skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking you to disclose your identity was only a suggestion and it was offered at your discretion, appealing to your potential desire to be a Good Samaritan.

My sincere intent was not to offend you but protect you from yourself. I had already offered what I thought was sufficient explanation for the attack and I felt there were no further options.

I did not mean to offend you but since I have I apologize. I don't believe one's self-worth or employability is based on their expertise in computer security but I can see how that can be implied by what I wrote and I was wrong to be careless with my language online. Honestly I am no expert either. I just hope we can all cooperate, put our egos aside, remain humble in our limited knowledge, keep an open mind and stay focused on the facts to build more secure systems.

Peace and well wishes to you and your family.
You are confusing rationing with (essentially) gifting.

Ration stamps merely represented a limited ability to buy a resource in short supply. For example, if you had ration stamps for gasoline/petrol, you could buy up to whatever quantity you had stamps for -- you handed over the stamps and cash.
This looks great. Thanks!
If the damage done by Chernobyl was limited to the restricted area around the town, that wouldn't be so bad. But in fact, as I wrote in my other comment, large parts of western Europe have been contaminated too. Not to the level where one cannot live there any more, but to the level, where it makes it dangerous to eat wild mushrooms and game (which has to be checked for radioactivity before being considered edible). And this will be an issue for many decades to come.
> the only way your investment in bitcoin will return a profit, is if there are more people after you willing to invest in the scheme

Think of bitcoins as tokens or as tulip bulbs - it can be used for something - but the prices is not the main idea. If you buy them for the price rise you are creating your own "ponzi scheme"

> bitcoin as fixed amount of currency theory is a bit questionable.

The total amount ot bitcoins is not questionable.

> There is no reason why a fractional reserve bitcoin bank could not pop up and create bitcoin-as-payment-money out of thin air

If a bank lend out x times the value of the bitcoin deposited, they will not be able to pay them out as bitcoins.

If you dont have access to your bitcoins as bitcoins, but only as a bank statement about how much they owe you, you effectivly traded your bitcoins to an IOU.
Any gear which makes battery life a selling point will look hard at every RF emanation it makes and cut the noise.

I'd look at things plugged into walls before anything running off a battery.
This thread is missing Google's PR team and links to its SRE book
Top engineers don't get paid this low but I get your point. Do you have any evidence to support that the major cost component for space missions is the salaries being paid?
Looks like it would do fine to me. You would want to clean it with alcohol if you ran it through the wash, to avoid corrosion, but otherwise it would be fine.

I think it would be tough to break the board, so mechanically the worry would be bending some pins such that they shorted.

I have no idea what the ESD sensitivity of the parts is, but if it's something your going to walk around with in your pocket, that's something to think about. I'd probably use some heatshrink tubing on it.
> You save tens of thousands of dollars and lower your carbon footprint by hundreds of thousands of pounds of CO2 over 20-30 years.

Most consumers don't give an eff about carbon footprint unless it saves them money or the pollution does affect them directly. Also I dont think there are too many people in USA spending tens of thousands of dollars in electricity bill.

Solar Panale is a great idea if there is technological breakthrough but else it a tried and failed model.
For me at least learning to code have two different requirements.

The first is shared across languages, getting to grips with ifs and cases and all that. That is relatively easy.

The second is pr language, and it involves learning what is available in the libs and similar. And how to use those to do things like read and write files, connect over networks, or draw a UI on screen. And those are bloody hard.
Are you just giving random examples or is regular Coke not vegan?
The idea with a canary is that some government request can stop you from disclosing that request ("hey everyone we got subpoena'd") but they can't stop you from NOT updating a page. Putting a newspaper headline on the page basically provides a timestamp so anyone checking can go "hey, their canary hasn't been updated in 6 months... maybe something happened". At least that's my understanding of it.
I've been looking at this a few times. Its like a giant ensemble. But I'm not sure ML will be able to beat chance on average on a data source like this.

