skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something can be aesthetically beautiful and morally terrifying and wrong at the same time. Please disentangle aesthetics and morality, since not doing so tends to debase both.
In the interest of facts, can you point out where these people have said racist things on Twitter?

Dismissing them as "racist trolls" is a bit odd. Milo is a well known journalist, who doesn't seem much worse in his way than any other muck-racking person going after views.

Some minor google-fu yields this:

http://www.themarysue.com/milo-yiannopoulos-permanently-bann...

In which they claim that un-named people have engaged in racist baiting of Leslie Jones. And that those people are believed (for reasons un-named) to be Milo's followers. And that Milo is on record as not denouncing those people. And therefore Milo should be banned from Twitter for being a racist troll.

If Milo violated Twitters terms of service, then by all means show which inappropriate tweet(s) Milo made.

Otherwise, does no one really see a problem with such a tenuous chain of logic behind banning him?
I wired my own custom board for it rather than using a commercial Arduino type board, but I built a guitar effects pedal that runs Arduino code to process a guitar signal using the built in ADC and a pretty basic passive DAC. It works great for effects like bitcrushing, distortion, compression, and I'm trying to get high and low pass filters working on it but haven't made any progress lately.

Schematic and code: https://github.com/PeanutNore/guitarduino
I've been working on a project that's using Adafruit's Feather line extensively and I've been very happy. The ones with the M0 chip are great to work with. Edit: They're using ATSAMD21G18
Not sure if I missed this in the post, does this depend on any unstabilized features or can we use this today on 1.10.0 stable?

Awesome stuff btw, love the iterator inspiration.
Kappa is actually quite an interesting phenomenon - the fluid state of meme-emoticons and the ebb and flow of their popularity in relation to seemingly unconnected events is a nuanced topic in its own right.

Nothing to do with huffpost tho. Kappa
Of course it existed, but then do you remember the ongoing trial between Berkeley and AT&T?

What would have Linus and other have used if GNU wouldn't have been an option during those trials?

Going to buy 386BSD, Coherent and similar?

Do you also remember that most developers only started to care about gcc when Sun decided the SDK was going to be available separately and no longer for free?
"Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone" is an excellent book on the same topic. What is most staggering (to a foreigner like me anyway) is how the appointment of American administrators in Iraq was entirely driven by American politics. Experience and competence were of no importance.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Imperial-Life-Emerald-City-Baghdads...
> I think you're not allowed to connect to external servers any more, only to their one.

What are you talking about?

https://www.irccloud.com/pricing
> Isn't the state machine approach the same as C#/.net async/await is using ? But the with the added convenience of the syntactic sugar ?

Similar in principle, but the implementation is different. Tasks in C# are more of an OO style instead of a FP style where they turn into an enum (sum type, if you want to get theoretical).

> 2 - no allocation : , does'nt the lambda closure need to be allocated somewhere ?

No, not in Rust (or in C++).

> from my understand the C++ approach is even more efficient in term of context switching and have the advantage of even less allocation.

No, you're asserting this without understanding Rust. It's not possible to get less than zero allocation.
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8 Lessons from the First Scrum Team
Because everyone knows that white males are never assholes to each other on the internet?

Thanks for summarising the article - good to know I can skip it without missing anything.
I found this an excellent resource, it literally starts from the basics of electricity - http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/
> Peggy reveals literally nothing about the actual solution -- no information whatsoever -- so one might wonder, how can a bunch of repeated nothings "accumulate" to anything?

The trick here is in the wording; Peggy does reveal something. She essentially reveals that she _may_ have a correct solution, with some probability. :)

All information revealed is information that Victor knows to be true (and can guess beforehand) assuming that Peggy had a correct solution. The last part is the operative bit here; that still means that something is revealed if we are considering the space of all moves (but nothing is revealed if we're considering the space of all moves of a non-malicious Peggy). These probabilities accumulate and eventually we're reasonably certain that that assumption is true.

This sleight of hand happens because from Peggy's side, Peggy knows that she is non-malicious and only cares about no information being leaked with this assumption in mind. On Bob's side, he has no idea about Peggy and must consider the case that Peggy is malicious. However, he doesn't care about defending from leaks, he would love leaks. He only wants the information that Peggy has a solution. From his side, he needs to obtain the information that Peggy has a solution (which Peggy is already assuming to be true).

Our brains get confused whilst juggling these assumptions and it seems like something was revealed without anything being revealed -- the trick is in the difference of sample spaces and assumptions.

