skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Therefore, I wonder the real reason but can't think of any.

You shouldn't think of governments as agents with a singular, unified purpose. What you're observing is the effect of many agents with misaligned incentives, and a huge coordination problem. All this leads to a situation where large costs are incurred for no real purpose, because no agent is incentivised to put what you called 'marketing' in doubt.

For example, it's a huge cost for a politician to argue that fear of terrorism is overblown. So pretty much none of them do that. TSA have no incentive to reduce their powers. Etc.
Most of their solid wood stuff is cheap, unfinished pine. In some cases it makes sense but in many it does not.
Universal visual representations: learning faces, text, planktons and cat breeds
> I am apparently the only European - the only "white"

Let's not rule out that his skin color is on the lighter side of the spectrum.
This is good advice. My post will eventually include other markets as well, but I just haven't got that far along.
Pada: https://gitlab.com/willemmali-sh/todo
BNF can be “executable” (C++ template library for lightweight parsers)
You might like https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/, which is where I got the term.
Specific corruption accusations in the Park/Choi Soon-il scandal
Environmental Monitoring Systems
GWAS meta-analysis reveals novel hits and genetic correlates for intelligence
I just built one, would you mind having a look at it?

https://gitlab.com/willemmali-sh/todo

PR's/issues welcome!
Environmental Monitoring Sensors
Algae and fungi have been popular in some recent "near-future" sci-fi.
The article has a small skeptical part at the bottom, but this is nonsense. To be more clear, I call bullshit.

> Quantum radar would send out bursts of photons while retaining their ‘pairs’. The changes in behaviour of the retained photon would then reveal what’s happening to the photon in the beam.

There is not visible change in the retained photons. You can't make any experiment that determine if they are entangled or not, and what happened with the other photon. The only options are:

1) Measure something (probably polarization) in the radar and measure something in the plane. Each measurement alone is boring, you only will get random data. It's only interesting if you synchronize and compare both measurements, because they will be correlated. This requires the cooperation from the plane, so it's not very probable.

2) Get the bounced photons, pair them with the photons in the radar, and make some measurement in both photons simultaneously. Sorting out which photon is the pair of which photon is unbelievable difficult, so this is even more impossible than the other options.

(This is possible in a tabletop experiment with lasers. LIGO does something somewhat similar to this. But the care to align and keep the mirror still is overwhelming. Anyway, you loose the quantum magic that makes it impossible to fake because you are using a lot of photons instead of one.)

3) Get the bounced photons, make some measurement in the stream of bounced photons and do a similar measurement in the stream of the photons that didn't fly. Now you can compare both and try to synchronize them. This has a extremely tiny probability of veracity.

It's possible to do this in a tabletop experiment, with a very dark background, with carefully aligned optic to avoid the synchronization problem, with a lot of damping and very still optic support for the same reason. And very fast electronic to detect the coincidences.

You can use that splitting crystal can create two very synchronized stream of photons, and keep one and bounce the other against the plane and hopefully try to guess the delay necessary to resynchronize them. It may work in a very good conditions like a tabletop experiment. Using it in the wild is almost impossible, because the bounced photons will be mixed with a lot of other photons from the ambient, and the signal will twinkle like a star due to alignment, temperature changes, ...

And that will not use the quantum entanglement part of the signal, it will be only be only a classical synchronization of two signal. You can try to measure the polarization of the bounced photons and the original photons to try to measure the entanglement, but keeping the polarization after traveling and bouncing and whatever looks almost impossible.
"Needs"

Not so much. "Wants" as "Thinks it needs", but even then, the amount of student debt suggests that neither of those are entirely true either.
>http://www.womeninmining.org/

thats not a site for women * struggling for the right to work in coal mining*, contrast that to womenwhocode.
How Long Your Post Stay at the Front Page of Hacker News
The UK is part of the continent of Europe. It's also still a member of the EU for the time being.
Perhaps the people who are the most likely to commit suicide (or be depressed enough to influence other people to commit suicide) are the people who are closet gays. There was a study which concluded closeted gay men tended to die much quicker because of HIV than openly gay men [1]. Especially the teens, they probably depend on family/parents much more than older people - so there might be a higher percentage of closeted gays in teens.

