skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All my flat panel TVs have Roku 3 boxes (I don't see the need for 4K video since most of my content isn't 4K). I took a 2010 15" MacBook running 3 versions of OSX behind Seira and that runs Plex Media Server. This setup gives us easy access to Netflix, Amazon Prime as well as local content sourced from DVDs we own. Plex also lets us share videos created from our phones as well but that's probably its weakest feature.
It is my understanding that with internal combustion engines there is a trade-off between NOx and CO2. The hotter you burn, the more efficient the engine, but you also create more NOx. Volkswagen chose to tune their engines for fuel consumption, reducing GHGs, but tried to cheat their way around the illegally increased NOx.
I agree. I think robot nannies will become pretty commonplace as many of the people who can't afford human nannies take advantage of the cheaper mechanical option.
Alimony applies only if she was stay at home. If both of you work full time, divorce law won't require you to pay alimony.
Peer review is meant to compensate for scientific bias (i.e. "yes-men"). This administration is reducing peer review. Therefore the new yes-men are worse than the old.
It's almost like they are both successful but for different reasons.
The key differentiator of good ramen is the broth, followed by the meat.

For some reason ramen shops outside Japan likes to advertise about their noodles.

As for your comment about China you have to differentiate between Japanese ramen and Chinese.
Actually, it should be pretty easy to monitor without invading privacy much: just monitor water usage. If water is being used, its occupied. To combat fraud from people faking it by wasting water, just check water usage patterns. The rise of the smart home could give homeowners away to fake it, but that's a problem that can be addressed if and when thinks escalate to that point.
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Why UPS Trucks Don’t Turn Left and What Is the “Left Turn” in Your Business…
If this is true, then software engineers would stay married longer. And there are supporting stats.

http://www.electronicproducts.com/Education/Career/Do_engine...

It's interesting to note that the previous study didn't look at ability to cope with change.
And they'll all get replaced and their policies revoked in another few years. "At least a couple of decades"? You're dreaming.
That's neat, but the pictured shipwreck is only in 6 feet of water. Lake Superior often has visibility of 100 feet or deeper! I remember canoeing on the lake with my dad and seeing the bottom of the lake crystal-clear, 70 feet down. Surreal.

https://www.google.com/search?q=lake+superior+water+visibili...
> South Africa is a predominantly anglophone country, with 11 official languages. Afrikaans isn't even one of the top 2 mother tongues.

Yes but it's 3rd after Zulu and Xhosa.

And I find it amusing that you say that SA is a predominantly anglophone country, when more people speak Afrikaans in South Africa than English. [0]

+-----------+-------------+-------------+------------+
| Language | L1 speakers | L2 speakers | Total |
+-----------+-------------+-------------+------------+
| Afrikaans | 7,218,390 | 10,300,000 | 17,518,390 |
+-----------+-------------+-------------+------------+
| English | 4,890,000 | 11,000,000 | 15,890,000 |
+-----------+-------------+-------------+------------+

[0] https://www.ethnologue.com/country/ZA/languages (this link has links to more references)
Actually, Sydney has been the new Vancouver for quite some time now.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-24/why-chinese-investors-...
Or you can simply use directly BTRFS with LZO compression enabled.
You are talking about Oracle JDK and it's "field of use" restriction which prohibits usage on embedded systems (see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/...). But I am talking about Open JDK which does not have this restriction (see http://openjdk.java.net/legal/gplv2+ce.html) and can therefore be used by Google for Android.
Market cap is a meaningless metric. It tells more about state of mind of general public (greed vs. fear) than about company's well-being
I have written a toy vi clone in python, based on curses, https://github.com/RealHacker/python-vi. That's nothing compared with Vy, which obviously is a much more serious project.
Another poster commented on network issues and he's definitely correct. In terms of our network, I'm running an access point from our fiber provider connected to an Eero wifi range extender coupled to a Circle network filter. All of our Roku boxes are connected to wifi except for 1 which is hard wired. The Eero boxes span 3 floors and performance is (finally) pretty good.
Sinatra is awesome, but it has some limits. I've written http://notationtraining.com using it and been running this application for 7 or so years.

It was great when it was just two screens with a few lines of javascript, but when you keep adding functionality the code gets messy very quickly and you basically start to build some kind of meta framework on top of that DSL.

7 years in development and about million uniq users later I still like it. It just do the job, there is very few things that could go wrong and it is fast.
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> I never understood the people who argue for indefinite life extension.

I'd say admitting an inability to understand something is a good first step towards making progress. Don't lose hope.

