skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you actually familiar with the effects of LSD? At least at lower doses its extremely non impairing compared to a few shots of vodka.

It may however have boosted the author's perception of unity with the crowd, as a mild empathogen.

But the author would have to be on godly doses to dissociate with reality entirely, and at that point their trip will not be anything as normal as a confrontation at an event.
> From this you can derive conservation of momentum isn't just some empirical relation we have historically observed, but critically linked to symmetry of translation.

It changes conservation of momentum from an empirical relation we have historically observed to something that is derivable from a different empirical relation (translation symmetry) that we have historically observed. It's still ultimately an observed empirical relation.
Your genetic code was not constructed by chance this is contradictory to everything we know about how cells and molecular biology works.
Curious where do you view total volume? I'm guessing blockchain.info but which chart are you referring to?
Swiss say goodbye to banking secrecy
Is this a joke? (I'm asking seriously.)

Edit: I mean that is there anyone in 2016 who uses testing tools that cannot instrument code to calculate coverage automatically?
It also prevents Uber from paying an unlimited number of people to sign up just to manipulate the union.
I would also look into the myriad of static site generators that are probably much faster than the WP static site plugin and use modern tools and libraries.

https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/05/02/top-ten-static-websi...

Roots is mentioned, but the team has since developed Spike which is built on a more modern stack:

https://github.com/static-dev/spike

https://www.spike.cf/
> Not all PRs have to be merged on your schedule

Considering how fast GitLab is moving, if Gogs/Gitea wants to remain relevant, they really have to move at a much faster pace than they use to. Judging by Unknwon's comment in this issue

https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/1304

it seems like Gogs is driven by a passion and it doesn't matter at the end if he is the only user. As he puts it

> Gogs isn't a business, making it is what I love to do

I'm not sure if his stance has changed, since this issue was from July. I'm also not sure, if he fully realizes he is sitting on a potential golden goose. The market for Git hosting in Enterprise is still very much up for grabs.
One interesting thing is, they do not seem to need to "ignore" them. The law is just about allowing communication for drivers to band together. Uber could easily cooperate with this law, but not cooperate with demands of a future driver's union.

Because, the brilliance (terrible?) part about Uber is that its so easy for them to get new drivers. The barriers to entry are soo very low. Almost every American that is able to work, is trained to drive, the large majority of them have cars, a decently large set of those people would like extra money, and they have the spare time.

If there was a strike, 1. Surge pricing would kick in, tempting a lot of people to forgo the strike. 2. Within days/weeks there will be a new set of drivers willing to work at the current price.

This whole notion of a "strike" only works if you get 100% of the able bodied men/women to cooperate. The larger the working pool of people, the lower the chances of a successful strike.
Cool link, thanks!
Why is connection tracking necessary?
Beating the compression performance of xz, or has the time come to dump tar?
Is my browser broken or does this page have a max-width on the content that's narrower than the animations?
No less a personage than Carl Jung weighed in[1] on the psychological aspects of the UFO phenomena: http://www.cgjungpage.org/learn/articles/analytical-psycholo...

[edit-1]: https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Saucers-Modern-Things-Skies/dp...
No. It's really not. It's him demanding exacting standards of evidence for people even raising the topic, while ignoring vast scientific literature on persistent biases.

There are difficult conversations to be had about how we should go about being inclusive, and what exactly that should mean, but this post is a terrible starting point.

How do you proof that you didn't get a spot to speak at a conference because your equivalent work was valued slightly lower by some organizers, especially when the organizer was not aware they were making gendered assessments?

How do you measure people who decided not to engage with a particular community due to unnecessarily adversarial technical discussions. Especially before the background of women not interrupting men at nearly the rate as men interrupt women. This has nothing to do with the technical merits of what is said and everything with who gets to speak.

Whenever you measure these things using science you find that gendered behaviour is absolutely pervasive. Sometimes you learn that things aren't gendered in the way they first appear. For example it often turns out that women discriminate nearly as much as men do against other women. What we can't do is pretend all of that doesn't exist simply because the discrimination isn't manifesting itself as overtly and blatantly as it used to.

This is an important achievement by the way. The fact that overt blatant sexism is almost universally condemned is after all what makes the charge: "That's sexist!" so problematic.
Ben Johnston Hears the Notes Between the Notes
And how many weddings did the US bomb again?

Seriously mistakes happen the US bombs a hospital and its oops we're sorry, Russia may or may not hit a convoy and it's drag the to the Hague?
> The "Loudness Wars" means that we don't actually get the full 16 bits, in which case I would argue that anything up to the 24/96 standard may well be an improvement.

You'll get the exact same loudness issue at thrice the storage requirements. Fight for better mastering (and ubiquitous requirement of loudness checker or across-the-board audio normalisation as iTunes Radio does), not for worthless and detrimental gimmicks.

