skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I think the ending of Silent Running was the first part of a movie to make me cry (I was 15 or so).
> History has shown us that relying 'prudence of a central banker' is a really bad idea

Sorry, no. History shows no such thing.

Just because $BAD_THING sometimes happens under $APPROACH doesn't mean that any other approach would necessarily be an improvement.

> The huge advance crypto has brought us is a solution to this very problem.

Poverty is a problem. Disease is a problem. Quantitative easing is a tool. If you believe that QE is bad, you're free to push for laws passed that take away that tool from central bankers... but you'll have a hard time because it's a very powerful tool for guiding economies.

You may believe that governments can't be trusted with that sort of thing, but Friedman-style laissez faire economics isn't the big success story that many seem to think. The US has become less regulated since Reagan's inauguration and in that time has lost it's position as the world's prime economic superpower to China, a managed economy much closer to the Keynesian model.

You watch how China reacts to BTC. It'll encourage adoption everywhere except within its own borders. Why do you think that might be?
Who knows! This comment thread is so wrapped up in its own analogy i just stuffed my cat full of JavaScript.
>But that doesn't make his server costs go away

If it were just the opening part of the article which gave me pause, I would agree with you.

But the other parts?

Its very hard, even when I am trying to give him the benefit of doubt, to devise a sufficient and forgiving explanation for his behavior. Unless you just ignore entire chunks of what transpired.

He used those people to troll his competitors. It sounds like someone realized that he could flash a laser, and make a group of camps walk over someone else's flower bed.

Its hard to defend that, and the implication that has for his view on the people he aimed like water from a hose.

For the record, I've put some time into knowing what I know about India, the Indian telecom industry, Jio and Jio pricing. I'll say that my educated guess should be pretty close to the mark, but I will change my position if a contradicting piece of information is shown.
> That is currently, name an AP the same as another and a machine that had the AP name saved will try to connect to it.

That's on purpose. At work, for instance, we have two APs with the same name, connected to the same wired network. A machine which originally was connected to one of them is supposed to try to connect to the other one when its signal is stronger. Break that mechanism, and you'll break all wifi networks larger than a few rooms.
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Arrival.

Great, thoughtful, science fiction. Based on an excellent short story.
It is not cold war and people have telescopes with high quality cameras, you need damn good masked satellite to hide and i'm not talking about other governments space agencies... It is better version that this is "secret" satellite diving experiment
> 3) Those that use the device in times of true need: their kid has been at the dinner table for a long time and needs some distraction so the parents can get through their meal.

Sounds like us. Either that or my wife and I would take turns carrying our kid around while the other finishes off their meal.
Money doesn't win every fight. And not every fight is about money. For example, Mozilla is a non-profit organization. It's not about making everybody stop doing the wrong thing, it's about doing the right thing. Having one modern browser ditch JavaScript would already be a huge win, and people who care could use it. If Mozilla pushed the open web, it would already be much better, because all those open projects could use that. Not everybody uses Googles or Facebooks websites.
We're not (I'm not) bashing him for wanting to monetize. We're bashing him for lying to his users and laughing about it. "Haha, I made those stupid idiots tweet about Browserling and then blocked them anyway! Isn't that funny! Interesting that they'll tweet what I tell them. Dance for me, puppets, dance!"
I added my own sci-fi ranking (159 movies) in a spreadsheet here [1]. You can sort it based on IMDB or my score. Many movies include the ranking from the first time I have watched the movie (e.g. Star Wars).

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FDg-yMsHjIHRmZy60v-N...
I second that! The music, the special effects, the actors and actresses, and the atmosphere are superb.
SYD-SCL and SYD-PER-JNB are routes where Qantas needs a 4-engined plane because they are so far outside the ETOPS limits. But those are pretty extreme exceptions.
Whilst I understand the concern but just Internet is now for control and tracking (chi-na is more obvious but post someone we all know better), we cannot stop the wheel.

Not knowing is even worst.
Your biggest challenge might be not the frames but the lens curvature. Lenses these days are ordered from a catalog of standard prescriptions.

Unusually strong prescriptions sometimes have to be special-ordered because they aren't kept in stock, but AFAIK they're still not custom-ground. Or at least they're still machine-ground from standard blanks.

If you want a lens with unusual curvature, you'd need to start with a blank that supports that curvature - which may not exist. And the grinding machines may also be unable to work with that curvature (hand-grinding, besides being immensely more expensive, will be less consistent in its result).

And then you'll have the problem of fitting the lens securely into a frame that's designed for one with lesser curvature. Heck, even my (moderate prescription) sunglasses suffer from poor lens fit.

