skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there evidence of this? I can think of numerous failsafe ways of going out and killing hundreds of people with zero chance of being detected prior to the fact. Terrorists may be uneducated, but are they dumb?
I guess like Dumbledore says "In fact, being rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huge"
I'd still prefer to know what I am in for, rather than be mislead to get there. And don't call me surly.
It's not really "the west" per se because it's a bit different in Europe vs. US/Canada. And you know what? It's newcomers' jobs to assimilate themselves.
Submitter here.

John Danaher (the author) posts to Google+ (where I'd first sighted this), and addresses similar questions at times. Csikszentmihalyi is one of the better Western authors on the topic. And good material (accessible, insightful, not facile) is difficult to find. Robert Sopolsky is another favourite. Daniel Kahneman has some useful insights.

I'm finding myself going through much of the background and history of philosophy, media studies, advertising, distraction, and more, over the past year or so, increasingly over the 2016 US election cycle and aftermath. I've also found my own ability to tolerate distraction, and/or response to removing distractions, is profound. Jerry Mander, Niel Postman, and Noam Chomsky have some commentary on this.

I'm particularly interested in the limits and properties of attention. There's some literature here -- David Simon, Alvin Toffler, and via their references, some earlier work.

There's also much in the mindfulness and meditation literature, some good, much not, going back through several thousand years of Japanese, Chinese, and Indian traditions, though you'll also find some of this within Judeo-Christian and Islamic texts, as well as others.

I'm coming to view the state of attention and mindfulness as the necessary quiet in which to detect subtle distinctions -- a cleanroom or highly-calibrated state, if you will. It's not for all purposes, but is essential to some.
Because people reflexively rationalize and justify immoral behaviors and atrocities with that's just how the market works. It's a cop out, it's a perpetuation of the status quo and a barrier to improving it.

Your argument is basically equivalent to 'trump isn't perfect, but he's a whole lot better than hitler'. While true, it's merely a distraction from the conversation at hand.
> The fact that they try to force me to install their messenger app

Treat it as asynchronous communication, using a client like Swipe for Facebook (for Android, don't know about iOS alternatives) to look at messages when you feel like doing it.

Use another app for synchronous purposes. Facebook's own WhatsApp is a lot more secure, for starters.
Like this:

http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/a0032e/a0032e0w.jpg

Your technical preference is a position you take to achieve your interests. To collaborate, you have to be willing to reveal and effectively articulate your underlying interests.
That's what I was thinking earlier today, I heard that the "Islamic community" reported this guy on 5 separate occasions or something like that.

Not successfully following up could be a number of things though, it's pretty difficult to determine which it might have been when you can hardly trust what is printed in the newspapers or comes out of politicians mouths.
Noise pollution, and complaints of city noises (and smells) pre-date industrial times. You'll particularly find diatribes about this from writers, scientists, and philosophers. Horse's hooves and carriage-wheels on cobbles and pavingstones, for example.

Prior to organised sanitation systems, olefactory assaults were also far more common.
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This is de-facto the case with almost any fiat online payment. It is rare for a bank/card issuer to rule against a consumer in a dispute. No one should start a business believing they'll be able to successfully challenge more than the tiny number of flagrantly and obnoxiously fraudulent chargebacks.
The readme might deserve some love. A one-liner is not that helpful... :)
I was hoping to read about his supposed genius vocabulary, which I did a study of here:

https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/shakespeare_un...

my first ever blog post :)

I also resent the clickbaity title of the article here.
Tell that to the parents of a child who just had their limbs blown off.
facepalm. really.

Thank you, random citizen.
The way I see it is an over clock is only stable if it can run the same applications as a stock clocked chip could at full bore for the same time periods. So if you could take a stock 4770k or something and run prime95 small FFTs albeit at 90C for 24 hours with no issues then your OC should as well. Having a high standard like that means I have more confidence in my OCs and my systems.
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About the question whether Apple has invented a better UI and whether someone else did or could have done the same:

Regardless what you think about UI-paradigms or vendor lock-in, there is something that Apple spends far more time on than others to get right:

Papercuts [0]. Every interface comes with a thousand little annoyances that distract and increase cognitive load. Apple tries to bring this number to zero.

You have to find managers and developers willing to reserve a LOT of time for these "trivialities", but ultimately that summed-up effort is what makes their computers so convenient to use.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_cut_bug
This video[0] (dated Nov 29, 2016) says 381 forked packages. That's not nearly as bad as it sounds because many individual software projects are divided up into multiple packages.

