skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are political appointees, not civil servants. The former serve at the pleasure of the President. The latter are professionals. Granted, part of the implicit bargain for the latter's relative untouchability is their apoliticality.
It seems a fair percentage of stats people think frequentism is inferior.
Have you tried total fasting and/or intermittent fasting?

I did a 3 day total fast a few months ago and it was a bit uncomfortable, but it was more psychological than physical. I'd never gone for more than a few hours without eating before, and that was very unsettling.

After a day and a half I sort of "settled into it".
I'm curious as to whether you're complaining about the story. What do you mean by "spiked"? The coverage seems fair and open-ended
I have implemented these two algorithms back in 2013 do check it out https://github.com/wonderer007/Naive-Bayes-classifier
The fear is that you'd lose your job, not be disappeared.
Industrial microwave ovens in kitchen still have this UI.
That's an important restriction though. There are lots of laws. Some laws give some civil servants some independence from elected officials' decisions.
I fast regularly. I am also compete regularly in powerlifting and olympic weightlifting competitions.

my fasts are total water-only fasts: zero calorie.

I continue my normal workout habits (lifting weights, obviously, and the usual run/swim/dance/other-sort-of-cardio) but tone it done a bit, depending on the length of the fast. If I am doing a 3 day fast things barely change.

If I am fasting for 5+ days my workouts that week proceed but I take a "deload" week. I take the next week following the fast a bit easier, and by the 2nd week I am lifting the same weights as pre-fast.

I don't know a lot about human metabolism or biology, but in my experience my muscles don't suddenly disappear after missing a meal. To repeat - I can fast for up to 3 days without messing up my training.
Why barns are painted red (answer: physics of fusion)
Nope. That is definitely not true. There are legal (or for ease of understanding) legitimate channels for getting content. If you are unable to procure that content using those means....that means you don't access that content.

What we used to call 'going without'.
Libertarian-leaning left?
The courts have ruled that unauthorized directory traversal is illegal. The case against weev already proved that.
Functional Programming in Erlang
They've lost Congress and the oval office and soon they will lose more Supreme Court seats. The only power they have left is obstuctionism though media, liberal judges a la 9th circuit, and Obama loyalists held over from the last administration. Will be interesting to see how the 2018 midterm elections go.
Renting duct is $3/ft/year. That's $15,840 per mile per year. That's not including ~$30,000 to contract out the work (I was quoted $7/ft) and $5,000 that the utility charges to have someone on-site to oversee the operation. I've determined we can microtrench ourselves for between $30,000 and $40,000.

I've been on contact with another ISP, https://tsi.io who has successfully done micro-trenching with very minimal capital. We're doing all of the work ourselves to reduce overhead.
It may still be wrong and offensive, but at least in the case of the government it is a self policing body that in-principle answers to the US citizenry. There is no comparable (non-supernatural) relationship between all Muslims.
There's new studies coming out more often now on the life-extending benefits of caloric restriction (in mice). I think there was a study on some kind of simians too.
Many employers of mine have done background checks on me prior to extending an offer. And there's this hip things the kiddos are using called "Duck Duck Go".
The newest iOS has a feature that sounds like what you describe under "Bedtime" in the clock app.
Ask yourself which journalists have A16Z or Andreessen himself as investors, who are also among the biggest investors in Lyft. This is an exercise left up to the reader.

There is no journalism in Silicon Valley. Everything is PR. As Doerr said "No conflict, no interest."
Thanks for the links to Dr. Mirkin - I've always been interested in IF; nice to read about some of the evidence that it works!
Check out "influence maps" or "potential fields" or "scents" or however they may be called -- google any of those phrases in combination with pathfinding, look at 1-2 videos and you'll grok the idea in a minute, I promise.

They may not solve all your problems or even any of them (hard to tell knowing nothing about your game, after all), but I was absolutely dumbfounded when I played around with them at how cheaply you can get some rather complex (seeming) behaviors (e.g. put the player and some enemies in a maze, give the players a scent that strongly attracts the enemies, but also give them a slight scent that makes them repulse each other, and they'll automagically split up and surround the player).

At the very least, if you're stuck with what you're doing at the moment, play around with those, and maybe you can at least find a use for them that frees up some processing resources for precise path finding where nothing short of it will do.
> There are implicit guarantees on when goroutines are scheduled

But there's also explicitly no guarantees on that.
I hate talking about politics online, but I have to question this.

The political party most aligned with conservatism currently controls 2/3 of the federal government and will most likely soon control the final 1/3.

Do you honestly believe a movement can be counter-culture and control all branches of the federal government?

