skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reptiles, immortal like others who shed their skin or bark and thus rejuvenate, are contrasted with mortal men and/or are considered responsible for originating death, perhaps by their bite. In this context, a person in a desperate situation gets to see how a snake or other small animal revives or cures itself or other animals. The person uses the same remedy and succeeds.

Interesting. In the epic of gilgamesh (one of the oldest tales preserved in written form) it is the protagonist who seeks immortality and then has the plant which is supposed to grant it stolen by a snake which then sheds its skin.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02672

Ladder networks get 1.62% error rate on MNIST with 50 labeled samples
> it turns out that the only data that matters (to an insurance company) is how often drivers break hard.

It would be interesting to know what the distribution is for that number, and how hard "hard" is, purely for comparison with my own driving habits.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I asked my astronomer brother in law some time ago:

We can't look at the Milky Way but we can look at similar galaxies. Our current understanding of what our own galaxy looks like is based on measuring the shape and direction of (groups of) stars. Stars contain(ed) Hydrogen and Hydrogen emits a radiation with a specific wavelength, that we can use to detect it. With Doppler Shift we can measure direction, if the emitting atoms are moving away, the wavelength is slightly larger. And they'll be slightly less if they're moving towards us.

Stars orbit the center of our galaxy and if we can get their orbit radius we can calculate how fast they are going. With enough measurements in all directions and using a lot of trigonometry, we can get to a map.
Thinking democracy's success is tied to economic growth is a pretty dim worldview. I hope he's wrong about that.
The biggest obstacle was the swelling in the wrist after surgery. I had to keep it elevated for quite a long time, and it would throb and be painful when I lowered it to the keyboard. That passed gradually over 2 months. The finger dexterity never left, the moments I held my hand there I could type at ~80% speed without problems from early on.

With just my left hand, I could only manage more like 20%, which felt very very slow to me. The bottleneck with half-querty was the modifier key, which I had to hit very often to switch layouts. If you could move that to something else, that layout could speed up much more.

Had I been out of action much longer, I might have tried some kind of custom one-handed chording setup instead.
What you need to do is produce a programming language L such that the existence of incompressibility of strings becomes false, e.g. contradict Theorem 2.2.1 of Li & Vitanyi.
I'd politely disagree. I like the intro in Mumford's text.

"The study of mental objects with reproducible properties is called mathematics."

This is in contrast to science, which is the study of physical objects with reproducible properties.

And it is in contrast to art which is not about being reproducible, but about being unique and personally colored.

Mumford's text is called The Dawning of the Age of Stochasticity https://t.co/nbILzRf8ml
For advice, do whatever you can to build a small community of dedicated users (like I could be for example.)

I went to the site and it was blank. Pressed refresh and took too long to load. I would never return to this site under normal circumstances, but since you made a case for yourself here I'll check it out another time -- if it's slow then I'd probably never go back. Use amazon to auto-scale your instances if you get too much traffic, or .. well really do whatever you can because a slow website will kill your business.

I am a startup with limited capital who needs competent freelancers, your site seems apt. Hope it works when I visit it next time.
Here are the recent numbers: http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/StatisticsBySubject/Economy/Eco...

Forestry is about the size of tech ($14 billion) which is twice tourism.

To put it into perspective, the BC government spends and collects $50 billion each year.

Financial services, real estate, retail, and other services are big. I doubt tourism is or ever was more than 3% of the economy, except maybe in 1986 and 2010.
Tip: most restaurants in the US will serve a half portion at 75% price.
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When has that been the case?

The Iran–Iraq War of the 1980s was started by Iraq.
Imagine the conversation with a none-tech savy person on how to use Noscript, jeeeezzz.
That's why we picked fossil over git. The interface is really sane and you can also do stuff from the browser. It gets out of your way. You do not need Python, it can be statically linked easily. It also works on Windows. The usability experience is akin to Mercurial, but even easier to use. Unfortunately it doesn't quie work for bigger projoects (think the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD ports tree) and it can also get slower once you have a lot of history. The repo is esentially a SQLite db.
I am not sure what the point of this list is ?
Aren't the runtime permissions the only ones we really need to think about going forward ?
We still need to declare the 'normal' permissions, but they will be mostly invisible to the end-user, no ?

for reference : https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/security/permissi...

The others ones are still there but pretty much an implementation detail now for Marshmallow apps (I know M+ is a tiny market share at the moment, but it will only increase).
Oh, also you have a troll who has posted a bunch of curse words. You probably need to filter for that.

