skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going back to basics to get my thoughts in order:

Synonyms are words with the same meaning. A way of descibing this is that the mapping from the set of all words, to the set of all meanings is not "injective" (aka "one-to-one") - i.e. at least some two words map to the same meaning. There are other ways to describe it, one might say synonymous ways...

Synonyms also occur when two expressions have the same value. e.g.

2+2 = 2*2 = 4-2

It's also possible with variables e.g.

x+y = y+x
x+y+z = (x+y)+z = x+(y+z)
a(b+c) = ab+ac

All this is redundant, and we tend to like to minimize redundancy, as wasteful inelegance. As in python's There's one way to do it. Though the truth is that there are an enormous number of programs that are functionally identical - synonyms.

Getting to the article's domain, one specific DNA sequence has a number of neighbours that are one mutation away (an Edit-Distance or Levenshtein distance of 1, if you like)... for a long sequence, there are quite a few neighbours. But some of those neighbours are synonyms, and similar for their neighbours, and their neighbours' neighbours. Pretty soon you have an exponential explosion of synonyms. But the crucial point is that you also have an explosion of non-synonyms... an exponential explosion of the surface area of the set of equivalent DNA sequences.

This is where massive parallelization, of having a huge number of organisms, is helpful, many of them being unique points on the surface. Of course, not just for this one piece of DNA, but a different point for each gene.

All this makes it much more likely that a new mutation could generate something new and useful.

It may be that life took so long to get going because it went through many systems that lacked this property... when the most adaptable finally came along (DNA, plausibly preceded by RNA), it completely swamped its ancestors, obliterating them. Then we see other forms that excelled at flexibility/adaptability: multicellularity, sex, birds, mammals and so on.

BTW on the subject of Platonic forms, the surprising thing to me is we have so many clear categories, instead of a huge mush of continuously varying species. They may be local minima... and when a new more flexible form arrives, it again explodes.

We don't like redundancy... but maybe we should.
I have found that the best way to get out of states like that, is force yourself into situations you like and that make you be social because of its inherited nature i.e. Get into a salsa dancing academy, get into a french course, or whatever similar thing you might like. Be so busy your mind has no time to think about addiction.
I think that's a reasonable reason to bail on something like that. LOL. The beach is good medicine.
Cicret Bracelet Debunk
Cars do lock out everything on the console except maybe the volume control.
> Are there any introverts out there who have developed coping mechanisms

Fake it. I realised couple of years back that there are times when I am not really interested in the conversation but its rude to zone out so I pretend and act as if I am interested.
It comes from having solved the real problems that killed kids - I think around 1900 it was 30% didn't live to adulthood. So now we invent problems.
well written comment. Found it quite enjoyable.
>The files mostly contained installation scripts, configurations for command-and-control (C&C) servers, and exploits allegedly designed to target routers and firewalls from American manufacturers including, Cisco, Juniper, and Fortinet.

https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/nsa-hacking-tools.html
YC application Winter Batch
Hey guys!

It says that you can just update your previous application and apply for the batch.

Has anyone been able to do that? Pls help.
As long as we're all engaging in some iconoclasm today, I'll quote a book review by John Dolan[1]:

"I side with PKD over Pynchon. In fact, I consider Dick to be the one genius, the one absolute genius in US literature since 1945. I find Pynchon to be kind of an Uncle Tom, as a representative of science fiction, making pointless and protracted Faulknerian noises in his prose to suck up to a New-Yorker-sensibility."

[1] - http://exile.ru/old-exile/vault/books/review66.html
Essentially, if it's a problem you read about in the newspaper, it is highly unlikely to affect you. Consider that the newspaper doesn't report car accidents, cancer diagnoses, etc.
coming from someone of your same class/category

I think you make a very good point here: it is coming from a colleague, someone who is on (more or less) the same track as you are, only a little ahead of you in terms of the career path.
Sounds like the kernel arguments of yore.
Three days ago I was scanning Unicode (looking for useful characters for a roguelike, as one does), came across the metrical triseme (⏗), tetraseme (⏘) and pentraseme (⏙) in the Miscellaneous Symbols section, and added them to wikipedia. As far as I could ascertain, these are used to indicate scansion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scansion#Other_symbols - which is apparently primarily a term used to describe rhythm and meter in a poetic context. However, the Expletive infixation page uses the alternate term prosody in perhaps more of a formal linguistic sense. PS: prosody & scansion. Certainly on the cryptic crossword one of these decades...
Many social factors often external to the economy would negatively change our understanding of our "standard of living" if included. In the USA, if you only look at the nominal median wage and then subtract the inflation tracked by the Consumer Price Index then it seems like the male median wage peaked in 1973 and family income peaked in 1999. But the CPU does not track rent, and the peak year for the ratio of wage to rent was 1958, which was also the peak year of the Baby Boom (and obviously those 2 facts are linked).

