skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything's relative. It's easier to build a test framework for CockroachDB than to build CockroachDB itself. DI could help by simulating the network. It gives you more power to test out and record states around weird edge cases. If you were using docker, there are things that you either probably can't configure or it would be very difficult to. Eg. changing dns lookup latency for a subset of hosts.
The fact that NoScript supports script surrogates might be a reason. That means less websites will break when not enabling scripts that are expected but not really necessary.

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/11/24/noscript-script-surrogates-...

>When you visit a site in Firefox that loads the Google Analytics script on page load, NoScript intercepts that request and replaces it automatically with the replacement instructions (which basically tell the site that the Analytics script was loaded fine but does nothing in regards to user recording).
Perhaps you missed her point about selection bias? Only models confirming climate change can be published, any analysis is just going to confirm that.

It's unfortunate because climate change could be happening, but we aren't going to learn much more about it because research can't be invalidated. We've killed the skepticism science needs to function.

She's not denying it's happening, she's just not buying the grandiose narrative. I'm glad to hear her view, even just to know that it's there.
Haha, I thought the same thing! I kept reading, waiting for some pictures to show up. Nada. That said, at least I got through a well researched, historically accurate piece.
The USN isn't really up for threat just yet. They still have more carriers than the rest of the world combined, and their half has twice the tonnage as the ROW half. Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's one carrier, is 55kton. The ten US Nimitz-class carriers average around 105kton.

Take away the carriers from the US's allies, and you have a total of around 7 (to the US's 20-odd) - and these non-allied are generally around 25kton (China and Russia have one carrier each at around 55k).

The US is a long way from being realistically challenged at sea. Russia's "power projection" in Syria is only a short distance from its supply ports in the Black Sea. The US can put a carrier group anywhere on the planet (well, on the watery bits) and keep it there; neither Russia nor China can do that, either militarily, or politically (local supply).
Banjo-Kazooie did this also, back on the N64. I'm certain it wasn't nearly as beautifully detailed as Uncharted, but the very slight nods to momentum and movement physics made the game a unique joy to play, even being quite young at the time.

Changing direction in a sprint would leave you sliding as your momentum carried you; Banjo would throw his hands out and wobble on a ledge but pull balance back (certainly a mechanism to ease the difficulty level for players).

Overall no one mechanism was overpowering, but it made switching to other games seem strange and clipped, the artificial instant start-stop now out of place and unreal.
That would also work. But interviewing is in some ways fundamentally different from doing the job; Most software engineers aren't going to use most of the algorithms in "cracking the coding interview" except when interviewing.

But... as I said in another comment, a handful of real-world production workflows would also be really useful, and user interviews would likely be the best way to go about getting that.
I use Ctrl+Tab to switch between two tabs I'm working on.

If I want to go to specific file, I'd just Ctrl+P and type in the filename.

Using Ctrl+PageUp/Down to scroll through all open tabs is predictable but kinda useless since I have 20+ tabs opened after a while.
Rescued from his captivity by a grateful Putin? If we want to speculate wildly.

Which would mean that the KGB had conducted a fairly elaborate operation on British soil, something that would be inconvenient to air. So, Assange as a public figure would still be history, if that's the case.
Actually I will go further. I live in Japan and use Line to communicate with everyone except really old people. Stickers are as basic as language. It is an evolution of our current mode of communication and is quite expressive. Like all languages, it occurs somewhat spontaneously, but I can tell you for sure that Line has the lightning in a bottle right now whereas Apple, Facebook, Snap, etc. just don't get it. Like with the original emoji, Japan is a ripe environment for this pictographic language evolution stuff. By the time it becomes cool in Los Angeles, Japan will have leveled up a few times. Related Aside: I'm posting this comment from the Nozomi Shinkansen at 300km/hr...the future is a beautiful place.
I think MSN was much more popular globally, while AIM dominated in America for obvious reasons. In Australia, I only ever met people using ICQ or MSN, the only time you used AIM was to speak to an American.
The Call of Duty games set in modern times are big on Russian bad guys as part of military or paramilitary organizations.
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Not only for now. Even if we build drones, people need to design then, write the software and fly them. We not have AIs we can control like an RTC game.

And that's the problem. Men and women keeping ... fighting .. for causes that aren't there. American soldiers are duped into thinking they're fighting for some noble cause when they're just the strong arm of a corrupt system that continues to blaze on with wars no matter who is elected.

Conniving people to fight is the only way to wage war. It's also how we make money. It's also how we make slaves.
So one thing I wonder about is how well "smoothness" of the translated text reflects accuracy of the translation.

