skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California has no electoral college, so conservative voices aren't muted in state elections as they are in Presidential elections (but they're still a minority in the coastal counties).
The most ambitious book in that regard must be Guns, Germs, and Steel (http://amzn.to/2jKq9ku) by Jared Diamond. It aims to answer the question: "Why did Europeans end up killing/conquering/... American Indians, and not the other way around?

You'll find lots of people saying Diamond has been "debunked" but by that they mean "here's some criticism someone posted online". It's a remarkable work of analysis tracing the causes of human progress over thousands of years.
After the first pop-up Chrome and Firefox let you say "block all the dialogs from this site from now on."
Practically, if one doesn't use a password manager, they probably have a much more serious problem than weak passwords, i.e. password re-use.
I'm almost certain the Apocalypse isn't happening this time.
The story goes that when you throw crabs in to a pot of boiling water, the crabs on the bottom of the pot will drag down the crabs above them.

The cook doesn't even need to put a lid on the pot to keep the crabs from escaping, since as soon as any crab tries to escape, the crabs below it will drag it down with them.

Similarly, in the immigration debate (and in many other situations in life) those who are worse off often resent others who are doing better, and instead of helping to improve everyone's life, or at least focus on improving their own, will try to worsen the lot of those who are doing better.
The prose in these ads feels like I'm reading a Trump interview.
This is very sad because those H3/H2 based boards are SO much more interesting than the RPis. I can't but wonder why Allwinner is so hostile to OSS.
Great post.

I had been working on a pitch for Uber for Wet Nurses but didn't realize my target demographic was actually 20's to 30's white males. Maybe I should crunch the numbers again.

Now to counteract the 'Seamless effect', we should build an Uber for Companionship & Human Contact, you know.. like an Uber for 'Dating'. We can reap a percentage of the income the companion makes from the date...
But that hasn't happened. Tech jobs have only increased in value. We still need more tech workers, and can't train them fast enough.

Instead, we should be forcing citizenship on workers, encouraging them to stay here, start a family, etc. These are among the smartest and well-educated people in their former countries, and we have space for them.
New Evidence: Was DB Cooper a Boeing Employee?
I'm find it less of a value, too. I increasingly find better prices elsewhere, partially because I really don't want to join Prime. After browsing Amazon first, I bought a postal scale on eBay, and a refurbished laptop on Newegg.
>I've always wondered why California keeps electing conservative governors

This is also true for Massachusetts. The people are smart enough to know party doesn't matter, but the person's ideals and what they have to offer. Also not all the people who vote for President will vote in local elections.
Unless you already work at the company you can't get a L1.

And H1B1s are for Singaporean and Chileans only. Hardly a meaningful impact on the US immigration system.

TN for Canadians & Mexicans are not visa and don't allow immigration intent.

Getting an O1 visa is non-trivial (otherwise all the people who don't get H1B's would get one)

The wait for getting a green card based on a job application is very long - practically no one goes that way.

The US doesn't have a points-based skilled worker immigration system like many other countries do.
To understand how pinyin helps Chinese become literate you have to start from a Chinese perspective. For an illiterate Chinese, he/she would be fluent in the spoken Chinese. So the barrier is the connection between written characters and pronunciations. Pinyin bridges that. With starter reading materials that are annotated with Pinyin, people can read (sound) the material and understand the material. So pinyin lets people read materials that even when it contains characters that they don't know. Pinyin lets people read, and by reading, people learn the written form and become literate.
You can get most of the way there by just mandating the fines go to a different layer of government. If it's cities deciding fine levels and enforcing them with city police, but revenues go to the state, then there is not nearly as much incentive to over-enforce.
I have not seen that consistently, maybe there is a bug. Also the trick works for basic auth and I don't think they have addressed that yet?
Or open it in an actual text editor, like I do anyway to get syntax highlighting.
When Iridium went out of business the Pentagon stepped in to run it[1], just sayin' :-)

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=119255
How are they miserable? Most of them seem happy to be there. There are a number of examples of crew members choosing to remain on the Enterprise instead of taking cashier jobs because of the adventure of it.
Taking the path of least resistance of course, it is easier to extort the person on their file than getting out of their way to find the real culprit.
Except for the fact that he's never in tuned anything. He just rides the coattails of real inventors.
I'd vote for him.
Agree - "nerds" today may not necessarily be the coolest kids in the room, but they aren't typed as social outcasts either. This is of course location dependent.
Since a package has to be at least 3 years out of date to be included in debian stable, and wayland is only 4 years old, it will take another 10 years.
And it is probably a good thing, i tried switching to wayland but it didnt make much sense. The only tiling compositor that worked for me was sway, but every other app i tried to use worked thru xwayland. no native firefox, no redshift. it did fix tearing in video playback though.

