skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had a couple of incidents in the UK recently that demonstrated the 'lag' in interception of non-communicative aircraft.

In April 2016 a German-registered Challenger business jet flew east-west across the UK and was just about to enter Irish airspace when the RAF Typhoons reached it.

Then in October the same happened with a Volaris A320 that managed to fly most of the south-north extent of the UK before being intercepted, again just before leaving UK airspace.

In both cases if there had been any malicious intent then it could easily have been executed over major cities. In fact I watched that A320 fly over my town... The problem in the UK is that the main fighter bases are on the east coast, to combat the Soviet hordes that never arrived. So basically everything is a supersonic tail-chase for the interceptors unless it's coming from the Benelux countries. The RAF really needs to redispose its units for dealing with the new 'threat' but there's simply no money to do so.
Neural Networks for Machine Learning (Coursera, Starts Today)
> A good book that talk about this which I've been meaning to read is... In All Likelihood: Statistical Modelling and Inference Using Likelihood by Yudi Pawitan.

It's good but it's mostly a technical introduction to statistical inference (i.e. the mathematics that make statistics work), and the remarks about the differences between different schools of statistics are mostly short asides. It's not a great recommendation for non-statisticians who want more insight into the different schools of statistics.

Also, both frequentist and Bayesian methods rely on likelihoods as an intermediary, so I guess you could say it's a "compromise" but only in a very uninteresting way.

The likelihood L(theta|data) is simply shorthand for P(data|theta), and to get a posterior probability you then simply apply Bayes' theorem to get P(theta|data) ~ P(data|theta) * P(theta), and this last part is your prior.
Works fine here (Firefox 51, MacOS 10.11, 2009 iMac). Is your WebGL definitely enabled? Check Graphics section in about://support
Imagine, just for a moment that it was your boss harassing you. They have the power to fire you, or make your life hell.

Now imagine that they are physically stronger than you. There is a high likelihood of them being able to over-power you.

Now imagine you live in a culture where rape cases are rarely prosecuted and, when they are, rarely successful.

Now imagine that you also live in a culture which refuses to condemn the few men which are convicted.

Now imagine that, even if your physically stronger boss is successfully convicted of raping you - there will still be a section of people who think that you were, somehow, asking for it.

Wouldn't you take that seriously?
Python is notable for how it harasses the filesystem. If your python program is running off NFS or parallel filesystems (e.g. gpfs, panasas, lustre, etc) then you may get a lot more performance from avoiding imports. Especially if pkg_resource is being used.
A fantastic read on the so called 'Deep state' is "National Security and Double Government" [1] by Michael J. Glennon in the Harvard Law School National Security Journal.

Abstract:

"National security policy in the United States has remained largely constant from the Bush Administration to the Obama Administration. This continuity can be explained by the “double government” theory of 19th-century scholar of the English Constitution Walter Bagehot. As applied to the United States, Bagehot’s theory suggests that U.S. national security policy is defined by the network of executive officials who manage the departments and agencies responsible for protecting U.S. national security and who, responding to structural incentives embedded in the U.S. political system, operate largely removed from public view and from constitutional constraints. The public believes that the constitutionally-established institutions control national security policy, but that view is mistaken.

Judicial review is negligible; congressional oversight is dysfunctional; and presidential control is nominal. Absent a more informed and engaged electorate, little possibility exists for restoring accountability in the formulation and execution of national security policy."

[1] http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Glennon-Fin...
Ignoring all the bad press they've gotten lately, this is a major issue in their business model.

I just don't see why the cab business should present an opportunity that requires a landgrab on a global scale.

Something like Facebook, sure. You need to be the social network with everyone on it.

A cab company? It doesn't sound like it matters whether it's Uber or some local competitor. Internet is going to be cheap most places, so anyone arriving anywhere can just download the local app as needed.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Introducing-Neuro-Linguistic-Progra...
That's true, but "sleeplessness avoidance" saves lots more money for small-scale companies. Downtime and man-hours are much more expensive than getting more reliable hosting, unless you're a very large company.
Not more than 20 years ago Gout was a disease caused by what you ate, the only problem was that wasn't true. It turns out its not red wine and red meat that causes Gout, its metabolic and mostly genetic in nature. You can make it subtly worse with foods that break down to high amounts of Uric acid in the body but people who suffer with it have a metabolic issue they can nothing about and need drugs to manage it.

