skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> an act of protest against the logging industry

That makes zero sense. He killed an awesome, special tree to protest killing of trees. What a loser.
I'd want my hiking pants if I lived back then. Jeans suck as soon as they get wet.
They effectively have access to unlimited capital and cheap labor due to Chinese asset bubble. Yet, their penetration outside of China is still extremely limited.

That's not a great sign for the long term as over the next 30 years a new set of Party members are going to want to enrich their family and will use whatever means nessisarily to do so.
Yeah — probably it doesn't matter how fast the yes command is. It will be faster than the program prompting for y/n.

FreeBSD's was nice and simple until someone decided to make it faster in r319897.
> it's clear that agriculture and husbandry were historically more desirable over pure hunting and gathering, even in warmer regions like Egypt.

It's clear that agricultural societies were more fit than hunter-gatherer societies.

Agricultural societies could breed more people and use them to kill the hunter-gatherers and take their land.

Even if the meat/vegetable eaters were bigger and stronger than the grain eaters, there were simply a lot more grain eaters.

Classic Greek myths are full of references to "golden age" men who were displaced by more degenerate modern, civilized men. I can't help read those myths as a story of the rise of agriculture.
"it can prevent exploited server software from accessing data it does not own and executing arbitrary code"

Isn't AppArmor overly broad for something like that to be true? Exploited server software would happily provide access to the data of all users, since usually they all are withing the same trust boundaries anyway.

I think it's not a good idea to enable "security features" simply because it feels like they help, without even a threat model.
For a program like this, execution is I/O bound rather than CPU bound, so even if Python is generally less CPU efficient than Rust the effect is overwhelmed by a different I/O strategy. It's just like how Node has greater max throughput for trivial server workloads than a naive C implementation.
There's a ridiculous UI trend of adding whitespace and hiding everything behind more menus and popups now... even though we all have bigger/high-res screens with more real estate than ever.
It's not that the schools enroll more than they can teach. One simple reason is that many classes are just very popular, word gets around that they are great for whichever reason (professor, easy A, really fun project, etc). If a class can only hold 20 people, and its a popular class, its going to fill up as soon as registration opens.

In the end, you aren't left without being able to take classes. Just possibly not the ones you wanted

I doubt this isn't the case in the UK too
Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves
Data Scientists in Software Teams: State of the Art and Challenges [pdf]
They get to elect the assholes and people time and time again elect people who do not do any good. Congress has an incredibly low approval rating, but individual congressman generally have good approval ratings in their district.

IMHO, If you believe in democracy, then the people are responsible for the actions of their representative republic.
They're both important steps, but neither solves the problem. Most users don't verify the reproducibility of their builds and don't use Linux.
I don't want to dive into alternative histories when everything points to what really happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_government-debt_c...
I think I first discovered Egan on HN, so for anyone unfamiliar - go and read his books!

Probably my favourite living author, which perhaps says more of me than him, but well worth the read (and re-read in many cases).
The main function is egregiously overcomplicated.

This is how I'd write it instead:

fn main() {
match env::args_os().nth(1) {
None => write(b"y\n"),
Some(arg) => {
let mut arg = to_bytes(arg);
arg.push(b'\n');
write(&arg);
}
}
process::exit(1);
}

It's just as efficient and far more readable. It avoids Cow, a lambda, and the chain of combinators.
"So to call attention to the privacy risks, he decided to show that it was possible to use facial recognition analysis to detect something intimate"

I'm curious if this is backpedaling, or if he did clearly call this out before starting. Not that backpedaling in the face of death threats is that terrible...
> could you be feeling the same way?

Yeah you're probably right.

I guess what bothers me about the whole thing are the 2 or 3 years of my life I spent vehemently disagreeing with everyone who gave me This Advice and telling them that it doesn't work and they need to fuck right off. Then when I actually legit gave it a chance, it worked.

Maybe I just got lucky. Maybe the therapy worked more than I think and it's what enabled me to give This Advice a chance. I'll never know, it's not like I can A/B test.
I have SmartThings at home for various IoT things. Among them I have a garage door controller, and a presence sensor. I put the sensor in my car, and wrote a script that closes the garage door when my car leaves, and open the garage door when my car comes back (with some logic to prevent it from opening unexpected, I documented that part in my blog: https://wang.yuxuan.org/blog/item/2017/03/smartthings-myq-an...)
In this case it's probably just for fun and exercise, but generally don't think of speedy code as extending more effort, but as making the computer waste less effort. Well, unless the program isn't blocking anything any just waiting for the network, and other such cases. But any code that actually does run, especially in a loop, doesn't run in a vacuum, so I'd rather err on the case of speed. These tools don't get rewritten every 2 years in a new framework, which probably helps. Why not hone them if they're going to be that heavily used?
Ordered this book but haven't touched it yet:

