skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what you said is very true, and I see it reflected in my own life. Though I think it also has to do with male nature. Historically, it has made sense for men to be less likely to form attachments in healthy circumstances, and I think evolutionary biology probably hs a role here. Men can form intense bonds with each other when they are comrades or fellow soldiers, but to irrationally attach oneself to other men is not an advantage to a man when the going gets tough and he has to find a new position in life that doesn't involve his old platoon; from a reproductive perspective, hanging out with the same men indefinitely isn't as likely to get him to fertilize some eggs as forming an emotional bond with a woman or women. For women, it seems more beneficial to form lasting bonds with other women as they can provide a support structure that can help raise children and consolidate effort doing menial tasks while men are off doing other things. A man, in times of yore, could make his own way even if he lacked a support structure. For women, vulnerability and lack of strength, made it much more difficult for them to simply go off at will on their own and form their own families and slay their own dragons. Nowadays, that's not so much the case in the west, but I think these innate behaviors we developed as a result of our physiology usually remain, aside from some conditioning (i.e. nurture). The lack of a physical community can amplify those behaviors.

On the other side of the coin, I think many men are forming friendships and communities, not in the real world, but online where people can form bonds with those who have common interests as opposed to those jerks on happen to live on your street who don't drink your brand of beer or root for the same football team. Our Burger King culture of "have it your way" makes forming communities with people who only share very general traits with one, like the kind of genitals you have, make little or no sense. Lack of common experience also makes it hard for people to really care about spending a moment with one another. Meanwhile, the Web has a segment for every belief, activity, or way of life, and people who one can relate to on an asynchronous basis with little social risk. I had online buddies for years, but it was easy because they never saw my face and I was never obligated to take time out of my day to go to lunch with them or attend a boring get together with their family.
the practical reason for this happening is that you can put images basically everywhere (github PR comments, emails, etc.), but these facilities rarely support video. Video support on the net has until very recently been pretty awful too.

Now that the video tag can be reasonably expected to work, in a couple of years we might have the tools to just embed video when we want to.
Kobe Bryant and Jeff Stibel Unveil $100M Venture Capital Fund
Well, I'm sure people would also object if someone decides to bring thousands of cars to their neighbourhood :) Speaking of snakes (or any other dangerous animal) it's not a fair statistics to count in just the deadly encounters. One should take into the account also how much the local population had to modify their behaviour to avoid those attacks. Statistics say that sharks rarely attack people, but also it's a fact that people don't go that often into the water in the areas with dangerous shark populations. Same thing with other dangerous animals like gators or poisonous spiders or scorpions. You learn to avoid risky behaviour and take extra care of pets and children, so stats of deadly attacks are low, but it comes at extra cost for people living there not being able to be relaxed and do things they otherwise would be doing.
“Handwriting” text by neural network
I was at a meeting just yesterday, where I said, the state borrows when rates are low. Just like SimCity.
> The article makes a brief reference to DJBDNS, which is written in C

About 14 years ago I worked on a project that was a fork of qmail. I got to know DJB's code quite well, to say the least it is awe-inspiring. The level of understanding and craftsmanship he has in C is honestly something I am certain I will never achieve. At the same time, it is some of (for me) the most dense and obtuse code I've had to read. I'm not a fan of loop unrolling, I think that's a thing for the compiler to optimize personally.

Anyway, in researching before starting this project, I was very aware of DJBDNS and all of the tools that make up that suite of tools. It is solid, like a rock. But like a rock, it is also inflexible. If you want to read an interesting post from DJB, this is excellent one on AXFR/IXFR: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/axfr-notes.html

In reading this I realized that we have different goals for DNS. I want DNS to be flexible and secure, he clearly wants DNS to be secure and hardened. We have different goals, this is not to say my goals are better or worse, but I do think they differ fundamentally from that of DJB's.

You can't exploit something that you can't change.
That's the law, draconian or not. I personally don't want to come within 1m of a 1500kg vehicle, probably driven by someone playing with their phone, going faster than I am.

It is possible on Sydney roads if drivers wait until there's an overtaking lane, which is actually the only legal solution.

Anyway, it's never enforced so what difference does it make? Drivers will continue to only care about themselves and cyclists will continue to be maimed and die.

Countries with governments that aren't crap have separate tracks for cyclists, which is really the only safe solution.

We have painted pictures of bikes in car lanes right in the door zones for parked cars. And that's in the good places. It's an absolute joke.
"I can only sell you the car for 20k. That includes the car-salesman-markup-ripoff tax." "Hmm, sounds like a puzzle solved."
Maybe Bernal Heights is different but you walk down 18th next to Dolores park and often see the piles of glass every 3-4 parking spots. Same on Folsom in SOMA. Same on 11th. Same on Franklin. The same is also bad in LA but SF seems worse.