We look for correlations with food until we truly understand what is going on with diseases and their true triggers and "cures". It feels like something is being done when someone says "you should be eating healthier", like in some way that has an impact on the disease. Alas it doesn't, it is infact just another way in which people treat others with prejudice, its all part of the fat shaming culture. If you have cancer its your fault, and if you die from it you didn't fight hard enough. People are often cruel to each other and make stuff up in the absence of the facts.
What if you have a gas stove? :)

But I agree, it's a good product and design. Never read wiki, I always thought it comes from Spain, not Italy.
I've been using Firefox all these years and I didn't realize there were parts of the web that I couldn't use. Which sites don't work with Firefox?
You could use `from some_module import some_func` to get the same effect as some_func will be in the local namespace.
Damn typos - yeah, I mean 58...
It makes sense that we want to see someone get a fair hearing in court, even if we didn't particularly like them. If I ever find myself in a similar position, I would want judicial fairness in my case too.

I am reminded of a quote from the film The Contender (2000)

"Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient."
https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2014/01/26/how-to-be-... for examples.

The tl;dr is that people who are insecure will attempt to rationalize their feelings, and this frequently includes feelings of judgement and persecution from others where none exists.
The interpretation of the probability is the same as in frequentist statistics, except you're making statements about the model resulting from your assumptions and data, instead of some hypothetical experiment. I suppose the Bayesian approach is more about building the model whereas the frequentist approach is more about selecting the best model out of several.
Hmm, is it "a ton"? I've only written a few things in Rust, so I'm not overly familiar with it, but, for the few things I wrote, it was straightforward to at least reason about why something might not work (even though I may not know how to actually make it work). I imagine that, in a few weeks, one can become so familiar that the compiler won't have too many remarks about one's code.
It is at least a mildly sane response.
What about that news article that WaPo published about the guy who found some malware on his laptop and was blown out into this https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russi....

I don't know how you could go from a virus on a laptop to "Russia is hacking into our power grid" unless you are being intentionally dishonest or have such an agenda that you jump at any scrap to make a story.

That was terrible.

Good thing WaPo withdrew it and posted this:

Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electric grid. Authorities say there is no indication of that so far. The computer at Burlington Electric that was hacked was not attached to the grid.[1]

I dunno. I've occasionally got things wrong before.

The real problem is when they double-down on an incorrect position in the face of evidence to the contrary.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russi...
> It's not like in this era people stick to one company working there for a lifetime.

Agree.
> Both of those things (unsigned plugins causing permanent warnings and/or only being enabled for a developer edition) happen because not doing them means leaking open the one last (huge) hole malware can infect computers through

Modern operating systems have a concept of users, groups of users and dedicating one of these to the role of administrator. I see no problem in not enforcing signing rule for the extensions installed by administrator (at system-wide locations, not user profile) - they are read only for the rest of the users anyway, so they couldn't be installed by drive-by malware. Power users are happy, naive users are protected.

If there is a malware that looks like installed by administrator, you have much bigger problems anyway. That malware could patch the firefox binary in the same way as it could deploy the extension, so you gained exactly nothing.

But the current situation just makes power users unhappy. This policy killed some extensions that were shipped by Linux distributions.
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Completely agree! The funny thing is the first thing I thought of was an old microwave I owned with a similar setup mainly because the microwave I own, today, is so awful[0].

I have a GE combination convection oven/microwave and it was clearly designed by someone who had their first experience with LSD that day. Every function requires a different, magic, set of key combinations to make it work. Want to set a timer? That's easy, press timer, turn the dial to the right time (which inexplicably increases/decreases the time in 30 second increments). OK, you've done that, now you want to start it. Press "Timer" ... nope. Press "Start" ... nope. Oh, I have to push in the dial... I didn't even know that, too, was a button. Oh, and not once, not twice, but three times is the magic number of times required to start said timer.

Starting the microwave with a specific time in mind requires hitting no less than 6 buttons, but there's one button that will start the microwave on high for 30 seconds, so everyone just uses that button and hits it as many times as is required to get close to the desired cooking length. I can hear my wife counting out loud ten beeps for a 5 minute cook time.

It's got piles of advanced, useless, features, my favorite of which is a hybrid "microwave/oven cook" mode that manages to bring in the worst of both methods, giving you soggy food, unevenly cooked that takes an eternity to cook.

Even the clock is stupid. You punch in the hours/minutes, and thinking you're done, you move on to something else. Later you go to cook something and for some bizarre reason, "AM or PM" pops up on the screen at which point nothing in your previous experience in operating a microwave prepares you to figure out why heating something up requires knowledge of whether it's morning or afternoon. Of course, nothing this microwave does requires knowledge of AM/PM, nor does it display AM or PM anywhere on the screen, but for some reason it just must know.

