skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When NYCT overlay's CBTC signalling on a line the block wayside system is upgraded at the same time and the two systems work in tandem. This allows non-CBTC equipped trains to operate over CBTC controlled territory and the wayside system functions as a backup should CBTC fail for any reason.

As you point the integration work for this is complex and is usually the primary driver of delays and cost increases.
Make same batteries but cheaper than Chinese?
There are trees that cannot reproduce unless their seed pods are baked open

Animals coming back to scorched areas carry all kinds of seeds with them that love the mineral- and carbon-rich environment

Some deer can grow beautiful atypical racks only when feeding in areas ravaged by fire

And burning-out old growth and underbrush allows whole new generations of forest to start because their impediments to growth are gone

Seems like the best thing to do is to let the fires run their course (at least the ones started naturally) .. and maybe note the risks of living near treelines like people who live near water lines know they could be flooded
Pilot-wave quantum theory gains experimental support
The domain "localhost.", and any names falling within ".localhost.",
are known as "localhost names". Localhost names are special in the
following ways […]

Is this not implemented on macOS or am I just misunderstanding?

~ ping test.localhost
ping: cannot resolve test.localhost: Unknown host
~ ping localhost.test
ping: cannot resolve localhost.test: Unknown host
Til people still use Hotmail
The codenames do not provide a material insight, also "what" is being done is very different to "how". An audience such as CCC would be more interested in the "how".

It is clear that major Internet companies are colluded with the government, including hardware manufacturers (Intel).
It said I was a trailblazer. Doesn't sound like me at all. I guess not being American might throw it off.
If I'm reading this correctly, the indicator is currently at 0.42? Somewhat above the lifetime average of 0.35, and well below the 0.50 mark which would indicate stocks are overvalued relative to other assets?

I believe that corresponds quite accurately with the assessment we are currently at the early to mid stages of a secular bull market in equities analogous to the runs during the 1950s and 1980s. But as others have pointed out, it doesn't say anything about the possibility of a correction in the near term. Be careful out there!
> but lost an estimated $10 billion in potential earnings

I hate the term "potential earnings". I agree some money was lost here, but potential earnings are a terrible metric to estimate losses.

"X was pirated a billion times, and X sells for $3, therefore we lost $3 billion in potential earnings"
That looks more like you're getting raw gzip content - perhaps your proxy is messing with the Accept-Encoding headers or trying to ungzip content for inspection and somehow messing it up.
This helped me a lot to understand quaternions using simple algebra:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/147166/does-my-defi...
For one, breathe. Before, during, after. Breathe. Settle yourself (I meditate daily as well). Personally, I think I get caught up when I try to read word for word scripts, so I always give myself a general blueprint of what I want to say but allow myself room for improv. I also tend to do my practice speeches way faster than the real ones, which I also think is the opposite of what most people experience. I pause a lot (and, again, breathe) during speeches, let things sink in for both the audience and myself. That's about it. Oh, I try to get everyone laughing early on. It settles the nerves in almost any situation.
I suspect the pretend-polite tone makes it even worse. Women are tired of hearing these prejudices, but they're often abrupt, poorly spelled missives that are easy to ignore.

When somebody wraps it into a careful sandwich of "But have you considered testosterone? Just asking..." for 10 pages long, it feels like the author is seriously working hard to undermine your professional status, not just spouting on a drunk night.
I'll probably get some of this wrong, but I read up on these arguments back when Piketty was in the news w/ his book:

Yes, it can go on forever -- the rates of retun in the stock market are based, theoretically, on the changing expectations about the future and not based on current income.

Thought experment: 100 of us live in small society producing widgets, we each make a widget a day at the factory. GDP is 36500 widgets/day. We also spend some time researching a way to make widgets faster. Yesterday we found a breakthrough that made it 50% likely that in 5 years we'll each be making 10 widgets a day.

