skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's fair to discredit something that RMS says just becuase there are other issues at hand that also need to be fixed.

Also, many issues are connected and DRM/Copywrite/Many things RMS campaigns against will help people who really need help. Things like fighting against the DMCA so farmers can repair farming equiptment that they "own" paves the way for repairing large amounts of these unused vehicles to provide farming equiptment to countries who need them.

Many issues are connected and there are many paths that can be cleared to improve humanity. RMS is just arguing for the one he has experiance with.
Is the quote missing the part where they say that Bernhard was not a swan?

Using their flawed logic, since Lily and Greg are both swans, then Bernhard must be a swan, so Greg could be white or green.

You're right about the answer not being correct, and not for the reason I gave. The test was a butchered version of the black swan problem. It shows that you can't generalize given prior examples. Even if you've seen a million swans, and they were all white, you haven't proven that all swans are white.

I haven't seen the show, so I don't know if they were intentionally going for that, or they screwed it up and honestly thought it was a proper example of inductive reasoning.
Gates Foundation to Invest Up to $140M in HIV Prevention Device
> So unless Alexa somehow develops a way to interact biologically with the contents

This pipe dream overlaps with something I've wanted since I became a reluctant bodybuilder: an appliance to measure the macronutrients of a meal, or at least a viable, reasonably priced calorimeter.
Despite the negative comments, I won't be surprised if in a few years time we'll look back at how prescient RMS was. This has happened repeatedly on many subjects, and it's almost become a habit with him now.
> What do these folks do for work that they can live up in the Arctic in this fashion?

The name of the island in the article is a link to its Wikipedia page, from which another link takes you to the page for Nordland, the county it belongs to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordland#Economy

> How do they keep the dome's light from being completely obliterated.

As another poster noted, the dome is not very well isolated. As a wild guess, this might mean that thin layers of snow could melt off if it's not too cold outside.

Also, during the three winter months when it doesn't get light outside at all, you might as well live under a layer of snow. Its reflection of the house's lights should give an overall brighter feeling than if the light just goes off into the arctic night.
Who said anything about a robot wanting to do anything ? The creator would obviously - he would certainly not build a theme park with his robots. Imagine for one second that you could build such level of AI and robots - do you really think you would need to build a theme park to finance it - WTF ?!? It's like when the AI used human brains as electricity generators in matrix - but at least that movie had cool music and fight scenes.
It might be fair if your salary matched that of the new hires (or it might not be, depending on a ton of details that are not in the question). But in many businesses fairness might be a weak case for a raise with an immediate boss. Weak because claiming unfairness puts the boss on a defensive emotional footing and countering the claim merely requires picking and choosing evidence that makes the difference in pay plausibly fair.

The fairness claim also caps the raise at what the last person got and tips your hand in terms of information that the counter party to the negotiation does not know that you have: the counter party does not know that you know what other people are paid.

My random internet advice is to have an independent case for a raise based on your work. It can be helpful to describe some specific financial objectives inside the request, for example "I am hoping to buy a house and the raise will help with the down payment" makes the request seem more concrete and safer (e.g. you did not say you're going to spend it on illegal drusgs). It can also help the counter party think about the benefits of providing the raise and feel better about providing it. Just like few people want to be accused of being unfair, many people want feel better if they help someone "buy a house".

But again, focus on your work. The advantage you have is that you can point to what you accomplished for the business whereas new hires cannot.

Good luck.
The comparison is obviously warranted. I'd argue that there is a difference b/c:

- The EU has a history of relatively strict data privacy laws, whereas Russia has no credibility in regards to any civil rights. whatsoever.

- The EU is a much larger market than Russia. It's therefore unlikely that any significant companies would choose to leave the EU market and create an opening for local companies. Only a few data centers may be needed in the EU, and they just don't employ people or pay taxes in relevant amount.

- Storage-in-the-EU is not actually a requirement – companies may store data anywhere as long as they can provide for the required safeguards.

- I'm not completely firm on the genesis of the new data protection regulation, but I believe it was actually a reaction to the EU's Court of Justice's rulings (the "right to be forgotten" and the Facebook case). I have a hard time believing Supreme Court justices ruling with protectionism in mind.
https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0402197

