skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen this happen in papers that "just" presented something as simple as an image thresholding function where the exact code took less than a dozen lines of C once I'd reverse engineered from test data what the constant their method relied on that they'd unhelpfully left out.

The implementation in fact took less space than their plain English description...

For papers that are deeply abstract and focused on solving a problem of the nature you describe, that's to me very different, and clearly there are papers where you won't get around using maths to communicate the problem well. But at least in the fields I've worked in, those kind of papers are rare exceptions.
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> they might consider the post was ill-timed, or irrelevant/pedantic, or inappropriate for any other reason in that context.

I find the current single dimensional score limiting because of this. Sometimes I want to see a funny comment, sometimes I want to see an insightful one. Scoring them equivalently doesn't really make sense.
Yeah, I'd probably let that one slide too.

As far as auto goes, I'm in the camp of using it unless the type makes the code clearer, but I get where you're coming from.

When it comes to iterators and such, that's where I think auto really shines. Those types only exist because they have to and I just don't care about having the noise there.
Peterson never even asked a question like that, let alone give an answer. This is just a straw man.

Do you have any evidence?
I don't agree. In fact, this is an extremely interesting topic worthy of a separate essay, so that hopefully this can be refuted once and for all.

You'll find it difficult (but not impossible) to figure out who I am. And I like it that way. Not because I'm particularly scared of anything, but because merit alone should be our filter.

This is further exemplified by the classism present in the current society. If you haven't gone through the right funnel, if you haven't been born to the right parents, if you merely got unlucky and your family's fortune was stolen or squandered, then suddenly you are unworthy of being listened to.

Right? That's what you're saying by "Words ought not be judged solely on their truthiness independent of their person." Either you're somebody, or you're nobody. And if you're nobody then you may as well go die.

That is quite dramatic, but not quite overly so. It's how companies feel about their employees when they fire them, for example.

In fact, follow this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15792258 Just start at the top and keep reading. It's an absolutely fascinating debate, and one of the sides is completely anonymous. I still don't know how to feel about the situation. Both sides bring up good points.

But such quality came out of letting merit alone be the judge. And people will disagree whether it's quality, but it certainly made me think.
When running in debug mode, generally the server is restarted every few minutes at worst. As the app is under active development and the server restarts whenever the app changes.

The reason it logs those queries is just for debugging. There are a lot of different ways they could do it, but they don't matter because you can just turn that feature off, or set it up to log in a different way, or whatever else.

Logging to a DB would be worse, because then it stores a bunch of useless queries that all look very similar. That logging is used for debugging, and wouldn't be something you'd want to use in production.

Why hasn't anyone already done this? Because it's trivia, not an actual problem that needs fixing.
I completely agree with your assessment.

Further, this last election cycle changed my metaphor, from Right vs Left to the No Caucus vs the Yes Caucus.

To your point about consensus.

Our local hot button issues this cycle were (are) affordable housing and homelessness. We interviewed ~40 candidates. Frankly, I was shocked by the discord, disagreement on "the left" about how to address these issues. I was further shocked by the stubborn opposition the simple obvious fixes (build more housing, so supply meets demand). And the opponents couldn't be cleanly divided into conservative vs liberal. One candidate has solid left wing bonafides (champion for LBGTQ) but was vehemently NIMBY. Our endorsement committee was gobsmacked.

After much pondering, I've decided that for any given issue, even when the majority are Yes (recognize that there is a problem and conclude some kind of change is warranted), there's no consensus. Therefore, the No Caucus (defenders of the status quo, whatever the reason) usually wins. The exception is Stephen Jay Gould style punctuated equilibrium, when the Yes caucus temporarily coalesces around a plan and overrides the No Caucus.

In short, the Yes Caucus is temporary, fragile. Whereas the No Caucus is durable.

Which at least partially explains why the regressives (today's GOP) is able to punch above its weight. And why that will always be true.

Now the question is what to do about that reality. For me, it means placing more emphasis on issue-based organizing and policy work, vs campaigns.
I think you need high energy radiation like cosmic rays from space to create problems. So those at higher elevation are at more risk. Heavy material like concrete may block this radiation.
Please allow me to clarify just a bit: No one mainstream in a position of power/influence is talking about it.

Sure we got ACA but that was only half the opportunity. The other half was telling the American people The Truth about their diet/lifestyle, and how that effects the cost of healthcare (to say nothing about the quality of life).

The problem is, that kind of honesty doesn't fare well with voters. It's also not good for business: Big Pharma, Food Inc., etc.

As far as I can tell, yet is going to be around for a long time.
The goal of science is for experiments to be repeatable. If I were to build a copy of the LHC under my house, presumably I would be able to verify any of CERN's results.

