skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the patient has to take it the rest of their life ...the perfect money maker
Perhaps we need a URI schema that allows us to instruct browsers to crop the bottom 'x%' or 'x pixels' from an image when linking to it. Maybe a CSS-in-URI hack? Could make a website to do that by generating a wrapper page easily enough.
It's a trip. "What if ..." (now we fly). But i believe that if we can imagine something (like he's doing), this thing existed, exist or will.

The article is amazing, and remember us to be humble, because we don't have all the answers and there's a lot yet to be seen.

So there's no answers in the article: only questions.
Yeah I just don't recall a type error where the low chance of hitting it outways the cost of fixing it.

The joy of good languages is closing the gap between prototyping and production, research and practice.
I don't recall the exact numbers anymore, but if you have a high number of comments relative to the number of upvotes early on, it gets automatically deprecated by the software. So, you get a few upvotes, it hits the front page, a bunch of people promptly post something, it falls off the front page, basically. The assumption is this is a fighty subject and the kind of conversation breaking out is not the kind they want to foster here -- or so I understand it, as someone who is just a member.
Pentagon and intelligence chiefs urge Obama to remove the head of the NSA
No, you missed a bit in the middle there. I am not saying that constructed cultures aren't valid or real --- in fact, American black culture is one of the most prominent examples of a "synthesized" or "syncretic" culture!

I'm saying that "white culture" isn't an example of one of those. We're linguistically disposed to assume it is, because if there's black culture, there must be white culture. But no, that's not how it works.

Before there was "whiteness", there was racism (or ethnic discrimination or whatever you want to call it) against the Irish almost as virulent as racism against African Americans. The cutting edge of anti-Irish discrimination began blunting at the same period as "whiteness" started becoming a thing. It's hard to imagine --- as in, William of Ockham would have a thing or two to say about it --- that this simply because the English, Irish, and Italians suddenly and spontaneously synthesized a new culture.
This sequence of events can give some light on the issue (quoted from 4chan):

Oct 20th/21st: Wikileaks tweets 5 tweets with misspelled words. The incorrect letters spell "HELP HIM". The Wikileaks twitter has never made a spelling error, let alone 5 in two days. [1]

Oct 21st: Massive DDoS attack on US internet. Wikileaks tweets to imply the attack originates from its supporters, asking them to stop, no evidence supports claim.

Oct 21st: London Airport evacuated due to "chemical attack", potentially used as cover to fly Assange out of country.

Oct 22nd: Gavin MacFadyen (mentor to Assange and key player in Wikileaks) dies of lung cancer.

Oct 23rd: Wikileaks Tweets poll asking how best to prove Assange is alive (he still hasn't appeared on video or at the window since).

Oct 24th: Wikileaks Tweets video of Assange and Michael Moore recorded in June.

Oct 26th: 4chan users successfully successfully decode their first message in Wikileak's blockchain. Threads are instantly flooded by shills saying that it's not worth looking into. The blockchain is blocked with fees and 43000 unconfirmed transactions appear in the mempool.

Nov 6th: Huge DDoS takes down Wikileaks for first time in years.

Nov 7th: Various entities notice hundreds of Podesta and DNC emails are missing from recent leaks, accessed with direct entry.

Nov 8th: Trump wins.

Nov 12th: Assange meets with Swedish prosecutor regarding rape allegations, lawyers barred from attending, meeting conducted via an Equadorian ambassador (not face to face)

Nov 14th: Wikileaks releases insurance files, SHA-256 hashes do not match those tweeted in October.

[1]: http://img.pr0gramm.com/2016/11/17/a4af28fa5ce1c059.png
There's a lot of interesting stuff in the comments section of the article.
Well it was that or just assume that HN comments are only for bitching about minor discrepancies in the article, nerdy holy wars, or for general negativity.

