skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
~75% of it's income comes from membership dues and individual contributions, see e.g. https://www.quora.com/Where-does-funding-for-the-National-Ri... which has links to the 990 forms with the hard numbers. Here's the link to the latest available 2014 one, which evidently was filed/made public after that analysis: http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/530/5301161...

In addition to this, many NRA members join just so that they can join gun clubs - not necessarily because they agree with the NRA.

What do you base this claim on? Some do, but membership numbers too closely match the current intensity of the war on our Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA) for it to be very many.
If you use massless particles like a photon, the theoretical maximum trust/energy ratio is 0.0033 mN/KW. The problem is that they say they got x4000 the theoretical maximum.

If you use a particle with mass, the trust/energy ratio is much lower. You have to split some of the energy to create the particles and convert a smaller part to momentum (you must multiply by c or c^2 to get the right units). So creating particles with mass is worse, not better.

If you push a bunch of particles that you have stored, you can get much better result, but it's no more a fuelless drive.
I know this is an afterthought, but you can create service accounts.
If a life form can become so advanced that it becomes indistinguishable from what it observes, won't we too cross that border at some point, and if so, when will we know that we've crossed it?

If we've already crossed that border without knowing it, we could be observing our own life form in physics, and not that of "aliens".
Relevant talk from Daniel Suarez that I recommend everyone watches:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMYYx_im5QI
I think, you can't simply push off zero-point fluctuations in vacuum w/o creating particles occasionally.

And if you admit you do, you're at level of photon thrusters at best.
Because it is one of the single biggest food producers in the US, and has an effective monopoly on many of our foodstuffs (notably many nuts and citrus fruits). Losing California's food production for any reason, including destruction by fire or drought, would cause massive problems in the US, possibly up to and including a depression or economic collapse.

This also gets to something I've never understood: why global warming is political. The science is objectively solid and the economic costs of not doing something are clear. I'll argue about the benefit and drawbacks of policies to address it all day long, but how is outright denial a thing?
Making separate accounts might not be enough considering they allegedly banned accounts related to each others by recovery address. Why would you think they would not do the same with accounts sharing occasionally the same laptop, the same ip address, and the same first and last name ?

To my knowledge there is nothing preventing an automated banning machine to start firing at random on someone's accounts. And since, it appears, you have absolutely no recourse (except having friends working at google), and they are not held accountable for these "false positives"... You better start planning for it.
I think it's likely that people who believe "we must secure the existence of white people and a future for white children", which you quoted warmly elsewhere on the thread, also believe Trump will fix the surveillance state. I'm not sure many other people believe that, though.
Does everything that can happen, actually happen?

I think, probably not.
David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" was published anonymously.
It seems like Google Cloud free trial in several countries (at least in LV,LT,EE) is only available to businesses.

I wanted to give the free trial a go, but wasn't able to register because it did not let me choose account type as "individual".
"for example, a significant percentage of people in North Korea who will be happy to attack America at first chance. Despite the economic disaster they've been forced to live into."

Not really. ALL people in North America will gladly attack America, because hate to America(USA, America is a continent) is instilled to them since preschool.

They don't know they are in an economic disaster, because the media tells them other countries are in worse position. They are told that people form other countries wear nice clothes just like actors in order to make them believe they are rich. Most people believe the propaganda because they are surrounded by it.

It is not very different from the US, for instance since the US backed coup d' Etat to Ukrainian democratically elected Government, western media have told several lies that people just bought because all the media agreed:

1. That taking over a democratically elected Government was justified(from the country that usually invades countries for "democracy and freedom") because of corruption. Never mind the people that they put on place is as corrupt or worse.

2. Spending 6.500 million dollars to interfere in other country is totally ok, if you are the USA. Of course if someone else tries to influence US election it is a crime.

3. That Putin was a monster that wanted to "expand his Empire". This is the most ridiculous thing you could hear ever from the biggest country on Earth that has problems just defending his country.

But most (North)Americans bought it without a thought, because of things like "manufacturing consent".

Most people just naturally aligns with the majority. If you control the most watched media, you could tell people what is right to believe... Until it becomes so clear that they are being duped, that's it.

In Western countries you are free to watch or read whatever you want, but the media that is most watched is totally controlled. They don't care about a few guys knowing the truth because in a democracy the mass is king and you control the mass.
Well, there's always IBM: https://www.compose.com/postgresql
Why do we care?
Wow. Even the second tweet with numbers [1].
Total last 5 day change is -77542 km^2

[1] https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/800003796902391808
>The article and film say that Titanpointe was one of the facilities used to collect communications — with permission granted by judges — from international entities that have at least some operations in New York, such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and 38 countries.

