skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people are consistently more focused on status signalling than actual communication.

They're difficult to be around. I've never figured why, maybe it's insecurity? But I honestly can't say.

In general the people I know like that aren't just that way about projects or work though, they're like that about everything...

I have to admit that I just spend no more time with them than I have to, although cousins is a trickier situation.
They have used water cooling from rivers in some stations (I can't find the source, but I think it was a previous ianvisits post).

Unfortunately only a couple of stations have an appropriate water supply, and enough free vertical shaft space to fit the pipes.
>Stopping sexual assault should concern everyone!

Well, some downvotes should come your way for misattribution too then.

I didn't say that "Stopping sexual assault should not concern us" (or anything to that effect).

I said the case is of no concern to us. First, it's not our place to make judgements of guilt or innocence without knowing what transpired and not even knowing those people. Ee don't even know for sure whether it was actually sexual assault or not -- that's for the law to decide.

(Of course we might be suspicious of the law, or a specific court result, or the way a trial was conducted etc. But we are not even at that stage yet).

Plus, you're not stopping sexual assault by saying you are against it in an internet forum (and concerning an undecided case). Heck, even rapists would say they are "against sexual assault" in public.
And that A/C is only on cut and cover lines (circle etc) not deep level trains.

On deep level trains there is no good place for the trains to dump the heat.
Per https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2017/06/10/cooling-the-tube... there already is regenerative braking on some cars, the issue is that regenerative braking can't happen if there's no train on the same section of DC bus that can accept the power. There needs to be some sort of inverter to sink the higher DC voltage and send it back into the grid.
There are so many things I can't even believe about this case.

One of them is how many people are willing to believe absurd theories in order to justify this murder.

Castile was a law-abiding citizen, with a job, a girlfriend, people who cared about him, and no criminal record. Why would anyone believe he would reach for a gun with an officer pointing a gun at his chest? Why is that even a claim that can be taken seriously?

So many people say, "We can't know what happened in the car." Unless you believe a rational, by all accounts kind-hearted, adult with no history of violence or crime would suddenly decide to have a shootout with cops with a little girl in the car, we can know what happened in the car.

What must you think of black men to believe a story that is so absurd on the face of it? I've heard the argument that it was the gun that made it possible for people to believe the officer's version of events. But, would anyone believe this story if it had been a white man in his 30s in the same situation?

And, how horrifying must it be to wake up each day, as a black man in America, knowing that a jury of Castile's peers believes that at any moment any black man could snap and go on a murderous rampage? That's the only thing I can come up with that makes any of this work; that white America still believes black men are inherently dangerous.

I'm horrified by every police execution of an innocent person, and one shouldn't have to be a perfect citizen to not be subject to being killed by police. But, this one is the most stark example I can think of where there is no excusing it, and no way to assume the officer had legitimate reason to be afraid (aside from Tamir Rice, a 12 year old with a BB gun, who was given mere seconds from the time of arrival of police on the scene before he was gunned down...by an officer who also faced no consequences).

You have to believe black people are inherently dangerous to believe the police officer's story on this. And, a jury did just that.
Most people outside the security community don't believe that the government has the offensive capabilities it does. This is necessary proof.
What by the language spec makes your code incorrect? The only question is, does the compiler generate a constant call to print "false"? But this would be an optimization, not a correctness question.
WannaCry infects 97 speed camera's in Australia, ticket's withdrawn
Hi! Blockchain at Berkeley executive here, we totally agree with you, and with all the buzzwords being thrown around these days, skepticism is understandable.

At the end of the day, we see blockchain as a general term. We have humble roots as the Bitcoin Association of Berkeley, but we wanted something agnostic and recognizable for the future, so we ended up with this. Sure, blockchains are just a data structure but the cryptographically enforced units wouldn't exist if it weren't for blockchain, or something like it (IOTA Tangle).
I can assure you that the people here are only interested in the real stuff. :)

Some of the things we do here are related to teaching ([1]), Ethereum Dapp Development, and whitepaper talks. [2]

[1] https://blockchain.berkeley.edu/decal
[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5sgoRfoSp3jeX4DEqKLwKg
Very nice! I see you are using a way to express the constrant "at most two cells of the same value in direct succession in each row and column " that is shorter than the formulation I have posted.

