skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should absolutely fix it. But they just fall back to the "everyone is doing it, so why not us" attitude. I've seen companies include phone-home features after win10 rolled out theirs.
I have the Skullcanyon NUC, and this is not comparable.

I've been waiting for someone to offer me ECC in a small form factor. This is the first time I've ever seen it.
SCONE: Secure Linux Containers with Intel SGX
do you know how much radioactive isotopes are there in crust/core of Earth? plenty, some gets randomly released by eruptions.

it's also still there and practically forever will be.
Would love a cheaper "download" option. Would be cool to use this on a shirt or mug or maybe a wallpaper.
You're not wrong about the pro-Clinton content. I'm politically liberal, so I've kind of sheltered myself from the rightwing stuff. A couple of weeks ago, I started looking at it, after some conversations with some trump supporters. I was completely floored. I remember the situation in 2000, and 2004, and there was a lot of crazy stuff particularly from FoxNews, and commentators like Rush Limbaugh, Anne Coulter, Dinesh Dsouza, and others. In 2008, even MORE wacky wacky whackjobs like Glenn Beck and Michael Wiener (Savage).

But now, there seems to be a whole slew: hundreds of these weird little websites out there, generating crazy crazy fake news, sharing them around, and disseminating them, for the purpose of gaining ad-revenue from gullible conservatives. The side effect is something like a palm-oil land-clearing project, where a whole forest gets burned down, and everyone downwind is choking on the smoke and ash.

I think this is because of the corrosive effect of money in politics. So many billions of dollars going into political ads. So many very conservative elites, investing in major media channels and directing editorial content. Causing a major collapse in credibility of ALL major news networks, which creates an ecosystem for these little sites to pop up.

The problem is all the seriously delusional people who believe these stories about muslims marching to YOUR neighborhood to demand sharia law, and Hillary Clinton being a secret KKK member.
Well, they still are in countries where its not illegal. This sort of behavior should be regulated.
It's good stuff, but not a total panacea. Some of the advanced reactor designs that work well with it have very interesting features (Molten Salt Reactors) that we need to develop as a civilization. Until we run them at scale we can't be totally sure of the benefits but some in safety and cost seem very intriguing.
Even though you're downvoted, I mostly agree with you.

Most Linux proponents are people with older hardware and trivial setups: 1-2 monitors, 1 sound card and a pair of normal speakers (without subwoofer), 1 ethernet or wireless card, only 1 ISP, etc.

We get it, for very regular setups Linux works fine. But there are many people who have more requirements outside the warm little box that Linux serves and I cannot understand why do these people come here convincing us this is not the case; and why are they downvoting the people who are outside this bubble.

Linux is not a magic pill on the desktop. For all its strengths (and I do use it in my work every day) it's still a lousy desktop OS and this hasn't changed for 10+ years now.
A little bit of etymology helps me remember the difference.

"Wary" stems from the same root as "beware" and "aware". Going back further in time, it can also be connected to "ward", "warden", and "guard".

On the other hand, "weary" stems from "wear", as in "wear and tear", "to wear down", and "this weather has been wearing on me".
Yev from Backblaze here -> have you checked out B2? We likely won't have a Linux client for our backup service any time soon, but our B2 service has a lot of integrators (like Cloudberry and Duplicity, HashBackup, etc..) that can back up Linux machines, a lot of folks have been going that route.
We're humbled hearing from folks like you - your willingness to give back is what makes it all work. Keep your money. But here's how you CAN help, right now: Sign up if you haven't, create a developer story, and when you ARE job-hunting, try Jobs. We I think you'll find it to be the most developer-friendly offering on the planet.
Jailbreak a phone and you can surely do whatever you want on it. Other than that it's not Google's fault how a manufacturer customizes the software.
The problem there is that it really restricts your hardware choices if you want to not support Microsoft. And installing Linux doesn't financially support anything.
the dirty little secret of nuclear is still there: untreatable waste

