skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or you could just count the number of times their names are mentioned... Except neither approach really represents character importance accurately. Why just go the naive route when you can extract more information from your data by using a more complex approach?

The article actually counters your point exactly:

"For example, Arya Stark, Sansa’s younger sister, has the third most chapters with 34, but ranks behind Sansa in terms of network importance."
Well that's just the thing - an organization that has a "system" or "process" for handling employees and their work is by design less than flexible. In a small to medium sized business, you might have 3 completely separate roles, and others might pitch in as needed. But at a large corporation, it's simpler and more efficient for them to have one person who does one job. When the peg no longer matches the hole, they are replaced or reassigned. Which is sad, because people with valuable skills are often underutilized. I feel like companies like Valve might have the right idea going forward.
A proposed ‘textalyzer’ bill might give cops the right to access your cellphone
Wow, I'm not exactly sure where this intense hate of Chicago came from. I grew up in Chicago and lived there as an adult as well for a stretch before moving where I live now and I still have a lot of friends who live there.

Chicago is large enough there are a lot of communities [1] not a central one. Depending on what you're interested there are different neighborhoods for whatever kind of lifestyle you're wanting to find yourself in and always new developing ones if you want to make your own.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_areas_in_Chicago
Downvoter care to comment? Genuinely interested in what you find disagreeable!
Slack places the "recently used" emojis on the first page. That works really for me.
From the reddit thread you posted (which it should be noted is on the vive subreddit)

> Comfort Advantage: Rift
Norm: Rift has almost no pressure Jeremy: Vive can't distribute weight as well Both mentioned this is the biggest difference between two Vive is better for huge massive noggins as the Oculus straps may not be long enough

> Norm: "Everytime I play a Vive game, 10 minutes in, I think to myself, boy I wish I could play this exact same with the tracked controllers wearing an Oculus Rift
Jeremy: "I can say the exact same sentence, in fact when yesterday I was playing on the Vive, I had to take it of and say, UGH, I really miss my Oculus Rift, because it is just so much more comfortable"
Jeremy: If Touch was out now, there would be a lot less favorability with the Vive
They're really hitting the "nobody should be above the law" talking point hard. How fortunate for us — it sounds good but doesn't survive even casual scrutiny. Crypto might interfere with investigations, but that is very different from being above the law. There are huge numbers of cases where some perp used encryption and was still bought to justice.

The best analogy I can think of is the document shredder. As a society we accept that individuals can protect their personal privacy and safety even if this occasionally frustrates law enforcement investigations. Shedder manufacturers aren't forced to limit how good a job they do to potentially aid LE as this would do more harm than good. And, after all, if you banned shredders, criminals would still be able to just burn their incriminating papers.
London is more extreme but it's the case in almost the entire UK that rents are higher than mortgage payments.
As someone who works in this field and has been a party to breach investigations, it is really hard for me to imagine a breach in which the website of the Los Angeles Times is defaced costing less than $5000. I'm actually surprised --- as, apparently, were the prosecutors --- that the established losses were capped at ~$15,000.

If you're operating a company with real customers and real cash flow at any kind of real scale, and you suffer a serious breach, figure $50,000-$60,000 is table stakes for getting that breach resolved.

The intuition you need, to price these things out, is that once an attacker obtains unexpected unauthorized access to a system, the very next thing they do (and, in this case, the very next thing they tried to do --- much to Keys chagrin) is extend and persist access. Which means that if you're resolving a breach, you have to re-assess every system that the attackers got unexpected access to and verify that they didn't (a) implant something that will restore access in the future or (b) uncover some latent vulnerability that would allow them to do that.

Nobody reliably assesses internal systems (those systems you get unexpected access to once you successfully obtain unauthorized access). Nobody. An attacker gets behind the login prompt on a CMS you've deployed? You probably need to re-assess the whole CMS, because a big chunk of your security for that CMS probably relied on the idea that attackers don't know and can't reach all the URL endpoints behind the login prompt. The attacker gets code execution somehow? Now they're on your internal network, and the same goes for every system on the internal network.

It adds up fast. And your insurance company will (a) demand that you pay it, and (b) shortlist your DFIR vendors for you.

Not fun times.
Brillant! And The Others would be the quimiotherapy? Because they kill all the cancer cells... bad joke, sorry, we will probably burn in hell together haha
Guards are more likely to let down their defense if you step inside the 2-pointer zone, but are not close to the hoop.
> [P]laces like West Texas, much of which gets very little rain and has land that sells at single-digit dollar prices.

