skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no, it isn't up to me to prove something that's been common knowledge since the 1950s, namely that North Korea is a Communist regime.

The DPRK was notionally Communist in the Leninist mold originally, but it was progressively recast into what its own propaganda describes as an alternative Socialism/Communism, but which expressly rejects Marxist materialism and the central role of economic relations with a central role of the individual and the single great leader. In many ways, it's more Fascist than Communist in substance (the highly centralized ideology of Juche bearing an analogous relation to the heirarchical Fuhrerprinzip as absolute monarchy does to feudalism.)
Also, making it super easy for gold farmers to cash out probably isn't great if you don't want large gold farming groups affecting the game economy and making it harder for legit non-gold-buying players.
Another really cool style of hand drill, which this article completely missed, is the Yankee Drill [0]. (More generically called a Push Drill.) A spade-like drill bit cuts when turned either direction. The handle has a screw mechanism and spring so that you can push the handle down into the work to turn the bit one way, and lift the handle back up to turn it the other way. The up-down motion is easy to get a hold of and very fast to do. It's amazing for drilling pilot holes and for putting holes in walls that are right next to furniture or cabinets - the diameter of the entire tool is only 1.25 or 1.5 inches. The handle stores a variety of bits inside.

[0] https://www.garrettwade.com/garrett-wade-yankee-push-drill-g...
Hi, blog post author here. Let me put an offer here:

If you want to ask a question that warrants a response (as opposed to promoting your own effort, which is valid but does not warrant a response), please mail me, the mail is public and I'll put the responses publically on either my blog or pypy blog.
Or perhaps someone who doesn't want their valuation of other human beings to be solely based on criteria which are instilled by a mixture of: a) a centuries-long ingrained conception of women as possessions and b) (if you insist) evolutionary priorities.
They necessarily have to be slow to compute, but they don't neccessarily have to be quick to verify. The higher the verification cost is, the less likely people are to pay it, but that doesn't mean it might not be "cost effective" under some circumstances.

Like if 500 people can independently confirm a build produces a binary with result X then they could all share in the reward, whatever that is. Nanokarmas?

Other systems are designed to be more asymmetric in order to facilitate scale. Crypto coins would never work at all if to verify a possible hash you had to spend days mining to reproduce the work. Spending five minutes compiling a program to achieve consensus isn't a problem.

The problem is in verifying that someone actually did the work and didn't steal someone else's solution. Maybe encrypting the result you get and sending it off in escrow to a centralized verification location would work, and once a sufficient number of solutions are collected the solutions are unsealed and the results shared so everyone can see what happened and raise any objections.
Hopefully they make it trip better.

Bad trips are a ...doozy, to say the least.
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> I own everything, everything that happens to me

Really? Everything that happens to you? What if you were mugged?

I think you can (and should) take responsibility for what you do (or don't do), but I don't think you can (or should) take responsibility for what you feel because you don't have control over that.
Nah, this sort of hardball shit happens all the time. It's called greenmail. What's unusual is that it doesn't usually in companies of this size & success. For a company like Uber that has nothing proprietary & well funded competitors, they are kind of playing with fire imo. Bad publicity is the last thing Uber needs. Could you imagine if this went to trial?
By having those sorts of thoughts, you are privileging that aspect of them over any other sort of accomplishments they might have. They have less opportunity to present themselves in the way they would like to.

Imagine if everyone around you in your workplace would think about how you're dressed instead of what you're actually trying to talk to them about.
Caffeine increases excretion of calcium and magnesium [1]. This is why some caffeine pills are pressed with ~75mg calcium.

Muscle tremors could be a sign of magnesium and/or calcium deficiency, so it's likely that you were losing too many minerals and not making up for it in your diet.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7836625
I keep looking at Neo but not sure I've already missed out
Why do you believe that the Russian reaction to pulling back would be to pull back as well? If anything, all experience shows that they'll use that to do a power grab in the neighbouring countries instead. Treating "sphere of influence" as a valid concept is immoral, it essentially means allowing Russia to do whatever they want to others against their will; there's a good reason why their neighbours are allying with the west - it's because they want protection from being "sphereofinfluenced".

If anything, we can say that the current sanctions and other have been somewhat effective in deescalating violence, and if the west would have pulled back, then we'd have Ukraine dismembered by now through increased direct Russian military involvement.

