skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not saying Tor should be illegal, far from it. Assassins for hire is what shocked me.
President Obama on How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect Jobs
This is the third time I've seen something on this today.

So what's the plan then? Start a Facebook "Ministry of Truth"?
Arguably code with better names than the OP's code ;)
Can you touch on ANY details of how this is possible with 'every day items'? When I think of a reactor, I think of something that looks super complicated and engineered, like CERN. It's hard for me to imagine how a reactor can be built by a boy in a shed... what materials did he need? What powers it? What (if any) safety measures are taken... even rudimentary ones?
It's very polarizing. That seems like something US politics could use less of.
It's true, this is really hard. That said, there should be some way to counteract things that are explicitly and provably false. Perhaps integrating some sort of fact checking? I don't know, it's dangerous territory, but it's equally dangerous to have explicitly factually false stories running around unchallenged.
Can you expand? Many proofs assume the axiom of choice, and I'm missing how this one does.
While that's very clever, it doesn't accurately present Euclid's argument because the haiku is

Top prime's divisors'
product (plus one)'s factors are...?
Q.E.D., bitches!

This doesn't include Euclid's argument about multiplying all of the primes, mistakenly referring instead to "top prime's divisors".

The "top prime's divisors' product" would be equal to the top prime itself, so Randall's haiku asks "if there is a largest prime p, what are the divisors of (p+1)?" which doesn't create any contradiction (it could simply be divisible by various smaller primes!).

Maybe we should amend it to

Take factorial
of top prime, then add one: what
are the divisors?
Or we can stop obsessing over the news and politics as a whole? I know that sounds contrary to common sense but I largely avoid any official news for mental health reasons and just for the fact that 9 times out of 10 I've been right as to their original sources (usually think tanks). Ditch the news from your Facebook or at least treat like you would being handed a pamphlet by a stranger: disregard it and throw it away. If you're really itching to know the facts of something in this modern world then Google is your best friend especially if you want to search academic papers on specific subjects like whether or not gender dysphoric children should be given puberty blockers (read the medical journals, the abstracts aren't as dense as say your average physics one). Or if you want to know if the EROI on solar is worth it, you got the department of energy papers, various consumer review sites, and much more. Basically, go do your own journalism because modern journalism is garbage and it'll never recover. Also accept that being more read doesn't mean you're more informed. Especially being well read in politics is like being well read in the DC New 52 lore. It's neat you put the energy into it but it's just a hobby of little objective value.
Not so sure it's that "easy". The millions of voters have to already be swayed in order for a few thousand in just-the-right-places to make the final difference.

Thanks for the book link - it looks interesting!
>>book or a tool that will help you to learn better and become

I've tried that before, many times. Unfortunately when you are trying to do real work those books are many times useless. Example, I kept trying to build a newtonian physics simulator so I got a Statics and Dynamics mechanical engineering book. The book was a text book for Mechanical engineering students and yet the examples they teach you are for toy problems. I could not generalize them to real world scenarios. To actually build the physics simulator I had to scour the internet until I found something that actually explained what I needed in an easy to understand manner [1]. And that still was not enough. I still had to use more online sources to find out all the other pieces, like the separating axes theorem for collision detection.

So no, I would not rely on books anymore, at least not exclusively since they often do not provide a full picture. One last thing, books seem to be getting progressively worse in my experience. All of this is anecdotal of course.

[1]http://chrishecker.com/Rigid_Body_Dynamics
According to one analysis 20% of left-wing news on facebook is obviously fake, while 38% of conservative news is obviously fake.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/partisan-fb-pages-an...
Presidential Forecast Post-Mortem
At the very least, use a reverse proxy with lots of caching.
In every thread about US elections, there is going to be the same "muh founding fathers, carefully crafted system, so perfect".

The truth is, the US system is pretty damn awful. The good news is, everything else is also pretty damn awful.
Also "This is a prescription for socialism and communism." makes me think that maybe the author of the article is a tiny bit biased. Also completely wrong.
There is a systematic trend of polarization on Facebook. For example, if you engage with eaglerising "news", you'll see more of them in the future.
Kind of the same, but much less hardcore.

When I was younger, I really loved games. So I spent a lot of time reading books about Kevin Mitnick and hackers, and also played around with C++ and a little bit of game development. It never really came to fruition.

In college, I was premed and then a Narrative Studies major, and also worked as a lighting designer and lighting technician. However, a lot of the logic flows I learned as young teen helped with lighting programming. It was really easy to pick up front end web development... and then eventually, become a back end engineer. Definitely not the traditional path since I never was a CS major, but learning a lot of the fundamentals as a kid helped.
All with you there but carefully drawn up is a bit of a stretch.
I saw yesterday around 10 post claiming trump won the popular vote and everybody that said otherwise was lying.