[0] This isn't the exact model but it looks close: https://www.amazon.com/GE-PVM9179SFSS-Profile-Stainless-Micr...
Color irrelevant (up to personal preferences) and specific model w/e, but that aside… good god these mugs really are fantastic:

* they just look plain good, no unnecessary flourishes and the few "unnecessary" features (the locking lid) turn out to be pretty much necessary in the end

* the opening mechanism is just perfect, it has great feedback, is hard to misuse, it's extremely well designed on its own, the double-action opening is just gorgeous

* the entire assembly trivially comes apart for inspection and cleaning

* the heat retention is so good it's a bit too good, filling with fresh coffee early morning and scalding your tongue all the way to mid-afternoon is a bit extreme
If you use printf and cout in the same program then yes you can have dramatic performance problems with cout unless you use `std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);`

It's not the same issue but it's the same area of stupid stuff you have to find out about and roll your eyes.
> So you turned your Python program into a single, statically linked executable? May I ask how you did that?

I think the author's application was written in Go which as I understand it does static linking by default.

However, creating standalone executables from python is called freezing and can be done using various tools[0].

0: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/shipping/freezing/
The AMA doesn't advocate for physician interests? How so?

As a student member of the AMA, I can attest that they aren't the most effective organization, but they do plenty to further physician interests.

I think what you're likely getting at is how heterogenous physician interests are considering each specialty.
Iodine-131 has a half-life of only 8 days: the incident is much more recent than "months ago"
I agree with this sentiment. I hate the 'tip culture' too, but it's not going to change overnight and the reality is, if you aren't tipping people in the US (and Canada, btw), the worker is getting far less compensation.

It should change, but this particular Uber situation isn't going to be the straw that broke the camel's back I'm afraid.
Shameless plug: https://github.com/chop-dbhi/scds (stands for slowly changing dimensions store). A prototype, but versions individual records and tells you what changed if anything. Also there is preliminary support for JSON schema.
I use moreutils' vidir for renaming, I don't know rename though.
Google Chromecast

Takes a quite complicated set of things going on (control signals from phone, data signals from internet), and turns them into a seamless intuitive experience.

I find the initial setup process particularly excellent. Getting a device with no user input onto a wifi network would normally be a nightmare, but the magic they do with setting up a temporary access point on the device is excellent.
I am perplexed.

Yes, a company running a virtual world can do whatever it pleases with it, including deleting users. This does not seem to deter substantial numbers of people from having online identities tied to Second Life or World of Warcraft or Facebook. Users won't stick around if the world is managed too badly, companies know it, so there are limits to what companies will actually do.

But even accepting that a wall garden run by a single company is undesirable, there is no particular reason to drag the blockchain into it. Just use a federated system, like OpenSim's Hypergrid [1] or High Fidelity [2]. Then you can run your own server and host your own assets, and hook it up to others in a grid or just jump around as a visitor. This has all been around for years and has nothing to do with the blockchain.

[1] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Hypergrid

[2] https://highfidelity.io/
This seems to not be working with HTTPS (at least with HTTPS everywhere).

If you only see a bunch of static images and nothing happens when you click them, this might be the reason.
If you wash and, worse, brush a porous surface, you are pushing the water and dirt directly inside the egg. If there is not a lot of dirt on the egg surface is healthier to let the egg as is.

In the other hand, you can have perfectly clean eggs if 1) you use a modern nesting box designed to hide the eggs and 2) provide independent sleeping areas higher to discourage the hens to sleep in the nesting boxes.

You could also scratch the surface with an old credit card or a knife but is better not to use water. Storing eggs in the fridge is also convenient, eggs shells shouldn't be in contact with other eggs.
8 Amazing Ways to Ace a Networking Event
Not for crawlers but intented to reduce indexation and prevent framework/browser generating a link
a food service worker that you know is only making $2.35/hour

This varies by state. For example, in Oregon the minimum wage is $9.75, and, importantly: Oregon is one of the few states that does not allow employers to take a tip credit. Employees must be paid at least the full state minimum wage, whether or not they also earn tips.

Despite this "high" wage, there is no shortage of restaurants in Oregon. Somehow good restaurants do manage to stay in business here.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/oregon-laws-tipped-em...
There are vary levels of readiness, from pilots sitting in the jet with the engines turned on, to pilots sitting equipped 2 minute away from the plane, and so on.

