skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested in a deep technical book on a previous mission (Magellan) to Venus, I would strongly recommend "The Evening Star: Venus Observed", it's wonderful: http://amzn.to/2BgRXGW
I don't think this is very useful. It's not very hard to self-diagnose minor skin issues. You need a dermatologist for something more serious.
Agreed, I will take the wide-screen ratio god intended (16:10) any day of the week over 16:9.
I don't know how common it is but yeah I first heard of that at university. I'm a linguist (in Brazil).
>What hasn't convinced you?

Companies exist (only) to make money. The only reason Apple has to not sell users' data is because they think the reputational and other costs are more than the profit from selling it.

If at some point in the future, the expected costs and profits change to make it profitable, they will do it without a second thought.

If the code is closed source, the users are less likely to be able to tell whether their data is being sold. This reduces the expected costs of selling the data (in PR expenses, customers who take their business elsewhere on principle and so on).

If the code is open source, it's more likely to be more costly to sell users' data, so it's more likely that it won't be worth it even in the future.
Is there any free program that searches for and deletes Adware?
Is there any free program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs PUP, and browser Hijackers from your computer?
Please post a deeper analysis so we can compare them :-) Language Log is pretty open to debate so I guess they would even republish there if it is a good one!
I use a physical notebook to record my work too, and I find it very effective. If I sit through a meeting and write nothing down I will inevitably forget everything about the meeting, writing it down helps me to remember it. You can also go back and find out what was discussed before - a surprising number of meetings just retread things which were talked about or even decided upon previously.

I use: Oxford Black n' Red A5 Matt Casebound Hardback Notebook, and UM-153S Signo Impact Gel Pens. I get through one of those notebooks per year on average.

Edit: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/keeping-a-work-noteboo...
> In conclusion, the newly added měilì 美丽 ("beautiful") in the Party constitution is completely unrelated to the abstract ideal of "beauty" of the Platonic or Aristotelian sort.

This is a pretty interesting remark, in the eyes of a westerner. Care to comment on it?
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> for (int i = ; i < chunks; ++i) {

> int old_val = ;

Please tell me this is a bug in the example and not some new C++ initializer syntax.
I'm not the OP. My claim is about the comment that I replied to, so that is my source.
Ukraine and Iraq are nowhere near comparable situations.
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Can't speak for the parent, but I still keep a few around just as a quick reference on things:

My company does a lot of international work, so I have a row of clocks at different world times set up in a neat row. I also managed to find an old installer for istatpro's widget, which is still my favorite widget of all time (lots of computer usage information at a quick glance, very slim and real time). When I still had a mac as my work computer, I used the calendar widget frequently. I also had some webpage made widgets of our Salesforce reports and tools to quickly reference without having to open a tab for salesforce or keep it open elsewhere; the periodic snapshot of the page was enough. I keep a 5 day weather forecast up as well with some basic weather information.

I use it as...a dashboard honestly. Every time I find myself frequently searching for common information, I find a widget for it and swipe over quickly. They use almost no resources, they're always fast to update when I need the information, and they're out of the way. Maybe it's just because I was really excited about Dashboard from way back when and it's part of my workflow, but I find it super useful still for managing a lot of "often needed needed but not in real-time" data points on a single laptop screen.
Beorg – an Emacs org-mode companion for iOS
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Look I think healthcare insurance in the United States is beyond stupid but calling the healthcare “third-world” is a bit extreme.
I think going for anything BUT rgb based on a digital rgb source image is beyond the scope of this experiment. You are not dealing with a real image, don't bother with real color space, ESPECIALLY if you filter it all down to a palette that is even more limited.

EDIT: after looking into this: CieLAB is still beyond scope, but a good solution for nearest color when you want to be accurate to that degree.
Global globalization may be inevitable, but I don't really see why individual countries must accept it entirely. Why can't you pick and choose which parts to engage in, knowingly accepting the positive or negative consequences that come with that? I see very little reason why large advanced countries like the US can't decide to restrict some free trade and take the 10% or whatever hit to GDP, in exchange for greater control and less uncertainty. This may be a naive belief, but specifically why?
In my opinion Hitler needs to be kept in that box on the basis on how he killed millions of people. That's how we should remember him and the German Nazis forever.

