skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A common quality amongst many "leaders" in our society (and by "leaders", I mean a particular brand of relatively high functioning psychopath/narcissist that tends to thrive in such environments, be it politics or the boardroom/management/e-suite) is the ability to believe whatever they need to believe to paint themselves in the best possible light and achieve their ends at that particular time. If you do not have that little voice that whispers what you're doing is wrong, or that you're a fraud, or that you really shouldn't be doing that, or that its not fair or right... or even any internal concern with objective truth or fact, you will find it remarkably easy to climb in many hierarchical structures, because you don't have to pay the cognitive costs many of the the others need to pay to remain there.

Now I, unsurprisingly, don't know Bush or Blair. Maybe they're actually people...who cynically make up facts, spread lies, and throw away lives for their own political agenda.

Or maybe they're just ignorant fools who went into it all based on emotions and all the spineless yes men just set them up with a self-reinforcing circle jerk, like a government level facebook filter-bubble. That's probably the best/most flattering possible interpretation...

But given I believe there are a disproportionate number of "reality-warpers" in leadership positions, I must at least concede its POSSIBLE they really did believe there were weapons of mass destruction.

In reality, its probably some banal mixture of all the above...
If you don't mind I have a few questions :).

– PubPub doesn't seem to have math support, is that right? I think that should be a very high priority.

– LaTeX import is also really important (but this supposes that math is supported), is that on the roadmap?

– Related question: is there a way to work offline in my usual text editor and collaborate with my usual tools (git, svn, whatever) and then import my paper in PubPub?
Why now? How did this page change your mind? If anything, it's a big positive. All web portals collect data about you - Google at least shows you what they know and give you some amount of control over it.
> The important thing to remember is that you aren't fooling anyone. It's quite clear what your unpleasant design is designed to prevent, and the design itself serves as a constant reminder of the problem it was designed to solve.

Is that really true though? Things like spikes are clearly hostile add-ons; there is no reason for their existence other than preventing some behaviour, so nobody is fooled.

However, something like an arm rest on a bench may appear completely innocuous to the majority of people. The same goes for pink or blue lighting, and some of the "features" of the Camden Bench (e.g. no nooks to stash drugs) would probably go unnoticed if they weren't explicitly stated.

I suppose it's like having the mindset of a security researcher (e.g. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/smart_water.h... ); unless you're engaged in them yourself, it takes a certain kind of mind to figure out what behaviours would be possible if it weren't for these contrivances.
I don't run this research. It is a non-profit initiative. I have donated myself. I'm persuading other people to do so as well because I think it is a good idea, an important idea, and very necessary for the strategic reasons noted above. The benefit I'm going to get out of it is that my odds of surviving future incidence of cancer increase should it succeed. But then the same is true of everyone else.
I have to wonder - when you're digging down into this level of complexity in order to discover issues with the language you're using, wouldn't something like C be better? IRC isn't a very hard protocol and you know the language won't be getting in your way if you're using C.
Germany.
Sometimes I sit outside with one of the sky/star apps and look for stars that are about the same light years away as I am old. It's neat to think about the light leaving that star when I was born and taking my entire life to reach me. The scale of the universe and our place in it is hard to fully comprehend.
Shelters do have rules and many homeless don't want to go there (or have been banned) because they don't want to follow the rules.
I may be homeless because I sold my house and spent all the money on...

Anecdotal, I know... When I was in uni, I worked as a street trader and met quite a few interesting characters. Some of them were homeless or had been homeless or were otherwise not "normal" members of society and a common theme was that the people in the worst situations (homelessness and poverty, as opposed to just leading an alternative lifestyle) were this way due to unfortunate circumstances.

I've been close to poor (soft-poor though; I did have family that I could have fallen back on if things got bad enough) a few times in my life, where I literally didn't have money for essentials and I never spent money I didn't have. I wouldn't say I'm good at budgeting, but I'm not bad at it either. I'm lucky that I work in software and therefore could bounce back pretty quickly, but not everybody is able to. I've got family whose professions were pretty badly affected by the recession, for example, and while they're pulling through, it took years (and a ton of debt) to get to a point where things are starting to look better again.

