skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might enjoy some of Liu Cixin's stories, which are often similar to that:
https://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Earth-Classic-Science-Colle...
It is a startup though the degree of funding is not clear.
We've examined all the options. We already use browser fingerprinting, and that takes care of a good percentage of it, but for the truly committed there are really only two options: Blocking all VPNs, or using supercookies. I'm actually a bigger fan of the supercookie solution, but one of the other developers is staunchly against that. It's an ongoing battle.

The problem with the slow/costly account thing is that one of the big draws of our game is that there's no registration necessary. You can jump in a game instantly by pressing 'Play Now', and you just get named 'Some Ball 1/2/3/4/etc' and tossed with the registered players.
I have the exact same problem as the grandparent. :P

For me it's something like a more muted version of this expression: http://www.nontoxicpestcontrol.com/uploads/2012/06/Poison-He...

Which is a caricature, because this is more of a platonic-ideal expression than one humans actually do.

It generally replaces an expression like "Heh." or "Ew." or "Bleh." or general irony. It's rarely playful in the 'child sticking their tongue out' sense.

Corpus taken from IRC of me using it:

13:58 <REDACTED> Bringing me up half a standard deviation would take me into loony land. :P

16:03 <REDACTED> What? :P

00:58 <REDACTED> You always cave at the last moment. :P

23:05 <REDACTED> Sometimes I lose faith in my potential. :P

05:55 <REDACTED> You know, normally telling somebody "Oh hey I just had a nightmare about you." would deeply offend them, but I get the impression that is totally within-aesthetic for you. :P
RISC-V papers found x86 to not be very dense. Average instruction is 4 bytes, intruction count is very low. 2 operand instructions are a little less flexible than 3
No. It means that the world contains the meaning, like an encoding, for something that can come into existence according to the law of cause and effect.
Thanks very much @staticelf
In that case I can just use S3 for blobs and use Digital Ocean and Vultr and Linode for compute. Amazon charges $0 for bandwidth ingress so uploading to S3 costs me nothing.

We use VPS providers for compute and S3 for backup and large blob storage. The only other Amazon product we use is Route 53, which is a decent DNS-as-a-service and is very reliable.
What construction is needed to create the superblocks? The first steps should literally just be road signs and speed enforcement.
"By the end of 1994, the Web had 10,000 servers - of which 2000 were commercial - and 10 million users."

That was the time I first gained internet access. So that puts me well within the first 1% of internet users. The web felt huge even then. But it was much slower, I still remember my 14.4 kbit/s modem.
Hey Ryan, I applaud the free tier and think it's important, but I'd caution that it can be awfully hard to make a business-sustaining revenue on $10/mo. I think it's smart to start low and compete on price, but I think there's value here, it's why there are larger competitors in the space, and if you can climb that value chain and raise prices along the way you will be better off for it.

From a merchandising POV, you could consider moving up-market by building new more powerful features and giving them only to the $25 plan. Then, rename the plans to match who you expect to buy them. People identify with who they are more naturally than they do a number of requests per month.

Also, congrats on shipping.

Edit: Also, pre-fill the form with the visitors own IP -- or better yet just display the results?
Darn, if only there was some program that could render HTML files.
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Thanks, CKAN is definitely an interesting pointer!
Like it - though the FILE_SHARED example doesn't appear to work.
Do you really need a multiplication symbol at all?
tl;dr I had many factual objections to what you've said, but I didn't felt like a dis on poor people was really worth a refutation.

But if you insist, most people are not profit maximizing automata, nor are they totally economically and emotionally free to follow any whim.

They have roots, family ties, people to tend to (old parents, little kids, etc), and don't just blow it all of for the off chance on landing another McDonalds gig or strawberry picking job in another state. We're not talking computer scientists here, for what they offer it's a buyers market, or worse, out there.

Tons also live month to month (if that), and couldn't afford the move and relocation, they'd just end up homeless in another state.

Those immigrants you mention come either are middle class or upper themselves in their countries (so come to the US with a cushion already + college studies etc) or are from piss poor regions fuelled with crime and desperation, so even a McDonalds gig in the US is an improvement. And even them, usually end up just in the same category as those white poor in the US -- the millions of poor latinos, blacks etc.

"Move to find some opportunity in another" is not some general plan for tens of millions of those poor people, nor is global immigration any helpful analogy.

It's not that different than saying "Those poor people in South Dakota or Alabama think they have it bad? Look at all those Syrians immigrating to a better life".

Which is an insensitive thing to say in the first place, doubly so if those who say it don't share either's problems at the moment.
An interesting corollary to this story is the rescue of 'Bat 21' [1] - where a downed high ranking aviator in the Vietnam war was guided out of a danger spot and to eventual rescue using various golf course holes as his map paths.