Nothing "sets back" Russia to cold war mentality; they have never left it, won't will without a regime change, they won't stop treating the west as their enemy and they will aggressively (re)take the now independent states we let them to.
Bitcoins don't have to be sold, unlike tulips.
My insurance has always wanted to know annual mileage to determine the insurance tier to put me in. The tiers are pretty wide though, so I never put any thought into visiting a friend. Just sometimes which of the family vehicles to drive across the state.
The issue isn't that the data is public. The issue is the extraction of underlying behavior based on the spatial and temporal characteristics of the data being posted. E.g. the fact that I updated my profile on LinkedIn is not in question. But the underlying behavior is that the average user normally updates their profile around the time that they start a job-search. While this isn't true for every user, the use of an algorithm may turn up false positives, which may have unintended results, especially when this data is presented to your manager.

Secondly, while the updated profile is public knowledge, the temporal characteristics of the update isn't a feature that is directly published by LinkedIn. Call it a product feature; it is tailored to present the qualifications of a user, not to advertise the fact that they may be looking for a job. While one can argue that update is public knowledge, and must therefore be available for data-mining purposes, there is a subtle, but potentially dangerous leak of information here that is open to interpretation.

LinkedIn's position, that this leak may be potentially harmful to its users, and by extension, its core business, is therefore a fair point.
Litecoin is extremely undervalued. Ethereum has an incredibly bright future, Monero is an incredible tool for privacy.

Check out bitfinex.com and start trading pairs there. They have a description under every currency that should help.
The direction being taken with data partitioning is great. I truly believe this will solve the issues of many companies when it comes to "big data"... This, to me, is the middle ground we have been missing between rdbms and nosql.

Congrats to the postgres team, what an interesting product.
Siri on iOS 11 is on par with Google Assistant, give or take. It's not world shattering, but i would not call it a fiasco.
I have a Sony bluetooth headset and it's amazing. It was around €65, lasts 40 hours of use (so charge once a week- every 2-3 weeks depending on usage), pairs with 3 devices and does it very well. I often move to another floor while having them on (construction work) or go out to the shed while the iPhone is in the bedroom on a charger, and it still works 10 meters in the yard. Best thing I've ever purchased, so there are good Bluetooth solutions.
About 15-20% of full strength. Hardly negligible.
Will this mean Google search can now also be scraped.
Jocko's podcast is pretty good. The recent one with Harley Flanagan was a bit of an eye opener. http://jockopodcast2.com/2017/05/10/74-hard-times-violence-d...
Taking a stimulant wthin a short period of waking up can interfere with your natural waking process. That might be why you felt bad.

Rather than quitting caffeine entirely, waiting two hours after waking (e.g. when you get to work) may also fix that dependency.
I'm using Rust/Rocket for Web apps and I'm as productive with that stack as I would be with, say, Go or Python/Flask. I'm more productive with Rust than I would be in Java. Programmers generally write the same amount of code (measured in LOC) per day regardless of the language, and Rust is pretty succinct. That said, I suspect if you want the absolute fastest development time, Rails and full-stack frameworks like it are still king.

In my case I'm writing a Web app to expose the functionality of a library that's written in Rust, and Rocket was a natural choice for that—it would make little sense to use some other language and go over the FFI. On the client side, I've found that TypeScript 2.x in strict mode goes nicely with Rust on the server, as both Rust and TS 2.x have comparably feature-rich and expressive type systems (generics, tuples, discriminated unions, a distinct null/option type, etc.)
When you give up your rights to authorities, you are done. Nono this regime is better! They just want to keep us safe! Go read a book and preferably of history. If you consider total control keeping you safe, then go on and do it. People seem to forget the government is supposed to work for you in a democracy. Not the other way around
Has WikiLeaks' Twitter account been hacked?

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/822213093065367553?lang...

Do you deny that WL is offering this reward?
Interesting idea, indeed. Add to this programming language:

1.True multithreading.

2.Native support of spread computation to heterogeneous computation devices, across CPU/GPU/Whatever-Chip-You-Call

3.Auto vectorization.

4.PyTorch style autodiff, and should be able to JIT hotspot as the program runs.

5.Native distributed support with built-in primitives.

6.Visualization as standard library, even language primitives.
Biosynthesis. Ah. Here's a sythensis from 2003:

Concise Large-Scale Synthesis of Psilocin and Psilocybin, Principal Hallucinogenic Constituents of “Magic Mushroom”

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/np030059u
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I've been using 64-bit Firefox Nightly for some time with few crashes. The last time it crashed, I was politely asked (by the Mozilla developers) to do this:

1. restart Firefox, enter 'about:crashes' in the URL bar

2. find the report ID that corresponds to the crash

3. submit it as part of a bug report to Mozilla's Bugzilla

My crash problem was diagnosed within a day and fixed.
The main use cases for decentralization are: absolute control of your money, and censorship resistance.

