skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhhm, Russia is part of the "west" unless you think they are not --but even Japan is considered "western" in economic contexts, but regardless, most Russians consider themselves western (as would most Europeans consider them). In addition, the word "propaganda" didn't have much negative connotation in Russia. In many contexts it has similar connotation to the word "advertising" in English --which depending on context can seem negative, or positive, but many times just descriptive.
My driving instructor and parents all told me that driving in the left lane when not passing is illegal and that people who do it are dickheads. I see signs reminding people to stay in the right lane when not passing on a regular basis.

Is it just the state I live in (WA) or is the rule not as solid as I thought?
> I like how western people label propaganda anything that was made outside of the US

I grew up during the days of GI Joe cartoons. A while back, we watched the GI Joe tv movie for a laugh. My gf and I couldn't finish it because it was essentially Cold War propaganda for kids. A lot of the primary villains were foreign, the heroes were as stereotypical American as they could get, and the plot revolved around an energy crisis or something along those lines. It was offensive, considering that it was targeting children. It was political indoctrination.

Also, I remember an episode of Alvin and the Chipmunks that was anchored around the Berlin Wall. Again, the cartoon was instructing young viewers about the dangers of a foreign government. Not what I would consider appropriate for a seven year old kid's entertainment.
> @karpathy, "I've been using PyTorch a few months now and I've never felt better. I have more energy. My skin is clearer. My eye sight has improved."

http://www.oneweirdkerneltrick.com/
What is the point of putting these dumb ass paywall links?
The psuedo-TTY subsystem is designed to allow user sessions with virtual, rather than hard terminals. Telnet, ssh, terminal emulators. It provides everything you would expect from a tty. Cooked mode, baudrate control (despite redundant), all that jazz.

Its purpose is not just to make isatty return true. If you spin up that giant subsystem to trick an application into a different behavior on a simple pipe, then I believe it is appropriate to call it a hack, trick, workaround or similar.
(+ run the passport through a gamut of watch lists and risk profiles)

The border agent, when handed an EU passport, does exactly the same (match the photo to the face) and nothing much more. What exactly is the problem with automating that?
Pencil... definitely, although not as a child. Much later.

Microwave food, never but I'm from country where microwaves are used for maybe 20 years. I marveled at process of drying ramen noodle though.
In my personal life I set appointments in my phone's calendar for anything more than a week out. For anything within a week I just remember what I'm doing.

For work my team uses JIRA in a SCRUM fashion. So the sprint is loaded with tickets that have priorities but the team chooses what they're doing each day.
Didn't tflearn become tensorflow.contrib.learn? So there's technically a high level API in the TF standard library. Though Keras would probably be a better choice if OP wanted a high level API for deep learning.
Nope. After many tries at todo apps, organizational techniques, etc I've decided I am simply not busy enough to need to plan anything. The only thing I am organized with is my sleeping (always sleep at 12am, always wake up at 7am).
But it leaves room to make such conslusion, so I decided to make it clear. As of ideological adequateness, such abstract story could be pulled in any way with its ears properly grabbed. People love to look for meanings of "curtain color" to make strong arguments out of the void.
Wow, you're right. I missed that interpretation.
I use lists to organize everything I'm doing. Each separate project has a page with a list of specific tasks that will help me finish the project. I also have a general to-do list for chores that aren't recurring (fix the faucet vs take out the trash). Every morning I look at the lists and write a to-do list made up of the most pressing tasks that I think I can get done and what ever else I notice needs to be done that isn't written down. This is all with pen and paper
I work as a developer on client projects--my technique currently is to leave myself a small todo list towards the end of work in Simplenote or a github comment. Then I shut the work side of my mind off, enjoy my evening and sleep, wake up, start on TODO list, and if other client needs arise, hop on those and get back to TODO list later. Rinse, repeat.

If applicable, my tip is to allow yourself to enjoy the evening without thinking too much about work, so you feel rested and refreshed to tackle the next day.
>Are you saying that the only worthwhile thing to do is come up with something that completely fixes one or more of those things?

Not really

>what are you trying to argue there?

only how this mars thing won't solve anything in long term...

> who thinks short-sighted thinking is a big problem you seem to have strange issue with solutions that aren't directly addressing the here and now...

Of course. That you can see a mile ahead does not mean that you can ignore the pothole right in front of you.
For one off or infrequent services like cubicle assembly or wiring new Ethernet ports, an uber model works, but cleaning you probably do every day and you want a contract to outline exactly what you want done and to negotiate a lower price.
I still hope for a new version of the Baker Electric:

Jay Leno on electric cars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRwEXaHTwsY

Except for the "steering wheel", the Baker seems the perfect suburban car for Texas cities, where you never know which streets will be flooded or when you'll run into a pothole.
Propaganda in the Soviet Union didn't have negative connotation, just like it doesn't have a negative connotation in china today. It is like blaming the west for calling the "Chinese communist party" communists even though communist is in their name. Many accusations of western media bias follow that pattern.
It involves tax revenue helping people who are often some combination of poor, brown, and non-Protestant. They're against it, with a few exceptions who recognize that anyone trying to better themselves will probably need a library to do it.

