skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People don't like talking about this because the "poor brown people" archetype fits with the economic double talk that claims "American industry is better than ever" and that we have meaningful economic growth.

The reality is that we've been hollowing out the US for many years and significant portions of the population, regardless of race, are living very poorly.
> But even most people who think prison should be about rehabilitation probably have trouble with the idea that someone should simply go free under those circumstances.

Not in my experience. But that's just an anecdote and no doubt there is a lot of data backing your assertion. I also suspect that this is different for different countries.
Yup, and I seriously appreciate those that do that, but it's the small providers which inevitably end up screwing us over. Some small VPS company has a vulnerable server that someone makes a VPN on, and suddenly we get a wave of ban evaders. It ends up being a constant headache.
I think you either have a very narrow definition of on/off topic, or you don't understand the term.
Well, I only advocate legislating a maximum 40-hour (or better yet, 30-hour) week for employees.

If you're self-employed and you think you're an outlier? You're probably mistaken. Chronic fatigue is like being drunk; it impairs your judgment in such a way that you can't judge the degree of impairment.

But if you still think you're an outlier? I won't lift a finger to stop you, but please keep quiet about it and refrain from poisoning the noosphere for everyone else.
I think most people that has followed particle physics for the last few years had a quite good idea already from the headline what the post would be about.
I've never had an Uber ride longer than 25 minutes. I've never had a public transportation trip shorter than 50 minutes (walk to bus, wait, bus to train, wait, train to other bus, wait, bus to destination).

I imagine this would be similar.
"So this is about two orders of magnitudes away, which means the effect will be two orders of magnitude lesser."

Inverse square applies here; moving 100 times farther away makes the effect 10,000 times less.

(I have to say it "applies here" because people sometimes overapply the law. It only applies when something is spreading out in an even sphere. However, that applies to supernovae, or at least close enough.)

You're right that I neglected gamma ray bursts. But it also doesn't seem like this star could be building up to that, since it requires conditions not evident there. (I'm just following up on my point, not implying that you claimed otherwise.)
Would people from Barcelona not object to being called "Spanish"?
I am lucky enough that the bus stopped at my home door and at my University door that passes every 5 minutes and costs €0.60 ($0.66).

It is also kind of a social experience in Spain, since many times I would meet people from the University and chat up with them (also I am in an large student group that I started so I know a lot of people). The buses are normally really lively and just fun to ride.

Lastly I am happier knowing that I am using a not-so-contaminating bus instead of my large old car, and that in doing so I am helping even if a bit to make public transportation use more common. While this is not so convenient, making me happier about this is for sure part of the user experience. Also I realize that it's a drop in the bucket, but every bit matters.

But the truth is that it comes down to price vs technology. Right now the price of taxi (or Uber) doesn't make economic sense for students or Spain, and the technology is not there yet in terms of automation and parking is a major issue here. So bus is more convenient for many people. Also it frees up a lot of time if you would drive instead (which is also a major point for me taking up the bus) as I would read in the train or review some notes.

Edit: I also have to point out that once I took a bus in USA and it was probably one of the worst experiences in my life in transportation; it smelled like s*, people were staring rudely at us all the time while filling many more seats for no reason at all, it was super slow in a really bad street, the bus came really late and the driver was totally unhelpful and just plain rude.
I would argue that developers should aim for 0 error messages ever. If your software requires an action to be performed before moving on, then redirect them to the action, highlight the point of interest, and give a little alert at the top that tells them what to do. When you have a scary error message, users get scared.
I said that they were getting a terror famine ready last year and everyone thought I was a lunatic. The idea, pioneered in the Soviet Union in the 30s, is that the government has to control all distribution of food and goods produced by workers to earn hard currency abroad by exporting the food and goods instead of feeding people domestically so it can use the proceeds to "build socialism". That means they have to confiscate factories and force people onto collective farms who don't want to be there as they're doing now. Sure they could have a normal capitalist economy and just tax them like a normal country, but this is communism and they have to remove the "capitalist running-dog exploiter" class from power and give all economic power to the government.

If you want to read about Soviet forced collectivization and all that messy history for a preview of what's coming up, this is a pretty good source:

http://acienciala.faculty.ku.edu/communistnationssince1917/c...

Ctrl-F for "Collectivization" and start reading from there, or read the whole thing if you want the background.

Remember, the guys running Venezuela are communists. They've read up and talked with the Cubans about how the Soviet Union was set up and run, etc. They like that model and think it was a good idea. They are simply following the cookbook. This includes the propaganda that everything bad happening is due to foreign saboteurs, right-wing reactionaries or unfortunate, but soon to be remedied, mistakes.