It's good to know that we're spying on the IMF and the World Bank. To me, it shows that we can easily position ourselves and cannot be held hostage by either of those organizations.
Badah dum tish!
Bell proved that there is no local hidden variable model that is consistent with quantum theory. He said the same thing as Von Neumann (quantum mechanics can't be understood merely in terms of hidden variables), only more robustly. No new physics was discovered.
Great summary that can be understood without any technical knowledge about the topic. Thanks.
Agree, I'm not a big fan of Assange.
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This is too bad, and a bit understandable. Intel is in a really odd place at the moment. It is the 800lb gorilla in the CPU space who knows that the manufacturer of gorilla food is currently unable to produce enough food to feed it (the PC market). More systems running windowed operating systems that people use will on a day to day basis will ship with ARM chips this year. That is a huge shift. And while Intel is still king of the server shipments there are people who want to be there too (Power and ARM). Two things contributed to that, the first was that the smartphone became the "PC" for the masses, the second was that Linux is instruction set agnostic in the data center.

Intel really really needs a market they can dominate that consumes lots and lots of chips. IoT is one bet, Wearables (apparently was) one bet. The scary thing for Intel is that if they don't have enough demand to keep their billion dollar fabs pumping, they start burning cash. Not clear what the strategy there is. Look at IBM which sold off their chip capability to Global Foundry. Once you have over capacity, a chip fab rapidly becomes a huge liability.

That said, the world could probably use a state of the art open access chip house that wasn't in Asia or controlled by the Chinese. Not sure that Intel could go there given their company history and organization.

Digression: One of the uniquely nice things about Sun was that since their fiscal calendar ended on June 30th, when they axed major projects the layoffs came in the spring rather than right before New Years. It always sucks to be laid off but there are worse and better times to do so.
His EPA advisor Myron Ebell does not believe in carbox taxes.

http://web.archive.org/web/20161111014732/http://getliberty....
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Tabs really only works easily when everyone's using the same editor settings. Otherwise, it quickly devolves into a mess.

Spaces really only works easily when everyone uses an editor that can convert presses of the tab key into some number of space characters.

The only solution that works easily in all cases is to flatly refuse to collaborate with others.
As a stoic I'm getting an emotionally neutral response from this thread.
The final victory of capital over labour!
A self-sustaining civilization of robots. Humans are gone, but generations and generations of robots evolve and, eventually, incorporating organic compounds, they become cyborgs.
Don't have any experience with the 6502, but I was able to pick up z80 assembly syntax pretty easily. Very user friendly in my opinion, but I've met people who swear it's terrible and awkward in comparison to their preferred instruction set, so ymmv.
I think this frames it in the economic terms. The unstated goal is to replace human beings with robots, to get automation to do everything people can do. Which would then render people economically useless. Which would then cause some sort of drastic change in the purpose of human life, which since the 1600 or so has been about using people to produce things that they then consume.
One of my personal favourites is the fancy bit of architecture hanging over the entry to the Family Court of Australia, Adelaide.

http://www.markforthandassociates.com.au/wp-content/uploads/...

As if that thing doesn't make you feel like The Government is observing your family life. Which, I guess, if you have reason to go there, it is.
https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/
See https://truefactor.io/catworker for botnet admin page
You are surely trolling us or are splendidly unaware of what is going on in Europe.
You could also decouple image capture and packet processing, so that if the former starts to run ahead, you can buffer until the latter catches up. NICs do this a lot, for much the same benefit.

I'm not great with Python, but your code seems quite legible, and it doesn't look like there's any buffering or backpressure in place right now - which is perfectly reasonable for a fantastic proof of concept like this! Just a thought for when you next get around to hacking on it.
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What's to say this hasn't already happened here? Is it because we're too blind to see the plutocracy?
I saw an Amiga transputer ray tracing in person. It was way beyond most desktop performance at the time.

http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/prototypes/transputer.html
I've actually had good experiences with AWS support. Use the phone call option. Online replies tend to take over 24 hours.
For the record, it looks like things are actually moving, with the Swedish prosecutor finally meeting him at the embassy (and without his lawyer): https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/14/julian-assange...
First power drawn from tidal turbines off the coast of Scotland
Aww :(

Well I was 33% right.
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Interestingly, NASA used to have a group working on such projects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Propulsion_Physic...

