skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, the person to be sued is not the news source (Gawker), but the person who posted it to begin with (Bubba).

By the same token, the problem with revenge porn isn't the ex having the videos, it's them distributing them.

I'm not saying the Gawker/Hogan case represents journalism at its finest. But to me, protecting free speech is so important that it's better to err on the side of protecting it rather than restricting it.

You could say Gawker had no serious news story there, but what happens when it's grey? The government has no business having discussions about what is meritorious or not meritorious news.

One could also argue that the damage to Hogan was about as clear as the meritoriousness of the Gawker story, so in the end it doesn't matter. It's literally the Streisand effect, played out on a larger, more serious scale. None of us would remember anything about this episode if Hogan and Thiel hadn't pursued this.

I also think that the difference between your typical ex and a celebrity is critical. When you are seeking celebrity status professionally, I think the expectation of privacy has to be reduced. I hate to say that, and mean no ill-will toward celebrities, but I think that has to be expected. That doesn't mean anything goes in terms of celebrity privacy, but I think it does mean that when you have a case of freedom of the press versus privacy, if you're dealing with a celebrity, the burden gets shifted further to the celebrity to prove wrongdoing, pretty far. I think it's unfair to pursue money by attracting attention to yourself, and the complain when that happens.

Again, Hogan going after Bubba? No problem with that. Going after Gawker? Huge problem.

I have no affection toward Gawker, but the Hogan-Thiel suit (or more appropriately, the decision) set a dangerous, dangerous precedent, because now the onus is on the speaker to prove their speech is "worthy" of protection.
Cool thanks for the reply. If you find something better and get a chance, let me know, I'd be very appreciative. I'll take a look this evening and let you know if I find anything.
HomePod Features 272 X 340 Display and 1GB RAM
or a bad commit being deployed on their fleet.
Plus with Tesla's solar roof, you might say that the additional risk of solar is zero, since it's (probably, I'm guessing) no more dangerous to install than any other roof.
Should we also worry about the dangers of creating xenomorphs (Alien franchise) in the future?
We have been operating thousands of nuclear generators for 60 years.
You're still missing the point, by assuming that the outages are code related when you call them avoidable. Distributed systems at scale are terrifyingly hard to control.

When I said "probably a fairly rare one", I didn't mean that the outages are rare. I meant that new code is probably a rare cause of the outages that happen. They have other causes unrelated to new code.

(I'm also skeptical that GitHub major outages happen "nearly weekly", but I don't have data.)
A good chunk of the area evacuated for Fukushima was later cleared and the residents allowed to return. See here: http://fukushimaontheglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/Evacuation...

I guess understanding the situation means I'm smoking crack?
batteries and solar components need numerous extracts of minerals and a bunch of chemistry as well but as.you pointed out the solar lobby is happy to ignore all that when claiming they are a clean source of energy.
Because cheap capital assets produce lousy results, and good ROI requires trained, professional operators.
>and then sneer at those with doubts as ignorant and emotional rather than logical

That's because you reply with things like this.

>sounds like something a supervillain would say.
Insert remark on why we use a centralized service for a distributed source control system, etc. No one seems to care, unfortunately
Fuck what other people want. What do YOU want? – The Hacker Chick Blog
Whatever happened to gittorrent?
Are you seriously being that callous about Chernobyl? Several dozen people died from it. Many more statistically died from radiation exposure over the ensuing decades. Three hundred thousand people were forced to abandon their homes and relocate.

Chernobyl was a huge fucking disaster that killed people and had a huge negative impact on many people's lives. You don't get to minimize that just because a nearby reactor kept running.
In my view, most of the environmental disaster that was caused by Fukushima has nothing to do with the tsunami itself but with complete disregard for safety during the incident response.
Is AI an existential threat?
I'm currently doing this.

Basically, I work for four hours per day doing mostly Django and back-end stuff and a bit of dev/ops and Angular for some great folk at a growing startup.

