skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your moral sentiments are misplaced. While it would be nice if people didn't litter, training animals to do something beneficial for us is not immoral as such, and especially not if no cruelty is involved. It certainly isn't slavery as slavery presumes rights, something animals do not have. To have an argument, you'd have to show that any negative effects of training surpass the positive. Even if it led to a decline in crow numbers for whatever reason, this isn't necessarily worse. The net positive could outweigh the net negative. For instance, crows are classified as a pest species in some areas and so a reduction in their numbers could be welcomed as a positive result.

What is worth focusing on in this domain is the unprecedented cruelty inflicted on animals in our times where, e.g., cosmetics, fashion and agriculture are concerned.
LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang) is also a good choice. The site has the beginnings of implementing SICP in it. [1,2]

I prefer J myself. [3]

[1] lfe.io
[2] http://docs.lfe.io/current/index.html
[3] jsoftware.com
I'm not certain it is a significant exaggeration, nor am I certain the US wouldn't demand Putin's email :-)

In practice you're probably right, but the idea of leaving things up to the discretion of politicians, particularly the ones we tend to elect, terrifies me.
> Pillows are pretty much all the same to me

Madness.
A generating neural network (GNN) from Y Combinator's archive of startups
Currently, there is a problem. People don't believe victims, and it can be fatal to one's career to come forward.

What you're describing:

> shouldn't have his life ruined by an anonymous post

...hasn't happened so far. So you're trying to defeat a solution to a real problem by bringing up a not-yet-real problem that may never be real.

It's like saying, "Well, we don't want to put seatbelts in cars because they may trap someone in the car after it's crashed." Yes, that might be true, but there's a much bigger problem of lots and lots and lots of people being killed by not having seatbelts at all.
Citation about that crop yields thing?
Given the URL, I'd expect some bias. It seems to be more about fashion than about function. I have small wrists but like a larger watch face.
This will have immense ramifications on the ability of US companies to do business overseas. Even if there are no legal barriers erected (which I doubt), there will unquestionably be marketing barriers. If there were a company I did business with that had a home-country ruling like this, I would definitely think twice about how much I trust their government.
Doesn’t Mumble have that feature?
NYC’s Pneumatic Tube Mail Network
I always viewed bus/rail transit centers as a place outside of downtown where all the bus traffic meets up to catch the train. Fewer stops for your train, and you are only sending the full trains downtown. At the downtown hub there are still a few circulator buses, but not commuter.

Seems odd to put a rail-fed bus station in the middle of downtown. Wouldn't that just clog downtown with all the buses?
We're spending a quarter billion a year on a homeless population of about 7,500, so about $33,000 per person per year.

Just because we have a problem doesn't mean that we should ignore all of our other problems. They can both be addressed independently.
Everything Is Crazy and the Markets Aren’t Freaking Out
If you have a term sheet from a great/good investor, you don't say who it is because all good investors talk and the investor you're trying to get a term sheet from will just call the investor who gave you a term sheet. Worse case, they talk each other out of the deal. Best case, investor B comes in ever-so-slightly above investor A's offer (vs. potentially coming in way above, in absence of knowing the price).

If you have a term sheet from a bad or unknown investor, you don't say who it is because all investors (great, good, bad, or ugly) will discount their offer significantly. There is a huge difference (even if it's bullshit) in getting a $10m A from Sequoia vs. a $10m A from a Dutch strategic investor who's making their second investment in three years.
Are you implying it was the RAM?
More interesting, what happens when the crows realize that nicotine is a nootropic?
Sources please?

edit

Sorry, I'm asking about the "previous years similar trends".
I wonder if this means the US will become more or less belligerent with Canada?
No. It only cares about unlocked bootloaders on devices that shipped with Android 7 because a requirement of shipping with that was hardware support facilitating dm_verity, which is essentially a check that the bootloader wasn't tampered with. Without the necessary hardware there's simply no way to perform this check in anything resembling a reliable fashion.

