skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do we need signals?

Signals are an essential aspect of human behavior. I don't think trying to eliminate signaling is a productive goal.

You yourself brought up the "social contract" of marriage. A contract is not very powerful if there aren't consequences for breaking it. So that's one crucial signal: we are committed enough to this relationship to spend money on something which is only useful as a signal.

There's also the signals of "my mate is wealthy enough to buy me an expensive diamond" and "he cares enough about me to spend a large sum of money on something which has no useful purpose besides signaling his love for me." Simply wishing that these signals didn't exist won't make them go away.

Useful things make poor signals because you might buy them without any intention of signaling anything. That's why glasses are a worse signal than jewelry, even though they cost just as much: you might be spending money on glasses because you need to see, not because you have money to burn.
I never thought to use Huginn as an IFTTT replacement. I may have to spool up an instance; I wanted to before, but I have never thought of a compelling need that Huginn would solve.
While true, they are targeting local and state elections first - you've got to start somewhere...
> Instead of preparing yourself for some Mad Max bullshit scenario where you imagine you will play hero, having never done it before in your life, just work on continuing to improve supply chain, emergency response and so forth -- in other words, keep building a more reliable and more civilized civilization. That is your best bet right there.

I agree with this in part. Firearms proficiency is a skill that you need to acquire and maintain if you want to be able to use a gun to defend yourself and your family without accidentally shooting them. This is a skill you can acquire with classes, but merely having the pistol/shotgun won't make you safer automatically.
Bloomberg (linked here a lot) insists on loading HUGE high-resolution videos, where someone starts talking loudly immediately.

They take forever to load but they give you no UI for "pausing" or just choosing not to load the video until it's loaded and playing.

I try to make Ublock Origin rules that block that video element, but the element name keeps changing, it seems.
Shouldn't creating artificial fat be easier than creating artificial meat?

(I confess I have the impression that it would be easier based on a mere hunch... fat just seems less "complicated")
You're lucky they didn't send a SWAT team to your door for "hacking."
Easily handled with a prompt:

"This site is attempting to auto-play media"
[Allow once] [Always allow site] [Block site]
> Which is why the inhumane treatment of prisoners by people like former Sheriff Joe Arpaio in AZ was not only tolerated but often condoned by the public.

Yeah but the tide has turned against him, he got booted out of office (http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/sheriff-joe-arpaio-booted-fr...).

About the only positive result from this years' election.
Parts of the South Island have moved 2 metres closer to the north. That's a big shunt.
$500 is still an insane price for a glorified lump of coal.
I agree that it is wise to avoid a single point of failure, and that multiple layers of security could prove quite useful. All that I am advocating is that a gun is just another viable layer of security.
That's... terrifying. I mean, I am often in awe of my own staggering ignorance, but at least I'm doing something about it. I hazily know how CPUs work (more or less), I understand why cache misses matter (now: thanks HN). I understand the basics of Big O, what kinds of functions are computable, and why O(n^2) or O(n!) is really bad. I know some common algorithms for simple problems, and I know how to recognize the Travelling Salesman when I see it.

That's not all that I know, not by a long shot, but I know that what I know is a tiny drop in the ocean of what I don't.

It's just baffling that there are people out there, likely older than me, who aren't actively trying to learn more. I mean, if you don't like computing enough to be motivated to learn more about it, why are you in the industry?
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We put cubic in my wife's ring when we got engaged nearly a decade ago. No one has ever noticed and most people talk about how gorgeous her stone is and how much it must have cost :)
Genuinely curious now. What is the ratio between the energy it takes to rotate a black hole and the energy it takes to make a new one with the correct orientation?
Date sorting is broken--I'm seeing the following in 'descending' order:

November 6, 2016
November 5, 2017
November 4, 2016
November 30, 2016
November 3, 2016
November 29, 2016
>>Young kids who have done something incredibly stupid

>>They are then immediately put in a situation to fuck or fight.

