skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't remember reading this before (in the Penrose obituary), that is that he discovered Hawking radiation when trying to prove that it didn't exist:

> Bekenstein realised this was key to the entropy problem. Every time a black hole swallows matter, its entropy appears to be lost, and at the same time, its event horizon grows. So, Bekenstein suggested, what if – to preserve the second law – the area of the horizon is itself a measure of entropy?

> Hawking immediately disliked the idea and was angry that his own work had been used in support of a concept so flawed. With entropy comes heat, but the black hole couldn’t be radiating heat – nothing can escape its pull of gravity. During a break from the lectures, Hawking got together with colleagues Brandon Carter, who also studied under Sciama, and James Bardeen, of the University of Washington, and confronted Bekenstein.

> The disagreement bothered Bekenstein. “These three were senior people. I was just out of my PhD. You worry whether you are just stupid and these guys know the truth,” he recalls.

> Back in Cambridge, Hawking set out to prove Bekenstein wrong. Instead, he discovered the precise form of the mathematical relationship between entropy and the black hole’s horizon. Rather than destroying the idea, he had confirmed it. It was Hawking’s greatest breakthrough.
pistoriousp did a perfectly good job of answering this five minutes ago, but if you want a very specific answer that includes a product currently for sale, I'd point you to this: https://boxedwaterisbetter.com/pages/why-boxed-is-better
SSLeay, which was forked and became OpenSSL, was developed by Tim Hudson (AU) and Eric Young (NZ).

Also, he's not precisely (primarily?) an open source developer, but Julian Assange is Australian.
> unfortunately, confidence isn't a perfect signal.

I think that's a major understatement.

There's the Dunning–Kruger effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

and the world is complex and it's very difficult to get a clear and definitive picture of it. The better your understanding, the more hedged and less definitive it will tend to be, and that does not tend to come across as confidence in your understanding.
I'm not a big fan of accusing people of whataboutism in general, but in this case, it's not even relevant. Your parent comment asked, "Ok, bottled water has plastic in it. I know that some tap water goes through lead pipes. Is tap water going through lead pipes still more healthy than bottled water with plastic in it?"

The question was a very reasonable one, and just happened to contain the phrase "what about".
Aluminium bottles with a threaded lid?
git ls-files --others --ignored --exclude-standard

Or if you want to see files ignored by a specific .gitignore:

git ls-files --others --ignored --exclude-file=<file>

There's also

git status --ignored

if you just want a quick view of the ignored files (i.e. not for scripting).
I've noticed the same. I put it down to our evolutionary past.

In the past when we were all living in little groups in the wild, it mattered to the person who was making a statement whether he really knew that this new plant you'd come across was edible and not poisonous. He'd have seen someone eat it, personally tried it, or had some firsthand knowledge of whatever the situation was. So if a guy said "let's eat this thing, I'm sure it's good" he'd both have skin in the game AND actually have evidence.

Nowadays almost all knowledge is second hand. Trust me, quantum tunnelling is a thing, and the earth is flat. But we're still wired to believe in the confident guy.
Toys r Us will close all the stores
I have asked him this. Paraphrasing his words: eventually, the SEC investigates virtually all securities frauds. Some cases are dropped if the act was criminal in nature and the FBI or law enforcement wants it, other cases are dropped if the suspect is deceased or fled, and of course there are cases where leads go cold and the case is back burnered.

The point is, fraud is risky, and it isn't easy. You basically have to be willing to give up your life as you know it. Sometimes I wonder whether fraudsters have an internal dialogue about whether it is worth the risk. And for the fraudsters who aren't psychopaths the guilt of defrauding friends and people who trust you must be enormous. Sounds like a stressful day job that I won't ever be entertaining.
Findings Related to the March 2010 Fatal Wolf Attack Near Chignik Lake, Alaska [pdf]
I'd opine the choice of model matters less than the general approach used. In this case, features are taken from the data that are more like metadata about an account, metadata about the frequency and such of tweets, and automatically generated text features about the tweet text which are used to train/predict the binary classifier. Whether it's gbm, lda, logistic regression, etc. used on this data is probably not that huge a deal (maybe small % differences in accuracy) assuming each are used correctly.

What I'd want to also see however, would be curation of a relevant corpus of tweet content that could be integrated in the classification process in terms of actual tweet content (bag of words, sentence structure, & other NLP features, images, other media) being used to determine a given account's similarity between bots and non-bots -- instead of relying essentially on metadata similarity in addition to crude auto-extracted text features like simple total number of words and character counts. I can't say for sure if it'd improve predictions but would seem key for this type of problem.
Iceland’s male circumcision ban
"I use an HP Spectre as my Linux laptop now. Everything worked on a modern kernel out of the box and the quality seems way better."

