skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump's statement could have been interpreted in two different ways. One, Politifact's interpretation, is that he draws bigger crowds than Beyonce and Jay-Z at their concerts and another is that his rallies are bigger than Hillary's rallies where Beyonce/Jay-Z performed. I don't know if the second interpretation is true or not (as I haven't done the research), but the whichever one you choose to analyze shows your bias. Probably most Clinton-leaning folks would pick the first interpretation of Trump's statement and most Trump-leaning folks would pick the second. So from the perspective of a Trump supporter Politifact looks biased, but from your perspective they're an impartial fact checker.
You can always trust germany to maintain the paperwork and keep a papertrail.

(FYI I'm german, I know what I'm talking about)
Speaking somewhat loosely, the relationship between the local state of spacetime and its energy, the Lagrangian density, does not seem to depend on where you are or when you are. Emmy Noether gave us a straightforward proof that each such "differentiable symmetry" (in this case, translation invariance) implies that the state of spacetime maintains a corresponding "conserved current" (in this case, momentum and energy density).
Oh, they gave them up because they were too effective on subs in training?

This is a ludicrous article. NATO must have these ready and waiting.
There Is No Such Thing as Senseful Hate
Translation of the German excerpt from their statute:

Provision of hardware in the Chaos Lab

§1 The Chaos Lab is a space of exemplary orderliness and cleanliness in which the Chaos Computer Club
Cologne e.V. is exercising its club activity.

§2 "Cleaning personnel" are people who care for the club room's state. Cleaning personnel enjoys hero status and immunity from hostility by owners of non-functioning hardware.
Correct. The non-zeroness of the product is a logical AND of the non-zeroness of the terms. And the sin establishes that the argument/pi is non-integer.

Still, I think it's quite clever, even if fundamentally "not new".
> Everyone jumps on the latest [bulk question] in the race for rep.

You have just nailed the problem with their gamification.

It takes effort - and thus time - to write a good answer. Since everyone is trying to score the easy wins, you get a flood of mediocre boilerplate answers. In the time it takes you to write a quality answer, the question has been answered multiple times. Likely one of these boilerplates has even been accepted by OP.

For a company that obviously considers the long game over immediate and cheap gains, they haven't managed to impart these values to their userbase.

Incidentally that was also my gripe about SO job ads two years ago. (Iow. when I considered posting something.) At the time their candidate search only allowed to search by answer scores. I had pretty simple needs: What if I'm not looking for developers who can recite trivia? What if I want to seek out the thoughtful ones who actually know how to ask good questions?

Their answer at the time: sorry, we don't have that.

It shouldn't even be that hard: eliminate the insane outliers and jackpots, find the people with matching skill sets who consistently ask decently scored questions.
Well, the penetrating depth depends upon the voltage, and there needs to be space for the electrons to accelerate (this means vacuum or air, dialectric insulation in the air gap cuts it down). Anything above around 15 kV has 'potential' for x-rays which can penetrate beyond your skin and do some damage. We were working with 180 kV power supplies, with a 10 inch vacuum-filled free fall distance for the electrons, so we got a goodly amount of rays.

You can get x-rays off of Tesla coils, spark gaps, etc., but usually the dose rate is fairly low. It is worth measuring though, especially if you will be exposed for a long time or its close to your body. Typically it will be below around 1/100th of your yearly exposure limit per hour. So, if you are playing with one for an hour, no biggie. If you are planning on putting one on your 40 hour/week work desk, think again.

I once made a helmet for Halloween with a pair of Tesla Coils, one on each side of my head. The helmet was conductive, and it would look like the sparks from the coils were going through my head. This was not what I would call 'safe' (body-mounted high voltage can go badly wrong), but it was a lot of fun for one night. I made sure to keep the voltage below 20 kV, and reduced my exposure time by only running it when I wanted to impress people (mainly cute girls).
The team he claims to lead seems to be nonexistent in NASA organization. Biography: "Advanced Propulsion Team Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate at JSC"
Do HP even do desktop Ubuntu? Never mind that this is being angled as a workstation.
In other news:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2016/11/record...

There was a lot of crowing about sunspots a couple years back by Judith Curry et al. The Earth's heating can be explained by reaching a solar maximum! Etc.

But now the situation is reversed--the sun is cooling--and despite that we're on track for yet another record year of heating. Third in a row.

