skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because 'terrorism' is a rather ill-defined term

Terrorism is well defined, by Alex P. Schmid in 1988:

Schmid and Jongman (1988): "Terrorism is an anxiety-inspiring method of repeated violent action, employed by (semi-) clandestine individual, group or state actors, for idiosyncratic, criminal or political reasons, whereby - in contrast to assassination - the direct targets of violence are not the main targets. The immediate human victims of violence are generally chosen randomly (targets of opportunity) or selectively (representative or symbolic targets) from a target population, and serve as message generators. Threat- and violence-based communication processes between terrorist (organization), (imperilled) victims, and main targets are used to manipulate the main target (audience(s)), turning it into a target of terror, a target of demands, or a target of attention, depending on whether intimidation, coercion, or propaganda is primarily sought".

As well as by "The Revised Academic Consensus Definition of Terrorism (2011)" by Alex Schmid available at [1]

The problems derive from definition being complex. Examples: laymen don't have the analytical power, powers that be have a conflict of interest as you describe. However that is certainly not the same as terrorism being an ill-defined term.

The revised definition is used world wide by terrorism experts such as Prof. Dr. Beatrice de Graaf and Prof. Dr. Edwin Bakker.

If this subjects is of interest to you I recommend the Coursera course "Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Comparing Theory and Practice" [2] by Prof. Dr. Edwin Bakker.

[1] http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/vi...

[2]
https://www.coursera.org/learn/terrorism
Any website where I can order a few for testing?
If this was true then you'd expect the exchange rate on Bitfinex to be much higher than other exchanges.

If you can't get USD out of Bitfinex, you'd buy BTC and withdraw, pushing the exchange rate up on Bitfinex. Then you'd sell the BTC on another exchange, pushing the exchange rate down there.

We're not seeing that: https://imgur.com/a/2vxV7
Look interesting but I'm not crazy about the fact that to get the source + data, I have to get the $90 version.
What can a 25 year old do today to grow exponentially in 5 years?
Considering someone is a fresh University graduate or with 1-2 years of experience. What are the things that he can start doing today for the next 5 years that will help him have a great career in tech?
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The answers focusing on hidden city ticketing are just nonsense. Airlines have much better tools for dealing with that, they can just ban you afterwards.

Airlines will resell your return ticket if you neglect contacting them after missing your first flight.

If you contact them, they will not sell your return ticket. There's also a good chance that they'll switch the first flight you missed for free or at least significantly less than the cost of a new ticket.
This article doesn't mention it, but if you follow all their guidelines, not only did you lower your expectations if fit and finish, but you also lower the expectations of the whole product for people who buy it.

That's actually a good thing. First revision hardware is going to have issues and building a beautiful product and putting in a beautiful box will set you up for disappointed customers.
Thanks! You can request access to zone files from the domain authorities. I take the raw zone file and load it into a series of Bloom filters backed by Redis. There are a lot of domains to check against, and a probabilistic data structure is the only way to store it in memory, which you need for performance. This has the small caveat that the tool will accidentally think a domain is not available about 0.1% of the time. However, it shouldn't ever report domains as available when they are not. So that works quite well for a tool like this.
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The “dead tree edition.” Good play, sirs.

I’m going have to get that one though. I can’t seem to focus/finish when reading educational books on my kindle or in PDF form.

I like the “turn thousands of lines of code into queries”... I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen application code doing something a query could do either to appease an ORM or because a backend engineer wasn’t fluent in intermediate SQL.
Well mainly because Nvidia gimped their OpenCL drivers and there was no customer pushback.
A trie and a ternary search tree are two very different beasts. Tries can are very memory efficient, as common prefixes in terms are bunched together, and nodes are not split on every letter.
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Modern democrats seem liberal on social issues, but not much else, unfortunately.
Hmm. Firefox 56.0 running on Ubuntu 16.04 and it's working fine minus the hijacked scroll. Note to all front end developers: STOP HIJACKING SCROLL! It's bad UX. No exceptions.
Just FYI, in the "The Dead Tree Edition" section, "professionally" is spelled wrong:

A professionnally printed paperback of 332 pages, with the same content.
“Today, I'm officially a millionaire!”
Fair enough, yeah. I only had retail in mind :)
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it was something they are started to cheating and they give our IP address through catpcha.
wouldn't a payoff of 97% means that with a fixed amount of money going in, over time you end up with $0? the payoff is exponential in the wrong direction, right?
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right now they are also paying dividend worth ~3% assuming they keep on doing this it would be 6.5% not bad..
Europe sells some, but we don't export much...
"Intel does not and will not design backdoors for access into its products. Recent reports claiming otherwise are misinformed and blatantly false. Intel does not participate in any efforts to decrease security of its technology"

