skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is so much explaining going on here that it seems like the judge has no understanding of how the internet works.

If that's the case, how could the judge be able to give a reasonable response to this affidavit? Seems like a case that requires such a long-winded technical preface could at least be handled by a judge who knows what an IP address is...
This message by Hixie is very insightful if you like to delve into the details of WHATWG/W3C politics: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2014Apr/0034...
Right... and Panama is not PR.... not sure how I thought of Panama when talking about Puerto Rico... I guess that's what the downvote is for. :(
Big Clive is _the_ channel for teardowns of everyday electronic stuff. I am actually not that interested in this kind of stuff but somehow I still watch most of his videos.

If you are into more... entertaining teardowns you should have a look at AvE. Even if you don't like it you will still learn some useful canadian terms ;) (edit: just to make it clear, AvE is actually very knowledgable. His "boltr" teardown series of electronic power tools is most likely the most thorough you will find on the internet)

My third goto channel for electronic stuff is EEVBlog who also does amazing stuff. If you are going to watch one teardown today then please watch his rather famous video about the worlds worst tablet computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8MDCIlOEk
I don't want to disclose the niche because it's so small that disclosing it will likely allow people to figure out what the project was. It's not something that's conventionally thought of as filled with spammers. I was pretty surprised at the total vacuum of professional behavior when I first got plugged into it.

The larger issue here is that Google's algorithms can't identify quality content without something that it already believes to be quality pointing out to it (and in a very specific way that Google detects as a "natural" link, whatever that means). This causes issues with innovative solutions that aren't immediately accepted within their niche, niches that are small and heavily paranoid, and in which incumbents maintain their positions by offensively seeking to harm and/or silence discussion of anyone they dislike, or other sites that deserve good rankings but are unable to get acclaim from either the NYT or the niche-equivalent. You shouldn't need an entity Google trusts to run a story on you to get good rankings. It'd be great if Google fixed that, but I don't really expect them to do so.

We should just make it known among real entrepreneurs that they shouldn't have reservations about SEO tactics (which are almost all somewhat uncomfortable, at least) and that they are required to compete so that no one else with a good, legit business gets quashed by a spammer because Matt Cutts and Google swears up and down that not only do you not need to do anything but "make good content", but that you'll be hurt if you take artificial steps to enhance your rank. It's BS -- those artificial steps are mandatory to control ranking.
I just don't see any incentive the judge could have to actually make an informed decision

Some people pride themselves on doing their jobs as well as they know how.
Doesn't look like they added anything to the debate to me. But given that it has been going on 2500+ years I suppose that is not surprising. :)

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

See also,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat
Are you aware that medical schools are largely pass/fail with a 95%+ graduation rate? Makes it hard for me to have any confidence in the credential whatsoever.

In comparison, over 20% of my freshman CS class flunked out before 3rd year and there were still plenty of subpar students that made it to the finish line.
But all things are most certainly not going to be equal, least of all cost and availability.
And perhaps they're using simulations to better understand how they came to be...
Everyone knows Google ignores the meta keyword, so it's hardly blackhat - at worst Google actually penalizes it (just my speculation), at best it just slows down the page load a tiny tiny bit.
diametrical (FTFY) #GN
Thanks, I'd not seen that tablet computer before. Incredible!
yikes - link doesn't work!
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Maybe the person who posted the exploit/solution was the person who created the ransomware? That way they get BTC from people who pay and donations from people who wait?

/krazyconspiracy :-P
Or turning on the heater?

And the Supercharger that refuels your Tesla in 5 minutes is ... where?
Presumably they have enough financial resources at the moment, they don't have to do it themselves. They can pay someone to do it.
Further, the Republicans have tried to repeal it 62 times [1] without offering a viable option, fortunately without success so far.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/07/us/politics/house-votes-to...

EDIT: syntax.
I liked TeX for typesetting my thesis, but I feel like, looking back, it would be nearly impossible to convert my document to a reflowable format. Not sure what can be done about that if you want nice typesetting in a fixed size environment, though. I'm curious to what extent the dual-format problem has been addressed.
Just to counter your anecdata with my own, I deleted the Uber app because I wasn't happy with their business practices (especially wrt their treatment of drivers).
This is a fascinating argument, but not because it tells us much about whether we are brains in vats. Instead, it tells us something deep and interesting about linguistic meaning, and the mysterious relationship between statements and propositions.

Putnam is not actually saying that we aren't brains in vats. Rather, he is saying that we cannot form accurate and meaningful statements to that effect if we are.

