skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, I was thinking of Petzold's book when I wrote that. +1 for mentioning it!

I still say there are that many layers of abstraction, maybe more. Individual bits, ganged as words, with logic to treat as such, and ability to store and move along a bus. Then you add the ability to act on data: Control logic, arithmetic units, caches, and interpret data as instructions -- microcode running in the CPU, and processor instructions.Now move up to main memory, storage subsystems, networking, graphics (GPUs!!) etc. etc. etc. That gets you through the hardware. Now add software: BIOS, operating system, drivers, user space code, compilers, interpreters, it just goes on and on. And for every one of these giant groups of something, there are just so many logical groupings and abstractions.

It's like individual cells in a body, forming organelles, forming organs, forming creatures. So many layers of organization. Amazing beauty.

But always at the bottom of the pile, there is a switch.
That that would actually be better in the eyes of some -- it would show that there is at least some incentive for you to maintain it.
You're talking about whether the truth "is comfortable" or not; the truth, fact, the history of the motion of particles through space and time, simply is. The notion of "comfortable" is a filter that exists in the mind, through which you can choose to perceive the truth.
> they didn't really prepare for the eventuality

I didn't RTFM, but drone defense has been a high priority for the Pentagon and they've been rapidly testing and developing various options.

A big challenge is doing it cost-effectively, AFAIK. Legacy anti-air technology is designed for shooting down airplanes and uses missiles that may cost 100-1000x the drone; it's not affordable to build missiles to shoot down all of an enemy's drones. I've seen reports of sniper rifles, lasers (less than $1 marginal cost per shot, reportedly), electromagnetic weapons that fry the drone's electronics, old-fashioned anti-aircraft guns, etc.

Not only can drones carry explosives, but apparently the Russians very effectively use drones as artillery spotters in Ukraine, and it's not just a battlefield problem: What happens when someone targets a drone at major public events or at VIPs such as the U.S. President? How do you stop it?
It also keeps people working longer than maybe they want to. I've heard from several folks in one of our more open areas (15-20 people) that it's awkward to leave at the usual end of shift time because they have to walk across a room filled with people still grinding away.
I remember when Emacs stood for “Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping”. And now Atom comes along... “Application To Overflow Memory”? In another 20 years, will Atom be considered “lightweight” the way Emacs is now? Will Atom even still be around? I'm fairly confident Emacs will still be around…
I had an experience which I found, and still find, utterly convincing. But if I tried to describe it to you, you probably wouldn't be at all swayed.

William James writes about this in 'The Varieties of Religious Experience'.
blockchain could increase efficiency and productivity of banking and law, but its all for nought if they can keep raiding peoples pensions.

monetary and banking reform is needed asap
I was just thinking today about how well Pocket is made. I've used it for years and it hasn't really ever disappointed me. It is stable, easy to use, has a ton of power user features tucked away, and it's offline sync abilities work impressively well. It's an app that has improved my life, or at least my commute.
Gender studies isn't research, it's advocacy.
>How do you stop it?

why not an anti-drone drone? would it be cost effective to fit a weapon capable of downing a drone onto a drone?
Update: found out it was because I needed to run `go get` or `go install` to have the subpackages listed in my $GOPATH/pkg directory.
> Instead of ArsTechnica, why not link to the ACLU's website?

I prefer journalism to the original source's post. The ACLU is an advocate for its cause; a secondary source can provide context, other sources, opposing points of view, etc. For example, compare a post by a political candidate, with its natural extreme bias, to a newspaper article about it, which includes fact-checking, expert analysis, their opponent's reaction, etc.

That's the reason Wikipedia requires secondary sources for its citations and forbids primary sources.

EDIT: Fleshed it out a bit.
What if the person you're chatting with does not want it archived? (I'm not questioning, but wondering what a protocol would be)
I can't say I'm surprised I'm only shocked they didn't really prepare for the eventuality.

