skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No humanities course just takes every argument at face value. Every argument is subject to intense scrutiny

Here is Orwell on the matter:

>"When the nautical screw was first invented, there was a controversy that lasted for years as to whether screw-steamers or paddle-steamers were better. The paddle-steamers, like all obsolete things, had their champions, who supported them by ingenious arguments. Finally, however, a distinguished admiral tied a screw-steamer and a paddle-steamer of equal horsepower stern to stern and set their engines running. That settled the question once and for all."[1]

Feynman:

>"It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."

People lived for a very long time without a proper appreciation of controlled, repeatable experiments, and progress was very slow.

1 - www.orwell.ru/library/essays/lion/english/e_saw
ok. people can be offended by things that weren't intended to offend them. this does happen from time to time.

buy why would the speaker withdraw instead of contacting the event organizers? if it bothered her, she wouldn't necessarily have to go into any detail as to why she found it offensive. she should just chew them out for this debacle and threaten to withdraw if they don't alter the image.

this whole thing seems like a poor choice by the event organizers, followed by a poor reaction from a speaker, which led to a poor response from the organizers.

you aren't automatically "right" just because the other guy is wrong.
There is a difference between ı and i in both cases. I don't know what you mean by 'related to capitalisation'

The reason I raise Turkish specifically is that the similarity between the characters presents a potential homograph for a phishing attack in non-Turkish domains. (e.g. mıcrosoft.com). Characters with apparent diacritics are less vulnerable (e.g. öracle.com).
what is "table driven testing"?
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Not an expert, but the only part I see like this is section 512(a) here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_...

This seems to apply to network traffic, whereas I'd guess what to host on the Play Store would be covered by 512(c) instead. If so, the "red flags" test would seem to require at least some automated content checking.

But all the above refers to copyright, rather than the trademark violation and fraud in the WhatsApp clones.
I think you've raised a good point. I appreciate that every discipline wants to present itself in the best possible light. Claiming to be "creative" is one way. As a math major, I certainly felt that I was more creative than those students in other fields. Abandoning that idea is a benefit of old age. ;-) And every discipline also claims "there will be a worker shortage in our field soon" and "what we really teach is critical thinking."
I'll enthusiastically second py.test. It's well documented, well supported, and well thought out. More importantly though, the details are just brilliantly done.

For example: showing the values of local variables in an error traceback always saves me a ton of time. I don't know why this isn't the default option. Alternatively, you can pass --pdb to just run the debugger exactly when a test crashes, so you can inspect the contents.

Another example is how it prints out details on assertions (e.g. "the left was this and the right was this") and not just "AssertionError". On top of that, for complex data structures, it will diff them and point out exactly what parts of the structure are matching and what parts are not matching, which again saves a ton of time from firing up a debugger and doing it by hand.

For more esoteric options, I like this pycon talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmsk1QZQEvQ
> wouldn't that point to massive supply chain problems on the ground

I'd like to point out such problems can be easily manufactured if some points in the supply chain are heavily concentrated.
Uh, no it's not, I have no skin in the game, I was just pointing out why you're getting downvoted to oblivion. Quoting a different post, attributing it to me, and then imagining my motivations is entering the realm of pure fantasy.
I agree completely. Not only did they lose the high ground, what did facebook, google, reddit and the rest of social media companies think was going to happen once they agreed to a little bit of censorship? Did they really think these anti-free speech crowd was going to go away? No. Extremists always up the ante and they are going to demand more and more censorship.

I've stopped using reddit because so much of the "community" is so extreme now. They are even demanding that pro-Trump subs be banned from reddit and even calling for twitter to ban Trump's twitter account.

What's going to be interesting is what these people will think when people start demanding atheist, lgbt, leftist, etc content be censored.
The original Unicode emoji made sense as a compatibility measure with Japanese encodings, but I thoroughly disagree with the expansion of Unicode Emoji.

The idea that the default emoji represent white people is ridiculous, since the codepoints are meant to translate directly with Japanese computer systems. In the original NTT DoCoMo set, they didn't even have facial skin (probably because of device resolution and colour limitations), just features like eyes and mouths. Maybe the Unicode consortium made a mistake by specifying them as bright yellow, which people now associate strongly with the Simpsons, where white people are represented as bright saturated yellow.

In my understanding, nobody in the standardization process even considered that Emoji had a race. If people project one race or another onto what are supposed to be disembodied universal facial expressions, then that's their problem.
Getting Things Done - David Allen

Helps me live in the present and not stress about the future.
He's the guy for whom the Sapir-Whorf hypotheis - that the languages we use can themselves shape what we say and even how we think, an idea I think is 100% true.

