skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Jousting has to be at least as violent as two NFL players running full-bore at each other on a kick-off, and we know that's dangerous for CTE

I'm sure there was a lot of tournament (of which jousting was only a part) derived TMI, but its important to keep in mind that during the high and late middle ages battle and tournament armor were different. Tournament armor was less flexible and heavier, after all you don't want to get hurt in a game. There were several styles of helm that attach directly to the breast plate that make your head an torso a single unit: https://www.battlemerchant.com/images/product_images/popup_i... (you would probably never wear this on a battlefield)

>Also once you got to close-quarters on medieval battlefields, your center torso would be covered up pretty well with armor or a shield, so most of the injuries are coming underneath stabbing into the groin and legs. Or from above, bashing down on the head and shoulders with axes, maces, and hammery polearms.

This, your sword is your service pistol, your lance (mounted) or your polearm (unmounted) is your primary weapon as a man-at-arms. You will notice both Knight and Samuari developed the same 3 weapon system (poleweapon + sword + dagger). Also its worth noting that when rigid armor replaced (or was worn on top of) mail (no its not called chainmail) for most of the surface area the use of sheilds quickly declined and two-handed weapons increased. You were wearing your shield. (Also for anyone interested a suit of armor is a 'harness' to use the technical term, that is where we get the German term harnischfechten, the techniques for fighting in armor, which are distinct from blossfechten (shirt fighting), the term for the superset of techniques that work against unarmored opponents)

>I'm sure training was also a big component; thwacking each other with blunted blades would be rough when leather or wool padding is about the best you've got.

People have resurrected the old fighting manuals and its known as HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) today and encompasses armed, unarmed (strikes, grappling), unarmored and armored fighting. I do this and my cotton HEMA fencing jacket provides plenty of protection. I do no think training safety was an issue.

>Quarterstaffs were also popular - and that's not too far off from getting hit with a baseball bat.

Yes pole-weapons are much more dangerous than swords, but using the harnischfechten against anyone is dangerous, even with swords, since they are mean to kill people in armor.

>It's just concussions all around.

Its definitely a risk, but hardly a given. I have broken a finger, bruised bones, but even period head protection is quite effective.
Tweetdeck.
It's mixed CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is limited to younger folks and younger companies.
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PoS creates a system by which block nomination and chain-tip extension is an elective procedure. Meaning companies could censor transaction at effectively 0 marginal cost. Under a legal mandate, that method of consensus is untenable. See Szabo's tweet.
>About fucking time.

They've offered chat and phone support for their phones and Google Play for years. I've never had a problem chatting or talking to a CSR on the phone. In fact, every Nexus and Pixel phone has a built in 24/7 support app that allows you to chat, talk or get a call back from a support person.
You'd need a new sort of AA battery; rechargeable nickel chemistries are a bit finicky and they are usually not charged faster than 1C, similar to the rate of lithium chemistries. It is also bad for NiMH batteries to charge them constantly at those voltages; typical recommendations are to avoid "steady-state" charging them at rates faster than 1/40 - 1/20C [1]

[1]: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_nickel_m...

Lithium-hybrid supercapacitors are often rated for 10C charge/discharge without the low cycle limits or volatility of lithium batteries, but they are a young technology and it looks like commercial options are currently very expensive with capacities in the 1-10mAh range @ 2.3-2.8V.
Try searching for "pleroma mastodon" - I got a tonne of hits. For example: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma
Your entire comment was just repeating something someone else already said. So...
I never turn location services on and I run on mobile data (rather than WiFi) almost every moment of the day.

My location was correctly determined within the specified range. sigh Ridiculous.
I'm talking about giving consent and actively sharing the data. Look up PSD2 in Europe.
Most of the time when you walk on the beach, you don't have an amazing encounter.

There's a long list of television shows I haven't started yet and wish I had. Game of Thrones, Sopranos, The Wire, Mr Robot, and lots of others. It's surprising how often conversations with friends and strangers revolve around our common culture.

I think a lot of people my age credit their love of sci fi while growing up in the 70's and 80's with putting them on their career path.

My advice would be to watch the TV you want to watch, then take your dog out for a walk after. Best of all worlds.
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> I don't quite understand what they're saying here...I guess the idea is that Congress can regulate gambling -- assuming some constitutional justification like the commerce clause -- but they can't restrict what laws states pass?

The federal government can make it illegal for people to place sports bet or run a gambling ring, because it has authority and sovereignty over the people in the United States.

The federal government has rather wide authority. For example, Congress could make it illegal for American citizens to gamble in Canada (In the same way, it used to be illegal to do business with Cuba). However, Congress cannot pass a law saying that Canada cannot legalize gambling, because the government of the United States has no authority over the sovereign government of Canada.