We can all rest easy now that Intel has come out and public said this, right?
Is there a way to make a correct distinction?
I grew up in a country where certain websites (you know, like adult sites) are blocked, I'm not comparing this to that exactly, but isn't it strange to be told that your ISP is hereby not allowed to provide you access to a website? Especially when nobody unanimously agrees that it's a bad thing? (I'm not here to argue the ethics/morality of it, but pointing out that it has proponents on both sides)

I mean, I know blocking some content is the norm in many countries (lots of European countries do it for various purposes (nazi content, child porn, etc, that are almost unanimously considered 'bad')). Isn't this a drastic new step for the US? (again, I don't exactly keep up with this, but this seems new to me)
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The browser only identifies itself by name, not by the features it supports. Having the server decide blindly on what features the browser can handle, would be terrible.

Having browsers identify themselves by the features they support would have been nice, but also very complicated, and it's not where we are now.
Funny thing, learning programming (and in particular, learning vim) taught me touch typing.

I was a 80WPM hunt-n-peck typist, and my typing/"business computing" teacher in High School was a 25WPM touch typist. She couldn't convince me it was worth learning, so I never did. I'd fake it and other bs until we finally moved on after about 2-3 months.

However, after programming for about 3 years, I realised that I had subconciously learned how to touch type, and with about a month of concentrating on better finger usage, I achieved a more "proper" touch typing form.

My one complaint about vim: muscle memory. After using vim for years, you'll find random :w's and :q's at the end of so many emails or documents in other programs!
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Let the Flat Earth commenters begin. They are already some on the blog itself, but I think the HN commenter has a higher class of eruditon, scientific exposition and rigor.

I tend to go with Flat Earthers because I find the counter-arguments against their claims rather inadequate, but that could be because I lack the scientific understanding to comprehend them.
lol is this a serious comment??? You have terabytes (petabytes) or data in front you of but cant think of a single thing to do with it????

Oh i know, we'll just 'machine learning' our 'big data' and get great business insights.
Except in this case they're breaking forms that disable autocomplete for legitimate reasons.

If there is never a valid reason to disable autocomplete and therefore "the standard is wrong", there are ways to change the standard. The standardisation process for Web APIs actively involves browser vendors but allows for building a consensus before jumping the gun.
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Apple wants low powered, thin, but powerful chips.
At a company with a healthy culture, managers should be hiring people who they trust to get their jobs done. If you feel the need to watch your employee's every move, why would you hire them in the first place? Treating employees like delinquent children instead of mature teammates indicates a very sick company culture that I would avoid at all costs.
90% according to whom?
It (the ESP32) is right in the middle of the bottom view photo. The actual SX1278 is smaller, on the right. On the bottom, you have the SPI flash for the ESP32.
Maybe it’s the first edition of the website :D
This is the key takeaway from the article. As much as I agree that researches deserve fair compensation for their work; I also believe gate-keeping academic knowledge is also wrong. It's not surprising that the US legal system found against Sci-hub. Issuing the legally binding statement, that blocking a site by ISP and search engine level, is the real problem. It sets a very tenuous precedent.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments
That seems like a deliberate end-run round the company registration system from the get-go, rather than an existing operating company using it's capital to diversify.
Yes the processor that Apple makes is challenging to build but those other chips, like power management IC or audio codec aren't very challenging, relatively to the difficulty of implementing a good WIFI/LTE chip.
Thanks, pre-caffiene thinking at work here.

The numbers look more reasonable now, but ultimately its a hard sell especially when Apple doesn't actually need to make a profit for its accessories, but you do. Even then, what's the market look like for this without an Apple. I suspect not very large and its Apple's own marketing efforts that have gotten people interested in these tiny wireless earbuds anyway.
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I am really happy Hadley put together a nice concise survey of the different OO systems in R! One of the really great things about having these multiple object systems is that they really do lend themselves to multiple styles of problem solving and different domains. S3 and R6 are both really different, but they both can be used really expressively and to build large systems with "proper" software engineering methodologies. If you haven't, check out his other books too... I find them really easy to read but chock full of information.
Bolt's blog is a treasure trove. I link to another of Ben's pieces in the story.