If the study had only considered only teens who came out, that could have ignored those who are depressed of being gay but not yet come out.

1: https://newrepublic.com/article/113176/science-loneliness-ho...
There is a danger that any nuance you've intended accompany your main point may be lost, since this is indeed how a lot of technical people think: "If you build it, they will come", meritocracy, etc. It is the reason there are a lot of great, undiscovered products out there. However, marketing is the biggest piece of financial success (this may not be the chosen goal). Pretty much all non-technical activity can be classified as marketing except for required business paperwork. Writing something is literally the starting line.

Proof that "none of it is going to do much good unless the book really works" is not reliably true, by counter-example: https://www.google.com/#q=bad+books+bestsellers

Random technical example (fast NTFS filesystem metadata search) I almost lost because I forgot to bookmark it after reading the only HN comment I've ever seen mention it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13738309 And further, I just found the child comment sharing another utility!

Edit: Focusing more on preventing misinterpretation.
Odds of them 'catching' someone who is just shy and nervous? Even higher - there's no negative feedback when you turn away someone who was just a tourist, after all.
The problem is that following that, you become a tool as well.
sh-based alternative and shameless plug:

https://gitlab.com/willemmali-sh/todo

Fresh off the press, please let me know if you have feature requests or find bugs.

Edit: is my tone off-putting or did I break some social norm here?
The US Census provided names and addresses for the Japanese internment.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-the-us-...
I strive to view the world realistically.

There is a solution; it's treaties, regulations, and so on. The problem is caused by defection being a worthwhile strategy, so the solution is to change the landscape so that it isn't. That won't happen if we don't try it, though.

To a major degree, the story of western civilization is the story of building our way out of such traps. It isn't hopeless.
Black holes were discovered in theory before any there was any evidence too.
Dissertation Skills Shortage Concerns Within the UK Construction Industry
It may have been random. I'm pretty sure they pick a small # of people to do these do regardless of what intelligence says.
It isn't all great though. My friends are slowly being consumed by their phones.
I've added it to my config yesterday, I hope it helps :)
Thanks for the tip!
Haha! Can not tell if serious... :-/
What's the difference between this and GameSpark, Photon Bolt and Nakama from Heroic Labs?
Yes, and look how thoroughly the North acted to secure the rights of former slaves!
Quantized inertia sounds like a nice theory: http://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.de/2016/09/mihscqi-vs-new...
Event Sourcing Database Engine
Not a fan of "don't do $Things" followed by a;

"Good travel advice to follow in a later post…"

Especially when coupled with bullshit statesments like " A wiped device indicates that you are deliberately hiding something from CBP, who will want to know what it is."

I don't think any of the half-competent suggestions for device security have ever suggested a completely blank device, but even if so, theres absolutely nothing wrong with carrying for travel security purposes, say, a laptop without a hd and only booting from a live-usb. Having plausible deniability could be useful, but since the truecrypt debacle I'm not aware of a good FDE that offers a similar system as easily.

Point being, this just seems like a lazy article cherry-picking particularly bad advice and doesn't even offer better alternatives, indicating an attempt at driving traffic more than providing value in the form of information.
Is there any reason why we can't have a "C clang"? Or has just nobody bothered yet?
Ask HN: Should I explicitly search for a co-founder?
I had a cofounder who left because she is getting married and moving to another country and another cofounder who can't take the plunge because of personal reasons.

I have very high standards for work ethics and don't want to get a co-founder just for the sake of it but looks like investors and incubators are highly biased against single founders.
A bot that bring e-shop happy buyer.
From the final paragraph of the article:

"If you could make a milk jug with 30 percent less material because it's mechanically better, think of the sustainability of that," he said. "You're using less plastic, less oil, you have less stuff to recycle, you have a lighter product that uses less fossil fuel to move it."