Also, neither root not an unlocked bootloader is required to make "proper backups". Some data actually can't be backed up, and for some data there is no point in making a backup. If the goal is to be able to restore the system to a specific, known state, a bit-for-bit image backup of the entire filesystem is just one way to accomplish the task.
Is Mach's principle related to equivalence principle? It's so strange that inertia mass just so happens to be exactly the same as gravitational mass.

Can Mach's principle and equivalence principle be derived from some more fundamental laws or are they accepted as axioms?
Ditto, after a bad strain injury on my wrist I bought a Kinesis. I don't think I could really use a computer without it. For me though it's mostly wrist angle; while I love the tactile mechanical switches I don't think the impact is a huge factor unless you are prone to pressing very hard on a scissor switch or a linear switch.
Haskell Typeclasses vs. C++ Classes
You can observe climate change. It's pretty easy. You can't easily attribute it to human activity, however.
We need to request to include a test of on screen keyboard then
Screwed Over by Citcon – The Only Alipay / WeChatPay Provider in the US
Story on how a couple of coward Silicon Valley startup founders screwed over my life:

https://medium.com/@hangmiao7788/how-i-was-screwed-over-by-citcon-the-self-claimed-largest-alipay-and-wechatpay-provider-in-north-60d872c27f4f
I think you are abstracting away some key details of what is more accurately called a "liberal democracy" (vs. just "democracy"). These details are often left out of casual conversation about "democracy" and "freedom". For example:

* fair and free elections
* representative form of government (not a "tyranny of the majority")
* limited government
* individual rights that can not be usurped by majority rule
* separation of powers and checks and balances
* rule of law

A "democracy" is not just having laws or holding elections. The nature of the laws and the nature of the processes involved in creating the laws are critical elements that distinguish a liberal democracy from other systems of government.
Crows have multiple ways to get food, and choose the ones they like. Is that not sufficiently rational?
A Tiny Turbine in Your Veins Could Harvest Power from Your Blood Flow
+1

You've put this better than I ever could have.
What if their population expands beyond what's sustainable on conventional food and they become dependent on the "butts" food?
check out monero
What happens when they realize they can burn down our homes with a smoldering butt?
HoloCam for iOS – Add 3D text, 3D emojis, drawings and photos to your world
Formal business plans (at least for internet or saas companies) are wildly over-rated and increasingly unnecessary.

They may provide more value in other industries (I have no/limited experience outside of internet/software).

Prototyping is so easy, quick, and inexpensive.

Why spend a week or two on a business plan when you can spend a week putting up a landing page, driving some ads at it, and then definitively get some data points on, "do people want what I'm about to do?"
"The Dark Ages" is one facet of the extreme Western Europe focus on history taught in much of America and presumably Europe. I had lessons on Greece and Rome, then on the Norman invasion. Everything I was taught has this extreme slant, but combined with learning almost nothing about anywhere during the Dark Ages you're left thinking nothing happened.

So yes, if you're goal is an exclusively Christian Western Europe focused view of history, the term is fine. If that isn't your stated goal, why use it over Early Middle Age?
Mumble doesn't, AFAIK, also do video/screenshare. Think of it like a teleconference. (I could be wrong though, it's been a long time.)
A lot of barbershop albums, probably most recent ones, are pretty heavily pitch-corrected. It doesn’t bother me that much, but I almost always prefer live barbershop recordings.
Sure, absolutely nobody but a lone disgruntled HN poster has been talking about the epic fail that iOS 11 has been. Must be my vivid imagination.

http://www.techradar.com/how-to/ios-11-problems-how-to-fix-t...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2017/09/24/apple-io...

https://www.imobie.com/support/ios-11-problems-and-solutions...

https://www.gottabemobile.com/ios-11-problems-fixes/

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/25/ios-11-app-slowdowns-pe...

http://mashable.com/2017/09/21/apple-ios11-glitches/#Q72Ibvr...