But hey, you don't have to take my word for it

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/04/san-fran...
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I've had bad experiences with maybe 1:1000 drivers. But when it's bad, it's really bad.

I've had the same exact, "Do you know you're going to get someone killed driving like that?" Followed by, "Good. I hope you all die." WITH A KID IN THE CAR!
So IBM Thinkpad 700C priced $4,350 was a cheap thing? With 'a beautiful 10.5-inch active-matrix color LCD - the largest screen available on any notebook computer at the time'.
Speaking of mainframes, my favorite talk on hacking IBM mainframes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfl4spvM5DI
What kind of meditation do you do? When I do Vipassana I can't be fully aware of my thought processes since I'm focusing on 'feeling my body' in a non-judgmental way. I've been most aware of my thought processes in between breaks in meditation retreats.
Deus Ex 1 was superb. It's one of the top five PC games. Not only the awesome music score, basically every element of the game was great, and still is to this day (only the Unreal Tournament era graphics hasn't aged that well, a remastered version with Unreal 4 engine and 4k textures would be a good move). Sadly, the casualization of Deus Ex already started with Deux Ex 2, everything was dumbed down for the XBox 1 console with its mini-mini-levels and just one ammo type, etc. And the later instalments weren't have their own problems like an outdated graphics engine, far smaller story, small hub levels, daylight, more simple gameplay, almost no physical interaction aka very steril levels, 3rd person camera at times, automatic quick kills, boss enemies, and many more elements that make it very different to Deus Ex 1. I even consider Watch_Dogs 1 and Dishonored 1 a more Deus Ex 1 style gameplay than Deus Ex >2. The Deus Ex 4 has a for example little story and just one hub level and many side missions - and the graphic engine from Hitman feels a bit dated with character animations from the last century. From a real new Deux Ex like game I would like an open world like GTA V or Watch_Dogs where every player can interact eith the world and can shape it with every interaction. Deus Ex 1 is still unique with its original vision, sadly some advanced features were cut, but the original design documents can be found online. I heard Warren Spector is about to make another game, let's hope it's a System Shock 1 or even better Deus Ex 1 like game, with a different brand.
That sucks, but it's not really a surprise that someone who is startled reacts poorly.
Do you have any thoughts on why? Lack of competition, race to the bottom on prices, incompetence, or some kind of vendor lock-in?
fwiw, stateless light switches are nice in that you can have many light switches controlling the same light. Not saying they're perfect but they have advantages.
There are two basic problems. 1) getting the devices to find each other and communicate in some reasonably secure way, and 2) controlling them in some user-friendly manner.

1) is still a mess. Things that are hooked to line power ought to talk over the power line. There are lots of standards for that, from the old X10 (1980s, low bandwidth, poor noise immunity, no security), bidirectional X10, Echelon (1990s, low bandwidth, very good noise immunity, some security), HomePlug (2000s, high bandwidth, some security), plus some proprietary systems. X10 refuses to die, and HomePlug's bandwidth is overkill for lighting. Echelon mostly gave up on the home and went on to become the standard for subway and rail automation (signs, lighting, HVAC, doors, etc.) because of the good noise immunity. They're working on a new approach to lighting, where LED lights run on 48VDC. This is a bit radical for home automation.

If you have any of these, it's useful to have a whole-house RF filter where power enters the house or apartment to isolate your network segment from everybody else on the same pole transformer. These are cheap ($6 or so) but have to be installed by an electrician. This is a big obstacle to power line networking.

Then there are the RF-based networks. WiFi, Zigbee, etc. These have range limitations and may not work through walls. Despite all the headaches of RF networking, most of the IoT vendors are going that way because they get to dump the range problem on the user.
Fiction audiobooks do exists (although not nearly as common as in English-speaking countries), but audiobooks can't possibly work with non-fiction and especially technical texts unless you are going to use English words for literally every single term. I mean, Japanese has only about 100 moraes and way too much words are just 2-3 moraes long.
Many chemicals that we regard as toxic actually occur naturally in foods we live.

Formaldehyde in most living things, cyanide in apples, etc.

Some substances should not be in our food at all, such as mercury. Other substances shouldn't be in our food above certain quantities, such as formaldehyde.

So yes, there are some "toxins" that should be in our food assuming what we are eating isn't synthesised from scratch.
Earth observation data: Multibillion-dollar opportunity – or dud?
I feel like you are living in bizzaro-land over there, where you can get life in prison without parole for stealing a pair of socks [0], yet shoot someone in the head and get 4 months. Deal a couple of rocks and get 42 years in federal prison [1], rip off millions of dollars from thousands of people, get off scot-free.

[0] http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/cruel-and-unusual-...

[1] http://famm.org/atiba-parker/
> IMO there is a very annoying trend in household appliances towards worse and worse UI.

