skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say I differ from typical people. Everybody could see these signs.

But if you want: I am a trained mathematician, so I am trained in identifying the root assumptions of problems.

I am aware of the typical ways to lie with statistics. There are books about that, everybody can and SHOULD read those. For example choosing certain time intervals, making charts not start from zero to inflate a trend, picking the aspect that best supports your claim (for example, either use relative growth or absolute growth when describing an issue - one more murder in a town can mean "crime incidents increased by one" or "crime incidents increased by 100%"). Playing with proportions, like drawing circles for comparisons and using diameter (instead of area) to correspond to the values you want to show. And so on - there are many possibilities, and they are all being used.

So, for example, if I see a chart depicting some trend over a period of time, my immediate instinct is to ask "what would it look like if the chart would start one year earlier?".

Also, I think fake news might have become a topic these days because people also get their information from social media. They often know about aspects that an article doesn't mention, so they are more often able to identify articles as fake news.

Overall, there is just one thing you have to do: try remain skeptic at all times. "Bend over backwards" as Feynman put it to disprove your own assumptions.

Nothing of that is specific to me, and it is not complicated. You just have to be willing to challenge your assumptions.

For starters, I would recommend reading those books on how to lie with statistics, and your essential Feynman. And get your news from multiple sources and compare them.
Were they users or paying customers? It is impressive either way, but they are very different things.
Antifa is the yin to the alt-right's yang. Both are jokes.
I'm of course not literally calling it "my" platform. I'm pointing out that the student body and faculty of the university (or the TV show host, or the convention organizer or what have you), they are the owners of the respective platforms. And they get to choose who to allow and who not to allow to attach themselves with their brand name.

In case there are any illusions, the hate-mongering trolls are not there to engage in intellectually vigorous debate. They are there to buy themselves a patina of respectability by attaching themselves to these respectable brand names. These institutions would be fools to allow themselves to be used that way.
I'd be interested in their response to this technical measure: they're written down in a book on my desk at home.
Why not "aws s3 sync" for #3?

edit: I see s3ql has many features that can be desirable like compression. How reliable is it?
I'm not sure if you're aware, but bullets don't always stop when they hit something... Over-penetration is a very real problem with very real consequences.
Thanks for this amarcord! :D
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Magnets? EMP's? Is that still considered too sci-fi?
The problem is no human beings except US citizens have the inherent right to enter US. So you can easily refuse to surrender your privacy - and they can as easily to deny you entry to the US. Unless, of course, you are a citizen - then they'd make it suck as much as they legally and semi-legally can but eventually they'd have to let you in.
That's a pitty for people like me who are using it.

Although you have to say the product had its flaws on larger scales.
My 7th year using it and I have nothing but good things to say about bitbucket (switched after using github for two years)
A little feedback, the tab got helluva laggy after scrolling down a few pages. I assume that's because you aren't unloading dwitters when they scroll past the top of the viewport - which you probably should.

Chrome 56, Windows 10.
At the very least, you can't be a demagogue, that is someone who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power. This goes for all sides btw.

Ideally too, especially if you're to speak at a well respected university, I'd like you to have some credentials, a book, research, a strong presence in existing circles related to the problems you'll address, etc. Something that indicates you've spent a good amount of time (like above the 90th percentile) thinking this through by yourself first, and by a few others.
I think the point here is not simply that they found more, but what they found.
Have kids - you'll then discover how amazing and worth it delivery services are.
> Someone with less understanding of how a product actually works is often better equipped to communicate what it does
than someone stuck in the weeds.

This is so true!

Yet, it took me a lot of time to understand this.
Maybe because this is not always easy to see that the shift perceived,
between what I said about my product and how my interlocutor reworded it,
is in fact a move from details to the product's essence.
So you can run Windows only games on Linux? I do this. It works well.
There's one thing I don't understand: Given documents like pdf allow for turing-complete scripting, but is not intended for extensive computation, why not simply sandbox its execution? I'm thinking about something like a virtual machine simulating stack and stack pointers, and just providing whatever is safe and necessary. It doesn't appear extremely hard to do for something like PostScript - of course, performance might be bad, but that's probably not too relevant for documents anyway.
They're using Windows. One of their Systems Administrators forgot to update the CRLs for the Domain Controllers, thereby locking out anyone from logging in with their smart card.

This is not really a new thing and has happened dozens of times over the past decade and a half to various government agencies.
> There is still a stallmanesque anarchist quality to some engineers that view commercial success as tainted. I think I can appreciate that in some philosophical senses, but let's not get too high on our horses.

