skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's actually really interesting. I wonder how much of it is baked into the algorithm and how much reflects the demographics of each engine's users?

Edit: Wow you got a lot of downvotes fast. I honestly don't know if you're trying to advance a viewpoint or not, and I think you pointed out a very interesting split in the behavior of major engines that's worthy of taking a look at.
I'll also point out that the definition does not mention anything about the censor being the government or a private company.
Why does everything involved with UBER, sound like it's run by some type of frat house?
I didn't notice about the affiliate links, but her story is undeniably real: reading some of the posts on her fledling physicist blog (previous one) , one is struck with the sense of an immediate and lucid understanding of deep physics problems that probably take other early stage academics many years to grok. And , as GP stated, QFT is notoriously thorny, and an immediate comprehension of that is the hallmark of something very special.

I don't know what her IQ really is, I don't think astronomical, but it is certainly very anomalous. I only have a truly deep perspective on my own abilities, and just based on this I think I can say somewhat confidently she is at least a generation above mine in general ability-, for myself, having jumped from standard engineering undergrad, to software engineering and algorithm design, to applied physics, and now finally to nanoelectronics , each of which I can say I somewhat mastered within the space of a year-1.5yrs, and statisically I konw I am 3.5-4 standard deviations above mean (at age 10 and 14 I tested 164 and 158 respectively), but all of that did not give me the power to so quickly grasp QFT- remained incomprehensible to me in my first year grad school classes, and probably always will, unless I invested massive time into mastering it.

But I want to comment on another thing I find highly strange, which is that someone of such rare intelligence would leave academia (ostensibly she was at one time considering staying in Physics as a grad student) back to software architecture, rather than gravitating to the edge of mathematical physics- or continuing to follow that road to reality, to riff on Penrose. Indeed, I found myself following the inverse path. And ultimately, Moffat & his correspondents in our generation,- possibly another lady, like Pasterski looks like one possible member of this cohort- will be the ones to pave the next part of it.
Exactly. Not that those Twitter chickenhawks who support a coup would mind.

On a completely unrelated note, a few days ago @Jack compared Twitter usage patterns in the US as similar to that before the Arab Spring. Huh.
Just had a convo last week w/ 70+yo ER doc on this very topic. Outside of a private practice, the beauracracy is stifling(perhaps in private, too, IDK). Your actions are dictated by a/the committee. Your hands are tied if the insurance provider does not cover certain procedures or patient is un/under-insured. You will be held accountable if someone elses' dictate proves erroneous or damaging. Your earnings will erode with each new policy adjusment and never-ending growth of regulatory costs and re-ed requirements. You will be over-worked as budget cuts pile more load onto your already burdened workload. And the cherry on top, the mountains of paperwork you can complete on your off-time b/c you never have time to do it when on duty. Also, read "The House of God" for some of the other down-sides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_God
No I'd honestly be happy with throwing out whatever didn't manage the single program just like I don't care about special cold/30C wash clothes -- everything manages a 40C wash, at least once.

I assume enough people don't have fine china just like most don't want to "auto cook 1.5kgs of chicken" using a special microwave program, so really there should be a market for really simple appliances in this case too.

Edit: I realize there is an environmental aspect here but tbh the machine should be able to tell how dirty the stuff is.
This is an example of using Flex and Bison to generate a parser that can be packaged up as a Ruby extension. The subject is JSON because it's LALR compatible and easily recognisable.

I've used this technique to produce tools that parse syntax other than JSON. I think it's neat because Flex/Bison is very mature, it works well the the Ruby C API, and the parser produced is self contained (i.e. no runtime components).
I'm not being cynical, but it seems like Noisebridge has been relaunching itself for like the past 5 years.
I just did this, the results don't seem very different.
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Neat. How can I send custom data from here: `// Data to send
var payload = JSON.stringify({
source: source,
ip: 'trying_ip'
});
`?
Judges are not even remotely part of the deep state, and Trump never directly attacked the IC (do a Twitter search for "cia from:realdonaldtrump" and sort by Latest). The "Nazi Germany" just evokes a witch-hunt, and could refer to anybody.
Taxation.

War.
There's even a hide button that makes them not show up again.
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What actually happened: "Emil was pushing Ben to answer why it was OK for journalists to publish false stories or attack a businessperson’s personal life. Ben was quiet. It was a pretty normal conversation about hypotheticals. There was no malice or yelling or fighting. It was a chat between the two of them that I happened to overhear. The last comment that I heard was when Emil hypothesized about creating a coalition for responsible journalism. Ben said that would likely fail because companies have no expertise in journalism. Emil flippantly said he could hire professional journalists for $1 million to get the expertise to make sure that they could respond when negative articles come out."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicole-campbell/what-was-said-...