IMHO this aspect of prison life is common knowledge. I wonder how incredibly stupid one has to be to risk getting jailed. And looking at the numbers that is not a marginal phenomenon.
And you should talk to cops about the effectiveness of attackers with blades against a trained officer with a holstered weapon closer than 21 feet. But both those and the pepper spray/taser fails are outliers, they are not the norm.

In a last resort, I don't want my attacker using my weapon against me, and if they can, I don't want it to be fatal. Which is why I don't carry knives for self defense, even though i'm trained in eskrima.
T-Mobile offered an opt out for a year, and then it became a $25 "HD video upgrade".
Right, that's why in this case you just periodically push yourself to the top of the stack. If you're not capturing input (and the user opted into it) it's relatively sensible.

Exclusive mode fullscreen applications will crush you anyway since the compositor turns off, but otherwise it seemed to work OK.
No, it was a while ago. But a google image search showed up one of the ones that they used in Christchurch.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ncu7cINaZiE/TtGHnDoH72I/AAAAAAAAAS...
Reverse sticker shock as clickbait, there's a new one.
Can't you use plant fat?
Absolutely. Some people could legitimately view it as not worth the time investment.
Do the jets create galaxy-wide magnetic fields? Is the intergalactic medium charged?
Ethereum is Turing complete. Did anyone attempt to recursively define a blockchain within it? :-)

That would be the same as the Ubercoin they mention I suppose.
No, they're clicking visually distinct, non-overlapping UX down the page.
I don't do any prepping myself, but I do not dismiss those who do. All of our systems are unbelievably complex and interconnected that I do not think it would take that much for things to go sour quickly.

Seems like the cause would be something that initially appears trivial. Less Zombie apocalypse or rogue government, more like infrastructure hack, big and sudden recession or drastic oil shortage. In the oil example, much of the systems of society would be put under sever stress. Perhaps we could endure it without any societal breakdown, but it would be tough keeping society running with mass food, transport and power shortages. Our governments make extensive plans to deal with these situations.

The stability of even first world countries is not so high as we might assume. "Every nation is about nine meals from anarchy"
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Thank you for being the first reply that didn't wildly twist out of shape what I actually said.
It shouldn't stop you, but having a gun you don't know how to shoot is pretty useless. Its not like basic training takes very long[1]. The local gun range generally has a pretty quick training program in place.

The other big thing is that allows you to select a gun that will be easy to fire for you. Buying a gun that is a pain to fire will mean little practice and problems.

1) much shorter than most learning to drive programs

[edit] an example http://www.freestategunrange.com/firearm-training/ their pistol is 2 hours (pepper spray is 3 hours ?!?)
> Until it is forced, there isn't much of a point in using a VPN

Well, America just elected Trump to office, and here in Europe the situation doesn't look much better (crisis law in France, calls for more and more surveillance state across Europe, and right-wing populists/extremists gaining power in country by country). I'd say there has never been a better argument for VPN/Tor usage than right now.
Scrapers of sites that involve some conversion of data. The main gripe is that you can't modify a flow of agents in a single interface, so adjusting stuff involves a lot of going back and forth.
They haven't started yet. I assume the option will show up when they do.
Dodgy engineers aren't going to sign off on anything because they are liable for manslaughter in the case of a catastrophe. I used to work for a structural engineering company and had to present evidence at the Royal Commission of Inquiry, engineers (at least all the ones I know) take this very seriously.

Most of the out of date buildings are empty, there are still a few empty buildings around Wellington because they don't meet code.
....and be a smart person and throw away what is expired

I understand what you mean but the advice to 'throw away what is expired' is just plain silly. Throw away what has spoiled, use the rest. Make sure to rotate your storage - first in first out - and use what you rotate out. Expiry dates are theoretical limits, not absolute cut-offs. This goes for not only food but also for medicines, most pharmaceuticals work just fine after the expiry date [1].

