skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard. This is a hilariously clever play so packed with verbal and physical humor that you almost have to read it aloud to yourself and move about your own living room to fully digest it. It explores the sensation that supposedly random events are somehow orchestrated into a purposeful coherence by an unseen force (Stoppard? Shakespeare?) More than one character has an existential crisis involving, though not explicitly invoking, the fourth wall. And the commentary on death is quite thoughtful and thought-provoking.
> It is doubtful that hits for .onion sites are enough to encourage someone to produce CP. Download and seed more, maybe. But producing more just because someone downloads it?

Attention and popularity is one hell of a drug. If I'm running a website (about pretty much anything) and I see my views go up significantly, then that encourages me to work on the site more. And the opposite is true if no one gives a toss.

Criminals and scumbags are just as human as the rest of us, and their motivations are often the same. They want popularity, friends, money, fame and power. Even at the possible expense of getting caught doing whatever illegal activity they're doing at the time (like those kids posting pictures of them taking drugs on Facebook or psychos boasting about their crimes on social media sites).

They'll stop doing that stuff when there's no pay off. When there's no audience left.
Lots of flies
Nepal,+new+media+laws,+recommendation+committee,+Surendra+Kumar+Karki,+media
I don't know how estate tax brackets work, but above a certain amount the rate should really be 100%.
Can you give an example? The only FF people I know love extentions (to be honest I don't know many anymore, even here in germany), the others are on chrome or safari.
>The new Chinese weapon typifies a strategy known as “remote warfare,” said John Arquilla, a military strategist at the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, Calif. The idea is to build large fleets of small ships that deploy missiles, to attack an enemy with larger ships, like aircraft carriers.

This reminds me of a famous story of an early AI system, which competed against humans in a table top war game focused around ship design.

>After weeks of experimentation, and some 10,000 two-to-thirty-minute battles, Eurisko came up with what would be the winning fleet. To the humans in the tournament, the program's solution to Traveller must have seemed bizarre. Most of the contestants squandered their trillion-credit budgets on fancy weaponry, designing agile fleets of about twenty lightly armored ships, each armed with one enormous gun and numerous beam weapons.

>Eurisko, however, had judged that defense was more important than offense, that many cheap, invulnerable ships would outlast fleets consisting of a few high-priced, sophisticated vessels. There were ninety-six ships in Eurisko's fleet, most of which were slow and clumsy because of their heavy armor. Rather than arming them with a few big, expensive guns, Eurisko chose to use many small weapons.

>In any single exchange of gunfire, Eurisko would lose more ships than it destroyed, but it had plenty to spare. The first battle in the tournament was typical. During four rounds of fire, the opponent sank fifty of Eurisko's ships, but it lost nineteen -all but one-of its own. With forty-six ships left over, Eurisko won.

>Even if an enemy managed to sink all Eurisko's sitting ducks, the program had a secret weapon -a tiny, unarmed extremely agile vessel that was, Lenat wrote, "literally unhittable by any reasonable enemy ship." The usefulness of such a ship was discovered during a simulated battle in which a lifeboat remained afloat round after round, even though the rest of the ships in the fleet had been destroyed. To counter opponents using the same strategy, Eurisko designed another ship equipped with sophisticated guidance computer and a giant accelerator weapon. Its only purpose was killing enemy lifeboats.

I've always wondered if a similar strategy might work in real life.
Things feel more fun when you're drunk with other people. Having a drink or two isn't. In that case its just kind of relaxing. Takes the edge off if you are feeling anxious or stressed about the earlier work day for example.
No but you can bet your money on that at least half of those sites are trading sites of one sort or another trading in illegal goods and services.

As for blogs out of 150 researchers/security professionals I know including myself no one is running an onion site for street cred if it's not anonymized there is no point having an onion address is not the same as running a hidden service.
it's one thing to say they'll probably survive, and another thing to completely actively invest in it. I say actively because it's not like gp poster has it in their portfolio due to some mutual fund, etc. They actively bought it as a long position!
My conclusion from this article is: drinking makes you healthy and rich.
A cynic will wonder; is that really any different from when the FBI raids the servers for a hosting company due to illegal content stored there and ends up leaving a ton of legal sites offline as a result?
I barely use extensions these days. Most of what I want is built in to all the browsers now. All that's left, more or less, is some way to save articles for later and make the few I want to read now easier to follow.

Firefox has a reading mode, supports Pocket (though it's integrated now), and lets me use uBlock Origin on mobile, so it's already perfect for my needs.
Red wine has long been believed to be good for the heart, whether that's true or not is very debatable. As for the believed benefits of moderate drinking, many believe moderate drinking reduces stress. Reduced stress leads to better health.
Not sure where you got the idea that in the US people really really don't like to drink spirits socially. I'm sure it's different around the country but that's not the case anywhere I've been.
>Much like in Brave New World, we have soma-like drugs, distractions and trivialities occupying people while they accept the world as it is and even shy away from wanting to change things.