I spend two unpaid hours per day focusing on learning something (currently Rust).

I spend another two hours per day working on my own project. Currently, that's a React Native app designed to make it easy to write books by speaking into your phone. I'm using it to dictate my own book as I develop the app.

After that I try to spend time with my wife and kids. It's pretty nice so far.

One interesting thing I've learned is that I enjoy the contracting as much or more than the stuff I do on my own. There's something about human interaction that adds a bit more fun. At the same time, it matters a lot to me to have freedom to learn and build without taking too much time from the family.

For that reason, and because money is good to earn, I think that when my Rust has matured a little bit I'll probably try to find a gig that lets me use it in for pay alongside the Django work.
"The Warrior engages in a fight, and might indeed revel in it. Politicians, CEO’s, Lawyers, wheeler-dealers, and used car salesmen fall into this camp."

CEO's? Really? Walking into a conversation with a CEO with this stereotype in mind surely impacts the conversation, no?
> If the AI is so dumb that it doesn't know that happiness means different things to different people...

Arguably, we humans have general intelligence, and still some fail to see that point (some might even argue intelligently against it!). Collectively, we have taken over the world regardless.
Ex-FCC Chair Tom Wheeler Dismantles the Case for Abandoning Net Neutrality
What's gonna happen to Dunder Miflin?
Of course you also need to count that. But accounting for extraction and refining adds something like 20% to fossil fuel emissions, whereas it's claimed to vastly increase total nuclear emissions.
For shame!
I'm pretty sure its 'Eric'
And if it lasts longer than a tar-asphalt shingle roof, which seems reasonable given the materials involved, it will actually reduce deaths.
Relevant /r/NixOS post: https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/6qk0zq/nixos_a_lasti...
I only read the first 3 paragraphs because when you deliberately leave out a significant portion of the energy industry and make a statement that "Nuclear is safest compared to everything else" and then you don't include everything then you are lying. This article has already established up front it is trying to manipulate people.
I really don't know guys, I have both XPS 9550 and Precision m5510 for more than 1 year and had 0 problems.

Yes, touchpad is not as good as MBP, but you can get used to it.

Now I'm looking for 13" laptop with 32gb ram. Do they exist at all?
Code locally and wait for Github to come back to commit.
Its an annoyance but not super critical
Pretty shocking how accustomed we've all become to Github outages. Mission critical developer tools should have gratuitously high uptime. Github is a 100M company whose most important operational objective is just keeping the site running. I call shenanigans.
I've often wondered why they do this; what's the point in offering misleading results?

For instance, there have been times I've searched for something, and it gives back a lot of results, plus it has a pager with seemingly over 50 pages in it.

But - if I say "jump to the last page", suddenly the pager only shows four pages and I'm at the end of page 4...

What the heck is up with that? Sometimes, some really great information is buried under all the SEO'd to hell-and-back crap at the top. That's the info I want, and I don't care if the website owner cares about SEO or whatnot - because they are likely a small-time user (or they just have a very old page or something that hasn't been updated in 20 years)...
Perfect, keep up the great work.I'm glad to hear of your project.The Alexa and accompanying hardware/software is one of the few non FOSS things I rely on within my home. I can't wait for a viable alternative!
Well, I guess it's because I would consider my car extremely safe, with something stupid like 12 airbags, active brake assist, active collision prevention, it will even call for help automatically after an accident, without any input from me. Yet obviously it's not safe if it gets hit by a truck going 80mph, and it's not an impossible scenario. If they made fukishima stronger to withstand larger tsunamis, it could still be destroyed by an even larger one. It was "safe" within certain parameters.
We can argue that those parameters were wrong, but that's a different discussion.
From the perspective of someone mid code review during the outage, it's worked as well as it could too. They preserve comment drafts client side that haven't posted to the server yet across page reloads. While it's a little frustrating to have to submit something 3-5x, they're definitely doing something for this use case already.