Here's something to read in the meantime [1]

[1] https://carcinisation.com/2014/07/13/an-anti-deathist-f-a-q/
I can totally relate to that... And considering I am HPV+, the "unhealthy" part might be taken both figuratively and literally. :)

In my case, what could have helped me is guidance. Someone to tell me how to find the balance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsPoBXemFmg
If resources are limited and human brains can live forever in an artificial substrate, I see three possible futures:

1) Send of these brains to other planets.

2) Time-sharing bodies.

3) Destruction of old brains.

I would not be surprised if the last option will be considered the most inhumane.
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Ecxept for the correction that it is the authors unsupported assertion, not any actually argued thesis, I think you summarized it nicely.
> "Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), who questions the link between human activity and climate change and has several former aides now working for Pruitt, said in an interview earlier this year that under the new administration, “They’re going to have to start dealing with science and not rigged science” at EPA.:

Rigged science? What rigged science?

> "“The EPA routinely stacks this board with friendly scientists who receive millions of dollars in grants from the federal government,” Smith said at the time. “The conflict of interest here is clear.”"

This coming from Lamar Smith?

> This seems like a good move for science

You must be joking. Or you think that science is what Lamar Smith thinks it is science, get ride of any fact, and put conclusions and then look at anything that can be a proof for those conclusions.

What they are doing is not science
> In two-three generations, most everyone alive in the countries where life extension was widely adopted would be old farts that didn't want to take up much further debt, with few new ideas and not much drive left in them. "Science advances one funeral at a time", as do many other fields key to human progress.

But old farts are like that because they realise they are going to die.

Wouldn't you behave differently if you were going to live forever? You could learn new skills, invest for the really long term. Do multiple degrees, try out many professions. Start a game of Civilization on a huge map. Level up all your wow characters.
You are correct. I am arguing that WMF engineering practices are so disorganized that not only don't they qualify as agile, they don't even qualify as waterfall (which predates agile by several decades). In particular, I am part of the community of Wikipedia editors. Nobody asked us what flow or Knowledge Engine should look like. That's part of Waterfall AND Agile. Yes a dedicated person can go to the developer's separate Wiki and mailing lists, but on Wikipedia itself there is zero evidence that the principles I see at [ http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html ] are in play.

Again, the developers and their managers know this. I am convinced that they have been told in no uncertain terms that they will be fired if they interact with the Wikipedia community.

(I am the author of the op-ed. A better version is at [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... ].)
I really hate to be a naysayer, but this seems doomed to failure.

For a start, people don't want to be challenged. I'd love to know how much of the bubbling is self imposed. E.g. Ignoring everything else until Google, etc, gets the hint.

That and the fact that everyone seems to feel time poor. Sorting through what's valuable and what's not is a burden. I've tried handling the firehose new Hacker News, or even worse the RSS feeds for all the sites that typically posted. Doesn't last long.

Having said that there was an interesting paper on using Machine Learning to summarise the other day. I wonder if that could help with the snippets problem.
Why do they expect a lower number of peer reviews ? If there is a legitimate reason, then cutting the funding in proportion seems reasonable
Just about pirates?
Yes. Use the Boehm-Weiser GC. Very simple.
Maybe I read too much into what you wrote, but it seems that you have high confidence that the EPA will emerge a better agency from this. If so, I'm curious why given Trump's and Pruitt's negativity toward science, the environment, regulation, and the EPA. What's your angle?
Statistically, men and women tend to have different expectations about marriage. Thing like whose career will be the more important one, who will do child related work (all those drop offs and pick ups that take time during work day, talking with teachers etc).

If you love your job, do a lot of overtime and are happy with familly, the spouse might be increasingly unhappy without you knowing (no matter which gender is on which side).

These things matter less when you don't have children and one of you did not moved where other one has job. Meaning, they are more likely to hit married people.
Cameras don't belong in the bedroom. End of story.
“Tap water as a service” has to be satire, right?
+1.. exactly my experience with sysadmins.. install all of the just developed software of the devs on a 4+ yeah old rhel 6.5 (with custom packages for everything of course) so it's stable and tested and we can haz red hat support which we never use.
And admit to Argentinian sovereignty over the Islands? No way! 10s of millions is a small price to pay to assert British sovereignty over the Islands.
I thought Vancouver was the new Sydney/Melbourne, with the capital influx to Vancouver spurred in part by Australian government controls on foreign home buying.
You are assuming that life extension would produce lifeless old men - which of course wouldn't improve humankind. But this is not given.

Another, more optimistical way to look at life extension is that it is what neural networks are to genetic algorithms. Instead of randomized search for better parameters you get a more directed one (backpropagation). In other words, instead of waiting for the next generation to learn on the same mistakes previous ones made, we can skip this and transfer knowledge in the future much faster.