I used a conjunction of two constraints, for each triple of cells A, B, C in direct succession:

( A #= B ) #==> ( C #\= B ),
( B #= C ) #==> ( B #\= A )

And you are using only one constraint:

B #= A #==> C #\= A

To the SAT purist, the question may now arise: Are these ways really equivalent, do they state the same constraint?

One way to check it is to apply CLP(B): Constraint Logic Programming over Boolean variables, which ships for example in SICStus Prolog and is provided as library(clpb).

Using this library, we can ask:

?- taut((((A =:= B) =< ( C =\= B))*
((B =:= C) =< ( B =\= A)))
=:= ((B =:= A) =< ( C =\= A)),
T).

This asks whether it is a tautology (taut/2) that the two ways to express the constraint are equivalent.

The system answers:

T = 1,
sat(A=:=A),
sat(B=:=B),
sat(C=:=C).

So: Yes, the two ways are in fact equivalent, because this equivalence always holds. Yours being shorter, I would in fact prefer it and could also use it in the Prolog solution! Well done!

One additional neat thing about the Prolog solution: Since no further solution is found on backtracking in this case, we have in fact also verified that the reported solution is indeed unique. I suppose this check could also be added to your solution somehow to make such observations possible?

For example, suppose I modify the puzzle to read:

puzzle([[_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,1],
[1,_,_,_,_,_,_,0,_,_],
[_,_,0,_,_,_,_,0,_,_],
[_,0,0,_,_,_,0,_,_,1],
[1,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,1],
[_,_,_,0,_,_,1,_,_,_],
[0,_,_,_,_,1,_,_,_,_],
[_,_,_,_,_,_,_,0,_,0],
[0,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,0],
[_,0,_,0,_,1,_,_,_,_]]).

Then there are 144 solutions (I have removed the first "1" from the first row), which I can generate with the Prolog solution within a second.
It all those things are not illegal, then it's probably not our job to call them immoral either.

Rich people use their position to attract girls all the time, it doesn't change if they are VC or not. You can always tell them that you're not interested or to get the fuck off if they insist. Besides their riches are part of who they are (it's not like they just won the lottery) -- a struggling artist or fair-trade hippie activist will also use his being as such to attract girls who are into that sort of thing.

I don't find "explicit texts" of concern either. What is this, victorian morality police? Some texts are bad because they are naughty? "I want to have sex with you" might even be more open and honest than "Let's have some coffee" (when the main reason is ending up in bed).

Threatening texts or actual sexual assault on the other hand, well, yeah, that's of concern.
Yeah, I'm the author of the package and the study.
A Cyberattack ‘the World Isn’t Ready For’
Recommend you check out Proof-of-Stake. It solves the problem of power wastage. ;)
If its about offering me goods and services that I may be interested in, then ad blocking is a useful feature for both me and the advertiser. If I am not interested in any goods or services then no offering or aggregation is needed.

On the other hand, if its about offering me good and services which other companies want me to become interested in, then we have a different deal going on.
Terminal tip: What's running in my namespace?
OMFG, they are seriously launching yet another messaging service :/.
> any cinema that can do 3D can do 48FPS, at least.

You'll have to explain to me why they weren't showing The Hobbit in 48fps then. You sometimes had to go to a different country to see it in 48fps.
Note that the "sexually aggressive comment" can just refer to a plain "sexual comment" (which changes the whole sentence's meaning).

And it's labelled "aggressive" because of several centuries of hardcore religious puritanism leaving their mark on all aspects of US culture. Sex is naughty. Sex talk is aggressive.
> Now the question is, what motivates you to seek out a relatively far-fetched justification for this man's possible innocence?