This is interesting - do you have any links to land like that being sold at such cheap prices?
This article makes some good points. Primarily that there's too much money floating around being poorly used (ie, in the hands of the superrich who's primary motivation is to generate high returns for themselves).

The solution is not cheaper homes or higher interest rates, but higher wages and less student debt. The easiest way to do that (in the US) is to raise taxes (particularly capital gains, but also upper-bracket income and corporate taxes) to subsidize low-price higher education, fund infrastructure projects (national power grid, offshore wind and tide power generation, a real high-speed rail network, local transit, local utility upgrades (water and sewer systems are dangerously decrepit throughout the country, and we ought to be laying fiber to every home in the US), research into battery technology, diabetes and cancer prevention and treatment advances) that will pay decades of massive benefits to rich and poor alike, and to raise the minimum wage, which will generate inflationary pressure on other wages and prices in general.

Further the Fed needs to let inflation rates balance out by running at 4-8% for a few years. We've had a sustained period of outrageously low inflation, which means that mortgages and student debt are far heavier burdens today than they were for previous generations, because inflation reduces the effective principal.

We have plenty of tools to address this problem, but no political will to even try.
On average it's still one of the best possible investments you can make with money, especially considering making a return on any sort of savings today isn't really a thing. These articles also neglect to mention that if you had bought property in a city like SF, Boston, or NYC a decade ago you wouldn't currently be worried about being priced out of the city by increasing rents (commute distance is a huge economic burden beyond the obvious housing costs).

It's still not something that's a "sure thing" or you can do hastily. It also takes more of your time than renting, so if you're trying to optimize "free time" then it's likely a bad investment in that regard.

There's no simple answer one way or another, but if you're trying to justify your inability to buy as a "good decision" you'd still be wrong more often than right. An increased market of affordable housing to purchase is better on the whole for wealth equality than controlling rents.
Montreal is extremely friendly to non-drivers.
Silicon Valley cries unicorn tears
It has nothing to do with defendants. They already have the fifth.

It is about the service provider.
Cars can be rented for weekend trips. It depends on the math of your specific situation, but if you have to pay for parking you'd probably come out ahead just renting a car for a couple days the ~12 times a year or so that you need to drive out of town.
Aha! You caught wind of my subterfuge.
That is where signing other people's OpenPGP keys comes in, and the web of trust for those who haven't met their upstreams.

github can also modify signed tags.
At this point, I have to just conclude that Go isn't "for me". I respect the great things the community has produced. But I'm just not interested in a static language without generics.
> We can argue all day about how the law doesn't prevent criminals from using technologies (it doesn't, which makes the law idiotic, from a logic perspective), but that's not the important part.

We should tell other people that the law does not stop criminals from hiding their communications. Some people don't understand the nature of software or open source, and it can be explained.

> The important part is that this group of folks we're calling Government is trying to prevent us from being allowed to have secrets and whisper to each other.

Personally I think the people who support this kind of law are the same ones who believe they have nothing to hide from the government. So the privacy argument is lost on them. When you point out the law is harmful to their security and impossible to enforce, then there's a chance you'll be able to convince them.

This is a great opportunity for technologists to chat up their friends and family, start campaigns, or perhaps even run for office. This issue is an easy win if you can keep a cool head while explaining the facts.
> You want to drive a vehicle that gets less than 20 MPG? Fine, you're also going to pay a gasoline consumption tax to support the social programs that take care of the families your pollution is giving cancer.

The US doesn't have a yearly road tax based on emissions? I'm a bit surprised, seems so obvious.
In this case, the problem wasn't so much that Trib Corp had poor security (they probably do though), but rather that an insider exfiltrated credentials to one of their servers to an IRC channel. There are a few companies in our industry where that attack wouldn't be devastating, because of very carefully designed security programs. But there are not many of those companies. Most companies you've heard of are just as vulnerable as Trib Corp was.
Even with a 10% deposit it's still only repayment of 1100 a month.

The point is that rents are higher than mortgages which gives the case of having money means you can save money. And that's before you consider the massive asset you own then.
What are your thoughts on War on Drugs?
"..it looks like they just dumped hardware on the market without suitable software"

Intel has been doing this too with the NUC. If you go on the Intel forums, you'll find people having serious problems right now with Skylake NUCs [1].

Even the previous generation of NUCs (that were released over a year ago) still have major bugs with Linux. For example, there's a BIOS bug that reboots the machine instead of shutting down. They've known about it for at least 5 months now and it's still not fixed [2]. And it seems likely to affect all versions of Linux, not just some obscure variant.

