skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AIM did go mobile. It was in the iPhone App Store on day 1. Push notifications didn’t even exist back then. When push notifications were announced by Apple in June 2009 as part of iPhone OS 3.0, AIM was the “partner” they used to load-test it during WWDC.

Source: I worked on AIM for iPhone.

IMO AIM struggled because:
- it was a highly tuned, specialized C backend, and it never migrated to something that could be improved easily.
- backend technical challenges (as well as legal issues) made storing chat history very difficult
- Hardly any info was collected about AIM screennames, so it was hard to build a social graph from it
- AIM registration was the same as AOL signup, and that registration process was very cumbersome, imo.
- Most AIM accounts had no email address associated with them, so it was impossible to do password resets, for all the locked up AIM screennames.

As a client developer on AIM, it was hard to make a material improvement to AIM, though we certainly did try
Ludwig Pettersson

https://dribbble.com/luddep
> Just look at the amount of times he has settled claims for misrepresenting individuals and organizations

There appear to have been two settlements, one to Izzy Santa and one to Juan Carlos Vera. In the ACORN videos, the guy was playing along with them and reported the contact to the cops. As for the CNN thing, I honestly don't know what was going on there, because the settlement was paid to one of Veritas' own employees and the whole thing is crazy.

I understand that there were claims that this video was like the ACORN video, incidentally. We'll know if that's what really happened or not once the police finish their investigation and the evidence comes out at trial.
The rest of the country hasn't been ignoring Puerto Rico. It's been in the news everyday for weeks. FEMA and other agencies sent 20,000 people to help. Tens of billions of dollars for aid have been approved by Congress or requested by Trump.

Perhaps you've been misled by partisan claims that Trump is failing to respond.
Video Game Music for Studying: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIKC2UBcyfT4y_zyJKQgsq...
Convert a Photo to Black and White in Python
Festival maps that create fantasy worlds and solve problems
Digging for treasure in Aladdin’s source code
What makes it plausible to assume a deeper connection than trade for an average case of this sort?
Extrapolating this to humans is scary (given the mental privacy we are used to), but perhaps inevitable. In some sense, the security of our thoughts is only through obscurity, and that may make them intrinsically insecure. Untangling that obscurity may be some years away, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility. I wonder if the brain has evolved some internal methods of encryption - I would imagine not, as I can not think of a solid evolutionary advantage for brain based encryption.

A very interesting topic, and I can't quite decide if a mind-machine interface would end up having a net positive or negative effect on our society...
The Muslims have both, they're sure taking over the world.
Pretty sure that actually breaks stuff
With the respect for authors this might be at best rough estimation with large error margin. We know little about economic relations, purchasing power, prices etc. in Roman Empire.

Also I wonder how these numbers would look like if slave population is excluded.
> You may have missed one of my posts...

I'm not really trying to hammer you on this, I'm more testing out this argument to see how it goes. This is more to find if there's some obvious thing I'm missing.

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

Well, we already ban other types. It's not going to solve anything, but that doesn't mean it might not help in some small way.

> I submit that your definition of reasonable is different than my own.

I was just trying to figure out how you defined reasonable. It's easy for people to say "it's not reasonable" when they really mean "I don't want to think about it in a reasonable manner and explain myself". I'm not accusing you of that.

> It is not okay to take away my liberties because you're afraid of a statistical outlier.

Well, some of your liberties are already denied you, depending on interpretation. Is the important thing that they are "taken away", so you feel it, or that they are denied, in which case whether they exist right now is moot.

> If nothing else, that gives us room for discussion.

That's all this is! :) I'm not sure it would help even if it could be implemented, but I thought it was interesting to discuss.

Thanks for discussing it with me. :)
The secret is to continue raising the standard of living of the people as fast as it's been raising in the past 2 decades.
This isn't a browser feature, it's a webapp
In the case of publishing scientific research, there is already funding in place. It's definitely vested interest there.
Nicely done! Amazing how slanted family court is that one has to go to such measure to subvert such deceit.

May you and your children be blessed.
Could you please upload your code on GitHub? May I ask your github profile?
> Agents initially receive dense rewards for behaviours that aid exploration like standing and moving forward, which are eventually annealed to zero in favor of being rewarded for just winning and losing.
Here's a link to the actual manuscript, instead of a strange summary that somehow drags Elon Musk into this:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/09/27/193987
Gittin’ my Star Trek project to the final frontier
Your bytes version outputs lines of, literally, `b'y'`.