That is why while I appreciate what FOSS has become, as someone with coding experience since the mid-80's in home computers, I don't have any qualms with commercial software, specially since I also have the experience of what it meant failing to do pure FOSS business.
Can't you use NEXUS to avoid all contact with them?
If you look for strong tracking possibilities, you might want to consider Tuleap: https://tuleap.org
For me, it's Videotape. It captures the mood perfectly (IMO) on many levels, including the excessively long, out of beat automated drum outro.
Excellent article!

on a completely different note:

I chuckled when I saw that it comes from a gay website with the directed advertisement that is typically associated with this life style!

I wonder what kind of advertisement will be directed at me as a consequence of reading this article^^
Also, JFYI, Umberto Eco's Rules for writing (well):

http://gioclairval.blogspot.it/2010/02/umberto-ecos-rules-fo...
I have a good friend who lives a15 minute drive from a supermarket, but has a draining job. He makes good money. He Instacarts everything since he doesn't have the energy or time to do that one extra chore. He certainly doesn't mind the 10% surcharge. That probably not a sustainable market but there are certainly cases where paying 10% makes sense.
Yeah, I'd prefer to not pay the service fee, or the tip, but realistically by not doing so you're screwing the delivery folks, who get deliberately underpaid by companies like Instacart.

If there was an organized effort, and it was actually sending a message, then great, let's all do it! But really all you're doing is stiffing some poor underpaid delivery person.
I've seen this or other similar ideas a number of times, and I have no faith that they would work outside commercial copters- I mean, right off the bat, the jamming is more likely to explode any bombs than anything else- and the military already has anti-jamming technology, or you could just use a nonstandard frequency, which from what I understand would also circumvent any jamming.

As far as I'm concerned, almost all anti-drone devices are complete shams.
Yeah but unless a VIP constantly travels with two trucks full of birds, N will always be a small number, even if the country can afford more.
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Changing the semantics is entirely besides the point. You can change the semantics of the data without making any schema changes at all!
> Maybe they could make them little reinforced booties of kevlar and steel-sheathed talons? :P

From TFA:

> "The military is designing mittens of leather and Kevlar, an anti-blast material, to protect their talons," Agence France-Presse reported.
A tiny favorite I remember from when I started working for real as an embedded developer ~5 years ago (before that I was in AAA game development, quite the switch in so many ways!):

I was taking over development of a new display driver for a small hand-held instrument. The display and drivers were both new to the organization, so there was no experience in-house. And we had these strange "color-flowing" bugs, that nobody could understand. Fields of greens and blues that bled across the screen in weird ways. Of course everybody thought it was a driver (=software) bug.

Weeks passed, my hair got thinner, then finally I looked once more on the schematics, traced a signal back to the CPU, and said to the hardware designer "hey, isn't this a 3.3-volt signal?" Turned out we were backfeeding the display driver from its reset line, causing it to power up due to the voltage overpowering the input circuitry and flowing into the power rail, enough to power it up but not to make it behave correctly. Yikes that was frustrating (but fun to catch, of course).
I work in product security. Early in my career, I often did bug bounties, CTFs/wargames, but I didn't really get into "software security" until I had spent some years doing some large scale production-level software engineering.

Software security is a big space. There are pentesters, exploit developers, researchers, application security people that work attached to product engineering teams, et cetera. What is it that you really want to do?

IMO to really understand how to break things and how things break, you need to be able to build things as well. Outside of very limited circumstances, you need to be able to communicate to product teams and other developers why a certain exploit class succeeded, what they can do to mitigate the issue in prod now, and what best practices to follow to mitigate the issue class in the future.
There's some good arguments in here, but I'm not sure I see something that proves the chicken and egg problem. Though I admit, even when I look I can't seem to find centrists in the USA. It appears the center works like interlaced video, every 4 or 8 years, we alternate between far left and right, and over 100 years it centers itself on average. But I'd much rather just be close to the center at all times, just like full resolution video is better then interlaced.
"Nine years later, and still the stream of customer support requests has not relented!"

I wish I could upvote this more than once. Customer support burden is always underestimated. It's time consuming, especially if you want to do it properly & not just outsource to someone overseas following a script. Even releasing something as freeware is likely to cause an unintended stream of support enquiries. I have no idea how the folks selling 99c apps manage it, even one short email enquiry would wipe out a dozen sales or more (if you put a monetary value your time).