For example, libvirt[1] produces 9 packages consisting of: libvirt-bin, libvirt-clients, libvirt-daemon, libvirt-daemon-system, libvirt0, libvirt0-dbg, libvirt-doc, libvirt-dev, libvirt-sanlock.

The video is rather interesting for learning about how the project came about and how it works in general.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMvyOGawNwo

[1]: https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/libvirt/blob/master/d...
Biggest problem with food tech is (IMO) the low barrier to entry. You can offer food at 4$ rates but so will your competitors (eventually atleast).

> These Centralized Kitchens Offer all Kinds of meals: Chinese, Japanese, Thai, American fastfood etc..

Easy to say, much much harder to implement, specially accounting for personal preferences( extra tomatoes, less/more spicy etc.

That said, there is definitely a huge market opportunity here. A slightly easier approach, I've often thought about, is starting off with a single kitchen where the food is cooked, selling it in high density areas (subway/bus station) via kiosks and vendors. You can do quality control and build your brand. Eventually, you could go after this monthly meal option.

An even bigger opportunity could lie in the logistics space (Transporting the food from cooking location to destination).

This might also be interesting: 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxW9sUnodM8
> It's newcomers' jobs to assimilate themselves.

If you wants bombs going off in public places, sure.

We are deciding to allow immigration/refugees from these cultures, and we have ample evidence to know what happens when they are managed in the way we are doing now. I think whose "job" it is to manage assimilation is largely irrelevant compared to the effects of not doing it properly.
I guess a more analogous phenomena would be sudden death due to various medical conditions. Just to pick a random one (not the only one): spontaneous coronary artery dissection.

Statistics are rather difficult to come by on this, but assuming the US population incidence is 0.28% [0] of all 735,000 'heart attacks' per year in the US [1], with a mortality rate of 60% (wikipedia says 70% but that number is iffy), that's 1235 random "sudden deaths" per year from just one non-preventable and non-predictable medical condition alone.

So I suspect the more general point, that statistically you are much more likely to be randomly killed by "not terrorism", is probably a valid one.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3249260/

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/heart_attack.htm
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Rumor has it that certain Arab states are directly funding Islamic terrorism today.

Also, Western states and NGOs supported and continue to support various rebels against old, mostly totalitarian and often USSR/Russia-friendly regimes in the region which used to maintain order and keep extremists under their boot. They do it in the name of democracy but how it is turning out we all see.
Very astute indeed, this is my first time hearing about it.

Copy pasted below:

> The distinction that really matters is not between violence and non-violence, but between having and not having the appetite for power. There are people who are convinced of the wickedness both of armies and of police forces, but who are nevertheless much more intolerant and inquisitorial in outlook than the normal person who believes that it is necessary to use violence in certain circumstances. They will not say to somebody else, ‘Do this, that and the other or you will go to prison’, but they will, if they can, get inside his brain and dictate his thoughts for him in the minutest particulars. Creeds like pacifism and anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics — a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage — surely that proves that you are in the right? And the more you are in the right, the more natural that everyone else should be bullied into thinking likewise.

My two cents is that the vast majority of people likely have the similar capacities for violence, their expression only changes in different contexts and for different reasons. Orwelles articulates that in the political context, the most likely reason for violence is to attain power, so those who care less for power have less reason and therefore less-seeming capacity for violence.

I quite like how he establishes that the reason for violence comes before the capacity of violence when considering if someone will be violent/express violence.

That man had a window into the political soul.
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I went in and untagged myself from a bunch of stuff my parents posted after my online friend commented on one of the pictures. It wasn't that it was super problematic, it's just I realized I really didn't want family pictures broadcast to my friends.
I would say yes, and if you are working with BLE, a lot of the time you have too. Imagine building some hardware that interfaces with an app and connects via BLE. Maybe the hardware could have two different physical pieces that exchange data, as well as handles and responds to user interactions. You need to have complete control of those transactions if you are thinking of a product that the public will use. In general, the larger projects we worked on, we had to build our own protocols if we also were developing the hardware/fw.
What HN chooses to reward/promote, or not, is exceedingly idiosyncratic. I honestly didn't expect much out of this piece, though I did think it addressed a useful and important question. I was surprised to find it had attracted this much attention (and all due irony noted). My experience on submissions is all over the map.

There are important questions and matters out there. That's what I've been focused on for some time now, with an increasing awareness that the focus itself is a significant issue -- it's hard to make assessments of significance with a cluttered mind.

If you feel that surveillance and intelligence agency or law-enforcement issues are significant (and I believe they are, very much), then find and submit good stories on same. Do it frequently. Realise that you'll be lucky (very lucky) to see one in ten submissions go anywhere.

