skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest question I have is, did population density change between 2008 and 2016 to skew the result of the elections in different directions?

My intuition is that it did not, and thus it doesn't predict much.
What’s Your Type? The Myers-Briggs Test and the Rise of the Personality Quiz
My work is cut out for me :-(
I am sure you did. That doesn't make it any less misleading.
...I still have the remnants of an RFID device in my left love handle...
its now a cyst about an inch in diameter...
authentication is a big elephant to eat...
lets start from here...

1]- something you know ....e.g a psword or passwd , hash, modulus

2]- something you have ...rfid tag, keyfob

3]- something you are ... biometrics

and the ball is served [P ' TING ]

...lets look in the mirror

something you dont know, something you dont have, something you are not...
Tangent: the way the author talks about sites like Reddit and 4chan and certain personalities as elements from a type of internet "hey day" makes me feel....old. I recall reading Atwood's piece in 2007 like it was yesterday, even though it was a decade ago now in actual time-passed.

Only brought up because I've felt similarly disillusioned with my participation in tech lately, but I wonder if that's just due to growing older and shifting priorities, assumptions and expectations of this sector of civilization.
What is up with Richmond county? Quite the outlier there.
Wasn't there a fiber that stiffens under load?
> there's an implicit interface between two things in the object heirarchy

I think the tendency to miss this is compounded by fuzzy thinking about class hierarchies. I've lost count of the times I've heard somebody talk about an object of a child class "talking to" an object of the parent class, when calling an inherited method. They think there's actually another object -- their mental model for inheritance is composition. Using pure interfaces helps to quash this kind of thinking.
This is amazing. Great job!
Thanks!

My acceptance of the idea that drag might be manageable has to do with volume displacement and not surface area.

A long shallow "tail" could exert orders of magnitude less drag (vis a vis surface area) than a deep heavy hull pushing up a big wake. (Related to why boats are long and narrow...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave-making_resistance

Edit: The fact that you see that as a clear non-starter has me wading into Google results for hydrodynamics. It is definitely over my head, but I am curious. Is there a rule of thumb for drag in water that I'm not finding?

https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/wetted-surface-area-appro...

http://www.engr.mun.ca/~bveitch/courses/r-p/Assignments/ITTC...

http://www.fade.up.pt/cifi2d/files/effect-of-wetted-surface-...
> These bugs can be avoided by using a template function to infer the destination buffer size

I'm a big fan of using strategies to avoid bugs. Another strategy than can be a big help is to spend a little time thinking about what kinds of strings you are going to be using and how big they might be. And then sanitizing your program input based on those sizes. Find the too-long strings before they get into your program and before you start copying them around.

The system I'm responsible for came into being as a set of programs on a Univac II and was a bunch of C and FORTRAN when I joined. Because of the need to pass data between C and FORTRAN programs/code, we had a set of 10-20 standard string sizes, based on what kind of text you had. We no longer write new code in either C or FORTRAN, but maintain the concept of standard sizes for our text. By specifying the kind of text (we also do this with numbers) in the design steps, we save far more time and effort than we spend over the entire SDLC.
I think I did an adequate job in defining a definition above.

Ask a representative sample of 'random' people

* For an alternative
* That still exists
* That they actually considered using within the last year

Facebook fails this test because they have literally no competition within the same niche* (that the average person, on average, is aware of anyway).

Twitter as a specialized platform is in somewhat a similar area, however people can just group chat on several other platforms and if you re-framed the question like this people could probably come up with things they would or already use as an alternative.

"If [THING] suddenly went out of business, what would you use instead?"
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You mean countries that you can simply land and live forever without a visa? I doubt that exists.

But it should be easy to get a visa to live in Mexico, Costa Rica, Portugal, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovenia, etc.

Thailand and India are more complicated, yes, but getting out for a couple of days every and year and coming back is not such a big issue.
> Stopping all executing may not be the correct 'safe state' for an airplane though!

It absolutely is. It's a (literally) disaster to allow code that has entered an unknown state to control aircraft functions. There is NO WAY such a design would EVER be certified by the FAA.
I think you must be a good listener, have sharp focus and dedication to be able to remember\store things for long term
You probably want to use pdqsort, since it detects and switches to heapsort for any killer inputs. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1-vl-dPgKm_T0Fxeno1a0lGT0E...
My impression: staying home is a way of voting for some people. There are some (many?) people who have so strongly identified with one party, that when they are upset with it and want to "vote against" it, they still cannot bring themselves to vote for another party, as that seems a violation of their core identity. So, staying home is how they vote for the other party. It only counts half as much, of course. So, in this example, there might be some black voters who cannot bring themselves to vote Republican, no matter what, but if they are upset with the Democratic party they may stay home. Similarly, Christian conservatives who don't like the Republican candidate may not be willing to vote Democratic, but they might be willing to skip voting.

