skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In American Sign Language, the signs glossed as THAT and as YES also resemble each other.

The sign YES is http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/y/yes.htm which looks like a head nod, but also it is the general motion your hand takes when you spell Y-E-S in the manual alphabet. (Lots of ASL signs are lexicalized fingerspellings. They started off as just being fingerspelled, but over time they became words themselves)

The sign THAT can be used to agree with someone emphatically (and also as backchanneling, as in THAT THAT THAT, is like "yeah, uh huh, oh, ok, mm") For an example see the second image on http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/t/that.htm

Notice that THAT is made with the Y handshape, same as the initial letter in Y-E-S, and moves like YES. Hmm!
I think your analysis is accurate. These past years reddit's "The Donald" community is a prime example of that, except it went through all phases in about a year, maybe even less.

But I also think you need to take into account that many of the original users who genuinely did not seriously believe the "Hitler did nothing wrong"/"Hearth is flat"/"Donald Trump would make a great president"/... meta-joke end up leaving when things get serious. It's actually a feature for the extremists who push these ideas, if you're not with them you're against them, it's all about creating an echo chamber at this point. Reddit is terrible for that because of the moderation and voting system but even on 4chan good luck trying to argue against the hivemind, you'll just get insulted over and over until the thread 404's. Eventually you give up and stop bothering.
To me, "This." is stronger than "Yes.", "Exactly.", etc.

In my opinion, "This." means that you not only agree with the previous comments, but you could have made it yourself. It has a connotation of "This is the full answer", "This is it, you don't even need to read further below", "This is exactly the same thing I would have said".

I might be making the connotations up, though, it's not like there is a dictionary covering this kind of things.
"1. Even if you don't do SNI the hostname is on the certificate that the server sends."

What if the certificate contains an IP address, instead of hostname(s)?

This can alleviate reliance on (third-party controlled, e.g., ICANN) DNS. The blog hints at this reliance (i.e. unencrypted DNS) as an inherent weakness of HTTPS.
”Bitcoin Q&A: Why running a node is important” [video]
> as well as being massive bird choppers

This is a fairly minor issue that the planners are usually required to mitigate as much as possible, and the non-renewable sources have a significant cost to bird habitats as well. The various bird protection societies are usually cautiously in favour of wind power provided it's not in a sensitive habitat.

It turns out that glass-windowed skyscrapers and domestic cats are far more deadly to birds.

Monocultural wheat fields are also a highly artificial industrial landscape, just a more familiar one.
Sort of, yes. Just smaller, and in a local unions with the closest states of the U.S.A.
They used to be, until Zuck. Now the pendulum is beginning to swing back as boards realize that not all founders have both skillsets.
Makes sense, but is the same also true for birds then?
Programming as a craft
Honestly I never needed any java updates on server side. I'm sure that they are fixing something important, but I've yet to encounter any bugs. My recent projects should run on Win32 and given that they dropped support, I won't migrate from Java 8 even if it won't be updated.
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James Mickens is very profilic in information security related research. I particularly like his essay titled - "The Slow Winter". Changed my thinking a lot. Prof Igor Markov also had substantional effect on my thinking, just like Prof Mickens did.
Thank God. Loud motorcycles are one of the top problems of my community. Please, use a muffler.
At this point a few issues arise. The first is that what you’re describing is a feature of the Schwarzschild metric, which applies to a model black hole, which is time-independent and eternal. There is no particular reason to believe that this accurately describes black holes in nature. For example this metric can not describe the merger of two black holes, but we now have observational evidence that this does indeed take place.

The biggest issue, aside from the model, is that time dilation is something which only matters when two observers “compare clocks.” Neither observer alone ever experiences a difference. The crew of a 99.9% lightspeed ship doesn’t experience time dilation... until they return home. It makes no sense to talk about the effects of time dilation from the point of view of a one-way trip to the event horizon.
Its kind of annoying this is on Ubuntu by default from 17.10 onwards. Badly configured internet facing servers... now have a GUI.
A great book that walks the reader through simulations to learn Physics is, "From Newton to Mandelbrot". [0]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Newton-Mandelbrot-Theoretical-Physics...
Eff might be wrong on this one, The problem with the provisional: is it apparently does not fully support any of the claims pending in the Fan application as published. That is, the invention as claimed was NOT in the public domain.
> Somebody born in the US in 1980 certainly wasn't too old to have gaming consoles growing up.

I was born in 1973 and had consoles growing up, the Atari 2600 being the second not long after it came out (don't remember what the first was, except that it didn't use cartridges and had a few built-in games.)

People of about my age and even a little earlier were widely recognized at the time as being the first to have a digital childhood.