Which brings me to one of my favourite scifi epics - the Culture series, the titular people (and machines) of which consciously designed their language Marain to encode desirable aspects of reasonableness and peaceableness according to that very hypothesis. Nice connection!
I did not check every claim in that article.

What I did check, did not check out.

They show a video of Peterson arguing that being a CEO of a billion dollar company is basically pointless stupid competitiveness and men happen to be more pointlessly stupid in that regard, and the blog interprets it as him saying women should not try to be CEOs

That video is the center of the argument (the thing the post 'builds up to') in the blog's own estimation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU7AewaHr0Q
When politics come into play, technicians can only shake their heads ...
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Because of the reasonable expectation of security?
Given that AlphaGo Zero was trained on several million games of self plays, each game involving hundreds of steps, each step with 1600 MCTS simulations, the total number of board positions it has considered is on the order of trillions. While impressive it pales in comparison to the number of possible board positions of 10^170 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_and_mathematics). So its amazing performance tells us that:

1. Possibly the elegant rule of the game cuts down the search space so much that there is a learnable function that gives us optimal MCTS supervision;

2. Or CNN approximates human visual intuition so well, so while Zero has not evaluated so many board positions it has evaluated all the positions that human has ever considered - so it remains possible that a different network could produce different strategies and be better than Zero.
It's not necessarily tax evation though. There are really rich people who live in mansions in the rural area and pay 'estrato 1' prices for certain utilities because that's actually the infrastructure they're getting. So in order for this household to contribute to wealth redistribution, the property is assigned an 'estrato 6' despite paying really low prices for utilities.
this is only tangentially related but i think that the video dating services (like the vhs ones from the 80's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bomkgXeDkE) might come back in the app form. like some sort of snapchat meets tinder.
Well, technically you have two thalami (two halves).
Use Overcast.
I use and like fingerprint unlock, which is what 60% successful? If face is better than that, then it's an improvement. I can't imagine it's worse.
easy early fix would have been to make all skin tone emojis blue. okay now they represent everyone and no one, no need to introduce ten skin color gradients for each meme
I definitely agree that the over-specialization of emoji faces is ridiculous.

However, one question has occurred to me: what has the actual consequence of the skin-tone-modifier been on real-world emoji use?

The answer, in my experience, is that essentially no one uses skin-tone-modified emoji at all. This, in turn, makes me wonder if perhaps this was the intended result the whole time—to, in a very circuitous way, ensure that the "default" state of any given emoji has a generic skin tone.
Imagine googling for stuff about this project... (issues, bugs, tutorials etc) Must be a nightmare, with such a generic name
they just kind of admitted we had a disagreement that needed to be resolved, but didn't see why that wouldn't preclude me from taking on new work for them

edit: actually, thinking about it again, I'm pretty sure they implied that completion of the new work might cause them to reconsider their stance on paying for the initial work.
Or stop consuming so much.

Traveling, especially without airplanes (which is perfectly possible in lots of parts of the world -- vacationing to a train/car-accessible country that is), is trivial compared to industrial production of crap.

Making advertising illegal would decrease needless consumption (and pollution) by a ton, plus all the benefits for our quality of life.
If you have an identical twin you could have fooled a DNA test. I don't think it's a reasonable bar for an unlock-convenience to be more secure than that.
Alongside claims Apple specifically talks about people with close genetic makeup and twins: https://youtu.be/eRvBU_tKGjE at 12:12
She wanted to be taken seriously, that undermined it, she has that right. That the organizers responded the way they did says enough:

This is not how adults handle situations.
This is very much true in Russia, where unemployed young people often ride A-class cars or own expensive flats. They are not taxed because their declared income is untaxed gifts.
Taxes proportional to value of property balances theese extremes nicely. Unfortunately, not feasible in current russian political climate.
Sure it does. Depriving people of speech is diminishing their dignity. Even better, depriving people of reading books they want or even wearing clothing they want is diminishing their dignity.

> Banning them from insulting other people’s dignity

So you support banning anti-nazi speech right? All the speech attacking and insulting nazis should be banned right? Because it's wrong to insult people right?
I hope it works out for you. I moved to place with a singular employer, ended up strongly disliking my job and eventually moved to the SF Bay Area.
Because people are fools and can’t remember what the company specifically addressed in their own keynote on the actual tech barely a month after said keynote
I am talking about all of these syndromes. I used schizo thinking that would be easier for most persons to recognize.
I am white. Me and my friends use black emojis ironically and "Simpsons"-yellow emojis when we really mean them.
Rather rash reaction after such a self-admitted sacrifice "HALFWAY ACROSS THE WURLLLLDDDDD" which sidestepped the initial reachout and request for mediation. Almost sounds like a bad ben stiller romcom trope of the whole ordeal can be sorted out via a short dialogue.

