skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crime and Punishment is a wonderful deep dive into the mind of a really messed up person. If you like the film Taxi Driver, it is sort of similar, but with a lot more direct philosophical underpinnings. Raskolnikov has a whole philosophical framework on why he's allowed to murder the pawn shop owner* and he spends time explaining and discussing it.

The motif of the nihilistic, disaffected young man is something Fyodor gets a lot of mileage out of, but he's the master of that genre. Notes From Underground is similar, but a lot shorter. It's one of the few Dostoevsky novels I haven't read, so I can't say much more than that. Its opening is his most famous line: "I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased."

To go against the grain of most recommendations, I'll say that "Notes from a Dead House" (the name differs depending on translation) is a good place to start too. It's essentially his prison memoirs, slightly fictionalized to avoid censors. There are a lot of little details that stood out and affected me deeply. e.g: He recalls a small dog that was often abused by the other prisoners, and was so timid that it would "sink to the ground on all fours and start trembling all over" when he petted it. The book has so many small, human details that really show the personal history that influenced his later books. He has an eye for those details that most people would gloss over.

The thing to keep in mind is that, across Dostoyevsky's novels, there are a lot of scenes where people stand around discussing philosophy. It's great and engaging if you're into it, but it will kill your enjoyment if it's not your thing. The Brothers Karamazov and Demons are books to avoid for your first attempt; they include a lot of that. Fyodor is really preachy in general, but this increases over time in his career, so his earlier books are more plot-focused. And he's all about symbolism, like the hypothetical author in the famous "curtains are blue" meme.

Finally, don't worry too much about translation. Pevear and Volokhonsky are always the most recommended, but that is more due to current trends in translation than their objective superiority. That's not to say they're bad, but any modern translation is going to be fine. Constance Garnett is the only one who's not so great, but I had a fine experience with her translation of C&P as my first Dostoyesvky novel, so it's hardly unreadable.

*not a spoiler, this happens in the opening
Reading linear texts on paper versus computer screen (2013) [pdf]
The article is basically correct but doesn't fully explain all the concepts it touches.

So you should really be asking for a communications expert, not a physicist.
This does not mean that they closed all coal mines, only a part of it, the good ones, hard coal. Still active are the dirty ones, the huge lignite (brown coal) surface mines at Garzweiler (NRW) and the Lausitz (near the polish border) Nochten, Reichwalde, Welzow-Süd and Jänschwalde.
Predicting the Geospatial Availability of Services Like Bird and Lime
Everybody knows Uber is a shitshow. I'm not sure what it is that turned you off Zoox. Sebastien Thrun, who started the Google self-driving car project considered Jesse Levinson to be his brightest student, and Jesse is now CEO of Zoox.

The thing about Waymo is that they haven't made any real progress in about 3 years. I mean, they've rolled out hundreds of new vehicles in several cities, they've racked up 10 million real world test miles and 8 billion simulated test miles, and have discovered thousands of new edge cases, but they still can't reliably navigate certain everyday driving scenarios such as left turns at uncontrolled intersections.

Behavior modelling isn't sufficient to read deeply enough into the matrix of dynamic, open world driving environments for self driving cars to perform gracefully beyond a certain threshold of xomplexity. The ML knowledge of how to deal with these kinds of problems doesn't exist, that is, unless somebody has an ace up their sleeve.

If anybody has an ace up their sleeve, it is likely to be either Aurora or Zoox. Though it's more likely that in a few years time we'll have a half dozen companies all bumping up against the same glass ceiling Waymo has been trying to break through for years now.
Meanwhile... who here has updated skype recently?
Did any of those have some other country sitting just outside of their borders demanding that they hand over more wealth while they starved? Unlike most other countries in collapse, Germany had a nearby enemy that really was the active, willful cause of their suffering.
It seems his expertise in stealing want sufficient.

Note to CCP: improve employee training!
Are you sure they displayed mpg and not l/100km?
We skip office lunches on Fridays and donate the money towards good causes :)
> IANAL

In that case, get your lawyer to google “passing off”. Just because a photo is publically gettable doesn’t mean you have carte blanche to do what the hell you want with it.
You can probably triangulate the controller if you know which radio frequency it uses
Tldr because the big institutions and rich people demand liquidation preference.

If your startup isn't sold for hefty multiples (e.g 100M sale price, 10M in vc money), then employees and founders are the first to be negatively impacted (see also: boned)
Information wants to be free (except for trade secrets of US corporations).

Note that this is sarcasm about the incongruity in attitudes, not support of this sort of theft.
I am "getting these things" from over a decade of working with Java. There are many good things about Java, especially when compared to C++. But the bad things will never get fixed if we pretend everything is perfect.

I did say vtable dispatch was efficient, but I might not want to split my logic across classes. A chain of if-else is a linear scan and not efficient. Switch in its current form is too limited.

It is well known that Java has no value types (there is a JSR). Even for a primitive type, the collection libraries need to box all values in order to abstract the element type. Every HFT user on Wall Street has had to write their own collections library using custom code generation to work around this.
These are good points, but wow are the walls Slack has built beautiful. The webhooks make so many things better.

Is there a service you recommend?
Not sure that really makes up for the lack of sum types!

