skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have been struggling to use public transport as a country for at least 5 decades. It works in some areas and doesn't work in others. Seeing some of the failures I don't ever see public transit becoming the only (or at least majority of) transit which is what is really required for the kind of sustainability you are talking about.

Wouldn't lots of Electric Vehicles be just about as sustainable as that? And it wouldn't require changing everything about how transit works in all the places public transit doesn't work.

I live in Omaha, so let me use that as an example. Omaha has about 5x the surface area of Manhattan but only about 1m people (Manhattan has about 5m I think). Getting from anywhere to anywhere takes about 20 minutes (most take more like 10), because we have a huge amount interstate style freeways in town. Rush hour adds maybe 5 minutes to that for my current commute for an upper limit for any trip of 25m.

It is a huge waste of gas that we all use our cars, but there simply isn't the population density to make buses work at scale. There aren't enough hubs of activity that would cause a subway to make sense. Even with public transit for the city we still have to deal with all the farmers near the city so we would still need parking accommodations. In order to get anything like the level of convenience cars provide there would need to be a huge amount of them, with 15 minute car rides a bus cannot compete on convenience.

But electric vehicles combined with all the wind farms we have would make it sustainable and not require changing the way a million people live their lives for no benefit. And it looks like EVs are coming in the next decade or so. Waiting just looks practical, our alternative is to rip up our streets move our buildings closer together and hope that a public transport system will make it worth while.

Public Transit is hard to sell in Nebraska the state that invented arbor day, because it is simply impractical. Try selling public transit in Texas where they actively love oil and actively hate the environment (I would too if I had to giant spiders, scorpions and solifuges that are native to Texas).
As always, if you want to watch the stream, you need to use Safari.

Can the title reflect this somehow?
Ask HN: How to find motivation to try [insert new tech here]?
Here's a common dilemma I have:

I'm starting a new side project or adding a new feature, and might have an opportunity to do it with a new tech / framework / etc.

I start looking at the docs and get overwhelmed, go back and forth for few hours about the tradeoffs, then I usually cave and just build it with the tools I'm familiar with...

Anyone else experience this?
You can use Edge as well.
Why am I not surprised. Funnily enough, I work in the same building as the EPA, and they advertise their LEED cert. SMH
This recent note in an "obscure but high-profile journal" (what?!) is entirely a technical observation. I fear that the CRISPR phenomenon has a lot of people, even scientists, who know just enough about the topic to want to affect stock prices. And this too seems to be the Wired article's interpretation even after its own semi-clickbaity headline: "But most scientists, while skeptical of the results, were more disappointed in the way the paper was blown out of proportion."

The promise of CRISPR was not that it was to be the singular tool that would change how genetics and biology behaved. Rather the Cas9 protein could be used as a cheap and fast technique to colocalize with specific DNA sequences. And that is fantastic, useful, and worth all of the praise the tool has gotten. But that's it.

That Cas9 happened to also actually allow a modification at specific sites using its inherent DNA cleavage capability was a great little bonus - and that it could be cleverly controlled to use that capability to actually, today, cure some diseases, was amazing.

There is very little in biology that is binary in nature - it takes a lot of energy to maintain such an entropic dam between two states. So a protein that cuts at ATTGCTTGTA with 80%/hr/molecule efficiency, will also cut ATTGGTTGTA with some non-0% efficiency as well. Every scientist who works with Cas9 (should) already know this. I don't think Cas9 is fantastic for it's ability to cleave DNA - we've had restriction enzymes for a long time - but rather for it's ability to colocalize with arbitrary DNA sequences. And with that colocalization we can now bring to bear all the rest of the fantastic tools we already have in synthetic molecular biology. And that is the interesting part of our future - in which Cas9 is but a single (very useful) tool in our kit.
It's actually somewhat unclear exactly what happened. From the article:

Some of the group’s members decided to form an offshoot group in which students could share obscene, “R-rated” memes, a student told the Crimson. The founders of the messaging group demanded that students post provocative memes in the main group chat to gain admittance to the smaller group.

But from wording later, the examples given seem to be from the private group? I'm also unclear if the private group some some offshoot of the main group within Facebook (that is, whether it's some Facebook sub-group feature, obviously they are members of the main group).

In any case, Harvard says they reserve the right to reject admission based on "honesty, maturity, or moral character" so if this information is brought to their attention, then it falls under what they consider valid acceptance criteria. It's no different than if they Google searched the applicant initially and found verifiable information that put the student in the same light.
I like how people's perception of Project Euler depends on their background: programmers tend to say it's math heavy, mathematicians tend to say it's mostly about programming.
There's also The Elements of Programming Style by Kernighan and Pike

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Programming_St...
I specifically noted the civil rights exception in my comment.
Also latest Chrome.