Incidentally, loudness has been trending down (very very slowly) on lossless sources since its 2005 peak: http://www.tristancollins.me/computing/dynamic-range-analysi...
I've looked into Jekyll before, but I'd prefer to use a plugin for ease of migration and Wordpress's user experience.
I remember the original article [1]. I thought it was needed. I also remember what was the first phrase of the first of the comments selected by the NYT:

> This article is insulting to people who are not cisgendered, heterosexual white men.

You can't make this up.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-...
How to Become a ‘Superager’ [beyond Sudoku]
Dodecahedron desk calendar using the LaTeX folding library
Lessons from the Media’s Failures in Its Year with Trump
The links and wording of this article makes me feel like I'm reading an ad.

> When I needed a midday treat, a Honeycrisp apple, a few Trader Joe’s apricots or a snack bar that fit the no-sugar saved me.

Why not just "apricots"? Why does it have to be Trader Joe's apricots?
I've always interpreted "hire slow" as grow the team slowly and only when you really really need to bring on a new person as opposed to having a slow hiring process. Macro vs micro. I think you can certainly hire slow and have someone through the cycle in 1–2 weeks or less (for an early startup).
Not to mention, it doesn't matter if things are kept up to date when Wordpress takes months to issue a patch for critical security problems.
A Klein bottle is a topological thingie, rather than a Euclidean geometry thingie. Given the nature of these beasts the sofa will be both inside and outside the bottle at the same time.

The sofa will need a pretty odd shape to not be able to move around the bottle - say a torus which is around the "handle" of the bottle. Any shape that does not snag the handle will of course be able to be moved around it as needed.
King Crimson's album, In the Court of the Crimson King.
Well, I am assuming people eat normal food. Like, you know, bread, cheese, eggs, meat, tomatoes and potatoes... Who the hell lives on chips and Coke...
Extra bit depth is useful only if you want to remaster the audio (apply whatever effects and etc.). Otherwise 16 is just fine. Lossless source though is needed if you want to encode in any lossy codec.
I never got into WP, but had multiple good experiences with Drupal. The problem for me is that WP gives you a good foundation, but if you don't know how to develop on that foundation, write your own plugins, or control your own security, you end up doing what 99.5% of the people do that use WP:

1 - use a C panel "one click" install of the CMS from your web host

2 - start looking for plugins to give you the functionality you want

3 - install said plugins without sand boxing them or even testing them for vulnerabilities.

4 - end up getting hacked and then wonder what happened

It's true that for the most part the WP core is pretty solid, but its the billions of sketchy plugins that people use that create vulnerabilities and allows their sited to get hacked.
You don't understand how evolution works (not that the parent you're responding to stated it well). It is most certainly not "random chance".

Frankly I'm surprised to see that kind of sentiment coming out of such a CS-heavy audience, since genetic algorithms demonstrably work, and function on the same mathematical principles minus the biological substrate.
I haven't eaten meat since 1990. I don't completely rule out non-meat animal products. I have something like 100 grams of cheese per year.

Health is a side effect for my eating habits. Deliciousness is by far the biggest reason, followed by convenience, lower cost, getting to eat more, less pollution, and health.

I just love eating delicious foods. I've come to find taking out the fiber leaves things too sweet. Fruit became incredibly sweet after I got used to it and I love eating it. Now vegetables are tasting sweet. I didn't intend or expect to experience this change in tastes, but I'm glad it did.
Trump's claim is not that anything the president does is legal; but much more specifically, that none of it is a conflict of interest.

Since that is clearly an absurd statement, I will give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he meant that nothing the president does is legally considered a conflict of interest. In otherwords, the specific laws against conflicts of interest do not apply to the president.

This turns out to be a suprisingly true statement. The only conflict of interest law I could find (after an admitadly brief search) is [0].

I have not thourally reviewed it, but found the following snippet in the definitions section:

"Except as otherwise provided in such sections, the terms “officer” and “employee” in sections 203, 205, 207 through 209, and 218 of this title shall not include the President, the Vice President, a Member of Congress, or a Federal judge." [1].

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-11

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/202
No, that's cache invalidation. And naming things.
Trump Promises a Revelation on Hacking
There is one email in that blog post that mentions FOIA requests, and there is no response to it from Clinton saying that it's why she won't use her state.gov email address.

We already know why she used her own private email server — to use her Blackberry. This has been repeatedly established by the inquiries and the FBI investigation. We even have an email to Powell in 2009, well before any of the emails in that blog post, that shows her reason. https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/30324
> Which as the AI-safety people say, isn't to say we should be researching it just that we should be devoting more energy to doing it safely as the potential consequences are so high even if the chances of things going wrong is low.

