skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loading the cargo onto ships was only the next logical step because it has almost not disadvantages.

Blockchains, especially Bitcoin, have multiple fundamental flaws that only wait until they are exploited. Bitcoin for example is the most inefficient way of handling payments ever invented. The whole system is based on the fact that not someone with a higher hashrate comes along. State-level actors might be not be a threat to the system right now but wait until it gets more and more popular. Most of the miners (and the hashrate) are in China and the Chinese government will not sit with their hands in their laps while a unregulated currency becomes widely adopted in the country.
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Struggling to cover terrorism in the media age
What the hell!? This sounds like a genuine case of child abuse...
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If only, if only Apple made something like the Surface Studio
>How is this not bad?

In that it shows some effort and respect for the other's eyes, plus some sense of aesthetics (the looks as in "presentation", not as in being naturally good looking).

>I don't think the saying is "judge a book by its cover"

Well, that's deprecated advice. It hold true when it was created in 19th early 20th century, when books all had the same leather bound cover or bland design.

The last 30+ years books have tons of information on their cover, including awards the book has won, short reviews, recommendations, a summary, and even a small bio of the author in some cases. You are supposed to judge them by their cover -- that's how you pick them in the bookstore.
And more expensive, and slower, and only functional at all after buying into an entire parallel infrastructure that doesn't appear to interoperate with what the rest of the world uses, and all you actually get out of it is name service.

This is not a new Internet. This is a good way to waste time, effort, and money on something that's had a lot more thought put into the comprehensiveness of its rhetoric than into the comprehensiveness of its actual offering.
>I've started seeing really short zippers, which is unfixable and best to avoid.

Buttons are where its at.
Like NQ Mobile?

China could decimate the world of commerce, more than they do today, if they worked on honestly.

I'm personally sick of all the shinagigans.

I don't want the families of these corrupt companies buying up houses in my neighborhood either.

And it's still just "Buy that house in American." We need to demand citizenship in all realeste purchases.
"Dear Diary, my new boss hovered over me for hours today while I was trying to get some urgent work done. Please kill me now. :-P
"
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It's not about fashion, it's about the fact that we have long folklore about people in suits. Almost everyone who is in a suit is out to get you for something. Bosses, Ignorant Managers, Salesmen, Estate Agents[0], Religious salesmen, etc, etc.

Almost all of those are people who prey on the weak, the meek, and the pitiful.

hiss.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7ap6-e3mVg
Ah, you're just really bad at communicating and get upset when people don't recognize your innate "cred".

I tried to be nice to you because what you said was ambiguous, period. But i guess if that's how you react then you deserve those downvotes.
>The real danger is nobody cares anymore, as this enables all further constitution violations and hollowing of citizen protection worldwide.

The upside is that a society that doesn't care, eventually gets what it deserves.
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What do I do, as someone who cares? No, seriously. Should I throw a bit more money at the EFF? Start my own political party, or enter an existing one and try to steer it in my direction? Try to get employed by one of these organizations and then promote a better understanding of their mission internally? Move to another country where people care more (which?)

Identifying the problem is a good first step, but what can we do about it?
>If you think people are wealthy and elite because they have got land, how do you explain how they got the land?

By being given it by a state (which you have already said, in turn used force) or by forcefully taking it. It's primitive accumulation in the second instance and favouritism in the first. However both methods involve the creation of the concept of this type of property and further to take it, which requires as Proudhon put it, barbarism.
1) Re-read Vox piece again, and you will see that aside from the 100% objectively false claim that "no self-respecting statistical geneticist would undertake a study based only on self-identified racial category as a proxy for genetic ancestry measured from DNA", the entire basis of their objection to group differences in IQ are the 5 facts that I spent most of the article responding to.

2) Never said Murray was an authority. I wrote he rebutted Dickens and Flynn on the non-narrowing of the gap in the last 25 years, which is correct, regardless of whether he's an "authority." Also, I didn't say he "doesn't understand the science," I said he doesn't understand the details of the mathematical techniques in a paper regarding the nature of the Flynn effect. This seems unimportant because Wicherts's conclusion -- that the Flynn effect gains have a different structure than the B-W IQ gap -- is uncontroversial.

3) Not really. I was citing Flynn for making the same point as Wicherts's above re: structure of FE gains, a demonstration that it's not just Wicherts's theory. I quoted him saying un-PC things about black culture just to demonstrate that in order to rebut Murray's unPC claims many scientists come up with different unPC hypotheses.

4) Talk about "handwaving": it would be helpful for you to elaborate what arguments you think actually "dissipate" on a second reading but I doubt you will.

