skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I purchase a bunch of technical books in digital format, but I always skip books which are not DRM-free and don't deliver at least PDF and EPUB formats.

It is true that code examples look broken at times, but most of the times turning the kindle to landscape orientation does the trick.

You should avoid feeding PDFs to your Kindle, since they only look good on a PC or on a 4:3 tablet (ex. iPad or Galaxy Tab S2), although, after reading a chapter on your Kindle, it is positive to skim through the PDF to get a grasp of the details you might have missed.

As a Kindle owner, the format you really want is .MOBI (or .EPUB converted with kindlegen[1] and trimmed down with kindlestrip[2]).

Most .MOBIs you'll encounter are actually conversions from .EPUB with kindlegen, so you should trim them down with kindlestrip too.

Finally, if you're a Kindle power user, then you should give Calibre[3] a try to convert other formats to .MOBI, but be warned that the conversion is a hit-or-miss.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000765211

[2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/kindlestrip/

[3] https://calibre-ebook.com/
What makes LASIK differently from other medical procedures? Don't those work, too?
So... We are at 2% now with millions of votes still uncounted, and canvassing is giving back votes to HRC.

We've seen beginnings of evidence of strange vote count issues in some counties in Wisconsin that gave more votes counted for Trump than ballots cast in total, and as these are corrected Trump's lead in that state lowers noticeably and even threatened to flip some districts.

I'm curious if, upon this information, you're still in favor of the EC not being faithless.
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>> The study analyzed outcomes for two groups of LASIK patients. In the first group, which included 262 Navy personnel with an average age of 29.1, it was 43 percent reporting new symptoms.

I'm in the middle of a multi-year application process for a job in the armed forces. They are VERY suspicious of all laser eye surgeries. I had several tests specifically looking for evidence of surgery. They didn't find any, but they did find a tiny scar in my cornea left over from when I was a teenager. My point: think long and hard about laser eye surgery if there is any change that you may want to work with or for any armed service. You cannot hide these procedures.

Flip side: If they implement a draft, lasik might get you a pass.
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Hi, Peter from Zenkit here. Thanks so much for the suggestions!! Love the"all the things" idea. Webhooks and APIs will be released alongside the iOS app next month.
And we'll definitely have to think about the sharing/user permissions etc..
Consider Pyramid web framework.
Deploy it on gunicorn server with eventlet workers.
Use pushpin if you need realtime.

Its easy, it scales, use any DB and Pyramid framework has good documentation too.

Or go with web2py if you need to start simple and easy and fast prototyping. It has an ORM which supports many Relational DB and MongoDB too if you need it. It has good documentation. Its authentication and authorization system is too easy.

Stick to python3.

Really good python learning resources.

http://www.diveintopython3.net/

and

http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/
How can the room I am sitting in be simultaneously out
there and, as it were, inside my head, my experience? We
still have no answer to that question.

Really? It seems quite obvious that events "out there" can affect what's going on "in here" (i.e. my brain) via sound, light, direct contact, etc.

Consciousness is a difficult problem, yes, but there's no need to make it seem even more difficult than it actually is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
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I had a SMILE (which is the next generation procedure) operation done a year ago. I went from -9 with heavy astigmatism on both eyes to around -0.5 on one and -0.15 on the other with a slight astigmatism. It was two awful weeks of pain because of eye drops I am allergic to, but worth every moment of it.

See, I've worn glasses since I was a kid. At age 8 my prescription were more -6. I ended up being a goalkeeper on my soccer team because I kept getting my glasses smashed. When I got older, I found out I couldn't use contacts because my eyes were always too dry. My glasses cost af fortune, I only had one pair and when it broke, I had to do it without for weeks. So I became cautious.

I knew the surgery existed. But for a lot of years I hesitated. I feared what if the surgery went bad, what if I went blind. Or my vision deteriorated. I use it evey day for my job. So even with the promise of a free, corrective surgery (thank you, public health care) I chose not to.

But last year I realised that if I ever were to have this surgery and not wear glasses at all for a while, it was now. Because in ten years I'll have reading glasses. So I went for it, and now I'm certain I'm bringing my own kids when I exit the public pool.

My eye sight isn't as perfect as it was before (120 %), but I had a corrective LASIK operation done two months ago on the "worst" eye, and it's above average now. Even though it's worse than it was, it's been an awesome trade off.
That's one reason why I've started using the term "interiority" to describe the bedrock "existence of a feeling of what it is like" phenomenon. It's the smallest word I can think of that still conveys the essence of the hard part of the hard problem.

