skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we no longer have elected police, sherrifs, or district attorneys, then the numbers won't matter as much as the severity or sensationality of the crimes investigated.

But if the numbers = tough on crime, then there is pressure to obtain evidence illegally. If it becomes pervasive, then investigating the misconduct will never be prioritized because it doesn't seem as impressive to the voting public, and furthermore the justice system very rarely goes after their own.

So it's good there's a consequence for not walking a fine line; it's the embarassament of having your work undone.
It really is a shame that this is a rational solution.

University text books should be material to get back to later in life, when confronted with a related problem. Part of university education should be a complete book shelf of well-understood books.

This just exemplifies the new nature of university education: An ephemeral experience where the most durable result is debt /cynisism.
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Angular vs. React: Feature Comparison of JavaScript Tools
The thing is that in minesweeper you cannot win in a deterministic way. Sometimes you will lose in your first move.
Actually I care more about OS performance rather than new features. Of course the only reason I don't want new features is because Apple refuses to release a screenless iMac where you can upgrade the RAM and hard drives easily.
That's a clever social engineering scheme to collect phone numbers.
> What kind of event could cause the loss of a planet's magnetic field?

Planetary magnetic fields require a liquid ferrous mantle or core. As Mars cooled, its liquid ferrous material solidified, after which its magnetic field disappeared. The same thing will eventually happen here, and the reason our field still exists is because Earth is a larger planet than Mars, requiring more time to cool down.

More details here: http://arachnoid.com/restoring_mars
We are for sure in a bull market and bubble.

But no one knows when the time comes for it to pop.

But on the other side. Let's say you invest now. In three years the bubble pops. In five you should be way above on what you have invested. Say around 20% plus in eight years.
...and it's not just about the simulation argument the whole AI/Superintelligence doomsday scenario as well.
Or the recent "how long do snails sleep"
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/5woiu0/units_of_meas...
I think people are giving up on apple too easily. They've had one really bad round (admittedly I'm ignoring the lets solder everything to the motherboard phase) but there is still September. I'm forcing my 2011 mbp to live at least until then so that I can then reassess my hardware.

Thats not to say I haven't been researching other options in the meantime. The good thing about all of this is that the people (myself included) who have never even considered leaving are getting a chance to see what else is available in the market and make a more educated decision to stay/go.
GNUstep is just another widget kit, though one that's intended to work together. You're under no obligation.

I use Windowmaker largely without the GNUstep file manger -- bash is my preferred interface. But it's there, and you can run that freestanding under any desktop or windowmanager you want.

Part of the beauty and/or asthetic confusion, as well as freedom, of Linux / BSD.
"The author deleted this Medium story"
Is it a good syntax if it hides important details? To me that sounds like a bad syntax. I want a readable and beautiful and clean syntax, but that to me also implies making important details clear.

The most important purpose of syntax is to ensure semantics are presented in a clear, readable and consistent manner. If it hides important information, it fails in that.

Note that the languages I've complained about the syntax of in this discussion, such as Lisp and Forth, have very minimal syntaxes, and it may be that they are too minimal, but it is not that minimalism in itself I take issue with, but that the minimalism sacrifices readability. There are languages with small syntax I admire, such as e.g. Oberon (grammar fits in a page and a half of BNF), where the syntax is very focused on clarity - my ideals for syntax are orthogonal to size/complexity.
Bingo. Thanks. I was losing (patience|interest).
Poubelle exterieure
If you want to compare the two, at least use the default view. Pinning the ribbon and then call it more conveluted, is just trying to force your argument.

http://imgur.com/a/5AGBU
It literally says that in the second paragraph.
This is basically about peeling away abstractions. A professor of mine calls this "mechanical sympathy", a term borrowed from I think racing. You don't need to understand how the n-1th abstraction level (the engine, git internals) works to get things done (racing, using git), but man is it very useful to know it anyway.
French is a bad example, because the syntax is familiar to English users.

How about you consider Mandarin instead.
How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want to – HBR
I've always had a hard time motivating myself. I've tried Pomodoro, setting up schedules, and blocking all distractions. But none these methods seem to get Procrastinator-self to get moving. This article does provide some interesting tips. However, I've yet to actually get work done. As evident in me being here on Hacker News.
Ask HN: If you're a peasant in Westeros how would you rise to the Iron Throne?
If you look at the rules this is a valid question. This problem is interesting as it can discuss economics, politics, game theory, and technplogy constrained in the context of Westeros
I am interested in which book you are referring to, the Book on Amazon Op lined too or the MIT material linked in this thread ?
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Hands on book to build your first own application in plain React: https://www.robinwieruch.de/the-road-to-learn-react/

- state management

- fetching data

- interactions like search and sort

- pagination

- client-side caching

- ...

