skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have they? A rhetorical tone can be hard to convey over the aether, but humor me for a minute...

The point is that even after words (and whole concepts) fall out of favor scientifically, they can still have a metaphorical meaning. Sometimes it's the best we've got even though we know it's wrong. We might like to describe someone's personality in terms of serotonin levels and amygdala response, but we really don't know enough - so we call them hot-blooded, even though that theory died many a long age ago.
Very lengthy, well written article about the history, political implications and principles of public key encryption.

I am a big fan of this technology [1], and still hope that it will be more wide spread among citizens in a secure form. Like freedom of speech, information security is definitely an important pillar of the modern state and empowers citizens. Unfortunately, all attempts to introduce it to the masses and get it right from the security point of view have failed so far.

It is a tough balancing act to get right [2]: freedom, convenience, safety - you seemingly can only have two of them.

[1] e.g. in the form of https://www.gnupg.org/

[2] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/dan_geer_on_c...
Nice idea, would it be possible that you allow CORS?
I can't even begin to imagine the anguish that taking another human's life in that manner would cause me.
Isn't that exactly what GP is saying?
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Put deterrence aside for a moment. Let's talk about the cost of keeping guilty murderers alive in prison for the remainder of their lives. Is it worth it?
Stop starting with Scrum
Speeding things up would only make it worse for all of the wrongly convicted. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-list-those-freed-d...
Ironically, being strictly against something looks like you know what you are doing. We should promote this guy, he prevents alot of bad things happening.
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I generally like var, however one thing I've found to bite me in the ass occasionally is using var for results returned from asynchronous operations... and then forgetting to use await on it :)
It appears to be a large part of what he's saying, yes, but it looks like it certainly helps to have the hacking chops to be able to move millions of dollars between hacked bank accounts, compromise state-wide telcos at the root, and have the backing and advice of an international mercenary and special forces veteran.
I'm not in the space at all, so from outside "Unix systems" seems like a very arbitrary label - since I'm assuming most of the X86 machines are running Linux or BSD which are very much Unix, I guess the "systems" part is where there is some specific definition
One review on Amazon says "[...] The only asterix one would attach to it is that the second, and most recent, edition was published in 1979, so we don't have anything about dealing with the internet, mobile phone networks, etc.".

It seems that's a really big omission in any "practical" handbook. Apparently the author is still alive. Time for a third edition? (and I have yet to watch the video)
> Music is waves and frequency.

Sound is waves and frequency. Music is a collection of sounds arranged in a specific sequence.

> Music appreciation is what you are describing. And appreciation is very dependant on culture.

Music relies on various "tropes" to construct a narrative. This includes the choice of key/scale (or none at all), ideas about timing and harmony, etc. These "standard parts" of music are usually from the local culture, just like how a play or movie will use standard character archetypes ("tropes") that are culturally derived.
Thanks! Hidden in plain sight!

(For some reason it seems I only tried the search field and looked in the menu.)
Yeah, I don't think that's the case. If you look at justice systems all over the world, you will see that countries with harshest punishments usually don't enjoy a low crime rate. I'd say it's quite the opposite.
Im hearing that for the first time, could you elaborate?
Imho, the correct solution to corruption is to fund the election process. People work for the one who pays them. If there is no money provided for elections, then candidates will be paid by private funders, and work for them.
Might be better to use Reddit. You could create a subreddit explicitly to serve as your comment section. This achieves the goal of outsourcing your comments to an established site without raising concerns of astroturfing.
Are you using the syntax highlighting (i.e. Pygments) feature? It significantly raises the generation time.
Are you talking about the financial cost? Due to the extra precautions around death row (including things like a more extensive appeals process and more security), it costs more to keep someone on death row and then execute them than it does to keep them in prison for life without parole.

I'm not saying that this is the argument to use for abolishing the death penalty, but it's definitely not one for keeping it as it currently stands.
How can a society which calls itself "civilized" allow murderers to stay alive for so long?

There's so much deeply disturbingly wrong with it that I don't even.
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"Vienna has been controlling the home prices by building houses with great success for decades. [1]"

Vienna is controlling nothing.

Vienna has failed to create global industries that attract value creators from around the world and other kinds of firms.

If they did, there would be people getting wealthy on a global scale, 'screwing up the housing market', and there's little that could be done about it.

Owning 200K homes is a terrible thing for the government to be doing - it's a relic of 20st century socialist thinking. It's incredibly inefficient. The remaining homes will be priced to 're-balance' the actual market dynamics in the region given the government intervention.

