skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but they still don't physically stop you from doing something bad. It's still very possible, and actually easy to do it.
>The thing is, mathematics is a language and I can as easily produce a model that ...

No, you can't. What an outrageous claim to make. Prove it constructively, preferably.
My email address has already been breached on three different services. The previous two were sites that I've used once and never again, this one I obviously never heard of until today, when the breach happened.

Even though I use a password manager and unique passwords, I still get the shills whenever I see an email from the HIBP domain.

It's just something that makes me feel uncomfortable, even though I know that the breach is specific to a site that I have never used frequently and doesn't affect any of my other profiles.
Which is sad because the public gets screwed by them twice.
Curious about what the incentives are for visiting partners.
Probably because the W3C literally copy/pastes other's work and claims it for their own. Look at this blog post, which doesn't credit WHATWG at all for doing the actual work of speccing HTML.
Can confirm on the regulatory aspect - factory farms are terribly difficult to get cities to approve zoning for.
> Perhaps I need to dedicate more time to understanding how things work?

Yes, if you don't already, learn basic command line very well, with stderr/stdin/stdout, pipes, sed, grep, find, cat, make, etc. etc. You'll then thrive in Linux, and it will help you with OSX, too.
I think it's a good example of why a simple left-right dichotomy doesn't cut it. The Blair government had a lot of great social-democrat policies and was genuinely redistributive. It also relied on control-freakery and media management; all policy had to come from the Blair-Campbell office. There was no mechanism for incorporating friendly critique. And some of its policy was genuinely illiberal, especially in the antiterrorism & surveillance area.

That may have been a hidden tradeoff for taking on the security establishment enough to get a peace deal in NI.
I stand corrected. Still right wing, but less right wing than, and similarly authoritarian as, the Tories during Labour's time in government. Source: https://www.politicalcompass.org/ukparties2010
Riak NoSQL KV 2.2 Just released with feature and performance updates
Fun with Amazon's Simple Queue Service (2005)
> There are those of us who need to develop against a stable feature set.

Can you explain what you mean here more? The HTML standard doesn't break compatibility, if that's what you mean, because of course that's not possible. So I suspect you mean something else; can you explain?
I know, but you're both talking about different things.

It may be 20% for the next few years, but it's also 10% overall. You're both right, why even try to nitpick over these details or correct anyone?
Indeed, even with my level of tinkering, I almost am never dealing with system attribute files. The cool thing is that Microsoft ALLOWS you to do anything with your computer, they don't hold the sort of superiority complex other companies do about telling you what you can and can't do on your own PC[0].

So yes, if you decide to grant yourself permission to see and modify those files, you can give yourself a bad time. Or maybe you could develop an application that handles them intelligently, after researching how they work extensively.

[0]Someone's gonna ask: With the right amount of registry and file tampering, yes, you can absolutely render automatic updates and telemetry nonfunctional. Results may vary, but it's definitely doable.
The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy

An incredible look into the lives of the working poor and what it actually means to try and get out of poverty in America. It's a beautiful book. http://thenewpress.com/books/moral-underground
Microsoft tried that in 1995. It was an interface called Microsoft Bob.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
This would be the equivalent of you putting your key in a mailbox on the corner that you don't own, free of use, with no guarantees around it being there at any point in time. One day you go to grab your key and it's gone. Who's at fault? Google LITERALLY tells you in the TOS that you both don't own any content served up by their platform, and that they may suspend you at any time they choose.

>We may suspend or stop providing our Services to you if you do not comply with our terms or policies or if we are investigating suspected misconduct.

>Using our Services does not give you ownership of any intellectual property rights in our Services or the content you access.

If that's where you're storing your "key" - you should probably re-evaluate your personal storage policies.
>contrast this with the situation in physics, we have comprehensive theories

no, not of gravity or dark matter.
Sounds good, David. Best of luck to you and the HiCap folks. Aloha.
I'm in the same boat, I used AwesomeWM for several years, before switching to OSX around 2010, just because the Mac hardware was superior to just about everything else, but I always felt crippled in the window manager. iTerm2 + tmux can get close, but switching to the browser never "fit" in that flow.

A few weeks ago I switched back to Linux on a NUC, and its like I've come home again.
> you must be treating diabetes by performing the method

Does it not say "administer"?
I hate to beat this drum, but it comes down to money. Oil and coal spend so much money spreading false information about the issues, so it's hard for people to be informed about what our options actually are.
Ubuntu won't need to develop Qt, it has an increasingly vibrant community.
I think even more importantly, Linux allows DEs and WMs to do practically anything they want. The window manager i3 simply is not possible on OSX. OSX tiling window managers use the accessibility API as a hack, and it's just not very good at all.

