skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like congressional districts that cover the entire state (ie. WY, ND, SD, etc.), there's no reason that multiple representatives can't all represent the entire state.

They can cover the entire state's interest through compromises as oppose to infighting for district vs. district within a state.
Have you tried Instant Run with Android Studio 2.0?

You can build your code deltas and re-deploy your app, even restarting the current Activity you were on before.

This has made worlds of difference for me when tweaking custom, finicky UI pieces as you describe. It's on the same order of magnitude of speed as the web devs F5-ing their browsers.
The Five Risks of Product Development
What did they not mention? I think the ripped shipping label happened after the original post, and it was mentioned at some point. I don't remember where, but I did read about the ripped label somewhere before today.
Code/design/engineer are considerably different than say biology, because you can (and should) publish artefacts. The actual code/algorithms (not pseudo code) needs to be shared and archived with the journal.

There has been some work for archiving code with some journals and some allow video uploads as well for segments from the actual experiments.
Store energy when it's cheap. Sell it when it's not.

You could do it on the market and make money (I know of a couple companies that do this). But, the technology is applicable to other areas, as well.
I guess with their 2 year timeline they were using at least 3250x whatever they define as a standard CPU - I wouldn't be surprised if it was simply 3250 cores @ 2 years or an equivalent higher number and less time.

I'd be interested about the actual specs of the hardware if anyone see's that info pop up.
Well, single member districts at least; 5-member districts with STV would kill any value in gerrymandering, achieve reasonably proportional representation, and retain (unlike party list systems) strict accountability of representatives to the general electorate.
The downside of that is it makes all but one or two of the seats noncompetitive. The voters can't oust one politician specifically unless that politician is already on the party's shitlist and the voters manage to move the needle enough to make them lose a seat. Most of the candidates end up being completely safe.
I haven't seen those meters in years (in the US, at least)

For as long as I can remember living in a suburban house (since ~2008), there was a smart meter. At some point it was replaced with another smart meter.

Neither have I seen a person come out and manually get readings, because that seems incredibly inefficient, time consuming, and costly for the utility, so it was probably one of the first things to get automated.
I confess I'm not intimately familiar with the details of how VCs typically work, but I'm pretty sure you usually can't just "pull" your investment.
That's actually a really good idea for the House.
Also https://verbatim.link
Yes, Tesla said that the base Model 3 will be under 6 seconds for 0-60, and I'm perfectly confident in trusting them to deliver on that.

"You realize that there are far more regular chargers across the nation than superchargers, right?"

You realize that the vast majority of "regular chargers" are L2 units putting out 6-10kW and are therefore completely worthless for long distance travel? And that the CCS infrastructure is woefully incomplete in the US? And that even if CCS were ubiquitous, the Bolt maxes out at 180MPH charging, which is terrible?

Plan a drive from NYC to LA using the Supercharger network and "regular chargers" and compare how long the trips would take. And that's assuming that the CCS units, which are often installed in single units, aren't blocked or broken.
A better way to calculate CDN hit ratios
When you say that the AI questions if we are conscious, are you not anthropomorphizing it? If I write a pattern matcher that can distinguish me from a cat, is that consciousness?

Expressed in a more useful way: is there something that makes our consciousness different from a deterministic, systematic logical process? Is that all we are?

I'm conflicted about this, the main reason being that as the creators of AI, we start with a nearly full and certain understanding of it and all of its possibilities. The same cannot truly be said for humans, since the study of humanity, consciousness and the brain happens from the other side: we start with nothing, and must experiment on the black box that is the brain in order to understand it.
I observed that after 2 glasses of wine I'm more resistant to all kind of distractions. I don't have tendency to open dozens of tabs in browser, switch among unsolved things, check mails, smartphone etc.

Disadvantages are that I'm tired sooner and it's not sustainable drink alcohol if I need to do something.

All-in-all, no practical solution....just interesting self-observation :)
FYI The Demo link is broken.
I thought some journals were now allowed video archives. Some of the most famous experiments, such as the Stanley Milgram studies, have excellent video documentation (and in the case of Milgram, it's been replicated all around the world .. although no it's not ethical to do so).
I would say that most scientists, at the top of their game, who have years of trusted publications behind them, should be given some latitude to publish discovery science without the requirement of reproducibility, so long as they share their results in detail, and accept postdocs who then take the resulting research materials to their new labs.

I didn't always believe this, but after spending a bunch of time reading about the numerous times in history when one scientist discovered something, published the results, and were told they were wrong because other people couldn't reproduce their results, only to be shown correct when everybody else improved their methodology (McClintock, Cech, Boyle, Bissell etc).

This ultimately came to a head when some folks critized the lack of repeatability of Mina Bissel's experiments (for those who don't know, she almost singlehandledly created the modern understanding of the extracellular matrix's role in cancer).