It all depends in what form the technology will surface, and what the people will use it for once it does. I am willing to bet it won't be all good, but also not all bad.
> I find a close analogy to doing drugs and drug dealers in modern society. A lot of upstanding citizens enjoy doing drugs and actually like and feel safe around their drug dealers, but rarely if ever does popular culture show that side of reality.

There are dealers and then there are dealers. A hippy friend who can get you MD, acid or DMT (which he orders on darknet) is very different from someone who pushes crack for a living in a bad neighborhood.
I don't know if I can believe that, given they also say that obviously-guilty people with "affluenza" should get off scot-free from murder charges.
This is why you should, if possible, refuel at Statoil/Circle K. Statoil is (partly?) owned by the norwegian government and is basically the only oil giant that try to preserve the environment and to reduce it's impact.

Please support companies like that.
It's funny I seem to have expressed my thoughts on this very recently [1]. Also a FAQ that you might be interested in [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14205938

[2] https://carcinisation.com/2014/07/13/an-anti-deathist-f-a-q/
Computer science is in no way a field of science. Not even close. It's a branch of mathematics. Science is the practice of generating and testing putative facts using experimental evidence. Computer science and mathematics do not rely on empirical evidence and in fact empirical evidence is entirely illegitimate as a proof method.
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If we want to "understand" what a network does, that really means we want to disentangle cause and effect and spit out simple algebraic models for it after distilling them from a training set.

To the extent this is even possible - which is debatable, for all kinds of reasons - we're going to need a different set of tools. ML is not the right tool for that problem.

Something similar to ML may be, but ML itself definitely isn't.
We like the improved table syntax in asciidoc over the alternative markdown formats...
Maybe in Victorian times using the word 'screw' would be considered offensive. The explanation is likely much more inoccuous. Using negative variable names is confusing and leads to programmer errors.
Reducing peer review is antithetical to good science, first of all.

Second of all, the failure to renew the terms of the current members, who were led to believe they would get a second term, and labeling them as "Obama appointees" rather than examining their merits as scientists, looks more like a pogrom than a rational adjustment.

And inviting the terminated scientists to reapply is a transparent ploy. I wonder, were they all to reapply, how many of them would be rehired, and what reasons would be given should they be unsuccessful?

My take is, none of them will be rehired, because if they were wanted, the EPA would simply have renewed their contracts.

And if anything, the science is more likely now to be "rigged" than it may have been (and I doubt it was) before.

Let's be objective here: which group of people in the USA have stood mostly for science, and which group against it (hint: "intelligent design" proponents and climate change deniers).
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Intel AMT vulnerability is out
Apart from the curated excerpt, which is an excellent idea, a summary (e.g. the stuff on the back cover or on the Amazon page for the book) would be useful to give people an idea of what the book is about.
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11 million in awards and grants seems like something that you can cut easily in bad times. Also, they are still generating more income than expenses, and the margin is big enough to adapt if there is a sudden decrease.
Nah, I've always found quick answers to questions in the forum.

Simplicity is under-rated. With Nim, most problems are easy to grasp just by reading source code. And when I don't understand the docs, I look for a simple example at http://rosettacode.org/
Nice project ! What kind of business model are you planning ?
And it's not even available for server versions...
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What does the calculation for file system compression look like these days? On one hand we've got faster SSDs, but on the other we've got more spare cores and SSD space is relatively expensive compared to HDD space.
Isn't that the whole point of the catalytic converter?
Yes, but you're missing the other aspect of life extension: control over effects of aging. People become "old farts" because of physical and cognitive decline. Consider evidence from rapid-aging disorders. So by preventing and repairing damage, there are no "old farts". And you get the advantages of both youth and age.
Can't speak to the US situation, but here in Canada there are anti-money laundering "know your client" rules for securities brokers - and securities are far more regulated in the US than Canada (Canada has no equivalent of the SEC). You can't just buy millions of dollars of publicly-traded securities through an anonymous shell corporation.

No such rules exist for housing that is purchased outright and not financed.

These people don't want an investment, per se. They need to store the money, but also to hide it. If the beneficial ownership of the assets purchased with the money is obscured, they can't be clawed back if they are arrested in China and charged with stealing that money in the first place.
Policies have institutional inertia. International accords can be broken, numerous polluting plants and pipelines built, and irreversible environmental damage can be done in four years. It's a matter of rolling back the effects of the policies that may take decades (or never, if the environment is pushed past the point of no return).
Wow! I just read about PFOA. Makes me scared with the Trump Administration gutting the EPA, who is looking after public interests!
Instead of "stay married, for religious reasons" I'd say "stay married, with religion as an anchor" (not sure if OPs agree, but I'd suspect they might).
Religion is not the primary reason, but added security.

> love your partner unconditionally

There is no such thing. That's an ideal, not something you can build a marriage on.