I know that Martin Wimpress, the Ubuntu MATE lead, sometimes uses a Spectre. They look to be quite a different thing to what we might expect from a HP laptop.
Oh wow, I didn't realize you could change git's diff thing. I've never been able to figure out what it was doing, so I always just used a separate gui for diffs.
You don't even really have to be that many people on a project for some limitations to become apparent.

With TFS and SVN, it's already enough to have stable versions you need to backport fixes and the occasional feature to in order to end up in branching hell, for example.
I wouldn't want this. This would only be useful if the stash is automatically popped when switching back.
> Are there common APIs or structures for this to shift the incentives, allow it to proliferate app by app, rather than waiting on the assistant developers to manually do each one?

I think once somebody finds a good API for that, it will be a watershed moment.

Amazon Alexa has apps called "skills", but they expose their own voice interface which is always inconsistent.
Google has a new iPhone problem, and it’s nothing to do with the iPhone X
If the browser sends the referer, Wikipedia will be able to figure out themselves which pages YouTube points to. Then it won't be such much intentional collaboration, but instead damage control to prevent vandalism. I doubt Wikipedia is going to like doing that, but they don't have many other options.
DISSOLVE THE US BASES IN AFRICA TO PREVENT MORE EBOLA-LIKE VIRUSES
Maybe we could build some kind of system of pipes which would convey potable water from a central treatment facility out to homes and offices?
Note: $9/month (or $7.20/month) of dish soap is a ridiculously vast amount of dish soap for an ordinary family to be using. My wife and I have been on the same $10 (?) bottle of dish soap (yay Costco) for over 5 years and it is just now running out. (Not that this affects your main point.)
Automating iOS: How Pythonista Changed My Workflow
> If you're going to murder your parents over a conspiracy theory is there any reason to assume you wouldn't murder them for a dozen other reasons?

It's quite possibly the case that people most susceptible to conspiracy theories are often also more susceptible than average to other stimuli, but then, we don't fail to limit emission of (and public exposure to) various industrial respiratory irritants just because many the people most susceptible to many of them are also more susceptible than average to other environmental hazards like common allergens.

And that is often limits with the force of law, not merely private actors choosing to limit (or even merely warn about) what is put out by their operations.
West Coast has 30 or fewer affordable homes for every 100 low-income families
I dunno. Depends on how rapidly folks move away from AWS to other clouds. And that to some extent depends on lock in.

If all you are doing on AWS is ec2/vpc, moving to gcp is pretty easy. But if you are leveraging any of the proprietary tech like kinesis, lambda or sqs, it's going to take an application rewrite. Which means that it will have to be a very compelling price break. I don't have a good feeling for what the product penetration is for non IAAS services is.

Now, for green field development, where there's no legacy AWS integration, pricing becomes a lot more important.
I recently had to do something similar with an ancient SVN repo, that had to stay in SVN.

I simply started a git repo in the same base directory as the SVN repo, and did my work in there. Every time I merged a branch back to master I committed to SVN's ^/branches/dev. Just add `.svn` to `.gitignore` and `.git*` to the SVN prop ignore.

You _will_ want to merge from upstream (Whatever Perforce's equivalent to `svn up` or `git pull` is) often, I was merging from upstream before every SVN commit (SVN mostly forces you to do this, `svn status --show-updates` is a huge help here but I don't know if Perforce has a similar feature).
Small earthquakes are common enough in Japan that many people will just brush them off. My personal reaction to anything 4 or less on the intensity scale is just to stand/sit still. Basically, if it’s not strong enough to trigger the early warning system, I don’t really worry.

Even with the early warning, sometimes the earthquake will still be on the weaker end of the spectrum, so you brace yourself but not necessarily panic.

The 2011 earthquake started off moderately, so no one in my office ducked for cover until it really started to shake, which was already about half a minute in.
Yes, even TED talks. They're not magically better. If I can't read a summary to judge the quality of information, it's likely I can just skip the whole thing and save myself from having my time wasted.
My mother-in-law aged 83 was suffering from osteoporosis for several years and was under treatment but no cure. She have broken my neck once and back 5 times and also experienced constant pain in her shoulders, back and limbs. A friend introduced me to Best Health Herbal Centre, she told me Best Health Herbal Centre osteoporosis herbal remedy reversed her mother's osteoporosis within 5 weeks, Now she is osteoporosis free. January this year i purchased osteoporosis herbal remedy for my mother-in-law, she only used it for 5 weeks, her osteoporosis was totally reversed. All thanks to Best health Herbal Centre for saving my mother-in-law life.
As I said in the discussion the other day, noting security problems in a processor that may arise after you've flashed the bios and/or firmware with different versions is like calling out Ford for engines that fail while on the.freeway when you replace the engine control software. If tied to stock market plays, I could see a case for market manipulation.

