skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also a total dump. Very disorganized 3rd world country. Thailand in contrast is an order of magnitude more developed, especially Bangkok.

The traffic is intense chaos. The streets are very dusty and dirty. Food is semi-ok in the few western style restaurants in Kathmandu otherwise it's just (mostly) rice (hard, not soft fragrant type) and some crappy sauce loaded with MSG.

Rubbish is everywhere, I mean literally it's like living in the middle of a dump site.

Just a few things to consider before you all go "Woah, Nepal is so awesome".
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> Isn't the IPC difference basically 0 and the 7 series only has slightly higher frequencies due to the optimization cycle? So clock for clock 6 and 7 series CPU should yield the same performance.

You're talking about Skylake 6-series, the 6900K is Broadwell-E not Skylake despite being 6-branded.
> How do you feel about tech in general where diversity
> is big issue.

I do not feel it is an issue at all. Unless you think that there is some deliberate attempt to prevent blacks and hispanics from joining IT.

Why does some field need to mirror racial/whatever composition of the society? Are you concerned that NBA demobraphics does not represent general demographics?
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Can you blame him for this? :)

"We need to get over this idea that the body is something holy. Of course this is classic Christian ideology teaching us that, the human body is holy, marriage is holy, all these things are holy. Listen, none of that is holy. The only thing that really makes sense is what's most functional to increase our living standards for ourselves, for our families and for our community and humanity as a whole. And frankly, to do that, the most functional thing is to upgrade ourselves. To get rid of limbs. To get rid of blood. To get rid of breathing air. To get rid of eating and pooing. I mean if you were to create a machine, you had all the power in the world, you would never create a human being. You would never create the human mind, three pounds of meat. It's nowhere near as sophisticated as the Empire State building having servers lined up to the windows. Here, in just a few years we're gonna see exactly how complex a machine we can create."
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Wouldn't it be better to encourage kids to not be racist, and thus encourage them to take inspiration by people different from them (different race, men/women, etc)?
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> Kudos to Boeing for handling this in an open manner

Not hardly.

What is Boeing doing putting PII in hidden fields in the first place.
Fell free to link to this imaginary article.

There are plenty of articles about the party, yet none happen to mention it? How strange..... Sounds newsworthy to me.

Do you really think people would get drugged up and steal a 'random' bus at a work party?

This whole article stinks, but that's the society we live in, truths and common logic have been thrown out.
Let's bring some democracy there again!
They must be really bleeding users.
I've discussed this at some point in the IPFS IRC channel.

Their line of reasoning was that you could just as easily host encrypted blobs on IPFS and be done with it.
That somewhat appeals to me, encryption of content seems orthogonal to hosting it. It feels like the Unix dogma 'do one thing and do it well'.
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> lot of superstition around abstractions by people who don't really seem to understand what comes out of a compiler (Having the compiler "compile away" abstraction layers was something we often obsessed over on projects I worked on in the 90s and early 00s).

I have seen this a lot, specially like caring about bounds checking or virtual method dispatch without measuring if it really matters.

Even some modern microcontrollers are quite powerful versus those mainframes running Lisp, yet were we are still preaching Assembly and C as if it was the 80's, early 90's.
I'm surprised 1Password isn't on here. A very popular, well reviewed, and secure app. I highly recommend it over all the options listed in the article.
> It definitely reads as an obsessive sleuthing

The whole blog (business?) is about identifying cheaters in marathons. Just in case you missed it (I only noticed the second time I went to the page).
Do you guys plan to create pools from lender money, so as to reduce the risk even further?
Im not an expert but the first thing that comes to mind is that
1) TFA does not quantify the performance gain in time
2) I wonder if environment variables like TZ are a security risk/vector in that these might facilitate attackers to stealthy skew/screw time within current user process... no root required.
She's a Harvard grad.

Lots of over achievement in her short life.

Gotta keep appearances up. Gotta keep the family and friends impressed. And so on...
That's a tough one free will.

I usually default to "what if you killed yourself" but then you follow it up with "Well but by killing yourself..." ahhh

It does drive you insane to think you're just in this infinite sized thing and you're this thing that creates a perception of your external container and soon you'll cease to exist, does the world cease to exist as well, hard to imagine just not being. Guess time to find out haha.

I also laugh at my own problems and then you just imagine zooming out of the Earth and being in space. Nothing there, no laws, money, just you and your mortality.

I have a cat and I was just holding him one day and I was like "holy cow here is this living thing that evolve along side us" I just stared at my cat for a bit. Odd. this living thing independent of me. Why does a seed grow? hahaha why does the Gerbil run in circles.
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"I do wonder what will we do when computers do everything for us."

