skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it reassures me that I am not reading comments by newly minted young adult or a 20+ years experienced person doing mostly rote work.

What does that matter, if the comment is good? Nothing is inherently bad about those comments, just like nothing is inherently good about others.

Rather than a blue tick in the comment thread, it might be useful to have something like that inside their user profile. For example, animats has "John Nagle" in his "about" field. Having the information available but not initially visible might be valuable to help support claims like "As one of the early workers on network congestion" without coloring the interpretation of statements outside of his area of expertise (basically, avoiding attaching an "argument to authority" fallacy to every celebrity-posted comment).

edit: Bah, just saw your later comment where you suggested a similar mechanism. Sorry.
My parents own a couple houses that they rent out. They were looking for a tenant after the previous tenant disappeared without paying several months rent, and one lady that applied had Section 8. She was a single mother, and my mom really felt for her, because she raised me as a single mom herself, and while she'd never had to live in public housing she did get assistance from WIC (or whatever it was called in the 80s). She really thought it was going to be win-win: since the government was paying the rent, they'd always get the check, and this single mom would have a nice place to live and raise her kids.

Well... it was fine, for about six months. Then the lady's old boyfriend starting hanging around the house all the time, bringing his drug dealing friends around, and one day the renter just ditched the place in the middle of the night, leaving the entire place pretty much trashed. My parents had to spend weeks repairing the damage to the house and cleaning it up (my mom said the bathtub was literally black with grime).

So now they are extremely reluctant to rent to a Section 8 holder again. They lost money on the deal, considering the costs of repairs and cleaning, even with all the labor for the repairs/cleaning done by them rather than hiring a service.
It's been done. Ricochet had street-light based nodes in the mid-1990s.[1] I used to have a transceiver for that service. Speed was about 30Kb/s, which is why the service went out of business by 2001. One of the neat, but not too useful, features was that you could make connections to peers on the same set of street light nodes without going through the headend.

Street light WiFi nodes are deployed in some areas.

Most useful IoT things need very minimal bandwidth, which they can get over 2-way pager networks or cellular modems. Thousands of commercial refrigerators, HVAC systems, sewerage lift pumps, and other boring but important items of infrastructure phone home that way right now. But there's not enough bandwidth for the "always listening and watching" boxes that have become popular.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service)
I think it helps in conveying the fact that it is a vulnerability not a feature.

So any website (even your own company's internal one) can check stuff like this. And you can't do anything about it. Other than always using private browsing for anything you don't want your company/anyone else to know about.
We found which Bay Area cities aren't pulling their weight on housing
BMW 'Smart Motorcycle' Concept
> the lives of the American poor were not substantially improved by the vast amounts of excess wealth and productivity that let almost everyone off the farms.

While it's likely that the opportunity to escape poverty is lower today than in the past, objectively things are far better today for the poor than at the turn of the 20th century when the U.S. economy was transitioning away from being heavily agrarian [1]. At that time, the poor had far less leisure, food security, and sanitation.

I agree with the general sentiment of your comment; I am highly skeptical of UBI and assert that its extreme expense is not practical. Likewise, countries that offer free or low-cost college don't enjoy increased enrollment by students of low-income families [2].

1. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/01/a-r...

2. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-education-oecd-idUSKBN0H41...
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Did anybody find one on Google Maps in Satellite mode?
I certainly agree that the rest of the post makes sense and is more on topic! It's why I felt the need to add the statement at the end of my own stating that I agree with it, immediately after I posted it ;)

Re: requirement - there I was referring to your opening:

> So let's show off what you can do without JavaScript...but also include SCSS as a dependency when the opening paragraph complains about a JavaScript dependency? Madness...

And explaining that although they used SCSS, it certainly isn't a requirement, nor even much simpler than the plain CSS.

I'd guess that most of the responses probably focussed on it because leading statements are often read louder than what follows them. They set the mood/tone in a way.
> prejudisms

Are you looking for "prejudices"?
That's how PaaS works. AFAIK Heroku and App Engine also don't specify much if anything about CPU.

Bluemix IaaS specifies what CPU you get similar to EC2.
With Amazon Prime, iTunes, and Redbox, you can get access to pretty much anything. Yes, it costs $1-4 per movie, but that was actually the price of a rental anyway and I had to get in my car, drive to the store, and hope that they had what I was looking for. Netflix still has DVD service if you choose. For me, the risks of being caught stealing outweigh the benefits of saving a few bucks.
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A few years ago, a co-worker came back from a MongoDB event with a bag of swag, including a MongoDB branded USB drive.

When he plugged it in, it acted as a keyboard and managed to open the browser to a MongoDB promotional page.