The idea that there is a “microgeneration” born later characterized by an analog childhood and digital adulthood is silly.
Start with YouTube -- "Crash Course Astronomy" and then "PBS space time". Both programs are very well done, and give fairly rigorous yet entertaining overviews to cosmology and the related physics (PBS space time is the more rigorous one). Crash course is great because it touches on almost all major cosmological phenomena. For some of the videos, you may want to rewatch certain parts for understanding, or supplement with some brief research via google.

This route provides a gentle, productive ramp as you make sure you really want to dive deep.

I've done that and, ideally, I'd like to now buy some college physics books. However, I may have to delay this next step for quite a while due to some other higher priority goals... We will see if I get back to it. There is too much interesting shit and important things to do in the world, heh.
The website looks exactly the same as that from GitHub Desktop: https://desktop.github.com/
I’ve always lived in Texas. I’ve taken Amtrak from Austin to San Francisco, and also from Seattle to Chicago to Dallas.

There are lots of car rental places in those small towns. A good example is another Amtrak stop, Alpine, Texas. You can rent plenty of types of cars, lots with 4x drive, before venturing on to Big Bend National Park.
I am assuming that those 18 month of work experience will be at the expense of coursework.
Any developed industry has it's own terms and language - healthcare, military, government, programming, finance...

Always fun learning new languages inside languages.
If you want a good textbook, try David Morin's "Introduction to Classical Mechanics: With Problems and Solutions". Rather rigorous book with a good writing style and a lot of exercises.
A few months ago I had a similar conversation with a Norwegian guy complaining about the number of immigrants in Norway. The funny thing is that the guy was living in my country.

Of course, in his eyes he was not an immigrant, but an expatriate.

A little of effort trying to understand others can make wonders. Most immigrants behave, a few not. Of those, a few are just bad persons, but most are just poor an uneducated and probably they would prefer to be in their home countries.

If immigrants are so problematic, maybe we should be looking into what, in many cases, our governments are doing (or not doing) in their native countries.
How many of those $10B companies are actually really
worth that, not just an inflated result of funding
rounds?

The parent is talking about S&P 500 companies, which means publicly traded ones. The thing where private companies have inflated valuations [1][2] doesn't apply here.

[1] https://www.benkuhn.net/terms

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2955455
Not necessarily. After calibration your monitor displays as accurately as it can sRGB (or any other profile you calibrated for). It still may miss or shift parts of sRGB though.

Thus your software has to know what your display is capable of. It can use this information to show you which parts of the photograph you edit are not shown accurately.
I think taking away the freedom of defense at the individual level is a long term problem.

I don't think we can prevent all violence beforehand. And I don't think we can prosecute all violence without creating some sort of police or surveillance state.

Given there will (should) be gaps in how violence is policed, we need to give upstanding citizens the ability to handle those gaps in justice in their own way. I'd rather people left the scene, handed over their wallet, recorded and published the incident, etc.

But as another commenter implied by bringing up Mexico, the "let the police handle it" is a bit of a privileged attitude. That isn't a trustworthy option for every American and it hasn't been a trustworthy option throughout American history.
>What are you talking about?

I suspect what the poster is talking about is telecom equipment manufacturers, not service providers. Yes service providers reap obscene profits. Equipment manufacturers are typically much more challenged by competition and commoditization.
Criticism of the Space Shuttle program
I grew up about an hour north of NYC and fondly remember the Milky Way - our subdivision didn’t have streetlights. I can’t see it now from my house in the Santa Cruz mountains (15 miles from Silicon Valley) but the night sky is far more brilliant than just over the hill.
4k game industry salaries (H1-B hires verified by the US Dept of Labor)
The author suggests there's a choice between scaffolding and project-based learning. There isn't. Scaffolding -- or breaking things down, and 'putting on training wheels' so the learner doesn't get overwhelmed -- is an established successful teaching strategy with plenty of research to defend the technique. Project-based learning lends to the idea that making things real, instead of just drills, leads to better learner motivation and retention. Project-based learning also has evidence-based support. The idea that these two learning strategies in are opposition is false. You can absolutely break down activities in components, teach those first, and then do integration practice -- all while doing project-based learning. Think 'mini-projects'.

Disclaimer: I'm working on https://sagefy.org/
Sometimes, though I suspect in a lot of cases that's probably for the best. I mean, if a product or service exists and does what you need it to, isn't it better to take advantage of that rather than reinvent the wheel every time? Sure, you could create your own inhouse CMS for those client websites or what not, but it's likely not worth it given the effort of making your updates, fixing security holes, etc. Same with anything really. You could in theory try and go all the way back to the start on your own, but where does it end? Eventually you'll be doing ten times more work for little extra benefit.

