skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your criticism really applies to the gem authors, which to me, does not make sense. If I, as a library developer, want my library to be used on the critical path in heavy-load situations, and the library is for a language like Ruby, I'm going to figure out which part of my library are the performance critical parts, and implement them in a native language.
Those people may have sworn an oath to protect us, but in practice, like any security apparatus, they care more about protecting the state from us.
You would seriously keep people in jail for marijuana charges after marijuana was legalized?

If a mistake is made, remedy the mistake. The government made a mistake in providing a glut of cheap money and prohibiting the borrowers from discharging the debt in bankruptcy. They need to fix their mistake by undoing that.

What you're proposing is like abolishing slavery, except for everyone who is currently a slave. "Sorry guys, there will be no NEW slaves, but you were slaves when it was legal, so, tough"
> That's not survivable for people.

Got me wondering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-force#Human_tolerance reports an early experiment of a human taking 10g for 1 minute. That'd add up to 5.8 km/s, which is still under delta-v to LEO (9.4 km/s or more including air drag according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit). But it's close, and the Wikipedia page doesn't say it's an upper bound. OTOH at 10g to 9.8km/s (higher delta-v to be conservative and for easier math) the track would need to be more like 490km long (and it'd take ~100sec). And maybe the deceleration on hitting the atmosphere would be worse, I don't know. It sounds more plausible for cargo.
It's the right side, but the so-called effects purported to be visible in this photo are not from the rabbits - the left side of the picture is densely agricultural, while the right side is not.
It's an interesting arrangement. Launching a cyber war for its own sake might or might not escalate to a hot conflict, but a hot conflict would almost certainly be backed by the cyber version.
Isn't there a cruise ship trying to make the northwest passage next year?
Just like nearly any moral line, morals here are contingent. I think it is hardly necessary to point out the arbitrariness of which recreational drugs are illegal, with one of the most dangerous being legal and considered moral in moderation.

As far as sports drugs, I honestly don't care about it, not being someone who watches or participates in any of them. But I strongly suspect that we'll see the "ok"/"not ok" lines being drawn towards maximizing viewers, perhaps with a sop towards athlete-health down the list somewhere.

I also predict that conversations about doping will sometime soon indirectly put enough pressure on the US NFL to cause it serious problems about player brain injury. It is hard to worry about player health regarding drugs and ignore the people broken by other aspects of the games.
And here's the article https://tidbits.com/article/5552

"The compelling aspect of this story is that as a result of the break-in, the U.S. Army has switched the machines that serve the Army's home page from Windows NT-based PCs to Power Macintosh G3s running WebSTAR from StarNine Technologies."

[edit:] I do love the speculation at the end on if Mac OS X Server will be as good security-wise as Mac OS.
Any data you put into "the cloud" is not private (unless you encrypted it ahead of time)
A lot of people say that the real issue is blood sugar spike, how fast it happens, and what the glycemic index of the food you are eating is.

I always wonder about the whole glycemic index theory. Lot of counterintuitive data here: http://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/glycem...

For example, where Glucose=100, Banana cake, made with sugar=47, but Banana cake, made without sugar=55, and Brown rice, average=68.

Or, Chickpeas=10, but Chickpeas canned in Brine=42.

White rice, of course, is the worst of all of these at 73. Worse than Apple Juice (41), Orange Juice (50), and even Coca Cola (63)
Pretty sure a hundred or so years ago laws were passed that literally stopped immigration from different countries (China, Italy, Eastern European countries). So that's happened before.
Curiously I just picked up the book last weekend. Enjoying it so far.
Biz guy with good idea looking for someone to do all the work
Me: Good ideas. Proven track record.

You: Ambitious, talented, hustler who can make decisions and get things done. Full-stack developer with UX skills preferred, but open to designer who can hire the right people, manage things, understand and execute my vision.

Funding: I will invest $50,000 into this project

What's in it for you?: Depends on your skills and what you're looking for, we would need to iron out the details. Up to 50% ownership, vested over time, or combination of ownership and monthly stipend (which comes out of the original $50k investment). More importantly, this will be a good opportunity to absorb my 15+ years of marketing and product development experience.

-----------

I realize this sounds crazy (oh sure, another biz guy that wants me to do all the work), I get it, no need to comment on how terrible this is. You just have to assume that I'm not BSing, either you're interested or you're not.

