skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Major problem: Context is king in archaeology.

The context of an artifact is its position in the site relative to everything else, and it's incredibly important. A stone flake by itself tells you a little, but a stone flake next to a core by a fire with carbonized bones in it tells you a lot more about the people who lived there. This is why archaeological digs painstakingly record the position and orientation of everything they find, in addition to soil features, etc. that might reveal even more. If you see an artifact in a museum that is from an archaeological dig, there's a book in an archive somewhere that has a drawing of the level in which it was found that gives its orientation and position relative to a datum. You could return to the dig and place the artifact in precisely the same location that it was found in using this data.

Archaeology is an evolving discipline, and better ways of extracting additional information from digs with new methods are being found all the time. For this reason, most major digs do not cover 100% of the site. It's considered good practice to leave some of the site undisturbed so that future archaeologists can apply yet-to-be-invented techniques to the site to reveal more than is presently possible.

So, by scooping up artifacts indiana-jones style, you're destroying a huge part of the information that they might have revealed. Is it better than looters digging the place up? Perhaps, but only just barely. It's a highly destructive, unethical act. It's like justifying a smash-and-grab because there's a riot going on and you happen to be slightly more needy than most. There's a small chance that looters won't find the site or that a government will decide to protect it in time, and it's better to take that chance than it is to loot the place and ensure the site is destroyed.
In my experience it eliminates a particular kind of drive-by trolling, but leaves the other kinds unaffected. Only constant moderation really keeps it out.
I don't think the rivers would run dry if we recycled waste water, as a majority of it is just dumped into the ocean.
Everyone is forgetting another option. Say your factory is relying on parts delivered to you by containers. One week there's heavy storms somewhere in Asia and your containers from China aren't loaded. Currently the only option is to either always keep a buffer of parts or to gamble and use airfreight in case needed.

With such a rail option you'll have an alternative: by default use container vessel then in case of a problem switch to the rail.
I wouldn't want to play Elite Dangerous without VR, same for racing sims.

(I'm currently playing ED without VR since I lent my Oculus to a friend and I really miss it.)
> I would say Facebook doesn't attempt to make you use your real name to make the community better in the first place.

They're not even allowed to enforce it in Germany [1]: "Facebook may not prevent its users from using fake names, a German privacy watchdog said on Tuesday, in the latest privacy setback for the U.S. company in Europe." Note that said authority is part of the government (unlike, say, EFF).

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-germany-pseudonym...
That was my thought add a couple of extra passenger cars and a buffet car and you would have an interesting trip and get to see some of the less travelled part of the world.
Or it could be interpreted as "Make Vim use Emacs keys!"
Dunno, sounds easier than chess.
> I'm not saying Paris isn't a financial centre. It's just in a different league compared to London, NYC, Singapore, Hong Kong or Tokyo.

That's true. But the point here is that a lot of London's banking depends on unfettered access to the EU markets, and so the question is not "which city", but "which city in the EU" will take over once the UK exits the EU.

> Making markets requires plugging into financial and political power structures. Due to home-country effects, buyers and sellers of a security tend to congregate around the issuer.

That matters for some roles, but certainly not all. But this same arguments also is part of the exact reason why the UK faces an onslaught post-Brexit.
I'm pretty sure most Of The route already is double tracked.
>I've hardly ever seen serious insults on Facebook

Every once in a while curiosity and boredom get the better of me and I visit ESPN or some other mainstream news site that uses FB profiles for the comments section and I almost always walk away shocked at the kind of comments people are willing to post while directly linking to their real name and profile, often containing their place of employment. Respectfully, if you haven't seen serious insults on FB, or at least on sites using FB profile logins, you haven't been looking hard enough.
> I reject the assertion that these issues are "common" in the US

On what grounds do you reject that? Do you have hard evidence that women and ethnic/sexual minorities in the US are not at increased risk of violence and mistreatment? Or are you basing this on "feelings > reality", as you put it?

> Further, it's getting rather tiring that the US is always listed as an example when countries/societies exist without legal protection for all races/genders and where slavery and forced labor is still legal.

The "I can't be bad as long as someone, somewhere, is worse" argument is a classic excuse to get out of ever having to improve anything.
> I don't get it, you have to save and restore all the state on context switches either way.

Actually, you don't. I'm not up to date as to what's done in this direction by current kernels, but a while back, a patch was merged that disabled floating point and MMX operations by default for a process, and enabled it for a while only when some FP or MMX instruction lead to an exception, which then allowed the kernel to avoid saving and restoring FP state on processes that weren't actually doing any FP/MMX operations.
Same thing with Ada. If you're looking for a safer low-level language with a long track record of successful use by some major players, Ada is the natural first candidate.

