skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He has stated unambiguously that he wants to die on Mars and not on impact. All of his investments lead to Mars.
Yik Yak destroyed their product the moment they introduced handles/names. That move, combined with bowing to pressure from community groups to block & de-anonymize, ruined any trust in the service.

The complete lack of understanding of their own product that they demonstrated was absolutely astounding. $3M almost sounds like too much; there's no reasonable way you can recover anything of value besides the employees in this situation.
> the ability to remove people from their homes for the greater good with little repercussion

I think you underestimate how poorly compensated the relocated people are. Unless it's an outcome of "Weird China" reporting, which is very possible, I've seen plenty of reports of people being forced out of their houses in exchange for flats with smaller floor space and property in an inferior location.

I'm not saying what Chinese infrastructure officials isn't impressive. I'm just saying it has massive costs for the people being displaced.
I'd really enjoy reading anything you're aware of on this topic.
Title is a bit misleading, this is not an actual infinite scrolling as we generally know it by, but a looped scrolling, as the name suggests.
the issue is that there is a secret interpretation of it, as i explained in each of the above posts

edit: if the term' collection' is your major gripe, i apologize -- i rewatched the video i cited and the term is actually 'intercept', not 'collect'
Can algorithms help kick addiction?
> Most of the things that Rails is "opinionated" about are far more arbitrary than this

To my eye, at least, it isn't a matter of being arbitrary, but rather not having an answer.

PK names don't matter to the machine, so long as everything agrees and modulo illegal values. Humans get massively opinionated, but the machine doesn't care.

Compare with: How long should a query take to run? No, I'm not going to tell you what kind of query, or the size of the dataset, or the hardware at the bottom of the stack, or what the app is actually doing.

It is like asking what specific clothes an arbitrary person should wear.
I had a license, changed nothing, and your upgrade wants me to go waste 10 minutes to-and-froing to get on some new marketing database. Sorry, not cool. I feel like your company ruined a great product I was very happy with.
Thanks for the recommendation! I like 'The Biocomputer' but I find it over the top, hope this one's a bit more sober.
> He may well be out of touch, but at least Musk's suggesting a real solution to current transit problems, even if it's impractical.

He's proposing the transportation equivalent of a personal computer with perfect security, completely crash free, 1000x faster than current PCs that cost lesss tha. We have today. It's not impractical, it's laughable.

> On the other hand, whenever I read stuff by politicians and engineers with real knowledge and influence in this field, I'm astonished by the total lack of vision.

If you want to see total vision, come to a Transportation Research Board annual meeting. Or an APTA annual meeting. Visions are out there. The political support is not.
For those of you who glossed over the title, It's secure boot that is now unsupported, not UEFI. UEFI is still supported.
So naive it's funny. He could have lied ("Oh, a wire came loose, but I have a service appointment booked later this week") and you would have been none the wiser. So does him telling you the truth raise or lower his EthicsFactor?

All a binary EthicsFactor does is reward pure goodness (doesn't exist) or pure evil (hopefully doesn't exist). That's also why video games with Karma meters don't work. If you can't achieve an EthicsFactor of 1 (spoiler alert: you can't), then you might as well go for 0 and try and benefit from that as much as possible. So your binary EthicsFactor thinking incentivises people towards bad behaviour. Fail.

Luckily, most people and the law is more nuanced than that.
The data is analyzed on a distributed network. You can download the app and have it run in the background or as a screensaver. If ET is found, they promise to credit the computer owner that actually finds it. Just think, you might be the one!

https://seti.berkeley.edu/participate/

I have been doing this since 2005, have processed over 5 million units, and am in the 98th percentile worldwide.
> if you're going to assert that it's impossible to know anything

I made no such assertion. I said that the economic models have no track record of successful predictions. We should not be making huge bets based on models that have no track record of successful predictions.
Build cars/machines to run on something
that is guaranteed to exist on Mars (the sun) vs. Oil

You can run internal combustion engines on Mars, provided you supply your own oxygen. This is discussed at length in The Case for Mars. It's likely that the first indigenous Mars-built Utility Vehicles will be fueled with Methane/O2 or Methanol/O2. It will be far easier to establish the tooling for internal combustion on Mars than it would be to establish Li-ion battery production.
Teens and college students hate advertising.

Sometimes targeted advertising can work. How anonymous do you feel when apps pop up ads for that thing you were searching for two nights ago on Amazon?

How many advertisers want to have their content featured next to the absolute worst thoughts people have? I regularly saw racist, sexist, homophobic, and inconsiderate content. Not to mention the sex, drugs, and underage drinking. A true advertiser's delight.
Sometimes factories run extra shifts of knockoff product to avoid paying royalties.