The pilot (Lt. Col. Hambleton) was a very keen golfer, and had played hundreds of courses and knew the direction, bends and distances to holes from memory. The O2 controller aircraft overhead would relay instructions such as "Pebble Beach 7th hole..." etc. to him and Hambleton knew the direction, range and turns he had to make to get to his next waypoint. I doubt any Viet Cong out there could second guess the radio transmissions which they could easily intercept.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_of_Bat_21_Bravo
Actually, maybe it was. I tend to associate it with IBM since it's mainly used for POWER and PowerPC, but now that you mention it I think Sun created it. Does anyone know if Oracle's SPARC still uses OpenFirmware?
Please give examples.
Another Ada Colau BS. Barcelona might be very popular, but it is a village, nearly dead out of summer. Cars are already 2nd class citizens, there is no traffic except taxis and motorcycles. Now they are just closing the traffic to some streets, it is not a futuristic super intelligent plan, nothing special. Nobody was using car and everybody was walking everywhere and the same situation will continue, our lives won't change at all. Don't threat this plan like the biggest urbanistic invention of the century. It is nothing more than internal municipal legislation change. It is not making the half of the NYC pedesterian area.
> I had no idea UEFI booted directly into long mode

I was really surprised to learn that it requires PE executables and Windows' custom x64 calling convention. I know it's just a small technical detail for booting ... but it's kind of scary that Microsoft had so much sway in the design of how our future PCs will boot =(
same here, through my aunt's computer at her law offices. i was able to find neat websites from professors talking about all kinds of things and looking at the source html is how I learned it in the first place. good times
You're way off.

First of all, I said that these people already get plenty of help, and are not entitled to even more help.

Second, I did not say that "everyone else on Earth" was deserving of help. I said that some people are, because they are poorer than the Americans we are talking about.

Third, I did not say that our country should give money to anyone. I said that I would prefer to give my money to the poorest people in the world, and they are not Americans.

Fourth, I never said that anyone was evil. I did not even imply it.

I suspect you are intentionally making an uncharitable interpretation of my words, because no reasonable person would interpret them in such a twisted way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(Asimov_novel)

is kinda similar
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> A loan will always be riskier for the founders (personal liability)

Can you explain? I thought that a major advantage of incorporation (rather than a sole proprietorship or parternship) was that corporate debts are separated from personal debts, so the investors (including founders) would only be liable for money actually invested in the company.
Question for you Timex Eclair, can I use a star as the engine for my megaship? Pointing all the photons in direction?
The article somehow neglects to mention why Kushim wanted all this barley - it was because they were a brewer:

http://www.schoyencollection.com/24-smaller-collections/wine...
I've become very skeptical of any plan to just get rid of something that people need and use, in the hope that that will magically force the issue and usher credible alternatives into existence years down the line. It's sort of like a government trying to reduce government spending by cutting taxes (i.e., the "don't feed the beast" approach). Such efforts never end up reducing spending, rather they just create an environment in which debt and chaos are constantly increasing.

I get the idea behind it- "let's just start doing everything according to our desired outcome, and the parts that don't fit will somehow come into line on their own". It's very seductive but I've learned to avoid the temptation to think that hard problems can be solved in this way.

I feel like this is a problem-solving antipattern that I see over and over again and it just never works- not just in government, but in software engineering, in management, even in interpersonal relationships. People get frustrated that they can't change other people, so they decide to simply move everyone to some new way of doing things without any sort of plan for how to deal with the fallout. They think it will create an environment where the people who are negatively affected will spontaneously start conforming to the desired behavior due to some invisible hand of incentivization, but I've never seen this strategy applied in any context where it worked out. It's always just a rat's nest of unintended consequences and misery.
GKE/Kubernetes does fill that requirement; its not as simple as GAE, but its one step closer to bare metal.
> The new battery, brainchild of Ju Li of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is some way from commercialisation, but its design is such that commercialising it should not be hard.

Well, here's hoping. I always feel skeptical of technologies that just can't leave the lab, though.
I know we're probably ten years or more out from it (because it'd break way too much software ... I have an application I want to use but can't due to a 16-bit installer ... in 2016); but I really hope Microsoft eventually puts out a 64-bit only operating system. It would be lovely to be rid of SYSWOW64, Program Files (x86), the alternate shadow registry, ~3GB of wasted space for all the 32-bit code, etc.

I intentionally leave off the 32-bit compatibility with my FreeBSD systems, and it's lovely. Of course, it's so much easier there with everything being open source.
I understand the hydrogen line to be used tho because the noise is constant and any deviation or pattern could be easily identifiable
Saw this today. Remember seeing Dato (previously GraphLab now Turi) at PyCon 2015. I recall using their service for a hackathon earlier this year.

