skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Justification for restricting individual actions should be based on empirical study of whether or not they harm others, not on an a priori creed that appeals some simplistic logic.

Harm others or harm themselves? Or are you referring to the restrictions themselves, and whether they harm others? I don't think the threat of imprisonment should be used to restrict human action that is nonviolent. This is not just libertarianism. This is common sense and basic decency.

As for private property rights and their scientific justification: they are the manifestation of the first possession principle that is found in game theory experiments to be an emergent behavior that maximizes social welfare, and which even other animals exhibit.

Violating property rights, by prohibiting financial transactions outside of state licensed banks, or demanding a percentage of all earnings made in private trade be transferred to politically appointed authorities, is often a great contributor to the concentration of wealth, and maintains the status quo, so your intuition that anti-authoritarianism and private property rights serves the rich is wrong.
Could be money laundering / funneling scheme too. Someone mentioned Salesforce CEO having a stake in that company.
It's not just to keep the employees. Telling an investor "I only have 1 week's worth of paychecks" is a recipe to loose control of a startup.
The README on github has a better explanation of how it works, and as I suspected, this could also be achieved with Tungsten Replicator.

Good job though. Anything that helps people move away from Percona and their "tooling" is a plus to me.
This other article discusses how uneven sinking of the tower causes cracks and elevator issues: http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-landmark-tow...

> And while Stanford’s Deierlein doesn’t consider the sink or tilt a safety issue, he did say, “I would be concerned for my investment.” That’s because a shifting building can cause walls to crack, elevators to malfunction and all manner of other annoyances.
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Perhaps the most important thing I took away from this write-up is the motivation: even though state of art NNs can perform better, they are impossible to debug for humans. Bayesian methods like the decision tree allow humans to interpret the underlying model, and so are often more useful in practice.
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You might want IPA [ɪ]. (But another comment in this thread suggested [y], a sound that English doesn't have, and which is close in several ways to English [i] in "me" or [ɪ] in "bit".)
I guess they are open to both on-site and remote positions. Also interns. And will sponsor Visas. That's the only interpretation that makes sense to me.

... you could also try entering that in Scribblenauts to see what sort of creature comes up.
Theory that explains the formation of languages
If I recall correctly most gun crimes are committed with firearms purchased from a small minority of dealers (<5%?). As such this article and the research it reports upon really says nothing new.
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Amazon Prime (Video) is backing "The Grand Tour" as well as many others -- they're definitely getting into producing original content.
I think when it comes to Windows 10, Microsoft has been its own worse enemy.
Have you considered telling the 4-5 PMs what the others are asking?
Have to use it on a daily basis and coming from libre office, it feels really weak. Especially the table calculations are not good. They got a bit better in the last months, but still feel like a toy :/
Don't install the beta. iOS 9 beta literally bricked iCloud backups on my iCloud account. I had to get Apple Engineering to wipe everything. Even deleting backups wouldn't fix it, it had to be cleaned up in the backend. Yuck.
Feynman wrote "The method we have just developed can be used to explain why electrostatic shielding by means of a screen is often just as good as with a solid metal sheet. Except within a distance from the screen a few times the spacing of the screen wires, the fields inside a closed screen are zero."

Feynman is writing about electrostatic shielding, not RF shielding.[1] Electrostatic shielding involves a static electric field, as from a Van de Graff generator or other high voltage DC source. RF shielding is quite different. For one thing, it's wavelength-dependent. This is well known; you can block RF with a mesh only where the holes are much smaller than the wavelength. This is in the ARRL Handbook. If this were not the case, wire screens would block light.

JPL's paper mentioned by someone else [2] has a simple formula for a plate with a uniform pattern of holes, derived from waveguide theory. Inputs are spacing between holes, size of hole, and wavelength. They tested this against a range of perforated metal samples.
There's a note that if the hole size approaches the spacing, corrections need to be applied. But they didn't, apparently, have to do that for the samples they tested.

The misconception may have arisen because Feynman was writing in the 1960s, before RF in the gigahertz range was a common thing. Other than radar, everything used long wavelengths by modern standards. Treating RF as an electrostatic problem works if the wavelength is much greater than the hole size, because the electric field will be nearly uniform over the area of interest.