Either do what MakerBot did, and embrace the DIY enthusiasts as your first market, or do what Misfit did, downplay the tech features in favor of a more fashion forward aesthetic. But running headlong into the buzzsaw that is Apple seems like a recipe for failure.
No, what you did is provide airline-speak justification for doing it. Airlines route optimization and pricing optimization is stuck in the early nineties. Their software is simply incapable of solving for the max profit or max revenue model. That's why hidden stop is still a thing.
Does anyone have a more in depth source or a link to the source code?

I'm currently using a slightly hacked Jupyterhub to do what I assume is the same thing, I can't work out from that article (maybe I missed it) wheree the kernel actually runs with this?

It's not useful to me unless you can self-host and hack it. If that's possible and they add python3 will probably end up putting it into prod.
The browser with its plethora of extensions is arguably even worse than an operating system, and yet people keep using online banking and don't get hacked 24/7. Software can be reasonably secure and is basically as vulnerable as the human that's using it.

If you insist that one should err on the side of being paranoid when handling money, you can argue that hardware wallets are secure iff you manufacture your own hardware.

Want true security without going into hardware manufacturing?

Pick a private key and write it down on a piece of paper (ideally you'd do it in your head) along with the corresponding public key. Then send bitcoin to an address that's controlled by the keypair you just created. If you did all the calculations in your head while wearing a tin-foil hat your bitcoin should be reasonably secure.
That's actually a big debate right now. But the AI is completely not involved at all. A Nurse Practitioner is 4-years of undergrad + 2-years of Nurses school (which is roughly equivalent to a Masters Degree).

So there's a big belief that highly trained Nurses ought to be good enough for primary care.

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With that said, I've traveled a bit across America and many rural areas only have small ~3 or 4 room "hospitals" that cover entire towns, or even entire counties (~2 hour drive area to the next 5-room "hospital").

In these cases, you definitely want a Doctor who has experience in way more fields.

Nurse Practitioners are probably good enough for primary care in cities, where referrals to specialists is possible. In rural areas where specialists may be a 4+ hour drive away, its simply not feasible to recommend a specialist. The doctor at the small county hospital is all you've got.
Haven't found a lot myself but I came across this interesting article by a VC. Talks about the type of customers you need to go after depending on what you want to achieve.

http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2014/10/five-ways-to-build...
In other words, there is exactly enough labor, given labor cost and profit. So where is the ‘shortage?’
What do you see as the problems with that?
The two main paragraphs:

"Prior work has suggested that energy is involved when quarks fuse together. In studying the properties of one such fusing, a doubly-charmed baryon, the researchers found that it took 130 MeV to force the quarks into such a particular configuration, but they also found that fusing the quarks together wound up releasing 12 MeV more than that. Intrigued by their finding, they quickly focused on bottom quarks, which are much heavier—calculations showed it took 230 MeV to fuse such quarks, but doing so resulted in a net release of approximately 138 MeV, which the team calculated was approximately eight times more than the amount released during hydrogen fusion.

Since hydrogen fusion lies at the heart of hydrogen bombs, the researchers were quite naturally alarmed at their findings. So much so that they considered not publishing their results. But subsequent calculations showed that it would be impossible to cause a chain reaction with quarks because they exist for too short a period of time—approximately one picosecond—not long enough to set off another baryon. They decay into much smaller, less dangerous lighter quarks."
Exactly!

Ideally, I would just need an SSH key inside your machines and the capabilities to open an ssh tunnel inside the firewall to scrape metrics.

Ideally, the metric should get exposed back to the customer.

I am not a big fan of containers when working with data that are irreplaceable. But the use k8s may really help.
Given the pervasiveness of SORM deployment across ISPs and tech companies within russia, it maybe that a letter like system is not even required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM
Thanks for putting the time and effort into this, Dimitri
I'm coming to the conclusion that, at a society scale, there's a fundamental conflict such that advances in communications technologies undermine trust.

This is a case of paradox of composition -- whilst at a personal scale improved communications can increase trust, at a mass scale, the tendency seems to be to undermine it. This increasingly strikes me as a problem.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6jqakv/communi...

In a world without high-speed, high-bandwidth, rapid, and reliable communications, you have to extend, and rely on, trust between individuals. Cultures evolve systems (usually religious) to create and foster a sufficiently-reliable trust network.

As communications improve, reliance on that trust diminishes. You no longer need to be able to rely on a person working in your interest for days, or weeks, or months, or years. You can check on them at a moment's notice. You can monitor them continuously, across a wide range of metrics, without their conscious awareness.