Depends how our social structures will morph to support a society where having a job is no longer the norm and most people are in fact jobless.

In our current societies the way things stand all these masses of people will be living in slums fighting for scraps while those elite who control the system live in their walled off mini-societies and palaces.
Another way to look at it: how big is the global market for gas peaker plants? If current trends continue, solar PV + batteries will be cheaper at some point than any fossil fuel[1], so at that point Telsa energy will begin to consume large chunks of that market.

According to this link[2] gas peaker plans were 50% of energy installs in 2013, the best link I could find from a quick search.

[1] Interesting talk on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxryv2XrnqM

[2] http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=15751
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"One thing that makes the CT a bit harder is that it lies mostly at altitudes over 10,000 feet, where the air is thinner. Hiking 18 miles/day is quite an effort in any case, "

Altitude would stop a lot of people. How long to acclimatise living at sea level?
There are pros and cons there. The overhead isn't huge; if you use any ads whatsoever those likely swamp this effect anyhow. And dev time is limited - how much time is it worth shaving at best 100ms off for a small and shrinking group of clients? It's cacheable, so it's a not a commonly recurring delay, and it's likely to be a lot smaller on decent networks. (https://tools.keycdn.com/ping puts the worst ping as being from tokyo at 84ms; many are sub-ms as you might expect from a cdn).

I think it's (potentially) a better tradeoff than making most clients pay for larger bundle sizes even though they don't need it.

But well: tradeoffs.
It's not, but do you really think they aren't empowered to begin with?
False economy.

Drop to 40. You'll get more done. Trust me.
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People are known to have bias in favor of people that resemble themselves, so even if you tell them to just 'hire the best' they won't necessarily control for their biases and more so if that data isn't being collected and reviewed.

So if one wants to actually hire the best, they should measure these things, otherwise you can't correct for things like 'our Cal alum hiring manager keeps passing up a bunch of good Stanford grads' or more serious versions of that.
> would you go and tell him he wasn't black to his face because his skin wasn't dark enough?

Well, I wouldn't tell him, but I would definitely ask him if he claimed he was black. Then he would probably explain that he doesn't mean "black" as color but "black" as culture (same as "Jewish" religion vs. "Jewish" ethnicity) and that's fine.

> people that look like them and sound like them can succeed.

After a (semi-)black president, is this really still relevant?!

> why there were two BAME people in my year of four thousand people at Oxford

Maybe because Oxford is in England and England is predominantly white?

In general, I oppose such categorisations, because (1) they're racist, and in emphasizing race, they encourage other people to do so as well, and (2) race is far less relevant than other characteristics, in particular class (wealth), and by focusing on race, you're playing a divide-and-conquer game, making groups of people hate each other, while ignoring the most important inequality in existance. (Which, coincidentially, was the most likely cause of the discrepancy you saw at Oxford.)
maybe them aliens made the system up, so that it doesn't fall apart under its own gravity. Makes sense: just increase the habitable area by bringing in smaller planets into the goldilock zone - that might come out cheaper then to go interstellar.

Maybe lots of planets that circle the same star over the same orbit would be a better indicator of alien activity than a dyson sphere.
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Except that cpanel / WHM IS a common use case. Cloud Linux, I concede, isn't common but making multiple versions of PHP is a common use case.
If fewer and fewer people work, it makes sense to tax other things than income from work. Like capital gains.
But would anybody really want to use a hypermedia client versus a regular client? Of course not. The regular client can be optimized properly at the level it needs to be to make the user's interaction smoother.
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It's made public so people can discus and judge. Problem with this approach is that it will not only shame, but also mark a target for offenders, so it's not only adjudication, it's a act of aggression. Think about police investigators. Why are they not publishing full names and faces of criminals?

EDIT
On second thought, public shaming is consequence of something more important. If race officials would pay for reporting legitimate offences there wouldn't be a need to ask for donations. So author could keep those investigations hidden.
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I have never in 30 years in the Bay Area seen the kind of sexism reported recently about Uber. The fact that your only response to it is to claim everybody does it just reinforces the allegations against Uber.
btw @hsitz I ask this question not to be rude, but to work out if overconfidence is driving the answer cf: ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13620745
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People's general thrust has been that Let's Encrypt's approach means anybody who can control an FQDN can get a certificate for that FQDN and they don't like that.

One group object that DV (Domain Validated) certificates which only validate control over the FQDN just shouldn't exist at all. They believe you should need to prove a "real world" identity to someone or else not be able to have a certificate. Obviously that would put HTTPS back to pretty rare, because proving real world identity costs money and requires some effort, whereas DV has been completely automated.