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2017/09/ios-11-bugs.html

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/some-ios-11-issues-s...

https://www.tenorshare.com/ios-11/top-15-ios-11-update-probl...

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/ios-11-problems-3293849

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2017/09/26/app...

http://osxdaily.com/2017/09/26/troubleshooting-ios-11-proble...

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/ios-11-bugs/

https://appletoolbox.com/2017/09/common-ios-11-problems-how-...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/21/ios_11_screws_up_ou...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4922738/Apple...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/apple-confirms-ios-bugs-issues-...

Should I go on?
Apple will pull this from the App Store in 5...4...3...
I agree. I hate that I have to preface this sort of thing by pointing out that I am not against legalization. But, according to that graph, the rate is actually higher after the legalization of marijuana, but the "trend" is down. Except that the trend would have been upwards had you made the stopped measuring at the end of 2014 instead of the end of 2015. And they're cheating by not measuring the trend in the same way for previous years as the post-marijuana years because before the graph the trend is measured as a single line spanning 14 years, while the trend is only for 2 years afterwards. So you'd need to do some sort of running average, or whatever the equivalent is for linear regression. Actually now I'm seriously interested in knowing if there's a running version of linear regression like there is for averages.
How the U.S. government may have identified who Satoshi Nakamoto is
5. "Carrying around a portable ashtray makes me all too aware of how filthy smoking is in the first place, so no way I'm going to do that."

6. "E-Cigarettes are for pussies."

Have you tried...not smoking? It's almost like the city is trying to tell you something.
I believe gravypod is referring to previous years in the graph that starts the article. For instance, look at the 2008-2012 period. There is a definite downward trend.[0]

[0]: https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2017/10/...
If you value the ludicrously wasteful lifestyle that is so prevalent in the U.S., maybe not. But if you embrace the challenge of creativity, you can live quite well on $30k per year. I live in NYC on just a tad more ($32k spent last year) in a nice neighborhood with no roommates, vacation at least once a year, etc. It's amazing how far cooking your own food most of the time, using credit card rewards miles, riding a bicycle instead of driving, and shopping at thrift stores will take you. I suspect most people who spend ~$60k+ per year could cut their spending in half without significantly impacting things they actually care about in their "lifestyles".
I suspect the culprit is not the hardware, but the software.

Back in the day there were very little between the keyboard and the screen, and most of it were either in rom or in ram.

Never mind that unless one were dealing with a big iron or similar, multi-tasking was a big nope.

These days most OSs have 10s to 100s of processes going right after a first boot on a clean install. And all those can trip something at "random" intervals.
what is L-Theanine for?
I'd have to agree with your debater. By definition, the dictator is given control over you. He exist as a dictator because you are not free. Now that's different say from an elected leader who year over year gets re-elected because everyone approves of what he's doing. You can't say he's a dictator, even though he might rule as one, but he's not, because the people are in control, even if he has the same power to enact the same things then your benevolent dictator and rules for just as long.

So to rephrase, what would be the difference between someone doing exactly what a dictator does, same laws, same rules, but elected freely by the people, versus the dictator? It would be the freedom to choose who dictates. Thus, you would have one less freedom, making you less free.

Having said that, you have a good point. I think you're talking about the majority's rule problem. Democracy suffers from that, where you can't individually choose, you need support from others. Now some people have more power to influence, so much so, that they might be indirectly ruling. This practically limits you're freedom to choose who dictates. And given a majority whose singly influenced by a powerful actor, which doesn't listen to you, a benevolent dictator which were to be more considering of your needs and desires, you might actually enjoy your life better and practically have more freedom.

I think this is the situation we find ourselves more and more into. Strong actors are spawning, and they have such powerful influence on large swats of people, that they are tending towards partial dictatorship. Similarly, minorities voices are being shut more and more, so a larhe amount of people are feeling oppression, and their freedom taken away as they lose influence in the votes.

