skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A reusable rocket was not just feasible, it had already been done with the Space Shuttle. "We'll do what the Space Shuttle did but 50x cheaper" is ambitious to be sure, but it's not at the same level as "we'll do this completely new thing that has never been done before".
Not too bizarre, both groups were Nationalists, so I presume that they saw that cooperating on their common objective (total racial segregation) was more useful in the long term.

Interestingly, both George Lincoln Rockwell and Malcolm X were assassinated by members of their own parties (a former one in Rockwell's case, though). Sadly, I don't know much else about them.
I suspect Gerrymandering isn't uniquely a US problem. I do a lot of UK Census spatial analysis and the district centroids that are used create problems. In the article the 'ear muffs' shape would create a centroid for the voting district outside of the district, given that the shape of the district was designed to give a certain ethnic group a voice, whereas the process for creating districts in the UK are done usually on the idea of 'belonging' to a town/village/area and are decided and audited at a national 'neutral' level.

The data scientist in me wants centroids around circles with fuzzy edges. If we could all agree that fuzzy circles is the way forward we could solve gerrymandering over night.

The reality is though, that I create these amazing pieces of analysis then have to explain away why that district is odd, y'know, cos the shape is just weird.

Locally they are redoing the district boundaries which is giving me an opportunity to submit my own district shapes that work better with Census data :D
4) Even if you already have a job. It is easier to finde a better job or find a new one if you are ever laid off in Denver than in Altoona.
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Isn't this what a syringe does?
That sounds really expensive.
> blue is a majority of every 3x3 square

Blue is indeed a slight majority of every "3x lattice"-aligned square. But if you take the top left square and shift one down and one right, you'll see that in fact red wins that 3x3 square decisively: 8 to 1.

> why shouldn't it win every district?

Maybe you think it should, but whoever drew the districts would run afoul of the newish gerrymandering measure the Supreme Court is considering.
What's even more interesting is to see how much code is needed in the GNU true.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/true...

4 includes, 3 ifdefs or define blocks, the whole thing is 80 lines, more than half of it code!
I think one true measure of a superb game development studio is the ability to make a game enjoyable and interesting within the construct of the chosen setting.

It would have probably taken much more than the small team they had initially, but there's no reason in theory that they could have gone with their idea and made an extremely rich game, with different play styles in each thematic genre, for example.

Dark Souls does this well. Without modifying the properties of the universe, each area requires modified strategies and this keeps the game fresh, and clever, while staying within the confines of this medieval fantasy world.

Point is, you dont have to force platforming onto a game; but these guys were doing this 20 years ago on potato technology with an understaffed team. I didnt understand gex when I played it, but as a hobby game dev, I respect what they accomplished.
Not only did it not stand out as especially evil before the beginning of the war, but a lot of politicians/personalities were speaking very highly of Hitler at the time.

Also, he was often seen as the real hope to defeat communism, which on the contrary was immediately called "evil".

To add to your first paragraph, I think that another thing that stands out is that it happened in what was one of the most civilized and culturally evolved countries in the world at the time.
Very cool! Unfortunately, no one seems to have a list of books that were in it. I wonder what Napoleon liked to read...
Sure, but did we need continuity? Also, if you want to be awkward, you can get around this by using the discrete topology, I don't think we needed the metric structure of R^n.
If you have a breakage or stopped capsule you anyway have to shut the whole thing down.
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I should have used the word "probably" in all accompanying instances of "would"--the extent to which the followers are inclusive of other members of the Abrahamic faiths obviously vary from community to individual follower. I merely wished to limit confusion.

Yes, many Christians will consider that Muslims worship the same God. On the other hand, I grew up in the American South, and I can assure you that the sentiment is not universally shared down here.
This sounds really cool.

I think you can get close to this with modules, for example defining a Drivable module with the drive(Person) method, and including that into Spaceship and Car. But I see how method combination would be more flexible and cleaner in many situations.
Do you think they would still be doing this if TF hadn't become the near de-facto ML software? Seems like more of a response to its rise than an actual research project
Not only that, but many policies we now regard as being Nazi were widespread and popular in the West in general. Eugenics, for example, was promoted by all sorts of celebrities, politicians, and everyday people and many Western countries engaged in highly unethical eugenics programs.

To think we fought Nazis because of their ideology is a mistake - the US, the UK, and many other countries weren't that different, in many respects, ideologically. In practice, the Nazis took horrific ideas and industrialized them.

