skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the predictor only looks at the wave directly before the current one, and not the entire file. Delta encoding basically.

They also (as far as I know) don't attempt to isolate notes or voice phonemes. I.e arithmetic coding for sound.
Rules for cyclists in the UK:

At night your cycle MUST have white front and red rear lights lit. It MUST also be fitted with a red rear reflector (and amber pedal reflectors, if manufactured after 1/10/85). White front reflectors and spoke reflectors will also help you to be seen. Flashing lights are permitted but it is recommended that cyclists who are riding in areas without street lighting use a steady front lamp.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-cycli...
The river element as the article presents it seems to only be the disk that initiates the idea.

>'President Yuan Shikai referred to it obliquely, calling China “the famous descendant from Kunlun Peak,” which Chinese mythology locates in the far, far West' //

Is interesting enough IMO to warrant an initial investigation.

The radiographic data is another facet, that could be explained by getting the ores from Egypt.

>there is no reason to construct a hypothesis //

Surely there's always a reason to construct a hypothesis as that's the basis of the modern scientific method. One creates a hypothesis that can be falsified, the longevity of the hypothesis then indicates the verity of the claims.

Candelabras exist in many cultures but if you find a picture showing a 7 branched one (of the right form) there's a compelling reason to hypothesise that it's a menorah.

Do you real consider it implausible that people traveled from one part of the world to another and has a major influence on the other's cultural development.
Most kids and adults use alcohol. Prof. Nutt, one of the leading experts on drug use in the UK, wrote:

"MCDA modelling showed that heroin, crack cocaine, and metamfetamine were the most harmful drugs to individuals (part scores 34, 37, and 32, respectively), whereas alcohol, heroin, and crack cocaine were the most harmful to others (46, 21, and 17, respectively). Overall, alcohol was the most harmful drug (overall harm score 72), with heroin (55) and crack cocaine (54) in second and third places."

(He was then sacked from his position advising the government, and then all the other scientists resigned from the committee he chaired.)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61462-6
Currently it's 'they'. Yes, there's some confusion about whether it refers to one person or more, but that confusion already exists with 'you', in all except regional usages.
> the concept of written language came from the Middle East but was re-implemented independently from whatever proto writing existed at the time

This seems the most likely because it only takes one person in ancient times moving from one society to another to impart such knowledge. Anyone supporting that idea doesn't have to offer any evidence -- it's up to the person disagreeing to disprove it because their position is far less likely.

Given that both Chinese and hieroglyphs both have radicals (in Chinese, as part of a character, and in hieroglyphs, trailing the character), the concept of radicals may also have spread the same way.
Can you share your interests / capabilities upfront? Definitely have some side projects gathering dust but they need to go to a good home...
This is necessary but not sufficient to prevent issues. Sure, it will prevent auto increment key collisions, but unless you're using strict sessions everywhere you can run into other key consistency problems. For example if one master deletes a row while another updates it you'll end up with a missing key and stopped replication on the first one. (depends on the replication mode as well)
maybe they are just russian. Living in the country of thieves leaves some marks on mentality.
With emacsclient you can easily open those files, quickly, in Emacs; in fact, I would argue you should. fstab has its own editing mode in Emacs with syntax highlighting and so does hosts.
Can we please abandon the word “spiritual”?
Denatured alcohol (e.g., ethanol with added methanol to render it undrinkable) is still used today for industrial purposes since it's much cheaper than pure ethanol, which is heavily taxed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol
ah yes, interesting, thank you for replying!
I'm really tired of shit like this being bucketed as "the liberal left" when it has just about nothing to do with liberalism or leftism.

I suspect I'm just as tired of that, as actual conservatives are of their views being mixed in with Trump's.

It's censorship and bullshitocracy.
Thanks for the offer; I'm a Brit who got my firearms training at school courtesy of the army cadet scheme, with a set of antique .22 bolt-action rifles on the school range. Then I went to university and met someone who'd lost a close relative at 17, short dead by a British soldier in Northern Ireland. So in some ways I've seen a little of both ends of the gun.

> The UK is seeing this progression happen now.

Crime is slowly falling (as it is everywhere) in the UK; there is a bit of a knife problem in some places, but not one that dominates political conversation. Nowhere near as bad as the 50s. Responses range from the ineffective - literally a ban on scary-looking knives ("zombie knives"), to the quite effective Scottish Violence Reduction Unit.

