skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for asking!

> "It was fairly easy due to a combination of low-grade depression that reduced my appetite and having fairly immense energy stores in the form of fat."

For me, it's all about focusing on the sensation of being full. I'd like to avoid the mental sensation of hunger as it'll be counterproductive to long term weight loss. Whenever I'm hungry I eat something substantial, for example: a quarter of a watermelon (~1 lb, 200 calories) or two bags of Miracle Noodles (~1 lb, 0 calories) with yakiniku/pasta sauce (100-200 calories) or a double bowl of miso soup (100 calories).
You might have a fair use argument in that you're combining multiple data sources into something novel. Similar to how video compilations can be fair use. But IANAL and I don't know if that's been tested in court.
Cool tool...
One small hiccup that I saw in the demo
when listing files in 'alternate' mode, when the last row was gray the background showed 'black' after the last characters
This looks like the ACME editor color scheme, but in reverse video.
The cheapest gas stations
You can still distribute them, they aren't illegal. It's just Berkeley that can't, because of their mandate as a public entity. If Berkeley could continue distribute the files without compliance there simply would be no way to enforce that what public entities are distributing is accessible. You're of course free to think that they shouldn't have to produce accessible content, but I don't find that to be a particularly noble standpoint.
They can also be capped to a maximum amount. You can see this often on NPR listener donation rallies, when companies match funds up to something like $5k for the duration of a show. If more than $5k is reached, the company still donates only $5k.
The linked list discussed in the article forgoes mutexes, but in exchange, operations aren't guaranteed to succeed:

Because we are no longer taking explicit locks,
there is no guarantee that insert operation will succeed.
Therefore, CAS based algorithms are usually implemented
using a loop (aka CAS loop) to retry the operation when
CAS fails.

So you're still getting spinlocks (or context switches, etc.) assuming these inserts have to eventually succeed. Implicitly, the CAS does "lock" in the sense of forcing other accesses into retry loops. You're still dealing with the problems inherent to your waiting strategy. This data structure doesn't prevent problems like starvation. In the pathological case, you'll get stuck forever in a spinlock trying to insert.

> In some sense, this is the critical reason that CAS and lock-free programming is interesting

Right. The article's preface criticizes implementations of mutexes in C++ and Java as unscalable, which is certainly a problem, but categorically a different concern from that of designing lock-free algorithms or data structures.
Yes, your BT router MITMs from time to time just because :)

Every time you connect a new device, you get a start page with the "welcome to your BT broadband" or whatever stupid thing they want. This screwed me for a few hours when I bought an Xbox One and most of the images wouldn't load. Had to open the browser, acknowledge the f*cking page and go on with my life.

Looking for a new router now...
A big factor in auckland at the moment ( especially around the time of this story ) is we have a big housing shortage, it's the start of the university year with many students looking for places to live, and a lot of hotel/motels being used while people look
Absolutely not. CloudFlare is a cancer on the net. I won't trade security for centralization and marginal speed improvements, my blog is pretty slim anyway.
edit: nevermind - pbkac, does not appear to be vulnerable !

Did you try creating a branch called "(./pw3n)" ?

I'm running fish with git-radar. I'm not vulnerable to that specific attack but to a similar one with the branch name (./pw3n)
OP, your alternatives to DD are more complicated, not less complicated. I shouldn't need to pipeline two commands together just to cut off the first 100MB of a file.
John D. Cook on math consulting, Python and going solo [audio]
I don't what version I had, but this game was my introduction to Jazz.
Getting Started with Elixir Metaprogramming
> "At this point I should say that I’m not a healthcare professional and I’m not recommending my dietary changes to anyone. I was in intense emotional pain every single day and made the decision to capitalise on it."
For Portugal, check https://landing.jobs/. But not sure if there's many QA jobs around here, and even then, the payment is not what you usually see in places like Silicon Valley..
Since branch name parsing is done by a lot of scripts, and I can't control the default branch name, I've installed this global post-checkout hook for now until I can stop panicking and think clearly.

#!/bin/sh
prev_head=$1
new_head=$2
changing_branch=$3

REPO_DIR="$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null)"

if [ "$changing_branch" = 1 -a "$prev_head" = "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000" ]; then
new_head_name="$(git name-rev --name-only "$new_head"|sed -e 's|`|_|g' -e 's|$(|_|g')"
new_head_name_untaint="$(git name-rev --name-only "$new_head"|sed -e 's|`|x|g' -e 's|$(|x|g')"
if [ "$new_head_name" != "$new_head_name_untaint" ]; then
echo "
DANGER! INSECURE BRANCH NAME.
">&2
git name-rev --name-only "$new_head"

echo "
MOVING $REPO_DIR TO TRASH.
">&2
mkdir -p ~/.Trash
mv "$REPO_DIR" "$HOME/.Trash/${REPO_DIR##*/}.$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S")"
fi
fi
Trend Micro Endpoint Sensor 1.6 DLL Hijacking Vulnerability
Titanic tours to take trippers to ocean floor to see doomed liner
Very nice.