I'm sorry, but that seems asinine to me.
Civil service employees take an oath to defend The Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to faithfully discharge the duties of their position. Their loyalty to elected officials comes after their loyalty to those first two precepts. In as much as they believe they are fulfilling their oath, they are absolutely supposed to resist the efforts of elected officials.
Add 3D, VR, and smell-o-vision and you'll never have to eat again.
Depends on what you're renting. Also they usually splurge on things that look fancy like microwaves, and cheap out on hidden things like recessed lighting that is "secured" with aluminum screws.
Toyota Corolla Wagon

Ikea all steel espresso maker

DC3 aircraft

90s era steel mountain bike
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Hi! So, I'm working on a podcast, and I was thinking of starting a slack community for people that are working on podcasts so that we can provide support and advice, as well as have a soundboard to get opinions of how to do better from other people doing it. Is that something any of you would be interested in? Would that be useful to you? Does something like this already exist? General thoughts? Also, message me your email if you'd like to join!
> If you're under enough surveillance that your adversary will follow you on holiday and track all your supermarket purchases, you have bigger problems.

Problem with modern surveillance is not that somebody is actively tracking you, it's the ability to retroactively track you back with perfect accuracy soon as you become become an inconvenience.
Every time I hear advice along these lines (which is precisely every single time anyone talks about HR), I always wonder what these HR people are taught in school. I think they have Human Resources related majors in school right? And I'm assuming a good amount of the people in HR have studied that, so then is this what they learn in school? To treat employees like shit and lie to them? I'm really curious.
Intel CAT seems to be only for controlling L2/L3 use among CPU cores. Not L4.
I took issue with the "I guess it is very common that women expect that kind of harassment", because it plays into sexist stereotypes. I think in these matters )(sexism, racism, bias), it pays to be precise. How else can you counter bias? What if countless people told me they had been mugged by black people?

Don't understand your comment about lines in the sand. What do you mean?
Cogito ergo sum is all we really have to go by.
Building a live-update dashboard in React and Laravel
lower volume micro services, csv generation, low volume web APIs, and just about everything that is not performance critical, mostly because of the ease of programming and you can find a library for just about anything.
By the person who has had material wrongfully taken down, yes. But these fake takedowns dont result in material actually being taken down. So no.
> As long as you and your servers are outside the US, you can not be charged under US criminal law

Thats exactly what the NSA said about spying. "Your Constitutional rights apply to you only on US soil. One step off US soil and the law doesn't apply anymore."
Did I say intent in my reply? Did I even imply it anywhere? Because until I saw your response, intent didn't even cross my mind. Regardless of that, I still don't think intent changes my point of view when it comes to justice. Trying to take intent into account means treading into very very murky waters with regards to thought police and trying to determine what people think. And that is one very slippery slope. I for one would not want countries like China and North Korea claiming that I "intentionally" broke some censorship law in their country and asking for my extradition.
Sure, but that's only because he clearly violated a lot of laws and fled instead of facing trial.

I am surprised that most people here seem offended by NZ's decision. The guy's clearly a thief, he got a lot of money from people who wanted to watch TV shows, while he didn't make those shows.

If someone stole my stuff, fled to NZ and bragged about it online, I'd be pretty pissed too, and surely I'd like the guy to be extradited.
That's thanks to the BT/OpenReach split in the 90s forcing small ISPs to compete on service & cost (because they all have the same guaranteed cost to access the infrastructure).

Plus y'know you can blow fibre to 90% of the population in a reasonable amount of time.
>implying that Facebook, Twitter, and indeed HN itself aren't information bubbles for people who think alike.
Are there any Uber competitors in your city?
Thank you for posting this, I'm looking for gift ideas for my brother in college and this looks amazing. I need one too it feels like! I had never even heard of this sort of device.
Pilots too.
I agree with the article, in fact I moved away from node.js to php/laravel for backend. Async is not the priority for all the things I need as far as product devel goes.
I agree that the outsized influence of the rich and powerful completely distorts our democracy, but I honestly can't believe this is even being presented as a credible argument still.

Most rich people don't need the money, their own motivations drive them toward greater riches. I can hardly imagine someone claiming good moral character and ethics of someone with his questionable at best business and personal history.

You honestly believe big money didn't help him get elected? I supposed he just ended up with a cabinet of mega donors and billionaires?
Textmate 2 - It's such a well-engineered piece of software, and it's gorgeous.

Bialetti Brikka - Such an elegant design, and it makes delicious coffee, Italian-style.

Nespresso - If Apple made espresso machines. The espresso tastes great and it's easy to clean.

Patagonia MLC 45L - My pet peeve with luggage is that the good stuff tends to be heavy. Not this! It's big enough for extended travel, has backpack straps if you need it, durable (w/ lifetime guarantee), and is well-designed without being "design-y," if that makes sense.

Charles Schwab checking account - Okay, not a physical product, and doesn't have very impressive visual design, but well-designed regardless. No account minimums or fees, the best customer service I've ever experienced, no foreign transaction fees, and they rebate any and all ATM fees worldwide. It's the absolute perfect money bucket.

