the energy required to melt the ice and warm up the liquid was actually in physical calories (which are tiny), while the energy supplied by metabolizing the alcohol was in nutritional calories (which are huge).

http://www.futilitycloset.com/2008/11/16/the-mensa-diet/

In this case, the author doesn't give his measured power output but I took a look at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_performance#Energy_inp...

and concluded that the cited number of (nutritional) calories is the right order of magnitude, so the author's estimate is physically plausible and didn't involve a mistake about the two meanings of "calorie". The factor that Wikipedia notes that I might have neglected is about muscular efficiency: you can only actually use a fraction of the food energy you metabolize in order to move yourself around.

On the other hand, you can get this much food energy by eating about 120 g olive oil or about 200 g peanut butter. The peanut butter (choosing a random bottle from the front page of Amazon.com) offers 1213 kcal/dollar, a big improvement over the author's 205 kcal/dollar average.

I would also point out that if you're substituting at the margin, you don't have to think about "how terrible would it be if I had to eat only peanut butter all the time to save money?"; you just have to think about "how terrible would it be if I had to eat a couple of spoonfuls of peanut butter per day to power my commute?", which doesn't sound that terrible to me.
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Fair point. I would probably use a multiprocessing approach in node.js or use https://www.npmjs.com/package/webworker-threads. If perf were very critical I would use Rust.
In general it's an abstract concept like Kolmogrov complexity but there are some practical approaches.

People often try to intuit the intrinsic dimensionality of a dataset by using techniques like looking at singular values above some threshold or reconstruction error versus changing the output dimensionality of a dimensionality reduction/unsupervised technique like PCA, matrix factorization, or an autoencoder.

An info theory person might argue entropy and compression ratios are also insightful.
Could you point to the literature you have in mind that substantiates this?
Those examples all seem to have excessive bleed from the bright areas. If those were physical devices, I'd be turning down the brightness control immediately.

Anybody come up with a version for iOS or Android yet? Seeing it on a tablet would be a real juxtaposition.
I agree with you that they are a powerful dynamic in a household. A local Parrot specialist picks up my bird the day before my wife and I travel. Once she picks up my Parrot our house has an empty feeling which I don't care for.
Indeed, my comment wasn't about the quality of the science. I read the abstract, and concluded it's beyond my ability to analyze critically (at least without devoting a ton of time to it and learning new things) so I'll leave it to the other scientists. But the public messaging sounds the same as it's been for a long time, so it's a curious headline especially as "news". (Authors often not choosing their own headlines is irrelevant here.) The article itself even notes the movie-version of a perilous shift is over a decade old. Perhaps a better headline would be "Scientists argue compromised global warming limit not good enough" (edit: especially since talking about linear vs exponential is way too complex).
> Ok, I think I understand the confusion now. You seem to be of the impression that shell scripts are like bytecode executed in a virtual machine.

What in bloody hell are you talking about?

> Of course, you can already write a shell script for a particular shell

Which is irrelevant to my comment as that's not what portability means.

> But that defeats the whole purpose of following a standard like POSIX

Exactly.

> Bottom line, though: two independent implementations of a standard provide no guarantee they will work together.

If following a standard can't ensure your program can work on two different implementations of the standard, you don't have a standard you have decorated toilet paper.

Which is more or less what the "commands and utilities" part of POSIX is.
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I know everyone uses and understands SMTP but is there any kind of effort towards an SMTP/2 like with HTTP/2?

Something much more efficient, encrypted by default, less verbose with fewer round trips?

Sure it's harder to get millions if servers moved, but you'd probably cover more than half of worldwide email volume with the top 100 email providers?
Given what http://blog.ycombinator.com/nurx-yc-w16-prescribes-and-deliv... says, and the madness this thread is going to descend into otherwise, I think we can justify a s/Birth Control/Medication/ on the title.
I didn't elaborate on this enough in the previous post, but please do not assume I'm trying to make no one uncomfortable or enforce real names or remove anonymity. That's a pure strawman.