Kudos on charging a sensible price for your app & upgrades! I imagine at that price point it's okay if a sale incurs a support ticket or two.
Google owns this and they are giving it up, why? My guess is they dont make enough money this way (with search as a service). That is probably just a long term concern but an important one.
Because their basic fee is just the delivery fee. They don't set the prices - the supermarkets do. The service fee is a consistent way for them to generate enough revenue to pay their shoppers and drivers, compared to the variability of user-provided tips before.
While not directly answering your question re: choice of funds, i personally found reading the following books helpful:

1. "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" - Burton Malkiel
2. "Fooled by Randomness" - Nassim Taleb
3. "The Little Book of Value Investing" - Christopher Browne

I suggest avoiding investing in things that you don't understand. You can keep learning and make small-scale experiments over time.

I started off with vanguard ETFs indexing the whole market, then after a year or so read about measures of long-term valuation like CAPE and started buying into country-specific ETFs that seemed undervalued by those metrics, then kept reading about value investing, portfolio theory, etc, and am now mucking around selecting and buying stocks of individual companies. This is not necessarily a sound investment idea, or a good use of time, but is something of a hobby.
GSA is already discontinued: http://fortune.com/2016/02/04/google-ends-search-appliance/
>asked me numerous questions about my travel, itinerary, who I was intending to meet, and my personal finances.

Well to be fair when I was visiting Canada from EU I got asked exactly same questions from Canadian customs.
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> The title line: "fifteen steps and then a sheer drop"

This song is obviously about Thom Yorke's frustration with the Mario Party minigame "Shy Guy Says". Think about it, 'first you reel me out then you cut the string', 'won't take my eyes off the ball again' (ball, in this case, meaning shy guy's flags). It makes perfect sense.

-- lankeyjb202
Hell, I never even considered multiple quads. Look at how "prey" birds avoid falcons and eagles right now, flocks, or in a more cool fashion, murmurations, which in addition to being super cool, are also an effective defense against them- and intel's swarming technology could be a downright prefect representation of the same idea.
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Ive read Inteligent Investor and Bogleheads, plus Warren Buffetts annual letters, and my conclusion was low cost index trackers - mainly vanguard
Crikey, I just saw a DeLorean fly by.
Take a leap of faith
Control systems for drones typically run on 2.4GHz, but they don't have to. The 70cm band (433MHz typical) is available for people with amateur radio licenses (or people who don't care). There are also 3G chips (Particle Electron) that you can use to send telemetry commands if your drone has a GPS and a compatible auto-pilot flight controller.

Getting a video signal back is normally done on 5.8GHz, but there is hardware readily available for 900MHz, 1.2GHz, 2.4GHz, and 3.3GHz. And if you're an enterprising fellow you can send the video on any frequency (NTSC or PAL).

Basically, you can't block it all without serious collateral "damage".

Edit: I've been building and flying drones for over two years, both FPV racing types and larger photography/videography platforms.
I am very sceptical about using eagles to stop drones. Eagles are more expensive to train and maintain, and they die.

The only viable solution against harmful drones are drones themselves.
Studying Arrow's work encouraged me to think about the complexities of aggregating preferences. I look forward to reading more of his other work. With economics there is more than meets the eye.
Arent in-restaurant purchases more expensive for the business, considering they need to rent space and employ waiters?

A large percentage of the pizza restaurants that deliver here offer a discount for online purchases, so tgey have essentially done what you describe.
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Missile? Laser? That's insane. As someone who's worked on UAVs quite a bit, the only thing I'd consider taking them out with - in a situation which necessitated it, like a terrorist attack - is guns. Laser systems would be completely unrealistic for this situation, and using missiles would be absolutely overkill.

A predatory bird dive bombing a drone would also not be something I'd bet on. Sure, I have confidence they could evade traditional cameras. But once they hit the UAV, what happens? The bird would almost certainly be killed or maimed by the propellers, and the drone would fly fine. If the creators of the drone spent just $100 extra or so on decent propellers, the drone would easily survive the attack.

Using birds with no extra weapons against drones would only work in case of extremely stupid drone creators, and would probably result in at least one seriously injured or killed bird per drone.
When you give stupid people just slight power they will always abuse it to the max. That's what happened.
> As a EU citizen that visited Iran last year I'm no longer eligible for ESTA (visaless entry) and that - combined with these horrific border control policies - honestly made the threshold for me to visit so high, I'll probably never visit again.

-My work takes me to most places where there are - or suspected to be - hydrocarbons to be found. When visiting Iran a couple of years ago, the immigration officer leafed through my passport and burst out laughing halfway through.

