skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting comment.

It would be ironic if future videos claiming responsibility for violent attacks start using the exact same terms and language as the US politicians, such as "Shock & Awe".

When a major component of allowing a conflict to proceed is support or merely just apathy from the populace that has elected the leaders that are targeting your people, it would seem that the most effective way to highlight the hypocrisy of the elected leaders of your enemies would be to mirror their tactics as precisely as possible as opposed to escalation. Mirroring puts it in people's mind that they need to oppose further violence from their side to stop future attacks against themselves.

Sadly, the other side adopting a strict eye for an eye approach to retaliation (tit for tat) might be the only way that either side can actually avoid making the whole world blind, since it would at least promote dialogue where people on both sides at least ask themselves "When we commit X against them, they commit X against us. Maybe we should try to stop committing X and see if they will too". The current approach of planning out attacks that escalate the conflict just makes things worse.

I'm curious if there has been any solid game theory research into the impact of tit-for-tat retaliation versus escalating retaliation.
long live Jenkins!
Apple: iPhone shipments slide 16%
Looks like there is not yet a Homebrew PR: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pulls

Current formula still points to v5.11: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul...

EDIT: PR created: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/633
> DevOps is the next wave replacing Agile

DevOps is about eliminating the decades-old division between development staff who control the programs and operations staff who control the data. By having "DevOps" staff who control both programs and data, businesses open themselves up to large-scale employee theft and fraud.
I think they're orthogonal. You can have fun and be really driven and still not think you're succeeding at someone else's expense. While you can be contented or consoled by material abundance -- if you think it's zero sum and feel discouraged from succeeding, you may seek comfort in zoning out.

I think a lot of resistance to basic income, and a lot of fear of job loss due to outsourcing and automation, comes from the scarcity mindset. And if that's your world view, Trump makes sense.
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To each his own, I suppose. Personally, I roll Arch on eight computers at home and work, no neckbeard required. I install exactly what I want at first install (Awesome is my preferred tiling window manager), and updates are performed when I want, which is much better than automatically. Apart from systemd, which I haven't gotten around to excising yet, there is no cruft anywhere. Plus the added bonus of never having to upgrade to the latest distro version.
The javscript version of the hedonic treadmill ensures there will always be a juicy new feature that node/browsers don't have yet but Babel/other transpilers usually will. Just because it's 93% of the way there on ES6 at this moment doesn't mean that a few months from now people, your team included, won't be clamoring to be able to write with the new sweet features from ECMAScript 2017 or whatever. The only solution is to keep Babel a part of your stack perpetually and really that's not so bad in my opinion.
I was looking at this over the weekend to see if the risk/benefit ratio was appropriate for our team. Meh, we already use the pipelines plug-in, and the insecure-by-default configuration has already been locked down, so for our team the answer is, "no, it's not worth risking mikestew having to spend a day putting things back the way they were if the upgrade goes horribly wrong". I'm supposed to be writing code, not dicking around with broken installs.

That's not to poo-poo the hard work that obviously went into this release. Big, shiny new stuff there, and the next Jenkins box I setup will be running 2.0. But for my particular situation at this point in time, it'll be 1.6 for a while.
I'm not really sure what the argument here is.

Given the fact that each vertex of the die has 10 triangles that sum to 595, and including a non-malicious roll against a backdrop, I don't see how this die is any more or less fair than a normal d6 (which I believe we can concede is 'fair'). After all, if you want to cheat at dice, then you can cheat at dice regardless of any common understanding of 'fairness'.

In particular, I was responding to the following comment, "If its too large, it may only reach a portion of the neighboring values at each bounce".

My argument was only that if you drop the dice from say a distance of 3", and it doesn't bounce then at a minimum, you wouldn't get a large grouping of numbers that are all near each other (Even if you were able to somehow pick a specific 'vertex' to always land up, you're going to have a total average of 59.5). In other words, you couldn't drop the die such that you could guarantee a range of 110-120 (which you could for example do on a MTG spindown die, which is fair but not uniform). In other words, even if there is no bounce, a typical rolling of the dice would be 'good enough' for say a pen and paper RPG, and even just dropping it without the bounce is likely enough to give non-Vegas levels of 'fairness' even if 'it may only reach a portion of the neighboring values at each bounce'.
Yes, but you will die of cancer. If we somehow can stop aging, people will die of cancer anyway.

I think we also need to figure out how to stop noses and ears from growing.
Twitter Q1 2016 Shareholder Letter [pdf]
Hey product, your salespeople know something you don't
Perhaps we are at the extreme limits of emissions reductions and no real further gains can be made unless more active equipment is used on the exhaust such as electrostatic precipitators for diesels, and extra direct treatment like catalytic converters do.
>For a 2.0 that was in the making for years

it was not in making for years. 2.0 started only 4-5 months ago.
Why not use a single d24?
They're public only on quarterly boundaries. Leaks prior to the reports tend to be quite valuable to investors/speculators.
Yes, but those are websites. Some degree of tracking is vital to the functioning of many websites. e.g. No cookies, no sessions (generally speaking). Furthermore, it is expected that a lot of websites are tracking you.