And I would care more about your ad-hominem attack were it not for the Rindermann survey. Which brings me to my final point: you have it completely backwards when you say "Turkheimer and Nisbett are at pains to point out that their views aren't uniformly shared by everyone in the field. Rather, they take Murray (and, by implication, Sam Harris) to task for summarizing a contentious scientific debate as if it were settled." The scientists at Vox rather explicitly say that no credible scientists attribute some group IQ differences to genetics, while the survey I cite in the Medium article is convincing that is an inaccurate assessment of the views of researchers in this field. Moreover it's pretty clear that Harris does not believe the science is settled, and Murray also thinks that we should wait for direct DNA evidence to say that it's settled.
If people care enough, they can bring down governments...

And in much worse conditions...
The Panopticon central says 'cash is going bye bye sunshine'.
> It annoys my girlfriend (who posts regularly) that I don't read what she posts (sometimes I do, but that leads to a time sink when I see everything else I've "got" to read).

This sounds batshit crazy to me.

Honestly if my partner expected that of me and used it as a reason to be upset with me I'd be thinking of ending the relationship.
How do you invite someone to repost something?
How is England not 'like Zimbabwe' already? Its land is owned by protected minorities, is it not?
Dr. Stallman and FSF always promoted used of free software to counter surveillance.
No way. The point of an issue tracker is to be a todo list of bugs and features for the project. Its right there in the name - issue tracker. Ideally when a bug is fixed, I can mark the issue as FIXED and move on to the next one.

Questions in an issue tracker are like rocks in my shoes. You have to work around them, and they bug you (the developer), not the person who put the rock there. When can a maintainer close a question-issue? Never - because whether a question has been resolved is up to the person asking, not the person answering. As a maintainer, if half the open issues in an issue tracker are questions, my "open issues list" is suddenly completely useless. And this is really common because lots of people asking questions will disappear and never never close the issue once the question has been answered.

User questions are important, but the github issue tracker isn't the right place for them. If you want to take notes but the only paper you can find is my todo list, its still not ok to take notes in my todo list. Github issues is the same.
> The one of the product of that excellent education system was Milosevic as well.

Not the best phrasing, one could deduct from it that the education system was broken.

Of course bad people will benefit from education as well as good people, but this is not a reason to stop educating people.
Read Matt Levine's column on Bloomberg. All of them, and the ones from when he worked for Dealbreaker as well. He tells the stories in a clear way that makes sense, cutting through a lot of nonsense, and so you understand the key points even without getting the jargon, and then you gradually pick up the jargon too.
The registry is incomplete, and ownership through shell companies and trusts is essentially secret ownership.
Can you elaborate

It is truly decentralized and "phones home" only if you ask it to via the --push/--fetch options, and only for convenience feature : finding other nodes endpoints, summing up global space usage, ... All the coordination is done in a peer to peer fashion.
Yea--it's getting old, and all seems cool when your young and gleefully employed, or living off daddy quietly.

The realeste issue wouldn't bother me so much if we were allowed equal property rights in these countries.
Hi Nick, thanks for your reply. Our point here is to completely eliminate trust. There is a lot of shady behaviour in the current ticketing industry - for example at initial releases of tickets, under the table deals between promoters and ticket resale platforms exist where promoters give these platforms a percentage of the initial release to put directly on the secondary market, in exchange for percentage commissions on each of those tickets sold.

To solve this, yes theoretically you could have a trusted third-party intermediating, but who would that third party be? If this were a product created by a monopoly with 80% market share, could you completely trust that the third party selected to intermediate were completely independent, especially when they are dis-incentivised from finding an unbiased third party that they could not influence?
For the quick-sort case, log n need not be 64. That presumes no duplicates. In the problem to be solved. duplicates matter. Now, in practice it seems unlikely that more than 2^64 integers will need to be sorted, but for the rigor of asymptotic notation, you need to consider that case.

I'd like to add that the tree-structure needed for radix sort is going to make it useless in practice. Trees are essentially synonymous with cache-misses.
>They'll start caring again about privacy when people start being dragged out of their homes in the middle of the night for participating in protests, not just against the government, but against large corporations, too.

They still will not, since it will be others, and a small minority, that does that and gets dragged, etc.

The problem is that a society that stifles those small minorities (from labor activists in early 20th century to MLK, Snowden, and so on) ends up worse for everybody.
Plato must be very old.
Ethereum is one exception to this; it's defined by a written spec and there are multiple independent clients, written in different languages. One of the most popular clients is the open source product of a private company independent of the Ethereum Foundation.