The argument, as I understand it, turns on a statement's ability to refer. Putnam's point, as you nicely summarized it, is that in order to accurately describe the world (I make a point here of not talking about whether the statement is true) a statement has to be causally related to the things it describes in the right way. This seems plausible.

But this is different (on must theories) from saying that the abstract proposition that might be represented by such a statement cannot be true. It could be! The puzzle is just whether you could form a linguistic statement to properly express that proposition due to the reference problems Putnam points out.

Putnam's own example demonstrates the point. A bunch of ants cannot draw an image that represents Winston Churchill in the grass, because they cannot know what Winston Churchill is or (probably) what he looks like. Any similarity between an ant-made image, and a real image of Winston Churchill has to be merely coincidental. Ants cannot close the causal link that we normally require in order to say that an image "represents" something. But this doesn't mean that there is no such thing as an image of Winston Churchill. Or that an ant-made imagine cannot resemble Winston Churchill. It just means that ants can't form a representation of him!

Likewise, our putative inability to form an accurate statement to the effect that we are brains in a vat does not mean that we aren't brains in a vat. An omniscient being (perhaps the one who put us in the vats!) might, for example, read our silly HN posts about brains in vats and say, "gee, its incredible that this series of symbols actually matches the symbols that you would use to form a true statement statement about the world, if only the speaker were in the necessary causal relation to my vats in order to truly say such a thing." Likewise, we say about the ants "gee, its amazing that they managed to make an imagine resembling Winston Churchill even though they don't know what he looks like and therefore can't truly be said to have 'represented' him."

(There is a parallel line of argument that you might run about our ability to know something, since knowledge, it is often said, has to be related to the external world in a certain way in order to be more than a mere belief.)

In any case, classic Putnam.
Same thing happening here.

Can someone who had a chance to visit it explain to me what this is? If I understood the rest of the comments correctly, it's a list of Slack bots?
What you are referring to is "liberty of contract". See Lochner v. New York.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochner_v._New_York
Congratulations on hitting 1.0, Keras really looks like the way forward for python ML. I tried to use Keras after doing Andrew Ng's Coursera course but found that I just couldn't connect the dots from what I'd learned on the course to the concepts assumed familiar by the keras documentation though.
What a confusing headline... last I checked, Juno launched[1] in Oct 2013. It's almost all the way to Jupiter now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)#Launch
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Kinda. WHATWG (who do the actual work on HTML) have dropped the version number and made HTML a living standard: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/

See also the FAQ: https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What_does_.22Living_Standar...

And this quote by Hixie: "You know what will be around ten years from now by looking at what is implemented in two browsers today. If it’s implemented in two browsers today, I can almost guarantee it’ll still be around in ten years. If it’s not, all bets are off. This has nothing to do with “living standard” vs. versioned specs, though. HTML4 has all kinds of features that aren’t in HTML anymore — for example, <object declare> and <a coords>." (http://html5doctor.com/interview-with-ian-hickson-html-edito...)
One major flaw with this article is the notion that supercharging takes 30 - 45 minutes. A typical stop duration at a supercharger is 15 minutes.

The author also fails to mention the most appealing aspect of the car for the performance oriented: instant torque. After getting a Model S, I could never go back to the days of gears (even manually controlled gear changes are sluggish in comparison).
Undeadly and HTTPS
Can someone explain why the transformer is on the DC side of the circuit in the diagram he draws at the beginning of the video?
This isn't even close to a reasonable comparison. Until it can be investigated, the only available suspect in a case where illegal activity originates from a given home user's IP is that user. The DOT isn't the sole operator and user of the roads it builds.
I'm pretty sure everyone who wants campaign finance reform claims that money buys elections, unless a situation doesn't fit that narrative in which case the goal posts are shifted or moved. I'll check out your links though, thanks very much for those.
A typical stop duration at a supercharger is 15 minutes.
Do your time, get your degree it will open doors for you. It might not be the best system, but it's the one most employers recognise. I fear arguments like the one in this post could sabotage young careers needlessly.
A friend of mine decided he'd learn more about the real world getting a job than getting a degree, he now works a min wage retail job in his mid 30s.
I wonder if there should be a certification system in place before judges can rule on technical topics
Extensionless PHP GUI library
Let's Get Organized and Fix Housing Affordability in San Francisco
Had such an overwhelming response! Are fixing now. Sorry for down-time!
500 Startups Announces $30M Canada Fund
Hi everyone, this fw is still in progress. I'm working on node.js CLI and few angular.js examples before official release. Feeedback and suggestions are most welcome... :)
As someone with a conservative upbringing, I can't say I've heard that argument. In my experience the most common explanation is that the dinosaurs died in Noah's flood along with the rest of the animals. The dinosaurs that survived on the ark were unable to adapt to the new environment and went extinct shortly after. While I don't doubt the "God put dinosaur bones here to test our faith" argument has been used by Christians, I can't imagine it's very prevalent.
It's a 36 volt, 4.4AH Li-ion battery at approximately 172 grams. That puts the energy density at about 915 wH/KG in ideal conditions.
Facebook garage sales pages are becoming more and more popular. They are very frustrating to use and moderators don't have much control.
Free internet and "click this Ad to get paid $0.10" were some really interesting hacks back in the day. Oh, the money you could make with Visual Basic and a dial-up modem....
Unlikely. The universe has too much gratuitous detail at the subatomic level. Nothing below the electron level is really necessary.

