skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yes. But that's not really tied to the thread is it? I mean, the self-driving bus is going to follow a given route, and not have most of the advantages that throwaway287391 sees in Uber/Lyft.

BTW, I don't know how much you use the bus, but the driver does more than just drive. People ask "is this the bus to X?", or "could you let me know when I've reached Y?" If someone is running for the bus, the driver will sometimes wait a bit. (I've done all of the above.)

I've been on a bus where the side door didn't close. The driver didn't notice it, and started driving away. The passengers told the driver of the problem, who stopped the bus and closed the door manually.

The driver also kicks off people who are too disruptive.

Or wait until the cyclist mounts a bike on the front bike rack before getting into the bus. You wouldn't want an automated bus driving away with someone's bike on it, but without the person inside, would you?
There's a video at the bottom of a blog post that was linked to from this article that does a pretty great job of explaining the subsystem for Linux: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subs...
Paywalled - my brain's reward system feels like it was kicked hard - so if I get sick next week, can I blame my poor immunity and susequent sickness on nature.com's paywall?
I believe the most powerful gamma ray bursts, the ones that are powerful enough to strip away our atmosphere at thousands of light years, are caused by superluminous supernovae (aka hypernovae) and weaker GRBs like the ones we usually see are caused by type 1c and 2b/n supernovae, although it is unclear whether they are different or closely related to hypernovae. The latter create long duration gamma ray bursts which last a lot longer than the usual burst and carry significantly more energy.
World's First Web Site Celebrates 25 Years Online
Kind of hard to serve papers on a non-sentient object on another planet.

(Not that that would stop lawyers if they were getting paid for it.)
"Oh, lord, not Scenario 12c(a)! And on the Friday before a 3-day weekend!"
OpenFirmware is still around and open source: http://www.openfirmware.info/Open_Firmware

By far the most sane boot system IMO. Shame it never really caught on. I guess IBM was stuck in their own little (albeit fascinating) world, per the usual….
You could always 3D print your own one...

https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard

Bonus points for having used Clojure to design it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk3A41U0iO4
As the article explains:

"At the department’s outpost, Torres had left a small team of local Yine people, who spoke the same language as the Mashco."
Thanks, just installed it, and it's working! Well, at least vim and less and ls are. But yeah, way cool stuff :) Thanks for the tip!
The Surface is the best piece of hardware I can never quite bring myself to buy. In an alterative universe Microsoft started making their hardware years earlier, before people like me jumped to Intel Macs and now can't justify switching back from OS X.
What is the issue with intelligent border collies?

Wouldn't a more intelligent dog make a better companion? Just keep them away from the internet so they cannot plot an uprising with the other dogs.
Yet still we have no pictures of earth
> One of our biggest headaches is people who are evading bans by using VPNs (public or not), VPSes, etc. Although we've outright blocked some large chunks of IPs (AWS, for instance)

Please don't do this. It's perfectly legitimate to route one's traffic through other nodes one owns.

Please consider other ways of dealing with banned players — perhaps make creating an account slow and/or costly.
I have heard anecdotes suggesting the opposite, so no organization appears to be fully immune to corruption.
That 1994 crime bill your second and third links are talking about was widely supported by black leaders at the time. In fact, the bill was going to fail after an unexpected loss in a procedural vote, until the Congressional Black Caucus put their weight behind getting it passed.

At the time, black communities were being decimated by crack cocaine and by the violence associated with its trafficking, and getting tough on crime was seen as a way to save black lives. (This is also why the majority of the Black Congressional Caucus had voted a few years earlier for making the sentences for crack cocaine much longer than those for powder cocaine).

Did the crime bill work out as hoped? Perhaps not. But its passage had nothing to do with corruption.
Fake boarding pass generator grants access to airport lounges
Thanks for your patient response.

That's how I infer that, for example, power wants equal outcomes rather than equal treatment - virtually every
action they take favors the former.

That's arguably true regarding the apparent intent of the interventions in higher education in the US, but what about the actual outcomes? While we probably can't do a controlled experiment, assume multiple versions of you of different seses, races, and economic backgrounds, but starting life with equal "merit" on some scale.

How would you price the options on the economic future of each "you"? Would an objective third party ever pay more at birth for a share of the lifetime wages of the "you" who is the apparent beneficiary of the government policies? Regardless of the apparent intent of the government to tilt the scales in favor of the historically disadvantaged, I think I'd always be betting on the "you" that looks, talks, and acts like the children of the politicians in power.

I'd conclude from this that "power" does not actually prefer equal outcomes, and but that there are benefits from the appearance of preferring equal opportunity without actually taking actions that make it happen. I find this more compelling than assuming that "power" really does strive for equal outcomes but is too weak to achieve them, although I can't actually eliminate this possibility.

