skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always like to think that we don't really die, we live on in the memories of our loved ones. Even if you don't leave a massive legacy behind like you. When I think back of the good moments with my grandparents I'm not sad, I'm happy I got the chance to have experienced them in the first place.

Thank you Pieter, and godspeed on your big journey, whereever it will take you.
The FAA doesn't have jurisdiction in the UK

The CAA sets the laws here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30387107
Ehhh. I suspect an information asymmetry problem -- that is, the GP doesn't know what his/her colleagues actually know -- coupled with a tendency of researchers to let work drift by when it isn't in their wheelhouse.

While I've known a lot of PhDs who know nothing about statistics or programming or some other specific skill (nobody is an expert at everything), it's pretty hard to make it through a good graduate program while knowing none of these things. What generally happens is that domain experts try to keep their minds focused on their domains (where their value is highest), and let non-specialist work fall to generalists. Generalists then (sometimes, incorrectly) assume that the specialists are useless outside of their niche.

I'm not going to say that there aren't incompetent PhDs, but it's a bad assumption to make, in general. You don't assume that your CEO doesn't know how to clean a toilet simply because she lets the janitor do it.
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Not scalable as in 'we can't spend a year breaking into every version of OSX', not 'we can't spend a million dollars breaking into every version of OSX'. Because a million bucks is chump change in government spending.
Django is slow sometimes, true (the worse is when it's slow when it doesn't make sense, that is when you don't expect)

There are tricks and things that help (if you want to shoot your DB performance in the foot use multi-table Model inheritance)

Try Jinja2 for templates
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I rolled all of that up into the cost of customer acquisition. The operating costs (bandwidth, hosting, customer service, fraud insurance) are tiny when spread across the entire customer base.

I guess it would be more accurate to refer to the cost of producing one more month of service rather than one more customer. Even then there are costs, but they're tiny compared to the costs of providing a physical service.

Contrast the costs of running Netflix now vs Netflix when it was distributing DVD's in the post (or the costs that Blockbuster had). Adding one more customer to Netflix costs so little now that it's effectively zero, compared to the direct costs of sending out DVD's in the old days.
> There's no law against other parties, it just turns out that with direct voting in a large country, over enough time, we arrive here with two parties.

Wrong.

It turns out that with First-Past-The-Post, we arrive with two parties.

In many other countries, over centuries, even more parties develop, and fail again.
> If a choice was demanded of the whole population then Boaty McBoatface would never have won.

If you force British people to vote then Boaty McBoatface would probably win, because british people can be surprisingly bloody minded.

And boaty mcboatface is the polite version, you'd have a number of people writing Cunty McCuntyCunt on the form.
Italy's government revokes Hacking Team's export license
The 5k iMacs use a 10-bit interface, but the panel is still 8-bit and dithered.

Personally, I am extremely happy with the 5k iMac panel, color-wise (contrast is not great though), dithering seems to work well and it's imperceptible in normal conditions.
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All of them admitted that it would require 4-6 more years of my life, and that even with the best financial aid / scholarships, I would still be paying $60-100k out-of-pocket for the experience.

That sounds pretty fucked up. Working on your PhD is a job and you should be getting a salary from the University, not paying them.
It's also free on WSJ when you come in with a Google referer. Google search for "wall street journal snowden assurance" worked for me.
...they should charge people to buy them in the supermarkets instead of giving them away for free.
You are choosing a definition of strong typing that supports your argument, but the argument is over the meaning of strong typing to begin with. It's not as if there's some universally accepted definition of strong typing. Like functional programming, functional purity, object oriented, etc.—none of these terms are universally defined.
Thank you for your reply. It seems the mi 4 will get the marshmallow based miui 7 according to http://en.miui.com/thread-213606-1-1.html but clearly not for all devices especially the note.

Can you get cyanogenmod or something?
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Today's cars are unused most of the time

But when they're used, most of them are used at the same time - rush hour traffic. If everyone wants to go to work in a car at the same time, you'll still need about as many cars.

What's needed is a diversification of working times: if half of the workforce started work an hour later, it would have a huge impact on traffic density and would also make things like shared self-driving cars more realistic.
I found the same. The news feed was the only bad part about Facebook. Events, chat, groups, are all great. I killed my news feed using this handy extension

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-news-feed/hjo...
So who is the owner of nature? Is it for complete animal kingdom or are we just a co-operating organism in the whole environment. Making arguments on ownership would be too grave against humanity.
You trained your telepathy by staring at girls? And then asked them how they experienced it?

