skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly off-topic but if anyone has any resources on performing a clean (preferably, Ubuntu or Arch) Linux "root on ZFS" installation, please share.

I followed the instructions for Ubuntu 16.04 on the github.com/zfsonlinux wiki [0] a while back and (encountered a few little issues along the way but) got it working, although I experienced some MAJOR performance problems so something wasn't quite right (exact same hardware is blazing fast when running FreeBSD). I can't imagine it was just "how things are" with regard to the current state of ZFS on Linux (or Ubuntu specifically) -- it was like someone hit the laptop's "pause" button a couple of times per minute.

[0]: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-16.04-Root-on-...
I guess some people found it too political.
Chrome does it too. As does outlook, Firefox, possibly a bunch of other things. I think you'll find that the stream is zone-identifier. It can contain a value of 1 to 4, where each corresponds to a list of Windows' security zones. (Restricted sites, internet sites, local Intranet, and trusted sites from 4 to 1 respectively. There's a fifth option, zone 0, which is "local computer", but it's unused.)

This is the source of the prompts in Windows that say "this file came from the Internet, are you sure you wish to run it?".
Your definition of "logic" is quite interesting.

In your example, the accused was found guilty and sentenced. The victim was not fired from her job, nor her identity revealed. Also, the accused was not found guilty of rape nor battery, as you allude to. Read your own link:

"Turner was a student athlete at Stanford University on January 18, 2015, when he sexually penetrated an intoxicated and unconscious 22-year-old[1][2][3] woman (later called "Emily Doe"[4]) with his fingers. [...]

He was arraigned on February 2, 2015, pleading not guilty on all five charges.[13] On October 7, 2015, after reviewing the results of DNA tests, the two rape charges were dropped by prosecutors.[7][12][14][15] The trial began on March 14, 2016,[16] and concluded on March 30, 2016, with Turner's conviction on the three remaining charges of felony sexual assault.[17][18] The convictions carried a potential sentence of 14 years in prison. Prosecutors recommended six years in prison while probation officials recommended a "moderate" county jail sentence.[19] On June 2, 2016, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Turner to six months confinement in the Santa Clara County jail to be followed by three years of probation. He must also register as a sex offender for the rest of his life[20] and participate in a sex offender rehabilitation program.[18]"

It seems there are some members of HN who really want to return to the days of witch burnings and mob rule, where an accusation of guilt is immediately acted upon and the accused is executed for the alleged crimes.

Interesting times indeed...
marginalrevolution.com, a blog maintained by two Economics professors at GMU (more interesting than it sounds).
See comment by utku_karatas2
Not all load balancers function at the same OSI layer. If you are using an IP based load balancer with transparent NAT, you don't really have a choice. Requests will be balanced across systems to that health check, but it's still a DOS if it's intensive enough to serve and someone hammers it hard enough.
Add "no backdoors" to the mix. Something that some of those studios (i.e. Sony) intentionally gave to their faithful clients.
Yes, absolutely - this is another big part of it. I love my work, so I'm not just sitting around waiting to go home all day.
I am reminded of this story, but the book is full color and oversized so it may not apply to your case: http://kk.org/cooltools/self-publishing-cool-tools/ In his case, shipping from China was a small fraction of the printing cost so China made sense.
If it's a good, affordable service, what difference to the motivations make?
TiVo got the casual, in-home usability of VCRs correct. Where it lacked compared to VCRs was transferring those recordings to another TV, possibly outside of your house. This limitation also affects any other DVR, and it's a fairly significant one.
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Kids may not leave if they can't pay for their own housing.
Thank you so much. My bike has been exhibiting this behavior but I just assumed the headset was designed to 'clip' into place. Looks like I need to see the mechanic.
I still cannot fathom why platform is in an abandoned state.Hopefully they are working on something big.My list of

Pros:

Windows phone ran absolutely fine on lowest hardware available

Live tiles and pinning was best part of the UI

Basic things like dialer,messages and emails were simple and intuitive

Phone never slowed down after using for long time(no need of periodic resets)

Updates never used to slow the phone

Cons:

Basic apps like whatsapp or Facebook were really slow.Slow startup times,no feature parity etc.