>In 1927 Heisenberg discovered that the ``more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa''. Four years later G\"odel showed that a finitely specified, consistent formal system which is large enough to include arithmetic is incomplete. As both results express some kind of impossibility it is natural to ask whether there is any relation between them, and, indeed, this question has been repeatedly asked for a long time. The main interest seems to have been in possible implications of incompleteness to physics. In this note we will take interest in the {\it converse} implication and will offer a positive answer to the question: Does uncertainty imply incompleteness? We will show that algorithmic randomness is equivalent to a ``formal uncertainty principle'' which implies Chaitin's information-theoretic incompleteness. We also show that the derived uncertainty relation, for many computers, is physical. In fact, the formal uncertainty principle applies to {\it all} systems governed by the wave equation, not just quantum waves. This fact supports the conjecture that uncertainty implies randomness not only in mathematics, but also in physics.
Ask HN: How do you check if your mailserver is still running?
I'm running my own mail server with postfix and dovecot on a VPS. From time to time I'm scared that the server might be down, especially, if I do not get an email for some time. At the moment I'm just sending myself an e-mail from gmail to check wether its running. Does someone know a service which texts me or sends a push notification?
How do boardgame cafes make money? Do you charge per hour for a table?
Have a degree in Visual Communication, with an Illustration major. I'd already been programming since I was 14 when I started it, and was going into Software Engineering, but at the behest of my best friend, changed at the last minute. I have never regretted the decision, because it opened me up to new thinking.

In particular I've learnt to apply the many of the concepts I learned from graphic design/illustration to problems in software engineering. I also learned that for all the differences they had, they were both about problem solving, merely in different media, and that right-brained or left-brained, I'm more interested in solving problems than I am interested in the context in which I solve them.

Also, art students are on the whole way more social, so I learnt to communicate on a whole different level than I had at high school.

Also, way better drugs.
* When do you plan to launch?

I'm soft launching with beta users right now.

* What is the backend built with?

Python, Pyramid, SQLAlchemy (which supports PostgreSQL, Mysql, and SQLite3), uWSGI, Nginx, Ubuntu
Salary:Work ratio
No. There are lots of bits of Norway with no or few inhabitants but there is a road with traffic.
> Arch and Gentoo, Slackware

Over years, I have tried all three and found Slackware to be the easiest one to install and get up and running as a development environment or as a server. It worked perfectly on a Dell laptop (including wifi) in 2003, and it is working perfectly now on an Asus UX305 (the best light-weight non-Apple laptop I know of).
Presumably something to do with parrots.
This article seems polite enough. The author gives some rational reasons, and at least marks the opinion parts with "I feel" type qualifications.

Why is everyone just picking apart the logic behind this? It makes me (a Linux user) think that Windows-ecosystem people feel entitled to a port of all software, "because Windows".
This is like a clone of the comment I was about to write. I also had classes from that fellow, and share your sentiments almost exactly.
> If something has harmful or annoying consequences...

You blame the person who built the thing to have harmful and annoying consequences. The one who made the blunder here is Amazon.
>>Freedom of speech protects you from government persecution.

Sorry no, in the US the 1st amendment protects you from government persecution, in other nations other laws protect your freedom of speech from government persecution

However this idea that "freedom of speech" is only about government is dangerous to the idea of freedom of speech. While protecting against government censorship is very important, protecting against other forms of censorship are also important.
The Arch Linux ARM distro is not related to Arch.

> The preposition of always up to date would be great if that wouldn't mean that your PC doesn't work properly most of the time due to some new bug or incompatibility.

I haven't found this to be the case at all, quite the opposite, I've run stable Arch systems for years, even done large upgrades like the switch to systemd without an issue.
Hm, I didn't intend to convey a message that "Nix is more horrifying than Arch". For me, it's actually the other way round. Never tried Arch; but at some point in the past tried Gentoo for a few seconds, as well as Slackware; compared to those, in NixOS I just feel this huge safety net, with which however* deep I'll dig, I won't be punished for that. And truth said, even in Ubuntu I have to hack the OS occasionally, so in some way NixOS feels safer than Ubuntu.

* -- again, standard disclaimer, any Linux distro can kill your puppy, eat your homework, and burn your laptop; but that's true even of Ubuntu :)

Not sure how to rephrase the original post to better express what I mean. That said, after reading your reply, I agree that I find it hard to push on NixOS to even fellow "regular" devs; I don't have balls yet to install it as my main OS either. Maybe it's that NixOS has somewhat harder initial curve than "your common Linux"; the install phase reminded me somewhat of Slackware of '90s for a sec (though it's still better); again, not sure how it compares to Arch; plus there's the new language (Nix). That said, personally I wouldn't even think about using Arch, knowing how even tweaking Ubuntu is risky. And exactly as you said, I found Nix (the language) truly cute quite quickly. Totally much simpler than Haskell (which I still can't break into, even after some initial successes with SML, OCaml, and growing interest in Idris, which is reportedly Haskell-inspired).
A classical fjord is a U shaped valley carved out by a glacier. Quite different from a valley carved by a river.
> the humans stay safe

[SPOILERS]Dolores kills a human outright by aiming at their head mid-season. Then it isn't mentioned again.[/SPOILERS]

I always assumed something in the suit lining made the guns faux-fire, and the suit responded by exploding a pocket of air or something. But then you can see The Guy In The Black Suit (I've forgotten his name) load his revolver by manually inserting bullets, so I have no idea how that'd work. It's probably one of the only things that bothered me about the series.
It can (and should) actually work like that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yick_Wo_v._Hopkins ("Racially discriminatory application of a racially neutral statute violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.")
As long as your product is FCC certified, you're allowed to sell in the US. And if you sell in the US you can be subject to action from multiple federal agencies looking out for the end user, the FTC being one of them. Where you're incorporated has little to do with it.