Send email introducing yourself to: hn@sixquarks.33mail.com

please include examples of your work and/or accomplishments.
Until they decide they will.
The University of Texas has in state tuition for below 6k a year, and in some cases out of state tuition can come in at below 10k as well. [1] This is just tuition and administrative fees and doesn't include housing and textbooks.

[1] https://admissions.utexas.edu/tuition/cost-of-attendance

Edit: Sorry I misread. These stats are by semester, not year.
Facebook and Twitter join coalition to improve social media newsgathering
Depending on when you went to college, the "Cash for Clunkers" scheme might have been relevant?
And here we thought Weimar Germany produced bizarre art.
We did this 10 years ago at Wisconsin, during my PhD:

http://www.inference.eng.cam.ac.uk/saw27/dasher/bci/

The video I made of one of our undergrad assistants is still up there!
Well, it is controlled by a non-profit organization already funded by something else.

There are no profits created by this network, so even if it does not work well, we will not lose money.

About the organization itself, it has others activities maintaining it alive.

As the President of Blackfields Network, the parent organization of DomIRC, I swear we will maintain this network as long as we exist.
It depends. Downsampling and image pyramids are common. You might call it "filtering", which is more descriptive way of putting it. You ideally filter out the data you don't want (noise, specks of dirt) and keep the data you do want (letter shapes). Extreme blurring, used in obfuscation, is supposed to completely remove the part of the image you're supposed to hide, but in fact, the filter is not perfect. It only lowers the signal level, and you need a more powerful filter to extract the signal afterwards, and you end up with more quantization noise. ("Deconvolution" really just means coming up with the opposite filter.)

Deep convolutional networks (which are used here) are basically custom image kernels, non-linear activation functions, and simple downsampling algorithms chained together. So you don't really need to explicitly blur, because the network will train itself to use a blur filter if its necessary.
> Italy still makes the best espresso _machines_ such as Simonelli

Even that I think they're losing ground on - Slayer or Synesso out of Seattle, or Mod Bar out of Indiana are pretty great, certainly right up there with any Simonelli or La Marzoco.

For consumer level espresso machines, I think Breville (Australian) has been blowing away just about everything under 2k$. It's been interesting to watch them bring more modern control tech into the cheap market.
My solutions for all exercises from third edition of “Programming in Lua”
Comparatively, teaching is a low-earning major on average, as are many that wind up in a government or public service job. Teaching, btw, is one of the options with a history degree. We need public defenders (and the funds to properly pay them), but that isn't generally a get-rich job either. Especially in a small county or cheap area. And we need these sorts of jobs.

It seems mighty unfair to limit the money simply because a degree doesn't earn so much. I think such a system would lead to sub-par schools for the 'lesser' degrees and better ones for those with better earning potential.
Yeah, who is this seemingly normal guy? I want to know!
Blue collar employment has been falling in this country, replaced by either knowledge work -- which usually requires further education -- or service industry jobs. If there were truly huge demand for many of these professions, pay would be skyrocketing, encouraging more and more people to go into these professions.

I agree that there are and will continue to be good skilled trade jobs and many people would be better served by pursuing these options, but there is tremendous value for the average American in a college degree. The problem is that a lot of Americans are unable to graduate college, and waste their time and money pursuing a degree instead of doing something more inline with their talents or their drive.

As it stands, automation will most likely continue to primarily affect blue collar workers before it hits knowledge workers. Long-haul truck driving will probably fall relatively soon and factories will continue to have more and more automation.
The only way to use GitLab CI is as part of GitLab. By doing this we could deeply integrate it into the interface of GitLab and make it a better user experience. If you host your code anywhere else you can use remote mirroring (EE/.com only) to use GitLab CI.
I would personally seek Michael's advice when I was in the S15 batch because of how earnest his advice was. Even for companies outside his group you could really tell the effort he would give to provide quality guidance. One example of how much Michael cares was in the days before our demo day, I was the first to come in at 8AM and Michael literally had slept on the couch having stayed up all night providing feedback the night before. He comes out of the partners office, sits down, and has me pitch maybe 10 minutes after he probably woke up :) Congrats!
Why can't you attach a serial console? This will help with any problems that still let you get to grub (BIOS Setup likely doesn't support UI over serial, unless it's a server-like machine).

Once you have a serial console, you can either just plug the cable into your laptop (likely through USB-attached serial port) or set up a small second box (that just runs an ssh daemon and has something like picocom installed) and connect it to that. Then you'll have access over the network.
Not much of a difference, actually. Once you've got your brain trained to select the letters by location you can remove the eye tracking part and just use abstract thought.