It would be reasonable for the valuation of our widget company to go up something like 40% on that news, right? But GDP next year is stlil going to be 36500 widgets/day.

Since the stock market bakes in all optimistic expectations, then in the eras it that it outpaces GDP it could be the case that there remains unrealized optimism for the future.

If the question is "but where is the capital coming from that flows into the stock market?" The answer is that it can be created via credit, or it could be created via appreciation in assets not captured in the stock market (like housing, the major one).
The author's claims are not factual. The "biological" bases he asserts as fact are debunked, and not even recently. You say that we should engage with him, but there's nothing of substance there to engage with.

So then, we shouldn't tolerate his breach of the "peace treaty" of tolerance. He stepped over a line, and should be socially stigmatized for it. https://extranewsfeed.com/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1...
With my Macbook Air, I needed a Mini-DisplayPort to HDMI adapter.

With my Retina Macbook Pro I also picked up a Nexus 5X, so I needed a USB-C to USB-A adapter.

With my wife's Touchbar Macbook Pro I need a USB-C to USB-A adapter and a USB-C to HDMI adapter.

Finally, with the X1C, I need none of these.

I have no doubt that USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 are the future, but as a transition laptop, I couldn't be happier.
in theory, yes. in practice they detect that and quickly show the previous frame reprojected.
Hashing is wasteful, but its redeeming quality is that it takes negligible work to validate, despite taking significant work to find values whose hashes have certain characteristics. Just hash the value produced by the worker node and make sure it conforms to the parameters. Should take microseconds.

With proof of useful work, it's probably significantly harder to find similar problem domains where the validation is fast but the useful work is laborious.
So then the government should step in and provide protections against his firing? Should they tell Google, no you can't fire this guy even though you don't like him and he's bringing down the morale of your whole workforce? Should that apply to someone who might actually be a neo-Nazi or become one during an employment term? Should Google be forced to hire / unable to fire people tattooed with swastikas or ones that verbally support ISIS or any other number of despicable positions?

And how is the government going to choose the right side of enforcement here? Company A wants to fire an employee for X and now we have government intervention to the utmost degree. Yeah, that's exactly the kind of society that "embraces liberal values like freedom of expression." No one has a right to a job or to not have their opinions trashed because they're stupid, cruel, or whatever they may be. If you're complaining that corporations have too much power, I agree, but that's a completely different point.
Again, I was mainly throwing ideas out. But you are also conflating "does not" with "should not." Clearly something is different. What?
Is this just a problem with NYC's system, or is this an "elephant in the room" problem with mass transit?

If an individual's car breaks down, they can find alternate means to get where they need to go. If everyone were to depend on public transit in the future, how do you handle upgrades? I know the metro in DC will run extra bus routes for some down trains, but I think that's just for certain smaller repairs.

It's something I haven't really thought much about before. The simple answer is to have redundant equipment (tunnels, tracks, cars), but few would stomach the cost. Most likely it would just get used instead, in the same way that you can never alleviate traffic jams with more roads, you just get more people using them.
this reminds me of a class I went to at a major company in 1999, we had problems following the setup instructions which included going to localhost/db-admin-path, after some sleuthing it turned out somebody 'in corporate' on the network we were using had named their computer localhost.
Ask HN: Can you redirect revenue made from the App Store to a different account?
Is there a way to redirect the sales of a specific app to a particular bank account, while redirecting the sales of an other app to an other bank account? I wan to host different apps for different companies under a single license.
"They 'race' the beam by rendering to the left eye buffer while the right eye is being scanned out."

Doesn't that mean they have no framebuffer ?

My understanding of "racing the beam" is that it is only required when you have no framebuffer at all - you are literally cramming the bits, in real time, onto the display circuitry.

