skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Overpopulation" isn't even remotely a problem anywhere in the West, the opposite is."

I guess it depends how we define overpopulation.

I'd argue that overpopulation is a problem in, for example, England. Not in the sense that there isn't enough food, of course, but in the sense that high population density negatively affects quality of life, harms the natural environment, and results in poor, overcrowded, and unhealthy living conditions for many people.

Much of Africa, on the other hand, is not densely populated at all compared to Western Europe or East Asia.

"Many countries in the West are below replacement levels. That carries its own problems."

It does if we end up with a significantly top-heavy population chart, with not enough economically active young people to support the elderly. But slowing or stopping population growth does not mean an end to economic growth.

A steady population is a good goal to aim for, but that doesn't mean we should be afraid of falling populations in some areas. If we can return some areas to nature, reducing the environmental footprint of our species while maintaining and improving our quality of life, then that's a good thing.
More evidence (as if we needed it) of just how ridiculous Trump's promise to revive the US coal industry is.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/22/trumps-big-plan-for-the-coal-...
Thanks. That does make more sense. :)
There are some platforms that allow for backdating posts and/or dates. I'm pretty sure github is in that category, as is wordpress.com, etc.

You might also have some existing accounts that you could edit/repurpose.
I thought it was shown that the thrust was due to the power cable's electromagnetic field.
Any plans for an ebook version? The older I get the more I find the PDF a frustrating reading experience (especially on mobile).
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Hell machine learning is largely a signals problem.
"Whenever I feel reluctant to throw out some work, I recall that life is pointless, and nothing we do even exists if the power goes out. There’s a handy hint for ya."

Worth reading just for this gem.
Every CS degree I know teaches aspects of every level at once. I can't think of any course which, over time, goes from a high level downwards. It wouldn't make sense.
I had sent emails to websites I held accounts for but I forgot logins to e.g. myspace to delete my content and they did :) I was not happy with pictures I posted years ago just before my interview after finishing college. I have active social network accounts I m not paranoid about the information there
I've torrented both the archiso and debian iso's this month, but nothing came up for my IP
"Chicks without brakes", eh?
_"...hand drawn in each copy."_

?? Printed engraving[1] was available contemporay with the publishing of this book (1568). What do you mean?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engraving
Actually it worked for 10 minutes or so. I kept trying and made through it :)
Keeping a table of clients and their last-updated time is probably more expensive than just sending them a response.
I think Nand2Tetris got this approach right:

http://www.nand2tetris.org/
https://twitter.com/jeromeleoterry/status/811536736077627392
And thus the invention of the Fisher Space Pen.

http://www.spacepen.com/

Rubber that, under the pressure inside of the ink cart, is liquid, but when finally written onto paper, becomes solid instantly and cannot be smeared.

I've had one for years, and it is the smoothest and best pen I've ever owned.
You're not supposed to run an NTP server on a VM. The CPU cycles can be taken from the guest and perhaps used by the host or another guest. Other options that are available, is to drill a hole in the data center and run a GPS receiver to the roof and get the time from the GPS satellites. I think that is something many VPS/cloud providers will not allow.

Edit: s/your/you're/
I wouldn't count on Canadian ramp down, most of the coal power stations are in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Alberta's current government has been going on a green binge that most of the residents despise (approval rating for the government are quite low). As for the other provinces, the federal government unilaterally imposed those decisions without consulting the provinces which has caused issues.
I guess the intersection of peer IP addresses for all the infohashes listed above (better, for the whole 192.168.0.0/24), from the DHT network, will be tremendously interesting... for someone... :)

Sort of "IKnowWhoKnowsWhatIDownload".
Especially during the festive season one should remember that productivity is not everything. The Guardian has a good write-up:

Why time management is ruining our lives

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/22/why-time-...
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I agree, the book isn't very "bottom-up" at all, perhaps with the exception of "Binary and Number Representation" being the second chapter; the rest of it looks like OS stuff.

This is what I'd consider "bottom up":

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softw...
Lyons' book is liked by many people I work with who are learning DSP on the job. The current version has 180 pages of tricks, 51 sections; additionally it covers quadrature signals and Hilbert transforms. But, it is not free.
> In 1960, it's pretty easy to see how 'ending segregation' can be a win-win (or at least, not detrimental to 'whites')

Lot of white people back in 1960 thought otherwise.
http://github.com/jerometerry/perf
Use this [0] to find your Torrent Clients IP address. It downloads a torrent where the tracker description echoes back your IP. I've found VPNs to be too unreliable and only use a seedbox now.

