skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>unless there are well-founded reasons for not doing so

backdoored by default. Any reason why it is 2020 not sooner or later?
"I don't claim to know God's plan."
While it's bad manner to complain about downvotes, you're probably receiving them because your post comes across as speaking from a place of authority ("you have this condition," without any credentials "I am not a psychologist.")

Moreover, why does everything have to be a condition? Maybe this person cries more than others. Ok, so what. If they only cried once a week or something, then they probably wouldn't have been compelled to write a post about it.

This person's way of working through life events is by an outpouring of emotion, don't be so quick to label and demonize it because they deal with their emotions differently than others.
And at some point people would start referring to proposed laws by their commit hashes.

"The Senate hearing over controversial bill 4ad57b ..."
Simple bignum arithmetic explanation
Consider the Slender Man story, which was concocted more-or-less whole-cloth on Somethingawful.com's fora. Two young people stabbed a third ostensibly to sacrifice her to this character, and one of the editors of somethingawful.com posted an article [http://www.somethingawful.com/news/slenderman-not-real/] reminding people that the story was 100% fabrication.
Another area besides GMOs where you're going to experience a visceral reaction for offhanded skepticism is evolution. Saying, "I think we need more studies on evolution" has implicit in it the assumption that we don't know much about it. While of course we have a lot left to discover on evolution, making that statement without acknowledging that we do know a lot about evolution and its status is not in doubt, will put you in the nutter category that denies that evolution is a fact.

Similarly, if somebody tells me "I think we need to study climate change more before we can tell if humans are causing it," then I'm going to challenge them to actually tell me what they know, and why they ignore the science.

If you've never encountered somebody that's spreading similar FUD around the science around GMOs, then great. But anybody who's informed about the actual science of GMOs is going to be somewhat put off by uninformed skepticism of the science that is endemic in the general population.

There's a huge body of evidence that GMOs are safe, over decades, that rigorously assessed safety of many types of GMOs (each one of course is unique and presents its own unique potential risks). Despite this huge amount of study, no safety concerns for food have been found. Yet I still get regular emails about, say, the impacts on monarch butterflies, when in fact that early-stage study was followed up upon in a conclusive manner, and the early-stage concerns were not found to be significant.

Any reasonable discussion of GMOs must acknowledge what we already know about GMOs. I don't know who you're talking to where you get shut down form talking about it, but in my experience that feeling comes from those who refuse to lok at the data that's out there that may not support their presuppositions.
I found out that my usual way of sorting cards as a kid was a variant of quicksort.

This is to sort the cards first into black v. red, then the black cards into spades v. clubs, then the spades into high v. low, then finally sort the low ones by inspection (a kind of insertion sort I guess), sort the high ones by inspection, sort the clubs similarly, etc.

Like most quicksorts, this definitely uses O(log(n)) space as you have a deck of reds, a deck of clubs, and a deck of high spades while you're handling the low spades...
> While the project confirmed that Argentina’s inflation numbers could not be trusted, it also showed that the US inflation numbers published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics could be.

There were conspiracy theories floating around in the 2007-2010 time-frame (and still may be) that the published BLS numbers were being manipulated for political reasons (much as in Argentina), and it's reassuring that there's some confirmation that they weren't.
The assertion by the FSF that particular uses of GPL-licensed software are constrained by the license

Ah, that's what I was missing. When did they assert that the use by itself (with no redistribution) is constrained by the GPL? That seems to go directly against their FAQ:

If I only make copies of a GPL-covered program and run them, without distributing or
conveying them to others, what does the license require of me?

Nothing. The GPL does not place any conditions on this activity.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#NoDistributionRe...
It does fit with the trend of crazy overreactions to "computer hacking" though. If some kids figure out where you keep the keys to the gym and you catch them playing basketball after hours when it's supposed to be closed, you give them some detention, you don't prohibit them from ever entering the gym thereby causing them to miss school assemblies and fail classes. But do the equivalent thing on a computer and they assume you need the Hannibal Lecter treatment or else you'll whistle into a phone and bring forth Armageddon.
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> using pulsed lasers to trigger and guide high-voltage discharges over several meters in the laboratory.

There is no way the military have seen that and haven't thought "I bet we can use that to fry our enemies"
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The collection of negative Twilio comments isn't self-trolling, it's "lol those haters were wrong."
I don't know why you seem to have a cultural blindspot to what is going on this video, but it is there and by design.

Here you go http://imgur.com/a/gCj8R

EDIT: Again with the down-votes? I took actual screenshots and captioned (with very little editorial) what is going on in the video. Why would you down-vote that?
I just added FB ads to an iOS app this morning. The app doesn't even use FB login so I was suprised to see the sample ads were still very location-specific and targeted. They've also got web/HTML tools for placing ads on a domain.
My workplace has said unfriending someone on Facebook is considered bullying. I deactivated Facebook long before that rule for work reasons.