Now hold on. There are millions of people in the streets demonstrating on a regular basis these days. How many have to be trying to change things before we stop labeling them all distracted, sleeping, over-amused sheeple?
* Open a dialogue with the Mozilla / Firefox community to ascertain what features Firefox users rely on that are currently only available via XUL Add-Ons but not possible under the WebExtension paradigm, and

* Work with the community to develop a path forward that allows Firefox to achieve its technology goals while preventing the loss of key functionality that millions of Firefox users depend on.

Haven't they already been doing that?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215059
https://webextensions.uservoice.com/forums/315663-webextensi...
Yes, in Europe, where there are weak/no legal speech protections. And already politicians have abused it to remove compromising political info.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27423527

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/11/politicians-cr...

http://fortune.com/2015/08/24/twitter-right-to-be-forgotten/

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/googles-right-be-forgotten-70000-po...
This feels like it was written by a temperance researchers who is manipulating his result. I understand drinking's a problem for a subset of our population and results in early deaths, but they've clearly identified it's the subset of heavy drinker but constantly preach to the people who aren't in that subset.

In this instance, he lied twice.

First the article content doesn't support the title's claim at all.

In idiomatic english, something being "not so good for you" implies it's bad for you. For example the synonyms "not so good" on thesaurus.com are "bad" & "poor".

That errant "so", obviously deliberately chosen, is a lie.

They didn't find that at all. They're actually found moderate drinking has no discernible consequence on health and only heavy drinkers are at risk.

But even that is a lie, that they admit themselves. There's this gem:

In women, moderate alcohol use was still linked with a health benefit, but given the few women drinking moderately (4%) this effect was questionable.

So the researcher has actually decide to ignore his own results! Either it's mathematically significant or not significant. You can't just discard results that don't agree with your temperance stance.
I thought the deal was not to remove anything until web extensions were complete enough to replace the old XUL?

If Firefox is going to neeuter their extensions after all I guess I'll be looking for a new browser after all. :-/
This looks really beautiful. The fact that it's open source adds to that beauty. I'm not even interested in physically based rendering and it makes me want to play with it.
Got some data to back that up? (not saying you don't, I'd honestly like to know if you do).

I personally have not heard any users say anything wildly positive about recent changes. And I think the steady decline in users is in a large part due to the perception that Mozilla doesn't seem to care what their users want anymore.

I don't think it is a "small fraction". I think it's a big chunk. And I also think that chunk constitutes the most dedicated users the browser has (you know, the kind that install Firefox on their relatives' computers for them, and frequently personally advocate its use by others). Mozilla would be fools to ignore them.

I honestly hold only a small amount of hope that Firefox will live on long term. These issues keep being brought up, and Mozilla still comes across like they don't care. Feedback I've gotten from folks who work at Mozilla indicates that at least some of them do care, but the public perception by loyal users is that they don't.

I hope Mozilla can get it together and that Firefox can live on with great success. At this point I just don't think it is going to happen. I hope they prove me wrong.

[edited to correct punctuation]
Both Google and Mozilla track browser usage, installed addons, etc.

You can bet your posterior that if Mozilla decides that a given slice of the user base is marginal enough to have its demands ignored, Google would do that in a heartbeat.
> Even mechanics, which is weird, but they are pretty successful.

I haven't been able to find a free source for the actual ruling, but apparently a district court ruled in 2012 that the particular playfield dimensions, set of tetromino shapes, set of movement actions, and scoring rules are copyright-protected expressions of more general/abstract rules, and only the latter are ineligible for copyright [1]. To my untrained eye, this seems to parallel Oracle's "structure, sequence, and organization" argument for API copyright.

[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/article/tetris-clone-ruling
None of this adds any support to the case that a 160% increase in costs is reasonable or expected. In fact, the data points you've presented further call this into question.
>If we could have anything and everything, what should we do with it?

Really? I always thought of The Diamond Age as being about class conflict and social hierarchy in a partially post-scarcity world.
I'm curious about what kind of write speeds you are using traildb for?
OK, so moderate drinking is not good for you, it's just that being wealthier and better educated makes people more likely to be moderate drinkers.

So, hopefully the causal explanation is that drinking moderately makes you smarter and richer, and eventually healthier.
Confront them. Tell them they're being a dick.
Just another thing that may do us harm but many of us find pleasure in it. It removes some of your problems for a few hours, make you more social etc.

Someone may wonder why people eat meat, sleep only 5 hours a day, smoke pot etc etc.

