skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's not.

While I agree that it should be a late-stage hypothesis for simple Ockham's Razor reasons, there is absolutely nothing irrational nor supernatural about ET. Everything we know about life and about the universe, including the prevalence of Earth-sized and possibly Earth-like planets around other stars, makes ET an inductively obvious and very likely reality.

It's not confirmed yet, but it's a hypothesis that belongs in the same category as the Higgs Boson prior to the LHC: according to rest of what we know ETs should exist and we should expect to find evidence of this in some form someday.

It could come in the form of microbes or fossils on Mars, Titan, or Europa, or it could come in the form of a signal or even a probe or a spacecraft from the stars. The latter is IMHO no less likely. We exist and we send signals and space probes and pretty soon spacecraft. While we don't yet send these things very far, if we continue to develop as we have been we probably will someday. If we are a product of natural processes and those same processes are happening elsewhere (naturalistic metaphysics plus Kepler data says yes) then other things capable of sending signals or craft should exist elsewhere. Due to the age distribution of stars, some of them may have been around longer and therefore have had longer to evolve.

If anything the persistent absence of ET would suggest to me that modern science's fundamental understanding of reality may be incorrect. Either the theists are right, we're in a simulation (which is virtually identical to theism when you think about it), or something else profoundly strange is going on.

I attribute the intense skepticism of ETs to the silliness of much of UFO mythology. It's important to realize that the Rael cult and the abduction myth and so forth are a cultural phenomenon that has zero bearing on science one way or the other. Culture will take scientific ideas and hypotheses and run with them, and that's fine, but it shouldn't distract from reality or provoke an irrational backlash. Do we stop looking into "weird" possibilities in quantum physics because there are new agers who say silly things about QM? No, and we shouldn't dismiss aliens either. If we do we are actually letting pseudoscience and non-science dictate (in the negative) where science is willing to go.
That seems acceptable for a consumer backup (not cloud storage) solution.

I have data on my laptop, an external disk that I keep at home, and BackBlaze. The likelihood of all three failing in the same week so that I can't restore from any single copy is low.
I think you mean selectively quote or cherry pick items to suit the papers (owners) agenda.
> So this is a good usage model, but I'm not sure people want to carry yet another tablet just for gaming. The only way I can see this thing taking off is if it can fall back into an Android tablet mode for web browsing, e-mail, etc.

I'm sure I'm wrong about this, but the video didn't show any touching of the screen or a stylus (which the 3DS and Wii U both have). I wonder if this thing is even capable of being used without the controllers.
I doubt that it will play DS games, because the DS has 2 screens places vertically.
> that passage is from a later translation of an early
> text, and the passage about crushing down or forcing your
> thoughts doesn't exist in the earlier text itself

Where can I read more about this?
> haptic

I think the word you're looking for is "tactile".
Things wrong with the title:

- It is not fixing python's performance.

- The performance improvement has very little to do with the choice of Rust.
Try http://www.netspeak.org/?locale=en it seems to do some of the things you asked.
It is implemented on top of n-gram corpora.
Hey! The best thing to do is tell your members of Congress to support the Equal Access to CRS Reports Act. In the House of Representatives it's HR 4702 and in the Senate it's S 2639. The more they hear from you, the more likely they'll be to publish the reports themselves. (You could also ask them to provide the reports to EveryCRSReport.com... the more the merrier).

We didn't build diff visualizations for the site. Not because I didn't want to-- it was in the specs -- but because we didn't have the funds for all the bells and whistles. The code is on GitHub if you want to hack on it and build a new module. Or donations will go to maintaining the site and expanding functionality.
FD and Pynchon share that title from what I remember from Every Love Story is a Ghost Story. Pynchon's V. inspired DFW to write his first novel, The Broom of the System.
Nobody's going to tweak their Tesla to roll through lights or go above the speed limit so they can get to work faster?
Parent poster needs to be very careful of this. One my friends mom had this done to take out car loans/cellular contracts because her credit was crap. Ended up defaulting and ruining his credit, and had his car repossessed. It takes years to rebuild credit and he got stuck with crazy rates for his next car loan (will likely pay 2x-3x worth of car). He refuses to have his mother arrested/report it as fraud to settle any of the previous debt, cause family.
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Alas, no. This is a civil society effort.
No, it is. It's well established case law.

If your modification or repair can be shown to contribute to a problem/ accident, you're held liable, not the manufacturer.

Instead it was used, and abused by manufacturers - "Oh, your transmission blew? Horrible! It's a real shame that you put aftermarket rims on your car, those are non approved parts and void your vehicles warranty!"
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Right around the time kids gain enough coordination to reliably move a ball, they start wanting to emulate the most creative techniques the sport offers. I don't think that can be laid on FIFA.