If I were writing a simulation of a universe, I'd save myself a ton of cycles by only "rendering" interactions that are observed by the "players" of the simulation. Much like one possible interpretation of quantum physics.
A universe can't really "simulate itself". There is inherent overhead to simulation, so a perfect simulation of a physical system would have to be larger and slower than the system it's simulating.

Any simulation worth running would be an approximation of the real thing, with many corners cut. Because of butterfly effects, any approximative simulation will diverge from the original, and the more corners you cut, the faster that will happen (so ancestor simulations would require near perfect accuracy, so they would probably be prohibitively expensive).

If we are a simulation, our parent universe would be several orders of magnitude more complex than this one. It's not clear to me why such a simulation would be made (what purpose it would serve to the parent universe).
> transit is a social-program and social programs are evil

That and racism and/or classism. Wealthier neighborhoods are afraid that a public train will be bring the poor through their neighborhoods therefore inviting crime. My friend's family who live in Arlington Texas told me how their community voted 'No' on building a sidewalk because of this very reason. A sidewalk!

http://www.citylab.com/crime/2014/12/the-myth-that-mass-tran...
Maybe not deliberate, but most likely optimizing encrypting speed over stronger encryption. Better for hit and runs I guess.
Declaring IPv4 “Historic”
Another is his math.

> I’m the “shit talker” for boggling at the idea that people are going to be happy about waiting around for half an hour to forty-five minutes to get back on the road again? We’re talking waits-to-get-going that are 150 times the typical 5 minute refuel with a gas-engined car.

Yeah I'd balk at a 12.5 hour wait time too.
Yes, I think we should work on a FAQ to introduce common ML concepts and their implementation in Keras. Any specific concept that you had trouble with?
What i find interesting about how Google/AWS/Netflix are setup is their interesting line between ops and devops. Development teams are expected to run their own services - but after a while. SREs are there to help make the transition. They are the ops experts. I think for smaller shops and startups, there is an important lesson - don't throw out ops! Your in-house ops people are Google's SREs. Most devs I work with could not run services in production without significant help. Google, etc, have great structures in place to handle this. Smaller shopps should take care.
(Tedious disclaimer: my opinion only, not speaking for anybody else. I'm an SRE at Google)

Building reliable services out of unreliable dependencies is a part of what we do. At the lowest level, we're building services out of individual machines that have a relatively high rate of failure, and the same basic principles can be applied at every layer of the stack: make a bunch of copies, and make sure their failure modes are uncorrelated.
Because a masked person (anonymous vandal) has never vandalized something in the real world.
May want to throw CloudFlare in front. (Disclaimer: I work there.)
Not really burnout but a lack of enthusiasm for the job a few years ago. Until I got a new job building something from scratch, learning Django. M

aking use of my existing database skills. I think too many new things at once can get a bit overwhelming but coming from Perl, Django and Python were easy to pick up. It was a nice balance of using my existing Perl / Database skills as well as learning new stuff that felt productive.
Awesome, thanks for clarifying that.

Government regulation exists to protect people. Whether that's labor regulations, fire code, zoning ordinances, etc, its to ensure the health and well being of citizens.

Now, you'll argue that always isn't the case, and I'll agree with you. Incentives with taxi regulation went sideways, hence the medallion system. But that doesn't mean regulation is wrong, that means that apathetic, disinterested stakeholders are the problem. Just as we've made the problem by not caring enough to fix it, we can care enough to work towards fixing it. The number of vehicles for transport in a metro can be regulated using an unbiased algorithm. The wages of drivers can be determined by labor regulations. These are not hard technical problems to solve. They're political problems to be solved.

Should we throw out the medallion system? Yes. Should Uber get to stampede all over transport regulations? No. There should be a middle ground.