You're implying he supports sexual harassment.

He's bringing up a perfectly valid question for discussion: what if the person has an outsized opinion of his attractiveness, and also happens to be a VC -- is that still sexual harassment or just stupidity?

Well, the answer is that in this case it's still harassment.

And so now there's question, answer, discussion, etc. No need to accuse the poster of being complicit himself in harassment.
I suppose if the air is compressed by the bottles, the inlet is on the outer side of the cardboard membrane and discharge is on the inner side.

Excessive heat is then released into the bottle and stored in the plastic until it radiates away - mosly by the large, voluminous bottle part.
I disagree, and think that what's more illuminating is what happens if they DO report it, and the tone of which they report it. Of which this is not very far off:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6uvv1aS5_I
Usonians are so brainwashed by "american exceptionalism" that they can't even see how out of control their military/industrial complex has become.
> Our brain knows it is conscious.

Alas, there's the rub. With sufficiently high-resolution brain scans, it should be possible to backtrace what happens when someone utters, for example, the phrase "I'm conscious", or does some meditative exercise, or something. But I'm really not sure if we could learn anything more from that than we know now.

Personally I think the most logical position is panpsychism with respect to information and/or information processing. Disregarding some undiscovered physical phenomenon, this is all that happens in the brain, and I see no fundamental reason why other systems that represent or process information couldn't be conscious, as well.

Which leaves us with the problem of how to define "information" in this context, of course.
So are you suggesting that there's nothing to worry about and that everyone should carry on as if the threat environment hasn't changed?
That is what the two above postings said, too. Or at least I understood them to say that.
http://www.ifau.se/globalassets/pdf/se/2017/wp2017-08-the-ef...
With every leak of government produced malware I hope the issue get pushed a bit further onto the political agenda so a international treaty can be reached on software implemented weapons. There need to be some defined limits for what agencies can do and what happens when the weapons sooner or later are discovered and turned into problems like WannaCry.

Its clear to most politicians that its a problem if criminals use guns acquired from the military or police, and that its partial the fault of those agencies when it happens. We are not there yet with malware.
> I genuinely think it's worth self-examining one's motivations if someone's first instinct is to defend the man in such a case.

Why do you assume it was his (or her?) first instinct? This HN thread has already well-established that Caldbeck's behavior is repugnant. Do we need every single poster to +1, or can people propose questions for discussion without being accused of being part of the problem?
Ask HN: Run own DNS for privacy?
After using HN posts to set up mailinabox and Streisand VPN I wondered if anyone was using a similar service for their own DNS privacy?
In that case you are free to leave. You'll dissapoint them, but I think many outfits would do the same to you if circumstances changed before the contract was signed.
I appreciate your straight answer, and the call to defend employment rights. However, isn't it quite difficult to prove age discrimination? How successful are these legal actions?
> only 128kb of RAM

I remember reading the first IBM PC came with 16k. A former colleague of mine once reminisced about programming on a PC in the late 1980s that only had 256k of RAM (although I think that must have been an old or low-end machine).
Hi. This seems very interesting. I followed the rabit hole and ended up here https://pfrazee.github.io/blog/what-is-the-p2p-web. And also checked provided git. Still doesn't understand how you published straight from the Beaker Browser so your dat:// site is accesible via http! Can you elaborate bit more? Thanks

Edit: I've got it :-)

Edit2: You've installed awscli, but never used in Dockerfile. Why?
True, but "body-shaking sub bass" arguably doesn't cause hearing damage. Because you can't hear it. I still love loud music. But I don't love those squealing harmonics so much as I used to.
Not excusing Yanez, however from my understanding the training he would have received, would definitely have told him to fire multiple times, possibly to keep firing until the gun was empty. This is standard practice for police.
I think group theory is both very useful and interesting. There’s no need to get into Galois theory but the basics are definitely applicable in everyday life.

I agree there are tons of other things that people should study, like basic linguistics, relativity, quantum physics, optics etc. Geometry should be on top of the list, for as Plato said “let no one ignorant of geometry enter”.