Back to my point, singling out DLink when every other vendor has similar practices smells fishy.
Yes. Many artists have the skills necessary to become great advocates for the user because they have developed a healthily individualistic attitude.

I'd say artists are a bit less conscientious, in general, than CS graduates, which makes them less well-suited to managing technical complexity and avoiding future problems. I wonder if your idea that artists are good at detecting technical debt might be something specific to you, rather than a generic trait of artists?
I wrote a similar thing for C99 [1], but "safe" (bound-checked), having both stack and heap allocation, and many other array/vector functions [2], including integer-optimized sort (in-place MSD binary radix sort -wich is availabe in typical C++ sort implementations, but not in C, as default qsort() relies on sorting functions-). With some benchmarks, too [3]

[1] https://github.com/faragon/libsrt

[2] https://faragon.github.io/svector.h.html

[3] https://github.com/faragon/libsrt/blob/master/doc/benchmarks...
> We've run Arch on embedded PCs (arm) due to out of the box docker support, but after updating a year later we've literally were unable to deploy Docker containers. There was a bug in the kernel, and no amount of hacking, upgrading or downgrading made it work.

You are talking about a non official Arch project (Arch Linux ARM) as it was an official derivative of Arch. It is not.
Or just read a EU report from the 90's which described the same apparatus....
Why was erlang "hot" for you a few years ago?
Even without going as far as blocking all 3rd-party js/frames (which I do personally), one can use the dynamic filtering pane to at least block the most ubiquitous domain names and allow only on a per-need basis.

I do use facebook.* in one of my tutorial about reducing privacy exposure[1], but of course this applies to any ubiquitous 3rd-party servers out there (of which Disqus qualifies in my opinion, same for Gravatar, etc.)

This approach will minimally break the pages with nice benefits in return: reducing the ability of ubiquitous 3rd-parties to profile browsing history, faster page load.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-to...
As far as I can tell the commercial stations are leading the way.
I use NixOS for my full-time development laptop and it's great. Declaratively specified OS environments are the bees knees.
Yep, some dialog twists were the same as the older conversation between two avatarified cleverbots time ago, as when one says out of the blue that he's god.
The idiosyncrasies in Qt etc. are because they were first designed when C++ was very young, and many compilers had poor support for the STL.
True. However, I think in the case of the dynamic array, this effect is minor. The macros are small, and most of the time, they end up wrapped in a function anyway. But, admittedly,it doesn't scale well to very big generics, which should be always wrapped in a function. (Eventually I plan to shove a simple transpiler in front of all my C code and do this, along with namespacing, how I think it should be done.)
>Who wins in a nuclear war?

The one who attacks first
I've found in much reading over many decades that the mind-blowing stuff comes not from facts and even movements of peoples, but changes in ideas and in our perception of the world.

To that end, the single best book I can recommend is Stephen Toulmin and June Goodfield's The Discovery of Time, published in 1965.

We take it for granted that we live in a dynamic changing universe with growth and development, but for most of human history in most cultures the opposite was true: The world was static, most change was a fall from a previous high, people's places were fixed, time was fixed, the world was fixed.

(I'm not sweeping aside creation myths, because in most myths the world was created at a specific time to be exactly as it is right now and as it will be forever or until the end, depending on the myth. Static, no change, no development.)

A few centuries ago, there began serious intellectual and philosophical investigation into the possibly of changing time, of a dynamic universe, of serious consideration of the possibility the universe had a beginning outside of religious creationism. Over time, the notion that time itself changed seeped through and into all thinking.

Without that change in perspective, Darwin and others might never have done their work....

What I find personally most interesting is trying to shift my head to imagine what it would have been like to live in a world with static time in an Earth-centric universe.

That exercise is the most eye-popping of all, IMHO.

As an aside, over the decades my interest/fascination in history has waxed and waned, in part because there is simply so much to read, so much to learn, that it can be overwhelming. Consider the simple fact of the millions of stories in WWII alone, and one can easily imagine spending a lifetime learning more and more about a single period, a single event, and never learn it all.