I had this happen once at work with SFPs. They came through a reseller and were labeled and boxed as one OEM, but were detected as being from another.
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing raises $5.5B
I'm not sure the environmental impact of fishing an invasive species to extinction is positive compared to the problems the species itself causes. Especially if you want that venture to be profitable.
That's not true! ... Some of them are articles about publicity and marketing stunts! / ;)
The International Competition Where Master Lock-Pickers Do Battle
One thing I've concluded is that it can be sincere while at the same time not accounting for their employees blood pressure during the decline.
Hmm... this is that Pharmaceuticals guy who got arrested for securities fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli

Not saying that's bad or good... just interesting.
Penn and Teller usually show you how a trick works the simple old way (like by using transparent props), and then do the trick again in a mysterious way that you can see is NOT being done the way they showed you.
I guess I sort of agree with this, but you just "knew" virtually every mainstream OS, database, and web server into "unethically unsafe", and if you believe that: are you going to stop using them right now? Keeping up with the competition isn't a license to surrender your ethics.

I'm just saying it's complicated, and part of that is because we don't really have a good grip on the problem.
> measures like reducing our emissions from power generation and more electrified transportation would have a real impact.

This always confuses me, because human CO2 emissions are about 3% of natural emissions. If the planet were so sensitive to +/- 3%, wouldn't it have gone past the point-of-no-return millions of years ago? But here we are today, and the ice core data shows wild fluctuations over periods of tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of years that greatly exceed anything we've experienced.
I hate most OpenID implementations, because I can never remember which particular provider I used to authenticate with them.
Thanks for sharing all that and informing the rest of us.
> While Earths environment may not be as harsh as Mars you still learn something

Apparently the problem of martian storms is not that rocks are flying around[1] but just plain ol' dust[2] reducing the efficiency to very low levels, both by deposit and by floating in the air.

[1]: http://www.space.com/30663-the-martian-dust-storms-a-breeze....

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleaning_event
Just... wow! How did they generate that monstrosity of a html document?
I don't see this as baseless to be honest. As someone in the camp of "technology always has political implications", one of the interesting trends I've seen with tech is that most of the benefits go to the rich first. In some ways yes, that makes sense. The problem is when they never transition to the whole population effectively. Take subways, a well-defined technology at this point. Pretty much every city you look at, there's a minority community without proper access because the city sees the cost as not worth it to build the additional line or pay for service. The Orange Line and Roxbury come to mind in Boston, who instead got a talked up bus system to replace a line moved out of a minority community.

When you see a technology like this and think of the benefits, considering who gets those benefits is a big part of the value of the idea practically. To me, it's nothing against the ideas technological merit, academic impressiveness, creative ingenuity, etc. It does reflect what ideas someone like Musk is focused on though, and I don't think bringing it up inherently means they have an axe to grind. I think Elon is doing a ton of good and is one of the few SV bigshots that deserves hype (looks sideways at Peter Thiel), but we should have realistic views on who his projects are exactly helping both short and long term.
Direct link to the announce: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/04/msg00.... The Phoronix article doesn't bring anything.

The reasons of forfeiting secure boot support can be found in the following bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820036 (look at the list of blocked bugs). The main blocker seems to be this one: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=821051 (and the root cause seems to be the lack of time from the FTP masters).
I see from the article that, at least as of 2015, they still allow "unlimited" actions per minute. Does anyone know if there's a plan to drop the apm to a more human level in any of these tournaments? It would be interesting to see a competition where micro-control of units was not a prominent factor.
They might be able to sell it?
That seems orthogonal to the point 'geofft was making, which seems like if you're going to spend the resources to dig tunnels, it makes more sense to fill them with trains than with personal cars.
SSI is awesome, and (IIRC) something DragonflyBSD was working towards once upon a time.
Currently working on some Scotch Bonnets. Carolina Reaper is stuff of legends.
UEFI, or Secure Boot?

I boot UEFI, but have SB disabled, so this will have zero impact on my systems.
Amazon is a giant garage sale. Other than prime = fast, what expectations do you really have?

I've bought stuff that ships via epacket from Guangdong over a period of weeks from Amazon.
> Yes, but who is doing the judging, and how? What does taking "moral responsibility" mean?

Hasn't this already been solved? Take a leaf out of Engineering or Medical licensing.
I'm reading the biography of Moses as we speak and the current chapter does paint him as being capable of a unique kind of horribleness, regardless of his other positive qualities.

