skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 6'4" and I can assure you that for me at least it's not a "marginal" increase in comfort. For me, 10 yrs ago, a standard economy seat on a major airline was OK. My knees grazed the seat in front, but whatever. Now, today, on several major airlines, in standard Econo, my knees not only touch but my upper legs cannot, geometrically, sit straight. My legs have to be splayed apart, because the fwd/back distance is literally too little for my femur bone. With my hips jammed into the seat back, my legs cannot fit, sitting straight ahead. This is insane for me.

Yes I can pay more for one of the Econo-plus seats ... but I should not have to. 6'4" is not average, yes, I realize, but so what---it's a genetic tax then? If I want to fly I have to pay more? If I were too "wide" you might say (though you shouldn't), my fault, I should lose weight. But what am I supposed to do? Saw my ankles off?

If I were the worlds tallest person, sure, you could claim exceptional circumstances. But 6'4" is not that exceptional, I submit to you.

PS I'm not criticizing you of course... only making the point that for many of us, this has become an exceptionally frustrating (and costly) experience.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but they also control the software and could divert the users to a different fork if they wanted, right?
> Is it corruption when a governor issues a pardon

Well... umm... I've always thought this was a very strange perversion of the separation of powers and the fundamentals of our legal/justice system...
That's the problem with humans where life satisfaction seems to be inversely correlated with IQ.
Isn't pre-emptive multitasking the same strategy used by OS threads etc. where some global scheduler decides which tasks are running? I suppose the VM is managing the threads here rather than OS, so "green threads" like Go. Regardless, it would be pre-emptive multitasking in any multi-threaded Java program or Go program. Just trying to understand what the "secret sauce" of the Erlang VM is.

Is it just that context switches are a lot cheaper within green threads rather than the OS thread?
Yes and now. There are some in the area but my specific house has super poor reception. Also, hosting web apps where the latency due to radios starts at 300ms is not something I really want. Wireless/Cellular is ok for some consumers but it's not great for my needs.
If you accept that the early-mid 80s boy teenager became comfortable with computers more than the girls did thesis, gaming is almost certainly part of that. Gateway drug and all that as you say.

I got into computers a wee bit earlier myself but you just need to watch War Games for an anecdotal example.
Oh gosh golly I can see why you got riled up over such a massive issue like that line. Tell me more.
Most North American scientists agree that Asia isn't really in Africa per se. Perhaps this news hasn't reached your corner of the world.
Just be careful about older phones when it comes to radios and antennae... iPhones prior to the 6s did not have the 700 MHz "Band 12" capability, rendering a lot of new spectrum (particularly from T-Mobile) unusable. The latest spectrum auction winners are already deploying 600 MHz as well, which is also unsupported.

The iPhone SE can do 700 MHz, FWIW...
> They found none of the cancer-derived mutations among blood samples of 44 healthy individuals.

Is 98% specificity adequate for a cancer test?
Yes, the wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution#Dispersal_of_m...) has more information than the article linked by the GP.
Me too - which is why I still go to the office - just not 5 days a week. If we could stagger people's schedules somehow - you go on Monday, I go on Tuesday - and do that on a massive scale - it should help traffic congestion quite a bit.

Or we could actually build some nice mass transit in this country. But now I'm just talking crazy.
I guess I'm not a multi millionaire who needs to transfer that kind of money? What exactly are people buying with bitcoin that cannot be done with standard currencies? Unless it offers some radical access to process or markets standard currencies do not, I just can't see the point.
Avafind Pro when native search doesn't work. It will scan even the system files(and hidden folders) which are typically ignored by default unless you're deliberate about enabling their inclusion.
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Oh man, this would make an awesome class action suit!
> In modern X, there are actually three processes involved: the client (app), the X server, and the compositor.

Is the compositor not optional?
Africa -> Asia -> Europe

Africa -> ... -> Europe

Africa is still where it started.
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Shouldn't need to be said, but I'm glad you called out that kind of paranoiac nonsense.

To be honest, the rise of this sort of crazy on HN is troubling in a more general way, but these days I figure you guys will figure it out, where I didn't necessarily feel that before.
For example, there is 0.8776-approximation that runs in about O(n^{10^100}) https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0458v2
There are also a lot of graph problems like "distinguish 3-colorable graph from graph that can't be colored in 3 colors even after removing eps part of edges" with large polynomials (IIRC, we got something like O(n^{2^40000}) when tried to find degree explicitly).
Supose you have 4 points on a box. If you randomly increase or decrease the location of each point by some random value say +-3% then averaged 100,000 of those boxes, you get a smaller box(1) surrounded by a larger increasingly blurry box. This is true even if no single picture shows that single smaller box, but it will show up on the average.

