skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About once a day I hear some piece that is overtly liberal, by media standards. For example, today there was a piece about protests and counter protests where there was a far left protester and a center-left talking head in the studio, and the Trump supporter only got a quick pre recorded sound bite. It's not propaganda to be sure, but it is a definate bias that is imho inappropriate for a supposedly public service.
A heat pump (a reverse air conditioner) is more than 100% efficient at heating a building.
Good question - some tools/tech have increased productivity, and others have optimized their ability to drain productivity (in exchange for monetized attention). Sad bit is, I'd be hesitant to trust any scientific studies which tried to weigh their relative proportions (for a variety of reasons).
I think that's one of the biggest flaws of bitcoin and will eventually lead to its collapse.

I simply don't want to invest in mining considering how much people have already mined. There's deflationary pressure for many reasons, but definitely because of the rewards being cut in half every couple of years. And currency deflation is highly unappealing for those who don't have large amounts of that currency.

Psychologically this is bad design, and it turns a lot people off from it. It makes it feel like a scam. That's good enough to piss enough people off about it to never use it, including me.
The numbers of accepted hispanics tells you nothing about that on it's own, you'd need to know how many hispanics apply.

For women for example you can see from the numbers that there is no bias in the acceptance rate, the thing is that very few women apply. Could be the same for hispanics. I don't know what proportion of engineering students are hispanics but it's likely that as for women the underrepresentation starts already in school.
It is, in fact, alarming that the communists aren't being silenced, since this is how we ended up with communist regimes the first time around.
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I got hacked a week ago in this exact fashion. Please remove cellphone 2FA from all your online dealings and add something like Google Authenticator instead (don't forget to print out, or at least encrypt a PDF of, the backup codes!)
They're pretty easy to emulate.

http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Unix_v6_(PDP-11)_on_SIMH
Mainstream Republicans (not alt-right) are also neoliberals. They also believe structuring all of societies ills as free markets as the optimal solution (eg, CAFTA, NAFTA, Obamacare were started/proposed by Republicans and finished by Democrats and many of Reagan's championed policies were actually started by Carter). That's what's academically called "classical liberalism".

Honestly, the form of liberal that NPR is, is mostly just target demographics; what set of values an effective identical policy gets justified with. Hillary Clinton praises Kissinger, punted for Monsanto as Secretary of State...Obama used advisers from Milton Friedman's Chicago School...it's different wrapping paper on the same present.

For instance, job creators of the right become entrepreneurs and innovators on the left; it's the same people, different label. On the right, they shouldn't be taxed because they earned their wealth and on the left is because they invest in the innovation of tomorrow. Same policy, different backstory.

The American dynamics doesn't equate to substantive advocacy differences. They are effectively sports team playing the same game by the same rules with different fan bases.
I used to use OpenDNS several years ago (before it was bought by Cisco), but also faced some issues not directly related to the DNS service and stability. OpenDNS allowed people to create accounts and specific blacklists/whitelists. That, when combined with the OpenDNS app (same user account) that would run on the users' computers, would tell OpenDNS which sites to block for which source IP address (the user's) even for those with dynamic IP addresses from their ISP. Being on a connection with a dynamic IP address, once in a while I'd get the IP address of someone else who had the OpenDNS filtering setup and hadn't run the OpenDNS app or it somehow failed to report back (or the time between the periodic pings from the app with the IP address update). When I used OpenDNS servers during those times, I would get blocked out of sites and get weird custom messages that those users had setup. The only solution was to create an account myself on OpenDNS, run the OpenDNS app on all my systems, and trigger an IP address update back to OpenDNS from the app if at all something didn't work.

I'm guessing the same filtering support still exists, called Home Internet Security. [1]

One tool I have used in the past to benchmark DNS servers and choose is namebench. [2] It seems like the last releases were in 2010, but it worked for me even a few years ago (haven't checked after that).

[1]: https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/

[2]: https://code.google.com/archive/p/namebench/
lol. I was going to say, PullRequest preparing to IPO soon...
Yeah, at least not nearly with the same momentum as smoking etc. But i do think the risks and costs of these new addictions are in the collective conciousness. So it's just a matter of time until a rebellion of mass scale IMO.
I think your concern is misplaced. Just because you like coding and reading that an overcrowded ghetto California prison is going to be so much better than Michigan's in case you get mistakenly accused and convicted of something?

I'm 100% sure that wherever you currently live would comically and ironically undermine whatever you just said here in one way or another.