Similarly, the federal government can make it illegal for its residents to gamble. However, it cannot exercise authority not directly given to it over the state governments, because the federal government has no authority over the sovereign state governments. The state governments and the feds share sovereignty over the boundaries of each state, but the state government retains all aspects of sovereignty not explicitly given to the feds. Gambling is one of those things that the states retain sovereignty over.
We had British passports and British currency. There was a lot of nationalistic work put in after World War 2 so that Australia and NZ would see themselves as completely separate countries.
Honestly, if you've got norovirus rolling through your household, the CDC's recommendation is to pretty much bleach as much of your house as possible.

And laundry as a source of transmission is pretty well known in infectious disease epidemiology. One of the biggest issues is not that people get it from clothing, but that the person who handles contaminated clothing is also quite likely to be the person who preps food. Norovirus only needs a very small number of viral particles to make you sick, and a kid sick on either end is shedding a lot of virus.
You should read the book! I'd do a TL;DR but I can't really remember the specifics other than John really hated the distraction of pretty much anything.
This is unbelievable, wow!! So, when I sign up with a cell carrier, is it in their terms and conditions that they can sell my location data? How is this legal?
That's not really anything like dieselgate. Washing machines, I would hope, aren't emitting toxic gases that kill people.

It is, perhaps, a little deceptive if people believe their machines are more efficient than they really are on the commonly used cycles.

The way to solve this would be to improve the efficiency tests so that they test the efficiency of a fast cycle as well as an economy/long cycle.
"Fox has announced a goal of reducing ad time to two minutes an hour by 2020."

Is this correct? Two minutes of adverts per hour? Or is this a typo from NYT and 'by two minutes'. Two minutes of ads would be 4 slots an hour, they'd have to increase prices by ~7x per slot to make the same amount of money.
Somewhat off topic, but If you're interested in the history of modern computing and not already familiar with the Xerox PARC [0] story, you should know that Xerox has a fascinating history of computer research innovation, and is often regarded as one of the real major driving forces behind the P.C. as we know it.

An interesting account (as well as a great deal more about the rest of the history of modern computers) is documented in the book "The Dream Machine" [1], which I highly recommend if you find this sort of stuff interesting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/722412.The_Dream_Machine
Electric dryers are also a huge environmental burden due to electricity consumption. I don't remember the exact numbers, but I think electric dryers require many power plants worth of electricity. In many parts of the world, air drying is normal.

If anyone is looking for ideas on how to make the world a better place, look into figuring out how to shift the culture so that air drying becomes more common. Also composting toilets.

Edit: Drying clothes uses 56 billion kWh of energy in the US.[1] Another related area that needs work is standby power.[2]

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=96&t=3

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/science/just-how-much-pow...
When it smells like poop everywhere you go, look under your own shoe.
This is why I've always been grossed out by shared washing machines. In public laundromats you're soaking your clothes in water that's been used by the whole city. People are washing cloth diapers full of baby poop for all you know.
https://legacy.gitbook.com/book/hintjens/psychopathcode/deta...
This seems closely related to the work on proving the Riemann hypothesis, where there has been work on attempting to show some quasi-crystalline structure of the zeta function zeros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis#Quasicrysta...). The Riemann hypothesis itself has deep consequences for the theory of primes. Cool stuff.
Kevin Bankston, director of New America's Open Technology Institute, explained in a phone call that the Electronic Communications Privacy Act only restricts telecom companies from disclosing data to the government. It doesn't restrict disclosure to other companies, who then may disclose that same data to the government.

He called that loophole "one of the biggest gaps in US privacy law."

No shit.
Let’s not get too proud of our cord cutting. It’s true that nobody on their death bed wishes they watched more TV. I’d argue that nobody on their future death beds will have wished they’d spent more time in Facebook or ChatAppOfTheWeek either.
I think it's fine to expect engineers to know graph algorithms in terms of what they do and when to use them, but knowing how to implement them on the spot on a whiteboard is stupid. This one company had an interesting problem that I identified quickly as an application of A* with some interesting edge cases on top. Working through those cases and coming up with the heuristic was clearly the main point of the interview, or so I thought. The interviewer asked me to write out A* on the whiteboard...
That's because the link points to the mobile version, try the desktop one https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2146412825.... I can select and copy the text just fine.
Interesting read. I like the idea. Surely there are some crimes for which such a punishment is not applicable (either too harsh or not harsh enough) but it seems like it would fit the bill for many crimes. I'm thinking especially property/drug crimes.
> Things are going the exact opposite direction of where they should be for the deployment of such robots to be beneficial to the masses

Just going to toss that out with no explanation?
It's a serious problem for the 70,000 people who get hospitalized for norovirus every year in the U.S. It's even more serious for the 800 people who die.

