skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Play Music is an hidden gem IMO (disclaimer : I work for one of their competitors) . It is a shame that Google does not push it.
The Orange should go away and the android app needs more maintenance / QA but otherwise that's an extremely solid product IMO.

Other than that : youtube, rdio, deezer, soundcloud, pandora, there are a lot of products in the same place.
For the same reason that Detroit keeps growing.
On one hand I liked Rdio because it was cheap and had a lot of niche music I liked. On the other hand their algorithms were shit.

E.g. I once indicated I liked some electronica by Marek Biliński, a Polish musician, and it took hours to stop the ensuing assault on my ears of 70's Polish pop music.

In general it took very little for their algorithm to start playing music I had no interest in, and a lot of effort to make it stop playing stuff I found awful.

Algorithmic music selection in general still seem to be in a very poor state - I've yet to find any that do great, presumably because a lot of them seem to treat it as a question of solving "people who listened to A also likes B". But it isn't. It's more a matter of "people who listened to some sequence of A,B and C, also listened to D relatively shortly afterwards without skipping/downvoting it" coupled with a lot of other checks (e.g. I might skip D even if it fits in perfectly with both my mood and A,B and C if I have heard it too often lately, or if it's a very loud/intensive track and it's late a night, and any number of othr factors).

I wonder how many of these systems try to take more factors into consideration but just aren't very good at it. And also how problematic the lack of more contextual knowledge is (e.g. I may make different selections when alone, vs. when a romantic partner vs. when with friends, even if the starting type is the same type of tracks - it doesn't mean my taste has changed). Many recommendation systems makes me vary about indicating a preference because they're not clear about how it'll be used and the ones I've used so far gives me little confidence they'll do the right thing...
When I read this conversation a couple of months ago, I found it frustrating.

I'd recently endured the 3.5 hour trainwreck of a conversation Sam attempted to have Omar Aziz. Concluded that nobody could reasonably take Omar's side in it, and was sadly not surprised to see the crowds of people on Twitter concluding that Omar had "won" the conversation.

I sought out the Chomsky conversation because I even though i'd heard it was disappointed from Sam's perspective, I was expecting it to be more nuanced. Neither came off particularly well, but I was especially frustrated by Chomsky.

The source of my frustration was that I was constantly felt he would have been able to make a point that would give Sam pause for thought, to take the conversation down an interested road. But he wasn't willing to even briefly humour Sam's need to explore contrived thought experiments. If they'd just been able to get that out of the way, they could have gotten somewhere. I actually like Sam's thought experiments because they're a device to establish a dispassionate common ground on which to build the more nuanced (and challenging) conversations, but they seem to fall flat with the people who I'm most interested in him going head-to-head with.
If you have a path to a green card then 5 years is a pretty solid amount of time for most places (not india/china).

If they made it a separate quota for entrepreneurs then you could get most people a green card within that timeline.
I understand and it makes sense that saying "I saw a black person walking around" is effectively useless and likely racist. The problem I see here is that it's only applied to race. If the same person made the same report and simply not added race (I'm only going by what I see in the screenshots, no clue whether it's more complex than that) then we'd have a similarly useless post because it offers no quality information either way. I don't understand why they wouldn't ask for the extra 2 out of 4 details for all "vague" reports, only for race. It's good, valuable information.

edit: as I think further on it, I probably find more questionable the whole existence of a feature to report "suspicious activity" than Nextdoor singling race out. I mean, were I to go out in a skirt (I'm a hairy dude) would I be reported for whatever suspicious activity means? If a hippie-ish friend of mine with dreadlocks came over, would that be "suspicious"? The more I think on it the more it seems like a means of fueling people's paranoia/racism. I read that they tried to address that with the crime report feature but I still get the feeling that the whole thing is misplaced.
There are tools being such as coverity run on it:

https://www.google.com/#q=coverity+pfsense
https://www.google.com/#q=coverity+freebsd

That is a rather good tool provided to open source projects for free that finds bugs, including exploitable bugs. FreeBSD and pfSense by extension has the benefit of Clang's various tools for catching issues (e.g. its static analysis, address sanitizer, etcetera). I also know that there was a TrustedBSD hardening effort. You probably would want to ask the pfSense and FreeBSD guys for details.