Of course Ethereum is one chain that infamously forked. That was only possible because all the client devs agreed to do it, and most users chose to use the new software. (Some didn't, so the original chain still exists as ETC.)
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So we'll be able to assign jobs at birth? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
> and that the improper searches constituted a “very serious Fourth Amendment issue,”

I for one hope the people involved get a very stern talking to.
> bitcoin sees liquidity problems at something more like $1M orders.

$100k or less. http://www.coindesk.com/high-seas-bitcoin-trading-whales-sti...
On my first day, I was mistaken for one of the 30+ students arriving for interviews for summer research positions.

One of the students was late, the busy receptionist assumed it was me, and rushed me to the student interview room.

Meanwhile, my manager is at reception, on time, wondering where I am, and who the stressed-looking 19 year old is.
>I call Bullshit on you. The one of the product of that excellent education system was Milosevic as well. Serbia with Milosevic started the last Balkan Wars in its desire to renew Dusan's Empire, or in common tongue, to make a greater Serbia.

Rather that's the party line. Because other sides weren't angels either, and a lot of the atrocities/stories pilled on the Serbian side were manufactured BS.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/16/denying-the-srebrenic...

In the end, it was all for creating another protectorate (Kossovo) -- and militant islamism penetration thriving.
if it's 35-40 outside you don't wanna collapse when you step outside, just because inside office you had 20-21, which actually means free degrees less since temperature sensor is usually on unit at ceiling with hot air
Well, I used it for a few years until experience showed that having a phone on you all the time does not actually provide any benefits, so it's mostly landline replacement indeed.
Which is why he didn't expand on it until he got to the MVP stage. Not wanting to make an MVP, because you're a scientist not a salesman, does not mean that what you do make actually already is an MVP. It's a distinction with a difference. I just used it as an example to illustrate the idea.
SF is really productive these days (much more than even a few years ago), and, per George, productivity increases are captured in land value.
Like... in Wine? (Yes I read the readme)
MicroPython running “bare metal” in the browser via unicorn.js
It's not OK that this doesn't shock me!
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By happenstance I just came across one that was intentionally misattributed.

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
-Lee Harvey Oswald.
How anonymous is cash really? All money bills have serial numbers that could automatically be correlated with ATMs and your time/location data.
The problem - and I use the word "problem" here very loosely - is the ease of access that GitHub provides. Even back in the heyday of mailing lists there was noise to deal with, but nowhere near the amount maintainers on GitHub can find themselves dealing with these days.

Formal bug reports are certainly important, however as the author points out the Issues feature in GitHub too often gets used for simple questions that could have been answered reading the docs, searching past issues, or just googling it.

The templates GitHub added last year have been a godsend in terms of improving things but I'd like to see an option to make filling out the template mandatory.
If they can still make predictions based on a partial dataset it's better than nothing and probably profitable to use. Chuck some linear regression or similar at it.
I've had to write code to get summary data for pages multiple times in my career.

I needed to do it most recently for a newsletter app and figured it would be worth making a tiny API for. It could be used for chat apps or any social apps where links are shared.

I added the "CSS Selector" feature mainly for fun. Not sure how much use it would be outside of scraping etc.
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I read the readme, but i still can't understand how is different than winelib (and i don't know much of ndiswrapper internal).

I understand that since is a debugging oriented tool has a different scope than wine, but why don't use (at least partially) the already implemented windows function?
I am missing something? maybe this is more efficient o maybe wine is not enough modular?
But it's not like agreeing to a ToS allows you to do illegal things, stalking being one of them. And yes, the definition keeps fitting more and more Google's tracking methods.

I know that I sound dramatic, but all of these kind of things that we have let Google do would be considered HIGHLY illegal if instead of a company it was a single, private individual.
You're exactly describing the reason why there is checks and balances. "People in power" is supposed to be a heterogenous group with different interests and formal functions. Your post suggests that it doesn't work properly in your country anymore. I wonder where exactly one could pinpoint the weak spots and systemic issues.
Shortly after the introduction of the first generation of brain-computer interfaces: "Why do I have to think of Ctrl-C to copy text in this program? All the other programs have me think of a banana to copy a selection!"
As usual, the European Union has some good intentions in this area:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/10/whatsapp-...

We'll see how that goes. I have a feeling most users will just opt in without much care.
The way i deal with those is by closing the issue immediately after answering. If the user still has a follow up question, he is free to leave a comment, and I'll get notified he does.
I am a dual Canadian-Hungarian citizen, residing in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I work remotely for a USA client. Avoiding the USA is hard / impossible.
> Does matrix.append(x) in python append by reference or by value? Both are equally likely without knowing anything about the language.