But I don’t think time is an issue really, if you just spend an hour or so each evening reading you csn quickly get a basic understanding of lots of topics in not thst many years.
This article has zero information, but a picture and name of the accused man. This modern kind of witch hunt is disgusting. It also seems to be that the bar for calling something sexual harassement is constantly lowered and results in a poisoned atmosphere where any playful transgression between genders is rendered impossible. It also contradicts my personal experience, where men and women alike enjoy to initiate talk about explicitly sexual topics, both at work or elsewhere. Most times I see sexual harassment reported, I cannot help the impression that there is very little damage but the accuser enjoys the combination of showing her privilege as an attractive person while victimising herself. I am happy that these poisoned perceptions and regulations have not yet fully come to Europe, but without questioning the purpose and truthfulness of articles as this, it is just a matter of time. I am not saying sexual harassment is not happening, I have indeed been subjected to it myself, but if this leads to a man being pilloried like this without substantial and specific proof, the damage outweighs the benefits by far.
As the article points out at one point, at least some part of the reason to make the 8088 were existing peripheral devices that were not compatible with the 8086 I/O-wise.

(Those reasons are not mutually exclusive, of course.)
I just love the name "WannaCry". I'm also happy that it doesn't work for mac systems
> I cringe every time I have to edit a .nix file (and I have to do it a lot).

No need to cringe over syntax. Syntax is just syntax. If you are familiar with a better syntax to express Nix in then create a parser from that format to Nix' syntax. Then insert this parser as a pre-processor in the build process, and problem solved.
"At Will" employment cuts both ways.
I remember finding a scan of an invoice from the late 1960 for a Univac mainframe somewhere on the Internet. The total invoice was ~1.5 million dollars, the CPU costing ~500k, the RAM (~768 KB) costing 800k, and the rest ~200k.
Not if it provides good returns. People still own stock in Phillip Morris.
The investor bot- Chatbot that talks abt approaching investors and raising funds
Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016)
The technology of the internet was definitely invented to support it (i.e resilient networks). The public internet that we use is separate though.
The recent book, The Rise of the Warrior Cop is an excellent read that goes at length to explain how the US police force has become responsible for such acts. The war on drugs is in large part to blame for the problem and the fact that polIcers can kill with complete impunity.
Some time ago Berkeley switched from Telebears to a new registration system developed by PeopleSoft/Oracle. Needless to say, it's garbage. I wrote a couple scripts to pull class data from the API in an effort to help me get into our heavily oversubscribed CS courses by searching for open sections, but the system seems to be designed to make using it as painful and worthless as possible. Luckily this semester the EECS department has put dummy sections in for all classes so students who are able to register for a lecture don't get permanently stuck on the waiting list because of a full section.

College administrators who are considering Oracle for your registration needs, please consider anyone else instead, for everyone's sake.
I’m on the side of the law. But as I can see it doesn’t work. So it must be changed. The lawyers do useless work. They spent copyright’s time and money without any payback. Again, Elsevier only lost their money and got nothing. IMHO, the companies like google must be responsible here as they make money on piracy.
The startup might not, but the recruiter still may. Many startups use recruiters from firms where word spreads like wildfire that you are risky to commissions.
Does New York District Court have the jurisdiction over Kazakhstan?
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi.

Difficult topic but great writing so far. Especially if you like books by Atul Gawande
Mea culpa for what? For greedy traders* not understanding the risks of margin trading?

( *) I'm playing with small money on poloniex as a greedy trader. I made +400% in 3 months, but I don't expect to be refunded if I lose everything for a mistake I made. I would only hope for a refund in case of a bug-related issue.
Brexiteers versus Economists one year on
Are you arguing "other countries are not experiencing leaks -> leaks are harmful"? Sorry, I don't follow...
Cjdns v20 Release
Adel – The kickstarter for ICOs
I was horrified at first reading your comment because I thought it was the price to subscribe. :)
New XMR Pool
Not if you allow dangling commas (trailing commas as the sibling comment calls them, I think it's the more generic term)...