Since when is discussing a philosophical hypothetical "behaving badly"?

And again, the actual hypothetical is worth answering. Suppose Emil did, in fact, drop $1M on hiring journalists to do journalism to other journalists. Why is it "behaving badly" if Uber does journalism, but not if Techcrunch or Gawker does?
The screen DOES cause the superposition to collapse. It just does so after the electron was able to interfere with itself. This causes the probability distribution for the collapse to be different than it is in the presence of a detector at the slits (no interference).
I hear about the whole 'casual discussion turns into hardcore interview' ploy all the time, and curious about a better way to respond to it. It's not a serious knock on company culture, but it is impolite. I'd probably overlook it if I didn't have a current job, but would write off the company if I was already employed. I don't think it warrants a walk-out.
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I disagree. I have one and every time the hourly "beep" gets back on (not sure how) I have to google it to figure out how to remove it.
I don't find this watch well designed at all when it comes to intuitive features.
I'm really interested in hearing more about what Noisebridge has learned over the years of building a community. As I see issues like this popping up frequently around me, just with less characters who resemble the beginnings of a joke.

Do you any literature you can point me to?
Waph

Rhymes with waff. Fits one of Telegram's bigger demographics, too. (waff is a furry synonym for wolf)
> I learned this lesson pretty early in my career when most senior engineer on the team left. I and everyone else freaked out because he was the only one on the team who fully understood how everything works. But you know who was not freaked out? My manager. And he was right, we did not even miss deadlines. In two month everything was back to normal with other people filling his shoes.

Have you ever looked around the room and asked yourself "gee, why do we have so many coworkers on this project?" Or said "isn't it nuts that there are some weeks when I can measure my productive output in a handful of hours?"

The current vogue in management is cramming teams into an open floor office and micromanaging scrum points; these measures are introduced because they demoralize and _average_ output, thus introducing slack into the system. That's not a bug -- that's a feature! When someone important leaves the workers can be motivated or "motivated" to increase their output until the proper amount of slack is reintroduced from a hire.
Really?

Google gives me bland stuff like "..is how old" and "..is he dead."

Bing gives me "..is so evil" and "..is a convicted felon."

Duckduckgo "wins" with "..is the antichrist" and "..is satan."
You are right to believe this is hogwash. I'll concede that all day.

However, you knowingly are getting content that the content rights holders have deemed is not going to be published in x area. Netflix has a right (and some would say a duty) to enforce whats in their contractual deals with content/rights holders in pursuant with being able to do the business they do.

So the question is: you can't get that content, that much is clear. Why does that mean you should be able to pirate that content because its not distributed in the way you like it to be? This isn't medical care. This isn't news stories. Its TV shows and music and movies. These are pleasure items after all.

Does that mean you are entitled to this content because they don't offer it in a way you find acceptable?

Edit: really any content getting downloaded illegally (colloquially known as pirated) I haven't ever seen someone argue that the content say, saved a life, or was so important to x that it had to be done.

Lets be real: what we're talking about here isn't subverting a totalitarian regime and allowing citizens to talk on the world stage. I reckon most if not all of these sites just shuffle illegal copies of digital goods.
So not censorship in this case. They are removing illegal software sites from their company websites.

Side note, I'd like to hear the age of people who argue either side of this topic.
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Unfortunately, the only element of a DMCA notice that's made under penalty of perjury is the one least likely to involve perjury: the claim to be authorized to act on behalf of an entity which holds copyright. All the other elements of a notice you can lie about until you're blue in the face, and there is no perjury involved.
Never thought I'd say this but maybe Trump is right about the media. Part of me wants to think this is real reporting but to another part of me this screams like speculative albeit sophisticated conspiracy babble. It seems like the times by publishing this piece are really the ones culpable in sowing seeds of dissent and opposition in the mind of officials working for us gov. There's a lot of things wrong with this administration but in many cases the media is certainly not helping by amplifying the speakers on the circus.
Isn't GA just one line of code too?

The only benefit I see is that Google doesn't have the data.
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Users shouldn't feel obligated to fix open source software that they don't like.
I third that. Have before and since owned others, and truly regret selling them (due to moving). Pricey, but valuable. Most recent trip: 6 days upper Yangtse, camping, for Chinese New Year. Amazing.
That's why both resistance and cardio exercises are a common recommendation for fasters. Cardio to keep the metabolism up, resistance to lay new muscle.

