skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Anne Arundel county stuff is BS, same old fear and segregation, crime remains low, and there's basically no evidence the rail is bringing people in to do more crime[1]. This isn't even the first time this has come up over the years. Similar things happened in the ATL 'burbs back in the day, before MARTA was built out, and they successfully stymied its expansion.

[1] https://ggwash.org/view/68549/some-anne-arundel-county-wants...
All consensus protocols make tradeoffs between three properties:

- Finality Latency: how fast is a block finalised after it’s been proposed

- Decentralisation: how many consensus-forming nodes can exist in the network

- Resource Overhead: how many blocks per second do consensus-forming nodes need to verify

dPoS protocols sacrifice decentralisation and compromise in resource overhead for apparent performance, ie many transactions processed by a few very powerful servers.

The game-theory and security aspects of a blockchain like its censorship resistance, immutability or who can produce the next block are also relaxed to a level that many blockchain professionals consider unacceptable. Case in point the formation of cartels is incentivised by the dPoS delegation of vote mechanism. Corruption is baked in.

I wrote a short intro to consensus protocols a while back if you're interested in knowing a bit more: https://medium.com/@jpa_of_snc/consensus-casper-and-cryptoec...
"folks with power but not context" is a great phrase!
Sorry, I obviously meant regular polarized sunglasses.
I see this argument a lot but your exposition is less inflammatory than most. Please note this: when you tell a mixed-gender group of people that all women are "wired" to not like programming, you are telling the women who do like programming (which, let's be real, is most of them on Hacker News) that they're in effect not real women (or defective women, in an engineering sense). Or that they don't count.

Since you're presumably not a woman, and they are, they object to your seeming to be taking it upon yourself to tell them what a woman is.

It's not unlikely that most women don't want to be in software. Most men don't want to be in software!
But hundreds of thousands of women are, in fact, working as programmers. Whenever tech news talks about hiring women, presumably, they're talking about hiring these women. Why pretend they don't exist?
Discord does the same thing with the discriminator, and if you're a Discord Nitro subscriber you get the ability to manually change it to whatever combo you like (as long as someone with the same username doesn't have that number).
IBM Pushes Beyond 7 Nanometers, Uses Graphene to Place Nanomaterials on Wafers
But isn't that the purpose of all patents? To promote innovation by protecting the output of up-front R&D spending from just being immediately copied by competitors?
Do you have a link to the podcast?
It is a fact that the US President is erratic.

Whether you think that is intentional or not, or to our benefit or not, is a matter of opinion.
Did you know that Sandor Katz, the author of The Art of Fermentation, lived on a commune in Tennessee during much of his adulthood? The commune gave him the opportunity to write you that book and the experience that fed into how he wrote it.
This seemed like the #1 obvious reason to me. Race should've played a much larger part of that explanation. It has dictated so much of American civil life, especially the organization of neighborhoods, that it seems like the most obvious reason we have different transportation options than European cities.
> My co-worker who lives in the city says that it's dangerous to go 2 blocks from his house at night, but thinks that's normal. My wife has a co-worker who's had someone repeatedly try and break into her house, but she doesn't call the cops because she just considers it part of city life.

I know many, many people who live in American cities, and I don't know even one person with those experiences or attitudes (unless you mean, there is a specific spot within 2 blocks that feels potentially dangerous in the middle of the night - a 4 square block area in a dense city is a large area with potentially tens of thousands of people).

However, I do know people in suburbs or rural areas with those attitudes and stories. In my experience, almost all the scary stories about cities come from people who don't actually live there - and the less experience they have, the more scary stories they seem to tell, similar to other bogeymen like racial stereotypes. Some people in rural areas seem to love to tell these stories these days.

People I know in cities usually talk about how great it is - or at least how they could never live in the suburbs.

I guess we can argue about anecdata, but the actual data shows that crime is very low.

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Every story is a twist. "This one thing you thought you knew isn't actually true". Great for telling friends in the pub but misleading through selection bias as they don't tell all the stories where things aren't different to what was expected.
Aren't "loot boxes" and casinos and the free-to-play game industry a great example of behavioral economics in action?
> please note not all games and applications for PS4, PS3 and PS Vita systems are guaranteed to support the online ID change, and users may occasionally encounter issues or errors in certain games.

I can't say I'm not surprised. What a mess.
I mean that some portion of the population is between disagreeable and despicable. Good communities ban the despicable but no matter where you draw the line some people will inevitably be negative enough to be a drag without stepping over the line to the point of being banned.
Your preference indicates that you have been captured. They will use it to move you to a platform they control eventually. Maybe you'll like it, but it won't be more free. It will have a ToS.
Once the data starts flowing, it is trivial for the "terrible decision" making manager above (endemic to such corporations) to decide to gather just "a little more."
As an eastern european I've gotten so used to pirating everything in my childhood that even now (25 yo) I pirate ALL of my: books, movies, music, games.
> BNSF runs through my town, and it does bring transients, plenty of whom do bring drugs, needles, & crime.