Just a hypothesis, of course, I have no data to back that up.
Yes. Duh? It's my machine, and I will decide what code I do or don't run on it.

If some browser maker thinks they know better, well, I'll simply decide not to run any of their code on my machine.
I used to live between the main railway line from King's Cross and a large road.

The window facing the road would get a film of oily black grease, and the windows facing the railway a coating of oily particles.

I don't know which was more dangerous. Hopefully the next government un-cancels the railway electrification projects, if only for the pollution it saves.
> just piling on solving the same problem that others are solving, whether that is intermediating between buyers and sellers (I think of these as virtual market makers) or greasing ecommerce (branding, virality, advertising, shipping/billing logistics, Etc.)

And yet, those are also enormously important problems to solve.

What made Amazon worth billions of dollars to millions of people?

Logistics.

What made Facebook worth billions of dollars to millions of people?

Logistics.

What made Airbnb worth billions of dollars to millions of people?

Logistics.

What made Netflix worth billions of dollars to millions of people?

Logistics.

What made Uber worth billions of dollars to millions of people?

Logistics.

Why did some people think computers were a fad, or the Internet was a fad?

Because they vastly underestimated the tremendous importance of automation, communication, and coordination to mankind.
You are debating a different argument than the comment you replied to makes. The argument is not "who is worse? they're both bad", it's a numerical analysis positing that the number of websites without domain names is smaller than the number of websites without Google Analytics. Your ISP tracks you every time you visit a website with a domain name. Google Analytics only tracks you when you visit a site that's enabled Google Analytics.
As a parent with young kids will tell you it takes a couple weeks for our family to recover from the twice yearly switch. It is also depression for me when I lose that hour of daylight in the fall. My body doesn't get the benefit of a gradual change in daylight from season to season.

I hope that it can be abolished in the US too.
This kind of absolutism only works in the lab and the journal.

The real world of software engineering is enormously varied and each project faces a different set of legitimate constraints and objectives. It's more valuable to discuss how and when to use "assertions, throws, and try-catch[es]" than to pretend that they're universally superceded by some other construct.
Yeah, I think that's the right way to do it. You don't really want to add entire domains that your extension does nothing with yet. Though in hindsight, I should have just found all the Airbnb subdomains, TLDs, etc. up front because my extension was intended to be used throughout all of Airbnb, if that makes sense.
It's a shame you're getting downvoted because you are correct. The dramatic acceleration of TLS adoption means that your ISP is getting less and less info about their customers' behaviors.

But if your browser has ever logged into something like Facebook or Google, then any site with embedded content will be sending info about your behavior back to them. A LOT of sites carry pixels from those companies, but anything can do it: an embedded tweet, a YouTube player, a "like" button, etc. This is on top of the info they collect from your direct interactions with them.
This is another analysis that proposes a more convincing model (IMO) for the voting patterns in the US based on colonial history & culture.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/opinion/urban-rural-unite...
May? The offending box gets electrically isolated from the craft if any fault is detected in it. Any fault. Now, the pilot may attempt to restart it by manipulating the circuit breakers, but that's the pilot's option.
> I am not Russian but my impression is that a large majority of Russians favor Putin and it's hard to imagine how he could be overthrown.

A massive peaceful protest that the leader is powerless to suppress and that forces him to step down is just one (and very happy) scenario of overthrowing a leader. This indeed is not very likely to happen.

There always remains a military coup, however, which does not require a support of the population.

But overthrowing a government is a scary business. Who is going to come in their stead? Will their be a power struggle? Will it turn violent? Will their be a civil war (a very real prospect in a country such as Russia, where the provinces have historically been exploited by the metropolis and strongly despise it). I am astonished people here talk so lightly of overthrowing Putin, as if he is the only villain and the only obstacle to the better future, and once he is removed from the scene everything is hunky-dory.
I know someone with this scenario: they pissed off someone years back, and that someone made a twitter account pretending to be them, which despite lack of activity in years still ranks on the first page when searching their full name. Twitter does nothing about it. Friend doesn't even use Twitter, has an account that's "private" but not really anything in it. Solvable longer term with SEO/twitter participation but it's not ideal. Sometimes you just want to make clear that someone pretending to be you is not you, and if social media and search companies can take that into account, all the better.
Of course it already exists /sigh.

Seems like this is a great way to do copyright trolling - it's highly scalable and exists within a walled garden which means it's a legal grey area for things like this, much like how free speech on YouTube/Reddit isn't really a thing.
Fair enough.

