skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The things you cite about cars are great - and cars are a great way to get around for many things. However, the article is merely suggesting that people should factor in the costs of car usage that they are currently not paying directly.
A question on this statement, in the SCRAM authentication description: stealing the hashed password from the database or sniffing it on the wire is equivalent to stealing the password itself

How is that the case? That's exactly the thing that hashed passwords prevent. Of course, if it's just an MD5 hash that's feasibly vulnerable to brute-forcing today, but it's still not "equivalent" to having the clear-text password.
Wow, I really liked the introductory paragraphs, gets the point accross very well for slightly non-technical people.
Sure you can reject religion. Then it all boils down to whose model of the not-yet-really-understood is more accurate and who will eat whom on the top of the food chain ;)

Take this: N years ago, for some value of N, nobody talked about friends in the sky. Now they do.

Atheism: myth busted :)
Check methods-- the simulations exhibit sparse coding because the model was built that way, in particular, it assumes LIF (leaky integrate and fire) output neurons that can inhibit each other. In fact, this assumed inhibition is the only reason it works as is. Else, many neurons would probably fire simultaneously in an unstructured crossbar without a set learning rule.

Nevertheless, a STDP type learning rule can inspire interesting applications. One of my co-advisors authored an article [1] which shows a completely unsupervised classification on the MNIST challenge in a crossbar environment, achieving 93 \% . Nothing like state of the art CNNs etc, but considering this was done without labels, that's pretty impressive.

[1]http://www.ief.u-psud.fr/~querlioz/PDF/Querlioz_PIEEE2015.pd...
In terms of food and disease, I would argue they're better off 'seafaring' than settling down in dwellings.

In terms of predation, dolphins are close to being apex predators. Some species and populations have no natural enemies, while in some areas dolphins have to worry about a few of the larger species of sharks and type-2 orcas.

It seems that establishing a built residence would be both an asset and a liability when trying to evade predators. By roaming the open ocean, they're essentially playing a game of "battleship" on a very large board. In other words, there's only a problem when predators and the pod happen to bump into each other.

Having walls may help security, but it also ensures that your enemies know where to find you. Land mammals nest to protect babies before they become mobile. Dolphin calves swim almost immediately, and by drafting in formation with their mothers can keep up with the pod.

I'm curious whether it ever makes sense for carnivores to take up agriculture... both in terms of feasibility and considering that hunting is a cooperative outlet for natural carnivorous aggression.
> Is Earth – the planet itself – alive?

not according to the definition i just looked up. depending on what you mean, the earth is 'simply' a ball of mud hurtling through space, or it's something more akin to a label for the complex emergent system composed of many individual instances of LivingObject.

> But what about free will?

how are we defining "free will"?
Well, in theory an autonomous taxi never parks, or if it does, it parks far out of town at the maintenance/livery facility.
Do you have documentation how to get started with Cayley? I was reading this -> https://cayley.io/1-getting-started/ A little bit too short for my taste. :)
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You're kidding, right? This patent has to do with the design of a robot. That's very much hardware.
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, including tsunami and earthquake experts had been investigating for years and concluded that it was not predictable. There may be different opinions, but so far no clear evidence shows that it was predictable.
I think he got his first sentence backwards, his second sentence contradicts it.
Aren't you the guy behind this https://github.com/pcwalton/libui-rs ?

Kind of strange to write bindings to something you hate so much. Or was it a changed of mind in the last 11 months?

With that said, I do agree with you, but there's not a single solution out there that does this efficiently, a browser is a ginormous level of indirection after all.

But if you want to spearhead such a thing I'm sure as hell interested.
I'm a spacemacs guy, but the debugger in VS Code is freaking excellent. I've never seen a nicer cross-language debugging experience.
These points are all relevant in an environment where cars dominate.

In a big and dense city you would most likely be jammed in traffic while you could just walk to the nearest underground station or tram/bus stop and take the next transit towards the right direction. And the latter is what people do in places where taking the car is not a requirement and where the densities support public transit.
In most American cities the densities are laughably sparse, and taking a personal car makes sense.

In LA or Valley it would be a joke not to drive. In NY or London it would be a joke to try to drive.
This article is about parking requirements as they pertain to zoning, i.e. mandatory parking.

Nobody's saying that you can't patronize a business that provides free parking, but if parking isn't mandated by zoning you'll on average pay more for the benefit compared to someone patronizing a business without ample parking.

Removing the requirement from the zoning code allows people like you to vote with your dollars, and people who don't care about free parking to pay lower prices. It's a win-win.
There have been cases in the US where a hotel gets a bad reputation mostly because it's in a bad area and the police use civil asset forfeiture to take the property away from the owner.
(I am an elected politician on the Board of Directors of a special district, one power of which is related to residential parking permits, and am additionally on a community committee working on improving the parking situation in the business area; my job on this committee is to do the actual outreach to local businesses. Note also that I am someone who believes in decreasing the use of cars.)