Put another way, I'm of the belief (and I think Chalmers and many others share it) that if you can demonstrate to me that C. Elegans feels itself wiggling around, and you can show me why it feels anything at all and why it feels this way vs that way, then you have solved the hard problem. I could take your technical specifications for basic interiority (the solution to the hard problem) and then give you human-level reflective consciousness in a few years given a handful of engineers and sufficiently powerful hardware.

This isn't necessarily a popular opinion, though. I once read Julian Jaynes "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" and was really frustrated that the author spent the entire book explaining how we became "conscious" by listening to one half of our brain talking to the other half. How much time did he spend trying to explain how there was anything doing the "hearing" to begin with? Nearly zero. Maddening.
on level 4 try: https://xss-game.appspot.com/level4/frame?timer=%99
and you get: 500 internal server error LOL
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> most of the cool kids just use 1Password

Do you have a view on 1Password versus LastPass?
Once Trump finally dropped the birther lie in September of this year (seriously, he spent 5 years trumpeting that lie) he came up with the new lie: Hillary started it. Neither Clinton nor her campaign ever publicly questioned Obama's citizenship or birthplace.
Leave facebook, and you will soon stop think he is one of most powerful person on earth.
The Linux Foundation and VMware debacle is probably worth mentioning here.
This is what drove me to use contacts full-time. It was so frustrating keeping my glasses clean. They'd smudge, and I'd clean them, and it wouldn't be all gone, and I'd clean them some more, and then it would be OK for a bit, and then I'd get something on them, and....

I decided not to go with LASIK just because it doesn't seem worth the tradeoff. Contacts take me about thirty seconds per day to insert and remove, not a big deal. Just making up the LASIK recovery period would take a long time. Plus the risk of permanent side-effects. Contacts have those too, but it can be substantially mitigated by using them properly (always washing hands, never sleeping in them, always changing them at the appropriate time, etc.).

I totally understand why people might see the tradeoffs differently, of course.
Modern dailies are very expensive, if you wear them almost every days it's 1k+/year in lenses.
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Finally finished my ubermodded Amiga 1200 build
I see we've moved from "Comey did it" to "fake news did it" to "the Russians did it". Eventually, I'm sure, we'll get to "we lost".

Protip: the entire US intelligence community was on the lookout for Russian interference in the election. If they messed with enough voting machines to make a difference, NSA etc would know about it. Which means Obama and Congress would know about it. So either they're all conspiring to keep it secret from the American people, or it didn't happen.
By what measure does nature "work"? The only thing nature optimizes for is survival until reproduction. This is just as arbitrary as shareholder return. Besides, the entirety of the economic system is part of the natural activity of the natural animals homo sapiens, driven by natural desires priorities. It is not a reinvention of nature as much as it is a subprocess.
We agree that actively reducing voting stations in ways that disproportionately impact the poor is problematic.

But it's hard for me to believe that voter ID laws inherently target the poor more so than ID laws governing the sale of alcohol and/or tobacco (or cough syrup or spray paint or guns or...). I find it relatively obscene that I'll get carded at the bar but cast my vote for President by giving a volunteer my name.

I don't know for certain that fraud is happening (or at least that it's happening in sufficient numbers), but I find it disingenuous to propose _that it can't be happening_.

What is the appropriate trade off between potential for fraud and disenfranchisement is an interesting question. One I wish both sides were willing to talk about without rancor.
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You wear your sunglasses at night, so you can see the light that's right before your eyes?
China is the second largest economy in the world after the US and expected to surpass it within a couple of years, not really comparable. Its government is also largely supported by the people it governs.
I first came upon the consciousness as reality theme when I read “The self-aware universe” [0] by Goswami which introduces the idea of monistic idealism. Penrose also contemplates with the idea in the “Emperor’s New Mind” [1]. I highly recommend both books to anyone interested in exploring alternate theories.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Self-Aware-Universe-Consciousness-Cre...
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Emperors-New-Mind-Concerning-Computer...
I got used to my glasses, very fast in fact, they feel like part of my personality and I think I look weird without them.

Glasses have some upsides too. For instance when it's windy, they're a shield that makes you less likely to have unwanted things get into your eye :)
AmigaOS 30 years
astigmatism is the real problem as far as halos are concerned.
I share your confusion with this part of an otherwise-excellent article. It was such a surprise to read it that I fear I'm missing something. It seems obvious that what we're experiencing isn't the world or any so-called "objects" in it, but a structured representation of the whole and its parts. The hard part is understanding why:

1. Representations experience themselves at all

2. Representations seem to feel different depending on their structure and relationships to other representations

Does anyone have a better interpretation of this paragraph that highlights the supposed mystery about our connection to "the real world"?
Indeed. I blame having to wear glasses since primary school for my general dislike of sports. And all the VR gear I ever tested is not compatible with glasses (also weird to use without). Even watching 3D movies in cinemas is... tricky.
> Oh, you're an antisemite. Sorry, missed that.