That's the equivalent of asking the cops to kick all the homeless people out of your neighborhood, into the one next door.

You haven't fixed the problem, you just used your political power to make it someone else's problem.
This has a huge impact for me.

I didn't get calculus. It was a disaster for me.

Now I'm a mathematical epidemiologist. Why? Because someone introduced me to the grander scheme of things.
How many successful projects are run by people that fit that description?
People who downvote have never had this sort of behavior anywhere near where they live. It's easy to complain about NIMBY's hating public transit when you have no idea what it's like. Tell me their public transit and food kitchen access is more important than my wife being able to walk to the supermarket without getting hollered at by some bum.

Give me a break, people who oppose these aren't heartless, they're facing a reality the keyboard warriors here don't have to face, and a reality that would flip any of these downvoters to the other side in a heartbeat.
You misread. Java being old is counted as a positive here; Java is old, so it has plenty of tooling, is the message. Despite this, they are not using Java :)
"Nudge" is on the Center for Homeland Defense and Security reading list:

https://www.chds.us/c/hsbooks
Google "steel monopole", a type of free standing, low square footage footprint cellular tower.
Yes indeed. Eg a camera location coordinate can be thrown at these kinds of things (this is 2d, eg quadtrees, but similar things exist for 3d also, see octtrees), and it return all the 3d objects in that space (out of a huge number of objects in the entire "universe"). And then the program processes that reduced list of objects.

I think of these as like a prefilter.
This is the canonical eulogy for Sears, courtesy of Pastabagel@Metafilter:

https://www.metafilter.com/62394/The-Record-Industrys-Declin...

"By my estimates, Sears could have spent about $200 million in 1994-1996 to develop and promote retailing and financial services online, and they'd be reaping billions.

Sears could still be a huge American company today, instead of a historical footnote."
In particular, this kind of low-tech spoofing could have been mitigated if the email client had highlighted the fact that the sender’s “name” was nearly identical to the sending address, and therefore likely a phishing email.
When you can identify the source of bullshit to single entity, it's easier to notice and ignore.

What is really hard to recognize is bullshit that just "floats around" without single source.
Interfaces should probably avoid working on the threshold of human perception.
Globalstar is an epic turd, network architecture wise.
Actually the law is clear: there are Constitutional checks in place to prevent a rogue presidential nuclear strike.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/we-have-enough-checks-...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mecklin-nuclear-commentar...

The president can’t “spin a globe” and order a strike and it be legally a valid order; there is a lot more to it than that.
South Africa dismantled their program because the ruling white minority- watching de Klerk negotiate with Mandela to end Apartheid- didn't trust the ANC (read: Nelson Mandela) to have nuclear weapons. Absent that political handover, I'm not sure that they would ever have dismantled the program. It is hard to destroy military-industrial bureaucracies, once created and given resources.
Nice that might be a worthwhile mindset, although I think 10 years might be a bit much.

Edit: I don't think I am qualified to say that, as I didn't live my second 10 yet

PS: Well you got to my no-BS list
A liquidation company buys the assets and sells them - down to the shelves and signs. That's why all the "Store Closing" signs are the same, because the same liquidation company shuts down many companies.
I can find references to Prodigy having an online shopping portal, but I have had trouble finding any anecdotes of people actually buying things thru it. It was probably too early for it's time (early 90s graphics, internet speed and all) and it's failure probably soured Sears from future attempts by the time Amazon showed up.
I am not sure what you are trying to say. Do you have any examples?
Well, yes, but a word means whatever the majority believes it to mean. You're in the minority, so...

I get that it's a tactic used by the business end of things, but it's where we're at now.
One way to try and get around that issue may be to compare cultures with high Gender Equality Index scores or some similar metric versus those with lower scores but otherwise similar. Presumably the closer to parity those years before university are the more some other difference, if any, would be suggested.
I'm not sure. Wasn't the underlying principle always to connect everybody in the world? I think FB has done a fair job of doing that.

They just tapped into one of the basic tenets of the human condition; the desire to be connected to another human.
James Murdoch in Line to Replace Elon Musk as Tesla Chair
Is it a Microsoft Tay problem?
How can I automate the scheduling of instructors / classes in shared spaces?
I need to automate the scheduling of instructors, who teach one or more classes, in shared rooms (whose schedule is out of my control and changes daily).