Another group are fine with DV, except that they have an objection to nebulously defined "obviously bad" FQDNs. They argue (and they're not entirely wrong) that humans try to parse the FQDN for sense, and it leads them astray. They see microsoft-helpline in the FQDN and conclude it's a Microsoft helpline, or they see mybank-login-page and figure it's the log in page for their bank...

Changing either of these things would be a radical policy alteration for the Web PKI. In the anti-DV group that might actually be seen as a good thing, a handful of CAs literally don't offer DV, their businesses could actually grow if DV were abolished.

Right now, the Baseline Requirements which control how a public CA should behave to stay trusted in the Web PKI, say the CA must have a "High risk" list which protects some FQDN from being issued without human oversight. Let's Encrypt do operate such a list and since they have no human oversight if you hit the list you just can't get a certificate - about once a month somebody asks on their public forum about such a name, e.g. aa.edu ran into this, so did some outfit with the same initials as Deutsche Bank. However the BRs don't specify what must be on the list at all.

I don't happen to think any of this is "shady" on the part of Let's Encrypt, but some people do.
> helpful for much more cases than just trust.

Indeed, there are a load of QA benefits for reproducible builds. Let alone the CO2 savings that result from cache hits instead of pointlessly rebuilding dependencies.
That's correct. You wouldn't be able to do the roundrip expedition in less than 78 years from an observer's standpoint so you still can't transmit information faster than the speed of light, however from the explorer's point of view it might take a lot less time to do that as you get closer to c.

If you travel at the speed of light (assuming you're a photon or something) then time stops "existing" altogether and you are simultaneously at the point of origin, destination and everywhere in between. At least that's my understanding of it.

I find it both exciting and depressing at the same time, it means that you could potentially make a rountrip to the center of the milky way and back within a human lifetime but by the time you'll be back everybody that remained on earth would be long dead and nothing would be the same anymore. If those types of travels become common then society would stop existing on a single timeframe. It's pretty mind boggling.
That's as silly redefinition of language. And racist as well - unless white people are also "people of color" (technically, we're not white, but yellow-pink or something).
I am wondering how it could affect our psyche if we were able to gaze on a mirror world with our own eyes in broad daylight. This is the first VR application I would think of: display an Earth like planet in the sky and see how it affects us.
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Since batteries are the single most expensive component currently, knowledge and IP around batteries will be important in areas such as:

* using clever techniques to stretch the life of batteries

* keeping them in good condition in extreme weather

* keeping them cool

* keeping them safe in an accident

Telsa is figuring all this out much earlier and at bigger scale than most other manufacturers. They can sell their knowledge to other car companies once the Gigafactories start churning out large quantities of batteries.
Quite interesting, but in me it sparked an idea imagine parts of bitcoind, that when included in software, paid back the developers of that software one tic for every thousand or so tocs the software was being used...
> On the other hand, can you kill a deer with your bare hands ?

I don't know, never tried it. Maybe. But that is irrelevant to the matter at hand, an eagle would get fucked up by fast-spinning propellers no matter of its ability to kill a deer. They are just pieces of meat with bone through them, mo matter their speed and athletic ability.

As to the drones itself, for carrying heavy loads most likey they would use and X8 design. I once had the nasty pleasure of flipping an X8 drone upside down and for some reason, don't remember why, lost control and propellers were spinning full throttle, upside down. As you can imagine, it was a spinning death-machine and the only clearance I had to grab it was an 10x10cm square right in the middle of the drone. It was terrifying, but managed to stop it. I can't imagine an eagle grabbing it anywhere without it getting messed up.

As a side-note, a decent X8 mid-sized-lift drone can be custom buit for under 500E. I don't know how much an eagle would cost.
Surprisingly, though, history hasn't taught "liberals" that supression of the freedom of speech and thought control are predominantly fascist (well, totalitarian really - communists used them as well) tactics.

History also hasn't taught "liberals" that words loose meaning if you overuse them. If every man is a "rapist", every comedian is a "racist" and everyone who oposes illegal immigration is a "fascist", those words lose all meaning.
You must be new here [on planet Earth].
People have been complaining for years now about C stile strings (that have been widely used for decades now). But nobody ever did anything about it ?

There have been many efforts (http://www.and.org/vstr/comparison), but ultimately they all failed to find widespread adoption because they're solving the wrong problem.