(I'm not an RF guy, but I used to work in an R&D facility that did a lot of RF work and had various Faraday cages, some solid metal, some mesh. A big practical problem is leakage at slots - covers, doors, etc. - that don't have RF-tight gaskets or where the gasket has been damaged. Slots can be longer than a wavelength, and thus no longer block RF. Microwave ovens, if they leak RF, usually do so at the door seals, not the window.)

[1] http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_07.html (Section 7.5)
[1] http://ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov/progress_report2/II/IIO.PDF
Aslso, please correct me if I am wrong in what I have just said.
Have you seen Windows 10's feedback hub? That seems like a place to point out stuff.

If you post it, post the link here and I'll +1 it.
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> you can fix that yourself

I can't and neither can you.

You can't go back in time and tell them that they shouldn't use Alt+Ctrl for any of the built-in shortcuts.

You also can't get rid of those shortcuts.

You also can't finalize that UI Events spec and just land those features in Chromium.

They could have gotten rid of those shortcuts, but they decided against it.

Anyhow, Chrome 51+ (current stable is 52) does support the required part of the spec now.

https://jsfiddle.net/1zhcpj8a/

I do get:

Alt AltLeft
AltGraph AltRight

Which means you can now easily and accurately tell if AltGr was pressed. This release of Atom could have fixed it.
The period of evolution of languages is 30000 to 70000 years back from today, when there was no language, and humans themselves were converting from animal to human and communicating using different natural modes (including facial expression, gestures, and vocalization). Sound was one of them. The natural process of formation of words is very simple. An observer observes an object. The visuals are perceived in the form of a sequence of psychological feelings. Phonosemantics (the natural converter) provides appropriate phonemes to these different psychological feelings, and the sequence of feelings is converted into appropriate sequence of phonemes (or sounds). The sequence of those phonemes is called a word. For example, a group of people was passing through a forest. On their way, their movement was restricted by a ‘pond’ or a ‘wet place’. The sequence of psychological feelings will be; “clarity in acceptability of restriction in moving further”. According to phonosemantics, we have ‘clarity’ = /g/, ‘acceptability’ = /ɒ/, and ‘restriction’ = /b/. In all they named it /bɒg/ (clarity of acceptability of restriction). As on today, the phenomenon seems to be a bit difficult, because we already have a known word ‘bog’ for ‘pond’ or ‘wet place’.

Formation of languages depends on the following seven factors:

(1) Phonosemantics (meaningfulness of every sound).

(2) Biological needs (geographical situation, food, act and sex)

(3) Biological availability (vocal and listening organs, environment).

(4) Psychological needs (fear, desire, loneliness, ego satisfaction etc.).

(5) Psychological availability (ego, courage, faith, religion, and social values).

(6) Intellectual needs (curiosity, purpose).

(7) Intellectual availability (education, notions).

As regards animals of the same species, the first five factors are the same. That is why “the overwhelming majority of animals are born knowing how to speak their species’s language. It doesn’t really matter where those animals are born or raised, because their speech seems to be mostly imprinted in their genetic code”. As regards animals of different species, we have differences in factors from 2 to 5, but factor 1 (phonosemantics) remains unchanged. A goat may not understand the psychological message of a lion’s roaring. But the evolution of fear cannot be denied. The evolution of fear because of roaring sound is due to phonosemantics which is applicable to all entities including a goat, a lion, and a human. As regards humans, we have differences in factors from 2 to 7, which is the reason for difference in languages.

Website: http://soundmeanings.xyz
Lots of video games (including mobile) use UDP so I'd be very surprised if mobile networks blocked UDP.
My house is on a steep hill, and Seattle has a reputation for hills sliding away under heavy rain. Before building it, I hired 3 separate geologists to evaluate the site.

After digging holes, they said the site was sitting on "glacial till", which is clay that was compacted by about a mile of ice, and said there was nothing to worry about. Paying them was worth it for the peace of mind. (Turns out the till was so hard it could not be dug with hand tools.)

I did have a scare because a spring appeared on the edge of the property, as underground water is indicative of slide risk. Fortunately, it turned out to be a leak in the water main!

I still made sure the hard surfaces all drained into the storm drain, so that the hill wouldn't become saturated with water.

I can't conceive of building a 58 story building on sand in an earthquake zone. Reminds me of that Monty Python quote:

"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England."
> I still believe that macOS is the best machine for me to develop on.

