skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Disposable razor blades are not a significant cost in most people's lives and most of those same people see a big advantage in convenience. There's obviously a lot of marketing in the razor/blade game but a lot of it is aimed at getting you to buy from one company rather than an other.

As well as to buy more a more expensive class of product which may or may not be better--yes. But very few people have to be sold on buying a disposable razor.
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Every time I hear about these, I think about the Jurassic Park movie, which claimed to run the park using a network of Thinking Machines Corporation CM-5 machines instead of a Cray supercomputer that the book had used.
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It's possible that democrats are voted into office more often after periods of low growth, because of their promises to provide relief. Then, once they take office the economy recovers due to its natural cycle.
Iran may have suffered new cyberattacks
Wait, TLS is broken? Since when?
This is hard to believe, major banks drug test.
You severely underestimate how many Android programs use Linux system calls directly. Replacing the kernel would be a compatibility nightmare.
This article is about humiliating and offensive mistakes made by AI toward non-white people because the AI is created without enough interaction and input from non-white people.

This is a rundown of some specific phenomena with the same root cause.

What Indian problem are you implying?
While we are at it:

Connection Machine CM-2 Technical Summary (PDF)

http://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/cm5docs/nov06/Connection...

The Essential StarLisp Manual, with Programming Examples for the Connection Machine (PDF)

https://omohundro.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/omohundro86_th...

Getting Started in StarLisp (PDF)

http://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/cm5docs/nov06/GettingSta...
this work was pretty thoroughly examined and realized by the resulting company, Thinking Machines.

the one part of the story thatI always wanted to hear about is why CM Lisp turned out to be an ineffective language. The 'thinner'*Lisp was usable for a surprisingly large number of things, but CM Lisp was alot more forward looking and interesting.
Many locksmith shops can program a key -- IF you still have a working one. If you've lost all your keys you need to have the car there, which is difficult if you can't start/drive it.
If only all technical communication were as clear as this blog post... great explanation.
Which is why many people support removing public safety nets (or reducing them). I feel like anyone who wants to opt out of society should be able to do so, but they also lose societal support
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April 2014.
There is a huge confirmation bias. You only hear about the horror stories, while people who are perfectly fine are afraid to admit so much, because of social stigmas and prejudices. Hell most companies require a drug screening as a condition of employment. People who smoke pot aren't going to come out and mention it at the water cooler for fear of retribution.

I was talking with a co-worker about US laws in general and he mentioned something I'd never thought of. Many of the laws we pass, speed limits, alcohol tax, prohibition, .08 legal driving limit, etc are designed for the lowest common denominator. Meaning, we pass laws based on the worst case scenario. It seems like it's illegal to do just about anything these days.
Car locks are as secure as the pane of glass just above them.
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Googling around, brcmfmac seems to apply to USB devices:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/

The one inside the XPS 9343 is BCM4352. I'm not seeing any indication of compatibility with a BCM4352 using a brcmfmac driver.
Love Chocolatey, also Synergy+ is awesome, especially since it's cross platform.
Ford requires TWO working keys to progam a new one in the car.
The article suggests to replace iMessage with Signal protocol but fails to describe exactly how Signal is better.

If that's the "fix" you can see why it hasn't been done and we instead have several mitigations instead.
Linux won't succeed on the desktop until someone takes a commercial interest in doing so. In order to have a motivation and ability to make Linux work for the masses you need to earn money off of desktop users. It's extremely unclear to me why such a commercial actor should choose Linux over something newer and shinier like Redox. Sure, there's a bit more work to be done with Redox, but not that much (you only need one file system for desktop) and in return they'd get technology from this side of the millennium as opposed to 1970s tech.

EDIT: What I mean is that without earning money off of the end-users, developers will develop a product for themselves, not normal users. That's fine. That's FOSS developers's prerogative. But it won't make Linux on the desktop take off.
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I like to listen to Catherine Austin Fitts who was the undersecretary of HUD in the George H. Bush administration. Catherine often says "follow the money."

Unfortunately there are a lot of vested interests, organizations that make a ton of money from the cruel Marijuana laws: private corporations running prisons, police unions/organizations, and I would argue the big pharmaceutical companies (because Marijuana is a good natural pain killer). The war of drugs is a high-profit business.
The short answer is that diamond is fairly brittle. It has four cleavage planes and I assume this is related to the fact that diamond can be cut in such ornate ways.

Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that a diamond screen would be worse than what exists today but it wouldn't be something invulnerable and resistant to any impact either.
Your sample size is less of an issue than the fact that you're describing an obviously bad habit. I'm glad you were able to alter your behavior so easily when you moved though.
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Its sad your comment is downvoted simply because it runs counter to a favorite talking point.