One thing that might solve your chicken/egg/community problem AND troll problem is an invite-only list of a few dozen people.. make your product seem scarce and special, and then take great care of the few users you have and grow that way.
Yea, funny. I'm looking for a job now.

The most funny thing is that I get no counter-offer. I always here (or rather read) "yes, we are impressed by your experience, it is really great, but you know, you wanted too much, we have lots of others who want much less". When I asked for a counter offer I get either no reply, or something like "We don't give counter offers at this moment, you wanted much above the average that we pay".

And I wanted just about the same money I was earning in my previous job.

From my perspective the job hunt is a one shot thing. I give some figure, they stop being interested. No negotiation, no counter-offer, no other things.

So it seems like the market is not that good for programmers, or I'm just so unlucky.
They previously moved from mysql to postgres. See for example https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/53683323/migrating-ub... (from the same author as the postgres -> mysql blogpost no less).
If your feature branch is up-to-date (you just force-
pushed it), you cannot submit the same commit to Gerrit.

It sounds to me like this is where it's going wrong. If Gerrit is not also hosting your 'origin' git repositories and acting as a gatekeeper for any commit to be added to it, then you are working against the system.

I don't see the problem with hooks and we rarely have problems with Change-Ids not being 'fresh' anymore (that sounds like the result of a suboptimal workflow).

Bugs in plugins are of course not a good reason to say Gerrit isn't very good. That's like saying git itself sucked when the IntelliJ plugin for git still had annoying bugs.
2 minutes with Wikipedia:

Wikipedia is not a credible source in such matters. Many of the claims are clearly dubious, e.g. "Bahraini security forces [...] arrested a number of suspects linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards" Oh yes, Bahraini security forces, that fountain of truth, and model of just democracy.
What are you bringing to the table that would entice a recruiter to do that? If you are such a hot commodity that it is worth the recruiter to give you part of their commission, then why do you need a recruiter at all? It will be easier to negotiate a signing bonus from your new employer if you don't go through a recruiter.
Well, Bugzilla uses the same namespace for bugs and patches. The submitter didn't upload patches at all, just asm text files, so from Bugzilla's point of view this is a bug. Not really sure there's anything to "fix" here.
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The Beatles' recorded music is chock full of little mistakes, as anyone who's tried to learn their music by ear can tell you. Their backup vocals are often quite imperfect. Yet the songs as a whole are irresistible.
It's not a strict rule, but it seems to smooth the way for me in initial conversations when I know the industry already. It's probably happened more organically for me, as almost all my clients come from referrals by people I've worked with before, and they mainly refer people from similar industries.
Absolutely... when I'm not working, I'm working. I'm working freelance for several clients as a web designer on the side as well as a full-time web designer. I also run a few websites that generate some ad revenue.. wish it was enough to pay some bills, but it does pay for the server they sit on. When I'm not working on my websites, I'm working on my side projects which don't generate any money yet, but those side projects are teaching me how to create subscription-based projects that I can use to start generating recurring revenue. My goal right now is to make my primary day job my secondary job and turn my side project(s) into my primary business. I pretty much work until my brain no longer functions or I can't focus on what I'm doing any longer, then I know it's time for me to stop what I'm doing and sleep. There are also times where I need to walk away from projects and simply go for a walk, bike ride, or do something else to clear my mind in order to solve a problem.
That's fascinating, thanks for the link. Just to provide a little more support for the admittedly weaker argument I made earlier: the knowledge of the lands discovered by the Norse was extensively recorded by Catholic priests, and their works were read for centuries in Europe.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=SaXuAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR8&lpg=PR8...

and Christopher Columbus, as a literate Catholic, could conveivably have had access to this knowledge. The Catholic Church may very well have had an interest in these lands as potential places to spread its faith to. The Church even had a bishop in the Norse colonies in Finland.

But yes, clearly the legends you mention were much more prominent in the public consciousness of the time.
>> Wikipedia is not a credible source in such matters. Many of the claims are clearly dubious

So....

Are you claiming that the content of Wikipedia is a USA conspiracy or a Jewish one? Or both?

