skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the right to copy the paper an agreement between universities and the publisher? If so, can't the universities just give a middle finger to the publisher, cancel those rights and allow the research to be publicized for free, in the interest of furthering research, or is money that they get from the publisher that significant?
I find if you are introverted and lack the energy to possibly go out. Gaming online with friends is satisfying. You can easily make new friends on any gaming community or play with existing ones. I play with a group of about 5 friends every night. If we are not actually playing the same game we still join a chat party to socialize. Civ or Hearts of Iron are great strategic games you can play.
Lumen – Mixed reality storytelling device
Has a convicted felon ever been elected as a U.S. senator before?
Well, the developers would still need to actually put in enough money to have 51% of the tokens, right? The rules for getting tokens are open, and presumably ones that simply grant tokens to the developers will be rightfully ignored.

(This is assuming the ICO investors become more sane in the first place; otherwise DAICOs are no use anyway)
My First Event Sourced Application
I've heard dozens of tornado sirens and watched people ignore them in the 10+ years I've lived in Minnesota.

I've also experienced being caught in the middle of a tornado outbreak (30 in 90 minutes, a couple were over mile wide) while driving across southern Minnesota. We sheltered at a Walmart and were quite alarmed that no locals seemed to take it seriously, even when the roof partially lifted off and cars started getting tossed around in the parking lot.

IIRC the State recently switched to more localized warnings (not county wide) due to people ignoring the sirens.

I'm also pretty sure that "you can see tornadoes coming" is poor advice, especially since they often come at night or with significant rainfall.
Crossfit. As someone who's spent too much time in the past mixing up the same boring gym routine, I can attest to the awesomeness of crossfit. *new religion
That seems like a tool designed for a very specific use-case (JSON APIs), rather than the general-purpose protocol interaction of cURL. The fact that it appears to be doing some things "behind your back" to be "helpful" like reordering headers or otherwise manipulating the data would certainly be unwanted in a general-purpose tool.
The scihub woman isn't doing any of the thing Swartz was being prosecuted for. All she's doing is copyright infringement.
More than reminds, it was a direct paraphrase!
What do we owe our planet?
IIRC jail (not prison) food is specifically designed to make people lethargic.

Using food as something that can be modified to achieve a desired behavior is not a new thing. Applying scientific methods to it is more recent.
Thank you for clarifying the details. I suppose my original mention of cities of refuge was actually superfluous to the discussion anyway.
Thanks, @tlb. Agree that the biggest danger is to continue to lose my time on this.
You really think the probability of such a disaster is 0.000001% per year? The cold war wasn't that long ago and came very close to the brink a number of times. If we were just lucky, and there is an expected rate of 1 nuclear war every 73 years, that already gets us over your 1% threshold. And nuclear war is far from the only risk. Nuclear weapons are already 70 year old tech, we are always progressing towards scarier technologies. I think your estimate is off by a factor of a million.
They made him a slave of the packets though.
The game, Gravitron, looks very similar to an old Ludum Dare entry called Graviton:

http://sam.draknek.org/projects/gravity

(timelapse development video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tQ00R69rF8)

It's a really cool game concept, even cooler being written in OCaml! :)
There is hardly just one person responsible for doing this. There was at least one developer who implemented this solution, at least “designer” that can up with a solution for the initial problem, a dozen managers who oversaw that whole project, up to the minister who must have been aware of this problem. Let alone everybody who ever worked with this system and never reported that “bug”. So if you want to fire someone, start at the top for not overseeing this correctly or hiring the wrong person for the job and then work your way to the bottom.

I believe it is much better to fix it (require a second authentication before sending those massages) and search for similar problems within the whole department to make sure something like this never happens again. Make sure everybody, including new hires, are aware of this incident, what the consequences were and that everybody is encouraged to report similar bugs and nobody has to be afraid to be fired when they make a mistake. Otherwise you just create an environment where everybody blames anybody but themselves and the “smallest” guy gets fired for mistakes other’s. This way, things get never fixed probably because everyone ist just afraid of the consequences.
If you guys are interested in going down that rabbit hole, I highly recommend Robert Sapolsky's Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst.

Although I confess I have only read the first chapter or so, the book sets out to convince its readers that many of the things that can go wrong in the human brain ought not to be thought of as bad choices so much as automobiles in need of a part replacement (this metaphor rings true today in the case of, say, depression, which can often be remedied with pharmaceuticals). This may sound rather weak (especially from the point of a prosecutor [1]), but when looking at the details, it starts to make sense in a lot of cases.

For example: in the middle ages, what do you think people thought schizophrenia was?

