skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's some serious nostalgia value. UNIX Power Tools came out before GNU had a dedicated website (was still hanging off MIT IIRC), pretty sure I used the CD that came with it to install some software.

Think I've owned 1/3rd of these at some point in time. O'Reilly used to be head and shoulders above everyone else in open source/UNIX books.

(I still remember the first time I ever saw a Linux book on a shelf at a bookstore. I feel old.)
> As to whether I understand pilot wave qm - I wrote a masters reaearch project on it on it, I studied physics.

As I said, you might understand the topic, but here you just dropped a fancy term and a very big claim, without explaining the first or giving an argument for the second. My point was not to claim you do not know what you are talking about, rather that you are not helping us understand what you are talking about.
Only that node can talk to your backend right?
Its not only possible, but incumbent to do so! Economic and political instability usually implies a power vacuum which will be filled by demagogues across the political spectrum.

The hyperinflation and political humiliation suffered by the Weimar republic led to it being assailed by both the extreme left and the extreme right, until you know who, in the febrile political climate, grabbed the reigns of power.

Human nature craves security and will turn desperately to anyone who looks like they can deliver it. Better the devil you know (a democratic functioning state), then a despotic one.
I'm willing to bet that most people complaining about it and talking about remapping it haven't actually used the Touch Bar yet.
I try to maintain an open mind, and an air of distrust over things I read and things governments do.

However Russia has form for brutality, wether they are liberating or conquering, or both. Russia might mean well (I don't believe they do, as with a lot of government actions), but I would tend to believe reports that whatever their motives they were going about it in an un-necessarily violent way.
> Have you ever tried to implement a modified d'hont method manually?

What do you mean? Doesn't it just requiere to perform a few divisions?
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> The side effects are minor: my night vision has degraded somewhat: halos around lights can make depth-perception while driving slightly difficult, and I can't distinguish shapes in the dark as well. Not a big deal, mostly just slightly annoying when camping.

Strange, I have those same side effects from getting older! That happens to everybody with age.

I look forward to the day that I can stick some stem cells in a vat, come back in a month or two, and have some brand-new eyeballs.
> What do you expect when a laser cuts into your eye?

Technically, it's a femtosecond laser that's sculpting the surface of the lens of your eye using ablation (i.e. pulse of laser light disintegrates an area the diameter of laser).

A "3d scan" of your eye (tomography) done prior to surgery is done while sitting to create the surgical plan. But the lasik procedure is performed while laying down. And since the shape of your eye is a lot like a water balloon... the shape of your eye changes between sitting and standing.

A more accurate surgical plan / tomographic profile could (in theory) lead to better patient outcome simply by having both procedures done while standing.
There's obviously a world of difference between voter fraud--which happens some amount, but doesn't have a partisan lean--and a foreign state effectively pressing its thumbs on the scales to determine who's going to lead the USA. Even if Russia only hacked one state to give a couple thousand votes extra margin to an already winning candidate, that would be worth millions or billions of dollars to uncover.

Luckily, this would only likely cost seven figures.
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Huh? LASIK isn't a treatment for cataracts. The surgeon removes the lense and implants an artificial one.

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/diseases/what-is-cataract-sur...
I had this exact same feeling whenever I wore glasses. Just suddenly feeling nerdy.

Then I got one of those round, cool-looking glasses that really go with the shape and my face, and it changed everything. I love wearing glasses now. (Btw. they are Ace and Tate, the European Warby parker.)

So, finding glasses that you absolutely love is crucial.

PS: I also have a nerdy pair for coding, they are weightless and super comfy for computer. Don't feel confident in them though.
imho the qubes approach is more viable and exposes far less attack surface. Qubes is also, contrary to it's reputation, a very usable OS (with KDE in dom0, at least).
Does anyone know the legality of putting the DRM free pdf files into a public Dropbox folder? Not sure what copyrights or licenses still apply if I decide to buy these and share this with other people.
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In the past, they've offered bundles with print copies if you pay at least $xx (40-50, IIRC). Not all the books though, usually some subset of the books available.

Just a third (or fourth) tier in the scheme they already use.
I got Lasik about 7-8 years ago and they said I could have issues described in the article for several months and in some cases it could affect your night vision for a few years (which it did). The symptoms subsided over a few years. My vision is now awesome. Were other people warned of these potential (temporary) issues?
And DSSSL before that. But I guess XML is just not hip enough anymore.

Actually, having done some work on XSLT these days again I was joking to a colleague at work that one day someone will surely think what a great idea it would be to create a programming language in JSON to transform JSON to other JSON. And lo and behold, a few days later I stumble over this.