And I believe they actually did a serious job, which is probably why they never found any warp-drive ;-)
Seriously this is worse than premature optimization, I like to call it developer frugalness optimization. A $600 savings is not even worth the effort.
The difficulty is that once you're a carrier, you're always a carrier. With modern ART these people can be expected to live long lives. ART decreases the odds of transmission, but not everyone is compliant with their medications. Reducing the spread is one piece of the puzzle. The only way we've managed to "cure" HIV is through a bone marrow transplantation from a donor that have a mutant CCR5 receptor (which the HIV virus needs infect T-cells).

I think that reducing the spread alone still could get us to a point where we "manage this out over the long term" as you say. Say you're a person with many sexual partners that has say a 1 out of 100 chance of sleeping with someone infected with HIV on a given day. Say there's a 1 in 10 chance that encounter will lead to transmission of the virus. (These aren't like factual numbers, just examples). That's still a 1 in 1,000 chance per encounter, so it adds up over time. After 1000 encounters chances are you've contracted HIV. But say you're vaccinated against 99% of the serotypes. That reduces your chance per encounter to 1 in 100,000. Even after 1000 encounters your chance of contracting HIV is 1 in 100. Not terrible.
Nature-Inspired Nanotubes That Assemble Themselves
A Russian hacker (or a state-sponsored team of hackers).
The visual data transfer used in the Electric Imp (2013) is pretty awesome too: https://electricimp.com/platform/blinkup/.
Given the history of life on earth (3.5 B years of life, 100.000 or so of human covilization), I think it's much more likely that any alien life we discover would be very primitive - say, bacteria living on a moon in the solar system, or maybe plants on a planet somewhere.
Isn't the simple answer that the embassy of Ecuador in London cut off his access to the Internet? The embassy announced they had restricted his access to the Internet beginning October 17th.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/19/wikileaks-ecua...
Show me evidence that Jeff Sessions is racist, or that Mike Pence supports electrocution therapy. These are wild allegations with no factual basis.

The "articles" that you link are just opinion pieces that are themselves devoid of real evidence. Please call out in particular what evidence would lead you to make these vicious allegations against these two men.
Noam loves to criticize American policy. In fact, it's been his raison d'etre for the last forty years. That being said, in most every example of US "bad" behavior all other nations seem to be behaving worse. And yet this person who doesn't believe in American exceptionalism, seems to hold us to a higher standard.

His father, however, did believe in American exceptionalism when he fled the Ukraine (like many other Jews and others of all religions) for a better life in America.

He's an ingrate.
At the end though, such a CEO might think of him or herself as being totally altruistic and saving the world from its idiotic leadership. US is already headed towards tyranny. The political climate could be just rife in 30-40 years for that sort of thing to be justified by a well-meaning person.
The NRA is the traditional certifier of shooting events. That's maybe less true as new shooting sports have grown in popularity, such as IPSC - but if you want to engage in most local or national shooting competitions you must be a member of the NRA. In recent history, many shooting ranges/clubs have started requiring a membership in the NRA as a condition of eligibility to join.
Was University Really Worth It?
Here's one someone did, from the teslamotors subreddit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLaEV72elj0
Can Ethics Be Quantified?
Nautilus' main activity seems to be dressing bullshit up as intellectual depth.
The poll is missing an option: GPG-signed message with an un-knowable current event.
> We have a repeatable non zero result ...

Yes, but they aren't sure what they're measuring. Remember that science (and Occam's razor) requires us to apply the most pedestrian explanations first, like some overlooked experimental error, not new physics. The "new physics" explanation should be the last possibility considered, not the first.

This similar study comes to a much less encouraging conclusion (the abstract acurately summarizes the study):

https://tu-dresden.de/ing/maschinenwesen/ilr/rfs/ressourcen/...
What the car sees with radar does not translate directly to an "image" (it's not 2D radar, it's 1D with time of flight for depth).
I clicked on the link just to look at the pictures, noticed there weren't any, so looked elsewhere online.

I'm gonna guess that this is supposed to be part of the theme of article, the unobservable observers.
I very much feel by this study...

I grew up with television, books, audio stories=>constant stimulation. I brought books to class to read when it got boring...some teachers let me get away with it(guess who were my favourites).I still crave it and am only slowly learning to relax nowadays. It actually makes interaction with non "hyperstimulated" people hard, because I either steamroll them, interrogate them (because I am interested and give them my full, hungry attention) or zone out because nothing is happening. "Vibing" and hanging out is not easy for me.

I always blamed it on being minimally autistic(not diagnosed and don't want to be insensitive, but some non neuronormative things are there i think)
Stopped in the other day to check the new MBPs. They are beautiful, but I agree they have gone too far in the weight/beauty direction at the expense of practicality. I liked the touch bar, but typing on the keyboard felt like typing on a brick, despite its precision.

