skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The thesis of the article isn't the point of the article? What?

Kind of like how an article whose "thesis" is that we should eat children probably isn't actually suggesting we literally should eat children, even while making a vigorous argument for its thesis.

Or are you also flabbergasted when someone suggests "A Modest Proposal" wasn't an actual proposal?

What the author did in this piece wasn't exactly satire, but it is using hyperbole to make a point about a form of bias in historical writing (cultural exceptionalism).

> If you're the author

I am not. But I enjoyed that article on its own merits, and seeing a nice piece of work trampled over by people who completely missed the point of the piece angers me.

>...but making broad claims about history...

The point of the piece is not to make broad claims about history, but rather to critique the sorts of broad claims that are often made when history is written from the perspective of a culture that views itself as exceptional. The fact that the claims are so hyperbolic as to make people angry is... kind of the point -- c.f. modest proposal.

I thought that was patently obvious from the tone and content of the piece.
And if you turn off Cloudflare's protection to fix this, somebody that wants to censor you and has $20 will use one of the hundreds of DDoS booters (most of them are behind Cloudflare) to nuke your site, unless you're Brian Krebs and qualify for Project Shield.

I'm very optimistic about the direction the internet is going in right now.
Am not religious, but that's nuts!

Also interesting that Noah and co. all lived to be hundreds of years old, in the book.
They're a CDN... their purpose is DDoS mitigation, and improved delivery of cached resources... That means running analysis on traffic, and it sucks when you get caught in the net. That's how it works though.

Odds are the nntp client in question should customize the user-agent, and a request made to Cloudflare to improve the ranking for that agent... that's about the best that can be expected here.
Without trying to look like an arse, why? I have been on pc since dos, I can hack my way around any pc.

I will fully admit I have not spent enough time in Mac to figure out the file system, but from what (little) I have seen, your not in control.

I like my pc because I can see what sub-processes are running, who is taking up how much memory, install things to where I want and if worse comes to worse, manually change how windows runs. (I apologise if you can do all that in Mac, as I said, I don't have the experience certificate - I bounced off it hard).
The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st Century Agriculture
L1,L2,L3 are unstable. Better build it at L4 or L5, which are stable.
By my calculations [0], one nanodegree is equivalent to approximately 0.0007 seconds of classroom instruction.

If you're going to create a self-driving car, please, please, please get at least a millidegree (~2 hours).

[0] ~120 credit-hours per B.S. degree * ~16 classroom hours per credit-hour * 360 seconds per hour * 10^-9 for nano- prefix
Right- and updates, which require an iTunes account and registered computer, can be done by extracting the installer/update from another OSX system.
Though not impossible, it does take some serious tinkering to prevent Apple from "phoning home" with every other click.
They still sell the iPhone 6S and the SE.
> How about an 'OK, funny once' command?

I hope that's a Heinlein reference.
Airplane mode doesn't turn off the radios, IIRC; it just stops transmissions.

Rumor is that even when your phone has been turned off, it can be turned back on remotely.
But water can react with the electrolyte used in many Li-ion cells to form hydrofluoric acid.
Indeed. However, Noah and co. were born before Genesis 6:3. Also interesting to note.
One of the important things about Whatsapp is that they raised only $60M. Comapare that to the the median $285M that the average active unicorn raised. I think it's less a story of billion dollar rounds vs. bootstrapping, and more a case for being efficient with capital.
5 Common Misuses of Points by Agile Teams
Why would light be reflected? The point is to convert it to energy as efficiently as possible. If they can do that with 99% efficiency, there's not much left to reflect.

But by the time you're building a Dyson Sphere, the vast majority of the people are probably already living in space habitats. There's not much use for stellar-scale energy if everybody still fits on a single planet.
This was extremely interesting, thanks for posting it.
Perhaps an App Store style system for all that third party development?
How to Write Unmaintainable Code [pdf]
I love GitLab, but this minor point release doesn't seem to have anything worth discussing.
May be slightly off topic, but what's the time commitment like for this program? Are people with full time jobs expected to be able to take full benefit of it?
Very pretty. I like how it hides the markup, but still feels like you are editing markdown (e.g. <Backspace> removes the hidden formatting characters).