Are there examples where doing the extra work could be better? Of course, I know that one from experience. All that time trying to integrate a CMS and a forum script and a bunch of other standalone things was a nightmare, and in that case I definitely wish I'd just rolled the whole thing myself instead.

But in many cases, it's probably better to use pre-existing solutions rather than spend all your time reinventing the wheel or falling victim to not invented here syndrome. That way, you're relying on well tested solutions with a decent amount of support available online and a guarantee it'll still work when most of your team has moved on to pastures new.
> Can you expand on this? To me, Plato seems like a fairly good fit for the computer world.

That is exactly the issue - computing is the closest thing we will ever have to Platonic Idealism. You can create simple, elegant, symmetric worlds. Many people instead assume that whatever poorly designed programming language is around at the moment is the be-all, end-all Platonic world that they must inhabit, and then proceed to come up with all kinds of dumb workarounds because the programming language does not model whatever they are trying to express, all the while patting themselves on the back for being clever and creating "abstractions."

OO patterns do not make any kind of sense. There is no "generality" or "abstraction" about Singletons or Factories. They are made-up nonsense terms for ad-hoc techniques people hacked together to work around the problems they had trying to apply certain classes of OO languages to modeling certain kinds of problems in the real world.

So the contrast should be between different philosophic schools - if patterns (and OO inheritance) is like Platonism, what would materialism be? I think DSLs and DDD is a kind of materialist view on computer programming. And DDD's emphasis on clear and precise naming and concepts is very much what analytic philosophy is also concerned with.
I've not read this yet, but have paged though it a bit at a bookstore, and it looks like it has potential: "The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe" by Roger Penrose [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Road-Reality-Complete-Guide-Universe/...
ok?

This comment doesn't really tell us much. Was the book missing its cover? Did you not realize what the book was about? Did you dislike the presentation style?
I’ve been torn about his comments of not using leverage to buy stocks. Berkshire uses insurance float which has risk. I guess they feel that this risk is small and supported by the 400 billion reserved to pay out.

Is attaining debt at a 4% rate mortgage riskier than utilizing their float?
or Wyoming

I'm from North Dakota and when the friggin sign in Wyoming says there are no towns for the next 73 miles you believe them and make sure your fuel is good.
The problem with this is that there are clearly certain groups who are far more economically productive than other groups. It would only be a matter of time before conflict broke out.
How many powerwalls per classroom? Solar? Electrical upgrades?

https://www.tesla.com/powerwall

"Your final design and pricing will be based on your electrical panel, home energy usage, number of Powerwalls, and where you’d like your Powerwall installed. Typical installation cost ranges from $800 to $2,000. This does not include solar installation, electrical upgrades (if necessary), taxes, permit fees, or any retailer / connection charges that may apply."

I assume shipping would add a HEAFTY cost in Hawaii as well.
not an physicist, but from the point of view of the thing going on the black whole, time still goes on smoothly. My understanding is that the inside of the black whole becomes like a new universe, effectively cut from the previous one from the perspective of causality
Mentioned in another branch of this discussion, but I really liked "From Newton to Mandelbrot" for a computational take on learning Physics.
Other than some dev tools and some games, all my software comes from the MS Store.

It's also the best place to find touch & pen friendly apps that take full advantage of modern Windows 10 features, which are aimed at these devices.

Most people will do fine with Windows 10S.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is definitely a step up from Wikipedia's coverage of philosophy, but it comes from a strong and pretty obvious Analytic point of view. For coverage from other points of view (which arguably give more accurate and informed accounts of non-analytic philosophy), you have to resort to classes or books.
Mathematics Is an Edifice, Not a Toolbox [pdf]
> Even though we often refer to Y as "the" Y combinator, in actual fact there are an infinite number of Y combinators.

Drop the "the." Just "Y combinator." It's cleaner.
Sure you hate it but the riders/consumers love it and that's another reason that electric bikes will fail.
Are cars going to be an example of this? New electric cars are more fuel efficient but they will have so much processing and laser power (for autonomous driving) that they will actually consume more energy.
45sec SMW Credits Warp Explained [video]
I have a lot of interest and questions about this, has anybody here been using this? I would like to know:

1) what types of things does OpenSCAP audit?

2) does it support my mixture of operating systems?

3) is it for scanning remotely over a network?

4) does it scan the configuration of a computer from a local daemon?

After ~5 minutes of clicking, I eventually found this link:

https://www.open-scap.org/getting-started/

Which explains what they mean by their terms. However, it's not the traditional definition of "getting started" which means installation.