What I mean is, we already know several really impressive examples of how language models from recurrent neural networks can generate eerily natural random texts (e.g. this blogpost http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/)

So even if we just trained it on an English corpus and fed random numbers into it, it would still output smooth and natural-sounding English sentences. Of course, here it is actually translating, but I wonder how often it will be "overconfident", i.e. generate a plausible-sounding sentence which doesn't at all correspond to the input text. Unlike a human translator, it won't say "sorry I'm not sure what that means".
Religion.
> You need to have a proper reason for smiling.

I wish this were common here (US) as well.
Correct, but the language throughout article would likely lead a reader to assume birds are not part of the dinosaur family, since it's never implied that birds are dinosaurs either. Pesky implicits can be a pain in more than just programming sometimes.
Based on my reading, most experts, and maybe a consensus, think aircraft carriers are weapons for the last major war, and will be of little use in the next war between major powers (if such a thing happens). Missiles can travel 2-3 times further than planes, and modern technology makes them very accurate.

Therefore the carriers won't get close enough to the battle to fire a shot (or launch a plane), much as carriers kept their predecessors, battleships, out of range and helpless in WWII.

Also, a carrier concentrates a very large amount of value in one very juicy target: Maybe $15-20 billion in assets including planes, 5,000 lives, and around 20-33% of available naval air power. An enemy could target a carrier with 1,000 missiles costing $1 million each, and still get a large economic net benefit ($1 billion spent to destroy $15-20 billion + 5,000 casualties). Current plans for high-end war use 'distributed lethality': Spread out the offensive power and assets so one lost ship isn't so costly.
That's poor design. My wife's new car has physical buttons for all the common functions that you might require to use while in motion:

- Radio on/off

- All radio controls on the wheel

- Heating/cooling, physical knobs

The touchscreen is treated as an optional, secondary interface, as it rightfully should be.
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Test of tDCS of the brain shows improved multitasking performance
> This is a nice generic advice, but I'd like to hear something more specific.

Googling "homeless volunteer YOUR_CITY_HERE" would be a start.

> Would restaurants and other places commonly refuse to hire somebody as a dishwasher because they don't look like a typical non-foreigner

Definitely. Many bars and nightclubs have an unwritten rule that limits the number/ratio of certain minorities at any given time.

> how many of them do that - almost all of them, majority, minority, only the handful of worst ones? What is the percentage of "foreigners" vs. "non-foreigners" (whatever definition there is, not sure again) working such jobs?

You'll never get this data down to a granular level unless people are truthful about their prejudices towards certain minority, ethnic, religious, etc. groups
Where’s my money?
apropos of this, Al-Jazeera has an interesting documentary on this topic:
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/rebelarchitecture/2014/0...
Simple optoelectronic computer outperforms supercomputers for complex problems
Polar Opposite of other parent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12964329

Both purport situational awareness" to have vastly different consequences and effects.
HP has been coming up with some really innovative PC systems. And they almost sold the PC division few years back.

This is a good development - PC market might have shrunk considerably but it's not going to go away.
The smaller sample size is accounted for by the width of the confidence interval, which is 5.2% - 7.1%; even the low end of that still looks pretty bad.
The weird world of the Western workplace
Eh, the idea of "trust" gets into non-quantifiable territory very quickly. Further, your analogy with newspapers is, quite frankly, not good. I would say that generally speaking, if a newspaper consistently confirms one's biases it is more likely to be deemed "trustworthy" and vice-versa with "non-trustworthy" newspapers.
I reorder the items periodically. When I start my day, I make a plan for what I'd like to achieve, and organize it based on priorities, dependencies, and also what I feel like doing. If I'm tired and can't concentrate well one day, I will take on smaller and easier tasks.
>This isn't misplaced nostalgia for the days when driving was more dangerous, but I do believe as cars get safer, situational awareness worsens and riskier behaviors are less likely to result in serious accidents -- so some drivers continue to take more risks.

You put this into words better than I did. I'm not suggesting we abandon all the improvements we've gotten in the last 30 years, just recognize how less effort required can breed disassociation with the task at hand.
My German (3rd language) is rather horrid, but I thought I'd try with "Es gibt mich Schadenfreude". In return I got "It gives me pleasure". Well, yes, but.. :-)

I then moved on to translating between Norwegian and English, both primary languages of mine (well, the latter for some 16 years), and was thoroughly impressed by the results as long as I stayed away from idioms - well, some. Try something a bit Aussie like "Up sh*t creek in a barbed wire canoe", and it'd fall flat on its face. Then, however it successfully mastered "Bedre med en fugl i hånden enn ti på taket" => "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush".