Also as others pointed out, just because the GitHub app is down doesn't always mean the GitHub git server itself is down.
Bug in their Ethereum-backed MongoDB instance.
Spare parts. Hope that someone scanned in whatever broke and print a replacement.

Or more realistically: allow enterprising college students, most likely chinese ones, to print these spare parts and sell them on ebay, circumventing the manufacturer-imposed fantasy prices.
Do these designs also completely eliminate the possibility that human error or outright negligence could cause a catastrophic failure? Because those were almost always major factors in nuclear accidents.
steem would be cool
Hydroelectric depends too much on orography. Not all countries have waterfalls, and if they have, they could be in inaccessible regions where it is very costly to build, let alone transport.
They have several 15" Developer Edition models, though it's true none carry the XPS branding. Full list here: http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...
Lets take your car that is smashed, upside-down in a ditch.

When you bought the car, did you think it was safe? Did it pass the government tests, even ones you think might be a bit ridiculous? Were you under the impression it was designed to withstand being upside-down in a ditch?

In all reality, the car was safe when it was new. It simply wasn't designed to withstand such an accident because such a thing is pretty rare in everyday vehicles, although it happens. Some vehicles have such safety precautions, but only when the situation seems to warrant it (a Jeep, for example).

The nuclear plant was the same. It was safe when it was built, only it wasn't designed to handle that magnitude of earthquake because that strength is rare, especially for that area. This is despite designing it to withstand stronger than ever recorded earthquakes. Sure, afterwards the plant was unsafe, but so are many cars after accidents.
The proponents are the ones who will not mind their own business.

Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Strawmen!
Technically it's still the programmer who made all the decisions, at least with the current state of NNs. True decision making is philosophically up there with the 'what is consciousness' problem.

When the blame game is played though, the end result would likely be the corporation in question getting sued for a lot of money, who then might choose to take internal action and fire certain employees.
For 2017 calendar year.

good: ~99.50%
major: ~0.04%
minor: ~0.46%

There's 7 years of history on their status API. https://status.github.com/api/daily-summary.json
I know people in Canada that got US bank accounts just so they could use the real payments apps and tech instead of the poor local offering.

It's a testament of how good it is.
LocalBitcoins Volume (Venezuela)
Reddit is pretty bad without the RES extension, it's not surprising they want to change that.
Most of the ones I saw in github looked to be test or demo keys; not anything real.

The better question are those actual non-github sites that have them exposed (though others here have noted that those sites may already be hacked).
Actually this is solved in the eurozone with that payment method, name forgotten... It is a fundamental bit of what the Euro is about being able to transfer money without the fees.
>That's like saying your car is fine when it's smashed upside-down in a ditch on the side of the highway.

I'd argue it's more like saying your car is safe when it's smashed upside-down in a ditch on the side of the highway.

It is safe. The safest minivan is fantastically safe. Then it smashes into a semi truck at 80 mph and everyone dies. It was still a safe car, when compared to other cars.
This is very impressive, but at some point it becomes more cost effective to rack up more reasonably sized commodity hardware with a "big data" database, no?

(Using "big data" to mean sacrificing low latency joins and full transaction support, with the caveats that many "big data" systems are making progress at getting those things to work.)

Of course you can shard, but there is a significant maintenance cost to that as well, and requires your data model can be easily sharded.
MiniMetalMaker was extruding a metal clay for sintering: https://www.minimetalmaker.com/ mainly for jewelry etc. There is also the Markforged Metal X https://markforged.com/metal-x/
Even that's not necessarily true; your run-of-the-mill lead-acid car battery works fine for this at small scales, and a collection of them can be good enough for household-wide use. Not the most environmentally-friendly option, but such batteries are cheap and abundant.