[0] https://torguard.net/checkmytorrentipaddress.php
I have a fairly unique name. Anyway 5 years ago I was on a date, met the girl online. She started asking me about places I had lived... and she just knew way too much about me. She confessed she had paid like $20 to look me up on one of those extended search services before the date. There was no second date. Totally creeped me out... but I did get the name of the service she used, and when I got home I ran a search on myself to see what all was there.

What's worse than all the information being out there, or parallel I guess, is that the shitty service had a bunch of information wrong. It said I lived in a state where I co-signed a lease for my sister (and since I have the same last name as my sister the service drew the conclusion we were married), it said that I still owned a home in yet another state (I had sold it years before)... It also returned my year-by-year income (most of which was fairly accurate), court records (even from when I was a little kid showing up at my parents' divorce hearing), and the exact amount I still owed on my house. No clue how they got all that shit.

Around that time I went looking for ways to purge it all, I stumbled across this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/j1mit/how_to_re...

I filled out every opt-out form I could find.

Here we are, 5 years later... I can say... a few less scammy sites show up when you search for me... but on the whole not really much impact. A bunch of information these sites have is still wrong, and a lot of the sites... even if you go through all the trouble of opting out... they only honor the opt-out for a year.

I asked my lawyer if there was a way, how do celebrities and such keep their records out of these people's hands... and his response was, "You probably have to contact each site and pay then to take you off..." At which point I decided to cheer if anyone ever fire-bombed the offices of Radaris or Spokeo or Yatedo or any of the other shit-information sites.

We need laws that make it legal for us to all kick the CEO of these companies in the nuts -- one good solid kick each. Freedom of information, all that... necessary for democracy... and it's just a short hop from there over to aggregation services... but we should at least ensure that people who want to profit off eroding privacy shouldn't be able to reproduce.

Seems like there was an update to that post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/31u84n/how_to_r...
We had exchanged messages on okcupid and had progressed to gchat. At the time she was in New York and I was in Seattle
This is similar to the practical side of the CS education we got at The Evergreen State College, except fancy high-level stuff like Unix and C wasn't covered until long after we learned to write simple programs in assembly/machine code on virtual Von Neumann machines that we implemented ourselves.
Heh, the day I started to isolate overlapping melodies was a huge gift. Makes me happy to read your story. After formal training, and years of wondering what the hell chord progression were about.. the day I could parse harmony in my head and focus on one line in relation to the others, everything became clear. although I cannot measure what I feel in precise way (I couldn't name the intervals) I can improvise counterpoints for a few seconds intuitively. Which is a god damn pleasure. I even enjoy singing dissonant, just for the sake at aiming where the chords don't, and then keep a dissonant counterpoint. It's not dissonnant to me anymore, it's just a different sonic feeling. After all, 13th 17th and many jazz harmonies felt dissonant to me at first.. this is just an extension.

I believe that this "explains" more about music than 10 years of music theory classes.

ps: That's why I'm often thinking we should teach math to kids with actual activities. Involving your sense is to me critical to internalization of concepts. Later on you can drop the notation.

pps: indeed that's the kind of brain rewire I never expected. It opens your mind to other sensations too; and also, even pushing it, it change my view of European geometric explanation of everything. If people, cultures didn't have written music but understood music as you describe .. who has the knowledge here ?
http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/07/java-in-flames.html
They're not leaving money on the table if it takes 6mo to learn android and rebuilt they're app.

I hear your frustration, but this goes against other common HN advice: "avoid the hip thing, build it with the tools you know best" (not to mention "ship early and often").
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That's one interpretation, another one is that if you're that marginal of a candidate anyway you've probably benefitted a lot already by previous employers and institutions.
yeah that's why you need caching . for wordpress posts that are static there is no need to keep fetching from the database
The site has a link at the bottom of user pages to opt-out. They keep you listed but remove your address and telephone number.
You can read this online here -> https://www.bottomupcs.com/
>>namely that the same amount of government money could have just paid the workers' salaries directly

Your math is off. The company agreed to keep 700 jobs in the US, and will in return get $7 million in tax breaks over 10 years. That's only $700,000 per year.
>> Torrent downloads and distributions for IP 192.168.0.1:
Distributes child pornography, Static IP, Likes porn

I wonder if they share their data with law enforcement, because there appears to be al lot of valuable data to be mined in the DHT swarms. This service reminds me of the crux in the most recent south park season.