Your suggestion essentially turns into a game theory problem of "is it better to construct parking for my business or be located next to a business that was dumb enough to construct parking, as many of my customers who really would have wanted parking will end up just parking there, they will get the ire of anyone who actually gets towed, and that assumes they also have any good mechanism to decide who to tow anyway.
How will Wire make money and stay viable while maintaining this level of service?
It's painful, but it's "the hot topic", and nobody likes to be told that in the absence of new information, an absence of noise would be nice so we can focus on the things for which there is new information.
The problem is that people, especially in the realm of pop-sci, get "favorite topics". They don't really understand much, but it's their "expert topic" and they love it. When the reality of science, which is slow progress via a sawtooth graph, hits they don't bail, they tend to just... want more.

As a result you get a lot of "What does it look like from the perspective of a photon?" or "What does the inside of a black hole look like?" The real lack of knowledge is boring, and there are enough such excitable people to keep some magazines (on and offline) profitable. I think it's also important to remember that most people, even technical people, who aren't into physics simply don't understand the topics in question well enough that the headline in question, 'Is Matter Conscious' doesn't turn them off immediately. The difference there, between largely uncritical (if intellectual) wide-eyed curiosity, and science is pretty stark.

The truth is though, that it's a matter of interest, and most people (whatever they claim) aren't really interested in physics, they just like "the cool stuff".
How Feature Flags Tame the Four-Heads of Complexity
So not electron = trash UX?

(edit: I'm an amateur musician, I do know quite a bit about the online music sphere, and I've been a paid user of both Deezer and Spotify in the past. You usually don't know who you're talking to on the internet, so better don't assume things.)
The same argument could be used for having the kids auto-flagellate. That could be healthier, too.
Don't worry, all the car makers with
whom we spoke assured us that you
probably won't be killed by hackers,
and antivirus companies have patched
up vulnerabilities revealed in the
Vault 7 documents.

Sh-sure... th-thanks!
I posted this a few weeks ago, it didn't get much traction but was an excellent read if you have been exposed to "Power of Positive Thinking" or it's spiritual predecessor "Think and Grow Rich".

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-untold-story-of-napoleon-...

Always kind of figured the authors were hucksters (not to discount whatever valuable insight they might actually have).
The article somewhat confirmed my suspicion.
This seems like a junk experiment. They asked people to perform a task that would be easier if you had some information. Then they started showing them videos. The subjects stopped watching when they had enough inspiration for their story. That's it.

It's as if the authors of the study think the subjects have ESP and know that evidence contrary to their goal is coming up, and therefore decide to stop watching.
ah, yeah that hasn't changed. I've been using Skype preview on Win10 and it's very nice. It's very much a native desktop app - certainly it's the successor to the old Delphi client.
True, that. So how about instead of mandating parking spaces, mandate an area set-asside for public transit right-of-way. Then allow the right-of-way area to be used for parking until the transit authority exercises it's right-of-way. At first, there will be islands of disconnected right-of-way that make no sense for build-out, and they get used for parking. Eventually, re-development fill-in will connect adjacent regions, and then the transit authority can build a reasonable sized segment.
What is wrong with access modifiers?
The refined carbohydrates and sugar cause diabetics, not the fat and protein - please repeat this till people wake up that they are being conned by big food
Check out their site red-lang.org. If I'm not wrong, it features the latest posts from their blog. That should tell you if it is ready, if you monitor it. Also, there was a fairly long and interesting thread about Red some days ago here, just like the recent interesting one about the D compiler being open sourced. It's been fun and educational to read the recent spate of programming language-related blog posts, for me. Hope it continues.
I understand your need for a book. I prefer to read a book when diving into a new tech. That being said, when I started out using PostgreSQL years back, there were only online docs, and I must say they are although lengthy at time, very good.