3rd edition will be released soon. 2nd edition was released in January, so it's pretty up to date and will stay up to date.
> Ever heard the phrase "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM"?

That's now "You won't know if anybody got fired for buying an IBM quantum computer until you look inside the box".
Awkward to utilize is right, try and insert furniture, kitchen/washroom utilities in a round room. The other problem is that the low surface:volume ratio means daylight penetration is pretty difficult. That's why hyper-optimized building geometry (for cost and building code) go in the other direction, high surface:volume achieved through more and more extrusions (i.e. towers in HK).
I always thought it would be fun to make a version that was soluble every time by making the system reveal extra tiles as required to always allow you to continue play without guessing. I personally found the situations where half way through a large game you were forced to guess quite frustrating. Maybe deep down I just don't like minesweeper ;)
These are all amazing benefits, but when you're making art, you'll throw all of those out the window if doing so get you the sound you need.

The problem is thinking that this is either/or. I use a 48 channel ProTools HD system married to gear that's largely 40-70 years old. Best of both worlds.
I think you need a reality check. Even here in South Africa, Apple's computer market share is steadily increasing. In general (and this applies to most countries outside the US), those who actually care about their computers (as opposed to seeing a computer as just a fancy typewriter) and have the budget to justify it, will often buy Macs. In terms of developers, I expect the market share to be even higher. In our company we have about 50 people and we're all on Macs (Airs and Pros).
> Disregarding the effects on atmosphere loss, wouldn't a machine like this eventually be more or less essential if humans ever decide to move in long term?

I think it's more practical in the long term to create a magnetic field at Mars itself. Using future technology on a scale unimaginable at present (and similar to that proposed in the linked article), we could magnetize Mars' (now-solid) ferrous materials by the onetime application of a very strong magnetic field.

Mars once had a dynamic magnetic field like ours, but Mars' liquid ferrous materials solidified as the planet cooled, which caused its field to disappear. A permanent field could be created by the deliberate application of a strong temporary field that would magnetize the planet's ferrous materials.

Details: http://arachnoid.com/restoring_mars/
I assume he/she wants our emails?
What I remember from college, more than 10 years have passed, from using MicroStation and SolidEdge is that even professional design packages will accumulate some errors. Actually you could build the same piece in several different ways and some ways were more precise than others. My understanding is that all operations are carried numerically and the only way that would prevent accumulation of errors would be to perform them symbolically and solve them numerically just at the end but I suppose that would be extremely inefficient. I wonder if someone knows about any book or software library that follows the later approach since I find the subject quite interesting.
Fake news is just a new version of spam sites. They mostly exist to make money or enforce an agenda.

People figured out that Google's algorithms could tell when things were generally factually false, unless those things were recent news.

This leads me to believe their algorithms largely relied on news as a source of truth. They're going to have to do something about that
My view on everything related to musical art is summed up by Joe Meek:

"If it sounds good, it is good."

There is no one right way to make a record.
You can also use something like Google Voice or True Caller and block all other calls to your phone except for that one
> You can't design a language with Haskell's semantics and Ruby's syntax.

Not identical of course, no, but same style would not be a problem. There's nothing in Haskells grammar that can't easily be adapted to a less terse style. It wouldn't solve all issus I have with Haskell by far, but it would go a long way to make me consider it readable.

> but you'll never see it until you get familiar with it.

I am familiar with it. It is how I came to detest the syntax.
Apple could have kept the magsafe charging and added the ability to charge through USB C aswell. apple is forcing customers to look elsewhere. OSX is just about shite. it's becoming iOS, Apple has a lot of space cadets running things these days. it's a real shame.
Best Practices for Selecting a Vulnerability Management (VM) Solution
Are they? This news saddens me greatly.
I think losing our atmosphere to control the greenhouse effect would be ... a very bad idea. It would work, but we would end up wishing we hadn't done it.
This isn't an advertisement, it is a marketing program. they aren't advertising Breather itself, just a side-project.

As for HN and marketing programs, you may notice that Hacker News is run by Y Combinator. YC has a considerable interest in owning the news platform for startups and engineers. This is not a coincidence.
> The reason we believe the exclusionary rule works so well is that it strikes directly at the incentive structure for the police.

That's debatable. Parallel construction seems pretty common. The NSA shares information with the FBI, DEA etc, and then they exploit that information to collect clean evidence. So there's never any mention of NSA help.