In effect this could help to reduce consumption as you suggest (and as I agree).
That's because of the EU citizenship, which allows the free movement of people. Obtaining a work permit might be a different thing, but I'm really just guessing here...
This guy looks like my grandpa: https://www.google.com.br/search?q=henry+rousso&safe=active&...
Hey, you can still try it out as is, just request an API key and start using it. Unless you're worried about sending data out into unknown servers... in that case I can assure you we keep absolutely no information on the data we receive to be processed. Our initial use-case of energy consumption forecasting demanded this kind of data policy, and we're sticking to it.
IMO, this is an artistic fallacy that needs to die. Responding and adjusting to feedback doesn't undermine the integrity of a work or weaken its authenticity. Cycles of feedback and iteration are common to all work in every medium.

Obviously, you can take responding to feedback too far, but the idea of the artist-in-a-tower-birthing-a-fully-grown-work-whole is an inaccurate idea at best, and a damaging assumption at worst.

Like King says, ignore the outliers. But if no one understands a plot twist, or everyone dislikes something you really like, maybe take another swing at it. Iterate a little more. Creative output is the art of refinement as much as anything else.

(Good editors can also often help substitute for peer feedback)
I'd be willing to bet that those particular sites are weighted negatively here. There are pro-Trump policy articles from more mainstream conservative sources, though.
The rust version is using multiple cpus using a pool concept (which looks a lot like the multiprocessing module from python so kudos there). But the C version is single threaded from what I can tell. So rust is safe but threaded to be faster than single threaded C which isn't that much slower. Hmm...
Yes, it most definitely is part of Europe, and it is currently still part of the European Union too.
Well, as far as I'm aware, there have been no actual implications. I think it's a perfectly reasonable summary to say that Dropbox does a bunch of weird shit to enable features customers want that can't realistically be delivered any other way, and so far there have been no drawbacks to the approach in practice.

I get the argument from the other side as well, but if you're Dropbox, you just want to make the best file-syncing application you can make, and any other choice they could have made in these situations would be worse in lots of ways. We can quibble over which set of compromises is the right set, but I doubt you'll find a single set of uniformly preferred options. To be sure, there are probably some low cost wins they could make -- making the signing status of everything more obvious, etc., but I'm not sure what your desired outcome here really is.

I guess I mostly just find it annoying that people seem to think anything other than presenting my 67 year old mother with a dialog of full disclosure about kernel extensions is somehow the nefarious work of a shady company rather than a conscious design arrived at through a reasonable comparison of the options.
How will border control at the airport distinguish between EU citizens who are allowed to come in, and those who need to fill out some paperwork and will be kicked out if they overstay their implied visa / waiver?
Reference implementation of netcode.io
Clock multipliers are already used to make individual sections run faster.
What Exactly Happened with the Best Picture Win at the Oscars?
Android layout to show template for loading, empty, error etc. states
On what grounds? From the state of border control? From one measly article?
How did you work with your alpha readers?

Ie - did you wait for your first completed draft before showing them the whole thing, or did you show them chapter/scene works-in-progress as you wrote them?
Who Needs GPS? The Story of Etak's 1985 Car Navigation System
The World’s Most Creative Buildings
I employed one 6 months ago and literally just scheduled an interview with another this morning for later in the week. Fun times...
I'm curious how good the translation is. I could read the translated article (the English version), but there were clearly some weird words. Is there anything off in the translation at a higher level?
FastHub the ultimate GitHub client for Android
Isn't the whole point of Rust to do threaded things safely by keeping strict tabs on who owns what and for how long?
You could even argue that Rust is a member of the ML family seeing as the ML family of languages were major inspirations and furthermore I believe the original implementation of Rust was written in OCaml.
About a year ago I conducted a small-scale survey on how freelancers approach marketing and sales and what their biggest problems in these areas (and in general) are:

https://bjoernkw.com/2016/01/15/survey-for-it-freelancers-ho...
Probably I should have kept out of the discussion. Sounds like you are having a hard time of it. Whatever you call it, it looks interesting and I'll be very curious to see how you tackle the opt-in features.
Speaking of avoiding non-binary logic, what do you all think of using the same simplification for doing SYNC:

http://magarshak.com/blog
This is really cool. Kind of similar (but more advanced) than the "robots" a lot of schools make first year computer science students program.

