skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice piece about early software to solve some astrophysics problems
They talk about having "invested" in the tremendous waste of time and effort that is "compliance", simply to enforce ridiculous jurisdictional fiefdoms' opinions about who you can or can't send your money to.

Imagine a world where this terrible waste weren't mandated by the men with guns. Imagine a world where cryptocurrency executives didn't try to spin this huge coerced waste as a positive.

This is the reason cryptocurrency was invented. Shapeshift is the right direction. Coinbase is the wrong one.
Early layoffs and closures in 2017 suggest a rocky year ahead for tech industry
I'm from the bay area. We created this problem. Each of the two bubbles I have lived through did this.
i ordered xiaomi note 2 for my sister and you get what you pay. the rom is completly shit. its full of ads you cannot turn of. and the battery became unusable after only half year. because i ordered it online i dont have any warrany. my sister had to buy a new smartphone. dont just look at the specs when you buy something.
Go to Africa or India and see an elephant or lion where it lives. The zoos are only slightly less horrible than the circus.
> Holy Christ, I really am going to melt right into this other person (who is a relative stranger)! It really IS physically intoxicating and perfect! And it seems like we feel the exact same way about each other!

That's not romance. That's illusions. She's welcoming trouble with that attitude.

UPD: Apparently not anymore if she left that minefield and lives in healthy marriage.
That's good, though. Other people enjoy it, you don't. There's nobody forcing you and yet you still try to understand it. Maybe one day you will.

Personally, it's not all the way it's cut out in this article, but the article hits on some of the key points. If you play your cards right, there's still romance of the traditional kind too, but it takes planning, surprises, and commitment to pull it off.
You Won't Believe the Reason Google Pulled Ads from These Big Sites
Stop Paying Executives for Performance (2016)
The list of banned books seems pretty arbitrary... I assume any guidelines are very vague.

I'd love to know why they chose to ban a Shakespeare play...
Complain with your own name.
I only have one outdated smartphone, bought about 2010, and discarded late 2015 simply because the USB charging mechanism was too worn out (could have got that fixed, but wanted Android 4.x which it couldn't do); was on its second battery. It now sits peacefully in my desk draw at work.
I'd be interested to know what an animal could do to deserve to be beaten to preform tricks and then ferried around in small cages for human entertainment.
> Newton's remark was mostly a backhanded slur against Hooke, as far as can be told.

Could you expand on that? I am aware of the feud between the two, but I fail to see how this insults Hooke.
Large cash transactions require reporting so I assume that it's not a huge deal to confiscate there.
I offer a counterpoint: Taxation is theft, and cooperation with government tax collection authorities is unjust and immoral, even if a vast majority of those taxes collected weren't being spent on tools and research for more effective mass murder. Of course we know in the US that they are, so that's a double whammy of sorts.

How can that be "the good fight", if each nonviolent person recognizes their own personal obligation to hinder improving the effectiveness or efficiency of collection of taxes for the war machine in every possible manner?
In a case of mistaken car identity (as opposed to correct car, but incorrect driver), there are even better sources of evidence: hitting someone usually leaves traces on the car (bent buffer or hood).
Some references/credentials:
* One of the main developers of GEGL (new backend-library of GIMP) https://git.gnome.org//browse/gegl/log/
* Won the Norwegian Unix Users Group's "prize for furthering Free Software" https://www.nuug.no/prisen/index-2009.shtml for his work on GIMP
* Has held presentations at LibreGraphicsMeeting with core GIMP developer Michael Natterer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFDbSQk9Ba0
* Is mentioned in release notes of GIMP 2.9.2 https://www.gimp.org/news/2015/11/27/gimp-2-9-2-released/

So as long as the "pippin" user of https://www.patreon.com/pippin is the same as GIMP's pippin, it seems legit.
If you have a trojan, then it does not matter what form of password storage you use (meat or manager). Any password you enter into the computer with the trojan is at risk of compromise.
Uber and Lyft don't make money until they're able to replace their drivers with autonomous cars. 80% of an Uber fair goes to the driver, so once they are able to replace the driver with an autonomous car, there's no reason why competition between the two companies would not drive fare prices down.
Zoos? Quite frankly without zoos, the holocene mass extinction would be going even stronger.
"The directors of Lyft and Uber are legally required to maximize profit for the respective shareholders."