Why don't they get more attention? Seems they got less than Magic Pony Tech. Is this mostly a talent acquisition?
I would think that by the time they actually move some meaningful distance, their sun would not be 'behind' them anymore, they'd still be moving toward ours, but as the whole thing is constantly moving, their sun would have moved relative to ours.
BitGo announced two days ago that their insurance policy was discontinued in January 2016. They claim their customers were informed of this.[1] Customers are claiming they were not.

[1] https://blog.bitgo.com/bitgo-secures-first-ever-comprehensiv...
Greenwald says "He's fine" https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/761995125824360...
I'm not a programmer, I'm a manager that spends far too many hours a day glued to Microsoft Outlook (kill me, please). I found the macros useful simply to repeat often typed phrases or keystrokes. So for example, I bound F3 to the expression "Best regards,
zafiro17"
followed by Alt-S which is bound by default to "Send" in Outlook. So I'd write the body of an email, then hit F3 and the keyboard would add my closing and hit send.
The non-profit Prison Policy Initiative does a lot of research on these issues and petitions the FCC for changes. This page summarizes a lot of their efforts (http://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/#price). Their other publications are available at http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports.html
no, @api is right - you're orbiting the galactic center for a while.

Similar how transfer from earth to mars works via a solar orbit.

So, yes, you have to include orbital mechanics, not just straight lines.
Make sure to back up those tapes, of course. You never know when evidence is going to get lost or accidentally destroyed.
Was -> Is, it's still in use by modern POWER machines.
MS even had to add ARM64 to the PE spec in order to support ARM SBSA. At least I think the FAT LFN patents has expired by now.
What Protest Looks Like
We thought pulsars were alien transmissions for a while.
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do you know any good resources that provide insights on the differences between WPF and UWP?
>I've seen those people stick for multiple years when they found the right fit.

And I've seen them not. I guess our anecdata cancels out.

> Of course, they got paid for their time and their employers worked to keep them happy because that right fit understood their value.

I pay people for both their time and talent. Why would they ever stick around if I treated them or their career poorly? That's just silly. Your assumption is that people who hop every 6 months have a notable difference in talent. That's a very poor assumption. Again, it's just a shitty personality trait.

> This is a you problem.

Even if it is us, it doesn't negatively affect us.

> You want to hire people who actively work against their own interests.

As I've stated, that's simply not true. I want to hire people that want to work for us, not just treat us as a stepping stone.
This quantify and categorize everything culture is part of the problems with understanding.

I don't see how one can claim to understand something without quantifying it. What is often referred to as understanding should IMO be called empathy instead, because it's necessary but not sufficient for finding solutions. Actions can be motivated by empathy, but they need to be supported by quantitative evidence.
There are a few already. Play is the best one I know, but it has limitations. Its database is limited to recent movie releases and it's sourced from rarbg, so it requires that to stay up for now. The interesting problem is writing a torrent site that can run on a distributed network such as that.
That's how we all learned. That, and I remember downloading Netscape 2.0 and finding an html tutorial in the help menu.

I should start claiming 20+ years of web development experience.

I also adopted their mail client, I've been using its successors pretty much uninterruptedly until today.
It's sort of like being a Lloyds of London "name" ... only without any of the benefits.
Maya 'snake dynasty' tomb uncovered holding body, treasure and hieroglyphs
The article is spot on. Even the proposed construction of a category by taking the quotient of closed terms under observational equivalence probably wouldn't really work. You may be able to get a category this way, but it just wouldn't have nice properties. Reasoning in the presence of selective strictness is hard...

On the other hand I don't think it's actually very relevant. Category theory in the context of haskell is a source of ideas, not a tool for formal proofs. Stream fusion and related constructions such as free monads are wrong if you take seq and undefined into account (and don't even start with actual impure features such as unsafePerformIO). So the "real" category Hask would tell you that these constructions don't exist.

The category that people seem to think of as Hask seems to consist of the total functions modulo the obvious observational equivalence. This is very well behaved and I'd argue that it's a great source of ideas for practical programming patterns.
I would like to see an analysis of Hask when restricted in one of the following ways:

1. Only strict functions (f ⊥ = ⊥)

2. Only total functions (x ≠ ⊥ -> f x ≠ ⊥)

But otherwise, the notion that Hask is not a category is nothing new.
> It's a serious issue of sunk cost, but eventually we need to bite the bullet and start moving in the other direction.

This might have been true sometime in the seventies - but its entirely a moot point now. Public transportation has nearly no future in the US since self-driving cars will pretty much solve this with 10-15 years and so much better than public transport has or would have.
The reason why SCO was successful was because of how it is used. Imagine it is 1991 and you have a dentist's office you want to computerise. You go to a local VAR (value added reseller) and they would come in and install a complete solution. It would consist of a Compaq "server" ($5k), several terminals, com port cards for the server, a tape backup system, and some dental office management software. Oh and a $1,000 copy of SCO Unix. The VARs typically marked up what they sold by 15%, which is how they got paid. Two related bits of trivia - at one point the only software that existed for managing pet cemeteries ran on SCO OpenServer. And most McDonalds (I believe US only) had OpenServer in each branch.

