skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people here in Portland don't seem to grasp that. They go, well adding an extra lane will just make that lane full... yeah... exactly otherwise whats the point of building another lane? Mass transit is a great idea in theory, but when it doesn't run 24/7 to areas you want to go or has a problem with homeless and other crazy people harassing you [1, 2, 3, 4] it just doesn't work out. A good solution for a lot of places with tight space is to just stack the highways. Doesn't make sense endlessly making roads wider on both sides - it can only go so far.

1. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/crime/trimet-barber-gets-2-...

2. https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/05/police...

3. http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/06/02/man-pummels-max-train-o...

4. https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/05/crime_...
If you care about the content of the conference, and/or you like to talk with some of the recurring participants, you could go to the conference next time and confront the organizers directly, since they won't let you do it online.

But in terms of feeling rejected for unknown reasons, I'd let it slide. The reactions you describe (twitter blocking, "we don't have time to answer" emails) are immature, so expecting more from them is naive.

Since they haven't said "please don't attend again", don't interpret it that way. Don't reward people for communicating this poorly. If you can buy a ticket in your name, and you want to go, go. :-)
Lisp is part of the family of languages that J. Backus referred to as 'transformational languages'. Its ability to self-modify creates programs that are almost impossible for people other than the author to understand. This is why after 50 years it is still a niche language, and will remain so. There is little demand for programming languages that are hard to maintain. A working program lasts decades, and passes through many hands, and LISP is dead-end technology that will forever keep being brought up as its temptations are irresistible to some.
Good resource for western Philosophy. Found only one resource on Indian Philosophy.
But this isn't some random person like it is with someone messaging a youtuber. This is someone they have a previous relationship with, receiving and rejecting proposals, and who they took a specific action against, to block on twitter.
Anyone in the network path and willing to expend the computational power to decrypt and re-encrypt your traffic. Unauthenticated encryption still dramatically increases the cost of mass surveillance.
Well Apple is fucked, US enters depression. China economy collapses utterly. Xi does not live too long before he either enacts Stalin/Mao level purges or gets shot himself.
My 5yo classroom has metal saws, files, hammers and nails. Plus lots of wooden blocks to hack at. I haven't seen her come home with anything constructive from it, but it's there to be played with all the time.
I think stopping China would be a very noble goal. I don't want them to set a precedent that a dictatorship leads to long lasting success. Unfortunately, China is a big market. And as long as there's money to be made no one really cares.
Just speculating here, but if they're storing his twitter account name, that might well be considered PII for the purposes of the GDPR, so they'd be required to disclose that they've stored it and any related information (like the reason they've stored it)... Also, their email response strongly implies they're storing previous requests - I'm not sure the GDPR covers emails he's sent to them though...
One thing I don't understand, is how do you handle mistakes with the 'unix-as-ide' approach? I was using sed to refactor. Now, I typically use bufdo %s/foo/bar/gc, because it's much more forgiving. It's the same story with a lot of stuff you can ctrl-z for - if you can do it inside vim, it's usually far easier to control and roll back.
One example is processed meat [1]. The precervatives increase shelf life together with the cancer rates.

https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/world-health-organization...
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I believe the biggest player is MindGeek and they have a lot of open positions in various locations [0]. Technologies include Go, PHP, .Net, JS (React) and there are lots of DevOps positions too.

[0] https://www.mindgeek.com/careers/
Honestly, whether he was caught in a crossfire, intentionally banned, or even received a response meant for someone else, this is still utterly inadmissible. There is no possible situation an email of this sort is acceptable in any sort of professional context, let alone coming from a conference organizer.
The organizers of JSConf.eu are known to be hardcore, authoritarian feminists. Maybe the author of the article was just too male and white for their taste.
They probably have personal data / personal identifiable information about you when they blocked you and still know about it... And you can ask them what data they have about you.
What is the most prominent journal for this field?
So if I have a banned account I can cause arbitrary people to be banned simply by following them? It doesn't seem like a good idea to give me that power.
> "We’re Not Addicted to Smartphones, We’re Addicted to Social Interaction" [title of linked article]

Social interaction is a requirement for being a fully healthy human. Just like food, many people develop unhealthy behaviors with social interactions. It's important to choose healthy relationships and healthy ways of nurturing those relationships. Cellphones are a tool, there are healthy and unhealthy ways of using it.

We should focus on educating people on self reflection, so they can notice when their own behaviors are not in the best interest. In this way we protect not only against Cellphone Addiction Disorder (or whatever the DSM ends up naming it), but other future technology use disorders as well.
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What on earth? Isn't using a VPN the bare minimum when you're doing something potentially illegal?
CD32 was launched a bit late, but also marketed too little. Commodore was dying by then, too many business jets, too few financially sound decisions.
> Among other major problems facing our country, we need to eliminate California’s initiative process to shut down this unwelcome workaround to our democratic institutions.