Needless to say he freaked out a bit. Some marketing goons (not restricted to the people at MongoDB) seem to think this kind of thing is a great promotional tool.

Now that I think of it, my wife has a similar story about her University distributing this same kind of USB/botnet thing to students.
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A lot of people who drive cars do so because they don't like riding mass transit with the poor. Lots of people don't want to ride the train with people who are drunk and soaked in their own urine, or who are strung out on meth, or who are behaving aggressively, or are yelling at people, or... etc. Everyone who rides transit sees these things on a regular basis (Vancouver here) and I can completely understand others saying they don't want to give up their single occupancy vehicle.

I wouldn't see much of a niche for self-driving vehicles if authorities were free to enforce standards of dress and conduct on mass transit; but practically they can't (for so many political reasons in large cities) so they won't so there is such a niche available.

Sorry if this strikes you as being elitist, but I felt that it needs to be said. If we had functional mass transit that everyone felt safe using, I just wouldn't see much reason for self-driving cars.
Note that this is not necessarily an equilibrium where the welfare recipients are no better off. It depends on the negotiation position of the direct recipients compared to those that can extort wealth from them. If they've got no choice but to stay in a jurisdiction that has a police force that writes extortionate tickets backed up by a modern-day debtor's prison, the police system is going to squeeze that out of them. If it's straightforward to just pack up and leave to Montana or something, the police system won't push most people to that point. (Or they will, and it won't matter, because the people they're squeezing will be better off and in Montana.)
What JoshTriplett is describing is cockroaches. Or maybe bacteria.

The only differences between grey-goo and cockroaches is that cockroaches have come up against the limitations of the physical world. That is to say the physical world consists of minerals that have a strong tendency to not dissolve in to their constituant atoms, energy that is difficult to collect and use with any efficiency, and literally millions of other creatures eating your lunch.

It seems more plausible that this self replicating grey-goo would simply become cockroach food before it became a problem. Maybe ants would farm it like they do aphids and fungi.
It was proposed that DNT be the default, but then ad companies said if that were the case, then they would just ignore the header. They want users to explicitly opt out of tracking otherwise they will assume they agree to being tracked.
Well, I think the concept here is to publicly pledge to dump yahoo, in order to convince & pressure others to do the same. Saying you care about your privacy and security doesn't mean you remove yourself from all forms of public expression. It's the most basic form of free speech.

If you want to privately pledge, just write it down on a sticky note, and put it on your monitor.
i was just looking at getting gdb + python-debuginfo to work the other day, guessing that i'm missing the import step from within gdb, but fedora claims it should work automatically. I'll have to try that.
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Doing so is just so increasingly limiting on our lives. What might be a more ideal scenario is to change the government's priorities, and enact strict(er) privacy laws that prevent these and other companies from sharing our data, or to be able to speak out when a hidden government department asks them to keep it under wraps.
Google creates AI program that uses reasoning to navigate the London tube
Yes absolutely, as well as snow clearing. Many neighborhoods have the snow shoved to the side of the road to form a wall between sidewalks and roads, whereas other neighborhoods have the snow trucked out.
> (X25519 is also the default between Chrome and
> web servers: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5682529109540864 )

I thought chacha20/poly was the default. That's what I get when I connect to https://www.google.com with chrome (chrome-53) at any rate.
Oh, I'm quite familiar with mailinator on that end.
There's a free (legal!!!) HTML version at the "UC Press E-books Collection" http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft4t1nb...

Generally speaking, I find that the more expensive a rare academic tome is, the more likely there are legal/etc. versions online (PDFs, HTML, DjVu, etc.), indexed by Google. That seems to be much more true for STEM texts than those of the humanities, though.
Not a botanist, but I would guess that the turpines found in forest plants (such as pinene) play a role. I've experimented with pycnogenol, which is an extract from pine bark, and noticed some mild improvements in respiratory and mental acuity. Completely anecdotal, though there is some science backing pine bark extract and it's benefits. Although from my experience, I would universally recommend spending time in the woods as opposed to consuming trademarked products, despite the hippie nootropic marketing.
Shit outta luck.exe
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From the paper's "System Overview":

An earlier form of DNC, the neural Turing machine16, had a
similar structure, but more limited memory access methods
(see Methods for further discussion).
The biggest climate change story in the world is quietly playing out in Rwanda
Stick to UTF-8 and these three character sets
Such opposition can usually be boiled down to thinly veiled hubris towards the poor and under-advantaged.
You might want to check out Framework 7 (http://framework7.io/). Discovered it only a few months ago and it's the best work I've seen so far to achieve a native look when using Cordova
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If you're reading screenshots of a non-changing font, you could quite easily get away with plain template-matching. Simply do a run through and label the data one time.