Of course, that arguably involves perjury. But judges seem pretty OK with ignoring that. I do suspect that the Playpen cases involved parallel construction, and that they just screwed up on this one.
This seems to be the programming reference
https://quantumexperience.ng.bluemix.net/qstage/#/tutorial?s...
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You keep assuming I'm not familiar with the semantics, and jumping to conclusion about my exposure to these languages without any basis. On the contrary it was through learning them I came to dislike the syntax. I have no doubt you can find Haskell poetic too, but it is not to me.
That's not what I said. I never meant to give the impression that “developers” necessarily means Unix users. A lot of them are though, definitely enough to be a noticeable fraction. The number of people in this very thread proclaiming the greatness of the Linux subsystem in Windows 10 should confirm this.

You have to admit that around 2003 or so there was a huge influx of technical users to the Mac. My proposition is that a lot of those users were developers moving from Linux (or from an unhappy Windows life, wishing they were using a Unix-based operating system).

I base this on the general sentiment at the time, and I was one of the people who made the switch. I'm sure you can find old posts from me on Slashdot talking about how great the switch was.

Now I'm on Hacker News, talking about doing the exact opposite. I'm moving away from OSX because the Unix experience has become really bad.
I have a 6.5% interest rate savings account I still have back home so I guess you can call that some form of investment. Definitely one that beats a 4% inflation rate. Our currency is also fixed against the US dollar. But I don't believe this is sustainable.

I also don't believe this is going to last more than a few more months until the bank has attracted as much cash as it needs. Of course that's also a third world middle eastern country and so lots can go wrong there which I have no control over. Thus my interest in moving it here. Vanguard is looking more interesting by the day. And yes, they do have a similar option.
Seen the pictures of guys in boats floating out in the kamiokande? I always thought it was the coolest looking experiment.

I was really sad when all the bulbs broke years back :'(
It's somewhat unfair, but one of the best things about our current build system is that we have a very exact rollback button. So, first off, we're dealing with static sites, but there is still a dynamic data model since we utilize cloud based CMSs. However, since we only ever save the built output, we can rollback to any version of the site going all the way back to launch. I've never been able to do that before moving to this system - pretty neat.
how about something like this: http://www.wykobi.com/faq.html#FAQ06
> I actually hate the sound of most of the Beatles albums. I think they sound crap by modern standards - tinny, rattly, clogged-up, mid-heavy mixes with no deep bass.

Of course the whole point of bands like the Beatles was that they stood "engineering" on its head, as it was understood at the time (actual scientists wearing actual lab coats attempting to capture sound as accurately as possible).

EMI engineers making classical records were trying to create photographic style recordings. The early Beatles records sound, mostly, like you're standing at the Cavern club in front of a late-1950s sound reinforcement system. Photographic.

The Beatles helped to change the idea of making "photographic" records into making records like painting on canvas. Together with the other influential artists of the time (Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, etc) they transformed modern music.

When yo

>Put them up against a modern trance single mixed ITB and the latter sounds huge, dynamic, cinematic, and infinitely more polished.

>Which is better? It depends...

I think you make my point here.

If I were making a Crystal Method record, of course I would use a different signal chain that if I were making a Dawes record.

That's the whole point.
50% of all internet traffic is now encryptedThanks to EFF
The idea is that they would agree to anything, including things which has low likelihood of success and could be traumatic to the child simply because the known downside was too great.

People aren't very good at comparing a terrible known condition A, to a merely potentially terrible known condition B.
No offense but if it was that simple, don't you think the government would've done it already? The Chinese cash looks good and shows growth on paper so politicians and bank managers can show great numbers in the short term. It's only in the long term that you'll destabilize the economy and do irreversible damage with money laundering behavior.
The burden of proof really is a burden- one sometimes wishes one could take the whole heap of aggregated knowledge from one discussion board to the next.
With automated named references to counter arguments.

The problem is, people would tend to not read this Wiki:Discussion page, as its "external" to the community, so in addition a system for metering trustworthiness (trusted by users i trust) would be needed.
> someone hanging themselves on an ice brick

Spoilers! The riddle is that someone is found hung on top of a water puddle and no chair.
Sorry to answer so late. We're working on some other exciting stuff right now: https://www.codingame.com/contribute
I will be a little bit sad to see 280 spur go. For some parts of SF (e.g. Pac Heights) it is better to take I-280 and cut through the tenderloin (6th street exit -> harrison -> 7th street -> leavenworth -> pine) than to take the central expressway spur. When I was driving for lyft, the 280 was a fast and reliable way to return to the high-volume SoMa area for pickups during the evening rush.
It might be boring, but it is revenue. Secondly, we should all be happy that companies like IBM (and of course Google, Facebook, Microsoft) are taking a long view and investing into cool ideas which may not necessarily immediately result in something tangible. The quarter-to-quarter view taken by most public companies is not optimal for society.

