skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, you're talking about an independent third party with authority doing this - the police. About theft of a physical object.

Why should a vendor be able to stop you from using a thing you bought because it looks like one of theirs? No support, sure. Disavow the item, sure. Post warnings on the device as an inbuilt part of the system, sure. But destroy your item? No.

If someone is fraudulently selling cars badged as Fords, Ford itself should not be able to repossess those vehicles. And if Ford thinks that you have stolen their car, they themselves should still not be the ones who repossess it - that's what the police are for. Vigilantism is a bad thing and has all kinds of unexpected failure modes.
That was dependent on who you were and the location. A long haired hippy was not getting many second chances in the south. Watch the movie Easy Rider as an example.
Iran is a Theocracy and Authoritarian and China is Authoritarian. So I'd say, not so good.
Just the first ripples against the shore of what I expect to be a tsunami of unexpected consequences.

Seems like a golden opportunity for another country to step up and become the "conference center of the world". I'd LOL extra hard if it turned out to be Mexico.
About a third of the PMs here in Portugal were also engineers, yet we're not exactly topping the charts of the EU (at least, not the good ones).

As trivia, the current UN secretary-general - one of our former PMs - is a Physics and Electrical Engineering graduate.
The thing is that I don't care if a politician has a background in STEM subjects - in fact, if they have a STEM background, I prefer they also have a political science background or something that has to do with public policy. It doesn't need to be a formal degree if the person has a long history of political experience. This is for state level or higher. Local elections I doubt it matters so much.

I do, however, fully expect elected officials to take those in the STEM fields seriously and listen to their advice like they would listen to any expert.

I do want the elected officals to appoint STEM folks to the appropriate departments. I want someone well-versed in science to head the EPA and the like. Similarly, I want someone with teaching experience (and confidence in bettering public education) to head education. And so on.
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If you had to use a cloud-based storage system, what would you use to replace Dropbox? Spider Oak?
You can vote out bad Uber drivers. Can't do that with bad taxi drivers
No. There's enough air pressure to potentially lift and cushion the pod in the pipe (at least in the original plan). However most pod designs (I think) use magnetic levitation for lift.
Reading through the docs, this looks really nice. Forget the Erlang in the title, and just think of this as a nice functional C# hack. I'm thinking of using C# on a side-project because the tooling around F# in .NET Core on Mac is sub par right now. This library might be just the ticket.
Margaret Thatcher comes to mind. Jimmy Carter comes to mind.
> I get that you probably don't think health care is a human right

Correct, I consider human rights to be more fundamental than a new product/service -- health care didn't even exist a century ago. It is expensive, scarce, and difficult to define, as it is constantly changing. The only thing that is guaranteed is that there will be a point where a patient cannot be given any more healthcare, because of the diminishing returns (measured in hours of added lifespan per dollar).

> If your preferred outcome involves screwing these people and various others because you think overall it's a worthwhile tradeoff, then so be it, but I want to make sure we're clear on that consequence.

Yes you've mentioned that point before and I addressed it. To recapitulate: there is definitely an interesting argument to be made for the tradeoffs involved, and I think it would be worthwhile if measured in terms of average lifespan. However, as I said, I am not as convinced as you are that people with pre-existing conditions are going to be "screwed" in a more free-market, insurance-free system. Their costs of treatment goes down, and by the nature of insurance, they would typically be paying more than the cost of their treatment anyway (over time) to the insurance company, so....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/1...
They did let it get pretty bad though, I was only there once in 2008 after the games and it was already pretty crazy back then.
er, nope.

$ curl -I https://www.speedcoder.net/
curl: (7) Failed to connect to www.speedcoder.net port 443: Connection refused

$ nmap -p 443 www.speedcoder.net

Starting Nmap 7.40 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2017-01-29 17:18 PST
Nmap scan report for www.speedcoder.net (52.36.71.201)
Host is up (0.066s latency).
rDNS record for 52.36.71.201: ec2-52-36-71-201.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
PORT STATE SERVICE
443/tcp closed https

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.20 seconds
People with decent STEM backgrounds can be MUCH more gainfully employed elsewhere. Higher echelons of US government are badly underpaid, which is why they attract the kind of "talent" they do. A Google search shows that it takes $110K to decently get by in DC. $175K for someone who is expected to be at the top of their game is a bad deal when a professional can make two to three times as much in the private sector. So you get a bunch of has-beens who aren't good for anything else. The only exception I can think of is the USDS, where idealistic young people go to serve their country and take a massive pay cut (which is even more massive if you factor in the opportunity cost), but sooner or later life will catch up to them, too, and they'll discover they need to save for retirement and college, pay for private school for their kids, etc, etc. Shit's expensive.
Elect more leaders who come from a Philosophy background.
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They company surely did lose something. Customers who wanted to buy their product ended up buying an illegal competitor's product instead. There might even be some customers who go back and buy a genuine phone now that they can't use their fake one.