Calling direct democracy an "unwelcome workaround to our democratic institutions" and saying it needs to be "eliminated" is a bit much. If the legislature was doing its job properly and giving the people what they want, they couldn't be motivated to support an initiative like this.
You can use it in a (closed) barbeque as well.
That's not how the GDPR works.
Bizzarely, even today, Taiwan's interpretation of the "One China" consensus is that Taiwan, is the legitimate ruler of all of China, including the mainland.

I'm not sure why, maybe the Taiwan sees this as a bargaining chip, to be given up at an opportune moment, in exchange for something else, e.g. the Mainland accepting Taiwan's independence. I suspect this would have been possible at some point when the PRC was weak (maybe in the 1960s or 1970s) but seems unlikely now. I read somewhere that this might be because a formal acceptance of no longer being rulers of all of China, might trigger the Mainland's anti-secession laws, which in turn would lead to an invasion on Taiwan by the Mainland.
You think they are keeping a permanent database of twitter block reasons?
Heh. For me, I used an IR thermometer to figure out when the board was running and when it quiesced. Thankfully most of the work was already done and I just needed to put some pieces together so I got a console shortly afterward. Then it was the normal development work of getting a more current kernel version running, etc.
We actually started our experiments with Kaldi and even built a dataset out of our files to train on. But we found that Kaldi required a lot of data-prep and a long lead time. Our internal dataset is quite large and data prep is quite easy compared to Kaldi.
These 3 things are key for better community engagement
NES was big in Europe too, but it was a bit of a rich kid thing. The games were expensive, 2 to 3 times as much as a computer game, plus I knew at least 20 kids with a home computer and maybe a handful of games were bought for them - in total, like Christmas presents and such. The rest, hundreds of titles, were copied.
I agree, I think that's the main issue.

Not dissimular to Saudia Arabia vs Iran: the latter -- however imperfect a democracy -- is a daily reminder that there is no reason whatsoever why the Haus of Saud should be ruling Arabia.
> "Lists, which are a generalization of graphs, are extraordinarily well supported by Lisp."

I always thought of linked lists as a special kind of graph, where each node except the head and tail had exactly one incoming edge and one outgoing edge. What's a better way to think of this in terms of LISP?
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It's a shame that there is no longer this level of openness in talking about tech and engineering. Even in modern papers, there is still a lacking of 'bigger picture'
(I'm one of the contributors to c2rust.)

As harpocrates mentioned, we've been taken by surprise at the interest in the c2rust project. We've updated the website to acknowledge the inspiration we drew from Jamey's Corrode translator. Our apologies for not including the acknowledgments from day one!

I want to take the chance to mention that c2rust goes beyond transpiling C to (unsafe) Rust. We anticipate that even in the limit, the automatically translated code will need human-in-the-loop refactoring to arrive at idiomatic Rust. Therefore, we provide compiler plugins that instrument the original C code, the new Rust code to check whether the two programs behave identically when fed the same inputs. The checking can either happen at runtime (using a multi-variant execution environment to run the processes side by side) or offline based on logging. We'd love to hear what everyone thinks of this aspect too.
A Mega Flippo, an audio tape and those marbles, it's a trip down memory lane for me as well. Very cool project.
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It's like Wall-E but now
Its made using create-react-app and source code is on Github.

Please play and give suggestion to improve this. Thanks.
So you're saying that it was an intentional thing, and not just a bug? PhasmaFelis was agreeing that it was just a bug, and that's what I was replying to.
I won't contribute because speech interfaces are imo terrible and against the proliferation of Echo and Duplex like services, but the data collected is listed here

https://voice.mozilla.org/en/privacy
He didn't tweet that at the organizers. He quoted an article and linked to the article.
Can anyone comment on the quality of these DataCamp courses?
Did that second tweet get removed? Can’t see the swearing.

Agreed with the language. It’s a constant stream of fussy complaints, and as unfair as it sounds, I would have probably blocked them too after years of the same.
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I wonder if toll payment based on amount of time spent in a lane would improve things? Right/exit lane would be free and incrementally increase up to the high cost left lane. The lane stripes would have connected rfid sensors to measure amount of timr spent in each lane.