Instructors can have preferences for one or more days of the week (M, T, W, Th, F) and time of the day. For half day seminars the times are usually morning (9-noon) or afternoon (1 - 4PM). Some classes may also be shorter, e.g. an hour long.
Example:

Instructor 1 - M,W - afternoon
Instructor 2 - M, T, F - any time
Classes are often a series of individual classes that I would prefer all be schedule at the same time of day and be scheduled as close together as reasonably possible.

The room schedules I receive are a list of dates and times that are still open, such as:

October 17- Any time after 1pm
October 22- Any time after 10am
October 23- Free all day
October 24- Any time after 4pm
October 25- Any time after 3pm
I have searched for software or python scripts to automate the matching of instructors to rooms but to no avail. I found tested out FET, "Free Educational Timetabling" software and MoAI-scheduler but neither did not get them to work correctly or they are not a god fit. Moodle did not seem to work either.

All of the solutions I have seen do a great job of scheduling classes when the room schedule is completely open.

My preference would be for a python script or software program that can run on a Mac. I am happy to reformat the instructor schedule and the class schedule if I could find a solution to match the two.
I gave very specific comments above, and explained that I have many years of experience with these systems. No, I'm not going to give you details other than that I'm a very senior person in the field. And I'm not 19 years old...
Seriously? Even a remote possibility of having Moscow flattened would have deterred an attack. Remember, it's the leaders who decide to nuke, there's no referendum of the people.

North Korea have tiny, impotent toy nukes and everyone around them are very careful.
The whole point being made is that prejudice/bigotry is not rational. Just look at the phenomenon of redlining. Black home buyers from certain areas were absolutely prevented from acquiring mortgages even though it would have been a source of profit for local banks. There are people out there who won't hire female candidates in technical fields due to the misguided belief that 'women aren't good at math/science'.
Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music – TED Talk
That is a really interesting point. We've been so conditioned that nuclear war == "end of humanity" that if it happened as you described, everyone would lose their minds for no real reason (inasmuch as the consequences would be no worse than for a conventional war).

But taking that further, what is the point then, of taking out your enemy's bases or bunkers? I realize how dense that question sounds. But in the context of a surgical nuclear strike, ok you wiped most of their airbases off the face of the earth...now what?

It seems rather pointless unless you intend to actually invade, in which case you're in for millions of very hostile civilians and not much to gain
Ask HN: Do we use too many modals?
Are modals "the crutch of the inarticulate designer and developer" as stated by the author of -https://modalzmodalzmodalz.com/
Maybe the solution is to just make patents more expensive to obtain. That way companies won't bother patenting trivial "inventions", while products that require lots of resources to develop would be worth the extra cost.
To support a claim that an economic actor is not rational you would first need to assert that you are more familiar than they are with their personal preferences and their understanding of the available options, which seems to me the height of arrogance. Which do you suppose is more likely: that people deliberately choose to act in ways that they know are not in their own best interest, as they define it, or that they are acting rationally but their idea of what is in their best interest differs from your own?

A key element of the rational actor model is that there is no way to know anyone else's preferences aside from observing the choices they make. Even asking them directly is not considered an authoritative source, since preferences can change at any time and people don't always know just what they would choose until they're actually confronted with the choice.
These disciplines examine behavior from two different angles, one looking at more proximate causes while the other looks at ultimate causes.

You can dismiss evolutionary psychology as irrelevant to other social or neurological cognitive sciences (which I would argue is also wrong), but it doesn't mean interesting and useful research is not being done.
Then music is priced too high.

(And musicians don't get a big enough cut either.)
That is right. It does not matter what they do because they made their wealth in quasilegal ways and they should not exist in 2018.

Their PR stunts are just a distraction, and all the happy foundation shit is likely all tax deductible anyways.

It does not matter that happy guy Satya is CEO, Bill Gates is still on the board and got away with all.

If a guy robs a bank then donates 1% of the money to charity, it doesn't change the fact that guy robbed a bank.
Or the application was rejected but they only send rejections to completed applications. There's a lot of reasonable explanations.
There are two ways a marketing message can deal with a widely held negative conception about the product: ignore it, or try to convince people it's wrong. The former is usually the safer course. Trying to convince people they're wrong is really hard, but if you can pull it off, it can pay off big.

Pepsi's "Pepsi Challenge" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi_Challenge) campaign from the 1970s and '80s is the canonical example of how to make an "actually, you're wrong" campaign work. Pepsi's market research found that the prevailing opinion of Pepsi was that it tasted too sweet, so people turned to Coke instead, just assuming that they wouldn't like Pepsi without ever really trying it. So Pepsi filmed commercials showing people taking a blind taste test of both Pepsi and Coke, and preferring Pepsi before being told which was which. The commercials worked -- they convinced people to give Pepsi a try, and enough of them found they liked it to drive up Pepsi sales for good.