Unfortunately, there is quite some input lag for me (Windows 10, reasonably fast laptop, HighDpi (Yoga Pro 2). I have this in many Electron apps, some less (Simplenote is very snappy, VS Code is OK), some much more (Atom), but it almost alway feels wierd.
The Charity language appears to fit into this mold:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_(programming_language)

Very interesting stuff.
Has the Russian mole inside NSA finally been arrested?
In the U.S., fast food workers are struggling to get a respectable increase in pay. But in Denmark, the fast food industry pays its workers at least $20 an hour.

That's at least $5 more than the $15 minimum wage the same class of workers are fighting for here (in the US).
> It's the only major city I've been to where a white person dropping the word "nigger" (and used in a clearly negative way) not only happens in conversation, but it doesn't elicit gasps or any negative response.

As a counterexample, I have lived in Atlanta for the past 7 years and never once heard anything like this. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it feels like you're painting the city with an overly broad brush.
Just ask Alan Shepard. You know, the first American in space?
Minor League Baseball as well. Speculation about scouting reports, and potential call-ups is really fun. I'm a huge baseball fan (as I imagine many here might be), and this kind of thing is just not talked about on SportsCenter and it adds a human element to The Game. Concur about the NBA. NBA-Twitter is awesome.
Probably on their way to us, which is why they're directly between us and their star.
Were the APIs taken away?
In Mathematics, if you get an unsolicited error report and the report is accurate, your first reaction is "oh my god" as you assess the damage and how much revision needs to be done to correct the paper. Then the answer is "thank you! I didn't realize so many people even read my work so closely! I'll add a correction and thank you for your contribution in an update of the paper".
Google has top notch practices in my opinion regarding privacy. If anything I would be more worried about smaller companies with shadier practices and lower security standards holding my personal information. There have been seemingly illegal practices from companies like Sears with how personal data is collected and used. It's easy to throw shade at a big companies, write a sarcastic title, then get clicks.

Example: "Intuit’s TurboTax stores highly detailed financial data for millions of users who import their W2s, their banking data, info about their mortgages and more. Right now, all of this data is locked into TurboTax, but the company is now thinking about how it can do more with it by giving its users the option to share this data with reputable third parties." ... https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/22/intuit-wants-to-turn-turbo...
As with everything biblical, there is an interesting discussion about that very topic:
http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/4163/if-god-...
Helping the homeless in San Francisco
If each state is a function that simply waits for events and returns the next state, the C code doesn't look that bad.
I could see using that with J and K because I use c-(hjkl) for moving between open buffers in a tab. Nice tip though.

map <C-h> <C-w>h
map <C-j> <C-w>j
map <C-k> <C-w>k
map <C-l> <C-w>l
My favorite "secret" vim feature, that no one has mentioned yet:

set scrolloff=999

That will keep the cursor in the middle of the window always, except at the start and end of the file. Before discovering that I used to `zz` after nearly every movement; that's all gone now, saving a ton of time and frustration.
Graphene is flammable, as are pretty much all arrangements of pure carbon.
Also make sure you are one of the most politically connected people on the planet and married to an ex POTUS.
Why in god's name would Rust or C++ templates be the optimal amount (or optimal syntactic sugar design)?
If he's experienced, then I'm more inclined to believe that this was a PR piece, pure and simple.
How to Use XPath Locators in App Testing
How is the eta of a shipment determined when tracking a shipment this way?
برای موفقیت شغلی از تکنولوژی بهره ببرید – موفقیت
Makes sense, Typora uses Pandoc under the covers for it's import/export.