He first claims that equal treatment must result in equal outcomes, but immediately retreats from that when I point out that if he's right, algorithms are no threat.

I also disagree with his logic, but I suspect you are jumping to an incorrect conclusion when you attempt to explain the mental process he's using. I think he is probably using a different definition of "merits" than you are. You are looking at the "finished" individual (the product of their upbringing, environment, education) whereas he seems to be reserving "merits" to describe the "blank slate" prior to these. I find your argument more compelling, but I don't think you are correctly characterizing his argument.
The one "standardized" one that always messes up my communication is ":-P". To me, in ASCII, that's not a playful, smiling, stick out your tongue at your friend sort of thing, but rather an exasperated "Just found out I had to refile all my TPS reports. :-P".

While the only places I tend to have ascii->emoticon functionality is Skype and Slack, the auto-replacement for that usage never fits the mood, and I never seem to find a good representation of how I interpret ":-P".

But more to the point, I think that these stickers have already caught on as what we would call meme images, especially on image boards. They're just not well integrated elsewhere.
Lithium-air batteries: Their time has come
When Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, he was working on the Poor People's Campaign[0], an effort to alleviate poverty for all Americans. Meanwhile, Richard Nixon was campaigning on "Law and Order" (ask yourself: what's the order?) in preparation for the War on Drugs as part of the Southern Strategy[1]:

> Republican strategist Lee Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."

Ronald Reagan campaigned heavily against "welfare queens,"[2] associating poverty and government assistance with urban blacks. In so doing, he persuaded working class whites that cutting social programs and tax rates for the wealthy would benefit them.

As a resident of West Virginia, I must express the deepest sympathies for the suffering of my neighbors. But I can't help but sigh when I see a Confederate flag or Make America Great Again sign. And I see many every day. Trump offers the poor whites of America nothing but relative status at the expense of others.

Hackers should stand firmly against the sowing of tribal division. We understand that the strength of capitalism is that it's not a zero-sum ideology. We are enriched by imagination, creativity, production. We are impoverished by conflicts over the distribution of the pie as it is.

Are poor whites worse off than poor blacks than poor hispanics than poor native Americans than poor Asians? What a distraction. This question serves Machiavellian leaders and sensationalist media whose power is dependent on everyone hating each other.

How can we make America--and the entire world--prosperous for everyone?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People%27s_Campaign
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen
>Then don't frequent that bar. The customers vote with their dollars.

You're talking like he was suggesting beating the bar owners to death. He just said they shouldn't set up the cage.

>Taking a shit on the bar sounds rather unappealing

Then don't frequent that bar!
"Also, if you don't understand what people mean when they say "Black Lives Matter" you are really lacking empathy and saying "All lives matter" is missing the point so hard, that yes, it borders on racism."

That is a meaningless statement. One could just as easily reverse it:

Also, if you don't understand what people mean when they say "All Lives Matter" you are really lacking empathy and saying "Black lives matter" is missing the point so hard, that yes, it borders on racism.
Is a link really pushing religion down your throat?

If it was a Muslim majority country we would were discussing a link to the Quran that gives context would be useful.
> How can you be angry at Walmart if you’ve never shopped in one?

> --How can I be against the use of nuclear weapons if I have never survived one? The answer is called education, research and data. Surprisingly, you can learn things and form opinions without having to experience the thing you are researching.

You go for the absurd from the quotes on a jacket meant to sell books. Whose opinion and research are you getting? The people she is talking about are the ones writing up that research and opinion. Someone actually needs to directly observe.

> How can you hate the police if you’ve never needed help from a cop? --- I think she's trying to say "How can white 'elites' on the coast hate the police if they don't need them". Which of course, more logical fallacies. Talking about police corruption and wanting to do something about it is of course is the same thing as hating them, right? Right?

Nope, that's not what she's saying and I would direct you to read the actual book, not the cover blurbs.

> How can you attack Christians if you don’t have a single friend who goes to church? -- How can you attack Muslims if you don't have a single friend who goes to mosque? Oh wait. She probably wouldn't want that question turned around on her. Also, who's attacking Christians? 70% of the country is Christian. What is she afraid of? Is this is a war on Christmas thing? Manufactured outrage created by media companies to get ratings.

Nope, that's not what she's saying and I would direct you to read the actual book, not the cover blurbs. Whose attacking Christians? She gives specific cases in the book.

> If you aren't willing to step up to the table with rational, well reasoned arguments that improve the country as a whole why should people bother to listen? Asking how can they judge walmart if they haven't been in one? It'd be laughable if people didn't take it seriously.

