skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very instructive to listen to Atul Gawande's series of Reith Lectures from a few years ago here.

in "the problem of hubris" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04tjdlj#play , transcript http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/open-book/2014_reith_lectu... ), he makes the very fair point that death is, ultimately, not something we can "fix".

We’ve had I think an about 50 year experiment with medicalising mortality, with casting it as just another problem for us to treat like any other, and I think that experiment is failing. But we have an alternative emerging. It’s one where we learn and elicit what matters most to people in their lives besides just surviving, and then we use our capabilities not to sacrifice it but to
protect, to protect it – to protect those priorities that people have. And I think that is our opportunity.
Here is where the benefits of promoting exercise far outweigh any risks that people who exercise may experience. There is no need to hedge here. Exercise might not cure your depression or even help it, but in general, exercise has been shown over and over again to be one of the most effective things that you can do for mental and physical health.
Of course dating photos are going to give away dating data..the aggregate gay photo doesnt have much facial hair. Most likely reasoning here is that gay men shave for dating photos much more often than straight men do. This isn't groundbreaking or racist..its just a trivial finding. All they did was build a facial hair detector.
The write function takes care of repeating it. See the complete source code in the blog post.
Google Data Studio will be sunset after reaching alpha release v0.0.3.
This is why I read the comments first. skips article
That seems excessive. Why not just run as root?
Soon to come: visual paternity/maternity tests. Visual pregnancy tests. Lie detector smart phone apps. Bar conversation isolation and transcription.

Blackmailers will have a field day.
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I think you're both making the same point :)
This is the right answer. The GP comment made me angry with its absolute generalisation about "the mind of a man." Being a non-aggresive guy sucked growing up when you get bullied for not meeting this gender stereotype for males.

I also really enjoy outdoor adventuring, like many of the activities provided by Scouts. Is it because I'm aggressive? No, it's because I enjoy the calm and serenity that the outdoors provides.
I’ve been using hckr news for this and only look over the top 10% of most popular articles.
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It's more of forced homogeneity than something driven by their history. They ban anything remotely resembling a different opinion.
The word "racism" comes directly from the Clare Garvie quote in the article: “At its very worst, this is racism by algorithm.”

She should have used "bigotry" or "discrimination" instead.
That's pretty amazing. Too bad we can't print GIFs. Will this lead to a resurgence of "MTGIF" or "Magic: The GIFering"?

(And all this time, I've been doing it manually with Imgur images and MTGCardMaker.com. Tangentially, here is an album of MTG cards I made to try and "port" common Powershell functions to MTG: https://imgur.com/a/4sa6v)
Definitely not I, it's true :)

The nihilistic reality is that none of this matters, everyone will do what they want, people will profit, others will die.

All I ever try to do is provide true information- the user will need to draw their own plan of action from it :)
Using a folder as a queue is pretty common in the Linux world, moving files between them as well to make a pipeline.
Many people are unaware that standard hot water heaters concentrate minerals, too, and are not intended for drinking water. My parents and in-laws fill their water kettles from the hot water tap, even though filtered water is available.
You may have missed one of my posts. I think we can both agree that certain people should be excluded from owning firearms. Because of the risks involved, I'm very much in favor of testing for competency, safety, security, and sanity.

Right now, we have a problem. Banning and trying to confiscate a firearm type is not a reasonable solution.

Hell, even defining pistol in a useful way is damned difficult.

If need factors into it, we don't need any of our rights. Humans survive in totalitarian regimes.

Place reasonable restrictions and work on the social issues. We both agree reasonable restrictions are a good idea. I submit that your definition of reasonable is different than my own.

It is not okay to take away my liberties because you're afraid of a statistical outlier. Yes, being an outlier sucks, but that's not a good reason to go banning things that scare you.

It's great that you said you're not sure that handguns are needed. That means you're not sure they should be prohibited. If nothing else, that gives us room for discussion.

Liberty is about having the lawful option. It's not about needs. If it were, they'd call them necessities.
It didn't annoy me, but it definitely gave off a Disney Trailer vibe.

I can just hear the deep announcer voice over the video coming in:

"Coming Winter 2017, A movie about adventure, friendship, AND simulated self-play! Join Burp, Jenny and Bop on a fantastic adventure .... blah blah ..." etc.. hah

Heres an example of good, unobtrusive but fun music for showing AI bots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn4nRCC9TwQ
ELON MUSK AGAINST THE WORLD
In an RV, it is clear that someone is sleeping there. Someone who would be better off staying in one of the hotels and spending money. There are some places where such vehicles are associated with prostitution, or other "undesirables" like gypsies.