Absolute lack of new trendy apps
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No you don't. That 'yourself' you talk about is currently being carried around in a very fragile biological container. It will just be transferred to a fail-safe electronic container.

Whatever will run 'yourself' will also have a way of having that run in a electronic simulation of your body in whatever wonderland you wish to live in digitally.
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It isn't clear from the document that the App uses more data than most of it's type. 20 meg/per hour seems likely to be on par or even a bit less than browsing facebook mobile for the same amount of time.

The trouble seems to stem from the amount of time people are using the app, which is above the average for other apps.
Note: users with enough karma (like myself) can click "vouch" on flagged posts. My guess is if enough users do this, that will unkill it (like it did now).
> Shameful admission: Bing is my primary search engine, since they pay me (approx $50 over the past 18 months). 90+% of the time the search results are as good as Google, and re-searching when it isnt takes a few seconds.

IMO, $50/18mo. isn't worth taking a quality hit on anywhere near 10% (or even 1%) of my searches.
a second ago it was flagged AND dead... but both flags are gone now
The TSA “saw” Bitcoin in his bag and wanted to count it
Amateur radio operators are organized. They are an international auxiliary communication system. They are an information channel that is largely outside the control of governments. They are a human network.

I simply can't imagine what relevance that would have to the HN crowd.
I learned a different script for English and write in that.

I don't (yet) read it as quickly as I read normal English, though; if you're interested in self-reflection and review, this tradeoff won't be an obvious win.
I think you just have a horse in this race yourself and are trying to cover up for it.
This sounds crazy, and is, but following those instructions verbatim with a 16.04 install I managed to brick a new laptop. Yeah...
I like the idea of merging with a replica then slowly turning off the original.

In reality there's simply no way around it, we're going to die someday because these chunks of meat degrade. If you accept that which I readily admit I haven't yet myself, your question should be "how would I like to die?"

I would very much like to be connected to a computer and have little chunks of my brain slowly swapped out for processes on the computer so that I can experience almost all of the transition along with the new me. I'll still hit the edge and fade to black at some point in the process, but the process seems at-least-as-good as every other choice in death.
This is how I look at it. You go to sleep, some one take a snapshot of your brain 'as-is' and installs it into the electronic hardware.

The hardware already runs a Matrix like software. You just wake up as you wake generally after sleep. You won't even notice you've lost your biological body. Or anything strange at all! Except for whatever you've asked for. If you've asked a private disney land for yourself, you might wake up there!

At this time, your biological body is irrelevant.
Thanks for the explanation Dang! Keep up the good work. I've posted a link to the blog post in the other thread.
You're definitely messing something up somewhere in that analysis. Where's that numpy/betadistribution snippet coming from?

Back to basics: If you assume that each mile is uncorrelated, (on the large not a crazy assumption), then the overall number of accidents over N miles can be modeled by a binomial distribution with N trials and some crash probability p. You're trying to use bayesian analysis to estimate that p.

The core concept there is that the probability of the observation given a certain p is directly proportional to the probability of the p given a certain observation.

Given p, it's trivial to compute the chance of the observation; just plug it into the pmf. For exactly one crash (and a small p), you can even quite accurately approximate it by Np/exp(Np) due to the trivial binomial coefficient for k=1 and the taylor expansion of the base-near-1 power.

So regardless of the numerical analysis that lead you to believe otherwise: you can just plug in numbers can get a numeric approximation of the (scaled) distribution of the probability mass for p. When I do that, both with an exponential prior (i.e. p in 0.1-0.01 is as likely as p in 0.01-0.001) or a uniform prior (i.e. p in 0.1-0.2 is as likely as p in 0.2-0.3) I get the unsurprising result that the maximum likelihood estimation for p is 1/N, and that the median p is a little lower; at around 1 accident in 1.5e8 miles

In practice that means that common sense is correct: if you observe 1 accident in N miles, a reasonable approximation of the best guess of the true accident rate per mile is 1/N.