That there might be some real flaws in play may reduce this, but not to the point it means nithing, IMO.
Highschool definitions of velocity don't really apply once the distances involved grow beyond a couple light years. Atleast not without corrections for stuff like relativity (which has been measured and confirmed to exist by simply observing curvature of light over the sun.

Or did the entire community of astrophysics simply ignore high school physics in favor or something vastly more complicated because reasons?
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I was surprised by the number of false positives reported here, went ahead and tested on several Twitter accounts of my friends, both professional and personal. 9 out of 25 tested were classified as 'bot' with probability > 0.6.
Only 11 were classified as 'humans' with probability > 0.7.
And that's on 25 accounts of people I know personally.

Given the preposterous error rate, I deem there is no actual classification logic in R, and instead it uses the (very fallible) humans to do the actual classification via a Mechanical Turk-style API.

Wait, do I need to add "/s" to this post, or is it obvious enough?
The Indian physicist who contested Stephen Hawking’s theory about black holes
Bottled water should not be anything more than a niche product.

Returnable bottles would work, or "bring your own bottle" to refill.

These four products are in returnable bottles: http://akddistribution.dk/produkt-kategori/danskvand/danskva...
That's the second time in two days I've seen that cited in response to the claim no Banker went to jail. But as far as I can make out it's about Tarp fraud, which came at the crisis. Wheres it coming from, first Google result?
Amazon’s global shoppers just can’t get enough of made-in-India products
You would think that 'great artists' would hold on to all of their paintings and not sell them, same with car manufacturers that produce 'limited editions'. Who knows whether the next 'Beatles' is out there, holding back all their recordings until 2050 so they appreciate in value.

Only if something has buyers does it have value, this is true with finance scams as well as real world over0valued items.
I think it's more that you have an additional layer canceling the initial reaction.
Could it be that your "hard to describe way" was simply the difference between an exceptionally well designed system (hardware and software) and a stack of weird kludges that was the PC at that time?
We see some galaxies from top-down so their axis of rotation cannot be parallel to any galaxy we see side-on (like the milky way)
It doesn't help much with your dongle frustrations but I've been really happy with my new Dell XPS 13". It's all usbc like the new MacBooks but you can buy it with Ubuntu installed - Dell even have a compatible Ubuntu iso on the website you can download. So far it's been a great MacBook replacement.
There is a difference. An empty string in C is a non-null char* pointer pointing to a zero byte. Passing a null pointer to strlen will crash.
Do you think YouTube is a government? Why or why not?
But where exactly is the end-game profit in that? I'm not seeing how this idea could grow to be the next Uber.

Maybe if you had an app with a social or sharing economy component?
But is that really comparable? Wikipedia is compiled by volunteers, but Google search algorithm or results are not. If Wikipedia was really a paid service, it very likely would not have access to so many unpaid volunteers.
Understanding git's data model is the correct route to avoid head explosion, because it's both simple and every other feature fits in within the mental model.

Git is by far the simplest SCC system I've used because it is so easy to understand the data model. It lets me intuit the existence of commands because I know the kind of data model manipulation I want to apply and all I need to do is find the right incantation.
High rewards go hand in hand with high risks.
How does it compare to CCured ?
In such cases, I look for my problem on stackoverflow. When I find a solution which seems right to me, I look up https://git-scm.com/docs to get a better understanding of what I am doing and why.

The problem with many documentations is that they are not use-case driven. Much of it is a functionality description. Such as:

- To fasten, you have to turn the nut clockwise.

instead of:

- To fit these two parts together you need to fasten the nuts onto the screws.
"Every time you recall a memory, it becomes sensitive to disruption. Often that is used to incorporate new information into it." That's the blunt assessment from one of the world's leading experts on memory, Dr. Eric Kandel from Columbia University.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/scientists-explore-the-illusio...
"Nothing unethical was done it him, he was convicted and sentenced accordingly"

Dumbfounded by your words, a 800% increase from the average sentence is, I think completely ok in a just system.
There was a time when the entire scientific community believed the entire universe was filled with a light-bearing medium (luminiferous aether) because they couldn't explain propagation of light in empty space; or that there was another planet between Mercury and the Sun (Vulcan) because they couldn't explain Mercury's orbit.

I'm not claiming it is the case now (though it does smack of luminiferous aether a bit) but the scientific community can and has been wrong sometimes in the face of as yet undiscovered principles.
pistoriousp didn't really answer. Aluminum cans don't scale well to over 500ml (have you seen a 1.5lt bottle made of aluminum?), and even at 500ml they require pressurization to hold. Tetrapac is still plastic inside, but a lot more expensive, with lower lifespan and robustness and with much higher carbon footprint. It's probably a bit less vulnerable to plasticizer leaching but that's the only thing it can offer.