I don't think it really approaches self driving cars though until there are lanes, stop signs, and other road obstacles.

Edit: They crashed into each other head first. They eventually sorted it out.
Intel Reacts to AMD Ryzen Apparently Cutting Prices on Core I7 and I5 Processors
This is not the first time they scew the results to suit their own agenda.. Moving along...
The default hash table has better security against malicious input by using a slower hashing algorithm. Its the right default, but if you really want performance and to compete with C/C++, you have to use an algorithm that makes different tradeoffs, or you would be comparing apples to oranges.
SCTP droped 100% time as there no proper PNAT available for it. To make traction other protocols there need "happy eyeballs for transport" so it can be transparent for end-users

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-grinnemo-taps-he-01
> Can citizens of Bulgaria and Romania just move to the UK without further requirements?

Yes. This right has nothing at all to do with Schengen.

The transitional restrictions for Bulgarians and Romanians, implemented when the two countries joined the EU, ended on 1 January 2014.
>The question I ask myself is where does being "rude" end and oppression of your opposition start.

With state power and ownership of material resources, duh. Being a dick to someone isn't oppression. Making them homeless is oppression. Rounding them up and putting them into a camp is oppression. Shooting them is oppression.

Do people not realize that these things happen today?
It really make me paranoid wondering how many people I work with are secret Trump Supporters. I wonder if all those people who are not a cultural fit have these disgusting conservative beliefs.
> I grew up in the UK where you (still) don't need to carry a drivers license.

There's a convenient arrangement, but strictly speaking you commit an offence if you don't, when asked, give your driving licence.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/part/VII/crosshe...

This is an important difference between US and UK.

We have bad laws and they're not often used. The US has bad laws and they're used all the time.
I did this recently too, but without the Travis part.

One thing you might like to add is a CloudFormation template for initial setup of S3 buckets, configuring them as static sites, Route53, etc. Here's a gist of the one I use: https://gist.github.com/vivook/0b5baef9f13654c3af4f003f447ff...

The CF template does the following:

- Create two buckets, a main one for the specified domain name and another for www. plus that domain

- Sets up `index.html` and `404.html` as the main bucket's index and errors documents

- Grants all S3 actions to an identified ‘deploy user’ to the main S3 bucket

- Grants read access to everyone in the world to the main S3 bucket

- Redirects all requests from `www.` to the main domain

- Sets up DNS with Route53 (assumes a hosted zone for the apex already exists)

- Sets up MX records for 1and1.co.uk.

## Usage

1. Login to your AWS console

1. Go to Identify & Access Management

1. Create a new user and download its access and secret keys, remember what you called your user

1. Select the region in which you wish to host your S3 bucket in

1. Go to CloudFormation, click create stack

1. In Select Template, choose Upload a template to Amazon S3 and choose `s3-site-stack.json`

1. In Stack name enter a sensible name (it doesn't matter), in DomainName enter the domain name of your website, and in IAMDeployUser enter the name of the user you created in step 3, click Next

1. Click Next again and click Create

## Not yet done

- Serving content over SSL

- Redirecting `http` to `https`

*

It'd be super cool if you updated it to do all the cloudfront stuff with SSL, etc :-)
Another fun thing I have heard multiple times is that ordering electronics from China to "Ljubljana, Slovakia" somehow makes it from China to Slovakia and then Slovenia without going through customs in any of those two countries.

