skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, live life, be happy. The point the author is making is that people aren't even doing it for the reason of pleasure. It's more a function of people fulfilling a fantasy that's been manufactured by society to make people feel as though they MUST travel, or they're boring and doing it wrong.
They ask you because you're free. If there was a paid service for this, they'd still ask you. If it was monetized some other it might be useful but need more details.
Then prices would fall to the point where people could afford their homes, or governments would run massive surpluses and could lower their tax rates to remove the burden, or some combination of the two effects. It would remove the disincentive to trade homes which is bad for everyone: if I live next to your job and you live next to my job we'd both be better off if we bought and sold each other's houses, but at the moment we're discouraged from doing that because our tax bills would come due.
A couple weeks ago there were four people who were shot and killed in Boston that just so happened to be on the same day. NBC called is a "surge in gun violence" and you flip over to Fox and it's "four murders"

Nobody writes a story in a way that maximizes conflict with their personal opinions. No editor tweaks things to make a story less in line with the organization's stakeholders.

The narrative changes a lot based on who's writing the story. Whether you slant things intentionally or not or even at all is another story. I would not be surprised if the flight attendant and passenger got in a yelling match, threatened to punch each other and the people writing the articles just tilted things in favor of whichever side they favored based on their opinions and information available to them.
Now included is also a DRAGNN wrapper that exposes an easy to use Python interface to SyntaxNet. Check the README to see how easy it's to get started. Comments and thoughts are welcome!
I think the costs of travel are overstated. Most people I've met assume travel is out of reach unless they're wealthy.

Even the author suggests that Prague and Barcelona are the same, but one has a fraction of the cost of living a fraction of the other. For example, you'd save money flying to Prague and living there for a year.

Travel is expensive when people expect the same exact creature comforts and familiarities they have back home because that's what gives rise to the amusement park cities the article talks about.

But that's criticism of some travelers and marketing, not of travel in general. And that's where the article drops the ball hard.

I think we need more articles that fight against travel marketing, not articles that try to discourage travel at all. Most people already don't travel yet hold world views as if they do.
I float, but not much more of me is out of the water than I could cover with my hand. Even with more fat than I like to carry, I can stand on the bottom of a swimming pool. This greatly amuses my wife, who can lift her toes out of the water, while mine are pointing straight down.
Fascinating story, although it wasn't just the font, it was trying to pass off default output from 2004 Word as a 1973 typewriter. It seems all they did was run it through a copier a few times. So it was font, paragraph style, and superscript.

If you're gonna frame a presidential candidate you should try harder.
Those p-values aren't very convincing since I don't see any multiple-hypothesis-testing correction. There's probably still a couple that are significant, but you can't test 24 hypotheses and impress anyone with a p<0.05.
HSTS is not deprecated, HPKP is.

HSTS is what tells the browser "this website MUST be served over TLS".

HPKP is what tells the browser "this website must be served over TLS with this exact key".

HPKP is being deprecated due to the large "footgun" it creates for websites, and the difficulty at actually managing it. It's being replaced by "Expect-CT" which is a much easier and safer way of getting a similar result.
The difference is more dramatic once you have two or more dimensions:

>>> foo = {}
>>> foo[3][4] = 42
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
KeyError: 3

Compared to:

