skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I literally don't know what to say to that.

Of course one can like an outcome and still think the person enacting it was wrong (not dislike the person, that was your phrasing). There's even a pithy little statement about that: the ends don't justify the means. One can literally love an outcome and hate how it was brought about.

And in the case of leadership at the highest level, I for damn sure want to know the motivation behind some (or all) decisions. The decision, lacking context (or Why), is almost worthless to understand what is happening. In isolation any decision could be fine, or it could be the signal for a future unmitigated disaster.

We hammer this point home in the business world all the time. Context matters.

Great leaders understand this and deal first with 'why' then with 'what'. Bad leaders always deal with 'what' before 'why', or maybe never giving a 'why'.

And it's not about the liking or disliking a person. Ever. It's about the context that surrounds a person and asking yourself if you can trust them.

We cannot trust Trump. He has given us enough data points to know this. I want to know the 'why' on the TPP as a datapoint. It could either give me more trust in Trump, or less.

But, at a human level, if you are asking me if I dislike Trump? I don't care. I don't trust him. And I don't trust him because he has given me enough to go. And that is what matters.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13446947
I agree with you. I currently have two kids in SFUSD as well. The lottery system has some problems, but also brings some benefits. I got lucky as well.

However, I find a lot of people erroneously believe that San Francisco schools are generally bad, or that you have to really luck out to get a good school assignment. I'd say that SF schools are mixed. If you go onto "greatschools.net" and sort by test score, you'll find that SF has an unusually high number of very high performing schools for an urban district. It also has an alarming number of poorly performing schools.

Here's the thing - do the same search on the peninsula or in marin, and you'll find essentially the same thing. The difference is that in SF, you can't automatically convert a high mortgage payment into guaranteed access to a top school. Nor does poverty condemn you to a poorly performing one.

Although a good assignment is not guaranteed, it's hardly a long shot. The way the system worked when I was going through it is that you list 7 choices. If you create a good, balanced lists, and look for some good schools that are under the radar, you do have a good (but again, by no means guaranteed) crack at a decent placement.

Of course, the reality is that high income people can and will leave if they don't get an assignment they like, so SF does lose families this way.
I am wondering if antenna calculations are applicable for all types of routers. If not, how can I adapt it to my own setup?
Canada has something similar for our current PM:

https://trudeaumetre.ca
I think what the parent was getting at is people are bad at evaluating risks whose potential negative consequences won't manifest for decades.

It's true of smoking, and it's very likely true in the case of surveillance. There aren't similar studies demonstrating this for impact of surveillance on the wellbeing of nations over periods of decades because it's totally infeasible.

However, there is a good amount of evidence that it's very dangerous (and you can come to a similar conclusion by reasoning)—so the question should be whether it's worth the risk in the face of uncertainty.
Fastest magnetic read/write ever is incredibly energy efficient
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Not just clinics, of course. It's common practice in many businesses of all sizes.

But yes, this has been a feature of Key systems since before many HN readers were born. It was easy because the PBX knew all and controlled all; it knew the calls going through itself, and just told the corresponding phone to illuminate this lamp.

With SIP, it requires an elaborate presence (SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY) song and dance, often implemented using competing methods, and even when you get the lamps working, cross-connecting a caller to a different phone to simulate "picking up a line" is no mean feat, since the new destination was not previously a party to the dialog. This gymnastics is usually implemented underneath using "call parking", which means users must remember to "park" calls rather than merely place them on hold, and intelligence must be devised to get line keys to map to correct "parking numbers" and so forth.

It's certainly not impossible, it just becomes an incredibly overcomplicated feat of technical jujitsu for something that worked fine for ages under the old regime.

That's because SIP was very much _not_ designed for traditional telephony. :-)
I like the idea of growing bricks http://biomason.com/
FCC regulations (afaik) only apply to the power output of the device, modifying the antenna like this shouldn't change the power output.
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Again, I think you're assuming that at the far left of that 'linear' chart people spend solely on scarce goods. Research shows that isn't so. I think the actual chart would look like a tiny price bump which went mostly flat until some critical amount, well over $12k a year, was reached, at which point we'd see something like what you're describing.
Yeah it depends on the length of the text. Sometimes it looks a bit weird, so i agree that it is a little UX issue.

We are planning to work that out soon :)

Thanks a lot for your feedback mjolk.
I agree.

I get the distinct impression that the coming US regime would be very happy to close itself off from the rest of the world.
I absolutely agree that TUIs can be great, especially at user congestion sites, like POS and similar points.