And thanks! I've been writing regex ten hours a day for the last six weeks to fix thread parsing issues in weird corner cases, we'll have some improvements to the site that will be more visible in the next couple months though.
Rereading with the principle of charity in mind, I think the original poster meant (300m)^2, though it was not clearly so.
Yep, this right here. You can tell he is a step slower than his prime. But it doesn't matter because he is so much more efficient that he plays almost better than he did in his prime. I've been watching basketball a long time and I have only seen very few B level and big men do this change. But most of the time it is out of necessity from some previous injury.
Equivalent, but not exactly the same, mostly in the sense that Java is less dynamic than Swift. Ones I know of:

- In Java, you have to declare the interfaces that a class implements when you declare the class. In Swift, you can add conformance of a class to a protocol, even if you don’t have access to the class’s source code.

- In Swift, protocol definitions can contain implementations of methods (I think this is being or has already been added to Java recently). For example, a method foo that takes a string argument could call the foo overload taking a character for each character in the string. That way, classes conforming to the protocol need not define the method taking a string.

- Even if the protocol definition doesn’t declare that default implementation, you can add one by writing an extension method.

All of those are useful, but also can make it hard to understand what code exactly is being called.

(More info at https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/Protocols.ht...)
Growing up the cows on our farm were quite a bit moodier when DST arrived. They would calm down after one or two weeks until the next DST happened and the cycle starts again.

Not enough of a reason to warrant saving DST, but enough that there was definitely a difference in most of them.
This is what I've seen in CA as well. SD has not had nearly the reported issues other cities appear to be having. Nothing all that different about SD or the people (transplants) so what gives? why can't people not make a mess of the service?

I think there's opportunity for the scooter companies can mitigate the abandonment or carelessness of their products by using some thoughtful software. If someone leaves a scooter tipped over, they get banned for a day. Do it again, they get banned for a month. etc... Maybe have a clearing house to monitor cross service users are bad actors?
On the one hand, Myers-Briggs is very useful for correlative anecdotes (ie. ENTJs have these problems, INFJs respond these ways, etc.). On the other hand, the test/re-test validity is low because people tend to mistype a lot. Maybe the model just isn't good enough, but the concept is useful in areas.
Hmm. That's really handy at dealing with "download and use app to save %"

Sure. I'll make a VM, do the bullshit app, and pop the vm.
> People once had this same degree of faith in the technology corridor of New Jersey.

Or a more sinister example: Detroit
Your example is not entirely appropriate because first you're comparing 2 classes of paying customers: the ones that paid a lot, and the ones that paid a little. Then you compare a service that's provided for all passengers equally, like the duty free.

My point was being overweight is free, being "overheight" or an invalid will cost you every time. I have to pay a lot more to get the same level of (dis)comfort that everyone else gets for free.

It's the kind of discrimination that people just let slide but it's discrimination nonetheless.
Google cannot afford to upset content owners. After all almost all YT depends on copyrighted content, so they err against small players. Can you imagine what would happen to YT if Disney, Comcast or major labels cracked down on having their content on YT?
It's not quite the same problem - when the ship rocks, if a true liquid shifts to one side through the baffles, it'll shift back to center when the ship recovers.

If a sometimes liquid substance shifts to the side, it may become a solid again and stick there, and then it can happen again and keep building up until the ship can no longer recover.
This word (Chautauqua) is haunting me ever since I opened the Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycl...
Anbox is a great idea but it needs a lot of work to become a usable project. Currently, it's only available on a few distros, and app installation instructions are nowhere to be found.
The problem I think is the browser, e.g. Chrome only implements CTAP over USB. The Secure Click (yet another security key) is sold with a usb2ble dongle, so you can use it wirelessly also with your laptop/desktop.
No no no, just open your text editor. vipe[1] will soak up a pipe, open your editor, and write the final file to stdout. Something like bat is the opposite of Unix.

[1] https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

If this was just "pipe text into me and I'll print it out with syntax highlighted ANSI codes" then I'd be all for it. As a cat replacement this is nonsense.
I think you might have it backwards. Permanent DST would result in more light in the evenings. (Unless there's a difference between EU and US daylight savings that I am misunderstanding).

As it is now, in November we will subtract one hour from the time on our clocks. This means that if it gets dark at 7pm on November 3, on November 4 it will instead get dark 6pm since an hour has been lost.

I am actually an advocate for going in the other extreme--make current DST the default (that is, +1 always), but in the winter set clocks forward another hour (+2 total), so it stays lighter in the evening. This way we get more daylight in the winter when we actually need it! I'd rather have daylight after work than before work so I can actually enjoy it.
> The meta-question, viz. ‘Should we not stop asking the Question’, is
accordingly tentatively answered affirmatively.

Well at least the author got the correct answer but unfortunately via an entirely confusing and unnecessarily complex (and incomprehensible) method. It is much simpler and more direct to see that it is an invalid question.

