skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually I think very little about them, since a web site which doesn't work or comes up blank isn't likely to hold my attention for long. I'll whitelist your site if it's something I actually care about using, but if I'm just exploring, I'm more likely to close it and move on.
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My Grandfather has been doing this with Coursera for the last 3 years. He has pretty much completed every available course in economics and finance.
Presumably in this model the dev wouldn't push their branch until the merge is actually complete, and there's presumably a convention like prepending `[CONFLICT]` to those commits to discourage people from checking them out directly.
It is possible, but there are a lot of caveats.

For example, how do you detect when a source's semantics change? This will break any cleansing or transforms done in the stream platform. Until it gets fixed, data may be missing, wrong, or worse (e.g. corrupted) and propagated down stream.

When data is cleansed and transformed early, there is no way to go back to the raw data, unless you carry it forwards too.

Consider these sort of questions for your use case.
I think this is great news. More unsubscriptions are a good thing because (1.) publishers get less money; (2.) researchers in these universities realize that subscriptions should not be taken for granted, in the frequent case where they have never thought about the issue; (3.) these researchers realize that not having subscriptions isn't such a big deal (you can find most recent papers online anyway, or ask your friends, the authors, use Sci-Hub, etc.); and (4.) researchers who don't publish open-access version of their works realize that they are losing potential readers in other universities (and citations, if they care about this).
Why? I don't need a hyper extensible terminal emulator. All I need is some form of customization (so I can use solarized: I happen to like it), the ability to select fonts (Terminus is the best font, by the way), and the ability to produce Unicode characters properly (and even that is optional). Oh, and VT-100 emulation at the very least. That's just kind of expected.

URxvt, XTerm, etc. do this very well, and they're also quite fast. Why would I switch to an implementation that is demonstrably worse at everything I care about, and better at things that don't matter? Do I just really hate my DRAM, and want to see it under constant max use?
Sounds like all my bosses squeezing pay and hours. "You are working until 5:30, could you work until 6? 6:30? 7?"
As much as I would like to have this, in addition to your point about browser support, there are reasons I can think of from the top of my head:

There isn't widespread support in image editing programs to simply add text to a jpg/png/whatever, then save the result as an SVG.

Most people don't see any motivation, as most people don't have a lot of text on images.

A lot of images with text are screenshots or photographs, rather than with overlayed text.

Upload services for images usually don't support SVG.
The BACKPACK Challenge #backpackchallenge
Does anyone know if you can get a stick PC in this form factor? I'd really like to deploy some software on PoE driven devices.
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A few years ago I ran into a girl I went on a few dates with on the corner panhandling. She was now homeless. But because she knew me she wouldn't take anything from me.

I told her she could stay with me for a bit and she said no, I offered to put her up in a hotel and she said no, I offered money and she said no. She did let me buy her lunch. I saw her at different corners around town and she would never take money. But I would sometimes swing by some place and pick up a breakfast biscuit for her.

I haven't seen her in a while now. I hope she got help.
Unlike software, we don't need more nutrients than the baseline to function lest it is prescribed to treat an illness and eating more of the same thing don't magically makes you more healthy. For example, 10mg of vitamin C per day absolutely prevents scurvy, most dietary guidelines recommend much more but there is no proven benefit of a larger dose.
Same of the FitBit Blaze. I'm quite happy with my Blaze. It does notifications (email, call, sms/iMessage, apps) and music control as well. Battery life has been pretty good, though it doesn't really matter, I simply charge it when I'm in the shower and getting ready in the morning, and that's enough to get me back to 100% battery each morning.
Wrote a grammar checker that used both ML models and rules (which in turn used e.g. part-of-speech taggers based on ML).

Wrote a system for automatically grading kids' essays (think the lame "summarize this passage"-type passages on standardized tests). In that case it was actually a platform for machine learning - ie, plumb together feature modules into modeling modules and compare output model results.
That is definitely one interesting thing about keybase.io: it does not provide forward secrecy in its encryption tools.

However, I think it is an interesting concept for identity proofs.
>Let's quickly interpret this to further our pre-existing agenda (healthcare, guns, environment, vaccination, inequality, obama, immigration...)
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It sounds like the OP is scanning for internal defects in bonds via impurities being trapped in there. These occur relatively randomly and there's some balancing point where it's just not worth trying to make the production line cleaner vs binning parts that fail some QA criteria. I do similar things with castings, where you simply just get certain voids and porosity in the steel when cast and either you can spend a tonne of money trying to eliminate them or you can spend less money testing the parts and binning those that aren't up to par.

