skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only once you know for a fact that a better solution is possible can you actually think of that solution

This section reminded me of something a friend posited about space travel.

There are some inventions that just being exposed to the idea of them is enough to invent them. For instance, it seems that cultures that encounter others that have written language fairly quickly invent their own, even without knowledge of how the others work. The Cherokee syllabary was invented by an illiterate silversmith in the 1820s after he saw other people communicating via paper and knew that they represented a way to transmit information (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah#Sequoyah_and_Cherokee...). The writing system that he invented was a syllabary, not an alphabet like the people he'd been observing or a logographic system like some other Native American languages. Having a writing system is a contagious idea all its own and knowing that they exist is sufficient to invent one.

It may be that efficient space travel is one of these inventions: just seeing someone else do it may be enough to invent it ourselves. I don't mean in the sense that we may observe details that give us hints as to how it works (though that's probably also true), I mean in the way that the article says "If nobody had gotten to the score of 180 before me, I couldn’t have thought of any faster way of solving this puzzle. Without that piece of information, the brain just comes up with reasons why the score is already optimal". Simply observing working space travel may be enough for us to invent it ourselves. We may even invent a system entirely unlike the one we observed.
it does have a built-in method, it just expects you to pay for gold to get a spam filter for /all
My partner and I will trade off who drives, but mine is always the one on Bluetooth. This would make it super annoying for me to navigate to places as a passenger, and I'd have to use her phone, which then shows the defects in the system.
Well done! I'm hoping to try Elm out soon as well.
On iOS, your highlight detection pops under the native UI, and so it remains largely invisible. Maybe have your pop up UI element show at the beginning or end of the line?
My thoughts on things in America in broad brush strokes
That's pretty cool. For me, everything changed when I started thinking in terms of column spaces and linear transformations. Matrices are not just a series of multiplications and additions. They describe so much more.
Fidel Castro has died
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TIL histrionic (it looked like a misspelling)

histrionic

ˌhɪstrɪˈɒnɪk

noun

plural noun: histrionics

1. melodramatic behaviour designed to attract attention.

"by now, Anna was accustomed to her mother's histrionics"
synonyms:	dramatics, drama, theatrics, theatricality,
tantrums

archaic

dramatic performances; the theatre.

"he loved the theatre and everything which savoured of histrionics"

2.
archaic
an actor.
All web apps are CPU bound. At a certain point, your backend is done and it's up to the web app to compute a return value (similarly for the part that calculates the backend request). That part of the request is cpu bound.
Maintaining the system of resource allocation we use today known as "property" takes resources and violence. If we can create one that is cheaper, less cruel, and has better outcomes then the current one, we should do it. Arguing that its wrong because this system says it is wrong is backwards circular thinking.
How is it "histrionics"?

"are they bound by the agreement which opened their primary account, or is there no legal agreement in place?"

How can you be bound by things you never agreed to?

"We signed you up for more services, but because you said yes once that means you are always ours."
I'd like to reverse the cause-effect relationship here to posit:

People and systems are depicted in fiction as stupid because writers, by and large, are stupid people.

In reality, the problem isn't that writers are stupid but that writers are lazy--unfortunately the result is effectively the same.

Writing a smart character takes a great deal of work. Most authors simply will not put in that work.

Guy Gavriel Kay is one of the few authors I like simply because his characters are competent.
Yes, manually driving a car will become illegal probably sooner than one expects.

While I'd like to leave the driving to Otto most of the time, sometimes I really like to drive myself, and would miss it.

I like my drag racing manual transmission and clutch, it's a heluva lot of fun to drive on the open road, but it's agony in heavy city traffic. (The engine just will not run at low speeds, the clutch is very grabby :) It can be really hard to get moving uphill from a standstill without rotating the tires in place a few times.)
I'm curious, were these actual truffle dishes? Or were they simply flavored with truffle oil? Because truffle oil, is by most accounts, awful.
Scientific American Removes “The Arctic Is Seriously Wierd Right Now”
Yeah, its one of the handful of programs I paid for and well worth it.
Not really. An effective sandbox is restrictive. Managed languages tend to use a more limited set of system calls than non-managed languages because most libraries don't make any system calls of their own. The Go runtime and standard library use a more limited set of system calls than most alternatives, so a more limited set of sandbox filters are required.