You're right that at large scales (neighborhood-wide, city-wide, nation-wide, etc.) we don't really have the battery infrastructure in place quite yet. I'd guess that said lack of infrastructure could be resolved well before 2025, though.
I'm something of a fan of nuclear power, but there's no way it's safer than a solar panel array.

Ah, they didn't include renewables. Colour me surprised.
Every single one of your examples in the first statement is grammatically correct. You can call it ridiculous, if you want, but it doesn't change the fact that it's grammatically correct to phrase it with the noun being pluralized. In your other example, it doesn't apply because "Red" comes before the noun and a "Nano" isn't a thing so it's not a noun either. If you want to say "I have two Nanos", then you're using a colloquial description that turns "Nano" into a noun.

Mocking rules of grammar doesn't make them incorrect. It is a weird rule, but it is the proper way to write and speak the language.
Just because it's A common motivation and strategy, doesn't mean it's THEIR motivation and strategy.

A more likely strategy/motivation is that the product is you. AKA: farming the users.

Create a desirable pasture, and the animals farm themselves.
start tracking audio and visual cues as well

Do you mean microphone and camera, or something else?

(If you do mean mic/camera, sites can't access those without prompting the browser to show a permissions dialog and you clicking "ok".)
Fractional scaling is in the works for the next Gnome release. I've been using the former case, so that's why I said it works well for me.
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Hi, I'm one of the founders of the event. Ethereum took the core technology behind Bitcoin (the blockchain) and figured out a way to generalize it for any kind of decentralized application. Vitalik has a great overview you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66SaEDzlmP4

Regarding the event, you can read our philosophy here: https://ethwaterloo.com/philosophy.html. Essentially we believe that the technology has immense potential, but there is an enormous shortage of talent and general understanding of how to build applications on top of it. The simple goal we aim to achieve is to educate and inspire talented developers to build on Ethereum. There is no other agenda, and to that end it is free for all attendees.

Regarding sponsorship, we're primarily backed by Blockgeeks Lab out of Toronto (blockgeekslab.com), which is a blockchain-based accelerator started by Dmitry Buterin. We're also accepting a carefully selected group of companies with an interest in developing applications on / learning more about Ethereum to sponsor on a case-by-case basis.
They would need to be able to create a powder with consistent grain size.
You're ignoring the suicide missions, the betrayed promises of the electric company, the endless coverage on the news, the anxiety and fear, and the government blatently lying about the health consequences. You're ignoring the long term consequences of habitability, of raw fish being a vital food source and the nuclear core having melt straight into the ocean. You're ignoring the media censorship. And that many of the "few" victims of cancer were children.

The public's rejection of nuclear is about terror. With terrorists, we're willing to turn foreign policy on its head and wage war and go as far as travel bans. And with the terror of nuclear, Germany has shut down all of it's plants. The consequence? Germans feel safer.

And no, no one has forgotten the Tsunami. That's blatantly offensive. I'm talking about nuclear to stay on topic.
It's like learning how to answer standardized tests: the "reading comprehension" questions are usually among the worst offenders. The questions are asked in the order they appear in the passage (eg, the third question will not cover something prior to the first question, chronologically in the passage, unless it is an over-arching question). You can dramatically increase your "reading comprehension" scores by knowing things like this: and the same would be true of "questions about about the article" before commenting - just know to skim for the handful of pertinent keywords, answer, and move on.

I have fantastic reading comprehension from a standardized test point of view - I was always able to finish the section well before the time limit. But I also knew I didn't have to actually follow the directions - I didn't need to read the passage, I needed to find the answers: a very different, and far simpler, task.

That's what this would become.
It's been abandoned for quite some time.

Apple is slowly pulling out of academia, where they used to shine quite well.
There's plenty of people who get up to things that would result in severe professional damage if it became public knowledge - I know a handful of teachers who are into BDSM in their private lives who are eternally terrified of their employers or a journalist catching wind. "Some stranger" isn't necessarily the issue, it's someone who has the ability to harm you that's the issue.
The default alternative to using more nuclear energy is to use more fossil fuels. Maybe we'd like to use less energy, or switch to wind, solar or similar, but that isn't a viable option in the short term in a lot of cases.