I'm not saying it can't be done; just that there are a lot of obstacles to what you're looking for.
> There is a strong motivation to be able to say that everyone is created equal, regardless of how uncontrollable factors affect you...

This, this, this, this, this!

People are not created equal at all! That should be obvious to anyone evaluates the world in even a cursory manner. There are material, physical, emotional and intellectual differences between any two individuals.

I have a (totally baseless and unvalidated) theory: If you accept that all people are not equal you are presented with a curious metaphysical problem when considered from a Western "Christian" perspective; why did God create both paupers and princes?--i.e., why are some born into ridiculous wealth and others crippling poverty? Eastern traditions handle this typically by some appeal to "reincarnation" and/or "karma." You can't do this in the Western view because everyone there is living to get into heaven, not escape samsara (it's funny that in some views these are actually the same thing :)

In earlier times when I debated fundamentalists, the retort would be "each is tested in his own way" or something along those lines. How entirely unsatisfying, the game is rigged and we're all not starting from the same position! For the modern, non-secular mind, it seems people would rather maintain the fiction of equality than consider the fact that the world is a profoundly un-equal place.
You could equally propose that non-first-born children are more likely to respond to overthrow Scott's hypothesis (since he's pretty open to and reasonable about counterarguments)
Moon

Alien

The Thing

Dune Directors Cut

Gattaca
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You use one of the Docker plugins:
https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-aws/persistent-data-volum...
https://github.com/thecodeteam/rexray
Speaking informally, but as a professional analyst here who is unfortunately at a computer with no analysis tools setup :( but who has worked with his fair share of social, survey and demographic information.

Check your data. My first gut-instinct on seeing data like that is not "Eureka - i found a huge first-birth-order effect", but rather "huh...looks wrong, I wonder why that is?".

What do I mean "looks wrong"? Keep in mind I have no real "pony in the race" on first-born effects (although I admit I am one), but intuitively it "doesn't look like real social data looks like".

The effect is too big. Its too loud. Its too constant. Its too nice. Something else is driving it and its your job to find out what...

The first place I'd look is data quality. Have you proven your data got into your final histogram data set right? I had problems with your csv opening it in libre office...looks like it interpreted it as having some value migration between the variable in whatever you did. Could be my computer, but in my experience, if there's a problem with the csv, these kind of things correlate with other mistakes.

The second place i'd look is survey design: was there a default option, are people clicking through by default, are the response frequencies of other variables lining up as would be expected (gender, birthdays, that kind of thing). If not, why not?

If you've crossed and ticked all those, only after that would I start the analysis...but again, a pattern and effect of that size and consistency is something that you should default to needing explained in the data. Reach the conclusion that its real only after you've eliminated everything else.
In a recent HN thread fellow HNers were asking what is a real artist: this is it.
A great movie, and come to think of it, I haven’t watched it in a few years. Thanks for the reminder!
It doesn’t suppport it because it works differently so it doesn’t need it. The complexity of needing Docker and Kubernetes falls away, although Docker is supported.
Well, the article ends with that same thought coming from one of the researchers.
NLP seems to be a blind-spot on HN.
The amount of dedication Terry shows for his project is beyond what you see anywhere else in the software dev space.

For anyone who hasn't, I recommend to watch his videos on TempleOS (there are a lot of hymn videos or ranting videos, you can ignore those), they are a genuinely interesting perspective into OS Development.
I suppose then that Cudatext is buildable there?
Maybe it's a cultural thing. If it was an Indian doing it to Americans, I don't see why there would be outrage. It's just a guy promoting his service, which he did eventually deliver. The Taiwan number 1, competitors number eight bit is hilarious. It's a meme and not intended to be political.

"he comes across as lacking humanity. Especially as the people using Jio phones would be the kind of people who are not rich or well off."

Would you say the same about apps that serve video ads in order to unlock something in app? Or contests that requests tweets for entry? Or bootstrapped companies with "buy now" websites that only lead to an email signup?

"he doesn’t realize that he is manipulating people less informed and weaker than him"

Manipulating seems like a strong word. No one was forced to tweet, this isn't a matter of life or death. (It's for getting on WhatsApp after all). More importantly, I don't think anyone that tweeted really cared about the contents of the tweet.
It does. Check out Docker volume plugins like:
https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-aws/persistent-data-volum...
https://github.com/thecodeteam/rexray
Link goes to the wrong article. Should be https://medium.com/dailyjs/how-to-implement-material-design-...
Predestination
Crystal is a Ruby inspired compiled language, allowing it to run blazingly fast with a very low memory footprint. It uses LLVM for emitting native code, thus making use of all the optimisations built into the toolchain.

