skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the first (Odysseyian) half of the Aeneid is a LOT of fun. In fact, the second (Iliadic) half after Dido dies is often skipped. To me, it's kind of like Romeo and Juliet; after Mercutio dies it's just a bunch of teen age yammering. Well, Aeneas just isn't that interesting (he's stoic!) and Dido is (or was). And then Turnus is no Hector.

Fact is Vergil died without completing it. He wasn't happy with it and wanted it burned. Augustus, who had heard chapters read and who was its sponsor, countermanded that order. He had it edited but it wasn't Vergil's hand. It's OK to be a little disappointed with the result.

BTW, Stanford iTunesU has a quite good 5 lecture podcast on the Aeneid by Susanna Braund. She knows everything.
Well... both. But you're right.
With the fear of sounding rude, this is incredibly cool. In the hope we have some neuro experts here on HN:

1. When the article says they can switch to self control, does that mean one brain can control 2 or more people?

2. Does learning behaviour stem from the problem of limited brain resources as it is shared between 2?

3. Can they assume control of the other persons body, and control it simountanously?

Thank you in advance
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I did not. Probably should have at least talked to a lawyer, but I didn't.
Yet another explanation of CRC (Cyclic redundancy check)
Is it every ISP, or only certain ISPs who opt in?

I remember OpenConnect being mentioned back when the ISP I use came on board. The service has been really good. I haven't gotten a single buffer in like 3 years.

If anyone is curious, glance through this. It's a pretty cool initiative:

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

If you get crappy Netflix service you should call your ISP and point them to this page.
You snooze, you lose
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I love sending all my clients a Christmas/holiday gift. Nice chance to express gratitude and at the same time remind them I am still out here.
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An amazing long-form article on these twins from the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/could-conjoined-t...

And a previous CBC documentary is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKwT1Ol3nY0
These "net-states" are looking less and less like independent actors in the political sphere and more like arms by which nation-states can reach into the cultural sphere and influence conduct and opinion as well as put their finger on the pulse of the public sentiment, even targeting the communications of individual people regardless of whose citizens they happen to be. Net-states are unique compared to traditional media companies in that they have a far easier time crossing national boundaries. Where before Hollywood or the BBC needed a dominant share in the market of foreign countries to spread the ideals of their host countries, net-states act more like portals to any region with an internet connection with little holding it back.
It sounds like your mind is made up.

Continue working on freelancer.com and I'll continue helping businesses grow while living my dream as a freelancer.

For reference I have been doing what I wrote for 2 decades and it certainly works. Good luck!
Man seeks government money to produce boondoggles. Saved you a click.
So Apple is the new Nokia now? Who is the new Apple then?
On another practical point: isn't your battery completely shot by now?

I've never seen a phone where it isn't obviously somewhat impaired after 2 years, so what is it like on something that's 3 to 6 years old? Or do you get it replaced often?
Don't be dense. That sentence is from the reporter trying to make a study easier to understand to the common folk. Actually read the study referenced. There are also other studies that compare content and find it doesn't make a difference on the impact of the brain.
Just a quick look at the design reveals the rear wheels are nowhere near the center of gravtity. This is important if you want to rotate on take off at reasonable speeds and land smoothly. He should know such basic stuff if he really flies for a living. Also the engine lacks cooling obviously. Cant‘t take such stories serious, as in some way they discredit real Indian engineers who build stuff, including planes, that are much more refined than this comedy. On a nerd level of course, I think I like this guy for not caring and just trying. Then again the article is framed as if he was some kind of bright example for India.
Nothing's perfect.

I'm not really satisfied with how anything works in my life, but many things are good enough or I've learned to accept the trade-offs.
what's the part that "just" does not work?

I am starting a new project soon and I played with Sails. I really liked it, except I struggled with the user authentication part.

Also worried that the momentum of the project seems to have slowed down a bit, Mike does a lot but seems a bit lonely... Or?
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You have to design the hardware with the manufacturing process in mind. It's not like a re-compile.
Sure--I read the parent comment. I have no doubt there will always be someone else people blame when liberal policies fail, but lenders, universities, students, parents, and employers acting rationally in their own self-interest is not some strange unforeseeable possibility.

We have to be able to acknowledge when bad ideas don't work well. This is one of those times.
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Hasn’t Apple lost many of their top engineers recently? That could definitely contribute.
In my opinion the scarcest human resource is nuance. So many heated breaths of online guff would evaporate in the afternoon sunlight if every netizen took a little more care when editorialising.

A genuine follow-up question is, "What is statehood?" By any accepted definition transnational corporations are not states. Even if you modify the moniker with the prefix net- it still feels wrong to me.

