skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other than convenience, does it make a difference if you evaluate an algorithm by hand (e.g. with a pencil and paper) versus using a computer? I assume you have at least used the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division algorithms on paper at some point in your life -- the results are the same (up to human error) as they would be if you wrote a program that did the same operations. It does not matter how you compute something, all that matters is what you compute. Writing an algorithm on paper is just as good as writing it using Emacs in some programming language.

There is also the question of representations. How you represent an algorithm is not terribly important, and programmers routinely convert one representation of an algorithm to another (e.g. with a compiler). One representation available for any algorithm is a lambda expression, and there is not much room for arguing about whether or not lambda calculus is a field of math (it absolutely is, especially when you consider typed lambda calculus).

For mechanical engineering, simulating something on paper is not the same as building it, and the particular materials, shapes, etc. that you use in a mechanical system make a big difference. There is math involved in ME, but the math is not the final product. Yes, some ME work today is purely algorithmic, but that is just overloading the term "mechanical engineering" to cover a particular subset of CS that is of interest in ME.
Here's what dictionary.com defines it as:

(fascism)
a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fascism

I don't know that much about them, but I think White Nationalists in the US want the nationalism and racism without the authoritarianism, but I could be wrong. I honestly don't think they've given it that much thought. The closest I believe any of those type groups have gotten to actual Nazis is when David Duke ran for office. Their primary objective seems to be "spreading the word." That's one of the reasons I don't like comparing them to Nazis. The Nazis were much more organized, intelligent and dangerous.
The state of discourse in society on this topic is "not great", for the reasons you correctly point out, but what is not appreciated is the impact saying feel good things that are not true has on the thinking of those in opposing camps.

"If you just give people money, they'll use that money to improve their current situation without guidance or meddling." is not a true statement, and I assert that saying things like this can result in people on the "other side" of the political spectrum forming the opinion that you and your side is intellectually dishonest, because in fact, it is.

Feel free to say this is "irrelevant", but meanwhile politics in the West continues to become more and more polarized.
Also grew up in the deep south, and my mom would always call this "killing them with kindness"
Then don't call them rights, call them privileges.
Meanwhile, the SR71 made pictures
Many Trump and brexit voters were not poor. Brexit was not mainly about poverty but fear of immigrants (esp Muslim) and antipathy to the eu.

While it is comforting to come up with a narrative which explains complex events in one neat moral parable about neglecting your own poor or extremism shutting down debate (insert personal bugbear here), it’s not helpful. Perhaps that’s what your erstwhile friend objected to.
That's what my momma said, too.
A Luxury Building Boom Hits Montreal
Yeah, I saw that, but it's two years later and it still doesn't work? Not to be snarky, but my limited understanding is that IPNS is really the only novel part of IPFS anyway; if I just want to share a file peer-to-peer based on the hash of the content, bittorrent has existed for ages.

It just seems silly to talk about how HTTP is unreliable because your severs might go down, when the alternative "serverless" architecture you're hyping doesn't work either. I'm totally on board with the aims of IPFS and hope they accomplish all the things they're trying to do, but to say HTTP is obsolete when HTTP works and IPFS doesn't (yet) is just a little too much...
You can't compare benefits and downsides like that. The single benefit could dwarf all of the downsides by several orders of magnitude.

There's that malignant utopianism again... "All of the pain is OK because we're building Jerusalem!"

No thanks.
Instead of trying to conduct some kind of comprehensive probability analysis, admirable as the idea might be, you could just be clear and say "this is roughly the point in history I'm representing."
Visceral but not subcutaneous fat is associated with cardiovascular disease
I just went through my “chaos closet” to look for anything else that is an “overlooked necessity”:

- ziplock bags (to poop in)

- whiskey. I have 10L of whiskey in there
Ayahuasca referrers to the uses of plants. Normally done by Shamans.
pharmahuasca is DMT + MAOI inhibitor

The experience is very different. Ayahuasca has a lot of bad side effects such as vomiting, sea legs, and diarrhea
I couldn't understand what it does.
Also, Github link is broken.
https://github.com/fileformat/heatmaptv
Gradle 4.2 Is Released
Hey man, this is really crazy. You may or may not know this already, but the only thing that really works is just getting involved in a new relationship. Can be amazing or just a thing for 1- month but do it, and also do all the things that go with it - romantic dates, however you perceive them etc. Just don't talk about your ex at all and really the very first more or less successful relationship will wash it all aqay
1. The Python in that example requires no imports.
2. I think the author (Vicki) is a she.
Great article. I share many of the tastes of the author (e.g. "Coffee was drinkable—in fact, positively delicious—only with milk and sugar" and "I couldn’t imagine why anyone would eat a radish unless paid") but I don't have an aversion to wine.