Today I saw a news article saying how the website where that fake news originated from is a conspiracy blog less than 2 months old run by one person. That was the "news" organization that said Trump won the popular vote.
They are having trouble right now. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEyDt0DNjWU
The thing I accept, possibly wrongly, which others have stated, is that many people voted against Hillary and there was not much that could have gotten in their way.
Given Trump's past political opinions contrasted with his campaign claims, people who voted against Hillary often times took what Trump said more metaphorically than literally, whereas they took Hillary literally probably because she asked people to take her literally (that other guy flip flops, I don't). They saw Hillary as an ideologue and Trump as more of a pragmatist, something Obama apparently believes as well.
Probably, but there does seem to be a trend according to some.

Haven't taken the time to confirm myself, but John Oliver's team pulled out numbers where stories being surfaced on the right were false almost twice as much as those on the left, though he points out the numbers on the left are not insignificant which is obviously still worrying.
True, and they could've also come from fake news site that leveraged rage-induced clickbaits to earn massively from ads. (which is what happened during this election)
I'm so happy we have stack overflow.

Do you guys remember experts exchange.com?
As I said WRT peaking, submarines and aircraft carriers can operate in this 0 to 100% way. Anyway, peaking is kind of irrelevant because it is a minimal section of the grid,
We currently have a very limited number of nuclear reactor designs, so its possible that there are other better designs that would be possible with new technology. You have to understand that we're basically using 70s/80s designs in all of the current reactors (even brand new ones). There's been very little meaningful/adopted innovation in the field in the civilian sector.

Agree about the decommissioning costs and operation costs compared to solar and wind at least. I think coal/natural gas/oil have other net negatives that really aren't accounted for economically (tragedy of the commons type stuff that we've never really accounted for economically and are only starting to take in to account far too late).

But agreed, renewables and increasing efficiency needs to be our primary goal from a cost/benefit point of view.

But... if you need a lot of constant base load, nuclear is a good option (better than renewables at least until battery technology catches up and is proven), and would be a better option if we were interested in investing in the technology and science to make it safer and more efficient.

I kind of discount the economic arguments because we NEED low emission power sources. Saying 'well coal/natural gas is cheaper' is missing the point. The choices are almost everyone dies but its cheap, vs more expensive. Picking almost everyone dies is incredibly short-sighted. I'd spend whatever amount of money if it meant we could stop burning stuff. If the government needs to push it through, so be it.
When you say "wants to make the world more connected" are you implying that Zuckerberg is an ideologically committed globalist? Maybe he's not and just meant it in a purely technical sense as in one big elaborate but dumb pipe from anybody to anybody.
Angular CLI Tools

https://www.npmjs.com/package/angular-cli-tools

I started with the official Angular CLI (for Angular 2) back when it was still using system.js and it was painfully slow on a windows machine. I realised that 95% of what I needed the official CLI was for generating components/modules/pipes...etc. So over a weekend a friend and I wrote our own CLI tools that generate components and decided to use a simple webpack seed for our projects. Been using our own CLI ever since for (m)any Angular 2 projects.

I heard that the official CLI has gotten better but I don't have a reason to go down that route any more.
We need to have a common set of facts to have a legitimate discussion about where we should go as a country. We can interpret facts differently, but the facts themselves should be concrete and real.
A few hundred thousand votes would be enough to swing the electoral college the other way. The election was even closer than 1/2 a point of the popular vote.

And while the popular vote does not decide the presidential election, it is not irrelevant if you are trying to measure the sentiment of the people (a strong electoral college win with a narrow popular margin says something different than a strong electoral college win with a huge popular margin).
I don't know if subjective experience is possible while self-coherent. You need to entangle with only one of your states to have any experience.
Media != journalism

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/
Sure, as long as they are clearly just that... a dumb spam pipeline.

Facebook likes pretending to be more, they want to be an unbiased automated news site. And they're failing miserably at that. They need to stop pretending, and either fix or embrace the problem.
FaaC: Framework as a Container
We have an edit button though! And edits are community validated before being merged. I use it regularly to update other people's answers. If the update breaks backwards compatibility, I'll just add a separate section "For Python 3.x, use .items() instead of .iteritems()" etc.
Fake Facebook News Is a Disaster for Political Discourse
How well do you think the average voter, whether Trump or Hillary supporter, would do on a Politifact quiz?

I believe most of us are misinformed and delusional, and I do not believe people having Facebook as their primary news source is improving the situation.
Interesting, I've never heard of striping tricks like that. Do you have any links on that? And I suppose that could be applicable to EBS since it rather than S3 is the backing store for RDS.
I downloaded your app from the MAS and find it beautiful.

