skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're losing your focus on defending your position in the face of the criticism you're receiving. I agree that there are other possible explanations besides "passion" such as men generally displaying more aggressive behavior which could, I'm conjecturing because this is a hypothetical, spill over into not only physical behavior but also conversational behavior. However, without contextualization, aggressive behavior is not the same as damaging behavior which is what you're implying when you bring up bullying. For my part, I agree with the others who don't think your sources support the position you're taking.

That being said, it seems to me that the broader implication of your position is that when men and women participate in group dialogue the meta-game of the dialogue often leans in favor of the male speakers. I'd need to do more research to prove this but in general, if this was your position, I'd be inclined to agree with it based on my own anecdotal experiences. However, this still doesn't establish the hostile intention or implicit sexism that, from my reading of your posts, is presented in your claims.
Sounds like a bug to me. You should file it at http://bugreport.apple.com.
> US policy is to respond to non-nuclear WMD attacks with nuclear weapons

Source? Every policy statement I've seen neither requires a WMD attack to trigger a nuclear response nor commits to respond to WMD attacks with a nuclear response, and in the occasions when US forces have been targeted by non-conventional weapons it has not responded with nuclear weapons.

It seems to me US policy is to generally not to rule in or out the use of nuclear weapons in advance, and to use them if and when it feels the specific circumstances warrant it.

(Though the most recent Nuclear Posture Review [0] both adopted a goal of reaching a state where the use could adopt a “sole use” policy, and explicitly stated a policy of of neither using nor threatening to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-armed states that are parties to an in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the former of which would completely and the latter of which does generally conflict with use of nuclear weapons as a general deterrent for non-nuclear WMD attacks.)

[0] https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/features/defenseReviews/NP... see page ix
Seems to be a more concise version of the warisboring article from a couple of days ago (the author is the same):

https://warisboring.com/how-not-to-build-an-aircraft-carrier...
Bringing rhinos back to India’s parks
To be clear, no promises. But we're definitely considering it and it seems like useful functionality.
Are UUIDs secure for creating a unique user session identifier?
Web scraping is my birthright, no ToS on this earth can take it away.
Pretty sure most humans look the same to a dog. The uniqueness you see is an artefact of how human brains work.
For anyone curious, a Lie group is a continuous collection of symmetries. While a square, for example, has 8 symmetries (identity, three rotations, and 4 reflections), a circle has infinitely many: you can reflect it about any axis and rotate it by any angle and get the same circle you started with.

Since Lie groups are indexed by continuous parameters, they can be studied as spaces in their own right. For example, the Lie group of rotations of the circle (called SO(2)) is topologically the same as the circle: you can put the rotations of the circle in 1-1 correspondence with the points on the circle. For the (2-)sphere, the Lie group of rotations actually looks more like a higher dimensional (3-)sphere.

Lie algebras consist of vectors (rather than symmetries), and encode most of the structure of corresponding lie groups. For example, the Lie algebra for the circle rotation group is the vector space of the real line: each rotation is indexed by a real number (the angle, with redundancy) and composition of rotations is obtained by adding angles. In higher dimensions, especially where symmetries don't commute, the Lie algebra is indispensable and often the starting point for study.
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Yeah, you can't buy that kind of publicity.

Wait...
They've already made historical accomplishments several times over. To each their own hype.
> TIFF and Exif (which JPEG is based on) are not tied to any particular codec and are extensible, so HEIF is not a game changer.

TIFF is a great format but its ability for extensibility is limited. You can't readily contain in a video track in addition to a photo, or a burst sequence that utilizes intra-frame prediction.

> BTW: Did you know that you can embed LPCM/μ-Law PCM/ADPCM audio data in JPEG/Exif?

Yes; I once owned point-and-shoot cameras that did this. The audio was pretty poor quality because they didn't employ compression and wanted to keep the file sizes small.

However you're limited to the 64k maximum JPEG marker segment size for non-image metadata; or ugly hacks like chaining segments (e.g. ICC profiles). Exif is strictly limited to being contained within 64k. How big is your audio track again? ;-)

JPEG has had its time as a wildly successful format but has also held back the imaging world from adopting a standardized way to cater for new applications; burst above, mixed media (photo + video + audio), depth maps, stereo images, alpha (that's not a hack), lossless, etc., etc. HEIF has all the key ingredients, including extensibility, to support these modern applications and grow as the universal container format for decades to come.
I understand, though when it comes to WebRTC, there is an existing, efficient, stable implementation in a license which is compatible with WebKit and Apple's proprietary embeddings of it.

Just like with all of the other web standards, I'm pretty sure the WebRTC code is in the publicly available repo.