For any non-trivial data munging operation experienced C programmers quickly ditch C strings in favor of vectors.
The simplest approach employs a simple pointer and length (or boundary) tuple; i.e. a vector. You can get fancy by wrapping them in a struct, but even that isn't necessary and, especially wrt API design, often needlessly forces interface users to create temporary "slice" objects with an annoying type peculiar to the interface. Newer languages offer nicer interfaces for slices, but simple pointers are hard to beat in terms of simplicity and usability. (The only problem with simple pointer derivation and manipulation a la C is that they're difficult for a compiler to both verify the correct use of _and_ to aggressively optimize. You must choose one or the other. Requiring the user to use specialized, compiler sanctioned primitive aggregate types in languages like Rust is a way to meet the compiler half-way.)

Also, for complex parsing tasks experienced C programmers will often code a straight-up state machine, or leverage a parser generator. In both cases C-style NUL terminated strings aren't even visible in the rearview mirror.

IME, I've found that parsing of data is one of the areas where C excels. And by parsing I don't mean attacking data with regular expressions. Likewise, for creating complex data structures like graphs C excels, especially when you want to employ intrusive data structure patterns for efficiency and clarity. Pointers are wonderful abstractions that way.

There are a lot of difficulties with C, particularly regarding memory management. But string processing is not one of them, except for programmers for whom at that moment parsing is synonymous with crude hacks using regular expressions or the limited interfaces for C-style strings. It's self-inflicted. The solution doesn't require a complex framework. Addressing the issue merely requires reframing the task. Fortunately, when reframing is too burdensome, for quick and dirty string hacking there are plenty of alternative languages.
> Rubbish is everywhere, I mean literally it's like living in the middle of a dump site.

I think naming places would be a better explanation to this rather than saying everywhere.

Yes, littering is a problem here in cities like Kathmandu but many villages are still untouched by this problem. Nepal comprises mostly of villages.
But is it asking questions and copying and pasting snippets from Stack Overflow yet? Then it'll truly be sentient.
Thailand is a different country I guess. Nepal is a country of mountains and Thailand is definitely not. But, both are 3rd world countries.
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Interesting how you consider interpolating from training data not learning. Isn't that like exactly what learning is? If you get unintended repeating patterns then there isn't enough diverse training data
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Personally I am fascinated by marathon cheats. Every time I see a story about someone cheating in a marathon I can't help but wonder what was going through the person's head before, during, and after.

I also wonder how often they do it, and why. You don't win any money, there is no incentive I can make out beyond bragging rights.

I mean, they aren't exactly footraces, right? It's an endurance test, IMO. Usually for charity, people usually participate for the exercise and show support for a good cause, or so I always assumed.

Winning seems totally arbitrary on one hand, but on the other hand I have to assume people do compete on some level, which makes the cheating more sensible, if you think about it in that sense.

I cheated once when I was a teenager at an online competitive game, so I'm not completely ignorant about the temptation of cheating. I'm used to people cheating at competitive online games, they're usually underskilled and looking to compensate, underage, just looking to spoil the fun, or some combination of those.

Maybe that's the intention here, to spoil the fun for those looking to compete. I suppose I'll never really know, but I can't help but ponder it whenever it comes up.
Thanks for the comment! Yes, we will pool money from a lender and disburse it to multiple borrowers to reduce exposure per borrower.
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It's everything you said and much more:

https://vimeo.com/121045965

There was also a huge earthquake recently, mr. negativity.
We? Investors vs users vs techies.

Users and investors never stopped worshipping Gates, Zuckerberg, or Jobs.
By that do you mean you can 'just parse' CommonJS modules?

(If so) CommonJS allows you to dynamically alter module.exports anywhere within your module. You can't determine what those exports are just by parsing, you'd need to execute the code.
Thirded.

It can be really easy to make navigational errors in amateur races, especially with turnaround points. Usually there is no crowd lining the whole course, signage is bad, and the marshalling can be spotty.

Yes, this person is a bit narcissistic and a tad dishonest, but it might just have been easier to go along with the misunderstanding rather than fess up to messing up.

EDIT: OK, OK, "very dishonest" then. My point being that this stuff sometimes happens, people deal with it in different ways, and that witch-hunts can be just as damaging as the transgression itself. But yes, a lot of you (rightly) care about the integrity of amateur sportspeople who are also in the public sphere.
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Haha - 'Can you solve this homework problem my creator set me? :('
"Inside Enron... the prevailing corporate culture was to push every thing to its limits: business practices, laws, personal behavior." (WSJ)

Sounds familiar. Enron's financial problems were deeply entwined with its cultural problems. A successful business can mask a bad culture for a while, but it's not even clear Uber is running a good business.