And given there's not "a pill" you can take for it, I don't see how a couple capfulls of bleach is more problematic.
Technical problem for which I haven't found a hint of an answer online:

I'm installing CentOS 7.0 x64 on a Thinkpad, my first Linux install. The install seems to go fine but on boot, right after the BIOS splash screen, in text mode, I see the following, then it stops (I'm going to use italics to be nice to people with small screens):

Failed to open \EFI\BOOT\grubx64.efi - Not Found

Failed to load image \EFI\BOOT\grubx64.efi: Not Found

start_image() returned Not Found

Secure boot is enabled, in case that's important. I've no idea why backslashes are used but I'm going to overlook that for now.

I booted to rescue mode and looked at the file system. /mnt/sysimage/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/ indeed lacks grubx64.efi; I did find /mnt/sysimage/boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub64.efi [0] (I'm assuming the paths in the error message are all relative to /mnt/sysimage/boot/efi, because that's the only place I see relevant files).

Do I just copy the grubx64.efi file to ../EFI/BOOT/? Change the path in some config file to point at ../EFI/centos/? Or am I on the completely wrong path?

[0] Sh-ucks. My notes say the filename is ../centos/grub64.efi; the error message says grubx64.efi (i.e., with an x between grub and 64). Hopefully it's a typo in my notes. I don't have the laptop with me to check.
Wow that’s this haha!
Other responses indicate that the recipient/target has to opt into their location being shown via an SMS, so I fail to understand the outrage assuming the same requirement exists for the non-trial version.
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Hi, trying to figure out how this site works. Hope you can see this!

It's good to see that someone else likes the Spencer case. It really is a fascinating case study.

Spencer was trapped in the legal quagmire of Puritan law. He didn't know what to do - he feared the law, and tried to obey his advisers, and generally made a legal mess of things. Looking at it from a great distance it's easy to see what he did wrong, but it's also important to remember that he was the victim of a hysterical hunt and an irrational prosecution.

I've written another high-level (and therefore, very general) overview of medieval laws and trials here: https://coinsandscrolls.blogspot.ca/2017/08/thinking-medieva...

and I come to the same conclusion you do. "No one is going to defend this blaspheming piece of shit," is a core component of medieval justice.

I think you're also convinced that I'm claiming these things as uniquely medieval which isn't true. I'm trying to provide perspective for someone approaching this topic from a non-academic background of Disney movies and D&D games.

>Hint: Every class of intelligentsia throughout time thinks its own set of platitudes, dogmas, and evidence-derived conclusions are immaculate and inviolate. It's like a twisted form of Conway's Law 3 for ideology.

Well... yeah? You didn't think I was going on some sort of unironic Randian super-rant here?

>Conspicuous consumption is a medieval construct absent in the modern period.

I was mostly trying to contrast this with the modern idea of "net worth" and "worth so many billion dollars." Wealth as assets, not as an abstract.

>Uh, people revile people like the Kardashians?

Absolutely. Chat with the viewerbase. It's mostly "oh my god, did you see what they did now?" It's shock and drama and voyeurism. It's not a positive experience, despite being a popular one. Not sure if you're familiar with modern game streamers, but it's the same attitude.

>History is a long series of contentions, victories, and defeats by conflicting parties with their own self-evident and self-motivated truths--No people, no culture, no time is homogeneous, except to the extent that they are homogeneously heterogeneous.

Again, I think you are reading way too far into the intent.

Remember, I write a gaming blog. The goal is to try and allow a modern human to quickly adopt a point of view. Most people play medieval people exactly like modern people. Sure, my post deals in high-level generalities - it's designed to grind 1000 years of history and an entire continent and turn it into an easily digestible paste. And it's only 2,000 words long! Of course some detail is going to be lost! Of course important elements are going to be left out! Your response to a few elements is nearly as long as the post itself.

>My favorite counter-point to the implicit idea that people "in the past" were unthinking proto-humans unlike us is the entirely mundane ancient bathroom graffiti of Pompeii 5 that wouldn't be out of place in any public restroom anywhere.

And yet, for every similarity, differences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole...
Interesting discussion here, and I certainly don't disagree that humans are resilient. All I'll add (re: point 4) is that I literally spent 2-3 months translating letters sent by Portuguese soldiers stationed in 17th century Angola as part of my PhD research. Those guys were among the most deeply unhappy individuals I've ever encountered in an archive. They were completely unable to cope with the severity of disease and death all around them. I think they're more of the norm than many recognize, because most of us don't spend time reading through primary source letters in archives. I think that spending a lot of my mental life in the 17th century makes me fairly well placed to imagine what it's like to lose a child in that world, and I really don't see what you'r arguing here reflected in the archives.

If anyone reading this is interested, btw, the depiction of a fictional Thomas Cromwell's loss of a child in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall struck me as incredibly well-observed and accurate. I really loved that part of the book.
Share of energy from renewable sources 2004-2016:

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?...

edit: explanation.
For a lot of people like myself, the larger screen over a laptop is really only worth it when watching with other people.
No, it varies with each frame and lens shape. My eyes are offset vertically and I have severe astigmatism and it usually takes more than one visit to get proper fitting.
I think its a poorly understood cultural thing.