Then you have a comma at the end in ALL lines, including the last one, without an issue. That was what I proposed above (and lots of languages do it, I think JS is adding it too).
I doubt that the subjective experience of the world is as immaterial as some want to believe.

Our subjective experience of the outside world can be quantified in terms of our ability to make predictions about the world and use them. All of us make and use predictions about the perceived reality as part of our conscious experience. However, if you have accurate enough representation of the outside world in your mind, it puts physical limits on the minimum amount of entropy your brain can have. And entropy is a completely physical quantity.

There is an article [1] I found to be interesting that explains why entropy, as defined in Physics, of the same physical system can be different in eyes of different observers with different prior knowledge/reasoning abilities/etc. In a nutshell, it makes perfect physical sense because if one would take into account that all these observers can't exist without physical medium and that their mediums should also be considered to be parts of the physical system of interest.

But then it becomes clear that accuracy of the subjective representation or experiences of the outside world has a direct effect on the entropy of the underlying physical medium because this is what the second law of thermodynamics, applied to the whole system of an observer and the system it interacts with, says.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/o5/the_second_law_of_thermodynamics_...
3 engine landing burn. That thing came in HOT.
you can't build 12 startups in 12 months. You are building 12 hobby projects in 12 months. Big difference.
I read that for reusable rocket any chutes increased the start mass and the initial drag to the point making the whole setup infeasible.

Witness Russia tries to design such things. Since about 1985 I read articles about adding small wings and chutes to the first stage of various proposed rockets. Nothing came from that so far.
>> It sure will cost some of the profit

All profits are re-invested with TFL so I don't think cost (within reason) would be a major concern.
A frightening theory: it doesn't need to read your email anymore. It has read 10 years worth of your mail, and trained such an accurate model, that any more training data don't make much of a difference.
Click the mailman link - Todd will be an engineer who left the company.
> where any playful transgression between genders is rendered impossible.

As it damn well should be.

To be clear: if you're making unwanted 'transgressions' against women in your workplace then you are in the wrong. Women are not your playthings.
The article says that Google Flu Trends does worse than a "simple model of local temperatures". From a very quick, level-1 read [1], the paper you link to doesn't mention that simpler model. Instead, it compares Google flu to previous versions of itself.

I guess you can say that Google improved their flu model, but, "fixed"? Also, I don't see that the article's "thesis" is "undermined". Sorry about the scare quotes.

I mean that the article is taking small liberties to score a small point against Big Data™ (and who else best to score them against, other than Google?) but is that really enough to call bullshit on it?

I don't see anything misleading in the article is what I'm saying. So why "bullshit"?

___________

[1] Read abstract and conclusions, eyball a couple of tables, scan the rest, i.e. just enough to argue on the internet as if I know what I'm talking about.
Hundreds. I don't like web apps.
Fascinating! The first web 2.0 website is online! Congrats to Tim Berners-Lee 2.0!
This is more like someone who is already a doctor switching sub-specialisations.
On the bright side, at least it didn't take me 82 days to reach someone within Twitter, as much as it took me to reach someone within GitHub two years ago: https://blog.r3bl.me/en/worst-support-experience-ever/
These systems all really need some kind of feedback loop. E.g. when a judge approves a warrant that is later found to be unjustified, they have to take responsibility. Likewise for not approving a justified warrant, otherwise you might get chilling effects. If both kinds of feedback are present, it should help the judge stay calibrated to an acceptable interpretation of "justified".
> What prompts this kind of mentality?

Maladjusted chuds being maladjusted.
Thank you for sharing with the world. Amazing work.
What's worse is false positives. It conditions you to ignore any calls you don't immediately recognize, which can have consequences if someone is trying to get ahold of you for some timely legitimate reason. Some people don't leave voicemails, either.
> golang is still years ahead.

You mean like using go generate instead of proper generics?