Certainly very few non-violent marijuana offenders are incarcerated for periods of a year or more where the tax payers would see savings to the tune of $30k-$60k/year. In fact in the 2.5 years I did criminal defense I didn't have a single client with a marijuana possession sentenced to serve any jail time, and most of my cases included additional charges such as DUI, Leaving the Scene of Accidents, etc...

Just to further illustrate your point, I had a handful of more serious possession cases, including, cocaine, opiates, and crack pipe. Not a single one of them was sentenced to serve jail time either.

I would actually like to see the statistics on first time misdemeanor marijuana offenders who receive 1 year jail sentences without any accompanying charges, my guess it might even be 0%.
These guys need all the help they can get

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5111396454...

it's a Java backend with massive D3 frontend and import tools in Python. There is a lot of issues at
https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal

And contributing is really smooth, the core developers reply fast and are easy-going. Your github looks like you're interested in testing and that's one area cbioportal is quite lacking. Might be worth a shot.

EDIT: Ozvi se, kdybys potreboval pomoc ;)
Uh, no. Implementation bugs don't mean a protocol is broken.
Coming from one such bank, and a background of drug tests...

No, major banks don't all drug test. And in general you are given some warning about drug tests (at least at the several companies I was at). All you have to do is get off drugs for a week or so, and youre fine.
Completely agree with you. And, even though I realize exactly what's happening, I also like it. You can even make the up/down swings work for you. The 4-hour body slow-carb approach has you "refeed/binge" once a week, where you usually put on 8-10 pounds in a single day. But because you know it's going to happen, it's not particularly worrisome, and then you get the bonus the next week of dropping 2-3 pounds on the scale every day.

But, I think it's also a good idea, in addition to enjoying that little bit of gamification on your scale numbers, to also have a good sense of what's actually happening in the body mechanics.

That way, you get the best of both worlds.
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http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/dofp12.pdf

- More than a third (35%) of drug offenders in federal
prison at sentencing, had either no or minimal criminal
history— lowest criminal history category.

- Nearly a quarter (24%) of drug offenders in federal prison
used a weapon in their most recent offense.

Which is to say over 3/4 of them did not.
These kinds of efforts were always doomed by Moore's law. Why build them if you can wait 5 years and then build something of equivalent power with commodity hardware?

If Moore's law really is ending I could see that changing.
Some time ago I saw this similar project posted on HN:

http://lapface.com/

Here's the thread I saw:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9764241
Are+Disgusting+Dead+Bugs+Really+Amazing+Food+Technology?
It is. The title is a little misleading; here's an explanatory excerpt from the actual paper:

> In this work we analyze the iMessage
protocol and identify several weaknesses that an attacker
may use to decrypt iMessages and attachments. While
these flaws do not render iMessage completely insecure,
some flaws reduce the level of security to that of the TLS
encryption used to secure communications between end-
user devices and Apple’s servers.
Also worth noting from this paper is this, which is an underappreciated facet of packrat parsing:

> It should
be noted that while Packrat parsing obviously adds an extra layer of complexity over ‘pure’ PEGs, contrary to expectations it often slows parsing down when used blindly
for every rule.

Especially these days, and really definitely in a lot of dynamic languages (cfe Ruby), the kind of allocation rate that packrat parsing produces has a significantly negative effect on performance. Applied blindly you're just trading n^2 performance for n^2 memory use, and that may not work out the way you think it should.
Perhaps because it uses draft.js?
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First commercial telegraph used binary tree for encoding
The Marvel movies are already formulaic.

The reasonable success of Ant Man and The Guardians of the Galaxy sort of points to them having a good formula.
> Perhaps there's a more polished distro

There is almost always a different distro that handles a specific issue better than the distro a given user is troubleshooting. If it were always the same distro, we would be in good shape...
All of that is insanely stressful and I would argue if weed would have caused issues, I would have had larger problems.

I did say "If you have your s... more or less together, you can probably use weed semi-regularly without too much damage."

I'd even expand my argument, and say any vice including videogames, cars, etc. Anything can get out of hand if people are trying to avoid a problem.

People use many things as psychological crutches, yes. What I'm arguing is that some of the specific effects of weed (esp. the effects on cognition) make it more dangerous than other crutches.
So these lower income people are expected to a: know there's low cost ARM devices that can use their HDMI TV as an input, b: know hackerspaces exist and think they aren't for "hackers", c: walk in to one and say "set this up for me"?