Few companies could get away with this UX, but Apple is one of them.
There were two groups. One was meant to be used by all that year's intake. Another was private and meant to be used for these jokes.

The owners of the private group encouraged people to post offensive jokes to the main group to gain access to the private group.

> The founders of the messaging group demanded that students post provocative memes in the main group chat to gain admittance to the smaller group.

It's this that is, I think, the problem.

1) using the non-private group

2) Encouraging people to break the rules of the public group

3) Being so fucking easily led that you do so.
Andrew Beam's post offered very persuasive evidence that Jeff Leek's intuition (deep learning yields poor performance with small sample sizes) is incorrect. The error bars and the consistent trend of higher accuracy with a properly implemented deep learning model, particularly with smaller sample sizes, is devastating to Leek's original post.

I think this is a fantastic example of the speed and self-correcting nature of science in the internet-age.

As an aside, @simplystats blocked me on Twitter, which I assume is in response to this tweet: https://twitter.com/ErickRScott/status/871586233599893505
and it seems that I'm likely not the only one blocked: https://twitter.com/jtleek/status/871693250947624961

What's most concerning about @simplystats blocking activity is the chilling effect it has on discourse between differing perspectives. I've tried to come up with a rationale for why highlighting the most recent evidence in reply to someone who sympathized with Leek's original post (btw, @thomasp85 liked the tweet) is grounds for blocking , but I can't come up with a reasonable idea.

Further aside, is irq11 Rafael Irizarry?

Update: after emailing the members of @simplystats they have removed the block on my account and offered a reasonable explanation. SimplyStats is a force for good in the world (https://simplystatistics.org/courses/) and I look forward to their future contributions.
How is this news? It's just marketing.

I agree that the organizations doing these sorts of things should be brought to light, but it's not like this isn't business as usual for all sides - and for that matter, not limited to politics.
For fun[1], you can occasionally trawl through addresses with any private key!

http://directory.io/

[1] For various definitions of "fun."
London attack: Tech firms fight back in extremism row
Don't get me wrong, I've had some luck in life too. Not to the tune of what's described in this blog post, but then again, I'm not out there broadcasting it.

I'm from an immigrant family who didn't come here with a whole lot, and I'm in a good place now - a lot of it because my parents did all they could to have us avoid _feeling_ poor even when that was reality, lots of sacrifice for our educations, and also a good dose of luck. Some bad breaks too, some big ones, but some really favorable as well. I know very well the feeling where you strung together a few good decisions and it paid off, and where if any of them had gone wrong, life might be very different at the present. Sometimes it's good decisions, sometimes it's luck, sometimes it's a combination. But the worst thing we can do is pass off those instances of luck and circumstance (or privilege as they call it these days I guess) as hard work bolstered by good decisions leading to that outcome. If you rolled a hard six (Distant Uncle showing up with $150k to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat), call it that, you know?

This isn't because you're going to make people feel bad by admitting luck or privilege, either. This is a matter of self-awareness. In life, you HAVE to know where you did right, where you fucked up, and where you got a little bit (or a lot) lucky. That all influences future decisions, and if you want to set your kids up to be better off than you are, you just have to know and honestly assess these things. All of this is magnified if you have less margin of error for mistakes and bad luck.

There's no lesson in this article other than to demonstrate that you can fuck up badly and come out on top if you have enough resources at your disposal. That's life, but not a lesson, if that makes any sense.
Doing the lord's work. Thanks man.
> I couldn't find an "upload" button.

There's an upload button on the top right of the page for me. Clicking it asks me to login / signup. It's not exactly hidden.
On top of that: How you you distinguish an encrypted document from a data serialized according to a proprietary format?

As long as the algorithm to write the data is unknown and secret, this is essentially a cryptographic algorithm - you can't read the information on disk without the secret, unless you invest a lot of time. Weak crypto, mind you, because we'll probably be able to decrypt it in polynomial time.

So suddenly, all storage formats need to be openly documented?
I have no idea why this is on the HN front page, but I love making homemade bitters. Its so easy and the output product is really really good.

Unlike things like home distilling/brewing/winemaking its fairly easy to get to a point where the output is both cheaper and as good a quality as commercial offerings.

[edit]
My favorite recipe from last year:
https://www.chowhound.com/recipes/sunshine-bitters-11279
On the other hand ,how do u stop hate speech?
To your first point: It's certainly immoral to be a true bigot, but it's more immoral to silence dark humor simply because of the one individual who believes it. In fact, I would argue that attempting to stifle these individuals is what amplifies their tendency to hold bigoted views. For example, if you're in an in-real-life group conversation and you're all friends and you're roasting another friend for something he did, it's completely fine. But once someone goes too far and begins insulting him sincerely, you punish the person who made the insult, not the group.