If you go to a beach e.g. in Phuket, Thailand, you'll find a mountain of rubbish just off the part where the tourists sit. Plastic bags and bottles, old car parts, tin cans, all sorts of shit. Same in Rarotonga, or many of what you might label third world countries that tourists go to. Right next to where people live and work, blowing around.

In some cultures, rubbish is just ignored. You'd think if you worked next to the beach, you'd at least clean up the little patch next to your stall when you had some downtime, but this just doesn't seem part of the mindset. I don't know if its some kind of "tragedy of the commons" type thinking or what it is.
I think the way split screening works is quite confusing. As a frequently returning user, I often forget how to merge a split back and end up having to Google it. Or without realising it, I end up splitting the screen too many times. I wished that part was more intuitive. The fact that it isn't means I am reluctant to use this rather powerful feature.
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Kodak licensed their name to "Wenn Digital" to launch the coin using their name. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cybercoin-licensing-name-f...
You can easily do in door clothes drying in most areas especially if you're single. Combine with a 70+C wash cycle and cloths should be fairly close to sterile when you start.
On some repositories I visit[0], it defaults to being shrunk. I didn't even recognize that the column of icons was supposed to be a menu. It took me over a half hour to figure out how to submit a pull request when I wanted to make a contribution. (I don't mean the time to figure out their code or build system. I mean the time spent clicking through the site after I had a branch ready.)

[0] https://hub.spigotmc.org/stash/projects/SPIGOT/repos/craftbu.... I think they might be using their own hosted / reconfigured version of BitBucket, so maybe this isn't 100% on BitBucket?
After having a very recent encounter with developing software on NeXTSTEP 3.3, I'll have to agree with you. For how old it is, it held up pretty well!
Our use of Lambda runs in a VPC, so each new function requires a lot of manual network I/O and IAM configuration to trust the function.

A single monolithic JAR was the fastest way to close the feedback loop between idea, prototype, deploy, and validate.

Wouldn't say this is best. Just faster. Every retrospective is an opportunity to explore use of cloud formation, or some templated deployment model.
Eschenbach Titanflex is similar, technology-wise.
It scales because nobody subscribes individually. If you can't access a journal, you get your department head to forward things up the chain so your institution can just add another line item to the millions of dollars they spend annually on journal subscriptions for every researcher and student.

AFAIK almost all of that money goes directly to Elsevier [1] who, well, they pretty much run a monopoly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier
Does LeBron James really have a photographic memory?
‘Alexa’ has become a less popular baby name since Amazon launched Echo
I've worked on systems where env was installed as /bin/env and not as /usr/bin/env . (I think it was SunOS 4.)

For that matter, under Termux on Android it's /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/env (but termux has a hack to make normal shebangs work).
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NY Times writing an article about why TV is in trouble.... in 2018.

Can we just ban this trash website from HN?
Yeah, my mom is about 80, and she now spends her most of her screen time with a laptop or a Nook e-reader.
You can see it on their gitlab instance. [1]

Mastodon and Pleroma are both part of the Fediverse [2]. They work with any software that works with OStatus and the newer ActivityPub. This includes things like GNUSocial, etc.

Mastodon doesn't explain any of this well, or at all, to my dismay. (As far as I'm aware, on the joinmastodon page).

[1]: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
> we couldn’t get the fingerprint sensor under the screen working, so we had to quickly come up with an alternate authentication method, and that required this hideous notch

I think you should try using iPhone X before you comment on it.
If we're sharing websites to obtain glasses, eyebuydirect has been my go to for the last few years.

Warby Parker, while significantly more expensive, does have pretty high quality frames with flat rates on lenses.
US uses 3000+ billion kWh of electricity so dryers are meaningful but not that huge of an impact. I think there are better areas to focus such a campaign.
It should be noted that for a number of "specific conditions or disease", the most effective measures aren't targeted. Things like...bleaching your clothing, washing your hands, etc. work well.

That's why things like that are pushed so heavily.
But unlike most "super mom" blogs trying to sell snake oil, she actually did verifiable research and invites people to buy their own agar plates and test everything themselves.
I can cite studies too. Here's one from the NIH on the use of essential oils to fight infections:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5435909/

By the way, the blogger is a PhD in biochemistry. You're not going to win a science battle with her.
The counter argument here is that long term prison sentences are the more extreme punishment
Still waiting on a decent Android client (preferably open source) which does text, voice, and video. Without that, XMPP is effectively dead for me nowadays. Otherwise I'll never be able to get my friends off of Facebook Messenger.
A paid biz account can piggy back off a free one for fam music btw