skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Her blog was popular. I read it too. Not because I agreed with her. Go read the blog, yourself to see what kind of person she was.

Most people hated her because she was mean and her pastime, when not professionally attacking politicians on the other side of the aisle, was to dig up dirt on their spouses and acquaintances and attacking them on a personal level. [5]

For example of the kind of shit that she would engage in: Here she is reposting revenge porn. The victim is an acquaintance of some random major of some random town that leans towards the other political party. The major did nothing wrong nor was she politically relevant in anyway. This was her bread and butter "journalism". [1]

With regards to the car bomb, I'm not sure what you are saying here. I am not denying that she was murdered using a car bomb. Are you saying that this implies a high level actor? Far from it. Low level thugs and organized crime members kill each other with car bomb frequently. [2] [3] [4]

One last thing. With regards to the whole Panama thing, that was potentially her only work that could be see as real journalism. But also that situation is being misrepresented. The entire picture is more complicated. The thing is that she was part of a faction of the opposition who had previously been in power for 25 years and where themselves corrupt. So much so that despite the whole Panama scandal thing, the recent election saw the newly in power PL government widen the gap by a very huge margin of 40000 votes out of a few hundred thousand. Basically the statement by the electorate was, "we do not care that the PL are corrupt, you guys were equally corrupt and for much longer, at least the PL as improving things elsewhere". This resulted in the her party basically disintegrating and is currently fragmented and disorganized. This is why I said that a political motive does not make sense. Because there is no reason for it. The electorate wants the PL to lead the country for a few more years despite the corruption because they are so fed up with the PN.

[1] NSFW Link: https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/09/bottom-of-the-barre...

[2] https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20160116/local/ma...

[3] https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121003/local/Po...

[4] https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130607/world/bo...

[5] There were reports of people celebrating her death at the university and elsewhere. That's how much they hated her.
Didn't work so well for alcohol, drugs, or prostitution unfortunately.

But at least I guess it would stop people smoking in public.
Most competitive players will have their own configs for competitive play etc. I have tournament/LAN configs, online play configs, and my video settings mostly stay the same. All tuned for lowest latency and highest visibility.
Adrian Colyer had recommended this in one of his posts.
Didn't it turn out that guy faked his results?
That is very strange for them to say. Unless someone is sitting around collecting full take packet captures of everything going on around them and looking through it all, there would be no way to be aware of this.
That is so cool! I'd suggest using eagles.

In Southeast Asia thugs have been training monkeys to steal wallets, cellphones and cameras from tourists. We might get some know how from them.
I really don't think it matters if it's positive or negative reinforcement. You are making their trained survival dependent on a contraption which accepts trash for their services, that doesn't sound like room and board to you?
Active cooling your Raspberry Pi 3
Πάμε στοίχημα με την τρίτη αγωνιστική του Τσάμπιονς Λιγκ
Seems they also launched geo location blocking today https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/aws-waf-n...
They're smart enough to find cigarette butts wherever they are, not just the ground. I predict you'd see a lot of crows stealing lit cigarettes and emptying ashtrays etc.
Quoth the fine article:

> Contrast this to the Apple keyboard measured, where the key travel is so short that it can’t be captured with a 240 fps camera, indicating that the key travel time is < 4ms.
I am having a very difficult time believing this.

- I cannot find about "diode cascades" having anything to do keyboards. The closest is the usual diode matrix to deal with simultaneous key presses.

- The PS/2 interface involves sending scan codes, parity bits, and start and stop bits. How exactly does a "wave of electricity" get converted into a PS/2 waveform without some digital electronics?

- All the old schematics for mechanical keyboards I could find were the usual matrix scan. Even a textbook from the 1970s.

Anyway, reference please. I'd find it very interesting to see how such a thing would work.
But it wasn't the same project. It was a lot smaller.
Although its not part of Zookeeper core, there is an Apache Curator module[1] for doing service discovery on Zookeeper

[1] https://curator.apache.org/curator-x-discovery/
Less cynically, you might be right, but I hope it actually works. There's nothing wrong with trying to make something positive. There's http://www.rethinkwords.com/ which actually has data backing up that it works.
I was wondering that too.
My brief reading of the web page didn't reveal anything, but I might have missed it.

I wonder if humans could bootstrap the process by modeling the behaviour? Crows are supposed to be mega-smart, so maybe they'd pick up on that and emulate us.

Maybe you could start by having a bin of 'butts next to the Crowbar so they can get some early, quick reinforcement, then when they run out they'll move on to harder challenges.

Is there someone here who's done enough video game design that they could comment on how lessons learned from training / reinforcing players in games could be leveraged here?
Unfortunately they're everywhere!
> that doesn't sound like room and board to you?

No, sounds like a job: do a task, get a reward. You do it, janitors do it. If the crows want...
Update to this: I submitted a photo earlier with both of my affected keys, and I just got an email back with a coupon code good for both keys, with free shipping.