Obviously Apple isn't afraid to collaborate with other entities--Igalia did the CSS Grid implementation that ships in Safari and WebKit.
When I read the headline, my first impression was great! But digging deeper:

- The name woebot - is this a joke?
- The company is made up of 5 cs engeneers, only 1 clinical psycologist, and 1 ceo/doctor (of what?)
- It's a for-profit paid business, not a make-the-world-better university project

Yuck. Just no.
Khronos Releases GlTF 2.0 Specification
Very true, but despite the distrust of the government, Americans tend to have even more distrust of Comcast
Unless there's a non-JS src link, or a non-CSS link tag, or an xml:base attribute, or an area element with an href attribute, or... you get the idea.
A P-complete programming language seems like an interesting concept in cases where you want to allow programmability but guarantee that running programs from idiots or hostile actors doesn't take too long. Is there any work in using Horn clauses as a sort of P-complete programming language, maybe a bit like Prolog? Or are there nicer P-complete problems that get the same effect?
You can achieve that with any view library which can rehydrate from a server-rendered version and can support your minimum list of requirements. The specifics depends on the libraries you're using.

I was experimenting with this [1] a couple of years ago with React, react-router and a form library based on django.forms. The key was to handle form submission in components which behaved like they were servicing a request on both sides, passing in the POST body on the server or form data extracted in the same format on the client.

There's some not-so-fun plumbing to make sure everybody has the data they need to re-render with user input and validation errors when they happen, and to handle redirect-after-submit properly on both sides, but I initially had to hack some of the necessary plumbing into a pre v1.0.0 react-router so the specifics are probably no longer relevant.

[1] https://isomorphic-lab.herokuapp.com
The hotel industry is in denial about Airbnb
I think there is a huge difference between NASA trying to find a viable rocket design for manned flight and building an aircraft carrier - they already have designs for catapult and arresting systems that are much more reliable and cheaper than the new ones they decided to try out on the new class of carrier ( and using the same metaphor with NASA, they chose a company that had never designed a rocket engine to design rockets for manned space travel to put on top of a Saturn V stage 1), and if they continue to stick with the new unproven designs, they won't be able to deliver for many, many more years, if ever.

If they had stuck with the proven design with just improvements, they might have been able to deliver the ship three years ago on time.

The new electric only system means they committed to not routing steam from the nuclear power plant to the catapults so that would be a major retrofit for that one completed new style carrier. The new electric systems when they do fail, they disable the entire catapult launch capability of the aircraft carrier, the contractor made a really poor design decision here that they apparently cannot fix. The steam catapults can be taken offline individually and worked on, leaving the others in service.
Also interesting to see how the company ended up. Keep in mind it was started in '99

from the wiki[1]:

By January 2003...all of the founders other than Tolia had left

and eventually

In January 2005 the four cofounders who had left and other Epinions employee-stockholders filed a lawsuit against Tolia and the two VC firms that provided seed funding.

Lots of context missing around these quotes (read the wiki), but there was a lot of conflict (as mentioned in the posted article) between these "bulldogs and execution machines"

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epinions
You conveniently ignored part "without ambiguity".

I don't think it is much to expect that one would be able to connect a electricity bill where one pays for monthly energy usage stated in kwh to article where energy is also stated in kwh.
This is from 2014. The article doesn't say it, but I believe this is Riley vs California.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riley_v._California
"It's in the contract!" is a poor excuse for the company acting shitty to you.
I'm sure dang will around shortly to delete this for your own safety
I am European and I don't have a clue how much energy US home uses. Is it one in Alaska, Hawaii or maybe New Jersey?
It's a heck of a lot more complicated than that, mostly because the Constitution says nothing about this topic.

The U.S. has abrogated quite a few treaties[0]. Often it's been by Presidential fiat alone. There is not much case-law on the subject, and it's almost certainly a "political question" that the courts will not go near (lower courts might, but the SCOTUS almost certainly will refuse to decide whether POTUS or Congress can do this alone). Among other things there is the question of who has standing to bring suit, and that's a high enough bar to begin with. The last time the SCOTUS had a chance to say much about this, they said they couldn't[1] (but with only a plurality, not majority, so there is no precedent yet): "The Judicial Branch should not decide issues affecting the allocation of power between the President and Congress until the political branches reach a constitutional impasse." (the impasse being Congress passing a resolution opposing the President's action, which Congress did not do).

[0] http://www.ea.sinica.edu.tw/QDown.ashx?ID=5563
[1] http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/444/996.html
He didn't lose 9M. In his vision they did well and increased the worth of the company without outside investment. In reality, they didn't do well at all, because 10x dilution when the company grows 10x means the company has not actually created any value, it's just been given cash.
Interesting to read the argument of the side we don't usually hear from around here.

I guess we can hope that an entrepreneur starting a technology company would be equally concerned with both possibilities: getting sued unfairly vs. being unable to protect their own inventions. Around Silicon Valley, I think the former has been the greater concern, but I guess the pendulum is now swinging the other way.

Of course, ideally we would minimize the likelihood of both of those problems. But that seems to be very difficult.
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> These are findings from an Ipsos poll conducted May 24-25, 2017 on behalf of Mozilla. For the survey, a sample of roughly 1,008 adults age 18+ from the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii was interviewed online in English.

I wonder if the online polling affects the kind of people who are selected for the sample.

Would it make a difference if the people involved own their own computers, have their own broadband, or has to go to the library to access the internet?

What about people who don't use the internet?

Does age group or other socioeconomic factors matter in this? What about people who accesses the internet primarily from a mobile device?
Teaching Pandas and Jupyter to Northwestern journalism students
I just gave you a clear answer. I'm sorry, I don't feel like writing a detailed explainer on it today.
That is an amazing article - thanks for taking the time to find it and sharing the spoils!
Problem solving in bioinformatics
I'm sorta afraid of what people will do with wasm. I'm fairly sure 99% of web programmers won't need this but will use it to ship all kinds of stupid garbage that will inevitably wind up executing on some page I'm debugging.
You don't get it. I don't want translations. I don't want to contribute because I don't think it is possible to translate programming code and documentation satisfactorily and I don't think it is worth trying.

If there are people who think it is, they can do it, but I just want to read everything in English when it comes to programming.
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Despite this formidable team of engineering talent, in eight hours of off-and-on tinkering they couldn't correctly assemble any desks. Finally they called a carpenter who had done this before, and he started building two desks an hour.
> Really? Why?

Cheating. Having an authoritative server reduces the ability to cheat and limits the type of cheating that is possible.

The more you trust the client, the more cheating can affect the game.

Also, client-server scales to more players.
So the EMALS is basically a rail gun?

I happened to find this interesting video of the EMALS being tested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Icd3MFmWc
> Lets look at two options: Option 1 - The company is continuing on its original trajectory. It is running low on runway and needs a cash injection to continue gaining market share for its quest for profitability. The company still looks like a $100M company, if successful.

>The new round may not be good for the employee. When you look forward to the eventual liquidity event, the employee now has a smaller piece of the same sized pie. Maybe the company could still reach its goal by tightening its belt a bit.

Sure, but not taking the extra round is also bad for the employee, right? If you don't take the round, and the company now looks like a $50M company, then you have the same piece, of a much smaller pie.
Interesting also how they had what ended up being the basoc idea behind the much more successful Yelp, also Quora arguably and others.
This is interesting:

The program invites two dozen people, with varying backgrounds in ML

... "with varying backgrounds in ML" -- does that mean that relative beginners have a chance of being accepted?

(I have a personal stake in this! I'm an academic researcher who is getting into ML and working on legal applications, and I'd totally apply for this if I thought you didn't have to basically be Andrew Ng to get in...)
I had real hope that Coursera / MOOCs would help the universities with overcrowded and impacted lower division courses, and thus help improve the time to graduate for most students. I found this article from the "failed" San Jose experiment (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/us/after-setbacks-online-c...).

In contrast, Georgia Tech has the seemingly successful comp sci program and the number of K-12 students earning some credits in online courses continues to grow (
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/09/virtual-schools...).

Hopefully the universities give it another shot with the impacted courses. Perhaps they just need to qualify students for the online experience, it does take a certain discipline.
134 kilowatt-hours.

1 megawatt-hour is 3600 megajoules.
Discussed in 2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184.
> incidentally depending on non-zero numbers to become True, and zero to become False

I don't feel that there is anything incidental about that. Integer zero is logically false and any other integer is logically true.
The counterpoint is that foxtrotalpha article where when we borrowed a Swedish diesel attack sub for testing and it managed to get multiple attack runs in every time in simulated attacks on US carrier groups without getting caught.

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/sweden-has-a-sub-thats-so-d...
> The new British carrier series (if it gets built)

The first is already physically built and is starting sea trials this summer.

> and they want to use the EMALS launcher on some of the ships (maybe)

They've got ski-jumps, not catapults.
Analyzing the traffic to optimize the service.

- With p=0.86 this UDP stream looks like a VoIP traffic and the least latency route would be over this peer.

- And this TCP connection is to the YouTube video servers. No matter what, it's better not route through this peer, because for only $deityName knows why but it doesn't work well and customers complain about random buffering.