That's highly, incredibly, improbable. Anyone meeting such criteria probably always got a device.
I see no mention of pricing?
Thanks! Really appreciate the recommendation - I'm going to hit up all our local stores for some. Went jogging this evening, and for the first time in about 2+ months didn't get any cramping in the legs (which happens to me 100% of the time for any run longer than about 8-10 minutes), and the only change I've made is supplementing potassium, calcium, and magnesium.

In keeping with this thread - I guess I could vary different dozens of variables, one or more at a time, apply the same Ketosis machine learning algorithm, and see what really makes the difference.
There's something that always seems to be overlooked by all these discussions about the suitability of exoplanets for extraterrestrial intelligence: Artificial Lifeforms.

Say, if we humans were to build robots, with [true] AI, and they then go on to colonize the other planets in our solar system, would a biological species somewhere ever consider them as a candidate for life?

I mean, machines made of metal and electronics won't need any of that fancy oxygen and water, to be able to survive on Mars or Venus or any of the barren moons, or even float around in the upper layers of Saturn. They would be happily carrying out all the functions we ascribe to "life" and we'd never even think that there would be anything there.

Just look at our current space tech and industry. Robots would definitely be cheaper for the foreseeable future because you don't need any life-support systems, during transit or at site, just sun sun sun batteries sun.

TL;DR: The galaxy just might be full of robotic instead of biological life.
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Thanks. I don't really understand articles like this--isn't audience one of the cornerstones of good writing?

Journalism is going to have different writing than academic writing, which will have different writing than marketing, which will have different writing than a fiction author...

... goals and audience are important, as you're saying. This article just comes across as uninsightful.
Firefly+Serenity could be a pretty great ~20 episode series.

If it followed TV success, it would have 50-100 forgettable episodes to go with 20 good ones.

I think this applies to an awful lot of stuff on TV. The economics of it mean that buying season 5 is a better choice than taking a risk on something new. I think better stories would get told if series were generally shorter.
Two possible ways:

Being underweight is dangerous, just as being overweight is dangerous. Instead of heart disease and joint damage, you end up with osteoporosis, anemia, etc.

Losing weight without paying attention to nutrient intake and balance can have similar effects, even if you'd be at or above healthy weight losing 50lbs.
Counting calories and exercise isn't something you stop doing once you reach your healthy weight.

Also, calling your overweight self normal weight is probably a bad mentality for long term weight loss goals.
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Were you consuming the exact same amount of calories with a normal-carb and low-carb diet?
What I was trying to say, perhaps poorly, that is if you were heavy because you were working out a lot, and eating a lot, and then decided to lose weight by reducing the eating/working out, you can end up being skinny/fat/weak.

At the very least, doing regular body-weight resistance training (pushups, situps, pullups, air-squats), helps to reduce the amount of muscle you are losing while you are losing weight.
>God hates Figs.

It's supposed to be a lesson using a (real world based -- well, assuming the Gospel writes about actual events) allegory.

In the description of the event, the tree had shown signs of bearing fruits (even though it was out of season), but when approached had no fruits in it.

So, it's basically a warning against people giving false promises/appearances, and less about about actual figs.

If anything, the part shows that God absolute loves figs, but hates this particular teaser of a fig-tree.
For me, the best part of the article was the link at the bottom to a post titled "12 expert tips on how to boost web performance"; https://mobiforge.com/research-analysis/12-expert-tips-on-ho...
I agree with you, but... :)

There are quite a few people who go overboard with it, and I'm not arguing complete unfettered access for all, but I think the reason it's dangers are trivialized is in reaction to how trivialized alcohol is in our culture. Every show you watch, and people are drinking alcohol left and right. In entertainment it's just something you do.
Costco is willing to sell you gallons of it cheaply and of high quality.

And yet the dangers of alcohol both short and long term are taken as "things we just put up with" from a societal perspective.

I think when people compare the dangers of long term apathy, malaise and possible overeating (which also just sound like responses to getting older ;) to people who get drunk and murder other people and end up killing themselves, short or long term, one set does seem kind of trivial.

*Note: I am not meaning to make it sound like I'm anti-alcohol or pro-cannabis. I think responsible people can handle each one responsibly, and that instead of prohibiting everyone, we do what we do with bad drivers: we help them get better or forbid them from doing that activity any more and provide safe alternatives.
I remember discovering gopher through the wonderful TurboGopher program. All the fiddling around with FTP was revealed to be pointless and dumb. For a brief period, really until Altavista came along to make Mosaic useful, Gopher was so cool. But at school we all had our public_html directory being published to the world, and you could nag the sysadmin to install cgibins, whereas gopher was an institutional thing and focused on files.