But I can't verify anything in journalism. If two reporters watched something happen and their accounts differ, who is right? No one knows, and both will be accused of bias.
Check out Verizon or AT&T fixed wireless; it's basically a LTE router with a large antenna on the outside of the house.
I'm in a much more dangerous position: I have a little knowledge in that area.
What do you mean by anti-competitive legislation? Amazon and Apple beat competition by innovation. There are plenty of competition for both companies. You can just buy stuff in Wallmart and buy an Android phone from many manufacturers. What are you talking about?
My mother used to tell a joke about a guy who hung around in cairo every 1st Jan because he'd said he would meet his brother then but forgot to say which year.

She was born just outside Lesotho (Basutoland as was) and I think the concept of BMT was pretty widespread in Africa.
Why would anyone prefer this over Handlebars or any other templating language loaded in via separate files over Ajax, which is much nicer on the eyes? This just seems to me like it can get very complex and spaghetti-like very easily.
From the future of Bitcoin to Facebook, 2018 in technology
Is that just they ban sharing your credentials with the neighbours.

If you could set up a ptp link (id say Omni on sisters house and a directional one at the parents) as a bridge from parents to sisters house. 2Km with LOS is trivial to achieve.

As your effectively bridging the two houses any host in the parents house would be part of the same network and be seen as such.

As in the US the phone company's responsibility ends at the demarc trying to stop how your internal wiring is configured seems impossible:-)
What I don't understand is (or rather do understand) - I know that it is freaking hard to hit anything with a handgun even at best conditions at 25m range, with two hand hold, preparation etc. Here there people are hidden behind cars, with hand rests for steady shooting, very big range for a handgun, in a dark and suspect is blinded with torches and not even in a shooting stance. Police of all people would know that they are 99.99% safe from any shooting he may do. This is pure bullshit from police side and clear abuse of power and it must be prosecuted accordingly.

PS: swatter is also an a55hole and a criminal of course (since he admitted doing it already).
If people worked this way, terrorism wouldn't be a thing to begin with.
The only metrics is economic. The question is how much does those performance constrains cost you ?
Here's the only UBI experiment I'm interested in seeing:

1. Take a bunch of people

2. Make them all give you 20% if their income for X years

3. Give them all back ((total money in) - (overhead costs to run the program)) / (total participants)

I suspect it would be difficult to find people who would participate willingly.
Why would they need to claim it? The way you've set it up it's vacuously true. The difference between Pizzagate and investigative journalism as you've defined it is reputation. And when trust in the press is lost what separates the curds and the whey is evidence which a fabricated story cannot provide.

The protection you offer even in the ideal case is worthless when there isn't trust that a journalist will bend to political pressure, financial incentives, threats, or to push their own or their publisher's agenda.

Saying that people need to "crtitically read" is just intellectual grandstanding.
That depends on what part of the country you're in. The northeast tends to have far more need of a garage to hold a car, at least during the winter.
ES6 Proxy and Localization
>> Which version of JavaScript do you use?

> Mostly ES6...
In this specific scenario what's the mitigation for cloud customers? Or even cloud providers? A customer can't migrate all of their infrastructure before a packaged exploit can be distributed. A provider can't dedicate hardware for every single customer. Let's be realistic here.
Since no one has mentioned yet, it IS bounded to the last 9000 queries by default.
Looks like that number was already reserved for a still unpublished vuln. We’re already up to > 3000 in 2018!
Most of Michael Franz' papers, for example:

http://www.michaelfranz.com/
Microservices Please Don't (2016)
For context,

Erlich/Simons bet. Erlich lost. The limits to growth are misunderstood and relate more to the rate of exploration and exploitation under economic forces, than actual hard limits of resource in geology.

Pauling vitamins.. turns out mega doses kill. Vitamin D toxicity is a thing.
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Common ones: everyone speaks English or pays in dollars. People are not familiar with Chinese internet, or even non-American-centric companies. People have access to some local service (typically delivery services or local chains) or are familiar with their idiosyncrasies, including Amazon (Amazon is only present in 11 countries https://services.amazon.com/global-selling/global-selling-gu...). Issues around food or water quality are very local; American conspiracy tropes.

Less common are understanding of legal issues, typically common law needs at least one case to clarify an issue as opposed to positive law countries; the right to bear arms is a big one, so is American-style freedom-of-speech.

More specific are things like: non-American universities provide a good education, non-American companies can innovate meaningfully, tipping is omnipresent in services, keyboard layouts, American references in literature, sport, movies, etc.