The "you'll look like a dork" fear strikes me as widely enough held to be one of the biggest challenges VR and AR have to overcome to break into the mass market, so it's not illogical that at least some marketers would decide they have to take it on directly.
> legally it is a valid order

Not really. Even the President cannot issue unlawful orders; if they do, they should not be followed. If someone follows an unlawful order, they are still guilty of the crime, they cannot use the defense “just following orders”. That was the Nazi defense, and it did not stand at Nurenberg.

Back to the US military, here’s the oath taken by those who serve

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice “
Show HN: Toasted – Remove gender bias from your writing
Toasted tells you how gender-specific the tone of your writing is. By following its suggestions, you can tune your writing to better engage with male or female readers.

https://www.isittoasted.com/
Oh that dog is amazing. I wish they had more of those examples.

Almost makes me want to implement the paper, just so i can add long flowing locks to my dogs :D
The “normal employer-employee relationship” still “in part, depends on the fear of termination....” What has changed?
It’s definitely not “absolutely zero”.
>The legitimate way

What determines legitimate? There is, of course, the law. But the law has numerous limits and abilities to be exploited. To some extent, the law of the past was violated by the RIAA and others, and so nothing they do could be considered legitimate. And on a very different line of reasoning, the law can be considered only a tax and thus it is legitimate to pay the tax once enforced.

>The music industry isn't "brib[ing] politicians" to "create artificial barriers" to people creating competing content.

They don't lobby for laws that do things such as lead to YouTube creating copyright systems they can then exploit to take out competitors? Using government to capture the EM spectrum so that indies cannot compete on it? No, they aren't being simplistic tropes that bribe the government to outlaw all competition directly, but I would suggest to not use that as one's only measurement.
"Since you're presumably not a woman, and they are, they object to your seeming to be taking it upon yourself to tell them what a woman is."

That idea is complete poison. In a debate where you're both completely uninformed, the anecdotal evidence of experience is relevant. In any discussion where reason, numbers, research are involved, the gender/race of the person making the argument is irrelevant to the argument. This current idea that only women can talk about female issues, only X about X is pre-enlightenment tribalism.

It presupposes conflict between the tribes too. If in my philosophy I believe that through reason and evidence I can understand your point of view and experiences,there's the possibility of agreement. If you really believe that I can never talk about issues affecting your tribe, or arrive at reason to an underlying truth, there's no point in talking. We might as well just fight to see whose tribe can impose power on whose.
> You mean illegal immigrants

They mean "undocumented workers."
I'm sure this wasn't your intention, but this kind of comment is a flamewar starter in the same way as it would be to make a call for the end of the author's career. We can all fare much better here if we stick to thoughtful, informative discussion. Easier said than done, but we have to try!

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
North Korea is not dropping it's nuclear weapons. No country that has ever tested 1 weapon- leave alone 6, and gotten to quite sophisticated designs- has ever given them up, and North Korea will not be the first.

Also, the embargoes are weaker now than they were a year ago, so I'm not sure that I would say that they have really started to bite. China and Russia both backed off the pressure after the Singapore summit, and their cooperation is essential for an effective embargo.
Except it's on fire really frequently—track fires caused by garbage are a fairly common cause of NYC subway delays.

NYC is also riddled with inefficiency and corruption that bloats the price of everything they build, which create and exacerbate those budget constraints. Costs per mile of new track and maintenance are consistently an order of magnitude or more higher in NYC than in other parts of the world, with higher rates of encountering problems; this may be partially due to the complexity of building there, but given that fantastically busy and complex cities throughout the world don't have these same problems, I'm much quicker to blame it on the political and economic system (which, tangentially, is why I think stuff like Musk's Boring Company are targeting the wrong issue when it comes to urban development, unless he's just trying to use that as a trojan horse for municipal influence).

It's odd to see that such an extravagantly lucrative city can't seem to put together the money to maintain a core part of its infrastructure, that much much much poorer cities are able to achieve in other parts of the world.
Is there any effort to extract ORCA from Pony (which is better than Erlang's and Azul's C4)?
LibreOffice ist great. It's free software, people sat down in their free time and did/still do all the work.

But it is barely usable if your presentation relies on any video. Impress (the presentation software) does not manage to play videos without 1) hogging the CPU, thus being unresponsive during playback (e.g. can't change slides) and 2) producing random artifacts in the video during playback. Happens on both Arch Linux (my laptop) and Ubuntu (colleague).

If I understood correctly it uses gstreamer Linux. Running the same videos in Totem (video player using gstreamer), everything works. So the problem is with Impress.

This led me to grab a spare MacBook Pro from the office to give a presentation recently (thank god there is one). I'd love to see this issue fixed at some point.