People say someone should be able to accept a job no matter what the pay is, as long as they're willing. No one is willing when they're an economic captive. It costs a minimum amount of money (dependent on locale) to have shelter, food, and clothing. This is what government regulation is for (see: minimum wage, employee/contractor classification, etc), to ensure that people can support themselves on the work they can obtain. If they can't support themselves on what a job pays, the job pays too little and the business relying on that undermarket labor rate is unsustainable (see: Walmart educating its workers on relying on social benefits, thereby using the government as a subsidy).
Actually, "cogito ergo sum" comes from "Discourse on the Method".
I think you may be missing the point of that specific statement. It's conceivable that we might discover that we are living in a simulation. On the other hand, trying to prove conclusively that we're not is futile.
HN typical question:

Why Go?
Machine learning's biggest job
I have the strangest urge to build a tiny user space around the malware kernel that gets booted by the infected MBR... opens IDA
I am not sure what the point of this article is. He is essentially unhappy that Tesla is, in his opinion, deceptive about the reality of owning one of its cars. I disagree - I don't think anyone is really that surprised when they buy a laptop marketed as "Up to 12 hours of battery life" and then get 3 hours of battery life while playing a video game. I think people understand this is how electronics work, and I doubt anyone is spending $40k after taxes and fees on a car without, at some point, realizing or being told that the 300 mile depends on a lot of factors. A pretty basic search on the internet will tell you this in under 60 seconds of effort. And I don't think anyone buys this car under the impression they will fill it up in a couple minutes like an ICE.
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Down that road lies Greg Egan's Dust hypothesis; it is a slippery slope.

http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2009/01/dust-hypothesis...

http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PERMUTATION/FAQ/FAQ...
This is a switch mode power supply. In order to use a smaller transformer it uses very high frequency AC rather than 50/60Hz mains frequency.

In order to do this it rectifies the mains input to high voltage DC (330/220Vish, depending on the mains voltage) then using a power transistor rapidly switches this on and off at around 1-10kHz. Then the transformer outputs low voltage AC which is re-rectified and filtered to produce low voltage DC.

The switch mode chip monitors the output voltage and modulates the switching frequency to maintain a constant output voltage.

If you look closely at the board (and he talks about this in the video) there's a separation between the high and low voltage sides. Only the transformer and certain specialized components should cross this (Y-class capacitor and optoisolators). Cheap power supplies often miss this out which could allow a small bit of loose solder being able to send mains voltage to the output. Look at other videos by Big Clive to see the horrors.

The high voltage side is a bit of a misnomer. It's really just the non-isolated side - the chip runs on 5v or similar, but it's not completely separated from the high voltage DC so isn't safe for human contact.
As someone who came of age in the 1980s, the fact that these devices are called "hoverboards" is extremely grating every time I hear it.
Apologies for the brief comment since I only had a moment to glance at it between work, but what stood out to me is that there is no XMPP section for "platform". (I ask selfishly due to writing XMPP based bots for various video games that host their chat over the protocol.)

Otherwise, decent idea, will likely use it to point at my bots github pages if it sticks around :)
Ask HN: Should I ask my students to implement a HN-like webapp?
If we are, let's hope they don't accidentally reboot the computer.
LXD 2.0 LTS is here
How do I know what I'm buying is safe? I've sworn by the Nexus chargers in their various incarnations and http://www.amazon.com/Charge-Charging-Station-Micro-USB-Sams... (I have a Tronsmart and an Aukey vertsion)
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What if the simulation running our universe isn't air gapped and we were able to break out of the sandbox running us and inject ourselves into the parent universe?
Do you mean ask people to move in? Or actually ask that someone gets off for them?
They're probably using some type of fast lossless or nearly lossless 'compression' that cuts the really low hanging fruit out but doesn't extract quality they care about.

HuffYUV, for example, if you're going to be targeting a 4:2:0 output stream; if you're going for 4:2:2 or even 4:4:4 for some super HD stuff you might use different options.
I live in NYC. During an Uber ride, I was talking to a driver about Juno. Between my understanding of him and my recollection, some of this may be incorrect.

They've recruited a lot of the NYC Uber drivers. They've been paying them $25/week to keep the Juno app open while they're on duty, collecting information about driving habits, routes, etc. The drivers' relationships with Juno won't be as contractors, so Juno will have much more control over the drivers - such as having exclusivity agreements.

The idea seemed to be to bring on all the drivers as employees, destroy the population of (good) Uber drivers, and advertise the app. The plan is that everyone in NYC switches to Juno, since you won't be able to get an Uber in a timely way, and Uber's quality will be bad because it'll just be the "leftovers" of the driver talent pool.

That's what I remember getting out of the conversation, anyway.