I can't even begin to express how much I love i3. I literally switched from OSX just for i3, it's made me that much more efficient, focused, less frustrated and allows me to use my ultrawide monitor to its fullest potential.
If you ever decide to try again, try to time it with a new computer purchase and buy a system from a vendor who ships Linux based systems. Hardware support is always the trickiest bit with Linux as it tends to lag behind a bit due to developers not getting access to the hardware until after it is publicly available combined with the Linux driver model (in kernel drivers) + the distribution model of sticking with stable kernel releases.

TLDR; If you want good hardware support without worry, buy from a Linux vendor.
I'm beginning to think that's the right approach. Or, have a minimal home directory with a .bashrc that sets $HOME at login to an appropriate sub directory. Might not be too robust...
You're almost there, but not quite.

Since Monero outputs go to dual-key stealth addresses, outputs are effectively paid to a random 256-bit "address". So if you use a mixin of 50, in a transaction with 1 input, an external observer can say "this illicit transaction spends funds from 1 of 50 possible transactions", but then you need to go to those 50 and work your way back till eventually you find a needle, in a very large haystack, that you can actually identify.

Because of this, the anonymityset grows exponentially the further up the tx chain from an identifiable transaction (eg. a withdrawal from a KYC / AML exchange) you are.

The major advantage here is that every Monero transaction adds to this anonymityset, since privacy is compulsory.

On the other hand, ZCash's privacy is nearly unusable. Using it requires 8gb+ of RAM, and takes over a minute on a Xeon processor. Because of its unusability you end up being "1 of X people", where X is very tiny - it's limited to the people moving from traceable addresses to z-addresses who haven't identifiably moved ~the same amount out.

ZCash is useless at best, dangerous privacy theatre at worst.
This is actually a great point - I think this is a one-way vs two-way communication issue. With a lot of our current input devices, tactile feedback helps with verifying that the individual "packets" of information are registering, but visual feedback is key for knowing that the high-level command worked / didn't work, and what other options are discoverable. And the fact that the visual feedback is extremely high bandwidth is key. Imagine being read everything on the screen. Come to think of it, screenreaders are hard.
It is marked special. You have to go out of your way to even see it, and Windows Explorer complains and gives you a stern warning when you do.
I don't think Obama will do anything, because I agree with you that he likes having this surveillance and his drone powers.

The problem is that Trump might be less responsible with the powers given to him.
Are you claiming that the Russian government doesn't have a domestic surveillance infrastructure?
Isn't that generally applicable to patents?
How will they pump the ZCash scam if they do?
Well, in Western Christianity the thought of Aristotle has been important since about A.D. 1,100. Not so much in Eastern Christianity, which has favored the thought of Plato for nearly 2,000 years.
If you haven't already, change the email to some "noreply" address in the commits you author and add that to your GitHub profile so they can be attributed to you. I've built a similar scraper for recruiters as a source for talent leads when I used to work at a big company.
> C/C++ or Rust don't guarantee low-latency realtime properties, and introducing tracing GC doesn't guarantee high-latency non-realtime properties.

We completely agree.

> Great, but it doesn't guarantee any properties of code you haven't written, so it still can't achieve the global properties I've been talking about.

How is this any different from C/C++? They do not give you any guarantees that Rust takes away in this regard. Any library that uses Box::new or vec! is exactly the same as a C library that calls malloc/free internally and you can implement the same heap allocation free algorithms in Rust as you can in C/C++.

I don't understand what global properties you expect a low level systems language to guarantee. They definitely can't guarantee that code you haven't written doesn't heap allocate, you have to check that they don't call malloc/free yourself.
Seconding this. Great physical metaphor, gets to the point. Happy to help out if anyone is serious about it (I'm in the UK).
Second that! Vultr offers OpenVPN as a one click app, it's super easy to get it running on a $5 vps.
For those who want to ask obvious follow up question, based on Wikipedia article on Mr. Ebell:

Through CEI, Ebell has stated his belief that global warming is a hoax, that most of the data predicting climate change is false, and that the scientific consensus was "phony".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_Ebell
Is the Pope Hindu? Do bears use the restrooms in the Waldorf Astoria hotel?
> Does that mean people can't fast without violating the patent?

From the language, it would suggest that you'd have to administer this as a treatment for diabetes. And it's a very specific form of fasting, not fasting in general.
Update: no, he has just responded, says that LinkedIn still works fine, probably they are negotiating or something.
Objective scientists are a good thing, but are not - and should never be - considered an essencial component of the system. Any system that assumes honesty and fair play in its participants is doomed to failure. What science was aiming for is getting the true results from the aggregate - thus peer reviews, replication, etc.