I use vscode for my markdown editing also, but the lack of help with tables and other formatting hurt along with the lack of a offline spellchecker makes vscode a bit painful.
Cool, stuff for sure.

I didn't see it addressed in the paper, how does this compare WRT discrete DSP chips? Are you targeting ease of programming instead of raw FMAD/etc?
Ferrante was the name of the (probably imaginary) evil brother in Eco's The Island of the Day Before.
> The difference between a lobster and a person is genetics.

A difference. There are others.
Johari window
Speaking as a native Atlantan who moved to California 4 years for a job in the tech industry: I don't miss it and I wouldn't want to move back, even to leverage a better cost of living. I miss the weather, the environment, the people, the food - but I certainly don't miss the crime. Everyone I knew had some kind of violent crime encounter after living in Atlanta and it wasn't until I moved to the amazing calm of San Francisco / Santa Monica / West L.A. that I realized there are some cities where it isn't a constant companion.

"Murder Kroger" has that nickname for a reason, and the fact that so many Atlantans are used to it is quite telling.
Genesis 6 is the beginning of the "Noah's flood" narrative. Noah doesn't die until Genesis 9. Reference: http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-29.htm
I'm sure there's no deceleration at all at the beginning of the last second, there's no slackening of the lines for example, but it does look as if there's some sort of thrust brake in the last tenth of a second or so, somewhat in lieu of a crumple zone I suppose.

http://rowvid.com/?v=bqUIX3Z4r3k&t=4232&s=0.25
Automated Code Audit’s First Customer
Can't you simply disable the GPS radio?
After two million miles, Google’s robot car now drives better than a 16-year-old
Don't worry, his bubble of denial is inviolable.
The statistics in this article are questionable.

For one thing, they don't actually analyse what people are dying from.

What we consider "natural causes" now, we may discover all sorts of physiological explanations for in the upcoming decades, as we reach new limits of human age.

As diseases, disorders, and illnesses are eliminated, we will have less and less "natural" ways to die.

This article would have made more sense if they found an actual limit to human age, as the headline implies.
Lets hope that it is a promise for innovation and not a threat of dirty tricks. people should not be declaring it as some kind of "Musk victory". These guys do not play fair and have deep pockets.

You can beat Musk to Mars one of two ways:

1) You innovate better/faster than SpaceX and get there sooner

2) You slow down SpaceX by legal/ political/other means until your company can get a lead.

Given all the dirty tricks[1],[2] & possibly [3] that ULA (50-50 partnership Boeing & Lockheed) has played in the past, I would not put it past them to do #2.

[1] https://defensesystems.com/articles/2014/04/28/spacex-protes...

[2] http://spacenews.com/ula-vp-resigns-following-remarks-on-com...

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/implication-...
Yes, it is. Does that mean it can't be bad?
There has been a bunch of academic research about this topic under names like core fusion and dynamic multicore. A recent sample: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
It was a good article. It covered a lot of ground, but worth it for those willing to put in the effort.
Mobile app design: from blueprint to masterpiece. Stages of design creation
Moreover, ostracizes any dissenting opinions while simultaneously loudly trumpeting the value of tolerance for diversity.
No, the EU commission believes that Ireland gave Google an illegal tax break, which is almost self-evidentiary.

There was no post-facto change of the law. It is simply very normal for illegal acts to be discovered after they were perpetrated. Anything else would border on precognition.
I would think that a good caching solution on the server for RSS requests could perform decently even under DDoS scenarios... though, this is why people used other services in front of their RSS feeds, so that they were better cached. Most blogs aren't generation more than a couple new articles a day, so caching 15-120 minutes wouldn't be an issue for most use cases.
To be honest I think the chrome extension storefront(?) is pretty decent as well. It's just a matter of curation from the point they've got it at. The reality is that the average user _wants_ a barrier to entry: no one likes what download.com or sourceforge have become.
Blockchains are like scrolls: you can write information on them that a society can use to coordinate current actions based on the past. You don't want a scroll for your medical records. You want a journal that can't lose data and can safely give access to any app you want to install without losing privacy. That sounds more like Urbit than a blockchain.
A keystroke away…
Sawyer from EasyPost here. Yes, we're generally upstream of Shippo - we power a bunch of their competitors in the app / shipping UI space. We focus more on developer APIs and all of the tools and performance considerations that come with that.