On the other hand Stalin should join him as he killed even more people - see Ukrainian Great Famine, Gulags, etc!
Yes, with Android we at least have this option of running AOSP/Lineage and F-Droid.

If only HW and chip manufacturers released Linux sources (or ideally had support in the mainline Linux branch) soon with proper drivers (ideally open)...

Manyfacurers keep releasing lots of closed junk smartphones every year :/ but as long as people will continue buying it, nothing will change.
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you can always set them to be regular function keys and use karabiner to override those media keys. that's the setup I have and it's pretty good.
It depends on where the money is going, and if it is ever coming back. I happen to believe a lot of it is people who covertly working with the government in order to establish significant presence in countries throughout the world, similar to what the US has done, only more economically efficiently. Pure speculation of course, but if they can pull it off...

Capitalism and freedom has a giant Achilles heel.
Like I said in the edited comment in parent, 美丽 is mostly used to describe physical objects. So it is going to be interpreted as beautiful towns, cities and houses by the general public. And the officials will maybe prioritize some gentrification, renovation projects in alignment to this. I don't know why the author thought so deeply about it. It should be pretty straightforward.
Summary:

> Clones do have unique health problems, just not the ones that dominated headlines about Dolly. Clones are less likely to make it to term in pregnancy, and when they are born, they are more likely to be a little maladjusted. “You have to baby them—give them oxygen, give them glucose until they normalize,” says George Seidel, who studies animal-reproduction technologies at Colorado State University. The clones that make it to adulthood are generally pretty normal.
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Well, German is my first language, so I obviously understood what it means. But it feels out of place in English. More common words like kindergarten or schadenfreude make much more sense to me, that's why I was asking.
They just upped pension age to 67 here. Its not bad if your life expectancy is 90 and you're in good health.
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Leaving history aside (do we really want to apply 16th century economics rules today? No) your statement that any country would do the same thing is untrue in many ways. There are IP laws that protect a comoany's right to keep its secrets and extract value out of them for a number of years. That's a bit too long in some cases but this is what makes modern economy possible. A company invests tons of money in R&D and then gets it back through patents they can protect.

For a government to extort companies to give up their IP is to steal, no mincing words.

Especially if the companies and people given access to the information extracted are close to the government, it's just another tool for them to control the economic environment with politics.

To claim this is some Robin Hood scheme that will bring equality in the world is to say stealing from rich countries is ok and we should do it more, companies be damned. It's essentially an extreme firm of communism and as someone who lived in that system for a while and is has first hand experience of how frustrating corrupted governments are to doing business, I can point at virtually all attempts to make it work and we can all see how they failed.

Chins wants to be competitive at someone else's R&D expense.

Edit: China improving is terrifying would you like to have that political system in your country? If yes most of would would rather have freedom of speech which btw allows us to have this conversation without fearing a knock on the door and prison for life.
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I was recently wondering whether Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions(TSX) will replace lock-free patterns in latency-critical programming. However, I have seen few benchmarks on this topic.
I'm a lowly IT Tech in the NHS. I predicted the cyber-attack 3 years ago
> Unfortunately, capital controls is what China economy needs if they want to keep growing.

Since when did benefits to "China" surpass benefits to individuals living in China? The state should serve the people, not the other way around.
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If everyone stops spending their excess income and instead saves it nothing will be produced but if they suddenly decide to spend it they will have nothing to spend it on unless the type of good is also non perishable.
Pieter's background is in algorithms and cryptography, he's not a networking engineer. The other people you mentioned are solid but their involvement in development is fairly peripheral, with only a handful of commits between them combined.

It doesn't take anything away from my argument that bitcoin's netcode is archaic and remains a major hurdle to scaling, and there is way too much political cruft to move things along.
But distances don't mean anything in the RGB space, so NN is meaningless
The keycodes listed in the article are wrong. F4 is 118; F5 is 96. Not sure why it worked for the author. For any interested, a full list of macOS keycodes can be found here: http://macbiblioblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/key-codes-for-func...
"get an iPhone" - what a stupid suggestion. Why do you think it is more secure for god sake? Because Apple told so?