Now, you can do this analytically, and the conjugate prior of the binomial is indeed a beta distribution. But that forces you to pick parameters for the prior from that beta distribution, and it's easy to do that wrongly.

A reasonable prior might be Beta[1,3] which assumes p is likely closer to 0 than 1. Analytically [then](http://www.johndcook.com/blog/conjugate_prior_diagram/), the posterior distribution is Beta[1+1,3+1e8-1]; with a mean p of 2e-8 (but note that the details of the chosen parameters definitely impact the outcome). This is quite close to the numerically derived p, though probably less accurate since it is constrained to a unreasonable prior.

So I'm not sure exactly what your python script is computing, but commonsense, numerical analysis, and Bayesian analysis all arrive at roughly 1/N in my case - you probably made some mistake in your reasoning somewhere (if you elaborate in detail how you arrive at this numpy snippet, maybe we'll find the error).
Just watch "mean girls".. It's celebrification.
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You are confusing geek with Greek.
Hmm, probably not too much trickier, my controller was designed for 1 amp per channel as well, although at 12V... I'm guessing your leds will be individually addressable, though? Or maybe you'll just have more controllers. Either way, it sounds like a lot of fun!
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> if you were doing a lot of computation in the 1960's you might carry around a book of trig functions, or a slide rule, but after microprocessors came about a pocket calculator could do all those functions with better precision

The pocket calculator is doing a huge amount of computation to find those results, an amount which would be impractical for the human to do (hence the use of slide rules instead of laborious pen-and-paper arithmetic). It’s just a different flavor of brute force. The calculator is basically going back to the pre-logarithm method, carrying out elementary school arithmetic algorithms very fast.

To be honest, the slide rule method – converting multiplication problems to addition problems via a logarithm lookup table encoded on a stick – is quite a bit more “elegant” than what the calculators are doing. The invention of logarithms in ~1600 was one of the most important advances in the history of science and technology.

* * *

The same is true in many other kinds of mathematical problem solving. In the past, we only had access to manual effort and limited human time/attention, so the available brute computation was quite limited and many problems were entirely intractable, and great cleverness was required to solve others. The goal of symbolic reasoning was to reframe problems to eliminate as much manual computation as possible. For that reason, it was necessary to learn how to manipulate trigonometric identities, solve nasty integrals by hand, etc. We had to be able to rewrite any problem in a form where each concrete computation only required a few simple arithmetic steps plus as few table lookups as possible. Despite such simplifications, actually performing computations often required teams of people mechanically performing arithmetic algorithms all day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer

Now that computation is cheap, we can dispense with many of the clever/elegant methods of the past, and just throw silicon at our problems instead. This lets us treat a wider variety of problems in a uniform way, and get away from doing nearly so much tricky algebra.
I had the same exact issue but even more trouble, with Xbox Live, and an old email account.
> Assistant Attorney General Caldwell said that KickassTorrents helped to distribute over $1 billion in pirated files.

So, two or three files, by Hollywood accounting.
They do have something for chat, but it's a bit quirky - pairs with your phone somehow.
It should be noted that there is some reason to aesthetically dislike computer-generated proofs.

It's not mentioned by Baez, but one of the first breakthroughs in the Erdos discrepancy problem was a very verbose (running into a few GBs if I remember right), computer generated proof, for a subcase. Terry Tao later presented a general proof which was far far shorter.

Obviously there are cases like the 4-color theorem which have withstood the test of time and prejudice, but there is something sad about not being able to make sense of such math.
That is an excellent story. It was told on This American Life.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/284/t...
True enough - something like "because it's there" is certainly a pretty good reason to climb a (metaphorical) mountain.
I like the chassis, but the build was ~5 years ago, and when I built a new machine ~1 year ago, it was not available.

