skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
interesting that Seattle isn't anywhere to be found. I've always "felt" that the PNW had less old money. Anyone wanna feed my confirmation bias some more?
It's hard because we don't know the counterfactual scenario.

I, for one, am OK with the fact that [almost] all terrorist attacks on US soil in the last 10 years have been domestic.
> It's called being an effective communicator. […] bring the audience along […] Readers shouldn't have to perform exegesis

He's optimising for communicating with his peers: scientists and academic researchers.

If you find this communication hard to digest, then chances are you are not part of the intended audience. It is then mostly pointless to complain or try to change his wording.

You can buy books from other people who deliberately target developers.

• https://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529260
• https://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596801694
• https://restinpractice.com/
• http://www.designinghypermediaapis.com/
I am comfortable with a definition of "moon" that does not involve extrapolating 10^65 years into the future.
I have done 2 of these projects for contemporary artists. I have never experienced so many broken promises in one short period before in my life. Disgusting people.
I think the ideal situation in all cases would be taking a suspect, bringing them to trial and awarding an appropriate sentence if they are found guilty. The difference between a US national and a foreign national is a US national has a real chance of actually being seen in court. Though it would be infinitely preferable to do so, I can't imagine the logistical complexity of trying to defeat a terror organisation by individually capturing and trying each suspected member. It's a new kind of war, and not one with a set of engagement rules like those that governed more "traditional" inter-state warfare.
I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists... I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawnmower.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Albert Einstein
PureSec exits stealth to secure serverless code
Running GraphQL with Elixir at Stuart.com
I'm not sure how you arrived at your conclusion from reading that. I can only guess that you're reading something into this sentence:

> Approximately 6 minutes later, a gravitational-wave candidate (later designated GW170817) was registered in low latency (Cannon et al. 2012; Messick et al. 2017).

"Registered in low latency" means that it was detected by their data analysis algorithms, which directly contradicts your conclusion that "they found data their algorithms had previously rejected as noise." If you doubt me, you can follow the citations from that paper. Cannon et al. 2012 resolves to http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/748/2/13..., which discusses the data processing and latencies involved (~5 minutes to trigger a detection and ~30 minutes for human vetting), which is consistent with the timeline you quoted. They even published the source code:

> We have implemented a prototype of the low-latency filtering stage using an open-source signal processing environment called GStreamer. ... We have extended the GStreamer framework by developing a library called gstlal that provides elements for GW data analysis.

gstlal's home page is https://wiki.ligo.org/DASWG/GstLAL

The part you quoted mentions a few notices that were circulated through GCN. That's basically a mailing list to coordinate observation of transient phenomena. It's home page is https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/. The circulars discussing the GW are here: https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/other/G298048.gcn3. From the first post in the circulars:

> The online CBC pipeline (gstlal) has made a preliminary
identification of a GW candidate associated with the time
of Fermi GBM trigger.

gstlal is the library we met earlier in Canon et al. 2012. "Online" means it was processing the data in real-time.

Your claim that the data was rejected by their algorithms as noise isn't supported by the paper you're quoting or the original sources.
>Yikes, what a bill.

Yeah, cancer-related bills can add up fast. Worse, they'll send you bills for years after the fact... my father had been dead almost a decade from his cancer and the occasional bill would still come and my mom would have to spend hours arguing with them on the phone "uh yeah, he's dead, he's been dead, this happened a decade ago, get your shit together" and they'd usually be all 'oops our bad' almost like they were trying to double dip.

We need some serious healthcare reform in the US.
Is it also easier to protect all train lines in the country?
It seems a bit foolish to compare a single train line to all roads instead of all train lines to all roads.
I'm just hoping this leads to a more multiparadigm Python that doesn't have a seemingly irrational fear of FP
Pushing the I2C SSD1306 OLED to the limit with bit banging
The classic book is:

- Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Michael A. Nielsen Isaac L. Chuang

A bit gentler introduction:
- Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction by Eleanor G. Rieffel
> The only concern should be whether they are proven to be dangerous terrorists

The only way to do it is via a fair due process and trial.
Internet Archive earliest capture is from 16. October 1997.

http://web.archive.org/web/19971016211209/http://www.complan...
A crowbar well-placed/used is sufficient.
Most of the comments here, and even the article itself shows just how far the Overton window has moved when it comes to these discussions.

The article makes a few mentions of how perhaps killing non-Americans isn't fine either:

> We wiped out the Geneva Convention by creating the unlawful enemy combatant, a term that simply means a person not protected by the Geneva Convention.