[1] http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/drug-expiratio...
It was Tolstoy's favorite of Dostoevsky's books.
I'm not saying Obama's look-forward-not-backward schtick was the moral decision, and I can't really defend it on moral grounds at all, so I won't. But, the notion of a new president coming in and immediately prosecuting members of the previous administration suddenly sounds a lot scarier when the next president has no moral compass and has openly run on the platform of locking up his political enemies.

That said, the architects of the Bush torture program deserve to rot in jail.
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Sort of seriously I'm surprised you can't encapsulate the opal in an epoxy or something (CVD cover it or something). Perhaps not at home, but seems like we should have the tech to do that.
It is largely the poor and uneducated people who go to prison.
Lots of bots and throwaway on AdultFriendFinder. It's normal to have many users using "123456" and the likes, they are not real users.
Since everyone now realizes how successful misinformation is, thank you Trump, pretty confident HN with its fast follower mentality will latch on quick.
A former co-worker of mine who was a survivalist used to say "The only thing that matters is how many guns you have. If you have guns, you can get everything else."
If the DNS zones have CAA records that don't include Letsencrypt, clients should refuse using the new certificates.

That would be a problem (provided that CAA working as expected can be qualified as a problem) if the original certificates were still valid. But with expired certificates, there is nothing to lose.
Ask HN: Those of you who have made it, how did you achieve the feat?
I like success [and failure:( ] stories on this sub. My question is for those of you who have achieved financial independence. How did you do it? How old are you?
Of course, everyone's reference for FI is different. I consider $3 million in asset as FI and as someone who don't ever have to work again.Are you male or female?

I am 31, male and have only 80k saved so far. I am unmarried and don't plan to buy house for at least 1.5 yrs more. I work for Amazon but at current trajectory it is like moving at snail's speed. I have few start-up ideas but I am not sure if that's right way to go or if I should go for MBA. Thoughts?
Here's a nice show "Adam ruins everything" where the host explains why weddings (and the ring "tradition") is just about marketing started in 20th century:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVLGsc0M9h0
Presumably you don't click on a button that says share and then click facebook, and then complete the share action in a panic. If you do, I love you and would love to find out how to induce your kind of panic in more people.
I had a friend who used a couple of cans in his emergency stash a while after the expire date. He then had two problems. It does pay to look after what you stash. If nothing else just rotate stuff so you don't run into problems.
I think you may have misread the parent. GitLab uses git http://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/
2 quick hopefully informative nits:

It's better to consult the living standard of the editor's draft over the TR ("TR is for the TRash" as they say). The security section has been fleshed out a lot, for example: https://w3c.github.io/ServiceWorker/#security-considerations

In Firefox, about:serviceworkers is in the process of being replaced by about:debugging. The bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1220747 if you want to follow-along, but start re-training your muscle memory now! :)
Yep, or just cook in butter.
Sol: No, it's a moissanite.
Bad Boy Lincoln: A what-in-ite?
Sol: A moissanite is an artificial diamond, Lincoln. It's Mickey Mouse, mate. Spurious. Not genuine. And it's worth... fuck-all.

This quote has stuck with me, though it sounds like Snatch (Guy Ritchie) got the "artificial" part wrong based on the site.
I agree with you. Prison as punishment is senseless.

We have two options. We insulate the person indefinitely or we condition the person for possible return into the society.

My understanding is that we should only accept solitary confinement where the prisoner does not have any contact with other prisoners but has a constant concealing by professionals and does have other conditions to maintain its decency.
A great many things can cause you to be party to something incredibly stupid - something mildly stupid escalating, doing something without full understanding of the consequences...

Even if you do grasp the risk at hand, other pressures can drive you to make stupid choices.

Regardless of how you got there, though, it should not be a given that you're going to come out of it worse than you went in.
1) I have seen the movie, and read the post, and his opening claim that "there aren't any spoilers", is kind of not true. While there aren't any explicit, blatant spoilers, he does kind of rub up against the plot a lot, in a way that gives a lot of hints that people might not want to know, before seeing it.