Website: https://crystal-lang.org/

Github: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal
'Contact (1997)' is good. One of the best alien movies.
Since we are on the topic of fiction, let me add one more, Man From Earth (2007).
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If you took away JS from Facebook and Twitter, they'd literally be a better experience. They'd be forced to give up much of what makes them painful to use. At least Twitter had a character counter, that was a useful JS feature, but they broke even that.

And if you need a diagraming tool, maybe a website isn't the best solution.
from the abstract:

Finally, we note that 4 of the top 10 findings (Findings
2, 7, 8, and 9) are about environmental influences rather
than genetic influences. Via genetically sensitive designs
such as twin studies, behavioral genetics has revealed
almost as much about the environment as about
genetics.

You have to elaborate a bit more if your claim is that this paper disprove environmental influences.

A second key aspect from the abstract:

Most important, heritability does not imply immutability (Plominet al., 2013).
File a ticket in our issue tracker. Fix the bug. Commit to source control. Deploy it to our staging environment. Verify the fix. Merge branch to stable. Deploy to production.

Isn't that how everyone halfway sane does it?
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Wait 1 minute to see how many waited 1 minute: social exp for mining crypto
Middle class without working class? Doesn't that sound silly?
In communism/real socialism everyone is supposed to live by their own labor and means of production may not be owned by individuals. Middle class, including minor entrepreneurs(like cafe owners), merchants(shop owners), craftsmen(shoemakers), little farmers are the first victims.
THX 1138 : George Lucas's first film as a director, just before Star Wars. I wish the guy had a little less dazzling success so we could have seen more of his personnality
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Excuse my ignorance, but what is the meaning of the differing brackets in the notation you're using: "[0,1)"?
Spectre and meltdown vulnerabilities status page
It is not clear from the article how WebKit avoids changing semantics with array index masking. In JS out-of-bounds access should return undefined, not a random element of the array. To preserve that a branch still has to be made.
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The people buying the coins when you sell it. It would be impossible for everyone to profit from bitcoin. There would always have to be losers.
How do you mean? TempleOS is undoubtably a pretty interesting achievement, both in the artistic and technological sense - but Terry has serious mental issues, and we shouldn't overlook them as "oh, that's just how artists are".
TempleOS has no process isolation, so it's completely unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. I'm starting to think there's a lot of wisdom in its design. Complexity of modern computer systems keeps increasing but the value I get from that complexity isn't increasing nearly as fast. Spectre and Meltdown are just recent examples of some of the cost of that complexity. Do we really need an OS too complex for any one person to completely understand?
Thanks! I'm building it in Java. Using Java allows me to deploy it in Android with virtually no changes.
> You have to elaborate a bit more if your claim is that this paper disprove environmental influences.

Not at all, but I think it disproves this part:

> but alone the genetic factor tend to have no effect
Because it doesn't look like they were freeloaders, they tried to use a service, did what the author asked, and didn't pay 10 cents because they couldn't pay it, as Stripe doesn't work for many people in India, as the blog post says. The author's response is no way to treat people, users or not.
So our work ramps up as people get to the office, and drops when we leave for lunch. Likewise, we ramp up as the year progresses, until we slow down at the holidays.

Am I missing something, or is this data so aggregated that it has become useless?
I think no one would care if Americans were doing this to other Americans... seems like just another day on Social Media Marketing.
I asked on reddit but ended up finding the answer on my own.

" The note box has been cut out, indicating perhaps an intended revision that did not occur."

per https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~3...

so it's anyone's guess really
Can you please add a comment with some info about your project? I tried clicking some buttons on the left, changing the "sort by" dropdown (what does it sort?), then some more buttons on the right. And i'm still confused. Sadly, there is no "topinambur senior" or anything "straight outta curly coated retriever" to be found on Amazon or Etsy.
It's not because of PoS. Ethereum is just recovering from a bear market in BTC/ETH pair. Look at the orange line https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/.
WhatsApp has a J2ME version, no? Do those phones not run Java apps?
I feel very similarly. I wonder if it has to do with a dread of interruptions.
There is a German sci-fi series on Netflix called "Dark" [1] that I would also grab the chance to recommend while it is online. I figured that it would have to be above average for Netflix to broadcast it internationally and it turned out to be quite superb (even if it is perhaps only tangentially science fiction).

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5753856/
The first Planet of the Apes
It has to be material inside informtion in order to be considered insider trading. He can argue that the small dip in the stock price after the news was released is evidence that the information was not material.
> it could be argued that their net utility on humanity is positive

It could also be argued that their net utility to humanity is negative: see the issues with social media and echo chambers.
It was suppressed within Google.
This fight is about money, because you're going against the entire industry, asking some players in it to self-sacrifice.

