skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a pity that they got the orientation of the rollers wrong.

The wheels should have been oriented either like this:

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or like this:

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instead, they managed to mount them like this:

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It's a common misconception that you have to define law precisely in order for it to be useful. States of affairs are rarely fixed with one law, many times it's useful to proceed with the poor law that you can get passed as opposed to no law at all, and spend another season building up political will to pass a better one. The countless piracy acts that keep getting thrown at us every few years get slightly weaker as the content industry just tries to wedge a foot in the door.

Obamacare was intended to be like this. Legislators knew it was going to get attacked the second the ink was dry, so they built in a bunch of clauses making it extremely difficult to 'simply repeal'. New health care legislation almost certainly has to build on top of Obamacare, enough political capital can't possibly be raised to do anything else.
Sinister parasites that control their hosts' minds
More specifically, the globes are voted on by the foreign film press and the process is notoriously corrupt.
I wonder if their attempt to force HTTPS everywhere (by shaming HTTP-only sites as insecure in Chrome) fits into this strategy.

It would put net neutrality violators like US ISPs out of the mass surveilla- ..eeeh advertising business, so I guess that is a good thing.
Perhaps you should try a different teacher. I know guys who started training in their 50s and 60s, so it's entirely possible if you pace yourself, and not exceed the current limits of your body. Little by little, these limits get stretched and your physical condition improves. Of course it's easier if you're fit and flexible to begin with, but that's not a requirement.
Time to dig up and repeat some old comments of mine...

I'm 100% fine with these automated killing-machines, and with the implications. (Heck, I'd be more than happy to help develop them, if I had the appropriate skillset.) Because our military's allegiance is to the Constitution not to any single executive administration; because the military have far more resources to purchase bots or counterbots than the police do; and because only an idiot would actually have that tech and yet fail to also have, at minimum, an equally-maneuverable ablative countermeasure drone.

(I should clarify here, that this also depends on that I think that it will indeed be our military who gets them first, not some other nation. ... Unless all of this overly-pacifistic discussion somehow convinces enough of the right people that the U.S. should abandon such research, which is why it's important that this video not be heeded. If and only if some other nation perfects the tech first, then the video's intended sentiment gains merit; that is why we must push forward, Damn The Torpedoes(TM).)

This is because, as usual, the devil is in the details. These are drones, not nukes. Nukes have effects for miles away and are so powerful that a nuclear shaped-charge is impossible; but suicide-drones have to fly directly to their target and reach it intact.

So the same amount of shaped-explosive that can crack a skull, can neutralize one of these drones. As such, the braindead-simple countermeasure is to retarget your own supply of these same drones, at the stolen drones. At worst, your IFF radios might add a negligible amount of mass ... but that won't matter for long, because once the enemy knows you're deploying counterdrones, they'll need their own IFF radios (or at least IFF radio receivers) in order to try to avoid your counterdrones.

(Or the enemy could add armor to their drones, but that will make them massive/unmaneuverable enough that you can increase your counterdrones' explosive payload to penetrate their armor, while still being able to intercept them.)

That is why having slaughterbots and not any countermeasures, is the realm of abject idiocy.

If you're looking for historical analogy, try military aviation in general. During the two World Wars, bomber planes would have been game-changing ... if not that there were fighters, too. A slaughterbot is a bomber; a slaughterbot that seeks the enemy's slaughterbots is a fighter.

(I should also point out that, like the Flying Fortress, this tech won't have a limitless lifespan: once lasers are weaponized or railguns are miniaturized, air defense against macroscopic subsonic objects will become almost trivial. Just like supersonic aircraft with rotary autocannons and laser-guided missiles make a mockery of the Flying Fortress.)
There is nothing about their CoC that is racist or sexist. It's this weird sad attempt at a Jedi Mind Trick where the right says "you are being intolerant of people like me who hate tolerance".

What the tee total f...

The discussion on lobste.rs was actually really good.
Am I missing something here? Just seems like moaning. And the irony of the link on the side of the page to a Minecraft clone that's been embraced, extended and then abandoned because the author just can't be bothered any more (but you can send him money and maybe he'll change his mind) isn't lost on me.
Given what I've seen of his code, I'm not surprised. When I mentioned the stdlib I wasn't joking. His code is unable to use modern compiler optimizations such as move, RVO, and constexpr because he's using idioms that prohibit it. It would be nice if he would at least release a solution that others can use to build with VS2017.
I think this stems from their internal monorepo culture, e.g. they care about building everything in one go, not in isolation. This can also explain the issues with golang dependencies, it's hard for them to see problems of most regular developers as they use a unique toolchain (custom SCM, custom build tools etc.)
>The “extinguish” with GMail is also well underway - it’s infamous for having an extremely strict spam filter for incoming emails from people who run personal or niche mail servers

And thank God for that. That's why their antispam is sooo good.
Incel doesn't mean "someone who is unable to have sex". We need to have some esympathy and empathy for that group, and many places are trying to fix lonliness. This group may benefit from legalisation of sex work. Pao is not talking about this group.