The characters versions is still a clear win for python2 on my machine (8.9MiB/s vs. 5.6MiB/s)

It's also worth noting that the buffering behavior of python is only happening because the output is a pipe to pv. If it were the terminal, it would be line buffered, like the naive rust version.
My university does require a cooldown period. I heard that someone made his course registration script available to everyone, which I guess was a problem. Unfortunately, the detection system triggers even when you're just manually clicking through the site, which is annoying.
From the hiv.gov page: In 2014, there were 12,333 deaths (due to any cause) of people with diagnosed HIV infection ever classified as AIDS, and 6,721 deaths were attributed directly to HIV.
That dynamic changes completely though once you get the the whole, you know, dating part. If people are merely using OKCupid as some kind of catalog to window shop with I can see your point, but the big pool shrinks dramatically once you start to interact and either receive interest or not.
What about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii_Lakshmi
My perspective is that your approach here, talking about depression as an external influence that is not you - just an oppressive influence on you that must be fought off - was actively harmful for improving my mental state.

The day I stopped viewing myself as an ideality rather than reality, the day I realized everything I thought, felt, believed, and did was me and absolutely none of it wasn't, was the day I found an ability to change instead of deny.

Also, I'd say it is very easy to approach this with a defeatist attitude (consciously or unconsciously) if you have a belief that you are sick. Only time can fix a broken bone, so if your mind is broken, can you really change it - is it a futile effort to try?

Don't listen to a nut on the internet, though.
I suspect you're getting down voted because people see a reason to be outraged at this and you've said you don't understand the outrage.

I'd like to ask someone to articulate the reasons for this outrage. I don't really understand, wasn't this created to show the dangers of facial recognition systems, didn't they have to pick something edgy to get that point across?
> I'm able to SSH into prod with a single command and password.

Password? Are you not using keys?
I actually have to admit I am honestly not qualified to say whether the traffic on Octavia worsened after the redesign!
I guess this is my subconscious tricking me there, since the redesigned Octavia, looks a lot like redesigned Chavez, which in fact has bike lanes, trees, and all, but became a parking lot !
I'm a bit confused. Can someone point out my error?

- device gets tested, fails

- temporary fixes and "hacks" on top of the product were improvised

- device passes

How is the CE conformance of the real devices endured? The device under testing was a one off with lots of tape, right? Do you need to come back at some point with your final, straight off the manufacturer's line device? If not, what is certified?
I don't know. But there's been countless killing sprees with knives, and I have those in my kitchen drawer. Not even a locked drawer.
Not sure I'm following.
>The top percentage of men get the lions share of the dating options and presumably more frequent sex with no reason to commit to the ladies in question while lower tier men suffer disillusionment from their lack of options.

This tacitly implies that women are sex objects and that men only seek them out as such. I find that offensive, but more so than that, sad.

You'd also have to prove that online dating has 'caused' this effect, and what you've posted is a complete lack of evidence, at best.

It could simply be that many women have better career options and don't have to settle for early marriage to whichever man in a bid for financial security and social acceptance, or changing attitudes towards more casual sexual encounters, or a number of other things.
Norse were trading and raiding all over the rivers of eastern Europe, down into the Black Sea, and likewise along the Atlantic seaboard into the Mediterranean. It would be profoundly weird if some items of Islamic provenance did not make their way into grave goods and hoards in Scandinavia.
Would it? Race is so arbitrary and nonsensical that it’s tough to rationally predict. You could train it to determine things like skin color and other gross morphological features, but only the ones the trainer chooses to represent given races.
No, because the weight is the cargo. As more and more semi-truck trailer beds transition to aluminum floor joists, for weight reduction, it's an overall increase in productivity because the truck can now haul more cargo weight.
I made a subreddit for anyone to upload any file and the first person who accesses the link gets to download it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/send/
I think that you’re forgetting the scale of human misery caused by Mao and his cult of personality. In the west we talk a lot about Stalin and Hitler. Mao was up there in the hall of fame of “evil butchers of the 20th century”.

The fact that China has managed to prosper where places like Russia that underwent a similar type of regime have been stuck in the mud is a testament to the enduring Chinese culture.
Seems clear enough: dvt's parents were poor when dvt was a child but eventually earned wealth. dvt certainly wasn't claiming their parents are poor now, so your snark about the house is based on a misunderstanding.
That's a beautifully succinct explanation of the Internet.
The phrase is 'socialism with Chinese characteristics', which we in the west call 'capitalism'.

Deng Xiaoping was a smart chap. He knew China needed capitalism, but also knew that after decades of railing against capitalism there was no way the people would support it and no way to implement it without undermining the government, and so 'Socialism with Chinese Characteristics' was born.
is 3) up somewhere? I spend my time from boarding to takeoff frantically googling movies.
Copyright laws?
Walnuts are hell on other plant life. I have a couple black walnut trees on the edge of my lawn, and I have had to experiment a bunch to see what vegetables I can actually get to grow in my garden...
This is a sweet and considerate approach that many pet owners would do well to emulate. Thanks for sharing.
Those posts by Degoes are more polemical than techniques that he actually uses in production.
Actually your comment just triggered a sense memory for me. Of a rudimentary "classic" AI for a prototype 2D cell-shaded bitmap sprite sheet fighter game I created more than a decade ago. I think it was in adobe flash and actionscript 3...