I'd hazard to guess that the 95% is the reduction in how many parts made it through the first test only to be caught later at the more expensive stage. So instead of binning 100 parts a month at that second stage, they now bin 5 parts a month and catch way more early on.

It sounds like the OP is using ML to identify flaws that simply just occur due to imperfections in the manufacturing process. That's life, it happens. You can know that they will occur without necessarily being able to prevent them because maybe there's some dust or other particulates in the air that deposit into the resin occasionally, or maybe the resin begins to cure and leaves hard spots that form bond flaws. There's heaps of possible reasons. It sounds more like the ML is doing classification of 'this too much of a flaw in a local zone' vs 'this has some flaws but it's still good enough to pass', which is how we operate with casting defects. For example, castings have these things called SCRATA comparitor plates, where you literally look at an 'example' tactile plate, look at your cast item, then mentally decide on a purely qualtative aspect which grade of plate it matches. Here [1] are some bad black and white photos of the plates.

[1] http://www.iron-foundry.com/ASTM-A802-steel-castings-surface...
I charge my FitBit Blaze when I'm showering and getting ready in the morning and that's enough to get it back to 100% each morning.
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> It's not just that Snowden wasn't an insider, but that he lacked the ability to leak carefully and strategically --- and so the public outcome was inferior to the Pentagon Papers.

This is hard to believe. I find it much more likely that Snowden had a broad agenda he wanted to cover, and simply decided to delegate the work of sifting through documents relevant to the public interest to journalists. How successful this strategy was is another issue entirely.

Also, the direct comparison between the material Ellsberg had to work with and what Snowden had is misleading. Ellsberg leaked a study from RAND literally designed to assess and document the history of the Vietnam War, including past failures. It's easy to look at that and go, "Wow, this is a careful, strategic disclosure." But Ellsberg couldn't have had an easier choice about what to leak!

In contrast, Snowden had access to a much more disparate set of documents that required lots of interpretation and technical parsing on journalists' part. There wasn't a single PowerPoint presentation that summed up NSA's abuses so conveniently.

That doesn't necessarily justify scraping as much as possible and passing it over to journos, but we have to keep the two men's access to material in context.
I still assert that it's likely that Snowden didn't have that information. I do not have access to the original Snowden documents so I can't verify whether they are included in the document cache or not.

I'm confused as to why you brought up the Netscreen backdooring as an omission, then admit that you don't think it was NSA. Are you saying that the Netscreen backdoor was known by the NSA as an adversarial nation's work? Please clarify.
Founders:

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Mozilla Foundation

University of Michigan
The FCC defines a broadband connection as at least 25/3. [0] That AT&T DSL doesn't even qualify as broadband any more, not that it should.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/fcc-chairman-mocks-i...
The greater the number of votes a third party gets, the more the mainstream candidates will move towards the third party positions.

That means that voting for a third party is not a throwaway vote, even if the third party has zero chance of winning.
> While I'm familiar with the idea that healthy companies can be so leveraged for quick profits that they go out of business, I don't understand the mechanism. Is the idea that such over-leveraged companies cease to be otherwise healthy before they go out of business? If so, why? Is the management worse while they are over-leveraged? Is it a matter of market conditions worsening?

While debt servicing you have less liquidity. That liquidity might be required to react to changes in the market / stay competitive. So the long term health of the company is likely going to be impacted some.

EDIT: embarrassing typo
Easily exploited Netgear router flaw discovered
Please contribute substantively, and with extra civility and care on inflammatory topics, or not at all.
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Europe does have its own defense, but Germany does not because of the whole Nazi thing. Also, strategically, the US has lots of valid reasons to be want to be the dominant military player in the area. We much rather be fighting a shooting war on that continent than ours. If you take a very shallow view, we are "paying for" or "subsidising" European defense, when in fact we are doing what we always do - engaging in what's best for us. The dollar cost is insignificant next to the value theater access and regional support.
> It's more generally accepted now that the values of the constants were contingent on conditions in the very early universe.

Cite? I'm unaware of any such consensus.

> We don't have evidence of the universe being infinite in extent, though.