The weirdest example I have is a relative who supports every Republican cut but also complains when the libraries near him reduced their hours because he doesn't have internet access anywhere else.
Milan to Offer Cristiano Ronaldo Getaway from Real Madrid?
JRuby spent years to get to the point where they could run Rails. If you cant do that in ruby you are not capturing the biggest use case of the language. Im not sure any of the alternatives got there

Theres a good list of problems making a proper ruby implementation here http://blog.headius.com/2012/10/so-you-want-to-optimize-ruby...

And a list of what remains different in jruby here (mostly c extensions and threads) https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/DifferencesBetweenMriAnd...
Could be using the LIDAR for ground truth for training a depth-from-stereo system?
1. This is not mutilation. Skin is naturally shed and replaced. It is clear the author took care to protect his body.

2. Yes, they will probably be unique but it is not likely that someone's natural prints look like your sanded prints. Also, since prints regenerate, it would be more difficult to track you through your fingerprints if the authorities have the sanded ones on file.

That said, good luck hiding from Uncle Sam :)
As a pundit I read says, "when those in charge start acting like it's a crisis, I'll believe in the crisis."

When you see government officials and Hollywood high-rollers flying in private chartered airplanes to exotic locations for climate change conferences telling the rest of us how we should live, it's hard to think of it as a real crisis.
Yes. Influenced by Cal Newport: http://calnewport.com/blog/2013/12/21/deep-habits-the-import...

My tools: https://github.com/galfarragem/hamster-gtd
Considering it a pipe is a very rough approximation, though. The only purpose of PTYs is to provide access to a TTY with all its bells and whistles (kernel provided line editing, yay!) in a world without hard terminals.
A good argument against mandatory seatbelts. You shouldn't need them in a drive-through.
Anyone who loves the Lisp concept of "code is data" will love TensorFlow.

Instead of coding imperatively, you write code to build a computation graph. The graph is a data structure that fully describes the computation you want to perform (e.g. training or inference of a machine learning model).

* That graph can be executed immediately, or stored for later.

* Since it's a serializable data structure, you can version it quite easily.

* You can deploy it to production without production having to depend on ANY of the code that built the graph, only the runtime necessary to execute it.

* You can run a compiler on it (such as XLA or TensorFlow's built in graph rewriter) to produce a more efficient version of the graph.

* In some circumstances, you can even compile the runtime away, producing a single .h/.o that you can link directly into e.g. a mobile app.

It's a beautiful and highly useful abstraction that allows TensorFlow to have both a great development and production story in one framework. Most frameworks only have a good story for either development or production.

If you are a machine learning researcher who doesn't need or care about deploying your work (i.e. mostly publishing papers), you may not want the overhead of having to deal with building a graph, and may prefer something that computes imperatively like PyTorch. If you are building products / services that use ML and developing/training your own models (as opposed to taking pre-trained models and using them), there is really no credible competitor to TensorFlow.

Disclaimer: I work at Google. I spend all day writing TensorFlow models. I'm not on the TensorFlow team nor do I speak for them or Google.
Interesting software, but I could hardly read the almost-white-fonts on the almost-white-background. :-(
What If (Almost) Every Gene Affects (Almost) Everything?
Funny how a shitty study about how butter is good for you funded by the meat and dairy industry is lavished with praise, but any study that says your bad habits are bad for you is met with "oh I am unconvinced. Probably p-hacked. Too small a sample size."
I use the Action Day Planner which is designed with Allan's GTD method in mind. I do not follow it very closely and one problem is that I don't always have it with me, but it works better than anything else I've tried before. I combine it with a notebook for work and a notebook for private projects.

Electronic PIMs have never worked for me, not even org mode.
Python is not (typically) a "powerful" program in the sense of a confused deputy; in runs with exactly the same powers as the user who runs it. If you want security, you need well defined security boundaries, not removing arbitrary programs that "seem" powerful.
If you tell kids about witches, they'll be amazed with witches. If you tell them about how jet engine works, they'll be amazed about that.

I'm from post communist/socialist country and was exposed to glimpses of their child propaganda. Very young age and low availability, so I don't remember much, but I remember marveling at MIG fighter jets with red star, lorries, human carrying rockets or combine harvesters, tractors or mining.

Kids are like that. Marvel at things that they are exposed to. Adults usually get solidified in their amazement, so if they marveled at soccer when they were kids it stays with them throughout their lives.