Also, pgAdmin?
> Why does everyone think that the solution to traffic problems is to first make driving even more terrible

Parking space requirements (along with other zoning regulations) prevent cities from being built densely enough to reach the critical mass needed for great public transit. It's not an accident that our densest cities (e.g. New York) also happen to be our oldest cities, from before the advent of most of the zoning regulations. Significant swaths of New York City could not be built again the way they are now thanks to zoning laws that have since come into play! Contrast with Los Angeles, a city which was largely developed post-zoning-laws, and you can see the huge resultant different in density, and thus apocalyptic levels of traffic with few good alternatives.
Live a Minimalist Life
Phoronix has quite the following, unfortunately. Luckily it's banned on reddits /r/linux forum.
idk, I personally think if you need that kind of deep learning in your code then you are repeating yourself too much. I wrote a 30k line project with sublime and never faced any issues. Everything is as snappy as it was at 1k lines. Never needed intellij level code context awareness. I also worked on some android app some time ago and I probably could not have gone far without intellisense. So I think it depends on the language. Java is a lot more verbose than say php or javascript.
Realex? Never used them and they probably take a cut too
> So the best answer seems to be: don't write content that works specifically for screen readers, write content that works well for everyone. Use correct punctuation, spelling and grammar, use standard conventions for acronyms and abbreviations, and use words that are appropriate for your audience.
It seems to me that you have two choices when dealing with traffic:

1. Make the location less desirable.

2. Make the transportation more efficient.

Obviously nobody wants to do the 1st option, but the 2nd option is more difficult so they stick to the 1st. It seems a little backwards to me, like the goal is simply having less cars regardless of secondary or tertiary negative impact.
Jasonette seems awesome from what I'm reading (I'm ignoring webcontainer)!

Does it work offline by default? Is the JSON app cached and updated again when the user is online?

What is preventing you from writing an HTML version of Jasonette, so apps written for Jasonette Native can run on a browser?
It reminds me of Hamilton Morris talking to this guy who's been taking huge doses of PCP for years. He gets absolutely lit, and then does "art", which is highly meaningful to him, but... pretty much just to him. Some people never really learn the difference between the feeling of profound understanding that can occur while dreaming or high, with profound understanding.
FDA Approves Marketing of Consumer Genetic Tests for Some Conditions
What makes you think that markets would be any good at sorting things out? The externalities of car usage (such as air and noise pollution, traffic accident victims) are ignored by the free market. Furthermore, the 'traffic' market has a tendency towards monopolies: more people using cars means less people using public transportation making the latter less profitable, resulting in worse service, leading to even less people using it...

Free markets need very specific conditions to lead to the optimal solution. I don't think the transportation market fits the requirements.
Here's the manufacturer website on it: https://www.x20.org/color-night-vision/
dupe, please check before submitting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14052392
Get yourself checked for sleep apnea
...It's an insignificant risk that a reasonable person renting their home under AirBnB contract should neither expect, nor tolerate. As to the rest, I've talked about the other reasonable concerns a homeowner might have in other parts of this thread.
It's far from clear that STDP is sufficient to the brain's learning mechanisms, though it is certainly necessary at some scales and stages.

The possibility space between relatively simple and insufficiently general unsupervise/clustering approaches and rigid SGD schemes is large, and probably contains the brain's true inference engine. Personally, I am excited by some of the ideas brought forward in this Bengio paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.05179.pdf
I'm a bit skeptical this is needed at all. I would've much preferred if Microsoft contributed to the already popular React Native for Web [1].

React Native already supports iOS, Android, and UWP. To add browser support all you need is something like React Native for Web. I made a small presentation a few months ago that shows this. Here's the source code: [2]. Take a look at the web folder.

Libraries like React Navigation [3] have also been built to support any platform that runs React code. It looks like Microsoft built yet another navigation library [4].

Also, check out React Primitives [5]. It aims to define a set of primitives that work on any platform that can be used to build more complex components. This is highly experimental, but I'm liking the direction where it's going, a unified React interface for any platform.

In addition, ReactVR is a great example of how React Native primitives can be extended to new emerging platforms [6].

Finally, React Native for macOS [7] answers the question that many have here about building native apps for macOS without relying on Electron.

[1] https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web

[2] https://github.com/migueloller/HelloWorldApp

[3] https://github.com/react-community/react-navigation

[4] https://microsoft.github.io/reactxp/docs/components/navigato...

[5] https://github.com/lelandrichardson/react-primitives

[6] https://github.com/facebook/react-vr

[7] https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos
Yeah absolutely, hence why I said github-like. What I mean by that is something more modern, that supports such review style. If only Github supported mailing lists...
Allow remote work; all that transportation is irrelevant anyway.
Great. We can now salt food, salt passwords, configure things using Salt(Stack), and now also use saltpack as a messaging format. Can we stop overloading the term "salt"? Makes it ridiculous to search for things on Google.
check for sleep apnoea
This is actually one of the better presentations of this idea, and it gave me a better handle on it.

Here's one way to look at it. If you accept the claim, "My conscious experiences exist, non-physically," which seems true, you can reason to some interesting places from there. For example, it would be pretty weird if you were the only "conscious" person in the world, surrounded by zombies who only appear to have an inner life, so we can say that all brains have consciousness. Then, you can keep delicately applying Occam's razor to say that what we call consciousness could be just one manifestation of a more basic phenomenon, which fills a metaphysical explanatory void.