One of the countermeasures we can expect is "persistent aerial surveillance" (airship based eye-in-the-sky platforms), which are semi-secret platforms being used in battlefields by the US currently. I wonder how rapidly one of these systems can detect an unknown drone in the air.

Amazed you believed the FPSRussia video.
Halloween movies
Great initiative, Mr. W. Please keep us posted on it.
Malcolm Gladwell on the Moral Arguments at Princeton University
> Personally, I adore the brutalist aesthetic, for example, everything in this photo: http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/5356556-3x2-940x627.jpg

I think that anyone who prefers that to https://www.rhodes.edu/sites/default/files/u321/About%20Rhod... is objectively wrong, in the same sense that someone who thinks Steve Buscemi is more handsome than George Clooney is objectively wrong.

With people, being a good person can be more important than looks; with buildings, being well-formed can also outweigh looks. But that, again, is where brutalism tends to fall down: unlike traditional architecture, it tends not to work on the level of the individual human being. It doesn't prioritise the experience of those inhabiting it, but rather the experience of those viewing it (it is, in that respect, 'arch'), nor those who must maintain it for its inhabitants. It's not situated to receive natural light and heat, but rather to receive natural and artificial light to make an interesting play of shadow in photographs. It's not full of little rooms and cubbyholes and shelves, because those wouldn't look as neat in a model. It's not full of decoration and ornament, moulding and waistcoating, glasswork and patterns of colour to delight the eye over decades, in part because those wouldn't show up in the model and in part because its designers simply don't care.

Brutalist architecture is, in the end, a boot stamping on a human face, forever.
How Do Friendships Form?
Or eagles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc_ovddVRKE
I do not think so. the spectra from the europa's vapour plumes does not show such signature. But still experts think there might be some bio-chemical reactions going on in the europa's sub-surface ocean.
>Second, it ought to be a person's reasonable expectation that law enforcement is a benevolent actor.

I totally disagree. Care to expand on that?
This one: http://ants.aichallenge.org/
I greatly enjoyed it, and it taught me Python. I keep checking back in the hopes someone will get a new competition together.
Upvoted for this link alone. I am so, so tired of the scroll, squint, hunt & jump I have to do on the current Amazon EC2 pricing page to compare costs and features of instances. Especially when trying to compare legacy instances (which we still have a lot of) to newer or VPC ones.
I'm completely new to philosophy but I'd like to read a little bit about it. Any chance you or some HNer could recommend a starting point?
no it doesn't. I clicked, and scrolled, and skimmed. I read the title and subtitle - again after your comment. No, neither the title nor the subtitle nor any subsection heading or caption make it as obvious as the above tl;dr (which is why the cousin comment by hackaflocka thanked them). It's a good tl;dr - another thanks from me.
It was also popular for its apparent low maintenance.

Only now we are at the point where 60 year old concrete buildings need to be cleaned and it costs a fortune to do so because they were never designed for it
> why not an anti-drone drone? would it be cost effective to fit a weapon capable of downing a drone onto a drone?

A guess: It would cost the defender the same as the attacker. That's a big improvement over anti-air missiles, but you want the equation heavily in your favor. If you can do it with sniper rifles, for example, your enemy will almost certainly run out of drones before you run out of bullets.
I'm a bit worried that OpenAI hasn't released anything substantive for the past four months. There are research ideas like this one, but most ideas don't pan out. With the number and quality of people they have, I would expect to have heard of some kind of progress.
So what distro is supposed to be the one that 'just works' now? It's really a shame how Ubuntu has degraded, in the 10.4 days I found it worked very well out of the box.
Now I'm curious of the physics involved, how do you keep a drone from spinning out of balance after shooting?
Facebook has to solve the content piracy problem that they have. Drives me crazy when an original video goes viral and then you see other pages upload the video as their own..