Of course that's the general
impression outside HN so perhaps they're correct and I'm just fighting a lost cause.
Zuckerberg says steps being taken to fight fake news – The Globe and Mail
I definitely see your point about "too much" enforcement, specifically with the case of error handling. In Java, I could just bubble everything up, default exit-early, and worry about proper handling later. I'm sure a similar argument could be stated for having to create simple data classes vs tuples or dynamic objects, or even number types. So I do agree there is a middle ground here. For example, Java will be friendly towards number casting whereas Haskell is very exacting.
It shouldn't be DNC's choice who wins the nomination...why even bother with voting if apparently it doesn't matter?

And my point is the left is so pathetic right now that it lost to Trump and looks like it will loose to similar unhinged people in entirety of Europe

Go on youtube and look for "trump voters getting attacked"

There are genuine scandals with Clinton, yet all we hear is just the retarded flat-earth grade ones

My point is, when you loose to somebody like Trump, did the DNC, the media, the establishment go "hold on a sec, wth just happened?"

Nope, they just doubled down on their nonsense

You've got people burning the US flag now, immigrants being called racists, thugs attacking people in the street

Go watch Hyperreality by Adam Curtis. Then watch "Only the dead know the end of war"

You know, a tiny part of me died during those movies. (however kitsch and melodramatic it sounds) People lived in good times, during the cold war. All they had to worry about was thermonuclear death.

I grew up watching people getting beheaded, murdered, blown to fucking shreds, watched entire middle east murderfuck itself into some sick and twisted kind of hell (all thanks to west's glorious incompetence).

And it's slowly happening in the west too. The west created a monster, and now the monster is past our door, living among us.

I suggest you go to France, to regions where the islamists ("refugees") are concentrating, before you come out with all the "racist" and other "ists" and "isms"

>if Trump is really the best answer they can come up with to address their grievances then as far as I'm concerned they deserve to be marginalized

As that stupid prick Milo said "social justice is dead". The left is learning it cannot shut down discourse with "-ism" spam anymore, but they managed to build up a tide.

You know who made fucking Faux News? It was CNN and ABC and the like, with their horrible propaganda - for a LOOOOONG time their coverage was biased and one had to cross-reference it against a lot of other sources. Now you've got two completely biased bs news (make no mistake, as an European US CNN is fucking disgusting Goebbels-level shit)

Now one had to look through dozen of fringe news sources, having a court proceeding in ones head to try to decide which one is the least bs

And now thanks to lack of credibility you've got fucking cretins rioting (and screaming "peaceful protest" and assauting people in the day. Fuck it all

If it looks like I'm cheering for that, it is somewhat nihilistic

Maybe the non-reality will come crashing down before it's too late.

Judging from the left's reaction, there is no fucking hope
Those wonderful people of Yemen! They kicked my parents out of the country in 1950, after we were living there for 1,000 years.
I feel like that's a statement reasonable people can disagree about, and so feel no real urge to litigate it.
"get the data, pretty print it, then crash."

That's the most common method for debugging types in dynamic languages haha. I am all too familiar with it. :)

Though I enjoy simply never having to do this in Java/Kotlin for example.

My method for verifying, even my prototypes, is unit tests.
Wait a minute, my understanding of QM rejects both non-locality and hidden variables. Put it that way however, you kinda have to believe in macroscopic decoherence, that is, Everet's multiverse: there are 2 universes, one in which the cat is dead, and one in which the cat is alive, and observing one universe doesn't rule out the existence of the other. (Similarly, sending a photon (or settlers!) outside of the observable universe doesn't end its existence.)

Non-locality sounds way, way weirder to me than macroscopic decoherence. Stuff like quantum collapse is really an additional, un-falsifiable claim: why the universe would zero-out precisely the stuff that the math says we can't observe?
Did you consider my argument yet?