My point is that, while I'm sure there are plenty of people who are in bad situations because of their own flaws, mistakes or lack of foresight, this isn't a global truth and I think its pretty uncompassionate to treat everyone as if it were the case, especially since I've seen how easily it can happen, in some circumstances.

I believe that many people can and will bounce back, if given the support and opportunity to do so. Especially if they have this support before things get extremely bad. (eg many homeless people take drugs to help them cope. This makes it harder to get out of the situation. If the support were there _before_ this happens, it would be easier)

Again, this is all anecdotal, but I think that society should play a part in managing it by not letting it get out of control to the point where "solving" it becomes as big a burden as it often is.
Theoretical climbing rope could brake falls
Writing your very first codemod with jscodeshift
Business of Disaster
I've worked with Greensock extensively at work. It's a fun library with its own community. Once I figure out how to play nicely with React, I hope to use it extensively in my pet projects.
I was not expecting to see my Reddit activity on that list.
Just the sort of development we'll need when we build Mechanical Hounds to track down criminals and their illegal book stashes...
Based on screenshots, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
Can Desktop Linux Conquer Its Challenges?
> All web portals collect data about you

That's factually incorrect: https://duckduckgo.com/about
'Top universities to offer full degrees online in five years'
Install a urinal nearby?
Do you think is right to prevent homeless people from sleeping in your car or your home?
The URI B64 data uri font is contained in the (long) string. So no - its not hosted - its simply written write there in the css.
It seems like you're suggesting that as an alternative, we use collective punishment. City dwellers should be putting up with an unpleasant urban environment until someone fixes the homeless problem. Therefore any stopgap measures should be resisted.

It's not clear whether this works. On the one hand it does keep the homeless visible. On the other hand it also punishes people who can't practically participate in local politics (tourists for example). And in general, politically powerful people aren't waiting at bus stops all that much, so this strategy doesn't seem all that well-targetted.

It may also be counterproductive in that it makes people less rather than more willing to support measures that help the homeless and instead promote measures that punish them in return. That is, punishment may encourage more punishment in response.

But I'm just speculating here. It seems like this is unlikely to be settled without actual evidence.
Quick intro: A newcomer's guide to the Raspberry Pi
Show HN: NewsAPI – A free API for live news headlines and images
Crocker: A Powerful Tiny Design and Analysis Library for Crank Rocker Mechanisms
Hi HN! This is my side project. I needed to integrate the latest headlines and images from a range of popular news sources and blogs into my app, and found that there wasn't a single API available that brought all the metadata together in a simple and consistent way. So I made one. It sources data from individual APIs, RSS feeds, and plain old scraping, and outputs in JSON.

Here's some example responses:

TechCrunch: https://newsapi.org/v1/articles?source=techcrunch&sortBy=lat...

Reuters: https://newsapi.org/v1/articles?source=reuters&sortBy=latest...

BBC News: https://newsapi.org/v1/articles?source=bbcnews&sortBy=top&ap...
Taller people tend to have larger hearts and wider artery's which makes a difference. It's pressure = flow rate / diameter of pipe ^ 2. So, as you gain weight your arteries can get wider or the pressure can increase.

Gaining weight increases skin, which is why skin reduction surgery happens for people that lose lot's of weight. GIS for skin folds.

Weight / height ^2 is a proxy for both it's far from perfect, but it's also really easy to collect.
Of course! Importing from markdown/latex/git, export to PDF/XML/etc, and lots more are coming (not in that order). We're still in very active development, so there's a lot left ahead on our roadmap.