Overall this is one reason why I love ZKP -- it seems like magic.
I feel like pre-1870s America would have been pretty good too, considering you could flat out buy an NYPD position, among other things.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Civil_Service_Reform
This sentence sums up one of my main reasons for appreciating AWS:

The hourly rate for the use of an Application Load Balancer is 10% lower than the cost of a Classic Load Balancer.

They frequently introduce new features while cutting costs.
JB: if you observe a serious problem w/in Amazon, you are welcome to bring it to my attention and i will take immediate action

well it looks like mr Bezos was at least telling the truth when he made this offer.
> "You take on risks when you start announcing your private thoughts to the widest possible public audience."

I think the point is that these risks are unevenly distributed. When I announce my thoughts on Twitter my risk is lower by virtue of the fact that I'm a dude, I'm straight, or any number of other qualifiers. It's not that no one experiences any risks when announcing themselves in public, it's that the risk is dramatically and severely unevenly distributed.

The unequal distribution of risk (and consequently, the unequal distribution of vitriol) is IMO the entire point of the article, and has two main takeaways:

- This results in some demographics experiencing relatively little abuse, and therefore assume a proportionally larger share of the conversation as those who experience high abuse quit.

- The system, by virtue of the fact that it's built mostly by people who experience low-risk when using it, is in a large way blind to high-risk members of its population, and will not develop the necessary tools to combat abuse (see also: Reddit).

> "If you want a limited, curated audience, go somewhere else."

This is very, very evidently happening. Twitter's user growth has stalled, its total user base has plateaued, despite competing social networks continuing to grow rapidly. There are, of course, more than enough anecdotes of both high- and low-profile users fleeing the platform due to abuse, and the aggregate numbers reflect this.

It's also worth noting that the younger generation has overwhelmingly chosen social networks with either more limited audiences, or more abuse management tools (see: Snapchat, Instagram).

The market is speaking, though it makes me wonder if some middle ground was possible - a "public announcement" social network where the most extreme ends of the abuse spectrum could be contained. Twitter fulfills a valuable niche, and there is a certain amount of sadness that it's really not working out.
Stack-allocated closures are one of my favorite features of Rust. They make it easy to write functional-style code that performs well.
I got a 15" Dell Alienware with latest i7, 8gb video card, 32 gb of RAM and FHD 4k touch screen monitor. Its a bit pricey and bulky, but it is a GREAT laptop for all kinds of development and even some hard core gaming.

http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-15-r2/pd
There's no good definition of what makes a dialect a separate language. At least not one that is universally accepted.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialect#Dialect_or_language
I think the outcome for that is even more pessimistic.

If you generate 100x more ideas most of them are going to be rehashings of the same old ideas, not that much better than what you had before. You probably get some more value, but not 100x. Whether value goes up logarithmically or reaches an asymtope, the benefits of throwing more neurons on it will become uneconomic.

Also I think creativity is overvalued. Look at all the things Buckminister Fuller invented that went nowhere:

https://bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/dymaxion-world/dymaxi...
"Gaming" GPU's have reduced compute capabilities (pretty horrible DP/HP compute performance compared to Tesla parts), and their SKU's are not really designed for enterprise integration (power requirements, thermals etc.).
As far as "virtualization" goes NVIDIA actually restricts that in the driver, including PCIE passthrough especially to not allow cheaper desktop parts being used for low end computing as the margins per GPU are considerably higher with their enterprise parts.
Is there any special handling for Futures that complete with an error?

Also, how do you debug code that's hung or taking too long? It might be useful to get a list of all the jobs (incomplete Futures) that are currently running, much like running 'ps'.
It's not "bike shedding". Bikeshed painting is a term for discussions where the outcome doesn't matter, often started to give management a feeling that they're in control and being involved.

Pointing out that "abuse is whatever an abused person defines it as" is an argument built on quicksand is very much not bikeshedding.
I think "impl Trait" is unstable.
From the documentation [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/ipv6-access.h...]:

"Before EC2 (VPC) supports IPv6, we recommend that you continue using the standard IPv4-only endpoints from EC2"

In other words, IPv6 in VPC is coming.
No, you can construct sudoku solutions where the row/column thing is satisfied but not 3x3 (the simplest one is by staggering the rows by 1. subsquares are mentioned in the post (and are a part of the interactive prover)
I worry that it's only a matter of time until cyclists are required to carry transponders "for our safety" on streets full of self-driving cars.
Reluctant to respond, since it's clear that bit of more effort went into your comment than mine.

Basically for me when I click the interactive map I get a response, which is a pinned blank text-box with a x to close it. Thing is that I'm unable see that a city block is highlighted via a click; the text box simple appears where I click, unless it's outside the targeted area; for example, in the river.