And yes, I have read much of the literature over the last decade. I'm not sure why you are emphasizing simply a PhD as credibility. I prefer to judge research on its own terms.
How to Get User Feed with Twitter API and Python
That's why my sparring partner is always a punching bag.
That should be The Mindbody Prescription, not The Mindbody Connection.
I believe it is generally accepted that artificial general intelligence is considered unsolvable. It would be nice to hear that addressed more explicitly.
Statements are inside the brackets as well
I know you can't - but I still can't see a direct transfer being palatable, particularly in the current right wing clime.
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I really don't. Every job I've ever actually taken has come through my network somehow.
I've always thought it's more that absolute power attracts the corrupt disproportionately.
Anecdotally, I moved to Asia when I was 18, and have since always found lower-density urban environments of western countries boring. An SF-area friend visiting me here in China yesterday from his now home in Brooklyn, New York also commented that he needs density. Personally, returning to visit, I often happily observe that immigration is slowly changing these places (eg. Sydney, Auckland) to have greater 24 hour life.

Also, I have a 2.5 year old. She can get a lot more situational cues for linguistic development from sporadic exposure to decent TV than we could offer her in two or more languages. Sometimes we just show her film in a third language neither of us speak. Decent TV for kids ... now there's a thread waiting to happen.
Coming from complete ignorance here, but wouldn't conservation of momentum be upheld if there is some medium that the emdrive is reacting against? For instance, a propeller driven motorboat doesn't need propellant to move, as it displaces water. Could there be some new force at work displacing (regular or dark) matter in the vicinity?
I had quite a similar experience, and i think many HN users resonate with this comment as well. I found physical exercise to be the most effective tool to alleviate this problem.

About a year ago, i started swimming 3-4 times a week, and it definitely helped me maintain a less hyperstimulated baseline. Although i have no resources to back it up, i think it is somehow related to increased production of dopamine and the psychological effects of exercise (patience, self control, discipline).
Wait... You're saying that you're hopeful that something we make can fix the mess from us fucking up making things because it'll be less fucked up?

I'd find some agreement with you that logically we're the dumbest possible intelligence, because the trend is up and we're at the beginning, except we're not at the beginning, people like the Sumerians were. Except they're not the beginning, either...
In fact, his entry into "serious" American political life (that is: not as a dabbling Reform Party candidate, an American party chiefly famous for getting a professional wrestler elected as Minnesota's governor) was the racist "birther" movement.
I'm not looking for evidence that "I'm right".. I have nothing to be right about, I'm not even claiming anything.

All I know is that it doesn't look like Assange has control of wikileaks anymore, and until he offers proof himself that he does, I find it unreasonable to just blindly trust re-assurances from nameless twitter posts.
Checkout a book called "Kill Decision". It's not as far ahead as "dictator with robot army", since it's attempting to be close to what's possible /today/.
This is triggered when the user account is deleted, not if they can't login/are suspended, for which the usual account recovery mechanisms apply.

By far the most common scenario for this to happen is that Bob leaves Corp, and Corp intentionally deletes his account. If Corp has set up billing sensibly, the project will have a central billing account whose admin will be notified, but if Bob signed up on his personal credit card, there is nobody to contact here either.
Generally, code that does not adhere to the project's style guide will not be merged until it's fixed.
> Apologies for the edit!

No worries

> I really don't understand this. Is this some sort of PoMo response to my original challenge, or...?

What's PoMo?

My interpretation of your first comment was that you were questioning whether this research is worth more time and money based on skepticism rooted in scientific knowledge i.e. these "new physics" needed to explain the EmDrive would conflict with a lot of what we currently think of as scientific "fact". Occam's razor, and so on.

My interpretation of your second comment was that you think the "YEAH, BUT WHAT IF?!??!" reactions to this research (generally associated with internet comment sections) are inappropriate and rooted in ignorance of scientific principles (FWIW, I agree with you on that).

I see those as separate concerns. The public is wholly ignorant, and their reaction to the results of this research to date (filtered as they are through awful clickbait articles) should have no bearing either way on whether the research continues. That's the point I was trying to make in my second comment.