Every now and again I'll plunge into an area of interest, either through a maze of Wikipedia articles or a really good book (Team of Rivals; Churchill's memoirs of WWII; Paris 1919; etc.), but overall I prefer those works that challenge me to change my intellectual and artistic perspective (Age of Insight, about Vienna, is good for that).
I use Ubuntu because there is a StackExchange site, askubuntu.com, and because it's easy to set up and fairly reliable and I can always go to Archwiki if I want to dig deeper. And anyway, I run Xmonad so a lot of the gripes about Ubuntu's interface, Unity, don't really affect me. [1]

In the end it comes down to Ubuntu provides me with a better abstraction layer for support and problem solving over the top of Linux than the alternatives I've seen.

[1]: Edit. As that sort of interface goes, I think Unity is better than many, but it took some time fooling with it enough to be familiar to reach that opinion.
That's like 2 years ago. Source maps work fairly well today.
A MacBook Pro Saved My Life
Seems like a critical flaw in voice-control.
Imagine a prankster driving through town with speakers blasting "Alexa, order me 20 dollhouses".
What I really mean is that I expect there's some deeper or other reason. This isn't really that big of a deal-breaker if it's only the reason cited. The technical challenges you cite certainly mean this isn't a 2-hour affair but it doesn't sound like LinkedIn would be allowed back in as soon as Russian user's data is on servers there instead of elsewhere...
Not relevant to policy, but it should be noted:
The LinkedIn app is horrible. I deleted it long ago and use the browser.
Reasons Not to Use Disposable Chinese-Made Chopsticks
Haha, of course!

He refuses to take Amtrak because they check id, but is fine flying on airplanes because they demand id. If it's because the government requires it for flight, then he's still a sell-out (obviously because he needs to fly sometimes). That's just a rationalization to feel better.
Bohm's interpretation is just many worlds with a "world particle" tacked on. That particle doesn't affect anything and it's only purpose is to get rid of those pesky other worlds.

Not only is it superfluous structure it makes the theory non-local, which is hard to reconcile with relativity.

If you have no a priori reason to reject a multiverse Bohm's theory is quite uninteresting.
The term "C with classes" is almost used as an insult in some circles. I wonder if "C++ without classes" would be a better idea.
> I see no reason to assume evidence that would implicate Russia must be so sensitive that the government would never divulge it.

This is the source and methods (or what I like to call S&M) debate.

Let's say your nephew wants to come out as gay. He tells only his mother. His mother tells you. Now you write on Facebook, "I just learned my nephew is gay. He will always be my nephew and I love him and his courage." Now your nephew knows his mom (your sister) blabbed.

This could have a ton of effects on your intelligence gathering network. For example, your sister might not want to tell you anything anymore. You just lost a source. Your nephew, feeling betrayed, might cut his mother out of his life. You just burned a source.

These are situations where even revealing judgments could lose sources. In situations where there are multiple sources, it becomes somewhat more difficult for your target to identify the leak, which gives you a larger safety margin.

So the question the intelligence agencies and the administration had to answer with this report is, "Are these judgments worth burning sources? If we reveal specific pieces of evidence, which are highly traceable to the original leak, can those sources be burned?"

Clearly, they made a call that you found unsatisfactory. But I hope you understand why they made that call.
We charge per person for a four-hour session (£4), plus the margins on food/booze/retail. Only 8 months in but so far, so good!
Finally someone talking sense in this thread. Just cause Dvb has the capacity for many more stations doesn't mean the spectrum will be used for that purpose. There are so many better uses (WiMAX, metro wide internet) of the new freed up spectrul can now suit.
https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib/blob/master/kvec.h
My wife had a Kindle that was really out of date. It wouldn't connect to the store or find updates.

I had to put an update on the device using a laptop and then restart, which then updated the device. However that was still too old, so I had to repeat the process before it was fully up to date.
Curiosity is one thing, but this tool is especially lenient with users despite wishing them to purchase a license. It's also made by a single dev, not a massive conglomerate. I feel like it really shouldn't be the target of this kind of thing...
> Notice: This post does not endorse piracy. It's purpose is merely educational. Decompiling and cracking software is illegal in most cases.

Author proceeds to write a very detailed post about how to remove the parts of ST3 that are designed to prevent piracy.

Pick one. You can't not endorse something and then go tell people exactly how to do it. If you were showing how to do something else to ST3, fine, but this is telling people exactly how to pirate ST3.
We're talking about the long term here :D

One minute lost by saying you don't want to use Skype might give you the benefit of convincing another person to join you video conference platform choice!
I'm in South Florida on XFINITY and it's blank, but if I view it from my T-Mobile connection on my phone it's not.

This is probably a caching issue.