She wrote this response, which I originally threw on the floor. http://www.nature.com/news/reproducibility-the-risks-of-the-... After rereading it a few times, and thinking back on my experience, I changed my mind. In fact, Dr Bissel's opinion is shared by nearly every top scientist I worked with at UCSC, UCSF, and UC Berkeley. The reason her opinion has value is that she's proved time again that she can run an experiment in her lab that nobody else in the world is capable of doing, and she takes external postdocs, teaches them how to replicate, and sends them off to the world. In other cases, she debugged other lab's problems for them (a time consuming effort) until they could properly reproduce.

I believe reproducibility is an aspirational goal, but not really a requirement, for really good scientists, in fields where reproduction is extremely hard.
Love this. I used a similar system in the early 1970s before "upgrading" to the first of several FiloFaxes.

However, I'd rather read it as a single document than as so many small files...
It was a bit of a struggle, but I was able to get this going for Mac w/Homebrew.

after `brew install qt5`, I had to `brew linkapps qt5` & `brew link --force qt5`. Then `ln -s /usr/local/opt/qt5/mkspecs /usr/local/mkspecs && ln -s /usr/local/opt/qt5/plugins /usr/local/plugins` which is super not ideal.

I had some error and ran `brew install doxygen --with-qt5` which may not be necessary, but after these steps it built.

Edit: scratch that. As soon as I try the example in main.rs, it fails to build again. 'ld: framework not found QtCore'
They definitely are, but it's still an interesting, useful project.

As someone also building and running a "plain text" service, I know there's a lot you can do with such a simple product, if you care to. [0][1] It's great to have more services like this -- it's what the web is all about.

[0]: https://write.as/apps

[1]: https://read.write.as
"But MD5 is still okay right?" -Laravel Developer
Or you could enlarge them and guarantee 3-5 winners, where each party can have only a single winner. That makes it almost impossible for any party to monopolize the districts (which right now they are by definition, because they are winner-takes-all elections):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS62N5b5L7Y
I have a really hard time believing the guy in the first photos has a standing heart rate of 48...that's well below (better than) average for a middle aged man.
The 1905 Special Relativity Theory (1905 SRT) version of reciprocity implies that the other guy in a different inertial frame than your own will be the one that is moving. The consequence of this implication is the "Twin Paradox" (i.e. both twins in different inertial frames have been accelerated and are both aging slower than the other twin). A different version of reciprocity that implies that the accelerated twin is moving and the apparent movement of the twin that has remained stationary is only an aberration (or mirage) is axiomatic because movement first requires acceleration.
Some of the early telegraph messages resembled text messaging:

From 1890: The First Text Messages http://sundaymagazine.org/2010/08/from-1890-the-first-text-m...

LOL in the Age of the Telegraph https://scroll.in/article/752746/lol-in-the-age-of-the-teleg...
> Is the sort of signing you want to do for code signing related to the sort of signing you want to do as part of an encryption scheme?

Same basic concept. Take a blob (compiled code or cyphertext) and a private key and sign it, so can be verified with the public key later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_encryption

This kind of PGP signing is also critical to the security of Linux software repos. Debian repos sign the contents of the manifest (which includes hashes of packages), and Apt repos sign individual files.
Well that depends. What kind of reproducibility are you talking about? If we talk about something like Higgs then it was definitely reproduced. Same with gravitational waves.

But the other problem is that the soft sciences have a compounding problem. The one I mentioned about the foundation not being as strong. As a comparison psychology needs a p=0.05 to publish. Particle physicists need 0.003 for evidence and 0.0000003 for "discovery". But the big difference is the later are working off of mathematical models that predict behaviours and you are comparing to these. You are operating in completely different search spaces. The math of the hard sciences allows you to reduce this search space substantially while the soft sciences still don't have this advantage. But give them time and they'll get to it. The math is difficult. Which really makes them hard to compare. They have different ways of doing things.
This is my experience too, and this thread has motivated me to "swapoff" all my desktop systems today I think. There's no situation in which swap usage for me has ever not lead to a reboot due to the system going unresponsive the moment it starts swapping.
This isn't really a new thing. From a professor at the University of Florida (@ElectProject) who specializes in this sort of thing:

"Math prof claims she's invented new form of compactness, which Mexico has used for decades
& programmed into our DistrictBuilder software"

https://twitter.com/ElectProject/status/834570289728147457
SHAppening was a freestart collision, this is a "full" one.
This stack overflow answer looks like a good description of freestart collisions: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/29695/what-is-a-f...