As to your second point, I don't know why you think people who enjoy memes are somehow intellectually lazy. I don't really see how your logic works here as memes are simply jokes transmitted via the internet. Are you implying that anyone who makes jokes or enjoys dark comedy has to be intellectually lazy?
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Cutting down on trolling, perhaps. But there appears to be an encroaching ideologically-driven purge in some areas against people expressing "incorrect" speech. Most of the complaints seem to be focused on youtube, twitter, and facebook (e.g. pewdiepie; also H3H3 productions appears to be having trouble; the site-wide purge of alt-right accounts on twitter and the banning of Milo; instapundit and james o'keefe were temporarily banned; I think nobody would be surprised if someone like Steven Crowder got in trouble someday soon; etc.).
It will. No program is perfect.

Rust and Go advocates will have you think that they have conquered security via the memory mgmt and API front but there is still the off chance they haven't..or that the SA (what is left of that maligned profession outside playbooks and the devops marketing you read here and online) has allowed you a chance for glory.
There is no need to "give up." My questions are not trying to prove you wrong, but to help educate me.

So, my specific question here is what makes it closely related to loss leaders? A concept which actually makes a lot of sense for me. If that was meant in the broadest of terms, then I understand. But "closely" does not imply "broadly" to me.
Race wasn't protected in the fifties either, and yet few would argue that it only became oppressive when the laws were changed. Those who would support your argument are the very same you would evict from your holy hill!
Well said.

I would also add:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/middle-ground
>Sure, they can afford the deals with carriers this year, and next. But once they're locked-in the fees will just keep rising. Why wouldn't Comcast, for example, keep raising the preferred-bits delivery fee? They'd be negligent not to do so.

This would mean the barrier of entry goes higher and higher. As long as they are not priced out by Comcast, Netflix will enjoy virtually no competition from smaller players.
As a power user, I run a PS script once, at install, to remove ads, telemetry, and other annoyances, as I did with Win7.
WWDC 2017 Announcement
Yes, I'll add a RSS feed today when I'm home. The code is 100% open source and I created an issue: https://github.com/yeospace/better-dev.link/issues/1
Not working in VLC for me.
Why infrastructure is so expensive
Ask HN: How to be a full-stack web developer?
I learned python and html5 and css3 and fundamental php but for now i just can write small programs, not a good one.
need guidance for a good way to begin a good path.
Americans are turning away from orange juice
Wonderful to hear. Please continue to post. How much of your fat intake is saturated? I greatly increased my saturated fat intake and saw the associated quality of life improvements you'd expect (included increased free testosterone).
> But that's the whole issue. It's about backgrounds, not traits. You can't tell someone's background from their skin color, it's just a proxy.

I think this isn't strictly true, but I want to be clear that taken as you meant this (charitably) then it's true! However, a negative version of this bias provably and observably exists in our industry.

So long as that exist, we must remember that this is the case and apply a counterbalancing principle. As it stands right now, people are unfairly denied opportunity by bad actors and then potentially good actors (let's charitably say you are one) often find themselves saying, "Well isn't this unfair?"
That's a clever way to disguise your opposition to free speech, just categorize perspectives as morally "wrong" versus "not-wrong", and declare that only "not-wrong" viewpoints can be heard.
More about the launch vehicle:

http://isro.gov.in/launchers/gslv-mk-iii
You seem to have misinterpreted my objection. There are better books on databases, and MySQL is not necessarily a good example of a database. It tends to do things in its own way. When you get into the sort of situation where the difference between 'how MySQL does things' and 'how things are supposed to work' matters, then typically it's MySQL that's quirky.
7 Apps to Help You During Ramadan
Not worth the effort. You could absolutely make a wallet that does this, but you'd have to either do a lookup with a trusted third party, or keep around a bloom filter of used addresses to query against (probably about a gigabyte). We're talking about "winning a lottery jackpot several times in a row" odds.
I remember when watching these was a big deal. Now, I didn't even realize they were having one.
My criticism is that the book is unbearably imperative and doesn't actually teach you any of the theory well.
You might be thinking of something not entirely unlike I/O completion portsL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input/output_completion_port

There's also kqueue/kevent, which came before epoll and which is arguably superior.
Hi all,

I made this because I collect those links but for myself. I think why not share it with the world.

I plan to separate them into sections such as "Code to read", "Video to watch", "Article to read" etc...

The code is 100% open source: https://github.com/yeospace/better-dev.link (Thoguh lack of document and cleanup right now)
Homebrewing beer is pretty easy to be cheaper than good craft beer, and better than cheap commercial beer. If you keep good sanitation, and are relatively careful, it's a lot of fun. The online homebrew community /r/homebrew for starters, are fantastic. A lot of great people and loads of info to get started.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/05/apple-wwdc-2017-liveblog...
NET Word Documents Processor for Endless Word Documents Conversions
It took me longer than I'd like to admit to figure out "blow paste" was a typo. Thanks for brightening my day with accidentally colorful language.
"(which was surprising for Erin, a roller derby skater, to hear)."