If you were to also track the social changes that have increased the scrutiny on mothers (and parents as a unit), the question would arise if real, meaningful family income actually peaked in 1999. Perhaps it was in decline a long time before that?

I was in kindergarten in 1972. I grew up in an affluent, white neighborhood in the suburbs. At that time, it was thought normal that the children should walk to school on their own. The school was exactly 1 mile away. My parents kissed me goodbye at the door of our house, then I joined up with my friends, and we walked to school. Yes, we were 5 years old.

Any parent who does this nowadays will be arrested, but at the time it seemed safe because everyone did it. I never walked to school alone, I always walked with my classmates. I'm told that Japan is still somewhat like this, but obviously the USA has changed.
What's your theory on why and what would you suggest to fix the problem? You're not leading by example. :-)
Does this apply only to USPS deliveries, or are private shippers like UPS, FedEx, etc. included?
Sure, run all of Google on your laptop.
It's also a whole attitude. I live in Japan now, and the wages here are just as shit and the pressure is if anything worse, but the service from the delivery companies is absolutely amazing.
I don't think this is an issue. Can anyone who does explain to me why you think it is?
The correct point to remove people from the equation because they're idiots is operating the car.

Fully automated driving, without human supervision being necessary.
Turn off your iPhone notifications, and four more ways to get your life back
I'm pretty sure that people using paid for hardware are just more profitable than people that are still paying for hardware. But they make income on all the people.

And the fees aren't necessarily the same for cheaper phones:

https://www.verizonwireless.com/landingpages/return-policy/
That is exactly my company's situation. And at least 1/2 energy spent on "infrastructure" instead of end-user features. And the whole thing could easily run monolithic on one small instance.
Everyone is miserable.
Everyone is alone.
Everyone escapes.
But giving up is a fate worse than death in my eyes.

I'm roughly half your age, but I understand, I get it. But don't give up hope.

You can still change, no matter how deep into the darkness you are. You can still be happy. It just takes small steps; the first is to substitute heroin with something less addictive and harmful. It will be difficult, an almost impossible task, but if you have the will to do so, you can. You're cognizant of the fact that you have a problem, so you're already half of the way there.
I read that you're on heroin, and that's where the reading stopped. Words from a junkie are worthless. Get your shit together man.
Yeah, she was not looking at her child for 5 out of 30,000,000 seconds of his existence. What a fucking horrible mom.
Or better yet - a rail system.
"Somewhere there ought to be a club for anti-social people."

-- Ashleigh Brilliant

https://www.ashleighbrilliant.com/LivingWithInsanity.html
> Who said anything about partying and drinking?

The author.
Some events are zombie processes.
> Interesting yes, but "novel"? I'm not sure.

It's not. And I don't know anything about SentinelOne so maybe they're amazing, but being stymied by dynamic analysis of VBScript malware seems, um, odd.
No. You have to spend as much energy as possible on end user features of which dev ops is the opposite.
Isn't NA basically a Scientology front?

That said, it's interesting to note that for most of recorded history, the #1 recommendation to someone in cubano's position would be to join the locally-favored religion. Without that option -- as objectively bogus as it is -- the chances of getting his/her life back on track may be lower than they historically have been.
I mostly use Fritzing. Will it be supported at some point?
Your time is valuable. Never spend it with people who bring less value into your life than you would have got if you spent this time alone. Never ever (exception: if you are responsible for someone, like a child or elderly person). It's that simple. The hard part is estimating how much value somone/going out brings into your life.

Either way, you can call that rude and selfish, I call it a wise way to spend my limited resources.
Subtle and adaptive (aka: not rigid, meat cleaver rules). You have it right.
Today while I was driving I was waiting to make a right turn. I waited for a car to pass and then pulled out and followed the car. While the car was passing me I could see the driver texting. It was a teenager / early 20s. I followed him for 3 miles on my way to my destination. The speed limit is 50 mph. There are trees on either side of the road and the road is pretty narrow. There are hills and curves so visibility is pretty limited.

The teenager was all over the road. At one point he crossed into oncoming traffic while he was going up a hill with limited visibility. It's a marvel he wasn't killed. I vowed never to bike along the road in this community. This kid could have easily killed someone.