But either way, unless you're 70 and immobile, you're not going to fast yourself to death. Eat well and stop putting it off.
Just don't work out in the fasting period. Maybe even take a week off first. You need this periodically if youre training hard anyway or you risk over training leading to injuries.
I was looking at the Pro-ject Carbon a while back but couldn't quite stretch to the price, beautiful bits of kit.
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Computer hardware (like harddrives and memory) has to take quantum mechanical effects into account. Or they could not be so compact. Makes sense that human memory would evolve to it optimize these effects too. Nothing magical about it.
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Any recommendations on which web analytics tool we could incorporate? I know of Kissmetrics, Mixpanel, GA etc. Could anyone share their experiences with those ? or suggest ones that worked for you at a small startup stage?
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It's a very practical optimization (not just a theoretical algorithm) so I don't think it's really misleading in the context of game development.

That being said there's an important gotcha, those techniques require a significant amount of precomputations (especially the bounding box one) so it might not be practical if you have very dynamic maps.
> It means [search users] will more likely to be taken to bona fide providers rather than pirate sites, where a user’s security may be at risk.

I'm 100% certain that was the main motivation for the change. /s
I think the behavior of today's media is perfectly understandable if you substitute some terms. For example-

Instead of "stories" think of "memes"

Instead of "reporters" think of "salespeople"

Instead of "readers" think of "customers"

Instead of "publishers" think of "businesses"

With that map in mind, it's not hard to understand why many, not all, but clearly many do the shoddy reporting that they do. Like so many things in today's world, it's no longer about pride in your craft, but instead it's about making money. The result is it's increasingly difficult for the average person to tell the real news from the fake because the traditional sources of real news have abandoned this in favor of sensationalism. But on the upside, the Internet may yet save us by providing smaller outlets a chance to provide better reporting. I was very much intrigued by the WH using Skype to pull in reporters from smaller cities and areas that don't normally get a chance to participate.

<rant>
During the recent Trump news conference, another aspect of what's going on jumped out at me. At one point in the news conference, the camera pulled back to show the room of reporters. What I found jarring was the age of the reporters; to my eye they looked like they were high schoolers. I was hoping to hear well thought out questions but instead most of them asked the same robotic questions on Russia. I don't think the media organizations are doing the American people (and the world) a great service when they send the least experienced staff members to events like this.
</rant>
I suspect the media understand it as well, they're not that dumb.
noisebridge you crazy :D
There is also Dana Priest's book, "Top Secret Nation"

That being said, I am not sure how much of this is an organized conspiracy vs. bureaucratic entrenchment of known and familiar practices, defending one's turf, prolonging employment, etc....sometimes these things take on lives of their own.
I've been using Firefox as my main browser for a while but will most likely switch to Chrome soon. It's laggy and loads some common sites very slowly (eg Amazon). That's with e10s enabled and only a few common extensions that, in theory, should make it faster (uBlock, NoScript).

I really want to stick with FF but when text fields lag and Amazon pages take 10 sec to load it's just not a good choice.
Out of interest is this just a permanent side project that's almost completed, or something you're hoping to grow and monetise?

Also, what stack are you using? I'm interested as I've been slowly designing my own mini project (with SaaS aspirations, SaaSpirations?) that does very similar metrics.
They're likely complying with the laws where they do business in this case. censorship? You bet! Government sanctioned censorship.

They're a private company doing business in China. They're going to have to make a decision: Either subvert the 'man' or comply with the law.

While i would choose subvert the 'man', I would not say i'm doing it because its legal.

Different arguments. Also worth noting: These voluntary actions are also legal. They're also private businesses in the USA, and they are free to do this with impunity.

One can always take their business elsewhere, or otherwise get information in other ways. They aren't stopping you from accessing anything.
Wait, I'm confused. You say you've been fasting, but then you also talk about working out 5 days a week and eating after a work out.

I thought fasting was like, not eating?
Maybe you'd be interested in this experiment I did with straight lines a while ago. I project 3d points onto 2d and make lines out of rotated divs. But I don't use css 3d rotation because I want to keep the fixed width of the lines themselves.

There isn't proper occlusion but I fake it by applying a different style to edges that are facing away from the camera. You could also do like the OP and draw white polygons in the space between lines.

Have a look here https://jsfiddle.net/cyt0o7m9/
This smells:

> - Supports HDMI 1.4b

Erm, Bristol Ridge already has 2.0 http://www.anandtech.com/show/10705/amd-7th-gen-bristol-ridg...