There are very few senses in which the "citizens" of Facebook share a common identity purely because they inhabit Facebooklandia. If anything, the citizens of Facebook are its shareholders, bosses, and employees. We can see this because corporate decisions most often intersect the desires and intentions of those three stakeholders rather than the desires of the customers. Also, even though it is a cliché beaten to death, unless you are paying for a service you are not the customer, you are at best a "user", at worst a productised entity.

Advertisers hold much sway in what content gets shown and produced.

Having said that, I agree with the author's thesis. If you want to reach hearts and minds go to where their eyeballs are – go to where they are plugged into the information streams.

I think we should reserve the term net-state for online/virtual sovereign groups of individuals and potentially bots that have some form of self-governance.
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I've never understood this.

We can't all do the same thing. We can all be sandwich makers.

The internet is teaching people to do all sorts of things other than be architects.
I used Galaxy Nexus which had OLED too (old, from 2011). Used it for 4 years, not seen any visible permanent burn-ins. There were temporary image persistence, noise and vertical lines (especially when using outside during winter), but display was great overall.
> If the gate guard tells the Colonel that he can't come through the gate, the Colonel would do well to obey.

Does this include the US President, commander-in-chief, hypothetically?
Xiaomi, possibly...
What exactly are you refering to?
I think lower resolutions have been cracked. I don't think 4K has been cracked yet but the comment might be related to this bug.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/6pkypj/direct_strea...
Wow. Did they just ignore the previous invoice, or how did they explain coming back to you? Did they end up paying?
Your final point conflates icbms with cruise missiles - very different things. I don’t believe icbms use TERCOM or visual matching.
I have used the same keyboard, SwiftKey, for the past couple of years. Whenever I write a new word that is unfamiliar to the keyboard it is saved to a personal dictionary. By now, it knows very well what words I use and the autocorrection rarely fails. It is instead quite handy as it corrects my mistypings when writing quickly.
I had an experience where the host moved apartment on me to a downgraded one. Nothing significant but a bit smaller and lost the balcony/view. Also the apartment clearly hadn't been cleaned e.g. hair in the bed.

It was the first time I'd had a negative experience on Airbnb. I contacted them and expected a strong response. Nope, crickets. I dont think they really care which is surprising for the modern service focused unicorn.

Since then unless there is a significant price differential, I'm back to hotels. And they are one of 2 businesses I happily tell people to avoid.
Well, there's definitely a market for this kind of thing - here's a summary of some options in the space, prompted by the announcement that Selenium IDE will stop working in future Firefox versions.

https://medium.com/@briananderson2209/in-search-of-the-selen...
> <stereotype joke> By not hiring a JavaScript developer. </stereotype joke>
aka "the lisp curse": http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
I didn't even compare the two, obviously having insane high living costs is another issue, but it's not nearly as bad as this current race to the bottom of labor costs.

In Western Europe pretty much the whole low-income sector has been taken over by Eastern Europeans, working for weeks, sending home most of the money they make, working in conditions that nobody should have to work in (reversing labor rights progress) sleeping in their cars/group housing. I realize this sounds like some Brexit tale, but it is a very real thing that's been going on for quite a while and is one of the reasons for the stagnating real wages.

It's great for companies, cheap labor, it's not so great for the local populations who have to compete with foreign labor prices while having to come up with enough money to pay local living costs for their whole family.

Case in point: Try paying 100 times more for housing and healthcare in LA, once the vast majority of people are getting paid like call-center agents in India, won't work, can't work.
You're off considerably. The world population is only 7.6 billion, if every single person on the planet used the internet and 3% were using Linux to do so it would barely multiple hundreds of millions (228 million).

The actual number of users is closer to 3 billion, so even if your 3% is correct (it isn't) that's not even 100 million.

That's also assuming that every user of the internet is a laptop or desktop to access the internet, but that isn't case. More and more people are only using a smartphone or tablet, especially in emerging markets.
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You're underestimating the power and depth of American and South Korean counterbattery along the DMZ. DPRK will not be able to sustain a prolonged artillery attack. They'll get a their first punches in, but they won't be able to keep it up. All that shit is completely automated, too. All they have to do is flip a switch and anything in Best Korea firing ordnance across the DMZ will explode fairly quickly and completely automatically.
I don't think it's fair to force English upon people. It's not even the most spoken language on the planet. (There is more people speaking Chinese. And also more people speaking Spanish than English.)
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For smart phones that's usually not an issue. You want the screen to turn off and save power, not display another moving image.