What I have an aversion to is people who want to talk endlessly about wine. Or people who pretend they'd actually bother with wine in the first place if it didn't give them a buzz. Or anyone who expects me to spend more than five bucks a bottle (ok I can go as high as ten if it's a restaurant).

Aside from the whole issue of genetic differences between people and their fungiform papillae, I think the one line that gets to the heart of why people get so obsessive about wine is "no other pursuit made him feel farther from the lower-middle-class neighborhoods of immigrant Brooklyn from which he had worked so hard to escape".
Not noticed any permanent changes from LSD (quite a lot of trips and a few heavy ones but nothing truly extreme like a full strip).

I can never as I only have my own experience but I think that a lot of "deep insights" and changes comes from people thinking that that is what should happen. Like when young teens get drunk from non-alcoholic beer.

I'm not saying it does not happen but I think it is rarer than people think it is and it is rare that a trip will introduce permanent change in someones behavior. I think that people feel that it was a great experience and say that now they will live their life differently but that they slowly just return to their normal life and behavior.
I do try to be tolerant of different views, but I can see the viewpoint that there's slim difference between belonging to an organization that wants to revoke my human rights, and merely wanting to revoke my rights independently.
Well you sure showed us, with this brilliant act of communal decapitation. Never mind that the people who feel hurt the most are hurting themselves the most, you're making a point or something...

Seriously, if your narrative for political change is little more than hurt feelings, maybe the "other" isn't the problem. This article should have at least showed you that putting aside the petty can have real impacts on both parties.
Population of Bay area is about ~7 million. Not even 100 million. The real estate bubble is going on for 50+ years here. So, it is nothing to do with population. Today what we call as growth is just a bubble.
I was not long enough to make any general conclusions, but from what I could see it is a mixture. I saw quite a few 'westerners' who had given up 'western' medicine and came to try Ayahuasca for various reasons. As for natives, I don't know, I think they still go to traditional healers, but also very rapidly adopt 'western lifestyle'. I'm sure 'western' medicine is not an exception from this trend. Ayahuasca still seems to be deeply ingrained in their culture and original religion (which is a sort of spiritual pantheism for the lack of a better term), it is considered holly plant and still deeply revered and respected. Personally, I would not like to see this tradition they have preserved for millennia to disappear or completely mutates into something like "Ayahuasca turism"...
I've never heard of this before. Does anyone else find it strange that two very strongly Catholic societies abandoned the Latin version, while other societies didn't?
ICOs and the way they're offered to the public have strong parallels with all kinds of historical "investment" products and scams that the SEC has already seen and tackled. In that sense, the scammier ICOs are nothing new, they're a new name/cover/veil/buzzword for a common and classic fraud pattern (sell a share in a product that will make you rich, take the money and run), such fads come periodically every now and then, and SEC has had a lot of practice and quickly identifying and shutting down new fads doing the same thing in a slightly different manner.

I don't feel that this is anomalous, this is SEC-as-expected, as they should be doing. If anything "sit out and wait how this new thing works out" would be a major failure of SEC; it's the job of courts and police to punish fraud after it happens, but it's the job of SEC to prevent or restrict fraudulent general reaching public in the first place, it's their duty and law-given mandate to be proactive in shutting potentially shady things down before they've scammed a lot of people.
Fortunately, exe development is becoming a small subset of software these days.
Yeah, I was going with this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

And using the actual Fascists (namely Italy and Spain) to determine what fascism means. See the very first sentence in the link where they define it.

It's not that these are good people, I just think there should be a better word to describe them. Perhaps just 'Nazi' is adequate? White Nationalist works too.
Did any of the following apply?

> No current or past history of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, no Bipolar I or II disorder, and no first or second-degree (“A second-degree relative is defined as a blood relative which includes the individual’s grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces or half-siblings.”) relatives with these disorders.3

https://tripsafe.org/how-to-take-lsd/#1-avoid-with-certain-h...

Also this means that it is advisable for you to steer clear of psychedelics.

For what it’s worth:

> “Since the early 1990s, approximately 2000 doses of psilocybin (ranging from low to high doses) have been safely administered to humans in the United States and Europe, in carefully controlled scientific settings, with no reports of any medical or psychiatric serious AEs, including no reported cases of prolonged psychosis or HPPD (Studerus et al., 2011).”1

https://tripsafe.org/shrooms/#2-the-safety-profile-of-shroom...
Non exactly

The minotaur was invented by the Greeks that were jealous of Minosse's SWAG :)
When an Antifa member punches someone who they identify as a white nationalist, at best they can make them shut up for a while. At worst the violence is reciprocated disproportionately. If instead the Antifa would attempt to befriend that person and to have good faith dialogues with them, they would at least have the potential to actually reduce racism, and reduce hatred on both sides.