I feel like you could drop "in household appliances" from that statement and still be telling the truth. I'd be willing to bet that anyone reading this could think of examples in software where those making product decisions seem to be operating off of these principles:

* Refine relentlessly (vs stop improving what doesn't need improvement)

* Be heavily state-dependent as a way to minimize presentation of options. But don't call attention to state.

* Minimize any affordances. Rely on implicit interaction patterns you assume the user has already learned.

* Minimize everything. Remove options. Hide what you can't remove. The less the software does, the less the user has to think, right?
I haven't reasoned through your solution fully yet, but is that a guarantee that at least one of them is correct? How?

Sorry if your answer turns out to be obviously correct.
August 2016: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hat_puzzle
For the four people puzzle. Assign every suit a number 0-3. All four people guess differently what the sum of all the cards is modulo 4, meaning exactly one person will get it right. Using the sum and the view of the other cards the one who guessed right can work out their own card.
A comparison of browser based prototyping tools
Are there any credible sources that indicate the crash was something other than pilot error potentially exacerbated by technical difficulties?
Bob is correct when they both have the same card, Ava is correct when they have opposite cards. That covers all 4 color combos.
Reminds me of the beginning of the movie Idiocracy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unoMMru4-c0
Zombie Urbanism
Not quite at that scale, but Andrej Karpathy fed the linux source code into an RNN: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
I fondly remember sitting in an IRC channel with the devs and enthusiast fans well before the game was released. Treated to lots of screenshots and rumors about the game.
You should give this series a watch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask
> I refuse to buy a smart TV, and when my TV finally dies, I will probably be forced to buy one, and the first thing I will do is either disable, or just refuse to setup and use, the smart part.

You could buy a short-throw projector instead. These are usually Internet-free and have many inputs for discrete media sources, which may or may not have Internet.
Two-tier systems work well in a lot of places, for instance in France.

Doctors everywhere else are public servants. They do their jobs because the love it, because it's their calling and because they still get paid very, very well. Canada pays their doctors $232,000 to $676,000 gross (speciality averages, low to high).

Then because malpractice insurance is also socialized (Canadian Medical Protective Association), their costs are significantly lower too. OB/GYNs usually pay the most, and in Manhattan their annual malpractice insurance premium is $125,000. $176,000 in Long Island. [1] The highest in Canada is Ontario, at $44,000 CAD ($34,000 USD).

[1] https://www.excellusbcbs.com/wps/wcm/connect/b7cdbf66-dd6b-4...

[2] http://www.amednews.com/article/20100503/profession/30503993...
I actually have no problem with those fines but they should be enforcing the 1m rule as well.

Why wouldn't you wear a helmet as a cyclist anyway?

It sucks that NSWPolice are more interested in fining cyclists and are ignoring people actually putting other people's lives in danger.

When I drive and I see people riding with no helmet, I can't help but think to myself, "well you obviously don't care about your own safety at all, why should I?"

As a cyclist, I cringe when I see other cyclists breaking road rules. There is already much too little respect for us on the road, and doing stuff like that will erode the little respect we do get.
Nope, I based myself only on the guidelines given in EU for unrefrigerated eggs... Good to know that I was wrong and thanks for the clarification.
Worker Cooperatives Are More Productive Than Normal Companies
Remote Monitoring Tool for Android
I'm sure that the idea of the Nest thermostat is noble, but they just work like shit. The one in our office cannot maintain a reliable temperature, and flakes out constantly. We had a fun week where someone went on vacation, and, apparently because their phone app was synced with it, the AC schedule started running in European time, rather than US Eastern...

At some point, you really just want to rip the thing out, slap the old fashioned, bimetal thermostat back in, and hit the Nest with a high-powered electromagnet.
>Ssh supports certificates as well as plain keys (a key with optional meta-data about validity, principals (users,servers etc).

Wouldn't validity and principals be best left to something like LDAP?

I still haven't found anything that fits in the gap between "I only have one machine" and "I'm comfortable setting up Active Directory et-al". I like reading about all these systems but I've only got 5 or so machines under my direct control (although something that integrates with AWS would be nice for when I'm doing development work there)
All good, good luck and stay safe out there. Roundabouts always scared me more than cars overtaking. Also, the occasional parking lot was a surprisingly good place to get backed over very slowly.
"Seen the Imitation Game movie and wondered if you have what it takes to win such a contest?

Ever wonder what the story would be like if Alan Turing worked for the faschists improving the enigma machine instead of defeating it?

These are not rhetorical questions. We're currently reading the answers from your brain waves."
> And the proof for this theory is? I'm not buying anything main stream media or our elites are telling us.