"I'm thinking of a letter... On the far left of the keyboard, middle row."
sounds like it. though, i think for aesthetic purposes, i'd prefer a random or "stock" obfuscated faces rather than a colored box.
>>We already have access to other information as a matter of public record

2 wrongs do not make a right.

There is FAR FAR FAR too much information accessible to police and even other citizens now. It is clear you believe everything about a person should just be open to everyone.

Do you believe in any privacy at all?
The best part is that a local hunter found the boat six years ago. That's awesome.
I agree it is not ideal but it should work pretty smoothly, have you tried https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/repository_mirroring.htm... ?
It's damn near impossible to remove all carbs from your diet, even if you try. So, in the very theoretical case of having absolutely no carbs, then you're right. For the vast majority of people on earth, it's simply not true.
I used to enjoy visiting StumbleUpon and seeing what kinds of random places I'd end up. Then one day they asked me what kind of content I enjoyed, and wouldn't let me do anything else until I told them. Stopped going after that. I miss the ease of ending up somewhere totally unexpected that it once gave me.
Rice, in general, has a pretty high glycemic index. From: http://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/glycem...

Glycemic index of Brown Rice is 68, White Rice is 73, Coca Cola, in comparison, is only 63.

But, what makes white rice so really horrible, is not just the glycemic index, but the glycemic load - the net-impact on blood sugar. It's off the charts huge for a typical 150 gram serving of white rice at 43, (compared to just 16 for a coca cola).

Kind of mind blowing, that if you are worried about blood sugar, you are better off drinking 2 cans of 250 ml coke, instead of one 150 gram bowl of white rice.
Help Needed: Facebook claims my friend's name doesn't exist
A friend of mine is trying to create an account on Facebook for the first time, but Facebook is declaring that her name is fake.

But her name is genuine. Please, is there anyone here who can help, or offer useful advice?
No it is not 20th century thinking, Mexico and some other countries in Latin America are becoming the workshop of the Americas. Once China firmly transforms into middle income country, the global supply chain will look else where for cheaper labor. But with 3D printing and high automation many factory floors will return to US or will be closer to US than China.

China has more basic problems, their coastal provinces are prosperous and their interior is not, and they have their own centrifugal forces. Long story short, you are overestimating america's problems and underestimating China's problems.
> tends to be overly restrictive and, of course, doesn't cover pre-existing conditions

Shitty companies like VPI have those problems. I have Healthy Paws, and it's excellent. They cover everything without argument. They seem to have no problem paying out on the things their policy is supposed to cover. I've heard similar things about Trupanion. My friend is a vet and raves about both companies.

Charity is great, and I'm sure it could impact thousands of pets a year, but I have a hard time believing it's going to fix pet care in a meaningful way.
I know a few Apple people. They are so impressed by Apple because they REALLY think that whatever Apple has on their devices every year is something that no other company has done EVER.
Lionel Shriver’s Address on Cultural Appropriation Roils a Writers Festival
Congrats RunKit team! I've always played with npm modules before I actually started using them thanks to you guys.
You are conscious, because your mind is conscious, and your mind is a part of you.

The universe is conscious, because you are conscious, you are a part of the universe.

Brahman is also conscious, because universe is conscious, and the universe is a part of Brahman.

I'm not Hindu, but this is pretty conclusive proof.
Most of my neighbors are "blue collar" entrepreneurs who started in trade jobs and eventually founded their own construction, electrical, or plumbing contracting companies. Most of them make way more money than software developers. Well into the six-figure scale.
As someone who has never spent a dime on student loans, I would be happy to help bail out graduates with my tax dollars. What do I care? I've been paying for the trillions dollar war for 15 years now, so paying for something this would be a breath of fresh air.

You folks are getting screwed.
> And yet you can buy a house in the outskirts in any major Indian city for way less. Which used to be how most middle class Indians used to buy homes in my dad's generation.

And how do you get to the city? Through the non-existent highways? Or maybe the congested public transportation, if any? Besides which, I don't know about you, but my parents could not afford a house until I was in high school. And even after buying the house, they still could not live in the house (because of aforementioned problems with commuting).

> The issue is most of us want housing in luxury apartments with amenities with no match, and with transit infrastructure closer to office. This was and always will remain very expensive in any economy on earth let alone Chennai.

Please stop projecting your opinions on others. The demand I see is mostly for livable quarters at reasonable distances with basic amenities and some expectation of privacy... which seems to be too much to ask in any of the major cities.