One of the latest obvious examples of such mindcuffs outside of HN is Apple’s announcement around battery replacement: it’s impossible to find conditions that are not meant for the US market. You can redirect the offer to local stores or find it there. That is actually quite typical of Apple, in spite of 60% of their sales being outside of the US.

I have made the mistake to point at similar mindcuffs on HN and I will not do it again.
Not necessarily worth much these days, but in the early days of Windows 10 on phones when Edge had... issues, UC Browser was one of the only other options available. While MS has technically (mostly?) abandoned Windows Phone, it does still get updates including regular Insider builds and Edge is much better these days.

I'm a little disappointed but perhaps not surprised to see Dolphin Browser missing - before Firefox and Chrome really got there on Android it was a great option including tabbed browsing, plugins including adblocking, and even "Dolphin Jetpack" which was their own updated Webkit engine that Dolphin could use instead of the built in and rarely-updated browser engine on 2.x and 4.x phones.
> I wonder a bit about what the Guardian is trying to tell us here. That we should have listened 100 years ago to Teller and taken action?

Is this snarky comment really all you have to contribute to the conversation? At least make the effort to do the math. The conference occurred in November 1959, around 59 years ago. This is well before consensus about the reality of global warming began to form among atmospheric scientists. That's the point of this article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_change_scie...
Innocent users are the only ones that will get caught up by this anymore, the cheaters already worked around this(https://github.com/nullifiedcat/catbot-setup/commit/c2d22ee9...). Yes, cheaters were the first to report it because they were the first to experience it.
I should have said, "Lynx and a fairly dumb terminal"
People are generally willing to make the slightly less safe assumptions that targeted and mass attacks are different threat models, and that coordinated disclosure might not help against the former but does help against the latter.

People are willing to make these assumption because they correspond closer to reality.
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You got muppy for that: https://pythonhosted.org/Pympler/muppy.html

Also objgraph: https://www.darkcoding.net/software/finding-memory-leaks-in-...

If you are lucky to use Python 3.6+, you got tracemalloc: https://docs.python.org/3/library/tracemalloc.html
The reason given was that the countries were associated with terrorism.
Are US police radio still broadcasting unencrypted on public frequencies ? I know for a fact eavesdropping is forbidden in some european countries and the broadcasts are encrypted in some.
> There are many, many errors in the published mathematical literature, and the older you get, the more of them you see.

Can you provide any examples? I know this is true, but I'm interested in examples you have off the top of your head.
None anymore, the cheaters have already stopped using catbot as their usernames. https://github.com/nullifiedcat/catbot-setup/commit/c2d22ee9.... This is further proof of how poor of a response this was by Valve.
With maths, you're merely discovering something which already exists. Programming is more like you're creating something new.
Pretty cool! Thanks for sharing.

Might be cool if you could summarize trending articles automatically and then let the community edit them for details, fact-checking, brevity, etc...
I have no idea what abstraction actually is. It seems to me it's never abstraction unless it leads to complicated designs for the simplest problems. I've been accused of hating abstraction because I wrote in C instead and programmed out my own concepts -- instead of just using a ready-made framework with ill-fitting ones (Qt in that case).

A much better term than abstraction to me is "semantic compression" (got that from Casey Muratori of Handmade Hero). This basically means factoring out common bits with the goal to express the solution with the least amount of repetition (while of course taking care not to factor out parts which are only coincidentally common. I figure that's the "semantic" part).

To do semantic compression you need abstraction, but not pointless abstraction -- just the right amount.
This is interesting. I’m no business strategist but I feel like this is the wrong move on Googles part. It would have been a fine tactic against pretty much any other company. But Amazon is probably the one company with the infrastructure (and will to expand/diversify) to create its own video hosting service and be competitive.
blasting out all internal communication is a bad way to share information (with the public)
Empirically, wealthy Americans drink more than poor ones. http://news.gallup.com/poll/184358/drinking-highest-among-ed...
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Effectively unlimited copyright leaves a hole in the availability of older books, making it impossible for there to be any growth on top of them.
Lots of non education expenses get rolled into student loan debt. I've known people to take out max student loan debt and buy CDs or invest it in rental property.

Some people take out excess student loan debt because they don't want to cramp their lifestyle of a nice car and eating out everyday.
Citrine or "ABC of Chairmanship" is a very good guide to formal meeting practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_of_Chairmanship
To be fair though, I have watched pretty much every JP video under the sun and I have never seen him mention IQ related to black people or other races.

The only exception was when he talked about how Ashkenazi Jews have an IQ that is on average higher than normal. Which explains why there are many of them in high positions like doctors and scientist, instead of some idiotic conspiracy theory.
I really hope AWS X-Ray gets on board with this. I just finished making a library to integrate X-Ray with our Haskell applications and then realized OpenTracing exists. I would love to be able to easily support more tracing backends.
Interesting.