This inefficiency amounts to a) waste and b) and unfair subsidy by taxpayers, especially those in the countryside to people living in state-owned homes on land which is really expensive.

Again - it's better just to have basic regulations and smart developers, those people would be living in privately owned homes just a little further from city centre.

Again - you simply cannot control the tides - the money you spend fighting it is wasted, and most government operations are considerably more inefficient than private ones, which leads to another form of waste.

In Toronto (almost the size of Austria), nearly 1/3 of the 'special housing budget' goes to the staff working on the team. It would be more efficient (though unfair) just to directly subsidizes of lower income people and let the market decide how the spaces are allocated.
We kill less than 100 people per year via execution.

Not so bad compared to drone strikes: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/dron...

The really horrifying thing to me is that drone strikes aren't even a serious topic this election cycle. HRC is in favor for more. Trump wants to commit war crimes. Perhaps I am biased because I helped to do a lot of them.

In the end it comes down to the same thing, judging the value of other people's lives, or perhaps more callously never thinking about their lives at all.
More money.
Is it possible to run 16-bit Windows applications in Wine on the Windows Subsystem for Linux?
Instruments haven't been tuned to a particular key in a very long time. Pretty much all instruments are built with equal temperament, meaning the pitches are a compromise between what would be otherwise be perfect ratios in different keys.

When an instrument is said to be in B-flat (or any other key), this only means that written music is notated in an alternate key so that it is likely to fit on the treble or bass clef without too many ledger lines. It has nothing to do with ratios between pitches or sounding better/worse in that key.
As someone who writes in C# and F# I can say the absence of nulls in F# alone makes it worth switching. Typically if something compiles in F# then it works reliably - a huge time/money saver.
The term AI has been used too much and has lost its meaning. When you mean "real AI", you have to refer to it as AGI.
IMO capital punishment is much more honest than life-without-parole.

If you're going to throw someone in prison for the rest of their life, be honest about it and admit you are taking their life.

Abolishing capital punishment to "fix" criminal justice is just closing your eyes and pretending to not see the issue.
Because marginal returns...

The author alludes so too: "C# is good enough for most".
Amazon S3 + CloudFront here, for several websites and it works wonderfully. I recently set up attensee/s3_website as a pipeline on my BitBucket repo, so now when any team member pushes their HTML/CSS updates to BitBucket, it automatically deploys the site to S3 and invalidates the CloudFront caches automatically. Instant website updates using only `git push`.
It took me 9 months. In two weeks I'm quoting a day job. I hit $2k MRR (after expenses) and finished contracting. I'm planning to use the runaway money from contracting at the beginning.

For me, the worst thing is siting at the office, doing job for someone else and not being able to care about my project and customers. Doing it full time is a huge relief.
Does anybody have an opinion why not to use low pressure as a method killing [0]? All the failed executions by electrical chairs and administered chemicals makes me think about a safer and more human method. Just theoretical question, not advocating for anything.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUfF2MTnqAw

Edit: Typo
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Some of reasons reasons:

1) F# team prefers an ivory tower of pure language design to making killer _new_ products like Akka.

2) Meaningful whitespace is a matter of taste and not some golden standard. I like my languages with punctuation marks in them, thanks very much.

3) Total global inference and ultimate succinctness is a matter of taste and not some achievement. I don't program in Brainfuck and ML.
That UI is weird. The usual iOS swipe from left to go back gesture doesn't work, which I thought was because of the tabs.. but you also can't swipe between them. Seems silly.
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Well, most of those websites would rather say:

Don't let the door hit you on your way out

Than spend time catering to outliers...
A single "hedge fund founder" = "hedge funders"?
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> Try going to your temple/etc and telling them that you gave already. You'll quickly learn that it's an in-group fee, not charity.

Not sure where you're getting this but that hasn't been my experience at all. From my upbringing in several Catholic churches you're expected to "tithe" as a general principle but no one follows up with you on your accounts. My family always set aside our tithing amounts each year, but we got to distribute it as we saw fit, some to the church, sure, but others to scholarships or charities that we wanted.
But personal relationships aren't what fight corruption. If anything, they contribute to it when you get people thinking "I have a history with this guy, he'll help me out".