Think deeply about what this means. Most people have no idea. Just a few examples (typing on the phone): no company or system can accidentally/intentionally deny your transactions, no merchants can charge you against your will, harder for oppressive government to seize wallets of targeted citizens/organizations, etc.
Elite positions are disproportionately occupied by men, but so are the positions at the lowest rungs on the social ladder. Men make up 93% of chief executive officers at large companies[1], but they also make up about the same percentage of the prison population (91%) [2]. Men disproportionately occupy both ends of success and failure.

On the note of education, men may not need credentials to achieve comparatively well paying jobs, but this comes with other trade-offs. For instance men make up 93% of occupational deaths[3] in the U.S. The tendency for to reach better paying jobs without the same educational attainment may not necessarily a sign of privilege so much as social pressure to take high-risk jobs for more pay.

Ultimately, things like privilege are subjective and heavily based on moral weightings. Does being more likely to be killed on the job offset a higher pay? Is being more likely to end up as a CEO offset being more likely to end up behind bars? These are moral - not factual - questions, so there's as many right answers are there are people on this planet.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-in-leadership-fort...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_fatality#Gender
We do. It is exactly what we have - plenty of evidence of systematic sexism in tech, many other industries Ana society as a whole. It is so evident that nothing is left to debate about this fact.
Do you have a reference to a reputable source that proves the optimization version is cook-reducable to decision version?
Given the amount of C extension code running in a typical large Python app these days, isn't this basically defeating the purpose?
Problem is, Linux does not have any decent general purpose filesystem.

That is why people risk their data using an untested hack.
Associated types put Rust beyond Java and far beyond Go in terms of type system features, even without counting anything lifetime-related.
If this piece interests you, you should read the "subtle art of not giving a f*ck." Its a nice down to earth book about dealing with negative emotions and high expectations.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28257707-the-subtle-art-...
Many years ago, we grew ours on white rice. Eaten fresh, they were quite tasty. Also OK after freeze drying. But commercial Psilocybe do have an unpleasant taste, even fresh. Maybe they grow them on manure.
This is a preliminary injunction, which is a tool to prevent irreparable harm to a party before a case is resolved on its merits.

It shouldn't be taken as a strong indicator of what will be found legal in this case, much less a different hypothetical one.
The picture of the author at the end of the article was probably taken BEFORE he's given up caffeine :)
Uber did help a lot of less affluent people make money.
My comment was ironic...the "IMHO" was there for avoiding Apple fanboy.
In other news, I hear the SPECTRE board is also scratching its head why it's struggling to find a popular replacement for Ernst Stavro Blofeld in its CEO position. While they had a bit of difficulty around that Nine Eyes launch, the numbers in its Extortion business are growing phenominally, and investors just can't understand why up-and-coming executives wouldn't want to associate themselves with its brand and lead arguably the most important and exciting business of our generation.
Tea with honey. Tastes wonderful.
Hello Snabel? JavaScript is far from the answer to every question.

https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis/blob/master/sna...
There's a big difference between NYT/Guardian, which de facto are somewhat independent private media (and not quite aligned with Trump and May), and RT, which is a fully controlled instrument of the state, implementing only state policy.
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what do you mean by "pairs with 3 devices and does it very well"

So I have an iPad, macbook, and iPhone in my room all turned on at the same time. All with bluetooth on. All have been paired with the speaker.

I now turn on the bluetooth speaker.

How does it decide which device to connect to? Amazingly, it is always the wrong one. Every single time.
> they require virtually no maintenance in comparison.

Not sure I agree - your circular saw might need a new blade but your handsaw will (eventually) need a sharpening and the teeth set.
it's showing a little dip now as of writing, if that's what you wanted.
That depends on what you're guessing my attitude is.

I suspect most Tesla owners might be a bit miffed when told supercharging takes hours -- it never does -- and then are told that it's unlikely that trips outside major cities will have any superchargers available -- when they are for the most popular routes.

I totally get that not every route has coverage. But these are questions of fact: unlikely is < 50%, and Tesla passed that level of coverage several years ago.
I came to mention this. I have several styles in my shop but I never really use any of them. I have a larger one, an old Stanley model whose number I have forgotten, that has seen some use. The smaller ones are something I've just toyed with.

I have them only as novelty items, really. I much prefer a drill press, where I can.

I kinda want to also build a foot-powered lathe, though I'd never use that either.

Anyhow, they made bigger versions than the Yankee. I can't justify using them, but they are neat to hold and are fascinating examples of ingenuity. It's dark and I am in bed, but if reminded I will get some pictures.
this discovery will likely have little impact on the taste of what's being consumed, or the subjective quality of the trip.

the bad taste is the result of either a) the flesh of the mushrooms, or b) (in the case of isolated psilocybin) the alkaloid being a bitter "chemical" tasting chemical. in either case, the problem can be mitigated without understanding the mushroom's psilocybin synthesis pathway.

the bad trip has to do with the alkaloid itself, and a the reaction of particular brain that's been dosed with it at a particular time. again, understanding the mushroom's synthesis path isn't going to change the end result. it might help chemists discover new and worthwhile paths to synthesizing other tryptamines with a lower potential for bad trips, but it's not like there's a shortage of viable methods for producing novel tryptamines at the moment.

still, really really cool discovery. not trying to downplay that. just saying the parent and GP i'm replying to are talking about things that are pretty much orthogonal to this discovery.