The one thing I accept as a completely legitimate use is against wild animals in the rural USA. No argument there. It doesn't follow from that that everyone needs to have guns in a densely packed city.
OK interesting, for me I personally always feel lost in nano as for me it feels like it's a gui app trying to exist in a console, but that's me - thanks for replying to my question!
I don't spend enough in Linux/BSD* environments and/or editing text to make learning vi/emacs worthwhile, but need a terminal editor for maintaining my remote server. nano is ideal for that role - minimal functionality + shortcuts shown at all times means I don't need to learn anything, but can make any quick edits I need.

* I know both can be used on Windows, but a GUI editor feels like a more natural fit to me in that environment.
I don't have a clear opinion on the Crockford discussion but this post would be more convincing if it didn't put the lambda conf issue into the mix. I hope for Douglas Crockford that he doesn't want to get compared with Curtis Yarvin...
The moment we manage to cover the "education gives us control over our impulses" part for a majority of the population, democracy would truly work to our benefit. Although some may not actively rely on whatever they may have learned in a math class, they may still use some of that information to form intuition and subliminally guide them in their thought processes. Engineers who studied or practiced the arts in some portion of their lives may subliminally transfer some of their learnings from that domain into their work as well. Simply arguing that one doesn't need higher math because they don't actively use it is therefore unfair.
Not necessarily. When the first iPhone came out with retina display I eventually realized that the contacts app had incredibly tiny letters on the tabs. It was only visible if you looked very closely but was an amazing touch of polish.
> Tracking, as we know, gives companies and governments dangerous power; the intimidating effect of general surveillance has been measured and is massive. The rate of visits to some Wikipedia pages – those about “al-Qaida”, “car bomb” and “Taliban” – declined by one-fifth after Edward Snowden showed us how much the US government spies on our internet activity.
> the practice of defaulting to "he" correlates with hundreds of years of treating women as chattels

Er, no. It just means it is the unmarked/unremarkable case corresponding to males being generally worth less and discardable ("save the women"...).

It is also a quirk of some of our languages that the gender-neutral pronouns are considered derogatory when applied to people. German and English have this problem ("it", "es"), whereas French "on" seems to be okay.

So the language requires gendering when no gender is semantically intended. In German, every noun is gendered. So "person" is "she", whereas "human" is "he", "Civilisation" and "Society" are both "she", "state" is "he". "Lampshade" is "he" whereas "Lamp" is she, etc. You can try to read deep meaning into these quirks, or you can just not.

TL;DR: Not only are you reading way to much into linguistic quirks, your analysis is also at best shaky.
Or maybe Your country or region is different.

I'm in Norway living in a decent sized city (for Norway). The public transportation is great here, and taking a baby or toddler on the bus doesn't seem to be an issue at all. People often don't take young children out of their strollers.

Now, off in the countryside, it seems that public transportation thins out (though isn't non-existent), and more people have cars. Usually small-to-medium sized front wheel drive cars, families usually have a 4 door model.
I got burned by this in upstate New York and it caused an unnecessarily long delay. I was following the directions provided by the customer and came across a 12'6" marked bridge towing a 13'6" trailer on a narrow two-lane highway. I stopped, obviously, and had to ring the highway patrol for help. Traffic behind me was stuck waiting and this low clearance bridge was not properly marked in the trucker atlas and (if it had truly been 12'6") not up to spec for a state highway overpass. I'd done my due diligence so this was the highway patrol or customer's problem to sort out.

About an hour and a half later, we established that the road had been recently re-paved and no one was exactly sure what the height was. Backing up to the nearest intersection was not an option because there were none close by and turning the tractor-trailer around was impossible. The cops were cool about it and suggested that I creep forward very slowly and see if I'd fit. I was able to do this and stop just as the trailer reached the bridge. I got out of the cab and climbed up behind the tractor to have a peek and had about an inch to spare. I went for it, very slowly, and made it under. No fun but I did get a cool photo as a memento: http://i.imgur.com/64uYu2z.jpg

I took a different route on the way back of course!
For those equally baffled over 'SMIDSY': "Sorry Mate, I Didn't See You"
The article notes a Chinese national anthem referring to a popular myth of [some] people coming to China from the far, far West.

This seems consistent with ideas of Africa as the crucible of human civilisation; you appear to think that idea is some sort of Western imperialism?

Can you explain further how a group of Egyptians traveling to China supports the notion of Western (ie West Europe + North America) notions of superiority?

Even if the whole concept had been born out of Western imperialism, that wouldn't of course make it wrong.
> You apologized for lacking nuance on Twitter with your "announcement" and yet continue to do so.

I saw parallels of this earlier this year against Richard Dawkins, when the NECSS uninvited him over twitter, followed it with a longer post on their blog[0]. After their actions caused a blowback, they apologized for their lack of professionalism. NECSS backtracked on their position[1] because the blowback was from prominent people.