I feel pretty safe in saying that most developers do not expect a command-line tool to phone home without saying, especially if this behavior was introduced in an update for a tool which didn't do that historically (and without any notification of the change).

Considering the popularity of this tool, it's a bit shocking that the core dev team of Homebrew didn't seem to anticipate that people would be upset by this. It really knocks my trust in and willingness to depend on this project.
What about secondary markets? Someone looking to dump their shares could use that to help drive prices up
For anyone else that was curious, zerotier appears to be a virtual network tool, kind of like Hamachi but not run by a terrible company and with a much saner pricing scale.
I need to blame a scapegoat for the world's problems. I blame offshoring.
Could you start from something you think constitutes a horrible set of moral values and social standards and work your way to whatever you think is not vague and nebulous like "democratic and humanistic"? Like start with Hitler or Stalin and explain hiw what they did was bad and what would you do better?
Why Uber Won – Greylock Perspectives
If any path segments/lines intersect/cross on any plane, then the path is not a solution.
In 4 dimensonal space, the 120-cell would make a d120 that's completely regular, like a platonic solid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120-cell
I really don't think Gabe is right.

People pirate games that are on steam by the millions. Fall out 4 was pirated millions of times, but it's super easy to install on Steam. In fact it's a pain in the butt to install a pirated copy. Yet it's highly pirated.

Paying for convenience is an upper middle class / rich thing. For a lot of people, saving 60 bucks is all the motivation one needs to pirate.
Of course, you can't really get to "Trust No One" level unless you build your own computer by hand and write its entire software stack from scratch. It's kind of an arbitrary distinction, otherwise.
looks like they ripped off www.odrive.com - even stole their logo!!
and if everyone on Earth knew how to code would we have more efficient governments, or would they keep the status quo? because, hey.. one computer is more efficient and can replace 100 bureaucrats.
Dont think about America when you read this, thats the least corrupt place on Earth.
Not to be that guy, but isn't this one case where we need to question the ethics of reporting on leaked documents? Especially when the files themselves seem to be leaked only to Techcrunch. So the cat isn't out of the bag yet, and there really is no public interest / whistleblowing that TC is serving when they post numbers here. Seems sketchy at best to me. Unless they were "leaked" deliberately, which isn't much better, but for different reasons.
"More than half of a tiny and almost certainly unrepresentative fraction of Singaporeans" would be a more accurate description. Arguing from headlines seems like it must be an uncomfortable place to be.

The CIA World Factbook estimates a 1.5% net immigration rate for Singapore in 2015. They don't seem to break out immigration vs. emigration, so I'm not sure how frequently people leave, but a quick glance at Google results for "singapore emigration" suggests people leave frequently enough for some pundits to consider it a problem, which makes it seem improbable that doing so is all that difficult.
That's the essence of jihad, despite what those death cult nutjobs say.

I'm not a muslim but I found that word really useful...until about 15 years ago :-(. Need a better word acceptable to anglos in the west.
You just used a really obvious example of circular reasoning, a logical fallacy.

You are not every girl on the planet. Some girls don't like being called dude. With those particular girls, if you call them dude, you are being rude. If you want them to be rude right back to you then I guess keep doing what you're doing.

The Golden Rule totally accounts for edge cases. If someone is a masochist, you ask them if they are a masochist, and then you ask them if they want to be treated a certain way. If someone is from a different culture, you can learn about different cultures to [for example] learn which hand to shake hands with, or you can ask if you aren't sure.

If you want to be treated like an asshole, then be an asshole. But the rule is meant to guide you towards not being an asshole. It doesn't put too much focus on you, it puts just enough focus to hopefully prevent you from getting yourself killed by an angry woman who really doesn't like being called "dude", or getting the crap kicked out of you in a country where shaking hands with the wrong hand is a huge offense. Does this make more sense?
Screen shot: https://jarr.github.io
Yep, but Enigmail is not part of the default Thunderbird package. It has to specifically be installed by the user after installing and running Thunderbird.
Ask HN: What non-profits went through YC?
Watsi was W13 - what others have there been since?
Yet Apple still posted a very nice profit that many other companies would be envious of.

I will file this one under "Not much to worry about." A company can't keep having record breaking quarters every single time.
Speaking very roughly, fuzzy logic applies in cases where the degree of truth of a statement is in question. Logical uncertainty (about decidable sentences) applies in cases where the sentences are definitely true or false, but we lack the resources to figure out which.