My current machine uses a Fractal Design Define R5 Black Silent ATX Midtower case. That one is quite nice. The one gotcha that I had is that it is a bit wider than I was used to, which means that it just barely fits in the computer holder accessory for my ikea desk.
Yeah, on the other hand I had a buggy weather app that managed to use 2 GB of data in a period of a few hours, while I wasn't even looking at it.
None of that seems to make a case for "automatic respect".
Only if you want to model it with every combination of states from the nfa getting one from the dfa. If you don't mind describing the current state as a list of potential states from the nfa, the conversion is linear space.
>>The problem is that many people think only the one that dies deserved to be called "you".

That's some strange definition of originality. By this definition you are not yourself any moment because the atoms in your body are being replaced wholesale one-for-one every few months/years.

This is really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
They do. It's 30K characters. Occasionally you see genuine posts bumping up against it.
I'd rather live under a liberal, pro-Western, secular military junta, than an illiberal democracy ruled by Islamists who are destroying liberties, hollowing out civil society, and turning the country into a Sunni version of Iran under the Ayatollahs.

Fareed Zakaria has a great book, The Future of Freedom, where he discusses, among other things, the perils of illiberal democracy. The bit that really stuck in my head is his argument that the impartial judge is a more important institution than the ballot box.

Man has lived under undemocratic regimes for almost all of recorded history. It is the human condition. It is more important to defend civilization and order against barbarism and chaos, than it is to ensure that the majority rules. Liberal values and constitutional government preceded true democracy by hundreds of years in the West. Why do we expect otherwise anywhere else?
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ECC isn't that much more expensive, if you already have a processor and motherboard that give you that option. If you're trying to use ZFS on surplus consumer Intel equipment, ECC is a major expense.

And aside from the cost issue, I don't think people are resistant to using ECC. You have probably just misinterpreted people who are justifiably shooting down ZFS/ECC scaremongering: Advising people to never use ZFS without ECC RAM is bad advice, because the advice should simply be to use ECC RAM if you want enterprise grade reliability, whether or not ZFS is part of the picture. Some people aren't in need of that level of reliability but can still benefit from ZFS, and they shouldn't be misled into thinking that ZFS has some particular need for ECC RAM.
150 years ago, Bernhard Riemann died. Do a Riemann integral today in his honour
Any sane rent vs. buy calculation is going to include maintenance, i.e. battling entropy to make sure that doesn't happen.

More to the point I don't think many houses have reached that point. In my casual observation new construction tends to be either not single family homes (different economics) or on undeveloped land. Teardowns are relatively rare in old neighborhoods (though additions and renovations are quite common).
Not OP, but I think books like Ulysses are more important for historical reasons than intrinsic literary value. It's not a bad book (far from it) but not a Top 100 Book [1] IMHO.

[1]http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100_2.shtml
US did what during WW1 and WW2? Did the US revoke amateur radio licenses?
It's entirely unnecessary cruelty. Taking a weapon with you so you can retaliate after you provoke an attack isn't a defensive strategy.
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I can't help wondering if everyone who has replied to you has mixed up cause and effect. My explanation would be:

"To turn left you need to lean to the left. Leaning to the left momentarily forces the handlebars to turn the right."

This describes an equivalent outcome to the quotation from the article but implication about what is cause and what is effect is quite different.
If he follows the Islamic dictator playbook, only women's driving licenses will be revoked.
Wanton flagging like that is a good reason to have your flagging privileges taken away by the mods.

Besides, you're Turkish. If you don't want the world's attention to be drawn to the joke that Turkey has become (I say this as a Turk), then your flagging is probably politically motivated.
Governments can take away licenses but not rights.
My guess is there will some limitation which won't allow this. There will be be cut-paste and not copy-paste function here.