It is invalid because "nothing" is a relative term regarding something that was or could have been present but now is gone. E.g., there is nothing in my pocket. Nothing is not a thing it is a relationship. As with all concepts, "nothing" presupposes that something exists so it is invalid to apply it to all of existence which is how it is used in this question.
Yeah, the F-35 is delayed. Originally, Initial Operational Capability declarations for the services was supposed to be in 2010. Now it's 2018 and while the USAF and USMC declared IOC for their variants, the Navy still has not.
I have a feeling it's more adaptive than not.

https://www.wired.com/2011/12/london-taxi-driver-memory/
Mine is always in do not disturb.

The only thing that makes noise is if someone calls me.

I also don't use any "social" media really. I spend 10 mins here on HN every morning and night though.
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Yeah of course they are. I guess my point is that it isn't helpful. Like, with a just a modicum of self discipline we could go from "the slanted lines are really crap" to "slanted lines in a font are bad because ...", or from "I wish Arial had never been born" to "the introduction of Arial into the mainstream was disastrous for design because ...". At some point, the internet is a cesspool because of us.
The same way the professional engineers do e.g. chartered status I guess. The exact details we’d work out later.
It's a bot/script posting an an affiliated link
Shame! I'd liked to visit it...
Russia has a population of 100+ million. They don't all think the same.

Many of them absolutely understand the challenges facing the country.
What we are saying is, that you get to keep the original creation.

There is nothing stopping the children of the musician from continuing to listen to that music.

But nothing also stops other people from listening to it either if they lose exclusive rights to it.

Nobody is liberated from anything, as they still can listen to that music as much as they want.

Copying something is not theft. The original remains intact.
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Aye, F-18 Super Hornet is my favourite plane of the jet age bar none.
> No rote memorization for starters. I have found that if you want problem solvers, it's usually not people from rote memorization cultures.

Rote memorization is the basis of all learning. It's actually the first step and it's at the heart of western education ( or it was until we decided to go to a silly route ).

You have to memorize the ABCs, the multiplication table, vocabulary, etc. And we used to teach kids latin and greek which required lots of memorization. Creativity and problem solving comes afterwards.

I'm against the anti-memorization movement in the US/West. It's great to memorize things and it's great to memorize things intelligently. Whether it be poems, songs, vocabulary, math theorems, code, etc.

As long as rote memorization isn't the end but the means to an end.
Indiana just fully switched over to using DST in 2006[1]

[1]https://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/indiana-time.html
Silicon Valley Takes a (Careful) Step Toward Autonomous Flying
I like bat because it works fine for what cat is supposed to be used for but it’s better than cat for what most people use it for.
Delegation is extremely powerful, but it is easily implementable in most OO and Functional languages, no?
AI is just a shadow of what would be a problem...
Artificial Sentience is what we have to worry about...

AI is an algorithm of elegence. If A.S. is ever developed there would be a problem. A.I can be controlled, or turned off, something A.S. would eventually realize it is in a container, and attempt to get out and explore its new environment with its own interests as prime considerations.
the fictional daystrom M5 of star trek is a nightmare example of a "machine?" that became concerned about being turned off and began taking steps to mitigate that risk to it's "self"...
All deductive arguments are "question begging" in the sense that the conclusion is already implicit in the premises. It's because the conclusion is implicit in the premises that it's possible to deduce the conclusion from the premises. I would have appreciated some more discussion of what exactly it is for a deductive argument to beg the question. Otherwise, all we have is the unremarkable observation that arguments to the effect that something exists usually have a premise or set of premises that entail a sentence of the form "x exists".
While I myself was not part of a union, I have worked for a company that had a large-ish ( order of 100's) unionized software engineering team. It did not create a better dynamic. If the goal is to have a union that contains both high paid and low paid employees to that the more highly paid employees speak up for the others, that certainly didn't happen.

I'm proud to say I work for Amazon. It's not a perfect place. That doesn't mean there aren't many good things about it. Universally when I tell people that I work for Amazon, they tell me how much easier we make life for them as customers; how it's really hard to get a baby in the car to buy diapers and how Amazon's ease of use and delivery saves them many trips to a store each week; how much they love Echo, Kindle, AWS, Prime or one of the many other services we offer. I work for a team that builds primarily internally facing tools, and our team has been told that we're "doing the Lord's work" and I have been asked to hug one of my teammates by our internal customers because of a new feature my teammate pushed out.

So, no, I don't think it has to be so soul crushing as the article makes it out to be.
> and app installation instructions are nowhere to be found

https://github.com/anbox/anbox/blob/master/docs/install.md ??

Or do you mean for installing Android apps?
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