This is utterly not true, and even companies like Google have (had?) it specifically written into their shareholder prospectus that this wouldn't be the case. Companies which maximize profit at any cost are doing it because they want to not because they have to.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-cor...
There are species that only live in zoos. In other words, if it wasn't for zoos, these animals would be extinct (in part due to human over-hunting). Some species that were once on the edge of extinction have been re-released into the wild due to the efforts of the zoos, and they should be commended for this kind of effort.
Only if it's compiled with clipboard support. I don't know about in other places, but in the default Arch package it's not. So this command is a perfect solution for me.
fairly certain they don't beat them anymore.
Different states have different laws:

http://drivinglaws.aaa.com/tag/transfer-of-plates/
> When you get a ticket, you either name the driver, or you pay it yourself. But I haven't heard of anyone getting a ticket for someone else's car.

Or you pay a fine for not naming the driver. Which makes sense, because if you're unaware who was driving (or not willing to say), why should you be punished for speeding/running a red light, as opposed to not naming the driver.
Public schools and roads are nice.
Weinberg mentions the quote by Eugene Wigner regarding the importance of consciousness in the section on instrumentalists. However, I see it is being fundamental to realist's interpretation also. I subscribe the the realist approach, which I view as meaning nothing special happens when a human makes an observation - it is just quantum mechanics as usual. This has interesting implications. The key is that the observer is not outside the system, he is a part of it. His wave function becomes entangled with the system when the measurement is made. But what makes this difficult to analyze is that we don't know what it means for the observer to say "I see the result was *". What physical process allows the observer to be aware of the measurement?

We can make a simplifying and unsatisfying assumption - the observer has a register in his head which records the result of the measurement. Here, it is easy to imagine this register is part of the wave function just like the object being measured. As mentioned above, the wave function for this register is entangled with the object being measured so the measurement and register value are correlated. In our model this corresponds to the person independently thinking each of the possible results, which some people call multiple universes.

But this simple register is not what goes on inside the brain. Not knowing this makes it difficult to accurately model the measurement process.

EDIT: for clarity
> once they own or at least maintain their fleet

This is a very different value proposition for investors. Instead of a high-tech company, they now own a fleet of cars parked in a bunch of (owned, leased) garages with mechanics and car washers on staff.

What intrinsic advantage does such company have over old-school taxi shop? What barriers are there to discourage someone else from also owning a bunch of similar cars parked in similar garages maintained by similar mechanics and washed by similar car washers?
Oh I know. I'm sure there are shady back-room deals lined with kickbacks from shitty contractors who will overcharge the government (tax payers) for systems that don't do what they need to and will have to be redeveloped every 5 years.
MCQ on Fundamental of Process Management in OS Part-1 – InfoTechSite
Basically Hooke was short, so he Newton was backhandedly saying he didn't get his ideas from him. Since then it has acquired a secondary meaning apart from the insult.
> Could you succinctly outline the case for pardoning Chelsea?

I think OP had it right in saying she has served time.

If you pardon Snowden he would get away scot free, which is a hard sell.
>when the elephants left, there was a "dramatic drop" in ticket sales. Paradoxically, while many said they didn't want big animals to perform in circuses, many others refused to attend a circus without them.

This isn't paradoxical. The people protesting the circus are obviously not the same people buying tickets to the circus.

They seriously half assed it. They only dropped elephants, and pretty suddenly at that.... But left "lions, tigers, camels, donkeys, alpacas, kangaroos and llamas." Not nearly enough to keep the animal welfare people happy but just enough to annoy the ticket buyers. People who want to see tigers jump through flaming hoops also want to see elephants "perform." 99.9% of the people who object to elephants being in circuses are then going to object to other wild animals being in circuses. Removing elephants but leaving lions doesn't please them and it doesn't even make sense.

By getting rid of one without the other they made exactly nobody happy and signed their own death certificate. How the hell did nobody see this?

I guess it was a knee jerk reaction?

They might have used the opportunity to have reimagined themselves as a modern circus without animals... Maybe, if they reformatted themselves and modernized. But I think their identity may have been too interwoven with animals to be able to move forward.

But the question posed remains, would people bring their kids to this kind of show without the allure of exotic animals? Probably. But maybe not under the Ringling Bros name.

Maybe the writing was on the wall for years and the elephants were the last nail in the coffin. I, personally, feel that Ringling Bros always was kind of still an outdated sideshow act. Sorry, Ringling, you stayed in the wrong century.
What does this comment add to the conversation? I was experiencing my gratitude for the experience while acknowledging the reasons for its discontinuation. There's no need to twist that into something negative.
Conservation parks.
Indeed, although I suspect that it would be easier to just put paper-mache elephants on car floats ;)
Philosophy vs. ethics
I was thinking more along the line of the many smaller transactions, e.g.: unreported cash tips, that the IRS loses money on each year.
That requires that vim be compiled with the xterm-clipboard feature enabled. On my Fedora 24 desktop, vim doesn't have it enabled, but gvim does (according to the output of the :version command).