And yeah my bot "cheated" extensively ;)
There are so many communities across the US that have much bigger problems. Like lack of jobs, population loss, budget shortfalls, unsustainable public pension benefits, opiate epidemics.

For many, giving up some taxes from a company that isn’t currently there is a no brainer.
To repeat myself, for real world impact the only metric that counts is how many actual people benefited, not how many people benefit in ideal circumstances.

If your solution is to switch the entire world to Linux then you may want to figure out how to do that. Many have tried and failed before. Good luck.
Leading to a thought... are dreams how animals engage in competitive self-play?
Script to export orgmode files to html for viewing on mobile. It runs when the PC goes idle.

Google Sheets add-on to import portfolio positions csv. It’s automated enough to eliminate manual data entry but not so easy that I update or check all the time.

Home automation to turn lights off and on after dark and activate motion alarms when we’re not home. I have to activate away mode manually and it’s too hard to turn off now that we have cats and friends coming to feed them, so more automation is needed.
Gabriel Gonzalez: The functor design pattern

http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/09/the-functor-design-patt...

is also a well-known post.
ugh:

"To continue reading this article, please exit incognito mode or log in...

Visitors are allowed 3 free articles per month (without a subscription), and private browsing prevents us from counting how many stories you've read. We hope you understand, and consider subscribing for unlimited online access."

So like, I can just clear my browser cache to reset the counter, but you're going to nag me about closing my browser to read this one? Come on MIT
Something like 40% of Americans rent --- similar percentages in Europe, and in some major EU countries, like Germany, more people rent than own. Having a home and financing that home are orthogonal concerns.
If you actually read the rest of that post, it says that in their actual behavior to those men that they rate as less-than-medium they're less judgmental of looks than the men:

> As you can see from the gray line, women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium. Very harsh. On the other hand, when it comes to actual messaging, women shift their expectations only just slightly ahead of the curve, which is a healthier pattern than guys’ pursuing the all-but-unattainable. But with the basic ratings so out-of-whack, the two curves together suggest some strange possibilities for the female thought process, the most salient of which is that the average-looking woman has convinced herself that the vast majority of males aren’t good enough for her, but she then goes right out and messages them anyway.
Agreed that nine years is probably (not knowing all the details) disproportionate.

But the Wikipedia article mentions the tree is sacred to the Comanche. Compared to what he would have endured at their hands hundreds of years ago, had he been caught by them, he's lucky :)
For UI/UX Designers – What Does UX Mean in Web Design?
That's only exciting if it's secure, private, and completely under your control.

If not, it's terrifying.
Hey, I would be willing to pay for such service. How should I contact you? My contact details are in my profile. Plshlpme
Who would mow their poppies? Other than the Dutch?
As somewhat more intelligent primates you can rest assured that sex is a primary male driver in seeking the attention of women, if not the only reason. Let’s not ignore a million years of biological inperative and assume a few hundred years of civilization has changed us.
DAFX – Digital Audio Effects (2012) [pdf]
I think if it was something patentable, they'd have both been listed as inventors. And the same goes for other achievements, like the Nobel Prize which can have three shared winners in a year, but no one says "I won 1/3 of a Nobel Prize"
I fully believe that there is no treatment or regimen on the planet that can ease the burden of some people suffering from severe depression. But the thing is, there are levels of severity to mental illness and depression. And exercise, diet, proper sleep, mindfulness, CBT - all these things have shown to help many depressed people.

Will it help all depressed people? Of course not. But by saying be careful what advice we give because it might not apply to you is not a strong enough argument to stop giving this advice. There are undoubtedly people out there that think depressed people should just "get it together" and that way of thinking is not a constructive way to approach this at all. But it is also not constructive for people who are tyring to help (and whose job it is to help) be forced to parse every word they say, scared of recommending something that could help, just because it might hurt feelings. There is a fine line here, of being sensitive and being helpful, and I understand your point and how it can be tiring to listen to people who think they have all the answers to a problem you have suffered from all your life. I have also hung out on r/depression long enough to know there are people who could be helped but have convinced themselves (and others have convinced them) that they are unhelpable because they are depressed and that's that. That is not a healthy mindset, even if that is the case.
The 'oldest tree ever' is still alive, probably because its location is undisclosed publicly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah_(tree)
I'm going to upvote this to un-grey you a little bit, because I'm interested in hearing your ideas for how this could improve. It sounds like you've put some thought into this, so given the current layout, what would your version look like with respect to current design trends?
WHAT a WOMAN'S VAGINA LOOKS LIKE AFTER BIRTH?
Half of Chinese economy are state-owned enterprises, and it's been even more so earlier. Mainstream assumption is that liberalization of the rest of their economy was the main factor in phenomenal Chinese growth over the past decades, but there's an argument to be made that maybe it was a mix of central planning of key sectors and liberalization of non-key sectors. In either case, when compared to neoliberal Reagan-Thatcher policies in the US and elsewhere, Chinese approach of long-term planning beyond the next quarterly earnings report seems like a better bet so far.
another good one: the Hallstatt salt mines in what is now Austria have been around since the late Iron Age.