They've got the forced collectivization already to go:

https://news.vice.com/article/venezuela-has-a-new-forced-lab...
If you define "white" as "the level of melatonin in a person's skin" or some mishmash of ancestry, sure, being white isn't helpful to describe a group.

This article isn't about that. It's about a culture (that is bound by tradition and heredity of which one sign is low melatonin) predicated on the philosophy that all one needs to succeed is a strong work ethic.

In a lower-class minority culture, you're taught that success is possible, but needs to be fought for. In lower-class white culture, success is transforming into a stolen birthright.
How do you compare to gator.io?
If it's default ports, you can just probe on login and deny it. We do this for a game I've admined for, and it's in the terms of service. Common L2TP, PPTP, etc.
While discovering irony in the process.
Education is bad for you as a technology person. You're a member of a privileged guild.
I would have thought it was still fairly straightforward to put in a bootmenu to select from OSX, Windows, or Linux upon bootup. Especially if you prepared the disk in advance.

I only worked on one Mac, and I couldn't get as much done without my DOS/Windows & Linux tools, but this was a good solution for me.
Ask HN: As a future medical student, what area of tech should I focus on?
Note: I'm a complete novice and don't even know how to program, but I'm very interested in innovation and tech.

Is it worthwhile to learn programming/tech knowledge, or should I save it for the experts? The reason I ask is that I believe tech + medicine is ripe for innovation. Thanks.
It requires exactly the transition that Marx posited - redistribution of wealth to those who's livelihoods have been automated away. Taken to the limit of automation, that's pretty much anyone who's living is dependent on labor (this includes programmers).
They're called squares. lots of east coast cities have them except they're smaller and more manageable.

for instance, Philadelphia has these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitler_Square,_Philadelphia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Circle_(Philadelphia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Square_(Philadelphi...

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

not to mention the smaller ones:

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/02/04/a-guide-to-phila...

the pictures of Barcelona look like a living nightmare. could you imagine trying to get essential services into the middle of one of those?

good luck getting an ambulance into the middle of one of those on a crowded Saturday night.

honestly, it looks more like the beginning of a block from judge dred than anything else.
Are they any different in other languages? What's special about Java?
"undermining the legitimacy of gover [sic]" is far too squishy of a reason to execute someone. You need to prove that by killing them, society is better off than if we'd kept them in maximum security for the rest of their natural life.
"Nothing happened to them. There wasn’t some awful disaster. There wasn’t a war or a famine or a plague or a foreign occupation. Even the economic changes of the past few decades do very little to explain the dysfunction and negligence—and the incomprehensible malice—of poor white America. So the gypsum business in Garbutt ain’t what it used to be. There is more to life in the 21st century than wallboard and cheap sentimentality about how the Man closed the factories down."

We just don't need that many people to make all the stuff. As I point out occasionally, in 1900, about 90% of the workforce was "making stuff" - agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and construction. That was down to half by the 1960s. Now it's down to 15%. US manufacturing output is at an all-time high. US manufacturing jobs peaked in 1979.

That's what happened to white America.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_201.htm
https://gator.io does a pretty good job at identifying data center IP ranges
Why not price a little higher, lower it when you get profits?
Can the classify images example be modified to train on other (new) images. For example, images of screenshots to identify elements that are in the images (such as: word processor, browser, command prompt).
What "lot of code"? It's running L4, which is perhaps the simplest operating system that still deserves the name.

A lot of the complexity they're documenting is in hardware: the AES-XEX memory encryption scheme that protect's SEP's memory from the AP (or any other component of the system), the fuse array that controls its settings, the memory filter that restricts AP reads/writes to the mailbox range.

Still more of the complexity is in the AP and in the AP's interfaces and drivers. That's real complexity, but it's outside the SEP's TCB.
Ummm... you know Intel developed EFI in order to kill off BIOS, right? I remember being on some early phone calls about it over 15 years ago before the project was public. At the time, I thought it was a wonky idea, and I stand by that assessment.
As a local that likes to follow urbanism topics, I can tell you that this idea has been floating around for a number of years, but it's far from clear it's ever going to be implemented. A few political parties have expressed lip support, but applying such a radical change would require a lot of political courage and a solid majority.

One of the problems is that the grid in Barcelona is quite imperfect. A similar plan to prioritize bus transit across orthogonal lines has been far from successful, and my take is that one of the reasons is that orthogonal lines have ended up not being quite orthogonal at all.

Anyway it's been the policy of the city government at least from the 90s to reduce the surface area dedicated to the cars. Interestingly most of the recent interventions have been on what would be on the superblocks concept considered 'fast' streets (mostly by increasing the side of the sidewalks [Arago, Balmes St, Diagonal, General Mitre] and by reorganization massive intersections [Glories, Lesseps].

And there are a few committed plans also in this direction [Via Laietana, Urquinaona].