I wish there were human editors matching videos, giving credit to the original author's page/upload. At least tackle the videos with 1,000,000+ views..
The first one looks like Baby's First Architectural Mistake; the second one looks like Where Life Goes to Die.
Yes but Debian and Ubuntu LTS both take more time to be sure everything is working and then don't mess with it. The "stable" bit there means less change so less chance of things breaking.
Thanks for your comments. They have been incorporated in the blog.
> NIH Syndrome

No. NPM is awful in ways that could not be fixed without braking changes. They have a need, so they satisfied it. A need which, by the way, every one of the dozen-or-so Node-using projects I've worked on have shared.

> Whilst there absolutely were issues with Shrinkwrap in the past, they've already been addressed by NPM.

This isn't even remotely true. Shrinkwrap is still a usability nightmare and doesn't begin to address the non-deterministic install behavior that crops up when you add new dependencies.

> why these couldn't be contributions to NPM seems like a serious case of NIH

There's no way that they could have got these changes in to NPM in anywhere near the time it will take for Yarn to become popular; if at all! Politics (or the avoidance thereof) are practically _the_ perfectly valid reason to justify NIH.

I'll wait a while for Yarn to bake, but personally, I hope NPM dies a swift and total death.
Exactly... perspective dominates all.
I'm not convinced the Russians couldn't have done it on their own provided you don't take the conflict between the US and Japan out of the equation, i.e. that Japan didn't attack Vladivostok as Hitler was pushing them to do.
Well, let's see how many layers of abstraction the Alto has. 1) Software (a BCPL program). 2) Library / OS code. 3) Machine code. 4) Microcode. 5) Logic signals (TTL chips). 6) Analog signals (e.g. rise time and voltage of the logic signals). 7) Transistors inside the chips. 8) Quantum mechanics. (The last two levels are hidden to us.) If you're using Smalltalk, you could add another layer for the interpreter.
It's actually management software for PTA's and PTSA's which is a fairly large market in the US.
Location Estimation in Python
* Open source: No
* GPL violating: Yes
* Tivoised: Yes
* Backdoors: Yes
Wow, this is exactly what I need right now. Thanks to the original author (github.com/jlevy I believe).
Would you say a purely mental experience is beyond physical, since there is no physical manifestation of the phenomena or experience, it only exists in a person's mind?
I'm pretty sure one of the DEC PDP series machines used to be common for "embedded" applications in the mid/late 20th century.
Where I live (USA), it's as simple as walking into a Walmart, pulling a plastic encased kit off the shelf and paying for cash.

No muss, no fuss. Just activate it at the on-prem McDonalds and you're golden*.
I spent four awful, expensive years becoming a dentist in a brutalist building that began its life with the name "Health Sciences Unit A". Christ, what a mess that building was.

The ugliness goes away after a while, the ugliness you get used to, the ugliness is a matter of opinion. What didn't go away, what wasn't a matter of opinion, though, was the utter disregard for what James Howard Kunstler calls "human scale". The walls of this building ran, STRAIGHT UP without interruption for 15 stories from the plaza outside of it. You couldn't sit next to it, get in it, see inside of it, or shelter under it. You COULD walk a half block away and sit in a nice park. But the building stood in disregard of and negligence to the humans attempting to use it.

Of course, I'm only just parroting the ideas of Kunstler, which you can read or watch here: http://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_subu...
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Gotcha: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/watch-japans-bizarre-...
What if the determined attacker is just funding the attack, and needs low skilled labor to perform the ground work?

And how much did your FPV unit cost? Certainly today they are cheaper and far better than they were in 1998?
What mjg59 has been doing is utter genius. Buy something online, discover it is full of backdoors and violates the GPL, post utterly scathing review, buyers stop buying it. We need more people to do that.
Interestingly, microupdates for latest Intel processors are also only a few KB, although they might only be differences from the full microcode.
Conundrum for Justices: Does a Design Patent Cover a Whole Smartphone?
And it "has the worst Energy Star rating of any building in New York at 3 out of 100". "Functional", you say?
There was actually a company attempting to do this using nets: http://www.popsci.com/rapere-anti-drone-interceptor

But their website seems to be replaced with blogspam though, so I assume they went out of business.
Good idea. You could track the status of this feature at https://gitlab.com/marathono/marathono/issues/9
Here are my pairings. (I'm at work and don't have my copy of Psychological Types handy, so this is going off someone else's interpretations [0]. But I think this is probably right.)