As bad as this might have been, Yubico seems to be doing a top-notch job of covering their customers.
While Apple is taking away buttons, we found a way to add one
It does matter because the crows have a choice. They are choosing the easiest way to get food.
This kind of stuff is fairly normal actually. I don't really agree that it couldn't happen. Neural Networks train for the wrong features all of the time. It's part of what happens when you're training unsupervised. You load in a lot of data and then you find the bias. Sure, as the article purports, if done perfectly it wouldn't happen. But that's like saying "If you build a bridge perfectly it won't fall down." before building the first bridge. This was supposedly an old tale so I'm not sure why the author would assume the people working on the original theoretical NN were data experts who knew the correct ways to train NNs.
Magpies already dive bomb everyone in Australia so they're 50% there
(2014) the 15 political questions for 2015
> It states many would be in favor of regulating speech simply for its capacity to offend

No, it doesn't. It says that many are in favor of colleges regulating some on-campus speech that is deliberately offensive. Even to the extent that the colleges are public and thus even relevant to “free speech” considerations, that's a combination of context and intent to offend, not mere capacity to offend, that is at issue.

(It separately says that many would support the government regulating “certain types of offensive speech”, which does not provide enough information to support that the basis is mere capacity to offend; the types of things that constitute per se defamation are arguably a “certain type of offensive speech”, for instance; vague categories are good for getting big scary numbers, but weak for supporting concrete conclusions.)
Do you perhaps mean years*(1+log(years))?
Explicit expectations by the market towards the leadership.

As in: Do not worry about quarterly profits but longterm success
As a thought experiment, imagine if this mutually beneficial behaviour went on for hundreds/thousands of years to the point that the animals lost their insincts for hunting/finding food independently. It would be a disaster if suddently humans changed the conditions of the relationship by, for example, outlawing cigarettes in favour of vaping.

Does anyone know of any real-world examples of this happening? The only ones I can think of are the domestication of cats, dogs and pigs, but left to their own devices those animals revert to their natural behaviour fairly quickly.

Edit:

I found this quote unbelievable; "Cigarettes are the most littered item on earth. Worldwide about 4.5 trillion cigarettes are littered each year." That's 650 for every person on the planet.
> If you generate the keys off of the token you can never be 100% sure "no one else has a copy of this key", which should be at least somewhat distressing.

Eh. I use a laptop with no local storage nor network booted off a read-only USB stick, and for good measure I wipe the USB stick after I'm done.
I just stumbled across this article from years ago and thought that it was a fun read in light of what we know now. There is one name missing from the article and I found these two lines especially entertaining in light of what we now know. I am reminded of the saying "prediction is hard, especially about the future"

"Can Hillary change? Iowans thought Clinton took them for granted in 2008; her third-place finish, behind then-Sen. John Edwards, was the start of her downfall. The presumption of inevitability rubbed voters the wrong way, and the lack of accessibility alienated reporters. Her last campaign was marked by epic staff infighting; she came across as poll-driven and triangulating; and Bill Clinton’s lack of message discipline made him a liability. "

"Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-identified Socialist who caucuses with Democrats, has been traveling to the early states, including an Iowa pilgrimage earlier this month. He could inject some of his pet issues, but the white-haired 73-year-old is not a serious contender for the nomination."
Again, what you're stating is the minimum of the distribution, not near the mean. I can sometimes do $100 in utilities but frequently during the winter, I have to pay for >$100 per month for power alone. I rent so I can't wait for the landlord to read their maintenance requests and patch up the holes.

I once cut my power bill during the winter by sleeping in a closet with a space heater. Other times, I hung out in coffee shops to avoid having to be home and having to turn on the heater. May be that's the kind of living you imagine that isn't crazy, but I don't imagine everyone is willing to live like that.
We're talking about two separate things -

I'm talking about gun shot victims who look like gang members.

You're talking about people you've seen. If those people don't look like gang bangers, that's fine, then they can get help.
>In tacticale switches the bump and the making of the contact are mechanically connected.

Nope! This is rarely (if ever?) the case. In alps switches, for example, there are two totally separate leafs, one of which handles the tactile feeling and the other of which is responsible for the actual actuation. If you browse through Haata's Plotly[1] you can see that many switches actuate well after the tactile bump. Though they are often pretty closely related in terms of their depth in the keypress, they are wholly unrelated from one another mechanically.

[1] https://plot.ly/~haata
As far as I know, you can't share your VMs remotely on Virtual Box. You can, on VMware Workstation.
I haven't experienced imposter syndrome, and maybe you haven't either
Unofficially, for "out of band" discussions and also for on-call events where we need to collab on stuff.