Some beaches explicitly prohibit RVs, or put gates that make it impossible for such large vehicles to pass.

Campervans are less problematic, because unless they are heavily customized they look like regular vans, so you can park almost anywhere without raising too many eyebrows. They also tend to have a smaller profile, which helps with road restrictions.

My parents toured Europe several times and they use an almost stock white cargo van for the reasons I stated above.
> Puerto Rico hasn't received the kind of awareness (and hence resources) that Texas and Florida received

That's completely false. Puerto Rico received 10x as much coverage as Texas and Florida.
I did it manually, using the debug web page[0] on the bridge to set up the "light sensor"[1], which is really a calculation of sunrise and sunset based on your location.

It takes a few hoops to get the bridge to generate a username and craft the appropriate JSON to set everything up, but Philips has really good documentation on this.

[0] https://developers.meethue.com/documentation/getting-started

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26782957/how-to-use-suns...
Proper vm isolation with selinux is better than either separately. What if you get a QEMU VM break out.
Potting mix sometimes has slow release fertiliser in it, or you'd buy some that's suited to your plant. That's all the food you need.
I suspect someone has just made a bitcoin article generator.
It absolutely prevents kernel exploitation by stopping certain syscalls. I guess you can argue that it doesn't stop "The exploit" in syscalls it allows but it does prevent syscalls from being run.
Can't wait for the day when BMI + VRD is advanced enough to not need a phone anymore. It would be like having a computer inside you.
I'm more worried about health insurance companies, potential employers, loan officers, and so forth. I'm sure there's lots of ML being produced to "reduce risk".
Not really, but I haven't updated the package version in a while.

What is Mint (I assume you're not referring to the Linux distro)?
Do the Chinese really work harder than everyone else?
>I am running away and trying put enough stuff behind me that it can't catch me.

I'm a runner with depression. I track my mileage, diet and general mood very closely and have started to brace myself for a depressive periods after major races.

I need redundancy with coping mechanisms, and the OCD nature of distance running is potentially setting people up for a fragile system should an injury occur or low-mileage phase crop up.
It seems like "arbitrary" notation is also a problem in other fields of mathematics such as Linear Algebra - perhaps depending on the background of the author in math or CS. In Linear Algebra every text book has their own favorite notation for matrices, row/column vectors (special letter such as c for column vectors, roman letters, roman letters with an arrow on top) and scalars (greek letters or the letter c).
This is awesome.

Side note: I absolutely despite how Twitter bakes all GIFs into videos and prevents you from saving them as GIFs.
In principle it should, because these guys are using matrices to represent network structures, and every finite graph (cyclic or acyclic, directed or undirected) can be represented by a matrix.

Examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjacency_matrix#Examples
I presume Chinese tech companies are also aware of the pending large-scale, American tech negated, b2c push by China into the US.
This will be interesting.
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Thompson Joseph/ building a foundation spreading love and positivity, help build this foundation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb-PuBBi2bg like view subscribe and share
You can quickly check Tencent investments reach: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tencent/investments/...
In general, if one has a serious decision to make, it's probably wise to seek out expert counsel (not that you should blindly follow that counsel either). Same goes with your health.

[Avoiding getting into some kind of discussion about anecdotes, scientific evidence, etiology, qualifications, etc. I am glad for remissions and worried about those still suffering.]
The Best Illusions of the Year 2017
> Millions of people have died of AIDS

Note, people don't actually die of AIDS. They die of something else, that their body can't fight because they have AIDS. Which leads to the interesting question: what counts as a death by AIDS in those statistics? Are some deaths that might be rooted to AIDS not included somehow because of causality uncertainty? (it's not because you have AIDS and die that you died because of it)

> around 18 per day in the U.S. as of 2014

That's... less than 7000 a year, so according to the data from OP, less than homicide (15k), or illegal drugs (17k).
This Gadget Could Get Your Friends to Finally Put Their Phones Away While Eating
I'm having a hard time understanding how the body can stay stable at all. For the emergent behavior to appear, you would need the AI to control the body pretty precisely, but if you just had a "random" AI the body would never stay up straight.