Kind of reminds me of the final scene of jane austins Mafia! Where madam president asks if her husband, the godfather, killed everyone.
Did you click "train"? Otherwise it's just doing inference from random data.
Don't do this on your iPhone X... I just did this to test if it disabled Face ID, and it beeped really loudly with an emergency alert blip. It startled me and my dogs; I dropped it on my lap, and almost didn't get to cancel the 911 call before the 3 second timer went off.
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It's funny how deeply they buried the lead in this article. The real story of Columbus is: stable manufacturing jobs + corporate commitment to community = good quality of life.

This story is so alien to us now in America that we don't even recognize it when it's staring us in the face.
Kits, yes. Many inspections during build processare can be done by technical counslers who have built a kitplane before.

You can get a registration, but you can't fly w/o passing an FAA inspection first.
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That's not what the Skyrim face editor looks like. That game is heavily modded. The real one is more like this: http://scalar.usc.edu/works/interactive-storytelling-narrati...
I don't.

I think flow and planning are on opposite ends of an uncertainty principle. The more in-flow you are the less you need a plan, and the more you plan the harder it is to get into flow.

Sometimes I fall deeply into a subject I had no real interest in previously. And I have many projects I would like to work on but never seem to have the time for. So be it. A good life is lived beyond measure.
Who knows? Maybe some garbage layer of software turned "colon minus closed paren" into a yellow smiley face. Or maybe the author coded the pictograph.
Exactly. The behavior of the actual machine matters!

The C language standard defines (pretty imperfectly in the case of processors with multiple address spaces like the 8051 scratchpad RAM) something like a least common denominator you can rely on to "write portable C".

But that's not truth, nor is "portable C" the goal to all engineering efforts. Pointers are numbers. Scratchpad registers can't have pointers taken to them. Those are truths, even if inconvenient.
Your friend is wrong, there are persons who are delusional to the point of losing grip with their own bounds of personality, but of course Hollywood creates a dramatic picture of them all.

SPLIT was a fantastic movie in any case! :p
A lot of people are suggesting that you limit the number of projects, but an alternative approach is to limit the amount of time each day that you spend on each subject, yet maintain a consistent schedule.

I always remind myself "15 minutes a day is better than an hour every three days". But in order to prevent getting over-stressed about time and how quickly you're learning, you have to put your ego aside and simply stick to a schedule of learning a little bit of each subject every day.

That means limiting yourself when you want to go on a binge just as much as it means making time to get your 15 minutes in. Three days of binging on a subject can start to build pressure that you should maintain that level, and that's not sustainable.

Small amounts of new knowledge, every day, until you've hit your goal.

No matter how old you are, you still have plenty of time to take things slow.
> hard tests expose sloppy learning very quickly and give you feedback on what you didn't learn as well as you thought.

This is stated very well. I will be using this verbiage (specifically the "expose sloppy learning" part) in the future in my occasional defense of hard tests.

Thank you.
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Resetting settings made a huge difference. Does not delete any data, only the settings across the phone
The "Malazan Book of the Fallen" [0] series. Because of its sheer amount [1] of deep characters, the many years and areas it spans and the differences in power levels, from lowly soldiers to essentially gods.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/series/43493-the-malazan-book-of-t...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Malazan_Book_of_the_Fa...
Minneapolis spends an obscene amount per pupil on students, with the number getting HIGHER in the bad districts: http://www.startribune.com/where-minneapolis-public-schools-...

North Minneapolis has bad outcomes not because of lack of money, that's for sure.
This is incredible. As we approach the technological capability of direct brain-to-brain communication, cases like this serve as an example of what is in store for us. Our brains are in some sense already multiple consciousness that communicate and collaborate with one another. It could be that connecting to other minds is more natural than we might realize.
From personal experience, close by people are far more likely to hack you than strangers. Systems should reflect this. For instance, WhatsApp Web shows a prominent notification. Signal does not. So one investigative technique is to get someone's phone for a minute, connect Signal to the desktop client, then rather silently have access to their account.

When it comes to unlocking phones, I'm far more worried about family, romantic partners, friends' kids playing pranks or trying to get a bit of cash than I am about some organized crime gang or CBP faking my face or fingerprint.
I really like Digital Ocean and use it for all my small to mid-sized projects. I agree with a lot of the other comments that languages like Rust (and I'll add Elixir) are far more interesting, fun to program in, and feature rich than Go, but I really don't care what DO choses to use, as long as their offerings continue to be great.
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There are (a small number of) people with blue tinted skin.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/blue-skinned-people-kentucky-re...
I grew up in a town with 30,000 people (much smaller than Cedar Rapids) in the PNW. It's rabidly republican. Also 30% Hispanic. Sure, there's racists around, probably more than your average city, but it's not an intolerable amount.

