skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(moar Interstellar spoilers)

Well in the end of the movie it turns out that the future humans built the tesseract (I believe it's called) and the wormhole, leading the humans to survive and in the future built the tesseract and the wormhole, leading the humans to survive and in the future built the tesseract and the wormhole... you get the idea.

It's a time travel movie, and the whole thing becomes a paradox - if the humans didn't survive they wouldn't have developed to be able to make wormholes and time travel magic, but they did survive because of time travel magic.

So which came first? It's a paradox. One explanation is that there was nothing that actually came first but everything just happened as it should and there was no other way it could've happened, thus, predetermination.

But yeah, time travel paradoxes, fun stuff.
But the only one which does all of those.
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> Traditionally they've been aligned, but they're separate parties.

The state-level parties of the Liberals and Labor are also separate parties to the federal counterparts, but there's no point specifying that, as they too traditionally align with each other to form a unified whole. There's also Country Liberal parties, and so on.

To the vast majority of the electorate, there is no difference between the Liberal party & the coalition. It's not 'tradition', it's a political agreement reached long ago in the best interests of the supporters of those parties to avoid complete dominance of Labor at all state and federal levels. The agreement is re-affirmed at every election.

> * Parties outside the three most popular have substantial followings, and are definitely not fringe, like they appear to be in the US*

The Greens, the Hunting and Shooting party, Family First (fundamentalist Christian), One Nation (racist)? Most voters would consider them fringe; their share of the vote reaffirms that. Only the Democrats had the wide support and prestige to be considered a legitimate choice, and they're defunct. Third-parties & independents don't stop AU from being a two-party system. No one would claim that the Conservative-lead coalitions in the last two General Elections means that the UK is not a two-party system.

> This ratio is growing, and my (perhaps naive) hope is that we're slowly heading towards something closer to actual democracy here in AU.

I would say it is extremely naïve to expect a Westminster-derived government to move to the consensus-style coalition governments of Europe without fundamental change. The majority requirements for legislation means only block-voting is feasible. Simply counting the number of parties and ignoring the mechanisms which allow factions to push legislation in the face of opposition is a poor rule-of-thumb for classifying if a system is two-party or not.

> I also note that you say you vote in both countries, but twice misspelled the Australian Labor Party as Labour.

How on earth does my terrible spelling relate to my point? Or does the political topic of my comment make an ad hominim a valid response? What pomposity!
So classical UNIX C compilers are now transpilers, because they always did text to text (C to Assembly), before forking to the assembler.
Overconsumption is the one issue, distractions from phones and such another, and IMO so is advertising, which over here would cause a break from immersion every half an hour or so, and in the US every ten minutes. Can't watch a movie like that.

With that in mind, the Netflix binge is a good example of how immersion is still very much a thing.
> I can only imagine how much being ousted from a company he created and raised to its current level must have hurt.

The market doesn't care about the feelings of executives. He was a net liability for Uber by the end, and if he couldn't mamage to keep himself valued by the market, that's on him.
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I'm stronger in the first 2 areas. And less, but pretty interested still in the last 2.

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There's Now “Very Strong Evidence” That Alcohol Can Directly Damage DNA
I wouldn't try to understand them completely, he is an artist and transcendental meditator. Try to appreciate them as painting not as a narrative and I think you'll enjoy them even more. Inland Empire is really a fan film in my opinion and should/can only really be watched which an existing knowledge of his background works.
They've had exactly the same time we had.
Kotlin compiles to javascript already...why wouldn't you go that route?
> DeBlasio is entrenched because he was elected by a majority of his constituents

The majority of New Yorkers did not appear to support his views in respect of taxis. That is why Uber was able to organise a grassroots opposition.

> What gave him the right?

The Constitution and culture of civil society that gives the EFF “the right” to organise constituencies of grassroots support.
Yes, this story definitely has a certain WE WUZ feel to it.
VISA most likely cares above all else about making money for VISA. Likewise, Steam probably doesn't care how people pay for their games : they just want to be paid. If they move away from bitcoin, it's probably because they deem it unviable / unprofitable / too much of a pain in the ass.

Not everything is a grand ideological battle, and there's no need to go looking for complicated explanations when the simple and naive interpretation makes eminent sense.
thank you, Jekyll probably won't suffice. What is the better option for a custom look? The style of the buttoms etc. is custom and not based on material design or any other (and also the main focus of the website). I can't share it the mockups publicly, unfortunatly.
Predictions start here: http://rodneybrooks.com/my-dated-predictions/#tablepress-1

Abbreviations are:

* NIML meaning "Not In My Lifetime", i.e., not until after January 1st, 2050

* NET some date, meaning "No Earlier Than" that date.