One advantage of the method you describe is that it can be limited to just part of a line. Piping output to xclip is limited to complete lines of text due to the nature of :w !.
I used bitcoin quite heavily in 2016 through the 'shift' card that coinbase offers, and I think I'm going to hold off on further use in general until tax stuff is more clear / straightforward - I've made an effort to pay the bitcoin taxes correctly in previous years, but not personally being an accountant, had to hire one to check all the stuff (I'm not super rich, so this is a little bit annoying). The point of this comment is that I think it is a good thing coinbase is trying to standardize some reporting method - I also agree with the '1099 for each cup of coffee bought with bitcoin' seems a little bit much...
You all have heard that we can harness energy from the light of the sun and convert it into electricity[1] with the risk of contaminating the environment which sustains us[2] coming only from the production of the tools to harness that energy from light, right?

Aside from the context of space travel beyond where collecting this underutilized resource, "Light From Stars" is viable, why is this even a conversation?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and...
How do you get from «the vast majority of humans ever living in agricultural societies throughout history were serfs» to “a construction by the same people who are trying to sell us [...]”

I promise I’m not trying to sell you anything. I hardly ever drive a car and only own a used one because my wife likes road trips (I’d be happy to get rid of it), have mostly avoided student loans, live relatively frugally (with the notable exception of buying too many used books), and think it sounds just fine if you do the same. If you want to argue for Marxist critiques of late capitalism or for Buddhist asceticism or whatever, I’m happy to concede the point.

In general, I’d say the people who are trying to sell you something don’t give a damn about economic or social history, and aren’t going to bother “constructing” some vast conspiracy to trick you about the past.

My direct experience is mostly with researching my own ancestors, who were landless peasant farmers living in Ireland, and with decades of close experience with indigenous rural peasants in Mexico (such as my godparents), whose families were mostly quasi-slave migrant agricultural laborers for the past few hundred years, under the oppressive control of the Spanish.

Admittedly, both of those cases were people living at the fringes of empire under an imperialist/capitalist global order. But my research of other times and places suggests that conditions were much the same in most times and most places (e.g. throughout pre-industrial Europe, China, India, and the Middle East). If you want a nice introduction, try Graeber’s book Debt: The First 5000 Years.

Whether rural peasants would view their situations with “suspicion or contempt” is something you can directly ask of the remaining rural peasants in the world. I don’t know about suspicion per se, but for the most part they would prefer to have running water, electricity, televisions, cellphones, modern medical care, non-leaking roofs, a stove that didn’t fill their rooms with outrageous quantities of wood smoke, education for their children, a stable source of income, etc., even at the expense of leaving their families to work in horrendous factories and live in urban slums.

Obviously it’s harder to ask people from a few centuries ago, but I’ll note that my own ancestors took the first available opportunity to flee their ancestral homelands and travel across an ocean away from all of their support networks at great risk and expense, for the mere promise of a better deal.
Are there no exceptions for driving directly to a closest inspection place? In canton of Zurich, this is the AFAIK only case when you can drive without license plates (if you want to register your car and the DMV wants to inspect it, you can drive it plateless to DMV).
> if one entangled electron flies into a black hole then we would be able to know its spin by measuring the other one even if light from it won't reach us

All the arguments here mention what happens under SR but wouldn't GR be more appropriate? If an electron flies into a black hole, from the frame of reference of the observer doesn't it appear to get closer and closer to the black hole event horizon over time, but never actually enter? It only enters a black hole from its own frame of reference, doesn't it? So the outside observer would never see it enter the black hole, and light from the electron would always reach us.

Or is my understanding of General Relativity effects near a black hole event horizon wrong?
Listen to her; Acknowledge her; Appreciate her;
And she'll give you 80% marks;
Taxation is not theft.

If you must, think of it as how you're paying for access to this society.
The problem with two-part numbers is that they look like floating point. Both humans and tools can easily sort them as 4.1, 4.11, 4.2.