So, for example, fuzzy logic might help you quantify to what extent someone is "tall," where tallness admits of degrees rather than being binary. Or it might help you quantify to what extent a proof is "long." But it won't tell you how to calculate the subjective probability that there exists a proof of some theorem that is no more than 500 characters long in some fixed language. For that, you either need to find a proof, exhaustively demonstrate that no proof exists, or find a way to reason under logical uncertainty; and we haven't found any ways to use fuzzy logic to make progress on formalizing inference under logical uncertainty.
for an outsider google is your friend (i intentionally didn't mention any specific cases i'm personally aware of because they can be easily shot down by "sample of 1" type of argument even though everybody around understands what it really is). For example:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18923372

"After the Chernobyl accident, children from Belarus living in highly exposed regions received mean thyroid doses by radioactive fallout higher by a factor of approximately 2 as compared to the survivors of the atomic bomb explosions. This lead to a radiation related increase of thyroid cancer incidence in children and adolescents with the highest incidence in age group 0-4 years up to now totally amounting to approximately 5 000 cases. "
I agree. Their customer support has declined significantly over the years due to what I assume to be growth and scaling pains. Then again, their early support methods included a live phone operator.

However, it's still no excuse for what they have today. Their support, in my experience, is often lackluster at best and requires the consumer to basically beg for a resolution.

I love Postmates and will continue to use them, but competitors like Doordash who have awesome customer service[0] continue to woo me over to their side.

[0] - Had a bad delivery yesterday.. their support flow to select exactly what was wrong and what I wanted done about it (bring me new item, refund me, other).
Which is why the penalty to automakers should be to force them to build electric vehicles.
And that neatly applies to his law of argumentative comprehension, which should really read "The more people _think they_ understand something, the more willing they are to argue about it, and the more vigorously they will do so."
I have about 1100 feeds and have found that newsblur is pretty good as long as I'm not (a) on safari and (b) leaving the tab open for a long time. (that is, it's fine on chrome, and it's fine on safari if I close the tab after a while).
Absolutely. One thing that I've noticed personally (and that studies confirm) is that the distance I am willing to walk depends a great deal on what walking is like: whether it's interesting, safe, etc. Parking lots are thus a double whammy, because the both push actual destinations apart, and reduce the distance that people are willing to walk. And if nobody's walking anywhere anyway, why bother building tall buildings in expensive city centers instead of cheaper ones in suburban office parks?

Since you mention New Urbanism, have you heard of the Old Urbanist movement? New Urbanism is an attempt to return to 19th century American patterns, while the Old Urbanists advocate going back to an even older pattern of low-rise and mid-rise buildings on really narrow streets, which is a pattern that has worked well for millenia, and indeed still works well in places like Japan. The narrower streets mean there can be more of them for the same usage of land area, which can mean a much better connected network at a pedestrian scale.
> ... not intended to cause general terror.

Maybe, although it's hard to imagine there's no intent for drone strikes to act as a deterrent. It's not identical to idiomatic terrorism, but also not completely different.

> Ignore ISIS? That's dangerous.

There are no choices available here that aren't extremely dangerous. None. Least of all the cookie-cutter 'war hawk' attitudes that got us into this mess in the first place.

Personally my suspicion is that ignoring them is probably the least dangerous. ISIS is an organisation that feeds on radicalisation, it feeds on aggression. Aggression is its recruiting tool.

Build a mosque. Build a mosque so f%cking huge and beautiful that even hearing about it makes ISIS fighters weep.

Change the music and all this will be over in a few years. Feed the war machine and we're here for another generation at least.
Here's a link to the WIP Julia unum implementation... https://github.com/REX-Computing/unumjl
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I run a repair shop. We've repaired over 3,000 Apple devices for customers. We are always chatting with our customers, so we get a ton of feedback from them about what they're doing with their phones.

We hear a few things consistently:

1) Providers have switched from "free upgrades every 2 years" to a plan cost and a monthly phone cost, so people now really know how much their phone costs--and many would rather save the $30 a month than upgrade their phone. This started with T-Mobile a few years ago and now is how most phone plans work. This is having a huge impact on people's desire to buy new phones.

2) iPhone 5/5C/5S users have no desire to upgrade to a larger phone. The SE is going to solve some of this, but it'll more likely be a scenario of "I dropped my 5S in the toilet and it's completely dead, so I'll upgrade to a SE instead of dealing with the hassle of finding a legit used 5S." I don't expect to see a huge push toward the SE from current iPhone 5 users.

3) Repairs are so cheap, so easy and so effective. It's $79 for us to fix an iPhone 5/5C/5S screen right now, and we can fix it in less than 30 minutes typically. No reason to upgrade when your old one works just fine and you can get it fixed cheaply.

Interestingly, the SE screen is 1:1 compatible with the 5S screen, so the SE is coming out of the gate being cheap and easy to repair as well. I'm typically recommending the SE if people really want a new phone.