I'm inclined to agree, but we're starting to hit the zone where I feel I'm using a tool of questionable qualities because of lock-in and the absence of sane competitors. The Unreal Engine IDE runs at 10 fps on my current-gen iMac, an expensive machine based on 2010's hardware and no upgradeable parts that takes minutes to boot up into an increasingly DRM-plagued OS where all the innovation goes into iOS-like features I don't use.

> so the obvious next step is to perfect every single interaction and to fine tune every single component of macOS [...] to make it faultless

I disagree vehemently that this is what's going on. If that was the "problem", my (software) complaints would not exist.
Yeah but it made for a clever pun there, don't you think? Esp with the "graphic" double meaning!
How much stock should one put in that declaration of safety? It is from an "independent" analysis... but who paid the analysts? Or, suppose absolute freedom from bias... how many times have expert opinions of safety been wrong in the face of mother nature. Picture Fukushima.

The risks in a tilting building are many. From a market value standpoint, homeowner value has already been destroyed simply by perception. If remediation is necessary here, homeowner fees could dramatically increase. Tilting buildings often see cracks in walls, malfunctioning elevators and other ills which also lower value. There will be lawsuits here-- you can see all sides rattling sabers with legalistic language and positioning already just from these articles -- and those will carry costs as well. Taxpayers may well be pulled into the fray and suffer as well in these situations.

From a pure safety standpoint, experience dictates that we should discount expert declarations of safety in many such matters. Residents of the tower and the towers' neighbors may do well to heed caution. At the end of the day, it is hubris to expect to predict with any high degree of confidence what might happen here. After all, none of the experts from any side involved foresaw even the current predicament, where no grand act of nature is even involved. The building simply stands there, yet already reacts in unpredicted ways. How likely are the experts then to foresee predicaments in even more complex situations?
It sounds possible. If you have two parents who look down on unintelligent people, then your first order of business as a child is to make sure you seem intelligent to your parents. Actually developing general intelligence would be much lower on the priority list.

Intelligence is forged in the fires of necessity. When a child must struggle against reality to feel safe, they must learn how to predict the future accurately, which will create the learning context for developing intelligence.

A child who has plenty of family support to get things done, succeed in school, etc, but who is surrounded by social pressures to appear to be a certain kind of person will instead get good at appearing to be a certain kind of person.
I would love to see that monthly bill...
Browser security and anti-malware in general is increasingly a nightmare for small ISVs that release software that does anything remotely suspicious (eg DLL injection).

As a personal anecdote, my website has been blacklisted multiple times by safebrowsing, downloads have been blocked as "XXX is malicious", multiple AV products have found "malware" in a program that's never even been released before, etc. I have to email 10-20 different anti-virus companies with samples every release and then deal with the ones who want it in a different format or submitted through a web portal instead.

Then we have the problem that contacting any human about safebrowsing false positives is nigh impossible. Take a look at the report right now - https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagn... - "Some pages on this website send visitors to dangerous websites. Some pages on this website install malware on visitors' computers." yet it says "Current status: Not dangerous". And Webmaster tools can't seem to find anything specific: http://i.imgur.com/HzT8xfC.png
Thanks, I hadn't seen `freebsd-update install --not-running-from-cron`. I'll give that a try.
Association of Animal and Plant Protein Intake with Mortality
>and in fact was illegal for a long time

Yeah, no. NYTimes v. Sullivan determined that public figures sacrifice a good deal of their privacy when they when they enter the public sphere. For instance, the same such video of, say, a governor would certainly be newsworthy. Where it's unclear is to what degree is Hogan a public figure and whether the actual publishing of it, as opposed to just reporting on it, is constitutes newsworthiness.

In terms of lawsuit financing, it's perfectly legal. There's an entire industry devoted to third-party lawsuit financing – otherwise, poor victims of car attacks (or other consequences which injured their ability to work and earn) wouldn't be able to pursue personal injury claims.

Without it, only those with means could pursue legal recourse.
A fun example of this is magicka, that has some of the most hilarious achievements I've ever seen in a game, full of references. Some examples :

- http://magicka.gamepedia.com/Let_off_some_steam (Notice the logo)

- IMMA FIRIN' MAH LAZER!!!!: Successfully cross two beams into a more powerful one.