> best friend that you love to spend time with

Is every day like that?

Marriage has good and bad days. Religion can help to carry on through the bad days, by

1. restricting the quick exit paths

2. giving tools to resolve the issues, e.g. forgiveness
Oh dear, they used data to persuade voters and win the election. If they're left, they are supporters of Science and Progress and thus it's natural they win. If they're not left, they hijacked the democracy by using creepy tricks and doomed us all.
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In Norwegian, it's "stormaskin" for mainframe.
I still don't get it. The finitely many input part is irrelevant. Suppose we have a program that either produces a valid PA proof of a sentence P or fails to do so. Suppose further that, if the program failed to do so, it was obvious that P was true. This implies that P is true, but how would PA prove that?

In the case in the article, P is "e accepts such-and-such".
This was an actual thing that existed in the UK before the secret ballot and other democratic reforms, when you could effectively own an entire electoral district. They were called "pocket boroughs", i.e. they were in a patron's pocket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_and_pocket_boroughs
He was Hamilton's contemporaries, of course he know a thing or two about fake news.
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Give me a break. The project maintainer is volunteering his time to help the javascript community and is doing a fantastic job fixing dozens of bugs and adding new optimizations and features - often the same day as issues are opened. Rather than nag him, step up and review the commits yourself and make a pull request implementing a ChangeLog.
To paraphrase: Windows NUL is a poor example, IMO. Yes, it needs to be carefully handled for reasons. But it also offers great flexibility that is actually widely used, and that wouldn't be available through other mechanisms.

I rest my case. ;-)
This is far too expensive though. It is much cheaper to influence public with fabricated issues about candidates you don't like. May be 1/100th of your estimate.
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You act like agencies and experts can be rebuilt and rehired as quickly as they were dismissed. That isn't true of anything I can think of.
You could check out the Remote Control Collection app. It will allow you to use your phone for controlling the mouse, keyboard and media players.
Did you open your eyes the last 100 days? Fuck yeah it matters. We have one of those fuckers pulling the levers right now.
I agree it's good Statoil is making an effort, and they are most definitely trying to pivot into renewables (mainly offshore wind). But they also do some stupid shit, like oil sands in Canada.

However I don't know if they're unique in this aspect, e.g. Saudi Aramco, ExxonMobil, Total are all huge oil companies that are pivoting into solar and wind. At this point it just makes pure business sense; renewable energy has (or will soon, depending on which tech) become profitable even without subsidies. These companies have a lot of engineering talent and money they can invest in projects. They see that oil and gas long term future prospects are bad (production costs are going up while demand is going down). Renewables are the opposite, costs going down and demand increasing. They are already energy production companies.

You can also see they're playing on their strengths, like Statoil doing offshore wind because of their experience with offshore structures in adverse weather, while Saudi Aramco know lots about building and operating production equipment scattered around the desert so they focus on solar, etc.
Interesting point. Now I'm definitely not donating my body to science.

It would be OK if some med students dissected me to see if I had coronary artery disease. But I don't want Victor Frankenstein rearranging my body parts to see what kind of monster he can create. And I most definitely don't want scientists to leave my body out in the woods so they can observe bears, coyotes, and deer nibbling on it.
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It's not an unsolved problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom

Elinor Ostrom received a Nobel Prize for researching into how societies have develop structures to manage commons sustainably. Unfortunately her conclusion was there is no default solution.
Because (m)alloc predates mmap by a decade or so [1], and you expressly don't want stack-like allocation semantics when using malloc (otherwise you'd just put it on a/the stack).

[1] And you cannot have more than one heap without mmap. Without mmap, you only have sbrk = the one heap. On UNIX and those that pretend to be, anyway.
Even if I agree with you, and I am wrong in including Computer Non-Science, my point stands just as strongly. Mathematics is a foundation of science, and people working in the objective, analytical disciplines, like computers and engineering, should, I expect, understand the value of science.

My main point stands, even if my appeal to Computer Scientists was wrong.
no, it is stupidity and venality and nepotism. capitalism is a stupid social club for jerks and retards
My feeling is that when a topic of discussion finally comes along that you perhaps didn't even realize your mind has been working on for a long time, it just pours out of your fingers like magic.
Maybe if all we did was concern ourselves with mathematical complexity of algorithms but analysis of caching, network traffic, performance heuristics and countless other aspects of computer science require the scientific method and empirical data.
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What kind of a question is that? Does it add value to the discussion?
Here's hoping it's secretly cleaning up space junk this whole time, and returning it to earth to be recycled into toys for homeless orphans
My anecdote: I once had a Medium article posted over here and had hundreds of people coming from HN reading the post. I think, as others are telling you, the title needs to arouse the interest of people for them to click the link.