(Also, for some reason the web developer has severely reduced the user experience by hiding items, and only showing them once they have fully scrolled into view, which breaks the large sections of text. It makes it really hard to skim and learn.)
Verizon (and most telecoms for that matter) plays games by being hundreds if not thousands of tiny partnerships, which obfuscates their profit.
73 miles is only about an hour.
Here is a definition of analytic philosophy from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_Philosophy):

"As a philosophical practice, [analytic philosophy] is characterized by an emphasis on argumentative clarity and precision, often making use of formal logic, conceptual analysis, and, to a lesser degree, mathematics and the natural sciences."

That is exactly what you do when you are doing computer programming. So computer programming is the practice of applying the techniques of analytic philosophy to computers.
Right, they probably just made it all up.
President Trump Proposes Violent Game Regulations
See, "F# For Scientists"
I believe you're thinking of Spin by Robert Charles Winston.

Really good book
I just have an "any browser" installed, how do the other pages look like?
MobX has been great to me on small projects, but I’ve heard the magic can lead to problems down the road. Has anyone ran into these problems?

I’ve also noticed some of the noteworthy React guys have been turning away from redux lately. I guess nowhere is safe haha. What’s everyone here using at the moment?
They don't know. It's bleeding edge science and so far the study was only done for bats. Likely other scientists will look into birds now.

Birds are only very distantly related to bats (hundreds of millions of years away in evolutionary time) and their last common ancestors didn't fly.

There's something called convergent evolution when you have similar problems you come up independently with similar solutions, but then birds are in many ways very different from bats. So it could be that they have a similar mechanism, or they get around the problem in some other way.
Saw this earlier today and the screenshots matched. Probably because they are using GitHub Desktop as a base?

github/desktop is MIT, so I'd say good idea: https://github.com/desktop/desktop
Yes, I do agree.

However stuff like JDBC interface changes comes up as breaking changes in previous releases.

In what concerns Java 9, Mark Reinhold keeps doing presentations about how all Java relevant frameworks and tools are already Java 9 compliant. Including many that they validated against in Maven repositories.

Last presentation I saw was at FOSDEM.

So it appears to be a major issue to anyone wanting to migrate Java 9 without updating the frameworks as well, having some kind of special case library, or using APIs that were always documented as internal.
So don't store data in iCloud? It's perfectly possible to perform your own encryption and hold the private key yourself.
... combined with the longstanding security design flaw of integrated processor/baseband chips. I don't know what I dislike more - having a "secure boot" system that is designed to keep me out, or having (what the user considers) the main CPU essentially under the control of a public communication network to let others in - but "luckily" this way we don't have to choose!
so, because black hole rotates, at some point in far future, speed of the shell will cross speed of light just because of geometry.
>When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users’ iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center

1. get vpn

2. create US icloud account

3. ???

4. profit?
So, an off-center gif of her brushing her hair? Or am I missing a whole lot of context?
ChromeOS and Android.
How I sold an old Mac and unknowingly had access to its location for over 3 years
1. We'll get a cheaper dollar that makes US exports more competitive.

2. It will be harder for our government to do things that make the rest of the world hate us.

US citizens might be better off with a less powerful government.
> The goal of university is not to prepare you as best as possible for working life, but to teach academic thinking.

This is a well-worn false dichotomy. It sets up scientific understanding of a field against job skills. Scientific understanding is important because it saves you months or years of flailing around in the dark, trying to solve problems without understanding them, or worse, producing half-baked work that could be so much better if only you had a clue. But without context, it's very hard to make knowledge stick, and projects provide that context.
Honestly it is just a little bit disappointing that Buffett spent so much time discussing his bet with Protege Partners and no mention of his IBM exit and some of his other holdings such as Apple, the various Airlines and Kraft-Heinz. I did find the insurance discussion interesting, however.
People are not wired to properly consider long-term risks. The risks in the ancestral environment were entirely short term - literally, the tiger in the bush. At worst it was a drought or poor season, with a series of short-term food security crises.

When people invest, they are worried about things like a market correction wiping out half their purchasing power should they decide to sell and spend it next year. These events are protected by owning bonds and cash. But the real insidious killer is the long-term risk of sitting in the sidelines as bull markets go by and wipe out your ability to purchase long-delayed spending on the cheap. Or in other words, the risk that today's price is the lowest you'll ever be able to find the S&P 500.

I'm worried about that last scenario enough that I'm considering changing my investment strategy from 100% global stocks to include buying some long-dated S&P 500 call options. If the market goes down my future cash flows buy my retirement spending on the cheap, so losing a relatively small amount of money on call options that expire worthless is fine. If the market goes on a tear and stays up, though, I'm in a pretty rough spot.
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