And if someone discovers they are making money consistently on numerai, I think they would set up their own fund quite quickly.

I do like the encrypted system though, could be used for other ML competitions where you don't want to give your model away
You can't blame the tech, but the companies that rely on it should have better marketing.
My domain model deliberately does not have a graph.
Indeed, just 100 small warheads would (maybe) do it. See Mills' Multidecadal global cooling and unprecedented ozone loss following a regional nuclear conflict [0] which models the effects of a limited nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan.

[0] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013EF000205/full
I think the point is that the law should be refined so that if they ask you for something they should make it clear what you are legally required to handover and what they are asking nicely for. Then punish officiors or departments that mislead.
For those confused, see https://github.com/conorpp/u2f-zero/commit/dd71758a
Well, the drop in price of solar has been pretty unprecedented. I'm not quite sure what happened, but it's been a pretty sharp drop, which isn't really seen in other energy sources. Like a 90% cut in prices in the past 20-odd years.

http://costofsolar.com/management/uploads/2013/06/disruptive... (This is log scale)
Tesla is coming out with their "plebeian" model soon isn't it? Maybe some of that marketing will be directed to push those
Kwik raises $3M to take on Amazon Dash buttons
The cloned-consciousness-as-continuous-consciousness fallacy
I used Emacs Live for quite some time. Then tried https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude because I couldn't get Emacs Live work with the most recent CIDER (clojure environment). I have been using that ever since.
I just keep the keepass.db file in a cloud storage folder that is synced across devices. Works perfectly and because of the encryption it hardly even matters that cloud storage is (currently) on a US server.

The "perform autotype" option in KeepassX Linux seems to work well enough for me in Firefox, Chromium and most applications (it basically seems to send <user><TAB><password><ENTER> which usually does the trick--and afaik it has some settings you can tweak when it doesnt, but I never bothered with those).

But if Lastpass works for you, that's cool. Getting to use a password manager in the first place is the most important step, IMHO.
Guidebook to the Millennials
New Whole Body MRI Scanning Company
> Analog TV sets tended to emit loudly at the local oscillator frequency. The UK used to drive around with "television detector" vans to find people who didn't pay their TV tax, which funds the BBC. But tuners quieted down years ago, as they became tiny RF-tight sealed units.

CRTs used to emit the picture on their screen well enough you could receive it over a nontrivial distance. This is called Van Eck phreaking.

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

OTOH, being able to receive a signal and being able to nail down where it's coming from and who's broadcasting it are two very different things, and the location part is substantially harder. Using the Van Eck technique, or any other, to crack down on people not paying the BBC license fee would have cost more than the fee was worth. Psychological ploys with faked-up vans, however, are a lot cheaper, and can be fairly effective.
I live in England , this is true.
Right, no I agree, except that the rainbow table won't work if you used a salt. You'll need to brute force it for that particular salt value.

Still quite doable, if you have the right resources at hand. As you pointed out, it's less than the entire IPv4 space too.
Funding an open source project you use means funding the competitors.

A is a company, B is an individual with lots of spare time.

B feels that he can help the company by writing a tool for them. He also envisions that the tool could be used by other companies and so wants to open source it so he can provide services around the tool.

B says to A : see, I'm going to develop the tool for you for free, in exchange you test it.

Note the tool is the n-th implementation of common business practices, such as an ERP. The tool is not about something specific to A.

B thinks : I'm independent, I'm not hired by A, I write the code as free software as it pleases me.

A then says : wtf? you're going to publish that code on the web ? Therefore my competitor might get it so, no way. I'd be liable for giving away some value of the company to the competitor

So, instead of saying something like "hey, I use that program so let's fund it a little", A actually says "by helping B to develop the program, I may actually help my competitors, I'm in legal trouble".