DB<1> $foo{3}{4} = 42

DB<2> x \%foo
0 HASH(0x7f9f4315c940)
3 => HASH(0x7f9f432bb148)
4 => 42
Physicists create Star Wars-style 3D projections – but don’t call them holograms
Can relate too. I'm going through this right now and it kills me. I'm not a real manager but I have a number of devs I oversee in some aspects and it's obvious to me some are underused, undervalued, or underchallenged. The problem might be that as a lead I empathize /too much/, but it drives me crazy that in the end I'm just a proxy for communication with very little power for change. I feel like I'm always making up excuses for the company's decisions and that's not good either.
Open source webmail for the WildDuck e-mail server
Thanks, good catch. Yes, that's what I meant.
It's possible -- I'm not a regular reader of his blog, and thus might be missing stylistic cues, or other occluded methods of admitting a failing. The only thing I read him admit to is that he's less sure of himself than before. Likewise, "Right now I think conflict theory is probably a less helpful way of viewing the world in general than mistake theory" doesn't quite express the idea that "these two theories actually address vastly differing questions that I and the rest of 'respectable' society have been conditioned to conflate". (edit) To clarify: how to obtain power (conflict theory) vs how to effectively wield power (mistake theory)
I'm all for it. When does hunting season open?
I think your comment is a bit… not sure what the word is, under-appreciating the feature? Over-selling some languages?

Because AFAIK Java (or C#?) does not have constrained interface conformance, it only has bounds on functions (which Swift already had). That is you can say

static <T extends Comparable<? super T>> void sort(MyList<T> list)

such that you can only sort lists of comparables, but you can't say

class MyList implements Comparable<T extends Comparable<? super T>>

such that MyList implements comparable IIF its items are comparable.
The first time my mother took me to Beijing, it was a mess. There were few streetlights, few shops that sold western amenities, yet I loved it. It was different. There was no Starbucks, yet every little alleyway there were stalls that sold dumplings to deep fried dough to stinky tofu.

Now, all the alleyways have been closed down. Starbucks, KFC, Macdonald's and other generic shops dot the landscape. Every major city now serves Starbucks styled over-roasted coffee along with obligatory Gucci, Toyota, and Apple shops.

It takes a lot of effort to really experience something different. Perhaps the author is right that it's about brownie points these days, but I'm an old school romantic and I still love that feeling of visiting a city or town that I've only heard before in books.

If I'm lucky, a place turns out to be better in real life than my dreams. No doubt there are real costs for mass travel and the impact is often negative. But that's the by product of a Nash equilibrium whereby I do want to see the world and all its wonders.
I don't know much about quantum computation, but David Deutsch does say something along those lines. In particular, that the superiority of quantum computation for certain problems is explained by computation taking place in multiple universes.

He also rejects the idea that there's something ineffable about quantum mechanics, or that the reason quantum computation works can't be explained using ordinary logic and reasoning that is accessible in principle to everybody (I don't know for sure that's what is meant here by "somehow creates a “resource”": but I'm triggered a bit by those words because people often do essentially mean that).

Of course he would (correctly) say that one shouldn't treat him as being an infallible source of truth on the matter. But he does believe that the purpose of science is to explain the world, which puts him in a different class from apologists for quantum mysticism, strict empiricism and other believers in explanation-free knowledge.
Are these the patents from Google’s and Tencent's 2018 licensing deal?
Fighting Gerrymandering:Using DataScience to draw fairer congressional districts
All that does is link that frame to [a key in] the particular camera. It doesn't verify that the frame was "real" in some way. It defends whoever controls [the key in] that camera from others secretly tampering with that frame afterwards, but it doesn't defend others from tampering by whoever controls [the key in] that camera.

Central signature verification or blockchain could verify a timestamp - i.e. prove that the frame was taken (or maliciously created) before a particular time. That's about it.
I don't think the article was trying to be objective.
What do you do if you hold (largely) to Mistake theory, but it becomes clear that many people in politics seem to be "my team or yours" Conflict theorists?
isn't it because the control and treatment groups are randomised from the same pool?
What are the most important concepts in programming?
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why not want to explore and experience more?

Because you are literally destroying what you supposedly cherish by visiting it.
> Bitfinex TOS even say that they don't have to give you dollars for your tethers

That bit's not entirely true. I believe it was but hasn't been since Jan 1. The actual wording is

"Tether will not issue Tether Tokens for consideration that is other Digital Tokens (for example, bitcoin), and will not redeem Tether Tokens for other Digital Tokens; only money will be accepted upon issuance, and only money will be provided upon redemption"

There are various other caveats requiring you not to be a criminal etc but that's fairly standard boilerplate.