But even for the Rolling Stone the discussion has mostly moved on. The post-9/11 world of killing people in "warzones" (war was never declared) without any regard for the Geneva Convention is taken as a given.
I don't think it's fair to say that preserving page structure and formatting is never a good idea. For example, at least one good use for PDFs is sheet music/tabs. Formatting is obviously important here as it tends to lose meaning without it, but equally as important is the page structure and per-page nature of reading vs scrolling. As a (hobbyist) musician, when I'm playing an instrument, I don't have any free hands to scroll with, so it's important to me that I don't have to do it very often.
Can we get a title update to 1997? (First published year)
I HOPE you came back for the Section 8 double night reunion a few years ago! They completely sold out back to back nights at Northern Lights.
> I've found useful for myself is that REST is about operating on the HTTP layer instead of building your own layers on top of it

That's just using HTTP.
Courier is important. Otherwise you are forced to go back healing/getting items. Which will lose you XP and gold and ultimateley the game.

Yes there is Turbo, no it's not comparable to regular gameplay.
History rhymes.

Of course, this time the robber barons know what will happen if they delve too greedily and too deep. Unions, the New Deal... can't have that. This time they are making more clever investments in propaganda, government control, and distraction.
I'd put that kind of contribution on about the same level as the conductor for an orchestra or the director for a movie or play. The same piece of music played by the same musicians can have noticeable differences depending on the conductor. Similarly, choosing a different director can have a noticeable impact on a movie or play despite having the same script and cast.
Obama's "Disposition Matrix" was a furthering of Bush era policies. It's not really fair to say he opened this can of worms, though that doesn't make his actions any less terrible.
Awlaki’s assassination (really the underlying hit list and lack of due process) is why I did not vote for Obama in 2012. I remain amazed that more people weren’t up in arms about it. I remember Ron Paul being vocal in his opposition at the time but few others that got headlines at least.
Well, specifically "hate speech" is what's at issue here, which is bad whether it's from the left or the right. Just so happened that the group under discussion was of the latter persuasion. Facebook didn't moderate their posts even though they contravened their guidelines because they had so many followers.
>>how can we add this to our API?

>By representing the difference in states.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting something here, but doesn't this directly contradict the following?

"A REST API must not define fixed resource names or hierarchies (an obvious coupling of client and server). Servers must have the freedom to control their own namespace. Instead, allow servers to instruct clients on how to construct appropriate URIs, such as is done in HTML forms and URI templates, by defining those instructions within media types and link relations. [Failure here implies that clients are assuming a resource structure due to out-of band information, such as a domain-specific standard, which is the data-oriented equivalent to RPC’s functional coupling]."

How do you implement the above without making out-of-band assumptions about the name/structure of each action state (e.g. /publish, /submit)? The server-provided links won't help you there, since they might as well be called /foo and /bar - after all, the server provides them and the client shouldn't have any prior knowledge about them.

I mean, sure you would associate each action state (/publish, /submit) with a media type, but that's just shifting the assumptions elsewhere, isn't it?
Ten Essential Psychology Concepts You Should Know to Design Digital Services
Because they have to be very bright and very close to the target. This limits the observable targets quite a lot (we don't want to observe something, but specific targets for most projects).
Investigating Causal Effects of Mental Events in Cognitive Neuroscience
I like this narrated version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MticYPfFRp8
The Acrobat Reader specified in the post is 3.0 which was out around 1997/98.

This is a post has missed the whole point of PDF files.
Actually the acid test in this instance is whether, source in hand, you can prove https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17564964 wrong. (-:
Yes, absolutely.

There's a huge difference between trying to isolate a country because it has political goals that you perceive as being detrimental to the whole world (however arguable that may be), and trying to isolate a country purely because it refuses to allow itself to be re-annexed by you.
I came across https://speaking.io _after_ I presented for the first time at a larger conference [1]. In hindsight it's so obvious -- Zach Holman really talks about the things that matter. So if you still have time, please do your future-self a favour and have a look at it.

Another point I found out _after_ I presented is to better avoid any caffeinated drinks -- apparently it makes your mouth dryer. Adding a bit of nervousness makes matters worse and you end up having to drink a sip of water every few minutes.

[1] https://youtu.be/wNrTDEaDVwU
Sounds great! :)
And the conclusion has been the same for a while. GPS-only NAV is very susceptible to degradation. Blended solutions are the only path forward with GPS.
Arcade claw machines already feature battle-tested mechanics for raising and lowering something on a string.

They do not simply deploy a wound bobbin, but instead have the bobbin after 2 idler wheels. One wheel is housed on a lever - The weight of the claw (or in this case package) keeps the idler on a lever pushed down during most of the operation - when it contacts a prize (or in this case the floor) the idler receives less load and thus the lever moves up ensuring it does not jam or unwind further.

Its a pretty ingenious design from an age where load sensing would be very expensive - and achieves robust bi-directional winding with end detection with just 1 microswitch.