I remember learning the Cruyff turn before I could cleanly dribble down an open field. It was fancy and an obvious display of skill, so everyone wanted to do it - even though it's a useless technique if your control and acceleration aren't perfect.

If anything can be chalked up to video games, I would expect it to be aerial passing and a reluctance to play back. The rest - fancy moves and beating defenders - has been an ego issue since long before FIFA.
What crime did the American people commit to have their digital lives cataloged and analyzed by the NSA?
I think this would be better if you could look only at the rate of other users upvoting other new, recently submitted stories, and submit based on that, rather than overall activity.
Since I demonstrated 100 Bit/sec DL, I assume you friend exceeds that on T-mobile?

Have you tested signal quality in large buildings in Manhattan?

I can say I get signals in these buildings when iPhone owners using say, AT&T get no signal.

I suspect that much of the difference you see might have something to do with your handset.

This report demonstrates that Verizon has the best network.
http://cellularinsights.com/state-of-lte-advanced/
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I'm aware. The link I provided is from a few months ago when rumors about that were going around. Also its not just the graphics hardware, the Tegra is a CPU/GPU combo.
There's a video [1] by Mercedes from 3 years ago but they didn't demo autonomous parking like Tesla.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AihC5flC-38
Ask HN: JavaScript UI framework
I am a long time C/C++/Python developer and have a lot of experience in programming with Qt. I am trying to learn something new and got an opportunity at work to write a small Web GUI to visualise some sensor data. For that purpose I went with react and the data aquisition works well with AJAX and my custom c++ cgi app but I am missing the whole "nice UI" and theme part.
If this app works well, I will write another, which will need a tree view and drag and drop functionality. My main question is:

What whould you guys recommend?

I feel that there are too much frameworks in web world and am not sure which ones are good. I've researched a bit, tried Polymer but it doesn't feel mature enough. ExtJS is priced out of our league. Material UI is missing a tree widget and I have no idea how hard is it to implement drag and drop there.

So my current picks are dojo or wt. However may say dojo misses documentation, the architecture is old and it's hard to debug. Also any optionion on wt and other toolits would be highly appreciated.
Elm 1+2: can't download X
The best games, like Football Manager, actually hire worldwide scouts !!! I know the one responsible for Uruguay, he has to turn in reports for hundreds of players.

He had some good hits and is actually asked by scouts. He also had some pretty big misses ("this Luis Suarez guy, he's not THAT good")

In Spanish:

http://www.aguantenche.com.uy/2014/08/el-trabajo-mas-lindo-d...
My hope is that this will spur AWS to lower their storage prices. Competition is great!
Because it's not fair competition. If you competed against a brand with your own brand, and made it clear that you were not associated with that brand, then it'd be ok. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about jackasses that imitate the brand, so the consumer thinks it is the brand that they're dealing with. So when things go wrong, they don't blame the rando counterfeiter, they blame the brand itself.
Lagging in specs is a major reason 3rd parties shun Nintendo's consoles. Porting a game between XB1, PS4 and PC is relatively easy due to them all being of similar caliber. But the cutbacks required for porting to Wii U usually means they just don't bother.
Also cars have an element of freedom to them. Go anywhere, anytime. They also feed off the laziness of most adults.
Trying to get ack or ag working properly on Windows is a bit of a pain. Now there’s an equivalent in Rust, rg, and I can get something that’s mostly superior to these others with `cargo install rg`. (OK, so I had to have installed Rust first. But I had done that.)
Another science/tech philosophical breakdown. Stars are. Only human perception can be "weird".
I'm nowadays a PC-gamer myself owning a hefty computer and I love beautiful games like Witcher 3.

But I still think Nintendo has some of the best games ever made on their consoles. Take a look into Super Mario Galaxy series, how they just work, are nice to navigate and play, how you can play the games over and over again and have fun even years after their release. Sure they don't have the fastest hardware, but what they can do with it is just amazing.
Is the Nintendo Switch much different than the below; connecting a gamepad to your existing mobile phone, or streaming your phone to your TV?

http://i.imgur.com/DlUMgxb.png

The Switch might offer some advantages now, but it's not going to take long before mobile phones offer similar graphics, and gamepad experiences. At that point, what's the advantage of buying a Switch, when the phone in your pocket does all of the same things, and more?

I think Switch will sell enough to be profitable, but Nintendo is going to be squeezed out of the hardware market. They can't compete with Playstation and Xbox for the console market. They can't compete with Steam on the PC and laptop market. They'll also lose the mobile market to the iPhone, and Pixels of the future.