As to the rest of your comment, I entirely agree.
Square has acquired a 32-year-old restaurant delivery company
FWIW, an apology was later issued:

https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2018/01/m...
Because some people don't have any medical history.
I think it's 1000x more impressive - you get to see it in action live. How that scales up to more complex things though, I'm not sure...
Swimming continuously.

It's one thing to sit neutrally bouyant in a Scuba suit, or in a flotation device, with nothing but shivering to keep warm. Asleep, you can get hypothermia in water that is nearly at body temperature.

However, endurance athletes (like this 2.5-day-swimmer apparently decided he was) can keep warm by exertion. Competitive swimmers will keep warm, and actually sweat a great deal, in a very cold pool throughout an hour or two of practice in nothing but a speedo.

The problem only comes when one discovers, like the protagonist of Jack London's "To Build A Fire", that you lack the endurance.
But then you have to account for methane leaks from pipelines and account for the fact that methane has 60x more warming power than co2 and they end up being basically a wash. Consider the error bars in, i.e. https://partofthething.com/thoughts/wp-content/uploads/ipcc-...

Data from https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg3/ipcc_wg3_a...
how? in the example the data is not signed, what is stopping a other server from changing the content i posted?
Reminds me of my own attempt to design a decentralized networking protocol FOSP (https://github.com/maufl/fosp-specification). I now think that a peer to peer solution would be more user friendly, it's sometimes difficult to explain to some of my peers that there can be a difference between an app and an service.
Blockchain Solutions: The Way to Transform Your Business Processes
So many things are janky in ECS that it ends up costing too much time and energy to get anything done. I've posted at length before about all the specific problems I hit while building on ECS, but lately I've just been telling people that it's like that janky toolbox in the funny old "PHP is a fractal of bad design" blog post [0]. Of all the AWS services I ever used, I find ECS by far the most terrible. Even worse than Amazon's documentation. So this really stunted and awkward spaceship analogy is pretty hilarious, given that it's about ECS.

[0] https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
kinda late, but no problem! I forget where I found out about it.
Controversial AI app can recognize human beauty
I recently left Edinburgh, to relocate to Finland. Reading that made made sad, although I can also completely see what she meant.

(I lived in Leith so most of the "stuff" there didn't affect me, except for all the tram-works, and the Mela/etc on Leith Links.)
People have been able to put celebrity faces on porn photos for decades.

I don't see how this is significantly different.

We could create a viral picture of Trump killing someone now.
Using Bitbucket Auth for Concourse Teams
Completely agree. It's a Nash equilibrium. If nobody visits, the destination stays the same. If only I visit, then the destination stays the same yet I derive immense enjoyment. If everyone visits, the place goes down the drain and everyone loses.
Model 3 VINs surpass #6000 as ramp continues
How is TimescaleDB different from OSIsoft PI?
This reminds me of a family guy episode, where Brian, who is normally liberal, finds that all the pieces of power in the government are now democrat. So he switches sides and becomes a republican.

While the above example is made up, and satire. There definitely is a portion of people that love to fight the powers that be. In the US you can see these people in both parties.
He would have inflated his BCD when he got to the surface, and that would have kept him afloat, probably dropped his weights as well. That way his kit is actually keeping him afloat.
Here's world data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bp_world_energy_consumpti...

Natural gas and other fossil fuels are soaring.
Which ones and for what amounts? Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm were fined more than $1b so far. All of them are US comapanies. Scania was fined €880m for price fixing.
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Bag-of-words/tf-idf is still a pretty good goto for working out "significant terms" to solve "search" tasks. Its simple, old, and reasonably effective, which is what makes it good.
Here's how I protect myself from addictive sites:

I have a (fairly bad) smartphone and no data plan (just a small 200mb/mo emergency contingent). I have deleted all social media apps (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Messenger, all Games). On the go, I use apps with offline capabilities. Pocket Casts for Podcasts, the Kindle app for my books, Spotify for music. Those get synced on Wifi

If I use any apps of this kind, I do so on my Laptop:

Here, I have more control by using three Chrome extensions:

- Stay Focused (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankej...) which gives me a few minutes per day on a set of blacklisted sites.