This zero-moving parts hook sounds great, but I don't see how much different it can be from a gravity hook, or a ships buoy-hook; unless it simply captures the package interface in a specific orientation (anyone who has ever played "fishing" with 2L pop bottles and a curtain ring knows the satisfaction of such mechanisms) - my guess would be that the attachment point is a specific shape rather than a circle; to promote the tension-less force to movement up and off.
It's scary how differently PDFs can be output depending on the exporter. I have some Word docs for user and installation guides that can be 100% larger depending on whether the content writer saves it as PDF, exports it as PDF, or prints the document to a PDF.
Not only that but they benefit from buyer fraud.

I have experienced first hand refusal to refund selling fees (even after escalating the issue) after an item was fraudulently returned.
Unless you have access to a private repository of billing and insurance data, no.

There is no publicly available source for price cross lookups. This is largely due to the fact that billing, coverage and pricing varies not only from hospital to hospital but even within the same provider on the same service (a given CPT). So now, there is no way to know the likeness of billing/coverage and it's also highly likely that if she disputes the claim, or there is a renegotiation then she will end up paying significantly less.
> as long as you can make the case for classifying them as an 'enemy combatant in an active war zone

Under the Obama administration, they decided to count all military-age males in a strike zone as enemy combatants, unless there was explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent [0].

Was a bomb dropped on a wedding to kill a terrorist? Well, all the other men aged 18-50 at the wedding are also classed as enemy combatants too, meaning 'no innocent civilians' were killed. Way to go Mr. Nobel Peace Prize winner.

0: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/under-o...
Seattle isn't a retirement destination. The greatest 'income equality' being from Rich retirees in a low cost of living among a Service industry-based local populace.
It's a bunch of programmers arguing about art...
My understanding is its based on how much it will divide the HN community, causing flame wars and unproductive conversation. Pretty much everyone agrees that US citizens shouldn't be hit by drone strikes.
> The only reason why Android is dominating the market right now is because it gave freedom to users and freedom to phone makers

I would say that the biggest reason it's dominating is because it's cheap. For most people I've talked to, they don't like Android, but prefer to pay 20% of the cost of an iPhone.
Video: Now, everyone can hover like ‘Iron Man’
Not surprisingly, there's 5 places in California where the top 1% has more wealth than in 1928. Which means that the ratio of income of top 1% to income of bottom 99% is higher than it was in 1928. Which is a sign of rise in income inequality.

I would be really interested in studying the breakdown of wealth within the top 1% in all the places listed. In my experience (here in India at least), most people in the top 1% are just as worried [about income inequality] as the rest of us. It's the people at the top 20% of the 1% that can live anywhere, but sure, journalists can still call them the 1%.
This just doesn’t represent reality of contemporary art. It’s a bullshitters game. These artists almost never even have a vision that is important to them. They behave as such, but the project motivations are consistently reflexive. They are just a response to what they thing will help their recognition. This is just not about expression.

Historically, this is extremely wrong. Renaissance artists were the technicians of course. That’s what they were known for.

This is the rot of an industry built on extracting funds from overly wealthy patrons with no limit to the amount of dishonesty.
"...Acrobat reader for DOS that I have is dog slow..."

We're done here.
Can’t imagine how hurtful and frustrating that can be. People make jokes about the health care system in th US, but in reality there isn’t anything funny about it.
It's also a matter of "endorsement" which is what Facebook tacitly does when they they host this stuff.

You are free to say or feel whatever you want in your own living room, amongst your friends, private function, your head, email, decentralised hate-sites or even reddit or 4chan.

Precisely the problem with Facebook is that they are actively stirring the pot to sell ads. They are making money off this stuff.
I wish the crews would receive more credit as well.

A good analogy would be if Hollywood films didn't list credits and pretended that only the director worked on the film and did everything by themselves.

It would be insulting for people to believe that a director did 100% of the work on one of their films and ignored the entire crew. Not sure why this doesn't apply to the art world where teams are way more common than people believe.
I'd prefer that there were 0 terrorist attacks in the last 10 years but different strokes and all that.
I remember he was working at Taco Bell.
Airbus seeks splash to end airshow with AirAsia wide-body order
XD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%27_Selecta!

To a lot of British people of a certain age seeing the letters 'BO' trigger an automatic response.
In the best of worlds, we could catch the bad guys in a net, put pink, fluffy handcuffs on them while we talk with them gently, get to know them and understand why they did what they did. Then we could hug, and we would become friends, and one day after a not too long stay in our beautiful, green and lounge-like prison resort, we would let them out in society again and they would become productive citizens.