> It will take more or less the same in any major city in the US. Most Indians think if they land in the US, all problems will vanish in thin air, milk and honey will flow from now. While what really happens is all your problems remain as is, except that you get a little better roads.

I don't know where you're getting these ideas from. Better roads yes, but also: better work-life balance. Decent compensation. Reasonable vacation time. Great career prospects. The prospect of living and working with people from different cultures (not just American, but from many other countries as well).

> Please take a good look on all housing related threads on this forum, young people in western economies have it way difficult than any of us.

Again, please stop projecting your ideas/views on the rest of us.
Russia is on a much lower ground ethically. China hasn't recently annexed territories from its neighbours whom they promised to protect and support just a few years ago.
I was playing devils advocate a bit in the last post ;-) My workflow involves a mix of the two methods. If I know I'm going to be doing text manipulation, I'll use vim+ConqueTerm, but more normally I just let iTerm2's splitting handle it. (I actually prefer it over tmux/screen, but when you need multiple things on a remote, I can see why people prefer it.)
It's been a long time since my monthly phone bill was more than $25, and I live in a rural area. Why don't people shop harder for this service?
Just had one. Not as strange as most of these but annoying. We have a custom P4V tool which often needs to be run simultaneously for two different changelists via the changelist context menu. However, we noticed that after the first instance of the script finishes on the first changelist the second one running in parallel exits along with the first, never finishing the work for the second changelist. I noticed that if you terminate the second started instance the first is unaffected, only the other way around.

At first I thought it was something wrong with handling multiple processes in our tool, or some weird multiprocess tkinter or cx_Freeze issue. Then I realized that starting these two instances of the script from two _separate_ p4v windows resolves the issue and they can run at the same time, not hindering each other. But we can't ask users to have multiple P4V windows open just to run this on multiple changelists.

The workaround, for now, is having the custom tool run a batch file instead which then runs the frozen python app exe, ensuring that each actual instance of the tool starts in its own parent process and not as a p4v subprocess.
Seamless Network State Monitoring with Retrofit and Okhttp
Russian Hackers Leak U.S. Files from Doping Agency
Government & consultants.
He suspects China or Russia as the likely culprit. What exactly rules out an American agent? Is it because American economic and social activity rely disproportionately on internet backbones more so than other state actors? If so, that would be especially interesting.
Thanks for the links, I enjoy discovering sites with interesting content.

They probably wouldn't be classed as unknown/obscure, but I always seem to find something interesting on Brain Pickings and Colossal, worth a look if they're new to you:

https://www.brainpickings.org/

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/
> he's now presumably busy feeding and clothing a new generation of orphaned children, orphaned by the original orphans

That comment makes up a fact and then criticizes it.

I have no idea what the outcomes are for the people Bram helped and I doubt you do, though I'm confident they have a little more food and whatever else he provides. There are still problems in Uganda and there are still problems everywhere in the world, including in rich nations, in your family and mine, in your life and mine; there are bugs in Linux' code. The fact that problems remain doesn't in any way imply that the efforts to improve are counter-productive. That doesn't make sense.
Gaza is being kept separated from the West Bank and the rest of the world by a total blockade, maintained by Israel in violation of the Oslo accords, which Israel signed 20 years ago. Immediately after the signing of those accords (1993) Gaza was closed off with a fence and travel was severely curtailed with an electronic card system. The blockade has only become more severe since then.

Regarding you request for source on the "right to invade Gaza":
> "Israel will continue to control Gaza's coastline and airspace and reserves the right to undertake military operations when necessary. (Art 3.1)." http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/peace/mfadocuments/p...

This is also evident by the many incursions Israel has made on Gaza. Israel is still firing shells into Gaza with tanks and mortars!
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=hundred...

Regarding the Israeli control of Gaza being an occupation:

>In January 2012, the spokesperson for the UN Secretary General stated that under resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly, the UN still regards Gaza to be part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories
It's cleared dramatically as the Arctic sea ice is melting. The wiki has satellite pics, it's pretty dramatic

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage
Ask HN: Why is linking to paywalled articles so common here?
You rarely or never see this on reddit or pretty much any other community board. Why does it happen so often here when anyone submitting can easily find a non-paywalled source with the same information?
Now that people are figuring out how to do this in Rust things should get a lot better.
This looks like Google+ without the name. I always thought this is how Google+ should have been introduced. Small steps, without the hype, integrated in all Google products. Now it's too late and people will be bugged by every future attempt at social sharing / community building.