In a way, we have Nazi military imperialism to thank for the fact that many horrible ideas are unacceptable today - otherwise there might never have been a backlash against them.
Ask HN: I am a low value engineer. How do I become more effective?
I've been working at a mid size american software firm for the last 3 years doing mostly testing and a little development (my first job out of school). I've come to realize that I'm just not a very effective engineer. Solutions that I come up with are far hackier and "taped together" than those my peers come up with, I consistently miss defects when testing, am slower to finish tasks, spend a lot more time when debugging and fixing defects, constantly have to ask for help, etc. I feel far behind compared to others with the same amount of experience. Should I find another career or are there steps i can take to improve?
Some list i have in uBlock Origin already blocks CoinHive's miner (https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/690), i guess this will follow soon.

Mining services are fighting back by registering additional "random" domains though: https://github.com/jspenguin2017/uBlockProtector/issues/636#...
I was hoping this would also go into whether AT&T actually acted to enforce this copyright, as copyright covers "The work" and "significant subsets", but will not cover things like newlines. For that kind of content (as well as "int i= 0" and the like) there is both prior art, and the claimed-copied content cannot be used to identify the work, and where in that work, the line would have been lifted from.

The article seems mostly about the fact that AT&T intentionally added a copyright notice in their otherwise empty program's comment block, in an era that predates the era of widespread availability of software and copyright wars. Which is honestly not really all that surprising.
The ice age is a drastic increase in difficulty that was planned at launch to force the developers to release a proof of stake algorithm. The idea was that no one would want to actually switch to a proof of stake when the time came (miners would lose all their profit, and miners have a lot of power - see current bitcoin situation)

To convince early adopters that there would actually be a switch to proof of stake the ice age was conceived. The ice age can be delayed however as we see here (this isn't the first time its been delayed either)

Switching from proof of work to proof of stake will probably be hard to pull off without disruption.
Absolutely, and that's why Dropbox is successful. But I don't think the part you quoted is wrong as such; the typical HN user really could put together a few components and get something that does most of what Dropbox does.
Wish all languages comes with a fmt tool that will end all stylistic guide debates.

We use linters at work, but even setting linter rules will cause a lot of arguments.
Trains have a much higher capacity. Most people currently drive the distance which leads to more accidents and a lot of lost time.

$100bn is too expensive to make sense but I don't understand why it should cost that much. There are not that many tunnels needed, esp. if you start/end north of LA and south of SF. European rail projects are also expensive but still a fraction of the cost.
mobile app in the plan
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It can't be "valued" higher. It's a token of exchange at an agreed price not an intrinsic return generating asset.
I was thinking "Richard" - "d" = "Richar" or "richer"
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>If you know how the program works it may be easier to write an exploit."

BTW, this is true. Seeing the source code versus having to go through assembly listings - I know which one I'd pick if I had to find logic bugs.

>Why is this not applicable to virus detection algorithms?

Its not an algorithm, but a heuristic. If you want to look for a suspect, you don't announce "I'm looking for someone 5 feet 5 inches tall with a buzz cut who drives a ford and wears size 12 nike sneakers". In much the same way, security via heuristics doesn't mean creating a perfect detection system, because it doesn't exist. They want to make the game harder to play by hiding the rules of the game, not because they're sure that they're going to win. This is a real, tangible benefit for the customers. There is nothing really special about it, we've been using such ideas for centuries.
You're right. I was wrong. I found an explanation of how to make interleaving method work. https://math.stackexchange.com/a/183383
Took an undergrad comp sci class taught by Don Chamberlin at UCSC in 2009. He is a fascinating professor!
Re: "that enabled me to be where I am". There is no evidence-based way to determine where you would be in a parallel universe with different rules.

"I don't mind paying taxes." ... "I seriously wish they'd spend that money more wisely, or at least more in line with my values".

It's irrational to say, "I don't mind that money is being coerced from me by people who are squandering it and using it in ways that are not in line with my values."

I don't think that your position is actually conflicting, but perhaps misstated. That is to say, maybe what you don't mind is the concept of taxation as such. Yet you acknowledge that the actual people who, today, are charged with coercing money out of you are not spending it wisely or in line with your values. So of course you must mind. Otherwise why even mention that?
> I've pointed this out publicly on numerous occations, in various technical forums, since the early 1980's. So far I haven't heard a word from any AT&T lawyers. Anyone have any idea why they are ignoring such a violation?

Ah, one of those people.
I'm going to be writing a blog post on this, but you inspired me to touch on it a bit.

When we went looking at what we should use to implement Wallaroo, one of the things that appealed to us about Pony was that it was a high-performance actor based runtime that we could help mold. We gave consideration to writing our own implementation in C but, we'd still be working on that rather than talking here on HN now if we had.

Pony has gotten us quite a bit. The runtime was used for a number of production projects at one of the major banks so we knew that while there might be some bugs (what code doesn't have them) that we could use it to jumpstart our process.

