skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A baseball bat. Keep in mind this is a last resort if you have no other option and you're cornered. A better option is to call the cops and wedge something under your very solid, hard to break bedroom door. If your bedroom door is hollow core, you should upgrade.

The equation changes if you have a family or other people in the house that are looking to you for protection.
Quite the opposite. I'd assume the latter is misleading bullshite.
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Haven't githubs new interface made it almost impossible to investigate what a developer has written? For example, on my profile page I have 32 repos. But 29 of them are forks of other projects which I haven't added anything to.
Then please reference what you mean by $9 per pound for tomatoes and the connexion to permaculture. Most likely you're mistaking permaculture for something else (e.g. "organic") or drawing unsubstantiated conclusions
"... Google's AMP team even invited me to have lunch with them."

Reminds me of this:
http://blackhat.com/media/bh-usa-97/blackhat-eetimes.html

As far as I can tell, in order to be "forced" on a user, AMP must rely on javascript, the browser used or maybe the OS (I trust they are not rewriting search results to point to AMP but that could be another one).

A no javascript command line tcp client will retrieve the page without automatically following the amphtml link. Users thus have a choice. And if choosing the amphtml link it is easy to filter out everything but the text of the page (the content). In that sense AMP is quite nice.

The "forced" nature of AMP should make users think about these points of control for advertisers and Google: javascript, browser, OS. Maybe website owners will think about them too the next time they "recommend" or "require" certain browsers. Web should be javascript, browser and OS neutral.
Thank you for explaining that
No. Previous post articulated a general principle which I showed to be flawed. 'Things are different now' is just moving the goalposts.
There used to be a designation for landlines where they would be unlisted and have priority when there was congested outgoing lines or a shutdown.

I had a relative who was a public safety official. It was pretty wacky, they had an old school western electric leased phone, this magic line and other weird features like custom short codes that would hit "internal" extensions in the office.
Yeah. Given the facts of the experiment, the journalist who picked the title's calling this a "grudge" is completely outlandish.
Unfortunately, drug companies have few economic incentives to develop novel antibiotics given the immense costs/risks of human trials and the minimal expected monetary reward. Clinicians reserve the "big gun" antibiotics for the rare cases that need them-- which reduces the cash drug companies get from pushing them through clinical trials.

Compared to other drugs, antibiotics are relatively easy and cheap to discover or "invent" with modern techniques. Getting them through clinical trials, on the other hand, is not cheap.

Many clinicians should be less loose with antibiotics, sure. But, that won't eliminate resistance. Realistically, when superbugs become common, the incentives pharmaceutical companies face will shift. It's just there will be a lot of morbidity and mortality while we're waiting for their drugs to make it to hospital pharmacies.
I use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strings_%28Unix%29
I really enjoy seeing thought-provoking posts like this on Hacker News.

The practical insight is that complex systems have some level of scale where causality experiments yield the most fruit, and that this effect is measurable.

The most interesting parts are the two justifications for why this may be true. (1) "the determinism can increase and the degeneracy can decrease at the higher scale (the causal relationships can be stronger)" (2) "Higher-scale relationships can have more information because they are performing error-correction."
> if you design the modules well, you don't usually have to think about the internal structure of each module when you're trying to think about the behavior of the entire system. Such design is exactly software engineering, in my view.

I've been trying to find the right way to phrase this, as it's more of an inkling but touches on my current academic (self-study) interests but also is something I've observed over the past decade or so as a professional developer and tester in the industry.

The engineering component of software engineering needs to study systems engineering. There's a great deal of overlap. My conjecture is that we move from "programming" to "software engineering" when we are more interested in the connections between components rather than the components themselves. Much like how systems engineers aren't doing the work of designing the new car engine, but are overseeing that work and the work for the production line itself and coordinating with the glass manufacturer for the new windows. They care about how different parts of the final system (at the level of the car, or the level of the whole assembly process) will function between each other. Systems engineering (as a discipline) has the tools to handle this sort of division of labor and abstraction and responsibility.

And it's not really that we don't care about internal behaviors. But that's not the primary concern of the overall system engineer. It's the component's engineer who's primarily responsible for that, while the system engineer needs to focus on how that portion fits into the overall architecture.
Huh, thanks. Today I learned...
On what basis do you think you've actually attained a wise understanding of life? (not asking this in a hostile way, just curious)

I'm wondering about this because I've heard this exact same series of ideas in different forms from several people in their old or advanced middle age, most of whom actually had an outdated understanding of the world as they had seemingly stopped paying attention to its evolution and set out to experience new things once they had settled down with a family. Not that I can blame them, of course.