The only way to regain control over SW and to prevent spying and data leakage is by using free software, where you can read and modify the source code, build the firmware yourself. Because as long as there is source released and some company decides to add a tracking functionality, people will notice and make a fork without it.

This is how it works on GNU/Linux for a decade and I am happy I can use it. Now I only wish people stopped buying these smartphones with proprietary blobs tracking them and demanded free software.

Most people are easy (I don't want to say stupid) and don't see the problem unfortunatelly. :(
So I was chatting to my 8 yo about this and he made the analogy that as in 2D we have infinite numbers of polygons meaning that at the limit a circle would be a polygon of infinite sides(?), to 3D where a sphere would be a polyhedron with infinite faces ... I can't really see a flaw there except through definition.

Or do we say that the circle itself is not in the set of polygons?

In other words why isn't a sphere a platonic solid?
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The problem is that certain goods like food can perish. By the time the price matches the fair value it's already gone.
Free Markets... a shift away from control by a few big players to a more distributed and even playing field - where we aren't at the mercy of oligopolies. Instead of net neutrality imposed by the government - we vote for it with our decision of ISP and with our dollars.
Prices for electronics and clothes are the cheapest on Black friday but there are many people who buy those things year round

So how would that support your theory?
In defense of English speakers, one can use Spanish words relatively freely without seeming awkward: gracias, siesta, amigo, macho, etc.

It's worth pointing out that these are all practical day-to-day words. Perhaps the difference is there, also. Contrast cul-de-sac and ennui.
I didn't realise art collectors were quite so ruthless!
This is a personal attack:

> you sound like the typical guy women don't want to work with

You don't substantiate this claim with respect to why they "sounds like" this, what a "typical guy women don't want to work with" is, or why it matters in context to this thread - but decide to air this unflattering view anyway.
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The way I interpreted it was basically an iterated Feynman Algorithm[1]:

1. Write down the problem

2. Think real hard

3. Write down the solution

4. Write down how well it worked

5. GOTO 2

I do something similar using org-mode, and it's useful when, after some time has passed and I need to do the same thing again, I can go back to my notes and not start from scratch again.

[1] http://wiki.c2.com/?FeynmanAlgorithm
Adding authentication needs to break compatibility with older versions to be safe, or else an attacker could simply masquerade as an older client and perform an effective downgrade attack. As in what's happening with DNSSEC implementations.
The US is the wealthiest country on paper, sure.

But there is huge gap between the elite and the poor. And meritocracy? That's actually a socialist ideal. Fact is that people in the Netherlands or Norway aren't fleeing to the US. There are advantages to living in a welfare state.
What would the buyer do with the painting?

Is this for investment purposes, in which case, how would they sell this in the future? Surely the legality issues would reduce the pool of potential customers, and the overall resale value.

Or are there people who will buy such a painting for their own personal enjoyment? (I guess just because I don't see the value, doesn't mean there aren't people with vast amounts of disposable income who will buy things like this on a whim.)
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Reminds me of this apocryphal story: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
While you are of course correct, it would be interesting to see how much the choice of color space actually matters in this particular case.
And that's correct... inside the optic fiber, the light doesn't go straight in the core of the fiber. It bounces and is reflected, making the path longer.
Most likely you love high quality notebooks and writing instruments, and you probably have neat handwriting.

I rather have files that I can understand later, and easily grep as a bonus...

(I do admit that crossing done tasks on a piece of paper feels very good.)
Good point. But I still prefer open free software, because there you HAVE the OPTION to inspect it!

If you paid someone (even multiple people/companies) to do professional audit over OpenSSL, it would be prevented.

Now, with closed software you are lost and the only thing you have is a TRUST the SW developer. Because inspecting blbs is much more difficult. And I don't trust them.
30btc is a trivial amount
Pushing Docker images right from Travis-CI
Even if it is a sock puppet (and isn't your account pretty new?), humans are reading here, so my advice is to take the high ground if you want to convince people.

Can you explain why chain rewards decreasing are problematic.
Asic hardware is already bought, so mining still makes sense even if the rewards drop as the cost is sunk.
Staggering variety of clandestine trackers found in popular Android apps
> I don't know why the author thought so deep about it.