I meant DOS when I said DOS. Where you run into program/system memory split problems when you keep piling on features.
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Perhaps coding at home isn't the most effective way for you to grow and learn something new, at least not at this moment.

I've found that I bounce between coding at home, learning a new hobby, exercising more, building out a non technical skill, or just taking a period of R&R where I'm not actively trying to really accomplish anything in my off hours. The best engineers I've come across are this incredible balance of coding skills and perspective, and that perspective can be acquired in so many different ways.

You state that your ultimate goal is to learn and build things- Perhaps you could take the next four weeks and pick up crocheting or knitting. Or, buy a hard lego set and take a week and build out something in the physical space. Pay attention to what you're doing as you complete your tasks, and the ways in which your brain is coming up with optimization to make you move more quickly and efficiently. Now, think about how you could reapply those learnings in your development process or software design. Are there metaphors? Can you draw connections?

There are software lessons to be learned all around us. Don't fight the burnout. Pivot.
Meanwhile, the elected President and his party are demanding the names of people involved in climatology and are passing acts to let them reduce individual named government employees' salaries to $1 per year.

Avoiding that "corruption" really did a whole lot of good with the actual, literal wannabe serial-assaulting autocrat who is in office, you're so very right.
> "No unauthorized use of VPNs through March 2018."

I was wondering, "what just happened internally in China that they want to censor for a year or so?" Then it dawned on me...they want to censor everything until the 2018 Winter Olympics is over with. I was wondering if Trump had tweeted, "free Tibet," or something like that.
Thanks for the links--I wasn't aware of these resources.

I do research in a neighboring domain, and have sort of dabbled in these sorts of datasets before, with a tiny bit of ML-ish research on different topics. It's an area I've thought about expanding into.

My sense is that the sorts of EMR/EHR records you're linking to aren't fine-grained enough for the most part to be useful for the sorts of things that will constitute AI's presence in healthcare. I think they are incredibly, incredibly useful, and will find a place in AI research (I've edited papers using these sorts of datasets with AI), but my sense is that they're not the sort of thing that will give AI a foothold.

I think your sentiment and that of the OP is right in that there isn't likely to be anything major this year, but I think AI/ML will have a bigger presence over the next 10 years than people are currently expecting. There's too much research showing that many tasks currently done by clinicians can be done better algorithmically by a machine, and in contrast to a lot of fields, the content matter is supposed to be approached that way--quantitatively and scientifically.

What is needed is a lot of very fine-grained data. Not visit data or event summaries, diagnoses, procedures, providers, but actual specific image files, etc. and so forth. My experience is that this stuff is in EMRs sometimes, but not consistently, and is never made publicly available. Some of the data--much of it maybe--is not actually in hospital records at all. It might be sitting in R&D or university labs somewhere, or isn't being collected at all.

My guess is that big corporations will start collecting this data one way or another, or researchers will establish consortiums, or apps will start amassing it as they gain traction, and that's how this will proceed.
itll be applicable for any 2.4ghz, 50 ohm radio
Our application is still maintained, so we can find workarounds or restructure the form to use an extra popup (to the detriment of usability). But i'm sure many applications won't be updated, and as a result of this change, data will be silently corrupted when they are used. The browser has knowingly broken compatibility with the web application.

This is a Torvalds "don't break userspace" moment.
Agree.

While we are making recommendations about what people with issues should be doing with themselves, let me add, on the other end of the spectrum - overconfident, mindlessly ambitious characters in society, should be sent off to explore the deep sea, climb mountains etc. So that whatever random goal they are chasing has minimal impact on society at large.
Can behavioral science help in Flint?
> They use "small government" to mean keeping government within its legitimate functions, which includes defense and maintaining moral order.

Unless they like those purportedly illegitimate functions, like using the federal government to put the boot on the neck of states that are OK with gay people having rights.

I get that you're good-faithing here, but the credit bank on that one went dry a long time ago.
You're lucky to live near relatively untrodden wilderness. In my experience as a hiker, many trails in the Sierra Nevada have been beaten into dusty trenches by horses, mostly thanks to pack companies. Quite a few in the southern Rockies have clay-rich soil, which horses will destroy when it is wet (so will bikes, but mud-riding is awful, so most riders will stay away). I have also been in some areas where horse traffic is the only reason that unmaintained Forest Service trails have not grown over.