As for glass, I'm sorry, but this is the stupidest thing I've heard all week. You obviously don't understand anything about this issue if you propose to use glass for bottled water.
I think this only shows the insanity of FCCs statement, as the Broadcom firmware _is_ locked down and got hacked either way. If somebody wanted to transmit arbitrarily on this bands he or she could just use regular SDRs.
> volume based scalable plan might be good [...] cents per comment [...] size of the database

I think so too, that's a bit how the embedded-comments price plan works currently, except that it starts at €3 instead of €0. — I think most people are fine with paying €3, and, actually, I think it's better for them to do that, than to not do that. Because then I'll get a bit more money and will be able to improve the software, which is good for them.

(Maybe shouldn't be exactly €3. For developing countries, where €3 is a lot, then maybe starting at ... €0.5? or even €0, could make sense.)

Didn't know about ngrok. Seems like perfect, for universities. I suppose the uni has stationary always-powered-on servers, that host your websites? (rather than your sometimes-turned-off laptop)
You think electification of the transport sector has to wait until all the worlds coal plants are shut down!!??

That will take too long time. The transport sector has to be electrified WHILE the power production is going renewable.
Amazon has pretty abysmal filtering, yeah.

Funnily enough, I used to search on ebay for computer parts first, the metadata system there is way more thorough so I can filter out the parts and then check them directly on amazon via partnumber or model name.
Unfortunately, this is an increasingly attractive option.
So, I guess I should be intolerant of Guardian now.
Yes but is he recalling his research correctly?
Here is an excellent video about the history of Amiga: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP1nLzT_t0o

There are several other related videos on the channel that are very much worth to watch.
You make an interesting point, though I think you're placing a little more responsibility on YouTube than they currently warrant. Perhaps in 20 years the argument you're making would be taken seriously if YouTube continues on it's current trajectory to become as much a tool for information dissemination as it currently is for entertainment.
I forgot the 3 USB ports, RJ45 & SDcard reader too. (And the 24 hours I can get with the extended battery).

The X280 doesn't look as good to me. More limited range and IIRC soldered memory.
The rude part is that Youtube is forcing Wikipedia deeper into the fake news wars, and not even talking with them about it, apparently.
Where cars are a small Virtual Server, and the VPS provider runs on AWS. Oh no, it was a railroad all along!
Extremely happy with Feedbin ever since Reader shut down. And it keeps getting better.
Lessons of History: summary in bullets
See page 26 of the report:

https://johnjerrim.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/piaac_working...
There are great guides on how to lower power consumption by turning HDMI off, under clocking, even going as far as turning off the status LEDs. Killing off many of the autostarting services in raspbian or not using raspbian in the first place can also help quite a bit due to peak current draw during boot time. If you don't need networking you can easily get down to almost 10s boot time by disabling networking daemons and dependencies.

Made a project in optics with the pi zero w, camera v2, a touchscreen over GPIO, 4 bright LEDs and a 5V regulator.
As a power source it uses a 9€ 1200mha LithiumIon Battery in 9V battery form. Lives on for 3 hours under full load.

Also using normal 9V batteries I killed them in 5mins - something something internal resistance of non LithiumIon batteries not coping with high current draw.
You don't flag a post because you disagree with the logic of the argument.
This should be interesting... can someone please build an AR experience that brings "cryptocurrency" and "Pokemon Go" together, all rolled up into a single app? Earn/hunt for your crypto treasure in the real world, unlike Stellar and other donation-based models! Expo ARKit + https://developers.google.com/maps/gaming/ = game on!!!
What about the fact, that he paid from his own shareholding of the company, and the company investors didn't end up paying for it. The bigger point every one is missing is, he got a 800% increase from the average sentence. That IS NOT FAIR!!
Probably a bug in using that function, though: 1 billion years is the rotation period, not the rotation speed. The rotation speed is 2 * pi * r / (1e9 * 365.25 * 86400), where r is the distance from the center of rotation (in meters).

Maybe that's the problem with dark matter: objects get heavier when speed increases, so since the speed is 18 orders of magnitude too large, everything is heavier than it ought to be. All because of an incorrectly named function.
Heresy! How dare they. I will never take a ferry unless I can get fresh vaffler and coffee onboard.
I remember my Amiga buddies having the same issues (I myself went from a C64 to a 286 earlier than they). Main complaints were the OS (i.e. Windows, whether it's 3.11 or 95), and a general lack of smoothness (again, OS and multi-tasking, smooth scrolling not being something you get for free with a VGA).

Also, the PC, assuming VGA and at least SoundBlaster, had fewer limitations there, compared to e.g. the Amiga's half-bright modes. It was way easier to get something more garish.

(I felt a bit like that regarding the C64's SID sounds to the more generic-feeling samples of the Amiga. Especially when the latter veered towards Eurodance)