They're enforcing their copyright. Why not? The police can also confiscate computers with pirated software on them. They even do that sometimes. It doesn't return the money to the IP owners but it's still a way to deter theft.

It sounds like a good idea to me. Even if it doesn't recover their lost sales, it should prevent future black market copies since customers will know to avoid unofficial sellers.
I explored Tropashko's work in PostgreSQL back in 2004:

http://seespotcode.net/2016/04/30/static-trees/

I updated it in April 2016 to then-current PostgreSQL versions. It was interesting to me to notice not only the improvements in PostgreSQL over those 12 years, but also how my own practices had changed.
Paper from Nature med:
http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nm.4268....
Maybe you need (to make) a typing tutor in Sublime?
A Nintendo Switch Phone?
If you use all Intel hardware, Intel video, audio, wireless then you're fine. Everything works out of the box, and I mean EVERYTHING! Linux supports all wacom devices, and touch screens, mice, and keyboards. And so the only things that historically break are wireless, audio, and video. And with Intel devices you get FLOSS drivers that work perfectly.
I posted this thread to the Nintendo Switch sub yesterday and got absolutely obliterated for it.

It's piqued my interest though on how far away we are from a truly portable, phone/handheld combo.

With VR and machine learning focusing so heavy in the GPU space, the size of the GPU hardware is getting to a point where its nearing viability, right? or wrong?

Battery tech is accelerating too due to the electric vehicle market, we must be getting close.

I feel the switch is the first real step in that direction. Thoughts?
I just use tig, I don't see this adding much over it.
If I were a taxi driver, I would sell my medallion while it still has some value and start driving for Uber and Lyft, doing deliveries for Prime Now and Grubhub, etc.
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>>Iran is a Theocracy and Authoritarian

Thanks to the CIA

>>China is Authoritarian.

Yes but I would argue they are making large strides in freedom, clearly they have a LONG way to go but you have to see the changes in both the government and the culture.

Is this improvement a result of STEM leaders? Is America's decline in this area also a result of a regression in our Leaders? America used to have Inventors, Businessmen, even scientists as leaders.
Unfortunate. With Let's Encrypt, there's really not much excuse not to support both HTTP and HTTPS.
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The only airlock necessary regular operation is for the introduction of squishy meat into the pods, no?

I'd be curious what kind of compression you would need to make air bladders seal around a door.
A bit of googling doesn't turn up any mention of that sort of sketchy business. This seems like a pretty standard, innocuous publicity/recruiting event.

The world already has enough scandals without inventing fictional ones.
Close your Facebook account, stop looking at Twitter, start researching things independently.
Just stop electing republicans for a start.
It's specifically not a vacuum, but rather a low pressure system.

> Just as aircraft climb to high altitudes to travel through less dense air, Hyperloop encloses the capsules in a reduced pressure tube. The pressure of air in Hyperloop is about 1/6 the pressure of the atmosphere on Mars. This is an operating pressure of 100 Pascals, which reduces the drag force of the air by 1,000 times relative to sea level conditions and would be equivalent to flying above 150,000 feet altitude. A hard vacuum is avoided as vacuums are expensive and difficult to maintain compared with low pressure solutions.
I didn't like her politics, but Margaret Thatcher had a BSc in Chemistry, and went on to work as a research chemist.

Credit where credit's due: she understood the problem of climate change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnAzoDtwCBg
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It's also a short track and 1/2 scale (1/8th volume) cars making 94km/h fairly difficult.
I setup Dreamcast emulation to run TOTD on a Mac last year. It was OK... Not perfect though.

I ended up switching to Speedtype on Emacs, which I've found to be far more useful, and very easy to add exercise and drills.

https://github.com/parkouss/speed-type
The text of the law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1152

That law mentions visa issuance. But Trump is disallowing people with valid visas from coming in. Is it actually illegal? If so, what specifically is the conflict?
RHEL has had a similar behavioral change during lifetime of a release so this particular case is not actually a good example for recommending RHEL over Ubuntu for stability.

https://www.percona.com/blog/2014/04/28/oom-relation-vm-swap...
The majority of Einsatzgruppen (SS) officers had PhDs.

Anecdotes aside, I used to think this way until I realized that being a leader is about a lot more than raw intelligence.

The best leaders (business, political or otherwise) have a unique mental resolve that is a lot stronger than the rest of us. They need to be able to thrive in chaos and stay motivated when everything is falling apart.

I arrived at this conclusion after years of looking at various CEOs and scoffing at how easily I could do the job--just make arbitrary decisions, take credit when they work and deflect when they don't, right?

