skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could repurpose some of the TSA staff, and push one in every now and again for luck (and reduced costs).

If we start down this path, we'll have to have a government bod give our cars a once over before we drive anywhere.
Yeah I think I've seen that before from the know-it-all mailman who was wrong about most things but very convincing, sure, know-it-all.
> The homeless in SF are disgusting.

Why don't you tell us how you really feel?
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No. I'm creative and I have a lot of ego. I find ego helps with belief in myself so that I can take risks. When things don't work out, I can use my self belief to spin it in a way that works for me. Elon Musk does the same thing. Ask his wife.

I disagree with your notion. I think that having an ego is necessary to deal with the slings and arrows of failing when from taking outrageous risks.

Take risks. But take calculated risks. If you don't believe in yourself, and trust your own vision, someone might talk you out of it. Or your metric of safe will include acquiescing to or acting with the advice of others.

There's not really a way to rationalize courage in my opinion. And it's not a case of you have it or don't I've found. At some point in my life I feel brave, other times no. What makes courage in my experience is just saying, 1,2,3 do it, and making yourself do it. If there wasn't fear it wouldn't be courage. You have the vision or desire, you're afraid to take the step, then you take it. That took courage.

Ego helps me believing enough in myself to dream up outrageous ideas. I find that if I'm low confidence or not freed from cares and worries plaguing doubters, my mind isn't free enough to dream up, and my heart isn't free or strong enough to take risks. So have ego and believe in yourself (for me, they are the same thing). Having ego lets me enjoy myself, and makes me happy. And enjoying and being happy helps my creative process.

Have ego. But be rational and strategic about your ego and keep it in check. Use it in a way that works for you, not against you. Is my advice.

YMMV.
Yes. From Comcast. For a fortune.
...but his points are valid though...
Conspiracy theories are staples of Anonymous and Alex Jones.
The nuclear lightbulb is new to me, thanks for the link.

Has anybody thought through the engineering of those silica reaction vessels (I haven't searched)? I don't think it can work.

If I understand the concept shown in the Wikipedia page, it depends on uranium hexafluoride operating at 25,000°C in fused silica containers which transmit hard UV that heats hydrogen external to the silica containers and is exhausted through nozzles, propelling the vehicle.

Silica has very poor thermal conductivity, which means it can't be cooled readily by conduction. This means that the inner container wall will melt even if the outer wall coolant is liquid hydrogen because the wall material can't transport the heat flux. One might be able to keep a 10µm silica shell from melting, but nothing thicker. Too thin to be mechanically sound.

Also, the uranium hex will be completely dissociated and ionized at 25K°C. This means the inner silica wall will be exposed to atomic fluorine, and will corrode away immediately. Uranium at 25k°C probably reacts with SiO2, but I don't know that. Uranium silicides and oxides are known compounds, so it's likely. It's a horrific corrosion environment. At temperatures like this, everything reacts with everything else.

In short, this nuclear lightbulb can't be built with any material we currently know of. We'll have to wait for Scotty's transparent aluminum.

Perhaps the MIT drone could use a Stirling engine with a Pu238 RTG heat source and air as the working fluid. If so, it could stay up forever. I'd bet on that before the nuclear light bulb.
There's a lot of complexity here, but the short version is that nodes cannot quite come and go freely. A replica set keeps track of its members; a quorum of the existing members must vote to admit a new node, or to remove one.

Note that in both CockroachDB and Spanner a cluster contains many independent and overlapping replica sets. The data is broken down into "ranges" (to use the terminology of CockroachDB; Spanner calls them "spans"), each of which has its own replica set (typically containing 3 or 5 members).
This logic doesn't really work out...it seems to also hold that everyone who voted for HRC also voted in a way that didn't matter, so they might as well have just stayed home (the outcome would be no different).

Also, it really reads as just a not-very-thinly-veiled accusation that people who do not vote for the candidate that you want to win are stupid and/or naive. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that, necessarily, but you might as well just say it. I disagree with both the rhetoric and the conclusion entirely, but your opinion is what it is.

Personally, I think this kind of thinking leads to the negative outcomes that pervade our political system. Even if third parties have no chance of winning, the idea that they might not be able to bank on the votes of people scared of the "wrong lizard" might force them to moderate their political stands.
Disability is more insidious than welfare.

States like disability because it is 100% federally funded and determinations are made by administrative law judges based on local standards. Temporary assistance (aka welfare), Medicaid, and other programs have a administrative and program cost sharing with the state and/or county.

Urban poverty has a lot of disability cases too. Welfare phases out in a few years and chronically poor folks end up labeled disabled.

I call it insidious because once you're on disability, there is an incentive to not try to re-enter the workforce. Most welfare recipients are off the rolls pretty quickly.
One of my favorites is Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout, which is a barrel-aged beer and is around 13%. Actually where I live, barrel-aged beers are becoming very common, most craft breweries have them. And they're all above 10%.