Because “beautiful” is a pretty abstract word. It kinda invites to a debate. Don’t you think?
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Thanks! Yeah, right now it's mainly the services we use at CertSimple and Mashape (who've contributed). So we have olark in there, because we use it, but not intercom.

Also finding required CSP is often trial and error, since vendors don't publish CSP settings. For example, Stripe do, Braintree don't and refused to when asked.

Best way to have the vendors would maybe be as npm modules - eg, Stripe could publish and update 'stripe-csp'. It's not ideal through as npm is JS specific as someone might be using Ruby or Python or Elixir or Java. But since there's no cross language repo, maybe npm as a JSON repo is a good idea.
It doesn't actually work in 2D for infinity, just for arbitrarily large integers (and there is an infinite amount of them).

If it actually were infinite, three "neighbouring" points wouldn't actually describe a face but just a point, since they all fall onto each other. You could look at the Banach–Tarski paradox for a better understanding. "Half" the set of points is still enough to describe a sphere since there are infinitely many.
ARPANET infrastructure became redundant and obsolete after private entites made better and faster backbone links, and so was decommissioned in 1990.
Because each side would need to have the 'length' of a point-

> In particular, the geometric points do not have any length, area, volume or any other dimensional attribute.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_%28geometry%29
Not outright. Porsche took inspiration from a few sources. Notably Tatra as I had already mentioned, but it's not a long shot to figure that Ganz's ideas made it into the mix in a fairly hearty fashion.

The Beetle itself is an original Porsche design. While it can be argued that Porsche's original ideas might not be all that original, his application of those concepts to cheap and durable mass production is perhaps his greatest strength.

Porsche also designed a few tanks for Germany. One was poorly received and never made it into series production, and another that went into very limited (less than 100) and was prone to malfunction and lack of suitability to the purpose.
But can Beorg be run in Emacs?
Very cool. I'm curious about how it compares to MobileOrg (http://mobileorg.github.io), which is also available for Android btw. From a first glance it seems much more polished.
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Opening subreddits from memory still the best way to nav reddit..
Paid advertising? I use LibreOffice and it fullfills all my needs.

I understand, there may ve different needs in big corporations, of course. But that doesn't mean "everyone should stop using Excel and buy our cloud SW", sigh.
Look at pixel art for the C64 etc. and you'll see how creative dithering like that can get, but it also tends to show that the end result will often be better if you deviate more.

With pixel art that uses models, part of the challenge tends to be not to be as accurate as possible, but to deviate in the ways that best brings out the overall qualities of the image.

E.g. in this case I'd argue that the big flaw in the end result was to not bring out the blue in her head-dress and the white and black in her eyes, and ensuring the back of her head and back is actually visible, at least with a dark grey outline, as well as the red line of her mouth.

Likewise, sacrificing some of the lines in her headdress for less texturing but hinting at it with maybe one line would probably look better.

I don't want to diminish it in terms of demonstration of the methods in the article - it's great as a means of showing what you can do with them. But it also demonstrates shortcomings of those methods (but that's good too).
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In the article, she never directly states that hackers need to study the humanities. What she was basically saying - in the part about Vacca - is that there needs to be human oversight to algorithms that affect public policies (school districting, police paroles, ...). So the implication, in that example, is that programmers should work with people in the social sciences to deliver solutions that may not be algorithmically optimal, but better meet the needs of the community.
This is a nice little interview, but the title is very misleading! The word "humanities" only appears once outside the title and the answer doesn't really address the title's claim.

I think it's an interesting topic, though. Do tech companies need more humanities grads? I'm skeptical because plenty of other industries have caused their own social problems, and the humanities haven't saved them. Look at advertising, which was originally built by artists rather than hackers.

It may well be true that big tech companies need to be more socially aware and environmentally conscious, but that doesn't mean "the humanities" is necessarily the answer.
That's what the article is about, you can divide a circle in an infinite number of polygons, but, somewhat unintuitively, you can't do that with spheres, only 5 divisions are possible ! If you try with hexagons, for example, you'll find that you can't join them without distorting them.
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