I did something like that a few years ago when making an Eve-Online UI scraper.
Thanks! And that would be awesome, definitely interested in that. MidiPlayerJS looks great. Let's try it out and see what we can make happen!
If you're open for other suggestions I can recommend Atom as well. It's very similar to sublime, but for me it feels like the community of atom is more alive than the one of sublime at the moment.
In postgres (and probably in others aswell), MVCC implemented in Btree storage level. there is an overhead to write tempdb.
Right. After you've spent 10+ man/years developing an app based on React / other lib with similar restriction. "stop using React" is fine advise for small projects that can be rewritten in few months by few people. For very large projects the cost of stop using / rewrite could be huge.
Forgive me, as I haven't used signal, but I don't see how whether they are sitting next to you or not changes the problem.

If I can generate a key that hashes to the same value as your key, I can convince anyone I am you. If I can generate a second collision for a third party's key, I can convince you you are talking to that third party, as well. Generating hash collisions is, as I understand it, pretty well modelled with the birthday paradox (and variations like the one I linked). Physical proximity seems entirely unrelated.
Ok, this are complex questions... but I will try to address them as best as I can.

1. The guy who first came with the 2 Billion figure in the 1920s was the scientist Raymond Pearl, though the copncept of 'carrying capacity' as we understand it today did not exist. Pearl's work was for the most part statistic/economic; It was Eugine Odum who later picked up that earlier work in the 1950s and applied it to the ecology concept of 'carrying capacity' which was independently developed by the observation of animals in natural environments. You can check the standard form in Odum's textbook "Fundamentals of Ecology".

The problem with the original formulation for Carrying Capacity is that it is assumed to be fixed, because animal behavior is governed mostly by insticts. Humans, even if ultimately subject to the Laws of Nature, can show much wider variations in behavior due to culture, availability of technology and many other factors. According to the wikipedia page, UN has several estimations of current carrying capacity, and they vary widely (From 4 to 11B) depending on each researcher biases and methodology.

I personally assume that the results in the higher end of the spectrum come from cornucopians that fail to take into account the economic and political presures that get in the way of implementing the (theoretically) optimal solutions, and therefore assume that actual carrying capacity is closer to the 4-5B range... but then, it's my own bias speaking there.

2. Other concept you can take from Odum is that long term carrying capacity can be eroded by organisims that happen to find a short term way to reproduce beyond the current carrying capacity of the ecosystem they belong to. This is what I was talking about in my previous msg, though I admit it sounds a bit convoluted and ranty in retrospective.

If you have a 7 seat car and you usually drive around with 10 or more people on it, (or with merely 5 fraternity bros that usually behave like baboons on meth) someone is eventually going to break one of the seats - probably the copilot one, which happens to be the least robust one. Then, you end up with a 6 seat car, at least for the lenght of the time that it takes you to fix it. And if you do not fix the seat but keep driving around with the same people on board, you are going to break another seat, and another.
That book is amazing, speaking as a non-physicist. (Fine, I did study maths, so I suppose I'm almost qualified as a theoretical physicist, except I'm not good enough at maths ;)

Really recommend it to anybody who's interested in that part of history. Amazing writing, and an incredible story. (You know it's gripping when you read about some of the experiments and feverishly hope they don't blow themselves up, nevermind knowing the outcome)
Thanks for plugging your book. Math has always been a struggle for me and considering I got my ass kicked through undergrad barely passing my math courses, I constantly I'd enjoy math as a programmer if I had just had the proper schooling in highschool.

Just snagged your book on Lulu. Wish me luck.
The former.

See http://pypy.org/download.html#numpy-via-cpyext
That's because the words "uncivilized" and "defective characteristics" are words tied to cultural, social, and moral norms that vary from person to person, so it's hard to have a quality discussion along those lines. In my book there are "uncivilized" and "defective characteristic" people among all sorts of income lines (and vice versa), up to and including the very rich.

I will say that I do kind of get what you mean (in that there may be unique problems with concentrated poverty that hinder mobility -- as a theoretical, for instance, if crime was a much bigger problem in impoverished areas, that definitely would be of concern). But too much of the low quality articles written on poverty have a high tendency to fall back on stereotype... we must be careful to be more data oriented.

Personally, I don't think this story was one of those political type stories you often see on this type of subject that fall back on well-worn tropes. This was a study that simply tried to examine whether subsidized housing helps out future household earnings. For many groups, it did. For a few groups, it didn't. In light of the issues with social mobility in America at present, I didn't consider the article that low quality personally.