I gave a talk about Pony and its relation to Wallaroo where I put out the figure of 18 months. I think that as a wild ass guess, using the Pony runtime saved us about 18 months of work to build the foundation we want/need for Wallaroo.

Speaking as a member of the Wallaroo Labs team, it's really nice to have a community based project that you can help mold and grow with. It's been a boon to us as a small development shop in a way that either writing from scratch ourselves or using an existing more widely used runtime wouldn't be.

Speaking as a Pony core team member, I encourage other companies who think they could benefit from a high-performance actor based runtime to have a look at Pony. You could have a large hand in shaping it into the runtime that you need.
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As a point of clarification, are you saying that Homeric Greek is difficult for a native speaker of Modern Greek, or are you saying that, objectively speaking, Homeric is a fundamentally more difficult language to use? I took two semesters of Attic about a million years ago and one of my romantic aspirational goals is to learn Homeric enough to enjoy the Iliad in the original.
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I completely agree with you about the critical importance of a social safety net, and is a big part of the reason I'm an advocate for things like a universal basic income. However, I think ideas this are much less likely to succeed. The first thing is that, as you mention, 250 units isn't even scratching the surface of tackling the problem. It will need to be expanded substantially. And now we have two possible outcomes. These areas turn into slums, or they don't turn into slums.

The case where they do turn into slums, perhaps in the longrun not all that different than the favelas of Brazil, is obviously undesirable. But it goes further than that. This is going to lead to a desire to segregate these areas from the rest of the city. At the most extreme you add an employment office to help people get back on their feet, fence the region off to keep things a bit more 'controlled' and you have created Sanctuary Cities in all but name.

The second alternative is that the areas don't become slums. They become decent places to live. Plenty of people are actually able to use these places, and the implicit facilities (mental counseling, job programs, substance abuse programs, etc) to get back on their feet again. This sounds incredible, but what about how the rest of society will view them? For the homeless and otherwise disenfranchised these cities would be a small lifeboat in an otherwise endless sea. The desire to get in is not going to bring out the best in people. And even for people who are getting by in 'normal' society. Many people today struggle to make ends meet paying $xxxx a month to live in glorified closets. Many are not going to be happy to see that their tax dollars are going to let these people live comfortably completely for free. Somebody in this very thread has already pondered if he would be allowed to live there with a well paying job.

I think ultimately the goal should be to focus on fair programs. Means testing is what I think is causing the fundamental breakdown of support for a social safety net. When ever more people in the US are not living especially well, unfair treatment condemns social programs to being contentious and divisive. So in this case, what of having large scale coffin type 'hotels.' They would be free of charge and the square of the hotel would offer various facilities including a clinic, mental health facilities, job facilities, etc. But they would be open to all. The question is how big would these things need to be before an equilibrium is reached -- though I suspect this is what you were alluding to, in rather fewer words!
I'm not sure what you mean. Do you have an example ? If you are speaking about creating screencasts, I've been thinking about creating a script that'll load a text file, replay it on an prompt and generate the asciinema json based off that. Something like a mix of except, typescript and asciinema.
Looks like most of the code is processing the arguments.
Would you be interested in chatting more about that? We are always looking for use cases we can learn from. My personal email address is in my profile if you are interested.
Moar context:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dpwamv/when-malcolm-x-met...

Apparently the Nation of Islam was in favor of racial separation, and had a highly-placed anti-semite, which made alliance with the nazis possible.
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> In 2016 Vitra, a high-end Swiss furniture company, unveiled Hack, a modular desk designed by Konstantin Grcic. Made of chipboard panels that slot into aluminium brackets, its £2,557 ($4,775) price tag sits awkwardly with its knocked-up-in-a-garage aesthetic – but, as with Delaktig, this unfinishedness is deliberate.

I believe also the name and price tag are very deliberate.

>The “flexible and dynamic” desk can be adjusted in height, folded up, turned into a sofa, drilled into and sawn.

Just like £ 25.57 each chipboard panels.
The question is if we want to accept the risks. In the early days of subways, trains, planes and cars, accidents were frequent and many people died until we figured out the safety aspect. Today's society is much more risk averse. I don't think the general public would accept several fatal crashes before the system is safe.
And honestly, if you want to solve the USA's environmental problems, 200kph commuter rail would probably be a better investment than HSR or Hyperloops.
Can you be specific on what makes this a headache? Your "refactoring" tells me that the code probably wasn't well structured in the first place and if so this would make refactoring difficult for any language, particularly dynamically typed ones.
I think all ad blockers and the like should block these miners. Full stop. Not because I'm anti-miner but because serious websites must explicitly ask for users' consent and while doing that it's easy just to whitelist the miner for that specific website when you want to mine. I don't see any dichotomy. The problem is obviously rogue sites mining in the background.
> Why would Branson get involved ?