Are the potential consequences really so high? It's not like we're going to be genetically engineering all of humanity in the same way at once, whereas AI safety effects all of humanity at once.
Leap seconds must go before they cause real damage.
That's normal. The point of a union is to threaten vandalism and violence to prevent non-members from offering their labor at market prices.
> Keep in mind, that it has to be a standard that was at force at the time of the attack

Does that mean that Nuremberg and Tokyo trials were just a farce?
People into testing everything should also remember there's test generation tools in commercial and FOSS space to reduce work necessary to do this. Here's two examples for LLVM and Java respectively. Including the KLEE PDF since the results in the abstract are pretty amazing.

https://klee.github.io/

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~cristic/papers/klee-osdi-08.pdf

http://babelfish.arc.nasa.gov/trac/jpf/wiki/projects/jpf-sym...
It hasn't succeeded anywhere over the past 3 years except in price.

Given peoples expectations 3 years ago I'd go so far as to say it has wildly failed everyone in the bitcoin spaces expectations.
Everytime the price fluctuates, people tend to provide whatever the likely cause but do you have any solid proof that those are really the cases?

If they're all right they could certainly voice before prices move but usually I hear nothing while the price is flat.
As described in this paper:

https://www.mcs.anl.gov/OpenAD/open64A.pdf
https://coinmarketcap.com/

That site has some numbers as far as exchanges go but there really isn't any place you can go to see a definitive trading volume number.

You also can't rely on volume numbers for any exchange that offers trading at 0% fees. The big three exchanges in China all have inflated volume numbers.

You could also look at value of Bitcoin transacted on the blockchain itself. Transaction volume had been steadily growing until it hit the current theoretical maximum in the last half of this year. The thing to look for now is increasing total transaction value. Hopefully the blocksize gets raised soon so total transactions can continue to grow again.
Rather difficult read. Not sure what the author is doing with his language, but even after rereading some of the paragraphs I still fail to grasp the point.

An example:

> "Hardly a week goes by, it seems, without an enthusiastic report in the popular media about intriguing neuroscience research linking some human behavior to the function of a particular brain circuit."

These things that he "learned" seem to be quite trivial and shallow. It seems he first came up with the title and then tried to fit his experience into this title.
> Doesn't AS/400 use an IR approach as well? Which let IBM seamlessly migrate the underlying CPU a few(?) times now?

Yes it uses an IR approach. MI code is essentially a byte code to which programs are compiled and then in turn the OS compiles them to the underlying machine code. AS/400 (or IBM i as it is officially now called) did use this to help in the switch from a proprietary/undocumented CISC CPU architecture (apparently similar but not identical to the IBM mainframe instruction set) to PowerPC/POWER. However, binaries are stored with both MI code and machine code together, and there is an option "Delete Program Observability" which removes the MI code section, which makes that migration strategy impossible – but, in practice, many people didn't choose that option, and if you did, so long as you or the vendor still have the source code it is just a recompile to fix it.

AS/400 has two program models – OPM (Original Program Model) and ILE (Integrated Language Environment). Basically, the original object code format, runtime library, etc, were designed for use with RPG/COBOL/PL/I, and they didn't work very well with languages such as C and C++, so ILE was created to remedy that deficiency. The relevance to IR, is that OPM and ILE actually use two different MI formats - Old MI (OMI) for OPM and New MI (NMI) for ILE. (NMI is also called "W-code".) IBM has publically documented most of the details of OMI and provides a public API to convert OMI code to machine code. By contrast, my understanding is they've chosen to keep the details of NMI confidential, and there are no public APIs to convert it to machine code.
The bigger problem in my mind is all the orphaned works that will never be read, seen or enjoyed again because they are still locked behind the wall of copyright for owners who no longer care about them.
Your mindset is totally whack. Gogs does not have to compete with GitLab, it can fill its own niche. Who are you to tell him how to use his "golden goose"? Why does it need to be a business? Jesus christ.
It's the Microsoft Word of Web Content Creation, if the people you're building a site for have any pre-existing experience with creating and editing content online it's probably with Wordpress. That puts it ahead of 90% of the opposition off the bat because the client is already comfortable with the platform. Developers like programming more than they like teaching people how to use the sites they built.
I agree. This is invaluable for various music students, so they could isolate their preferred instrument and work on playing that part.
> you are still attacking the fundamental
> existence of unions.

Still? I think you've got me confused with someone else. I can hardly be said to "still" be maintaining some position when my one contribution to this thread as of writing this is a one paragraph comment.

I don't see how any reading of my one comment here could indicate that I'm attacking the fundamental existence of unions, which to clarify, I have nothing against.

> Why are you still attacking a temporary
> solution to a much larger problem?

My one paragraph comment was simply pointing out, something you failed to address in the grandparent's comment, that power structures once enacted tend to stick, and they tend to serve their own ends.

Which is not to say that unions can't be a net positive for workers employed as part of the union, that obviously depends.