Personally, I think Nintendo should move away from hardware and focus on game development. Imagine Mario, Mario Kart, Pokemon, Metroid, Zelda, Smash Bros, and Kirby games distributed on Playstation, Xbox, Steam, iPhones, and Android. That's a huge market waiting for them.
Another old-timer loses his job, probably not going to land another gig anytime soon. Hopefully can draw a pension.

"People familiar with the matter said the most-recent contract was signed in 2014 and costs MetLife $10 million to $15 million a year."

That's peanuts.
>> Hopefully the docking station provides additional CPU/GPU power, otherwise this would be no different to a PS Vita.

Only if you make game console purchasing decisions based on hardware alone.

I would think that the hardware matters less if your primary interest is in having access to the latest and greatest Nintendo first party games like Zelda, Mario Kart, etc.
In the 2000, Bush v Gore election the result was contested afterwards when there was some doubt over who carried Florida and it came down to some hundreds of votes.

Trump is claiming in advance that he will "have to see" whether he will accept the result or not. I think that's quite different.
You are most welcome! Unfortunately, we do not have any info on the actors in each video...
Feel free to share it with your friends :-)
I sure don't see "private" anywhere in "public servant." Climbing a ladder necessarily makes everything about you much less private and much more visible to those on the street. All the more so when the barrier between the ostensibly separate "public" and "private" spheres is continually blurred and broken.

Public service invites public scrutiny. The idea that it wouldn't seems ...undemocratic.
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Honestly, it feels like the difference between synchronized and 'regular' swimming, or ice dancing and speed skating. The only difference is that freestyling hasn't been equally established as a distinct activity.

In every case, the regular sport requires some of the technique and control of the performance sport, but comes with a rigid demand for efficiency.
Yup, I know about that but Displacy is just so much more beautiful.

Also, while NLTK's basic Twitter tokenizer is okay, I find that ARK's tokenizer [0] is much better. Similarly, for POS tagging of tweets, I am using the GATE POS tagger [1]. They have a Stanford model and I can hook it up with NLTK using the StanfordTagger class. In fact, this is the kind of integration that I am missing in Spacy.

[0] https://github.com/myleott/ark-twokenize-py
[1] https://gate.ac.uk/wiki/twitter-postagger.html
One wonders how they managed to get Skyrim to fit onto a cartridge.
I still fail to see in what way JSON is better than XML other than that it's maybe a little prettier and doesn't allow people going crazy like they did with XML schemas. We should have at least replaced XML with something really better.

That aside csproj and sln files really suck. I want my good old make files back!
A bit off-topic, but this is the first .tk domain I've seen in maybe ten years. When I was a teenager and they were giving them away for free all my friends had one, the memories.
Well, they did make the unlimited photos plan prime only without grandfathering people in - http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/23/13027082/amazon-prints-pho...
I am so glad that you guys open sourced displaCy. I would love to give it a spin on my system. Kudos for all the great work you are doing!
Wii U was AC-powered and comparatively large. This is a battery-powered handheld. If it matches the Wii U, that will be good.
Does this mean we can use them to verify voting and thus the integrity of our elections?
That's a facile example.

You still own your house, but the government, as elected by the people, has decided that one of the ways to encourage/ enforce property tax payment is the right to use said property as collateral. You explicitly agree that you are obligated to do so, and laws, which aren't secret, divulge the possible consequences of failure to do so. This in no way diminishes ownership, any more than you parking the car that you own somewhere that it may be towed and impounded means that you somehow "never really owned it".

If you want to talk about ownership of the -land- that's a different, tangential, kettle of fish.
I haven't had a Facebook for years, yet I'm absolutely convinced that Facebook has maintained my social graph through pictures my friends and others have posted with me in them. This is the real unprecedented threat: crowdsourced surveillance by a private company. We need strong laws and leaders to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the first place. And should the government be allowed to "tap in" to this graph to monitor people with a warrant? Scary times.
This has been SOP in certain places for a long time.
> Also, it will be quite the challenge for nintendo to gain momentum with the handheld part of the console.

They're also the only company in the handheld market right now, with a surprising amount of sales, (even with the 2DS), so they don't really have to gain momentum as much as keep it.

I think putting their next handheld and console in the same basket means massive sales, especially for one side or the other that hasn't really crossed over yet. It's gonna be really interesting, and I'm pretty curious to see it in real life.
> There were massive irregularities in the Democratic primaries

[ Citation needed ]

I'm a politically aware Democrat, I supported Bernie Sanders (see https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2016/02/this-blog-is-voting-for-b...), and I saw no compelling evidence to believe that the primaries were "stolen" from him in any meaningful sense.