We know that using fossil fuels will kill a few people every day, eventually adding up to a large number, as well as causing widespread, low-grade damage to the environment. On the other hand, nuclear has the potential to kill a moderate number of people at once if something goes horribly wrong, and cause severe damage to the environment of a small area.

It seems to me that a preference for more deaths and environmental damage overall because they happen a little at a time instead of in a catastrophic event is not rational.
Nobody builds breeder reactors (except for generating weapons-grade materials) because they are seriously unsafe. I'm not anti-nuclear, but the idea of using breeders for civilian power generation is lunacy. There's a very good reason no one does that.

The lack of production thorium reactors, over half a century since the first experimental reactor was built, suggests to me that there are serious complications that thorium proponents are missing out on. On paper, it seems ideal. So why has nobody built one? Don't wave silly treehugger regulations at me, because it's not just the US and Europe - Russia and China, with rather less concern for safety and rather less regulatory process than us, aren't building them either. Even India, with a third of the world's thorium, is just now in the process of bringing on their first thorium reactor.

The problem isn't "grow some balls". The problem is taking an honest look at the situation and ditching the wishful thinking.
SegWit's first victim.
How much of the world's wealth is hidden offshore?
Would be nice to have a video of the process
+1 on the Kinvara. I'm a current college XC runner, and I've been running in the Kinvaras (many different versions) for 5 years now. I've found that the low weight makes a big difference, allowing you to run with a higher cadence and thus with shorter, lighter strides, reducing impact forces and generally improving form.
I see your point but don't think it's an adequate analogy. Xerox still means photocopy and Hoover still means vacuum cleaning. Gif is something that used to exist for decades, not something giphy invented.
so what is the alternative in the meantime? Everyone breathing coal particles and many people dying of lung cancer before their time? How is the current energy production safe by anY standards? did you even read the article ?
Maybe. I saw a Google X talk a couple years ago from some grad students at MIT that wanted to build a nuclear power plant that closed the fuel cycle loop. (which is what you're talking about). They made some very grand promises about how this would solve the HLW problem.

Unfortunately a few years later they had to issue a correction, because older (more experienced) engineered stepped in and showed them where the mistakes in their work were, and they couldn't eliminate nearly as much HLW as they thought with existing technology.

In other words, a closed nuclear fuel cycle doesn't exist. We could be better than we are currently with investments in molten salt and fast reactors, but I don't think we know how to get to zero HLW using fission.

Considering that HLW lasts for a million years, that's imposing too high a cost on too many of our descendants, IMO.

My personal belief is that solar and wind are the best way to go for now, and if we ever get zero-HLW fission or aneutronic fusion working, cool.
"Win" was (I'm guessing) used in a negative context to mean "worse", so I used it in a similar way. Kind of like how Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot tend to "win" competitions for murdering the most people.
The problem with nuclear energy is that a nuclear power plant isn't very different in concept from a nuclear bomb. Getting the latter from the former is a serious concern. Having the former accidentally turn into a dirty nuke (not a lot of force, but lots of fallout), is scarily easy. Just see 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl.
Ex-Google VP: Android is the reason your phone takes worse pics than iPhone
Hard to source parts for old cars? Those cost a lot more than $2 each.
This I pure paranoia fuel. I don't think I've done this (or what someone else mentioned about leaving the .git folder open in the server) but I'll double check anyway.
Voat (https://voat.co/) is also an option I've heard of before but never used. However I just looked at their front page and the number 2 post is titled 'How to solve the Voat's antisemitism problem' and the image contains an antisemitic slur so that's not very promising.
Lots of people care, but we also recognize that the advantages of using a centralized system outweigh the disadvantages for many use cases.