> Additionally: Their nature sucks. I hope you're fine with never hiking through any interesting terrain, going skiing, or rock climbing, or really doing any interesting outdoor activities. ( I guess hunting is popular? )

That's a pretty broad generalization. Around the edge of my hometown we had tons of hiking trails in the foothills. If you were up for a short 30 minute drive you could get to some real interesting terrain. If you were determined enough and wanted to invest a whole day or a few days in to it you can trek through a literal wilderness.

It's also 45 minutes from a ski resort, and about the same distance for two great rock climbing spots. Oh, plus there's a 10 mile paved trail at the waterfront that loops around the entire center of the city. Lots of biking, mountain biking, plenty of good water, etc etc...

We have people from Seattle move here all the time for the nature, enough to have an effect on the housing market even.

> What if your kid wants to start a rock band, or be a painter, or do anything creative or interesting?

Oddly enough, I did start a rock band in my hometown. We had a great little punk scene. Someone would throw down the money to rent out a building then we'd pass out flyers around school and charge $5 a head. Usually got between 100 to 200 kids to show up. A couple of my friends went on to build careers in the industry, and actually do work for big names in Seattle now.

> Also.. where are you going to work? I'm a software developer: Where am I going to work in Cedar Rapids, IA? Some insurance firm doing meaningless banking bullshit?

You can work remotely, number one. Bu there's actually a lot of businesses in rural areas that have a really, really hard time getting software developers, to the point where they sometimes just stop looking. You're not gonna have job offers in spades, but you can definitely find something.

You paint a really ugly picture of small towns, but I think it might be clouded by whatever negative experience you had in Cedar Rapids.
The thing to do is to ponder the tremendous consequences if you don't pay any attention to them.
Apple specifically mentioned testing with high-end masks, and there have been videos made about people attempting it. It doesn’t work.
How about something that I believe is true, for which I have evidence, but which is not actually true?

Can I just write 'terrorist?' instead of 'terrorist' next to a person?
For me it's a lot about the stress of refactoring: if I know the code is all in one place, I can make sure that I don't break the contract and be fairly relaxed about making my changes. Searching through files, making sure that you've found all the occurrences, reading each of those blocks of code and trying to understand them enough to be sure you're not breaking something is a lot more work, but more importantly it makes me feel very uneasy about refactoring. It's much more stressful because there's more moving parts, you need to be concentrated about a lot more things at once.
Yeah, they both have their use cases and they can both be popular equally. It's all about looking at the problem in hand and deciding what do you need to solve that problem.
A normal UPS should buy enough time to shut everything down in an orderly fashion and provide enough charge to run for a while.
They look very much like emojis from Wordpress so I would say the former is more likely.
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So, you believe that the moon landings weren't faked solely becuase of the credentials of the people who say that it was faked?

This is exactly one example for my "where falsification is much better possible" - in this case because of physics.
Face ID is actually ridiculously good at recognizing my face. I haven't made any conscious effort to adjust how I look at my phone, which is usually just me lounging back in a big chair with it near my lap. That's terrible posture I know.

I think I've only had to readjust it once or twice, and it is for milliseconds.

Plus, the home bar is really like a virtual home button that you just have to swipe up for instead of pressing down.
There is a overall accepted agreement about "open source" and just because you're not able to understand it, doesnt mean that this consent about open source is not true.
Sort of. Some places have very limited coverage on LBC. I've gone through my old ads ($50 BTC!) and in Guatemala it is still sparse. There's a bit of money pitching it on Facebook groups and grabbing a 5-10%+ markup nickle and diming it.
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>Especially areas like programming languages, in their applied parts, operate more through argumentation and analogy than through proofs.

I think the virtue is not in the value of the arguments, but whether the argumenrs are falsifiable.

Programming has the virtue that it has to work for it to have value. Social sciences and humanities have to convince someone that it would work.
I wish there was more info on this alleged ability.

It shouldn't be hard to show only Tatiana a picture of a number/person/etc, ask her to think about it, and see whether Krista can tell.

Somehow it doesn't add up with the rest (shared motor abilities through the thalamus), and sounds more like the poetic but bogus claims that many twins make about one another.
Lesson zero: You don't need an education.
I’m saying to conduct a 100% online us/eu based business. You get 6 months visa for Mexico anyway.

Get yourself an American style condo in Cancún and that’s it. Mexico is not all uniformly violent, unlike US.