Looking at the raw JSON it does appear the block are extracted.

So, putting aside "seeing" it, appears you're confirming it extracts single blocks as objects and isn't doing something else like if two blocks are attached, they're not sharing the path that's between them.
That was quick, Beam hasn't been around for very long. But they have innovative new stuff, where twitch has been kind of stagnating technically.

And access to Microsoft infrastructure and integration with their gaming platforms might help them grow. First stop: Minecraft integration.
Yeah, the first round in the post is just an example. General rounds can ask for anything.
For reference, the tweet says:

> @whitebecky1776 bitch I want to tell you about your self but I'm gonna let everybody else do it I'm gonna retweet your hate!! Get her!!

And the Twitter rules say:

https://support.twitter.com/articles/18311

> Harassment: You may not incite or engage in the targeted abuse or harassment of others. Some of the factors that we may consider when evaluating abusive behavior include:

> ...

> if the reported account is inciting others to harass another account;

> ...

Just FYI.
I think the point was that you cannot derive the address next to you from only the address you are at plus logic.
Huh, interesting. All of what you said here is what I agree to, other than labeling.

One of the weird practices I have done is something called Demon Feeding. It descended from the Tibetan traditions, so it still carries it's shamanic/magical/tantric roots, but in this form, it was rebased in Western roots.

Each section is an amazing practice on it's own, and the first three sections sharpen discriminating awareness and empathy. Over time, practitioners not only learn to distinguish wants from needs, they also learn to dig for the need under the want. The practice does not stop there. After ascertaining the need, the practitioner than finds out what would be felt after fulfilling that need. That resulting feeling is what someone is searching for.

The practice is usually done with the self first, and over mant iterations, you start getting towards the ground. Dig deep enough and across enough iteration, the answer to "how will you feel if you get what you need" will tend to converge on one answer.
If you add it to your reading list, Safari is supposed to make it available offline on all devices linked to the same iCloud account.
> It seems like every time I see a state government clash with the federal government, it's always the state trying to protect some backward law.

For basically every progressive ideal, none of it is pioneered by the federal government.

Gay marriage, legalization of drugs, continuing environmental standards, renewable energy, more sustainable living, and I'm sure many more, are all things that various states pass laws surrounding before the federal government steps in.
Any idea if it worth to run a bitcoin miner on those like it used to be few years back?
I implemented this project: https://github.com/pjc50/emon-server

The meter has a (standardised) red LED that flashes once for each watt-hour. The Pi has a phototransistor that turns flashes into a GPIO transition interrupt. I've put it on my solar panel generation meter, and plan to build another (slightly improved) unit to monitor the mains input meter.
Yeah, definitely not worth reading any source that presents a different opinion from yours.
Every political faction has an "idea" about UBI. That's the core of what's wrong with UBI. People don't want their income to be subject to political whims, and change every election cycle.

The problem is that, before automation, people had something to trade for their daily necessities - their work. Work was tied to each individual and that empowered people. Now, with automation, people will have nothing else to offer, but still have the same needs as before. So people lose their influence and become subjects to the whims of whomever decides the quantum of the UBI. What if they set it too low? What can a person do against the state in that case?

I have been thinking about this problem, and came to the conclusion that the only way to assure people's future is agriculture and self-reliant industry. If corporations won't hire people, people need to be "hired by the land". I see cooperatives being formed where people buy land and cultivate their own food, possibly using technology, even robotics, that is in the public domain and can be used freely.

In the long term it will be essential that AI and robotics be implemented in the public domain otherwise only the big corporations will reap the benefits of automation. Remember what happens when a concentrated source of wealth appears: with operating systems, the Windows monopoly; with search - Google; with social - FB, with oil - arab countries (where huge social problems appeared as a result). People need to be in control of their sources of income. UBI is just a promise from the state and "the 1%" that we will not be left to starve. But can we trust them? We need to become self reliant.

As a side note, a number of technologies will be essential for self reliance, such as: solar, water filtration, 3D printing, robotics & AI, agriculture (including the right to create seeds, that has been usurped recently by big corps), open & free education, generic drugs and of course open source software.
Yes, you're right, I basically called out everyone, and then included myself as the problem. Just highlighting the fact that very few people care anymore.
It is hard to follow. Keeping track of city, state, and nation wide politics is very difficult. Many times, the local politicians running are very unknown, with no info about them. Then they get into office on city council and there is little transparency into what is going on. Who receives money for what, who gets the contract, etc. And once a city council member is in, as long as there isn't a scandal or huge public outcry in the community, which is also hard to do because back to point A....who can follow politics at every level, the elected member can remain for a long, long time.