Branson is notorious for burning other peoples’ money. Look at Virgin Galactic: it’s New Mexicans’ [1] and Floridians’ [2] tax money plus some duped Emiratis [3]. (They also pre-sold tickets [4].)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/04/space-travel...

[2] http://www.airnewstimes.co.uk/space-florida-promises-virgin-...

[3] https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/uaes-aabar-takes-sta...

[4] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/
Toonstar lets you bring cartoon characters to life thanks to facial recognition
So is this a reason to consider buying WD stock? This looks like they've completely surprised the market with this technology leap.
thks for the link. i think main difference is that harvest uses spaced repetition for passive learning, i dont want to see every thing every time i open a new tab. i like looking at my momentum backgrounds :)
It's a pity. If you were a Nintendo fan back in the day (because if you were a gamer in the 16-bit days and did not have high discretionary income, you likely only had a SNES or a Genesis, not both), you played an interesting, albeit completely different Aladdin game, made by Capcom instead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%27s_Aladdin_(Capcom_vid...

Interesting in its own regard for being one of the early projects of Shinji Mikami, the Capcom designer who masterminded Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, and others.
The (S)NES classic editions have demonstrated the clear appeal of these older platforms.

I think Nintendo/Sega/etc could rake in a lot of cash if they designed new games for these old systems. I would love to see a new Super Mario World-esque game that operated within the confines of the classic SNES.
I'd argue that Bill Gate's work has a better return of investment for society.
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According to the nips blog I think, 98% of deep learning papers are published with python source, and 1% R 1% other stuff.
>so putting them in a low-pressure tunnel is not a major revolution.

>evacuated train tunnel with air or magnetic tracks does not require new science. The hard part is evolving the tech to be reliable and cheap so that people will use it and pay for it - but that doesn't seem to be within economic reach, and that's before factoring in construction and upkeep.

You seem to be suggesting that a) we could have done this before because the tech has always been there. b) we can't do this now because the tech is not reliable or cheap.

I'm not sure how you can rectify these two arguments since this tech is more reliable and cheaper now than it ever has been.
Thank you. It's always easy till you start doing it.
Re: unions, there are sandhogs unions, wouldn't they be relevant? Ex: http://www.sandhogs147.org/
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I was all set to doubt you, but then I found this: https://www.micron.com/products/solid-state-storage/product-.... My ignorance is showing again.
Gas pipelines use Expansion Loops [1] to pick up expansion slack. The problem is that, in order to push people through the tube at 700mph at acceptable G's, you can't put bends like that in the HyperLoop. If you try to send people down a pipeline at 700mph, you would end up with paste at the other side. Gas pipelines are surprisingly un-straight, bendy, and bumpy

[1] https://static.interestingengineering.com/images/import/2017...
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20Development%20of%20the%2...
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We live in an age of cultural abundance. There are many paths and you can't walk them all.
I'm not saying the hyperloop is a good or bad idea, but any suggestion that it would be cheaper than the equivalent HSR seems utterly insane. How could it possibly be cheaper? You have the same ROW requirements, exponentially more expensive track, and the overhead of the fact that it's brand new technology. The fact that the vehicle itself might be cheaper than an HSR train after the tech scales up is almost an afterthought next to those costs.
> Apparently the Nation of Islam was in favor of racial separation, and had a highly-placed anti-semite

I'd be pretty surprised if the Nation of Islam had only one highly-placed anti-semite.
Does proper version control mean using github or just a git repo or something of that sort? I guess the developer wants to keep it a single dev project (old fashioned but the small project size means it doesn't make a big difference).[1]

[1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/0...
New macOS High Sierra vulnerability exposes the password of an encrypted APFS
That's impressively cynical, but Musk obviously stands to gain a lot if people keep California using roads. California wants to go green and he sells the best technology for green road-based transportation.
Opportunity for everyone
>We (in the USA) can barely build a high-speed rail line effectively

We went to the moon. We send car sized rovers to Mars. We certainly can (in the technical sense) build a friggin' train. Its a political problem that keeps us from doing it. So its more like "we won't build high speed rail", and there are plenty of interesting reasons why this is so.

The point is that the mystical sounding Hyperloop might be just what the doctor ordered to shake up the political landscape and get something to budge because ooohh... futuristic! It might just be a brilliant end-run around the current political stalemate. At the most local level it has the potential to turn "nah, I don't want a train running through my back yard" to "oh wow, my community is part of the enlightened future of humanity!"