Our UI developers are focused mainly on analytics for the platform - we're happy to leave the click n' ship piece to Shipstation, ShipRush, Shippo, etc.
It might actually help them, it seems crazy but it's actually a good idea.
I pretty much agree with you, but since the comment I replied to wasn't addressing Susan Fiske directly at all, and was generalizing wildly and negatively, I personally think this is a little misdirected.

I don't know Susan Fiske, and while she might deserve it, I won't be joining the crowd of pitchforks to judge and attack her based on a few forum comments. But, if you really want to excoriate someone who represents a lot of people poorly, it might be energy better spent and more timely to worry about Mike Pence who, I've heard directly from a handful of academics in Indiana, is doing very bad things for science and science funding.
No one is advocating putting medical records on the blockchain. That's crazy.

He's talking about using a technology like Tierion or Chainpoint to anchor a hash of the data in the blockchain. This can be used to verify the integrity and approximate timestamp of the data.

http://tierion.com
http://chainpoint.org
What is cognitive radio?
That's irrational. The comment's validity is logically unrelated to how aggressively it was delivered.
How are tiny houses better than small apartments? Being able to vertically stack things sounds hugely more efficient.
They were a startup when the company began but are now an established company. They didn't transition from startup to normal company by taking VC funds and optimizing for growth, rather they went the route that most businesses take. That's what different/interesting about them when compared to most SV tech startups nowadays.
I found this a little annoying myself. Lately 'Linux' somehow only translates to 'Only Debian/Ubuntu'.

However, this is the first one I've come across that doesn't even distribute plain old gzipped binaries.
Could this be related to using the same name as the cryptocurrency? [1]

[1] "Dash (DASH) is an open sourced, privacy-centric digital currency with instant transactions." https://www.dash.org/
Eel tracking devices reveal epic migration to Sargasso Sea
Those wouldn't be the same guys that bind mongo to 0.0.0.0 by default... the default config in this instance is more secure... which means it's more annoying in scenarios it isn't configured for...

You have a firewall, and then complain to mongo because you can't access your database from another computer.
When a serious action is going to be taken for any reason, that action should be PRECEDED by at least an E-mail to the owner and the path to reverse the action should be clear. The E-mail should not just be a terse message, it should contain a wide variety of resources; something like: "Your account and applications will be disabled in 2 days for <reason>. Please select from the following links to attempt to resolve the issue, or call <number> as soon as possible.".

It’s not just apps, either. There is frequently a “less disruptive” option for any major action; for instance, you can “delete” files by starting with the instantly-reversible "chmod 000", and after some period of time you actually go ahead and "rm -Rf". If, in between, a panicked user E-mails you back and says they really needed those files, you undo your "chmod" and instantly fix the issue. Why should anything on the App Store take days?
I wouldn't expect Apple to understand compliance for every possible use case. Apple doesn't have to bend their rules to comply with apps that want to comply with local/state/provincial/federal laws, they can just say "We don't support x feature, and therefore you can't distribute through our store."
Study reveals how seabirds dive safely at high speeds
Android does not have a ToS regarding in-app purchases, the Play Store does. You are free to distribute your android app outside the play store.