Of course the more noise you have, the less efficient the system is, so it's good to incentivize people to do honest, objective work - thus pre-publishing / pre-registering, sharing data and algorithms, etc. are all good and important goals. But so should be changing the metric affecting the aggregate - like making sure scientists are actually incentivized to replicate previous work.
> odd looking vehicle

On this note, why is it that EVERY EV (except for the Tesla) has to "look a little weird" or "make a design statement"?
This is true. The interesting thing about the epicylical theories (there was more than one possible set), is that they passed the usual scientific tests - were based on observations, could be used for prediction in particular. They just happened to be completely incorrect. Galileo's contribution was building one of the first telescopes and using it to identify moons circling around Jupiter.

His was the find the exception that contradicts the rule kind of science/theorem proving.
I've noticed that Britons, generally speaking, put a lot of trust in authority. They'll shrug it off or rationalize it when their government introduces another perverted law - the NHS works, so it can't be that bad, surely. Britain lacks a sizeable and vocal government-distrusting counterculture like they exist in Germany or the US. How you go about introducing that artificially, I don't know. The frog is being boiled too slowly.
Anything that has the potential to corrupt your filesystem should come with a huge disclaimer.
It's too bad Americans cannot vote for some of the most prominent cabinet members the way they vote for President/Vice-President. Many of these appointees will have a more direct impact on people's lives but yet they have no say in who will represent them. Democracy?
The only difference in assumption is that Linux users can safely assume most Linux users kinda know what they're doing. This is not true for Windows, where the default assumption is, you probably don't know what you're doing. ;) When you do know what you're doing, nobody complains about you going in the crevices.

One of my favorite Windows v. Linux things is when Linux users try to work in Windows, and try and do things that would be perfectly normal in Linux, and then wonder why their Windows box is so unstable. I once ran across someone who tried putting their Windows\system32 folder into a version control app. When their Windows registry exploded spectacularly, their response was that this was a normal thing to do on a Linux box.

Windows and Linux take very different engineering approaches to things, so skills developed in one don't necessarily translate well to the other.
Hook up a microphone recording your whole day in extremely bad quality. Then run it through an analyzer and just set a threshold that will pick up when you actually speak.

After you've successfully tried it on yourself package it as a simple prototype app. Add some gamification and put it on Kickstarter.
First breach for my current email. There goes my clean track-record, although I guess this one doesn't count that heavily.

_Edit_: Just checked my leaked info. Either Troy's service or geekedin didn't scrape the data properly, because it shows up my very tiny secondary account I'd made long back for some github specific testing (that required a second account)
I have been using query in one of my projects. For me support of IE 8 and older is not an issue but support of mobile users is. So I have replaced jquery with vanilla JavaScript. I found the page performance to be noticeably better. It was also easy to keep the necessary JavaScript functions in mind, compared to jquery, not to mention the reduction in js file size.
It's odd that you didn't read the comment I replied to, which does.
Nice. Handy!
Former Cloud Foundry CEO Sam Ramji Takes New Google Executive Role
"Those turbocharged <1L little hatchbacks would absolutely trounce your big car for efficiency."

Only if you drive them like in the lab tests. If you drive them normally, expect a very big discrepancy between the lab tests and real driving mileage. Much bigger than for normal cars with big engines.

The whole reasoning behind downsizing goes like this:

1. small engines are lighter than big engines, so they offer better mileage in city driving because there is less mass to accelerate

2. small engines have lower internal friction than big engines, and they need less fuel when idling, or near-idling, which you often do in city conditions

3. most of the time, most drivers don't need much power, particularly for city driving or when cruising at a constant speed

This leads to a conclusion that to maximize fuel efficiency, you need a small, low-powered engine for daily use with a strong turbocharger to help get more power in very rare events when you need it (like passing over).

However, there are a few caveats with this line of reasoning, and I guess some (Japanese) car manufacturers already noticed it and refuse to put downsized engines into their cars:

1. A turbocharged engine is much less efficient at full throttle than an NA engine of the same power (couple of reasons for this: lower compression-ratio, higher lambda to cool down a very small engine so it doesn't melt, losses of energy in the compressor / turbocharger).

2. If you downsize too much, normal driving will require to run the engine near the top of its power and make use of turbocharging very often.

3. The longevity of the engine is negatively affected and there are more components that can break. And modern designs that tend to reduce turbo-lag are complex and expensive to repair (dual compressor/turbocharger designs, variable geometry turbochargers).
I want a 2-knob "mouse" like the one I had on my etch-a-sketch 30 years ago! One for X, one for Y...

[ 3 minutes of googling later... ]

Of course it's been done: https://mitxela.com/projects/etch_mouse
HTTP server with API for capturing screenshots of websites
One would think, but has anyone actually taken them up on these? Perhaps no one else wants to swallow their pride and realize that Tesla took the lead, here.
> You wouldn't call the Republicans "right" if they started handing out generous welfare packages to the masses.