A lot of medical literature suggests that drinking 1-2 "drinks" a day has benefits for most people. http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-he...
> Engine manufacturers have spent a TON of R&D on fanjet engines and making them several orders of magnitude more efficient than the engines of 20 years ago even, but supersonic flight needs more than a fanjet - they need to look at turbojets, with afterburners etc. There is not much scope to play with with those unfortunately. What works at subsonic speeds at 30,000 feet won't at Mach 2+ at 80,000 feet.

Whether you fly subsonically or supersonically, thermodynamic efficiency will be driven by engine pressure ratio and turbine inlet temperature. The advanced turbofans flying today have very impressive gas generator cores (high-pressure compressor, low-emissions combustors, high-pressure turbines) that would be equally applicable to supersonic airframes. The low pressure part of the cycles will definitely optimize to a different point for subsonic vs. supersonic applications, with supersonic cruise preferring higher fan pressure ratios and lower bypass ratio. Like Concorde, you are going to want to size the engines such that you do not cruise in afterburner (assuming you are staying roughly below Mach 3; above 3 - 3.5, the ramjet cycle starts becoming more favorable). However, this is all within scope for what the aeropropulsion vendors know how to do. The big issue is that the specific engine configuration you are going to want for a supersonic cruiser is unique to that application. Originally, Aerion was going to use JT8Ds, which they later shifted away from.

My point here is it's not principally an R&D issue, it's that if you want to minimize supersonic fuel consumption, you are going to want a specific configuration for which there will not be a huge engine market. Contrast with the market for something like a CFM56 or V2500. Being able to leverage the ADVENT three-stream/variable cycle work (and GE YF120 before that) will also help, but the point still stands.
> On the other side, if you were to achieve dynastical levels of wealth, should you be prevented from passing it down?

Absolutely; to the extent that there a person has natural property interests, they don't extend beyond the end of their life; the ability to direct the disposition of property beyond that point makes sense as a legal privilege only to the extent that model on which that privilege is granted has social utility. It's clear that some rights here are probably desirable, but not unlimited, and beyond a point the inequality that results has considerable externalized disutility.

> I think % is a flawed metric. Your measuring your position compared to the rest of society as a gauge

Whatever you think people should value, it's empirically quite clear that relative deprivation -- compare to contemporaries as well as compared to one's own former state -- is a source of significant disutility consistently, across cultures.

It's also clear that, ceteris paribus, increasing concentration of wealth decreases the amount of progress people on the lower end of the scale can make against their own past state as well as against those on the upper end.
Off the mark like under predicting? [1] Even simple models from 35 years ago indicate, at the global scale, warming. And, you know, that model while not very sophisticated, seems to be holding up well.

[1] http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/04/evalua...
Fedora has a repository of comparable size and still manages to ship with SELinux enabled.
We do have some positions available in Boulder as well. In general, we'll prefer to place individuals with the teams that they'll interfacing most with.
Google or facebook could easily extract a $1 or more a month from any ISP. Start with cell providers where there's choice. If ISP doesn't pay, put up a page with the ISPs support number with a message that the ISP is preventing the user from seeing the page and to contact the ISP. You see this strategy employed on cable all the time.
Amber Room
If they are just going to be a Chrome with less tracking I guess they could just use Chromium as a base?

Extensions is my main reason for staying with FF.
YARIP(Yet Another Remove It Permanently) add-on for firefox[1] and chrome does this wonderfully, it also easily lets me remove entire ad sections of websites for when I can't be bothered to block 10 ad windows individually, I can nix the entire part of the site reserved for ads. I know a lot of people complain that I am not viewing the site as intended, but what of it? Creators serve up the site, I simply remove the part of the content I don't like to see, much in the same way when I used to watch television I would change the channel when ads came up.

[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yarip/
"solved"

I'm going to disagree with you here.
10 Bullets by Tom Sachs [video](2010)
See this release note: https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/epubreader/versi...

Your mother is likely to weather the transition to WebExtensions well enough.
Sadly enough (for both of us!) I can’t say that it does. I’ve been working with every JVM and CLR language I could get my hands on, with a healthy dose of C/C++, Rust, and Python on the side. I’ve worked on a few small projects in vanilla ES15, but not with anglular.
"Especially if we're talking about blacking out, as the GP post was saying. If you have enough methanol to be problem, it's because you're equipment is dirty."

No, as I buy brand new carboys every time. PET 3-gallon bottles are had for like 5 bucks each and I just give them to someone else to sterilize and use in their water cooler when I'm done making a batch of wine.

Here's why I get methanol - A. high natural yeast concentration. B. Raw unfiltered mash - the grapes have had a gentle sterilizing soak in 300 ppm cold bleach water solution for 60 seconds. This wipes out most bacteria but leaves the natural yeasts mostly untouched (the haze on grapes resists lower concentrations of bleach.) This means I have tons of pectins as I'm not fermenting filtered juice like most people would when making wine, I ferment the entire thing to get maximum flavor profile (and you can't obtain such a natural blush otherwise.)