Basically you could find something to gripe about and something to ignore, and any of us could find out how your gripes aren't being supported.
Except if your programming language allows you to override the += operator.
> Healthcare doesn't stop people from spreading colds.

If it includes vaccinations then yes, it very much does.
>Bitcoin's mining reward halves every couple of years. When the Bitcoin block reward becomes negligible, as it certainly will in within a few decades, the only thing funding Bitcoin miners will be transaction fees, so the entire cost of Bitcoin mining will be borne directly by users of the network.

I don't think this logic is sound. The cost of bitcoin mining is already borne by users of the network (aka miners)? What does the diminishing block reward have to do with anything? The end result is that if you do calculations, and perform proof-of-work, you receive bitcoin. It shouldn't matter to the miners if it comes from block reward or transaction fees.
Reminds me of the old joke about grouping parts into three bins : Military-spec, commercial grade, and Radio Shack.
There are nation wide tests at the end of primary school (to get into high school) i.e. CITO and NIO I believe. If you score well on these tests you get a good 'advice' which is non-binding which this post is about.

I had a near perfect CITO score but a literally retarded NIO score because they explained me how the test worked wrong (I was probably being stupid and WAY took their words LITERALLY [1]). So they basically averaged my scores (best and worst) and said "Well you go to the HAVO" which is average.

My parents did NOT sit well with that and just said "No he's going to Gymniasum (highest possible class with Latin/Greek) whether you want it or not. We all know he just screwed up there on that one tests because you explained him the instructions wrong."

Anyway, 11 years later and I'm doing a PhD in applied mathematics. I'm really happy my parents fought for me to go to Gymnasium and I'm so glad the advice isn't binding. I'm not sure whether it still isn't binding or they changed it somehow.

[1] The instructor told us that "at the end of your test you will have time to finish your questions". So what stupid little me did was I made half the test, then I waited till the time ran out and when they took my paper I asked "can I finish the questions now?" And they just took my paper away.
Used to listen to NPR all the time, but now they just shit on Trump 24x7. It was fun in the beginning, but got old after a few weeks. I switched to audible, where I remain to this day, and will remain for the foreseeable future.
Clean energy production is becoming increasingly viable and cost competitive. CA already produces surpluses of solar power at times [1]. A significant portion of electricity consumed by Bitcoin is already clean energy - Chinese hydropower, Icelandic geothermal power, etc.

The hand-wringing over Bitcoin's energy consumption, and suggestions of sacrificing decentralization for it, I'm not sure are justified just yet.

[1]:http://247wallst.com/energy-economy/2017/07/03/why-californi...
> You say biological reasons, I say social programming.

The science says biological reasons:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Simon_Baron-Cohen/publi...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/belinda-parmar/sugar-and-spice...

Among others...

> Basically, we have no way of knowing what portion of women's tendencies to gravitate towards certain jobs and careers can be attributed to biological factors vs. to the way they were raised by their parents and conditioned by society.

That isn't true, either.

Let's look at Sweden, which is a modern egalitarian society. If society is largely gender-blind, then people should overwhelmingly make "free" choices. i.e. choices which are strongly influenced by biology.

And we see that. Jobs in Sweden are still overwhelmingly split by gender. Engineers are overwhelmingly male, and people-oriented jobs (nurse, etc.) are overwhelmingly female.

Here's another discussion of gender differences:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/games-primates-play/201...

To deny that men and women are psychologically different is to claim that evolution / biology works on the physical attributes, but does not work on the corresponding mental attributes.

That claim just cannot possibly be true.
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Modern ACs can be used to heat - they "pump" thermal energy from the cold outside to the warm inside (against the thermal gradient). For 1W of consumed electrical power they deliver 5W (for example) of total heating power to the room.

On the other hand, resistive heaters deliver 1W of heat for 1W of consumed electrical power.

This is the difference between "waste heat" (e.g. resistive heating) and heat pumps.
are you kidding? Check out "smart ship" for example:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/ddg-51-u...

Everything integrated, and as long as at least one component talks wireless ... and there are actually a bunch of them, and as i mentioned, being an actual smartphone is only one of the features of those cheap smartphones bought at the local port :).

One can easily imagine that the ships which rammed (and/or some other ships close by) the destroyers could have carried cell towers and/or GPS spoof-er which were promptly, say, dumped overboard.