Ideally, the result could be one less Nazi puncher and one less Nazi. And with dialog, maybe they'd discover that not every political disagreement reveals a "white nationalist".

But I suspect that for many, that would be a whole lot less fun.
I was thinking more along the lines of a metric indicating the probability the conclusion is correct, based on the strength of evidence.
Did any of the following apply?

> No current or past history of schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders, no Bipolar I or II disorder, and no first or second-degree (“A second-degree relative is defined as a blood relative which includes the individual’s grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces or half-siblings.”) relatives with these disorders.3

https://tripsafe.org/how-to-take-lsd/#1-avoid-with-certain-h...

For what it’s worth:

> “Since the early 1990s, approximately 2000 doses of psilocybin (ranging from low to high doses) have been safely administered to humans in the United States and Europe, in carefully controlled scientific settings, with no reports of any medical or psychiatric serious AEs, including no reported cases of prolonged psychosis or HPPD (Studerus et al., 2011).”1

https://tripsafe.org/shrooms/#2-the-safety-profile-of-shroom...

Psilocybin isn’t the same as ayahuasca or LSD but we’d expect it to have an extremely similar safety and adverse effect profile.
So, you are saying that maintaining, some shit code written in the 70s and maintained by 10s of enterprise programmers, will result in better experience?
There is a gray area in there. Animation is an accessibility problem, even when the result is only that the user can't use the website. Colors less so, unless the contrast is low. Material Design has had really bad influence on both animation and color saturation practices over the past couple of years so I tend to group them together.

* https://www.webaccessibility.com/best_practices.php?technolo...

* http://simplyaccessible.com/article/animations/
Taste isn't really a matter of taste.

(That is, the way we use the word "taste" figuratively is rather inappropriate.)
I recommend Swift Style
https://pragprog.com/book/esswift/swift-style
I respect that you have that opinion knowing that you don't exclusively drive.

Personally I bike and walk exclusively (do not own a car) and would much prefer separated cycling/walking paths. I get that there is a cost associated with this, but I think the cost is comparatively low to that of even marginal improvements to highway infrastructure.
Thursday.Tuesday was beige, as always.
A more similar situation would have been the Hawaiian government organising a binding vote to secede from the US in 48 hours (while maintaining the US citizenship!).

I guess the SCOTUS involvement would have been more intense in that case.
The white working class in both the UK and US are those who have been hit hardest by working class wages going down due to immigration and outsourcing. Conservative parties always attract the rich vote.

Once again, if you ignore the root causes, you'll always get results like Brexit. Exiting the EU won't curb immigration from Pakistan, India, etc..., but it will stop workers coming from poorer EU countries (Poland, Romania, etc...
BTW these countries aren't Muslim. Brexit does nothing to limit Muslim immigrants).
That's why there are two menus. "Simple" and "All". So you have the option, which is great. There is also a reset button in case you misconfigured something.
> At least the Brits have decent health care, and their leaders aren't being blackmailed and puppeted by Vladimir Putin.

Umm .. yeah. The going theory for why the UK fails, consistently, to prosecute child sex offenders in the halls of its Parliament, is because its a "national security issue" due to the facts of 'what Russia knows'. So I wouldn't be so sure to think the UK isn't under Russian thumb...
I like the idea of email, but doesn't seem to have nearly all the shows that http://on-my.tv/ has... or browse is just broken.
Somewhat related: for anyone who is interested in unikernel development, there is a new proposed project called Unicore under the Xen Project umbrella.

That project aims to reduce the effort for porting applications to run in unikernels on different platforms (Xen, KVM and baremetal).

https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2017-09/msg036...
One Puerto Rican nursing home struggles to get power and keep patients alive
> "If you just give people money, they'll use that money to improve their current situation without guidance or meddling." is not a true statement, and I assert that saying things like this can result in people on the "other side" of the political spectrum forming the opinion that you and your side is intellectually dishonest, because in fact, it is.

I really don't believe that's a fact. There have been numerous experiments over the decades about implementing basic income, with varying degrees of success, which is the closest current thing to replacing the American social welfare systems with "just giving people money." Their results are mixed, and likely will remain so as they are extremely desperate from one another to such a degree that you can't really form a consensus.
Hmmm... Is the big image on the home page not showing up? It is a screenshot of it in action on some of my websites.
There's a difference between demonizing the entire system, and just noticing its rough edges and failure modes. The latter enables discussion about how to mitigate the failure modes while keeping the overall system running.
> it is fairly easy to slip back

Indeed.

https://twitter.com/CataloniaHelp2/status/914131859654639616
If the cashier isn't routinely giving out the paper receipts, how do you ensure that the paper receipts exist in the first place? The assumption is that at least some of the businesses don't want that audit trail. Handing out receipts on request would/could mean that the receipts are only created if requested, and a majority of transactions can stay unregistered.