Seems hard to imagine any amount of generations that get the body up to "stand". I would have maybe expected it to crawl on all fours.
The channel run by two black guys? Because that totally validates the propaganda? Did you read the top comment in this thread?
This is Not Even Wrong. I've addressed the question as Maslow's Smartphone:

There's nothing innate to the iPhone itself which provides for basic needs: water, food, shelter, clothing. It can play a role in the procurement or execution of task, but does not of itself provide them. Which is rather much the role of much of technology: it may allow us to reach theoretical limits imposed outside of technology in accomplishing a task, but it doesn't move those limits. Electronic engine controls approach but do not change Carnot's rule.

https://redd.it/2vwfb6

Moreover, by setting a new baseline of expectations for what people have and how they interact in society, a smartphone (or email address, or social media account) creates an effective barrier and set of essential fundamentals.

Karl Marx discussed this in the 1800s:

By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into without extreme bad conduct. Custom, in the same manner, has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England. The poorest creditable person of either sex would be ashamed to appear in public without them. In Scotland, custom has rendered them a necessary of life to the lowest order of men; but not to the same order of women, who may, without any discredit, walk about barefooted. In France they are necessaries neither to men nor to women, the lowest rank of both sexes appearing there publicly, without any discredit, sometimes in wooden shoes, and sometimes barefooted. Under necessaries, therefore, I comprehend not only those things which nature, but those things which the established rules of decency have rendered necessary to the lowest rank of people. All other things I call luxuries, without meaning by this appellation to throw the smallest degree of reproach upon the temperate use of them. Beer and ale, for example, in Great Britain, and wine, even in the wine countries, I call luxuries. A man of any rank may, without any reproach, abstain totally from tasting such liquors. Nature does not render them necessary for the support of life, and custom nowhere renders it indecent to live without them.

Oh, silly me. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1776.

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_...
You're thinking of streams. The fragmentation discussed here is of packets.

Recent equipment might be sending packets of 9000 bytes. When you cross over into older networks that gets split into 6 or 7 packets, so the length of the last packet is a problem but it's 15% of the traffic.

But going from older networks into quirky ones (wireless, modems, or ancient systems) will split your ~1500 byte packet into two. Like 1344 and 166 or 900 and 600.
Writing an Article and an Email
> Not everyone earns 6 figures and can save up 10k to gamble on a venture, and to assume that everyone can is incredibly entitled.

Maybe you can point out where I made that assumption.

My post wasn't even about my risks, but rather my parents'. Obviously risk should be mitigated. My point was this: hey look at these underprivileged people that barely spoke English and had no rights that came over to the US with two kids and no money. In two decades and with a lot of hard work, pain, setback, prayer, and tears, they built a life for themselves.

Their kids were deeply affected and are also trying to push boundaries in their own way. For my dad, the risk was was moving to the US. For me, the risk is starting my own company. What is your risk? As they say: you can't win unless you play.
For that I use Anki with the Chinese Support plugin, which is honestly pretty great. It does not only have characters and translation, but also pronunciation both as Pinyin (I think other romanizations can be configured) and audio (which plays on review, great for training your ear and checking your pronunciation), as well as measure words and characters in the opposite set (simplified vs traditional). And it can fill all of those automatically. Then there's stuff built-in to Anki, like statistics that let me know I've learned precisely 2521 unique characters in total, which is great for motivation. (The numbers must go up!)

I guess you will want to keep using your homegrown program, but maybe this can give you some inspiration for features to implement.
yes >/dev/null ?
Brilliant. I never know what to use for a background and usually keep a solid color. I’m stealing this.
Perl turns 30 and its community continues to thrive
That's not what I am talking about though. Topics work with the recently introduced "tags" that you can add to your repo's description.

No one or few people self-reference their repo with something as broad as "systems engineering" or "systems programming".

The closest thing that exist on Github is the explore tab which lets you browse random repos by categories (e.g open government). Such feature would require Github to do the appropriate groundwork to become great at technology-discovery, namely: interest maps, automatically infer a repo's category based on its content, description and the profiles that star or fork it, for starters. They can even make their search engine relevant and pleasant to use if they feel like treating us.

And I'd want that to be integrated in my feed. Right now, I follow around 150 active users and it is still pretty sparse: it's not uncommon for me to see "X started Y 2 days ago". It would be good to add more (good) signal.