One question: as the top-level comment in this thread noted, this algorithm may be specialized to certain kinds of images.

Can you release info about the kind of images/datsets this approach will pathologically fail with? That would be really really awesome.
I get around this problem by using cheap computers where low contrast is built into the monitor.
another one http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-6398/
Humans have both intelligence and drives. We want warmth, food, sex, power, respect, love, family, friendship, entertainment, knowledge, etc, etc. We use our intelligence to help us fulfil those drives.

The problem I see with talk about a superintelligent AI, is there is too much focus on the intelligence and not enough on the drives. Intelligence, even superintelligence, is just a means to an end, it doesn't contain ends in itself. Some people – see e.g. the Terminator film franchise – just assume a superintelligent AI would have the drive to exterminate humanity, but why would it have such a drive?

Any AI is going to be given drives to further the interests of its creators. Suppose Facebook builds a superintelligent AI with the drive to further the corporate interests of Facebook. Such an AI would not exterminate humanity because that would not serve the corporate interests of Facebook (indeed, if humanity goes extinct, Facebook goes extinct too). It might install Mark Zuckerberg as Emperor of Earth, it might force everyone on the planet to have a Facebook account, but whatever it does, humanity will survive.
What should I do to become the next CEO of Y Combinator?
Challenge your brain with new Android game
The average weight loss was still averaging 3% - basically nothing for an obese person.
Yeah, that would be nice to know, because that is one of the reasons I use Contentful at the moment. The source is on github and triggers Travis if I push changes, which in turn get's the content from Contentful, builds the static site with metalsmith and uploads the site through FTP. Or if the non-developer makes changes on Contentful this triggers Travis as well etc.

Works quite nice so far (especially since I didn't need to explain how to optimize the images) but would prefer a open source solution.
Yes, you're right: the original piece got the causality backwards.
VTS17-003: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Veritas NetBackup
Bariatric surgery is the best answer for most lifelong obese people.
Having played both Railroad Tycoon II and OpenTTD, I must say that I prefer RT2 immensely more. (I've not played the original, so I can't comment on its quality).

Some of the advantages of RT2:

- Less tedious micromanagement without need for signals (although it does mean there's no way to build a 4-track mainline in RT2 that works like you can in OpenTTD).

- The stock market and competitive play is more fun. I never found the AI of OpenTTD fun, except when I was bored and wanted to watch their cars get plowed by my trains.

- The economic aspects of RT2 were more enjoyable. You can buy industries, for example. It's also laid out more clearly how the economy works (you can turn off these features to make the game easier, but it's much less fun). There's also lots more type of cargo (ship iron and coal to a steel mill to make steel, rubber to a tire factory for tires, the steel and the tires to an auto plant to make cars which go to the cities).

- Also, all the locomotives! Just so much more in depth.
Well he bought NZ citizenship so I'm sure the tax laws apply to him as any other citizen.
thx @tedunangst probably should have duplicated the txt diagram with a proper diagram. A jump could be shown with a "<" or "(".
My favourite Sid's game of all time is still the original Colonization. So much depth, replayability, and overall fun. To me it's always been superior to Civ because it's a clear road to independence.
Tech startups have become conceptual art
They're good instructions, Brent. 13/10 would follow again.
The Roman economy didn't have to compete with free labor ones.

Ancient Sparta had to militarize all their free men in order to keep their slaves in check.
they have. First time I went to New Zealand from Canada was in 1983. My Mom bought a year long ticket that allowed her to stop anywhere in the pacific rim in the early 70s. She sold it to someone else after 6 months and stayed in Australia for 6 months to work, then continued on her way through South East Asia.
You're both right. When Newton's third law is applied to a wing, the equal and opposite forces are pressure. No one tends to think about the pressure of the wing on the air, but it happens.
Anyone got a packet capture and can tell what's the problem?
Framing it that way misses an important part of the story.

It was the institutional and regulatory failure during the switch away from Detroit city water that made the lead an emergency. Part of the reason that happened is that Flint had depopulated and was basically a failed city. It's not acceptable that it happened, but it didn't happen just because Flint was trying to skimp on infrastructure 40,50,60 years ago.
Non-Blocking works a bit better as a phrase, in my opinion.
I respect that but why? Not the incident itself, but the architecture thwy pick point to that they have no idea about what they are doing.
Announcing Cernan
> During physical therapy at McGuire Terry was fitted with a motorized exoskeleton.

While ultimately really cool, I was really hoping it was some sort of therapy to reverse the paralyzation , not just work around one aspect of it. :/
IANAL, but I don't think HIPAA applies. As I understand it, HIPAA only applies to doctor/patient interactions, not situations where the "patient"[1] is looking for data independently.