But I do find since then I am socially isolated. I'm not a social person at all (4 years since I went out anywhere) but the one good thing Facebook did was keep me in the social world.

I know I've missed a few wedding invitations, gatherings of friends, lots of things I find out about later but things I'm sure I never will know about.
Well, $20 in 1891 isn't exactly $20 in 2016.

Also, you aren't likely to go for a jog with your phonograph, and I suspect if you left the nano in a box for 60 years it would probably be fine (minus maybe the battery).
variable names are almost certainly a lost cause, but IDA pro is pretty good at recovering control flow, which could be turned into C constructs (didn't Dijkstra prove something about expressing any control flow using structured programming constructs?). You'd probably need a bunch of heuristics to tell the difference between a while loop and a for loop. More ambitious would be trying to un-inline functions, which would require liberal use of the de-optimizer and recognizing common sub-structures.
No, you don't get it. DRM is fundamentally flawed from a technical perspective. DRM can never work without coercing people into compliance by means of force, threats and punishment.

No, you don't get it. DRM is economically flawed because of asymmetries in power/aggregate power controlled by individuals vs. centralized organizations. DRM on behalf of individuals can work by coercing corporations into compliance by means of regulations, threats, and punishment.

The exact things that make DRM bad when used by corporations make it potentially very good when used by individuals against corporations. It is basically the same privacy vs. openness arrow between individuals vs. corporations. It's a public good for individuals to have privacy and corporations to be open and transparent. It's horrible the other way around. Likewise, it's a public good for individuals to have DRM to protect their data against corporations. It's horrible the other way around.
Why helicopter airliners haven't happened yet
Just because you've never experienced doesn't mean it's real. I have experienced it.
He still has a chance...
Yes, I would be hoping to see such rage, much scale, very reform; and I know I would be disappointed.
For what its worth, I tried this while it was on display in Toronto, and it was great - it was set up for kids and there was no 'cartoon breasts' to be found, just a bunch of super stoked kids seeing their creations come to life & playing with tech
That's an ironic turn of events.
I hope this is implemented by all browsers. It'll make CSRF prevention a whole lot easier.

However, I'm not sure I see any security improvements for applications that already prevent CSRF.
I think the flash memory might have trouble with data retention over 60 years - all the electrons defining your bits will have leaked away.
Huh. I like your PO Box analogy. We should get the USPS to run mail servers.
can yours be used to reverse engineering SNES games?
Feed it the rom and have it split out c code?
The Knuth quotation from your link:

> Insiders pronounce the χ of TeX as a Greek chi, not as an ‘x’, so that TeX rhymes with the word blecchhh. It’s the ‘ch’ sound in Scottish words like loch or German words like ach; it’s a Spanish ‘j’ and a Russian ‘kh’. When you say it correctly to your computer, the terminal may become slightly moist.

Surely, we should be insiders.
Under the Horizon 2020 programme, open access publishing (green or gold) is already mandatory today for all EU/EC funded projects. Grant proposals must incorporate open access fees in order to be accepted. It's not much money for most project consortiums as the EU tends to fund big projects with budgets of ~10 million € and more as the norm (there are smaller ones, but ~2 million is really as small as it gets as far as I know). So a couple of 10K€ won't make that much of a difference. If it would become mandatory for all publicly research in the EU, the problem would be quite different. There are really small grants (50K€ and smaller) and if you have 2 publications out of that grant, you now pay 10-20% of your grant money for publishing fees.
It's an optional flag included in Set-Cookie, much like HttpOnly.

So, if you don't want to use it, you don't have to, and nothing will change.
The kerr effect sounds interesting, even if it is air-only... what power density would it take to get self-focusing in a vacuum by gravitational lensing?
> Facebook satisfied our needs to connect with our friends when it arrived. Now it's 100% ads.

So there's no reason to stay on it.

I personally stick with direct messaging apps (Skype, LINE).
There is a difference between pain and suffering, and as humans, we tend to conflate the two. Usually, when we see someone in pain, we tend to automatically think that person is suffering, and we ourselves suffer in a kind of emotional contagion effect. (Sociopaths notwithstanding).

This is going to open up some interesting things, and I think really help our human civilization to understand more about ourselves: what it means to be empathic; what really is pain and suffering. For creationists, it brings up a very interesting (as in, uncomfortable) question: why was pain created in the first place?
Hmm, I checked the source when originally reading it and thought I saw a d3 link but you are correct. Thanks for clarifying.
I've actually been looking at light alarm clocks recently, anybody have one they would recommend? The Philips wake up light looks nice, but there isn't an option to dim the clock display so it's actually always on.
Yeah, this irks me as well. Why does this even have to come into play. Why not just thank Dr. Heimlich and give him all the well deserved credit?