But as someone else said, Rust has had way better marketing (and is newer, which probably catches some people as well.)
Not exactly because of year transition but because of a leap second issue, CloudFlare had some DNS outage on 1st Jan, 2017 : https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affe...
Or Ireland.
You can already travel from China to London (or more likely in reverse) by train with a few changes, it's definitely worthwhile.
Example: You want to bisect the nodes of an edge-weighted graph into two sets of equal size such that the sum of the edge weights between the two parts is maximized.

The best approximation algorithm (it's NP-hard) runs in time O(n^(10^100)):

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.0458v2.pdf

For more examples see here http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/6660/polynomial-...
Well, those X,000 bankers pay their taxes (to some degree), pay rent, buy food in restaurants..
So their absence is disruptive to the local economy, considering how much money their earned.
I honestly don't see this on Facebook. I have made very few connections there but I am routinely surprised by the stuff that comes out of people I went to high school with. Not usually because I find it personally offensive, but because I cannot believe someone is okay with having that out there linked to their real name.
> The tracking tech renaissance

FTFY
For JavaScript you might do quite well with a 32-way bit-slice implementation, like http://fanf.livejournal.com/93032.html
That is, if you can't do it on the GPU with WebGL :-)
Its probably for the best. France has a history with cutting the heads off aristocrats.

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No I'm just bad at reading. the other way around, current state bad. I don't think you need to disintermediate entirely but you need everyone in the actual chain to have a real business relationship with each other where you have a responsibility to and vouch for the other parties you deal with. That's how non-broken industries function.

Outbrain/taboola style indiscriminate dealing doesn't add any value.
C++ would be a great alternative, assuming the developer(s?) working on the project didn't hate it, as is the tradition: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=532

Oh well, at least they're moving from C, which will be a big win either way.
The one that's spelled 'none'. WikiLeaks claimed many times Russia wasn't involved, NYT admitted they faked the story. It's nothing more than liberal tears who can't deal with losing elections in a system they were creating and shaping for years.
The first thing I looked for is an installer that actually does something else than curl | sh.
I've been taking cold showers since 2015 and have noticed a huge difference in my cold tolerance and also in how my body reacts to the food I've eaten. There is a point (around winter unsurprisingly) where it becomes too stressful because the water gets too cold to shower in.
Anecdotal but I noticed I did lose more weight when I was taking regular cold showers, plus it helped me take up more exercise as my body became a bit more resilient and enduring.
I'm a software developer working with embedded devices, but I sometimes hear snippets of conversations regarding logistics. The story can be something like this:

The device is manufactured, flashed, and packaged in China, and normally shipped by sea. But now demand has gone up, or production has been slightly delayed, and we need to get devices to customers. Maybe we will run out of stock in 1-2 weeks. We can't really (only) load a container ship and not be able to get devices to customers for a couple of weeks when demand is high. The logistics team then tries to ship limited quantities by air and/or train to bridge the gap until the next container ship arrives.

Hence my (very limited) experience tells me there is definitely a market for something like trains with time and cost in between air freight and container ships.
I think he meant the labor laws are protecting more the employee than the employer, notably on the firing part. So, as far as some theories go, if it is hard to fire employees, employers will be more reluctant to hire, reducing worker mobility.

But I only have a small experience of the consequence of our current labor laws (which are very hard to change, the current gov tried last year and got massive protests for their trouble).

Edit: Also the employment taxes (the one paid by employers) are very high in France (half of the salary +/-).
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All true.

My point is a broader one made by example, that a society of people with a safety net is more desirable than one where the have-nots can only live off trash and sympathy.

(Though personally, I think the biggest reason to give a guaranteed income is because the money poor people receive is almost entirely spent in local shops and on rent and utilities. And it's spent on stuff that people want, whether we think it's a good decision or not. That makes it an efficient way for government to disperse money into the economy.)
One of the great benefits from an online alias is being able to build relationships in a community while retaining the ability to cease (and resume) that contact at any time. The alias may as well represent its own individual, with minimal risk to the underlying user(s) as to its reputation. It's a huge relief and a boon to expression to be able to communicate without worrying about the reputation of a sole "real name".
For a dose of real-world big-O I recommend following http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com
That's never a good view.
Conventional AI can clean up at Pacman if it can do tree search on the game state, source: CS188 out of Berkeley.