(1) Rather than a true box the midpoints are going to be slightly buldging, but with a large sample set it's very close to a box.

Sure, you can get into cat and mouse games ever stranger geometry. But, the water mark is limited by how much it distracts from the image.
From your interesting bits, this might just as well be a Xiaomi Mi Mix, wich has been out for a while and is getting cloned already. No B/W sensor though (and expansion pins, but I couldn't care less).

It also has a ceramic body and does hold up really well in drop tests.
Sounds like we need an adversarial convent for creating watermarks.
I still have Textmate (http://macromates.com/) installed for the odd plugin. Javascript decoding, some math functions. I guess I'm too lazy finding the equivalent plugin for sublime or atom editor.
The story itself is newsworthy (it has to have run somewhere better than this by now, right?) but the article is nonsensical. For instance:

Decrypting the SEP's firmware is huge for both security analysts and hackers. It could be possible, though xerub says it's very hard, to watch the SEP do its work and reverse engineer its process, gain access to passwords and fingerprint data, and go even further toward rendering any security relying on the SEP completely ineffective.

That's not how it works! The secrets that protect your data aren't embedded in the SEPOS firmware binary; it's embedded in the phone's hardware.
Sincerely hope that people are paying attention. The SEC is as omnipotent as the IRS, in so much as they can make your life a living hell... in very short order. Recommend that people register their securities or currencies with them... besides, registration gives your product the scent of legitimacy, right?
> If the KKK didn't exist, Antifa wouldn't exist.

Not true. In my country, KKK does not exist. Antifa still exists and occasionally tries to find excuses for violence.

Mostly it's just tagging graffiti though, and LARPing a revolution.
In other news, journalist makes up feel-good article and calls its newsworthy.

When an article so clearly plays into what we want to hear, or so clearly confirms our beliefs, we should be more skeptical, not less.
Do you also feel cheated when you pay more for larger clothing? Being big costs more for them, why should they absorb the cost?
I once complained to a flight attendant and she simply said, you're free to pay more to sit up front where there is more space. And then she looked me right in the eye and said "after all, flying is not some kind of guaranteed human right, is it"
I'm saying the premise “the author is a Hoover Institution fellow” offered to support the intermediate conclusion “the author is a credible authority that it is worth spending time listening to” does not support that conclusion, and therefore the further conclusion “one should read this book”.

I’m not speculating on the quality of the work, based on the identity of the author or any other information, only stating that (aside from a clue as to it's likely ideological bias, which might be relevant to some) no reason has been presented to overcome pre-existing skepticism about the value of the book noted upthread by a different commenter.
> it's a genetic tax then? If I want to fly I have to pay more?

I mean, maybe? The simple truth is that if you want to fly someone needs to pay more, because you weigh more and occupy more space in the vehicle. Is air travel something that should be subsidized in some way or not? I'm not sure that I see a clear answer here.

Alternatively: There are many financial inequalities that stem from genetics or circumstance. Is this the one we want to be fighting for?
The math is not trivial enough to do with pen and paper.
The association of Nazis with conservatives, who defend JUDEO-Christian values, is dishonest to say the least.
>This doesn't bode well for Apple's secure enclave. Apple's enclave environment has benefited from obscurity, though that was always destined to fail eventually.

This is actually totally irrelevant to secure enclave's security. They just got access to the unencrypted binaries for the SEP firmware, which doesn't give any access to anything by itself.
Once you go back 4 generations or so, the chance of inheriting no genes at all from a particular ancestor becomes quite high.

The other interesting scientific result I've read is that there's more genetic variation within the traditional "races" than between them. I put "races" in quotations at this point because the whole concept is somewhat meaningless.

There are certain genes that are more common in different groups. But if I understand it correctly, you'll be able to find people from a different "race" who are more genetically similar to you than some people from your own "race".
Just because two "bad" people liked something in a certain
way does not mean that "good" people must therefore like it
the converse way. Both Goebbels and Stalin may also have
liked butter and jam on their toast, but that doesn't mean I
should eat toast with just butter.

Chomsky is not claiming either of these people were bad, he's saying they were uncontroversially opposed to free speech, so as to highlight the defining characteristic of support: tolerance of views one finds odious. It doesn't really seem like you disagree, you just are not for free speech:

I do not think it is unwise to regulate free speech. It is
not wise for a civilisation, with laws, to allow people to
flaunt their breaking of, or desire to break, said laws,
without some legal consequence.

Which is fine. Just understand your position.