This pretty much is the sum of things. Answer everything with hyperbole and dismissal so you don't have to take a look at other people's point of view.
"Burroughs Machines: Implementation: A series of minicomputers"
This is misleading; these were often very well regarded military grade and size, 48/51 bit stack based machines, hundreds of disk spindles and massive I/O, up to 8 CPU symmetric multiprocessing (7 IIRC cause you needed an I/O cabinet). And a sophisticated OS called MCP. Virtual memory. In 1977, or 1969, or earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems
Datamation archives tell the story.
FBI Looks for Touch ID Workaround by 3D Printing Fingers
You're asking basically every generation after us to have shitty environmental health and shitty cities for the entirety of their lives. Also, if you need a car to be mobile enough to live your life, you already have shitty mobility. You should have the ability to live your life without having to pay the tens of thousands of dollars that owning a car demands [0].

You could get rid of cars and with all that newly available street space add a bunch of electric buses for the interim. You could even up taxi availability and efficacy, seeing as there would be minimal traffic from non-public sources, further reducing the costs of using them. This would also make the city significantly more bike friendly, even before the cultural reorganization into self-sufficient neighborhoods.

There would also be a significantly reduced strain on pretty much every social institution there is. In NYC on August 2nd 2016 alone, the NYPD tended to at least 357 accidents [1]. Reducing this would free up valuable police and medical resources.

Oh, and it will also help to save our species from impending environmental doom.

0. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/total-cost-owning-car/

1. https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Public-Safety/NYPD-Motor-Vehic...
With Shodan you could export a list of IPs that are currently operating a VPN service:

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=port%3A500%2C4500+vpn

Or you could lookup the IP of the user on Shodan and check whether that IP is running a VPN service. Per IP lookups are free on Shodan and it's fairly simple. For example, this is how you'd do it in Python:

def is_vpn(user_ip):

import shodan

api = shodan.Shodan("API key")

host = api.host(user_ip)

for banner in host['data']:

if banner['port'] in [500, 4500]:

return True

return False

Here's an overview of the VPN services that are currently on Shodan:

https://www.shodan.io/report/2aLrR79C
I'm glad it was reposted, missed it the first time. I know Morse code (old school ham operator), and it seemed really obvious to me especially after reading the article, but I can also see how it wouldn't be obvious if you didn't know Morse.
The History of the Elder Scrolls
The Register's response to this is slightly less sensationalist: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/06/bbc_detector_van_wi_...
That seems like a comment for reddit.
As a Barcelona citizen I can not agree more on your comment. Cerdà blocks are much better than regular square corners, as a pederestian those "dead spaces" are a pleasure to walk, and as a driver makes crossroads much safer.
Would it actually be a straight line?

Going from e.g. Earth to Mars does not consist of aiming for Mars and firing your rockets. It consists of hitting a parabolic transfer orbit and then doing another burn to place yourself in Mars' orbit -- or just heading right in if you've got the heat shields and retropropulsion for that. Basically you do orbital mechanics like Wayne Gretzky: you don't go to where the planet is, but where it's going to be.

Would interstellar flight be that different? Wouldn't you be executing a "transfer orbit" about the galactic center? Or is the effect of galactic-scale gravitational pull negligible there and you just end up basically going straight from A to B?

Edit: turns out this came from an actual subreddit dedicated to this star!

https://www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852/

Subscribed!
dang, he was making a perfectly civil and substantive point (one I'll admit to agreeing with): that police who abuse their powers should be executed.

Like it or not, the death penalty is perfectly within the norms of the civilised world; it's popular even where not allowed.

In this case, the only thing incompatible with civil, substantive discussion was … you.
More media organizations desperately need good editors. It gets very distracting to find obvious errors even in science journalism.
Good ol' PV on Kinja (from the linked gizmodo article: http://gizmodo.com/the-so-called-alien-megastructure-just-go...) has some interesting thoughts, as usual.

> The biggest axe against it being an alien megastructure project is the fact its an F-type star. F-types only live a couple billion years, depending on mass.

> But the drop in the radiant flux... a sustained drop. That could be something far more interesting. If you could do stellar engineering... you could draw the material off an F-type star while altering its core. You could reduce the mass to a G or K star, greatly increasing its lifespan... and gaining trillions upon trillions of tons of raw material with which to build an alien megastructure...
Hask is not a category
I'm still not sure I follow. Can you outline a hypothetical in which there is a practical risk, so I know what you're talking about? Obviously, neither of us have all the technical details, so just propose something.
>> The issue was that I live and breath code, and they don't.

Eh, dunno. Maybe try not to breathe so much code? I mean, that already sounds like you're overdoing it somehow.
"Which is someone who realizes that by starting at the 99th percentile value they can reason about what how the service is working in its entirety."