ES - 7
IS - 9
EI - 8
II - 4
ET - 1
IT - 5
EF - 2 (but see below)
IF - 6

The EF description does have some Three-sounding qualities to it; it's a fair guess that Jung lumped many Threes in with the Twos, since, after all, a lot of Threes (a majority, in my experience) lean toward Two, and after all he had to put them somewhere. (Some of them probably wound up in EI and ES as well.) Still, based on the descriptions in his book, I concluded that he overlooked the Three.

[0] http://www.watchwordtest.com/types.aspx
No, I added it to the support request tracker on github.
I can't see any different between the GOOD and the BAD sections. Some buildings look OK, some look unpleasant or awful.
Kali has a boatload of open source tools:

http://kali.org/
I love comments like this for reminding me to do something more productive with my life.
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They have explained what the permission is needed for http://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/21253585...

They have a privacy policy
https://whispersystems.org/signal/privacy/

They have explained their reasoning https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/

You have access to the source
https://github.com/WhisperSystems

You have proof that they don't store your contacts and can't provide them even after a subpoena https://whispersystems.org/bigbrother/

Again, what exactly are you nervous about? What is gained by removing contact discovery?
The interesting part for me is, I have used this advise for other people's businesses for as long as I can remember. There is something about building your own product though that somehow seems to overshadow your better judgement. I guess that is the differentiator (or possibly ultimate lesson to learn) for an entrepreneur. Can you throw out the ideas that don't work and pursue the good ones? I am still learning it, but it feels good when you get it right.
> uses them on a Mac OS host - so no kext hacks needed like if you were building a Hackintosh

why would the host be relevant at all
Thanks for the reply.

I know that in the 70s (I was born in 83 so only know from history) the oil crisis occurred but I've never really grasped the that one moment in time (vs any of the other tumultuous ones in the 20th century) has led to economic issues of today. I'm guessing Nixon's visit to China, opening up that economic gateway, and other movements of that time led to globalization and lot of issues we're coping with now. Usually it's the chart for wage stagnation that befuddles me most about those years - why did that start then?

Questioning out loud here but curious for any sources/reading.
Sue Amazon?
Thought Experiment on Feminism
Yes. This image is meant for Apple hardware.
Not that expensive overall cheaper than say a modern DJI.

As for the better you'd be surprised but the only thing that has improved really is the camera.

FPV is still transmitted today in the same analog manner as it always was.

As for the skill required, it's still the same level of skill if you are planning such an attack you'll train the drones executing it regardless if you are using a quad or an 1986 RC plane.
"First public beta" of a database product? No.
Spacex were pretty clear that they can't fund the full development/deployment of ITS (MCT) on their own. That's what the whole "stealing underpants / kickstarter" joke slide was about in the presentation.

They need public and/or private organisations to pre-purchase a lot of tickets to Mars before they can outright build it themselves, or they'd need to partner with the likes of NASA.
I wish Apple would port their DE/WM to Linux and Free it with a license that says something along the lines of "you can install this if you paid for it". I'd easily pay 100$ for the Apple DE/WM suite sitting over my distro.

I guess this is the closest you can get (aside from using Elementary OS).
I love Atom!

I have 15 years dev exp. Most other IDE have similar productivity to each other - Atom is a step up.
English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with Wi-Fi kettle
Before I ask the question: I am not arguing with or criticizing you. I am not taking sides. I am genuinely interested in answers to my question. I am not myself sure what that answer could be. Killing anyone is horrible. We should be past these kinds of behaviors as a species.