Injected instructions are more likely to invoke their own system calls, so you are more likely to catch it if you have a more restrictive set of filters.
This is my stance. Texting (and apps) while driving is a huge issue, but so is road rage, DUIs, forgetting to check the bike lane when turning, loud music that makes it impossible to hear ambulances approaching, massive A pillars in newer cars that save the passengers in a wreck but make it impossible to see pedestrians entering a crosswalk when taking a left, people being dicks and running lights because they're more important than you, and the general fact that humans get distracted and can never focus on all directions at once. I appreciate the regulators trying to solve a major piece of the puzzle, but honestly, if we want to reduce the toll that automobiles are pushing on society, we need to focus on a world where very few humans are driving. Some of that is self driving cars, some of that is better rapid transit infra (and two and two go together).
That’s true indeed. Many other countries have a lot more relaxed zoning, or accumulative zoning (where, if you zone something as one type, it can be built with that type, or any more restrictive zone – you can always build housing in a commercial district, for example. See Japan).

Or places where zoning is only done for specific developments, and then very generally (only restricting height and noise for the development, for example, instead of building type, or restricting nothing at all. See: Germany).
I think the argument (speculating - the article isn't clear on this) is that the customers were bound to that agreement when they legitimately opened their first account.

I agree that the article sounds like histrionics because it doesn't explain the situation clearly. The article makes it sound like the customers are being bound somehow based on their forged signatures, which sounds like hogwash to me.

My suspicion is that the customers were bound to this term by opening their original account -- or at least, that's Wells Fargo's argument. The legal debate seems to be about whether the terms of service signed by the customer at that time would prevent them from suing over the additional fraudulent accounts. Basically, whether those terms of service apply to that situation or not.
> Does a CEO improving his company market value by firing people have the same contribution to society as a paramedic saving a life, a nanny taking care of a baby so the parents can work or a teacher educating kids?

Yes, by firing people who don't provide much value at this company they can go on and provide more value at other companies. It will make their lives tougher for a while, but redistributing labor can provide immense value.

For example, lets say that a CEO over many hospitals cleaned up bureaucracy in them. This lead to increased efficiency, and now many people are just doing busywork and aren't really needed. The CEO then fires thousands of healthcare workers who can go on and work at other hospitals. This will drive down costs and help more people get the healthcare they need. His work is surely more important than the work of an individual healthcare worker.
I'm still in college, but I have some experience in renovating apartments/houses so I'll probably do that.
Sorry, what are you showing here?

How does this qualify for "Show HN"?
Same privarization scheme was applied to all statea in eastern Europe post iron curtain fall. Serbia is one example of huge corruption during privatization of companies
If this did pass I can imagine the number of rooted smart phones would skyrocket. There has never really been a compelling reason to root an iPhone, but I bet for a lot of people this would be it.
Most billionaires make most of their money through stocks, so why not invest in those companies and make good money [if things are becoming better for billionaires].
If they hold money in their Stripe account, it would transform Stripe into a money transmitter. The regulations involved are completely different and immense and would change Stripe into a different company. Also, the regulations are different for every state they're in, with different requirements on the board of directors (like NY state). A lot of the things they do as a processor right now would be impossible if they turned into a money transmitter. They would turn into Paypal not because they want to, but because the regulators would force them. Including everything that's bad about Paypal.
Not quite sure what you mean: I was responding to a question asking why it would be nice to have a liquid core. In other words, I was commenting on the radiation question.

To hide from Radiation, one plan is to have 16 feet of soil on top of the habitat [1], and limit outdoor time to just 2 hours a day. Given those levels, I'd argue that it would make better sense to build entirely underground on the Moon. The Moon has a shallower gravity well, much stronger solar flux for power, and is much closer for resupply.

[1] http://www.space.com/21813-mars-one-colony-space-radiation.h...
That quote might feel right, because first world people deal with first world problems. However, the vast number of Syrian refugees make that quote somewhat inapplicable to the current day.
Top Books on Amazon Based on Number of HN Users Linking Them in Comments
This is similar to what Nate Silver put out earlier (as mentioned in the article). The difference in voting to each candidate by county and voting machine type is completely explained by the population distribution in those counties.

In Wisconsin, the counties that used paper ballots tended to be less white and better educated. That's why Clinton got more votes there, probably. It is unlikely that there is real widespread tampering.