- Newsfeed Eradicator ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat... ) - does exactly what the name suggests. Still possible to use Facebook for events and to talk to friends

- Distraction Free Youtube (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/df-youtube-distrac... ) deactivates the features that suck you down the Youtube rabbit whole of by clicking on recommended videos.

On top of that, I use uBlock which blocks all the ads that I would have to endure on my phone.

A little lower level, I have a modified hosts file which blocks social media sites: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Obviously it is possible to circumvent all of these self-imposed obstacles, but taking a couple of seconds to "take the safety off" is often enough to remind me why I have blocked those pages in the first place. It is enough time to let my prefrontal cortex reign in my dopamine seeking reptile brain.

Taking these measures has allowed me to drastically reduce my time spent on distracting sites.
What annoys me as a someone not trained in statistics is that these discussions are always abstract in-principle arguments about what proper statistics should be like.

Meanwhile, we have a real paper with real p-values, why not discuss the validity of that?

> SRT Consistent Long-Term Retrieval improved with curcumin (ES = 0.63, p = 0.002) but not with placebo (ES = 0.06, p = 0.8; between-group: ES = 0.68, p = 0.05). Curcumin also improved SRT Total (ES = 0.53, p = 0.002), visual memory (BVMT-R Recall: ES = 0.50, p = 0.01; BVMT-R Delay: ES = 0.51, p = 0.006), and attention (ES = 0.96, p < 0.0001) compared with placebo (ES = 0.28, p = 0.1; between-group: ES = 0.67, p = 0.04). FDDNP binding decreased significantly in the amygdala with curcumin (ES = −0.41, p = 0.04) compared with placebo (ES = 0.08, p = 0.6; between-group: ES = 0.48, p = 0.07). In the hypothalamus, FDDNP binding did not change with curcumin (ES = −0.30, p = 0.2), but increased with placebo (ES = 0.26, p = 0.05; between-group: ES = 0.55, p = 0.02).

I can see that there are a lot of p-values around 0.05, but that the supposed improvements have much lower p-values:

(ES = 0.63, p = 0.002) SRT Consistent Long-Term Retrieval
(ES = 0.53, p = 0.002) SRT Total
(ES = 0.50, p = 0.01) BVMT-R Recall
(ES = 0.51, p = 0.006) BVMT-R Delay
(ES = 0.96, p < 0.0001) attention

What does this imply? Is it a good sign, or does it actually make it more fishy? pythonslange's comment[0] seems to suggest the latter, claiming that none of the other pre-registered tests are mentioned, without any explanation why.

(eyeing that "attention" one, if this does hold up under scrutiny, could I expect tumeric-based ADD medication somewhere in the future, without all the nasty side-effects of my current amphetamine-based options?)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16229693
It's Time to Restart the Clock on Spectre, Meltdown Patch Rollout Time Line
Yes, although I did notice a stray homophone(pedal/peddle) and a non-sensical sentence, I thought the writing was funny and original.
This is not relevant, so I thumbed down on youtube. Sorry, dude, but if this way you learn..
>based on their opinions and information available to them.

based on whether they got money from the airline ;)
6 Benefits of Pair Design for Software Designers
What's the actual video format? I mean, my knowledge is a bit dated, but don't codecs like x264 usually have I B and P frames so you couldn't cut at an arbitrary frame without reencoding. Do you just emit I frames or does x264 have some more advanced tricks available?
Read up on UASF http://www.uasf.co/
Even relatively minor changes throw our civilization and economy into panic and disarray. Drought in the Middle East is considered one of the factors that led to the rise of ISIS [0]. But it's not the first time. Drought led to poor harvest which led to the French Revolution when grain prices got too high [1].