I want to see more of what better programmers are starring.
The rust version that does exactly what python does (buffered output) is an order of magnitude faster (even if I force the rust buffer size to be 4KiB like with python2).
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You can't rely on SIGPIPE to terminate it or your program will fail to terminate on error if its output is redirected to a disk file.
So you think that there are a lot of honest media channels that never ran propaganda pieces, not even once!
Incidentally, the output and uploaded file is a video, because there's no point in saving it as a GIF since it'll be baked into a video anyways.
Used python and selenium webdriver to scrape free movie pirate sites for URLs and images. The script had to traverse the pirate sites using id tags, and simulate a click in the movie iframe for the site to populate the iframe's src attribute. Then it generates a static html page from that list of URLs. It automatically updates a netflix style website for me and my friends to watch movies. This negates all the pirate sites that spread spam and viruses. The critical path for the project is to build it as a decentralized app into the ethereum block chain, that could never be taken down, but this requires some kind of browser emulation(or external api) in the blockchain. (I won't post the link unless people ask for it)
Ah, I'm sorry, I thought that program was meant to be humorous. :P
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> As an immigrant myself, i am not sure what definition of risk you are using to call immigrating from Romania to the US a risk.

Leaving everything behind to move to a new culture when you barely speak any English and bringing your young family with you is not a risk? I vehemently reject this premise.
The logic behind quoting FEMA is that the figures in there seem to contradict the mainstream media accounts of the USA not doing anything right about the Puerto Rico disaster. Of course, figures alone mean little without context, but they somewhat dispell the spirit of the mindset that was pushed in the past few days. Simple example: it was commonly stated that the USA was late in sending rescue personnel/resources to Puerto Rico...when in reality, forces were already on the move before the storm even hit.

> A barrage of criticism isn't necessarily propaganda; sometimes the subject of criticism is doing a lot that's wrong: Uber got a lot of criticism recently; Kim Jong-Un is continually criticized; the coach of a winless sports team is continually criticized; Harvey Weinstein is getting it now; that's not propaganda.

Totally agree. But I see the problem with Trump as permanent, unconditional criticism. It's not wrong to criticize, and there's certainly a LOT to criticize this administration for, and none of that is propaganda. Much of the time it's just poor performance and stupid antics being called out, fair and square. The issue with Trump, however, is that this criticism pervades everything. Even positive glimmers are drawn as negatives too. I think this could be demonstrated by asking a non-Trump supporter to name a single positive thing he's done so far--I don't think the vast majority of people could do it.

Trump didn't go to Texas to survey & help; he & Melania were disrespectful because she wore high-heels when walking out of the White House. Trump wasn't standing for the long-ignored ghettos in Chicago; he was being bigoted because he called them "inner-cities." Trump wasn't being thoughtful in proposing safe-zones to keep Syrians safer while keeping them near home; he was being a monstrous idiot whose stupid idea deserves no consideration.

Now I know there are a gazillion things you could say to criticize the examples I cited above, and that's fine. But what I'm trying to say is that the bad sides of those examples are the only sides most media expose people to--the criticism overwhelmingly outweighs the praise, every time. I don't think that's a healthy way of guiding national discourse. And I guess I see it as a sort of propaganda in itself...none of those items are themselves false, but in the aggregate, the resulting mindset is a negative one with little balance.

But yes--you're totally right on all counts. That certainly wasn't my best comment ever, and I guess I paid the price :/
the "viking buddha" is another fine example of robust trade networks during the migration period. Material goods get around!

http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viki...

This goes both ways, of course. A Varangian Guards carved "halfdan was here" on the hagia sophia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_inscriptions_in_Hagia_So...
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Not arguing anything, asking the original poster to explain his (and possibly your) claim. Nothing yet.
> What are these "overly generous" public benefits?

Puerto Rico's debt arises from overly generous benefits to public employees and retirees and underfunding: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-puertorico-debt-budget/pu.... As in Illinois, Detroit, etc., this is purely a local issue, the result of local expenditures not matching local revenues. It has nothing to do with the federal government.

As for federal support, on the whole, Puerto Rico receives more in federal support than it pays in federal taxes: https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Arthur%20MacEwa.... It's sandwiched right between Louisiana and Vermont in that regard.

> Puerto Rico's per-capita GDP is also lower than any US state.

Yes, but on a purchasing power adjusted basis, it's higher than South Korea, New Zealand, Italy, Spain, and other countries that manage to have solvent public services without relying on outside support.
This is very true, I never claimed otherwise. It was always my dad's dream to own a nice house in Southern California. He got it.
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To head off this comment chain, I've softened the language in my original comment to "overwhelmed by" rather than implying that non-I/O factors are wholly irrelevant. :)
Wrong place to get a Star trek reference wrong....
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Not a designer either, but I'm a huge fan - it's very Lichtenstein-y and Warhol-y - and it really feels like a labor of love. The flesh color and the Benetton palate are dope, and probably got a ton of pushback.

To me, it makes Dropbox seem like a place where people are encouraged to care about their craft!