Incel means "someone who is a member of a group who have a pathological hatred of women and men who have sex with women, who think that they have a right to demand sex, and that if it's not provided they have a right to take it by force by rape". Pao is talking about this group.
Indeed. Since it's an awful UK newspaper I think we can call this article 'a load of bollocks' in the local vernacular.

The point of the B-61 Mod 12 is deep-penetration of buried bunkers, not mass countervalue strikes against populations.

And at its maximum yield of 50kT it is an order of magnitude less powerful than, say, a Trident warhead which is turn is a magnitude less than what was common in the 1960s.

Sometimes I think that living through the Cold War gave people a sense of proportion. My home town of Belfast was to be hit by multiple > 1MT warheads and that was just a secondary city with docks.
the "my art is too dangerous" argument as been disproven so many times, many of the BJJers would happily fight any of the krav or systema guys ( and have done ). The thing most of the "my art is too dangerous" guys fail to understand is becomes hard to do anything "effective" with someone who knows what they are doing, who works on establishing control and position and then works at finishing. It's a hard progression to stop if you don't know what they are doing.
> Link rot is a bit of problem I think about 30% are dead.

It would be nice to have a Firefox addon that would automatically submit your bookmark links for archival at major link archival services..

edit: Looks like at least one such addon exist: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/archiveror/
This is the kind of problem for which LSTM RNNs -- and more recently, fully-attention-based deep neural nets -- produce state-of-the-art results.

I wonder if the author ever tried using, say, an AWD LSTM RNN[a] or a Transformer-like model[b] for this task.

Using an RNN or an attention model for this would eliminate the need for feature engineering such as:

feature_1 = 1 if x_t is capitalized and y_t equals "NAME";
0 otherwise.

This is one of seven carefully engineered feature functions listed in the article, and the author states that the seven are only a partial list.

Moreover, using a modern RNN or attention model likely would produce better predictions, with much better generalization.

[a] https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02182 / https://github.com/salesforce/awd-lstm-lm

[b] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 / https://github.com/tensorflow/tensor2tensor
Was the original link to the original post, or was this always linking to the response that it goes to now?
Dropbox, the ultimate Mouse Hunter
> I don't think any backup software actually can do the right thing(tm).

Sure it can. In this case, I'd say treating the filename as a bag of bytes is the correct way to go, as that's the way the OS treats them. Translating filenames between character sets should not be part of a backup systems job.

There are valid setups where different software on the same machine might be running with different character sets for legacy reasons. In that case there is no correct way to handle the filenames as text. But treating it as a bag-of-bytes will always work consistently.

Also, the one purpose of a backup system is to back up the files on the filesystem. If it can't back up some files that the OS considers valid, it's the backup software that failed.
> LLVM supporting minorities means that you have to leave
What a terrible misrepresentation of his position.

Outreachy is a racist and sexist organization that excludes people based on their gender and ancestry. Anyone with a shred of self-awareness and moral fortitude should be proud to disassociate with them, and with anyone who chooses to associate with them.
You misunderstand rvagg didn't have tweets containing misandry. The person who was leading the charge against him did.
It's also very possible that human language started as a purely internal thinking mechanism, and only later became adopted for communicating with other humans.

This seems very counter-intuitive initially, but makes more sense when you think about how much of your use of language is addressed to other people, and how much is used simply for thinking to yourself.
How so? I run into the occasional hiccup an iOS and Android, but overall both have been pretty smooth for me.
How do you decide whether or not you trust the hardware RNG? Do you trust RDRAND? Some people do, other people are convinced it may be backdoored by Intel at the request of the NSA. Worst of all, there is no way to tell which belief is true. So there are potential real problems with hardware RNG's if you are worried about state sponsored attackers who are willing to intercept hardware shipments.

Requiring a previous seed requires a way to get access to the seed, early enough in the boot that it is available to kernel users who are trying to use randomness for address space randomization and for stack canaries. But in early boot the kernel may not be sufficiently initialized to read from persistent storage, and there are many, many bootloaders.