The original study probably would have been a fair bit more enlightening and hopefully had a much more thorough analysis:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w22721?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_mediu...

But unfortunately it's behind a paywall. :|
If you were really optimizing for cost, you wouldn't have a $16 monolithic board in the middle with extra components you don't need. Compared to that, the extra cost of milling the board you're placing it on is minimal.
8 Upsides to Dating Across Party Lines
I too would definitely be interested if there's any sort of milestone planned for X25519. There are a couple of open enhancement requests on it in both openbsd and portable [1,2] dating to before ratification of RFC 7748 (or Chrome 50), but no assignees yet. I also don't see any discussion on the libressl public mailing list archives at marc.info, though I'm not sure if that's complete. It seems like it may become an ever bigger breaking issue for a lot of folks as support becomes more widespread following standardization, inclusion in OpenSSL 1.1.0, and increasing major browser/OS support.

1. https://github.com/libressl-portable/portable/issues/114
2. https://github.com/libressl-portable/openbsd/issues/58
If a company is asking for code from a person then not checking the code, doesn't that indicate something is really wrong with the company?

Why would someone with real skill and therefore a real profile work there? Let all the fakers go work at shitty companies.
This is definitely off-topic to the linked article, but to your point re: selling an LED vs a lighting plan: I think this is largely a failure on the part of companies to transition to a service-based model in light of decreasing emphasis on consumerism and the greater importance of sustainability.

More explicitly (and with fewer buzzwords), since WWII the USA has been pushing consumption as a cultural value to fuel the economy. Everything has been treated as "this equipment is disposable, with a service life of X". Arguably, goods producers still use the same process during design (since it provides a good optimization constraint), but the service life of consumables has been increasing. The LED vs incandescent transition is a perfect example, because you've gone from a consumable with a service life that is dependably short enough for the bulb producer to rely upon repeat sales, to an equivalent consumable with a service life that is so long that the bulb producer can't keep its own business running sustainably. As far as I can tell, consumer-side economic pressures have encouraged this trend for pretty much every market in existence, though each individual market may have a starkly different rate of change (the medical consumables market being perhaps the slowest, at least that comes to my mind).

When you're faced with that transition, as a company your best hope for survival is to transition to a service-based economy. In the mobile phone market (and to a degree, in the computer market), the service being sold has, essentially, been innovation itself: "we'll release a new phone every so often, and in exchange for your yearly contribution to our coffers, we'll make sure it's an improvement over your last model". But I think the phone market also offers cautionary advice: this strategy saturates once consumers realize they've hit the point of diminishing returns. Furthermore, efforts to do something equivalent with LED bulbs are rightly met with skepticism, because those diminishing returns are immediately and clearly evident. So even that is clearly not a sustainable solution in the long term.

So where do you go from there? Market contraction? As a company, that means you're playing roulette. You're going to try and find some other offerable service to maximize your odds of survival. But at the end of the day, I think it's that discord between consumer interests and supply-side economics that have created this brave new world of LED lighting plans and iPhones on demand. Call it what you will -- perhaps another indication of the upcoming technological unemployment crisis -- but given the degree to which we're developing these kinds of long-service-life consumables, I think the trend is only going to get stronger.
Here's an official, publicly accessible, link to the article: http://rdcu.be/kXhV
If you want to use a real Promise, you can wrap the call to recognize in Promise.resolve:

Promise.resolve(Tesseract.recognize(myImage)).then(result => console.log(result))
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Key changes:

1) New Skins
2) TrueCrypt replaced by VeraCrypt
3) WifiGuard,GPG4USB,Certificate validation tools added
4) Privazer replaced by BleachBit
5) New DNS Providers Yandex - Verisign - Level3
6) VPN, Tor, Bowser, and Browser Plugins were updated.
7) Connection timer counts in days as well
8) Installer has changed
9) Support for 64bit OS.
10) Bug fixes

StealthWalker is available for all to try so feel free to test it and give us your feedback
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A glance at the methodology shows that they account for that.

https://github.com/worldpopulation/population.io-api/tree/ma...
But utterly dwarfed by the cost of an offensive patent infringement lawsuit against a $300+ Billion company.
>The lesson of that is that you cannot extrapolate our current technology and the resources we consume in the future and assume that everything will stay the same.

I am reminded of an old joke:

"A man jumped from the 10th story and is falling to the ground. A woman at the 4th floor sees him from her window and asks, 'Hey, how's it going?'. The man replies 'So far, so good.'"

Yes, technology has saved us in the past. Given that new discoveries are increasingly harder and more expensive to achieve, will technology continue to do so in the future...?
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