Blundstone boots - The perfect footwear if you're unsure of conditions. Hiking--check. Going to dinner--check. Walking in the city--check. Walking through snow--check. Traveling--check. They're very, very comfortable.

Elixir (programming language) - This is what happens when a tool is made for one's own use, as opposed to being designed for a hypothetical "other" who doesn't exist. It's magical.
Fuzzy logic cookers can deal with other kinds of rice and grains.

Fuzzy logic rice cookers do not burn the bottom and leave a little bit in the middle not quite cooked. This may not be an issue with all cheap rice cookers, but the ones I owned before the Zojirushi left something to be desired even with plain old white rice.

Nice rice cookers have a warming mode that keeps the rice at a nice serving temperature for as long as you need it.

I'm not saying a cheap rice cooker isn't an upgrade over a pot with a lid on the stove...it is. But, a nice fuzzy logic cooker (of which I have only ever used Zojirushi) is better still.

My Zojirushi works fine after more than a decade of use (probably more like 15 years, as it's followed me through multiple houses). I guess it seems pricey compared to a $20 cheap cooker, but amortized over many years of great nearly fully automated rice, I think it's a bargain.
Did you use a geiger counter to verify the dust was hot? Would something large enough to cause problems with the ram be large enough to detect?
> do the adult thing and ignore it.

While it probably the best advice it does sound a bit like pope's advice for the gay people: it is ok, if you do not act on it.
Being unhappy is just an adult thing, I guess.
These are usually spread by word of mouth, rather than Googling. Of course, Google and Microsoft own a browser and can block them client-side, but that will only cause people to switch to alternative browsers. Finally, an OS-level block or even hardware-level block could be attempted. I think we'll be heading into that direction at some point.
...in mice.
I'm using preact, it's a very light version of react. The whole initial js bundle is less than 6kb (gziped)

https://preactjs.com
I had this exact problem when I was trying to connect my 3020 CNC to my computer. Most of these LPT to USB dongles was only designed for using it for LPT rather than as a parallel port. This pretty much screws up all the signal timing or analogue reading which a lot of old school dongle used to use.

I'm pretty sure you can use something like this: https://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/Serial-Cards-Adapter...

Though I cannot vouch for this since I ended up ripping my control system out and replacing it with something modern. You should talk with a startech representative to make sure before you buy.
The actual idea was to hire researchers and journalists to dig up dirt in the personal lives of critical journalists, not merely to respond to them.
'60s but yes. The last innovation was the invention of chemotherapy, which I won't tell you about since it's not very pleasant but you can find the whole thing in 'Tripping Over The Truth' by Travis Christofferson.

If you look around your an find lots of graphs like this:

http://medicine-opera.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/cancer-...

which show that rates haven't really changed since 1930, give or take.

The variance you see in the graph is things like lots more people smoking then not smoking any more, the prevention methodology of either finding cancer early or preventing high-risk people (e.g. mastectomies). But the actual chance of death hasn't really changed.

Compare and contrast to things like surviving anything else (heart attack, stroke and so on) and it's night-and-day.
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I think we've found Dr double Phd ;)
Flight takes off without passenger in wheelchair
The best of all worlds on this is owning an induction range so that you can use traditional kettles but your water heats even faster than a single-purpose electric kettle.
Wait. I'm not a HTML/CSS wiz by anyone's stretch of anyone's imagination, but isn't H1 the semantically correct thing to use here?

So using his first example, instead of using <h2> just use <h1>, and then style it differently (if you want) with .promo>h1?

/me braces for thunderous scorn

edit: oh, I see, that breaks accessibility readers. Well that's unfortunate.
None of this is as black and white as people like to think. To jump to an extreme, Nazis were legitimately elected and we usually scoff at the idea that "I was just follow orders" is a reasonable defence.

If we accept that some form of resistance is justifiable in some situations we have to ask ourselves if these specific forms of resistance are legitimate for these particular circumstances rather than just saying democratically elected leaders can do whatever the hell they want and the civil service should go along with it.
Regarding semicolons, here's an interesting previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842713
I think I asked you for the write-up before. Thanks for doing it. I'd like more details, though, on the costs of equipment, installation, and so on for wireless and fiber. I mean, outside of running fiber to houses or businesses, what's the cost of the switches, any boxes protecting them, and the bandwidth? And how much bandwidth can you get away with offering them or reserving for yourself?
I was terrified when I saw the picture of the dog before I read the caption.
Splitting H2O Using Salt and Sunlight
It's not that the bandwidth is expensive; it's the cost to deploy everything. If there was preexisting conduit/fiber in the ground and all we had to do was plug two cables together, I'd be able to charge $25/m too.