Overall, that's really quite amazing work that the team has put in.
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I find that Firefox has a considerable lag on Macbook 2012 compared to Safari. I wish that would change because I love firefox and don't want to use Safari but Safari is just nimble
It looks nice, but beyond looks I don't really get the appeal. If you want and/or need the power, and you're already planning to have 3-6 monitors on your desk, why not go for a slightly larger box that can hold reasonable cooling solutions that don't sound like a jet taking off when the PC is under the slightest load? IME, HP is terrible about considering the noise of their designs. Our current work laptops are HP 1040 G3's, and it doesn't take much get the fans spinning at a noticeable volume (playing a video + a couple instances of VS + the normal outlook/web browsers/etc). The 1040 at least has been an upgrade over our old HP laptops (I forget the model) where the fan seemed to run at 100% all the time.
If I ever work from home or build an office space, that will be the way to go.

A whole team's worth of blazing workstations on half a rack in a cabinet out of the way. Sounds like heaven.
So, no war crimes at all then. Yeah, figured.
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That amounts to less than 2 dollars per affected customer.

Leaves corporates with very little motivation to take such breaches seriously.
It does state "Oviraptorosaurs are not direct ancestors of birds, but share a common theropod dinosaur ancestor with the lineage that later evolved to birds."
Alas, while researching this[1] article I discovered that there are no active WebRings still in operation. (the few sites that claim to be working webrings are in fact fake)

[1] http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/under-construction/
There are lots of shady lawyers out there, and this would give them an incentive to pay hackers to increase the size of data breaches.
>Im going to wait on owning one until an auto company open sources their code and there has been enough time to examine it thoroughly. In short, bring on the self-driving cars but do not make them mandatory. Just make licensing much more strict.

At some point, we'll need to hold people to the same standard as the machines, and then.. when most people can't, we make it mandatory.
Your posts seem like classic climate change denialism. The same tactics were used to argue that lead in gasoline wasn't a problem and that cigarette smoke doesn't cause cancer.

CO2 causes atmospheric warming. The underlying principles are simple and sound. We are emitting tons and tons of CO2 by burning vast quantities of fossil fuels.

The only reason to argue against the science is if you have an ulterior motive or you've been unwittingly duped by those that do.

>But all ten researchers, faced with the choice of what hypothesis to formulate and/or investigate, naturally chose high-impact hypotheses

That isn't how science works. It doesn't matter what they hypothesize, what matters is what the evidence shows.

>We would naturally expect historical errors in temperature measurements to be evenly distributed.

No we wouldn't and you refuse to offer any evidence to back up your claims.

>If they are evenly distributed, we would expect there to be ten other such hypotheses, involving upward corrections in past measurements, which were not studied because of their low impact if confirmed.

I'm going to be direct and honest here: This is why I think you're just lying to push a point. This is not how the scientific method works. None of what you've postulated is correct. And for the record there are various groups (including some oil companies) pouring millions into scientific studies trying to prove global warming isn't happening. None of their supposed "evidence" has withstood peer review or scrutiny.

Evidence is what ultimately matters, a point you seem to be trying really hard to avoid addressing.
From what little I know of the topic, hasn't FACTA made US citizens rather unattractive to have as customers for most European banks? I've heard it can be difficult just to open a bank account as an American in Europe, unless you're extremely wealthy in which case I'm sure there're workarounds.

If anything, I would imagine FACTA might be a big concern once this gentleman gets back to Serbia and discovers he can't open a bank account.

Please correct me if my info is incorrect.
I like finding filming locations in modern movies with minimal evidence, like the names from street signs, etc. It's kind of interesting how often they totally fake filming locations. Lots of movies supposedly set in the U.S. are filmed in Canada for some reason, and I just watched one the other day that was supposed to be in Seattle but it was filmed in some town in the midwest. (They had a Seattle skyline scene at one point that was about as convincing as the Emerald City in the Wizard of Oz.)

Bonus, if you're into that sort of thing: https://geoguessr.com/ (Dropped somewhere in the world at random in Google Street View, how accurately can you figure out where you are?)
Yes, there's no comparison between the Kuznetsov-class and any of the United States supercarriers, or the Charles de Gaulle. But the Russian actions are a means of power projection, saber rattling against the other great powers.

After all, whenever there's a world event, one of the first questions asked by the United States leadership is, "Where is the nearest carrier group?"

There is no longer a unipolar hegemony in Eurasia. That's the message these maneuvers, and indeed the Chinese acquisition of this carrier itself, are intended to convey.
The problem is that most of your logic also 'proves' that aircraft would render tanks obsolete; yet tanks and aircraft have existed for quite a long time on the battlefield.

The argument you are making is a very common one (and the subject of many Quora posts), yet I would still bet that carriers would be very useful in small and large future conflicts.
Ok... according to woodchuck64, We live in the land of PURE unbiased science! There are ZERO reasons to lean on or massage data one way or another. Funding just comes in, no matter the conclusions.
I like Explain Regular Expressions [0] too.

[0] http://rick.measham.id.au/paste/explain.pl
I went there hoping to see some good artwork, but didn't find much.