[1] https://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-110236
[2] https://communities.intel.com/thread/88822
That's pretty good.
Curious when we 'll see the "Kobe bryant shot generator". Next days? Next week?
Taxes are also a problematic solution because they tend to be regressive. Poor people often can't afford efficient cars and living in a place with good public transportation is a luxury in many places. Poor people's jobs are not typically the ones that allow telecommuting.

In general I'm a fan of taxing pollutants to account for their true costs, but it's not as straightforward as it might appear.
Of course not. Taxes are evil, cars are awesome, and climate change is a myth, so why would you do that?
That's why I said I'm paraphrasing him.

That said, he talked about questions of physics, not "truth".

Now, those new theories might or might not be truth.

But the fact that (in his phrasing) they only prevail not because of extra proof, convincing etc., but just because a generation that didn't like them died, doesn't make them seem particularly "truth" based.

Mostly "generational-fashion" based.

It could of course be that the new generation of physicists is also more capable to accept the truth (and Plank might believed that), but this doesn't derive directly from the statement.

The statement only goes as far to say that new generations of physicists are more capable to accept newer theories (the ones that grew with them, and they are more familiar with them than the oldsters are).
As does Android, actually.
I didn't imply that it's impossible. I just mean it is silly. Imagine that you need to pick out your particular family emoji each time from all the possible combinations. Perhaps you would need to enter your race when you create a Google or Apple account to alleviate this. Or perhaps the vendor has already analyzed the cloud stored pictures of you and your family members, determined the age, race, gender and the resulting family tree and handily preselected the appropriate emoji for you. I mean this is an exaggeration, but that's how ridiculous I think single "human" emojis already are.

If you want to respond in a way that shows who you personally are, send a picture, today's messaging apps together with front and back facing cameras make it easier than ever before. If you want a quick impersonal throwaway response, there's always a yellow emoji. The in-between "catered to you" emojis are an awkward, uncanny middle ground.
They could create a new private key using your name. Most people will trust 'Verified' on a web page more than the OpenPGP web of trust.
This varies. There isn't much commuter service, but many counties have a subsidized on demand service to provide minimal transport and there are bus lines that have once per day service over wide geographic areas.
>The title seems to intentionally misrepresent the retraction to push an agenda (or the author has some issues with basic logic)

Almost certainly the former. Notice the dismissal of scientific evidence because they dislike the implications. Every study on the subject has shown clear racial IQ differences. That is not "pseudo-science". Arguing about why that observation exists is fine, but pretending the observation itself must be wrong because it hurts ones feelings is not reasonable.

>The retraction is that the strong/definitive proof that "the camel has two humps" was fabricated/exaggerated.

It isn't even that. The bimodal distribution is very clearly there, the "retraction" is just to the claim that this is an innate characteristic. Something which was widely repeated, but which the actual paper never even claimed.

>The camel has gone back to having an unknown number of humps

It still has two humps, we just don't know why. But we never knew that in the first place.
Any odds-makers want to speculate on the odds of this going all the way?

It seems like this could be an anchoring tactic -- now that we've seen the intelligence and law-enforcement wish-list, we should supposedly be happy with any other "compromise" bill that's not quite as apocalyptic.
In China, most young professionals end up buying apartments in these wonderful apartment complex communities with beautiful gardens and plenty of shared outdoor space. You don't see a lot of home ownership. So there is another way of living that's good for families :)
Take whatever money you were planning on spending to support Democrats this election and give it to Planned Parenthood and the EFF until this bill is withdraw
You two are saying the same thing (and are both right).

He's (presumably) trying to maximize points per possession. His shooting percentage is a decreasing function with respect to distance from the basket. And there's a jump in the "shot made reward function" at the 3 point line.
The closest thing to a documented case I've seen is a report of people gaming the Time Person of the Year poll so that the top person was moot, and the first letters of the candidates spelt out "Marblecake. Also the game.":

By understanding how reCAPTCHA worked – the team was able to double their productivity (since they usually only had to enter one word instead of two). To further optimize their voting they created a poll front-end that allowed you to enter votes quickly while giving you an update of the poll status (and since it is a 4chan kind of crowd, they also provided the option to stream some porn just to keep you company while you are subverting one of the largest media companies in the world.

https://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-los...