And it looks like the 2 planes came from different bases.
Does it replace a stove for you?
Do you think women feel more or less safe around people who, given an egregious example of harassment, instead leap to the defense of the six silicon valley companies they've worked for or to criticise the NYT?
The author asked a bunch of questions and even used the anecdote in a blog post. I think tipping here is fine and also the ethical thing to do.
There was no tip option so...shrug. Do people not carry cash anymore, could have tipped in cash imo

I'm European and I actually prefer the tipping system for service over higher base wages. I'd much rather have the customers decide who gets paid better than giving equal wages to the crappy service at the cost of the good people and hoping the employer filters out the bad apples and rewards the good ones.
Then again it's pretty rare to see "well your service was horrible, have 0$ as a tip" and the tipping also kind of smears together into one big "roughly 10-20% every time independent of service"...so whatever I just accept the better base wage and only tip for good service now. It's usually 25% or nothing for me.
Because, Team America World Police, that's how.
That is a very unwise way to look at evidence. You can't apply the legal standard of evidence to the rest of the world, because courtrooms have facilities that make evidence highly available. You have discovery, expert analysis, compelled testimony, and the possibility of sealing records to protect the parties involved. When evidence should be available, absence of evidence is strong evidence of absence.

Outside of court, things work differently. But we have other ways of dealing with evidence and trust, which wouldn't work very well in the courtroom.

But you already know this, and I can prove it. Suppose a close friend, who you trust, tells you that someone broke into his house and stole his TV. Are you going to set aside judgment about this situation until you can collect more evidence? Are you going to demand that he show you security camera footage? Probably not, and rightly so.

You believe your friend because of reputation. Your friend has staked your trust in him against his lying. You both know that if you find out that he lied, it will hurt your friendship, and you will be unlikely to trust him in the future. This is very much like the concept of precommitment in game theory. He has set up the situation so that if his claims turn out to be false, he's likely to suffer negative consequences. This allows him to produce evidence seemingly out of thin air, by tying his personal interests to the veracity of his claim.

Now look at the two parties in this case. Fowler has staked her professional reputation on the truth of her allegations. She posted this under her real name, on her blog which is the second Google result for her name. If she turns out to be lying, things will go very badly for her. Not only will it be difficult for her to find a company willing to hire her, but Uber could sue her for defamation.

Uber has staked... nothing. Indeed, they've done the opposite. Rather than cutting off their escape routes to establish credibility, they sacrificed credibility to buy an escape route. They publicly stated that their CEO is too unaware of the goings on at his own company to confirm or deny the allegations. They took a hit now so that they have more flexibility later.

It would be hard to overstate how bad this looks. There's no good outcome for the move Uber just made, which means that they're probably hedging against something even worse. Barring the possibility that Uber has no idea how to handle basic PR scenarios, the only reasonable explanation is that they know they're holding a weak hand.
> Is having non-standard DRM-enablers really any better? There is a real need for DRM, people and companies are asking for it, it's not going away.

>it's not going away

"Powerful people are forcing it on everyone, therefore it's good."

Sorry, not buying it.
Here is a science-backed video talking about the benefits of a substance found in broccoli sprouts w.r.t. cancer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4YVJ4aRfg
MUJI 0.5mm gel ink pens [0] - I've used these pens for so long that my handwriting goes haywire when using a different make. Perfect balance of smoothness and scratchiness - with fast drying ink, which as a lefty is vital.

Harmon Kardon Soundsticks II – had mine for over a decade and they still sound and look great.

Gaggia Colour espresso machine – looks great, built like a tank, simple to repair, and still produces fantastic coffee after years of benign neglect.

Chromecast – it just works. Feels like the future to use my phone to stream video from the Raspberry Pi to the TV.

AirPlay – it also just works. Recently set up a multi-room audio streaming thing, like a budget alternative to Sonos, using a few Raspberry Pis I had lying about and Shairport Sync [1]. Works much better than I anticipated.

[0] https://www.muji.eu/pages/online.asp?Sec=13&Sub=52&PID=5162
[1] https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync
> and at the end of the day those who produce there content have a right to choose the conditions of how it's distributed

Sure, but also Netflix and other distributors have right to choose what they distribute and what they don't distribute. So a few movies would not be available, until the studios do the math and stop insist on DRM.

Instead, they managed to outsource the support burden for their wish and it is financed by third parties, who don't care about DRM at all.
Can we use the brands of our customers on our SaaS website without asking?
A couple of big companies are using our SaaS and it would be nice to list their logos on our website. Unfortunately, the biggest one we asked said no. In order to leave the door open if we decide to publish the names without consent, we didn't ask anyone else. What do you think? Do you have any tips or tricks that might help us to convince them?