Not debating the "specialty concentration techniques" since it's basically infusing the beer with whiskey, but it's certainly very easy to get a beer with an ABV above 10%. Very easy. Your local liquor store likely has several varieties in stock right now.
That's what Little Snitch does as well.

Its nothing new though. Layer-7 firewalls ("personal firewalls") have existed for desktop OSes for a while. I ran them in end of 90s on Windows 9x. Software such as ZoneAlarm, and there were others as well (IIRC LavaSoft had one, but not sure). Nowadays, Windows has one build-in.
Yup. This submission should be flagged because it's fake news.
It was somewhat challenging to find good information online on crime at the PABT, but I found a few things that give some indication of how it has changed over time.

Between extrapolations from https://www.panynj.gov/corporate-information/pdf/10-board-me... and this New York Times article http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/11/nyregion/as-port-authority... it seems that crime at the Port Authority Bus Terminal has decreased by a factor of ten from 1983 to 2013/2014. This seems to be consistent with everything else I have found on the subject, eg statistics in http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/06/nyregion/bus-terminal-addi... which suggest an even greater reduction in robberies specifically.

I would appreciate it if anyone can find better data or spot-check these numbers against other reports, because of course an order of magnitude is very large.
Small correction: I'm not the author of Scala.js, that honor falls to Sebastien who did all the hard compiler work to make Scala.js happen.

I just used Scala.js and built libraries on top of it
And that interests of people searching for porn are representative of the general population.

Agree. Not convinced (although the data is interesting).
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To me, only passingly familiar with what happened, your initial comment left out too much of the detail you added later (specifically, the repeated part).

Thanks for following up!
> the sidebars should be collapsable

> Regular users will not need that left sidebar

It is collapsable, but I could not determine from your writing if you figured it out; click the Main Menu icon in the top left.

I agree, there is often more whitespace added with new "revisions" to Google services - Gmail, G+, News, Hangouts, etc.
Thank you so much for your feedback ... You are absolutely correct ... Usually, for publishing, people use any dataset, for example in Google they usually use their own huge dataset for the speaker-dependent scenario and not the NIST. But I accept the comparison using NIST dataset could showcase the work in a better way. Unfortunately, I am not working on that project anymore so I have no time for doing that but I am open to collaboration for this effort if anyone is interested to continue.
Probably moderate with this specific technique, but I imagine you could use some simpler method where each end of the transfer is willing to share their public IP. This would reduce the problem to UDP hole punching/scanning across some pre-defined port range and then running whatever traffic you need through that pipe. I feel like this would look less "suspicious" to an IDS than crafting odd-looking ICMP packets.
I always mistype the as thr on my phone to the point that it sometimes auto corrects it to that.
Deep learning is going into that but when? That's obviously another question. Lol!
I think homelessness falls under the broader category of poverty and that's what should be addressed as a whole. A better wholistic strategy that would involve the following ideas could help reduce poverty and increase human welfare overall:
1. Population Reduction
2. Mass Education
3. Better Allocation of resources through reducing zero-sum games.

I've discussed this in more detail here - https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-most-controversial-or-unp...
Similar articles for reference:

1. https://www.ssl.com/article/ssl-tls-handshake-overview/
2. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
3. https://hpbn.co/transport-layer-security-tls/

Also note the delay created by each step in (3).
For anyone curious about the rate, these articles https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/04/27/acid-at... https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/z4dy43/why-acid-attacks-h... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4462016/Two-acid-att... suggest that (on average) there is more than one attack per day in London alone.
Can you guess why this will make only 1 in 10 people cry tears of joy? https://media.giphy.com/media/kFgzrTt798d2w/giphy.gif
When computers were invented, a lot of the people involved were already adults - plenty in their 40s and above. Before home computers, you didn't get to use a computer until your 20s.

Therefore, the first few waves of programmers included a lot of "already olds."

This is always overlooked as evidence that older people can learn to program.
> Sorry but they don't get off that easy when almost half of them voted Trump into office.

Nowhere near half of Americans voted Trump into office. (Now, if you want to criticize a very large share of eligible voters for abstaining, that's valid, but abstaining isn't the same as voting for Trump.)
If you don't mind me asking, how are you getting the data? just site scraping each source?
> Linked lists make way more sense in languages with bump-pointer allocating garbage collectors specifically. In those languages (e.g Haskell, OCaml, Java) allocation is really cheap and they preserve locality so allocating all the links isn't as much of a penalty.

Such allocation is possible in languages such as C++/Rust/C as well. (Though to how much the standard library in each supports you may vary.)