I wonder if Chomsky would readily be the one to grant them
the freedom to speak openly about their preferences for
murdering and raping people, from his armchair.

I have zero doubt he would, and have no qualms saying that I do as well.
This is where I'm at. When people ask me why I don't write Scala anymore, the best answer I can give is "it is not a language that deserves a The Good Parts book, but desperately needs one."
Thanks, useful to know.
tbh, if they're that fundamental to our society then they should be nationalised.
What other argument against it would their be besides the usual pro-life ones?

I don't know who would be against some kind of treatment to disable or delete the extra chromosome.
The vast majority are garbage regardless, and are nothing other than bad microtransaction mechanisms (even if you accept that cryptocurrency has fundamental merit, most of it is garbage). I just think it's good that they highlighted open/secure here for future contexts.
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Only 72% ? This seems quite low to me, as something that is quite esoteric to non-techies.
> [we] did the opposite of the [...] guidelines [...] because it seemed like obviously ass-backwards, stupid advice

> Looks like we guessed right on this one.

You conclude that the advice is wrong because of your sample size of however many kids you have?

You didn't explicitly say "our kids" but merely "kids"; God help you if you feed nuts to other peoples' kids based off your conclusion.
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My father still uses and old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(software) on floppy disc(!) to mirror a Windows 8 (or maybe 10 now) installation.
> If the KKK didn't exist, Antifa wouldn't exist

The Anti-Fascist movement is, as the name suggests, concerned with more than the KKK, but, more broadly, it's sole uniting purpose would be absent without fascist, neo-fascist, and related violent racist movements.
Good point about the tax, American salaries are quoted pre tax of course! I've spendt the whole afternoon with my nose in P&Ls, where the quoted salary is pretty much what is interesting.

In any case, I feel the headline is pretty sensationalistic, even if she wants to live where she lives, she could probably get up at 5 and drive to work.
Annoyingly enough, that's not sufficient to make those ICOs scam.

The easiest counterexample would be Ethereum itself, who had a teenager as its public face, and raised large amounts of funds on top of mostly just a whitepaper, yet turned out to actually deliver all the crazy stuff they promised.
Quick note, RDP has extensions to forward just the app. It has been able to do that for a while.
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Yes, there seem to be a number of summer schools every year on a variety of topics, although the ones I'm familiar with are based more in academia than in industry. I think they tend to get announced on the Types mailing list (https://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce).

Here are a few that I'm aware of:

* Racket summer school: https://summer-school.racket-lang.org/2017/

* Oregon Programming Languages Summer School: https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer17/

* DeepSpec summer school: https://deepspec.org/event/dsss17/
Is this at all surprising? Are there any "white" Americans who don't assume they have a few percent worth of some second ethnicity in their ancestry?

We've been a multiethnic society since the first European boats landed and have redefined who counts as which race several dozen times since then. Even if there were some not insane standard for a "purebred" white person, it would be incredibly unlikely for any arbitrary bigot to happen to meet that standard.
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You could always spin Clojure as JVM experience, F# as .NET etc.
Dimethyltryptamine video modes?… Sounds about right.
call me an asshole but instead of trusting or not trusting people, I trust that someone will always look out for themselves first and others second. I'm never surprised when they act that way and pleasantly surprised when they don't.
It's nowhere near that simple. I wrote a video player which only had to support three clients (Win7+IE, Win7+Chrome, and iPad Safari) and it still took me weeks to get it working right. Here's a whole post I wrote about the transcoding settings alone: http://www.linestarve.com/blog/post/rendering-html5-video-wi...
> Their goal is to make ever-increasing profit

Airlines are not a very profitable business, and never have been. Most of the time they are flirting with bankruptcy or in bankruptcy.
Southwest will let you pre-board if you are 6'3"+. I did that for several years until they banned pre-boards from sitting in the exit rows. It's only usefull now for getting the bulkhead seats.
AI Expert - interesting. I recall purchasing a few issues. But that's about it.

One magazine I wish I could find a complete collection of (PDF or paper, I don't care) is Robotics Age. About the only thing I have found on it is a book that was published (picked up a copy of that), but nothing else as far as the magazine is concerned.

It was kinda the Byte magazine for robotics of the 1980s era. So you had a mashup of articles for both industrial and research robotics, as well as articles and such for hobbyist robotics. It's a shame that it seems to have disappeared.
Individualism vs Communitarianism is a very well studied broad example (with a nice bimodal distribution) and leads to pretty strong disagreements about some fundamental values for people from different cultures.