[1] http://www.radiolab.org/story/revising-fault-line/
So, people on the mainland are reacting differently than people in Hawaii. But this is not unexpected. When you live in such an isolated and vulnerable place, you are prepared for events which take a turn for the worst. I sort of figured people on the mainland would be clutching pearls and calling for the firing of the employee. But we have "false alarms" in Hawaii occasionally (e.g. with tsunami warnings which fizzle out). Most people on the island take the more reasonable position that we seem to have our ducks in a row for alerting, and I'll take an occasional misfired false positive over a false negative. It won't lessen my community's readiness if the real thing happens. Call it a really true-to-life drill. If you don't live in Hawaii and are having this kind of weird panicked reaction to a mistake, perhaps give yourself a minute to really take stock about your perspective on life. It was a mistake, and maybe even helped us become better prepared.
If it's a silver bullet, the randomized experiments must not have included any werewolves among the subjects: see discussion in "Preventing future offending of delinquents and offenders: what have we learned from experiments and meta-analyses?", MacKenzie & Farrington 2015 https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/2015-mackenzie.pdf (Note that it is an old debate in criminal justice based on the randomized experiments' dismal results: "does anything work?" The iron laws of evaluation apply as much there as in the rest of sociology...)
This is now at -1 and I am extremely confused as to why.
Microchimerism: how pregnancy changes the mother's DNA
Cutting back drastically on alcohol consumption, combined with bumping up exercise.
Tons of congressman have DUI and assault charges, so I assume yes.

I'm more curious do you have to pass a background check to be a representative?
The quote about death seems very similar to David Eagleman's book "Forty Tales from the Afterlives".

Here's an excerpt that you might find interesting: http://www.eagleman.com/sum/excerpt
If you want notepad-with-LF-support, ReactOS, the open-source Windows NT clone, has this.
If only we had some sort of... engine to use for searching... a search engine, if you will. Oh, unless this comment is meant to be snarky. But HN is never snarky.
my implication was that this is (to my knowledge) the first round of silicon valley biotech startups, and if it's like the first round of webapp startups, there will be a lot of failures, but the seeds will be planted for greater success in the next round.

My main point was "perhaps the first round failure is necessary" - of course, I weakened that with my assertion that this second tech bubble is also a bubble and bound to burst.
mRNA can be re-used by the target cells. It could be an amplification mechanism (assuming fan-out distribution).
One step closer to Black Mirror Season 4: Crocodile, among other things.
"Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you KEEP IT A SECRET!"

A rational player would only put effort into a retaliatory strike capability to the extent that actually having a retaliatory strike capability strengthened the enemy's perception that they would be obliterated if they struck first.
children who are starving are motivated to go to college... where they can get loans to pay for a meal plan.
> He’s a forum administrator, one of many across the globe who put in countless hours managing unofficial online communities where drivers who work for Uber, Lyft, and other ride-hail services share advice and warnings, answer questions, and provide a rare sense of camaraderie.

I remembering reading a foreword to Animal Farm, saying how Orwell was able to predict the dystopian aspects of technology, but wasn't able to see how technology could bring about social change for the good (like the shortwave being used to communicate across borders and into dictatorships).

I think this type of statement shows just how much we miss this currently when we bemoan every tech dark side.

The same decentralized tech aspect of Uber that helped change the ride service industry, can also help the drivers fight being exploited.

My theory, very weakly held, is that many in our industry are naturally pessimistic (I know I am) and it helps us see all of the ways that things can go wrong and help us prevent them.
But I think we're also missing out on a lot of opportunities that would help use the same tech to counter the outcomes.

It's like fire. We can burn the world, hurt each other, and tear down society. But we can use it to warm the world, help each other and build society. Both are kind of inevitable.
they occupy limited storage space and I have yet to find one that is not running on boot.
The ADP employment report is eagerly watched by economists and traders and goes back decades.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADP_National_Employment_Repo...
I get an SSL error for this page:

redsymbol.net uses an invalid security certificate. The
certificate is only valid for the following names:
mobilewebup.com, www.mobilewebup.com
The certificate expired on 08 July 2011, 04:16.
The current time is 14 January 2018, 02:14.
Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
30 Ping sites to ping my blog for faster indexing 2018
Apple's draconian policies for controlling coverage of its products clearly work if even otherwise tech-savvy people like the HN crowd are fooled.

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2015/07/2...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/9to5mac.com/2014/08/29/seeing-t...
I use none of the google apps and they occupy disk space, run on start and can't be disabled or uninstalled while taking much screen space and cluttering my icons of installed apps with stuff I don't need, don't want and don't use but cannot remove.
...say most well intentioned people until it's their business on the line and they're looking at hiring a felon vs. someone without a record.
What you have described is exactly what happened in Qin dynasty 2000 years ego. Then those languages evolved together and all influenced what is the modern Chinese.

It is funny that this is the reverse process as how Latin evolved into Italian and Spanish etc after the fall of Rome.
A Brief History of the Stick
Or maybe like the ACA? Come on, that's how bills get passed.
Reform just means change. It doesn't require simplification.
I don't have the ability to downvote, but I can explain why I might have downvoted.