True, people don't care. My point is, it's because they were never shown to care.
I found YCList to be out of date and inaccurate for the handful of companies I've looked for on there in the past. Not sure about its general overall accuracy though.
I cant argue with you that some works are objectively better than others. Or that works in much older media are going to be much more culturally significant than any app.

Personally I think the value of (some of) the older apps is how they are waypoints in the progression of software design, specifically for touch screen devices.

I view software as an evolving medium (the ultimate meta-medium), and as such think its worth preserving at least some of these artefacts for future study.

Perhaps this doesn't count as culture, but I think it's important.
> I'm not seeing the downside for them

The subset "Americans who use Instacart for Whole Foods deliveries" combined with the subset "Americans who subscribe to Amazon Fresh" might just add up to 100% of a subset "Americans who pay to have their groceries delivered".

In other words, Amazon picked up the top end of the market, while Instacart is left with slim pickings. While their investor deck might feature millions of people worldwide ordering deliveries from their local grocery place, in reality most people (a) don't consider grocery shopping stressful, (b) prefer to pick their own produce based on personal requirements on ripeness/size/shapes/colors, (c) happen to drive by the grocery store anyways on their way from work or (d) are low-income and would rather not pay the delivery fees.
The Banter Gold Standard: Quitting the Paper
> The franchise Jarvis bought in 1981 [...] he had to take a Small Business Administration loan at the Jimmy Carter-era interest rate of 16 percent.

Oh yeah, I remember that era. 1981, just after Carter's re-election.
> I really hope people don't start doing this on their own.

People have been doing electro conversions of regular cars for many years. Popular conversions are Porsche 914, the Beetle and the Toyota MR2. There are companies that sell kits for many of these and others besides.

Most of them are quality wise a notch (or two) above what is shown in the article, but typically do not have as much range because of the more practical nature of their design. If you're willing to give up all the usable space in the car for batteries then probably you can get any one of those to that same range or even more.

http://germancarsforsaleblog.com/1975-porsche-914-electric-v...

http://www.evwest.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=40
The question to me is why is this the case? What makes American government particularly disfunctional and how can that be fixed? I don't really have any answers.
It's hacker news jargon, with an etymology something like RTFM (read the fricking manual) -> RTFA (read the fricking article) -> TFA (the fricking article), used as shorthand for "the article."
Impressive, works like a charm on Firefox/Linux.
They're moving towards standardizing the ordered dict layout

https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html

PyPy has a glue layer to implement the C API. The C API is designed around reference counting, which PyPy doesn't do. This also shows up in Python code assuming files will be immediatly closed in lines like 'x = open(fname).read()'

Method resolution order. __slots__. globals(). id
I agree. It gets used in contradictory ways. But he was going for a soundbite. So two sentences was probably the maximum. And most of the time, only one gets quoted.
Amazon has $21 billion cash-on-hand. Hardly poor - that's 32 times what Instacart has taken in all their funding rounds.

https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/cash_on_hand
Avoiding a V8, the White Zombie is a Datsun 1200 converted into an EV dragster. It is the first street legal EV to turn a 10 second quarter.

http://www.plasmaboyracing.com/history.php
So, I don't know what was meant, but...

Things like Python, bash, etc, when actively used make it harder to tell when unauthorized code is running, either via automated application whitelisting systems or more monitoring/hunting scenarios.

To developers, running arbitrary code is totally normal, but it makes securing developer systems particularly challenging, compared to the rest of a corporate network. I've never really met anyone who has a good answer for how to secure developer machines, the best that people usually manage is trying to make jumping from dev to prod as hard as possible.

Which sort of brings us back to the point: in a prod system, you only want to be running the code that is coming out of your repo & upstream, nothing else, having a python interpreter there makes that harder than a bash shell since bash still largely has to call other binaries to do things, especially after you disable bash sockets.
Actually, the thing I thought was funny is that some comments here interpret the study as saying "red meat is bad for you" and others interpret the study as saying "red meat is good for you." I actually couldn't quite figure out wtf it was saying about red meat's impact on you. And given the conflicting interpretations here, I feel like I am not the only one.
> lacks [...] community backing

People keep complaining about the small community. Please join and help.

> lacks corporate [...] backing

Is that a bug or a feature? ...
A block of Silk Roads NGINX configuration [pdf]
It doesnt matter if server code is proprietary if E2E keys never leave device. And open source server change nothing since you cant verify what code is running on actual production server anyway.

And messages that are not E2E encrypted are unsafe by default.
The Fine Article.

Or something more colorful if used in anger.
Minitel had one huge drawback: it was too good. It put France a solid 4 years behind the rest of the world when the web hit. Everything in France was done via Minitel, and in the beginning the web was still so small and capable of much less that the French (rightly) laughed at it as an inferior version of what they already had. But that changed rapidly and before long the head start turned into a lag and a ton of inertia. The world had nothing to compare the web with so that's what it moved to at an incredible clip. Roughly around 1996/1997 France saw the light and then they moved quite rapidly.