Worldview and religious differences also lead to disagreements about fundamental values. And among other concrete examples that I personally think are important: how much respect should be given to religious/spiritual/supernatural beliefs, what rights are inalienable human rights, how people with various illnesses should be treated, how resources are distributed, what behaviour is acceptable during disagreements (on large scales and small) and what subjects/ideas/beliefs/actions are taboo seem like the big ones.
Hey now, I own millions of dogecoin still from mining them in my college dorm when the electricity was flat rate. :P
Wanting long term support and Google software are contradictory requests.
Well, no. They can release the reference client, but most users rarely employ it for transfers (most Bitcoins are either in cold storage, or in online wallets like Coinbase).

Anyway, after the hardfork, you'll get your balance in duplicated both chains (as all transactions before the hardfork are visible). The market forces will decide then how much each part costs.
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In my experience, that theory doesn't necessarily hold up in my experience. I've had <$100 boots last longer than proper Made in England Dr Martens.

I guess that is a consequence of fashion becoming the primary driver of cost, rather than actual quality.
It's strange to me that someone can be a good enough businessperson to get all the way to the executive level of a huge company, and still feel emotionally hurt that someone left to work at a competitor. That strikes me as a rather childish reaction to business as usual.
>But something like a note taking app might want to be available as both a web app and a desktop app.

Access as a web app is much less needed in the era were everyone has not just a computer, but also their smartphone with them at all times -- it can just be a regular native mobile app.

But even if access as a web app is needed, the web version shouldn't be imposed on all other platforms just because it is the lowest/easiest common denominator for the devs.
You can easily be agnostic from logic which can be functionally identical to atheist.

After all you have zero evidence what you believe is more true than the flying spaghetti monster, Thor, or any other past religion real or imagined. Thus logically any of your beliefs are vastly more likely to be false than true and are thus safely ignored.
I wonder if it being a commercial BBS had something to do with the demographics?

The underground/hacker/warez boards were pretty male.
From those two I use VLC and VirtualBox. And while they work fine, I don't think they are great showcases for good GUIs. E.g. the VLC guis scaling is quite bad on my 4k screen. The same applies also for the version QT creator which I have installed (but that's not a very recent one, maybe the current one is better).

To be fair: I have seen various good QT apps, but most of them were not standard desktop apps. Instead they used fullscreen QML for highly custom user interfaces. That seemed to work well, but I think JS/HTML5 would do the same.
You mean that the G20 meeting of state heads in Hamburg was a "fascist and racist rally"?

Antifa and the extreme left do apply that kind of rhetoric in their critique of "capitalism", but I find it quite extreme and not to be taken seriously.

Still, the black block trashed the city and attacked people with deadly force (it's a wonder no one was killed.)
They're trying to say (in laymen's terms) a bad person could reverse engineer the firmware now that it is not obfuscated, find a vulnerability, and abuse it. I agree that it's a weird way to phrase the hypothetical though, and they ignore how most researchers would likely submit it to Apple's bug bounty program due to the $100,000 bounty (Compared to the zero third-party market value for such a bug).
I am very interested in a product like this even if for just individual use. Your pricing says $49/month depending on "meaningful" changes suggested? What does that mean?

Another good idea is for new programmers in a production environment just having an eye over their shoulders making sure they aren't making rookie language mistakes (simpler ways of doing etc.). Letting official company engineers focus on architectural/roadmap related issues.

This, to me, would be the fastest way to learn as well.
Some people consider ads immoral and predatory. If we're lucky enough to know how insidious they are, and have the means to block them, we should.
On the contrary these forks have finally clarified for mainstream consumers the ridiculous insanity involved in placing speculation value like this on near-completely illiquid virtual securities.

When the bubble pops, the fact that bitcoin cash was able to magically "invent" 10% of the value of the BTC market overnight will be seen as the jump-the-shark moment.

If this were a rational security with a working market, I'd be telling everyone to get out. But of course it's not, so you can't get out. There aren't nearly enough buyers. This is gonna be a fun ride.
I'm so glad a billionaire is sticking up for human rights activists who mace old men and women, beat people with bike locks, vandalise businesses and destroy migrant businesses.

There is absolutely no defense for Nazis in society, and fortunately noone does defend their ideals. But antifa are equally indefensible but there are scores in the media who defend them - the Berkely riots and the Inauguration riots were hardly condemned by any on the left.
From what I gather Antifa in the US is extremely diverse in tactics, priorities (beyond the very broad “combat fascism/racism”), and, well, pretty much everything else. Which isn't surprising since it's small autonomous groups in at least two separate looser national organizations (“loose affiliation groups” may be more accurate than “organizations”).

Obviously, the more extreme elements get the most press coverage.