Even if we don't accept the claim, and we say consciousness doesn't really exist and we are merely projecting its existence, we could still discover new phenomena that seem just as real to us as the illusion of consciousness, despite not being clearly connected to physical laws. Maybe pretending that it's possible to have a "direct experience" of something can reveal that everyday consciousness is just one kind of direct experiencing.
The same reason somebody who sells a house or a car or anything that involves negotiating should be at an advantage if they are a better negotiator. It's a fundamental part of a free market. Should the government make sure you don't sell your house for less than you could possibly get or should that be left to be decided between yourself and the potential buyer? Why should a salary negotiation be any different?
Those are luxuries like a cell phone is a luxury. There does come a point where there's no acceptable alternative - a 1 hour bus line I know through the city of Seattle takes 10 minutes by car. Why should the city and property owners have to subsidize cars? They shouldn't, but they need some way for people to get to them and flow people through the city, or they will cease to exist.
> that there are things I perceive or experience

you have vision and other senses, and physical phenomena that interact with them cause physiological changes.

> how do I explain having a subjective experience at all

isn't experience necessarily subjective? i'm not sure what non-subjective experience would even mean.
What the hell are you talking about? None of those features are removed. The issue at hand is that we are developing more and more complex single page apps and we desire our primary language to support that trend.

Don't use classes. Don't use promises. Can't comment on what you said about async since it's literally nonsensical.

There is no fork coming, or if there is, it will only be used by a tiny portion of the community who thinks they are brilliant because they can "think through" functional programming problems but don't understand what role async calls play in modern development.
In the time frame spent to test these hacks I would have written a perfect C module that runs circles around it.
ElegantEagle. nice
So do you even take a stroller to the zoo?
I'm so excited for table partitioning. I use table inheritance in several places in my current project, but have felt the pain of foreign key constraints not applying to inherited children. Reading about table partitioning, I'm realizing that this is a much better fit for my use case.

Postgres continues to amaze me with the speed at which they introduce the right features into such a heavily-used and production-critical product. Thanks Postgres team!
Why is the open-source version useless for desktop apps?
InstaChat – Chat from anywhere android app
I fundamentally disagree with the ideas of this article and think it is a wrong and harmful way to go about the problems in banking. It will create a dangerous precedence for other industry. The premise is based on a flawed homo-economomics understanding of human psychology. It is classical right-wing libertarian thinking, where the assumption is the only incentives driving people are greed and fear of punishment. These so called incentives are all stick and no carrot.

People should be given a reason to do the right thing. Quite the contrary they are usually punished for doing the right thing. Whistle blowers have poor protection. Responsible employees get worse results than the reckless ones and thus get passed over on promotions or hounded by their managers.

It would be much more effective to simple get rid of all the incentives designed to only measure financial performance and nothing else. Pay people to do a good job, rather than according to a narrowly defined metric of performance.

The measurement based, new management style way of doing things has been poison everywhere in society not just banks. It causes police to arrest people just to fill their quota. Parking guards to write out tickets to meet target for number of tickets written by management. It makes hospitals push for unnecessary medical procedures.

It is time to stop treating people like greedy robots, and actually accept that people are blessed with compassion and the ability to make complex decision. They will do that if you let them, rather than rewarding them for being reckless idiots.
I'm (inter alia) a merchant - chairman of a deli and cafe in a small town.

Our whole district (West Oxfordshire, England) has free parking and it's killing us. People pass up shops they could walk or cycle to, like ours, in favour of shops they can drive to (in the nearest large town). There's no up-front cost to driving, and walking takes effort, so why not drive?

The result of the local free parking policy has been that two large town centres in the district are thriving; everywhere else is dead; and the roads are clogged with traffic.
While I agree with the premise that societal restrictions on behavior might be improved if they involve tests for harm, the particular constraints you disagree with exist precisely to prevent material harm.

Anti-discrimination laws are built on a history of groups being excluded from access to housing, loans, schooling, contracts, etc. I don't think it is hard to see that depriving certain groups of access to the instruments of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness causes material harm.
The point is that you only send the hash to the database to connect. If you steal the hash, you can connect to the database using said hash, not needing the plaintext. The password might as well be the hash in this case. Hence the equivalency.

Using that scheme, all you prove is that you know the hash of the password. SCRAM allows you to prove you know the plaintext password without actually transmitting it.
Can someone remind me why Snowden would be in a position to comment on if this release comprises a full or partial set of hacking tools? Specifically, does this imply that his cache of data included a list of these tools, or was his day to day job one such that he would have been normally in contact with this toolset?