Being uncomfortable is fine. Disagreeing is fine. Anonymity is fine. Living with people who say disagreeable things is part of life. I have issues with stalking, harassment and death threats. It's not anonymity or disagreement that are the problem, it's aggressive harassment that would get you a visit from the police if you did it in real life.

Please don't think in simplistic, binary terms. We can have free speech, anonymity and argue all day without stalking and death threats. That's the happy medium I want.

As for why be part of a platform "not made for you," I just explained why. Twitter is a useful tool that is indispensable for some jobs.

I'd also ask you to flip your assumptions on their head. Why do you think Twitter shouldn't be changed? Isn't it more greedy of you to insist that certain people, usually women and minorities, continue suffering abuse? Isn't it selfish of you to not make a change?
There is no such thing as "word" and "phrase" distinction across languages. There are only ideas.

In written Mandarin, for example, there are only pictographic characters. Each single character translates to an English word or phrase, but which it translates to is completely arbitrary. It is extremely anglocentric to say "English doesn't have a word" for a given Chinese character, if in fact English has a phrase for it. The Chinese language has no obligation to translate each character succinctly into a single English word.

In fact, one of the greatest strengths of pictographic languages is the high degree of information density per character. More often than not, a pictograph will translate to an English phrase, not an English word. For native Chinese readers, inference comes naturally, as each character is built out of a set of "radicals," each representing a narrowly defined idea, that act as the primitive building blocks to convey a complex combination of their ideas within one "character."

It's the ideas that matter.
It does, actually, it's just that a) nobody uses it and b) any time it gets brought up people rail against Microsoft for trying to tell them what to do with their computers.
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There's a lot of startups that you may or may not have heard of, but the most well-known company using Rust in production today is Dropbox.
I had a Wyse dumb terminal attached to my main Linux workstation for a few years in the late 90s, back when such things were fairly easy to pick up for free.

Its not to be sneezed at for doing serious programming work. The green on black, text only CRT was super high contrast (especially compared to any modern LCD), and the complete lack of distractions that come with a multitasking desktop environment (email notifications, chat, web browsers, Facebook, etc) mean that it's productive for serious work, and pretty much only serious work. I'd happily do this again if I could get them for free, but paying shipping seems a bit much.
Thank you for the academic advice.

> I am also puzzled by you dropping out halfway through a semester and failing multiple classes.

OK, I omitted something (not deliberately. It's interesting how we unconsciously cut out the more painful parts of our lives). Being a young fool, I got into some legal trouble at the time and had to make money to hire a lawyer. I also had a court date set for the summertime, which ruled out my Spanish teacher's generous offer for me to stay with her family overseas that summer. This meant that I was about to be homeless, not to mention lacking any way to afford the legal fees.

I was very lucky to get a good job offer as soon as I started looking. It meant that I had a three hour commute from my dorm, but I was able to save up enough money to land on my feet in two months. Otherwise, I would've been homeless.

I did everything I could to complete the courses at first (studying and writing essays on my stolen two-hour commuter rail ride, for instance), but I simply lacked the energy and perseverance to make things work. After a month of trying this, I had to stop so that I could at least do well at the job. Most of my teachers were devastated when I told them that I could not continue with the coursework because I'd done very well to that point and was more engaged than most other students (it was well past the deadline to drop a course).

Looking back on it, I'm amazed things went as well as they did. I do believe that this story would have gone quite differently for a person from a more privileged background than my own.
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Interesting. Looks like a combination of PillPack/ScriptDash plus a doctor on staff to handle the prescriptions. The most annoying part of getting birth control is jumping through the hoop of getting a doctor to prescribe it, so this is definitely valuable. I hope it catches on and manages to expand.
> [scanner] did not support deprecated/insecure ciphers and DHE cipher suites, nor does it have SSLv3 client side support.

The equivalent of rose colored glasses for SSL/TLS scanning. This is really unfortunate, the data would have been much more interesting if it helped paint a picture of the good and the bad.
It's hard to see how speech recognition requires custom ML; isn't this offered as a service by various OSes and SaaSes? In addition, it's hard to see how this would be critical to the startup's success.

I'd expect trained classification to provide automated curation to be the best way for startups to take advantage in an existing project.
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