Might work because less lane switching means less slow downs to adjust to new cars entering a lane. And people who don't absolutely need to will remain on right lanes while leaving the left lane for those committed to the lane or for those using it momentarily to pass other cars. Heck,you can even change lane pricing dynamically based on traffic and time of day.
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I still don't get the title. Search engines were a thing - yes everyone knows that so that bit doesn't say anything - and they're still a thing - well ok we all already knew that as well - and if they're a still a thing why did you say they were a thing just before? It's two useless statements, and one is redundant because of the other! And what does 'a thing' really mean? That they exist? Why say 'a thing'? It must be the title with the least information possible.
The way I actually used that description is to mentally construct the example from it, to then recognize "画". Verbal descriptions are just a different way to input examples, they don't help you learn without any examples at all.
I have no idea why this was downvoted.
At some point you offended the wrong person, they added you to one of those shared blocklists, and that's all, you're banned forever.

Who's to blame? I'd say you, for caring. This is the way politics works now, and some software projects have, for some reason, joined the politics battle. By caring you're giving them weight. Just flip them off, tell them to go fuck themselves, and keep thinking the way you do.

It's not worth it to give up on your views on politics just to not be ostracised by these manchilds and circus freaks. They live off attention; if you don't pay attention to them they die. Don't give them any legitimacy, because most of those who take these decisions don't even know how to code and they are there to hijack the projects with their politics.
Some good sources:

https://blog.cyberwar.nl/2016/02/some-elements-of-intelligen...

https://www.opsecprofessionals.org/official/081103_DOD_OPSEC...

http://www.opsecprofessionals.org/training/OPSEC_Training.pd...

https://www.slideshare.net/grugq/OPSEC-for-hackers

https://grugq.github.io/blog/2013/06/13/ignorance-is-strengt...

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/12/edward-snowden-explains-...

http://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2017/03/tradecraft-introductio...

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Upvoted simply because of this very entertaining explanation of variations in heat transfer rates. The authors set up a theoretical "mom" touching a child's forehead to gauge temperature . . . and then go to town!

"Let us assume that your mother’s head is made
of steel, and her temperature is the same: 36°С.
Intuitively, it is clear the temperature at the
interface will decrease, let us say, to 36.3°С."
What branch of physics are you in?
For those who may not find it like I did initially: The whole thing has faceted navigation and filtering when clicking on the search icon in the lower left. You can then filter by time range, material, and use.
https://github.com/immunant/c2rust#acknowledgements-and-lice...
You seem right. Every metric I can check says it is going downhill. Too bad, I used to go to the Clojure meetups in my area, I even had a talk about Clojure + Emacs.
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Well as a first point, I think that there's a huge difference between 'This very difficult thing is probably so difficult that X' and 'I have physically seen this production line, and there's no way it's doing X'.

The first is an estimation of difficulty - probably an educated guess that could be wrong. The second is a statement based on the evidence in front of you.

Secondly, whilst it's true that people have been saying Tesla won't get to 5k/w, it's also true that Tesla were claiming they'd have a fully automated production line. If Tesla gets to 5k/w by hand-building them all then in most people's eyes they've failed. The value of Tesla is not the actual production of cars. It's the IP of their self-driving technology, and the IP for their fully automated production line. There's a reason Tesla's valuation is completely unlinked from their production capacity.
I haven't written any Algol 60 code but from a cursory look it doesn't look too alien. The keywords and basic concepts look similar to those in modern procedural languages. So, depending on the complexity of the original code, perhaps trying to translate the code without any previous Algol 60 knowledge might be a viable approach, too.

Other than that, this sounds like a problem that could be solved by pairing an Algol 60 and a Ruby programmer if you can't find someone who knows both languages.
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Here's what I see if I click on the stupid fucking white man tweet. It shows the message is a reply to 3 accounts, including the conference.

https://imgur.com/a/1RlK4MN
DB is Mongo for main data, Postgres with Elasticsearch for analytics events, Redis for session and cache storage

Node.js backend, using Express.js and a REST API framework we built ourselves based on it

Frontend app in Ember.js and a couple others in React/Redux

Whole thing is hosted on Heroku.
How could Bayesian statistics be applied in this case? I’m wondering if the situation is just too “simple” to make it applicable.

Before Monty opens a door, so the prior probability, is 1/3 for each door.

After he opens a door, that door will have zero probability, as we know he opens a door without a car, then how to update the probabilities afterwards?

Seems the simple way to look at it is to not partition by door, but by chosen vs not chosen. Chosen is 1/3 and not chosen is 2/3 before and after Monty opens a door, so perhaps there is no “Bayesian information” revealed by opening the door anyway.
> But are you seriously betting against crypto-currency long term?

Yes.

>Go back and check a computer from 1950. I'm sure plenty of people back then were laughing at how ridiculous the concept was of owning a PC.

Computers in 1950 were being used for useful work that could not have been done before them. They had a track record of successes which has continued uninterrupted until today.

Cryptocurrency has yet to show a legal success story of any kind. The story on what cryptocurrency is "for" has swung wildly over the years as each attempted use case proves either inferior to existing solutions or impossible to achieve.