If you have even a single framebuffer, you write to that and it handles painting the actual pixels to the display circuitry.
Truffle/Clojure: A self-optimizing AST-Interpreter for Clojure
Why Detroit exploded in the summer of 1967
I learned long ago that books titled like "advanced X" will be a very simple book on X suitable for any layperson with basic knowledge. Books titled "introduction to X" or "elementary X" will be extremely difficult.
My favorite explanation: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15184612/3737009
They are very different things and Couchbase is just misleading since it doesn't have much to do with original CouchDB at all and in general the consensus seem to be that CDB is better than CB but CB is just being heavily marketed.
> The eternal battle of deontology vs utilitarianism.

When you are violently coercing people into some kind of behavior, one of those is objectively superior to the other.
This is what's actually happening to a large extent.

While CBTC signaling is being installed, the original fixed-block signaling remains in place. It's nearly impossible to do this otherwise - you'd have to shut the entire line down for the entire time it takes to install new signals - which could be years.

Once the new signal installation is complete the two systems may operate in parallel (with the fixed-block system acting as a possible backup if CBTC fails, and also so older trains can still run).

The issue is that with 24/7 operation, there is no consistent regular time where work like this can be done. It can only be done in short spurts (late-night shutdowns) or the work crews in-lined with train service, which has obvious safety concerns as well as drastically reducing the capacity of the line.
Revoke third-party access to your accounts
Hey now, no need to resort to name calling ("dummy"). I think you are reading far to much in her statements about her worth as a researcher to be charitable. "Petty" is easily read as being attached to "accusations" and not the rest of the sentence. Her point in that passage is that she wasn't given a chance to present her work and they decided to ruthlessly attack it. She said she was able to fend off attacks politely -- I see no reason to assume that she was not "able to answer these questions precisely and with good reasons."

> If she is serious about her claims, she will provide references to each of the three papers in question: her own, Dr. Mao's, and the earlier unnamed paper which is cited as pre-empting both of them. Then we can see if there is real merit in her claim. As it is now, this is just whining.

I'm sure she would love to, but is afraid of having to deal with a frivolous lawsuit, as her lawyer warned her about.

> "I had never heard of this essay ... much less read it." As if that is a valid response to this sort of response?

A big question is why didn't Dr. Mao mention this essay during the defense. I read the "why had this not been brought up to me four years prior when I submitted my dissertation proposal" as just one example of Dr. Mao's continual poor advising. Others are mentioned throughout the series.

> She doesn't seem to understand the fact that simultaneous, independent development of similar ideas is in fact, very common in academia.

Maybe she understands, maybe she doesn't -- I found this part of the series to be more rushed, and I believe it would be a gap in logic to assume she doesn't. She talks about how the university suggested that she might have plagiarized the essay herself, which is probably why she focused on this line of narrative. "[My lawyer] pointed out that if the department really believed that I had plagiarized this new essay, it seemed ridiculous that they would agree to grant me my Ph.D. Further, he reasoned, if I had been the one doing the plagiarizing, why did they agree to let me keep the portion of my dissertation that contained the now infamous content?"

It's true that there are many unanswered questions, but I don't think it's right to read her series as an attempt to prove her case. It's telling a story that's well within the realm of believability. This professor also has a history of at least one such case brought against them just a year before.
Growing up is being able to hear an opposing viewpoint without automatically dismissing their intelligence or morality. Growing up is understanding that no one is immune from the influence of their peers, upbringing, or background. Growing up is engaging in a constructive conversation instead of shaming someone into silence or unfriending or firing someone in a knee jerk manner. Growing up is accepting and appreciating our differences in thought and understanding that the vast majority of people actually mean well.

Are there limits to this line of thinking? Sure, if someone is being a completely disrespectful asshole, that's when they deserve to be shut down. If someone puts forward a thoughtful essay...even a half thoughtful essay...even if that rocks you to your core...growing up is realizing that even your values are not absolutely correct.