The universe's density seems to be very close to the critical density:

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/C/Critical+Density

http://www.space.com/24309-shape-of-the-universe.html

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/bb_concepts.html
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Yes. You need to adapt the capacity of the system to handle the full load with -N- boxes dead.

Corollary: If you have 2 boxes, each of them has to be able to handle all the traffic, so you can't save money by using smaller boxes :D

Corollary #2: If you have 2 datacenters, each of them has to be able to handle all the traffic, so you burn a lot of money :D
Only 30, Migicovsky has plenty of time for future glories. And plenty of leftover watches to keep that time.

Ouch!
For any debate of the sort, certain axioms must be accepted (otherwise, it's impossible to start a debate).

However, that's not the case here, as he does explain why both of these are actually wrong.
That doesn't help previous creditors (including say employees, landlords, suppliers, etc), which now have to deal with a massively over-leveraged company, which is more likely to go out of business.
There are people working on ways we could prove or disprove we are in a simulation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis#Testing_...
I wouldn't disagree with your friends and acquaintances on that point, but would suspect that they reached their conclusions differently from Gladwell.

Another potentially self-serving issue that Gladwell conveniently glosses over in this piece: We could also make the argument that Ellsberg also had a much more effective and courageous press and educated population behind him. But it's easier to smear community college drop-outs and discuss a hypothetical "Edward Snowberg" than a hypothetical New Yorker with more reporters like Jane Mayer than commentators like Gladwell.
"The plastic substrates are poor gas-barriers for oxygen and water vapor, and the OLED materials can seriously be damaged by their gasses. "

Incidentally, polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals make an excellent passivation layer and are highly flexible thinfilms. I've always wondered why flexible OLEDs (FOLEDs) never adopted. Maybe HN knows?
But they are near being able to do exactly that. Uber is testing and training its autonomous-capable cars in Pittsburgh right now, picking up and dropping off passengers on real routes every day. At their current rate of testing and expansion they'll have more than enough training data in the next two years or so. The biggest hurdle is regulatory, but there's so much money and so many lives (remember, human drivers kill people on roads every single day) at stake here that even regulatory approvals are moving quickly. See: Michigan [1].

[1] http://fortune.com/2016/12/09/michigan-self-driving-cars/
> Hyper tries to run `npm prune && npm install --production` on every startup.

Wait, what, really? Wouldn't that leave you without dependencies if you don't have internet connection at the time?

Seems a very dangerous thing to do for many, many reasons.
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I don't think this is a question where we can give a universal answer. If you are just publishing content, and JavaScript is not necessary for the core purpose of the page/site, then adding it just for extra flavor is unwise. On the other hand, if your site is a rich SPA, it would be foolish to go back to the days of POSTing data on every click, and reloading an entirely new page with whatever updates the app needs.

There are some pages on my personal web site that are plain HTML/CSS, but I would not think twice about adding JS if I needed it.
> We are shipping a fix for a very common issue: if you're using a foreign keyboard, such as Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish etc, you weren't able to type some characters like á, ä, ~ and so on. That's not the case anymore!

emphasis mine.

I have to say I'm pretty tired of this attitude that the whole world should use the anglo-centric defaults (but in case you won't we add support for you later).

Regrettably most of us developers (even those of us who live in non-english speaking counties and don't speak english natively) seem to just "settle" for the english keyboard layouts when we are developing. We tell our self that the english layout is "superior for programming". Perhaps we are correct (I doubt we are), but that is irrelevant. When we think like that we are causing accessibility problems to a huge portion of the users of our products.

What bothers me most, as an Icelandic developer who prefers my native keyboard layout, is how we shun ISO third level shifts[1]. For example, when I type TILDE (U+007E; ~), I press and hold the third level shift (remapped to <Caps Lock>; traditionally <Alt Gr>), press and release <?>, and release the third level shift. Most English speaking developers use the ANSI keyboard layout[2], which historically doesn't have a notion of third level shift. Mac OS X is a terrible perpetrator by mapping the third level shift to the <⌥ option> key, which also serves as a modifier. I never know when I type COMMERCIAL AT (U+0040; @) (<Third Level Shift> + Q) whether I will input the character or quit the program.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_9995#Levels_.28.E2.80....

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#/media/File:AN...