Bitcoin is digital cash. Bitcoin isn't digital cash, but it is for micropayments. Bitcoin isn't for micropayments, it's a settlement system. Bitcoin isn't a settlement system, it's borderless transactions for the unbanked. Bitcoin isn't for the unbanked, it's a settlement system again for different layers. Segregated witness will fix everything. Segregated witness wasn't meant to fix anything, it's the lightning network that will fix everything. The lightning network isn't meant to fix everything, it's designed to lock in vast amounts of currency and work only for those use cases that makes sense.

It's just endless. Cryptocurrency has no success stories, just a constant stream of "hope" that never goes anywhere in order to keep people hooked on a system that transfers a lot of money to a handful of centralised large-scale mining corporations and increasingly shady exchanges.
Capsicum is the standard name in here (Australia) from wikipedia:

>The large, mild form is called bell pepper, or by color or both in North America and the United Kingdom, but typically called capsicum in New Zealand,[8] Australia, South Africa, Singapore, and India.

It does seem strange that even anglosphere countries in the eastern hemisphere ended up with a different name for some reason. Presumably it was also called that in the UK at some point too.
I love it, browse through time
Scroll down, I linked the first tweet.

Here's a direct link: https://twitter.com/0ndras/status/960917446449356800
It's been so sad to see that while the AI winter ended, the Lisp winter that started around the same time never did. Maybe it's coming back after consolidation on the languages end: SBCL and Clojure are coming ahead as clear winners, and are quite powerful.

I'm sure I'm not the only guy who started learning Lisp after reading Paul Graham's essays, and I'm going to keep using Lisp for several reasons, but the momentum just isn't there.
That paper makes the fundamental error I am talking about. It assumes that if rich people aren't spending on consumption, they are hoarding cash. It then makes economic sense to redistribute that hoarded cash in order to put the money to use.

But the rich aren't hoarding cash. They're investing it. The money is put to use. The rich do not have pallets of cash in the basement.

You'd think that professional bankers would understand this.

Here's the salient quote from the paper:

"Surveys show low-income households tend to spend a larger share of their income than high-income households. Because of this, temporarily redistributing income from the rich to the poor could stimulate consumption and, through that, the economy as a whole."

Yup, that's the "rich people hoard cash" theory.
Why do you keep bugging someone when they obviously do not want you to contact them?

Blocking you is a way of saying "Leave me alone!"

Not replying to direct messages or emails is a way of saying "Leave me alone!"

Nobody needs to explain why they want to be left alone.

Maybe stop thinking about yourself, and just accept that the people behind the twitter handles just don't want you to contact them anymore for whatever reason.
To me it's the German drogerien ("drugstores") are weird :) They focus on health and hygiene related products, but don't have a pharmacy counter.
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How do “you” model people? Reinforcement learning on humans
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Putting the return IP encrypted in the payload breaks NAT (see FTP helpers).

You do understand that the IP that the return traffic is destined for has to initially be addressed to the IP of the NAT device, not what the client thinks its IP is, right?
I've always felt like this as well. The "great video game crash of 1984" was very much an American phenomenon. It affected many of the consoles of the era in America, which were getting long in the tooth and were quite underpowered, especially (but not only) the Atari 2600. I get rather fed up of hearing people refer to it as a universal, industry destroying event.

The crash occurred because the market was flooded with cheaply made, poor quality, simplistic games, which were about all many of these consoles were capable of running. People became bored of them.

There's basically no comparison between these consoles and the NES. The NES was vastly superior and hence allowed the creation of much more involving games.

By contrast the early to mid 80s in the UK and Europe looked quite different: here it was the 8-bit computers that ruled the roost. These had more memory, and often better graphics and sound capabilities. Again, this allowed for the creation of more involving games. As a result many of the machines - and perhaps the C64 the most - had great libraries of games. And of course they were programmable and affordable, which made them vastly more interesting to homebrew hackers on a budget. (Apple and IBM machines were considerably more expensive.)
Speech interfaces have some limited usecases where they are much better than alternatives. For example in situations where you need your hands for something else, like in a car.
So if you threw out your plastic ID card with your picture 29years, it's still there, readable. Can this be used to prosecute people for flytipping?
the cops have to abide by the law, that's their weakness.
This seems easy to game, especially if you have any insight into the model behind the grading. I doubt that those running it will release any specifics, but with a large industry[0] behind test prep, general guidance on how to beat the system will be available for those who can pay for it.

That said, the SAT writing section was equally silly when graded by humans. All of the examples of what a good score looked like (per when I took it ~10 years ago) were highly formulaic, rewarding those who invested in played the game.

[0]: https://www.quora.com/How-big-is-the-SAT-test-prep-market
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After such juvenile behaviour, why should he give them any of his money?