BTW, I work in ML+Medicine and IBM has dont great work in the area, with some Production implementations at hospitals.
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You said:

> Everybody can be high status if they care to define status in terms of the things they're good at.

I'm arguing that you don't get to define status for yourself, so there are limits to how you can distinguish yourself and still claim status. You have to be graded on a recognized dimension of status. That makes it virtually impossible for everyone to be high status.

Also, certain dimensions of status are far more universal than others. I don't care how much you can bench press, you're going to be almost universally seen as lower status than a handsome, movie-star actor. Those dimensions of status are so widespread that you really can't define your way past them.

And it works in reverse too...certain dimensions are almost universally unrecognized. For example, I can hold my breath for just over 8 minutes. That puts me in elite company and people are almost always impressed by it. A couple of decades ago, going that long without breathing would have met the medical definition of death despite my never having lost consciousness. But I can assure you that it confers basically zero status, no matter how much I'd like it to.
"i'm sorry, i'm on a deadline"
"A bulge" is brilliant! Pinch-zooming on a phone and lining up the square lines against the screen edge is mind blowing.
I loved Macs when it wasn't mainstream (think Mac OS Classic, up to v9), but now primarily use PC. Anyway, I remember reading a book written by Felix Dennis, "How to Get Rich" (the trick here is that Felix actually got rich) and there was a lengthy passage about Apple, Steve Jobs, and why Apple will fail the second time (the book was published in 2006, after iPod, but before iPhone, but I doubt iPhone would change the reasoning). The main idea was that Apple believe they have a great idea and do not need to cooperate with the rest of the world:

"But an idea is not enough. It is never enough. And even its successful execution as a piece of technology is not enough if the company refuses to join with the rest of the world and its own customers in cooperative exploitation."
Unless you build something magical, you haven't earned the right for funding
Ability isn't well distributed to where it can have a maximal benefit in a given field. It's often said that people as smart as Einstein (and Feynman) are currently living and dying on subsistence living farms.

What hasn't been said, but is equally true, is that people as capable in physics as Einstein as currently working as waitresses in No Where, Idahoe. Or they're slaving away as bit-actors in Hollywood because that's what they love.

Or they're sitting behind a computer, typing away on HN, never to know that they're potentially amazing theoretical physicists simply because their 7th grade teacher turned them off to the idea of physics in general so they studied computer science instead.

Until there's some kind of test that tells you your aptitudes at very subject, you'll always have people pick suboptimal paths to excellency and something other than what they absolutely theoretically could have been best at.
Watched it again a couple of years ago. It's not perfect (some episodes could be chopped without you noticing), but a Tory smear it ain't. Alan Bleasdale was "True Labour" (way to the left of The Third Way), he just had no time for the Derek Hattons of the world and believed Militant was an unwitting tool of the establishment (something he made explicit in the plot). Complicated by the fact he made Murray way more interesting than Hatton, ofc.

Nelson is Bleasdale's hero: long standing Labour member. Wants to teach kids, but would never cross a picket line. Doesn't use the personal stuff the establishment have dug up to discredit Murray. &c

Incidentally, I lived near Hatton back in the day. He had done extremely well financially out of his time at the council.
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Wouldn't have to be per plant if you can isolate the pH of two regions at the boundary.
No! Ethereum.
< Anyone relying on TOR for security is a fool. It's more heavily monitored than the regular net.

this is why we should encourage more tor traffic for regular, normal use. making the cost of deanonymization more costly.
How can tainted evidence be used to establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt, when the entire basis of trust in the collection of the evidence is ostensibly gone.
I have javascript turned off on my iPad and the article is refreshingly quick to load and easy to read. The rest of the site however is another story. They're really abusing those CSS transitions.
Another model which might work - don't take over customer dns, issue ephemeral tokens ( say 30 mins) for each ip classifying risk. Then the client site determines whether to drop connections, no tunnelling required.
Perhaps you're right.
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Here's how it could have worked. User logs into Playpen onion site, which the FBI is running (and still serving child porn, I note). Then malware gets downloaded. Maybe it was a classic dropper, or maybe part of an image file or whatever. OK, so Tor browser doesn't affect Internet connectivity for other apps. So the FBI malware just phones home, pwning the user.
I see this as a consistent thread in OSS projects - lack of a sustainable biz model. Have you tried joining any not for profit foundations?
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> Women aren't to blame for that, though.

I did not say that. But "expecting a guy to have his shit together? I think that's great." is not so great. If you start to put socio-economic criterias for a relationship, I don't think you really want a relationship.
It is a way to collect phone numbers disguised as an outlet for passive aggression.