Obviously, I got somewhat concerned - but upon looking up and seeing my worried face, he handed me my passport back and with a chuckle suggested that if he could offer a bit of professional advice, it was that my passport read like an appplication to go to Guantanamo - and I had better get a new one before attempting to visit the US again... (Prior to Iran, I'd been to places like Libya, Algeria, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Indonesia and Uzbekistan.)
How's your online bank security looking?
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No, even a good "inherently press friendly" thing won't even blip on the radar without some minimal PR and marketing effort
What would be the purpose of having it? Getting entry to US denied because "you are clearly hiding something, you used highly-sophisticated technology to deny US government agents access to your information"? Even if they don't see you doing it and find no evidence of it - they can say having only one completely empty phone is suspicious. For used laptop, even more suspicious. In fact, that's exactly what they did in the article. Only way it won't be suspicious if virtually everybody did it - but that's not going to happen.

Moreover, if you tell them anything but the truth about the device and how it ended up empty, you've just committed a felony and if they ever find out about it by any means, they have grounds to deny you entry forever. They probably also have grounds to prosecute you but that never happens, entry ban though does happen.
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You can hide their ads with css. Probably against their tos, but I haven't been busted for doing it in 2yrs.
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Two of his interesting contribution were his Arrow-Pratt measure of risk aversion, which is invariant to affine transformations (so consistent with revealed preference) and his Arrow-Debreu general equilibrium proof. Both are quite intuitive:

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http:...
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http:...
You can use Pageant with oter tools than Putty's own tools?
Record steps to reproduce a problem
Several questions, some minor, some major:

AIUI, the keyserver is centralized in two regards: a) if it's down, I can't access anyone's data and b) it centralizes trust, key.upspin.io has complete control over which key belongs to which person and where the data is, so it can just take over accounts. Why not use a federated model, e.g. putting the directory into the DNS or have the directory server listen on a well-defined port or something? Or, if you want the usability of not having the E-Mail hoster necessarily deal with upspin, do the federated thing first and if that fails, fall back to the centralized keyserver?

There seems to be a 1:1 mapping of usernames to keys, meaning I have to share my private key with all my devices. If one device gets lost or compromised, I now have to revoke my key and rotate it on all devices. Why not putting in a 1:n mapping of usernames to keys, so that each device gets its own key?

Why store the upspin-specific keys in ~/.ssh? I won't use them to ssh anywhere and there already is a perfectly fine directory ~/upspin for upspin-related data.

The way sharing works means, that storage for a file grows linearly with users that a file is shared with. This would seem to preclude from sharing files with large non-public audiences (say, I have a group for all employees of my company, or members of my hackerspace, or attendees of a conference…).
Exactly. When you travel from EU to Canada or US there is no significant difference. Measery on both borders.
Doesn’t seem very improbable to me, considering that this kind of thing isn’t exactly new.

For example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13092330
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It's all cool until someone else has to touch this "code that actually does things".
I also think this is some kind-of April Fool Joke
Don't you mean "Internal 32 bit bus/external 16 bit"?
You have made me curios, so I'm going to read the paper. It lives under this DOI [10.2307/2295952](https://doi.org/10.2307/2295952) (paywalled).
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Nice Article
>the complexity involved with keeping out several hundred PSI of sea water just doesn't seem to make sense to me.

Use immersed electronics.

ROVs and the like have quite complicated onboard control systems. They're immersed in mineral oil (or something like that). They don't get wet and hydrostatic pressure is no longer an issue.
> Another huge issue is that we haven't nailed the input problem: wearables can measure our energy expenditure, but not our energy intake. Until we can measure that as accurately as heart rate (and not just calories, but the nutrient breakdown too) then we only have one side of the equation.

It's worse than you think. Humans expend almost exactly the same amount of calories until they get to extreme amounts of activity. The body simply shunts the available calories to different systems.

So, it's almost all about caloric intake.

See the latest Scientific American (dead tree edition) for a nice article about it.
Unreal – never knew XMonad was so small. It's only 1650 lines of code!

tedkornish : dev/xmonad @ master :: cloc src
8 text files.
8 unique files.
0 files ignored.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.64 T=0.03 s (244.6 files/s, 95612.1 lines/s)
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Language files blank comment code
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Haskell 8 446 1028 1653
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It is both sad and unsurprising that we bash algo-centric interviews in every other thread (rightly so) and yet so many of the answers here are focused on abstract algorithmic questions. We really do this to ourselves.
Looks like BI accideentally broke the embargo long enough to get crawled: http://web.archive.org/web/20170222073559/http://www.busines...