The ritual of giving a receipt to you (and you putting it straight into the waste bin) visibly demonstrates that the business routinely creates the receipts for all (most?) purchases, it ensures that in the vast majority of cases the receipt actually gets produced, and if a business is routinely not producing these receipts (or having fake info in these receipts) then this would be clearly visible to the general public. This ritual has a certain social value in enforcing tax compliance, so that's why it's required despite the paper cost.
He did a documentary on netflix.
Algolia engineering culture
I've long said that progress involves changing individual hearts and minds more than just a political process - the political process is what happens after you've changed hearts and minds.

We saw it with the civil rights movement, we saw it with the gay rights movement, and we're going to see at some point with the trans rights movement too.

Merely showing up and demanding rights isnt enough, you need to convince people that their needs are bound up with yours.
Well, could’t You say the same thing about experiences of any nature? For example: our thoughts always affect our body/mind .. if I take a drug or in the case of ayahuasca an entheogen, it creates a non ordinary state of consciousness, which -if strong enough- can permanently change the way I feel and act. The same you could achieve by meditating on a regular basis or going on a long trip, having a traumatic experience etc .. our brains are being modified constantly by our experiences, not just by drugs. And yeah, a belief is a belief - if it’s a conscious belief you could say ‘I believe in having this belief’ and if it’s unconscious it’s just a belief I am not consciously aware of. But both have the same
Effect on my body and mind
I don't really have much of a social life. There is just no way I can manage it. I have friends whom I see about once a week or so. Those are the only ones who have stuck around after years of me not turning up to most things. I make time for my girlfriend, but often she is upset when I refuse to just sit and do nothing with her (like watch mindless TV).
Caesium: Compress your pictures up to 90% without visible quality loss
You are the credit card companies' ideal consumer.
Are you saying that if someone living in Madrid wants to move to Barcelona, they have to request permission from the government?

I never mentioned the EU at all, I am not sure what you mean by that. Catalonia leaving Spain is an internal issue, not related to the EU. I am comparing Catalonia being a province of Spain to California being a state in the US.
Twitter's Russia investigation should look at Trump's interactions with bots
I live in Germany and have never seen a sign using pounds, only tons.
Can’t upvote enough. Antifa make themselves much more like their opposition than they think by resorting to violence. It’s a whole lot more fun to think of yourself on this grandoise crusade-battle. The irony.
Which puts all the onus on the "not a fucking Nazi" half (not actually half antifa is wildly outnumbered) of the equation while not holding the "fucking Nazi" half to any standards re: not murdering people.

Contrarily this story starts out with the KKK member approaching and being civil to the black man.
....why? I mean, yeah, maybe in a social studies class, but I fail to see any reason otherwise.
Illegal uprising ? Come on, it's not like it's about half a dozen colonels ordering troops to seize the parliament. It's ten of thousands civilians putting papers in ballots.
Not true - psilocybin is being actively researched by Heffter/Usona. They are much more limited by funding than they are by scheduling (at least, in the US).

The main benefit of rescheduling will likely be through easier access to government funding and funding from large foundations.

If you’re very wealthy, you can fund psychedelic research that interests you today - again, the scheduling is not close to being the main limiting factor.

Source: I’ve talked with multiple researchers who are studying psychedelics.
Wow, I never knew why I hated the taste of wine, while everyone else were so eager to drink. To me, it tastes bitter, except for champagne. This article might mean that I might be super-taster, even though I had never considered it, since I cannot distinguish a lot of food.

Anyway, I just ordered PTC (PROP) strip from Amazon. It turns out it can be purchased for less than $10. I'm so curious to see where I stand, and if it turns out I am a super taster, I might need to change my diet.
If you don't know anything about wine, the safest thing is to just go with what you like. And this means first and foremost ignoring price and prestige even if you'll be called a philistine.

One thing about wine I really enjoy is that there are so many different tastes available, and that tastes may vary by year.

If you're still exploring your preferences, I'd recommend to stay below 30€/bottle (reseller price, not restaurant) and try a lot of different ones (not necessarily on the same evening thought).
On Gumtree, “Bitcoin” is a dirty word
I disagree. We get nowhere by making fun of other people or taking the moral high-ground. Progress comes by having real conversations with others, no matter how much we disagree with what they have to say. It's easy and fun to call someone racist and walk away, but the right thing to do is having them explain how they feel and just talking to them about it.

I also don't understand how normalization is an issue? We get nowhere by censoring the our least favorite ideas in society. We get somewhere by bringing them out, and talking about why we disagree with the points made, in a respectful manner.

Relevant article from The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/article/former-conservative-recalls-...