Tangent: NNTP is still better than any web forum, fb or twitter. Too bad solving the spam problem is only via centralised identity platforms.
One of my favorite Iron Man scenes is after he almost kills the US pilot and then giggles with his best friend about the new thing he just used to murder a bunch of terrorists. It makes it so clear that you aren't really supposed to think about what is happening.

Killing multiple terrorists to escape probably isn't murder. An individual spending vast amounts of money to build a weapon, flying half way across the world and killing a bunch of people is obviously murder.
> the Jurassic Park movie, which claimed to run the park using a network of Thinking Machines Corporation CM-5 machines instead of a Cray supercomputer that the book had used.

That was probably due to the CM's more impressive blinkenlights: https://youtu.be/BVtHh9JoS3s?t=2m20s

The rest of the video seems pretty interesting as well, it looks like a 10 minute intro to the CM architecture.
This, 100 % this. Linux hasn't succeed on the desktop because the business case for it is weak. The success of ubuntu is in large part due to the financial input of Mark Shuttleworth/canonical. For linux on desktop to move to the next step we need a way to generate revenue out of it. I do think there is a market for it ( a small one), and but that the main hurdle to a commercial desktop linux distro are cultural as opposed to anything else.

I am not sure if i agree that something like redox would make more sense than using linux. The most lucrative market for linux desktop right now would be dev/front-end and backend. Going to redox you would lose all that ecosystem. I think microsoft is realizing that which is why they are pushing the linux on windows thing.

But definitly, an desktop os based on something more modern than unix would be awesome
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Since they merged their services a few years back, I've noticed that lots of (my and others I know) requests for login appear to go through youtube. This is presumably because it had the largest number of logged-in users historically.

So yeah, that would be difficult to split out.
True, but I'm rather people develop substance problems with weed than with alcohol for many reasons. Even if there was only a 50% chance that without access to cannabis the people you knew in college would become drunks that's still a good tradeoff for society.
SteamOS is holding back the Linux community. SteamOS is still based on Debian 8 (Jessie). Steam software often clashes with existing libraries of a current system. When I benchmarked Steam games, they delivered only 65% of the Windows performance figures when run on Linux.

I am thankful that SteamOS is nothing more than a lab experiment. If that became popular, Valve will not pay any attention to us, regular Linux users.
Fyi... the Michael Lewis' phrase "search engine" as used in this 1999 article would be what we today might call a "serial entrepreneur searching for the next unicorn".

It's about Jim Clark of Netscape/Healtheon and not about Excite/AltaVista/Google. Since the timing of the article happened after the Netscape sale to AOL, it focuses on Healtheon which imo is not as interesting as the wild Netscape period with Marc Andreesen.
Replace Marijuana with Alcohol in that comment and it's all still true.

But Alcohol is not schedule 1.
I am trying intermitted fasting: fasting 14-15 hours daily and up to 22 hours occasionally.
Do not see any changes in my body at all.

What it did help with was curbing my occasional binge eating, reducing cravings, and helping to realise that I do not need all time and I won't die if I go without a food for a while :)
While these were great psychological consequences, nothing changed on the physical side :(

what am I doing wrong?

I also count calories but I have a cheat day every week.
I feel intermitted fastening is a bit overrated and not super useful without other pats like the ones you mentioned.
You probably meant to initialize the input->hidden weight matrix with the result of unsupervised training on the full corpus. A little tweak on how these weights are initilized would do: https://github.com/facebookresearch/fastText/blob/master/src...

I was a bit curious why they did not offer this by default. It seems quite useful.
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We're having this discussion in slow motion.

We're both looking at exactly the same words, sometimes people just reach different conclusions. You've said that we don't need to put down other professions, but consider your words about software development and nursing...

"I am pretty sure I could teach her enough to do an entry level web dev job within 2-3 months, whereas there is no way I would be mentally or emotionally prepared to deal with working life as a 'real' nurse within that short amount of time, if ever."

I do see that as putting down software development in order to build up nursing. Like I said, we're looking at the same words, so this is just a matter of perspective.

Perspectives sometimes vary because of experience. I actually don't agree, as a general condition, that the world knows how difficult software development is. Some of the world does, and some software development positions are clearly respected. But as a general statement? No, I really don't agree - I see too many developers working loud, distracting open offices, back visibility, methodologies that reduce autonomy and long term thinking the to micromanaged 24 hour "sprints", and a career path where "successful" people should term out before age 35.

I certainly wouldn't argue that this describes all dev jobs, but it sure does describe a lot of them. I do think that the kind of denigration of the field I'm hearing here does contribute to this.
heh so agree with you!
What else do u do in addition to fastening?

in my case (see my other comment in this thread) I do not feel it gives me any benefits in terms of body, only psychological ones.
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