B is somewhat screwed :-(

(I let you figure out if this actually happened to me :-))
Article is from 2013 and some of the links in it are dead, unfortunately. Nevertheless, really interesting.
Thanks. I'll take a look at those.
I've tried Antlr and it was a horrible experience compared to Menhir: Being stuck with LL(n) causes a lot of unnecessary refactoring, the syntax for anything out of the ordinary is arcane and IMO not well documented.

Give me the 70's tools any day.
> If you buy your honey from the supermarket, that little plastic bottle of golden nectar has been heated, strained and processed so that it contains zero particulates, meaning that there’s nothing in the liquid for molecules to crystallize on, and your supermarket honey will look the same for almost forever. If you buy your honey from a small-scale vendor, however, certain particulates might remain, from pollen to enzymes. With these particulates, the honey might crystallize, but don’t worry–if it’s sealed, it’s not spoiled and won’t be for quite some time.

I heard a different story. If you add sugar to honey (which some vendors, small and especially large, do) then it won't crystallize. There might be other reasons for honey being always in liquid state (linked article talks about filtering), but I am quite sure that small vendors in my area don't use special filtering methods - more likely they add sugar to make extra money. Am I off the track to be always looking for honey that crystallizes?
It seems to me that overarching theories of a Platonic bent miss the embodied-ness, Dasein-ness of human activity.

Nevermind the debates about the ultimate nature of the human cognitive process; fact of the matter is that as observed, it's always-already wrapped in emotional-social thinking. Enough that there's reason to question the subject-object split altogether.

Now, maybe Chomsky is a kind of extreme social-cognitivist and his abstract generative trees apply to societies as learning and meaning-producing wholes. But on the face of facts, rather than metaphysical speculation as to the nature of personality, intentionality and individuality, it would seem to me that the statistical/machine learning approach already faces language as it happens: as embodied in media, social context and so on.

In other words: I fail to see much value in an abstract account of "pure language" as dissociated from the real communicative process as it happens right now as you read me. Sure, "insights" -- but it remains to be shown that "pure linguistics" is a worthwhile endeavor on the level of "pure quantum mechanics" as formal model.
Interestingly, a recent survey shows that despite having that highly refined vegetarian cuisine, Indians (especially South Indians) are nowhere near as vegetarian as is usually assumed:

https://www.scoopwhoop.com/This-Survey-Found-Out-How-Many-In...
The secret of taste: why we like what we like
If you have big data about all transactions occurring in real-time, along with socioeconomic factors on all the actors, it is not difficult to verify models and see how well the relationship between their dependent and independent variables holds up in the real world.
Oh certainly the Diablo Canyon plant needs to go. It's running two Gen. II reactors with no passive safety systems in a seismically active zone along a coastline vulnerable to flooding and tsunamis. It's actually rather startling that they closed that plant last.

But I'm not making this about nuclear power in general. The State of California and the media have already done a fine job of that.
> I'm surprised Google never just bought imgur

Sex. Corporations tend to keep faaar away from everything related to porn, and a fair share of imgur images is nsfw content. Cleaning it up would be more trouble than it's worth.
Yeah they're delicious. All the other pea products are disgusting.
I really think food like this could have a massive market in India

I'm Indian and lots of my friends are hesitant to eat meat for religious and/or animal rights reasons.

We also don't have the stigma attached to vegetarianism as it is in America. There is no "masculinity = meat" culture here.
Even Mark Zuckerberg puts tape over his webcam
They are teaching about Mesa!

At least there is hope that other CS students learn about alternative systems programming languages.
this sounds reasonable
I think that, in the general case, the idea that recursive-descent parsers can only parse LL(k) languages is not quite true. For some theoretical conception of "parser", perhaps, but most real, hand-rolled recursive-descent parsers rarely recognize precisely an LL(k) language, because programmers tend to mix-and-match algorithms (mixing in a little shunting yard or precedence-climbing to handle infix operators, for example) and they tend to connect the parser with other modules in less restrictive ways (add in some two-way communication with the lexer and you can parse yourself a context-sensitive language, even!).