But you could imagine that Apple records sub pixel usage and calibrates the display accordingly, so any sub pixels that are over-exposed to could be calibrated accordingly. But that would also mean some color distortion.
Interesting comment, I can see that is a reasonable concern. But where are power users going to go? Windows has been a mess for a full decade now. Microsoft’s management of the platform has been a joke. Maybe they’re turning a corner with it, but maybe not. It’s really hard to say. There are some real concerns with the Mac hardware, but whereas with the OS there’s one version and that’s it, for hardware they always have a range of options available and can experiment on certain lines while still offering an alternative. It’s a lot harder to pivot the OS the same way.
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"Incomplete auditing of the code for bugs caused Heartbleed."

Code audits of C code bases can not find all vulnerabilities, this seems to put way too much hope into code audits.

There are also obviously many circumstances that conspired to create this vulnerability, and it could be prevented in many ways.
> “The 18- to 35-year-olds expect something like that, but they just didn’t have it,” said Tyler Hodge, 32, who used crowdfunding to help finance the shop. The same tactic was used for a rock climbing gym opened in September by a group of young engineers who, like Hodge, spend their weekdays working at Cummins Inc., the diesel engine company that is the city’s largest employer.

Crowdfunding for brick-and-mortar? Now that's interesting, any links?
Nope, the JVM used to do M:1, it's very different from M:N.
Please, not again. Lenin called for terror to be used, he called for the use of mass executions to speed up the eradication of opposition, he... well, read up on what Lenin wanted. Read the Gulag Archipelago and take good attention of the time line described. Notice that 'comrade Lenin' was the instigator of many of the policies which led to the creation of the Gulag system. While Lenin was not as paranoid as Stalin he was just as ruthless in creating the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'.
cf. Product Hunt global hackathon https://blog.producthunt.com/the-product-hunt-global-hackath...
I wonder who the fugitive billionaire is who has his private Airbus parked in Mumbai airport?
I was thinking of a similar thing, but in J [1]. J's library or routines (j.dll on windows), can be called easily from C. I am trying to establish a synthesis of my love for J programming with my C coding experience.

[1] jsoftware.com
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No sorry. I meant that wow classic was just announced, and that it's its time to go f2p. Just some wishful thinking.
pytest:

https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/

The dependency injection for fixtures is somewhat of a magical entity, but overall I've found it's the most efficient way to hammer out good tests on the standard unit/integration test spectrum. The default mode of operation doesn't even require importing pytest: Just write files named ending with `_test.py`, functions starting with `test`, and bare bones assertions. `yield_fixture` works well with the typical mock-and-assert-on python test pattern.

Plenty of plugins out there for more exotic features, like asyncio, parallelization (though test parallelization tends to be much more problematic beyond "run tests at the same time"), output to <format>, etc too.
How do you enforce that without a Facebook account?
> It is interesting to see how quickly the field of AI is progressing. Those who claim we will be able to see the robot overlords coming in time should take heed - these AI's will only be human-level for a brief instant before blasting past us into superhuman territories, never to look back.

This final paragraph is just editorializing. A computer will never care about anything (including games like Go and domination of other beings) that it is not programmed to imitate care about, and will thus remain perennially unmotivated.

Also, my intuition says that gradient descent is an ugly hack and that there HAS to be some better way (like a direct way) to get at the inverse of a matrix (not just in specific cases but in the general case!), but I digress, and not being a mathematician, perhaps someone has already proved somehow that a general method to directly and efficiently invert all possible matrices is impossible
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https://pxhere.com

Lots of 16+ MP CC0-licensed works and good filtering options.
this appears to be a trick of sorts. according to a comment by one of the brothers, faceid only acknowledged the new user after the phone had been unlocked via PIN while looking at it. that sounds a bit like an intentional feature for training the facial recognition?
There is some legal definition for "terrorism" in german criminal law (do not ask me the details, but there is a difference if an act of murder was a terroristic act or not - it has to do with intentions, means, motives, acting alone or in a network and so on). So there is some factual definition.

A quote like "They call him freedom fighter, I call him terrorist" is clearly an opinion and yes, it makes a difference whether you use the word in the sense of a legal definition or an abstract concept or a hyperbolic metaphor. The level rod is dignity.
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https://www.fundable.com/lucabe-coffee-co

~37k raised from this campaign
When you dictate to the phone, this happens inevitable. For example I can't get the phone to type "culled", only "called" or "cold". And so on. But these are minor compared to some other issues.

Would be nice to be able to have an escape word and spell the previous word by letters. Or get out into some control sequence :)

Maybe there should be an app for that!
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From a general ai perspective, these girls show us the possibility of having multiple self-iterating recursive identities share the same physical and mental resources.