Part of the skill is in recognising the moods of the beast. Even then, it'll do what it'll do.
Ask my users if Apache failing to start on openSuSE because of systemd and lack of ServerName resolution is "barely noticeable".
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If you have ever used TWM, then you would know that the 'T' stands for Terrible. Fortunately, there are lots of lightweight WMs that are far better.
Personally, I use tiling WMs (namely XMonad at the moment), so I could really care less what GNOME, KDE, et al are up to. However, I realize most people are accustomed to stacking WMs and expect something similar to what is provided by proprietary OSes with a similar amount of eye candy as well.
Yup. I'm running a four year old phone because it does what I want and newer phones don't. Money isn't even an issue, there just isn't choice out there today.
How industrial are we talking? Is it certified for use in industrial environments? I saw a few mentions of IEC61131-2, but I couldn't find whether it actually has certifications.

If it is suitable for use in the industry, I can't wait to ditch ladder and Structured Text in favour of modern programming languages for industrial controllers.
That's a question I think the article is particularly useful for in that it suggests a model: Privilege, Power, Claim, and Immunity. Within these concepts, I see the emergence of both legal and technical means to address the matter.

The concepts of product liability and mitigations, generally addressed through an insurance, that is, risk-pricing system, which moves otherwise uncertain and frequently avoided costs, to the fore, putting a tangible and current price on them, is another model.
This is entirely fair. I think when someone's take differs from our own, it's easy to assume that it took effort for them to get there. You're right though. It was probably just what jumped into their mind.

When I do have a negative interpretation of someone's words, and I'm sure I'm less good at this than I like to imagine myself, I like to think that I at least try to imagine how they would have liked me to interpret those words. This sounds kind of, moral platitude-ish. I don't mean it in that way. Attempting to interpret someone charitably is a self defense. It's for me. I need to think this way to keep myself settled. If I don't, I end up angry at everything.

I think you're right and I appreciate the insight. Thanks.
This is awesome! I'm trying to dig out early 90s warez/gamez nfo files to run through this thing!
Care to submit an issue to GitHub? I'm a bit surprised that you would run into many errors, if you really have Node >= 4 and npm >= 4.
Perhaps you could give some examples of "cool tricks"?
Is this a just a regular Raspberry Pi in a nice case?
The Globe is Round
It's amazing how many of these services I find out about in their "shutting down" announcements.
This, yes; I was talking about video editing, not video recording.
What did systemd do wrong to cause that? Mess up DNS?
> could access a max of 64 kilobytes of RAM

This is incorrect. A COM program had to fit its code and static data into 64K, but it could access as much RAM as existed on the machine.

A related misconception is that the segment registers in COM programs had to have all the same value. This is incorrect as well, as the program once loaded could reset them to any value.
I don't know what language/toolchain you're using but this should apply to any language I'm familiar with (Python, Go, to a lesser extent Java):

- Have applicants keep their code in their own repo. No need to clutter your VCS with their stuff. Anyone applying for a development position should already have one anyway. If you're concerned about applicants scanning Github for completed assignments, have them upload a zip of the code to <insert favorite cloud service here>. Clear the bucket/folder every 30 days (easily automated).

- Tell applicants exactly what you are going to do test their code. Tell them the steps you will take exactly and that if their code doesn't run with these steps you won't try to debug it. Don't be heartless though, if it doesn't run at first let them know and give them an opportunity to fix it. We all make mistakes.

- As for sandboxing, take care of it yourself. Provide a base docker image or include instructions on how to setup vagrant. We used to provide a vagrant file and include instruction on how to setup it up and get your code inside of it. Developers that struggled with this, struggled with the assignment in general. This is especially relevant if you deploy your code using some kind of virtualization.

- Be very specific in your requirements and in the details of the environment that their code will be run in. If you don't want to jump through hoops getting a machine to be able to run their code let them know their code should work on a clean install of <your favorite OS> with no additional system packages aside from the language itself and required compilers/toolchain (maven, pip, godep, virtualenv, etc). If the assignment requires other stuff be installed, Pillow an image processing lib for Python requires some C libraries be installed for example, install it yourself and let them know the version you have and that their code should work with that. Docker is your friend here.
That's not a very representative screenshot of PalmOS since it's a Palm emulator running on Nokia's Maemo.

Here's a more representitive shot: http://e.cdn-hardware.com.br/static/books/smartphones/cap5-9...
This would have been perfect for my last startup. Keeping those damn Pi's running when they were deployed across the country was a nightmare.