2) Was no one else bothered by his "Pioneer" faux pas? He's obviously extremely advanced, scientifically -- light years beyond my level -- and yet, he erroneously states that Pioneer 10 is the furthest human object in interstellar space ... which stopped being true when Voyager 1 passed it back in the 1990s ... and, strictly speaking, Pioneer hasn't even reached interstellar space, yet.

I know it shouldn't bother me as much as it does ... but of all the science he talks about in this post, this is the one thing I know about -- and he got it wrong, so now I have doubts about everything else he said.
Of all the states that can reasonably complain about the rest of the country "imposing its will", California must be near the very bottom.
Exile to where? Alaska?
That looks really interesting, thanks for posting. I added it to our issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/727#note...
also think about it like this... when automation comes in and takes away just about every job, and only engineers, scientists, doctors, developers are left-- and only maybe 25-30% of the populace can find work at all -- who's going to pay ANY taxes when nobody earns any income? -- The more people that go to college, get HIGHER paying jobs, leave poverty, and end up paying taxes contributes more to the economy than not letting them go to college, and instead making them reliant on welfare for life.
The correct response for when someone asks your wife why she doesn't have shiny carbon on her ring is, "because fuck you, that's why."
All i see is black - is that intended? Not sure if that's my color, haha.
The flat bit in the middle that is most of the Miramar suburb is seabed (and later swamp) that has been uplifted by large earthquakes over time.
Interesting. I have the exact same feeling on your first three, and have only ever given mindfulness a slight attempt. Maybe I should try it more. I'm surprised you came to the same conclusion on circumstances while still concluding that they may not matter if your mind is under control.
It's unclear what methods they're using to make these burgers, but often you need many animal-derived products to culture cells. Fetal bovine serum, growth media, all of these have animal products in them. If they make an ethical argument, then they'll have to solve that too. They might have, but it's not clear in the article.
> If I purchased an alternative gemstone for my fiancé, her parents would've been upset with me

And that would be the right time to let them learn about blood diamonds or give them their much deserved shaming.
Your mention of GPS just reminded me, there is an app "maps.me" which allows (requires I think) you to preload the maps on a state by state basis. It can do turn by turn navigation on a smartphone without a network connection. It can also do a search for i.e. gas stations nearby.
It seems USA is hell bent on turning into the very thing it once despised...
I am really really excited about lab grown meat making it into the mass market and ultimately becoming cheaper than traditional meat. The environmental benefits will be insane; how much of the earth is currently devoted to either raising animals or growing feed to feed animals? If we can centralise the production of meat, suddenly we have huge swathes of land that, perhaps naively, I hope can be reforested.
Nowadays I find I can't use the WWW without JS blocked except on a select whitelist of websites. I can't stand downloading 10-15 megabytes for <=1KiB of actual substance. I can't stand the amount of amateurish design decisions I need to fight using websites, some unfortunately unavoidable like my university's web services, or the stupid Edmodo app imposed to us by our professors, etc. And I detest icons, because each and every app / website have different opinions on icons and a different set of cryptic icons which I fear clicking. Also webfonts in many cases are an abomination as many times they are used where a simple stupid half-a-meg PNG would do the job. "Share" buttons that come with some kilobytes of JS, floating headers that leave me five pixels to see the text I'm reading, well, this is an endless list. I'll spare a separate sentence for history-fiddling, I am disgusted when when I hit back unexpected things happen. Google, Youtube, Github, these fiddle with history and replicate browser's things (page loading, history keeping ...) in JS. And as the user I don't have the chance to affect the actual website makers, so blocking JS / cookies / media is the only option.
Water, water filtration, stove, propane, solar charger, battery bank, and cash.