EDIT: ok, i can imagine one situation where this could impact flavor: in a world where psilocybin is legal, one might imagine boutique engineered mushroom strains that have desirable flavor characteristics, and which produce psilocybin. this discovery could help with engineering that sort of thing. i don't actually think that's a worthwhile use of anyone's time (again, there are ways to mitigate the taste issue, and determining the amount of mushrooms you eat by anything other than the desired intensity of the trip seems like a flat out bad idea). but still, i stand partially corrected.
No everyone works at a place where napping during work is fine :(
I bought 3 bitcoins at 3000$ but I don't think of it as an investment, just a lottery ticket. I have them stored in a hardware wallet and just hope one day they will be worth one million each.
Since starting to use f.lux, I've had to use custom stylesheets to make some websites usable at night. It's surprising how some features just disappear when you remove the blue.
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> Elite positions are disproportionately occupied by men, but so are the positions at the lowest run on the social ladder. Men make up 93% of chief executive officers at large companies[1], but they also make up about the same percentage of the prison population (91%) [2]

It's not unknown for destitute people in America to deliberately try to get sent to prison for better support; it's not the lowest rung on the ladder, counterintuitive—and perverse—as that may be.
Well, it's never been used outside of testing scenarios and it's actual stats/capabilities are not really public knowledge. Very early testing was a disaster, it missed every target it engaged. But I think about a year (maybe? maybe more?) of development later, it supposedly had a 100% hit rate albeit on a smaller number of targets.

But THAAD isn't the only protection against missile strikes; there's a fairly heavy Patriot presence in the area and both Japan and the US have a fairly number of Aegis-equipped vessels in the area as well.
This is a great breakdown of the history of recent craziness:

https://np.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/6rxw7k/infor...
There are already tons of similar psychedelics available that are produced synthetically, including the extremely similar (if not identical, in terms of active metabolites and subjective experience) 4-AcO-DMT.

Still, it's always good to see progress in this area, and for medical research I guess it's not acceptable to use analogues because "it should be similar!" isn't a medically sound reason to use an analog instead of the better researched psylocibin.
I didn't realise that LE was a Google initiative. I know that it's supported by the Chrome project (and thus Google), but also by Mozilla, EFF and a lot of other supporters. Could you please point me to any article that discusses its Google affiliation? Thanks!
It's your money they're taking by violence. You need a "trespassers will be shot" sign and a fence. Otherwise, in certain jurisdictions, they may well claim an easement or rights to trees by adverse possession because you didn't throw them out or protect your land. IANAL.
I don't think the rumors was ever true in the first place.
Make them YouTube famous.
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Installing the last update was an awful experience for me. I was prompted to update at night and during the upgrade f.lux turned off without warning and I got blasted with brightness. I hope they handle this better in the future.
> VIPS instead surmises that, after WikiLeaks' Julian Assange announced on June 12, 2016 his intention to publish Hillary Clinton-related emails, the DNC rushed to fabricate evidence that it had been hacked by Russia to defuse any potential WikiLeaks disclosures.

This is laughably stupid. Why would attributing the hack to Russia instead of Wikileaks or whatever make any difference to the contents of the hacks?
Incidentally, I changed from Firefox 32bit to 62bit today, and the page loads like a dream.
Thanks for the response. The more I research it, the more I come to realize that plain Markdown is probably the way to go.

I must have evaluated about 10 different Markdown editors so far though. Every one seems to be missing at least one key feature I need. I was getting quite frustrated.

But Typora looks fantastic! It hits on all the requirements (code fencing with syntax highlighting, tables, table of contents generation and internal hyperlinks that work in generated PDF's) that have been hard to come by. I've already started playing with it and I'm very impressed!

I really appreciate your answer, you actually made my day. And your JS book looks very well written. Very approachable and concise. Kudos!
because you also have to compile a package to check someone else's assertion that the source compiles to a given binary.

You don't have to do that on the server right away, though. Just give the same task to multiple random users and only verify the result when all of the users return the same hash.
I started using 64-bit Firefox on Windows about a year ago, and carried over all my add-ons. It crashes way less than my 32-bit Firefox, which tends to die after allocating 1.8 GB of memory. What makes you say 64-bit FF is more unstable for you?
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