http://ai.berkeley.edu/lecture_videos.html
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I don't get Spacemacs hype. I tried it, and never felt comfortable using it. Started with blank .emacs.d, yeah I completely cleard whole configuration two or three times until I hit sweetspot. Now I'm sitting on ~250 loc config on vanilla emacs (including evil), and eveything works like a charm. Plus I learned a lot about elisp. I never liked those bundles and distributions. They always felt redundant, but I can understand the appeal to some people.
With google, facebook and apple all expanding in the U.K. are they hoping to collect the developers that are left out in the cold? Anyway this has all been mentioned before back in 2011 after the government went on a witch hunt in the U.K. but all the talk of moving amounted to nothing mainly due to the cultural difference that exist outside of London. http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/business-news/finance/bou...
I would argue that it is more about having the power to make a big difference

The biggest difference I ever made was while working for a big established 10k+ employee firm. The smallest was while working for 10-15 employee startup.
With google, facebook and apple all expanding in the U.K. are they hoping to collect the developers that are left out in the cold? Anyway this was all spoken about back in 2011 after the government went on a witch hunt in the U.K. but all the talk of moving amounted to nothing mainly due to the cultural difference that exist outside of London. http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/business-news/finance/bou...
> The "I can't be bad as long as someone, somewhere, is worse" argument is a classic excuse to get out of ever having to improve anything.

Recently learned the awesome names for this fallacy. "Tu quoque"[1] is the general name. Whataboutism[2] is the awesome term for its use in soviet propeganda.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Wow a 5.6 MB background image...

It took me 13 seconds to load it on a 20 Mbps connection. And there we are worrying about how many Kb our JavaScript libs are.
It's also painfully apparent when "educating children On X" is applied.

Most kids don't pick it up, and it's just an additional burden on them.

I come from a country where this is precisely the situation and it has 0 impact, except it is yet another avenue for children to practice their rote learning skills.

I find that The average American is far more informed about the operation of his legislature than is the average Indian.

The other issue is that it tosses the problem to the next generation to solve. But that won't work - the next generation will be even worse of than ours when it comes to infowars.
Why do they have to use a low level language ? Why not use NodeJS ? One argument would be time management, but even with C you can not be sure that no interrupts happens in between ...
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296058
It's also inferring the game state from looking at the screen rather than being spoonfed the data.

One could conceivably perform a depth-limited search on the actual game state if it were available and then use an AlphaGo-like DNN to predict what a deeper search would find, no?
Having a few animals is actually good to better use resources. Cows on meadows that have too bad soil to be converted to fields, pigs that eat food waste, ...
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Thanks, that's the tldr I was looking for too.
Is there some kind of 3D radar that scans a few meters below surface level? Sounds like that would make the job of recording a lot easier.
Assange strongly implied that the emails were leaked by Seth Rich.

Not sure if I believe that though, since it seems that Assange would have proved it by now if it were true. Maybe he's withholding the proof as leverage, or maybe he's lying. I do trust Assange much more than the CIA though.
Because 'hack' is poorly understood word with negative meaning that was created by mass-media - it is and will be used everywhere to justify everything to anyone. People just need to know that hacking is a thing for criminal magicians. It sounds best when it's repeated by every media, every politician on every possible occasion.

Puf - hacked elections, puf - hacked city, puf - hacked country, puf - hacked your iCloud (well, not really, your password was 1234567).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJq3OiP6Sow
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As others have said, the hotel doesn't have any authority over the spectrum itself so it can't impose any rules on it.

Take the ham operator scenario: One operator can't broadcast a continuous whistle so that nobody else can talk. It's impossible for an operator to obtain consent to do this. A hotel acting as an operator can't do it even if they got permission from every guest because the guests don't have any authority to grant it. It's simply prohibited for any operator to behave that way, full stop.

There are a couple of things a hotel could do though:

1) Kick anyone using wifi in a way they don't like off the property.

2) Encase the exhibition area in a giant Faraday cage so that nobody's cell phone works. Their APs are the only ones with internet access so no point for anyone else to turn one on.

I don't think either option would end well for any business that tried it. The reason they like the deauth method is because they can lock out competitors without the non-technical public realizing what's going on.
One of the strongest detractors against dams is their large ecological footprint. Wouldn't larger reservoirs make this worse in some ways?
His remarks on "geometric complexity theory" are very interesting (starting p80):

I like to describe GCT as “the string theory of computer science.” Like string theory, GCT has
the aura of an intricate theoretical superstructure from the far future, impatiently being worked on
today. Both have attracted interest partly because of “miraculous coincidences” (for string theory,
these include anomaly cancellations and the prediction of gravitons; for GCT, exceptional properties
of the permanent and determinant, and surprising algorithms to compute the multiplicities of
irreps). Both have been described as deep, compelling, and even “the only game in town” (not
surprisingly, a claim disputed by the fans of rival ideas!). And like with string theory, there are
few parts of modern mathematics not known or believed to be relevant to GCT.
The linked survey comments on this; whenever we've been able to put a problem in P, we've almost always been to bring down the exponent to practical sizes.
It is to some. But it's not considered metropolitan enough to many. It's not that no banks will move there - clearly they will, there are plenty there aready. It's that Paris is a better brand for a large portion of employees. For staff with ties to London, it's also near-commutable. I've worked with people in London doing weekend-commuting far longer (in travel time) that Paris.