I think younger generations feel this. We need to find ways to reorient democracy, and keep its balance. If not, in practice, it can tend towards the same issues that dictatorships have, granted possibly less damaging, as it should be assumed that at least a majority of people will have what they want.
The Miyamoto approach of starting with a desired emotion and working backward toward a design is profound. This is radically different from most things I've read which involve cramming emotion into existing designs. This changes everything for me. Thanks for sharing.
What else are rich people going to do with their money? Buy bonds at 1%?
And the success of the new england peach harvest in the same season; direct photographic evidence of glacial retreat, too.
1. i suspect it comes down only a single program having full reign of the system at a time, and everything living in either RAM or ROM (no page faults etc).
mount_hammer2 is probably not in initrd
This is opinion, presumably informed by the graphic at the very top of the linked article. Asking for a source for an opinion is a little silly.
Godate.io – Buy and Sell dates by hair color
Super Hexagon does use repeating “phrases” of walls quite a bit though.
> To give one example, drivers are required to yield to pedestrians in cross walks and to pedestrians approaching crosswalks

Is that actually the case? I know that the former is true, but I haven't come across a law stating that drivers are required to yield to pedestrians who are not already in a crosswalk. Does case law differ from the text of the law it refers to?

> while pedestrians are only required to "exercise due care," which is a much weaker requirement. If you want to see how weak this requirement really is, look at the case law. In many cases in which the average driver thinks the pedestrian is in the wrong, the law disagrees and would place the lion's share of blame on the driver.

I would be curious about what case law would say about a collision like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io_XBK0twtQ. Specifically, who would be found at fault/liable.
Second Mover Advantage is a well-documented business strategy. Many companies will specifically look for such opportunities rather than try to be the innovator. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-mover_advantage#Second-m...
What's a social influencer?
If you were a little more generous in understanding your opponents, you might be more effective at persuading them.

There's the genuine concern that the solutions being proposed will squander our lead over our competitors, by basically redistributing wealth from developed to developing economies[1], and that the people most loudly clamoring for action also tend to be the most opposed to solutions like nuclear power, that would allow us to cut emissions without sacrificing our self-interest as much or at all.

Also, you talk about the profitability of companies as if it is isolated from the prosperity of ordinary people. It's not. And higher energy prices wouldn't just affect a few companies, but just about every single industry.

Environmental activists aren't helping their case when they engage in behavior and lifestyle choices perceived as whacky, and worse, try to impose them on others. People aren't going to abandon the comforts of modernity, so trying to persuade them to isn't a good strategy.

[1] For example, the theory of deals like Kyoto and Paris is that developing economies can keep increasing emissions while developed ones have to immediately cut. Fair, but fairness between countries is naive. The US should do whatever it can to maintain and grow its lead over China.
Loulan Kingdom
Considering that Vagrant is their most famous tool so far, they should have had a good reason to move to HCL then right? (And they do, as linked in a sibling comment.)
I got that game with an indie bundle a while back and played for about a minute before I gave up. Now I can blame my input devices rather than my truly terrible reaction time!
Well, made up graphic or not, the idea strikes me as rather plausible.

Also, it's about religion, not politics.
As usual for popsci reporting, the headline discards any nuance the article may have had — which itself usually goes beyond the claims made in the science. :-(

> The authors stress that their results are preliminary

And we should take this with a huge grain of salt, wait a few more years, and see what the data looks like then.
Ask HN: PayPal phishing email, my wife has just been scammed. What should I do?
Hey HN,

My wife has just been scammed through a PayPal phishing e-mail. I'm angry as fu*k, but long story short. Here is what she did:

- typed her PayPal username/password;
- provided her name, phone number and address
- shared her credit card details
- uploaded a photo holding her driver's license and cc. This is the format "required" by the fraudulent web site:

https://ibb.co/dAC5t6

Now here is what I've done so far:

- changed her PayPal password
- locked her CC
- changed password on other web sites (email, amazon, etc.)
- reported scammers to PayPal

Any other immediate steps I should take?