- And that is BitTorrent traffic - better feed that info_hash and so the locally-running cache would prefetch the data. Okay, that's probably not possible in the US, lol, but this simple trick significatly lowered upstream utilization, making network perform better for everyone.

That's how it works in a "good ISP" scenario. There's a "bad ISP" scenario though. There, NN prevents those:

- This is Netflix traffic and customer'd better pay for our cable if they want 4K. Shape this down to 5Mbps. Not like that customer has any choice of ISPs in their area.

- That's VoIP and and user's better burn minutes on our telephony services. Add randomized 1-5% packet drop.

- That's BitTorrent and we know it's only for pirates. Block the traffic, no Debian ISOs for you buddy.

So, as far as I get it, NN is unnecessary or even harmful where there's a significant competition (like, no less than 4-5 different ISPs), and may be helpful in case of mono- and duopolies.
Datalog is a syntactic subset of Prolog, and Datalog queries can be evaluated in polynomial time. This does not fully answer your question, but I hope it is useful for you as a starting point.
The thankyous keep rolling. I also remembered I can point you at the Slack instance where they live -- https://slack.cloudfoundry.org/, in the #buildpacks channel.
The story of the Vasa is a great lesson on the dangers of changing specifications while a project is underway. Not exactly the lesson of the apparent debacle of the Ford, which is more a lesson on the dangers of using a lot of new unproven technology in a major project.
Consumer cases tend to be fairly wide, to accommodate 5½" drive bays and tall CPU coolers. Length tends to be the primary constraint on GPU size in these applications.
Those are just the new carriers which can't be deployed until they can prove it works as long as the Senate (from the article) is forcing the Navy to do according to established protocol.
> Versioning and documentation is a mess, but neither you nor the grandparent seem to have actually made the minimal time investment necessary to even encounter those problems.

This is Microsoft's fault, not these guys, and it has pissed me off so many times over the years.

I always use the analogy that Microsoft builds these gigantic, beautiful mansions, but then to get to them you have to find the secret path that's covered in weeds.

A slightly different topic, but very much along the same theme:

http://i.imgur.com/KiA3SKv.png

What a mess! I want SSMS, do I even have it installed anymore? How do I clean this up without spending 6 hours (because I know something's going to go wrong during the uninstall)?
> Don’t even start considering solutions until you Understand the problem. Your goal should be to “solve” the problem mostly within the problem domain, not the solution domain.

I'd guess that this guideline alone would stop 2/3 adoptions of JS SPA frameworks (and 4/5 Angular adoptions!) if followed.
Sometimes, rewriting is good idea
Most of these boards are made and sold by third parties (MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte, ...).
https://www.armscontrol.org/print/1184

>The strategy suggests that the United States might retaliate with a nuclear strike in response to a nuclear, chemical, or biological attack on the United States, U.S. troops, or friends and allies. “The United States will continue to make clear that it reserves the right to respond with overwhelming force—including through resort to all our options—to the use of WMD,” the strategy warns. Previous administrations have made similar statements at various times despite a long-standing policy not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon states unless they attack the United States in alliance with a nuclear-weapon state.

>Neither the threat to act pre-emptively nor to possibly react to a chemical or biological attack with nuclear weapons are novel, but the Bush administration has more openly and frequently discussed these options than its predecessors and has now set them out as official policy.

Sure, that's not the same thing as saying "we will definitely nuke you if you gas us", but you're never going to see something like that in writing because it removes the option of not doing it.
Installing an app is a higher bar than tapping the "get out of my way" button on a modal dialog that some website just shoved in your face.
What about printing two images, each with only 1 black pixel in a different place?
> and become SCUBA qualified to prepare them

Uh, sorry, but there's no such qualification!

There are may "qualifications", from the amateur PADI (of which I have a couple of grades), to BSAC 1st class (probably the most stringent and disciplined of qualifications, despite technically being an amateur club); but "SCUBA qualified" is not one of them.
> military water survival

http://www.businessinsider.com/photos-of-militarys-combat-wa...

I think the 75 m is just a fitness test kind of thing that everyone should be able to pass
I have been feeling this way for quite awhile. I never want to detract from anyone's hard work, but I simply hate Mono. I hate having to fool around with it to get something else to work. When MS released C# for .net-core, I was extremely pleased. I'm not a big MS fan, but C# is really good! Being able to run it on Linux is a great step forward. I know MS has a roadmap to get F# going, so I'll be anxiously waiting.
Get a neurotypical person to explain to you.
Their video not playing in Chrome does not inspire a great deal of confidence.