We're stuck with Skype for official stuff and telephony though.
This is also a pretty important point: most monitors refresh at 60hz anyway even if your game seems to be measuring much higher framerates, so there's a worst case floor of ~17s on just visuals lagging behind input because you're waiting for the next screen refresh anyway.

The mouse measuring data every 1-2ms will increase the quality of the motion tracking, but it won't necessarily help you with latency unless the data gets to the game fast and the game handles the data quickly.

This explanation by John Carmack comes to mind... it's a good reminder against a lot of the hardware fetishism that is mixed into otherwise good advice about gaming setups. https://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-fa...
https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/wjRD/solo-founders-with-...
If you want a clear point, then why not use the moment it bottoms out. So when key travel ends, instead of when key travel starts. In most cases, it'll be much closer to the actual activation. If you want to be even more thorough, publish both times (which you can get from a single video).
> We can't pay Medicare rates because Medicare rates are not high enough to be self-sufficient in the absence of other payers

This is incorrect, and you're going to need a better citation than industry self reporting on how they simply want more money.

Assuming medicare prices are fixed, and assuming that insurance companies negotiate deals on par with medicare, and assuming that most uninsured people don't pay their bills... where are these magic "other payers" that are keeping hospitals open?

In fact the opposite is true. If hospitals could get 100% of their patients to pay their bills at medicare rates, they would save money on defaults, billing overhead, and the people who spend hours on the phone fighting with insurance companies.

This is why so many health care professionals advocate for single-payer; having 100% of bills paid according to a fixed price list means greater efficiency and less waste. (and I mean individuals, as an industry the corporations involved prefer the status quo, as it entrenches insurance companies,creates barriers to entry, and drives consolidation)

== EDIT ==

Just to clarify. I'm talking about a situation where 100% of all services provided by a hospital are covered at medicare rates. If 50% are covered by medicare, and 50% are written off, obviously hospitals would have a problem. But medicare is currently reimbursing at break-even rates, kill the collections and billing and insurance departments, and hospitals make a profit at medicare rates.
This only applies to websites which land on a plain HTTP page and then load links to HTTPS pages. Entering “ https:// “ explicitly before any URL accessed will fully mitigate this.
HCL - why inventing another config/markup language? There TOML, yaml and dozen others.
Some of that is surely in the OS and display however. I wonder how you'd go about measuring the latency of a laptop keyboard?
The quote at the very end of the article seems to summarize my feelings:

"Skeptics wonder whether the LTSE is just another way for tech founders and elite Silicon Valley investors to maintain control at the expense of other shareholders."
Hmmm, might have to lead with this line of reasoning when I ask Samsung here in Australia why my S6Edge doesn't have an update for this in a reasonable timeframe...
See

https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Technologies-Manag...

Back in the 1970s you had a lot of people in the U.S. who fought in WWII or were Jewish or Polish or Italian or who otherwise would refuse to buy Japanese or German cars. They would buy American cars no matter how bad they were.

So American cars got really bad.

One of the most popular topics on HN is handwringing about what Mac laptop they want to buy. This model is underpowered, this one is expensive, that one has too few ports, etc. They might be happier if they bought a Dell, but they think of that like they think of putting a hand in their toilet.

So long as people buy Apple products on the basis of how they make them feel about themselves, they have no reason to make improvements in Siri.

The best thing you can do to make Siri better is vote with your feet.
I was thinking about space debris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris
Actual activation might be hard to get, but when the key bottoms out is probably the best way to go. Or even better, why not post both when key travel starts and when it ends. If people are really curious, they can model a linear scale and use the key response plot to guess exactly where the activation happens.
There is some research in political science on paying for votes in elections. They came to the conclusion that you should pay $x and receive sqrt(x) votes. 100 dollars -> 10 votes. I would think the same reasoning would work here. Hold stock $x days, receive sqrt(x) votes (years is tricky because you can hold less than 1 year and the value increases quite a bit during that period).
neat, 100ms is blatantly obvious, I can't imagine anyone not discerning that one.

I can get down to 24ms but no less... the weird thing is that 24ms is still completely obvious to me (clearly shorter but obvious in comparison to no delay), with a single test I can see which variable has the delay every time, but 1ms less and I can't... which makes me suspect it's being quantised due to any of the various things in between sleep and the output, display, driver, X, terminal emulator, CPU etc.

With that it's actually possible that my 24ms is larger than 24ms and is also being quantised to a larger duration (but not larger than 100 for sure).

It would be interesting to be able to test with some dedicated hardware.
Marin blocked BART from coming through in the 60's, so it's their own damn fault.
Oh $deity I can't tell you how many times I've run into this. Usually the "marketing" person has a comfortable 9-5 job and wants to do the startup work in the spare time available when not attending to work or family responsibilities. The technical co-founder, in contrast, will naturally be expected to work 40-60 hrs/wk (at least) for no salary, just some kind of usually-not-well-defined "equity", and not much of it, simply because she didn't produce The Idea.
So the poster says the course material was up its own butt, and you accept there are a lot of bad courses, but then go on to say they just had a crappy attitude the whole time?