I've never been to the UK, but I believe your population density is a lot higher than that of the US; which is where all of our costs originate (interconnecting the customer to our network).
/r/keto on reddit is a great community to start from. They have a FAQ and so on.

For books, I'd actually start with The Obesity Code by Dr. Fung. It's not a keto book but it's very close, and you'll figure out that keto is metabolically very similar to fasting.
Looks quite interesting, though again this is versioning the data schema rather than the data.

I think you have a certain amount of fuzziness around the idea of an "interaction" with the data. It would probably help to think about compatibility and breaking changes in terms of reads vs. writes in order to get the determinism you're looking for and better alignment with SemVer.

That is, if a client using the previous schema can still do reads and writes without the data being invalid, you have forward compatibility, and this qualifies as an PATCH.

If a client using the previous schema can still do reads against the new schema without the data being invalid but not writes, that would qualify as a MINOR change.

(Aside: write-but-not-read compatible changes are possible, but are uncommon in practice)

A change that can prevent a client using the old schema from doing valid reads against the new schema (eg. a column is renamed or removed) would be a MAJOR change.

Thoughts?
mucho bueno
> the media doesn't do its job of ensuring leaks are accurate

What is that based on? In the articles I read, they discuss the credibility of the information in detail.
Redis Ziplist replacement: Listpack
Not an aspect of the design but an anecdote on their great customer service:

I got my pair of Ortlieb Back Roller Classics as a present four years ago.

After I had used at least one bag almost every weekday since then, the rubber shoulder pads had recently ripped and the inner pockets frayed over the screw nuts.

When I contacted their customer service with pictures of the damage, they sent me replacement shoulder straps and pockets free of charge (they even covered shipping costs) although I had no receipt to prove the age of the bags.
You could make the maintenance once a month on days your monitoring shows already have about no traffic. If a HA setup, then fail-over, reboot main, fail-back-over, reboot other stuff. Minimal disruption there.
More often than not, a good explanation is very simple, if not trivial. The way I see it, the two points of view are exactly that - points of view. They are both valid approximations to what happens in reality, and there are areas in which one of them works better than the other. The whole controversy looks to me ridiculously similar to the one described in Gulliver's Travels where philosophers were engaged in an endless argument about from which side to crack an egg.

From a more technical perspective all this comes down to a simple fact that some consider probabilities within the framework of Information Theory, while others prefer to use a standalone axiomatic foundation.
A Google Forms/Typeform + zapier + Mailchimp to send valuable information to new signups in exchange for their contact information
A couple of thoughts:

1) This could open up the market again for search engines (ie - "we don't censor your search, so use us instead of the other guys".

2) How long until you try to search for "{name of research paper} pdf" and you only get links back to the pay-for-access sites for research papers?

Personally I think this is BS, but I understand why they are doing it. It won't stop piracy or other illegal crap - it will just move it elsewhere, like it always has. If you want the stuff, you can find it. You always have, you always will.

The second one, though, bothers me. All too often, I read an article about a research paper I want to read, only to be paywalled by one of the big research paper companies. But usually - if the paper is older than 6 months or so - I can google for it, and find a copy (sometimes a draft). In many cases, it will be off of one of the researcher's sites or blogs. Other times, it will be in an FTP archive somewhere, or linked by someone else.

It really bothers me when for a research paper, I am asked to pay anywhere from $25.00 USD or more for a PDF, as an interested individual or hobbyist. Researchers are also expected to do the same, but are largely insulated from it by their institutions, who shell out big $$$ for a subscription to the services (so for the researcher, they don't see the cost - though most know about it otherwise - plus they usually have to pay thru the nose themselves just to get it on the path to publishing!).

I have found that sometimes - in certain cases - finding the author(s) of a paper and emailing them asking for a copy (stating that I am a hobbyist interested in their work) generally works well enough to get a copy sent to me (and sometimes much more).

Ultimately - I wouldn't be surprised to see Google and Bing do this after a few threats from the publishing companies...
How about stack overflow?
Very interesting, thanks for pointing this out!
Even if I were to accept the official Watergate story (which I do not considering that the star reporter was Naval Intelligence just 2 years prior to his 'big break') "Deep Throat" was not running an alternative information outlet in public.

Accepting this makes it trivial for non-governmental elements, or foreign governments, to put up e.g. @AltStateDepartment for every single governmental org. That is not going to promote "stability" of our system. In fact, this is precisely what I would do if I wanted to entirely demoralize Jane/Joe public and undermine /the public and democractic state/.
Newsblur. It's basically modern day Google Reader with improvements.
If someone answered with "I'd google it", I would say "go ahead". I don't mind if someone doesn't know or remember something. That is a random signal. I want to know however if a person is mentally lazy and therefore is merely a "user" of technology or the "maker" of it.

That said, being able to at least describe some use cases of some relatively simple data structure is not too much to ask.