And leaving all that hi-tech aside - plain old $2K/bottle cognac, drink of choice of the 7th fleet :) https://federalnewsradio.com/tom-temin-commentary/2017/03/fa... , http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2016/05/27/th...
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Functional planned obsolescence. Hardware vendors will find a way to break hardware abstraction layers... so they can sell more hardware. Its the business model.
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I don't know ... Dozens of millions?
> It makes it feel like a scam.

Under what definition?

Is this definition a standard that couldn't be applied to other currency systems or asset classes that you respect?

There's a reason I ask so specifically
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Note that 'frequency' should be interpreted in the loosest possible manner; early transmitters were of the spark gap variety - basically generating an unlimited amount of wide-band noise, anything operating on a nominal frequency close to that of another transmitter would interfere with it no end.
Ironically, it's much easier not to interact with that content on 4/8chan than it is on the wider Internet. If you're not there for political shitposting, don't visit /pol/.
dredmorbius makes a good point, but if you change always to recently, and time to free time, i think you are right.

Brave New World was published in 1932 after all. "As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.""

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Comparisons_wi...

"In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action."

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/

relevant: "The pace of modern life" https://xkcd.com/1227/
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"#USSJohnSMcCain suffered steering loss approaching Strait of Malacca, unclear why crew couldn't utilize back-up -Navy official"

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/899793613126864897
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I haven't heard flattering things about SF school system--mostly directed at the lottery. I remember hearing that half of kids born in SF move away before entering school, another half go to private school. I can't find the source, but I had read this article when it was published[1]. It says 30% of students go to private schools.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/san-francisco-children...
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Sony Ericsson's non-smart phones (e.g. K800) had OTA software updates. They would pop up a dialog from time to remind you to check for updates, then download them and update, all on the phone. (Carriers would often hold them back, though, if you had a carrier-customized model.)

I'm pretty sure I got an actual update at least once.
"Users" is a much bigger set of people than miners (a supermajority of which would fit on a couple of couches on a stage).
Most of what jQuery does could be moved into standard browser APIs and then presumably implemented in native code.

It pretty much has been. CSS syntax for selection lead to querySelectorAll, simpler AJAX calls to fetch, DOM manipulation functions were ported into the DOM spec wholesale.
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> > This is culturally alien to me; the students receiving the benefit are not harming other students.

> It's not just "culturally alien"; it's a straight-up error.

Perhaps an exaggerated example will illustrate. Students are assigned by a lottery system that sometimes allows pairs (or triplets, etc) of students to have a beneficial trade. Then students are permitted to use dutch-school-trading.com to swap schools. Except that students who own computers are permitted to engage in this extra round of trading while students who do not own computers are not. Some consider this to be biased against students who don't own a computer.

In reality, it's not the single factor of "owns a computer" which is at play, but multiple issues including social connectedness, strategic thinking, free time on the day the placements are published, and so forth.
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> It shouldn't matter to the miners if it comes from block reward or transaction fees.

The point is that transaction fees will never be as high as current block rewards. The cost of bitcoin mining is currently subsidized by inflation of the Bitcoin money supply. That inflation will end, and it will not be fully replaced by transaction fees.
An odd thing to say because that same argument could have been used when bitcoin and Ethereum's combined market caps were ~$500m and were still orders of magnitude higher than their competitors. In fact, many experiments on those networks were NOT tried by developers because they were "soooo big and financially important" at $500m valuations.

Due to this relative nature, I don't think that is valid reason to shut your mind off to discussion by trivializing other network's sizes.

Cryptocurrencies gets attacked all the time. Much smaller and more insecure cryptocurrencies are double-spent where possible, because these "bug bounties" are still worth several hundred thousand dollars.

Its not international news when it happens. It happens.
The world's top AI companies are pleading for a ban on killer robots
That's actually an interesting business idea. Pretty risky though, if you sold to both sides you'll always also sell to the losing side. The eventual winning side might not be happy about that. Also, depending on the anti air capabilities on the battlefield and the price of a drone, the losses might not make up for the profits.
It's a short email post. Yes, they're build in to the inode structure and would be used for de-duplication. (However I'd hope that for a production system there's still a /verify/ pass on the data being de-duped to confirm it actually __is__ a dupe.)
The startup addresses the obvious privacy question in the article but it's an interesting question. Personally, I'd rather protect my family than anything else.
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Is it possible that you would consider any story that isn't about a white heterosexual man one of those? I'm really wondering, because I could see myself keeping a running tally like this once I thought I noticed a trend–kinda like noticing how they put pumpkin into everything in the fall.

But of course, 80% is actually pretty close to the number of Americans that are not white heterosexual men. We may just have gotten used to an overrepresentation in movies, politics, and our social life.
This is likely the case.