My point was that at least I choose linked lists for the O(1) node insertion/removals in addition to maintaining a sequence of items, a trait pretty much unique to linked lists. It's a matter of whether or not the order notation beats out any additional allocation time and cache effects (Vec/std::vector/continuous-memory lists being more friendly towards cache)

> Also if you don't have a garbage collector you have to do reference counting, and if you want parallelism your reference counting has to be atomic, which when you're sharing a lot of linked list nodes, is another large penalty.

Neither Rust nor C++'s linked list implementations require ref counting, and neither have a GC. A node is essentially,

struct LLNode<T> {
LLNode *next;
LLNode *prev; // if doubly linked
T item;
}

(the above is pseudo-syntax, adjust appropriately) Rust, for example, knows the linked list is only ever owned by a single person. (Barring either the list or the items being wrapped in Rc/Arc/Mutex/etc., but in that case, of course it is, but that's yet different and doesn't really impinge upon a linked list's general usefulness)
We saw the effects of this during the 1989 quake in areas like the Marina district.

A comparatively tiny portion of the city actually. But anyway, this is far afield from the original topic of this thread.
Like slut shaming, gay bashing, nerd bullying? Or maybe you'd like to better qualify or narrow your assertion? Because multiple generations did this, for exactly the reasons you state: it was good for society.
> https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/ima...

It's not designed for readability, it's designed for less density of information. It's easy to do that by putting space everywhere, but the real challenge is keeping the same kind of information density while making it more readable. Really disappointed by their redesign.
This is what I posted on the topic seven years ago http://drupal4hu.com/future/freedom
Not sure about the downvotes, you're right.
Citation? I ask this because data at my company has shown that virtually nobody taps on the header, especially on hamburger menus.
On the other hand, one of the other major data analysis platforms went the other way: R is a free implementation of S language. TIBCO still sells S-PLUS, but my impression is that R is much, much more popular.

My impression is that Octave always lags a little behind Matlab, both in terms of features and performance, since the matlab language is essentially whatever The Mathworks says it is. R and S-PLUS both have a somewhat formal definition in the form of books and articles, which might help keep them in sync.
yeah me too obviously. I wish steve jobs had decreed that phones should come with physical keyboards and not otherwise.
He Is perhaps the most famous real estate developer worth billions with a lot of holdings in Manhattan. While a lot of Democrats claim to hate him, they are usually the ones on city council that pass these rent-seeking laws that are a regressive tax that gives Trump huge sums of money at the expense of working people.
Champion!

May I ask, what was your background prior to moving into coding? A different technical field or trade?
I don't even think it's that necessary to solve hard problems, at least in most fields.

You can do a lot with general coding knowledge, however, I've found the CS fundamentals to be most useful for optimization.
Given you can get the dimensions of particular books off their Amazon description; looks like it could certainly be done!
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> I thought Chipotle was straight-up fast food

I tend to think of it that way, but it's pretty much, among national chains, the one that is held out as the archetypical fast-casual (IME, it's pretty bottom of the barrel for partial-table service, and no more fast-casual than Carl's Jr., which also has partial table service.)
> This makes Freakonomics sound like Nobel material. Completely vacuous.

That's ironic considering he was a guest on an earlier Freakonomics episode: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/big-penis-things-ask-google/
It comes from Twitter! It is v expensive to directly subscribe to each wire service - also difficult to maintain scrapers for each. Many services already post links to Twitter - for the ones that don't it is easy to create an account driven by a scraper & maintain the common interface.

You can check out the code here:
https://github.com/r1b/news-wires
That sounds beyond bizarre!
It would have been really interesting to know if management was on board with that interview style. Not that it would change the fact that walking out probably was the correct choice.
Even from their example, you can see the political bias clearly in the first pic. I believe that they believe themselves have an unbiased algorithm which creates this result, which they believe is unbiased.

However, it is clear to me, their result is definitely biased. I do not believe an unbiased algorithm will generate a top list of covering on the supreme court decision on the travel ban only includes reports from NYT, WP, The Atlantic, Chicago Tribune (the only right), CNN. I also do not believe an unbiased algorithm will generate a list of other top stories from only Politico, NPR, WP. So In a list of nine titles, only one right media (Chicago Tribune) got a shot, but not Fox News or WSJ. Not even CBS, ABC which are kind of centrist.

Of course, an argument would be that most of the media is left. But don't forget, the left / right split among the American voters is not that extreme. If you generate a list of new reports, which one is more unbiased: A) represent the perspective of journalists (90% left), B) represent the perspective of voters (60% left)?

My experience with Google News is that, if you do not manually customize new feed, you will get mostly from NYT and WP, almost never FN or WSJ. You will also get a lot far / crazy left stuff from Huffington post, Daily Beast, Mother Jones, but you will never get national review, not to mention breitbart.
Spanner offers "external consistency", which is similar to linearizability.

CockroachDB offers serializability (as the default isolation level). Most other SQL databases offer serializability as their highest isolation level, but default to something weaker.