What fights corruption is overall social trust, which is a wash because changing the size of the legislature won't change it, official policies, and oversight by regulators, courts, and journalists. And increasing the number of representatives would be bad for that oversight--more people to keep track of.
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While it may not serve as a deterrent, in my opinion there are people that have performed actions so heinous and grizzly that they should not be allowed to live.
The death penalty should be reserved for only the most depraved and irredeemable members of society.

If you don't agree, how about an opposing viewpoint instead of downvotes?
Update: As lake99 and hawski pointed out it still is there. Just use the blue-sign-with-white-arrow-up-and-to-the-right (directions) and there the nice one is.
Although I agree killing people is wrong, drones strikes are not killing american citizens, it is in the context of an armed, foreign conflict.
I'm pretty peaceful, but surgical, targeted drone strikes against combatants that are currently a threat against civilians isn't exactly going to keep me up at night.

Edit:

Yikes, the downvote brigade is swift. Here is what I'm saying: Compared to traditional war. Where we lose tens of thousands of people or more on both sides, targeted drone strikes are a net positive. I'm not for perpetual war in the middle east, but realistically speaking we can't just pull out everywhere and targeted drone strikes are better than conventional responses.
Well, hinting that they're ideologically biased wouldn't be fair either, if one doesn't bother to substantiate it in any way

Note that a lot of people with "preferences" set on imperative languages have simply never stepped out of this paradigm and tried something else.

I don't think it's symmetrical - I'd bet there's more C# programmers who've never dabbled in F#, or even heard of it, than the other way round : )
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What struck me was the different instruments -- the Acorn instruments in the first track sound much more like a real xylophone and bass guitar. Or maybe it's meant to be a piano, but it's less synthy.

I have early memories of my parents staying up all night playing Lemmings (on Acorn), and I played it a lot myself once I was old enough, so I'm probably in no position to judge.
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No mention of BigTable so far - ACID compliant NoSQL with transactions IIRC. But you have to host with Google. (For at least the data store component)
Lyons didn't have the money to build the next machine needed to compete, so sold their 50% to EE, the other shareholder. EE were one of the companies merged to form ICL, who for 15 or 20 years were an IBM competitor and doing pretty well until at least the early 80s and the first connections with Fujitsu.
Misery is a very well used form of slow painful execution, why do people wish to use more flashy forms that are counterproductive in keeping our systems so perfect?

The poor needs to fear the wealthy in order to not disrupt a perfect society that have proven being an example of progress, humanitarian values and eco-friendly system.
>Convolutional layers have been around longer than that and don't have much to do with the vanishing gradient problem, which was never that big a problem to begin with. ReLUs are helpful, but they do not lead to THAT big of a speedup. Convolutional layers have definitely had a big impact for accuracy in image problems and sound problems.

They're essentially an informed prior on image and sound problems, which vastly reduces the size of the parameter space and thus makes both vanishing gradient and overfitting less of a problem.
Hide. Not delete, hide.
And if the downvoted comment used the phrase "more vocal in one's views" instead probably it wouldn't get downvoted much
Does OSX even have keyboard controls for window management, like win+arrows? I think I have a 3rd party thing doing that, which seems like it shouldn't be necessary.
What civilians are they a threat against exactly?
Why do you code in F#?
I wonder what happens if a death row inmate keeps yelling and fighting. Do they sedate him?

That would be a deterrent for those officers, having to handle inmates who won't consent to their own death.
It's why China is cracking down "Internet rumors", and also why in the U.S., Twitter, Facebook, and Google, are forming an alliance to crack down on "fake news" [1], starting with stuff like censoring Hillary Clinton's passing out video and related trending hashtags [2][3], or videos of North Dakota's pipeline protests [4].

We're going to need a decentralized and censorship-resistant Internet/social media sooner than people think. By the next U.S. election, I fear the these three main sites will have already been co-opted to work as government propaganda arms [5], as a smooth transition from old TV media propaganda to Internet propaganda, as more people cut their cords.

The worst part is people won't even be able to easily see it. It's one thing to see a moderator on TV constantly hitting (or praising) a candidate and eventually realizing that maybe he or she isn't very fair or is biased, and may have ulterior motives for doing that.

But it's quite another to be so vigilant as to notice when Google shows you mostly pro-Clinton search results for neutral election-related queries, or when Facebook and Twitter "don't" allow some topics to trend (although I think more people are starting to catch on to these tactics, but it's probably not happening fast enough to make a difference this election).

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/14/facebook-twitter-first-d...