This lady could have just as easily been one of the millions of people since the maneuver was invented to have not been sitting next to Dr. Heimlich when they began to choke.
I thought so, too.
A similar thing happened to me at my university. This new website came out called TheFacebook.com and it seemed hip to add artificial friends like famous actors, super heroes, etc. I had the bright idea to add the school president as a friend by creating a fake account like the thousands of other fake accounts on TheFacebook. I needed a university email address, but luckily, my school allowed you to create a personalized email alias. What should I change my personalized email address to...? How about <president's name>@mail.myschool.edu? That would be funny - and I'd just revert it back after creating the stupid FB account.

There was some problem with the alias. I couldn't receive the FB confirmation email. So I gave up and went to sleep. The next morning I received a call from the campus police - they wanted to talk to me. I don't remember all the details, but I just remember a long process of being interrogated by campus police and later school administrators who were certain that I had hacked the president's email account. I mistakenly thought simply telling them "I wanted to add the school president as a friend on TheFacebook" was innocent and harmless enough. Some time later I received a letter with a list of 20 or so charges including things like Identity Theft and the possibility that I may be expelled.

I only found out at the end of this whole process that due to a bug in the mail system it allowed me to register a duplicate email alias and all of the school president's emails were being bounced and they assumed I was receiving them. I was able to knock it down writing an apology and community service.
Very interesting, doubt it will happen, but would love to see their data (or some portion of it) released.
It sounds like you need to create an anti-exclusion committee for people without Facebook, since your company seems to promote that kind of thinking.
Out of curiosity, have you ever checked out the paintings of Xu Beihong? He's famous for painting very expressive horses.

https://cn.bing.com/images/search?q=%e5%be%90%e6%82%b2%e9%b8...
Do note that while feeling pain is generally a bad thing, being able to feel pain is an amazingly useful ability for people to have. The entire point of pain is to provide rapid feedback when things happen that harm the body, so that the decision-making algorithm can do things to prevent further and/or future damage. Without being able to feel pain, people can do things like forget to use a utensil to retrieve eggs from boiling water.
I had no idea that people cry this much. It's like pulling back a curtain.
This is bad practice for getting things done.
This is terrible. There should be a law against it.
If your story is true, then you were, as it appears, wrongfully and unlawfully imprisoned. I think you should at least try contacting press and some lawyers -- if what you are saying is a true story.

It sounds pretty interesting to me -- I imagine someone in the press would pick it up.
What's your baseline? Your own crying frequency?

If you were emotionally honest, and genuinely logged every time you were frustrated, would we be playing arm chair data scientist saying "this person has some major anger issues!"
If the number of homes is significant, you can bet that Comcast and friends will hurry to make offers themselves, now that someone is becoming a viable alternative. It's happened the same way in Germany too. Zero activity up until a local effort is started to build lines.
Does anyone else yearn for life with what man has long called "wrestling"?

Our ancestors used to cultivate their might, overcome deep physical challenge, and express useful skills in sanctified circles.

Wrestling used to mean something profoundly real to human-kind, as it still does for many cultures who haven't taken a plunge into a commercial modernity.

I remember when I was young reading of loud gasps when `Okonkwo threw the Cat` in Things Fall Apart [0], one story's scene that resonates across distant lands, around familiar campfires, and within men's bones.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_fall_apart
No, that's not accurate. There are ways for humans to still maintain high-level directions with pain. There are ways to mentally block it out -- though that is not very effective. The "constantly consuming computational resources" has more to do with _suffering_ than with pain.

For a practical application, see: https://www.quora.com/What-psychological-tricks-and-hacks-ar...

Although humans tend to conflate pain with suffering, they are not the same thing.
Machine learning at the museum
Remember clock Ahmed the clock kid? I had a situation almost exactly like his, except I made a working FM radio, could change stations and listen to local news and weather, I thought it was the coolest thing ever.

The school did not, and the district superintendent agreed with them. Who knew that an FM Radio made out of a La Gloria Cubana cigar box-with labelling removed so as not to run afoul of any "tobacco paraphernalia" questions constituted a "bomb".

Parents sued to have me reinstated, but the social stigma lasted well throughout high school. Kids nicknamed me "bomberman" and there was this whole narrative that I had to be removed from the school, handcuffed by the FBI and put into the back of a box truck and hauled away. When in reality, my dad picked me up in his Honda (which would later become my Honda) and we drove home.
Also how long before it comes out that Peter Thiel is secretly running Twilio out of his basement.
I can't speak for the EU, but since my work last year was NIH-funded, we made it freely available via arXiv (http://arxiv.org/). This seems to be common practice.
Oh Santa Cruz how I miss you. And now with fiber, even more reason to return.