What? I'm opposed to using U.S. tax dollars to contravene the security of U.S.-designed, manufactured and used devices and operating systems. I don't care if it's the FBI [1], a Canadian company [2] or the Israelis.

It's shitty that you devolve your rhetoric so quickly. This is the most disturbing exchange I've ever had on this forum.

> If your government needs to hack a phone that belongs to a terrorist to protect innocent US citizens then what's the problem?

Americans are innocent until proven guilty. If our government determines guilt without following due process, they (and those who aid and abet them) may be the ones acting illegally.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-v-apple-we-dont-need-your-ipho...

[2] http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/blackberry-taps-user-messa...
Contacts aren't risk-free either. By choosing to wear them over glasses for sports and social activities, you're making the same basic choice, perhaps with different numbers. (I say this as one who chose contacts over surgery, and I use them exclusively, no glasses.)
I get asked constantly why I haven't done LASIK yet. My response, which is usually met with incredulous eyes, is that I find it too risky.

Starbursts and halos are bad enough, but some people do not get them. And halos can be mitigated to some extent, you can just avoid performing the procedure if pre-surgery exams find out that your pupil is too big.

Not sure if starbursts can be avoided. It must suck if your job involves staring at a screen all day (as mine does).

What is more concerning is the damage to the cornea. First, there is dry eyes. It's not a question if you are going to get dry eyes or not, is how much and if it will be enough to still maintain sufficient lubrication. The nerves are damaged when the flap is created, not all return. And that is serious, people have committed suicide over dry eyes.

Then there's the flap. The fact that a doctor can lift the flap again years after the procedure is very concerning. The cornea has a complex fibrous structure that never heals after the flap is created. You just have to hope that you are not subject to strong G forces. Or trauma, more generally.

At least the pre-surgery exam battery is complete enough nowadays that we can predict ablating too much of the cornea so that the eye's structural integrity is no longer compromised. This was at the expense of a few early adopters, though.

There is also the question of how the operated eye is going to age. There is just not enough data. If issues arise, these are usually blamed on older equipment. "Oh, that was a Nth generation Laser, it [did not have enough resolution, did not create the flap, was not wavefront, whatever]". Well then, when is the tech going to be "enough"? Last I checked, the resolution still wasn't too great. The cornea would look like the surface of the Moon under a microscope.

If I decide to do it eventually, it will be a LASEK. At least there won't be flap-related issues. A few weeks recovering time is nothing if it means avoiding entire classes of issues for the rest of my life.
I'm asking myself how relevant they are today? Tcp/Ip 3rd is from 2002, as well as Essential Sysadmin 3rd.
I've got most of these already (from owning the "CD Bookshelf" products ORA put out years ago) but $15 for everything is just too good a deal to pass up, especially since it has a copy of ESA in there (one of my well-worn dog-eared owned-multiple-copies titles).
The entry I wish I saw in there: "Persistent chunk cache so that compiles are incremental even on restart of webpack." Once you start getting a large number of assets into a deployment pipeline, recompiling everything from scratch every time becomes very painful. Wish webpack could help here out of the box without needing handrolled caching solutions.
Interesting ideas! Would setting up a label field called 'tags' & allowing new labes to be created/ multiple labels to be selected work (you don't have to use them as kanban lists). Or just set up the field that contains 'inbox' and 'learning' to allow multiple labels? If not please get in touch to explain a little nore, if you like hello@zenkit.com

Re: marking done and archiving - we're working on dependencies & automation, so it'll be possible soon!
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My vision is good enough that I can drive without glasses. I still wear them almost constantly because they're a comfortable thing, to the degree that a slight increase in my visual acuity is worth the minor inconveniences. They help me not to strain while reading small text, and I don't feel like the surgery would be worth it for me, so I wear them.
I think it's great they finally got some protection.
Why wasn't it there before and what was the oppositions point of view on this?
Matrix is a federated chat protocol. It is like IRC or XMPP but synchronizes history and uses HTTP-based protocol. There are bridges to IRC, XMPP, and Gitter.

Riot is a client. It used to be named Vector.im.
Emacs is my window manager
Yes, perhaps.

But if you bear with me, you can stretch the "violence" argument a long way.

If you have a no government at all, you have this "Mad Max" scenario. The strong take from the weak until the only way to survive is to pledge allegancy to one Warband or another.