Her points about model uncertainty and overfitting have some limited level of validity. But it's hard to read her blog and not come away with the accurate takeaway of she'll say whatever she can to provide a cover story for not doing anything about AGW.
if such simple and verifiable facts can be muddled so easily and possibly sway the election, imagine how much of this could be happening in more nuanced areas that are harder to detect but may influence consumer behavior, or policy outcomes. I think this is a serious issue regardless of election outcome and should be addressed
I didn't even know there was a .lol TLD. You made my day.
Great service, but you might be encouraging more annoying newsletters. Before, they just lost out an audience who wouldn't stand for annoying automated email ;)
And yet there is a later or contemporaneous photograph of him without any spots or sores, so that doesn't make too much sense.
I am okay with the skepticism you have here but is there really a reason to create two throwaway accounts just to reply to me?

Do you happen to know me in real life? I can't think of another reason for this.
>the extreme ease of finding fairly accurate information from reputable organizations.

The what now? Doesn't "finding fairly accurate information from reputable organizations" just mean handing your thinking over to the definition of "reputable"?
A superellipse shape would be cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superellipse
https://github.com/MauriceGit/Repeat_History

Use it daily when working with Linux to execute old commands as alternative to ctrl+r, AWESOME tool :)
That's not entirely true.

Higher density means more data per track, not just more tracks per disk. You get an entire track per revolution so a track with more data is more MBps. So linear reads on a higher density drive are faster, and semi-linear accesses (ie, reading two files that are next to each other) do get faster.

I remember reading a story about a guy who built a drive array with high capacity 7200 RPM drives that got within 20% of the performance of the 10K RPM setup they had, by partitioning the drives at the same capacity as the 10K equivalent. The head only had half as many tracks to traverse, so worst case access time was better, and the higher density made up for the lower RPMs.
Millionth-ing. I sent you an email for an invite. :)
The reason is that intelligence is needed for the remaining 20%, and that's hard to emulate.
That's the MSI Trident referenced there; HP doesn't say whether or not the Z2 accepts a standard M.2 drive (full specs don't appear to be available yet).
It's not necessary to use rare earth elements in an electric car motor -- Tesla doesn't, for example.
Obligatory "does it break Tree Style Tabs?" comment.
Yes, which is why violating a known law isn't automatically disqualifying. But it is highly suggestive, and requires extremely good evidence to surmount. So far, such evidence has not been forthcoming, so this remains a good reason to doubt.

Every so often, something comes along that overturns an established law, like the photoelectric effect or the Michelson–Morley experiment. But the vast majority of the time, the laws remain intact and it's the claim which is somehow flawed. (See the Pioneer anomaly for a recent example where new physics was long considered as a potential explanation, but it ended up being a completely mundane effect.)
Similar to domainr, but more accurate and faster!

http://launchaco.com/
DABC in Utah is a perfect example of a government run monopoly on alcohol. The only wine and liquor stores in the state are run by the state. Many absurd regulations crop up alongside this, for instance the Zion Curtain.
I don't think they are comparable. I run both. NoScript is a security suite – besides blocking java, webgl, flash, silverlight, javascript, etc – it has additional defenses against XSS, ABE, clickjacking etc.

uBlock was to my knowledge never developed to securely stop scripts and deter drive-by attacks etc. It should be used for adblocking, not for security.
> Granted, it's done by mimicking Webkit APIs,

That's ... not a bad thing. Chrome creating nonstandard APIs (IIRC this was for Drive?) on its own is a bad thing. Coming together and speccing (https://wicg.github.io/directory-upload/proposal.html) the API is a good thing. They seem to have specced more or less what Webkit had already implemented (plus some promise based stuff), but usually when a nonstandard API has been out there long enough it's best to build your standardized version on top of it instead of having two APIs for it. This is a common practice. This isn't "mimicking".
I used it for a while but I forgot sometimes the key scheme so it got unusable from time to time. Anyway, it's awesome idea!
First nuclear reactor was basically a pile of graphite brics with nuclear fule placed at calculates positions.

You get to critical reactor with just assembling materials of correct chemical composition to a correct geometric configuration.

The most difficult part is probably acquiring the nuclear material.

I've never built one, though :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1

The physics what we are looking at is the fact that neutron capture requires neutrons that go at a very specific speed. So, the nuclear fule creates some initial neutrinos that go fast, the carbon slows it down to a sufficient speed that they are captures by rest of the fuel, which then causes more chain reactions.

This is the reason reactors are a bit delicate - not enough neutrinos or wrong speed - no reaction. Too much - booom.
If they started banning users for asking questions or even for asking poor (read extremely poor) questions, then the overall traffic would reduce significantly.
Apple’s big App Store purge is now underway
If you've got enough displays, cable length can become a factor! This is much easier to solve if you've got your PC on your desk, and it's much easier to fit your PC on your desk if it's smaller rather than larger.
Bouncing bomb
I don't have it on this machine, but I wrote a little Python/Tkinter script that wrapped a call to GNU aspell.