Most of that waste is not untreatable at all, only politically so. Fast (breeder) reactors can use that "waste" as their own fuel source, reducing the total waste by some 95%. But we don't have those, because the political climate has made it impossible to deploy even close to modern reactor designs.
In my opinion, they do a pretty good job of balancing the needs of users and advertisers.
Signal for sure.
http://paulbourke.net/geometry/polygonise/marchingsource.cpp

I wrote back in uni some 20+ years ago. Since then I've seen it copy-pasted, remixed, translated to different languages and integrated into little projects hundreds of times. It's falling out of favor lately. But, there was a time when it seemed like for each implementation of Marching Cubes, there was a 50:50 chance it was a derivative of that file.
The cost to Ukraine's economy is not small too. There is still a large part of Ukraine where you cannot grow anything.
The damage that global warming will do will be far less reversible that the damage Fukushima did.

In an ideal world, fission power could be avoided, but while we wait for that, the greenhouse gases are building up. Fission has to be evaluated against the politically feasible alternatives.
What comes to mind for me is Assassin's Creed. The character animations in it are so detailed that they completely gave up on realism - every single motion is a flashy, flailing leap that may or may not conform to terrain.

At a certain point, I think TR (and a lot of other old games) benefitted from the requirement that a game get at least one thing right. If your animations are shoddy, you need realistic motion because exaggeration will just look deranged. If your graphics are ugly, you need good storytelling because visuals won't get players invested. And so on. If your textures and context sensitivity are lacking, you need tight controls so characters don't commit suicide.

SO I guess I'm part of the crowd arguing older games were better in those ways. Not because the past was better, but because they had fewer ways to ensure success in at least one aspect of control, or immersion, or realism.
Why are you getting downvoted for stating facts? Baffling.
Excellent work! I have been traveling down the East Coast for the past month and found all the similar solutions for this problem very clunky. So happy you posted this!
This is very nice. I used to have a mac mini and would toss it in my backpack so I could work at home (I had two sets of displays and good keyboards). I can see this working out the same (well I work from home now all the time, but in a general sense I see it used that way too).

Certainly like the performance of it.
There are degrees of belief attached to each aspect and the proposal works exactly like existing acknowledged-as-bayesian approaches eg spamassassin does. So how isn't it?
Well, they managed to entrench themselves in society so thoroughly that the government bailed them out when they collapsed due to their own incompetence, so pretty well.
Some people like to point out a difference between random and uncertain.

- Random: it's 1/6 for each result, but I don't know which it will be.

- Uncertain: I don't know even how the distribution is, or what the variables are.

Random can also be broken down into "there's no way with any information you can say what the outcome will be" and "you don't have the information to the precision you need, so to that extent it's unpredictable". So for instance there's non linear dynamic systems where teeny tiny variations cause the outcomes to vary a lot. They're actually deterministic, but they feel random. With quantum stuff like decay, you actually can't know when exactly it happens, but you can say something about the distribution and how the distribution is affected by various laws. For instance, there's a famous muon decay experiment where special relativity changes the decay rate.
Simple visualization of the relative size of different planets and moons I made when my daughter was asking if the moon is bigger than the earth - http://callumprentice.github.io/apps/celestial_bodies/index....
Disable Facebook's "Seen" function:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facesnoop/kebmejpc...

Definitely not the one that gives me most pride from a technical standpoint, but it is used by a thousand people every day and that's more than enough to make me happy about that small hack.
Great answer to a related FAQ in a post[0] linked from this article, about why !SO doesn't care about ad blockers:

> The truth is: we don’t care if our users use ad blockers on Stack Overflow. More accurately: we hope that they won’t, but we understand that some people just don’t like ads. Our belief is that if someone doesn’t like them, and they won’t click on them, any impressions served to them will only annoy them-- plus, serving ads to people who won’t click on them harms campaign performance.