What if their indifference and attitude arose due to the crappy course?

"...the course material was up its own butt..."

Oh.

I'm amazed you can cherry-pick a couple quotes and discern everything about the situation. What a wonderful power. Or I mean if you had it, since here you're full of nonsense.
The bipolar Lisp programmer
You could have a more concentrated power, or a less concentrated power. Democracy is remarkably flexible in some ways. Consider the shifts from majority to minority governments, the parliamentary system vs. the presidential system, referendums, etc.

But in other ways, it is not. Too concentrated and you easily become technocratic or authoritarian, to unconcentrated and you lose the expression of civic will that emerges from elections that "build", so to speak, to national levels and allow amazing things to be done in democracies.

Personally, I'm a bigger fan of parliamentary democracies than presidential. I also believe a sore point for many towards democracy (particularly the idea that democracy is mob rule, or that votes are meaningless) is actually over "first past the post" voting rules. Luckily, we can make democracies better. It's purposely hard to change them, for good reason, but unlike other systems, they are flexible.

But, I think if you would rather have a system that is less democratic then that loss of democracy is a loss of freedom at the disproportionate expense of someone else. We call that undemocratic.
Slavery is not 'negative reinforcement training'. Indeed, it is possible to be a slave and be rewarded for good work. Slavery is where you have no choice but to work. If the food reward is substantial enough to be worth a crow's while, then it confers a competitive advantage and crows that refrain from this behaviour will face pressure on their food sources from the offspring of the well-fed crows; essentially you've artificially raised the carrying capacity of the ecosystem, for those crows that agree to your "bargain". Effectively, for the crows, the choice becomes "pick up cigarettes or starve".

I wouldn't worry about it though. If it ever gets tried on a large scale it'll be a hilarious disaster of unexpected second-order effects that will lead to the program's cancellation long before the whole crow species is subjugated.
Also, wouldn't the crows end up suffering from nicotine/tar poisoning on the long run?
Consider our cells; they revert to their natural behaviour of reproducing without limit, in the form of cancer, despite 100s of millions of years of evolution.
This strategy is Small-Game fallacy.

Reducing the complexity of the real world -> If only shares held for a long term have full rights, you will obfuscate how you pay for those rights. either the stock will have a depreciated market price to what it 'should' trade at or the voting rights will be acquired through rent seeking by long-term holders.
I think crows (and grackles, and other urban birds) have already changed their behavior in lots of equally big ways, to take advantage of where we leave food scraps, etc. The only difference in this case is there's some planning. If we don't plan it, it's not like they retain their natural behavior. Urban raccoons, possums, grackles, crows, etc. do lots of things on a daily basis they would never do if not in a city.
By land area, most of the country.

In the town nearest where I grew up, $500 will get you a 2 bed, 1.5 bath apartment on a golf course.

http://www.linksatharrison.apartments/floorplans.aspx
I can't read but it is hard to imagine how they measured creative output.
I wonder if this will be the beginning of crow-sourcing.
This article is biased because it was written by Consul author.

I'm big fan of Zookeeper, and agree with parent that is not only industry standard, but it is very robust and battle tested.

Having said that, this is not what Zookeeper was meant to. ZK is coordination service, if you have a distributed service that you need to coordinate and you don't want any single point of failure ZK is the choice.

ZK can be used for service discovery, but that's not the proper use, you could equally set up a single database node, or MongoDB cluster to accomplish essentially the same thing.

So specialized service is better, but I also don't like how Consul solves service discovery. If you think about it, SD doesn't require strong consistency, it is not a big deal if all nodes won't learn about each other at the same time, arguably that's actually preferred.

By removing strong consistency (the only reason why ZK is even compared to Consul) we could have a better SD that's also more scalable.
Definitely experienced it in my first few years in tech... I'd made quite a career leap and I honestly _did_ feel like a fraud. But I'm here now and I'm happy and I know where I fit into the mix and I no longer feel like a fraud.. I feel like someone who is growing with my role and where I fit in the community.

This did resonate, though (reminds me of the buzz words in mental health that gain popularity every year or so)

>it minimizes the impact that this experience has on people that really do suffer from it
Big freaking deal... This is simply PR for all the nastiness they've released into the world and damage to our democracy. The world would be better off without Facebook.
The ubiquity of auto-tune is particularly interesting because most people don't seem to have a lot of pitch sensitivity. Tons of very famous recordings are slightly out of tune and no one seems to complain, ever.

I'd imagine its popularity is more due to convenience rather than demand.
How does your company manage to use Stripe and Paypal for microtransactions with their fees? Do you get a special discount? 25 cents - minus fees means there's barely any left.