I've found in terms of speed: Opera > Firefox > Chrome. I suspect it is due primarily to ads.
A Three-Perspective Theory of Cyber Sovereignty [pdf]
What are the pros and cons of Brave compared to Opera on mobile?
Not surprising to hear this kind of fear mongering from newspapers like guardian and Nytimes. They are the most threatened by Facebook and Google. Their breakfast, lunch and dinner got eaten by these companies so now they are using these narratives to advance their agendas. American tech companies are just fine. They are run by reasonable people. Bezos actually bought WashingtonPost so it does not die.
Hmm, PoI seems almost identical to PoS, but with a 'weighting' calculation to determine 'importance' instead of using the raw value. PoD also seems also identical to PoS, but with a kind of 'gamification' element, whereby the amount staked can give you extra network privileges.

TBH, at least after a quick look, both PoI and PoD seem like they are PoS systems, just with some extra bells and whistles that could be added to any PoS system.
I'm pretty happy with Firefox Focus on a Moto G3. Some people may not like the lack of features in that browser however, e.g. no history, no cookies saved, etc.
Ok we've changed to that above.
If its the PM's job to deliver their project it is absolutely their job eg stop the requirements being bikeshedded.
The writing by Cloudflare on the subject (hyperlinked here several times already, so I won't) indicates that the utility that Cloudflare sees in it is in militating against the sort of malicious entropy source attacks described by Bernstein. The idea is that one has a set of disparately placed entropy sources, in Cloudflare's head office (of which the lava lamps are just one) and in Cloudflare's data centre, making it hard to supplant one and simultaneously observe all of the others.

I am not sure that Cloudflare is correct about this, however. It seems to me that at the point where the entropy sources are finally mixed, on the beacon machine in the datacentre, it does not matter that the lava lamps are far away, and this factor is just window dressing. The data that they generate has to arrive at the beacon machine on a serial port, Ethernet interface, or other input device, and that is the point where it can be observed/supplanted.
There are many others, but this is a selection of the best

Numberphile (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxcjq-8xIDTYp3uz647V5A) - math related

Cody's Lab (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu6mSoMNzHQiBIOCkHUa2Aw) - various science experiments - most of them go deeper into maths/physics/chemistry of it

Nile Red (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFhXFikryT4aFcLkLw2LBLA) - chemistry

BosnianBill (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp1orOGJwZvjLAvckyxC4Nw) - lock picking - very soothing

Ian Atkinson (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLkCG-505-1t0rYlgBTSnpQ) - leatherworking

Mike Boyd (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIRiWCPZoUyZDbydIqitHtQ) - a guy learning various things and timig how much it takes

This Old Tony (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5NO8MgTQKHAWXp6z8Xl7yQ) - makers stuff

Clickspring (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA) - makers stuff - VERY addictive and soothing

CGP Grey (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2C_jShtL725hvbm1arSV9w) - various historic/general stuff

jimmydiresta (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEk4xHBbz0hZNIBBpowdYQ) - maker stuff

Primitive Technology (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA) - guy living (for a few days at a time) in the woods

scaffoal (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAUtMll4-Bi2sWnbqtMVrTg) - making jewlery

Brian Oltrogge (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOywIdppbhn6hkgcEtDMatg) - metal casting
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Well. Since we're kibitizing, the remaining big question I have is how HRC lost Florida. My friends on the ground (working GOTV) were certain HRC had won it.

I kinda get how HRC lost WI, MI, PA. To their credit, in the final weeks, HRC's campaign knew there problems and redirected resources, but it was too late. And for whatever reason, Dems keep ignoring / downplaying disenfranchisement. (The correct answer is universal, automatic registration, just like every other mature democracy.)

But losing Florida... There's an untold story there.
As an example of a good abstraction regarding chess, a deep learning algorithm that wasn't hand tuned specifically to chess just beat the best computer chess player that had a hand tuned algorithm (in which case the neural network representation of the board performed better than bit representation)
Thanks. Those do look excellent.
Please don't call names in arguments here. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't know about that history. http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbarr... gives more details, like:

> The one-wheeled vehicle appeared around the time the extensive Ancient Chinese road infrastructure began to disintegrate. Instead of holding on to carts, wagons and wide paved roads, the Chinese turned their focus to a much more easily maintainable network of narrow paths designed for wheelbarrows. The Europeans, faced with similar problems at the time, did not adapt and subsequently lost the option of smooth land transportation for almost one thousand years.

> ... It is interesting to note that the wheelbarrow appeared at least 2,000 years later than two-wheeled carts and four-wheeled wagons.