I have to admit, XSLT looks far nicer to me, but that might be familiarity and a proper specification to read to understand things instead of just a bunch of examples.
A specious definition, unworthy of you. Dogs demonstrate preferences for particular toys; squirrels will defend a cache of nuts; ant colonies manage herds of aphids. A property interest can be invested in an object or in a piece of territory and I dispute your claim that they are somehow fundamentally different, but contend instead that property consists of any resource over which one has and anticipates retaining control.
I'm past school and haven't had LASIK, but am still thinking seriously about it. I wore contacts for awhile, but have been sticking to glasses for the past few years.

I don't mind the fashion part, but wearing glasses (or contacts) gets really annoying with anything to do with water--swimming or even rain. I'm also a bit paranoid I'm going to lose or break them when travelling or camping (I should buy a backup). I find dirty lenses distracting and it's a huge pain to keep glasses clean. I also find using SLR cameras annoying. I can adjust the diopter to get it in focus, but I have to take my glasses off when I hold it to my face.

I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.
Pollsters predicted reality incorrectly => Reality was hacked

Man, those guys know how to spin the outcome.
It's 90 seconds of reading. What's the problem?
That approach is listed on the site under alternatives.
No it's not. "Pay what you want" is the most prominent statement on the whole page. The one dollar minimum for content is obscure.

edit: why do people vote me down when what I say is true? I'm sorry but I'm not willing to pay for tutorials on open source applications that I can otherwise legally get for free. Humble Bundle isn't even a non-profit corporation. They are a private for-profit corporation where profit is the bottom line and donations to charity are more of a marketing gimmick used to reach that bottom line. Humble Bundle is a highly, highly profitable middle man operation that banks on the altruism of people.
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My problem with PDF technical books is that they are typically formatted for 8.5x11 or A4 paper, typically with a really huge margin. I wish that there was something in the PDF spec to allow for multiple sizes to be specified in a single file, so that the same file can be used for printing as well as viewing on a 6 inch reader.
Nice, thanks! I'll likely play with Zenkit some more next week and will undoubtedly have some feedback for you as I've been looking at a lot of project management tools recently.
There is also a fun selfie league in Oakland you can play in if you are in the area. http://oaklandpinballwarriors.com/ All the players are super friendly and encouraging to newbies. I've recently gotten into it and while I'm not very good, pinball does something for me that I don't find in video games anymore. Looks like the Eric mentioned in the article was the winner of last months tournament :)
Remember I'm not discussing what they have now, though; the question is what they came out of the gate with in their 1.0. I'm fairly confident Go 1.0 was much more useful than Java 1.0. Java 1.0 certainly didn't ship with a built-in web server and routing stack, or even anything close to that high-level functionality, even if it did ship with more data structures that Go has even now. .Net was a closer call, but, then, .Net came later, the bar had raised. Can't speak to the other ones but I would imagine their first releases were also less useful than Go.
Scott Aaronson's take on the paper you linked to:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799
I just finished doing a restoration on a Bally Party Zone pin, down to rebuilding ramps with a DIY vacuum form machine. These things went for a couple of hundred dollars 5-10 years ago. Now you're lucky to find a relatively ho-hum pin for under $1200 regardless of condition. Additionally they are notoriously difficult to transport safely and affordably, so you may find one you really want at a good price, but good luck since it's 1500 miles away from you.

Anyway, just wanted to chime in since I don't have a lot of pinhead friend who would appreciate the months of work I put into restoring this pin: home made ramps, all new solenoids, complete tear down, all LEDs, new posts, new bumper rubbers, cleaned the playfield. Now I have electronic gremlins to sort out - stupid horizontal DMD issues.
I'm 24 w/ astigmatism and I have those same problems. Night vision and halos / starbursts.
Not from me. I'm just trying to pass on the savings to HN users. :)
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Quick reply to say I cited what the board said, not to praise them (I have no comment on the board then or now) but because they independently stated that I resigned, _contra_ gaur who wrote that I was fired. Facts matter.

Thanks for your other words & thoughts.
I like reading guides like this, and they're useful in a sort of encyclopedic sense, but the problem with them is that they're really a "practical guide to doing every conceivable security thing you could do" with macOS, which is in fact not the best way to secure your operating system. For instance: it's probably not the world's greatest idea to go out of your way to install Adium for secure messaging on a locked-down Mac.

The cryptographic advice in this particular guide is not especially great. You can, for instance, safely ignore what it says about randomness (and, in particular, about how it interacts with FileVault's XTS block crypto). Its advice about password management is needlessly complex (if you trust Keychain, use Keychain Assistant to generate passwords, not OpenSSL --- but most of the cool kids just use 1Password, and they're right to do that).
> 1) dismissing with prejudice the evidence that was counter to his claim

He had already evaluated that evidence and found it weak and unconvincing.