If anyone is serious and passionate about helping out, we're hiring!
To go along with that, I would never, ever date a smoker. Its like kissing an ash tray. That's something I can easily go without.
What do you mean by "local Milky Way group"? The "Local group" is a group of galaxies, containing the MW and Andromeda as its most massive members. The MW plus its satellites isn't called the local Milky Way Group.
> On the other hand it also punishes people who can't practically participate in local politics (tourists for example)

Seeing homeless people is punishment?
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Yes, not scary at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_luhn7TLfWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2itwFJCgFQ
I am in the mountains of Spain in a village with a population of 1600 spread over many many kilometers up in the mountains. Water comes from the spring on our land (we have it checked every 6 months; it's great :), electricity solar; we need the generator a few days per year and 'need' is actually not really true as it never really gets too little sun/light etc. Tons of sun (heatwave now).

Social circle; most people here live on the coast which is what you would expect of Spain as per expats and tourism which is what we really don't fancy; most 'beach and sun' people seem to dislike the mountains, at least driving up them. So we are left with people who do and that seem to be people with a same-ish mindset as us; entrepreneurs and generally educated people. Our village is a steaming pile of social when you want it and if you don't, you just go home. Next to that, ofcourse, we have a part of our social lives on internet, which works fine for people who don't mind typing. I met some of my now best friends online (via entrepreneur and tech communities) and we have better discussions than I usually have in person via text chat.
Tangent to that is... if you are a consulting firm your SoW must have an unambiguous list of deliverables. Not having one is asking for trouble if the client changes their mind or decides they interpret a deliverable differently than you. Or worse, the client got the wrong thing because you didn't ask what they actually wanted.
Apple Granted Patent for High Field of View AR Display
Why did Google fail to invent Slack?
Thanks; I'm quite happy with LÖVE. I've actually been quite impressed with how easy it is to work with the whole time.

Though speaking of frontends, it is actually also possible to get the game to open a socket and connect to it from Emacs, programming your ship from the outside. It's not very polished at this point, but I intend to expose the in-game UI over the nREPL protocol so you can code other clients for it if the in-game editor doesn't suit your fancy: https://gitlab.com/technomancy/bussard/blob/master/bussard.e...
Had I not landed a position in academia, this is really the type of project I would have love to work on if I had to do engineering rather than research ;).

But I really hope I can contribute as a user in the future :).
I think it's AES 256 bit, is that good?
Camden bench
If this is unavoidable, why bother with the thing at all and just have a skeleton staff of actors to roleplay the yes-men?

(A point I keep trying to make about the War on Terror is that trying to do it invisibly, with intelligence agencies, is tempting but ineffective. These agencies cannot be effectively reviewed, and produce intelligence which cannot be used in court or presented to the public. So we end up with a long series of unaccountable murders by drone feeding into whatever the next Arab civil war is.

Whereas a policing approach would produce evidence for inspection in public, after which those convicted of terrorism could be imprisoned with our consciences clear.)
Sure, but mhd was saying that if we stuck to CSV being actually comma-separated, "ID;P" would distinguish CSV from SYLK. I'm saying that it wouldn't.
I'm not sure I understand you. TP Link givens the domains an A record using the DNS server running on their routers by default. Publicly it probably either had a default record of 192.168.1.1 or it just didn't have one at all.

Either way, the domain only makes sense locally. This is also why the domains still work even though they no longer own them. Therefore, if there were a local TLD, this would be the proper use-case for it.
I program too. I get your perspective, I think. If we looked at the site's source code, we (probably) wouldn't be able to identify any specific lines of code that were actively anti-LGBT.

To see the complainant and the court's perspective, look at the functionality of the site at a higher level. What does it do? It lets people match up for dating purposes. LGBT people - a specific historically-discriminated-against group - could find this as a useful service too. But the site software lacks the necessary functionality to enable this -- and it doesn't need to be this way.

So where's the 'active' exclusionary code? There in the program, considered as a functional whole, not located at any more specific location.
The point is not that lacking knobs is a feature. The point is that the designers are well aware of the issues and they are explicitly making it a goal that knobs should be unnecessary. (Especially since it has had some knobs off and on in the various versions, as mentioned in the article.)

