skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always up for a discussion on this topic, because I find it very interesting and I think there is a major (dare I say it) metaphysical point here that is overlooked by mainstream intellectuals. However I've argued with enough post-modernists online over the years (which is usually like arguing with a wall) that I might have become a bit snarky- sorry about that, I appreciate the graceful tone in your response.

I agree that the symbolic language we call mathematics and reality are not one-to-one as you say. But the fact that we can use abstract reasoning around these symbols to uncover new ways of understanding of the physical world, especially in cases like the one I lined out in my example, implies to me that there must be some objective reality that is in some way captured by these symbols, in a way that plain philosophy cannot.

Personally I subscribe to Roger Penrose's lines of thought on these matters: http://theeternaluniverse.blogspot.no/2012/09/penrose-on-whe...

So to answer your question, I agree that math is a tool, but I think in some sense it also more than a tool. I believe it can also be seen as a map into a platonic reality, and that there is some element of our mind that is able to observe this realm which allows us to draw the map (using mathematical symbolic language) and come to an agreement about how it should be drawn. And that elements of this platonic realm are for some mysterious reason also reflected in the structure of our physical reality.
>Risky plays (small ball) such as hit-and-runs, sacrifice bunts, and stolen bases will see a continued decline. This will sap all of the strategy and nuance out of the game, turning it into pure spectacle.

I thought it was pretty well established that bunts, stealing, hit and run are all bad strategy. Entertaining but not anywhere near optimal play.
In praxis a streaming library like pipes, streaming or conduit handles the file handles for you so application code is safe. Safe-ish in the case of streaming but that is a conscious tradeoff between convenience and safety.

You could argue that libraries shouldn't contain unsafe code either and go with a substructural type system, use indexed monads, fake regions or something similar. Whether the extra complexity is worth it is arguable, though.
Chrome and Firefox gaining headless modes is the ultimate goal Phantom could've achieved.

So I consider it a complete success.

Kudos to all contributors.
It's a fudge factor in that the distribution of dark matter is fit to explain any deviations from our predictions about the effects of gravity. Even if we were subtly wrong about how gravity works, we could probably find some dark matter distribution that matches our observations. So long as we are unable to independently observe dark matter, we can't be sure how much of it is actually caused by some different phenomenon.
The one who invented the washing machine.
That's really fucked up.
if we followed your reasoning, you are able to provide anything illegal at a website, simply by hosting it in a country which you dont really target (eg isle of man).

thus, courts must be able to ask for what they did in the case of gutenberg.

by the way i dont see the big problem, except if the fines were big (maybe they were like only 200 usd)
It supports word n-grams as well as character n-grams
https://fasttext.cc/docs/en/options.html

See options -minn, -maxn and -wordNgrams.
I am wondering if mass-scale manufacturing & construction can solve this problem. Imagine large greenhouse-alike setups which spur vaporization, siphoning fresh water off into a lake. The sun would passively vaporize incoming salty water. Reaching m³s/minute of freshwater throughput would without doubt require massive scale. Since freshwater demand is increasing and supply decreasing, the economics of such project become more interesting every month.

Will such plan work at all?
Could we for once and for all stop entertaining the ridiculous notion that GMOs are somehow harmful or a thing that should be avoided? Every single argument I've heard against GMOs, so far, has been a form of wilfully ignorant neo-luddism.

While yes, the contracts that companies selling GMOs utilise are socially unfair, it's not like we consider databases to be a horrific thing because Oracle licensing terms are bullshit.
Definitely yes. Pretty much the case throughout most human history. Somewhat countered by the high rate of infant/children death though.
> Other countries can try to block that content

Opens the door for censorship.

> they can try to punish their own residents for viewing it.

Impossible without more surveillance

> Why would residents of the permissive country comply with a foreign court order?

Let's say you want to travel to the country at some point in the future.
How Much Is Anyone 'Entitled' Too?
All I can think of when watching this is the crime fighting potential.
I still think it's premature. There is still couple of fields PhantomJS is better than Headless Chrome. Notably proxy support, and API aviability.
You're right, I should have included them. Poe's Law and all.
This banner is the graffiti of the web
You are wrong. Anyone can publish a package for Elm - without approval.

What you can’t publish is a package with JavaScript in it. And, if you understand Elm, this makes sense.

Elm has no runtime errors - which means any JS has to be perfectly designed. Elm is not to be bound to just a JavaScript platform. Elm has ports for interior.

As for bug fixes - there appear to be some cases where there are bugs, but I have never come across any. The langauge just works.

The slow pace of releases is a business adavatage - we don’t need to be upgrading every N months.