Accounts can be banned in bulk, but the review and appeal process is fully manual. He must have done something very bad to not get reinstated.

Normally only brand new gmail accounts clearly set up as spam senders are banned.

Probably ran a bot army clicking ads or some kind of billing scam on the play store or Google cloud. It could also be he is on a US government 'do not do business with' list.
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The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (1972) says in part:

Every vessel must at all times keep a proper look-out

by sight
(day shape or lights by eyes or visual aids),

hearing
(sound signal or Marine VHF radio)

and all available means
(e.g. Radar, ARPA, AIS, GMDSS...)

in order to judge if risk of collision exists

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookout
So long as mining remains profitable, as it has to be in order for anyone to spend resources on mining, the energy race will continue. As mining profits decrease over time, so too will the pool of miners who are able to mine profitably.

The network will, as a result, centralize over time to a select few that have access to cheap and plentiful energy. These "big energy" :) companies will control most of the hashing power.

You can already trace this with bitcoin by looking at who the early miners were versus who the miners are now.
Gopher is a poorly chosen name for a platform - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

Dropleaf (Netflix for indie games) - at $10/mo for a 50-game bundle I can't see how this can attract any of the quality games and devs.
Unfortunately many of these Christian stations have poorly maintained transmitters that broadcast not only on their assigned frequencies but also all over the adjacent NPR stations. Only Christian stations seem to get away with this.
> And they made some studies stating that an average of X% of the company workforce time is spent in meeting rooms, so they can cut off the number of desks by X% (minus a small delta).

I never understood that logic. These kinds of calculations usually completely ignore the most relevant thing for desks: the (regular) peak number of people that want to use a desk.

At a place I worked for they had 10 people from a company we worked with come in every monday and tuesday. No more desks needed, because "most of the time there are more than enough desks". People just called in sick on monday and tuesday, because there were 20 people in a room that could maybe fit 8-10.

Whenever next someone is going to suggest something like this, I now enthusiastically propose to also cut parking by 50% since the lot is nearly empty 18:00 to 7:00 anyway (adjusted to whatever calculation they are using)
Some delightful trains of thought along these lines have an answer to the Fermi Paradox as their last stop...
> Expensive to calculate, cheap to validate

Sounds like NP-completeness [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-completeness
>If war can be waged without loss of life the biggest incentive to avoid war is gone.

There will be a loss of life in any war. Note that they are called 'Killer' robots. It's just that the loss of life will be of noncombatants.

My concern is not countries waging wars against each other because that can always be deterred, but instead governments using it on its own people. Right now authoritarian governments need to worry about soldiers rebelling but computer code powering the robots isn't gonna rebel when you ask it to kill a city square full of protesters.
I thought the same thing - FTP. I suppose we're all aging ourselves if we immediately think of that.
>the endless sea of video chat experts websites wasn't enough

This is what annoys me about the current "innovation" worshiping cult. Everybody just takes a already existent idea and changes just a simple variable.
"Uber/Airbnb of X" style of thinking should just be put to rest forever.
This is obviously happening because our current way of thinking is a mistake in itself.
Everything should be modular and Jef Raskin was a proponent of this idea unfortunately nobody took him seriously enough.

I should be able to use a search application that lists to me every available expert, click the link, and then have a modular app skype/whatsapp/telegram blend in my workspace or open and be able to chat with that said expert.

Speaking of search engines every website should index they're own content and those indexes be categorized in blocks and linked to a central repository that then can be coupled with searching algorithms and users should be able to connect to that central repository and query it like a public library of the internet.
Goodbye Google!!

Another thing if find annoying is paywalls. What if I go to Netflix and I just want to watch a just a specific movie or episodes without having to pay a membership fee.
Let's say that Netflix has "Pirates of the Caribbean" and just want to click that video and stream it for 0.9 cents with not login in features and my ISP provider to add that payment to my utility bill.
No Paypal/ApplePay/Google Wallet!
Is it that hard to innovate in those way?
Except he didn't, it's in the very next sentence.
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>because liberals tend to prefer news that has no bias

Hmmm, I think your liberal bias may be showing.
mjjhmmj .
There are vulnerability disclosures on these platforms as much as any other piece of software you are accustomed to. Sometimes upgrades are rolled out before an attack, sometimes an attack just happens.

Where we are right now is that the news aggregators aren't that good, and the interested communities are currency specific who will downvote censor any potentially negative discussion because of their investment.

Its very NIMBY