But most major banks have desks both in Frankfurt and Paris already, not just to handle local business but because it's hard enough getting top people to London (my ex even regularly tells me of her frustrations of dealing with offices in certain countries that exists solely because a single hotshot trader prefers a certain city over one of their big centres and brings in enough business for it to be worth a whole support staff to keep them happy) and so most of these banks needs presences in lots of places to be attractive.

If you don't have a presence in Paris and your competitor does, you're going to lose a sufficient portion of high-value traders to competitors over it for it to be an issue.
> * With only very few exceptions, every engineer has access to the near-entirety of source code at FB (Oculus, Whatsapp, Instagram...).

What are the exceptions?
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I agree, the usefulness of a "distribution" like this is getting some fresh ideas about how to customise the editor.

For example, this site listed some useful plugins that I didn't know about, such as https://github.com/bogado/file-line
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I've never seen "coöperator" spelled with a diaeresis before. Apparently it's a New Yorker house style: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-t...
And this is actually even more reflecting of real life interactions. In all the activity circles you go IRL most of your acquaintances know only your first name.

Only people you really bond with usually known your last name.

So why on earth should every person you talk to online should be provided your full name and possibly start stalking you?
Nobody has perfect attribution and direct sales ads are a minority. Traffic quality is big deal.
Yes, ground penetrating radar/sonar/magnetic sensing all exist and are used, but they're not as good as you'd hope. They're mainly used to help figure out where to dig. There are all sorts of high-tech ways to record the position of artifacts as they're being dug up, but students and volunteers with pens, notebooks, and a little training are usually cheaper.
> But virtual dispatch is trivial to add where you actually need it, a bunch of function pointers in a struct and you're good to go.

Or let the compiler do it for you? It's like saying I shouldn't use first-class closures, because they're also trivial to implement manually where I actually need them.
People get death threats on Facebook.
I think Facebook has very poor engineering culture. They built their iOS app with 18k classes, then claim that iOS and Git can't handle their 'scale'.

Let's avoid putting here obvious companies and companies who over-engineer, maybe?

http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-th...

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3m5n2n/faceboo...
if you believe shell scripts are hard enough to write that systemd can take over. Then you should also believe that they're hard enough to inspect that you want some level of auditing.

RPM's are inspectable, signed by default and integrate better with your system. (the same is true of apt). And if they're in the package repository then there is a maintainer who is ultimately responsible for ensuring the quality of the code.
Very useful.

My wishlist:

Showing the duration and the release date of the podcasts in the search results would be nice.

Show the full title of the podcasts and the episode. It seems you cut them off at a certain length. At least show the full text on mouseover.

Exact search. It seems impossible to search for "Paul Graham" by date. Because you get all those results for "Paul" and "Graham".

I don't like the "search as you type" feature. It feels confusing to get results for "sta" while you type "startup". And I would like being able to to look at the current results while formulating my next query.
For me the insecurity isn't even the worst thing about curl | sh.

I like package managers, and I tolerate tarballs, because I know what they do and how to reverse it. I care about the organisation of my filesystem and suspect that the people who suggest I pipe their script into my shell do not care at all.
Neat! Unless I'm misunderstanding, I think Odo is more general, though, in that you don't need to pass data through any sort of unified Dataset protocol: there's a graph of direct translators between formats.
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There is unlikely to be any single track. There are a few potential slowdowns, eg Russia has a different guage.
I agree, but I just bought a 15" MBP 2015 and 15,4-inch (2880 x 1800), ~2 kg, plus the battery life feels just right to me (YMMV). Its ~2/3 of my previous 15" MBP 2010, the battery life is ~25% better, and the screen is noticeably brighter and crispier (partly due to the old screen being matte and 6 years old).

I didn't have to go to extremely low weight device. I didn't have to go to small battery. I didn't have to go to low or high resolution extremes. Sure, the GPU isn't great, but I decided to not play games on it from the get go. I wouldn't have my gaming equipment for it anyway (mechanical keyboard with binds, Naga mouse, headset, etc).