Maybe if i used gnome it would have made more sense.
‘CLAZER’ VR Devs Are Prototyping a Way to Practice Shooting with a Real Gun
So now they're carving up fiefdoms? Where does this end?
Andrew, nothing to do with windows or the article. But your attitude in the comments.. You seem to have a very close minded and insular view, it disturbs me that someone with such a view is in a position to teach. Perhaps try and think outside of the silicon valley VC startup web-app bubble, otherwise when it pops (which it has in the past) you will be in for quite a shock.
That story doesn't reflect too well on Musk either.

Based on the rest of the article, I get the feeling Thiel is trolling because he can, and I wouldn't take his stories at face value: that said, making up stories involving other people isn't usually advisable. It may very well be exaggerated, though?

Edit: I didn't know the story had been mentioned previously, I take back my skepticism regarding that.
As a side note, it's interesting to note that either California or Texas seceding would be irreparably damaging to the country because the political scales would tip so greatly.
Btw. I'm fully aware that this is just the bytes vs unicode issue, taken to the next level.

The difference however is that a) most data doesn't contain combining code points while much data is non-ASCII unicode, and b) software (i.e. most software, with the exception of perl 6 and probably few others) doesn't have convenient support for glyph-level strings yet -- I wouldn't mind if it had.
What do you mean? You can play with joysticks and whatnot in some (most?) games e.g. Elite Dangerous
> The Gimp project has been quite abrasive to the graphics research and software development communities for many years. The Gimp team 'knows better' then the highly qualified and experienced graphics programmers who offered to help the project bring there code base into the current standards for graphics.

Unfortunately groups of humans act that way sometimes. Wouldn't it make sense for the more qualified and experienced graphics programmers to simply fork it and make their own better product?
For some reason I can't edit my old posts, so I'm making a new one.

But after further investigation I'd like to point out that in Zhuyin, just because there's two vowel-containing symbols, it doesn't necessarily mean there's two vowels. And the more I think about it, the more it does seem there's one syllable. And if /zhun/ does have two syllables, it would seem to be fairly unique.

I've asked a Chinese speaker about syllables before, and they didn't understand what I was trying to say. So if a Chinese speaker could chime in on this, it would be much appreciated, because I've been trying to get concise information on this for a while, and I probably shouldn't be telling the internets that it's two syllables if it's actually one.
"Because VR games are so physical, gaming will no longer be perceived as an unhealthy activity"

- I had the same thought yesterday too. I would go further and say we will see the first open world MMO to adopt true geospacial coordinates very very soon.

What do you think this will do to fitness? ;)
>always wondered why California keeps electing conservative governors like Reagan and Schwarzenegger

Because the state's demographics and industry changed...? California was hardly a liberal bastion before it became solidly blue on the national level in 1992.

Even then Schwarzenegger was hardly a conservative compared to national Republicans even in 2003. And he pivoted even further left before his 2006 re-election bid.
For what it's worth, I complain about code written in C too.
> You'd be surprised how many are doing this full-time because they can't find employment elsewhere...

Isn't it a good thing that companies like Uber are creating jobs? Particularly for people who can't find employment elsewhere.
There's plenty of falsifiable evidence that suggests that adhering to religion is good for the individual, So there are positive benefits as well. There are also examples of religions doing good for humanity.

To say that Newton's theology "did not influence anybody and was therefore a waste of time" is absolutely false. I remember my math teacher mentioning several of his statements and beliefs about the nature of God during lecture.
> I get the feeling Thiel is trolling because he can

That's a kind of a strange road to go down, isn't it? I think usually the whole argue-in-good-faith thing, together with the principle of charity, require you to assume people mean what they say.
The 100k threshold will do nothing for body shops. They will structure it so that on paper every employee makes the required amount to keep the DOL/DHS happy while clawing it back from the employee through "fees", "charges", and other underhanded tactics.

They've always done this and always will.
That's simply false. It is anything but trivial.
I would invite you to consider that for all the deliberately antagonistic statements made about MS SQL and IIS being "legacy", many trendy startups would make the same statement about the MySQL / PHP stack you teach in.

I don't see why taking VC money is the repeatedly stated single measure of success, but I'd be interested in what VC anywhere would look positively on this sort of behaviour.

You could be here selling your product and services, but the opportunity is instead being used to marginalise people.
It's a true story, and both Thiel and Musk have been saying it the same way for over 15 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOI8GWoMF4M
Thanks for pointing that out about the two syllables, I'm glad you cleared that up.
Just finished it. It was good. Many methods that I had heard of before and a few that I hadn't.