* BY some date, meaning "By" that date.
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Hi, I'm Alex. I'll solve your problem in something related to programming: 1) web/mobile/desktop, 2) data science/machine learning, 3) security & 4) blockchain/bitcoin.

I'm stronger in the first 2 areas. And less, but pretty interested still in the last 2.

My most recent project: 改善日本語 - https://kaizenjapanese.com

Thanks && Cheers.
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Eh, some people still mock Bitcoin as insignificant. (As a currency/asset store/technology.)
Especially on a startup focused news portal this thinking is surprising. Ever heard of this funny thing called money?
How to Become a Pure Mathematician (or Statistician)
It's seems likely that people growing up in a place called Darwin would, in time, evolve a particular fitness to thrive.
Another example of this is found in comparing generic MCMC methods to HMC. The former work for discrete or continuous parameters while the latter requires a gradient. Regardless of how fast a generic MCMC implementation is, the HMC method is asymptotically faster, so for some problem sizes the language or low level optimizations are irrelevant.
> I'm not aware of any reliably documented case of animals communicating abstract concepts.

I guess this is difficult to prove. I'm not sure if it matches with the definition of "abstract concepts" but I was reading earlier today that Bottlenose Dolphins "transmit cultural knowledge across generations".[0] So maybe yes?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlenose_dolphin#Tool_use_an...
Okay, that's fair - it's more likely to be true than UFOs being aliens ;)

Personally, I'd be excited for this to be true for a number of reasons:

* I'm Australian. Any advance in the understanding of how fires spread is of material benefit to me and people I care about.

* I love animals. It'd be amazing if another species used fire, and may open up whole areas of research.

* I'm Australian, which means I take a bizarre pride in our image of having the most dangerous wildlife in the world. The existence of fire-wielding raptors would turn this knob to 11 :)

But I'm afraid I'm still betting "bush legend inspired by old Aboriginal myths" on this one.

It's true that most people flee fires, but a lot of people observe them closely, these days with some very shiny equipment (including IR cameras on helis, to see thermal sources clearly through smoke).

I'm fairly (but not entirely) sure that this behaviour would have been observed already if it were true.
Legend goes Gosling did not found anyone at his department that could answer all his questions about unsigned arithmetic, hence why he left it out from Java's initial design.

However since Java 8, the java.lang numeric classes do support unsigned arithmetic.

Yes it is a bummer that byte is signed, requiring extra math to simulate unsigned.
Not true, the second variant of Spectre is harder to exploit on AMD, but possible.

AMD is pushing microcode updates to close those holes, too.
The attorney, Mark Holden, is apparently Chief Legal Officer for Koch Industries, so I'd imagine he's quite well compensated. That doesn't diminish the generosity of the gift, mind you, but it's not as if he was a solo tax attorney or something.
We probably hear mostly about the sensationally negative things the most because they drive clicks.

The same could be said about all the negative news coming out of the US. Why would anyone want to move there? And yet they do, and many thrive.

I'm sure China is thriving, despite its problems.
“[M]an had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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The future is being downvoted on HN of all places.
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"Knowingly" is probably too high a bar for this to be a significant deterrent. A mental state of negligence or recklessness would make it much more effective.

Knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing to get it removed probably ought to be subject to criminal penalties.
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It's not even the same thing as normal fiat currency. It's a commodity whose value is predicated upon its shininess, rarity and ease of transfer.

It's basically gold if arbitrary bits of gold could be sent via email.

Bitcoin probably wouldn't have taken off at all if the financial markets were quite so desperate for new toys to speculate with. Bitcoin is the bastard step-child of low interest rates.

It's massively exposed to the threat of financial regulation, too. If the US government suddenly decided that it was going to assume bitcoin transfers are the result of money laundering until proven otherwise and that it's a consumer product that you have to pay sales tax on, its value would plummet to embarrassing depths.
Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency used to buy home, likely a first for Seattle market
I guess it's a little cutesy at times but I would recommend everyone in this thread check out /r/likeus[0] for examples of these things.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/likeus/
No idea about virtual reality hardware, but some chemicals will definitely help a lot
This is the third time you've posted something about your library, so I think you are looking for at least some comment about it.