[1] patient is probably the wrong term here, without a doctor/nurse directly involved
Deconstruct software development conference
The Man Who Made Us See That Trade Isn't Always Free
Κίνητρο και γκολ στα προγνωστικά στοιχήματος
> sorry no PDF

No directly-linkable PDF :P

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12374235
The Stubborn Optimist
Très Grande Vitesse
I wonder what the research into environmental contribution says? Like, how people change weight in different social situations.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/20/465545378/...

> That option was projected to save the region $200 million over 25 years, according to City Council meeting minutes.

Flint has already taken $250mil in state funding, and it will be taking another $120mil in fed+state funds now. So I guess that this whole thing will break even in 45 years?
Chelsea Voss – Oneliner-Izer: An Exercise in Constrained Coding – PyCon 2016
Can you give an example? Would you do something like, short your stock and then tank your business?
> 4) The SI has a goal/utility function (wipe out humanity / maximize paperclips)

How realistic is an SI being created with such a utility function? Who creates this SI? Why do they give it such an odd utility function?

If people consciously create an SI – say a corporation does it – they will give it a utility function of serving the interests of its creators. Depending on who those creators are and what they want, it may be more or less pleasant, but it is unlikely that human extinction serves the interests of any human creators.

Even if people create an AI that accidentally/unintentionally evolves into an SI – same applies, the AI will likely have the objective of serving (some segment) of humanity rather than turning earth into the universe's largest paperclip factory.
Absolutely love this game. I found a dosbox image that runs on mac, and still guiltily play it on occasion. :)
I was born in NZ but the family moved when I was 2. I recently got NZ citizenships by descent for my kids because I want to give them the option to move to there if all hell breaks out in the world. It's probably the last place on earth that one can still drink pure water right out of a lake. I choose not to move back there as an adult due to the isolation but if climate changes or wars happen then this isolation becomes a positive.
But that's the point - OP wasn't trying to have a discussion, OP was making the same tedious point that has been refuted countless times on HN, let alone elsewhere.

Every single time this discussion happens someone will make the same stupid point - "What about women in X?" or "What about men in Y?"

And every single time someone has already posted a link to a programme to increase the numbers of women in X or the numbers of men in Y.

It's dumb and it's lazy, especially so because this information is trivially easy to find.

> there's an orders of magnitude difference in how much effort goes towards getting women into safe and high-paying male-dominated jobs compared to dangerous low-paying male-dominated jobs.

CITATION NEEDED.
I think OP's intuition is understandable.

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So then there's a question of why there are tourism campaigns? If you're at capacity, it seems like the first thing to cut?

But the article seems rather pro-growth on tourism, so maybe they don't want that.
Farmlogs went through YC in 2012.
> Are guns that essential to everyday life in the US that you have to carefully consider exactly how incapacitated someone is?

Yes - legally, and for much of the country, culturally.

The right to bear arms is on par with the freedom of speech or religion. In short, if the justification would be insufficient to warrant ordering them to cease political speech or preventing them from worshipping as they choose, then it's insufficient for denying them the right to arms.

> I would think that even the slightest hint of incapacitation should be enough for someone to be denied a gun.

It's just the opposite here; stripping someone of their right to possess firearms is an extreme measure.
Then I'd have no sympathy for him and if he survived he should be put in jail for manslaughter, possibly even murder. The guy knows these devices do this to him yet continues to use them. If he's using these devices behind the wheel (or IMO at all) he's being irresponsible. He needs to take responsibility for his actions and stop blaming others. In other words, he's responsible for his own actions (using devices that can cause seizures) and their consequences (getting a seizure) like everyone else at all times.
An ancient memorization strategy might cause lasting changes to the brain
WebVR basketball trainer using Babylon.js
Non-cognitive skills like those are very important. I've seen a few papers lately that show that it's more valuable to long-term earning to learn non-cognitive skills than cognitive skills in a child's early years.

http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/16164/1/16164.pdf
Deflecting Killer Asteroids Away from Earth: How We Could Do It (2011)
Zelda Ocarina Controlled Home Automation
Somewhat of a competitor, but any Sim Tower fans here? I was obsessed with everything Sim* but especially loved Sim Tower. Maxis was an amazing gaming company and actually my first entry into Macs. My friends dad had a Macintosh II, then classic, then LC, and I would spend hours playing games on them.
> Did it really not occur to you while writing that comment that that analogy is not applicable here because a car is incommensurately more useful than a gun?