Fifteen years of doing it. I have my brewer's certifcation and used to work for (ugh) Coors.
Good point on the complexity of today web apps. I'm not really into web front-end and my comment was more about native frontend development, where you need to add/remove things from screen, run animations, you know, those sort of things that are inherently non-functional. Sorry for not being clearer.
This is sort of the tutorials that doesn't make any sense if you are not already knowledgeable in the subject of math and shaders and rendering basics. At first I was hopeful that it would finally walk me though the basics of a renderer and explain the concepts behind it, but I was let down :)

I have so many questions regardless :) The struggle of a rookie goes as:

SECTION A

- why on earth do you take the square root of c? Is there a sane reason to do this?

SECTION B

- why normalize the vector? I'd love to see a detailed explanation.
- why is vPos.xy the first two parameters?
- is vPos.xy a constant value or is it evaluating as the shader script is executed pixel by pixel?

SECTION D

- V -= S.xyz; // what's going on here? Why use the -= operator? Is this something to do with the way shaders operate?
- float B = 2. * dot(V, W); // what take the dot product?
- float C = dot(V, V) - S.w * S.w; // Why take it again and substract a square?
- return BB < 4. C ? 0. : 1.; // Why 4.? No other value seems to work

SECTION E

- "Improve raytrace to return distances of near and far roots." OK I admit that I'm totally lost at this point. Asking line-by-line explanation doesn't really help :)

SECTION H

- YAY, sin and cos!!! Finally I can mess around with something :)
Call the school??

What I'm familiar with is the church newsletter (or diocese) asks for interested families to be hosts.

Two academic workers at the school are hosts. Plus the reitred lady I mentioned. After one graduated another comes right behind .

Many hosts are alums too.
Do you have specific criticisms of the NYTimes piece? Reasons to think these particular claims are false? If you do, please do share, as it would be a substantial contribution to the conversation. Throwing aspersions or drive-by allusions of doubt is a primary reason why we're in the current situation where we can't seem to find agreement on so many things that should be facts.
I am challenging "pay for it with bitcoin" part here. Sure you can rephrase it as torture, sure someone pays for content access with bitcoins. But can you say that paying for actual production with Bitcoin over Tor is "the state CP today is"? If there is no evidence for this, as in at least some news article with made up statistics, then @rekord is not saying anything new.
Ask HN: What would you do with AR
If you had a AR device that worked way better than Hololens, what about your perception would you want to augment?

Be able to learn chess visually, see if a woman in a coffee shop is single, see the history of the city you live in, visualize something very abstract?
Honestly, with all this stuff about whether drinking or whatever is or isn't good for you, part of me wonders why I should even care any more.

I mean, it's pretty clear that genetics have a huge impact in how long you live regardless of what your lifestyle is like, and it's also clear that the advice seems to change every few years anyway.

May as well just live how you like and deal with things as they come. And if that's a short life... well at least it was an enjoyable one till that point.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/economix/2012/01/17/measuri...

Using data from 2010,

* ...estimated the threshold for being in the top 1 percent in household income at about $380,000, 7.5 times median household income, using census data from 2008 through 2010.

* But for net worth, the 1 percent threshold for net worth in the Fed data was nearly $8.4 million, or 69 times the median household’s net holdings of $121,000.
I've tried once(Vodka), and i regret it. awful taste. vomits everywhere, felt bad, the next day is a mess.
I'll stack with weed. (especially that i am from Morocco, we have good weed and Hash)
One of the reason it's worth it is because Google still prefers .com a lot.
If I format this up nicely as a blog post: I'd like to draw some spatial diagrams. I'm a compsci programmer, not a math prof.

I need to draw 2D and 3D spaces, like a 3x3x3 cube, or an arbitrary sized space, with selectable highlighting for each unit-cube in the space.

Can someone please help me with an appropriate tool here? I'm sure there's got to be some Python module out there or something. I don't even know what term to look for there.
trying to hold back progress.

Don't think this is what they try to do rather than stop Mozilla making FF just another browser
Ignoring administrative details, a union is simply enough usually self-interested people becoming sufficiently one in purpose for long enough for it to be in an industry's best interests to cooperate with that union of people - instead of self-interested individuals - in order to enlist the labor that industry needs to achieve its goals.

The reason it hasn't happened is there isn't sufficient denial of self-interest for unionized interest to achieve critical mass to become a singular force to be reckoned with.
I find that they drink them at clubs but not at home parties. Should've been more clear.

And anyway it probably has more to do with age than geography. People don't get as smashed in their late 20's as they do in high school and college when drinking is more like a competition on who can get the most drunk the fastest.

Or maybe I'm just going to the wrong parties. You're right, geography is prob a correlation.
$38k in the 80s was a pretty decent wage. Hardly poor. $38,000 in 1985 would be roughly $87,000 today. That's solidly within middle class.

http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0912/which-income...