If you're wondering why the Netherlands has to reclaim land from the sea, if you wonder where it all went, it was a result of the Little Ice Age and a storm that devastated Northern Europe and washed much the of area out to sea [2].

Of course all of this happened outside of our modern worries about climate change... but it shows even "natural" changes in weather patterns can cause serious economic and cultural upheaval. What we're being warned of right now is far more serious and massive than we've ever seen before, including during all the time periods where drought and famine and storms have famously killed hundreds/thousands before [3].

All you can do is assume the worst. We've seen the impacts throughout history, we're dealing with some of them now. Northern Europe is still paying off the mitigation of the storm that destroyed their land... that storm happened 800 years ago. They'll be paying it off forever.

If we have the ability to stop things like the Little Ice Age or the drought that caused the French Revolution, we should. Right now we're being warned of something like that, but many many times more dramatic. And we have a chance to slow it down. We need to take that chance.

[0]: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/...

[1]: http://www.academia.edu/4794332/Drought_and_the_French_Revol...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Marcellus%27_flood

[3]: https://xkcd.com/1732/
Depends whether you ascribe their positions as mistakes, or as a form of conflict.
The flip side is that those of us who tend to have controversial opinions get negative dopamine hits (downvotes, often with no response or retort) and participate less.

I mostly just don't participate in upvoting or downvoting at all (here or on reddit), unless something really catches my attention.

Personally, I still think this is one thing slashdot had right. Random selection of certain established users as "moderator" who could not only give a comment a point rating between 0-5, but also a descriptor (funny, offtopic, etc).

Honestly I miss the slashdot days of old.
Well, it is the name of a company. It's just a company holding the rights to the face of the cat.
https://www.grumpycats.com/
Bitfinex and some other exchanges list their crypto prices in USDT and most people trading on their platform probably don't realise this is not dollars. So there's your guaranteed demand. As long as those buyers HODL there is no pressure on USDT.
We use Cassandra extensively at https://logrocket.com. How does performance compare vs Cassandra when you don't need the semantics or transactions of SQL? I'm surprised the article only provides benchmarks against PostgreSQL.
idea: Give points randomly: When an up-vote is given, a random member gets the point. Seeing your comment or submission on the front page is a reward on itself, no need to get extra points too. This can be developed further by randomly selecting only from those who has up-voted the submission, so there would be a higher chance of getting negative points by up-voting "flame-bait" topics.
It sounds fairly reasonable to me. You design a cool app but it evolves into something much more than what you envisioned. You are still passionate about it but it doesn't mean that you have to be a compulsive user. Same story with several employees / key executives. There are there to perform a role, maybe manage engineering, run finance etc. They really don't need to be immersed in the app to do that, neither should they be expected to.
Wow, I'd missed that one. It seems to match the ideas we had about them, but what a gorgeous fossil.
Wikipedia says 'When first published, the book included the tagline: "The magnificent epic of an ambiguous utopia!" which was shortened by fans to "An ambiguous utopia" and adopted as a subtitle in certain editions', with footnotes that I haven't bothered to follow.
> why don't you read some textbooks for a few years and start flawlessly performing surgery?

You missed the point because you weren’t open minded enough (admittedly OP left it ripe for you to jump to this conclusion). What I believe OP was trying to say was that the example you mentioned above isn’t some impossibly hard thing that only those with a special gift can do, but rather that with the right motivation, enough practice, and possibly the right teacher, you too can achieve it. OP also did not put time boxing on how long it would take (that’s on you there), but said it’s achievable if the above is met.
That’s probably why EKS is well under way. ECS was built at a time when there was no clear winner in the orchestration game. Now there is. AWS pretty much admitted that they would throw themselves behind hosted Kubernetes going forward.