[2] http://observer.com/2016/09/facebook-and-youtube-show-franti...

[3] http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/09/11/hillary-health-stor...

[4] http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/15/12926058/facebook-dakota-p...

[5] https://theintercept.com/2016/09/07/google-program-to-deradi...
If someone is wrongly imprisoned for life, they have a chance of getting out. If someone is wrongly executed, there is no way to fix that.
Many people have been proven innocent after they were on death row.
American lives are worth more then? Who are we fighting exactly?
New evidence cannot set free a prisoner the state killed last year.
I'm guessing it is easier to optimize via imperative way than functional. Although you can optimize functional libs up to a point, I say that people with enough time and dedication will probably optimize better with imperative paradigm.

OTOH not a lot of projects require uber optimizations.
> Perhaps I am biased because I helped to do a lot of them.

If that means what I think it means I'm sure you have some more valuable insights to share on the topic, biased or not.
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You think? C#2 isn't far from Java, and yet Java still dominates over Scala.
> dismissing those who appreciate the advantages of functional programming as "noisy fans" is condescending

Take a look at the craziest comments in a Go thread and "noisy fans" seems a little generous.
>How can a society which calls itself "civilized" keep the death penalty?

Well, what you say doesn't necessarily has to match what you are.

Hypocrisy is a thing -- and modern society is full of it.
This article unfortunately conflates the value (or absence of value) of the death penalty with the unpleasantness involved with carrying it out.

If the process were better would he still be opposed to it?
You're pushing into a direction you might not like. Should we start executing people that aren't positively contributing to the society (disabled, sick..)?

I think the decision between life and death shouldn't be made based on cost.
I doubt it. Apple has been systematically withdrawing from the server space for years, and I doubt they are particularly likely to reverse that trend. Servers are relatively low margin with a small brand impact. Apple plays well in consumer electronics where brand has much more of an impact on margin.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6266/1332
I tried playing around with it for a little while. I had trouble dealing with functional in the .NET world. That's purely on me. However, I tried writing a WPF app and the scaffolding required was a bit absurd. Then I tried writing a web service. A LOT less scaffolding and I did get me off the ground a bit.

However, trying to apply some existing things were slightly confusing. I had trouble understanding immutability with the existing C# structures and wasn't sure if anything I was doing in this was correct. My Google-Fu was a bit weak.

What I found strange was that I wasn't able to create a Folder in Visual Studio. I'm not sure if that was a design choice, but I decided that if Microsoft wasn't going to take this language seriously. Then I wouldn't either.
Back in October 1944, Koenig had suggested a theoretical way of securing a telephone call by having the recipient of a call add noise to the signal and then subtract it afterward. Only Bob could subtract the noise, because only he knew what he had added in the first place. An eavesdropper, Eve, simply would not know how to modify the noise, because she wouldn’t have access to the noise that had been added to the phone conversation in the first place.

Since that's not terribly clear, here's the explanation: https://techpinions.com/an-old-mystery-solved-project-c-43-a...
Does anyone know if the Raspberry Pi will run the Archimedes port of Lemmings?

The Raspberry Pi capably runs the RISC OS operating system natively on its ARM processor, in many ways it could be considered to be the spiritual successor of the Archimedes.

I know the hardware has changed in ways that trip up games, so it's not a guarantee that Lemmings would work. I found some information here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=32036&p=2...
I don't imagine that, no. My experience is that gmail addresses are primarily personal email addresses, not mass-marketing emails intended to be a full web page embedded into an email viewer.
> Is [keeping "guilty murderers alive in prison"] worth it?

In many cases, guilt is not certain, only proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Lifetime imprisonment can be reversed if a mistake is realized, but death can't.

Even given a hypothetical case where the evidence is so damning and guilt is fairly concrete, the execution of another human should be a punishment reserved for when we have no other option.
Does that mean you are 100% confident that these drone strikes are ONLY killing bad guys that deserve it? How many collateral deaths of innocent men, women and children do you consider OK before it begins to infringe on your peaceful sleep?
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Abolishing capital punishment isn't intended to fix the issue you're describing. You may not have done so intentionally but you've created a Straw Man there.

Abolishing capital punishment allows us to reverse the decision later when new evidence comes to light exonerating the convict. You can't free a dead person.

There are other justifications as well in terms of financial cost although the facts are more cloudy there, I've seen good quality analyses presenting cases in favour of both arguments around the cost of the death penalty vs lifetime incarceration.