You say that python-magic doesn't work for you because it depends on a DLL around a C library.

However, you didn't say why any of the other similar platform-independent packages don't fit your needs. A quick look at pypi shows:

filetype - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/filetype/1.0.0 - "Small and dependency free Python package to infer file type and MIME type checking the magic numbers signature of a file or buffer."

puremagic - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/puremagic/1.3 - "Pure python implementation of magic file detection"

pyfsig - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyfsig/0.6 - "A python library for identifying files by headers (magic bytes)"

You write "there are two good sites on the Internet with a lot of signatures of different formats" but you don't list those two sources. Two likely ones are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_signatures and https://www.garykessler.net/library/file_sigs.html .

However, both have signature for "ELF", which isn't in your table, so you either aren't using those resources or you have selected only a subset. Which is it, and if it's a subset, why?

These are the sorts of questions that people will have when trying to figure out which library to use, so you should have answers for them in your documentation/README.
> Jobs didn't break the law

Jobs often took an “ask for forgivenss” approach. Copying Xerox [1], screwing Wozniak [2], the naming schtick with the Beatles, et cetera.

[1] http://www.mac-history.net/computer-history/2012-03-22/apple...

[2] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/steve-wozniak-cried-jobs-kept-atari...
How does this work along with their plan to limit city population?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/26/chinas-shangha...
Or you can get mini PC (Zotac or similar from AliExpress) and put any number of Linux distros on it for firewalling and optionally other stuff.
Whenever I get this reaction from my kids about something classic I feel indignant but most of all I feel old. Changing tastes in pop, trends and fashion can do that but the rejection of highly regarded things hurts the most.
Give the number of people getting their bank accounts mysteriously closed. I don;t think they are fine with it
> Are taxicab medallions worth it?

I'm in favor of the rule of law. If I was in favor of the rule of law when it did good things and not when it did bad things (and I ready admit that the medallion system is one of the bad things), and wanted outside companies with private capital to ignore the rule of law to fix the bad things... I wouldn't be in favor of the rule of law at all.

The ultimate question is who we choose to decide whether things are good or bad. If you support the rule of law in a democracy, you have the democratic process. If you support companies outspending and outmaneuvering local governments, you're entrusting capital with making these decisions, and they probably won't reflect the will of the people. It is, to be clear, an entirely legitimate political perspective to believe that we'll get a better society by letting the holder of the most capital make decisions instead of letting the people each have one vote. But that's a very strong claim that should be made clearly, and those who believe in democracy even when democracy happens to produce occasional bad outcomes are not particularly grandstanding, just believing in democracy.
Sure you got a ton of offers but check me out.

As a side project I'm building a thing to help devs like you get some experience and make it easier to find jobs later. I'm rewriting everything in react as an open source project.

If you want we can pair a couple hours a week or so and I'll help you get better at react. I don't need or want your money but is more valuable to me your feedback and meeting more people in your position to better understand what I'm doing

Hit me up at david(at)codecorgi.com
I don't think all branches of evolution lead to intelligence given any finite amount of time.
I love it.

Its only rival in my heart is New York.
I can recommend a YouTube channel from a couple Westerners who have lived in China for years and share their experiences about it, https://www.youtube.com/advchina -- the slightly older of whom is http://youtube.com/serpentza who lives in Shenzhen.

They tackle a lot of the issues you bring up. China is very protective of their immigration, and unlike the US, it's impossible to get the equivalent of a Green Card or become a citizen at all, even if you marry a Chinese person, which they both have done. You constantly have to jump through hoops to keep a current Visa, and as a foreigner you must report in person to the nearest police station each month to be monitored, or face deportation.

The police will also sometimes randomly come to your apartment unannounced, and come in to check on you.

There exists a huge range of living situations that span from the more western first tier cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen, that are very organized, with a police presence that cuts down on lawless driving, unlicensed food vendors, etc, to the more rural areas where the bulk of the population still lives.

Anyway, they both cover a lot of the issues you raise, and have a ton of good videos that give you a sense of what contemporary life is like there.
it's high glycemic index that's bad, sugar water is fine as it's dilute.
My selection guide

VPN needed?

- yes: WRT1200AC (OpenVPN: 50 Mbit/s, WireGuard: 100+ Mbit/s)

- no: continue (OpenVPN: 12 Mbit/s, WireGuard: 24 Mbit/s)

Gigabit needed?