> 2) asserting it as evidence for his claim

This did not happen.

> 3) implying that mentioning that counter-evidence is itself evidence of malfeasance on my part ("pretty telling").

He's using a simple argument. A) When people are trying to be convincing, they usually use some of the better evidence they have. B) He asserts that X and Y are weak and unconvincing evidence, based on previous evaluation.

This leads to a very simple conclusion: Someone pulling out X and Y as their main line of argument probably has no good evidence. This is not kafkaesque. He gave you a genuine opportunity to provide good evidence.

The only 'telling' is of lacking good evidence, not malfeasance.

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In other words, he's not trying to take your evidence and turn it backwards. He's saying that the use of weak evidence as the core of your argument implies that you don't have good evidence. Weak evidence is better than nothing, but he has evidence of his own on the other side, so weak evidence is not enough in this case.
>You really don't see anything incongruent about the article's premise and his "conclusion", nor do you see that it's a preposterously philosophically-foolish position to take? He's okay with marrying a women I will not love nor have any emotional stake in. She'll just marry me, we'll live together, and she'll just be a semen vessel? Spare me the willful ignorance.

I see many, many issues with it. Did you not read my post?

>Can we stop nitpicking? These publications often rely on crappy news in aggregate to push a narrative.

Yes, that's true. Again, so do other sources, including many left-leaning ones.

>Watch any of Milo's interviews on video and watch him twist himself in circles. He spends the majority of the time backpedaling on things he said rather than take some affirmative position with evidence to back it up.

Right, because he's mostly going for clickbait and ad revenue and just general attention and self-aggrandizement. But the point is that he has a right to do that, and you have a right to challenge him on it.

>And to the overall censorship point: No one is calling for censorship. Private citizens and companies don't want to deal with Breitbart. Companies like facebook probably just don't have the ability nor the resources to sort through every single thing that starts trending from Breitbart

It seems we agree on most things except this.

First off, as far as I'm aware, Facebook and Twitter have absolutely no plans to block Breitbart. They're only blocking fake news outlets. Outlets that completely fabricate stories and evidence and interviews etc.

Facebook is a private corporation, but like it or not they are a massive monopoly.

No, it's not censorship in the sense of government censorship, but it has a similar effect. We don't have to call it censorship for the horrible effects to become apparent, so I'll stop calling it that.

Facebook has so much reach that you could equate them to a state in many ways. Blocking Breitbart would only solidify conservatives' beliefs that liberal elites are trying to stifle their voice and prevent them from sharing any contrary opinions, and make them feel even more marginalized. It would be a major boon to Trump and his administration. I think that one single action could be the start of a path that makes our country much more divisive than it is now. Zuckerberg was 100% right to be extremely wary about blocking any news sources pre-election.

An advertiser dissociating with Breitbart is one thing, but major social media outlets that effectively act as common carriers should not ban things without a very good reason, like law-infringing material or scams (which fake news outlets generally are).
>The glass of wine or beer is, firstly, more palatable than marijuana,

Your personal opinion.

>secondly, you can do it indoors without everything smelling like weed,

Vaporizers diminish the smell to a point where it's almost unnoticeable, and edibles don't smell at all.

>thirdly, the mild depressant effect of one alcoholic beverage is way more pleasant than getting high

Again, your personal opinion.

>Not to mention the cost.

"The average price per gram, they found, was $6.81; the average joint was $3.50."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/science/how-much-weed-is-i...

I think for most people an entire joint by themselves is going to take care of them for the entire night (or longer if it's snuffed out and re-lit). How many beers or mixed drinks are you getting for $3.50?
Having visited England recently, despite the surveillance engine being prepped in the US, the contrast of the extent and the lack of rights and legal means in the UK to protect the people from bad laws like this was palpable. So look at it this way, at least you don't live there.

If we keep headed in the same direction though it won't be long before we forget all the reasons for the American Revolution and let the globalists convince us to rejoin the empire cough the commonwealth again.

Of course, any American who advocates for such a thing is traitorous, and should have the full weight of the law brought down on them.

I don't know, maybe I'm crazy and I'm the only one who thinks oaths mean anything these days.

I will say this though, beware the Rhodesians and their round tables.
Good to hear you're considering it. It may be worth looking into appimages as well. They don't seem to focus as much on security, but perhaps their isolation is better? Flatpaks seem to share quite a bit with each other, and I worry it may create another X11-situation. Flatpaks may still be better overall, though, if they can also have good isolation.

I doubt you should even bother with snaps. They don't seem to be that well supported outside of Ubuntu, and I doubt they will ever be.
You missed the point. I'm arguing for voting - not banking - to be kept on paper.