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/01/55101875...
you wouldn't see it on Linux as pipes are implemented using complete pages (always powers of 2), but there's probably some OS out there with a different implementation where you can set the buffer size to be an odd number, and then you'd see the bug with plain simple cat

I didn't say you'd likely see it in practice :)
> There is something elegant about being able to beat it out on speed with about 30 lines of C

What is this referring to? If it's referring to GNU C, the linked C implementation is about 100 non-comment lines, and is three times slower on the author's machine than the Rust version.
Reminds me of http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Just-a-WarmUp , a trick which I also discovered independently many years ago and used to keep my fingers warm while attending lectures in a nearly-unheated room.
The north coast of Hokkaido is home to the Abashiri Prison. The original building was built in the late 1800s by the prisoners, in pretty harsh conditions. We were told being sent there was like being banished to Siberia. It was used for Yakuza and political prisoners.

We were recently in Northern Hokkaido, but didn't have enough time in Abashiri to visit the prison museum. That part of the island is nothing like the rest of Japan.
> Why is income equality relevant in this case? The presence of billionaires in your country does not automatically imply that the poorest people are worse off than if the rich were driven out.

The policies that allow those billionaires to exist without taxing them at a higher rate is the problem. The age ol "capital treated better than labor" issue.

Also:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/oct/11/imf-higher-...

"Higher income tax rates for the rich would help reduce inequality without having an adverse impact on growth, the International Monetary Fund has said.

The Washington-based IMF used its influential half-yearly fiscal monitor to demolish the argument that economic growth would suffer if governments in advanced Western countries forced the top 1% of earners to pay more tax.

The IMF said tax theory suggested there should be “significantly higher” tax rates for those on higher incomes but the argument against doing so was that hitting the rich would be bad for growth."
Apple’s Paper and Packaging Strategy [pdf]
That's just OO without encapsulation.
Sure. But that's pretty awful. ansible-pull relies on a git repository, which relies on key provisioning, which means that you need to configuration-manage your configuration management and you don't have a stump-dumb, easy solution for it in any major cloud. And you have no dependency management (submodules, at best, are not dependency management), so I hope that you've vendored (which is gross) all of your dependencies.

This really is what I do for a living. I'm speaking from a position of entirely too extensive experience when I say that Ansible has no good solution here in common use. If I thought Ansible was good enough for me to be spending a lot of time with (it's not, and I advocate that clients not use it if they have a choice), I'd have probably already had to write it.

As far as machine images go, they are an optimization, not a core system. Your configuration management systems need to be able to bootstrap from either an AMI, to lay on last-mile (configuration, as opposed to setup, stuff) and converge any updates since the last AMI build, or to start from scratch. And that is another weakness of Ansible; writing idempotent Ansible scripts is significantly harder than it needs to be.
The Top Fifty male|female dog’s name in the USA
How about pleaseplaywithmycats.com? Audience controls robots to play with cats.
As ridiculous as it sounds it would probably be immensely popular, tho animal rights groups would go nuts.
This is a fascinating article. It's amazing what kind of data you can get from something as simple as a photograph.

I don't really understand the outrage, however. Some in the article claim that it's "racism" and hurts Dr. Kosinski's career, but the fact that he made a program that predicts who is gay and who is straight with odds much better than a coin flip is crazy! If they find out what the differences are between heterosexual and homosexual pictures, they may discover something that was never noticed before, whether it's a physiological trait or a difference in the photo taken due to behavioral differences.

We really are living in the future.

edit: To those downvoting me, could you please explain why? I don't think I said anything particularly controversial.
That chair looks extremely uncomfortable. As a former grad student, I would hope that Stanford provides enough resources to ensure its students and staff members don't get RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury).
Maybe it isn't about what's being taught, but acknowledging that boys will behave differently when girls are present. So then an environment where no girls are present can be an opportunity to engage with teenage boys in a different context, which I do think is important to provide some kind of mentorship or guidance that isn't possible in a mixed environment. There aren't many situations where this is still the case, and getting rid of all such opportunities for the sake of inclusivity might be missing the point, and do more damage than good.
>That is not at all unique to PR.
You cut off the part that is unique, which was that PR citizens are also US citizens but they do not pay federal income tax unless they come to the mainland. They do not pay capital gains tax either. They sold bonds with special clauses that they must be paid back, even before critical services are provided to the people. They defaulted and now they are being forced to pay it back even though they can't fund their emergency preparedness, hospitals, or infrastructure and emergency response.