Respectfully, that's an opinion.
Have you seen Contentful's webinar about lookbooks? Sounds like it could help: https://www.contentful.com/blog/2015/09/10/creating-a-digita...
It was posted as a counter-point to its parent's unqualified assertion that raising prices lowers demand.
It is quite strange that you are comparing a biosecurity threat to a fairy tale. There is actual scientific evidence of a pathogen that eliminated a banana type and caused massive economic loss, and you pretend that there isn't. We have biosecurity alerts regularly and some times quarantine procedures fail, e.g. http://www.outbreak.gov.au/current-responses-to-outbreaks/wh....

It is the same sort of self serving delusion that leads to climate change denialism.
What Comes After Tinder?
A counterpoint: dd survives not because it's good or makes sense, but explicitly because it doesn't.

You wanna format a usb key? Google this, copy/paste these dd instructions, it works, move on with your life.

You wanna format a usb key using something related to cat you once saw and didn't fully understand? Have fun.

Both approaches have their weak points, but in any OS the answer to "How do I format a usb key" should not start with "Oh boy, let's have a Socratic dialog over 10 years on how to do that."
Legend of Zelda Ocarina and Raspberry Pi as Smart Home Controller
The failing Vice was ordered to make WikiLeaks look bad and this is the best they could do. They're essentially saying don't whistleblow unless you also provide a solution. They're really grasping at straws here.
I think a good answer might be because the person was working on something else. Historically, there has been a line on the application about other ideas that the applicant thought about applying with. But that's just a guess.
Distributed Elixir on… Heroku?
I hope you're right; this is a situation in which I'd be more than happy to be look back in a year and eat my words. I grew up with Nintendo, and was a loyal customer through the Gamecube. I still love their mobile offerings.

I would like an excuse to come back to a console, but so far this isn't it, for me.
FHE is horrendously slow, even after almost a decade of optimizations.
>It's probably the last place on earth that one can still drink pure water right out of a lake

Dramatic much? I've done this many times from lakes in the Rocky Mountains in the US. I'm sure there are countless other places where it can be done as well.
They skimped (ie entirely did not use) on corrosion inhibitors when the water supply was switched. I believe those are the "savings" OP was referring to.

"By not adding a corrosion inhibitor, Flint was going to save about $140 per day. "

http://theconversation.com/the-science-behind-the-flint-wate...

"Replacement of Flint’s lead service lines, which is the only permanent solution to address its lead vulnerability, is estimated to cost up to $1.5 billion, according to Flint’s mayor, Karen Weaver."
I would argue that the point of a gun is the have the ability to kill, not to necessarily do so.

It may seem a subtle difference, but it's important. Another way I've heard this said: "My pistol serves not to impose my will upon others through force but to ensure that others may not do so unopposed."
> THE ECONOMY HAS BEEN GROWING

If the college provides same service while extorting twice as much money, this means that economy grows, but people become poorer, more indebted and strained. The economy might be growing; but WE don't.

> Do you realize that more people going to college than ever before is good?

But when they graduate they have worse employment prospects than High School graduates 40 years ago.

> Do you realize that '2G to 4G' is economic growth?

But how many participate in it as makers and not just as consumers?

When Interstates happened, a lot of people made them with their hands. But now, very few people are directly involved in the 2G to 4G transition and are proud for it. The others just feel like a passengers in a fast moving bus without any control of the route, or, for that reason, trip safety.

> Jesus H Christ you can now chose the gender and eye colour of your offspring

But can you afford it today as a middle-income person? If you can't, it's not there yet. What's the engagement numbers?

> You do realize that the iPhone/Android/Facebook are only 10 years old?

...but I liked more what was before them. I would have preferred N900 and LiveJournal, too bad I don't have this choice realistically. Talk about bus passengers.

> Do you realize that the amount of air travel in the world has doubled in the last little while?

How many people are making it happen? And not on the crappy jobs such as flight attendants? Wait - now even the pilots have their jobs unsatisfactory thanks to long hours and bad pay.

> When you hit your 30's

I'm 32.
> Suppose Facebook builds a superintelligent AI with the drive to further the corporate interests of Facebook.

Define "corporate interests". Market share? Absolute quantity of currency? Involvement of people's lives? Define currency wrong, hyperinflation makes money impossible. Define involvement or market wrong, Facebook ends up being the only intelligent entity on Earth after it realizes that humans are competition or it basilisk-hacks everybody for greater involvement. Your intuition is wrong for what a paperclipper can do.

The technical term for this problem is "AI Alignment" (https://intelligence.org/stanford-talk/). I know that this is going to sound silly, but bear with me. This is a piece of fiction that you need to read. It is, so far, the best demonstration I've found of what happens when someone gets it not quite right. http://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/1/friendship-is-optima...
Unfortunately New Zealand rivers are now very polluted due to the booming dairy industry and relaxed environmental policy. Most rivers are no longer swimmable, let alone drinkable. The clean, green image unfortunately doesn't always line up with reality.
Terraform 0.9
Forever. There is no structure to be found in the output of a PRF like AES. These functions are not going to be learnable.