That said, here's the question:

How would you approach eliminating terrorists, terrorist training camps, terrorist strongholds and terrorist leaders with zero collateral damage? Of course, knowing full well that the collateral damage is split between terrorist supporters and absolutely innocent people.

Remember, these are the very people who not only want to but have killed thousands, tens of thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands innocent civilians throughout the world. If they could detonate a massive bomb in the middle of a stadium full with 50,000 people, they would.

In other words, they are coming to kill you, your family, friends and loved ones. What do you do?

In many ways it's the old "If you could save a thousand lives by taking one, would you?"

I've heard opinions ranging from "just get out of the middle east and let them rot in hell" to "one nuke, one time and it's over". Not sure what the answer is. Always interested in hearing what others might thing the solution could be.
When you code - use Atom.

When you need to edit data files or other huge files - don't use Atom.
The Inconsiderate Waiter
> i think it's perfectly reasonable to return a non-zero status in certain non-error conditions, like when `grep` doesn't find a match

To be fair, grep only does that if you explicitly pass it an option that whose only purpose is to enable that behaviour.
You clearly do not understand what objective means.

Edit: You're using objective for emphasis, in the same way people use the word "literally", when they don't really mean it literally. There is no "objectively" right or wrong when it comes to matters of opinion or taste, they're by definition subjective. I'm shocked I have to spell this out for you.
If we can't force manufacturers and carriers to ship security updates to Android phones, there's zero chance of forcing it for light bulbs.
I'd expand on this and say every command line program should support GNU getopt_long() syntax, since this is the most popular syntax for command line interfaces and it saves having to guess the syntax when using a program for the first time. This doesn't mean all programs should use getopt_long(), but they should understand all the syntax that getopt_long() understands, such that someone could reimplement the program's command line interface using getopt_long() and get exactly the same behaviour.

This means, for example, supporting both space-separated and equals-separated option values (--name value and --name=value). Some programs only support one or the other, so you have to guess which will be supported when invoking a program for the first time. Both forms have their uses too. --name=value is more explicit and should throw an error if the --name option doesn't take a value, so it's good for use in scripts. On the other hand, a lot of shells don't tab-complete file names unless the file name is in a separate argument, so for interactive use, --name value can be more convenient.
There's already a small, really fast drone that's just packed with explosives in wide use today. They do suck at steering though.

Of course its an RPG.
My email is listed in my profile, drop me an email and I am happy to shoot you a slightly redacted copy of what I wrote up.
Considering the planet has two hemispheres, no, it's not correlated.
If we want non-tech friends and relatives to buy the right things, we need to boild down to traffic light label, or something like EU energy label for score out of 8 (that manufacturers dislike, and had to be recalibrated when >50 of appliances were A rated - guess it works well too).

To me, we should have IoT devices on a different protocol not everything http(s). Nothing gets out unless you got an IoT passthrough router.

An IoT hub that shows me what devices, connections, and manages what can connect to where and when. QoS and other neat features if needed.

It'll never happen now of course, but would sure beat the current fustercluck.
It was a real thing, I have some of my grandmother's documents from her service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Observer_Corps
This is 100% false. Can confirm.
Yeh it definitely has come on a lot since then
Don't sure the makers.

Sue the people who own and use the devices.

The first few times will be ugly and unfortunate, but if it becomes clear that buying a vulnerable device and installing it in your home is a potentially life-ruining liability, people will quickly stop buying and using the devices. And without a market for insecure IoT gadgets, well, one way or another we won't have insecure IoT gadgets.
How Much a Holiday Costs in Cambodia?
Indeed. But that doesn't mean MBTI is really meaningless, only that there are better models.
Yes, absolutely. If I share a video on FB I always take the time to try and dig-up the original source. It usually ends-up being on YouTube. Not that hard to do. I wish FB didn't obfuscate and people took the time to do this. If anything because it might represent revenue for the author and they deserve to receive it.