I'm not convinced that this is a valid experimental procedure...
The article recommends you browse files on your computer by "last opened" time instead of the default alphabetical order. The recommendation is based on this paper:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/papers/amortized-efficiency....

The recommendation is obviously wrong because the paper is talking about something completely different. Selecting files from an alphabetical list is roughly O(log n) not O(n), because you know the alphabet and can binary search.
Democracy can take many forms indeed. But let's think opportunistically, for a moment.

In general, I'm inclined to think that in a democracy, the people should have more direct influence to things “closer” to them (by some measure), and less for bigger, nationwide, issues, of which they presumably have less understanding. This is, in fact, how most democratic nations work in practice.

The case of Boaty McBoatface, though, is unusual in that it doesn't actually much matter what the name of a research vessel is. It's just a name. Names are almost always boring. Unless… if the name becomes so popular and widely known that the very name opens up completely new opportunities for raising funds and awareness. Which, I would have thought, was kind of the point of the competition to begin with.

So, why not reap the PR benefits of this name? Why would they start a contest but back out when they hit the jackpot? I do not understand.
I don't run it. I run FlashBlock, and they seem to demand you run Flash in order to view their website.
FAA issues new rules stating all plastic bag owners must register each bag with the FAA
Crowdsourcing of a name is not about democracy. It doesn't appear to me that the public was widely informed that they had to make a democratic decision, instead sounds like a bunch of kids trolling. I think the article is conflating two unrelated entities here.

As a sideline, what is democracy even? Democracy via elections would be oligarchy to ancient Athenians, who prefered democracy by lot anyway.
1. It's a way to (pointlessly) delay adulthood.

That one I don't get. Having watched my wife get her PhD, I'd say that it requires at least much "adulthood" (place in that word what you will) as any job I've ever had, and probably a lot more.
Kinda depends on the cost of an error vs the cost of a slowdown though, and then there's a big difference between say Objective-C or the once-relevant COM/ATL etc. by MS, where you have all the C bugs and manual memory management plus somewhat automated memory management in some places with all the troubles of that, and say Java where at least you have a fully working garbage collector which deals with cycles and never leaks unreachable memory, and you also have guaranteed memory safety.

I'd rather trust my credit card number to a Java program than a C/C++ program - or an Objective-C program; see also http://www.flownet.com/ron/xooglers.pdf for the early Google billing server disaster, not possible with a garbage collector "thinking" about proper memory management and rather hard to prevent with very good developers thinking that they have thought proper memory management through. (And git had a bug where you could execute code remotely because nobody can really manage memory in C, etc. etc. etc.)
I am similar boat these days. Every 10 minutes I am doing spending reading something on mobile, 8 minutes will be on Facebook.

Yesterday, I deleted the app and found myself multiple times missing that. So, yeah, it's a habit hard to break. And now, I try to spend same amount of time reading some light book on my kindle app.
Ask HN: How does your company organize its knowledge?
wiki, github, markdown, google docs? what's the best practices that you've discovered?
You could design a GPS speed limiter that doesn't track location, TomTom's had an "overspeed" warning 10 years ago, it would go orange if you went over the speed limit and go red and make a bong noise if you went way over, My old boss used to drive fast so I saw that quite a lot (in the end I told him I wouldn't share a car with him if he didn't stick to the speed limit).
But now imagine there's a company that lets you bet on card games using those cards.

There are two main gambling themes in CSGO which people here are conflating.

There's the slot machine like gambling of buying keys and opening cases.

But there's also sites which literally let you gamble on sports or even just virtual roulette etc using skins as currency.
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Violent Python: A Cookbook for Hackers, Forensic Analysts, Penetration Testers [pdf]
Well done sir!
I was just learning about AMQP, and he mentioned driving to Eindhoven - I study there. This feels close...

Thanks for mentioning this. (The article was by itself also interesting though.)
The indian government has cut Monsantos Royalty fees. Monsanto threatened to leave and Govt of India said f* off.
[1]http://indianexpress.com/article/business/economy/monsanto-t...
[2] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/G...
Our approach is different than Blendle's and we believe that both of us can happily co-exists.

To read articles using Blendle you have to do so through their app, where they act as a curator. They offer a select number of articles that they think you will like. If you want to read an article you have to pay a small fee that is split between Blendle and the newspaper that the article originated from. Some readers really like this approach since everything is gathered in one place, and Blendle's execution is top-notch.

We believe however that many readers would like to be their own curators. Many already frequent aggregate sites - like Hacker News - to find content they think they will like. And we would like to give the publishers of that content the ability to offer it through seamless micropayments, using their own apps or websites. They will then be in control of the entire reader experience, not having to outsource it to a third party.