Does anyone know why this would be? Or maybe is it just pure luck?
> Why it cannot be both?

Perhaps this is a misreading on my part. I was equating AFM with the "worst case" paralytic polio, which is fairly rare at ~1%. It's unclear to me what percentage of polio cases result in muscle weakness (which AFM seems to correspond to more closely) that doesn't qualify as paralytic.

> I just obliquely wanted to address the issue that polio is often brought up as an absolutely devastating and dangerous disease, and yet generally speaking it is not so.

This is the case for almost every disease. Paralysis in ~1% of victims is still pretty terrible.

> Note the reserved tone which is so at odds with the current day thinking about the success of the polio vaccine. The whole article is worth a read, I will just provide a quote here that is pertinent to our discussion.

It's an interesting article, but doesn't change the fact that polio vaccines have a huge body of supporting evidence. Ignoring the question of 1952 vs 1961 polio counts, what about 1988 to 2016? It's dropped from 350000 cases to 42 in that time. What about all the trials that have shown the effectiveness of polio vaccines? What about the fact that wild polio is eradicated in North America?

No one says vaccines are perfect. No one claims that drug trials are perfect either. But the overall evidence still seems overwhelming, and nitpicking how polio used to be categorized and pointing to some upswings due to the cyclic nature of infectious diseases is not evidence against the efficacy of vaccines.

This is my problem with anti-vaccine lobbying. There's a distinct lack of evidence in their favor, so they resort mostly to nitpicking minor concerns while ignoring the bigger picture. Meanwhile they'll happily jump on weak and even fraudulent studies that support their claims and ignore their deficiencies.

"Hey, Polio is eradicated in the US and reduced by almost 4 orders of magnitude worldwide. That looks pretty effective."

"Yeah, but we haven't always counted polio cases exactly the same, and there was a brief upswing in polio a few years after the vaccine as introduced. Also vaccines cause autism."

"Uh, so we still managed to eradicate polio after the upswing. And the vaccine-autism link was literally fraud."

"But what if you're wrong?"

"??"
While I agree that a profit centric competetive society is not the best solution, in this case I see the problem more with how the profits are distributed. When you aren't motivated to build trust to get people to give you money for your work anymore but instead are motivated to get people to look in your direction so you can show them something they might actually spend money on, it seems pretty inevitable quality will suffer.
Some of the replies in the Twitter thread are hilarious

whiteboarding, it's the new waterboarding? ️Furious /@AnnieTheObscure
Crafting a Request a Demo Landing Page with Video
Haven't installed, but this looks like the Unity Space-Shooter tutorial.

https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/projects/space-shooter-t...
It seems to me that there are a lot of apples-to-oranges comparisons here? Some implementations are using the language's standard library hashtable implementation while others are using 3rd party version (with different algorithms and data structures across all of them), some are using multiple threads while others are single threaded etc. As a result, I wouldn't read too much into the rankings you see here.
Sure N (number of buckets) shouldn't be too big, but x (the input value) could be.
Tit for tat isn't particularly constructive, but it's sure as hell the rational strategy in an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma.
The Stasi is a good model for how quickly and badly this can go off the rails.

The way it's supposed to work is that you have some public event of importance: a crime, a person applies for a security clearance, or whatnot. Based on that event, the state then conducts and investigation to see if there are any data they can discover that might lead to a response.

The new way of working is that you collect all the data, on everyone, all the time. Then there's no more event. The only thing you do is pick out the person. Once you have the person, it's a simple data mining exercise (along with a lot of interrogation techniques) that takes care of the person. What's the old saying in communist countries? "You have a man. You have a problem. No more man, no more problem"

Functional societies focus on events. Dysfunctional societies focus on the people.
Interesting. What I've been seeing from my fellow liberals lately is freedom of everything except difference in opinion. I think Milo, for example, is a gigantic troll and probably a bad person... but he has a right to speak freely, just like Westboro Baptist Church does.