It wasn't until I worked for a company that was teetering on failure that I realized there was more to it. While I would have felt completely overwhelmed, frustrated and defeated, this CEO somehow managed to stay positive and kept fighting for years until the business was in the clear.
Cab drivers depend on their licenses to operate. If cities had a better way to provide feedback then revoking a license dould be a threat and bad drivers would shape up or get booted.
We need fewer leaders with legal backgrounds as well. The law trains you to argue a case by selectively ignoring unfavorable evidence, and guess what our politicians are incredibly good at?
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I've been a happy Netscape/MAS/Seamonkey/Firefox user since forever, and am delighted that it still has a healthy development pulse.

Performance hasn't really been an issue for me, even on an ancient (6-year-old) laptop. Anything on shadertoy reliably kills it, but other than that it's been fine.

If I had to pick one thing that really needs improvement, it'd be the intersection of extensions and security. FF has always leaned heavily on extensions to avoid feature bloat in the core product, but I've never really been comfortable installing them because pretty much all of them seem to demand full access to page content on all sites, and that's a very uncomfortable ask for things like primary webmail or banking sites.

Now, you could imagine a honking great siteXextension matrix for this, bikeshed refinements until the cows come home and then bikeshed the cows, but I think you could get 95% of the way there with a way to persistently flag domains as "paranoid", and have all extensions disabled on those domains. Maybe something like this already exists, but if so I haven't been able to find it. The best advice seems to be "use a separate profile", but that's pretty inconvenient for heavily-used things like webmail.
I'm pretty sure Mozilla has a clause in the contract with Yahoo that covers this: http://www.recode.net/2016/7/7/12116296/marissa-mayer-deal-m...

"According to the change-of-control term, 9.1 in the agreement, Mozilla has the right to leave the partnership if — under its sole discretion and in a certain time period — it did not deem the new partner acceptable. And if it did that, even if it struck another search deal, Yahoo is still obligated to pay out annual revenue guarantees of $375 million."
Seems like there should be a separate competition for designing the tube. For example why should the radius of the tube be what it is, why have a center rail instead of two rails or side tracks, should the tube have some sort of inner coating? What if it should be a double tube, a tube within a tube, for sound/temperature isolation and to reduce vibrations, and to reduce the risk of depressurization due to outside impact kinda like a double-haul oil tanker? Can it be made out of glass (that'd be kinda cool to look at/out of)? How close to vacuum the pressure and thick the walls of the tube should be?

Can someone double check my work here:
In the webcast they mentioned it will take 30mins to depressurize the tube. The length of the tube is 1mi. For example from LA to SF is roughly 400 miles if the final pump is twice stronger it'll take 6000mins or 4 days to depressurize, I'm assuming they will only need to do this once and have gates to maintain the main tube's pressure near areas of loading/unloading.
godwin
None of the taxi drivers own their medallions...they are far too expensive. Big pools own them, and drivers pay a fee to them to lease the medallion.
And the New Oxford American Dictionary.

For years I used WordNet as my dictionary because it was the only electronic dictionary I knew of that was less than 90 years old and didn't put the definition on a web page cluttered with distractions (and because paper dictionaries are too slow and tedious compared to electronic ones).

But over the years it slowly dawned on me that it is not a good dictionary. Then I realized my Mac came with a good electronic dictionary.

(Another former Linux user.)
I fail to understand why a person in a lab who approaches a superior to lodge a complaint that their work has been sabotaged is "a priori" the most likely suspect. Perhaps you have some kind of lab-sabotage data you're referring to? Do you have a link.

I think if someone comes to you and tells you their work has been sabotaged, the most straightforward thing to do is to believe them.
Angela Merkel comes to mind.
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Tech companies need to stand up and fight–what's your co. doing?
I heard you could hot patch the kernel as well somehow.
>> the dirt road where you got laughed at (with literally knee-slapping) by an old shepherd when you told him how you got fleas,

OK, now I really want to hear how they got those fleas the old guy was laughing about :)

Also, the background to the blog- that's such a nice reconstruction of the interior of a Minoan palace. Where is it from?

I remember the first time I saw such a reconstruction (of a Minoan palace, again- there's just something with how colourful those tend to be); it made me long for the ability to see the place as it was when it was still standing. I always thought a reconstruction in some 3d engine would hit the spot.

Perhaps that's a bit of a counterpoint to the OP's assertion that technology inches us away from the real life of people past. I think there's times where it legitimately helps us, by providing a crutch to our imagination. After all, drawing things by hand (like the blog background) and using a computer, is not so different. GIS is a whole other thing though, I'd guess.
I wonder how it compares to a recent ARM-based Arduino in terms of computational power.
It looks like SWIM scales better than Raft. Are there well-known production systems that use it?
Another way to title this would be "Taxi Services Now 10% Cheaper Because of Uber" or more aggressively "The 10% Taxi's Used To Take Now Returned To Customers In The Form Of Lower Prices".