By the late 90s SCO had 15,000 of these VARs. Caldera wanted to essentially substitute Linux for OpenServer into that setup, and make $1,000 per copy of the OS rather than $25. The VARs realised they could supply Linux themselves which is why Caldera had no traction doing that, and doubled down on SCO OpenServer and the existing installed base. Hence the company rename too - it was all SCO products.

UnixWare was touted as Enterprise ready. It did multi-processor well, had sophisticated filesystems (Veritas), could do clustering (Non-Stop) etc. But at the time most who wanted "big" Unix went to one of the RISC vendors each of whom had their own Unix. If they wanted to go Intel (which wasn't credible until the Pentium Pro) then the competition was Windows NT.
>shitty environmental health

People would lose essentially nothing by stepping down from SUVs/crossovers to compact sedans/hatchbacks. We could start there. There's also the issue of average age: driving an older car is a classic case of negative externality. Driver saves money, everyone else suffers for their worse emissions and fuel efficiency. These are both excellent targets for tighter regulation.

My argument here is that policy should be at least net-neutral on quality of life.

If you "simply wip[e] out parking" and don't do anything else, I claim that's bad policy because it reduces quality of life.

If you wipe out parking AND deploy electric buses or whatever such that people's lives at least don't get worse, then I'm with you.

>There would also be a significantly reduced strain on pretty much every social institution there is.

Except, of course, the transit agency, which has to actually have the funding and the competence to step up its game to not only stay neutral under increased demand, but also improve enough that drivers' quality-of-life is flat.

Local services are also funded by local economic activity, which generally requires that people have viable transportation.

> before the cultural reorganization into self-sufficient neighborhoods.

Which do you think is better for consumers: a whole bunch of hyper-local monopolies, or citywide competition and economies of scale? Economics provides very little support for the former.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235789
It may also initialize some of your hardware by calling the firmware supplied with that hardware in ROM (for instance: video cards, network adapters and RAID controllers).
Counterpoint http://thebaconsandwichofregret.tumblr.com/post/132121475325...
I don't get it. It contains its own oxygen in an electrolyte matrix. So it isn't any lighter than existing lithium batteries? What's the point?
The problem with noise is that your signal has to be bigger than the noise in order to be intelligible. Preferably you'd find a channel with less noise, not more.
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Driving at top speed just means you wait longer at the next red light. Average speed will probably not drop at all.
I never imagined it would become basically indispensable for conducting most business or that it would become the replacement for tv.

I initially thought you were referring to the blink command.
>> Can you honestly say info browsing (not apps like GDocs) overall is better than it was 10-20 years ago?

> You should compare 1999 Yahoo Mail to Gmail or Fastmail of today.

I don't think your examples relevant because they are well in the realm of "apps" and not "info browsing" OP talks about.
This is an amazing study and a great step forward in our understanding of biology and previously mysterious mind-body connections. Besides helping to explain at least part of the classic Placebo Effect, it also opens the door to a great deal of potential both for making existing treatments more efficacious (by supplementing them with reward system intervention) and for new treatments (utilizing the brain reward system to influence immunological response).

The study seems very well-constructed and powerful. They demonstrate that direct stimulation of reward neuralchemistry produces specific and varied immune system responses, and also discover the pathways for this effect. They demonstrate causality well and also show that if the specific pathway they identify (the sympathetic nervous system connecting to lymphatic cells) is blocked, the increased immunological response no longer follows the neural reward stimulation. This seems really, really well done and it's high-impact science.

Upon reading the study, I wondered what might have created this mind-body link, in evolutionary terms. It turns out the authors considered this question as well. From the SciHub piece on this paper: "Many activities that are known to stimulate reward-system signaling in the VTA, including engaging in sex, socializing and traveling, markedly increase exposure to pathogens. Therefore, it can be envisioned, as the authors suggest, that coupling the reward center to the immune system would offer a selective advantage, which helps to explain the intertwining of these two systems from an evolutionary perspective."

Really cool stuff!
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Well, comparing criminal justice models is by definition difficult since it's deeply embedded in the society.

You can look at other societies where they spend more time rehabilitating offenders (e.g. Norway), and Norway does have lower crime rates, but which way does causation run? You can argue that rehabilitation lowers crime rates, or you can argue that low crime rates makes the society tolerant of relatively lenient punishment.

And if it turns out that retributive punishment does work effectively, are you willing to pay for increased crime rates just to find out that our current system is alright?