There are better people than me to ask, but given that it is open source the people doing things are under no obligation to talk about it, it is hard for anyone to know everything being done.

Anyway, my point is that these sorts of things only happen with OSS. If a search researcher has an idea for a new way of catching bugs, he is likely going to use it on OSS code rather than closed source software by virtue of it being easier to do experiments on it. The same goes for non-profits devoting money to auditing code (which the Linux Foundation announced last year). You definitely will not see that happen with proprietary software. This gives OSS an intrinsic advantage.
The unsubscribing process is truely awful. I'd try them again as rumour has it they have got a lot better, but importing Spotify playlists wasn't possible early on. I'll have to look again to see if that's solved.
"Directional antennas for attacking inbound radar" is essentially what all jamming does. You send emissions of your own that mess up the returns from the radar. This can be as simple as just blasting noise to make the return indistinguishable from the noise, but the ability to send "false" returns has been around for quite a while. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they could send an out-of-phase signal to cancel the pulse (like noise-cancelling headphones), but the catch would be that the signal probably wouldn't be perfectly cancelled except in a specific direction (back towards the source) and you could probably detect that. As such I would be surprised to see it on the B-2.

The other thing is that when stealth aircraft are in civilian space they attach/deploy radar targets that give the aircraft a perceptible return for safety's sake. Un-deploying a radar target would look the same on radar as deploying a "stealth field" so that could be an origin of the rumor...
While the read started off in a very interesting manner, it got too general for my taste quite quickly. You can only brush away so many details before I start to question where your facts are coming from.
Then they removed it in their most recent chips...
Sadly the mosquito laser is not happening yet.
This was interesting. I'm glad someone is applying some rigorous thought to an observation many of us have made, namely that organizations (broadly defined, civilizations to companies to ideas) appear to have similar lifecycles to organisms.

I think there's a lot of gold to be mined in the seams between disciplines.
The ENTIRE goal of childhood, is to help turn your child into an adult, as soon as possible, as efficiently as possible, in order that they will be as competitive as possible as adults. By all means other parents, continue to behave opposite of this fact; I don't, have not, and will not care. You are only hurting yourselves, they are your kids, not mine.
What is the monthly take home income (after tax) you aim for to be comfortable enough for your lifestyle
This is an unexpectedly sane step from Washington. In five years here a capable entrepreneur will find a way to get a green card.
> some unknown form of batter

Mmhhhh... I'm pretty hungry right now and that gave me some wonderful imagery.
That's not a fact at all. It's not even true. Drugs are illegal or heavily restricted in every country in the world, including countries that are nearly homogeneous.

Drugs are illegal because drug addicts cause problems for the people around them. It's really that simple.
46% of Incoming C.S. Majors in UIUC's College of Engineering Are Women
Well, it's a three month trial and they pay the musicians during that time.
> I wish having an advanced degree was a criteria here

Why?
It's hard to see how this will help them? The Taylor Swift moment may be coming to Spotify.
Well, sometimes you have to hit a problem both at the source and where it manifests.
I'm not particularly worried about grey goo. Biology is already really good at that particular niche, and is adaptive to boot.
If you are doing formal verification, then you can make your own model, create software and attempt to prove that the software has issues within that model. seL4 is just one example of someone doing that.
I would call 'dark matter' a description rather than an explanation. It seems to effect gravity. So it has mass. So it's 'matter'. But other than that it is unobserved, and so 'dark'. A+B = a very short but accurate description of an observation, rather than an explanation of why that observation happens.
digitalocean works fine for me
$3.5K is enough to comfortably support me
$7k-10k would be epic
The 10% attributed to REITs is coming directly from the 60% in Finance. Because it was actually composed of 50% Finance/NonREITs + 10% Finance/REITs.
> How do we know it isn't undetectable-through-normal-means normal matter

As I understand this is kind of what we think it is, which is why it's called 'dark.'
On your own? You're probably right; planes are expensive.