Since there is so much to learn about the world and so many lives that are utterly different from one another that I wonder if it's even possible to ever "get a clue" or if it's just a comforting illusion. Of course, I'm sure there are general useful patterns and rules of thumb that can make it easier, like the ones outlined in the letter to Hume.

There is one anecdote which I think can illustrate this point quite well. I came across a book by Martin Gardner that detailed his wisdom about the world that he had accumulated during his life. One of the reviews caught my eye however, with the following statement:

"Suppose I tell you no more than the following: Martin Gardner lived in the U.S. in the 20th century. Once you've read that statement, there is absolutely nothing in this book that will surprise you."

And they were right. The guy had essentially absorbed the ideas of his environment like a sponge. He saw them as insights wise enough to regurgitate them over the course of an entire book. This was not an average man but a person who had grappled with difficult abstract thought his entire life and made a career out of it, and yet his wisdom was still in canned form.
> If an operator logs a bunch of practice hours but makes a mistake in a crowded area and collides with someone, is that negligence necessitating this sort of punishment?

Negligently operating a vehicle and causing bodily harm is a criminal offense eligible for jail or prison time, AFAIK, in many US jurisdictions. I don't see any rational reason that doing so with a remotely operated vehicle should be treated more leniently.
Oh, people love Wal-Mart and McDonalds too, but they have huge negative externalities that are bad for their workers and the global food supply.
It was part of the original documentation for Fractint - software for generating Mandelbrot and Julia sets, substantially expanded later on - which was many people's first exposure to the concept of open source.

GNU was already operational but ineffective, which was why Linux (which was more focused on something that worked and less on maintaining ideological purity) took off like a rocket shortly after Linus released it.
There is no such thing as a non-lethal weapon, only a less lethal one, and in almost any situation where use of a weapon of any kind is justified in self defense, you want the most effective not the least lethal one.

That said, the appropriate choice (including whether a weapon is a sensible choice) really depends on the detailed circumstances that you are addressing (living situation, local crime characteristics, and any personal circumstances that modify the threat profile from the generic one applicable to the locality.)
It would very much surprise me if the net lives were a loss instead of a significant gain, so yes this would be an interesting statistic.

For instance, its because of many of the practices of "Big Agriculture" that world hunger has dropped so massively in underdeveloped countries over the last 30 years. With even a 10% decline in Asia ( since 92 ), thats about 450 million people who aren't living under malnourished conditions who were doing so 30 years ago.
Earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9896369
If you are going this way, perhaps a better question to ask is why no SVG HN logo.
I like the terms "cup" and "cap". They correspond to the LaTeX shortcuts \cup and \cap for set union (∪) and set intersection (∩).
I agree with the other comments that you seem overly invested in this, but I'll play along: Do a search for "wwdc" on mobile. This was my first and only test against your challenge.

It isn't just a matter of the AMP results being ranked higher — they are segmented from non-AMP pages. The eleven (!) "Top Stories" are all AMP pages.

Under that is "People also searched for > WWDC iPhone 8", which consists of five (!) AMP pages.

Only then does it go into non-AMP pages, starting with Apple's own WWDC page. That's not just rank prioritization. There is a visual break between AMP and non-AMP pages.

It is crazier for you to blindly trust Google on this than it is for us to infer from a pattern we see over and over again, and for you to require that we provide proof that you acknowledge we can't obtain might be crazier.
That never seems to get mentioned at the time the commons are privatized, only in salons later on. Also, it's rather hard to build capital improvements on fisheries, and correspondingly this does nothing for the preservation of wilderness. which is a problem that privatization is supposed to solve but frequently doesn't.
Rosario Argentina seems pretty up to date looking at street level. But the city markers just disappear.
Thanks. Good to know that too.
The story title mentions Australia but this is relevant to all the 5eye nations, as they're obviously pre-briefing the media on what the agenda will be and this is the first time that we're getting detail on what they'll be proposing (the UK proposals were vague)

What they seem to be talking around is implementing an app-level CALEA-like capability.

What I think how they think it would work: companies would be made to build lawful targeted intercept capability into their apps, in the same way telephony and other equipment is today. The app developer receives a warrant for an identifier and they're required to split off that traffic and change the keys, or encrypt it twice (the sender/recipient key and an intercept key - one per warrant (this happens with some net and tele warrants now)).

We all know the downsides of this approach, but it isn't technically impossible. What would be impossible is enforcing it, as it is more a regulatory hurdle. It is more possible today because of vertically integrated walled gardens being used for most app distribution - and backed by two of the largest companies in the world who may be susceptible to a compromise (especially as there is the large tax issues hanging over both their heads).