So there are really two competing visions here:

* Make "fast" streets more pedestrian-friendly, kill urban highways, make the grid work in a homogenous way, increase surface for pedestrians across all the city.
* Create a hierarchy of streets (with fast/slow streets)

And to me it's far from clear which vision is going to win.
Ah, yep, you're right, it's only 10 hops. Must have done something wrong when I tried it the first time.
Airlander 10: Aircraft leaves hanger for first time
Yes, I'm in Europe. Try driving at 10 km/h for 100 m. It's 2.7 m/s, an exercise of patience. I'd prefer a higher limit and be reasonable. I go even slower and stop if the road is full of pedestrians, all of us had to do that sometimes. But 10 km/h with an empty street? 20 km/h would do.
I would say never.

Microsoft acknowledged that using windows as a server is a big handicap for many companies. Making server-side .net components cross platform allows some to use their stack and maybe purchase other products like sql server.

However, the last thing microsoft wants is to make it possible for popular applications and games to run on other OSes. Hey, they need to sell you windows licenses.
I think that one of the reasons for this is that many poor whites don't seem to stand up for themselves in any other way than attacking other disadvantaged groups, from racial and sexual minorities to retired people on government pensions. This is of course not the case for all working class and poor whites, many of whom support movements for the minority poor and minorities killed by police, and don't see attention given to minority problems as attention taken away from white problems.
IBM is selling lots of solutions under the "Watson" umbrella nowadays.
I consider this to be the fault of the whites. They have become so stupid that they will go to schools where it's in the actual curriculum that white people are inherently bad because of their race.

While that isn't true, they currently have become some of the stupidest of races currently existing.
ATLAS (LHC): Open Data and Tools for Education
Can someone explain what "criminal defamation" is? Is that even a thing?

In what circumstances is it a crime to defame someone, and not merely a cause of action in a civil suit?
I've put substantial amounts of R code into production - it's a nightmare. Both for development and operationally. I think 2-3 years ago R was still a superior language for ML/data science dev work. But Python's library support has really caught up is now mature. The policy I put in place on my current team is to minimize R in production, with Python and Scala preferred. R in some cases still has the best machine learning libraries, which is really the only reason I've found to use it in the production stack. Even then, I prefer to just keep it at a few lines of R code (load the data, build the model, handle errors, export the model).

For analyzing data I love R and almost always prefer it to Python.
<sarcasm>can't see how <i>that</i> would be illegible</sarcasm>
My old car had one. It disengaged when I touched brakes or the clutch. I could accelerate and it felt back to the programmed speed when I left the pedal. It never shifted, obviously.
Yeah, I think it would look fine with a max-width style added. I get the allure of lightweight design but it doesn't take much effort to make it easier on the eyes. I know I can override the default styles, but it isn't hard to get right in the first place.
So does this mean that maybe we made the right call not building the Super Conducting Super Collider?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider
Do you have any suggestions? I'm living in the US in an expensive city and it'd be cool to take a vacation somewhere much cheaper.
Yeah, Matthew Garrett also gave a pretty detailed talk about it Linux.conf.au 2012, which reaches a similar conclusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U
(not a downvoter) Since it is mostly about transfering bits and wasting some time on the equipment it is not a big cost at all. Saving 0.0001% in the next travel to mars and they probably have covered the next 10 billion birhtdays.
Still no word on what happened.

How did the heist happen? Why did BitGo sign the transactions?

My expectation: It will throw a very bad light on BitFinex and BitGo when the nature of the breach is revealed.
Yes, you can use these models for fine-tuning (or feature extraction) on a new dataset. This tutorial would be a good place to start (esp. sections 2 and 3): https://blog.keras.io/building-powerful-image-classification...
Maybe they're just hiding in the dark.

Or maybe they are the dark.
Sound advice. I've got some more work to do. Thank you.
All in one app.
https://xkcd.com/1489/
I'm quite sure it doesn't sound like that on Mars, though. Think about how different dolphins sound because their music is sent through water instead of normal earth air.
Harrumph.

He has the razor pointing the wrong way. His users weren't trying to learn, they were trying to teach. In almost all enterprisey CRUD applications, the steel-toes on the floor know more about the domain than the developers.

Listen to them.
Silicon Valley has already "fixed" this by creating a locus of economic and mental capital, unparalleled in the United States in the last few decades, attracting job-seekers from all rungs of the socioeconomic ladder from CEOs and CTOs through front-line workers in the service industry.

In the process, it is struggling with the area's incumbent zoning laws, not enough new construction, high cost of living, and, higher than average gap between the rich and the poor. They've concentrated so much capital and opportunity that it doesn't translate well to other places, despite attempts to incubate the same thing in Austin, Seattle, Raleigh, and the like. And if you were referring to "app-based" solutions as opposed to proven injection of capital, you're in uncharted waters.