> Supports DisplayPort with max. resolution 4096 x 2160 @ 60 Hz

That's DisplayPort 1.2. No way. It's going to support DP 1.4, Polaris already does.
I can see Google/Bing thinking that this kind of traffic does not generate much income anyway, so might as well bow to the pressure and censor it.

I think they haven't fully factored in the longer term losses they might incur when people might look for, find, and switch to an alternative good-enough uncensored search engine, e.g. Yandex.
I spent several minutes, literally, trying to figure out how to play the podcast. There are lots of things to click on around the page that took me in a loop back to the same page.

In Firefox, the audio widget shows up at the very bottom of the page.

The giant blue graphic is nice, but provides zero functionality. For a tech podcast, the absence of utility combined with wasted screen space is unlikely to create a positive impression of the brand.

I have listened to a lot of podcasts...more than nine bits worth of Hanselminutes alone. One of Hanselman's premises is not wasting the listeners time. If I did not have an interest in providing feedback, I would have abandoned the podcast page long before finding the audio widget.

Good luck.
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Right now, the only thing stopping me from buying the Kindle Oasis is that it has auto rotate that can't be turned off.

I read in all sorts of odd positions and have the odd habit of turning books 90 degrees and reading bottom to top. I started because it seemed to help reduce the eye strain of looking left and right all day, and then found I actually preferred it.
Google puts more positive search queries in all their recommendations...as was explained in the r/the_donald thread you got the idea from.
Yes we did, and they promised a completely paperless workflow, relying on Dropbox for upload of raw documents (invoices, bank and credit card statements), and proprietary accounting software which would ‘automagically’ fetch, parse (including OCR), categorize, and eventually book those.

They did not maliciously mislead us, but failed on their promise because apparently the ‘automagical’ part does not seem to work out so well. Yet, that, imho, is more the fault of the implementation and of its users (the accountants), than it is because such things are too hard to accomplish with the state of current software development (and ‘AI’).

For one, I found it beyond comprehension that any such software would blindly rasterize well-structured PDFs, as does the software used by our accountant, to then OCR the resulting low-res jpg, while wastefully of resources throwing away most of the relevant information, with obviously bad ‘detection’ results. Worse, duplicate uploads would differ, resulting in double bookings requiring the accountant’s assistant using the software to manually fix those errors produced by the software. In the end we end up with a much more expensive accounting bill than we would have had when we sticked to a paper-based flow.

But is doable, and I truly hope some startup grabs the opportunity to implement it well.
Personally I agree, however I know people employed to code PHP who have no concept of this. Some apprentices who have left college have joined our company who don't know this.
I am an avid bee-centric beekeeper where we utilize treatment free methods so bees adapt to threats naturally. I can tell you that the problems with bees (introduced honeybees in North America as well as the thousands of local native species) are 100% man-made. Significant habitat loss, the treatment treadmill of modern agriculture, unnatural management practices, and pesticides all contribute. Bees adapt quickly to new threats (like Varroa) if given a chance to adjust via natural selection without our intervention. Unfortunately our agricultural and management practices prevent that and we see continuing decline. We have to wake up that industrial-scale beekeeping (and crop growing) is just not a sustainable idea.
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I'd like to hear more about this as well as a community I'm a part of has been dealing with some issues around inclusivity
Even better: imagine the government forced the sale of all assets. Then imagine the government distributes the proceeds to all citizens in equal measure.

What's the probability that after a few years the 0.1% will be in the 0.1% again? I suspect it's pretty high.
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A while ago I made for myself a list of available domains, and here it is.

There were a lot more, but I've filtered it to show only ones with appraisal value >= 100$.

I'm posting this only to get HN feedback.
(Although I've added affiliates, so if I'll start making some cents from open sourcing this list I'll know I've helped some of you guys. :-))

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>They could easily do most of this algorithmically by doing sample checks with automated software and it would likely work most of the time (plus, they could work with rights holders/publishers/record companies to maintain a 'white list' of channels that wouldn't be scanned if they're uploaded by the channel owner unless an actual DMCA complaint was filed against that channel and it turned out to be legitimate).

The largest argument against google making an autonomous car is the fact that they have zero capability to automatically and reliably detect copyright violations on their services.
I have blackwidow - the Razer drivers/soft is a buggy mess. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Plus new models use worse switches.
Everything's a matter of degree. So maybe it takes longer or shorter depending on how big the shoes are. But that bundle of knowledge you cited seems learnable in a year.
The comment is probably downvoted because it's a popular conspiracy theory that Google blocks bad suggestions about specific people the "liberal establishment" supports. In reality Google hides all bad suggestions about people. You can see the same difference in recommendations for "donald trump is a".
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