Select text, activate script (by shortcut button on bar or global control key combo), and a little window pops up with spelling suggestions.
The type of copyright violation matters. Copies in the dusty recesses of a drive image are a lot more minor than it actually being used by a million people.
From a physics standpoint every single electron is the same electron they have the same identity and that's not a problem.

Which is why I think this argument is ridiculous. People approach philosophy trying to get their mutually contradictory assumptions to work out rather than accept some assumptions are wrong. Human identity is a social construct not a physical one, so it only needs to work in human terms.

PS: Yes, that means I and You have no well defined meaning, they also don't need a well defined meaning to be useful.
> I'm not an American but Donald Trump had done everything he can to reconcile and bring people together since he won.

That's either not true or a damning indictment of Trump's capacities.
The organization found that, by the end of 2016,
the Oculus Rift is projected to sell 355,088 units;
the HTC Vive will sell 420,108 units;

Steam's Hardware and Software Survey [1] has Vive:Rift at approximately 2:1. It seems to me that Rift and Vive owners would be very likely to have Steam installed. More accurate than:

SuperData’s approach to the market for consumer-
centered virtual reality includes retail checks, executive
interviews with decision-makers from all of relevant
firms in the marketplace, pricing data, our survey-based
consumer tracking panel, and digital content purchases
collected from our data providers

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
Just bought some drives that were fulfilled via Amazon (but not sold by Amazon.com LLC themselves). You've given me something to check when they arrive.
I've deployed a hundred or so HP mini's pro units processionally, utter garbage. Blurscreened constantly, took 6 months of screaming at their tech support to get them replaced. I can't recommended any HP product after that.
I have the problem. Sometimes. And sometimes not.

The other day, I was making a website as part of my project. I needed a static site generator. As I looked over the options, I became increasingly of the opinion that they all sucked, and were all far to complicated, especially given my needs (simple blog site: Put together some HTML fragments with templates, and generate an index from another template). I could write something better than this. In fact, I was about to visualize a design when I realized that I had six projects going and really did not need another one.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12956597.
Thought it is real water pouring simulation..
https://www.storeslider.com

I got bored of trawling eBay so decided to make my own tool to make it faster. StoreSlider has been going for a few years now and has been really useful.
If it is that bloody simple, why can't Mozilla be bothered to provide an official download?!
When the ideal is more work than the default, most people won't behave ideally. So while I agree with you in spirit, who defines the reputable organizations? Individuals have an asymmetric losing fight here since the effort it takes to put out crap is far less than to deal with it. How can we make the process of finding & consuming news humane in that it works ideally for the average/below-average user?

That's the hard question, and I think it still remains.
I thought the same thing at first, but I noticed the caption for the second image called them "stones" and it looks more like a stone than a mud brick. I guess they probably switched to a more durable material like stone when they needed to build in the water?
After looking at many fact checkers and the job they do, I could not disagree more.

People do not speak in simple statements that can be either scientifically "verified" or "not verified". When talking, people often use hyperbole. They speak in approximate numbers (e.g. 20% instead of 17%, simply because it sounds better). Not to mention people often talk about socially complex subjects that cannot be, in ANY way, verified as simply "true" or "false" without interjecting the fact checkers own personal opinion into the mix.

Fact checkers have tried to solve these issues by having "truthiness" ratings. For example, Politifact has the ratings "True, Mostly True, Mostly False, False, Pants on Fire". However, this is obviously a scale that has no objective meaning. As a result, these ratings are applied inconsistently and with a heavy bias towards the fact-checkers own agenda (which, for Politifact, is heavily left-leaning).

How do you objectively decide whether a hyperbole is true or not? How do you objectively decide that numbers are too far off the actual scientific numbers? What rounding is too much? How do you objectively decide the truth of complex social issues and statements, and what data do you trust for determining these "objectively true answers"?

The answer is you can't, and you don't.
This really depends on your state and on how textbooks are chosen. My middle school (California pre-CORE) petitioned the State Board of Education and was allowed to use a previously unapproved world history textbook that gave equal coverage to the Persian Empire up to the point we stopped in class. World history in my high school also devoted many chapters to it as did US history, although much less for the latter. (We covered each chapter linearly until we ran out of time in the school year but I dont know if thats what most schools do)

For better or worse, state and local governments have a lot of influence on the textbooks and curriculum. Unfortunately cost seems to be the main driving factor for most textbook selections which means that only the bare minimum beyond western historical canon is covered.
Red Cross and IKEA Install Replica of Real Syrian Apartment in Flagship Store
From the article: "A Google official said the company had told Adups to remove the surveillance ability from phones that run services like the Google Play store."

Google hates it when a program phones home to someplace other than Google.
I'm using nightly version 53 and Tree Style Tabs works fine
If the spread of misinformation was a significant contributor to the election results, I think it's reasonable to feel the results are, to some degree illegitimate.
If You Think Trump Is a Fascist, It Is Your Moral Duty to Violently Resist
Neat.