So we believe Blendle and Scriber can happily co-exist since we basically cater to different audiences.
> but you still have to wonder if there isn't an immunotherapy treatment that would work for him.

In the context of this article, no, I don't have to wonder. He expresses very well why he doesn't want to entertain such longshots.
> The reason why nobody has sortition, is because deep down democracy is about being as agreeable as possible to the median citizen. If you have vague feeling that you decided who is prime minister, you are more motivated to pay taxes and fight wars.

I doubt this has any explanatory power as to why sortition isn't used much today.

Among other things, the median citizen doesn't care even a little bit about who is prime minister or otherwise in charge.
> "I really wish the media would stop talking about candidates receiving donations from companies, which, as you point out is not possible."

Sadly, that's incorrect...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

"The United States Supreme Court held (5–4) that the First Amendment prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by a nonprofit corporation. The principles articulated by the Supreme Court in the case have also been extended to for-profit corporations, labor unions and other associations. By allowing unlimited election spending by individuals and corporations, the decision has "re-shaped the political landscape" of the United States."
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I write tests for my own servers, via the ruby gem ServerSpec. It's generally something I let lapse over time, but I always ensure that I update the tests before I'm applying a distribution update.

Allowing myself to validate that a Wheezy installation of Debian has all the services running that I expect after I upgrade it to Jessie is very useful and reassuring.

I wrote a brief introduction to the process here:

https://debian-administration.org/article/703/A_brief_introd...
I don't know about his work, but he is a terrific writer!
What exactly do you achieve with this? It's running in a container. What's a hacker to do? Screw up the app in the container, which they could do with the app user anyway?
There are still version control systems around that don't have the concept of a commit of multiple files, Rational ClearCase for example. So if your change involves multiple files, undoing it requires remembering which files where involved and undoing each one separately. That's quite a pain, especially if you delete whole files that you want to have back.
Numbers 1 and 9 through 11 are not really relevant for this discussion. Or is there evidence that he is restricted to his apartment (either by his own choice or by force)?
Certainly one of the funniest stories to pop-up in the interwebs during the last year..

> A band of Spanish net buccaneers has mounted a determined incursion into Her Maj's territorial cyberwaters by demanding that Blighty's forthcoming Royal Research Ship be named the RRS Blas de Lezo, in honour of the man who administered the British a serious military shoeing during the War of Jenkins' Ear.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/29/boaty_mcboatface_spa...

It was going to win, so they had to shut down the candidacy. Not even the brits can handle the power of roto2...
Not true at all, the protests against monsanto are entirely based on environmental concerns.
This is the same researcher that found a RCE in Uber: https://hackerone.com/reports/125980

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Uber settles over employee status row
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Socket.io is down
The bots are taking over!

I'm very impressed by the level of innovation with telegram and slack bots. I have yet to see a really cool facebook messaging bot, but I appreciate they haven't had a lot of time to develop them yet.
"Computer programs, like life itself, can be decomposed into two types of components:

Loops which repeat with small variations.
Rube Goldberg like processes which happen once."

What in the? Any serious analysis could not possibly result from such guffaw-inducing oversimplifications.
> edit: Upon further reflection, I see no reason why my argument above couldn't be applied to fingerprint sensors on smartphones, which I personally use and don't have much of a problem with... I guess anything that gets even remotely close to the territory of mainstream video surveillance using phone cameras just creeps me out. I'm no longer sure of exactly where I stand on the facial scan issue.

Your face can be (and in parts of the UK, is) scanned passively very easily. Your fingerprint less easily.
I need a similar thing to remind me why I visited Google, after playing with the doodle.
You are clearly not a procrastinator, and chronic procrastination seems so far away from your own mental state and experiences that you might not relate and emphasize even remotely with it. I don't mean that in a bad way, it is likely just not been part of your reality which makes it very very hard to understand what affected people feel like and what their reasons could be.

(Please excuse me if I'm putting words in your mouth here. It's an interpretation on my behalf, and I'm just as likely to also completely fail to understand how you feel like and what your reasons are.)

"Procrastination" is a simple word to describe a complex and large range of behaviors. Each behavior on it's own might be something very normal that everybody does once in a while, but that is just one end of the spectrum. On the other end of the spectrum it is a massive problem, controlling every part of the affected persons life and likely mixed with other mental and emotional problems as a result of it. Of course the number of people on that extreme end are rare, it's somewhere in between for most.