But if you're being made part of a union's purview and they've structured their rules in such a way that you can't vote, then it should be fairly obvious that they're structurally not interested in representing you, and will in fact represent the interests of voting members at your expense.
No, as Bitcoin appreciates the transaction costs go down in Bitcoin terms and stay the same in fiat currency terms everything else being equal.
After five-ish years of mostly sticking to Paleo I have a similar reaction (heart palpitations + general awful feeling) when I eat something like pizza or drink a beer. Not an issue when I eat fries or other simple carb cheats, but it's enough to remind me why I gave up this stuff in the first place.
That's all fair and correct, but the amount written for, say, an OS, in assembly - native or IR - is quite minimal and well-controlled, usually written in assembly because of a good reason (exception handlers, for example). At that point, it's just more obvious to write in native assembly, given that you're writing architectural code, and for a different architecture, that code would be sufficiently different.

So again, I see all the value in IR for compilers. Can someone give me at least a reasonable use case for beginning to write in IR, or even using IR for optimizing cerain code paths?
The first time I learned a new language I didn't use these tools and I failed miserably. Looking back, I'm thinking "Why did I use 300 hours and spend $X of cash?" without taking the time to learn about learning.

This is especially true with languages, unless you can be fully immersed, but I still recommend it. Look into metacognition and spaced repetition. You'll need a system that works for you but look for techniques backed by research.

Specifically, Fluent Forever is a fantastic book on learning how to learn languages and Scott Young's blog mentioned is great.
I second the art recommendation "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". Good luck!
Your response pretty much confirms this thread's status as a bike shedding thread.

with this post falling
where lots of folks
have relevant knowledge

people debate the trivial
detail because it's what
they understand

Red Solo Cups being a trivial detail, juxtaposed with the rest of the forum.
Also: Duet (http://www.duetgame.com), for iOS, Android and on Steam is an IMO brilliant variation on this theme.

- the player piece isn’t a stick, but only two dots, one at each end of an imaginary stick.

- there is no way to move the stick. Instead, the player controls its rotation, and the ‘enemy’ pieces approach it.

That simplifies the controls to two fingers: one to rotate the stick one way, and one to rotate it the other way.

This game also gets rid of most of the graphics; enemies are simple white rectangles on an almost black background, making the playing field look highly abstract (except for the paint splats left behind when one hits an enemy)
I've mused on this idea elsewhere, but it's applicable here too:

I can't help but feel today's absurdly draconian copyright laws and lengths are going to make our century a terrible cultural black hole for our future-human descendents.

The vast, vast majority of creators who produce culture--books, movies, music, visual art, etc.--don't see widespread distribution, success, or fame in their own lifetimes. This is true today and it was true in the past too.

Today, we have people like Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, and others, volunteering their time and energy to lovingly archive, curate, and distribute out-of-copyright works. Many of these works get a cultural second life: people today can freely discover and read a book published before 1923, whose author might have died penniless and unknown in their day. Their work, their name, their ideas, and their legacy lives on 100 years after their death, even if the world they lived in overlooked them, because volunteers can freely update and distribute those works.

Can we say the same about the vast majority of work produced today, for whose creators don't attain widespread fame or cultural influence? Everything anyone produces, from a smudge on a piece of paper to the Great American Novel, now automatically gains a copyright that can last over a century, and that has almost never failed to be extended. As one of the many everyday creators who never see significant success, how would you feel if your work was not only ignored today, but for all time too?

Our future-human descendents are going to think culture from 1923-2100 consisted of almost nothing but the 400 comic book movies, the 75 Star Wars movies, and Harry Potter. Everything else will be too unprofitable for a megacorporation to distribute, and illegal for anyone else to.
Counterpoint:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13298075
Facebook Open-Sources Atom in Orbit, a Web-Based IDE
The people who consider abortion to be murder consider it to be an actual, non-potential baby. Thus, killing that baby is murder.

Your argument is merely a straw man that left wing types smugly create and then dismiss to portray those they disagree with as stupid.
> There just doesn't seem to be much interest in the west, though it's quite popular in Asia, largely it seems due to Sony pushing it.

Interesting thanks. I wonder why though? It's not like it's hard to do it.
During the adoption phase the value needs to appreciate. Think about if you wanted to use a currency to do a $1 million USD transaction. If there is only $500k of that currency in USD terms you are going to have a hard time. So the value of the currency needs to be an order of magnitude or more above the largest transactions it will accommodate.
Indeed, "dried apricots" or "fresh apricots" would be a far more useful description.
Anyone tell the LLVM team that the Babel tower is a myth and that it ends bad?

Some CPU have specific idioms that are not only hard to translate but requires to be used fluently. Like natural language.

Btw, I never uses any software relying on a name of a myth that was a pure failure such as Babel or death star. It makes me feel like people intend to fail.