I think banning commercial packers from the Wilderness would go a long way to fixing the problems with horses. Perhaps with some sort of licensing system, mountain bikers could be allowed as well.
In general I would agree, but we thought this could be a nice way to reach out and thank the people who supported us today :)
Most of the benefits sound like magic but holding something like ben wa balls inside as a way to strengthen the vagina muscles seems plausible, like a kegel exercise.
The spreading of misinformation online (2015)
Mmm, that is strange, I don't have a clue why that would happen.
Who pays for it?
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it's weird that the warnings aren't disabled by default on chrome for localhost: it's officially classed as a "secure origin"

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/prefer-secur...
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Just wondering if anyone knows how sites like Weebly, and Strikingly programmatically register domains, setup dns, etc? Are these types of companies using things like dnsimple? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
Announcement: https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-announce...
This might be off topic but why does functional code specifically need immutability? I'm familiar with the benefits of immutability in general (actually one of the best code bases I've ever seen was written in Java with mostly immutable object) but I'm not clear about the specifics of functional programming that makes it fit particularly well
Not really. It's only really applicable to any router that uses a dipole antenna.

Pragmatically, this means it's only really an option on routers with external whip antennas. Lots of routers have internal antennas, at which point you're going to have problems attaching the thing. Also, if the internal antennas aren't dipoles, it's not an option at all without significant redesign.
The other angle, which isn't mentioned here but is mentioned in Steve Kent's book The Ultimate History of Video Games is that a lot of communities had banned pool halls and arcades.

By wrapping the arcade in a family restaurant, Bushnell and Atari were able to open more locations for their games and eventually work against the arcade bans in those communities.
And by "unauthorized", they mean "all".
Physical tells are almost entirely Hollywood nonsense. When a professional player talks about getting a read on someone, they are talking about probabilities combined with the opponent's position at the table and a history (even a short history) of that player's betting/play patterns.
FCC regulates EIRP, which is output+antenna gain. For this to be strictly legal you would need to adjust the power down until the EIRP is within the legal limit. Actually to be strictly legal I think it would need to be type excepted by the FCC.

That being said if you're using this in your home/office on a legal channel it would be really difficult to even tell from outside you were using it and almost certainly not worth the FCCs time to even try to watch for it. It's not that much extra gain over the stock antenna.
I would love to know where they got their training data or if there's one publicly available.
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Yes, but it depends on how people see or interpret their jobs. If you really see meaning in bagging someone's groceries, then it's valuable. If you see meaning in giving people the stop/go signal at a garage in Japan, then it's meaningful.

If one goes to Japan, one might think one sees a number of geriatrics doing needless or meaningless jobs --on the other hand, if you look carefully, for many of these people that simple job gives them meaning in life. They actually take pride in doing their job dutifully and faithfully with pride --things someone from the US would scoff at or think ridiculous. So, it just requires a re-framing.
Haha I agree, maybe we should exclude cities within -say- a 50km range :)
I'm not sure about their legality over the years, but I do know that they were in fact largely accessible and were and extremely important avenue for academic researchers to engage with the broader community. This ban will likely disproportionally effect China's elites, who have long used VPNs for many reasons unrelated to politics.
This seems more ominous to me than it normally would...

All this sort of thing worldwide makes me wonder why there isn't more of an exponential growth in movement to decentralized or federated platforms. It's definitely seen a lot of growth, but with concerns about centralized censorship and monitoring in various places, it seems like it should be getting more attention.

Maybe it's irrelevant in the case of China, or maybe it's a good place to use as a thought experiment because censorship strategies have been played out so thoroughly there.
They used to run on Tandem NonStops with a dual DC setup in Sydney and Newcastle. Those were the days.
I'm constantly bummed out they don't have classics like Top Gun or nearly any DC series like The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow etc.

But there will always be someone bummed out.

Edit: apparently at least not within Australia.
For me one of the biggest problems in this regard is actually hacker news. I feel I get allot of value out of it but also waste way too much time. So I've been working on something that is intended to send me a daily summary of the top articles in categories that interest me. The idea is that I won't be able to click on other articles that are less relevant to my professional life and save time because I get a short summary on addition to the link. Also won't be able to read comments for a long time.
Would other be interested in that as well and would you be willing to pay for something like that?
If it's like here in Australia, they do consider EIRP. So a directional antenna would increase the EIRP, but with just 100mw tx at the output, I doubt EIRP would be over the limit (4W for 2.4Ghz ISM in Australia).
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Samsung Announces New and Enhanced Quality Assurance Measures to Improve Product Safety
https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-announces-new-and-en...

Also a YouTube video with findings and new Quality Assurance Measures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeKdcIOAEL8
Sorry, I was on mobile when writing the previous comment.

Here is the lengthy document I remember: https://www.eff.org/document/defending-privacy-us-border-gui...