> Having one modern browser ditch JavaScript would already be a huge win, and people who care could use it.

For a short while, maybe, but as people making websites don't care about minority browsers, the amount of important websites you wouldn't be able to use through that browser would only grow, until the point that browser becomes useless.

People making money off user-hostile activities won't voluntarily stop making money off user-hostile activities.
Here are my recommendations:

* Sunshine: I'll second this one, about a crew on a mission in space, turns into a different kind of film in the second half, which many people didn't like; has breathtaking visuals and a strong soundtrack.

* Her: A guy falls in love with an AI; has a wonderful atmosphere

* Gattaca: Set in a future of genetic engineering and how the protagonist fights against class discrimination

* Ex Machina, this was pretty hyped I'd say, but takes the opposite approach of Her and shows us the dangers of AI

* The Day the Earth Stood Still: a representative of aliens arrives on earth to tell humans to knock off their douchebaggery; still highly relevant today

* Metropolis: a silent film with a powerful score, set in a future with a large class disparity where the workers rebel

Honorable mentions that I'm not sure are really sci-fi: Brazil, The Prestige, Watchmen
You mean besides lying to them and making them do things for some reward and then not giving the reward and laughing about it?
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Interesting project! Perhaps you could add a return value depending on whether results were found (using sys.exit or something like that) so it can be integrated in CI-pipelines.
It was all over the news as a result of Google trying to suppress the viewpoint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
It's a bit similar to Windows 9x -- anything can do anything.

It might not be suspectible to Meltdown and Spectre per se, but the lack of security that grants that property still means a lack of security.
That's like saying "I don't have any doors in my house, just open frames. So I'm not affected by the weaknesses in locks."
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Spices are plants. Salt is a mineral.
I disagree. Take the immutability aspect highlighted. Without environmental influences, how do you cause a change? Genes can technically change during life, but I doubt thats what the study referees.

The idea that genes dictate outcomes in immutable ways is exactly what the authors of this study disagree with.

To make a direct example on the study of a particular gene and depression. If you take a person with this gene, they have (if i recall right) 6 times higher risk factor for depression compared to other people, but only if they also have had a child hood trauma. People with the gene and no such trauma has no higher risk for depression than people without the gene and no trauma. The gene has a environmental aspect to it.

Page 5:
For example, a heritability of nearly 100% implies that environmental differences that exist in the population do not have an effect on a particular phenotype assessed at a particular stage in development.

Title: Finding 2. No traits are 100% heritable. Although heritability estimates are significantly greater than 0%, they are also significantly less than 100%. As noted earlier, heritability estimates are substantial between 30% and 50%,

The study is very clear here. Environmental influences are estimated to be between 70% and 50%, and never as low as 0% for any single trait.

Further more on page 6:
Many others have noted that
no traits are 100% heritable (e.g., Plomin, 1989; Turkheimer, 2000).

My original claim was that alone the genetic factor tend to have no effect, ie, no genetic factor gives 100% heritability for a trait in behavioral science. This study support this claim. I am sorry to say that either you read the study wrong or you misinterpreted my comment.
Isn't that the point? If it went unnoticed because it was too small then nothing would really come of it.
Depending on "truck" it can be pretty alright.

See : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UeVsHmKAFA (EV mod of VW kombi)

Make a kickstarter to fund his future green life.

ps: for some weird reason I expected him to look like anderson cooper..
http://blog.textit.in/your-path-to-a-$16b-exit-build-a-j2me-...
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> I wonder if this shouldn't question whether we should still allow all websites to run javascript by default.

Plenty of harmful things are done with C and C++ but no one is saying we should deactivate native apps written in unsafe languages, or not allow anyone to program a GUI unless they can justify the use of canvas space. Yet the web, arguably the most successful and free (as in both beer and freedom) and accessible software platform yet devised, is the only one on which people - erstwhile hackers - say that code should be a considered a privilege and not a right, or that it doesn't really belong on the web at all, despite javascript being on the web for ~20 years now.

What you're describing seems a lot like adding Windows UAC prompts to the web - no one would find that better, particularly given that anyone can simply turn javascript off in their browser already. This isn't even a javascript problem per se - you could erase javascript from the universe and make the web as plain as you like and Spectre and Meltdown would still exist.

> also at the very least it should lead us to question the chain of trust of javascript. When I visit abc.com I should only execute javascript from abc.com or a subdomain. No script either hosted on a non abc.com domain or appearing in an iframe should be executed.

That seems reasonable, and I would be willing to bet, possible to configure with modern tools. But pretending javascript is a second-class citizen on the web isn't the answer.