It's a very hard problem, one thats solution is hard/unknown and may not even involve election "representatives" (do they REALLY represent you for their entire term? A big check from a corporation is hard to turn down and somehow legal in many cases.)
I don't think it's "the next big thing." Not everything needs to be. I'm making a synthesizer with the Arduino Due (and Teensy which is compatible). It's a fun playground for things I would never normally get to do in C++ and asm. I've never gotten to code on a platform with true realtime and no OS restrictions before. Also the barrier to entry is so low, it makes it so much fun. WIthin less than 15 minutes of receiving my Amazon package I had my my first blinking LED working.
In Rust, closures don't need to be boxed, because they're just bytes like everything else. In this case, they can be stored by-value as a generic type in the future itself, which can be stored on the stack.

The one time that you do tend to see closures get boxed is when returning them, because you can't write out their type. In the future you'll be able to get around that by using the `impl Trait` syntax mentioned in the post (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1522).
"Court stops unelected FCC bureaucrats from lawlessly exceeding the statutory authority granted to it by the people's elected representatives"

Fixed that for you
Uber’s Didi deal dispels Chinese ‘El Dorado’ myth once and for all
The On-Demand Economy Is a Lie
It's more the gap between experts and non-experts. Pop-sci has turned Dunning-Kruger into a religion, but pop-journalism of all kinds delights in reporting that experts are corrupt and/or hostile and/or wrong.

And often they are, especially in some fields. The problem is that non-experts see "science" and "experts" as single classes, with no understanding of the difference between a professional researcher at the Perimeter Institute and some paid-for PR shill wackjob dredged up to fill airtime on a talk show.

Let's not forget that "medical experts" literally promoted the health benefits of smoking, and of products that encouraged people to consume radium.

To an outsider, it must be very confusing. It's easier, as a heuristic, to dismiss everyone's expertise than it is to take the time to try to assess relative competence.

Unfortunately physics has a huge problem, because it's been made to seem sexy and mediafied.

It's been popularised to an extreme degree, and people who don't know what a differential equation is and would have no idea how to start a practical engineering project, whether it's bridge building or aerospace or electronics, believe they can talk with authority about quantum theory.

There's a subtext which is even more disturbing - the idea there's a democratic right to have opinions about these things (which is fair enough) and to have the opinions taken seriously by professionals (which isn't.)
A "soft" Brexit would not result in us leaving the EU, not in any practical sense. We'd still be a member, all that would change is the type of member to more of an "associate" member than "full" member.

That could be spun as "leaving" the EU, but if we still have free movement, free market access, still have to abide by a large number of their rules, and still pay into various EU funds, have we really left?
This is more or less true however, it's important to note that the Ottoman Empire spanned for many centuries and the Empire and its rule (administratively or otherwise) looked very different in the 16th century than in the 19th century. Egypt was under direct control in the beginning, it rebelled, then turned into a feudal system and then it became pretty much autonomous. Empires change a lot over time that its really hard to capture centuries worth of history in a few sentences (hence the generalisations).
That link does not appear to work.
Yeah, I've not really had a problem with off-label Arduino chips/boards whenever I've ordered them either, except for one being DOA and another having an I/O pin that just wasn't connected somewhere along the way inside the microcontroller.
I'm in the same boat as you on Twitter usage. But I suspect it's because being able to talk at anybody, including celebrities, is part of the appeal of the platform. The whitelisting mode you suggested makes it more like a one-way broadcast - you can see what people are saying but not join in.
How We Keep Distractions from Killing Our Business
Very nice product. On the sidenote as I am from Czech Republic as well, are you looking for new people?
That's nowhere near being "just" a cipher :)

"A cipher that lets the format be validated" is precisely what a ZKP is, though nobody calls it a cipher.

(Cryptographic signature is a simpler form of ZKP though, where the proof doesn't require any back-and-forth)
I don't know about Algeria, but again in Lebanon your so called "pleasant peaceful and beautiful place" was like that because it did favor minorities and some small groups at the detriment of others. It was bound to collapse after the colonial forces withdrew.

And let me be clear, I didn't say that it is better now, but your theory that it was better when colonial powers were in charge is false.

"every single post-colonial country is worse off than it was when it was a colony (I wouldn't count the U.S. as post-colonial because in a very real sense it's a successful colony)."

...that is the definition of colonization, it is only successful if you overcome the local population. Again it is successful at the detriment of the local population (or a part of it).
If they're providing smaller spreads, they're taking profits from market makers who used to provide larger spreads. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
Please add Singapore