The comment is repeating a saying, it's not original. I have heard it a ton of times. It's really an entire category of arguments which can be called "premature optimization".

While some optimization is premature, the saying is repeated in a way that is crazy overly-broad. It's based on a false assumption that is only approximately true in some of the cases for web development. The assumption is that bad performance can be traded for more compute power without other negative side effects. This is very untrue for most practical systems in web development. Most compute-heavy decisions will do both things - increase the compute resources you need, and degrade user experience. If you're super tiny working on super simple systems, then there's a certain envelope of request response times where it won't matter if you are faster or slower. So there are some cases where it is a valid argument, but to me, these seem incredibly specific to a certain stage of a startup. Beyond that, what matters is prioritization, not complete disregard for performance concerns.
Mozilla’s bizarre stance on H264 coincidentally favored Google’s position. Mozilla’s anti-ad-tracking stuff was all switched off by default. They make their money from ads meaning their incentives parallel those of ad networks.

All ad supported products have bad incentives. It’s the same reason HBO and Nerflix produces great TV shows and ad based broadcast and cable networks mainly produce garbage.
> I think he's just pointing out the irony of someone purporting to aid the security-conscious having an expired cert on his own site.

This is exactly the point I was going after. It would be one thing if the cert had just expired but cmon, October 31, 2017 really?
One of my jobs in a big computer room had the same big red buttons by the door for the fire suppression system. By the time I'd gotten there in the 90s, they already had plastic covers on them, and had since a similar incident early 80s.
A robot goes to college (2017 DEC.)
Change to a bank that lets you do it - for example, Mondo/Monzo has an API.
How Bryan Fogel Accidentally Documented the Russian Olympic Doping Scandal
They are running on my two android phones (4.2, 4.4 and 6.0).
Android tries to scare me off stopping them will not allow me to disable most of them.

I do not need play services, why would I need it for ? I'm not even sure what this does apart from insta-gobbling my 50Mo monthly data plan downloading updates I don't want and cannot cancel of applications I do not use.
Although many of bash's extensions were borrowed from ksh (occasionally even compatibly), 'trap' was in the original Bourne sh.
"offensive constraints on salary"

This is the entirety of it right here. There's only a shortage when your pay is below market.
It has downsides if you're actually implementing software, but \r\n is the semantically correct way to represent a newline, because \r is Carriage Return (x=0) and \n is Line Feed (y++). In many scenarios \r is a useful primitive to have by itself, but if you want to support unix-style line endings you can't implement it, and you can't implement \n as a line feed - it has to be a newline. So in practice some expressiveness from the original character set was thrown out to save one byte per newline.
She's running in a primary challenge against an established Democrat who has been active in Maryland politics since the 1960s and has never lost an election.

On top of that, polling suggests that a majority of Americans, including just under 50% of Democrats, opposed clemency for Manning.

This is not going to end well. If she's serious about a career as an elected official, this is not the right way to go about it. I suspect she does not expect to win and this is really an attempt to gain national recognition as an activist.
I’ve never heard of a background check for an elected representative.

It is a bit strange that someone who can’t vote (a felon) could be elected and then vote on our behalf.
> For example, Find My Mac does not require 2FA even when 2FA is enabled.

This is intentional. Otherwise people who only have one device would be unable to wipe their device if it gets lost.
Somewhere, Away from It All
On a Kindle Paperwhite it is an option called Page Refresh under your Reading Options. It'll occasionally do a wipe, for example when a page has images but not not often enough to be annoying.
How flowering plants conquered the world
Most of the time the disable button is greyed out and cannot be clicked.

I'm not familiar with the /system partition but it seems logical that if I can delete them as root, it means I can also install something else in its place or put some of my data there, which would help me a lot as my phone does not allow for an additional SD card.
In this thread cryptocurrency community will rediscover banking and money.

We have stablecoins or tethers (manny attempts to create something people want) - people want some form of money for peer to peer value transfer, that will allow arbitrage between exchanges and connection to "real world" as almost nobody is pricing their services in ethereum/bitcoin.

Let's say we have 3 competing stablecoins and Gresham's law will apply = people will be moving to "best" coin and leaving others holding bad ones.
Imagine that you have 2 banks - one with good reputation and large reserves and second one - almost without them, yet both will be issuing private money redeemable for each other.
So how come one can attract customers to his specific stablecoins solution? By offering interest rate - a stablecoin that pays dividend will be better than stablecoin without it.