(Edit: I really have seen people make those conspiracy claims, it is not totally a joke. They also didn't have any references, unlike wikipedia.)
Yeah, they will never figure out that the same might happen with USB sticks. Because whenever you learn something you limit it to the concrete object, people cannot generalize.
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Those other permissions were in there because whenthe script was gathering all the perms, it also gathered the JuiceSSH perms and other app permissions. I wrote a script to filter out everything but stock perms, and now it should be right. ;)
I don't follow--where does he say that?
From the linked page:

See http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~gdurrett/ for papers and BibTeX.
Why would I use this over Mercurial, other than being able to collaborate with others using git? You still need a Python interpreter to use it.
I mean no insult by this: were you possibly paid more at your previous employer than the market thinks you're worth?
Hey. Mind sorting the gist list in order of most to least used? I'd really appreciate it.
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What I read is that he develops kernel patches entirely on a Windows desktop, which is a relevant anecdote.
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I had no idea the border cuts right through a suburb like that

https://www.google.nl/maps/@49.0021485,-122.7413957,3a,46.4y...

Kids could lose a ball in the bushes and become illegal aliens running to pick it up.
I'll work some more on the script later.
My first vid I guess
Uhh
Note that Chromebooks are similar (and Android 7 adopts the update strategy of ChromeOS). There you have two system partitions, one in use and one on standby. A system update gets applied to the partition on standby, and on next reboot it becomes the used partition (unless the boot is deemed faulty).

BTW, event thought Chromebooks gets updates all the time the kernel and drivers are the same one as when they originally shipped. This means that older Chromebooks will not be able to run Android apps, as it is done using kernel provided containerization.
Trolls are using Googles, Yahoos as code words for racial slurs online
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+1 on the CTM stuff. I recommend Jeff Hawkin's book "On Intelligence" if you're looking for a quick read.
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I'm using NoScript and I temporarily enable JS on sites.

Usually sites work well enough by enabling 1st party JS and sometimes not even all of them. I lose all the code from tracking and monitoring services, which I really don't care about. I gain a much faster browsing experience.

Then there are sites with CDNs, and I have to enable them to see some content. Or Disqus comments, must enable to read them. Then there are some sites that are like a puzzle and I can't understand what to enable. I either give up (lose-lose) or read them in a browser I use for that kind of sites (I lose, they win). Then there are sites with content embedded in the JavaScript (I really mean in the script, not loaded by the script) or in some invisible element that only JS can make visible. Forbes is one of them and the one I hate most. I did a short script to deobfuscate the content at a Forbes URL and display it in a brower.

By using NoScript I appreciate how useless is JavaScript on some sites: there is no reason not to serve basic content (text and most of the images) directly and use JS only to enhance it. Examples: to add comments, to zoom into images, to load the next article - which has it's own URL anyway.
To save everyone else a few clicks, here's an explanation of CTM: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computational-mind/
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I have a few freelance clients, but they only give very specific, time boxed, defined tasks. As soon as they as for my opinion on how to design their site I say 'no'.

For example 'we need a tweet this button in the side bar below the search box'.
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When it comes to business owners, rationality is overrated. I've seen a lot of companies that are perfectly happy hiring a less competent dev that accepts 20% less, and takes more than twice the time to do the work.
The starting principle is simple, then the scientists build a lot of clever stuff, the telescopes on Earth, the telescopes on the satellites and the remote controlled
radio telescopes...

Parallax. Telescopes.

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/how-do-we-know-the-dis...

"the same math that enables you to hold your thumb at arm’s length, close one eye and then switch eyes and watch your thumb appear to shift, allowed us to measure the distances to the stars."

"Known as parallax, the fact that our planet’s orbit is some 300 million kilometers in diameter around the Sun means that if we view the stars today versus six months from now, we’ll see the closest stars appear to shift position in the sky relative to the other, more distant stars."

There's more in the link above. Then...

Satellites.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/gaia-milky-way-ma...

"For thousands of years, astronomers from the ancient Babylonians to Tycho Brahe had preoccupied themselves with noting the stars’ precise locations, a crucial foundation to understanding the cosmos. But the field sputtered in the 1960s, when scientists reached the smallest parallaxes that Earth-based telescopes could measure, stymied by interference from our rippling atmosphere.

It wasn’t until the 1980s and 1990s that the ESA satellite Hipparcos took astrometry to space, where it ultimately measured the precise distances of more than 100,000 stars. Gaia is even better: Hipparcos’s gaze reached only as far as 1,600 light-years away, barely leaving our celestial backyard, but Gaia is able to spy on stars up to 30,000 light-years away."