On a scale of how bad things can get - I think warranted targeted surveillance is better than device backdoors which is better than metadata retention which is better than the mass surveillance we have today (leading to cable splitting and DPI, or situations like Lavabit)

I don't see how, even if you're ok with warranted targeted surveillance, how a compromise is made here that doesn't lead to a wack-a-mole game where legitimate users are inconvenienced while the 'bad guys' are pushed onto alternate Android distributions and unofficial apps.

I also don't see how a CALEA-like capability is kept secure and safe - especially with apps (we saw the NSA use CALEA intercept to surveil political targets). Clapper et al always vaguely answer "key escrow" to this question without spelling out how that would work.

With subsequents backdowns in the scope of what these governments are wanting to do (and this latest proposal is again is a minor backdown) we might be reaching the finite conclusive point where comms do go dark and the new reality is that despite all of the tech we have law enforcement mostly relies on human intelligence and they'll have to scale back up for that. 3,500 terror suspects in the UK, 4,000 employees at MI5 - and notably in the recent attacks there were HUMINT warnings.
Longform Podcast entertains me with a variety of guests, who is typically a writer, a editor, or a journalist, invited for each episodes. With dialogues about their work and career, it gives a glimpse of a life of those who work in the media industry. The podcast is a oral history of media workers, and it often gives valuable insights to just listen to interviews and see interviewees as they are.

Facing challenges like fake news, Google AMP, FaceBook InstantArticle, and the like, some of you may be interested.

https://longform.org/podcast
Nothing.

The presence of a high-quality, well-rounded set of projects in GitHub is mostly indicative of the fact that the candidate in question has the spare time to work on Free Software. That's a lifestyle thing, and not relevant to the hiring decision.
Why would people call? It's not a mystery what happens---they'll ask you for the access code, and do nothing else if you don't provide it.

It'd be a waste of time to call them.
When you have to mischaracterize the facts to make your point, the problem isn't with the article.
You can filter these out actually. When you go on someone's profile, and then to the "repositories" tab, there is a drop-down menu that reads "Type: All" from which you can select other repository-type filters, namely forks, mirrors, and sources (the user's own repositories).

It's somewhat imperfect as not all forks or mirrors are marked as such by github (if, say, it's a fork of a repository not originally hosted on github), but it works in the vast majority of cases.
Seattle has a mandatory helmet law. Are there any successful bike shares in places with helmet laws?
Nope, an abstract idea has always been invalid. Alice vs CLS Bank found that "on a computer" wasn't a sufficient inventive step to transform an abstract idea into something patentable [1]. This can be used to invalidate a claim, but won't shrink the scope of a claim to hardware only (as then, if software was the only inventive step, it would be a pure abstract idea).

The USPTO certainly seems to think an ISA is patentable, and I haven't seen a court disagree yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Corp._v._CLS_Bank_Intern...
Perhaps it's your device @baconner?

I'm using an LG V20 device, with Chrome mobile, and I see a significant improvement with AMP'd pages over normal sites. So-much-so that I dread going to non-amped pages as they are slow and the ads are horrifically annoying.

I guess this is why anecdotal evidence is not as heavily weighed as a thoroughly tested and evidenced study.

YMMV

I <3 AMP
April 1970: Trying to kill a sniper
I built an app over it that attempts to predict the future state of any network. It later recommends addings/substractions in order to keep offer and demand balanced among stations.

It could work in about 440 cities but none of the big companies that lead this wanted this. What would you do with it?
Fine. If you are really into getting the shortest instruction, try "xorl %eax,%eax" then "incl %eax" which is four bytes (31 c0 ff c0).
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I learned this lesson before I was twenty, and I am far from the sharpest tool in the shed. It just so happened that I had the opportunity to learn it the hard way due to the circumstances I was in at the time. It's one of those concepts that are simple in and of themselves but require a painful experience to really sink into your brain and inform your future behavior.
Although AMP is not a performance beast by any measure, your experience is coloured because you're using Chrome on Android. Google news works pretty well on Samsung browser. It still annoys me that I can't see the link to the actual website but that's it.
The critical point here is he's saying it because he's read it in a book, and it rang true.

That means he had good upbringing or just good life intuition to recognize that to be a good idea.

Wisdom is knowing in your bones, that something's true. Thompson's merely trying to convey what others have conveyed to him, coupled with some intuition.

Which's my entire point - don't bother listening to people regurgitating something they read in a book, go find folks who've lived it. They tend to be older :)
Have you ever seen what a night security guard does?
best outcome I can think of:

AMD licenses x86 patents to Qualcomm/MS to make x86 emulator better patent troll proof. In return, Qualcomm and AMD team up for better ARM server based processors. MS can sell more Windows/Windows Sever (sad).
Incompleteness means there are true statements that can't be proven. Given that any standard set of "fundamental logical concepts" is probably sound and as long as "all pure mathematics" means "that which can be proven" then there's nothing wrong with saying that "all its propositions are deducible" from those principles.
This appears to be a philosophy text, to my cursory glance. Definitely not like the advanced math texts I have read.
I wouldn't sign up for a VPN based out of the UK. Frankly, May scares the shit out of me - her ideas about regulating communications comes across as more than slightly fascist.*

* My head of state is He-Who-Must-Be-Impeached; so I'm getting more familiar with fascism on a day-to-day basis. (I won't even use an email provider located in the US due to the way the government over here behaves).
Every time I read anything about Connectix, I become more convinced that they were run by some combination of time travelers and genetically modified super-hackers.
I've found this to be true for Bing too. For general search, it matches Google in accuracy. But in the case when I want to find a specific compilation error, only Google gives me useful results. But I still use Bing, and switch to Google only for such stuff.
So, your prediction for Game of Thrones is that the White Walkers will bring about peace and unity to the competing factions of the Seven Kingdoms ;-)
Try Samsung internet. It has ddg by default. Also you can install ad blockers for it from the play store.
“No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your (old) age. Relax — This won't hurt.”

Really struck me in the feels. Rest In Peace.
You can only report misuse of your trademark in the ad content, but Google has no problem with trademark bidding.
It's extremely shocking to see how easy people are fooled online.

I didn't understand this until a few years back. Now I think of it as an inevitable misfortune that everyone will suffer sooner or later. Like a flu virus.

It's not just "average users", it's everyone. Some more than others, but everyone with a human mind dealing with a UI carefully designed to deceive.
> ...convert the web to AMP by force. @themodelplumber

Complete hyperbole. Google's not forcing anyone to use AMP. They're not forcing developers or users to use AMP.

There is no force. There is only usability. Users prefer usability. Developers prefer people use their products. If a user does not, or cannot, connect to the developer's product the developer loses. If a user cannot connect easily and speedily to a page, they will not consider the product.

I rock an LG V20 and I use Chrome mobile. AMP lets me connect to the content I wish to consume speedily and easily. I connect at a significantly faster rate than without AMP. Thus...

I <3 AMP. I don't care who controls it. As long as I can connect to the content I want, I'm good.
Thanks! Revamping my personal site and portfolio, thinking of how to best pitch myself as a designer-developer with previous experience as a technician and in sales.

I will try to do each of those for each item in my portfolio to highlight my design thinking and technical acumen.
I personally don't see any major improvements in speed when using AMP. It might be marginal but too small to notice for a regular user. Another factor can be that AMP might work better on Chrome which is again Google sucking you into their ecosystem.
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> Japanese, to my elementary-level ear, doesn't sound an order of magnitude more ambiguous than English

I don't have any citations, but subjectively I disagree. One can think of English words that are homophones, but in JP the challenge is more to think of words that aren't.

On one hand, if you include uncommon words (as a keyboard's corpus would) then practically any medium-length word will have multiple possibilities, which is not the case in English. But much more important is that, where an English homophone typically has two or possibly three interpretations, a kanji jukugo might have 3-4 everyday meanings and a bunch more uncommon ones.

And all this is on top of the matter of word boundaries. If the user enters し, there could be 10+ possible transliterations of that character as a standalone word/particle, above and beyond whatever readings are possible together with the characters before and after.

So I don't know what an order of magnitude would mean in this context, but I think the whole matter is significantly more ambiguous than English.
this was written in 1903 by bertrand russell who was both a philosopher and a writer which garnered a nobel prize in literature.. russell loved words

i am almost positive all of the views recited in this piece where still considered relevant today have since been made more accessible from textbooks to youtube videos

do you need to, or even need to want to, read this piece by russell? hardly, but at the same time it was written by a well respected individual in the field and there could be value in trying to dissect the text

regardless of your views on any single piece of writing i would wholeheartedly encourage your interest in mathematics

much like how i would encourage someone who dislikes or finds shakespeare too dense to still pursue a career in writing if they so desired but i would still recommend them to take another look
Lol no. AMP is a trash experience. I hate it so much.
It was taught as psia, -g, & -d (or absolute, gauge, and differential) when I was in school, so I read your -1 atm as psid. Your car example would be 32 psi gauge assuming STP, or ~36 psi absolute.

The miners are below the surface and not at 1 atm, so any gauge measures taken there would be psid.
http://x-r.ai/ is working on a patent attorney AI to automate a lot of patent attorney work to resolve patent disputes more quickly and cheaply.
If someone chooses FORTRAN for a web app of their own free will, then not only should they not be hired, but they should be executed.