And the play store ToS rules around in-app purchases also don't apply to physical goods, or products or services that can be used outside the app. This means that a companies like netflix or spotify are free to collect payments for their services without giving google a 30% cut, like they have to give apple. This is not an unenforced clause, a grey area, or a cause for uncertainty; the play store terms are very clear.

https://play.google.com/about/monetization-ads/
I doubt such a study can be valid. We still don't know much about the microorganisms that we exist symbiotically with. Case in point: Cytomegalovirus. Most of us carry this virus. It basically takes up the memory of our immune system, but only slowly over time. As it is now, it's not a concern, but if we had lifespans that were into the mid to upper 100's of years, this thing would probably be a leading cause of death.

There's probably a number of things like this we don't know yet.

EDIT: It is a concern for AIDS patients and other immune compromised individuals, however.
Yes, unsurprisingly there is an enormous amount of case law on this topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_St...
Challenges of HTML5 media playback
The AI for the Enterprise D was run from three computer cores on the ship (two in the saucer, one in the engineering section), made up of Isolinear Chips subjected to a small warp field (iow, it makes computes using light faster than the speed of light). Subspace communication bandwidth is too limited (and potentially affected by latency, since it had to travel through repeaters throughout the galaxy) to provide realtime cloud computing as we experience it.

There are some cannon exceptions to this (such as in Nemesis where the subspace communication interruption affected the star charts), but even then the functionality of the ship was not impacted.

The Star Trek ships are very analogous to our own ocean-bound ships, where satellite communication is possible almost anywhere, but they don't rely on it.

So, yes, the AI is completely confined to the ship.
I've read over that, and while I found the majority of the article interesting, I found the conclusion jarring. Especially as a true Marxist would agree with many of the ideas throughout the article, but come to an entirely different conclusion - that the solution to law being imposed on society isn't to allow people to choose which entity they'll allow to impose on them, but to allow society to directly create its own order.

Of course, just as you might look like the article's Socrates for suggesting free markets of law, you'd look even more like him for suggesting that maybe some issues are best resolved through means other than markets or monopolies.
Day and Night
You couldn't have said it better. Shameless, manufacturing consent.
Oxford's Ion Channel Model Database Built Using Three.js
And how are we going to know where google appliances are present or not?
That's met with vigorous opposition in the Bay Area, by people who think we should instead be building more apartments near the BART stations.

Of course, the parking lots service ~1000 people, while apartments obeying the height limits might accomodate a few dozen and would of course be even more desirable/expensive now that commuting to the station from far away is harder.
neither are bullshit papers/editorials/letters-to-the-editor

http://frog.gatech.edu/Pubs/How-to-Publish-a-Scientific-Comm...

"Eminent" specialists often argue in favor of eminence (journals, tenured investigators, blah blah) over evidence (tossing an analysis up on arXiv and posting a link to it). Young turks or iconoclasts often do the reverse, since there is a power structure in place via editors, reviewers, study sections, and the like. Orthodoxy often sticks even when the evidence supporting it is quite skimpy (or absent).

Funny thing is, when you pull the underlying data (in fields where this is possible), you routinely find that the reported conclusions are overblown. Not necessarily wrong, but routinely sold as more conclusive than they are (and sometimes they are in fact wrong, whether due to small sample sizes, "outlier removal", or outright fraud).

In no way, shape, or form are these bad habits limited to psychology. They happen in basic biology, they happen in medicine, they happen in clinical trial reporting. It's faster and easier to oversell shitty science than it is to do good, thorough science, so with the tight competition for grant funding, you can imagine what happens next.

Trust whoever you like, but verify results from everyone. There are good people out there who are fastidious; there are good people out there who are sloppy; and there are people who don't care one bit whether they're publishing absolute horse shit. The onus is on you, the reader or researcher, to do the requisite critical thinking (and, perhaps, a few analyses before you waste time running down a dead end).

Keep an open mind, but don't let your brain fall out. Also, many good scientists aren't very nice people, and some very pleasant people in science are shitty scientists. It's very hard to tell a priori which is which, so look at the evidence and decide for yourself.
fib (n+2) = fib (n+1) + fib (n+2)

Something's wrong there...