He had an uphill climb in that the establishment party organs were aligned with Hillary, but that's been true for every insurgent candidate in every election ever. In the end he did better than anyone who supported him (including the man himself, I suspect) would have expected when he launched his campaign.
Well, a lot of the papers published in the field present results like "We designed a neural net to perform <task> and achieved X% accuracy." The design of the net is novel and interesting enough to merit its own publication. If there was some sort of theoretical framework, results like that would not be interesting, because presumably the theory would explain which NN architectures are good at different tasks and why. I think that we will get there eventually, but right now I don't we have enough data for patterns to emerge and hint at some sort of Theory.
I enjoy any technique that looks that absurd when it goes slightly wrong. Flying headers are particularly beautiful - you just get a player sailing across the field into nothing in particular.
I'm guessing they will ship an Nvidia chipset. Even if this isn't true, we are reaching an age where GPU technology is nearly identical for PC, console, and mobile.
That's not a bad idea. A family member could offer to help the next transfer by personally delivering the cash, just to make sure that such a large transfer is safe.
Julia is killing it in the programming world. Meet its co-creator from India
I've only played Hackeysack a few times, but it seems like 'losing' was equated to 'messing up' and 'winning' was equated to 'not messing up'. The victory conditions are different, and you and your team are playing against yourselves, but the concept of victory is still there.
You're assuming a future with one app; Tesla. There are, and will continue to be, more apps, hence competition.

No, I'm not. I'm assuming that in the post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12753624 you're comparing between the choice of only being able to drive for Tesla's app vs being able to choose which app to drive for.

If you're not, I don't understand what you meant to say to the post you replied to.
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This (https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5986) is his 2012 paper where the method used here is justified. Also gives a short summary of SETI efforts in the introduction. He discussed the energy requirements to send a signal of the type described so it can be detected at 1000ly, which seem reasonable.
s/reign/rein/, sigh.
Also http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/10/20/metlife-fires...

(Via the web link on top of the page, there's other news pages if you don't feel like sneaking into the WSJ through the Google stable door.)
I wish microsoft would stop producing 32 bit windows, its just an excuse for hardware manufactures to get away with pre-loading windows on sub-standard hardware.
As I tell in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12679849 exist a whole sub-culture of build your own mechanical keyboard.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/

https://geekhack.org/

https://www.massdrop.com/mechanical-keyboards

So yes, exist people that build customized keyboards or (maybe) better, give info in how build your own.
I spent some time working at a bank during my early career. There is a saying about banks "they have more VP's than coffee pots".

What I learned from this experience is that title is meaningless.

As a fellow 40 year old programer my advice to you is as follows. Ignore that title, take what you think will be interesting and be a leader from your level. Make your self a promise that no matter what your going to stick it out for 2 years, and if in month 18-20 your unhappy start looking.

You may learn that your happy writing code and not dealing with people. You might get the battlefield promotion back to where you were. You might find that the young engineers hang on your every word and come to you for advice and you can give it freely as your a leader, a mentor and NOT a boss.

Lastly, if you go in as an engineer and not a manager, your going to find yourself with a bit more free time (and a lot less bullshit) -- There is freedom in that, and frankly you can make use of that time to scratch other professional itches or find a new hobby!
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1. Scaling is a good problem to have. It usually involves throwing out all or a large part of the system that worked at a smaller scale.

2. Most businesses don't have scaling problems. They have not scaling problems.

3. Don't let a problem that you don't have delay shipping. If there's a host that you know, try that first before re-architecting the system for an unfamiliar platform.

4. Launch for a small group of potential customers first to stress test the app and to gain feedback. This will also avoid lauching as a press release because nobody pays attention to press releases.

5. Talking to potential customers (i.e. doing sales) is harder for many people than re-architecting a system. However, starting to talk to potential customers is what 'launching' really is. It's not Product Hunt or Show HN or SEO or any other automated process.

Good luck.
Here's the first post on HN about Bitcoin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852
While I agree with you, it's also possible to flip the argument that improved graphical fidelity as the immersive experience may cover the tendency to rehash the same story lines and action in a different setting.
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It's apples and oranges. A teacher is not "raising" children; they are teaching them in a controlled environment with certain expectations and structures. Also, a teacher is likely to focus on a certain age group and become expert in working with children in a relatively limited age range. A parent must work with their children over the entire span of their life.

The teacher is not up in the middle of the night with the child when they have strep throat. The teacher is not up in the middle of the night when their child has a nightmare. These are the sorts of things that only happen when you are a parent.
Tesla Ridesharing Autonomous Inter-Network. Or TRAIN.
Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title - there are places in the US where this does exist.

(In contrast to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee_simple )