Don't buy firearms unless you are committed to learning how to use them.
Unless the seal is broken (and then you'd really know), old canned food is OK to eat. It might taste a bit dull, but it won't harm you.

At least in Europe, canned food is labelled "best before [date]" rather than "use by [date]".
Ethical considerations won't take this far. Need it to become cheaper than real meat the day that happens it will take off on its own.
Meat or cattle raising plays a big role in the worlds methane production decreasing that would be huge achievement as with more people getting out of poverty every year meat production and consumption is increasing.
>> something mildly stupid escalating, doing something without full understanding of the consequences...

I still do not get how someone can not understand the consequences. Have they never seen any movie? Really? Never talk to former inmates?
I'd rather not be with someone who is so callously materialistic. If she's not openly offended at the presumption of blood diamonds, she's not really my type.
Point. I went pistol shopping with my uncle, but got a few days of training locally.
I saw in a documentary that with only a sample of the skin they can grow like 10k burguers, and the animal won't even notice, it's like an injection. I don't remember the doc but it seems pretty ethical IMO.
That sounds very good, but I think we prefer Ceph because it is better known. Do you have a comparison between Ceph and ObjectiveFS?
This is incredibly stupid. More than half of the US owns firearms, fire fights are a stupid and dangerous way to procure resources.
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That tradition is news to me. As far as I knew, the tradition is to give
a ring with a stone (commonly diamond) for engagement, and then a plain band for the wedding. Once married, only the plain band is worn.

The reason: stones can snag on clothing, rip an eyeball, snap off, attract violence, or scratch something you care about.

I went with my birthstone (Arizona Peridot, cheap and pretty) from my grandma for the engagement. My wife thought that was sweet. She keeps it in a drawer somewhere as a memento, and wears a plain gold band every day.

I suppose I might prefer titanium over gold, for weight reasons, but the gold is OK.
media.autoplay.enabled=false does the trick in Firefox about:config.
I actually just bought Kerbal Space Program, because it's available on Linux, and also supports a vibrant modding community -- include a massive cluster of mods (Realism Overhaul) that turns the Kerbal solar system into a realistic simulation of ours. Add in the Principia mod, which fixes minor glitches in the KSP physics engine, and you're good to go.
Couldn't agree more. I always found diamonds a bit boring, not to mention all the ethical issues involved. Gemstones and interesting settings are much more attractive in my opinion. I love that you two recycled some family history as well!
Same with cars, global climate change, and pollution. People only know how to respond to events.
> If this turns out to be a serious problem then perhaps your society has other issues it should be dealing with?

Of course! Which makes the whole thing even more difficult, because now instead of dealing with issues in isolation, you have to untangle the complex web of interdependencies.
I was going to vote Trump because I'd rather see the DNC burn for what it did to Bernie. In the end I wrote in Bernie Sanders which was my way of voting for Trump but still supporting Bernie and keeping my conscience in tact. -- My own personal echo chamber of 3k+ BErnie Sanders supporting friends that I added on Facebook I'd say maybe 35% voted for Trump as a protest vote. Another 35% voted for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson or wrote Bernie in...

Clinton was never going to win without the full support of those who'd pledged 'Bernie or Bust' or 'Never Hillary' -- we were DIEHARD serious that we would not let our party..be controlled by Wall Street any longer. I'm one of hundreds of thousands who no longer are members of the Democratic party. I'm a registered Independent now, and will luckily in my state I can vote in the Dem. primary without being a reg. democrat (Utah).
do you think there will be a way to replace actual animal fat over time with another source? Is it cost holding it back or is it scientifically infeasible?
It's not really a gut feeling though. The uber map does have worse contrast.. it could be proven scientifically. And the new app's 2.5-star rating suggests it hasn't been effective in the real world.(https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/uber/id368677368)

Would love to know how it was tested.
The logo is amateurish.
Agreed- we hope for Scenarios to evolve into this eventually, but I agree that it can be clicky right now for big changes.