The last upgrade had tools to automate almost the entire process.

Anyway. Would you wager that Elm will fail? I will put up $1000 to your $9000.
Worth noting that ListTs bind isn't associative for most base monads including IO and it is deprecated for a reason.

Also, by it's nature ListT can't stream IO unless you use lazy IO aka lazyRead aka unsafeInterleaveIO which deserves its name.
That's why the reasoning of the court went beyond "It's an international website".
Hi! Thanks for the service you do for others by mirroring this content - what's involved with being a mirror? I'm not sure if it's something I have the means or skills to do, but Project Gutenberg (and information projects like it) are the key part of the internet — the parts that deserve to be reserved and accessed freely by all. I'd love to see if there's anything I could do to help out!
I have a CloudFormation template that sets it all up for me in about 5 minutes (gets a little tiresome to do the same thing over and over again). Booting an EC2 instance and installing the necessary packages takes the bulk of that time. I spend about 30 seconds setting the project name and domain name, make some coffee, and by the time I'm done everything is up and running. The template sets up the GitHub repository, provisions the entire stack, and sets up auto-deployment, amongst a lot of other things.

Shameless plug: I'm currently looking for beta testers to use this provisioning tool, so if you're interested in trying it out for your stack, send me a note (email in profile).

Another commenter mentioned that EC2 was relatively expensive. Technically, that's true, but the sheer power of being able to automate everything in the infrastructure is pretty awesome.
There was no basis provided. I didn't judge anyone and have tried many diet changes over the years in my quest to better understand food, nutrition and health. I didn't tell anyone to do anything but made the simple suggestion that plant based has made marked improvements in areas for me and that there are no downsides to increasing plants in diet.

Did I ever try to tell you what you should like? Nope. Get a grip.
Postpositive adjective
> The trouble is, they're not the only parties to this farce. Incredibly powerful, massively entrenched super-power-like military industrial multinational corporations are involved as well, and there is no way in HELL they are going to let their number one revenue source dry up just because we all want peace.

But Russia is the number two arms exporter, and it spends a higher percentage of its gdp on defense.

But you're right, everything bad that happens between the two countries is entirely the fault of the US
That's what you would initially think, but a clever adversary can produce arbitrarily many identities, so even if results agree, there is a non-zero chance that all of the agreeing nodes are compromised. Even if you begin blacklisting nodes, an attacker can simply spoof new ones.

So then you need a proof of work scheme to defend against sybil attacks, but even then an attacker could choose to only produce incorrect output when they detect that a quorum group is made entirely of their compromised nodes, and otherwise produce correct output. That would once again render blacklisting ineffective.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but securing this sort of browser-based grid computing scheme is a nontrivial task. And that's coming from someone who is very fond of this technology.
But it is not known which laws they are allowed to break and which not, you just mentioned killing people for the first time, neither I nor the article did this. What about breaking into houses to plant bugs? I would actually be surprised if they were not allowed to do this.

And I picked the example of beating someone up not totally at random, people went to court against the MI5 and MI6 because of their involvement with deportation of British citizens to Guantanamo [1] which may or may not turn out to be a worse fate than getting beaten up in a dark alley.

And last but not least, the licence to kill [2] seems to be an actual thing.

[1] http://humanrights.ucdavis.edu/projects/the-guantanamo-testi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_to_kill_(concept)
You can use xauth to get an Xauthority cookie for untrusted clients, so they can't meddle with other X clients.

The biggest downside is that you lose access to the X clipboard - which is also good, so its data doesn't get compromised.
A bit concerning, as youtube-dl relies on PhantomJS currently.
By this logic the US has no jurisdiction to act against a child pornography website aimed at Americans, used by Americans, with pictures of American children, as long as the website is hosted in Russia, where child pornography remains legal (or any of the other countries where it's legal and/or authorities don't care).

Remember, this means that the FBI has no right to even investigate the persons involved in it. No jurisdiction means no investigation.
Thank you, this all makes perfect sense now. Cheers.
Linear Book Scanner – The open-source automatic book scanner
> That makes me suspect that there's some other factor at play.

That gender preferences explain much of the STEM gender gap is worth reporting on, as the article does, because it's not well known. That doesn't mean there aren't other factors, which of course there are.

Susan Pinker even addresses the larger issue very specifically:

> Q: Are these differences the result of biological or cultural differences? A: I think that both play a role. It’s simplistic and scientifically untrue to say it’s one or the other.
> Perhaps they’re passing this command to a secured container?