I'm still at "huh?" but things are clicking more. Would you elaborate on that statement?
It's whatever the Sheriff of Terrebone Parish wants it to mean, apparently:

Larpenter told WWL: “If you’re gonna lie about me and make it under a fictitious name, I’m gonna come after you.”
> To me, in ASCII, that's not a playful, smiling, stick out your tongue at your friend sort of thing, but rather an exasperated "Just found out I had to refile all my TPS reports. :-P".

I'd wager you're in a pretty small minority there. In fact, I'm struggling to think of a way in which :-P would not be seen as playful.

Do you have an example of the kind of facial expression you see in that particular sequence of characters?
While I think that's true, it's also orthogonal to the 'belt' concept [1] they're using, which I think GP was referring to.

I'm also curious about the state of the Mill - judging by the forums on their website they've been basically dark for about a year and a half now, though Ivan Godard claims that everything is still moving along, just slightly slower than expected.

[1] https://millcomputing.com/docs/belt/
I don't disagree that successful dense, walkable neighorhoods exist. I could have phrased my post better.

What I take issue with is the position advanced in this thread that raising the hassle of owning/operating a car in places like Hyde Park is a good idea, that it will somehow transform those neighborhoods to be more like New York.
> I think our definition of homogeneous might be different then.

Well, you said yourself:

>> Only if your environment is cluster-like set of clones of a golden image, dutifully kept up-to-date with it.

> That's kind of what I mean by homogeneous.

Apparently you meant something different than I understood from this.
example 1: yes, ok

example 2: umm ok

example 3: WAT
> Are there any resources I can share with her making my case for open source software?

Here's a DOD guide to OSS, it might help a bit? Very interesting that the Government defines OSS as a subset of commercial software - "commercial" means anything available to the public, as opposed to private software. They do not distinguish between paid and free software or between companies and individuals.

http://dodcio.defense.gov/Open-Source-Software-FAQ/

See specifically the section "Why is it important to understand that open source software is commercial software"

Also see "Is there any quantitative evidence that open source software can be as good as (or better than) proprietary software?"

And there are links to resources for evaluating OSS licenses.
Tabby's Star has a twitter account also. It's unclear why no one is asking it direct questions about its intentions: https://twitter.com/KIC8462852
It’s Back IronPython for .NET Framework
Hell, evolution by natural selection is damn elegant idea and explanation of the facts that it works with.
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I got an iPad Mini 4 this week to see if it could replace my Dell Venue 8 Pro as my daily web-browsing tablet.

Turns out it can't. Browsing in iOS is a 2nd rate experience no matter which browser you use. Apps are great in iOS but I just can't bring myself to give up Chrome on Windows for that.

So my wife got the new iPad Mini and I took her old 4th gen for testing stuff and using iOS when necessary...
The thoroughbred registries will refuse to issue papers for genetically engineered animals, at least for the foreseeable future. It's unethical to give performance-enhancing drugs to horses. How much worse would it be to modify their genome, in experimental fashion, for that purpose?
Slightly different personal data point from my guiri perspective living in Barcelona I'd say that of the 12-15 Catalans that I know well the clear majority are pro independence.

Seems polls have between 60-80% of Catalans want independence : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/poll-finds-th...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29982960

As the urban region of Barcelona has around 5 million residents (7.5 million in Catalunya) the urban areas do have a lot of support for the movement.
Since the OP said:

> I help develop a fairly popular webgame.

... unless the web-based game relies on a plugin that can skirt the browser's sandbox, there's no way to probe for active ports.
The roll-eye emoticon is worse.

http://imgur.com/a/wxFNG
Or the entire Vogon fleet?
Worth paying then hey!
It sure was substantive! I'd never thought of the idea of using the death penalty as a punishment for crimes before reading it. And I certainly didn't know what his opinion was on whether a specific crime deserved death, and I was very delighted to hear it, and then imagine the punishment happen. It made me feel good.
Everyone always focuses on keyboards for RSI.
While a great keyboard helps, removing the pressure off your wrists makes a massive difference.
https://www.amazon.com/Wrist-Rest-Horizontal-Fashionable-Arm...
These may make you look awkward at the office, but it takes all the strain out of your hands and wrists. Your weight is now on your forearm.
Leaving your hands free to move. They articulate in every direction allowing full "wax on" "wax off" motions.
"Oxford team achieves a quantum logic gate with record-breaking 99.9% precision, reaching the benchmark required to build a quantum computer"

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/4wghmo/oxford_team...
What are its current or planned advantages to other tools, e.g. Meld?
They get bored easily, and boredom leads to destruction. Herding dogs need to be worked regularly.
The point is that you should only drive on these streets at the beginning and end of your trip, so it would be like slow 100m at the start, then a longer trip, then slow 100m. I don't think that's a problem.