[0] https://stackoverflow.blog/2016/02/why-stack-overflow-doesnt...!
Decimal time is cute (albeit not very novel) and makes imho a lot of sense. I'm secretly hoping that maybe on Mars we could end up using millisols for timekeeping.

On the other hand dividing a year into 1000 does seem bit more of a novelty, and not very practical. I suppose it is bit of a reminder that the year is passing, in the sense "oh dear, this year is already 87% done"
> It's true that Donald Trump is lying, feckless fool.

Lying? Sure. Feckless fool? Not a fact.

> But that doesn't really change the facts.

You mean, facts like Hillary arming radicals and destroying governments? Or facts like Clinton getting millions of dollars from major banks? Or facts like Clinton wiping email servers? There were floodlights on the liar, but a crook sneaked in behind them. Rampant editorializing drove people away from the media. People suspected a collusion between media houses and the Clinton campain. Wikileaks confirmed those suspicions. What do they do? CNN tell its viewers that it's illegal to read or download stuff from Wikileaks.
AFAIK, most messages (90%+) are only stored in ram for a short amount of time.

source: erlang factory talk from 2015 I think...
I agree that listing downsides is important too. But the Greenpeace person did this in the article.

I did look at the Google map you're referring to and I converted the scary colors to numbers using the hard-to-find scale and was shocked to learn that the numbers were well within the safe zone. Even the orange.

European reactor constructions are looking rough. But that doesn't have to be the only case. In UAE, the South Koreans are building 4 huge PWRs on budget and schedule. The South Koreans somehow consistently deliver on nukes. The Americans and Europeans could hopefully learn from them how this is done.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421516...
Reminds me of the old Apple posters with C & Objective-C code on a black background. Does anyone have a link to those? We had them hanging in some of our university classrooms.
Yea a few years ago they changed the format of the urls without redirecting the old urls. Weak sauce.
Yes, that's probably my fave too, and the least fantastical of his.

I saw Arrival last night, and was very struck by the fact that despite having read and loved Stories of Your Life and Others, I couldn't remember anything of the plot.
https://www.taskpaper.com

Plain-text todo list:

1. To create a project, type a line ending with a colon.

2. To create a task, type a line starting with a dash followed by a space.

3. Everything else is a note.

4. To create a tag, type the @ symbol followed by a name.

5. Tab to indent and create outline structure.

TaskPaper started as few days TextEdit hack in 2006. It's no longer a "tiny" project in terms lines of code. But the original simple idea–plain text todos with 5 formatting rules–remains the core of what TaskPaper is.

I'm very proud of that!
I think by uncertain you are referring to Knightian uncertainty.
What is the license?
Chronograf: a UI for the TICK stack, a complete open source monitoring solution
Clarity Design System: Open Source UX Guidelines, HTML/CSS, Angular 2 Components
How i win an iPhone 6
Another good article linked from this one: https://stackoverflow.blog/2016/02/why-stack-overflow-doesnt.... Stack Overflow is IMO the site to look to if you want to do ads correctly. So many big sites have incredibly trashy ads, SO shows that they care to not subject their users to that junk.
It's pretty easy to charge an EV and many owners do charge at home as their primary place to charge. I have a '12 Volt that I charge on a standard outlet in my garage at home. This "trickle charge" is fairly slow, but enough to charge the Volt's smaller battery overnight and give me just shy of 40 miles for the day, which is more than enough most days to get to work, run errands, get back home on a single charge without needing to charge away from home (work doesn't have any chargers right now or easily accessible outside plugs) or use a cup or so of gas.

This certainly works pretty well for me. I could install a higher voltage charger at home and charge faster, once I have the money to invest in that effort, but given my car is typically sitting in my garage overnight anyway, I haven't felt a strong need for it just yet.

I think that home charging is something of an overlooked game changer about EVs. Admittedly not everyone will have that ability just yet (apartment complexes and people that need street parking don't easy available electricity to their parking spaces yet), but there is something really convenient to know that your car is charging at Home while you sleep where it would be sitting unused anyway.
My Elixir/Phoenix project Magnetissimo. When KickassTorrents died, I thought I should just build my own crawler and be done with it.