Before Silicon Valley, the miracle non-extraction-based economic engine of the country was Detroit; before then it was Akron, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Buffalo, Rochester, and New York. If history is of any lesson, in the future we'll fondly remember Silicon Valley's "IT boom" of a couple decades, before the circumstances and realities of the situation changed and the next big thing after automobiles, rubber, steel, railroads and meatpacking, electricity, and shipping (respectively) came along.
Based on current science, there are many geometries of black holes. We can't speak in such absolutes.
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", and this is the weirdest star we've seen. Your claims of clickbait are out of line, because we really don't know and alien megastructures is a reasonable theory.

And 'alien megastructures' isn't even the most ridiculous idea: https://www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852/comments/4w7qfi/ben_mont...
Schwarzchild radius means black holes are small. To dim the light from a star you need something very high in surface area whereas black holes by definition are the most compact objects in the universe
Reddit user sigbjoernwilderness's idea is pretty wild... can it be easily ruled out?

> Is this the last remaining explanation after Montet/Simon?

> The dimming comes from the shadow of a spaceship traveling on an (almost) straight line from KIC8462852 to Earth. The slow continuous dimming results from the increase of the apparent size of the approaching ship while Earth/Kepler is in the penumbra. The irregular dips happen when Kepler accidentally passes the antumbra. A rough estimation by simple geometry would suggest that the alien spaceship is quite big (> 100 km diameter), significantly slower than light velocity (< 0.05 c) and has now almost reached its goal (< 2 ly away), arriving at Earth within the next 100 years after a journey of several 10,000 years. (cf. http://archimedes.soup.io/post/632873371/) The c200 days of "rapid decreased flux" between Kepler-day 1100 and 1300 (first half of 2012) which Monet/Simon reported, followed by a series of large dips after day 1500, would suggest a course correction with the space ship now on its final homing trajectory. -- Comments?

-- https://www.reddit.com/r/KIC8462852/comments/4w7qfi/ben_mont...
I always thought the exploration & production operations were natural resource groups, and the refineries & chemical plants were the manufacturing area.
Snapchat Geofilters are the next big thing
tl;dr - just a horror story of a dev being asked to work on an old system, and the company being incompetent. In the end, they stiffed him $5,000. No resolution, so don't waste your time reading it.
Have you considered "taking classes"?
not for sandboxing reasons, but i've used kvm + xpra for other things. It's usable, but of course the vm need a lot more resources
"With very low per capita income in India I think language issue is secondary"

Flip that around for a while. If the language issue was made primary, you could literally speak any language and have access to quality education and higher-paying jobs.

Just read an article yesterday that said that 60 students were expelled from the IITs - one of the major reasons being that they could not cope with English as the medium of instruction: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/educat...
I don't know much about Breivik, but would venture to guess that killing 70 people is a result of severe mental illness.

Using prisons as a warehouse for the mentally ill is another problem. These people should be handled differently than general population in a prison.

IMO, you go to prison to reflect on your choices, work on underlying issues and come out a stronger person. It's _very_ hard to do so with mentally ill roommates, rape, gangs, etc all around you.

I am a "victim" of an actual crime. My younger brother was hit by a car crossing the street. The driver was distracted and going >10 mph over the limit in a residential area. This individual had no insurance. No lawsuit was ever filed.
Playing with Mersenne Numbers
From the examples, it sure sounds like there's a lot of opportunities for them to turn a profit without all the help.
I guess I would have expected it to not have an operating system. I understand that and operating system can provide security through isolation but when you are running small amounts of highly security critical code it seems like the isolation benefit would be outweighed by the extra attack surface.

Everything is a trade off I guess...
Oh you mean it's better to factor in elementary arithmetic and English into things. ??????
Depends on the BTC / VEF exchange rate inside the country.

$100 -> .17BTC -> 102 VEF -> $10.25. So you'd lose 90% of the dollar value even at the generous official VEF/USD exchange rate.

https://surbitcoin.com/#market
Run Emacs plugins in Neovim
Thanks, didn't know that. Speaking from my own experience living in cities like Philly and NYC.
Tesla says autopilot is saving lives. Should we believe it?
And life of a landlord is all rainbows and unicorns?

Get real.
Never heard of that before, that is awesome.

If I had to guess, why it is found in third world countries, not in first world countries, I would point to cost of labour and energy.

It matters if the driver is paid 3$/hr or 20$/hr, and if the petrol is 2$ or 7$ per gallon.
Scihub: http://sci-hub.cc/10.1038/nm.4157
To be fair, "change history" in this case refers to transformations in the work of historians.
Globalism definitely has nothing to do with it right ?