Have you looked into nearby aviation clubs, though? I mean, it's still expensive, but a time-shared plane is far less so than a personal one.
There's 100,000 schools in the US.

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=84

So it's around 3-5% of their market ($600 per school is 2.5% of their $2.4 billion annual revenue on the pens). I guess that is a pretty substantial chunk.
> Yeah, good point. The weird part is that it almost introduces a new thread, in that it introduces a new flow of control (and, if you ask for it, a new stack), but it doesn't count as a new thread in all the usual ways, like thread-local variables or PIDs.

Worse: most signal handlers that do anything other than setting globals destroy errno in one way or another and when you go back the code that was interrupted has a good chance of malfunctioning.
Yellen cries wolf
I'm in the UK and subscribed to Rdio..
5 years is more than enough time in startup land to either be a failure or at least modest success - startups are designed to grow quickly after all.

If you're on the success path then getting an O1 should be very straight forward, and then a EB1 greencard should also be easy.

If you're a failure, well - this isn't supposed to be a path to citizenship for people with failed businesses.
What are those issues?
What is the german version of nextdoor? I've never heard of such a thing.
same, works great!
Taiwan’s new digital minister is a trans programmer who wants open government
Cross-domain cookies with JavaScript and iframes
Recently launched an open source script for cross-domain cookies with client-side JS & iframes. Curious on the communities opinion of this approach!

Repo: https://github.com/contently/xdomain-cookies

Blog Post: https://medium.com/building-contently/tracking-people-across-multiple-domains-when-cookies-just-arent-enough-b270cc95beb1
FCAlertView: A beautiful AlertView for iOS
There's multiple companies in the US selling cheaper epinephrine auto-injectors.
That's a good paper, but it's worth noting that most of the interesting work these days is in multithreaded memory allocators, which weren't as important in 2005. Scaling well under multithreading (i.e. not taking a global malloc lock) changes the design space considerably: you need to have per-thread heaps and rebalance them from time to time, which is itself a very interesting problem.
Dig reveals surprise about 'super-henge' near Stonehenge
The thought experiments were pretty unnecessary and illogical - their premise was flawed, namely that US intentions are noble, something Chomsky has spent a lifetime refuting.
Sam started off (even before the email exchange - and during it) misrepresenting Chomsky's ideas, even stating blunt untruths about Chomsky's words from a book he admitted to not even reading. How can anyone take such a slanderous clown seriously after that? If he wanted to have a serious discussion with a person he falsely slandered, he should have started with a sincere apology and then a very careful exposition of his worthless thought experiments and their purpose.
This is a fine argument for not allowing NSA to help design things like key escrow, or to prevent them from involving themselves in crypto standards development. I'm not sure how it bears on vulnerability disclosure. NSA discovering and stockpiling vulnerabilities shouldn't impact other organizations discovering and then disclosing vulnerabilities.
As the foundational figure in modern Linguistics Chomsky has had an outsized role in shaping the field, some of it good and some bad. IMHO the usefulness of mainstream generative grammar has waned since the 70s or so in terms of its applicability to engineering and empirical rigor. But it remains dominant, in part due to his influence and the logical conclusions one draws from a strong interpretation of Universal Grammar. Since much of that foundation is ultimately philosophical, there are bound to be challenges from the field now and again, and acolytes of the Chomskyan school are likely to attack them ferociously. It will probably be a few decades before there's a major shift.
I make a value judgement that the economy needs startups that work on deep, meaningful technologies. While they are certainly instances where people without advanced education are able to innovate in deep technology disciplines, there are many cases where education is the key barrier to entry. If someone spent a decade getting specialized education in an area like FPGA, MEMS design, etc. I do think they should have an easier path into the country than someone with no specialized education. Canada is trying the "we'll give you a visa if your startup is funded by recognized investors". I think that stops people who have bootstrapped ventures or funding from their own savings/family savings. I'm also not saying advanced education is THE requirement. I'm saying, it should be one of the possible options. That's just my opinion :)