Elixir's OTP was a fantastic fit, I scrape stuff really quickly with minimal orchestration code. There are bugs here and there, and I haven't had time to circle back and patch a lot of the issues I noticed, but it "works".

I'm proud of it because it broke the 200 star barrier on my Github profile. With Elixir to boot! I love this language.

https://github.com/sergiotapia/magnetissimo
To be honest I found this article a bit of a let down.

I'm no mathematician or physicist, but I've thought about randomness a bit, though I don't have a satisfying understanding of it.

First, we probably (haha) need to at least distinguish between epistemic randomness -- an outcome is unpredictable because we the observers have imperfect knowledge -- and real randomness, where an outcome is simply unknowable, period, and therefore undetermined and separate from the laws of classical physics. (That's where the quantum part comes in.)

A roll of the dice is epistemically random -- we don't know how it will land because we can't get and calculate accurate data quickly enough. Presumably a god could. Apollo, the god of prophecy and Delphi seems fitting here. Don't go playing dice with him. He sees the dice in mid-air and knows on what atoms they'll land, what the windspeed is, the exact weight and spin, he saw the thrust of your fingers as they tossed the dice, and he can call out the result before they land and fall still. Indeed, if the universe is deterministic, he could have known since the beginning of time what you'd roll today. Lord Apollo would simply consult the great chain of cause and effect. Likewise, he'd know the outcome of all of your pseudorandom generators. The article seemed to deal only with epistemic randomness, right?

Then there's the "real" randomness that is also called ontic (as in ontological), or quantum randomness. According to quantum mechanics if I've understood it correctly, electrons decay at _truly_ random intervals, intervals that have no cause whatsoever. This is perhaps to be disputed, or will be disputed, but hey, I'm happy that there's at least a chance for some indeterminacy in this universe. Even Apollo presumably couldn't guess quantum randomness. And so, maybe he couldn't guess your thoughts, because without some indeterminacy I don't see how there can be such a thing as free will.

So the big question to me is, where and to what degree, if at all, does real randomness exist? If it doesn't exist, then presumably there is also no free will, although some "compatibilists" believe that determinism and free will are, well, compatible. From the little I've understood of their arguments (made by truly brilliant people like David Hume and many others), there's usually some sneaking in of a bit of indeterminacy, a bit of ontic randomness, when we (and probably they also) have a hard time noticing it.

So anyway, that's the little I understand of randomness, but it's deeply interesting. I wish the article had been also. What I wish I could understand better would be how much some quantum randomness could effect our larger world, and if it could affect our neurology enough to grant us free will. Hmm... And now, back to work... ;)
His works are definitely more philosophical, though I think that's always been an important part of sci-fi; Asimov never explained how a positronic brain worked, just explored the possibilities of a hypothetical world. Chiang takes philosophical writing right up to the point of Jorge Luis Borges, and if that's not your thing, that's reasonable. If you are looking for more world-building and detail, though, I do recommend his "Tower of Babylon," which describes the engineering challenges of building the Biblical Tower of Babel, assuming that the flat-Earth, solid sky model of Biblical cosmology was really true.
I really want to see this on Android as well. Having user namespace support on carrier builds would go a long way for this.

I've been think about how this would work. Something like the Samsung ultra powersaving mode. A basic lock screen and dialer with 911 support, then the running environment could be swapped between full Android, Ubuntu or anything else.
I don’t have a dog.
The service looks awesome and I really want to order some posters for my company. However, I can't grant the kind of access that is being asked for to a private company repository.

The idea of allowing a someone to have the ability to administer/transfer/delete company repositories so that we can print some neat posters is rather unsettling.
For my own curiosity, when you mean anonymous answers do you mean by people who don't have accounts on our platform at all, or do you mean people who already have accounts disconnecting their persona from a specific answer?
OK, but nuclear waste existed before we took it out of the ground.