This would still raise my eyebrows, since root inside a container is still something you should avoid unless absolutely necessary (especially if they aren't using user namespaces). Just because containers add some newer security features to regular processes doesn't mean you should forget the security features (POSIX DAC) that were there in the first place.
The Great Simoleon Caper by Neal Stephenson (1995) [pdf]
“If men learn this ... they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written” - Plato on literacy, ca. 350 BCE.
The point is not baseless longevity. It's to live healthy longer. I have no delusion I won't die. But I have seen people die unhealthy and suffer. My goal is to maximize health overall.

Did I state longevity was my goal? No. "Temporal pleasures" are subjective. And you're conflating your tastes with mine incorrectly. I stated I ate a lot of meat, and enjoyed it. I don't miss it having cut it out. That was very surprising to me and I'm simply sharing thoughts. I also suggested if you haven't tried it, how would you know? You don't. Plain and simple.
You don't need to go to South America, Asia or middle East - it's happening in Europe and no one seems to notice.

Look at Portugal and Spain, it's becoming a desert - the day of the cold wave the south of Portugal and Spain had the same temperatures of some country's in Africa.
Part of the problem is that Russia's total territory is way too large for its population and economic strength to adequately defend militarily. That didn't matter so much during the two centuries when China was flat on its back, but now it is back to its normal superpower status.
> You can’t cycle to a new set unless the authoritative server is still responding with the key.

Yes - during a refresh you'd (re-)add the key to an authoritative server that you control, query it from X open resolvers that you do not control, then delete the records from the authoritative server that you control, such that the only remaining copies are held by the open resolvers. Care would be taken to make the key forensically unrecoverable on the authoritative resolver whenever it's not participating in this refresh process.

> there’s zero guarantees a caching resolver will cache for the ... [full] TTL

To deal with that you can test them first using useless/random data, and use many (10+) to deal with the risk that policy changes after your test. The hope being that it's unlikely for all 10+ to go offline, time out, etc, before your next refresh. But it is true that some availability risk is the price you must pay for the "unrecoverability after X seconds, using HW you don't own" benefit of the scheme.
The term comes from a misspelling of the word hold (see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0)

'Hodl' means to hold on to bitcoin and not sell it, often called out during times of high volatility. The idea is that those who 'hodl' will eventually come out on top as the price of bitcoin will grow and those that panic sell will lose out.
We have our own closed source product - it's a key part of what we're building.
This project has been effectively dead since April 2017, when Vitallium stepped down as maintainer as soon as Headless Chrome was announced [1]:

> Headless Chrome is coming [...] I think people will switch to it, eventually. Chrome is faster and more stable than PhantomJS. And it doesn't eat memory like crazy. [...] I don't see any future in developing PhantomJS. Developing PhantomJS 2 and 2.5 as a single developer is a bloody hell.

One potential path forward could have been to have PhantomJS support Headless Chrome as a runtime [2], which Paul Irish (of Google Chrome team) reached out to PhantomJS about. However, it seems there hasn't been enough interest/resources to ever make this happen.

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/phantomjs/9aI5d-LDuNE/5Z3SMZ...

[2] https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/14954
You do realize that they offer an annual subscription at $80/year? I assume many readers are paying well less than $0.50/article with that. I'd be more than happy to reward good content, even if I pay more each year.
Safe and Secure Software: An Invitation to Ada 2012 (2015) [pdf]
One of the most fascinating things (in a repulsive way) I've heard of intelligence agencies doing is keeping an abuse ring running so the participants can be blackmailed.

The MI5 may have done that: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/17/belfast-boys...
Can you cite the US antitrust law Google is breaking by bundling their free apps and services with their OS?
> On the internet

I still don't understand what that means exactly.

> whereas Project Gutenberg has zero connection to Germany.

I disagree.

> what does the nationality of Gutenberg the historical person have to do with anything? Is shakespeare.com subject to uk laws?

There's a lot inbetween of

zero connection with country X

and

subject to it's law.

So regarding shakesbear.com: No, not necessarily.
It DOES run your photos that you store in google photos through (at least according to public statements)
Sourceforge is down since March First
> It took a long time to get there.

It didn't. Here are some examples.

HexGL has been around for 5 and a half years: http://bkcore.com/blog/3d/hexgl-webgl-racing-game-html5.html

Pirates Love Daisies has been around for 7 years: http://blog.gskinner.com/archives/2010/12/pirates-love-daisi...