I was in a rural community. Lyft /uber aren't a solution. I'm not sure if the phone companies can solve this but man it's super dangerous out there if you aren't in a car.
Exactly. Even ignoring things like gps / maps, music, and audiobooks / podcasts, car passengers will not tolerate their phone being disabled. Or passengers on public transit.
If you manage to get to the point where you truly need to micro-ize, it is only at that point that you can actually afford to.
It seems that you're really afraid of socializing. Think of it this way, when you are in your death bed, waiting for the die(), none of these constraints you put yourself through would matter, won't even matter if you weared the shirt. But the way I see it, there are two possible outcomes in these kind of situations where you hesitate to do something for whatever reason :either you do it or you don't, in the future it won't matter what outcome you chosed, so I'll get the doing, because it will probably be another story to tell.
Thankfully, both of these are temporary problems: in another five years we will start transitioning large numbers of people to self-driving cars (whether privately owned or simply self-driving taxis), and this problem will go into decline.
Other possible benefits are flexibility in schedule and profit sharing.
It takes more than 5 seconds for an infant to climb a gorilla cage fence.
A couple of years ago I shot footage of two UPS trucks exchange packages in my parking lot. They were tossing them out into a great heap on the ground, then going through them and tossing them back into the trucks. It was something like the day before Christmas, so I hope no one was expecting to have a fragile gift arrive intact. I suppose UPS is fine dong this, I think they say you should pack to survive a six foot drop, but it does give you second thoughts about shipping anything fragile, and I always assumed the six foot drops would be accidents.
If you like the design aesthetics I fear you won't be satisfied unless you build one yourself...

I've resigned myself to that, which is why I own a 60-series, which is the closest thing to a modernized 40-series for less than 80k available.

I'm more concerned about entry angles, water crossing depth etc (it rains a lot on bad roads where I live). Also safety, old cars just can't compete traction control and 7 airbags.

The 40 had great entry and departure angles (My 60 has bad departure angles). Most modern SUVs are horrific, really just slightly raised minivans, with all sorts of junk hanging off the bottom to get torn off. I have no beef with traction control, I'd just like a pull knob to engage it.

Reliability

The 40 series was very reliable, and easy to work on by anyone. There have been improvements in machining, seals, etc. and I'd like a modernized, inline 6 turbo-diesel. Since none of this happening any time soon, especially in the states, I had this put in my 60:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woX_shdI2Xc
Yes, you're absolutely right. I can even understand that intellectually. Doesn't help, unfortunately.

Though if I got in the habit of wearing a crazy costume and did other crazy stuff like leaving the house, all my hang-ups would work themselves out.
Partially from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_danger#Criticism

> The concept has been criticized for ignoring the fact that most child abductions and harm result not from strangers, but rather from someone the child knows.
What consoles do that? I never experienced that, even basic cars like a rental Ford Focus give you full control from the steering wheel including making a call.
"Isn't NA basically a Scientology front?"

What? I haven't heard that one before.
(Could not RTFA: nytimes blocked here)

I (41/m) used to think I was introvert but now a think I have a bad case of attention deficit syndrome: I always need to do multiple things or I zone out. I am a steaming social animal: I go to parties, business meetings, friday drinks but a few minutes in I need to get my phone and do work. I just cannot help myself: when someone is talking to me I hear everything they say, I respond and have intelligent discourse but during that I am also talking with 5 people on Wechat, thinking up fixes for sites/apps and adding notes in Teamwork. Some people find it rude but when you know me you know it is not so. It was very good for me to work in China for a bit: here everyone sits typing in their phone while talking. And it is, even in meetings with very large companies, normal to pick up your phone and look something up you are not sure about. That is how it is supposed to be: go to a meeting with a bank in London and you have to know every fact by heart because people will pause and look at you when you pick up your phone... What madness is that: either I say I do not know or am not sure and delay matters we are discussing to a follow up or I pick my phone up and Google it?
You seem to think these traits are fixed. They are not. I'm currently reading "The Pursuit of Perfect" by Tal Ben-Shahar, give this one a go, it'll free you of your blame, shame and beliefs.

This extrovert/introvert label is used in ways it shouldn't. Two kinds of people hide behind being an introvert: assholes and people afraid of other people, often a mixture of both. Both groups alienate people with their behaviors and thus are lonely, sometimes angry about it, which worsens both traits. They don't want to be, making contact with people exhausting. Instead of addressing the real problem, they get isolated even more or, like you, externalize getting happiness, which I bet Heroin is very good at consistently delivering.

Again: these traits are not fixed. If you think of yourself as unlikable, you will be. If you think people are all stupid (way to generalize), you will alienate other people. If you think other people are dangerous, which you might have had to learn early in your life, you will behave in a way that other people don't find pleasurable and won't choose to be around you. It's painful to think about, so people just say they're introverted.