I don't know how many things can be known with certainty, but Po-210 is not exactly easy to get your hands on. As for how many people wanted him, specifically, dead, well, you tell me who had resources like that and who benefited from his death.
The republicans tacked defunding planned parenthood and the ACA onto the Zika funding bill. Political grandstanding is more important than public health in 2016.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/politics/congress-zi...
The only thing in that picture I want is the radio business controller. I would set the dial to BUSINESS and wait for the money to roll in via radio.
Lord it's the same old tune, fiddle and guitar
Where do we take it from here?
Rhinestone suits and new shiny cars
It's been the same way for years
We need a change

Somebody told me, when I came to Nashville
Son you finally got it made
Old Hank made it here, and we're all sure that you will
But I don't think Hank done it this way
No, I don't think Hank done it this way

Ten years on the road, makin' one night stands
Speedin' my young life away
Tell me one more time just so's I'll understand
Are your sure Hank done it this way?
Did ol' Hank really do it this way?

Lord I've seen the world, with a five piece band
Looking at the back side of me
Singing my songs, and one of his now and then
But I don't think Hank done 'em this way
I don't think Hank done 'em this way.
Take it home.

Written by David Allan Coe •
The video in this instance adds very little. You get to the see the motion of the actor saying the words 'what is dead may never die', but a static image of the scene with the text written on would have been just as effective in this instance.

Unless it's a commentary on how often animated GIFs are pointless and bloated items which could be equally served by using static captioned images. In which case, it's hit the nail on the head perfectly.
I'm sorry. I realize this was overly dramatic and not substantive. I would have flagged it myself as being speculatively political; I was a bit frustrated and exhausted with some kernel debugging at the moment. I'm sorry.
The Gig Economy's Forgotten Chapter
I would give blood for JetBlue based on my experiences with them in the past, but now that I live in a major city that they don't (read: cant) serve, I have to deal with the options our system has afforded me, and often pay a premium to fly on other countries' national airlines that are regulated by their citizens.

This article is pretty shallow, but points to a common problem we see in software, with much larger overhead. As you grow to a point where you're serving something close to a majority of consumers as the lone option, and you have corporate "responsibilities"(i long for a better term, as doing that is not responsible in a general sense) how do you cater to those who are less vital financially? It's just infeasible to do that for airlines trying to turn a profit. I often imagine the Eisenhower plan being deployed under current umbrella, and end with the idea that I'd probably have to change transport seven times if I wanted to drive coast to coast.

I know for Delta, for example, I have at least ten friends that have been stranded for over 12 hours (and up to 36) by problems either logistical or technical. And only those with sizeable Twitter followers are able to shame the company into action... Airlines have to distinguish, because the cost of service to the provider is so wildly high. It's probably the most opposite support model of software, but in the deregulated age, we can't expect anything less. It's nigh time that we let the state ensure equal transportation for everyone. Don't get me started on the cost of passports
> America still has one of the best facilities in the world...

Not really, at #31 in the WHO rankings [1], it's not even close to the best. At #1 in per capita expenditures, it's also wildly inefficient.

For half the per-capita expenditure Canada covers all its citizens. The US spends $8713 per person, per year on healthcare, where Canada spends $4429. [2] The result is a very comparable quality healthcare system (#30 vs. #31 in [1]) that covers everyone.

The truth is allowing for profit in a social security program is by definition allowing for inefficiency. Socialized systems do not need to spend money on advertising, on individual billing/accounting systems, or on profits. Nor should they, IMO. Social programs are for everyone. There's plenty of other businesses out there people can profit from. Caring for people when they need it most shouldn't be one of them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_rank...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
Don't forget One Must Fall: 2097 and Epic Pinball!

https://www.gog.com/game/tyrian_2000 is the only one I've seen working.

What issues did you have?
Those stats are just not comparable. First of all you can't just compare the absolute numbers for the complete high-school population with just the people who have a realistic chance of being bitten by a poisonous snake. We'd need to have the stats per capita to make it sort of comparable. But still it's not the same kind of event. How many of those sport injuries can be fatal if not treated within 30-60 minutes? How many of them hurt as much and can lead to you loosing a limb, or be left with permanent and serious health issues? How many pets gets killed by snakes and how many by their owners being high-school athletes?

And I'm not saying that snakes are a huge danger to the general public, but they are the significant factor of risk for people who spend time in nature in those areas.
> If you're hit by a car, and you're not in a protective cage of steel, it's not going to matter if the other person was in the right or the wrong. You're still dead.

I get the point you're trying to make, but you're papering over some big trends.

If the car that hits you is going 20 MPH, you've got a 5% chance of being dead. At 40 MPH, you're looking at more like a 85% chance.

Ride defensively - sure, but remember that those government painted lines and rules and street design help influence behavior that could very easily save your life.

A huge proportion of accidents happen when the cyclist is hit from behind. You think you're alive because of your defensive riding alone? You're also alive because you were never plowed into by a distracted driver that one day, a situation you would have very little control over.