With convertible notes that are sometimes given to member companies of distinguished seed funds, I think getting to 345K isn't a stretch.
Facebook Asks for QLC NAND, Toshiba Answers with 100TB QLC SSDs with TSV
> Only really exists on mobile.

Huh? I use it on desktop every day. https://play.google.com/music/listen
Subscription streaming considered harmful
Yes, please stop trying to make Scala Haskell. And please start switching to Haskell :)
So only people who have Master's degrees are capable of launching successful businesses?
He has said that a nuclear strike on an Islamic country aught to be seriously considered.
Well I have a friend addicted to heroin. He tried it once, for fun, and was blown away by how good it made him feel. So he tried it again to achieve the same feeling, and again, and eventually it consumed him. He comes from a good family as far as I know, and just made some poor choices under peer pressure.
I depends a bit on the details as to whether you are allowed to start on startup #2 if #1 fails without leaving.
You are making an assumption that there was no other reason. OP stated the man was mentally handicapped. Isn't it possible he was also acting strangely?
> Realizing a particular conversation as pointless is dismissive if you aren't open to attempting to understand other perspectives

1. Your original charge was that Noam is arrogant, not that he is dismissive. Dismissiveness and arrogance are not the same thing.

2. Noam isn't dismissive in this particular. Refusing the reply to the email or replying only with terse non-acknowledgements would be dismissive. Spilling hundreds of words worth of ink to elucidate why you don't want to have a conversation is anything but dismissive.

3. Charging Noam with being dismissive toward his critics is a different claim with a different burden. It requires analyzing the preponderance of evidence, not one specific case. Just because Noam is dismissive of one particular critic doesn't mean that he's dismissive of his critics in general.

> A religious person telling a scientist that a debate about religion with him would be "pointless" is indeed dismissive

I fail to see how this is necessarily the case. For example, if the scientist's point is to change the religious person's mind, and the religious person is firm in their faith, then the religious person isn't being dismissive. On the contrary, the religious person is saving both parties from a fruitless and frustrating endeavor.

> It may end up being pointless to the people making the arguments but not necessarily for the listeners.

More analogous to Noam/Sam, if the scientist's point is to demonstrate the falseness of religious by disproving transubstantiation, and if the religious person explicitly said they do not believe in transubstantiation, then the religious person is well within reason to refuse an invitation, because regardless of the outcome of the conversation, the end result won't be informative to anyone.

3. If the Scientist pushes for a debate even though the religious person is not interested, he's most likely being a bit of jerk.
Well google average salary is 127k. I don't think that includes rsu, bonus, etc. So I would say the salary is on par with what they are paying Americans. If you compare the H1-B to GC ratio its pretty close.
As someone who got "rejected" in the H1B random lottery - yes, the system needs an overhaul. Perhaps an auction system would be appropriate, where companies bid on visas, then top N bidders get visas from the pool, paying the lowest winning price. This would also work well with the idea that companies should first seek talent within the United States. The auction final quote would be a clear, publicly available portion of the costs of getting employees abroad. The only caveat I see is potential employment contract clauses forcing employees to stay in the company for a certain number of years. Currently there are no restrictions for switching jobs on an H1B.
Doing it once, proof. Doing it 20,000 times... Exploit.
WOW. This instantly makes this program substantially better than many other visas. The difference between a working spouse and not is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars - especially over a 5 year time frame. This is better than the O1!!
Belgians are hunting books, instead of Pokemon
The beach-house lawyer calling big auditors to account
I had to quit Nextdoor. The same small cabal of loudmouths was overwhelming the forums with strong (yet uninformed) opinions, reflex hatred of anything signalling change, and a general seething that bordered on xenophobia. I expect some NIMBYism, but this was outrageously militant hatred of the future masquerading as quaint pride.