> My contention is that the public interest may not necessarily have much to do with what the public is interested in. I don't think this a particularly controversial PoV...?

I don't think so either (and I agree).
There still are infinite points of failure with SSO. Each service would need a trust relationship established with the SSO provider, any of which is a point of failure.
It's evidence that prosecutors are motivated primarily by the scorekeeping of their professions: convictions and successfully-sold sentences. Successfully convicting a KKK leader is also politically expedient for a prosecutor who plans on higher elected office. And, finally, the country is full of virulent racists who nonetheless feel like the KKK is a bunch of toothless goobers. See, for instance, the "Concerned Citizens Council" movement.

Since these are all pretty straightforward observations, the attempts to "rehabilitate" Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III by pointing out his conviction of a KKK leader are pretty telling. As in, that's the best argument you have? (I'm sure there are in fact better arguments; you should find them and use them instead. Fair warning: "Sessions once shared a hotel room with another black lawyer", an argument that has actually been advanced on Twitter, is not one of the better alternatives).
Ask HN: What's a good US address parsing library?
I'm looking to parse address strings (user input) into address objects for use across multiple services. What's a good library to do this?

I'm currently using Google Geocoding API, but since I don't use these addresses within a Google Map, I'm pretty sure I'm violating the TOS and would like to yank and replace it before I get shut down.
What I really meant was "inversely proportional", rather than opposite, although I do abide by that (if only because the words have such different meanings).

Increasing one will not reduce the other, or vice versa. As an example, imagine a scenario where everything the government does is in the open, and all systems can be publicly audited and verified. This is transparency, at no cost to privacy.

Conversely, if encryption, Tor, and leaving your house without a tracking device is outlawed, that would not increase transparency. It would merely make it more difficult to reduce the opacity of the receiving end of the tracking device.
Well some people think we live in a simulation anyway so provably impossible is just one hypervisor update away...
I wish to strongly second your observation that focusing on the worst case results in one steering towards the worst case and leads to rumination which results or at least worsens depression. And acceptance of reality as it is seems to he roughly the antidote. The below is dangerous for some minds.

"By keeping the very worst that can happen in our heads constantly, the Stoics tell us, we immunise ourselves from the dangers of too much so-called ‘positive thinking’"
Dropping in Bootstrap with a CSS reset solves most of this with perhaps less dev effort.
'Netflix Vista' imagines binge watching inside 'Black Mirror'
This is why Werner Vogels sweats so much.
Consider what you're learning. If you've never ever done 3D modelling, it will take much more time to learn just because you need to first learn the principles of doing 3D modelling. My SO is doing exactly that in 3DS now, and I can clearly see it takes her much more time to figure out what to do than how to do it in the program itself.

That said, a lesson often forgotten (or perhaps never acquired in the first place) is that learning requires some minimum structure, discipline and focus. To give you an example - I've been shying away from learning Paredit for about two or three years of my Lisp coding experience. Then one day I decided, "fuck it", I'm taking time to focus on learning it. It only took two pomodoros - literally less than an hour, and yes, I timed it - of reviewing the documentation and practicing (I took a big function, stripped the structure out with M-x replace-str to remove all parens, and then restored the structure using only Paredit operations) to become pretty proficient in the mode, and now I'm that much faster in working on Lisp code.

I've repeated this experience several times in various places - it's surprising just how much you can learn in an hour if you actually focus on it. Sometimes you have to invent your own exercises, but then again, maybe you have to learn how to learn first :). And yes, I do explicitly schedule time for "learning how to learn" in areas I'm not very familiar with, in order to make the actual learning more efficient :).

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As for getting full zealot for open source - I do agree it's an existing phenomenon. But at least in my arguments for Blender and Emacs, be sure it's not open source zealotry. I'll argue just as strong for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, and against OpenOffice. The latter just sucks, in a death-from-thousand-papercuts way. So does Linux as a desktop for non-tech people. Open Source seems to be a negative predictor for quality for tools that are a) above some level of complexity, and b) not for developers.