I have previously implemented a "compressed sensing" image system in Processing, this produces very similar results.

I was wondering whether you will be adding support for exporting animations, both of the image being built up and (as you mention) of many images matching criteria formed from different seeds.
Why should people be interested? They get an advertisement that they buy something and "it just works". Are you by any chance interested in the intricacies of the process needed to guide your sh*t to a dump or a cleaning station? I'd bet you are not.

Don't be bitter. The fact that most of the internet infrastructure is served by Linux doesn't make it a user-grade OS. Unrelated areas.
Yes, we're a constitutional republic and have an elector college largely because of the slave states:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._68#Pro_slavery_...
Because real numbers and infinities are a fairy tale.

This enlightening video makes it clear:

https://youtu.be/4DNlEq0ZrTo?list=PLIljB45xT85Bfc-S4WHvTIM7E...
> When you buy hard disks ONLY buy from Amazon or Newegg directly - never buy from a 3rd party seller on their site.

Agreed. A few times I've purchased third-party disks and found (via SMART data) that the drives were well used despite not being sold as such.
Git-pisect: A Parallel Version of git-bisect
I was definitely asking for any treatment, but I wasn't clear, so any information is of interest :)
Yap, saw it. The way he talked about it sounded more like a "it already works in practice this way" vs "it could work in theory". But I maybe misremembering, it was a long time ago.
A concise stack-based golfing language
Fake stories are a huge problem. A trump supporter just shared a story yesterday about a mob of muslims marching through an American neighborhood demanding that Christmas decorations be taken down.

Doesn't even pass the smell test: yet this person believes them implicitly. This election was decided so narrowly, you have to wonder what the impact was.
It's damn near impossible in US for a person or group of people to start a new party and contest election and have a chance at winning it.

Compare that to India where current Chief Minister of Delhi is from a party that started to break monopoly of two big parties in India and actually won. It's a total different thing that he turned out to be just another politician.
L.A. Noire in particular, although even the "semi" is generous -- if you fail at any skill test three times, the game just says, "screw it, want to move on anyway? Cool." The only variation in outcome you can get is how many of the clues you discover or how soon you crack the case.

I even tried to get a different result on a case by "missing" the evidence that would have unraveled the scheme, to see if it would end differently, but then the coroner just tells you to "look harder" at one of the scenes.
Creating ASCII Graphics: where to begin
Those bans (which occur for users who post many questions while receiving few positive votes) are for the sake of the community of contributors to the site. Allowing them to be bypassed for a fee would risk violating the community trust that's emphasized in this article.
Facebook is already not a dumb pipe. The show you an automatically curated news feed.

Since they have taken up the role of curation, they better take responsibility to ensure it's not doing accidental harm.
I built https://www.findlectures.com, which is categorized list of lectures and speakers, inspired by the faceted search on Newegg and Amazon, which I wish Youtube had.

It's been a fun project, because I've had to build tools to come up with a lot of quality measures for the dataset.
IIRC 3TB drives were among the newer drives commercially available at retail when the flooding happened in Thailand and all retail drives were impacted negatively. Furthermore, aggregate capacity is only one factor in the design of a hard drive and most 3TB drives were made in a manner that reduces reliability (more platters of same capacity or fewer platters with greater individual platter capacity, can't quite remember which unfortunately). I don't see why a manufacturer would put the newest technology into product lines that are older so I'd presume that 3TB drives are among the greatest in number of platters and the extra components contributes to the failure rate.

Among the least reliable drives I saw in previous reports were Seagate 3TB drives (supposedly they had worse reliability than the legendary IBM Deathstars) and after reading about how 3TB drives were designed across manufacturers years ago during the flooding crisis I decided to avoid 3TB drives entirely. Seems like my decision is finally getting some data to back it up now in hindsight (no pun intended).
I always thought they earned a nickel for every time they closed a question as "not constructive"
I'm a dev in the Developer Story/CV team and we appreciate the love <3 The conference attendance item idea is great, discussing it internally with our team right now. Thank you!
And sometimes fact checking your own friends is a futile effort. "Oh, well it could have happened" or something equally dismissive is often the response that I get.
Not crazy but out of scope. If you need a mentor get one but SO is not for mentoring. On the other hand even 49.99 per month is too cheap for a service like this.
Wow. This was almost a non issue like two weeks ago. It is pathetic that the very media who tried so hard to distort perceptions is trying to blame fake news.
I would love something like this. I am a businessman, entrepreneur, developer, evangelist and I would love the opportunity to peruse my interests with those of a like mind
> What if it's not the news that's false, but memes and public opinion?

Uhm, but it's not. The article is about the objectively false content, as in: An article says something happened that objectively did not occur, or claims someone said something that they did not say.