You can go all the way back to DHTML Lemmings which has been around for 15 years: https://crisp.tweakblogs.net/blog/3881/dhtml-lemmings-primer...
The fake Nest will do so much more, though. When it's not being used by a botnet to DDOS sites it's cryptomining Monero in its downtime.
The most common food other than fries McDonalds is known for would be hamburgers. I’m guessing that’s what they’re thinking of as a source of animal fat. Possibly he meant tallow, as in beef tallow, which is also what they used to fry their fries in. Now they use an additive to replace the flavor, while using vegetable oil.

https://www.wired.com/2014/07/whats-inside-mcdonalds-french-...

It wouldn’t shock me to hear someone referring to tallow as lard.
Do you even Docker?
The German ISPs blocking the content is far better. In that case, Germans are living by German laws, and Americans are living by US laws. The alternative is to expect everyone to live by any law anywhere in the world, which is probably impossible in cases where things conflict.
Sure, those terms are used in the paper. In general, open-loop vs. closed-loop refer to systems without and with feedback, respectively. Previous studies already showed that high-frequency stimulation could improve memory. Those were open-loop because they didn't use EEG feedback; stimulation is always on. The alternative is stimulation only when the subject is predicted to forget the word, based on EEG feedback.

The obvious question is whether EEG-based stimulation makes any difference compared to always-on stimulation. It is very possible that the difference is negligible and that the EEG feedback doesn't matter.
Go Ahead, Millennials, Destroy Us
People notice, but they feel helpless to stop it. Nobody wants to dwell on their impending doom, which ironically hasten their doom in this case.
My comments are usually[0] down voted within a minute or two of being posted. There is no correlation between my comment's final upvote count and the initial downvote. The initial downvotes are, as near as I can tell, a constant. My only guess is I upset someone along the way and I'm getting brigaded. I hold some controversial opinions (to HN) and I comment without fear, so this is understandable.

0: It might happen for every post but I don't hover on my posts hitting refresh.
One of the Pandas on Ray coauthors here: We're planning on releasing another post in the next few weeks discussing the technical details around group-bys. Stay tuned!
A while back I used to say that I'd rather be a janitor (for offices, anyway) than do tech support for non-technical end users.

When I unexpectedly found myself presented with those two options, wouldn't you know it, I chose exactly how I said I would. I was happy with my choice, and if I found myself in the same situation I would make it again.
Elm was a nice experiment, but people need to put things in production and be confident they can fully maintain all of their code and dependencies.
But it did not use reasoning that courts in most other parts of the world accept, including the US coults it would have to ask to enforce its judgement in the absence of voluntary compliance.

PGLAF appears to be complying because it wants to win an appeal in German court, which might be compromised by ignoring the ruling of a lower German court. If PGLAF decided to ignore the ruling, there would likely be no consequences.
> where German language websites advertising in German, to Germans, accepting Euros, and shipping to German addresses, is somehow not considered to be "doing business" in Germany simply because their offices and servers happen to be hosted in the US

You're saying it like it's a bad thing. If US has better laws than Germany and businesses serving Germans want to choose that jurisdiction because of it, it's "competition", not a "loophole". Otherwise another "loophole" we could find is that some Germans, seeking lower taxes and high standards of living, and more beneficial laws, may just move to US altogether, thus depriving German state of much needed tax income and stopping being subjects to German laws. We wouldn't want them to plug that "loophole", do we?
This sounds like it has the same problem as salinization does. In most places conservation is cheaper.
Not sure whether it is as easy to use as PhantomJS.
I can't think of a single US-specific website that has a German language option for German-speaking Midwesterners. There probably exist some, but their German language option will be very clearly described for this purpose when this is the motivation.

There's a difference between theoretical plausible deniability, and practical plausible deniability. This excuse falls in the first category, accompanied by other colourful excuses like "I didn't steal that, someone must've slipped it into my pocket and I didn't notice". Theoretically possible, but ultimately implausible and completely dismissible unless you've got proof to back it up.

This sort of "remote jurisdiction" is necessary. Otherwise the only recourse to criminal foreign sites targeting your country will be to endlessly try to block it, while blocks are cheap and easy to evade.

The GDPR rests on the same principle of remote jurisdiction. If your website targets EU citizens, you have to abide by EU privacy rules.
Is "amount of time and dollars spent" the only part of your purchasing decision matrix?

Something to be said for supporting jobs in your community, keeping money in your area, bumping into people you might not have seen as much otherwise, etc. Stores can also be great for discovery. It's a lot easier to play with laptops at Best Buy than it is to research how the keyboard might feel online. In another product category, the local video store (we still have one!!) still beats out online in terms of being able to browse selection; I'll see frequent complaints from Netflix users about not being to find what's on.
This seems very similar to the fact (and reasoning) that FBI informants can commit crimes.