Still, my primary argument is - a powerful tool will necessarily have a learning curve; the longer and steeper the more powerful a tool is. You can try and make this curve easier to traverse, but ultimately you can't flatten it in any other way than by making the tool less powerful and less useful.
It's the cat. In other words, it would seem like the robots are pandering to our desires, but in reality they're using us as their toy launcher.

We would be amused into slavery.
Why do you think you're breaking Google's ToS?
Cannae is launching its thruster experiment in a 6U cubesat next year: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a22678/em-dri....
I think it might be tough to make this product perform well on Product Hunt. Not that there's anything wrong with it, just that when Pokémon Go was at the peak of its hype cycle several apps that are pretty much the same thing gained attention. I think you will have to focus on what you're doing that's new and different in contrast to those.
Where did you get that notion? At least among people working in the tech sector, it is widely believed that we will achieve AGI one day, and that too with the the help of Turing machines. Except for Roger Penrose's argument against this, I haven't seen any opposition to this belief yet.
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I love how the old logo is still visible as a slightly cleaner section of the concrete.
Why do we even have armed forces and the police? There are a lot of different reasons, but the big one is to defend property. And, who owns most of the property? And, who will own most of the robots? Fewer and fewer people as time goes on.

The other day, I heard a guy joke (in very bad taste), that when there are no more jobs left, there will always be prostitution and slavery. It's a sick thought, but how far off is it?
It's my understanding that they are working with this project on their free time.

NASA pays small amount of money ($50,000 or so) and gives them a room to do experiments. Or at least did in 2011. Eagleworks and their team are not official NASA research. They just have facebook page. Contact attempts trough NASA don't work.

Glenn Research Center offered to replicate the experiment in a hard vacuum if Eagleworks manages to reach 100 µN of thrust.
3 things: my laptop, a plain cork coaster for my coffee mug, and a little pomodoro style ticking timer.

The timer is shaped like a chicken — I think I got it in the kitchen section a few years ago — but I'd like to find something simpler / more aesthetically designed. Timeboxing is really important to my dev work especially as a contractor.

My desk is a simple tabletop with no drawers or cabinets.
"If we make driving less safe people will drive safer"
How's the almond industry in California doing?
> Who Will Command the Robot Armies?

PID 1.
I'd recommend watching this documentary, it's about Fox but I can easily dig up dirt about the journalistic integrity of other mainstream news outlets:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P74oHhU5MDk
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The author was on a roll, and then he decided to bring Florida DOT and Florida drivers into the article. For anyone that's driven in or through Florida you've seen first hand some of the worst traffic engineering in the US. FDOT excels at creating weird intersections, dangerous on and off ramps, etc.

Likewise Florida drivers along the east coast are some of the worst I've seen. Even with 12' lanes they seldom get up to the speed limit. Driving in Jacksonville during rush hour is not for the faint of heart. Miami traffic is own special version rapid lane switching without signals that is the hallmark of Boston. Except in Miami, lane changes can take 1/4 of a mile and blinker can stay on for miles afterwards.

Should have offered up another place to try the idea out, I'd suggest Dallas. Those drivers would be happy with 8 and a half foot lanes, I've seen them shove giant Dodge and Ford pickups in to smaller spaces at 60MPH.
> but have recently been looking in to more industrial, bulk processes for http://8-food.com/

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

Could you show me an editor that doesn't do that?
SMS Privacy- building a profitable service to buy phone numbers anonymously
They also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
PAAS offerings for queue (SQS), notifications (SNS), email(SES) etc
I'm a little disturbed that this doesn't make any mention of when C is even appropriate. I know if I were an astronaut, I'd be concerned about the code running on the vehicle I was on.
> They are playing larger and larger role in how our elections are run.

What?! How many news outlets endorsed Trump? How many fired people because they're making less money? Unless Macedonian Facebook spammers count as "media" these days, "the media" has less money, less reach, and less influence every year.