Clicked on Obama, got 2 stories from the left about the Michelle Obama "Ape" comments, and on the right a story about Obama supporting a border fence.

Then a bunch of other stuff from each side.

The one about the fence was from Breitbart, and it's an interesting example of the problem. Something that seems to have happened a lot with these emails is "BREAKING NEWS! SOMETHING HORRIBLE OR HYPOCRITICAL!" and then you read it and what the article is saying is "true". It's "true" because you can pick and choose sentences and build that narrative, but in context things are more complex.

https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2016/10/22/wikileaks-podest...

That's one I saw yesterday.

> WikiLeaks Podesta emails: Clinton Foundation works with Big Pharma to keep AIDS drug prices high

Pretty horrible sounding title. That would be a big deal.

> the Clinton Foundation opposed lowering the costs of AIDS drugs in the United States.

Sounds pretty horrible and corrupt. I should hate her for this.

But if you read the email

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24440

> As you will see when you read this memo, we think that publicly pressuring the US and European AIDS drug companies to lower prices and bringing pressure to allow generic AIDS drugs into the United States will have limited if any success and could seriously jeopardize our negotiations to continually lower prices in poor countries. We also believe that there are other more impactful ways to address the US AIDS crisis today.

There is much more to it, it's a paragraph from an email not the entire thing. It still shows a very different picture.

So this isn't fake news, but to me it's still shitty journalism. It's very shallow, it doesn't really present any data (just the link to the emails, no analysis). I feel like you could make an argument from the America first perspective that we should be arguing for generics and lower prices, and worry about the effect elsewhere later. It doesn't do that though.
Not necessarily if there is no harm from the association.

NASA encourages people to do independent research. If they
NASA gave them small grant and facilities in JCS, they show their support even if they don't take them seriously. That's part of scientific openness.
FWIW, I happen to have the HGST HMS5C4040ALE640, which I purchased from Fry's Electronics earlier this year when it was on sale for ~$120ish.
More that I think about it, makes sense there'd be more of an advertising push for a movie that's rather difficult to describe, even difficult to understand, vs "hey another Marvel Universe film of course you're going to go see it".

Definitely doesn't seem fair to complain that Arrival needed to be promoted to make money. Look at what happened to "Iron Giant": fantastic film, completely underwhelming box office because WB had no idea how to market it.
Senseful isn't a word, but there is hate that makes complete sense. Thus, the phrase senseless hate.

If someone were to murder a family member of mine I would hate them and that would make sense, would it not?
Sorry, I don't get it: which democratic nation has the community that polices itself in the same sense FB (or HN) community is expected to?
It's 'relatively' easy to build fusion chambers - people do so in their own homes. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
Honestly I didn't either until I was looking for a domain for this. :)
AirBnB, Uber, Lyft, etc. are all using assets that were not intended for paid services, whereas the people you are paying for services are using assets that have such intention.

The shared economy is (or was) more about accessing assets that were locked up by personal use, but still being underutilized. From an ethical perspective, it's maximizing value from something that wasn't easily accessible before.
> nuclear is actually one of the most expensive power sources

...amongst non-intermittent sources. But cheaper alternatives (gas, coal) generate CO2, so I assume they are out of interest for these people.
I built a simple CIDR/IP range calculator as an exercise learning React, came out very nicely I think

http://cidr.xyz/
I think more likely there will be "tiers" of translators, with highest accuracy going first to languages with accessible and common Rosetta Stone-style word-for-word translations. Think French to German. Or Polish to Russian. Or English to everything else.

Langagues without vast translated data sets will probably be stitched together by various translations of multiple degrees. If you want to translate Farsi to Creole, for example, you probably won't find many direct translations to start with, but you'll probably have a better chance getting "mostly" there by going through a "hub" language like French or English.
Is that meant as a rude retort?

Because if it is it from the team that currently can't keep a blog post online when you get a few thousand concurrent visitors, so you might keep yourself open to suggestions and perhaps undertake the BASIC best practices of keeping a Wordpress site up under load.

If nothing else it shows a basic lack of planning for what you know to be a massively popular post, so turn a little of that judgement back on yourselves.

It's possible easily handle tens of millions of hits a day on a tiny VPS if you do even some basics right[1] and that was without any particularly extensive optimisation.

[1] http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2014/06/25/40-million-hits-a-da...

EDIT: I may not be allowed to reply to the comment below due to HackerNews restrictions so incase the option doesn't become available in the next while I'll just say I accept the answer below gracefully, withdraw my daggers and take a calming beer at the end of a long day :-)

I'm wish you continued success and look forward to the next post.