skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least here in Italy, it is something like 30 (thirty) years that someone claims to know how to farm (black) truffles (through this or that "new" procedure and/or "scientific finding") but at the end of the day the only money that changes hands is the actual cost of the plants (and the expenses for planting and irrigation) that is paid by the farmer.

It is not at all clear (to me) what the partnership provides, seemingly (just like all the others before them) they do sell the actual plants and delay to when the farmer get the profits the payment of their "training" and "ongoing assistance".

Their UK company sells also single trees online (which you can also conveniently pay via PayPal):
http://plantationsystems.com/shop/

It is an interesting investment, considering how global climate change in only 35.7 (please note the .7) years will make Spain unsuitable for growing truffles:

http://plantationsystems.com/climate-change-truffle-supply/

>However, within just 35.7 years for Spain, the climate will fall outside of the known parameters for truffle fruiting.

P.S.: BTW I would have expected, if not fact checking, as if it was difficult to check Dr. Paul Thomas linkedIn page, at least to doubt that someone that is 35 in 2016 was:

>working on his Ph.D. in 1996
Seems almost like a Man In The Middle attack. If I send my DNS request to 8.8.8.8, I kinda expect it to go 8.8.8.8 and not get replaced by something of the ISP's choice.

Isn't this one of the points of Net Neutrality? My ISP (Comcast) doesn't do this currently. I suppose I'll have to check again on January 21.
I'll ask the daytraders how they would convert $10 million USD into 250 million CNY(either cash, or assets like property) assuming you could either smuggle the USD into China or the Yuan out of China past the currency controls, and let you know.
No? I don't see how spending money on a campaign is related to spending money on, say, social security. Otherwise, you're suggesting that advertising companies would be fantastic at government. Like, "They got me to buy Coke, they must be great at managing our public education!"
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It is not worth it. I would really want a good way to protect myself as an Internet user from this law that the EU is enforcing on me. To protect myself not from Facebook, not from Google, but from the EU. It also gets in my way as a web developer. The law is not simple. 100 words sentences of law jargon are not simple. Many, many pages of such sentences is the opposite of simple. To be honest I have never really understood the law and I don't think I ever will. Even keeping track of it is far from simple.

But according to this website: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
Cookies clearly exempt from consent according to the EU advisory body on data protection- WP29pdf include: (...) third‑party social plug‑in content‑sharing cookies, for logged‑in members of a social network.

So, I think what you say about Facebook is not true.
I'm thankful that everyday is a new day.

You get to start over and try again.

I'm doing that with my son these day. Thankful that he's still young
I've seen casual users get confounded by that aspect of the color wheel more often than not. Basically every casual user who I've seen try a color wheel for the first time makes that same mistake and gets a little confused and frustrated.

I wonder if we can generalize a UI antipattern:

- A control that the user can change

- but which has no effect due to the setting of another control

- but does nothing to indicate that state

This is one of the top reasons audio synthesizers (real and virtual) can be frustrating for even very expert users. You get caught in a situation where you are adjusting a control over and over, trying to perceive the effect, only to realize that it is doing nothing unless you change some other control that may be located far away (visually/physically/menu-wise/tabs/categories/etc) from the thing you are changing.

I find the whole discussion fascinating.
> yes - we changed the government. Trying to change politics beforehand was not so successful after all

East-German too, younger though. Yeah it's funny, all the time it seems impossible for "da people" to engender substantial change in governance. Then woopdidoo, some Gorbachev comes along, holds some talks with the Reagans of this world, eastern client states slowly learn they now can and should hold off a bit from total autocracy, and "the folk" get to exercise some agency for a brief time.

Beautiful. Where was this agency after Snowden, after other introductions or revelations of police/surveillance state measures? Looks like it wasn't quite as expedient to today's Reagans/Gorbachevs/etc of today. Sorry people, no illusion-of-agency for you when alignment with officious objectives is absent.

Maybe it'll come around somehow..
Also of note: you can actually see the buckling of the sidewalk and curbing immediately adjacent to the Millennium Tower. I'll see if I can get a photo to share today. There's certainly quite a bit of heavy construction equipment traveling on Fremont/Mission, but I can't see how it would cause buckling sidewalks.
when they don't even ship with the best in class GPUs from Nvidia.

Bah, when heavily constrained by TDP and being able to (being required to) lower voltage and clock speed accordingly, it's far from clear NVIDIA would have any advantage in those Macbooks. It would bring Polaris cards back into their sweet spot, in fact.
Sure. Exactly. I just added a /s to my post.. ;)
I only want a synthetic diamond if it is monoisotopic and has 10x the usual heat conductivity.
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We are showing self-made (because the widgets amazon offers are crap) widgets for the products our articles talk about.

Luckily we have the prices from other merchants to compare the amazon prices to, and could implement a filter for unreasonable prices (way over uvp or way below what other merchants ask for).

Amazon is full of scammers.
> Well, sure. In theory, he could do anything by fiat within the bounds of established regulatory discretion. Of course, I wouldn't worry too much about all of the stuff that "Trump could do" until he gets around to doing it. He talks a lot. And, I suspect he won't have time to do all of the stuff that people worry about him potentially doing...

It won't take him any significant personal time to get rid of net neutrality. Under Trump the FCC commissioners will change from a 3 to 2 Democrat majority to a 3 to 2 Republican majority in 2017. Net neutrality passed at the FCC on a 3 to 2 straight party line vote.

Republicans are massively, overwhelmingly against net neutrality and Republicans control both houses of Congress, so it is a pretty damn safe bet that the new Republican commissioner will be one who agrees with the overwhelming majority Republican opinion on this.

Tom Wheeler, the FCC chairman, is a Democrat, but almost certainly will follow tradition and relinquish the chairmanship pretty much as soon as Trump takes office, and Trump will name one of the Republican commissioners as the new chairman.

So, in 2017 we will have an FCC commission chaired by a Republican, with a 3 to 2 Republican majority. Reversing net neutrality will almost certainly be one of the first things on the agenda for the 3 to 2 Republican majority, Republican chaired FCC, especially considering that reversing net neutrality has been a priority for Republicans ever since Wheeler went with Title II reclassification.

Wouldn't it be stupid for net neutrality advocates to wait until Trump actually does this to worry about it and start working to stop it? It's not like, say, building the wall and making Mexico pay for it, which has so many moving parts, cost, and problems to overcome that ignoring it until something concrete actually happens is fine--the wall plan is very likely to fall apart on its own long before it gets to that stage. Dismantling net neutrality will be close to trivial once Trump's appointments are on the commission.

It would actually be more work on Trump's part to stop net neutrality from being dismantled, as he'd have to do some work to find a Republican commission nominee who is not against net neutrality and will pass Congressional confirmation.
Some people don't WANT PayPal. I had a bad experience with an eBay /PayPal charge back scam 5 years ago. I.e. freezing of my entire account and no human to find to unfreeze it.

I will never accept PayPal for the rest of my life.
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The idea that the electoral college somehow protects smaller states is fallacious. If you take the six most populous states, you already have about 200 votes. Then you only need six more states from the next 18 most populous states. Bam, you have a majority by only winning 12 states, the other 38 states (and additional territories) have to put up and shut up. [1]

This doesn't usually happen because CA/NY usually vote D, Texas usually votes R, Illinois has been voting D for a while now, and Florida/Pennsylvania are swing states; (Florida usually votes R) although, the usual suspects have passed voter suppression laws.

This system doesn't protect smaller states by design, it is, as it always was, supposed to prevent the rule of mob and a demagogue from being elected. Unfortunately, due to an extremely misguided sense of party loyalty, here we are. At best it's an arbitrary ruling that can be exploited by someone who will lose the popular vote.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_Stat...
Try running a VM and compiling inside that...
I've never worked at any company with more than 50 employees, and have worked on a team with as few as 5 engineers. Even without an explicit SRE role, someone is doing that work -- keeping the servers (reliably) on the internet and performing, mitigating attacks, etc.

You should be able to tag the row with a dirty flag on second (or later) write using rules internal to the DB without incurring a large performance penalty, if you already have any kind of sanity checking. So at a basic technical level, this is bad design or an intentional capability.

Similarly, even on the team with 5 engineers, our production DB didn't have a way to directly access it, and tunneling through an API box to get network access would trigger an access warning to the appropriate person, because you shouldn't be accessing prod API servers directly either. (Similarly, spinning up a new instance in a security group to inherit permission.)

This isn't detecting advanced exfiltration techniques using information theory... It's basic network topology and server monitoring. And I suspect that reddit has at least a couple ops guys.

This really smacks of intentional capability, followed to lazy design.
I am thankful for my cats and my partner. I'm thankful for the very faint hope that I might get to see Mars in person one day. I'm thankful for the fact that we care about AI and are making progress in that field. I'm thankful that I was born lucky, into a middle class family who moved from a post-Soviet country to the U.S. and gave me opportunities I wouldn't have otherwise had. I'm thankful that I lucked into some good genes.
> I would like to see a game that tests the gold standard approach.

Bitcoin is that experiment, but in the real world. After ~2021, the inflation rate will be less than 1.8% p.a. [1]. I believe the stock-to-flow ratio of gold is around 1% (its stock/supply increases around 1% per year). So they will be pretty similar in that regard in ~5 years, and in addition, we won't need to worry about whether our experiment actually reflects real-world conditions, as opposed to with a game.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply
Must be those nefarious Russian hackers!
Someone described something similar as "like sneezing". You know when a sneeze is coming on, and you can delay it, but it's hard or impossible to actually stop the sneeze. Is that a good analogy?
Presumably the initial (default) saturation is 0; any other value would have been specified by the user.
Exactly! It is not only your own history. It is the history of those that have some power that are now subject to blackmail.
> Flipping something over like that looks cool, but confuses the brain. At least it confused mine.

I think it would be helpful to have a shadow of the right matrix after it's moved to the top. This way it would be easier to see where particular numbers are coming from in the original input.

Disclaimer: I'm similarly biased and actually the reason I came up with this shadow thing is because I also imagine the right matrix moving like here but somehow this never causes it to disappear from its original place on paper, go figure, so this animation looked really alien to me.
Planet Money had a wonderful episode recently about a boy who's been selling truffles out of the back of his car since he was 15:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/11/04/500726210/episo...

Most notably, he budgets $10,000 pear year for parking tickets as a cost of doing business!
Aristotle said that a city should only be as large as to encompass everyone that could hear the sound of a ram's horn or trumpet. Beyond that, you weren't part of the city or it's governance. Seems like a good rule which would prevent taking money from Florida and giving it to Alaska.
My ISP still serves ads for all DNS failures. Also, their cache times are absolutely ridiculous. It makes remote web development completely impossible. Let's say I change the DNS on a new domain (which takes only a few seconds to propagate with InternetBS+CloudFlare). Yet, if I queried the domain one time where it wasn't live yet, that error is cached for almost a day, with no chance of purging it. So others can see/use my service, but I can't.
You should read the article
Thanks so much, this makes sense!
Yes, for me I have a lot of stuff still in OSX, and a few hard-to-leave apps.

When my iMac died, i moved my VM to my PC and was able to get back to work with minimal downtime. But even within my VM, I found windows managed to interrupt the experience enough that I went and bought a mac sooner than later. Which is a shame, because my VM gets about twice the performance on the PC.

So for me it's now Mac for leisure, Windows for gaming, Linux VM for work.

But I will move to Linux for leisure, linux VM for work, and (maybe) windows for gaming. I may end up getting a low-end Mac and using VNC or RDP for the few mac apps I really want, if I can't find alternatives.
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There is no way to predict what would have happened. National popular vote would completely change both campaign strategy and voter incentives, and the results were already so close that as much as casting ballots on a Sunday instead of a Tuesday might have been enough to change both the popular vote and the electoral college result.
T-Mobile US used to do this, but stopped (coincidentally or not) after I complained. http://esd.io/blog/t-mobile-dns-hijack.html
You can't switch your DNS with transparent proxies. That's the whole point of this post. Even if you change your DNS server, your queries to that server are intercepted by your ISP.
That sums it up nearly perfectly for me.
... which doesn't do anything if DNS is transparently intercepted, as discussed in the article.
That's the artifact of electoral college. It is frustrating that the whole country policy is dictated by several thousand votes in couple swing states.
JetBrains does nice discounts around conferences. PyCharm was 30% off for PyCon for example. I think anyone can use the code whether you attend or not.
It is a very cynical view that it seems more like propaganda.

In principle, the text of history is never the same as what really happened. What a historian can do is to do his best to write down what he verifies, the different accounts that have merits but none of them can be verified as the ultimate truth. As a reader of history, we should appreciate both the text and the effort, study it and learn our lessons.

Sima Qian's work covers not only the period of his life, but since the beginning of Chinese civilization. He read extensively, touched on all the texts he could get access to (his position in the government granted him such privilege, even after he was punished.) He often travelled out to verify the texts. Considering that was almost 2000 years ago and the size of China (although much smaller than now), one must respect his efforts.

I would say Sima Qian gave a comprehensive and objective depiction of Han Wudi, the emperor who punished him. Wudi was one of the greatest rulers in Chinese history. Sima Qian gave due credits to Wudi, while he didn't hesitate to write down his dubious policies and his mistakes, both before and after his punishment. Wudi knew his work, and didn't interfere. He punished Sima Qian for Sima's opinions on Li Ling (although Wudi was both wrong and brutal in this case), but not by his depiction on Wudi in his work.

I think it is fair to say Sima Qian is "one of two men who can claim to have invented history". His work is the standard and the gauge of all the historians that followed him. Not many have his talents and his balls.

Sima Qian's work is also a classic in literature. For anyone who studies ancient Chinese literature, he must study is work, the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji).
One thing for sure, a political leader in a democracy will only cater to the needs of his immediate key holders that run sectors of the country like the economy, military, etc., who in turn will only seek to fulfill the minimum amount of needs of the people that keeps them in power, nothing more nothing less.

The difference between a one party state is freedom of speech, human rights, a governing body that keeps the ruling party in check, and that using the military to squelch riots on national television would be political suicide.
Too soon to tell. They need undisputable facts about the building shifting positions, and exactly what the risk is. High risk means the governing authority can condemn it, get people out, and sort out liability later.