I don't think prominent people in CS will band together like that, so I don't think the Nodevember folks will backtrack either.

[0] http://necss.org/2016/01/27/a-statement-concerning-richard-d...

[1] http://necss.org/2016/02/14/statement-from-the-executive-com...
If it takes fiat currency it's probably not anonymous.
I certainly wouldn't feel 'comfortable' speaking at a conference with a reputation for publicly character-assassinating their invited speakers. Especially as the worst accusation I could find on twitter was that he used the word 'stupid'. Several times! Throw away the key...
It's not so much an 'equal parent' thing, in my opinion. Like I said above, I'm a father of three (I'm up feeding our 4 month old twins right now actually...), and we're absolutely 'equal' parents. My wife handles a larger share of the childcare duties, just like I handle a larger share of the landscaping... It's just the division of labor that works best for us. We're both very aware of, and quick to correct, attitudes that she's somehow more of 'parent' than I am (e.g. when she goes out in the evening, I am not "babysitting"...)

So, I am very sensitive to your point, and I think it's an important one, but i don't think it's the primary motivator for the use of "mother" in the article.

I suspect the reasons are (at least) twofold. The primary demographic served by this ER doc has a very high rate of single mothers. I'm not making commentary on that beyond the simple fact that it is the reality. My guess is most of the time she's talking to the mother because the mother _is_ the only parent present.

When the father is there though, I studied he feels as I do... In that awful moment, I would want the doctor's attention on my wife. I would want as much support as possible for her in that time. I'll make do on my own for now... Like I said, that's likely misguided chivalry or a 'macho' attitude on my part, but it's my honest take on the situation, and I suspect I'm in the majority.
The predictor looks at a 'window', which is usually defined in terms of n samples. If you make your window too short, you are not capturing any meaningful periodicity; if you make it too long you have sacrificed some error resilience and decoding convenience in exchange for hoping to get a better match for your predictor.

Speech codecs (lossy) basically operate just like you describe, see [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocoder#Modern_implementations
Are there a lot of major rivers with 9/lots of distributaries that flow North?
Their website[1] suggests that the price will be around $250,000, in the same ballpark with other launch options. The real selling point is supposed to be quick lead time (months instead of years) and the ability to send payloads with, say, volatile propellants, that other customers would not want close to their satellites.

[1] http://cubecab.com/cubesats.html
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Same here, and I always recommend to go through it together with Erik Meijer in his Functional Programming Fundamentals Chapter lecture series on Channel9 (https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Erik-Meijer-Fun...). I wish more programming books were written like this, with emphasis on exercises rather than heaps of text.
Would lossless and/or lossy compression algorithms perform better if each element of an audio track was compressed and stored separately (similar to the MP4-based STEM audio format [1], but without any limitations on the maximum number of elements and the stereo master which increases the file size)? The constituent parts of the track would then be merged together during playback by the audio player.

[1] http://www.stems-music.com/stems-faq/
WRT win-lose approach:

It's what recent history teaches to Russia.
People kind of expected that peaceful end of the cold war is a good thing, but it turned out that USA & Western Europe won and Russia lost. And now US politics has audacity to poke in russians' faces with this "fact". It was win-lose.

After that, on 2000-s, Russia sought to enter WTO, even join NATO, and streighten ties with EU. But it mostly got humiliation and shown the door. It wasn't win-win.

Now, it's quire easy to learn that win-win scenarios don't work and win-lose do, and you want to be on a right side of win-lose.

And I wold argue that win-win fails to perform in modern world. It's now more like lose-lose. Iraq? Syria (for all parties including Russia)? Lose-lose. Even international trade starts to show this character.

But after all that said, speculating on peoples' beliefs instead of facts is always opinionated.
That is a nice and lovely idea...

Only every government everywhere hates it.

If it is possible to pay for something anonymously, then there is no following the money of others paying anonymously for other reasons. Including paying for products or services that are illegal or even with money from such sales.

Yes, you might compare this to cash. Cash that everyone used to carry around. It the higher denominations are marked (serial numbered), at least for US currency. Still it takes a LOT of effort to track their flow. For any kind of digital currency this scheme isn't tenable or repeatable. The tracking would either be too easy to prevent abuse, or too easy to abuse (get around).

Maybe we can have this level of freedom, if we admit that being at war with our population is a bad idea. If we allow the legal and controlled use of current vices. It wouldn't be perfect, but at least in that world we could probably get by with just controlling the income phase.