Edit: formatting
Ignore the professional LARPers, paid trolls, political party propaganda outlets, and social media junkies and everything seems pretty normal.
oh god just enough with the propoganda already. only 0.1% of marijuanna smokers actually need it as a medicine, everyboyd else is simply a pothead. stop praising the thing like its a fucking elixir sent to save the humanity
> If it is spinning extremely rapidly, the gyroscope remains rigidly locked in the direction it has been set, its sights fixed on...Kiev—hence the term inertial guidance systems.

This is clearly false... right?

If you translate the gyroscope, it won't be pointing at Kiev anymore, it will be pointing to the side of Kiev. The gyroscope doesn't magically point at a target, it provides a stable reference direction that the rest of the IGS can compute its deviation from, to adjust its course.
Is that a joke? The source is the linked article. The chart hardly shows a convincing downturn. The trend lines are very generously positioned.
I have heard this story multiple times. My impression is that often person who tells the story treats the fact that the mistrained model was NN-based as a minor detail (or the kind of juicy but ultimately insignificant detail that make the story more fun to tell; and if the original story was about a NN, nobody is going to change it to a SVM or something else).

From this viewpoint, I found the section where the author lengthly argues how this could not possibly happen with the current state of the art visual task CNNs (especially because people apply preprocessing steps such as whitening and augmentation to get rid of exactly this kind of biases), let's say, weird. The parable is not about CNNs, it is about the importance of paying attention what features your model will extract from the training dataset and whether your model is learning the right things.
Judging by the actual data, the death count seems to have stabilized and stopped increasing at least. Unfortunately it's hard to tell with that completely bogus "trend" line atop the data.
oh god just enough with the prohibition and the crime, corruption and damage it does.

It's a drug. Yes. It has medicinal value but most people like the recreational aspects of it. Deal with it.
> One way or another, overfitting is no joke and it's definitely no urban legend.

Can you give an example of where overfitting happened and was successfully corrected for?
Singing live with autotune is standard practice for most pop singers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rczu_Qc7CkA
> The presence of a stop sign is usually the result of a determination based on either engineering principles or (often fatal) experience that the intersection does not provide adequate conditions to be safely rolled

A lot of times, they will be placed as a form of speed control. The MUTCD has requirements regarding the use of stop signs, but they don't appear to be followed most of the time. Otherwise, we wouldn't have nearly as many stop signs at intersections where there is plenty of visibility of cross traffic.

Of the two parts pertaining to complying with a stop sign (first stop, then yield), the second is far more important than the first when it comes to avoiding a collision. You can certainly come to a full stop and subsequently fail to yield and then collide with a pedestrian or vehicle. But even if you don't come to a full stop and do yield to a pedestrian or vehicle that has the right-of-way, you're not going to collide with them.
To this layman it seems to fit like a tee with devops, as it allows the devs to get the ops out of their hair by having them reside in a different company altogether.

Thus there is no ops to go "no way no how" where devs want to introduce some new shiny to the stack, as their only interaction is over a web api...
Anyone know of (or want to give) a clear explanation of how gyros behave? I found the article to be unclear on a number of points.

I was also unclear on this: "The first triumph of general relativity was its exact prediction of the orbital precession of Mercury’s perihelion" —does a perihelion precess? I thought it was the planet which was precessing and the perihelion shifted (changing the shape of the planet's orbit?)

Also, I came across this (seemingly) related gem the other day: ("Why is Linear Motion Relative but Rotation Absolute?") https://www.quora.com/Why-is-linear-motion-relative-but-rota...
Perl, the only language where mashing the keyboard randomly has a 50% chance of working. I have looked at some of my old Perl and long-since offered my formal apologies.
0.1%?
Where does that figure come from, or is it just hyperbole coming from your own discomfort with the subject?
It's "normal" but a bit pricey [0].

[0] http://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe/