skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Change.org cuts a third of its global workforce
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They indeed are.
It's not for you to determine what is or isn't a worthless endeavour in someone else's life.
The difference is that we elected the guy doing the overseeing, Barack Obama. In fact we elected him twice. That's democracy. If we don't like what NSA is doing under the President's command, we'll elect a different president, or our elected men and women in Congress can hold the President accountable.
"At 2.7 km, the resolution of the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera is about 5 cm/pixel, sufficient to reveal characteristic features of Philae’s 1 m-sized body and its legs, as seen in these definitive pictures."

I looked at the pictures and the human eye can barely see the lander. Considering that the chances of losing these landers is not that low, I don't understand why they don't make them visually more distinctive.

Andrew Ng gave a talk recently where he talks about designing the autonomous cars not for aesthetics, but predictability (via visual distinctiveness). [1] In the same spirit, shouldn't there be efforts to make these spacecraft modules more visually distinctive?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eJhcxfYR4I&t=16m35s
Not today, no.
> The French President becomes afraid not to just make a particular decision, but also to even discuss it.

I doubt the French President or any world leader is so cowed by the premise of NSA spying that it paralyzes them into inaction and submission. Paranoid people on the internet who think that the CIA might black-bag them for typing "Snowden" into Google may be that naive, but the actual political elites are likely far more aware of, and accepting of, the global surveillance network than you or I.

>Whether this has "always gone on", though, is irrelevant to whether it is antithetical to democracy.

That's true, but an assertion of a global political chilling effect remains speculative at best. If anything, the constant leaks about NSA spying seems to have the opposite effect.
> And this year or next year Tesla covers basically all of North America and Europe with their chargers.

We must have very different definitions of "covered". Looking at the supercharger map on Tesla's website, I'm not sure that even the SoCal area is close to fitting that definition. Most east coast state have only 5-10 stations for the entire state. Unless Tesla is planning to increase the rate of supercharger installations at an exponential rate, it will probably be another decade before the US will be covered to the point that you could reasonably expect to take off on a long distance trip without needing to plan around charger availability.
Well every other source seems to be reporting the same thing.
> more tax (heavy car = high tax)

The weights of the Tesla Model S and the Mercedea Class S are pretty much identical.
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I can only imagine the answer will be "another accessory".
How well does this handle large datasets (thousands of datapoints)?

That's a problem that, having worked mainly with Chartist, I have struggled with.
> Even a sequential implementation can produce different results if the requests arrive in different order.

I never said that the withdrawal requests must be served in the same exact order they were received. This may or may not be the case.

> are web server tasks parallel as they are all contributing at fulfilling the incoming client request queue?

At the highest level of abstraction, they're concurrent. The client request queue is a low-level implementation detail, and a high-level language could well hide it from you. (Yes, this means that people often do unnecessarily low-level programming, even when using so-called “high-level languages”.)

>> Parallel tasks cooperate towards a common goal. Concurrent tasks compete for access to common resources.

> This definition is interesting, but I think it lack descriptive power

Those particular sentences weren't definitions. The actual definitions were what I said a few comments earlier: “Parallelism and concurrency are fundamentally different things. Parallelism is running independent computations simultaneously. Concurrency control is managing the use of shared resources by temporarily granting exclusive access to them to individual computations.”

> It also misses the whole reason for parallelism which is speed-up (by a constant) of execution.

It doesn't. If there is only one goal, then the only possible point to splitting a computation into parallel subcomputations can be to speed up the global computation.
critical thinking and Machiavellianism are orthogonal. if you read the comments i am responding to, you'd see that those comments are the ones which are making the assumption that critical thinkers are non-Machiavellian, which is just as inane as the idea that critical thinking should be Machiavellian in nature. perhaps the problem is that for most people it is more emotionally satisfying to believe themselves as non-Machiavellian critical thinkers, thus confusing the two as related somehow.

consider two fundamental properties of critical thinking: asking the right questions, and objectivity. in a large organization that was defined (not by me) as having politics and power-playing as the main priority, then the person who thinks they are "getting things done" as long as those "things" do not involve icky political managerial dynamics ("selling my soul"), never thinking to question their own personal biases of "just because i like to put my head down and work on shipping product, is that the right thing to get done?", would seem to in fact not be engaging in critical thinking at all.

again, my reply is responding to (not supporting) the nonsensical proposition that critical thinkers (as ill-defined by other commentors) are more effective than Machiavellian actors, even as they are supposedly marginalized (aka rendered ineffective) within large organizations.

i can understand why that line of thinking is confusing, because it is.
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It's not in any way a call to weaken Tor, but I think that response is indicative of an ideological viewpoint that will achieve the same result.

A perfectly secure, perfectly anonymous network that no network-neutral party will service because of the levels of abuse which come from it is no stronger a solution than an insecure, de-anonymized solution. The parent blog post implicitly acknowledges this -- the poster disables exit handling for SMTP and BGP traffic because of that traffic's likelihood for abuse and the resulting effect on the exit node, even though such traffic might have legitimate uses. Practical requirements of node functionality trump ideology, in the case of SMTP and BGP traffic at least.

While Tor operators may accept abusive traffic as a result of their greater goal, the upstream providers of their nodes may not. The ability to reliably deliver traffic for all customers, Tor and non-Tor is key to their business. If that ability becomes compromised, they take action to preserve their business.
Indeed, Moinak's work on the block optimization was phenomenal (and under-appreciated).
> The problem is more like that tor relies on a few directory authorities and the only protection they have is geographic distribution and the public outcry should a set of nation state go actually seize them.

Seizing the DirAuth wouldn't achieve anything useful: all the data that the DirAuth has access to is a matter of public record (literally, the role of the DirAuth is to collect that data, sign it cryptographically and vote on it).

A group of nation-states looking to attack Tor this way would need to stealthily subvert a majority of the DirAuth, and manipulate the network consensus in a way that is both hard to detect and allows them to deanonymise users; that's very far from trivial.
>in a large company, if the main products are management politics, as you say, a capable critical thinker ought to be able to dominate that game

There's often no point. The main currencies of corporate politics are power, fealty, loyalty, power in numbers and image.

You can use your critical thinking to spin a good story but building coalitions takes time and demonstrating loyalty takes time. In a company on a downward trend is investing that time worth it? Probably not. Is it worth it if your best quality is that you're a reliable kiss ass? Maybe.

If shipping is priority #5 you'd likely do better getting out and moving to a company where it's #1 or #2 where critical thinking skills are more directly rewarded and you don't have to spend 5 years kissing the ring of an idiot boss in order to win political arguments.
Yes, for years. Have you driven a Tesla?
... or that a newborn with a defective heart can be "repaired" hours after birth and then live a normal human life span.

We really do live in an incredible age. The hedonic treadmill effect blinds us to this.
I have some very good experiences with dc-js [1]. It's a charting library for the purpose of interactive charts on managable datasets (tenthousands of records).

1: https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/
I think everyone is overlooking this very important point.
Well the use is decentralized any two people can (anonymously) complete a transaction. But the creation is centralized.
There are many ways to address DNA for sequencing that doesn't involve shotgunning.
The guy was convicted for literally saying in a public chat room “if you want to host child porn, you can do it on a Tor onion service”, IIRC.

That's very much not them getting convicted for running a Tor exit node.
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Personally, I would rather that apps follow the paradiggem (int.) established for the platform, so that there are fewer surprises. So, if you're on OS X, look and feel like an OS X app, ditto for IOS.

QT looks and feels like QT and takes a lot of it's cues from Windows (near as I can tell) so no QT app feels like it belongs on a Mac at all.
You seem to have a very rigid view of the business world. That is fine, but you are very likely to find yourself to be more effective if you can adopt a more flexible outlook, where you see peoples' competency in their jobs as a continuum rather than black and white, and where you see instructions as conversations rather than rigid honor-bound orders (unless you're in the military). Many have tried to make the organizations around them reflect their rigid prescriptions for how things should be done, and they mostly just succeed in making people dislike working with them.
Sure. I do have to point out though that those systems are not innovative.

I personally expect SpaceX to have more failures and am not surprised that they have. Back when NASA and the USSR were innovating in the 50s they both blew up a lot of stuff.
Yep it's easy to replicate provided you don't mind waiting 5-6 years for your copy of gigafactory to be built.
> the cucumber files just become yet another thing that the developers or testers have to write

yep, if (and it's sounding more and more like "when," even outside of my anecdotal experience) that decision is made, there's not much point in using cucumber or similar.

i was kind of hoping someone would say, "yea, our product manager writes domain-specific specification files, and the workflow is so much easier!" ... but no, i'll just continue being mildly cynical a/b the role of developers in industry.
Great answer. Focus on creating great quality first.

I would even suggest to publish on medium.com as the quality matters more than the template or you self hosting the site.
I'm confused about the appearance of autonomous cars. When is the car observing itself? How does its own appearance come into play?
It could be http://www.bosch.com/en/com/boschglobal/csr_battery_technolo...

Media stories about it talk about doubling storage capacity.

If so, it's a product of US government research.

http://www.seeo.com/about-us/
The Reduced Exit Policy goes in that direction: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReducedExi...

It's basically a documented exit policy (i.e. the configuration stating which outbound traffic you accept to carry) that aims to minimize the potential for abuse while still allowing useful things.
http://www.thedrive.com/tech/4591/the-war-for-autonomous-dri...
I'm female and have bad reactions to hormone-based contraception. I've not tried shots, implants, or IUD's because of my severe reaction to the pill. I've tried twice: Once I was incapable of feeling happy even though I logically knew I would normally be so - I only felt either very sad or very angry. The second attempt and I didn't want to leave the house. Stopping birth control and giving a bit of time for it to leave my system stopped the symptoms.

The other caveats: I don't want children, and married a like-minded individual. In addition, I have a higher than normal risk of death during pregnancy (didn't know until a few years back though, and I'm in my late 30's). I'm happy this happened to me instead of someone that has always wanted children.

But back to the point: I'd have been the one insisting a man take contraceptive if it were available. I think my spouse would have taken this in any relationship he's been in before we met as well. It actually makes me somewhat angry that this isn't a viable option by now.

I've read there is no market, among other things - like in this list http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/mens-health/11693171/F.... But I also tend to view some of this as ridiculous - surely, if they can market some of the crap we are currently buying, they can market this as well.
My entirely uneducated guess is that a layer of paint would impede the cooling of electronics that depend on the housing to dissipate heat.Paint would also absorb more solar heat than plain metal.
I think the claim of "using stolen code" is a bit strong. Do you have any evidence of that?

I'm completely willing to believe that they asm2c'd quite a lot of system libraries instead of properly reimplementing them. And I wouldn't be surprised if that's a prime reason why their software is not open source. But that's a step away from "stolen code" in my opinion.
IIRC, the designers had little idea what kind of surface the comet would have. Could be ice, could be rocks, could be dust.

What kind of landing gear + fixation gear would have been better?
Your deduction is right but your assumptions are wrong.
Interior is actually a bit worse - it has those tiny screens with huge bezels just bolted on somewhere randomly.
By about 12%. And they are losing ground.
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I'm just a user of Qt applications, so please don't take my comment to be authoritative. Experiment and conclude.
Quantum Gravity is pretty coherent it can explain the universe we see today, it can explain why an apple drops, and it can explain why galaxies form, it cannot explain the big bang and some periods after it but neither can general relativity.

For the most part particle accelerators are not needed to explain quantum gravity, we do use them to find "new physics" but this new physics is more in the lines of the known unknowns.

We also do apply relativity to small scales every day, without relativity muons could not be discovered and without relativity to some extent even large particle accelerators would not "work" because the effects of spatial contractions are pretty important for how we predict and analyse the data coming from particle accelerators especially the "messy kind" like the LHC.

As for the large scale stuff as mentioned earlier quantum gravity is pretty compatible with general relativity in terms of explaining how the universe that we see today looks and works, you can easily explain why and how the moon rotates around the earth, it does rely on a massless spin-2 particle called a graviton which is yet to be "discovered" and it does break if the graviton would have a different spin (for example spin-0 graviton).

So I don't really understand the notion of why people still think that quantum gravity and general relativity aren't compatible to the extent of "what the fuck is going on", which is odd since afterall GR isn't 100% compatible with the Standard Model either, since GR is background independent and does not care about the particular state or shape of space-time while SM does.
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In my opinion, it's much safer to do one of two things - use `-oProxyCommand=ssh <gateway> nc %h %p`, or set up different keys on the gateway host.

You risk the security of your SSH key when you use -A.
Got it.