That's not to say that I don't agree with the general argument that there's no sense in shunning parser-generators all the time. I've made good use of yacc (and ocamlyacc, and menhir, and Lua LPEG, etc.) in the past, and the parser for our commercial compiler at work is written with ANTLR to generate an LL() parser in C++. Such metaprogramming tools let us work at a higher level of abstraction, and we get all the usual benefits of working at a higher level.

I think that, in most* cases, there's really no good reason not to use a parser generator (or, alternatively, parser combinators). I don't even suspect that you learn anything in particular that you wouldn't learn by learning how to formalize your grammar and specify semantic actions for a parser generator (unless perhaps you aren't familiar with mutual recursion, that is...). However, there are some good reasons not to use a generator[1], and, as with anything, the trade-offs need to be carefully considered before deciding.

This all reminds me -- I've been meaning to play with Treetop for Ruby lately :)

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[1]: For example, it tends to be much easier to provide good error messages with a recursive-descent parser. It's not always obvious how a particular configuration for a table-driven parser corresponds to a particular mistake or code formation. There has been some fruitful research in that area of late, though.

There's also something to be said for not having a dependency on an extra tool, especially since such tools tend to be complicated and difficult to debug or extend. As such, when you encounter a language construct that's not easily definable for the generator, you may have have any easier time resorting to some hacks to get what you want rather than just extending the tool.
Not all people subscribe to the conventional wisdom that carbs and oils are unconditionally unhealthy.

Oils can help your body absorb nutrients more effectively and also aid in other cellular processes.

Carbs are energy and your body needs this.

The key is to not consume processed carbs/oils that your body can't integrate.

Carbs from fruits and natural oils (like coconut) are a large component of any thoughtful vegan's diet. You can eat lots of these foods because they not only have carbs but they also have fiber, protein and other vitamins in good proportion, so "carb the f* up!"

Obsessively starving your body of all carbs and eating lots of meat is an extreme and unbalanced diet and will certainly lead to an early death. Just eat whole foods.
One thing I noticed is that some of my friends that have been designing PCBs have been dismissing options like OSHpark for a long time. Apparently they still believe that it's not possible to create good quality PCBs with that pricetag. Even after I showed them some of my PCBs they still insist that I got lucky and tolerances will be too high to be useful ...
The (incorrect) concept of the world consisting of good and bad guys whilst dangerous and leading to flawed reasoning about society (of which this post is an excellent example) is fascinating. I'd be really interested in how it became so prevalent in US society.
Hey JavaScript, you are drunk
Net metering is effectively a subsidy for solar for customers with solar once you take into account things like the cost of maintaining the grid, and will become more and more of one as tech improvements and economies of scale drive down the cost of utility-scale solar and the actual free-market price of power at peak solar times compared to the rest of the day.
It would absolutely not survive for very long like this (naked PCB on a key-chain). Mechanical damage from the actual keys on the same chain is what will kill it before water, sweat, washing liquid, pocket lint or ESD do.

First things to fail will be ceramic capacitors torn/cracked and leads of SSOP-20 package bent/shorted.

That said, it is trivial to protect the board from all of above - just wrap it (except USB connector) with insulating tape or better yet, cover with silicone putty, or similar.
I just wanted to mention "climate change" as my personal biggest issue of this election, and I'm a bit surprised to not see it mentioned more often. Trump takes a radical position thinking that "climate change" is a Chinese conspiracy. How does smart Trump supporters even "argue" for that position? I understand we can debate the extend of actions immediately required, or many other things, but this anti-intellectual position, makes it impossible to have any sane conversation on the topic. This is why I also think anti-intellectualism is the worst thing that can happen to a democracy.
This photo of the new Bentley Mulsanne is 53.1B pixels large
What Isis Lovecruft describes in her piece very much looks like rape to me.
Sorry to be off-topic, but this is not the first time I see using the phrases 'second world' and 'third world' incorrectly here. A third world country was a neutral or unaligned country in the cold war. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-World_Model
In fact, you can write a naïve interpreter or compiler completely in lex and yacc :)
>I despise being treated as a performing seal.