This is in contrast to something we've probably all done at one point or another, which is just to add a checkbox to avoid having an argument about what the behavior should be. They're committing to having the argument out instead of "just adding knobs".

They also have a track record of, for better or worse, just refusing to add knobs and telling you to either do without or use a different language. If you've got an intensely GC-based workload, I'd consider using something other than Go. (However, bear in mind what may be an intensely GC-based workload in Java may not be in Go, since Go has value types already.)
No, what OP is talking about is the fact that Excel formats and parses CSV files differently depending on locale settings. For example, here in mainland Europe, Excel thinks CSV files should look like this:

ColA;ColB;ColC
1,618;2,718;3,14159

And in fact, to open an "American" CSV file in Excel you either have to set Windows to American locale settings, or use the text import wizard or the "text to columns" feature. If you don't use the correct settings, Excel will not complain, but corrupt the data (sometimes subtly).

I hope you agree that it is INSANE to make a file format depend on locale settings. As someone who writes software for scientists in Europe it leads to endless confusion and annoyance.

(And even if you do everything correctly, Excel will still mangle certain CSV files, interpreting phone numbers as dates etc...)
> It was presumably clear to those in MI6 that Blair had already decided to go to war, so what would have been in it for them to try and persuade him otherwise? Probably an early retirement at best.

It's deeply saddening to think that hundreds of people were more interested in protecting their position and pension than they were in doing the right thing. It's an astonishing failure of moral courage.
Seed investing activity drops over 40% in New York City
Free, SaaS or Enterprise CRM? You’re Asking the Wrong Question
> "I agree that a p-value histogram would be nice, but I don't think it's essential."

Sure it is, here is an example using R where only about 2% of the tests report p<0.05:

set.seed(1234)
Nsim=1000; n=100
p=matrix(nrow=Nsim,ncol=1)
m=matrix(nrow=Nsim,ncol=2)
for(i in 1:Nsim){
a=rnorm(n,0,1); b=rcauchy(n,0,1)
p[i,] = t.test(a,b, var.equal=T)$p.value
m[i,] = cbind(mean(a),mean(b))
sig = sum(ifelse(p<0.05,1,0), na.rm=T)/i
hist(p, col="Grey", breaks=seq(0,1,by=.01), freq=F, main=round(sig,4))
}

You can see from the histogram that there is a very clear deviation from the null hypothesis, and the %p values under 0.05 doesn't come close to telling the story of what is going on:
https://s31.postimg.org/n9w3ydr63/Capture.jpg

> "I suppose these are "true positives" from the perspective of the final t-test, but only because an earlier part of the analysis failed to remove something it should have. It seems like weird to draw a line in the middle of the analysis like that."

Yes, precisely. That is the only perspective that matters because the p-value is being used as the actionable statistic in the end. This p-value has no necessary connection to what you think the null hypothesis was, it has to do with the actual values and calculations that were used.

Any other perspective is the perspective of someone who is confused about what hypothesis they are testing. This is, once again, not any fault of the statistics (maybe stats teachers... but that is another issue). Choosing an appropriate null hypothesis (that actually reflects what you believe is going on) is an investigation-specific logical problem outside the realm of statistics.
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Plugins and views!

We're currently working on a significant architecture refactor that will enable 3rd party plugins to view arbitrary data assets inline, like a reactive spreadsheet or a D3 visualization.

We're also working on deeper, richer hyperlinks between documents that would let you reference or quote other publications in the system with arbitrary resolution (down to the section/paragraph/sentence/number).
Where'd you see that, I don't see anything on mine.
One of the people who I don't know personally but admire a lot in this regard is Derek Sivers (creator of cdbaby.com). If you've got 5 mins, you'll just love reading this article by him "Why I gave away my company to charity" [1]

I was listening to his audio-book and in the end he tells his story where he gave all of his money away (I think it was like 95% of the money away to create an institution for up and coming artists). It's just truly inspiring.