It's complicated - ideologically stablecoins are similar to economical perpetuum mobile devices, yet the first are impossible due to laws of physics and second one may work because economy depends on human behaviour and humans may act irrationally.
Perhaps... Or perhaps I choose to not kill and eat animals at all?
It likely depends on what specific committees you want to serve on. It would be pretty much impossible for her to serve on say the house intelligence committee (who oversees DIRNSA and ODNI etc) as there is no feasible way she will gain a security clearance. That might not prevent her from serving faithfully on non-classified committees doing dull but necessary things our bureaucrats do to run the government.

As far as I could find, there are four GOP congressmen running with records (sans Chelsea), and one Democrat:

* Joe Arpaio (R) - Contempt of court: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/us/sheriff-joe-arpaio-con...

* Don Blankenship (R) - Conspiricy to violate federal mine safety laws: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/us/donald-blankenship-sen...

* Michael Grimm (R) - Felony tax fraud: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/01/nyregion/staten-island-co...

* Greg Gianforte (R) - Assault of a reporter critical to him: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/us/politics/greg-gianfort...

* David Alcorn (D) - stalking: http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/13/dem-candidate-arrested-on-...
Is someone with a presidential pardon still considered a felon? I know the pardon does not erase the conviction, but since a pardon seems to erase the most significant consequences, does it erase all consequences?
It's an http: link. Why are you trying to load it as https:?
Most states restore voting rights for felons after a period of time.
Ask HN: What kitchen/cooking hacks that have been really effective for you?
Anything goes!
They'd have to get background checks to serve on any committee which handles any sort of classified information. They'd need a clearance to head into the SCIF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Inform...
Seems like a weird form of overfitting.

You give the brain a set of images to fit/train the original model.
Then you show the brain a set of images similar to the ones used to train the model.

... you will never really understand what the brain sees in novel situations unrelated to the training task.
Traps are neat but beware, they aren't completely reliable. You can't trap SIGKILL or SIGSTOP. In the article's examples, a SIGKILL would (1) leave temp directories around, (2) fail to restart a service, and (3) leave an expensive AWS resource running.

Remember that SIGKILL isn't always the result of a human typing `kill -9` either: the Linux OOM killer sends it; all unixes potentially send it during shutdown and runlevel switching; programs like timeout(1) send it as a last resort.

Here are some other ways to approach the 3 examples:

1) Avoid temp files and directories if you can. Sometimes you can't, but anecdotally I come across LOTS of shell scripts that create a temp file when they could have used a pipe. Bonus: pipes are fast.

2) Insuring a service comes back up after maintenance: use a process supervisor with automatic restarts, and have the service script grab a startup lockfile first thing. Use
a blocking flock(1) or setlock(8) and discard the lock fd immediately afterwards. To bring the service down for maintenance, grab the startup lockfile, stop the service, then do your thing. Once your maintenance script exits -- through any means, including SIGKILL -- the kernel automatically releases the lock and the hitherto blocked service continues starting up.

3) Capping expensive resources: if the EC2 instance truly is temporary, why not impose a timeout and police all such instances out-of-band, with an alarm? The article is right that omissions of this kind can be $$$.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...
I think that she is running and knows that she will lose but use the opportunity to push ideas that her opponent will adopt. Sort of like a sacrifice fly but in politics. The Green party I think has done this in the past.
There is no constitutional barrier to Manning becoming a senator if she wins an election.
Nice examples. It would take more of a grammar nut than I am (and I read Garner's book cover to cover) to untangle it. I'm not able to detect any relevant search terms, either.
Comparing ChannelAdvisor and Jazva: 3 Key Side-By-Side Differences
The bad rep for vista comes from it getting in the way of using the computer among other things such as being bugged.

I remember an update downloading itself and applying itself at shutdown then restarting to apply itself some more and looping like this indefinitely. Best update ever \o/
It is also a way of thinking about death prevalent in Jewish culture.
Compiler bug in MSVC?
Probably not, but one should never discount the power of name recognition, combined with symbolism, acting in lieu of traditional qualifications (see "Donald Trump").
This is unnecessary. The EXIT trap fires on any exit from the shell, not just graceful exit.
> And those newly out of prison are generally required to have a full-time job as a condition of their release

That’s insane, plenty of people who didn’t just get out of prison can’t get a full time job.
Propel a Machine Learning Framework for JavaScript
China is one of the fastest growing countries for religion both in absolute numbers and in percentages. There are more people living in China who describe themselves as "evangelizing Christians" than there are in the USA, for example. This has been the case for around two decades now.
Manning received clemency, therefore has re-gained all rights that were "lost," including the right to vote (as well as run for office).
Personal/political opinions about this aside (helllll yeaaa!) its odd that she'd file and then just be silent on social media all day. Did she/her-team not expect this public record to get noticed till next week? Where is the website? Was this a very last minute decision?
This is from Jeff Preshing's post on Twitter https://twitter.com/preshing/status/952289083778269185
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_polit...
Mike: The headless chicken
~>> E8 ?