The reason why there is no file system interface to getrandom(2) is that a file system interface is subject to file descriptor exhaustion attacks. It was OpenBSD which designed the getentropy(2) system call, and getrandom(2) was modelled after it. Basically, getrandom(2) is getentropy(2) with an extra flags parameter added.
It's not that it's too effective for MMA, it's that it's wholly ineffective as a sport ...

It's like using a slipper to bang a nail into a wall. Yeah it kind of works but that's not what it's for ...
Let's not forget bob dylan won(and almost snubbed) the nobel prize in literature. Don't get me wrong the dude's a great song writer, but that's not literature.
SQL isn't a good match for the recursive structure of comments (and our version of mariadb from LTS Ubuntu doesn't support recursive common table expressions), so the app pulls all comments in ActiveRecord objects and threads/sorts them there. It's expensive and uncached. Codebase is here if you're curious: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

Traffic counting has to wait until I have spare attention, which is also a shallow resource pool. :)
Theyve been made for lego robots as well: http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/lego-mindstorm-mecanum-w...
Having AI systems try to outwit one another could help judge their intentions
> such small & reasonable actions routinely ruffle feathers on the right.

I'm not sure why you'd assume the person who left was on the right just because they disagreed with the direction LLVM was taking. When I read the message, it seemed like he had grave concerns that technical merit was now taking a back seat to a political agenda. That seems like a legitimate concern for an open source project.
>and contributing to Chromium as a non-Googler is notoriously difficult.

so fork?
There's no question that Krav Maga is effective, but whether or not it teaches you to solve conflicts non-violently depends very much on the teacher. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And if all you know is how to knock your opponent out, that's probably what you'll attempt to do in a conflict.
Yes but I'm interested in the content of the article, not how the author looks like. Especially not if his head is almost 33% of the window height.

And also in general. I often see articles where there really are completely random images in them to fluff things up... Like "Oh you're reading some technical article? Here have some people sitting on a bench eating ice cream!" Why?
How to Install Let's Encrypt Ubuntu 18.04
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I think there's a distinction to be made between "people who are unable to find sexual partners" and "people who self-identify with and participate in communities that spew hatred and encourage violence over the fact that they can't find sexual partners".

Sort of like the difference between "white people" and "white supremacists". Except that currently we don't have separate (reasonably brief) terms for the above categories.

There's nothing wrong with having employees who are unattractive / can't find sexual partners, and I agree that that would be just as ridiculous a criterion to fire someone over as being caucasian. However, if you have people in your company who are filled with vitriol or considering violence (be it because they hate women who won't sleep with them or because they hate people with a different skin color), that's a problem waiting to happen.
Yup. Between the spam filtering and their Inbox mobile app, I now actually have an email experience that doesn't make me dread incoming messages.
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne09Y72zW_Y
Don’t be so sure. HN has a strong “civil liberties” perspective, and sometimes that equates to a “fuck the police” POV that is blinding.

Moderately sophisticated people can do all sorts of things to undermine police activity, especially raids. Think about things like detecting WiFi, tactical radios or Bluetooth devices.

The police operate in a dark world, and the counterparties that they interact with are fundamentally bad actors.
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I wonder then why not make face cards a 2 or something. Perhaps that would make it more obvious what is going on?
Can someone explain the `eftichess` type here? It seems to be mapped to sounds, maybe? I'm not able to find much information about it.
I have no ethical problems with compensating people for getting priceless cultural artifacts outside of war zones. I similarly have no problems with evangelical Christians paying for archaeological research that no one else seems to be bothered to do.

There are worse places for these artifacts to be.

Yes, I'm aware this is a business model for ISIL. I wish them as much success in this endeavor as they can achieve. Please nobody tell them that they're never going to be able to outspend the US Government. We wouldn't want them to stop.
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Yes and it's very bizarre. Here are the notes on the two amendments:

> One would make it illegal to “weaponize” consumer drones.

> The other — and arguably more important — amendment would require drones that fly beyond their operators’ line of sight to broadcast an identity allowing law enforcement to track and connect them to a real person.

Literally neither of these would have had any effect on the case at hand. I'm reminded of gun control legislation - except you can't build a gun from scratch in your basement and quadcopters are very ineffective at killing people.
Exactly. Because enforcing monopolies like that is a good thing? Isn't it?
> I'm not sure why you'd assume the person who left was on the right just because they disagreed with the direction LLVM was taking.

Bayesian priors.
There's a crap ton of DTC shoes:
https://www.gq.com/gallery/direct-to-consumer-shoe-brands-fo...

Paul Evans has tons of NYC subway ads
Why do we allow first person titles? They are uninformative (who is I?), and click-baity
There was also Heathkit, which sold built-it-yourself kits for all kinds of electronics. Stereos, amateur radio gear, televisions, multimeters and oscilloscopes, etc.
> I thought it was really cool that you can deploy apps you compile yourself on your device out of the app store without paying the $99 yearly fee but apparently that's not the case.