The SD cards had around a 20% failure rate per year. Eventually I just started shipping each system with a backup SD card taped to the inside of the case.
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Heh, I agree in theory. In practice, people speak very broken English, and it helps to understand where they come from. Of course, that goes both ways. As someone from Montreal/Quebec, I rarely meet someone from France who spoke good English, just saying. (and I'm sure they think the same of my French, even if it's my first language ;-)
No, it appears to be using the Raspberry Pi 3 compute module. That's essentially a small circuit board with the core components of an RPi3 already designed and assembled. They then solder/plug this module into a larger board to add connectors and peripherals to it. So there's some custom design involved.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/compute-module-3-launch/
What we (especially cities) need more than driverless cars are carless drivers.
> ostensibly only after terrorists

Only wittingly.
Hey! Author here :-)

I did know Storium! It's very similar indeed but I decided to write my own because it didn't quite fit my vision.

1) I have an intense hate for challenge-based RPGs, and I hate when players have to do math or focus on calculating if they have enough points of whatever nonsense to reach some target.

2) I didn't want players to write part of the story text themselves because I wanted all that text to have a single voice/style. NARROWS has a way to "export" a narration as a kind of novel, and it reads more or less like a normal short story.

3) I wanted it to feel as immersive as possible, and have as little UI (for the readers) as possible. Having an audio track and a background image for every chapter was important to me. It might be a petty thing, but as I had decided to write my own anyway...
I work on FPGA embedded vision.

I think a lot of people in this thread are making incorrect assumptions about FPGAs implementations of neural network applications.

(1) forward networks are constant multiplications, i.e. Fixed shift and add. FPGAs are very nearly optimal architecture for programmable constant-shift-and-add

(2) individual neurons in a network can be bitwidth optimized and huffman encoded for bit-serial execution, FPGAs are a very nearly optimal architure for variable bit-width operations in a bit serial architecture with programmable huffman decoders [edited: huffman encoding, not hamming]

(3) running a forward network requires multiple channels of parallel memory with separate but deterministic access patterns. Most fpga architurs are designed with onboard ram specifically to be used this way.

(4) fpga architectures can be designed inherently fault and defect tolerant, like gpus disabling cores, but with finer granularity. Especially if the compilation is done in the cloud, the particular defect / yield profile can be stored for placement optimization.

(5) anything optimized for ASIC design will be necessarily so close to an FPGA that it may as well benefit from the existing programmable logic ecosystem to be flexibly optimized for a particular trained network. You can't just tape out an asic for every trained network, but based my previous points, you most likely can optimize the logic for a specific forward network to run on an FPGA better than any asic designed to run arbitrary networks
Im so impressed these scientists were so excited to be proven wrong. Such a pure and genuine interest in the pursuit of knowledge.
No, that's not an easy disarm. They just say "you're welcome to watch me poop".
This game has amazing replayability! Totally worth the money... and the time I've sunk into it.
No. The power supply and case are designed with surge/ static discharge protections conforming to EN61131-2 and IEC 61000-6-2.
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"They trust me - dumb fucks" --zuckerberg

We're the ones to blame for our current and sad state of affairs though.
1) Read No more Mr. Nice Guy by Robert A. Glover

2) Think about what your goal is in life.

3) Persue this goal with all of your might.

Bonus: Start improve your body. It's hard but you see progress that you earned. (NO team sport, something you will achieve out of your own strength and willpower not relying on anybody else)
Yeah, I understand that. I wrote it mostly for myself and although I was planning on sharing the code all along, from the start I realised that most people wouldn't be able to, or wouldn't bother, to install it.

I have actually been thinking of buying some domain and having a public installation that anyone can use (I'd have to change some things, like add a "Forgot password" feature and such)... but I'd have to pay for it myself, and it might become a maintenance burden. So I dunno.
OS X has degraded over the last several years in terms of bugginess. Anecdotally.

It has gone from "it just works" to a source of annoyance. Although nothing can top my work computer (Windows 7) for irritation.

Siri is a bag of hurt. I bet Apple has a very useful library of recordings of people saying "damn it, that's not what I said."

Just thinking about how terrible Siri is makes me hope and pray that they really aren't working on any self-driving car software.
What did your startup do that required that many Raspberry Pis?
“The government is clear that, at a time of heightened security threat, it is essential our law enforcement and security and intelligence services have the power they need to keep people safe. The internet presents new opportunities for terrorists and we must ensure we have the capabilities to confront this challenge.“

Either way, terrorism does contribute to bulk surveillance. And heck, it might even actually be helpful. You don't know because it's secret.
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Wow, looks like a lot of interesting stuff for one year!

I especially liked the Venn Kitchen. Can't wait to try that out once I get me some VR gear.