Of course, for those to be all the way true and fair, Uber would need to be making money and not leveraging a sea of VC money.

None the less, why is pay down immediately bad? It's only bad if it is down and things cost the same. Shouldn't purchasing power be the relevant metric?
Stealing back your car can certainly cause problems if done privately by the owner. But here it's the product itself that already came with a bricking mechanism built in and activated it itself. The buyer trusted the seller not to provide a self-bricking phone, and got ripped off. It's never going to affect an innocent phone. It's also no physical items being taken or damaged. No baby is going to be trapped in it, etc.

Actually, there's a very analogous thing for cars - LoJack. Is that wrong too?

It happens with copy protection on software. I've heard of games that become impossible to win if they detect they're pirated. Others that just fail entirely. Is that not OK either?
> The majority of Einsatzgruppen (SS) officers had PhDs.

Citation needed, or is this an alternative fact?
There's also a single non-university group: Reddit's rLoop, http://rloop.org/.
The first job I took right out of college (I was kinda out of money and needed a job immediately) was at a polling company. You know, the obnoxious kids who call and say, "If an election were held tomorrow..."

Anyway, the place still used green screen terminals in 2006 (Mmm, with mechanical keyboards attached). In most cases, the only input required was a single number for each response, so once I'd memorized a script and the responses, I could get through a survey without looking at either the screen or the terminal.

Eventually the company shut down, and needing another job right away, I went to another polling company, who used a web interface for some reason. So there I had to use a vintage mouse (...which obviously did not bring the same joy as a vintage keyboard) to click radio buttons and check boxes and was, frankly, just a painful experience all around.

So, yeah, I agree, there are a surprising number of instances where an old terminal UI is significantly better.
And the ozone layer.
You found your way to my heart!
I think electing people from a wider range of backgrounds (instead of mostly lawyers) would be advantageous. Having some scientists, teachers, and many other educated professions, who can share their diverse perspectives with their other elected peers would be beneficial.
To your second point, I think simply encouraging this practice will see benefits.

There are numerous ways to achieve results here, and typing speed falls behind simple automation in many cases.

Getting a habit to automate away repetitive tasks is, in my eyes, the number two skill a programmer should develop and rely on.

(Number one being relentless improvement of skills.)
Nobody wants to be that guy who has to rewrite the nuclear power plant software.

I do wonder what they use. I assume off-site computers aren't really an option for networking reasons, so Stratus, NonStop, z mainframes, etc probably. I wonder if they have a backup mainframe, or if the redundancy in one of those things is enough.
> The law trains you to argue a case by selectively ignoring unfavorable evidence

No, it doesn't.
Might as well go the extra mile and demand people to elect only the good politicians.

Just like demanding programmers to not write bugs.
True, the point where it becomes bias in my mind is when they decide that the assumption is true and don't look further than the first guess.
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I'm suggesting they first moved to Seattle because of the services offered here.
Personally, I find that an LTS along with a container system like Docker, snap, flatpak, or subuser is the best way to go. Stability + flexibility.
Yep, even with stuff like the antennagate, they never truly recognized their mistake ("you're holding it wrong!"). Too proud. Same thing with the "touch disease" on the iPhone 6.
Sure but the more you do this, the more tools/commands/libraries/modules have to ideally both document and remember, realistically neither..

Cognitive overload. Shell commands with their args ... core syntaxes for half a dozen languages ... a couple base class libraries and 0-2 frameworks for each ... plus all your own abstraction/automation stuff on top? Admittedly this all used to be quite a bit simpler back in a sole "Win32-app world": VisualStudio+MSDN=done, no shell to speak of, no web layer / stack, One GUI Way, etc. But 15-20-years-ago ain't coming back for at least another decade.
>I make sure to read r/the_donald (if only to scan their vile talking points).

I did the same. It's easy to assume that Trump supporters agree with all of Trump's wacky policies and so must be horrible people. Closer to the truth is that very often they only focused on one issue that they thought was very important to them and think the rest of it is just as nutty as you do.

It's a good thing to understand their positions as best we can because the mid-terms are coming in just 2 years and we're going to need their help to reign in some of this guy's excesses. The US can (and has) survived unfortunate choices for president. Its built into the system.
Not really. Taxi cost doesn't directly map to driver pay.

A more accurate alternate headline would be "VCs and institutional investors contribute $10 to each Uber ride, taxi use drops"
The problem isn't that politicians are stupid, the problem is that they have adverse incentives. Education is no vaccine against corruption, and if you're not a team player you won't get advanced by your party.