Three-part is unambiguous.
I'm so sick of the trope of the happy sexless marriage. It's unhealthy and it's the cause of a lot of unhappy marriages and delusions out there. This article doesn't address the trope and instead reinforces it.
Their Roadmap and 2.10 changelog says they plan to release 2.10 with full GEGL integration http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Release:2.10_changelog / http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap#GIMP_2.10 and then the next version, 3.0 will be GTK3.
Some banks do this too. They store the password in the clear then at login ask for the Nth character of your password (rather than the whole password).

That obviously means that the whole password is rarely sent over the network. It also means that they can use the same validation system over the phone for telephone banking.

The system is however far from ideal of course.
Government regulations… as software
World’s First Solar Road Debuts in France
That has nothing to do with Seamless. People avoid each other if/when they want to and there are thousands of factors that play into this.

Everyone's different. Find the neighborhood that you're comfortable with.
Well certainly now that they're out of business.

They did at least 8 years ago[1], though. Not sure how anyone could believe that they could make animals do unnatural tricks day in day out without coercion.

I can see why someone would want to believe though. Tf you don't think about it, it'd probably be more enjoyable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww8YQKpTu-4
I always thought of Cirque de Soleil as a more of an adult show? No? Not that there is adult content, but I had the impression that they are marketed towards entertaining adults. Do they market to families as well?

Ringling Bros always were a thing to bring your kids to, they were always marketed primarily towards children. I can totally see an adult couple going to Cirque de Soleil, I can't really see an adult couple going to Ringling Bros without children.

I may be way off base here.

Wild animals appeal mostly to children. I gotta agree though, animal acts are totally outdated. Especially now.

For Cirque, I think it was a business decision but also a different market than Ringling Bros.
One major problem is developers want to build housing but not schools. It was once common for developers to build schools along with new housing developments. Also; highways. You cannot simply drop new housing capacity without providing for quality of life...the answer of just permitting more housing is not that simple.

The Bay Area has poor transit infrastructure and many communities don't have excellent schools. You need to connect these and other dots. Yet people call us "NIMBY" when we protest our kids' schools going from 25 to 35 kids per class since no one will commit to funding the educational needs of the new residents.
I think we need to accept that much like communism is an ideal that might work in small groups (literally communes) but quickly falls apart when dealing with large groups (because people are terrible and will find ways to abuse the system), pure capitalism is also an ideal that might work in small groups but also quickly falls apart when dealing with large groups (because again, people are terrible and will find ways to abuse the system).

I think "free markets" will inevitably trend towards "crony capitalism" as long as 1) government exists and consists of, as you say, corruptible people, and 2) money exists, and therefore can be used to influence said corruptible people. Therefore, even if you managed to hit a reset switch and turn health care into a "free market" and ran the experiment over and over again, 100% of the time it will turn back into the same "crony capitalism" mess that we're in now. What can I say, I'm a cynic at heart.

And I've already mentioned this, but it also seems kind of silly to advocate for this theoretical experiment (which may not actually be possible to implement) when there are already many other countries around the world that have successfully implemented universal health care (either single-payer or two-tiered systems) with better health outcomes than the US.
Sexless? How is that implied in any way by the article?
Definitely not as reactively, not convinced it will work as an abort, and not at all on Mars.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/780896313676148...
Public schools are not nice, in general. That's why anyone with any money at all sends their kids to private school.
> Bush Administration made the "priority date current" for a short window; this allowed legal immigrants waiting in the line for Permanent Residency to file and obtain 485-EAD.

The priority dates became current abruptly for a month in July 2007 (see [1], [2] and [3] for Visa Bulletins for Jun/Jul/Aug 2007; "C" means current, "U" means unavailable). This was also the time period when "labor substitution" [4] was possible - i.e the employer could substitute a new prospective employee in the place of another who has an approved labor certification. Together, this enabled many people on H-1B to get an EAD [5]. EADs offer more or less the same flexibility as Green Cards for the purpose of employment.

This is probably what suryacom meant.

Labor substitution provision has since been revoked.

[1] Visa bulletin for June 2007: https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bul...

[2] Visa bulletin for July 2007: https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bul...

[3] Visa bulletin for August 2007: https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/law-and-policy/bul...

[4] http://www.kenreyeslaw.com/blog/2014/october/labor-certifica...

[5] https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-pr...
If the attacker had zero knolwedge of this they would have to rely on random collisions. On the other hand, there are about 5000 commonly used Chinese characters (estimates will vary) so entropy is going to be fairly high if they knew.

The real issue is how different OS and applications handle character encoding and KDF. A good example is WinRAR which does not allow full width CJK characters to be typed in the password field of its UI but one can copy and paste in anything and it will be accepted. Decryption will work on some OS/version combinations but not all.