[1] https://sivers.org/trust
It's only showing Youtube activity for me, I must have some privacy settings on search to disable this but can't remember changing anything...
You were correct, I have a TP-Link router:

$ nslookup tplinklogin.net

Server:	192.168.1.1

Address:	192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:

Name:	tplinklogin.net

Address: 192.168.1.1

---

An external request:

$ nslookup tplinklogin.net

Server: 2001:4860:4860::8844

Address: 2001:4860:4860::8844#53

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: tplinklogin.net

Address: 103.224.212.249
I wish they made it even easier, a delete all would be great, or a delete between these dates.
The rationale I heard back then was "no one used it". My guess is that these days, even if "no one" means "less than 1% of users" it still amounts to hundreds of thousands of people.
The problem is not about proving your identity, it is about having the facilities, funds and connections for publishing papers which the gatekeepers seem to have. Cryptographic signing solves a different problem. And it is the least concerning one.
Very similar to x.ai, although x.ai seems to be currently constrained to one problem domain (meeting scheduling). However, I'd bet they're looking to move be beyond just this.

https://x.ai/
>asm.js is progressing in to WebAssembly, a more mature technology (still in development) with enthusiasm from all major browser makers.

If it's still in development, then in what way is it "more mature" than asm.js?
First the robots take our jobs. Then they kill us.

And they are probably using taxpayer money to do this.
IMHO that's not the proper reaction for this news, everybody already knows Google collects data about you.
Math support already there: http://i.imgur.com/tHKpNrB.png

We're keen on getting good offline support added, but (as you point out) there's still a lot to be done on the web side of things. We're pushing out some big updates that hopefully clarify the project and how to use it in a couple weeks.

Welcome to ideas on what good offline support would look like, or PRs if anyone wants to take a stab at it.

Our goal is for PubPub to be a public utility for scientific communication. It'll be non-profit and open source for as long as it lives (still a grad student project at the moment...) and free for anyone to publish whatever they like. I don't think we're nearly smart enough to know exactly what that looks like, so please do feel free to contribute ideas, code, or inspiration into what a public tool for science communication should be (this comments page is already wonderful in that regard).
Think it like this:

In the search for a cure for head ache, some guy took aspirin and did a magic rite, and he was cured; another guy just took aspirin and he was cured. Both account can be reproduced, and so far have worked. Therefore when doing analysis you can ignore the bit about magic, while it may be relevant in some mystical sense (the spirits are more happy if you do it, whatever), it is unnecessary to explain the cure from head ache.
Yahoo uses social science techniques to make data center syslogs meaningful
The runtime is written by people, not machines.

The compilers and low-level toolchain libraries that encode machine instructions have been machine-translated.

The runtime is an example of very good low-level Go code that breaks safety rules. However, it is not a good example of user-level Go code. Note that even though the Go code in the runtime heavily uses unsafe, the runtime is much safer and more stable (we find less bugs) then when it was written in C.
Created a kick-ass infographic creation service,getting low sales. Rip it apart
It seems that this page lists activities I have done intentionally, such as queries I entered.

I'd be much more interested to see what data I gave to Google unintentionally - e.g. what Google-provided ads I saw on non-Google sites, what sites with Google Analytics I visited, etc.
If I might give my opinion on which features PubPub should implement next:

- adding "Math in-line $$" in Formatting menu

- enabling upload of LaTeX files

- enabling upload of PDFs, to store on PubPub existing research (combined by via.hypothes.is, one can annotate PDFs, which is in the spirit of PubPub)

- include some interesting features of SJS like grading, download as PDF, add to personal library...

I am impressed at the job you've done for a graduate project ! Best wishes :-)
How can you even forget to renew your domain? All of my domains are automatically renewed for another year if I don´t dismiss them early enough.
Sorry, voices are a bit too terrible
It is. But we're talking about preventing homeless from using public space to live.