PR was not at all prepared for something that was obviously coming and they are trying to use political pressure to get the huge anti-Trump sentiment in the country to think it was all Trump's fault when he has little to do with overseeing FEMA's response. I'm sure there are things he could have done better. His statements have been asinine and politically tone deaf for sure, but this isn't about him. This is about the mess PR made. If they want to be a state, then be a state. Otherwise, they offer nothing to the USA and in my opinion should be dissolved as a US territory.
Someone should do a study on the health effects of the people living there. Curious if the walnuts give them super health.
I meant to say, number of social factors like religions, and other factors (I don't remember what kind of other questions it asked) perhaps made my compatibility to very small subset, perhaps to the point eliminated anyone remotely socially compatible.
If you don't trust Mozilla, how do you trust them not to strip the CSP header whenever they want to serve malicious javascript?
It solves the problem for users that use Linux. If other operating systems cared about making software distribution sane, they could also use package managers. It's a shame that they don't. As for verifying reproducibility, if you're using a package manager then this verification is quite trivial (and can be done automatically).

Solving the problem for proprietary operating systems that intentionally have horrific systems of managing the software on said operating system is harder due to an artificial, self-inflicted handicap. "Just" switching people to Linux is probably easier (hey, Google managed to get people to run Gentoo after all).
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What Amazon Really Means When It Tells Seattle: Not Everyone Wants to Live Here
If you believe in democracy, than the poor and working people voted for assholes that screw them. They also voted to keep their special status as income tax free rather than becoming a state even though it would have helped to prevent the catastrophe that was PR's entirely absent emergency preparedness.
It looks like the article commits classical "post hoc ergo propter hoc" error - if interracial marriage became more common at the same time as online dating became more common, it must be that the latter caused the former. Obviously, it could also be that people became more accepting of interracial marriages because of reasons having nothing to do with online dating - but the article does not admit such possibilities.
Dictators tend to collapse along with the stability of their countries. The more distributed power is, the more stable it is. China was already a huge country with massively centralized power. Now it’s still huge, but the power is concentrated in just one man, and thats even more unstable. So... worse crackdowns, even less freedom, and a much worse and less potentially flexible long term trajectory.

Edit: to be clear I am not endorsing either system, just describing them as accurately as possible.
That doesn't make a whole lot of sense when the guy above you posted that two versions of python (2 vs 3) have significantly different output throughput rates.

If it's I/O bound why are they changing at all?
Racism is an odd choice of words, since ML would probably determine race at a higher level of accuracy than this experiment.
One thing for certain can be gleaned from reading all the responses in this thread: We have no idea neither what the cause of depression is, nor what the solution is.

Everyone here has posted something different. Exercise, diet, sleep, medication x, medication y, prayer, water, gluten, meditation, losing weight, socializing... the list goes on, and on.

If this weren't heavily susceptible to placebo, you'd expect that list to be much shorter. My guess is that just doing SOMETHING makes people feel better.
see sister comment
I use the national base reflectivity radar.

https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/RadarImg/latest.gif
According to empirical evidence in my sibling post, that's not true in this case.
Weirdly, some genres seem to be entirely absent. I listen to a lot of jazz and classical, and with the exception of the occasional jazzy pop song, I never get recommendations for those genres.

Granted, Spotify doesn't have a huge amount of contemporary jazz (much of what I listen to are imported ECM tracks that Spotify doesn't have, though not all), but it does have a lot of classical.

I don't think it's ever recommended any Latino or folk music, either, come to think of it.
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Why? I've never heard that.
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For their dota 2 bot, they included human reaction times if I recall correctly.
The market says otherwise.

In order from lowest to highest cost VR: GearVR, PSVR, Rift, Vive

In order from highest to lowest market share: GearVR, PSVR, Vive, Rift

Note that when Oculus lowered the Rift's price, sales dramatically increased. It is very clear that cost remains one of the primary barriers to VR adoption.

Oculus is approaching the market with a tiered strategy of low (Go), medium (Santa Cruz), and high (Rift) models at price points that maintain an addressable market large enough to create a viable software ecosystem.

Based on their sales figures and market research, they believe high price and insufficient content are the top two barriers to VR adoption. This is why they fund 3rd parties to develop quality content (since the market isn't large enough to recoup the development investment), and why they released Go.

An HMD requiring $1400 in graphics hardware alone (2x1080ti) might make a good prototype - a "concept car" or "super car" if you will - but not a good commercial product. Few would buy it, and it would be very hard to leverage its power to the fullest.
You know BGP was written on the back of a napkin, right? And no, I am not joking.