That said, there is still good reason to audit all national elections. They're quite important, after all. The mad dash to say who won really quickly does a disservice to the process, IMO.
Do you mean the partition containing /usr will be mounted ad read-only?
Cool stuff here. I'm getting to the point in my career and life where I'd like to remain working in tech, but I've realized the major cities of the world just aren't any place for someone like me. My priorities revolve around starting a family in a reasonable COL place, and I feel like FT remote is almost certainly my future - perhaps indefinitely. I live in isolated Eastern WA right now and would like to continue living in places like this.
Fidel Castro Dead at 90: Cuban TV
Sounds nice until you have twelve homeless people sleeping in the park your kid plays at after school. I can empathize, but let's not pretend there is no appreciable downside here.
Incremental Swift
> Think of how big sports are.

But that's just it. Sports (and entertainment, your other example) are tiny, because only the top .001% are valued. Everyone else is basically slaving away for free in the hopes that they make it to that top echelon. Even the amount of support jobs is teeny compared to other industries.

The problem with advanced automation is that it eliminates sectors that have huge employment bases (think of how many people that drive for a living) and replaces them with sectors that tend to be much smaller in comparison.
> We just don't provide Linux binaries, except Ubuntu Snaps,

You should at least mention on the site that you provide Ubuntu Snaps though.
https://i.imgur.com/60ya7x8.png

I know its considered wrong to mess around with the structure, but this is reversible, looks neater, n' can be hidden (after verification) by third party tools with a simple "is this PGP-like, if yes, delete element" instead of mucking around, splitting arbitrary html
I hope they do this. I would love to laugh while the carriers never sell another phone and everybody else installs Cyanogen.

Toyota had to remove a system diagnostic feature that would disable the "can't adjust nav system while driving" misfeature.

I can just imagine the fuss if you forced someone under 35 to actually not be able to use their phone for 60 seconds.
A central figure of the 20th century - it would've been remarkable to be a fly on the wall for some of this man's life experiences.
> Compared to the usual two line pledge diffs that's quite a bit more work to do.

I don't think you're comparing apples and oranges. OpenBSD has just already done the restructuring as a separate commit; in FreeBSD you see it all at the same time, so it looks bigger. Capsicum for simple stuff is only a few lines, especially with the "helper" subroutines.

In some cases we can get more functionality with the same restriction, or more restriction than OpenBSD due to more specific constraints. So there's more code, but it also does more. It can be a trade-off.
there is still good reason to audit all national elections. They're quite important, after all. The mad dash to say who won really quickly does a disservice to the process, IMO.

Agreed. Maybe it's late, but I'm leaning towards thinking auditing should be closer to the norm than otherwise. Kinda like testing? Get the system so smooth and clean that everything is obvious and trustworthy.

Edit: Okay, it is getting late. I just starting thinking of what an election Chaos Monkey would look like.
I tried the same search with DuckDuckGo and got the same results as what I posted.
"Hypochondriac" and "special snowflake" are both heavily judgmental and dismissive terms, at least in my experience. Assuming the comment was expressing genuine concern with no malice, less judgmental language would have been useful.
I went to Cuba earlier this year. It felt like a new era was upon the island. This just solidifies that.

Looking back, it will be crazy to think, I went to Cuba while Fidel Castro was still alive.
... CIA takes credit for their fail safe "old age" assassination plan.
Yep, I found the source by searching for it on Github, what I was calling out was the fact that a link to the source from the Flatpak website itself was buried at the very bottom of the "about" section where I missed it completely the first few times I went over the site. It should have been included in the "Build" or at least "Developer" section of the site.

Maybe it's just an oversight on their part, but I find the lack of any discussion of source or licensing (is it GPL, MIT, BSD?) on the site a bit of a put-off. I see from digging into the Github files it's LGPL, but why not advertise that, and the source link, more prominently on the main page? That, along with the other issue I mentioned (catering to only a few distros while claiming support for all distros) gives me pause.
Damn, you're old!

It's always amazing when something becomes history so suddenly.
They finally got him.
I'm a bit of a numbskull when it comes to legal matters, but wouldn't any previous agreement between the bank and its customer become null and void when the bank willfully and egregiously commits criminal acts by forging signatures and signing them up for services they didn't agree to?

For me, this is one of the scariest issues USA faces, a de facto loss to right of trial via binding arbitation
To the author of the article:

I'm jealous you found such a great friend to play the game with. ;-) I found the game interesting but without social interaction it wasn't able to keep me engaged... So I uninstalled it after a day or so.