If you have a government that only concerns itself with protection against foreight invasion, you will have the semblance of order and institutional life, but underneth the organized crime will rule. They will not limit themselves to illegal business like drugs (though they will exploit it in a monopolistic way), but will quickly develop extensive protection rackets that will be a burden to the whole economy.

Then, if you have a government that only concerns itself with foreight defense and internal defense or property rights, you will have the robber barons scenario. The rich will do as they may, and anyone that opposes their interest will face a weaponized law enforcement at their doorsteps. That, or will be victim of paramilitary groups like the pinkertons, who enjoy the unofficial protection of law enforcement.

And so it goes...

I agree it comes to a point where giving more responsibilities to government causes more problems that it solves, but to despise every and all regulatory oversight in the name of liberalism and (idealized) anarchy is an oversimplified model.
This is me. I had LASIK in a highly rated surgery in London about 18 months ago where the care and after care was exceptional. I had halos for about 1 month after, but that was it. My eyes were dry for a week or two, but again they soon went back to normal (I recommend Blink drops - amazing). I was left with 20/12 vision and couldn't recommend having it done more.
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The danger with that is not seeing a deer that's about to bolt in front of you on the road. And in an urban environment, it's easy to not see a pedestrian who is wearing dark clothes.
No it cannot since the authenticating client won't know the salt.

NTLM isn't the only authentication method that is fundamentally incompatible with salts. The way Windows clients perform initial Kerberos authentication (getting the TGT) will break as well.

Kerberos is easier to fix though since the protocol was made to work with salts. It's just that the way Microsoft implemented it leaves it vulnerable to pass-the-hash styled attacks.

Another issue is how applications handle incoming Kerberos authentication. For example, when you configure IIS to perform Kerberos authentication you (usually) need to specify a service account and provide the password. Instead of storing the password IIS will simply pre-compute the hash (which it can do because there's no random salt) and store the result using DPAPI (I think... Since it's a Microsoft product it may use a different nonpublic API). If using random salts IIS won't be able to do that anymore and will have to work like traditional MIT Kerberos applications--using a keytab (provided by an administrator).
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You keep using that word..
> I found out I couldn't use contacts because my eyes were always too dry

How are they, post surgery?
how do you parse the java-code? In front- or backend? If frontend what libraries do you use or did you create everything from scratch?
Sadly, nothing kept the protein. It's fossilized, just like everything else with the bird. The proteins are identified by their placement in the cells. The scientist mention they could be other microbes that they were fortunate enough to have the colors left for better context.
A bit of searching suggests that flywheels cost at least 4x as much per kWh. Even if batteries don't improve over time, it's cheaper to set up a battery system and replace it three times as often.
Calling ceteris paribus a fallacy is like objecting to the notion of integers because nature often presents quantitative problems involving things that are neither uniform not discrete; you may as well object to someone counting on their fingers because 'in reality they're all attached to the same hand, man.'

Ceteris paribus is a technique for decomposing complex problems into simpler elementary ones, not an assertion about underlying economic realities. It's employed most commonly in microeconomics, which works fabulously, in much the same way as classical mechanics continues to work fabulously for the vast majority of earthbound practical problems. Macroeconomics is beset by problems because our understanding of social and organizations structures is seriously incomplete, in much the same fashion as ants probably have extreme difficulty in forming ideas about the collective behavior of ant colonies.
> If I lose my computer, the password is not in the hands of bad guys.

You really just want a password-protected client cert then (can be specific to the cert or FDE). Your in-brain password keeps someone who steals your computer from getting access and the client cert makes sure that an actor that can sniff the whole network and the ability to break TLS still can't impersonate you.
Please, do it for the Linux source code.
I've designed this protocol[1] to make client certs work easy for end users.

Signing up at a site is just requesting a client cert at the site's private CA.

It requires a user agent (a browserplugin) on the client side. The agent keeps check of which certificates belong to what sites so it actively blocks MitM attacks.

Granted, if you need to share your certificates, you'd have to copy them over. For that, use the sync-feature of your browser or design something better. But synching is a separate concern, independent of the authentication protocol.

[1] http://eccentric-authentication.org/
> One of the most promising theories (discussed in the podcast) assumes that consciousness is a fundamental attribute of reality

Did you really mean to say "assumes" there? (As in assumes as aximoatic.) Because that's one hell of an an assumption.
What's the risk of contacts in sports?
>Because in ten years I'll have reading glasses

Is it really that clear cut?

I keep being told this but still hope that I'll keep on wearing my -1.5 (spherical and astigmatism) for another 10 years since it has been stable at those values for some 10 years now.