* SPOILER *

Wherein world-order is threatened by the 'troll-trace' program that will expose the on-line behaviour of everyone.

* END
The letter was digital?! That's surprising.
Interesting. After some reading, apparently this interpretation of the trivium is standard, though this interpretation of the quadrivium not entirely. My immediate thought was that of course there would be crossover. For example, rhetoric includes elements of time (tempo/rhythm are poetic). Maths, geometry and astronomy are largely about processing, and so on. More interestingly, they considered the whole lot preparatory work for studying philosophy.

Might a modern pentivium add numbers in n-dimensional space (matrices / calculus), or a sextivium explorations and representations of infinity? Or would these fall under the subsequent study of philosophy? How about parallel/concurrent systems? It certainly seems to me as a layman that large swathes of research mathematics and theoretical physics are approaching subject areas traditionally ascribed to philosophy. I wonder what the latin word for GPU would be.
I've met lots and lots of horrible white dudes in the tech industry, but that doesn't stop me from assuming that new people I meet who fit that profile aren't terrible.
Maracas, some bells, and probably finger cymbals.

You could probably get a triangle or tambourine going, but it would be a bit awkward - especially the triangle.

Most breath-based instruments are out, due to the high speed, but you might be able to do interesting things with a Kazoo, or if you have real talent, a Harmonica.

So long as you were at a jog instead of a run, you could probably fashion an extra-sturdy harness for a small xylophone set and play it.

Edit for an afterthought: You might be able to get into certain string instruments as well. I'd start with something like a ukulele due to the small size and occasional low cost.
Right, I know they may be unable to discuss it even when it's public. I was saying if it were entirely made up (i.e. there is no such settlement to begin with), they could say as much.
No; See page 9 section 3 of paper.
China is shipping one up to their space station to test it there. That is already a pretty big allocation for research resources considering that there is a large prior against this working: conservation of momentum.

So every time a positive result turns up incrementally more effort will be applied to test it, assuming the new result improves on previous ones.

Seems like a reasonable approach to me.
Yeah I really don't understand why people have this notion that population growth is necessary for economic growth. It doesn't even follow that aggregate (i.e. non per-capita) economic growth results in a higher average standard of living. I wish I could say this nonsense is only perpetuated by politicians, who do whatever they can to juice GDP so they can boast to the electorate about how much 'economic growth' they achieved. But this would be untrue. Even certain national economic policy institutions fall in to this trap when they really ought to know better.

The other thing worth noting is that economic growth, socially liberal (historically speaking) attitudes towards sex and gender equality, and sustainable population all go hand in hand. On the economic side of things, there's a fairly well established 'demographic transition' model that suggests that when a society reaches (roughly) a 'first-world' level of development, population growth tends towards 0: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/De...

Put simply, one of the best things we can do if we're concerned about overpopulation is to aid economic development in the 'third-world'.
Is this more about the science vs the trade? I do wonder if a practical foundation helps people understand and go deeper into the science.

When I did a computer science degree from the University of Victoria, Canada, 1996+, it more started from the "bottom". Though if I remember assembler was being moved or removed from second second year. On the other hand before I finished for new students discrete mathematics, matrix algebra, and differential equation courses were also being dumbed down or eliminates. By the time I finished course catalog had a lot of "software engineering".
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ISPs don't limit the usefulness of this as much as private trackers that do; my IP address is completely clean but if you look at my Transmission you'll be surprised ;)
This is my situation with Comcast in Boston.
That's great to hear, thanks!
Randomly dropping a percentage of requests is stateless.
Ask HN: Well-written Technical Books?
Looking for recommendations on technical books that are written really well, where the form, flow, and structure – and not necessarily the content - are excellent.

Some examples that I enjoyed:

- SICP

- Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications

- K&R

- The C++ Programming Language

- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

- GEB

- Real-Time Rendering

- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

As a counter-example, some books that are considered classics or fundamental, and, in my opinion, don’t really shine in their style or structure:

- Deep Learning

- The Pragmatic Programmer

- Code Complete

- Introduction to Algorithms

There's a book series called The Best American Science and Nature Writing that I wholeheartedly recommend. Which books would you put in the shelf next to them?
Until you need to get a job and a bachelor's degree is required simply as a method to exclude candidates.
I've always been a fan of the 'OpenVPN Access Server'. You literally can't fuck it up and it's basically a one-command install and has a nice web-UI.