My attempt at TL;DR: SHA-1 works on blocks, and each block is processed and it's data "mixed" with a previous intermediate result based on the previous blocks (Merkle-Damgård construction). A freestart collision only shows blocks and values for the intermediate results which lead to a collision. For a full collision you still have to figure out what sequence of blocks gets the intermediate results to the necessary values.
At StackShare[0] we're using the webpack-rails gem to use React and ES6 javascript.

https://github.com/mipearson/webpack-rails

It would be awesome if someone could write a migration guide for this switch. I'm sure a lot of Rails teams are using the webpack-rails gem and are planning to switch to the official gem.

[0] - https://stackshare.io/stackshare/stackshare
The writing has been on the wall for a long time, but Linus has been dead against it.

> And we should all digitally sign every single object too, and we should use 4096-bit PGP keys and unguessable passphrases that are at least 20 words in length. And we should then build a bunker 5 miles underground, encased in lead, so that somebody cannot flip a few bits with a ray-gun, and make us believe that the sha1's match when they don't. Oh, and we need to all wear aluminum propeller beanies to make sure that they don't use that ray-gun to make us do the modification _ourselves_.

He says it's not a security issue, so there are no "attacks" to protect against.

> the point is the SHA-1, as far as Git is concerned, isn't even a security feature. It's purely a consistency check. The security parts are elsewhere, so a lot of people assume that since Git uses SHA-1 and SHA-1 is used for cryptographically secure stuff, they think that, OK, it's a huge security feature. It has nothing at all to do with security, it's just the best hash you can get.

I don't know how correct that is.
> So, Peano arithmetic is just too loose and fuzzy for my taste. It's full of things which aren't numbers...

OK.

> In type theory every definable natural number is a program which evaluates to a concrete finite numeral.

To me, that sounds like type theory is also full of things that are not numbers, namely computations. ("Evaluates to a natural number" != "is a number".)
Sort of... the Bitvise SSH client I use for tunneling, it comes out of box understanding that Pageant is an available agent and will reference it; a lot of tools know that PuTTY is common and therefore expect the tools to be present.

With git and tools that use Git, PuTTY distributes plink.exe, which acts as a helper. So you set something like...

GIT_SSH=c:\Program Files\Putty\plink.exe

To make that happen. So PuTTY is not my shell, but is still pretty important for its good set of overall tools.
I disagree; management is very very carefully making sure they do not have the full picture :)

Because at this point there's a good chance principals are going to be telling a jury what did they know, and when did they know it.
Apple expanding its Seattle engineering center, making a big bet on AI
wow I actually thought someone had discovered some ridiculous orbital pathway
You're right, I'm ignorant. Thanks for enlightening me.
What kind of race conditions are you talking about? I ran this setup for years, and just about the only thing that has been stable in the whole setup is ActiveRecord.
Yeah, I have to imagine that a lot of the practical use cases would be better on Monero or ZCash where cryptographic anonymity can be had.

Especially in black market type transactions this is hugely beneficial.

That said, a lot of the infrastructure is only on the Bitcoin front still - only a few exchanges offer other cryptocurrencies.
Did you read the Efficiency Gap article? You may not have guessed because of the context of the article, but this metric isn't just geometric. It directly measures the efficiency of converting party constituent votes into seats. That's cutting the Gordian Knot! Want to measure Gerrymandering? Then directly measure what it's trying to achieve!

https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legal-work...
Among others, yes.
Speaking from my personal experience…

My way of life dictates adequate exercise, healthy diet and normal sleep patterns.

I come from a family of strict vegans. No, I’m not here to promote either veganism or non-veganism. I’m in my early 40’s and have been exercising since I was a teenager. My routine includes running, cycling, strengthening exercises, lifting light weights, and I do one or two of these a couple times a week. IMO, any and all physical activity is a form of exercise. Usually, my day starts in the early hours. And, as I’m getting older, my endurance levels have been getting significantly better now than during my schooldays, 20’s, or 30’s and with regard to my work I’m getting more productive, too.

I also think that those who are not predisposed to any genetic conditions are in a league of their own. Even those who inherit a predisposition can benefit from delayed onset of a condition by practicing a healthy lifestyle. I’m not a medical professional, so my assumptions may or may not carry any weight.

All I’m trying to do is keep such treatments as are being discussed here at bay and I will keep at it as long as I possibly can :)
> I don't believe it is possible with a swap file since the containing filesystem would also be mounted by the hibernation image.

for sure it is. Even for swap files inside an encrypted volume.

https://vadim-kirilchuk-linux.blogspot.com/2013/05/swap-file...

The crux is knowing the swap-file offset and passing that argument as resume_offset on boot.

Have a look. It's totally doable and you won't need to have an actual partition.
It seems that in a lot of cases of "unhelpful medical treatments" is a result of doctors forgetting the basics. If the doctor overlooks basics like lifestyle factors, electrolytes, vitamin deficiencies etc. then medications are of limited help in treating conditions like depression.
You could do it yourself, but in 2017, I'm not sure optional DIY privacy and censorship-resistance is acceptable. It ought to be done transparently and automatically by the implementation.