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i participated in mefi for over a decade but the smugness and slow but constant leftward drift of the site, including quiet banning of users who signal right in the slightest against what the mods decide is the community consensus on any contentious political issue (especially wrt gender), pushed me away. it's still a useful resource for fresh links but the discussions on political subjects are one of the most intense echo chambers on the internet.
Pure opinion:

> mine that data [...] more addictive [...] games

Oh, fuck no. No, no, no. I can not think of a more abusive thing for a company to do to its customers than that suggestion right there. How little respect would a company have for their fellow humans that anyone could even consider such a move?

Maybe that's just a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm ok with that.
I'd like to say that the official performance unit is the "request per second". And its cousin, the requests per second in peak.

The average per minute only gets to be used because many systems have so little load that the number per second is negligible.
Writing long commit messages (especially for internal/private projects) often gives me a slightly forlorn feeling, knowing that these words will almost certainly never be read again by another person, and possibly even I might never see them again. I persist only because when they do get read, they can be absolutely invaluable in explaining what on earth I was thinking at the time.
No, in the bay area. The hype is strong here.
Great point. By the way, this was a point I believe Clinton and the Democratic party have been egregiously lying about. Clinton:

> When he emerged and when he absconded with all that material, I was puzzled, because we have all these protections for whistleblowers."

Source: https://freedom.press/news-advocacy/fact-checking-hillary-cl...
I mean putting aside your own beliefs, not requiring others to put aside theirs.

People who are not willing to entertain the possibility that they're wrong (a reasonable definition of having faith, IMHO) will either exclude themselves from the discussion or turn it into a sermon.
Needs to add the new best-compromise best-of-both-worlds proposal: SCORE RUNOFF per http://www.equal.vote/

That's most of the benefits of score voting (which is acknowledged as superior in the study here) with a runoff stage to address strategic voting.
> The Many-worlds interpretation of QM does not mean that different universes have different fundamental constants. If that were the case, the fundamental constants could change in value each time a quantum measurement took place.

You can replace Many-Worlds with Eternal Inflation and you get an infinity of bubble universes, and my understanding is those universes would span every possible set of constants:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_inflation

> In 1983, inflation was shown to be eternal leading a multiverse in which space is broken up into bubbles or patches whose properties differ from patch to patch spanning all physical possibilities.
Whenever I can, I try to use CSS instead of js. CSS has become really powerful over the last couple of years with better browser support and I prefer it over loading extra javascript. You-dont-need-javascript[1] lists a couple of those great examples.
But as other people already said, if the website has to be interactive I use javascript but I try to keep it low and avoid libraries as much as I can (if I am gonna use just one thing out of x amount of others). 2G/FUP etc. are still a thing, unfortunately, and I don't want those users to suffer.

[1] https://github.com/you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-Javascript
> They are free to pursue whatever course of action they choose to.

I think you're being ridiculous. Of course they can opt-out of going back to work, but in modern society, this means losing your home, lack of food, and probably, getting your child taking away by some form of social services. Unless you're in the very rich 1%.
You're taking some mighty large liberties defining what our simulation is, and how it started. A simulation can begin with any state, including a hundred years ago with already written books and simulated Big Bang background radiation.

There is no difference.
If you want to look at it from a purely numbers perspective I suggest we re-label some of your variables.

Net value (delta, etc) being the summation of all Costs (you call this P for some reason) and all Benefits (You call this V, which is why I'm calling the result 'net').

We will presume humane solutions only. We are unwilling to leave people to die of sickness, mal-nutrition, exposure to the elements or lack of social safety mechanisms. To allow any of those preventable deaths is to admit that our society is morally and/or financially bankrupt.

In short, letting them die or killing them isn't a solution.

So, as a society, we must make them human again.

Survival: We must ensure that they are able to fulfill their daily physical needs. They also require shelter, and medical care; just as everyone else does.

Belonging: It is in society's best interest to identify what types and how much work needs, or is desirable to be, fulfilled. It is also in society's best interests to identify potential workers that can meet these needs and offer them training in that type of work. This can't really help with relationships, but forming a stable life and a community that can include the worker is a good foundation for that to happen within.

Empowerment: Belonging, and being 'useful' and desirable to have around are likely the underpinnings of esteem and a sense of having worth. Without these building blocks there is little hope of becoming more than a slave animal or worse.

Fixing these issues would help everyone, not just the most disadvantaged.