By the way, if you're interested in Indian art, here's some great work by Raja Ravi Varma, a celebrated painter.

http://ravivarma.org/Mythological-Characters-by-Raja-Ravi-Va...

http://ravivarma.org/People-Portraits-by-Raja-Ravi-Varma

http://ravivarma.org/Chromolithographs-by-Raja-Ravi-Varma
What does this do and what are the downsides?
That's a pretty great way to deploy empty barriers, but what I'd love to see is a machine to fill them even a quarter as fast as they can deploy them haha
Headline: "Blame Apps"

Evidence given in the article:

- "Safety experts say" that it's true. The experts are not named or quoted. No evidence or reasoning is given to support the claim.

- Highway fatalities are up this year. However, they're still significantly down from 2007, when the iPhone was first introduced. Mobile has been booming for almost a decade - if we should "blame apps", why hasn't it been a concern before now?

- One driver who caused a fatal accident was using Snapchat shortly before the crash. This driver was also going at 115 mph. It goes without saying, therefore, that Snapchat is to blame, not speeding or general recklessness.

- "Insurance companies are convinced", according to one Robert Gordon. Gordon is actually named and quoted. However, the quote again doesn't provide evidence or reasoning.

Maybe it is actually true. I don't know. However, the evidence given is nowhere near strong enough to be convincing. There's also the issue that newspapers are direct competitors with the apps they're railing against (for ad dollars), and have been losing badly: http://charman-anderson.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/newsp....
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I don't think so, Facebook is a platform, people treat it like one in my experience at least. Facebook doesn't write news so they can't become a reputable authority for news.

You can blame facebook about as much as you can blame the existence of the internet itself.
It's not relative it's literally the hardest type of DB system you can try to build. I have my doubts that an entity with relatively modest resources can pull it off, but pretending there are trivial solutions for even testing a distributed system let alone a distributed system of this complexity is simply not grounded in reality.
They mean Mandarin. There have been rumblings in the past that Cantonese support might be coming though.
How to deal with a Trump boss
I know I know ... Sorry
It's a tough world out there. Is your boss a Trump character ?
That's been my experience, colloquial use has always been dreadful often to the point of being unintelligible even when you know the context.
And people are just as likely to type an valid but incorrect email address as a invalid email address.
That's how I met my wife!
I hope I'm not putting myself on a list by posting this.

Anyway, the comments lead down a pretty dark rabbit hole about Assange's whereabouts since they cut off his internet access...
In a little over a month, I read the entire 11 volumes (12? I forget) of the John Carter of Mars series when I was in 6th grade.

When I finished the last book, 12-year-old me cried. This epic whirlwind of a journey was over forever. And no one else in the world around me even acknowledged it had existed.
A future where all the drawings must be Swastikas?
A couple bash utilities I use daily(ish)

lnks: List, Save, or Instapaper your Google Chrome links from the terminal. It uses a small amount of Applescript, so it is OS X/MacOS only for now. I'm working on getting around this. https://github.com/unforswearing/lnks

aliaser: a tiny directory traversal/command aliasing tool. https://github.com/unforswearing/aliaser
For those that don't regex. I originally learned regex just so I could do complex find/replace in Notepad++ (I work with large data sets) I can't begin to say how many hours of work its saved me over the years, and how much money for that matter.

The best / easiest way that I've taught regex is to pop open a text editor and start searching for stuff. Start by searching for some letters, then a string with spaces, then a line break. From there I point people towards stuff like Apache config file conditionals / URL re-writes etc.
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To compare it to music it seems to me that human translating will become less used in work contexts. For example historically you either had to be rich enough to hire a musician (or a whole group) if you wanted to hear music. You could also just learn to play yourself. When the gramophone was invented I'm sure those professional musicians for parties didn't have much to do. On the other hand it's still considered positive (even attractive) to be able to play your own music when a computer could create something as well. I've actually wondered before why people learn to play music when they have famous and better music to listen to on their own phone, but there's something there that people like.

When you travel in a foreign country there is a lot of respect given for people who can speak the language that you just don't get from walking around with a human or device translator. You might get a peek into it the same way a DJ mixes together other people's music, but nobody would call them a famous musician (not a great comparison, because there are famous, successful, and talented DJs). Also in terms of understanding a culture a lot of that is formed/built in the language. The phrases and structures of a language definitely have an impact on how people think.

So basically yeah, professional business translators and translator shops will probably go way down in business. They would be seen as some kind of luxury, but language learning as a hobby/to understand a culture isn't related to professional translating at all really.
Do you know if they have standard space for a discrete card? They only offer NVIDIA options, but I prefer AMD.
> but $140 is a long way from $6000.

Which is apples to oranges of course. One instance compared to a tool to make many. I have a startup that needs 12" by 12" plates (quite a coincidence) in small production quantities with various holes and slots. I've been studying CNC milling but this would be much simpler and possibly cheaper.