Serializability and linearizability are not equivalent, although it's not always easy to devise a scenario in which the differences are apparent. The "comments" tests in Aphyr's Jepsen analysis of CockroachDB is one such scenario: http://jepsen.io/analyses/cockroachdb-beta-20160829#comments
> Their world did end for those 80 million people.

The world did not end for the other billion on Earth living at the same time. You can't just throw figures like that without putting them in perspective.
Looks like Google news has employed the Windows 10 UI designers from Microsoft.
> Regardless, based on things like OS and IP, I understand how you could infer, say, an income range from that, but how precise could it be?

A simple geoip query is pretty accurate when it comes to placing my neighborhood, which is already a fairly big indicator of income level I believe. And all the laptop advertisements google is showing me because I looked up my laptop recently show they know plenty enough about my shopping habits to make some fairly accurate guesses about my demographics, I'd wager.
(Meta: why is this comment downvoted when it's saying pretty much the same thing as the top comment?)
> 9 million already due of hunger every year, what is the world doing about that presently?

Most of it is because of conflicts. Poverty is decreasing fast across the globe and there were relatively a lot more people dying from hunger in the 80s.
This neglects the porn-as-spectacle aspect of entertainment value extracted by viewers of pornography.

But "large number" is a poorly defined qualifier.

10,000 individuals interested in an odd combination of diaper play involving amputees could be considered a "large number" (more than you might expect) but is handily dwarfed by three quarters of a billion vanilla viewers looking for consensual sex in the missionary position.

Meanwhile, gore and racism searches do not, a sociopathic Nazi, make. How does one learn about reality, without investigating it?

Everyone gets curious about how genitals manage to escape the undercarriage of a 450 lb. individual, just to understand how they manage to wipe after completing a bowel movement. The best source of insight into that kind of curiosity is satisfied by locating and viewing fetish pornography.
Okay, fair.

Usually it seems that people who are moderately opposed to two houses on a lot would be rioting in the streets over a 150-unit building. But I agree, it's a better way to achieve the same outcome.
Your dystopian solution of basically imprisoning the poor is outlandish.

There's a Star Trek episode that explores this idea. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Sanctuary_District

It's difficult to think of ways of combating homelessness. To get them on their feet, you might need to redefine what a job is. A normal job requires some common elements: a shower, the ability to be there on a regular schedule, some productive task to do. But homeless people don't really have the ability to do any of those, except perhaps show up during regular hours.

It's hard to shake the feeling that the only solution is to give them money, and that most of them will just spend it on drugs or alcohol. But that's too heartless of an outlook. Some people who fall into homelessness are just like you or me. When your family connections fail and you have a debilitating illness, homelessness tends to result. And those kinds of people could be pulled out, if only we could figure out how.

There are homeless people that are essentially unsalvageable, though, and it's hard to know what to do with them. No family, no home, but most critically no willingness to help themselves even when given a small opportunity. But they still have friends, and if we focus on helping their friends out of homelessness, they might want to follow.
>I'm a layperson on these issues, but how would privatizing k-12 specifically solve the NIMBY issue?

If schools were voluntary and private then it wouldn't matter which school district your house is in. The quality of local government schools (and therefore the good school's district) often is a large factor in house prices.

>Also how do you align the long term goals of educating those kids with often short term profit motivated KPIs.

I'm not sure that the government management of schools aligns the school's interests with long term goals.
In my (naturally limited, anecdotal) experience, "principal" engineer suggests skill with building (or "architecting") large systems, and understanding every facet from estimating effort to design to code to test to documentation, coupled with an ability to delegate chunks of work to other people and to mentor them.

From the technical skills you posit learning, distributed systems seems to me most in line with "principal"-level thinking, though machine learning seems pretty popular and ostensibly lucrative at the moment.
Personally, I think using "Snopes" as a fact checking source gives it much more credibility than it deserves.

And the whole idea of publishing "Fact Checks" like this sounds and feels Orwellian.

I don't mean to say that I don't trust those media fact checkers who dig into claims made by competing media sources, but I don't trust them 100% and I've seen blatant spin in too many "Fact Check" claims to not have to fact check them too.

Hell, I don't even trust Google search results anymore.
I use this to do a `git pull` on all of my folders inside of my "sites" folder:

#!/bin/bash

for i in /sites/*/.git; do ( echo $i; cd $i/..; git pull; ); done
I'm not a big fan of blanket advice like that. The best sign up flow is the one you test for your specific product. "Collect credit card information ASAP" is a meme that works sometimes, but sometimes doesn't.

Best of luck!
I considered writing this up publicly after, but did not do it. Hopefully they did find a good linux / graphics / embedded wizard whose work was not "crap"
Does IMDb count?
The US government did this with alcohol during prohibition,

> by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...