I recall but cannot currently find studies that have found bags of the mined salt in graves and digs all along the silk road over a time period of millennia.

"The Dark Ages" is a horrible name. It was coined to denote "a period that we, historians, don't know much about because we don't have nearly as many anal romans writing everything down and taking notes for us", but it was commonly understood as "a bad, barbaric time when civilization collapsed."

It's increasingly clear that nothing so apocalyptic happened. Trade routes survived and even thrived.
> prove that democracy is optional for economic prosperity

But it's always been optional. China showed it. But Singapore showed it best. It's undoubtedly prosperous, but not considered too democratic (it is on paper of course).

The West usually sells the idea of liberalization with the promise that Democracy will eventually follow. It goes something like "let us come in overthrow the government, start a war, install some dictator, bring some big multinational corporations to run things, etc. But don't worry, eventually democracy will arrive". But it seems it doesn't always.

Slavoj Žižek, hate him or like him, likes to call this Capitalism with Asian Values

He explains himself what that means here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ADfH9Rt6pc

(Be prepared for silly jokes, and endless diversions)
Queried “mobile” at amazon.com, walmart.com and amazon.in
when I was analyzing search interfaces of various sites, I accidentally found that,

I submitted a query - "mobile" to amazon.com and walmart.com, both these sites resulting irrelevant results, while amazon.in provides relevant result. what could be the reason for this?
If you can't afford property insurance, maybe you really can't afford the home.
Eh, the near-term applications aren't too scary.

They're recording from HVC, an area of the bird brain that does that does motor planning. I think it'd be fair to say that HVC sits between the bird's intention to sing and the actual singing actions.

It's really impressive that they can decode enough to reproduce the song, but you could also access the song by....letting the bird sing it a fraction of a second later :-)
I think you're vastly overestimating China's cultural homogeneity. 30% of the population (so, a greater number than the population of the U.S.) doesn't even speak Mandarin. Just like in India, regional loyalties are very strong despite modern attempts to unify; see the continuing efforts to wipe out Cantonese, a language with 60 million speakers in China and that is mutually unintelligible with Mandarin: http://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-forcing-its-biggest-... . And this isn't happening in some backwater part of the country; in addition to Cantonese being the official language of Hong Kong, Canton (a.k.a. Guangdong) is the most populous province in the country, and the location of Shenzhen itself.
Ask HN: Automatic Bitcoin portfolio tracking app?
Unless my google-fu is severely out of whack, I can't find any apps/web app that can:

1) Connect to my Coinbase account
2) Track my holdings and purchases (which are scheduled weekly)
3) Tell me how much overall I've made or lost

Does this app exist? I don't want to record transactions manually. I'm playing with Bitcoin, but because I buy weekly and the price is still changing constantly, it's difficult to actually track how much overall my net profit/loss is.
FWIW, GNU true.c is that way because the GNU policy is for programs to all have --help and --version arguments.

Other fun fact, in some UNIXes, true looked(looks?) like:

#!/bin/sh
# Some multiple line copyright notice from AT&T

Yup, that's a shell script with only comments, all of which are a copyright notice for what is, essentially, an empty file. I saw that on Solaris something like 15 years ago. I'm sure it made its way to other flavors of UNIX.
How come 'minimalists' always want me to buy a their book, or go to their seminar?
Hyperfeed: FlightAware’s parallel flight tracking engine in Tcl [pdf]
Separate Chrome profile, no addons, proxied thru a dedicated VPN whose exit IP is the only one whitelisted by Tower or some reverse proxy in front of it. Or... just trust that of all the exploits someone could deliver to an addon, a specific attack on Tower will be pretty low on the list.
iPhone Data Recovery – Recover Deleted Files from iPhone
Have you heard of Google Voice?
What are you using for speech-to-text?
Jared Diamond is not an expert. He's a pop culture writer.

If you want to explore the other side to that old essay, try this: https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Worst+Mistake+in+the+His...
That's not how AppArmor works provided you lock down your server software properly -- say the server running is NTP -- that NTP server is only able to read /etc/ntp/* and /usr/sbin/ntpd only able to write /var/log/ntp* only able to execute /usr/sbin/ntpd Now you've radically limited what an exploit of this particular server can mean.
Weak effort of combining "is true" with "don't have a source."