In our world, we sometimes have to fight. Sometimes, it's better to kill the terrorists than to risk that they attack us or to risk our soldiers getting killed in an attempt of bringing them in.
The moral justification for the largest war in history is illegal to be questioned (in an increasing number of jurisdictions). Such an outrage against freedom of thought and freedom of inquiry.
I paid for my university tuition using eBay. I’d buy broken printers and repair them and sell them.

Eventually someone started buying printers from me, claiming they were broken and getting refunds. They would open new accounts and do it under different names, to the point where one week over half my sales were all scammed in the same way. I was out 5 printers, and had no recourse. That ended a very successful 3 year venture.
Dutch publishing giant Elsevier cuts off researchers in Germany and Sweden
Math! Math typesetting is still a huge problem -- same as back in 1997 with a few improvements here and there.

I do remember the days when postscript was far more of a default, or dvi -- there were people who refused to use pdf format at that time. Almost no one has stuck with that battle.

Standardized, high-quality math typesetting in html has still just not quite happened although it's improving continuously.
Yeah, it's just unnacountable violence wreaked with help of high technology. HN is more for, say, a technical article about reverse engineering details of an old game, and 50 comments saying "I fondly remember playing that game".

A real hacker would still not care about this when they themselves end up on a kill list, because politics, the air we breathe, and other things are just totally for lamers.
The originals are full of plot holes too, and I'd argue Return of the Jedi is still the worst of the non-prequel movies. But it gets a pass because everyone saw it in their youth.
>> It's an interesting thought experiment about what art actually IS: is art the idea behind the piece? Is it the skill that the individual has in physically bringing the piece to life? If the person with the vision doesn't physically produce the outcome, is it still their art?

I sincerely enjoy the fact that people regularly visiting Hacker News think that is an "interesting thought experiment", in the context of art.

Isn't that an interesting thought experiment to question what does a CEO do, for example? But it isn't, since people on HN are mostly familiar in detail with what a CEO does. On the other hand art is somehow assumed to be a special case in our world.

These are two absolutely equivalent questions.
This article doesn't discuss the elephant in the room. If there's this discrepancy in the 1% between states, and that's seen as a problem, presumably some correlation can be found where the bottom N% are less fortunate in say West Virginia than New York.

Is there any indication that that's the case?
Yes, it's generally quite a bit nicer. It's not as nice as I hoped, but it's better. The old APIs are JSONAPI-style.

The main disappointment is that input types are not nearly as expressive as output types.
Whew, how you can possibly wrap your mind around 10^10^120 is a mystery to me.
Some people get paid to go to the conference and also for some its in their best interest to half pay attention while doing work.

On another level, sometimes I go to meetups in my area which are technically the same conference presentation as well. There are times when I regret going to the meetup (There's 10-20 people) because of how boring the speaker is or how overly technical it becomes, but I don't want to be rude and leave the area cause it'd reflect poorly. Its not like a convention where leaving is okay, everyone in the area knows each other.
cgo doesn't copy the stack to a "bigger stack" when calling a C function. It just uses another stack, dedicated to cgo, and disallows passing pointers into the stack:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11089

So I think the slowness is caused by something else.

Thanks for sharing the benchmark.
The Design Museum in London has pretty much everything Jony Ive ever designed in their permanent collection.

They certainly are art in this context.*

And I'd argue that Apple are one of the few tech companies that genuinely view their products as art objects, as well as being boxes of mass-produced consumer technology.

* There's a wider question about whether the mere act of displaying something in a gallery makes it art, but its one that many fine art postgrads haven't been able to get to the bottom of yet :)
I do! As I recall, he sort of was a terrorist though? Something about the planning or discussion of apartment house gasline bombings? They didn't even need an agent provocateur to produce evidence for this one.

On a semi-related note, I hope John Walker Lindh gets a hell of a party upon his release next May.
It seems that the post was written in 1997 [1], with some parts added in 2005 [2].

The author is generally a computer science professor with some idiosyncratic (at least for the current time) opinions. Though I enjoyed the classes I attended with him a few years ago and some of his points I found quite convincing.

For example, in the class on stack based languages (forth & postscript mostly) he also showed how using PS instead of PDF allows him to put results from the analysis in the source code of papers and generate the plots from them.
I try to mimic this in my PDFs by adding shortened links to the source and data for each plot (example: [3]) as I've often been annoyed with figures in papers that omit crucial information on what they show.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/19971016211209/https://www.compl...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20051231210211/https://www.compl...

[3]: https://i.imgur.com/CfuYeOO.png
Afaict, Taiwan is not violating any non proliferation treaty, isn’t vowing to destroy neighbors, isn’t funding tertorism in its neighborhood. It’s been the opposite, a good international citizen producing great minds. So, to me that makes a difference.
Not at all. The technicians get no credit; never actually have any chance to “grow on”.