They can demand a password from you, you can refuse to give it, and they can then decide not to let you in the country. Being polite and respectful in your refusal to share an encryption key can mean less trouble.

A point that might have caused confusion: they can seize your device. The document does not specify what happens if you decline to give the device (as in whether you are arrested or simply declined entry to the country). As far as I understand the references, courts have not had to decide on this question yet.
>Many small companies are going have an impact thanks to this.

if those small companies aren't offering secure logins to their users, they should be impacted. that's the whole point. You shouldn't get to risk your user's security just be being small. Implementing SSL is not difficult or expensive, and the prevelance of password re-use means that a small company with an unsecured login is causing a risk all around the net.

we've been educating people about SSL for years. if they haven't figured it out yet, it's time to start shaming them.
You said there was always a line of planes. All those planes were delayed, weren't they?

This is even before we factor in all the time lost by passengers of these planes, after which it would be a no-brainer.
People have bias. Are you are exempt? Is it _always_ scientific to decide what's in someone's head and then use that assumption to justify not liking them for a action you would appreciate if someone else did it?

You said in 3 different ways you do not trust Trump, are there specific actions you can imagine that he would need do to do to gain more trust from you? Can't you just cop-out by still arguing it's his intent (as decided by you) that matters?
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I just checked, and in the US, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Arrow and Supergirl are all on Netflix streaming right now.

You're right about Top Gun, though.
I think this is a great idea, and I may give it a go.

If you are initiating anything else like this, though, I'd make one suggestion: we need some materials that can be honed in their effectiveness in communicating the danger, as what has been done to make it a reality so far. It's a complex issue, and most ad hoc attempts to explain it to a random person will end in disinterest on their part.

Seems like one wiki page for techies and one for non would be a decent approach. For the most part, it would be best to have potential teachers use the resources on the wiki rather than students—but they could hold a repository of illuminating examples, analogies etc. until effective approaches for communicating to each audience type stabilize.

Edit: probably the main benefit of this isn't making teachers more effective, but rather that it would make it easier for potential teachers to get on board. As it stands I'd need to go do a bunch more research and collect specific figures personally before I'd feel prepared to teach anyone.
Good intuitions. FCC regulations restrict EIRP[0], which is essentially "what is the signal strength in the strongest direction". It's possible that increasing directionality of your antenna puts you over the EIRP limit (given how routers already try to get _really_ close to it to improve performance).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalent_isotropically_radia...
Old media tried to kill them by cutting them off from content. Instead of letting it happen, they proceeded to replace old media as a source of content.
Yes, worth reminding people that the President's job is only to enforce and enact law. Whereas Congress is the only body allowed to create law, i.e. bills. And the Judiciary interprets the law.

Obama could only enact laws that congress passed, and they pretty much only did that his first two years until Congress became a logjam and stopped doing anything. So Obama was left with the only tools he had, which were to enforce those laws he wanted to, and not the one he did not. And he did a lot of that, as pointed out.
If you mean the CW series, they have them. They release seasons after they have aired.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/netflix-cw-streaming-licensi...
See this classic Google Talk by Peter Boncz, the creator of MonetDB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MonetDB)...

MonetDB/X100: a (very) fast column-store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrLd-3lnZ58
Unless things have changed significantly from the previous version (Claudico), this is not really no limit hold'em, as the stack sizes are reset every hand.
You are excluding the costs of bugs such a rewrite would inevitably produce. Normally that is drastically more expensive then Dev time.
The first one is neither - it's string.join(iterable). If you keep that in mind then the design becomes clear - it would have been weirder to force every iterable to have some string-related method. Better to put it on string, where it more reasonably belongs.

The second one is the typical OO pattern where you ask an object to perform some operation on itself. This is how split works in just about every OO language - if you have trouble remembering it, it might be helpful to remember split can be called without any parameters - in that case your alternative variant won't make any sense.
Electrically driven mining equipment:

http://www.hitachiconstruction.com/about/media-press-release...

http://www.oemoffhighway.com/article/11224086/electrificatio...

If you just mean that it's impractical to build the electrical grid out to a remote mining site, that's true. In the present day remote mining sites typically use diesel fueled generators, now being supplemented with photovoltaic arrays in sunny regions. If you imagine a world with approximately-1940-level technology (so PV is not yet an option) and no fossil fuel, then you'd need to use something like biodiesel or ethanol instead of fossil-derived diesel.
Sometimes I am most productive on my iPad with a word processor and a Bluetooth keyboard. I credit it to the focused nature of just a single app. So if I'm having trouble writing, I go there or occasionally I will go totally analog on paper.