Nextdoor also seems to give people strange priorities for civic engagement. Winning an argument on Nextdoor doesn't change policy...speaking at Council/School Board meetings does, or better yet, running in an election.

Lots of people on our local Nextdoor seemed frustrated that the Council were voting contrary to some conclusion that was reached on the site. They failed to realize they needed to be making arguments where it mattered - at Council meetings, not online in some private forum.
If I have to uninstall all apps and only allow to use one. That will be wechat.
Right, but at this point, German privacy laws are pretty horrible, too, and getting worse as we speak. The BND (German intelligence agency) also works closely with the NSA, and considering what's publicly known, it wouldn't surprise me, if the two exchange essentially all data behind closed doors.
When my grandfather was a child (age 11) he took his 10 year old brother to the state fair by train a distance of about 40 miles. They spent their remaining funds on ice cream and then hitchhiked back home.

The trains were gone by the time my father was a child and he wandered as far as a bike could take him and back in a day. He would play at Army Dumps that dotted the landscape in the 50's.

When I was a kid the freeways and major thoroughfares created islands that couldn't be crossed by a kid on a bike. The farmland and riparian areas around creeks created walking corridors and I would spend time watching tadpoles and building forts.

For my kids the farmland was developed and the creeks tightly fenced off by an interlocking thicket of HOAs. They wandered virtual worlds.
a fellow israeli here. living in spain, though. you can invoice US$50-100 an hour if you're any good
Interesting to see University of Michigan in there. wonder what's the impetus there.
Oopsie, stupid hands. Fixed it.
I think the argument is a little more complicated than that. It might not be enough to observe that active traders aren't outperforming the indexes, because, as the argument goes, passive indexing creates its own market forces that tend to favor incumbents and work against aspirants.
The truth is a a mixture of all that really.

Sometimes drugs are prohibited for health reasons, sometimes for cultural reasons, sometimes for commercial reasons, and so on and in all countries some drugs are not prohibited at all.

Enforcement is similarly varied.
Eh, I used '20 thousand' in one of my responses, does that mean I'm the real identity of the throwaways?

Probably not.
Oh man, I used to love running around outside, finding a good stick and carving it into a spear.
Rainwater isn't actually very conductive, being pretty close to pure water. Water itself isn't conductive without contaminants.

That said? Good question! I can't imagine that throwing physical droplets through the plasma would help, but maybe it wouldn't hurt.

If it turns out to be a problem, then you'd have to design planes that still work without the plasma.
Well, it's a bit of both. It's an explanation in that it explains the observational discrepancies in terms of matter that's difficult to observe, rather than, say, different laws of physics or extra dimensions or whatever. But it's also just a description in that it just means some sort of matter with mass that's hard to see.
This is fair, but should it not be addressed at the parent instead?
They don't 'deploy' anything. There are no radar reflectors. They just turn on their transponders and anti-collision gear (ACAS). Civilian radar doesn't generally detect reflected energy. It just listens for transponders, which are infinitely more powerful than any reflections. Turn those off and civilian ATC is practically blind whether you are a stealth bomber or 747.
Surely it wasn't the sole decision of the PM?
Sure, I understand that but its but its still able to operate at a loss for 10 years now.
Not much in the way of scripts, but the systemd file I use is something like this:

[Unit]
Description=App
After=docker.service
Requires=docker.service

[Service]
TimeoutStartSec=0
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/docker pull app
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker kill app
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker rm app
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker run --name app --rm=true -p 80:80 app

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

With something like dokku I could just push the git repo containing the Dockerfile and it would accomplish the same thing
In the infantry, we learn "Shoot, move, communicate".