I would also submit that BGP is not a shining example of well-done engineering.
The most charitable interpretation I can think of (as an agnostic) is that the servant who took no risks with their investment is like a person who avoids chances to do good because they are afraid to "lose" under the existing system of Jewish religious rules.

An example of this is in the parable of the Good Samaritan, where ostensibly-virtuous people ignore the victim, because to intervene would make them ritually-unclean. Another case would be where Jesus seems unafraid to mingle with beggars and prostitutes, to the confusion and consternation of other religious figures at the time.

From a modern standpoint, we do not have many of those rules drilled into us, so the "risk of having a net increase in sin" simply isn't on our radar. For example, if someone is drowning we think nothing about which hand we use to pull that person from the water.
> Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

--Julian Assange
me too, thanks
> A feature that'd let me browse by "topic" (e.g systems programming) regardless of language would be welcome as well.

What you're talking about already exists. In fact, they're called topics, e.g.: https://github.com/topics/systems-engineering
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STUN allows all sorts of hole-punching for cases where both peers are behind NATs. For cases where the hole-punching doesn't work (a user behind two NATs might be one case), you can use TURN which is a dumb UDP or TCP relay.
Ricky here from team Upbeat. Great feedback. Yeah, the trickiest part was relevance as perceived by users. What our team thought was relevant didn't pass the sniff test in testing. For because a journalist has demonstrated broad interest in AI, but if we only show the article about AI replacing jobs, then she might appear irrelevant to an AI fraud detection company. Sometimes it depends on your familiarity with the publications. Like you said, TechCrunch vs. a more niche B2B publication read by CIOs, we do consider that as part of the input. More customization in search seems like a logical next step.
> I open up a couple of tabs

So, you're basically thawing your lunch manually. Have you considered the "parallel" command?
It's not so much that lying is intrinsically complicated (I mean, stupid computers provide me with inaccurate information all the time). It's that when evolutionary pressures have heavily selected for things like supplying selected humans with accurate information and distrusting unexpected behaviours from non-human intelligences, it's expecting a lot to get a machine that not only independently develops a diametrically opposed strategic goal, but is also extremely consistent at telling untruths which are both strategically useful and plausible to all observers, without any revealing experiments.

Humans have millions of years of evolutionary selection for prioritising similar DNA over dissimilar DNA, have perfected tribalism, deceiving other humans and open warfare and are still too heavily influenced by other goals to trust other humans that want to conspire to wipe out everything else we can't eat...

Seeing possibilities that humans don't can also involves watching the Terminator movies and being more excited by unusual patterns in the dialogue and visual similarities with obscure earlier movies than the absurd notion that conspiring with non-human intelligences against human intelligences would work.
>Scandinavia is notoriously high ranking for suicide,

Why do you perpetuate this myth, even when the source you posted yourself talk against it?
I can relate, it worked for me too for a while. Still not really sure what I’m doing, but in a sense I’m back to where I was before I ever went doe that road... definitely might be totally wrong about things, I’m pretty afraid of that actually. This maybe won’t make sense to you but it basically forced me to lie about things, to pretend I didn’t understand people and I think that was cruel.
Ah, you are one of the creators. If Bubble is similar to Delphi, I wouldn't call it visual programming (can you develop IF statements, loops and functions visually?).

A better name for Delphi kind of tools would be "Rapid Application Development Environment". And it's more convincing name than "visual programming" - I have never seen a successful visual programming environment.
If you're physically unattractive and you meet someone in real life, you still get to introduce yourself and give them a glance of your redeeming qualities. Online, it's "flawed you" against 100s of perfect looking guys. You don't stand a chance.
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Not sure about the US but in some places in Europe tap water severely lacks minerals compared to rain water.
I haven't starred anything to do with Ethereum or any other cryptocurrency, but 5 of my top ten are all Ethereum-related projects. Go figure!
Hrm, no I hadn't. I don't know much about this command. Could you give me a (thawing) example?
I believe Zynga owns their building.
Twitter evaluates newsworthiness as a factor in banning accounts, and given Trump's presidency, his tweets are certainly too newsworthy to erase.

I find it exponentially more frightening, actually, to consider the notion that world leaders could be silenced to an extent by the decisions of a company.
Raising taxes boosts innovation says Billionaire VC Nick Hanauer
> Surely the Yamato people are indigenous to southern Honshu

Sort of. It's worth clarifying that "indigenous peoples" is a specific legalistic term which connotes more (less?) than just "indigenous". In that context the "Yamato people" as the dominant cultural group in Japan typically do not qualify as an "indigenous people". Confusing matters further, "indigenous" itself is often used in the same, more restrictive context.
~$ announce_baby --weight=7.5 --sex=f --time=2017-10-11T17:56 --name=Emma