- yes: Archer C7

- no: TL-WR841N
I've lived and done a fair amount of business there. The car thing is true. I would say people there care a lot more about their immediate network of friends / family and a lot less about anyone else. It's very safe to live there, but at the same time everyone's trying to take advantage of everyone else - literal and metaphorical pickpockets are everywhere.

The inherent lack of trust makes workplace environments really difficult. Everyone's looking out for number one (themselves), to the point of damaging their own company for personal gain. You have no clue how hard it is to build a software dev team when ANY of the developers will happily copy the source code they have access to onto a thumbdrive and sell it to your top competitor for a modest payday. I highly respect anyone who builds a software team successfully in China, such a headache.

Frankly, the internet censorship was the deal breaker for me. No Google, gmail, facebook, twitter, news, etc, is just too much to bear.

But the food was really good, good weather and foreigners are treated like minor celebrities (everyone is really really friendly), so we don't experience real China like everyone else.
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Chrome is by far the most advanced mainstream browser, from a security point of view.

The discussions about "Chrome-only" sites are absolutely acceptable, but totally off-topic here. Mozilla has also been working hard on Electrolysis to have multiple processes. That's a very big security feature that should become a must have for all browsers.
Due to a combination of technical limitations and the coconut effect, many natural sounds don't sound very natural if you just naively record them. Often the artist has to edit it at least a little to make it sound good.
Does it even matter? It's a learned behavior in humans too. Nurture plays a far bigger role in what we do than people give it credit for.
It's pretty true, speaking from experience. China is a pretty harsh place to live. But since this is hacker news, here are some links:

- Viral footage shows bystanders doing nothing as Chinese woman is attacked in hotel
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/06...

- Preschools across China to be inspected after ‘series of child abuse cases’
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2121495/presc...

- Air pollution suspected for sharp rise in China lung cancer rate http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2106410/air-p...

- In China, the water you drink is as dangerous as the air you breathe
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals...

- Man in China sentenced to five years' jail for running VPN
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/22/man-in-china-s...

- Steam Community allegedly banned in China
https://dotesports.com/general/news/steam-banned-china-19631

- The disappeared: Accounts from inside China's secret prisons
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/23/asia/china-lawyers-disappeared...

I would say from who I meet at expat bars/events in China, 80% of them are English teachers. They're there because there's no other skillsets for them to utilize in their home country, or they're just seeking new experiences before going back home. the rest 20% are there because their companies sent them there (but they'll go back sooner or later)
The entire film is an elaborate stable time loop (the protagonist provokes his own actions from the future). The film's big reveal is another stable time loop (future humanity saves past humanity).

Stable time loops imply predetermination.
Until the interstate banking act of 1994, all banks had branches only in their own state.
It is my understanding that JS provides a higher resolution of temporal comparison, which makes the exploit possible.
You can never convince an animal to give it's food in promise of a place in heaven or to die for it's country. That's something only humans are capable of. Beat that!
We are the only mammal with consciousness, which leads to knowledge of the future and the discerning of good and evil.

Despite the fact that we still don’t understand the least about how consciousness arises in our brain, we are nonetheless the only animal that shows this.

Even in cases like monkeys recognizing themselves una mirror, no animal seem to go past that and be aware of the future like we do.
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There is another interpretation for that.
Future humans built the tesseract... but no one knows from which universe. The tesseract is supposed to be something trans-dimensional, maybe trans-universe. So it could be future humans from another Earth seeing this one dying, and doing something about it.
If an entity from "outside" built the (first?) wormhole and created that closed loop, there's no paradox.
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I invest in small cap public companies. I'd love to invest in the startups I follow and use. What are the main reasons companies wait so long to IPO? (usually wait until they are $XX billion company)
[Hi from Argentina!]

I think this is on topic, but this is an English speaking forum, and posts in other languages are usually ignored or flagged (unless there is no alternative in English and it is very very interesting).

(In this case, there is a lot of material in English, some is better, some is worse, ..., but there is a lot.)

I suggest to write two versions of the post, one in Spanish and other in English, and post the English version here. I do something like this, and the English version usually gets x10 more traffic than the Spanish version.
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Besides the snark, you are right. No other animal understands the concept of sacrificing something today to get something better in the future.
> We are the only mammal with consciousness

Uh huh.
Reminds me of the (absolutely beautiful) watercolor maps by Stamen Design:

https://hi.stamen.com/watercolor-process-3dd5135861fe
Well I honestly didn't know that. Thank you for the information.