- It's over nine thousand!!!!: Deal over 9000 damage to one enemy.

Well-made, well-placed achievements certainly do have a place, even in casual gaming.
"...more than 22,000 dives logged to depths in excess of 150 feet."

How many divers did they lose?
There are a few commercial data recovery services that can still do it, but I'm being quoted $500 a reel and up.
Thinking about this just in terms of product...

There are two real competitors on the market - MS Office, and Google Docs. Office is where it is today through sheer inertia. It's a slow-moving and often terrible product. Google Docs feels like a "free product", with a lot of limitations. The market feels like someone could "Slack" it - walk in with a good enough product and just lay waste to the incumbents very quickly.

The shift to cloud-based tools is happening rapidly, pushed by the ubiquity and quality of mobile devices. Salesforce practically invented this market, and they have incredibly deep hooks into the enterprise (and lucrative enterprise licensing agreements). MS Office feels like a clunky antique hobbling users to their clunky old PCs, but Google Docs isn't going to satisfy the corporate power users who are amazingly productive with Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.

Mark Benioff is ambitious. This isn't about his RoI for some A round investment. He's already a billionaire. More money is just bouncing the rubble. What's important is he built a company, Salesforce, at the top of the second tier of the software industry. It's important enough to have shaped the industry, and make billions - but it's not Google. It's not Apple. It's not Oracle. And it's not Microsoft. If he wants to break into that tier, he needs to level the company up. Taking over the enterprise productivity app market and consigning Microsoft to the dust bin of history? That might just do it.

And finally... like all large companies, Salesforce may be facing market saturation and a tapering off of growth. It's too big to easily develop breakthrough products in house anymore. Instead, there's growth through acquisition, buying hot startups with the ample buckets of cash you have, to break into new markets.

So maybe, just maybe, this buyout is exactly what it looks like.
There's a certain, perverse form of cognitive dissonance in thinking what Gawker did to Hogan was wrong, but ViolentAcrez and his posting of creepshots of underage girls was somehow unimpeachable free speech – and therefore his freedom to continue doing such ought to be protected.

Do not the girls and women whose privacy he was invading not deserve the same right to privacy?
He'd have to be a complete idiot to not have any offshore money.
Not sitting out opens you up to lawsuits. But, a lot of sketchy crap goes on.
Moderators just need a 1 click button that bans the account and deletes all their posts. 1 moderator could get rid of hundreds of accounts an hour. I am a huge fan of the banhammer with no warnings. Rules should be posted and those not following get banned. No one has time for that nonsense IMO.
How much would it have cost to dig down to bedrock, and pour a concrete foundation from the bedrock up to surface level?

Between the amount of sand to be moved and the amount of concrete to be poured, it sounds like an enormous fortune; I guess that the relevant questions are whether the market could bear it and whether it would be cheaper than the rapidly-developing lawsuits. It may be that the building didn't make economic sense in the first place, if it couldn't be built both safely and profitably -- which has unpleasant implications for the SF housing crunch...
Quip is amazing, I started using it last year when they published a blog post documenting how they build their native Mac app app using a mix of React+cpp[0] and been using it since then, not without issues though [1][2].

[0] https://medium.com/@btaylor/react-with-c-building-the-quip-m...
[1] https://twitter.com/bithavoc/status/750419283797237761
[2] https://twitter.com/bithavoc/status/760231521211080704
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Note however that it appears that virtually all of those instances of interference were tracked down to Ubiquity point to point link devices. TP-Link's ordinary consumer access points and routers may have been out of compliance with the letter of the law, but they weren't causing actual harm to airport operations, let alone enough harm to justify banning OpenWRT.
Five minutes seems awfully short. What made you so sure so fast?
Udo, that's fair. I agree. I work with Vulkan and Metal all day and sometimes I do wish things were quicker and I had more control over where resources get allocated.

I imagine like Iron Man where he can divert resources to his weapons from his thrusters and stuff. They do keep adding things that need to run when I wish I could selectively turn some things off.
"To cut costs, Millennium did not drill piles to bedrock."

What are the implications for earthquake safety?
Hm I guess you're right. I don't know what to tell you. I guess we'd have to have a look at the exact definitions they use in the paper :-)