That is the case.
To my memory Gmail has always had a very strict spam filter. At what point did it turn into "extinguish"?
Lots of great suggestions in here!

The General Video Game AI (GVGAI) environment has also just released their own Gym for training. With the competition set to run through CIG'18 in July 2018

https://github.com/rubenrtorrado/GVGAI_GYM/

IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games Competitions

https://project.dke.maastrichtuniversity.nl/cig2018/?page_id...

It's okay to start out small. It's not necessary to clone StarCraft to investigate high dimensional game state spaces. Remember it was a simple 2D board game like Go that was until recently considered unbeatable ;)

Take a look at games like Generals or Tron Light Cycles. Best of Luck!

http://dev.generals.io/

https://web.stanford.edu/~jbboin/doc/ai_lightcycle.pdf
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Ask HN: Nuclear propulsion
Since the russians created a nuclear rocket, there is no reason to build the conventional propulsion for the interplantary flights anymore.

Does it mean the BFR plans of Elon Musk are just the waste of time and money?
You will never know or be able to judge until you get on the other side of it. The worst are companies who use gmail to accept unsolicited email from job applicants.

It's not a great first impression if you are asked to write something up (on a Careers page) and send it to some address and then are 5xx rejected and your email is blackholed and not even delivered to a SPAM folder.

Funny thing is that the 5xx message tells you to contact their gsuite admin to change some settings. :D I guess to get blackholed again.
> link on the side of the page to a Minecraft clone that's been embraced, extended and then abandoned

I'm not sure how a person doing a clone of something owned by a billion dollar corporation (Microsoft)...and then giving up on it...is the same thing. At all.
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Amsterdam meets all of those requirements. I can't recommend Amsterdam highly enough, I'm so incredibly happy here and life is so much easier.

It's really pretty shockingly easy to move here as a US expat too. I'd be happy to talk to people about how to do it (or if you want to work at Apollo Agriculture we can really just do it all for you.)
They're extinguishing all the parts of the web that I didn't like: email spam, slow web page loads on mobile devices, etc.

Hope they keep up the good work.
"we must devise new business models and structural incentives that aren’t rooted in manipulation and coercion...In the short-term, that might be achieved by turning to basic subscription services, by paying for the things we use."

That's why we made RealPeople.io (https://realpeople.io) have no ads at all. Users pay to use, and there's no AI, no sharing your data. Rather than trying to just convince users to take our word for it, we just built it into our business model. Our financial incentives align with keeping user data private. And since we don't get paid based on how many pages the user views or how long the user is on the system, there's no financial incentive to getting the user addicted.
Agreed, this seems like moaning and does not contribute anything.
I'm always saying that but my family and friends treat me as if I am crazy! People are so used to their cars they can't even imagine an alternative system.
Any company this big needs to have some outside control. They are clearly monopolizing. I thought the US had a law against monopolies, or does it only apply to the railroads?
Metro.co.uk isn’t the newspaper that would be https://www.metro.news.

They were separated because the quality of the online content targeted by the parent company was below the standard of even a British tabloid and the editorial team was not having it.
Well I understood targeted advertising as advertising with a target in mind. So advertising on msnbc to target liberals and fox for conservatives.
In terms of tracking people and using their data to precisely target them then I agree with Richard Stallmann's article here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebo...
Forking a big, fast moving, security critical piece of software like a browser is totally impractical unless you have a sizable company behind you to maintain it.
This is a very goofy article. Google has open source so many things that it is a bit crazy they give away. But who else open sources their OSs? Both Android and ChromeOS.

But the craziest one is giving away Borg. Probably the most incredible technology Google has created and just opens sources it.

For me personally the biggest contribution from Google is

https://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html

Kind of the opposite of what this article suggests.

I get some of the alt right has a problem with Google firing Damore but this article is ridiculous, IMO.
Gmail won because it fixed the biggest pain points with HTML email and spam. And so many years later nobody has come even close. That's not their fault.
This might differ between countries and schools. I practised it for several years, and we had many classes that involved techniques useful for avoiding conflict (some as simple as just running away), keeping people at distance, and so on.
I think Google are just terrible at product, plain and simple.

I just looked at the new YouTube Creator Studio interface, and it's literally the biggest UI and UX abomination I've seen from a major tech company in recent memory. It's worse than the iOS 7 redesign.
This article is dated 2015. Can’t blame the author too much for not trying things that would be invented 2 years later.

But yeah, it would be great follow up work.