I'm not sure why it works that way, but you go looking for surf at Ocean beach and you wind up in Santa cruz. Santa Cruz turns any crappy surf day into perfect waves. Only problem is there are about 50 other people there surfing too & they all know each other, but still.. such great surfing!

And now with fiber. What could be better?
with google scholar that's good enough, no? It already matches to pdfs on academic sites.
Requiring the warrant to specify the level of force could be interesting. Are there good reasons why this could not be done?
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Well, as much as I disliked the manager, I don't think there was much he could've done. He legit had to leave to go somewhere. My gripe is with baml, not necessarily him.
It's inchoate, yes. But it lives nonetheless!
Bitcoin Surges to 2016 Highs on Rising Chinese Demand; Decouples from Gold
Another thing to mention is that Google reports its Network Members revenue as a gross revenue, not their cut. It would be like eBay reporting $80b in revenue, not their cut ($8b). So, Google in '14 reported $14 billion in revenue for Network Members, but 70% of that is sent to publishers. Their 'real' revenue would be around $4 billion. On the other hand, ad revenue for Google websites (search engines) was $45 billion. Google makes many times more money from its search engines than all the publishers in the world on Google Network Members combined. That's a cash cow.
I'm not as familiar with European journals, but if this happened in the US (more or less forced open access) it'd possibly mean that every time we want to publish it would cost researchers ~$3000.

Hopefully this (and similar) legislation comes along with a statement regarding who's supposed to cover that cost. Because some of us avoid that price tag by publishing in non-open access journals.
I have the opposite experience: most of the people I speak to are sure GMOS and "transgenics" are obviously bad for you and "unnatural" or "unproven", and that "more studies are needed" (until when? nobody says). The internet is chock full of sites repeating conspiracy theories about GMOs.

If someone is more careful about repeating scary "common sense" knowledge such as this, usually it's because they have a scientific background.
It's amazing how much variability there is in how much people cry. Also, the intensity obviously varies a lot: I've never cried for longer than maybe 5 minutes.

Personally, I'm tempted to start a similar log but for the exact opposite reason: I cry so little that I don't remember the last time I did, and I would like to.
pyrotherapy is a real thing, and has been used very successfully in the treatment of the later stages of syphillis. of course, it only works because syphillis is really temperature sensitive, which isn't the case of the pathogens concerned.
Doesn't that just mean you have to revert to circa 2000 norms? I.e. call a random friend once a week or so, to catch the news and ensure your social stickiness?
I don't think it's important. Being offended by breasts is a problem with the viewer, rather than the creator, in my opinion.
I love the idea of generating two parallel beams and leveraging the conductivity of plasma as a sort of "wireless" taser. It's likely not feasible (I'm guessing someone has tried it), and it would be interesting to know why.
Disney movies.

Literally every single Disney movie gets me to cry. Usually towards the end, around the climax when the soundtrack let the harps and violins kick in.

Not sure if it's me or Disney has some special Crying Department which meticulously orchestrates a crying storyboard.
One major problem with inflation tracking, which this approach has the potential to solve (though does't appear to yet), is that measuring the quality of the product over time is hard.

Wages have averaged flat for the last 20 years "with inflation", but $1000 for medicine buys you a much better product today than the "equivalent" amount of money 20 years ago. Traditional basket of goods models tend to assume quality parity.
Your story reminds me of how Americans view international students who enter American schools with minimal ability to speak English. We wonder what they are doing there.

I have an idea about why you did not find a job in America.. consider,

Many international students cheat on the SAT to either (a) get into good schools or (b) get good grades at those schools [1]. Employers filter resume/CV's based on good schools and good grades.

When an employer identifies that he/she has interviewed or hired someone who is not as good as their resume/CV indicates, the employer looks for a pattern. In short, H-1B's become risky hires for smaller businesses who don't have the time to sift through many CV's.

The rampant cheating in [1] hurts your chances of landing an interview, and it may also have an impact on the number of H-1B's set by the government. If existing H-1B holders are not measurably adding enough value to the American GDP, then there's no reason to increase the number given out.

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> And yes, I probably have better resources than those unfortunate.

Right, exactly. There's nobody to tell the mother that this new school is probably not worth the money they're paying for it

> But guess who had paid the price? My great grandparents.

No doubt your ancestors worked hard. That was 100 years ago. Times have changed and we are better off focusing on today.

I suggest the following is always true:

Society is about more than helping just your family. Society is protection and support for a larger group so you can enjoy friends and relationships outside your family in relative safety. Some tax money goes to military and police who maintain order and prevent crime. Some taxes go towards educating the poor.

When a society focuses more on police and less on education, the poor stay poor. If the poor stay poor for too long, they believe less in themselves and become less productive members of society.

Education and police are more efficient when in balance. The poor manufacture everything. People need each other, and the rich need the poor as much as the poor need the rich.