Discussion is the only way we ever get to engage with other points of view. Discussion is an invitation and opportunity to be persuaded otherwise.
No, private streets too. Every address that is affected by it gets notified. It makes sense. mailing people is not very hard, and they likely want to know.
That is a lazy slide deck. From the paper it cites (http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1990-14384-001):

> It is important for us to know that females begin in high school to perform less well than males on mathematical problem-solving tasks. Problem solving is critical for success in many mathematics-related fields, such as engineering and physics. In this sense, mathematics skills may continue to be a critical filter.

It speculates that this may be because

> the content of problem-solving items on those tests may have heavy representation of masculine-stereotyped content, which has been shown to produce better performance by males in some studies, although results on the issue are mixed

So the Figure 1 the slide uses from the paper has smeared the critical skill, from a software-development perspective, across a large set of other math-related skills. The results of the paper with respect to that skill are inconclusive, not surprising since it's a 27-year-old meta-analysis. Surely there are better results to cite by now?
"They are rooted in childhood—which is the only time stuttering can be reversed. Once you’re an adult, there are only ways of hiding"

Don't think this is true. Bill Walton and Bill Withers both were in their 30s before they stopped stuttering I believe.
Full RESTful HTTP/JSON API
"St Alcohol" and "Alcohol St" are also good anagrams
Yes, the sentence can be read either way (as "the advisor" and "Dr. Mao" both referring to the same person, who had not read the dissertation, or two different people). Dr. Mao's role seems to be kept almost deliberately vague - possibly in response to her lawyer's advice as stated in Part III?

She does seem to state that her defense was conducted by three people - Dr. Mao, Dr. Hortense (who she did "go to" and got an unhelpful response), and "The third person in the room, another professor on my committee" who appeared surprised by the proceedings.
It's called an I-D, for "Internet Draft."

Very roughly, a Standards Track document in the IETF goes through four stages:

1. Someone submits an I-D as an individual. Literally anyone can do this and such a document carries no weight.

2. A working group (WG) "adopts" the I-D and proceeds to work on the document as a group. The document still carries no weight at this stage.

3. The I-D is published as an RFC. When this happens, the document finally has real weight. The document can no longer be changed, although it can be updated or obsoleted by another RFC.

4. When the RFC matures, it can be promoted to an Internet Standard.

Let localhost be localhost is still in the first stage.
Haha you wouldn't have to go back 14 years for most nations...
I never want to own a leasehold again, but the system has certainly not been fixed. In fact it's been in the news because of a particularly egregious scandal which will appeal to mathematicians: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jul/25/leasehold-hous...
There is a conventional truth that Elements was a standard textbook for thousands of years, but now that society is no longer a slave to clacissism, nobody actually learns their plane geometry that way. And I had just assumed that I had learned mine some other way.

Indeed I had learned bits and pieces from my father and my teachers. But thinking back, I realized that the solid chunk of education I got, where I saw and undestood a good body of proofs, was from reading Elements while on a family holiday in Canberra.

It's not like there was anything else to do.
I'm assuming I was voted down for saying 'it wasn't up for debate'. Fine.

Does anyone disagree that in a discrimination case where the author is a party his 'manifesto' would be a BIG problem? If you disagree, I'd love to hear why. (IANAL)
http://raceethnicity.rutgers.edu/menu-i/graduate-assistantsh...

Seems to be the Art History dept at Rutgers. She specializes in postcolonial feminism, there is a Ma-o there with a specialization in decolonial feminism.
The article seems arising in reference to the NIST SP800-63-3 Digital Identity Guidelines, published June 22, 2017:

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/

Three highlights of NIST SP800-63-3, from the SANS Security Awareness blog:

"For years people like Per Thorsheim, Cormac Herley and Dr. Angela Sasse have fought against this. Finally these painful behaviors are being put to rest by NIST in their official publication SP800-63-3 Digital Identity Guidelines. While a rather large series of documents, they have a couple key points about passwords, specifically in sections 5.1.1.1, 5.1.1.2 and Appendix A. Long story short.