A domain built on Trust becomes instead Panopticon.

(Further discussions of trust: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=trust&restrict...)
Well that is what they're advertising, which is absolutely insane in my opinion. I ordered a few of them[1], so I'll let you know when they get here.

It looks like the ESP32 is on the back. Sparkfun also sells an ESP32 that comes in that package: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13907

What's really interesting going on right now is that adafruit/sparkfun have become radioshack, and aliexpress has become my go to place to find interesting new stuff.

I will say that whenever I'm doing a commercial project[2], however, I still use the more expensive adafruit/fry's/genuine arduino boards.

[1]: I help run a hackerspace in Phoenix, and I do all sorts of maker workshops all over the world, so having a bunch of weird dev boards and parts and stuff is pretty important to me. If those don't end up working, it was worth the $40 to find out.

[2]: Part of my life is helping create one-off experiential advertising installations. Usually these things have a stack of arduinos in them controlling lights, sensors, motors, etc.
Apple refuses to sell their designs on the commodity market, so they can basically be ignored as a CPU/SoC vendor. Also, for what it's worth, Apple's CPU designs are not strictly "better" than the competition, they really just have a different target. Other vendors have more focus on dynamic and idle power, Apple seems to care a lot about single-core top line throughput.

That said, if you look at the way applications for Watch OS are submitted, you'll note that the submission format is LLVM bitcode, not machine code. This seems like an obvious and direct statement that they are willing to drop ARM at any moment for the Apple Watch. Something similar could (probably) be done for iOS.
The code. The shields are pretty worthless, but the availability of libraries and example code is excellent.

Instead of working out all the fine details of I2C, I can call a well developed function that takes care of all that for me. Instead of spending days writing a graphics library, I can find an off the shelf GFX library that has more features/is faster/ etc

The ability to move quickly with well documented, prebuilt libraries is invaluable when you want to get something up and running ASAP.

Once you're ready to develop it, then you can go back, strip out everything that's not needed, rewrite things, etc.

That's the beauty of Arduino.
Work around. Go to settings.. general... key board.. text replacement. Hit the plus sign at the top. Put I in the phrase and lower case I in the short cut. It will stop it from making it the A and symbol
Sure, it will burst. The Internet Bubble burst. And here we all are.
For 1, 2, and 3: I figure you just need to parse the UA string to get the actual browser and version number, then have a variant for before and after a given threshold number. You're only doing this for the number of variants of code you want to run/maintain, so this isn't some sort of combinatorial explosion.

It's just another method of dispatch instead of runtime checks inside JS. At worst you put the runtime check in the "I don't know what you are" variant and let them run slower.

For 5: If the browser's lying, you're morally off the hook. The user's configured their browser to lie, and gets what they deserve.

For point 4, fair enough. Go for that when you can.
Just yesterday I saw an ad on the Tube[1] - "Buy & short cryptos" / "Copy expert crypto traders" / "Invest in a crypto portfolio", and made me think of cabbies giving stock tips previous to the 1987 crash.

[1] Pic here: https://twitter.com/gabrielgambetta/status/92678756736590233...

[2] Turns out it was shoeshine boys and 1929 (http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive...), but my point stands :)
I am deeply curious about point 6. If intel bought amd I think it would lead to a massive change in how systems are built. I know there's the danger of a full x86 monopoly, but nvidia has a lot of pressure on intel at the high end and if the windows arm thing ever takes off I'm sure nvidia will have a laptop chip out in no time.

If there is a merger, I hope this will make a lot of AMD dream projects like the HPC APU take off, but I also fear that it might lead to a more stagnant intel+amd in a few years time.
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> As a user, I certainly do not care about “being part of moving the web forward aggressively”. Why should I? I like my stuff working, not broken.

Actually, I do want to be part of websites being faster, and I don't care about the functionality that is being broken. Performance isn't a secondary concern - if it's bad, the site is unusable from my point of view.

Your shitty scrolljacking site breaks the web, Chrome is trying to fix it.
> Since hydrogen fusion lies at the heart of hydrogen bombs, the researchers were quite naturally alarmed at their findings. So much so that they considered not publishing their results. But subsequent calculations showed that it would be impossible to cause a chain reaction with quarks because they exist for too short a period of time—approximately one picosecond—not long enough to set off another baryon. They decay into much smaller, less dangerous lighter quarks.

I found this the most interesting part of the article. I wonder what, if any, groundbreaking research has been hidden by its discoverers due to its potential for misuse.