Though if you wanted to tax wealth (not income) you'd also need to report a total of 'outflow'. Which makes obtaining 'gifts' from sources not clearly related to work a vector suspect as tax avoidance via temporal displacement of wealth.
I should have phrased this better. There have always been mercenaries of course, and I believe there has been an uptick in US government use after the end of the cold war under Clinton. I'm however under the impression that the growth since 2001 has been unprecedented, as is the fact that the number of private sector employees deployed to war zones by the US government outstripped military deployments. So a qualitative change seems to have taken place during that time, even if it was just the continuation of an earlier development.

I could easily be wrong though, because I'm having trouble finding precise and dependable information online – if you have some good pointers about the growth and changed role in US politics of mercenaries, I'd be interested in reading them.
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I used to say such things to my mother 20 years ago - mostly about the children. My words were more that I wouldn't do it before 30, and then it was a maybe. (I never have wanted children, honestly).I told her any man I married would just have to be happy with that.. She swore I'd change my mind. I still don't have children. I'm 38, and will remain childless. My husband is fine with this.

But I do think most folks that say such things wind up with long-term relationships (legal marriage isn't as attractive with many) and a child or two when they are 25-30, either by accident or something changes when their mind stops developing.
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How dare you deny the lived experience of the UFO abductees!!
Is this something Brave is implementing with its "Brave Payments" [0]?

[0] https://blog.brave.com/introducing-brave-payments , HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12411405
I think it depends on the useful life of the dam, mainly determined by silting, which in turn depends on geology, soils, vegetation, gradients, erosion, rainfall patterns, hence suspended load in tributaries, and the possibilities for sluicing out the silt.

For example, the Three Gorges dam seems to have a problem with silt accumulation that could cause a dramatic reduction in reservoir water capacity. I suspect many such dams will end up as concrete carcasses at the head of muddy lagoons - maybe not so bad for wildlife in the long run.
FWIW any application launched from the shell that spawns its own full-screen context is a 'gui app trying to exist in a console', including its competitor editors; at least nano tells you now to use it once you're stuck inside it.
Apart from the Nile, that is.
> You can walk around the globe in 10-20 years.

This is an important footnote that many historians seem to overlook.

However a similar argument makes the seaborne theory plausible too, as it took less than three years to sail or row around the globe, probably ever since the invention of the sailboat (~4000BC?).
No, you're confusing a river with the river bed.
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For those times when you absolutely must have a meeting (this should be a rare event), stick to these simple rules:

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Invite as few people as possible.
Never have a meeting without a clear agenda.

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Money is life time. People exchange their life time for money. How money is introduced into the economy is a red herring.

The rest of your argument is red herring as well, you just switched to talking about violent crime, which has nothing to do with our conversation. I was talking specificzlly about misdemeanor theft, not robbery or felony theft.
Golomb-Rice with base M is prefix code optimal for approximately geometric probability distribution
Pr(x) ~ sqrt(2)^(-Mx).
Arithmetic coding or FSE/tANS would allow to use the actual probability distribution. The question is how large the gain could be - how far from Shannon is Golomb-Rice for this specific type of data?
If this probability distribution varies, maybe it's worth thinking about adaptive rANS, like in Oodle LZNA and BitKnit: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2015/12/21/rans-in-practice/
ps. Is M fixed or adapting?
Shouldn't casting FLAC on Chrome to a Chromecast be a priority? I may be a curmudgeon, but I have way too many CDs in storage in those 80 litre Rubbermaid bins that I only ever see as FLAC files on the media server.
We had these a long time ago; 'module files' made with music trackers [1]. And yes, they compress very well.

Unfortunately, the transformations that make up 'mastering' can be pretty elaborate, and for professionally-produced music there is little incentive to let the general public see their project files -- although they are occasionally made available for remixers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module_file
I don't know. Is the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command a private entity that sends armed employees or contractors to war zones to fulfil military roles?
I would say it's slightly more complex than that.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a46918/heroin-mexico-el...
Not trying to force either of those on you or anything like that, but just a quick remark: both Vim (although not vi) and Emacs have fully functional GUI “modes” (in fact, I think overwhelming majority of Vim/Emacs users use it in GUI mode). They might not look native in Windows though.
Just for clarifacation: I live in Northern Europe, but am American.

The manual transmissions? Part of this is the lack of requirement for driver training to teach folks. The other bit of this is that most folks don't have access to manual transmissions. A great deal of cars don't even offer the option. I was fortunate enough to learn to drive one years ago, but not all are. This is really simple lack of availability.

Ancedote: My spouse and I own a (older) 4 door sedan. It has a manual transmission. Now, the brand isn't sold in the states, but many similarly sized vehicles are. In the US, this class of vehicle isn't generally available with a manual transmission - if it is available at all. Usually, the only cars with the options are the smallest cars, trucks, or luxury vehicles.
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