We also ask customers about 3D Touch (the new feature on the 6S/6S+) and if they're using it if they have a 6S. 99% of people have no idea what it is or how to use it. They bought a 6S/6S+ because it was pink. Yep, most of the 6S phones we see are rose gold, and that seems to be the #1 factor driving sales of that line. If they don't care about the pink and ask me what phone I recommend, I recommend buying a refurbished 6 over any of the 6S line. (We don't sell phones, so I have no horse in that race at all.)
> Well, that and that we should throw people in prison for life after three felonies:

Those polls were from 1994 and 1995. The crime rate was way higher then: http://content.gallup.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Prod...
Postmates co-founder here. That is a sentiment and an observation i totally agree with. We're working hard to get this done and we're seeing some first positive signs. It will likely take us a good part of Q2 to get where we want to be though. It is a challenging aspect to our business but i'm 100% confident that we will succeed in making our CS interactions more meaningful and rewarding.

I should point out that we're really talking about two types of customer service experiences here. When it comes to our Plus merchants, we're facing way less challenges simply because we're interacting with them via tablets or electronic ordering. Where we don't succeed yet, is the customer service part of our Anywhere product. Here we don't have integrations with all merchants and the error rates are higher and so is the level of complexity when something goes wrong.
Careful with Postel's Law: it brought us a lot the mess we have with web standards.

Quoting wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle:

>
In RFC 3117, Marshall Rose characterized several deployment problems when applying Postel's principle in the design of a new application protocol.[3] For example, a defective implementation that sends non-conforming messages might be used only with implementations that tolerate those deviations from the specification until, possibly several years later, it is connected with a less tolerant application that rejects its messages. In such a situation, identifying the problem is often difficult, and deploying a solution can be costly. Rose therefore recommended "explicit consistency checks in a protocol ... even if they impose implementation overhead".
I think that most people believe that popular science press covers science topics in a way that is simplified but mostly accurate (like the statement "there are 86,400 seconds in a day.", which is true enough, neglecting edge cases).

The problem is that most popular science, in my experience, fundamentally misrepresents the issues at hand and the stuff that "should be" correct. It's misleading "anti knowledge" in many cases, not just a blurry outline of the topic at hand.
Docker Must Die: Heresy in the Church of Docker
It's interesting that there is a tendency to see TV as manipulated, but everyone knows that it is, so we expect it. When it comes to the internet we have blinders and think it's democratic, but the reality is that it is probably more manipulatable than TV ever was.
Yeah but Boulder has some pretty crazy bubble issues of its own... I'm in the process of heading back to Denver in a couple months because I can't deal with it anymore. Sure, Denver's tech scene is bush league compared to Boulder's but there's only so much hippy-dippy I can deal with.
You can add a lot of low-volume sites without having them pile up too much, also I break out my feeds in groups and that makes them a lot easier to go through.
I use dwm on my laptop, and I have 2 external monitors.

Every morning I had to make an xrandr call when I plugged them, and another one at the end of the day when I unplugged them to make my window manager aware of my screen layout.

I was tired so I automated the thing.
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Sympli may be the first plugin designers and developers can agree on
I've been reading through this online course by Dan Jurafsky [0] which includes chapters of his new upcoming book.

[0]: http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs124/
The creative loop
Are we past peak-smartphone or is this just noise from model release schedules?

It took PCs 20+ years to get good enough, smartphones managed the same in much less than 10 it seems.
WebPass ( https://webpass.rkeene.org/ ) is similar -- its syncing is done by encrypting the list of sites (note that passwords are never stored or encrypted) and sending that from one client to another (no server ever stores the encrypteed list of sites).

It's also an iOS/Chrome webapp so it will act like a native app in some ways.

It's also a single JavaScript file which isn't too heavy. The sync'ing is done by a simple process that reads what another client writes implemented as a CGI talking over a FIFO.
Its easier for a fringe group to amplify their message and drone out opposing ones online because its 'invisible'.
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I wonder why I didn't think about it when looking for a solution at my problem.
> I have every right to invent a device which allows me to create an artificial wormhole which then allows me to remotely observe this party (see the Arthur C. Clarke book "Light of Other Days"). The partygoers will have no idea I'm observing them and since they wouldn't sell me a ticket anyway, they won't see a difference in their revenues.

Voyeurism may or may not be a crime in your jurisdiction.
Naive geometry calculations fail very hard, very fast. There is a reason why Solidworks has you draw on the surface of something that already exists, and extrude a feature up from that, instead of computing the union of two 3D primitives. Computing the coincidence of two lines or planes is a quick path to woe. The geometry package CGAL uses infinite precision rationals instead of floating point, and also bans curves. A circle is a many-sided polygon, and pi is not acknowledged to exist. Floating point and computational geometry are uneasy aquaintances.
Stock down 7% in after hours trading.
Waking up at 4:30