But I would say that by definition people that identify with that "label" recognize how it is (has been) hurting them again and again, and how hard it is to control those behaviors.

It is a very important first step to admit to yourself that you have a problem, and to learn about your "condition" so you can understand what is actually happening. There are many strategies that helped many people, most base on first recognizing and understanding your own (harmful) patterns and their deeper roots, in order to change them.

Dismissing that this is actually a real problem and that people should just snap out of it is surely not helping affected people.
Better that than Thanksgiving.
I too have done the same, unfortunately Facebook has added a feature that tells me I haven't seen posts against each person. It's better to be able to catch up on your own terms though and a surprising amount of things I've missed out on such as new progeny and marriage proposals are somewhat more relevant than videos of Sad Ben Afleck :-D
You are projecting your own opinions and representing them as "the will of the people". I personally vastly prefer things in life being amusing and unexpected rather than boring and pompous, and as such I think "Boaty McBoatface" is likely a way better name than whatever will be chosen as its replacement. Wanting life to not be bland is not "internet trolling" nor "mockery".
"Error establishing a database connection".

Been down for at least 24h, too.
The Norwegian government is too entangled with US interests, due to our defense doctrine and role in NATO ("hold out for 24 hours while the rest of NATO mobilizes"). Although many Norwegian politicians probably have personal sympathies for Snowden's legal situation, it's very doubtful that anything short of a Supreme Court ruling would prevent Norwegian authorities of cooperating with the US when it comes to arresting and extraditing Snowden.
I came here, to say just the same.
I'm still disappointed they didn't call the Northwest Territories "Bob".
> The idea is that procrastinators calculate the fluctuating utility of certain activities: pleasurable ones have more value early on, and tough tasks become more important as a deadline approaches.

This sounds like a definition (sort of) for rational judgment. When you have a hard task, most of the time it's a good idea to procrastinate it for a while because

a) requirements may change, so that work spent early on could be useless (or even the whole task could turn out to be unnecessary), or

b) you might acquire more knowledge in the meantime which enables you to solve the task more effectively or more efficiently.

The distinction between a procrastinator and a rationalist would then be that the procrastinator also procrastinates tasks for which the outlook of these two things happening is bleak.
Consider that the OP is about Abacus, a financial product created by Goldman Sachs at the request of a speculator. If more exotic products like that are tainted by evidence of systemic corruption and the possibility of having to spend time in court, then customers may well choose to park their money in boring stock or bond index funds, which give the banks a much smaller cut. So it's not a zero sum game.
> but it turns out it's natural consequence of Democracy. There's no law against other parties

It's a natural consequence of the specifics of how the US does elections. The US isn't the only country with democracy and plenty of others have more than 2 significant parties.
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Have you ever thought about the possibility that NYT wrote about it because it's one of the most popular apps nowadays? Snapchat UI used to be super ghetto too. When you provide something that resonates with people, nothing else matters.
> If I were him I'd be a little more worried about local gangs

Yeah, all those famous Norwegian kidnapping gangs. /facepalm
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That comment on original sin is misguided at best. Original sin sets up guilt before any wrongdoing, it's a means of control, there's nothing insightful about it.
The look is just an added bonus; the bow design ensures a much smoother ride in poor weather conditions - rather than riding the wave (and, potentially earning the vessel the nickname 'The Vomit Comet'), it cuts through the wave (reducing vessel heave) and even (drumroll) effectively disperses the waves as they traverse along the hull, reducing drag.

So - better ride, less fuel consumption, cartoonish look. Win-win-win.
Hillary Clinton's SuperPAC pays to change online opinion
Also relevant: http://www.ibtimes.com/bernie-bros-obama-boys-echoes-2008-me....

The BernieBro and Obamaboys narrative was created by the same person, and allegedly the bernie bros were actually Hillary paid commenters. (again, allegedly)

If we allow someone to blatantly try and change popular opinion under the guise of anonymity, we will lose internet for what it is. India is seeing the same with easily bought twitter trends, specially by the populist government ruling the capital state.

Multiple people on reddit report that a lot of times, most of the new submissions are downvoted heavily on the /r/SandersForPresident sub. I think this is very worrying
At best a handful of parties, and it only works in small elections. You get to bigger and bigger elections the system always reduces the choice, which means that the bigger the system is, the less effective democracy becomes.

Of course democracy was never meant to be the most efficient or effective system of government. It's simply the most compromising one.
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I use the "web" link below the title for that ;-) (Didn't want to be snarky just friendly)
You got a floppy drive? I'm jealous. No pencil required :-)