In short 'you' can live only at one place at a time. At any given point in time only one 'you' can be active.

Or its also possible that the 'you' we describe here is just everybody else, and just gets a different shape because of individual experiences. More : http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
> Discovering that our planet is not a special snowflake would be one of the most inspirational experiences I can dream of

To each their own. Finding unique pond scum on Mars would deeply horrify me.

If life independently emerged twice in one system then the paucity of intelligent life's cosmic signature means something happens between formation and broadcast with deafening regularity.
You mean like netflix/hulu/hbo now/AIV (+ prime)

Generally hits good enough on all categories.

of course torrents still win in content. Especially newer movies.

I want to watch a newer movie.

Is it on netflix/hulu/hbo/prime? Nope

Is it on AIV paid? Yes.

How much? 20 dollars.

That's too much for a movie I probably will only watch once. Any other options? At best a rental on AIV for a few bucks. That's pretty borderline. I'd pay that to see a movie I really want to see, but for one I'm taking a risk on it's a bit much.

I'd pay more for Netflix if it meant they get those new movies quicker. People seem to lose their shit when they announce a 1 dollar price increase though. Ridiculous, but there you go.

vs torrents I can just go into a webapp and pick out a movie. It gets downloaded and organized for me. I can watch it on my PC, my TV, via streaming, copy it to my iPad. Whatever. Easy, reasonably quick, free. Downside is it's illegal and immoral. I avoid pirating any content that I can easily access (I have some older shows that never made it past DVD, and are hard to find in general), because there really is no justification. When I was a student and content was mostly in expensive blu rays, I absolutely pirated.
Microcontroller stuff isn't necessarily inaccessible. You can target extremely barebones platforms with Rust, and it goes without saying that C runs almost anywhere.

The point is to have absolute bare-minimum technology. There's no user-facing code to write, it should really be as simple as:
- A function that encrypts an int between 0 and N, perhaps in homomorphic fashion
- N-1 buttons (as in, mechanical contacts) that each trigger a subroutine "Encrypt the number X and broadcast it to whoever is tabulating and/or auditing the vote"
I'm not sure it's a popularity thing. Verifying ID with Twitter should be enough to get rid of a lot of trolls. Or having another user vouch - most people know someone.
I've always wondered why they don't just supply these on the plane. One adapter would last much longer than one pair of shitty airplane headphones that most people toss after the flight anyway.
Car companies can't "focus". Automotive manufacturing is about doing several hundred things simultaneously yet in a coordinated way. Most YC-type companies don't have that degree of operating complexity.
He's another Hitler in the making, but no, NATO will not revoke Turkey's membership.

The US needs Turkey for the war in Syria. And the US is not about to move all those nukes elsewhere.
As perlfaq4[1] shows:

> You can do that with a pair of substitutions:

> s/^\s+//;
> s/\s+$//;

It then notes, in an understated manner:

> You can also write that as a single substitution,
> although it turns out the combined statement is
> slower than the separate ones. That might not
> matter to you, though:

> s/^\s+|\s+$//g;

[1]: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq4.html#How-do-I-strip-blank-s...
If you broadcast amateur radio, is it possible to 'hide' from enforcement?

Are there mechanisms that an enforcement authority can use to find your physical location?

Is it possible to ostensibly rebroadcast a government-approved channel, but with additional stenography or mixing to embed information?
Nah you're right. I posted in anger, then edited it. Seems like I need to get a sleep(3) in there somewhere.
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neat! i was just looking at the dreamscreen a few days ago (https://www.touchofmodern.com/sales/dreamscreen/dreamscreen?...) but the lightpack2 looks even more elegant/smooth in the way it reacts. it even has the "pixels" that add an interesting element...
Anyone can download the underlying data and look at it on their local machine.

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
Mostly cashew, but they love peanuts in the shell and instinctively knew what it was and how to open them.
Except that civil forfeiture is extremely profitable enterprise [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...