* Entropy is dead, focus on password length. Stop inflicting complexity requirements, instead long live the passphrase.

* Only change passwords if you are concerned it may have been compromised.

* SP800-63-3 specifically states systems should support the use of password managers."

https://securingthehuman.sans.org/blog/2017/07/27/nist-has-s...
Yes, I used multiple-GPUs every day. It works fine under old version and until now I have no experience for the new version.
The site is ranked in the Alexa top 10,000 in the US - I'd wager that DanBlake knows what he's doing and probably has the site dialed in for his target audience & device already.
nope "Cupertino, California — Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2017 third quarter ended July 1, 2017. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $45.4 billion and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $1.67. These results compare to revenue of $42.4 billion and earnings per diluted share of $1.42 in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 61 percent of the quarter’s revenue." https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/08/apple-reports-third-q...
"The asteroid is falling towards Earth on a fixed trajectory, but the Earth itself is spinning beneath it, one revolution every 24 hours. This corresponds to around 1,000 miles an hour in the region of interest. So arriving ten minutes earlier or later would have placed the impact some 150 miles further to the East or West."

If the asteroid had arrived 10 minutes later on the same trajectory, the Earth would have moved about 18,000 km through space and it would have missed us entirely!
Another difference between her experience and mine outside of humanities:

defenses that revel in ripping apart at least six years’ worth of work without taking the time to acknowledge its value are shockingly common

I had annual meetings with my committee. This wasn't optional, it was a hard requirement set by the department. That way, when a committee member has a concern, they don't wait until the very end to raise it.

I'm not sure if humanities in general are horribly dysfunctional, or just her school.
The funny thing about that quote is that 4.3 billion would still probably have an adjusted value of about 0.93 cents, assuming inflation continued at the roughly 2-3% a year it has been in most western countries.
They had $90K to buy it but not $100K to defend in court?
Also see Andrew Kim's book 90° on knolling. Andrew is the designer behind minimallyminimal.com, the Microsoft redesign concept, Xbox One S, who now works at Tesla.

http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/90degrees

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/90-degrees/id605530423?mt=1...
Two things come to mind here.

1) This is a fairly extreme but otherwise typical example of a bureaucracy sucking the soul out of someone naive enough to not see the "everyone vs everyone else" adversarial relationships throughout the system.

2) The smaller the scraps the harder they fight over them. In big, wealthy, profit generating departments there's enough recognition to go around. Departments left to pick over what's left are bitter places.
I don't want Mark Zuckerberg to touch politics with a ten foot pole. But odds are that he wouldn't accomplish anything he couldn't do just as well with just lobbying. I'd rather have trump for 4 more years than this pasty creep.

Remind you that this guy was bragging about having access to private data of the very first users of "thefacebook". Referred to his first customers by the phrase "dumb fucks". Don't get much worse than that as a political candidate.
It would be rather surprising if a brand new draft RFC from a google employee were already implemented in macOS...
For Piglet, I'm actually going back and conducting research to find valuable signals and releasing everything in as clear a way as possible.

Importantly, I'm providing access to signals first with explanation(s) of what each signal is / how it's useful today.

I also have an investment model currently accomplishing on average 50%+ YoY (for the back testing on 8 years, live for 4 years).

From there, I'm building further machine learning models on top of the signals. However, (as mentioned prior from the sentiment analysis paper) I'm doing much more robust research. For example, comparing all stocks as opposed to DJIA.
A lot of people don't know this, but in the same way Euler is pronounced Oiler, Euclid is pronounced Oiklid.
I dunno.

I spent some time with that paper awhile back, implementing hylo-, ana-, and cata-morphisms in Python and Joy to be sure I was following along.

I loved it, but I was ultimately convinced that Category Theory et. al. isn't quite as useful for the working programmer as it should be.

What I did find useful is the treatment of recursion in the Joy language. http://www.kevinalbrecht.com/code/joy-mirror/j05cmp.html