As one of his friends described him:
"He's so forthright and honest that if he saw a man across the street who he thought was a son of a bitch, he would cross the street and call him a son of a bitch, lest by passing him in silence, his silence be misconstrued".
The Food Lab is a great resource that also delves into the science behind the recipes and experiments to see what works, e.g. taller popovers, best taste and texture for chocolate chip cookies, etc.
This is exactly my stance. I pay my employees to help get stuff done. If they can get enough done in 1 hour a week to make it worth it for me, then so be it.

If not, there is a line out the door of people who want to work remote and have that freedom and they will work harder for the same salary.

To expect any more out of a salaried employee to me is childish and petty. Be an adult and make the calculation based on what the market will bear. If someone isn't producing quality work fast enough, talk to them and explain that they aren't earning their keep and either need to step up their game or prepare to exit ... and we can still be friends.

I have spent too much time outperforming idiot cofounders who didn't do anything but watch me and complain that I didn't put in enough hours in the office regardless of the fact that I actually got things done and brought knowledge and experience to the table that moved things forward in a profound way.

I don't have to work as hard as "you" now, because I spent my adolescence building saas businesses instead of playing sports from the time school was out until 3am every day.

So I extend that same courtesy to anyone who can make things happen and I don't care how long it took you in the moment.
The economy in Central America is very different that the United States, especially around jobs. A lot of these mines are in rural, mountainous areas where the miners would otherwise be growing corn or working as day laborers on other farms. These aren't people that became destitute overnight, and in the long-term, it likely saved their lives.
Primitive Technology: Water Powered Hammer (Monjolo)
I have used mkdocs! Very cool. I actually used it to produce a newsletter. SO much easier to write the whole newsletter in md and push it to "site" which we then published via email.

Thanks for writing it. Slick, simple, and delivers.
Consuming oysters in a larger than usual amounts would result in high amounts of unwanted metals from the polluted sea (mercury etc.) in the body. Oysters are wonderful sea cleaners.

It is better for a larger population to consume them all, instead of a smaller one consuming more per individual.
I tried viewing the Look Studios website on Firefox, scrolling down with the touchpad. The website skips over some content sections and once I get to the page footer, the page suddenly scrolls extremely slowly. To the point where it looks like my browser crashes every time I reach the bottom of the page.
> These aren't people that became destitute overnight, and in the long-term, it likely saved their lives.

That I totally believe. But the miners are not so stupid that they would not be doing day labor or growing corn if it compensated them in the same way.
Unfortunately, I don't think I want to get caught up in this kind of conversation.
I would like to see the details of how some of these cases have gone done. "company time" is a very fluid concept if you are being asked to stay late and deal with issues in the middle of the night on a regular basis during your "personal time" without offering overtime pay (that's illigal btw) which is something very common in startup culture.
An important detail which doesn't change what you are saying: Secure Boot is from the UEFI specification, but I think SB is optional.
It doesn't regrow the (larger) blood vessels and doesn't maintain the original structure. A liver is essentially two halves with two separate, large blood vessels.
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Hi there,

You can start reading this article about the BFS algorithm : https://fr.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/algori...

I did a personnal webcrawler using PHP, Redis, Gearman on a single (personnal) computer with many VMs to emulate AWS instances and it works great ! You can surely improve this by using other technologies than PHP (python, C, nodejs) and Gearman (Kafka, rabbitmq).

Hope this helps
Uber China (which Didi acquired) already was.

I recently listened to the Acuired podcast about the history of Didi/Uber in China and found it incredibly interesting: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/acquired-a-podcast-about...
At first glance, I think this measure makes a lot of sense - profits from mines mostly leave the country.

That being said, I'd expect this will lead to a surge in illegal mining operations, which will likely be a lot more environmentally hazardous.
Yik Yak is still very popular on my campus and it's one of the five apps that I use everyday. Very sad to see them go.
You haven't hooked a third party app up to your Spotify account (think Amazon Echoes, random Android apps, IFTTT, etc), have you?
Is it really wasteful? It seems like it is an ever moving system. In terms of people capacity it seems it would carry more by being always flowing vs a stopping starting transit system.
JavaScript is a huge turd, the scourge of the internet.
Consider that a subsistence economy is largely lacking in currency, so jobs that pay cash are certainly more attractive that working your own corn field. But I've talked to a lot of people that work at the mines. They aren't attached to their jobs, but they'll do it while it (or they) are still around.
Then, I'm assuming you realize that your only expenses aren't premiums.
Two big problems with this:

1. How much faster do you have to get to offset the time you spend learning it?

2. Other people's computers are going to become nightmares for you.
I really like this. Have messed with the other forms of this approach over the years but this looks like the simplest. My need is to create a tool that makes easier for people to quickly throw together presentations from some boilerplate and some code, screenshots, links etc. This looks like 80% of what i need. For anything more sophisticated i would use mkdocs which i already use.
BTW i prefer to use typora for my md editing. Its (so far) the nicest tool with which to work in md directly on windows. I use MOU on osx, and downloading macdown today.
For bread, I don't think you can get much better than Tartine Bread [1]. Chad Robertson takes you through making bread from just flour, salt and water by making your own yeast starter.