I don't think they're equally likely. The question would have the same answer in Javascript, Ruby, Lisp, Perl 6, Java, and many other languages. You can see from the code samples that Python is a high level, dynamic, imperative language, so I think it's fair to assume you would expect that behaviour from it. There's a bit of guessing, but you can make an educated guess.
You're absolutely right. When I saw this headline, I just thought, "yeah we know​, is anyone surprised?"

It shouldn't be like this, we should be outraged every time. I wonder if they planned it like this.
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You didn't get the memo. We don't trust anyone now.
Avoidance of capital controls seems like the main reason. The company would like to buy dollars but isn't allowed to, so they buy a company that has a revenue stream in dollars instead.
That's an upside?
Maybe so. But SOD started in the 70s. Its focus was drug cartels. I'm guessing that NSA staff reached out to the FBI.
Interesting. Was this different when Amazon was still taking on losses ? I ask because, over here in India, certain items are almost definitely cheaper than in retail stores. There are of course other factors at play such as India's 'broken' logistics infrastructure and so on.

Then again, now that Flipkart has taken a beating and Snapdeal is being sold, things may be more real soon.
Interestingly there was a line in the Tory manifesto about merging the relevant parts of Ordnance Survey, the Land Registry and so on to make a decent digital map of Britain that contains information about companies, land ownership, underground infrastructure etc.

I'm glad someone is finally doing it. The Tories have a pretty good track record on digital government (the gov.uk website is also great). Unfortunately that was the only clearly good thing I found in the manifesto.
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It's hard enough getting people to use VPNs and Tor.
I will, as I've already printed it and there's no reason to change now. It'll be interesting to see how it goes.
emptywheel.net is generally a good source for lawyerly concerns about surveillance.

I don't have time to track down if she has anything on circa's issues specifically, but:

https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/03/17/ron-wydens-complaints-...

https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/05/03/i-con-the-record-trans...

https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/05/02/i-con-the-record-trans...

... etc.
Honest advice... the real engineering world is never about perfection. Most of the time you have a lack of business information, requirements missing, no test cases, etc.

The bigger the company, the larger chances to see code that is far from perfection are. Business process and large amount of teams make it harder to acquire all information needed to engineer things.

Also, most of the time it is about satisfying a customers needs. That is not about doing it right, it is about making it work.

Companies building solid code exist. They are rare and usually not the ones making billions in the market.

I find it pretty amusing that people assume Google, Microsoft, etc. would actually be rock solid as those have a sufficient amount of damaged legacy code that for thousands of reasons needs to stay broken.

Parting words: ditch perfectionism, embrace the 80/20 percent pattern instead.
With your numbers, Apple's daily trading volume is 1/250 of its shares. Using the numbers on coinmarketcap right now, Bitcoin's marketcap is $39 billion with a 24-hour volume of $1.5 billion, so it actually has a better ratio of 1/39. Ethereum is even better at 1/31.

http://coinmarketcap.com/
Buildings are different here, I live in an apartment complex and the garage is like a parking garage. Anyone can walk in behind someone who forgot to close the door, but there's not much they can do, since it's just parked cars and apartment doors.

For a few months, we even had the garage door stay completely open all the time, due to some power problems.
GP's argument was that reading is "exactly the opposite of a creative endeavor" ... To me, that does not hold up.

I guess I'm saying reading exercises the creative muscles more than not reading- and possibly more than entertainment where you can be more passive, like TV. Language alone can never fill in all the blanks. Reading IS an act of consumption but also one of creation.

> no reader of a Culture novel is going to create a story about two lovers in present-day Seattle in their minds.

Definitely. The difference between readers at the high level ought to be pretty small, but at the detailed level (how do people look, what is their voice like, how fast are they), stuff it's highly unlikely to really be the same.
Yet more errors in papers
I suppose if you squint an apple does look like an orange.
The stores in malls have always struck me as too mainstream. I n contrast I like lurking in local book/cycle stores that stock old/used stuff. Goodwill is interesting too; you have no idea what you'll find :D
It's funny because i actually did exactly what you're talking about once when I ran into a bug in the parsing logic of wikitext tables in pandoc. I read the (extremely well organized) source, having never ever done any haskell before. The fix ended up being a 2 character change, it took me an hour to do, and I didn't really have to learn haskell to do it.

Point being, if you find a bug in a software, as a fellow developer, I think it's reasonable for the maintainer to expect you to at least take a quick look around. Regardless of prior knowledge. You get to learn stuff, and the project maintainers have their load lighten up.
Trigger warning: Anecdotal evidence :)

Where people live in apartments (usually in cities), there frequently are too few parking spots anyway, so a lot of people use public transit. Those people at my office who commute in by car do so because they live in villages where public transit connections are too seldom to be reliable. Those who live in the city commute by tram.