Even so it took until 2012(!) before Minitel was finally decommissioned.
Can't even view article without always jumping to top. Must be one of those annoying paywall features.
The need for AI-friendly designs
Behind the Arches is a great book on the topic of McDonalds. The author argues all their biggest successes came from new product ideas that were forced onto corporate by franchisees who insisted they knew what customers wanted. Meanwhile every product invented by HQ flopped (Kroc was notorious for this).

I'd love to know where the new products in this article come from.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341643.McDonald_s
As far as I know he’s not a UK citizen, but an Australian citizen. But maybe being from the commonwealth counts as special?
I don't know about the version of curl you use, but mine doesn't give download progress in binary format, and doesn't contain any content of the target you're curling.

$ curl news.ycombinator.com > /dev/null
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 178 0 178 0 0 369 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 370

You have to add an extra arg to get rid of that progress meter.
"Most things that I perceive as tasks are either not important in the end, or they go away. The ones that remain receive my undivided honest attention and in the meantime I procrastinate."

Every honest organization system is trying to teach you that very point.

You can amass an infinite tasklist in finite time, but only the important things matter. It's much better to accomplish one important thing in a day than twenty inconsequential jobs.

...the difficulty is in discovering what isn't important.
More like "political solutions to scientific problems are unlikely given the high incidence of graft and rent seeking".

Look at the construction of the Tappan Zee bridge near New York City, cost of construction and how long it took. Then look at estimates for its replacement.
Amazon Alexa Skill: Colossal Cave Adventure
Reminds me how from a spam filter perspective, anything written in a non-native language is spam.
I usually plan my day/week ahead but the amount of yak shaving I face everyday working with DevOps tools is so great I just give up. It's one time sink after the other.
Here's what works best for me:

Write down big life goals for 6 months, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years and 30 years. Every month, re-read/revise your list. This allows your subconscious to calibrate what truly matters to you. When I say every month, it's loose, everytime you feel you can't remember the essence of your life goals, you should read them again and think if they still relate to you.

Every morning, choose to get started on one and only one action that moves you forward to one of your long term life goals. Try to get started on it that day. Always remember patience is key, and focus only on trying to get the smallest amount of progress done that day. If you do more, so be it, as long as it wasn't effortful. If you've done any progress, feel good, and really allow yourself to relax, do whatever lazy or fun things of the moment you feel like doing, and know you're making progress and that things are going to workout for you.

This is based on these assumptions:

1) We always overestimate what can be accomplished in a month, but underestimate what can be accomplished in a year.

2) Productivity is not about getting lots of things done, but getting the most important things done, without wasting time on the things that provide little lasting value.

3) Most things we want to accomplish we do not because we want to, but because we feel we need too. When thats the case, no amount of planning will help, since you're true subconscious lacks the needed motivation. Therefore it is better to focus on accomplishing what you truly want.

4) Most people don't have that many things they truly want to accomplish.
Perhaps this article?

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/european-parliament-end-to-...
Well t'internet continues to be disruptive. This seems to be the opposite of eg vacuum cleaners being referred to as Hoovers or ball point pens as Biros.

RFC 822 does not use the term email (nor does RFC 733) and yet I'm fairly sure (I was was only 12 in 1982) that email (e-mail and others) was a regularly used term back then for several message types that involved computers.

A copyright enforcement in just the US does not rewrite history.
I'm a freelancer, and I set my own schedule.

I've logged virtually everything I've done in the past three years into Google Calendar. This is a way to get feedback on my actions, rather than listing my intentions.

If it's a task I need to do daily, I build it into my morning or nightly routine. For example, my "sit down at desk" routine is to review and block out my time for the day in gcal. If it's not important enough that I don't remember it, don't have an automatic email reminder or it's not already on my calendar, than it's not important enough for me to think about.

I also have built a habit of "frontloading" work, and doing necessary but distracting (domestic) things as soon as possible so they are off of my plate.

Giving full concentration to tasks in my brain requires multi day thinking, so I have to sort of 'soak' in the project context. For concrete deliverable based tasks in development I'll use whichever PMS is appropriate and block/log my time appropriately.

I have a dev-journal.org for things I want to remember or side project tangents I'll want to go down later, as well as tracking arcane bash commands I rarely use etc.

I used to use iCal (I find it superior to gcal for many reasons) until I moved to using Debian full time.
Offtopic: The website listed in your profile seems to be down http://sideprojects.tk/
Sure. But prudent leakers handle that themselves. So there really isn't anything to protect. Leaking is different from journalism. In journalism, identities of sources matter. In leaking, only the leaks matter. And, by the way, I don't believe that Snowden needed to dox himself. He left the decision to Poitras and Greenwald, and I think that they unnecessarily trashed his life.