When someone says "men prefer X" or "women prefer Y" they are quite obviously speaking statistically.
Thanks. I will do this today.
How do u deal with hate speech
The current title here "ISRO places communication satellite in orbit" buries the lede -- the big deal is this new launch vehicle, which has 2X the payload of India's GSLV mark II.
Thanks, I will look a this!
This is pure hyperbole. "Painful concessions," really?
Keccak256? Isn't that just SHA3 with a digest of 256 bits?
So this must be where Barney came from. "Everyone is special" was such pablum.
Your reply is just plain factually incorrect.

Video has always been DRM free, if you know where to get it. DRM does not prevent people from pirating. This has been proven endlessly. It only hurts paying customers. Even in the 80s I could get a DRM-free copy of a movie because the DRM had been stripped out.

> Video right holders have never allowed their content to be delivered without copy protections.

And yet I can still currently download any show/movie I want in a better experience than I get for paying for it. Just because we've always done something one way, doesn't mean that we should continue doing it that way. They may not allow it, but that doesn't stop it from happening.

And why do I care?

A) It's just inefficient. It's a waste of money, and a waste of time, for both me, and the production companies.

B) I should be able to do what I want, with my software. If it's not my software, great, don't give it to me. As soon as it hits my device, though, it becomes my software. Your legalese does not change that.

C) I want to support companies that make media that I enjoy. I currently cannot do that. I keep trying to throw money at companies to get the media in a way I want, but they won't accept it. That's a terrible business model.
I'm not saying that they're equivalent. I'm just saying it's the kick in the ass they needed, because otherwise they would just be privileged guys going to Harvard, sharing offensive memes and not understanding why it's wrong until the next worst thing happens. Obviously the thing where their parents punish them is not happening anymore, they're adults now.
Prior to Vista a lot of code was written on the assumption that the process would be run with administrator privileges. While this wasn't the original security model for windows NT, 16-bit windows, and windows 95 et al didn't have a security model as such, so code that had been written for those operating systems was particularly problematic.

It was definitely the case that a large number of windows users, possibly a majority, would have their user account be a member of the Administrators group.

UAC changed the way processes were started to use a lower privilege level by default, or popup a permissions dialog if higher permissions were needed (based on a manifest associated with the process)

In parallel the code samples on MSDN that showed how to detect if the current process had admin permissions was subtly incorrect, so programs that had been written to do the right thing depending on privilege level would fail unexpectedly on Vista
Let me think of a solution. Usage origins could be tracked and stored server side, trivially, but not sure if worth the hassle.
If that's the case, then I don't understand why the student loans are said to be such a big burden. It's just another tax, I wish more taxes were voluntary like that.
No, but the flip side is that if you don't want to enforce reasonable assurances on quality or efficacy, then you don't have the right to complain when people don't act in the manner you want them to. Most people would rather have the assurances.
Agree. I sometimes read Python standard lib for fun.
> The diversity movement do not care about class. A poor white man is hated as much as a rich white man. I can only conclude that "personal experience" and "fears and the options presented" are not factors.

That's absolutely not the case, it's just that classism is often used as a blind for other forms of discrimination. Classism, Racism and Sexism are all separate axis of potential discrimination. Many intersectional feminists talk regularly about class, but we ALSO make time to distinctly address other forms of systemic discrimination.

I believe so firmly that classism is a major gate to our field that I reshaped my entire career around addressing these issues. So don't tell me I don't care about that or that I'm unfairly excluding that from my rhetoric.
The opioid crisis changed how doctors think about pain
Which scanner are you using? I've been trying to eliminate paper for a while now. I keep digital copies of everything I can download, but using a traditional flatbed/all-in-one scanner to digitize things that I on have on paper would take forever.

I'm terrible at organizing paper, and it's like a plague.
I know that opening commercial was intended to show how much we depend on apple and its services - but its kinda a great argument against centralized services... kinda weird really.
Same reason! :)

Feedly + Pocket is made for this sort of content.
If racist jerks end up actually oppressed instead of having to deal with the consequences of their very specific and very active choices (which stand in stark contrast to the genetic/external-social of "race"), I am entirely and one hundred percent onboard with having a conversation about whether society is made better by considering them a protected class. I will not hold my breath on either the likelihood of that oppression nor on whether society is made better by enabling them.

Do you have an actual argument, or are you just whatabouting?
news
http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/06/justices-tackle-cellphone-...

and case page
http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/carpenter-v-unite...
As a Linux user, I find it very useful to set up the source and debug symbol repositories for the distribution that I am running. This way I have a large body of code easily accessible which matches what I am actually running. I usually grep for error/log messages, or examine core dumps or hung/misbehaving programs using gdb.