No doubt determining liability will involve a lot of insurance negotiations along with various court cases. Maybe there's a code violation, but plans showing an inevitable violation were approved? Who is liable for that? Etc. There are many possible sources, even distributed sources, for a mistake like this. But central is determining the scope of the damage.
No. So let's say it was $5b in 2006 and they were letting it compound. By 2016, at 35% interest compounding it would be worth over $100b. So by the simple fact that they raised the cap in 2016 to $10b (and the fund was not worth $100b) tells you that they are not letting it compound and as the article states, dividing the insane profits.
Unless one is for some reason unsatisfied with one's ISP DNS service, why would one use another one? I mean, after you get your response from server X, it is your ISP that will deliver the webpage so privacy-wise it doesn't make any difference (not even if you're using DNSCrypt or whatever). If your concern is response time then use dnsmasq. If you're using a VPN your ISP can't see your DNS requests (nor if you're using TOR and have properly configured it). Yes this is basically a MITM and it's bad, I'm just wondering why would anyone use something other than their ISPs DNS service in the first place.
You mean like using Swift, D and Rust on a VMWare instance running Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS?
You literally just responded to yourself.
How would the perfect argument go?

I'm thinking of the 2nd person asking questions about the first argument, asking for evidence, facts, definitions etc, in an attempt to understand.

I ask as a British citizen who has failed at all attempts to try to understand the other side (and I could take blame of course. I still seek a solution)
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It is, of course, much easier to tell if a piece of news is inconvenient or objectionable to the powerful than it is to tell if it's true. That's what makes the recent push to ban fake news and its laser-like focus on items that are pro-Trump or anti-Clinton so scary.
> but we all have the ability to tell which of the thoughts occur to us are good ones worth listening to and which aren't

I can assure you, we don't - for some people this is not at all clear, and especially not without outside help.
Plausible, but apparently not.[1]

[1] http://www.iafd.com/results.asp?searchtype=comprehensive&sea...
Not sure if anyone here has mentioned this yet, but it's useful to think of matrix multiplication as the most natural extension of one-dimensional algebra into multiple dimensions. First, remember that people first wrestled with and found solutions to "1-D" equations like "ax^2 + bx + c = 0". When others came along asking about how to extend these results into multiple dimensions so that previous results might still be useful, the most natural answer was found to be how we now define matrix multiplication. To see further evidence of this, take your favorite linear algebraic equation using matrices and then look at the edge case where you have only 1x1 matrices in your equation. Usually you'll end up with something that looks analogous to a result in basic algebra in real number (or complex) variables, not matrices.

If all this still seems counter-intuitive, then realize this is essentially why math is so important to our logic. It helps us to reason about things that are not obvious, yet logically must fall through from the basic tautologies we "chose" (like 0 != 1, addition on integer numbers, etc.). Or, more aptly in this case, it helps retain an analogous symbolic representation (the overall logic of the equation at the high level) despite a change in the underlying nuts and bolts of computing solutions to it (matrix multiplication vs. our regular "1D" multiplication).
In fairness to humanity, We've been around for 195,000 years but we only hit the critical mass of modern technology in the last few centuries, progress since then has been incredibly rapid against pretty much any natural timescale.

So it's more like 194,700 years of stumbling around tripping over our feet and 300 years of actually making progress.

We went from steam engines to the moon in <300 years.

Yes I'm aware ancient civilizations had made progress and fell back but nothing like the civilizations we have now in an absolute sense, it's really fair to compare a Xeon processor to anything that went before.
This isn't an issue on net neutral ISPs like Init7, but it is here in Germany. Even on a business Fibre line.
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I run 2-5 instances of Visual Studio and each one takes up 1-2 GB
As I said in my original post, "Appealing to their ultimate compromise is a strange argument, especially since the original political motivations have largely become either irrelevant or reprehensible."
Why would they have a porn in the studio?
HAL9000 isn't too far away it seems...
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I'm not suggesting net neutrality is not regulation. I'm suggesting it's simpler regulation than letting companies sort it out, which always end up with many competing top end interests getting all sorts of exceptions applied by scalpel and duct tape.
I wonder if your wife ever tried medical marijuana? Many people use it to battle anxiety and in fact anxiety reduction is one of the effects, websites like Leafly rate cannabis strains in. Cannabis aids sleep, so this might also be some desired effect for your wife.

Search for anxiety in reddit.com/r/trees and you'll see the amount of people who think it helps them.
Almost certainly none. The real use case of DNS over HTTPS isn't resolution from the desktop but from the browser (in JS), this is just a useful hack.
That's quite a bright line to draw, especially given that so few cars are air-gapped today (remote keyless ignition has been widely available since the 1990s).

Moreover, auto theft was a thing long before computers were.
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