Remote controlled radio telescopes across the Earth, as in the article we comment to:

https://science.nrao.edu/facilities/vlba

"The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) is an interferometer consisting of 10 identical antennas on transcontinental baselines up to 8000 km (Mauna Kea, Hawaii to St. Croix, Virgin Islands). The VLBA is controlled remotely from the Science Operations Center in Socorro, New Mexico. Each VLBA station consists of a 25 m antenna and an adjacent control building. The received signals are amplified, digitized, and recorded on fast, high capacity recorders. The recorded data are sent from the individual VLBA stations to the correlator in Socorro."

"Precision astrometry is a VLBA science centerpiece. The relative astrometric accuracy of ~ 10 micro-arcseconds achievable with the VLBA is better than what the Gaia satellite is designed to achieve for most stars in its catalog (scheduled for release after 2015"
Oh please. This is one of the few countries in the world where you can still hide your wealth and avoid paying taxes. Govnerments around the world are working on, and have for a long time, to create deals to exchange information. If what you're doing is within the law then SKAT gains zero new information, because they already know about every financial transactions they are supposed to know about.

Here SKAT had an oppotunity to gain that information anyway, and that is a clear signal to criminals that they shouldn't feel safe hiding behind some beneficial countrys laws.

Your example with a worm, is a straw man. Infecting millions of computers and shifting through it all to collect doubtful infomation is hardly the same. SKAT have been trying to get their hands on this infomation for decades, through legitimate deals. Now someone presents it to them via a different channel. If you want it to be comparable, it is someone infiltrating a torrent tracker and use information from that to sell to collection agencies. They still cannot use the information for anything but prompt a real investigation. After all we don't know if the information is real or not. If you want to do that, be my guest - I don't have a problem with it.

About the law, it cannot be changed willy-nilly, it still have to be voted for in the parliament.
I found the most interesting point in the whole article the publicly stated consideration of establishing a China presence.

It would appear to make a lot of sense given current capital availability in China, world-leading mobile payment penetration, and US/SF issues with visas, overheads, component sourcing. Get over here!
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There can be huge variations in the market.
Uber moved from MySQL (used as traditional relational DB) to Postgres (used as traditional relational DB) around 2013.

They then refused to ugprade postgres from 9.2 to newer version (and most of the stuff they complain about is not a problem in newer version) and moved to MySQL, used as append-only k/v store (they call Schemaless) now.
This was a pretty good article -- certainly one of the better portraits I've read of SA.

However, I usually see better writing in the New Yorker. Take "as a result, the once nerdy Y Combinator is now aggressively geeky." What the hell does that mean? (Nothing.)

OTOH, a few memorable quotes:

> Growth masks all problems. (Steve Huffman)

> Despite having raised a robust $1.6 million after Demo Day, the founders were ridden with angst. Fredrik Thomassen said that they wanted to make their war chest last forever, and Sondre Rasch mentioned that he’d frugally chosen to live in a twelve-entrepreneur collective in a nearby forest.
line { shape-rendering: crispEdges; }

This gets rid of the "more black" problem, but you lose the antialiasing effect which makes shapes with curves look horrible. Could try and apply it to only straight lines I suppose?
The brilliance of YCombinator, IMO, is HackerNews. It's turned YC into a self-perpetuating machine by getting smart people to congregate and talk about news YC itself partially generates.

I heard about YC, PG, and sama all through this outlet.
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Does every vendor have their own image, or is there one universal image for chrome laptops? If it's the former, can you just put a stock image on it, or does each vendor embed their drivers?
> There was still a slightly increased risk of divorce among cohabitors, but Kuperberg says this is explained by other factors. For instance, research shows that people who cohabit are more likely to have less education, more likely to have previously lived with another partner, and less likely to have lived with both parents as a child—all characteristics that put them at a higher risk of divorce to begin with.

Fascinating. I find the middle one pretty interesting: that "more likely to have previously lived with another partner" is correlated with divorce.

Off the top of my head I can think of a number of possible explanations: some people may never consider divorce for moral/religious reasons, some people may be better or worse than others at entering into and maintaining long term relationships, some people have learned from one or more prior experiences and are less tolerant of bad relationships[0], etc.

[0] i'd like to believe it's largely this one, but maybe that's because i've spent too much time reading relationship advice threads
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Yep, I used to live 5 miles from there. Looks about right. Thousands of miles of wire fence makes up most of the border. Not very secure. Easy to walk over or through if you wanted to.
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