Like their pre-Obama universal healthcare proposals? The one dimensional political spectrum, with n-right vs n-left, doesn't work at all.
> However, in real life, for real humans, over a longer period of time, the drivers with modern automatic transmissions will be more fuel efficient than drivers with similar cars and manual transmissions, because the automatic transmission is a reliable machine that will do the same thing, every time.

I'm not sure I buy this. I noticed when I switched to automatic from manual I would drive in ways I would never have done with the manual because, well, it was easier than having to care about RPM, target speed, and current gear state: I'm not worried about automatic drivers being bad drivers, I'm worried about them not caring.
Look, i could try and explain this all in detail, but i'm tired of it.

You're acting the same as Google. Cold logic, zero humanity. Go hug someone you care about. Maybe even a child or someone elder. Then run through through your head how it would feel telling them what you said.
You're achieving that with separate calls to render. In an ideal React application you only have a single render call. So no, you're not demonstrating a good use of React and you're certainly not showing this to be a strength in React. Imagine, you wouldn't call react.render from inside an existing React component. That's ridiculous.
Use Cygwin. This problem and related issues point toward reasons why: Cygwin is _designed_ to bridge, by hook or by crook, the gap between the Win32 and POSIX worlds. It's not perfect, but it tries to work in a mixed environment --- even ACLs mostly work. Cygwin's Windows integration is so good that you can call CreateWindow from a Cygwin process and have it Just Work.

The NT POSIX subsystem, on the other hand, is a very different beast. It's more of a container or VM-like object. That kind of operation is useful for some tasks, but when I want to use POSIX and Windows tools together on the same task, I don't want a container. I want tight integration, which Cygwin provides.
We have already seen many, many species go extinct. The exact figures are not well understood, but there's a lot more at stake than just the polar bear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
You're probably right, although it's hard to know until we try. Take a look at California - solidly blue, and no real chance of changing any time soon. Yet millions vote anyway. One could make the argument ballot measures bring people out as much or more than the presidential contest. But who knows?

The truth is that in ~30 states, most folks don't feel like their vote counts. "Why bother... it's a blue/red state and my 1 vote won't matter." Except, it _could_.

Meanwhile, I have family members linking to dubious sites claiming all 40 million illegal aliens voted for Hillary (somehow), so everything is hogwash anyway. It's a confusing, scary world we've created.
Do you really believe in drones?
Biggest problem is that climate change aggressively challenges many foundations of capitalism and consumerism.

That's a religion to some people. And this is akin to changing it.
I once cloned a .NET repo to my Github and ever since I keep getting emails from recruiters about .NET job opportunities despite not having .NET (and things related to .NET) listed as one of my skills anywhere else
Dreaming in Reverse Engineering
Maybe one a month. Usually "We saw your profile on GitHub which matches <our vague search criteria> and would you be interested in <hackathon/conference/somesuchthing>?".

To hijack your comment for my own follow-up question. I'm in the EU (Netherlands). Many of these mails are clearly mass E-Mails with just my name as a template sent by some US-based company, they'll include an unsubscribe link for future E-Mails, but aren't unsolicited mass-marketing E-Mails like these illegal in the EU, and if so would it be worthwhile reporting them, and who to?
> so people (distros) who agreed with something a year or two ago could have a different opinion nowadays.

Do you have an example of a distro that feels that way?

I only follow Fedora and RHEL/CentOS close enough to know, and they're still quite pro-systemd on all fronts, though there's still some hybrid stuff sticking around for backward compatibility and user comfort (so, a lot of stuff people were used to doing in the past still works the same on systemd-based systems).
With the thumb of the same hand that's holding the phone? Welcome to RSI hell!
In both operating systems, aren't there APIs for this?
Disclaimer: my experience is limited to London scene only.

Hosting a meetup is indeed a bit of extra work (I have just read the coordination notes our HR sent out, and oh boy...).

Offering to do a talk at an established, not too large meetup should be easy. Only the biggest and best known ones can pick and choose their speakers. Everybody else has to hunt, sometimes even beg for talks. As a result, these "lesser" meetups tend to be more casual. Nobody expects a professional, conference scene level of presentation.

So as long as you find a meetup that suits your taste, offering to do a talk every now and then should be more than welcome.
Pmarca: The Best AI team will build the best car
get a VPN
It doesn't seem too different from the Atkins diet. Bodybuilders do all kinds of cycled carbohydrate restriction although they don't usually lowball their protein intake.
As far as I understand, the difference is that in our reality and perception, all strangers are 'bad' by default, they want to hurt us, they are suspicious etc.
But if we know each other closer, if we confirm that the other guy is a good guy, then we can relax, talk, smile etc.

In your culture you tend to think that all strangers are good by default, they are harmless, they are kind and interesting, hence you are trying to be polite with them.
But if you know each other closer and you find out that the other guy is not a good guy, then you stop being polite.

So, basically we are coming from the opposite directions :)