Lots of slides to go through, but thankfully time limits means he blasts through them.
I end up having to explain this often, and have been meaning to write about this for a long time, and I finally did:

http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing-...
Schwarzenegger would never have made it through a GOP primary. He was only elected because of Issa's pointless recall election of Gray Davis during the energy crisis which was actually a result of Pete Wilson's deregulation of the CA energy grid at the behest of Enron.

Looking backwards, there was little difference between Davis and Schwarzenegger.
No, it happened[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOI8GWoMF4M
Is it vilification, or is it a little dose of reality to counteract their marketing department?
That problem is easily solved. In your malware, simply use the default settings for all of those things, and you will catch the 97% of users who never customize any of it.

You can afford to lose the remaining 3%.
I don't understand this. For both the California vote in the presidential vote the winner for state-wide elections (i.e. senate and governor) it is winner takes all.

Where you could see the difference would be in the California assembly and senate and at the federal level in the House of Representatives since that depends on how districts are defined.
Benefits of nipple play
I still need to try boot. So for clojurescript, I don't need figwheel, I can just use boot-reload and coot-cljs-repl ?
I wasn't aware there was a history, I take back any skepticism on that.
Peter Thiel is an anti-democracy monarchist. It ends when the country is broken up into small enough chunks that he can declare himself King of one of them.

https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/
> But they're still a minority's in the coastal counties.

I.e. Where the people actually live. The only real big metropolitan area that isn't coastal is Sacramento.
It does, but not as you would expect. Last time I tried with an ATI, I had random freezes. But it was a year ago. There were lots of improvements since then.
I think China is the only market where phones are sold without google services. Even when Xiaomi sells to India or Hong Kong, the phones are often "global version" (different ROM), which come with google services because everyone outside China expects them.
Effects of a porn addiction
No state uses an electoral college to elect governors.
That's very unfortunate for me, as a user and amateur programmer myself. It's even more a shame to see something become proprietary. I really wish people wouldn't do this.
I like Thiel, he's not as self-serving like some other tech billionaires e.g. Zuckerberg. He's no chance of winning because of lack of charisma and only appealing to nerdy guys.
Have you been by the bay?
Are you accounting for the speed of sound? The distance to the launch site of 50mi would be about 4 minutes of delay (getting longer as it flies South)

Hearing the landing over 400km away (or even boost back burns which started about 4.5 minutes and several hundred km down range, plus whatever altitude it attained) seems odd if you didn't hear all 9 engines going up.
the NYT interview is just filled with how Thiel sees the world. Someone on twitter described it as "the contrarian undergrad who hasn't gotten punched in the face yet"

>When I remark that President Obama had eight years without any ethical shadiness, Mr. Thiel flips it, noting: “But there’s a point where no corruption can be a bad thing. It can mean that things are too boring.”

"Boring things suck, let's make stuff exciting" is his argument for corruption.

>"It’s like, even if you appointed a whole series of conservative Supreme Court justices, I’m not sure that Roe v. Wade would get overturned, ever.”

Given the current reality of 5-4 votes on these issues, if we were to replace the 5 "for" votes with 5 more "against" votes, I believe that can cause things to be overturned, yes.

It really feels like Thiel has never actually thought about politics deeply, beyond platitudes he's heard. I assume that's not true, but it sure reads like that.

I really wish this had been a video interview, because if it reads absurdly, I bet the soundbites would be even moreso.
What do people mean when they say someone is solipsistic? I know what solipsism is, but it never fits the context. Is it just a way of saying narcissistic without getting sidetracked by medical definitions? ('cuz using terms from philosophy isn't the best way to avoid getting called out on definitions.)
The scary thing is that the people seem to be in the mood to vote in vindictive, badly behaved self centered narcissists.
Of course they could have. So by the same reasoning, people in China must put up with polluted cities as an inevitibilty?

I have to know that hydraulic fracturing hasn't caught on in China. The barriers are bizarre, but they're still barriers. With fracking, those could be gas fired plants. We're talking < $10B in investment to fix that problem. So why don't they?
Well in his defense, what I did say about the two syllables was utter nonsense, and I'm glad he pointed it out.

I had seen conflicting information about it before and heard speakers say it as if there were two syllables, so there was an ambiguity in my mind that was cleared up by his confidence.
> "Are they improving these people's lives, or making them worse?" And yes, they are improving their lives, if only slightly. They are making the world a better place.

And people that profit off of child labor are helping hungry kids eat.