Banking is a completely different problem. The secrecy requirements are different - in fact, audit trails of all individual transactions are expected. Big transactions are typically individually reviewed by humans. People/organizations can choose their bank. There are multiple banks -> no single target. Transactions can be traced and rolled back, so coercion is less of a problem. Risk is mostly financial.
Ah, interesting. I wonder why they don't do it standing up or at least in a brace with the head forward like they do some surgeries.
> wearing glasses (or contacts) gets really annoying

Add sports in general and VR goggles to that list
> mv = pq is very well tested.

Well, that's the definition of v.
FRIEDMAN: Are you worried, though, that those companies will keep their factories here, but the jobs will be replaced by robots?
TRUMP: They will, and we’ll make the robots, too. [laughter]

Lots of people seem to think that we can bring manufacturing back in this way but even if we "make the robots" there will never be enough manufacturing jobs to make a difference.
The latest (unreleased) game from Jersey Jack called Dialed In has a feature that sort of discourages this. "Bullets" are fired at your flippers and if they reach the flipper it's temporarily disabled. You can see it in the following YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urivsfl9GVM sorry I don't have a direct time code.
I do too, and it doesn't hurt that usually good communication has equaled a very good product or service.

Some companies which have particularly impressed me with their onboarding communications are Survata (a YC company, https://www.survata.com/ ), and Octopus Deploy ( https://octopus.com/ )
If you believe consciousness exists, and that the universe is real, then it's pretty much tautological that the universe is a system which includes consciousness, which is a very, very tiny step away from stating that the universe itself is conscious --- not by way of mysticism, but simply by redefining your terms. In much the same way, my house can be considered a data processing device, because it contains a computer. (Well. Several computers. Many computers.)

The problem is, what do we do with this now? There's never been any physical evidence that consciousness is a real thing or can effect the world in any way other than via the actions of people who believe they are conscious (which, speaking from my perspective of a person who believes they are conscious, is no small thing); the only real consequences of deciding that we are part of a greater conscious system are going to be philosophical. And there are plenty of existing philosophical systems which believe that already --- you mention Buddhism.

And while I do think that believing that we're part of the world, rather than being somehow separate from it, is definitely a good idea, I'm an engineer. This seems dissatisfying. Is there anything else can we do with this idea?
I had a great outcome, dare I say ideal? Knock on wood...

I got Wavefront LASIK more than a year ago and it feels like I was born with perfect vision -- I seriously have no side effects. Seriously, what are halos? I couldn't describe it to you even if I tried. The first few months were pretty dry (to the point where I had headaches) but that eventually subsided. If you're in the market for LASIK and actually do your due diligence, it's pretty common to see people who are dealing with side effects. My advice is to (1) don't cheap out and feel comfortable with your doctor, and (2) adopt a healthy lifestyle to let your eyes heal.

LASIK was one of the best investments I've ever made. I think most people who've had the procedure will say the same.
I got my eyes fixed with LASIK a while back. I noticed glare and halos for a while, but they subsided. Overall I've been very satisfied with the how it went. I wish that more medical procedures worked this way.
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> And had someone told me my view of the night sky would be ruined forever

Due to halos around celestial objects? I've never thought about that aspect and is a very good point.
The law as written protects you against this:

RIPA S49(2) (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/23/part/III/crosshe...):

If any person with the appropriate permission under Schedule 2 believes, on reasonable grounds—

(a)that a key to the protected information is in the possession of any person,

(b)that the imposition of a disclosure requirement in respect of the protected information is—

(i)necessary on grounds falling within subsection (3), or

(ii)necessary for the purpose of securing the effective exercise or proper performance by any public authority of any statutory power or statutory duty,

(c)that the imposition of such a requirement is proportionate to what is sought to be achieved by its imposition, and

(d)that it is not reasonably practicable for the person with the appropriate permission to obtain possession of the protected information in an intelligible form without the giving of a notice under this section,

the person with that permission may, by notice to the person whom he believes to have possession of the key, impose a disclosure requirement in respect of the protected information.

If the technology by implementation never gives you the keys and doesn't retain them, then there can't be a reasonable belief that you're in possession of the keys, so the requirement fails at the first hurdle.
http://support.oreilly.com/oreilly/topics/if_i_buy_pdf_versi...

This is O'Reilly's take on it. You can lend it, but you can't have access to it while it's lent out. Really, really hard to enforce. But I believe PDFs are watermarked (don't know how they'll do it with this bundle), so if you lend it out and the copy gets into the wild, so to speak, they can trace it back to your account.
>sculpting the surface of the lens

Cornea, not lens. And it's not the surface. It's the area under the flap which is mechanically cut.
I honestly find the XFCE desktop more usable.
Why would I care if it was imported from US or China?

Not to mention, I wouldn't buy iPhone in the first place.
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