Encryption isn't slow, it wouldn't hurt performance or anything like that. Plus, if everything's encrypted, it doesn't attract attention to the people who appear to have something to hide.

The model I have in mind would be what mega.co.nz does: store opaque ciphertexts, and distribute links containing the keys to said ciphertexts. So instead of a link to someproto://hash/ you'd link to someproto:://hash/decryptionkey/. And your IPS/Dat/whatever client would handle decryption for you.
Which still conveys almost zero information about what it actually does.
> The author waxes nostalgic about those cloth towel roll dispensers. His experience does not match mine. I generally see those things in old gas stations where the cleanliness of the towel is deeply suspect.

The author was talking about hand-cranked dispensers for paper towels, not cloth ones.
Hundreds of millions of people have lost their fortunes due to inflation.

That's a social problem which would be solved by cryptocurrencies.

I can also recommend this podcast on the topic of current real world applications of Bitcoin: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/02/jim_epstein_on.html
I suppose you'd have no problem at all if the Trump EPA made raw climate measurements available, but told the EPA they can't summarize it for laypeople and innumerate reporters?
> Congressional districts exist for a good reason

The universal rule of single member districts is relatively recent, and it was a blunt (though effective) tool to deal with the threat of a form of super-gerrymandering by which states would assign some or all of their representatives to state-wide at-large seats so that the statewide majority would elect them, as a means of preventing the existence of majority-black districts in majority-rule states.

Multimember districts with a proportional (even candidate-centered, like STV) electoral system rather than plurality or majority-runoff deals with both that problem and the problem with single-member FPTP districts.
There's a new command, `bin/rails secrets:setup`. I haven't worked with any recent versions of rails, but it's kind of surprising that they are just now addressing this. I know I've seen Rails secrets being checked into Github.
Yes, challenge and response are just small programs. Every transaction is essentially just two small programs, one that solves the current challenge proving that you are allowed to spent the coins and a new challenge to be solved by the next one who wants to spent the coins.
Taking a number of any size mod 7 can also be done in your head, from left to right! First time I saw this was in intro to theoretical CS, where the exercise is create a state machine for mod 7. It was a big surprise for me that it's super simple and you just feed it digits til you run out. Almost trivial to do mentally on very large numbers as fast as someone can speak the number, with just a little practice.
Without you having the willingness to succeed in coding it will be really hard to get to a point of productivity.

You could start by learning basics through online courses and tutorials. But this path lacks of passion. Why don't you think of a small project you could use by yourself. Just start coding your own website with a small CMS. And then, your best friend is Google. Whenever you don't know how to start, how to get further or how to solve a problem. Use specific forums or Google it. Stackoverflow is a very good address.

The most important part is to start and to get going. You can do this by setting a high goal and break it down into small subgoals and milestones. Then just try to stick with it... at least until you have an idea you're more excited about - just switch and you will learn something new. But be careful - getting things done/finished is an important habit. So perhaps you should just start by writing really small scripts and project. Just try to accomplish something and the rest will come.
FCC approves first LTE-U devices
I had identical experiences.
Not drying leaves most of the bacteria apparently, it's the drying which is most important
It's a shame a comment this logical and reasonable would get downvoted so hard.

If you don't like how a company operates, don't support that company. If you're heavily invested in that company, sell your shares and invest in a company that aligns more with your values.

These days everyone wants to go on a crusade for every single issue that comes up. They forget you have no real control or influence over what other people/entities do, you can only control what you do.
oops, meant to post this in another thread and can't delete it now
from HN guidelines: Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

The original (which is clearly linked in the register article) is at https://shiftordie.de/blog/2017/02/21/fingerprinting-firefox...
I'll let an attorney answer this. I think there's a huge difference. Part of it being that, as far as I know, there's no case law for the scenario of a robot being a part of a person's daily life while recording data from an array of sensors, including vision and sound.
A huge collection of archived course materials from Coursera
This is a really neat idea ! So , how do you plan to built the knowledge base ? Are you manually curating them ?

And are you using something like mail chimp to send out the emails ?
Thank you for sharing this. There's an interesting conversation thread in the comments on that post. It's a little over my head, but my takeaway is that with the kernel change, in an OOM event, MySQL is unable to be swapped out due to the type(s) of memory pages it's using, so the kernel is forced to kill it (or itself). In practice, it's relatively straightforward to tune MySQL/MariaDB for a certain memory allocation, and if it's on a shared host, oom_score_adj can be set to protect it.
You know I used to think it's craziness, but it really makes for a much experience writing ES6 as opposed to random-ass jquery and javascript sprinkled all over the place. I've grown to love it.
I appreciate it, too!