> Are we going to start silencing opinion, because it's not factual?

And it's not about this either - anyone is free to keep sharing objectively false content on the platform. The change is that FB will no longer pay for content that is made up and does not make it clear that this is the case.

> Almost nothing comes down to just True and False

Indeed. As I said in another thread the other day - this is a hard problem and the answer is not, as I assume you're insinuating, that my ignorance is as good as your knowledge. Ignorance and lies should not be given equal weight and attention as factual statements and informed commentary by the media.

This is a solved problem, the courts make life-or-death decisions on patently subjective issues every hour. Any reputable school of journalism will be happy to give you detailed explanations for how to navigate the real world of truthisms, he-saids and halfway facts, they've been thinking about this for hundreds of years.
When I was young kid in Iran, there was a TV show made about the police chasing after a stolen piece of the Persepolis. The thieves were planning to sell it on the black market.

I watched the show every night, because I had visited Persepolis a few months earlier during a family vacation. Even at that age (4 or 5), I thought it was strange that there were essentially no guards or apparent supervision. I believe the tomb of Xerxes has a similar vibe.

There is going to be more tourism in Iran after the lifting of sanctions from Europeans, so this situation will definitely change for the better.
I suspect that one of the biggest problems is a human one. That is, the most knowledgeable experts, who are in charge and should be, are also under the constant impression that the safety of nuclear power plants is unfairly criticized.

When you must always be in defense mode, do you begin to internalize that perspective almost as though it is a debating position?

During the Fukishima disaster there were some of the worst arguments immaginable given by nuclear energy proponents. For example: you can't expect the engineers to have designed for such a massive earthquake and a tsunami!

If you can enumerate a thousand things that happen about once a thousand years, you can reasonably expect about one of them to occur in the next year, but it can be difficult to nme them unless you are in the right frame of mind. How many natural disasters occur every decade that we are "shocked" could ever happen?

My impression is that the engineers behind Fukishima were not actually insane, and did try to build a plant that would survive an earthquake and a tsunami, but their models were incorrect about the likelihood of different wave heights, and perhaps even more accurately, the cooling system simply had insufficient redundancies.

Finally, what I really feel most discussions lose sight of is that both Chernobyl
and Fukishima were very far from being worst case disasters. In both disasters once an uncommon set of events set them in motion, an also uncommon amount of heroism and ingenuity prevented the disasters from spiralling further out of control. I don't mean to say so much that it is unimaginable that people would risk their lives to save others in their own towns, so much as to say that that was the last line of defense, and it was necessary to use it, contrary to what I what the models should rely on. What if instead, the on site engineers had been as reliable as the New Orleans police during hurricane Katrina?
You had me at SVG output - I have a Watercolorbot[1] and a better workflow to convert images to simplified (but still interesting) SVGs will be great.

1: http://watercolorbot.com/
I think Google News is more of what you're talking about. Everything they reported was from all the highly reputable mainstream. I tried to use them, but I gave up after I could not find a way to remove "top headlines" from my news feed. It's as if my payment for using their service was they could tell me what to think about. As Orwell said: "News is publishing someone doesn't want published. All else is public relations".
Cool project, best of luck. Off topic question: are you planning to focus more in MAS, do you think it's still viable to make a living off it solo? (yes, depends on COL and needs, still interested in your perspective)
maybe he did.
For a guy with as many awards as him I am surprised he needs a second job. He doesn't write a lot, but given his quality I am surprised someone hasn't paid him to just write.
Almost certainly the quality, not the quantity, of your questions was responsible for your ban.

See http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask
Well, uh, yes.

No one really expects that rotational rust will get much faster, and in fact history shows that, compared to the increase in density, the increase in transfer rates are laughable at best. Between 1990 and today you are probably looking at a 20 000 times increase in density, yet transfer rates only increased around a factor of around 150-200. [In fact, from the early 1960 to today it's only a factor of about 1000. There are quite possibly few performance metrics that increased so slowly as disk transfer rate].

Why is that?

Increasing density does only marginally increase transfer speed: Most density increases are achieved by packing more tracks onto the platter, while storing more sectors per track plays a minor role. But a single R/W head can only read a single track, not parallel tracks, hence speed only increases if you pack more sectors into each track, not by increasing the number of tracks. That's why between today and 10 years ago performance in desktop or server drives only differs a little, compared to the capacity increase to 8+ TB in a 3.5" drive.

More platters also don't help in transfer rate, because the alignment of all heads on the actuator is fixed: at any given time only one platter and one R/W head is used (locked to the track). [More platters can help reduce seek time in certain scenarios though]

More disks on the other hand...
Getting Started with Data-Driven Design