Sure, you can hook up a keyboard for day to day use, but that feels suboptimal from my perspective.
Obviously only evil Trump supporters who hate democracy would distrust the media, though. I mean, haven't you read the news? (Also, one of the complaints in this talk is that Facebook and Twitter don't use their power to control how people feel and behave, so the author likely thinks of the media using this power as a good thing.)
Long story short, she designed a project with an Angular UI and staked some internal political capital on it. She hired a pretty awful Angular dev who took several months to build up a UI and then abruptly left the company. She wanted me to get up to speed on it, so I did.

I noticed there were a lot of issues in the code and said much of it had to be rewritten since it would not scale. She didn't like what I said and then told me not to focus too much on Angular and just learn enough to maintain the existing application and she would hire another contractor to do the work.

I should add that she threatened me when she said to stop working on Angular. Whereas 2 months earlier she threatened my job if I didn't learn it.
Is it?

https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?mode=view&id=9...

Really?

https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?mode=view&id=9...

I got into 3ds Max after one day.

https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?id=9695

And now i just do things.

https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?mode=view&id=9...

You know whats hard? Introspection. Hearing that your tool suck, and admitting they are right. The game i dev on sucks at the moment. And, if you said that, with specific advice on how to improve- you would get a thank you.

https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?mode=view&id=8...

Autodesk is horrific expensive. Do you think working a month a year for them, is fun?

https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?mode=view&id=8...

I contribute to open source- and thus i claim the right to criticize something that is botched. Deal with it. Trying all the angles, are we? If you are a beginner, you do not have enough experience to criticize the subject. If you are a expert, you are too dumb.
If you are a coder and are fluent with the likes of emacs and vim - and dislike the gui, you are a evil cooperate guy.
If you persist after that, you are bitching, as in arguing to argue.

Such a thing as critical love, wanting to see something flourish - is not possible.

The blindness of the likes of you - allows a whole industry of UX-Designers to exist. There i said it.
People must get paid to work with the UX that get crafted by some programers into those "professional" tools.
not really, we don't negotiate with terrorists. This scenario will play out in one way in the real world lol.
>gun owners were driven by decades of stark atrocities committed by government agents

This is a revisionist narrative only recently adopted.

Gun ownership and lobbying for same began immediately after the civil rights movement and all language around it until recently was about protecting the white race (with an occasional sprinkling of 'self defense' rhetoric sprinkled in)

A real conversation is only going to happen when we admit the only reason for owning a gun is because it's entertaining. The 'single gun man defending democracy' narrative just makes the proponent look as ridiculous as his words.
Is accepting PayPal good enough?
I'm trying to launch an mvp and torn over whether having a paypal button rather than implementing stripe or something.

If you went to a saas site and they only accepted paypal would you be put off?

The doubt in my mind is that it doesn't look very professional
New documents came out after the book was published that showed that IBM had specific punch cards for each concentration camp, each reason (homosexual, Jew, antisocial, gypsy,etc.) and for manner of death (natural causes, suicide, death by gas chamber).

The SS had to be trained, the machines had to be maintained, and the cards had to be updated. IBM engineers were on site at each concentration camp throughout most of the war.
Not much more time for me to read into this today but I see that the molecular clock estimate is based on the "isolation" estimate. So these are not independent measures:

"Crucially, he knew from geological records that the island separated from continental Africa around 12,000 years ago. Assuming that the strains had had at least 12,000 years to evolve apart, he determined that the mutation rate of SIV is much slower than originally thought."

I find it difficult to believe that for 10k years a plausible scenario is that nothing happened like eg:
A) someone was hunting monkeys from more populated areas and traveled to "isolated" islands/regions to get more.
B) monkey on a branch gets thrown out to sea and floats to the island.
Eh, it seems relevant to the parent comment to me, about organizations not attempting to hide their "evil villain"-like attributes. Reasonable people can disagree.
If the universe were truly infinite then I think it may. Either way it's impossible to know.
The Death of Charities: Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology to Replace Them?
I believe thats a ridiculous philosophy that denies the suffering of billions of people all over the world.

And even worse encourages them to be satisfied and tolerant of their repression and not take action.

Why vote? Why criticise? Why try to fight injustice?

This is what Tyrants want people to believe.

I think negative feelings exist for a reason whether its internal or external reasons and the only healthy way to handle them is not to try to change them into some positive force, but bear it until you can change it.
The “Clock Boy” Critical Thinking Test
I don't use haskell very much, but I'm curious what the use is of defining

type Symbol = String

Why not just have -> String -> in the function's type? The only thing I see this gains is forcing you to add extra boilerplate everywhere converting strings to "Symbol"s