For general cooking, I will also recommend La Technique [2], its short and digestible (puns always intended) increments of learning that, while old, are fundamental and classic.

If you can work through La Technique and something like Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking [3] (Which is great, but, very dense) you could move on to (and invest in -- they really are expensive) Modernist Cuisine [4], for which I think you need a good basic education on the fundamental building blocks of cooking.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F8H0FNW

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812906101

[3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WTIW93C/

[4] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0982761007
> In hindsight though, it was flatout stupid to participate in illegal activities over unencrypted IRC channels and FTP sites

This also shocked me, and taught me a valuable lesson about politics. I had thought the warez scene was a meritocracy, but affecting change was so hard. Introducing new tools/processes/encryption was almost impossible. New standards IMO only seemed to happen because P2P was putting out stuff with great quality/smaller file size because of new encoders.

In the end, I still believe the scene has done more for consumers/media consumption than anything else (maybe youtube?). I doubt we'd see streaming offerings like this if it hadn't existed. So it was illegal, but also morally right.

And pirating remains the only way to receive a great education for free, for all.
To the extent that gem finds are incident to bulk metal mining operations, it could decrease gem yield. But I'm not sure what the gems would be.

Stories on El Salvador's mining ban emphasize gold mining. I'm not sure what gems are found in coincidence with gold, except maybe quartz crystals in hydrothermal gold deposits.

Silver, copper, lead, zinc and titanium seem to be the other metals mined in El Salvador. Although there are collectable minerals associated with some of these (copper->azurite, malachite; lead->galena crystals), I can't immediately think of gemstones that occur in these metallic ores.
Debian will still support UEFI, just not SB. I use Arch and UEFI. With a kernel supporting EFISTUB, a UEFI system can boot the kernel directly, without the use of a bootloader - it's awesome!
The last time this was posted, I scored his list with Levenshtein edit distance. It was, predictably, not as good at bubbling up the best anagrams. His winner scored 11, so still somewhat near the top, but not standing out as well.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/431b163b2a2d532bfd0a3bdcc7...
If that is your idea of value, there exist plenty of scifi writers/artists with concepts like this, except more practical, better thought out, or so on

So perhaps instead of 'pointing' you should take your own advice?
Does anybody have any idea of how bad climate change would actually be to the United States? It is actually isolated from most of the world by two oceans. The US southern border is pretty inhospitable desert. The US would have defacto access to all of Canada's resources (worst case it would invade Canada and annex the productive areas most of which are near the border). With the fall of the global trade, over time the US may be more like the 1950s in terms of wealth equality. While the rest of the world becomes a hell, the US might become an isolated paradise.
By the time we've learned how to live on a planet as inhospitable as Mars, maybe we'll have figured out how to deal with LA traffic.
cons = prepend
snoc = append
fst = first item of tuple
snd = second item of tuple

>>= is monadic bind... I won't try to explain it here. It's somewhat similiar to flatmap in Scala which has some easy explanations.

zip, I just remembered I explained already.
> Europe has many countries with at least the same wish for personal space as the US

Maybe this is me being ethnocentric, but it seems the American way of embracing diversity (through political correctness, affirmative action, etc) has come at the cost of craving for isolation and independence from each other.
Most compilers can be broken up into two steps, which is what we call a front end and back end. [1] The front end of a compiler does syntactical (parsing + lexing) and semantic analysis (type checking, etc). The back end of a compiler takes in an intermediate representation of the code, performs optimizations, and emits the assembly language for a target CPU. Clang is an example of a front end and LLVM is the back end for Clang. Clang and rustc both share LLVM as a back end, meaning they both emit LLVM IR.

[1] Many compilers have much more than two stages. For example, Rust has another intermediate representation called MIR.
Amazon is shutting down its ‘Underground Actually Free’ program
Isn't this more of a social problem than a technical one? It seems to me like the main issue is a convention that a system only have a single version of a library installed, the anointed "system" version of that library. And often, binary releases of software are built against a particular cocktail of library versions from a particular distro at the time of release, each of which depends on its own cocktail of libraries, etc... In reality it's not complicated to get virtually any binary running on any system (in the worst case, just put the distro it expects into a chroot) - and there's no reason why applications couldn't just bundle all the libraries they need, right down to glibc - but it's just Not Done.