I don't understand how the word promiscuous become such a toxic word even in the context of human relationship. We are several years into the era of Tinder and other hookup apps and people are still freaking out with the concept.
re: his son's brain tumor, let's say this is true. Could it be explained by him noticing symptoms of it and subconsciously being suspicious, which led to the pink beam "telling" him?
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i think this (the parent post) is truth: i've had conversations a/b behavior specification where edge cases simply aren't taken into account. so the specification would say, for example

"it does this when anyone clicks a button."

whereas there's often some implicit question, like

"what happens when two people click the button at the same time?"

and that kind of concern -- where the logical implications of requirements -- is not always handled by top-down requirements management... i'm almost certain i saw a fowler article on "conversational" requirements management recently, and that made a lot of sense.
Potential energy. I'm fascinated by ICs as a human artefact, but they don't have to sit on your desk containing tremendous energies and not exploding.
And? You can use advanced math without having a deep understanding of it.
The XKCD already updated the live comic about this subject [1].

All panels are available at its sister wiki [2]

In my opinion it is a beautiful work of art, pushing the limits of what the media allow the artist to do (the media in this case being comic strips in the webcomic format.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1446/

[2] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1446:_Landing/All...
The example charts appear to not resize with device orientation change from portrate to landscape.

Is this something that is expected to be handled by the end-user developer?
The simpler ATmega-based Arduino boards don't have the chops to run a JavaScript runtime. The 328P used in the Uno only has 32KB of program storage and only 2KB of RAM! The Zero, which is ARM-based, has 256KB of storage and 32KB of RAM. That's still probably too little to run a full JS implementation, but it might work if the JS is precompiled before being sent to the device.

Compare with the NetDuino, which runs the .NET micro framework. It has 1.4MB of program storage and 164KB of RAM. And even that is dealing with a binary program representation.
It's certainly not huge but I don't think it's tiny either. There's a growing market of people who care deeply about audio quality. Perhaps not to 'proper audiophile' level but enough to choose a phone largely on music. Would explain why HTC, LG and several Chinese brands are specifically targeting that area.
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miviiida :)
> They, too, can give you acceleration exactly when you want it.
> My biggest gripe about driving in the US. No manuals to rent -.-

This comparison is not even in the same time zone. The average American drives a car with gearing technology at least two or three entire generations beyond manuals. Electric cars feel like a couple generations beyond even the best automatic setups.

A car with a good CVT, for example, doesn't even switch "gears", it's one continuous acceleration from 0 to speed. My current car, a hybrid with a primary motivating electric motor, makes my wife's CVT feel like a steam-punk jalopy.

A good electric car, on the other hand, makes even the best automatic feel like the engine is dragging, or you're pulling a trailer or something.

Manuals, even great ones, feel like some stone-aged anachronism. After riding around in an electric, then getting in a manual, you can't believe that cars are still being made with such terrible gear shifting contraptions. It's like that car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with all the lever pulling and pedal pumping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KiZv2pOo5o
> The more people are aware that plaintext over Tor is a really, really bad idea [1], the more people will use end-to-end encryption.

Yes, but how does your collecting logs impact overall awareness?

Even if it did (say, you make the logs available through some snazzy web interface, it gets mass media attention), how does that balance out with the users who traffic you exposed?
Hmm with phones like the HTC 10 and LG V10 coming with built in amps there's a number of folk saving external amp/dac for home builds and using top music phones for on the go.
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I personally prefer Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/

They base their recommendations on real scientific articles.

Upd: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...
but, at least in the Netherlands, they are taxed way differently. I also heard people that leased them, and in the end the price over a few years is comparable to a €30K car, not another €100K car.
There is automated tooling out there that is used to detect misbehaving exits, like ExitMap: https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/phw/exitmap.git/
Sure, they could teach something different and then the students would learn something different, at the expense of not learning other things.

My advice is to learn what they school teaches and if there's something that's not being taught that might be important, try to learn that outside of class because learning outside of class is a skill that will work after college.

Good luck.
What is the maximum number of datapoints that plotting library should be excepted to handle at the same time?

I think 10,000 datapoints is the limit in 2d visualization but even 1000-2000 datapoints is often acceptable limit. It's usually reasonable to reasonable to downsample and decimate data before presenting it. If user zooms into data, it should be handled in some other ways than keeping all data.