From a philosophical perspective I applaud Mother Nature for spitting on our idea of limited identity in such a compellingly materialistic way. The Ship of Theseus is a good wikipedia search for a thinker's first thoughts about identity.

And from a human perspective, these girls will show us the struggles and triumphs of two individuals pioneering so far from the central finite curve of human experience, and with such a supportive mother like that, I believe they will do it in spades.
2 is only the case if you limit media to things 45-50+ year olds consume (ie newspapers). And I don't even mean that there were blogs that disagreed with her: talk radio (I assume) and Fox didn't like her - and it is really not strange that newspapers supported the democratic candidate, especially in such a polarized election.

As for 1), she clearly spent too much on old-media. You don't win the presidential election by setting fire to 4 billion USD, even if you technically "spend" the most.
very good book.
but it is also very old. why are they using it only now ???
Wildlife Management Areas are a great place to start. State and federal parks too. I’m syre there are plenty of walking trails if you are near a major city.

Private landowners are pretty good about marking boundaries where public meets private.
> for example by having someone else text it to you multiple times

This one is super widespread. I don't believe I had anybody text it to me before it showed up for me. Over-the-air model update perhaps? Could have been a virus-spreading situation but it seems like something else.
The Mac store also has vetting.
Disclaimer: mine hasn't arrived yet, but you should be able to walk into the room, tap the phone, and it will unlock but leave you at the lock screen to see your notifications.

You don't have to be facing it directly, you don't have to lift to wake it.
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I'm a native (British) English speaker who has used "flatten" to mean re-format.
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Came here to say this. Had a massive and I mean massive amount of mushrooms in my yard. Turned out the they were Jack-o-lanterns despite what my coworker thought.
Facebook is not a democratic net-state. Its users are nevertheless its netizens. Comparing it to a traditional state, you might say the shareholders are the nobility, employees are the privileged trade and crafts guilds, and users are the taxed serfs.
Some of these sites used to allow comments on all articles, then progressively cut down on the commenting functionality (blocking comments on controversial topics, requiring moderation before comments become visible etc.) following their experiences with the liberal policy.

Here's a talk from a data scientist how analyzed posts and comments on spiegel.de: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7912-spiegelmining_reverse_engin... (German video, English and French translations on separate audio tracks)
Hm, can you describe your workflow? I think your doing something wrong. Docker is not a substitute for automated testing triggered by file changes.

On the other hand spinning up a redid/MySQL is straight forward with docker.

Any kind of virtualization will consume memory. I think you need at least 8GB of ram for a dev machine, but everything d pends on details.
Who's selecting? I'm merely stating the obvious: Depending on how you count, there are around 1 billion people living in the "developed world" and it's already wrecking havoc on the environment and even the human psyche.

Yet people think it's viable to extend that same kind of lifestyle to additional 6+ billion people? Let's not forget that a large part of these 6 billion people are not even close to a Chinese or Indian middle class, but are stuck way below the poverty line.
And it's not like India or China have solved environmental issues, imho there is massive "environmental debt" building up in India and China, people merely tend to ignore those in light of high renewable adoption rates, but that's only one part of the issue, waste management is another one.

As much as I wish it'd be possible, I simply don't see how this is supposed to work out with constantly rising living standards for everybody.
So the other outcome is most likely that standards won't rise for everybody, but rather that they equalize on a "middle level", which still means close to a billion people gonna have to "lower" their standards and a couple of billion have to rise theirs quite a bit.
That would be really nice actually, because it would strip Facebook of its financial basis. When Facebook is not operating in the EU anymore, EU companies will likely put their advertising money elsewhere.
This was written in 1997.
"From the Association of Alumni and Alumnae of MIT April 1997"
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Changing hearts and minds might just be easier done with a search result or a like button than with... wait, remind me what power Standard Oil had to do something like that again?

The power to transform culture and the trek of civilization is real power. And unlike many I don't see that being a being entirely a bad thing.
import unittest

Used for CI in https://github.com/serprex/aespython
Give the app overcast a shot if your sick of the stock podcasts app:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/overcast/id888422857?mt=8
This sounds very similar to U.S. libel laws, except that in the case of public figures you also need to prove malice.
Do you have a citation for those laws? Couldn't find any German law off hand, though plenty of people agree that it's a bad idea. Maybe there are such laws in other European countries?
And now, after HRC lost, we are still using the same mechanism, and lenses, to form conclusions about why she lost.

That’s the definition of insanity.

Would you be able to explain why a foreign government felt the need to expend enormous resources on trolling operations in support of Trump when Hillary was going to lose anyway?