This is 100% in your head and about your attitude. Your ego is the problem, nothing else. I'm introverted as fuck, but I realize that this is part of interview process and if you act like a self centered cunt, who isn't willing to do a simple task like writing little code on a board, you aren't worth the effort for most projects.
Menhir is hardly a 70s tool...
> He has marketable skills and clearly people have in the past ignored his behavior because it was beneficial to business. He can undoubtedly find a job.

But isn't this what the OP argues against? That nobody should consider him having good skills because he is a harasser?

And regarding him having "position of power". I actually wish no one had a position of power, ever. I would even argue that the whole concept exists to facilitate sexual selection, and that's the reason why many people (of both sexes) will want it to exist.
Who is it a problem for? Why is it a problem?
Actually I think this may be a rare correct usage of the term.
Tesla, Solarcity and SpaceX are eventually going to merge together to create an hyper advanced ecosystem of extremely fast travel, within and outside the confines of Earth. Hyperloop is going to complement this ecosystem quite well.

Basically, Elon Musk is walking into the history books and folklore and we are the ones to witness his humble beginnings.

His efforts/ventures, if successful even marginally, will play a large part in the next technological jump that Humans are going to take as civilization, the previous one being the Western Industrial revolution of the 19th century.
Given that mainstream OSes still need to catch up with the use of Xerox Star architecture in terms of safety and developer tooling I find that many students still have a lot to learn outside the UNIX mentality many of these courses have.

And this course does exactly that by having some Mesa related classes.
I thought MIME types had to go through an application process or start with x-
Amazon doesn't offer instances large enough on RDS, so they are managing their own.

Do you have any sources for the corruption comparison between Aurora vs InnoDB?
Now they're coming after the librarians
Kind of a Big Deal – What it’s like to be a famous librarian (2015)
Telecoms got itself monopolised just fine before regulations came along. AT&T sealed in the concept of operating as a regulated monopoly. But that goes back to 1913.

There are industries which tend naturally toward monopolies, with transport, communications, broadcast, and software among them. There are also industries which tend naturally away from monopolies, such as sandwich shops, cement providers, and laundromats.

(Not that there cannot be some concentration, or even national chains among these. But they're rarely dominant.)
Regular coke is about as vegan as regular pickles.
your original comment to me was rude and creepy. therefore I stand by my initial reaction. especially considering the historical ecosystem of HN

however... I've looked at your follow-up comments since, and I've spelunked through your post history. Therefore I now believe you did truly make a mistake, and that you honestly did not intend to sound the way that you did. And you gave some reasonable responses. I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

I've learned to take an increasingly hard-line against assholes in real life. But I've also learned to try even harder to show empathy and see things from other people's shoes. Therefore I apologize if you felt I over-reacted. And I look forward to seeing awesome contributions from you here in the future. ;-)
Sorry for my ignorance, but How will extreme levels of RF noise disrupt the modern day life?
SolarCity's business model relies on net metering laws that effectively force the utility company to do all that distribution work for free and buy the solar energy for a higher-than-market price, all subsidized by other customers.
Why isn’t the fundamental theorem of arithmetic obvious? (2011)
2016 – On the Shoulders of Giants – Damian Conway
Vim can be compiled with support for Racket (a.k.a. mzscheme), providing roughly the same interface it provides via Python, Ruby, Lua, Perl, Tcl, etc.

I haven't looked at it recently, but the last time I tried embedding Racket it wasn't terribly difficult compared to, say, Python or Perl, but it also wasn't quite as nice as embedding, say, Lua or Tcl. I've found its embedding interface to be fairly similar to other interpreted Scheme systems, such as Guile or Chibi.