Secondly... I reinstalled the game and opened up the second puzzle to see what my score was. Surely _my_ solution must have been better than the standard 240? Nope! Now I'm scratching my head trying to figure out how you did it. You bastard! ;-)
I would think that organs that are harvested from OD victims would not be "good" because of the harm that the drugs can cause the organs?

Perhaps its organs that were not effected // deemed usable.
Yes, /r/golang is way more friendlier than go-nuts.

I say this by proof.

1. One year ago I started learning Go. It was difficult to understand it, I read a lot of books and stuff. I started working on http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks, Later, I realised that there isn't a free resource to teach what I learned, so I tried to share my knowledge by creating this, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook....

The first post I made was to /r/golang: I got immensely +ve feedback, suggestions etc.

The second post I made was that google group, I was told "The language is called Go and not Golang" and the condensed feedback from the elites was (after someone rallied behind me saying that give real feedback and this is being jerk and blah blah) that "it might be the case that suraj wrote a good book but people won't take it seriously until the language name is corectly used"

Who cares about the title of the book? I certainly don't. I have read astaxie's book, codegansta's book, both had golang in their title. Their content was amazing. I loved them, didn't care about the title

The links are below

As another instance, I wanted help in AJAX one year ago, I asked /r/golang, I got two examples in half hour, one with plain JS another with jquery.

Do you really think that if /r/golang was so "toxic" and "scum" as they call it on the go-nuts mailing list (a glaring violation of the CoC shoved down our throats) that there would be a consensus among /r/golang to unequivocally say "if Go authors don't participate in /r/golang then they are welcome to step down?"

I do not understand what they want to do, Guido created python, is he the mod of /r/python, does he care what authors name their book? "oh the language is Python with a capital P", no, he does what he does and let's the community handle the community.

my exp with /r/golang

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5dkobc/sample_webap...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/56mgxb/learn_how_to...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/50ih0s/whats_up_wit...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4zyjye/network_prog...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4kbup2/can_webapps_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4jxtdg/building_an_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4jaiun/updated_my_t...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4ihjk7/added_sessio...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/46vb6x/want_to_disc...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/45uqpw/updated_my_t...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/439asd/simple_comma...

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/3zle8c/i_am_writing...

The fact that I do not have a single (+ve) link on go-nuts speaks volumes about which forum is toxic.

Just read this thread which I started on go-nuts

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/F4LJwyYZcX...

And tell me later which community is helpful.
The Internet is of revolutionary importance.

However even with the most sophisticated data per second flows, virtual and augmented reality, we still need progress in the physical realm or our infrastructure will fall around our ears while we're constructing the New World.

> crispr will be huge.

What do you think they said about?

1. The discovery of DNA.

1.1 The Human Genome Project.

1.1.1 CRISPR

1.1.1.1 ????

The ability to cut and paste DNA is a great advance but people expected revolutionary steps forward in the past too and were disappointed with actual results. Anytime you hear 'biotech this' or 'biotech that', recall to mind only about 16 new biotech drugs are allowed onto the market, and I bet you cannot name any off the top of your head. That tells you something.

It is worth knowing what our grandparents really thought about the future. I strongly recommend you watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RRxqg4G-G4

> The way you define advancement also seems to ignore incremental improvements, and the incremental improvements weve made in all fields in the last 40 years is vast

Far from it!

I am concerned that people are being chronocentric e.g. They have forgotten that energy prices used to be much, much cheaper. Exponentially cheaper!

I have two proposals for you.

1. Technology means doing more, with less. Less input, more output.

2. The basic metric for economic progress is that prices go downwards.

These are straight forward claims. They are not outrageous.

In areas where we have clear progress, like computation, finding downward trending prices is easy. In other areas the answer is far less clear and I find people become prone to rationalization instead of imagining a better possible present and future.

I'm not a pessimist. I just think we could be doing a whole lot more. It took me considerable time to realize that not everything was progressing and there were giant gaping holes in that reasoning.
If the average order value is $47, for the average item value to also be $47 it would imply the average order size is one item. That seems highly unlikely.
30,000 ‘Lost and Found’ photos tell the tale of ’70s surf culture
I'm surprised that there isn't even a painted line to indicate how far back you have to stand to be clear of the train.