However, this is slightly different as people were deliberately solving CAPTCHAs (and watching porn) rather than wanting to watch porn and also incidentally solving CAPTCHAs that they had no direct interest in.
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The moon phase visualization takes arbitrary dates too: http://wttr.in/Moon@2016-Mar-23

For the forecast, it also appears you can append "?m" to the URL for metric units or "?u" for USCS units to override the default it uses based on your presumed location.
Drunk bicycling is still a bad idea, and illegal.
I've never felt this stigma in Minnesota. I had no idea it was a thing. People hate on bikers for slowing down traffic, yelling things like "get a car, loser" but I've never heard anything DUI related.
Production Team Leaders: Delegating
kill(2) unlike it's name actually sends any signal to a pid, not only SIGKILL. Other signals are used for various purpose. SIGINT is for example used when using Ctrl-C on a terminal.
You are correct, per according to Consumer Price Indices: a brief guide by the Office for National Statistics (directly indexed pdf, so google the name to find), here are some selected examples of UK CPI factors and their weights.

Class: Weight

Food: 93

Alcoholic beverages: 20

Clothing: 59

Actual rentals for housing: 62

Electricity, gas and other fuels: 48

Purchase of vehicles: 38

Other recreational items, gardens and pets: 32

Education: 21

Restaurants and cafes: 88

These weights feel intuitively off to me, but I imagine costs like rent and education look low because only a subset of the population is paying for them, even if they are huge cost to members that cohort.
> I was looking forward to text editing. Not programming -- text editing.

I have felt exactly this way about vim editing.
Not seen this before... Will take a look
The IEEE actually has a reasonable policy https://www.ieee.org/documents/author_faq.pdf(see section 2). Essentially authors are allowed to post the version
of the paper that they submitted for final publication.
The proposition that Rust is offering is not new. In the 90s Modula-2 was touted as "a better, safer way" of doing system programming than C. It failed to get traction outside of education because it failed to offer a compelling reason for people to migrate. Those that do not study history are doomed to repeat its mistakes.

In the example given it's possible to write a similar library in C to protect against unwanted side effects or bad API design. I'm sure several have been written over the years.

Rust is a great language with lots of improvements over other system programming languages, but that is not going to be enough to get people to switch. You have to show that it's good enough to be worth throwing away 40 odd years of experience and well understood best practice. Something that is going to take a long time and big public projects to do. If just being better was good enough Plan 9 would have been a roaring success and Linux (if it happened) would probably be a footnote in history.

C and UNIX have survived as long as they have not because better alternatives haven't come along, but because the alternatives haven't offered a compelling reason to switch. Unfortunately at least now Rust is falling into the same category.

See also: Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Cool.

Fun quote:

It's a nightmare when I start, and a dream when I finish.

That made me think "so, it's like any large software project in reverse, then". :)
> 3 yrs old hardware is ancient but my old hardware is still 100% functional and has been battle tested.

True, but so is your software. Especially on Android where Play Services and the Chrome browser are updatable via the Play Store, being on the previous version of Android isn't such an issue any more.
Oh cool, this is using my ansi -> html conversion script!

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ansi2html.sh
It is a combination of a site + app and has an email database of 15k that is very active.
>First, one can dispute “programming ability is distributed in two humps” without implying that “everyone can program.”

Yes, but people are disputing “programming ability is distributed in two humps” despite there being clear evidence of that being the case, and no evidence to contradict it. The distribution has not changed, or been retracted. Only the unsupported notion that the distribution is innate and unchangable.
>And with tech powerhouses like Japan, China, Taiwan and South Korea and India that both produce, utilize domestically and export a lot of tech talent - I am not sure how white is tech.

You're correct there. I was under the impression one would be focusing mostly in the oh so legendary Silicon valley.

Other than that, thanks for your generosity with your perspective. If I could have another question, what do you consider the warning signs of a psesudoscience or bad science being used for political gain? Also, how do you tell when a methodology is found flawed because of political gain vs a methodology is found flawed because it is flawed and in bad science?
No one fails to acknowledge that lots of people like houses and living outside the city. But government policy at all levels is so tipped in favor of detached-home suburban development that there's a severe lack of options in most places for people who prefer urban living or who would choose the tradeoffs of living in the city.

So, please, live where you want. It's great that you can afford it. But the assumption in the media and government policy that your particular dream of an isolated home is right for everyone is what the GP was griping about.
Site is: http://betalyst.com
[0] has quite interesting discussion about the FizzBuzz exercise.

It feels a little like a window to the programmers mind. Some of them are disturbed by the simple repetition and come up with obfuscated or infective solutions etc.

[0] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FizzBuzzTest
Also:

“Rent vs. Buy: If You Have to Ask, You Should Probably Rent”

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/07/27/rent-vs-buy/
Yes, this is similar to what I and others described! Underneath, similar stuff going on in the HW :)
When you became wildly successful, the regulators would always stepping in!