Shame it limits you to two concurrent connections but hey, it's free.
By my recent reading of the AWS docs, those pool addresses are not run by Amazon. They are DNS names that allow NTP load from AWS to the NTP pool to be distributed more fairly.
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Though I somewhat enjoyed the article it reeks of the kind of nonsense about Caribbean culture that those JCBs("just come back") like to perpetuate. They seem to have the most incite about the Caribbean though their only real contact with the culture is through parents and grandparents who left the islands decades ago. They believe that their summer vacations count as real experience and are the ones that people not from the islands get to hear about.

"Obeah" for instance is not a Jamican thing. It's an Afro-Caribbean thing with direct roots to Benin in Africa, the birthplace of what popular media calls Vodoo. Arguably it's practiced more in the southern Caribbean and Guyana than in Jamaica. Not to mention Haiti.

All this to say is that these know it all "foreigners" really paint a picture of the Caribbean that is thoroughly inaccurate. But I suppose they are the ones with access to running water and flushing toilets so maybe people like me who actually live here are not healthy enough to express our own experiences as eloquently as they can after coming on vacation.
https://www.r-bloggers.com/handling-large-datasets-in-r/
Me too, but it says that I'm in the USA, AT&T Wireless. Very wrong guess by thousands miles.
Not as bad as I was expecting. Period of about a month, fixed bug, refunded the difference to customers. Bad that it's during the shopping season, but thought this was going to be for a much longer period of time.
At my school (NCSU) Computer Engineering was taught from the bottom up - Assembly was 100 level, C was 200, Java was 300. Advanced topics covered CPU caches and memory hierarchies, CS never got those.

Computer Science was taught from the top down - Java in 100 level and C/Assembly were touched on in 300 level. Advanced concepts were data structures, operating systems, and algorithms, CE never got those.

Most of us are hacking on web apps these days anyways in which a baseline from either CS or CE is fine.
It does, but it is woefully inadequate for the purpose it supposedly serves.

Uncensoring journalists across the globe? Give me a break.
By putting the infohash in the URL your site is effectively equivalent to The Pirate Bay - you're distributing links to pirated content, the only important thing in a magnet link is the infohash, the rest can be obtained via DHT.

For example:

https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/torrent/?infohash=81ac3d... -> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:81ac3df677afb84211d59443fbb65f5f584cfa1a

Paste into torrent client and download. You might want to doublehash that to avoid a potential legal threat.
The DNA on it's own proves nothing; it's just a piece of evidence this isn't how a legal system works.
I'm not rationalizing it, I'm describing why perception has changed.

I you're a 'white guy' working in NYC in 1960, it's easy to see how desegregation is 'good thing' that doesn't challenge your status.

If you're a 'white guy' in Alabama in 2016, and know that 4% of the spots in your College have to go to 'people of colour' - in 2016, 50 years after desegregation wherein most people have at least some opportunity - you might be more likely to perceive that specific scenario as zero-sum.

It's perception, not necessarily reality.
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>>What would convince you to start a cleantech software (i.e. cleanweb) startup?

The most successful startups are founded by those who possess domain knowledge. Without that, most software engineers trying to found a startup in another technical field (i.e. energy) wouldn't even know where to begin.
Why apologize now? The damage is done, their big net has upgraded millions of unintended users. I can only speculate at what their next deliberate and calculated move will be.

My money(figuratively) is on subscription fees are coming. How will they deprecate the non-payers, more ads? They wouldn't black screen millions, would they?
Storage technology ;)
That wouldn't work if you also moved and changed phone numbers -- the correct information would be new, along with the fake.
I find your use of "Obama 44" amusing. It's as though you've fallen through a wormhole from a future in which there has been a second Obama presidency (Michelle, perhaps, or a second Barack Obama administration after passage of an amendment to repeal the 22nd?). If prior convention held true were Barack Obama ever re-elected it would be considered a different presidency distinct from the 44th. (A poorly attributed State Department "ruling" that I'm seeing references to says the two non-consecutive terms of Grover Cleveland are considered two different presidencies-- the 22nd and 24th. See: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/27/opinion/l-cleveland-makes-...)
Skilling wrote a nice critique of information geometry that's worth reading:

http://djafari.free.fr/MaxEnt2014/papers/Tutorial4_paper.pdf

The main point is that KL-divergence is not a metric, so imagining it as a distance in a space may give you some wrong intuitions. Its matrix of 2nd derivatives, the Fischer Information, works as a local metric, but then many people want to draw global pictures that try to extend this back to a global metric, which doesn't actually work.