That stuff was still radioactive BEFORE.

Also, putting it in a safe place is easy. Just pick your favorite mountain in a desert. No ground water there.
I don't think it's nearly as good as "Understand" or "Exhalation" or "Hell is the Absence of God" (all discussed in OP). Like "Life Cycle of Software Objects", it seems seriously overrated. But "Story of Your Life" is definitely one of the more confusing stories and I had to read it at least twice before I thought I understood what sort of Chiang-style message Chiang was going for.

What I take him as suggesting is not that the aliens really are tapping into quantum woo to see the future (this is what inferior SF authors might do and maybe have in the movie which I haven't seen), any more than light rays see into the future in order to take the shortest path, but doing something more like Watts's _Blindsight_ in trying to explore different kinds of minds: that given the reversibility of the laws of physics and the arrow of time, there is no logical or privileged reason to have a conscious experience of the universe as time unfolding sequentially and computationally according to a program computing 1 planck-second at a time, rather than as an Einsteinian 4D block universe in which the block universe is the optimal path between boundary conditions and everything unfolds as it must and already has. This is similar to points Drescher makes in _Good and Real_: a brain could try to understand the universe by taking the present and extrapolating forward but it also takes the present and extrapolate backward. You can 'remember' the future as easily as the past.

The aliens could be doing this, and it is as valid a way of cognition as anything else. And then the drama comes from the protagonist slowly adopting this way of thinking herself to come to terms with her grief over her daughter's death by adopting a timeless Lagrangian way of thinking and explaining it to the reader who is still trapped in the algorithmic perspective.
This is neato. Does the app make animated GIFs? If not, you should make it do that!
http://HockeyBias.com
Outside of random crowdfunding events with specific targets or tiny details that I could bug-bounty myself there is no way to give money to "the right people" while being reasonably sure to actually get what I want, so the argument seems pointless. Donating to open-source is great, but not a replacement for buying tools that do what's needed now.
I wrote Open-Publisher: https://github.com/chrisanthropic/Open-Publisher with a focus on easy fiction book creation.

Markdown manuscript input with high quality epub, mobi, and print-ready PDF output.

It's a wrapper (your choice of Rake, Bash, or Docker) combining Jekyll + Pandoc with custom PDF LaTeX templates for print-ready (valid PDF-X1A 5x8 and 6x9) and professional epub/mobi ebooks.
Deer meet is hard to buy, at least in the US, partly because the US has ridiculous laws prohibiting transportation of venison from US deer across state lines in various ways.

> and they're not raised as livestock

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_farm#Deer_Farming_in_New_... -- not quite as many of them as sheep there, but you definitely see a bunch of deer farms just driving around.

In fact, in my experience you're more likely to see New Zealand venison in a US store than US venison, because of the above laws prohibiting transportation.
Drop Color Picker: Allows designers/devs to easily add colors during development
http://bostontraintrack.com

Real time tracking of Boston subways, buses and commuter rails.

Made mostly in a weekend and available free and open source [1]. Though it's simple, I think it gives a nice overview of the trains and buses. Boston has stop prediction so in some sense it's kind of frivolous. I think the biggest 'innovation' was to integrate the "map icons" into a nicely visualized open street map [2].

Not super popular but it's been running for around 2 years with ~20 hits per weekday.

[1] https://github.com/abetusk/bostontraintrack

[2] https://mapicons.mapsmarker.com/
In my experience, Facebook in 2016 is akin to what AOL was in 1994 - to a large swath of people, Facebook is essentially "the internet" they use. Kind of subscribing to cable TV but only watching one station. It's not too far out of the realm of thought that bubbles exist because people seek them out and like having a bubble (notions of bubbles being good/bad outside the scope of this).

For a while early on, I recall enjoying Facebook when it was .edu email addresses only, because it was a good way to keep tabs on people I went to upper education with and parted ways with shortly after. It was a nice contact resource in that regard. Now the platform is a behemoth, the AOL thing.