You can accept that & change, or you can stay where you are. I myself decided to stay in this social coma for 20 years, really angry about it too, being even harder on myself & others. Didn't help. Now people (voluntarily!) call me.
Find out how much they've lived elsewhere. I had Stockholm syndrome (Houston syndrome?) until I lived in a few other good cities.

Houston's food tho...
Some cars. All my Audi locks out is pairing a new phone. Most rental cars I've had are similar.
Reliability and speed are features, and often the features that make users stay or go.

If your devops is inadequate, so that you have low visibility into your product's performance, can't degrade gracefully, and have trouble deploying things without significant downtime, investing in proper devops infrastructure and processes may directly help your bottom line.
Still, it is an extremely unlikely, rare case. How many children are killed by car accidents vs. gorillas in a zoo?
I can always get a life later is my philosophy. I've got more interesting stuff to work on now or play with now. Yeah, Ok.
Warning: If you read this title aloud to your spouse, you might get an answer.
I have no idea why this was downvoted. It's spot on.
And this could have just as easily been your mom (or guardian). You'll argue the point, but I will bet my entire life savings she's had her eyes off you at least 100 times in public for more than 30 seconds while you were growing up.

It's simply called life. It happens. 99.99% of the time nothing bad happens whatsoever, and you never even think twice about it. Actually both parties probably didn't even realize it happened.

Was she negligent? Who really knows. Calling her clearly negligent is just being completely disingenuous to the point of more or less full on dishonesty. Taking 20 seconds to inspect a map or tap out a SMS is not negligence, and is all the time that would have taken.

You're the reason the attitude in this article exists, unfortunately. Even if you think you're being reasonable in this instance. Try living under the constant threat that you can't divide your attention for less than a minute 24 hours a day. It's an absurd thing to demand from anyone, and is not reasonable.

The way "society" expects you to raise children in the US has to be the most unhealthy in the world. It's becoming absolutely absurd how much we coddle children and expect parents to stop having an adult life.
At the risk of being a jerk, Houston proper is basically just inside 610 with maaaybe a dispensation for inside the Beltway. Outside that it's basically just suburbs and exurbs.
No we won't. There will not be in-city self driving cars for decades.

There will be self driving cars on the freeway in specially marked and instrumented lanes made just for self driving trucks (cars will come later).

But not in-city. Not till there is general AI.
>That person acknowledged the error shortly afterward, they said. But the NSA did not inform the companies of the danger when it first discovered the exposure of the tools, the sources said. Since the public release of the tools, the companies involved have issued patches in the systems to protect them.
But this seems like a developer tool -- what developer doesn't have Python and Curl installed...
You didn't solve anything. You did the equivalent of yelling and crying and saying "you fix it".

Unless you also have a suggestion of how to do it?
In my neighborhood, we have had a lot of cars driving into fixed objects like trees and buildings, during clear weather. It feels like texting while driving.
> Being a young black kid from the wrong block will.

Why are you inserting age and race into this discussion? Either you're caught up in street drama or you're not. If you're not, people generally don't mess with you unless you have assets, there's nothing in it for them.

> This thread is basically all about the idea that rich techies deciding if a neighborhood is more safe from their perspective is flawed, because they are likely to be the least impacted. From my experience, that's true.

Agreed, not because they're "rich" or "techie", but because they haven't been around long enough to take sides and get targeted by a particular group of people. "Rich techies" is just a dog whistle to try to get sympathy.
It is strange the zoning laws. Here is a sex shop right by the galleria. which is an upsacle mall. you can see the dillard's in the background. there is a neiman marcus across the street.

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7403217,-95.4587679,3a,75y,2...
Agreed. I've made that mistake before and others have made it with me. It's not respecting boundaries. I'm a little too curious sometimes asking personal questions or otherwise crossing boundaries. Respect personal boundaries. It's the least you can do.
Not completely related but just as a reminder we might be getting something about the other likely place to be habitable tomorrow.

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-hold-media-call-on...
You can still do things available from the steering wheel, but Toyota and Honda both lock out specific console controls, such as the dial pad to dial an arbitrary phone number, or most of the settings dialogs.
Or introverts who want to be edgy and scare people away.
Hope slackbot doesn't get sued...
Where the white rhino safely roams
(current occupant of Houston here) The thing is that the heat isn't the whole thing, it's also the humidity. We had a few weeks last month or two that had a heat of 90F with heat index of 107F.

Humidity is the big difference, and with Texas as large as it is you can't just assume that somebody from say DFW or El Paso or Brownsville or Austin will experience the same weather as somebody from Houston given the same wall temperature.