This is an absurd metric.
Unlike the POTUS, the governor of California is covered by conflict of interest laws. He'd probably have to divest his assets and put them in a blind trust.

https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/c...?
I wrote one of those! Fun to read through now, but highly obsolete. https://www.mikeash.com/alltel_internet.html
I don't see the appeal to "nerdy" types (as a nerd myself) - he is less tech-oriented than founders of deep technology companies. Think of the people who started Google, VMware, even Facebook, and many others - great engineers who built things themselves. What did Thiel ever build? He's a lawyer, not an engineer.
> That's normal, in my experience; the plates transfer with the car.

What? No they do not. The plates stay with the person not the car. You can transfer the plates from car to car as well.

> Do you live in a place where one must obtain new plates immediately after purchasing a car?

Where do you live that you don't????

Are you sure that in your state plates transfer with the car? What state is that, because I would like to look that up.
Serious Dumb Question: if I've got a cellular modem in my laptop, why can't I put my sim into it and use some software to make and receive calls ?
https://blog.getpaint.net/2009/11/06/a-new-license-for-paint...
That's the goal from their perspective. Neoreactionaries are former anarcho-capitalists who want to break up the public democratic government so that they can implement private government.

https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/
It is a subject of argument because there is no clear definition what is a language. There is spoken language and there is written language, then there is culture behind the language. Chinese dialects resemble complete different spoken languages. However, they all share the same written language. Chinese were rarely written down exactly as the way it was spoken, and this is being practiced since two thousand years ago (probably ever since the unification of the First Emperor). In fact, because of this written language, it reflects back to spoken language as well. Chinese may speak the way they write -- that is, they may speak the same way as their written form, with their various dialect pronunciations. In a way, there is spoken Chinese for the illiterate people, and there is spoken Chinese for literate people. Last, with a common written language, Chinese shares a culture. A language communicates meaning and the meaning is the meaning of the culture. With the same culture, there is little barrier communicating (even between people who speak different dialect). It is weird, but it is not unusual to have two people communicate in two different Chinese dialect -- won't that be the practical definition of a language?

And by politics, I think one really means culture. It is the need of communicating with each other on a daily basis forges a language.

Well, I was mostly commenting on the traditional Chinese. Traditionally most population are illiterate so there is little problem having disconnected spoken language and written language. With the modernization and majority of population becoming literate, there is a unification between spoken language and written language. That has updated both Chinese spoken language and written language to a common form -- dialects are becoming merely a different pronunciation form. Today, with schools mandate speaking of mandarin, dialects (the spoken languages) are on the way out.

This process take place in both the main land and Hong Kong and Taiwan. But due to the isolation, they took slightly different form. That is how to a foreigner's view, Chinese dialects appears to be different languages. This is not fundamentally different from between French and Spanish, only the extent of time differs. With only decades, the Chinese in Hong Kong and main land, e.g., are still viewed by most Chinese as the same language.
I appreciate the explanation, although I'm still not entirely sure I agree with the analogy.

I saw both the financial and personal toll that navigating the immigration system took on my parents, it was a constant source of stress in the family. I'm sympathetic to all immigrants, legal or otherwise, and believe that immigration reform should include amnesty for those in the US illegally, along with a path to citizenship.

With that being said, I would find it problematic to apply a different set of rules and expectations for different kinds of immigrants. As I said, I do support a path to full legalization and citizenship, even though I would personally still find it somewhat unfair. I don't think that this feeling of unfairness is resentment though, and I certainly wouldn't wish for any immigrant's life to be made harder or worse off than my own.
well, last week i tried with an nvdidia gpu on my workstation and it didn't boot at all.
Hmm, I always used :.!ls instead of :r!ls...

Is there a difference?
It isn't even that there is no source - the code is available (upstream is here: https://people.freebsd.org/~abe/ ).

She figured that since it was a 1-bit bug, xxd -> vi -> xxd -r was going to be quicker and simpler than downloading, modifying and recompiling the source.
>>I would go so far to say that knowledge of certain sci-fi tropes, plot lines, and even quotes is a requirement for working on certain teams.

In other words, know your shibboleths[1] to enhance in-group cohesiveness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
Schwarzenegger pivoted left after the 2005 special election initiatives went down in flames. Then he hired a lesbian Democratic chief of staff who worked with the legislature. The result was a decent centrist administration and his solar initiatives. Later, Californians gave Brown supermajorities in both houses as the state pivoted left.
If his happens I'll pop 3 bottles of champagne and have the best weekend ever.
Pretty sure it's just a joke.
Montreal Is Leading the AI World Takeover
"I think the real issue here is everybody cares about usability but nobody actually cares about users..."

Could this also apply to the WhatsApp "backdoor" thread from yesterday?