Supporting a switch on static final references would be a good first step.
"No kill"... yeah they may not shred male chicks, but come on. The hens are still slaughtered at a fraction of their natural lifetime, when they are done efficiently laying eggs.
Spying isn’t new. There’s always a combination of the two.
Something bad, probably a big war, was indeed inevitable, but if someone with less hatred of Jews had stood up, at least we'd have avoided a disastrous genocide.
I think you're mixing up spectral temperature with effective temperature.

Effective temperature is about total power (per the Stefan Boltzmann law), not about the color of the light (per Wien's law).

Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_temperature with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
If we can define peanut butter, we should be able to define network names. Names mean things after all.
It occured to me, that once the military became involved, the perpetrator would have the sense to cease his/her activities.

The fact this didn't happen leaves me to believe they were not so clever after all?
Chinese people in general aren’t really like that. They aren’t especially patriotic or loyal when compared to Americans (most will eye roll at the above accusation). A lot of it just about money and opportunity that isn’t otherwise present in the states (corporate espionage is less common in the USA because it is prosecuted aggressively).

Likewise, most soldiers don’t do soldiering for the glory or death, they do it for the money/opportunity.
You should study how markets work. Sadly customers are not the well educated, disciplined people we want them to be. Especially for entertainment they are often exhausted office workers who just want to relax in the evening. They really need some relaxation and some escape from reality. And they pay for it not as a political choice but like VAT, something they can't avoid. They are the slaves of whoever produces the best solution for their relaxation.

So the power comes not from the customers but from the investors. Because investors will bring money for developing these products and they will do so with the very intention to influence the market to their own advantage. And these people want a more and more centralized monopoly around their source of income.

That's why companies like Blizzard get worse and worse, they don't care if they lose their current player base. They can gain another and make their investors more happy with that.

That's why a company like EA exists for so long and is so successful.

The market is not getting better but worse. The more easier to use and open worldy and better graphics the AAA titles get the harder it becomes to find players and investing for your indie titles. Probably we will also see that regulation will set in more and more, creating real legal requirements to sell games.

Indie games will always exist. Like indie movies, and indie music. But they will make less and less money, get less and less actual funding, and become more and more a personal hobby and art form.
Normally I'm all for hiring the best and brightest from all over the world. But with the mission that China seems to be on, I think US startups should be wary of hiring Chinese nationals. Of course they are not all spies. But, it only takes one to fuck your company.

I don't know what the solution is. I don't think companies should flat out stop hiring Chinese nationals, because that's punishes the ones with good intent. But it's clear there is enough danger that you need some plan to take on the risk.
Yes, you are overreacting. Perfect is the enemy of good. Encryption is not so easy when you have a room with potentially hundreds of users, each with many devices, and you have to safely share keys between all of them. I'm using it, and even in a 1 to 1 chat it can be a burden. They are working on it, and it will be default once it's out of beta. But there are reasons why you may not want to use it. And that's a personal choice that people should be allowed to make. Would you also disallow public rooms? Or bridges into non-encrypted services?

I care about encryption, you care about encryption, and they care about encryption. "Giving up on them" and saying their attitude is "problematic and incurable" is hurting, not helping.
>If there is an error, it doesn’t matter what the value is.

Who said that? In Go the type system let me return both error and value, and there is no static guarantee that value is invalid if error is not nil.

>Monads are famously difficult to wrap one’s head around.

What's exactly difficult about them? If you do understand this code

x := proc1 (arg);
y := proc2 (x);
return y;

what's confusing about this

do x <- proc1 (arg)
y <- proc2 (x)
return y

? Monad is nothing but a pattern (pretty simple in comparison to the majority of GOF patterns, it has only one function for binding two computations of given semantics together) for describing an operational semantics which is just baked in in many imperative languages and could be described by a programmer according to his or her needs with monads (i.e. you don't need to bake don-deterministic, async or parallel computations in a language, you could describe it's semantics with a monad and use it freely).

Its closest counterpart is the iterator pattern, which is a generalization of the iteration semantics.

It really sounds crazy that it's hard for a programmer to wrap his or her head around operational semantics.
I'm kinda surprised that after three days of disruption, the British authorities still haven't found a way to shoot down the drones. It was just a DoS this time, but there could very well be an explosive payload the next time. Drones could enter secure facilities, take pictures, infiltrate or exfiltrate various objects, and even press buttons using 3D-printed appendages. Criminals of the future won't even need to be on the same continent to get past physical security.
They will all license from the winner of the autonomous race. Regulation will come at them fast as failure modes get discovered. Wouldn't surprise me if they'd get faa level of certification required within the following two decade. That will strangle newcomers and stragglers, cementing the working solution in the market
Isn't http://aqicn.org better? It seems quite real time and uses more stations at least above The Czech Republic.
Though it has a Princeton address, the offices are really within the Montgomery city limits.
well the reason there’s only Uber and Lyft is because there are significant barriers to entry into ridesharing at this point. Yes, anyone could launch an Uber-like app fairly easily, but the barrier to entry is the supply of drivers. You wouldn’t be able to onboard enough fast enough to create a service with low ETAs that would be competitive with either in a mature market unless you had a ton of capital to incentivize them to drive for you with bonuses.

With self driving you don’t necessarily have a supply issue assuming you can deploy as many vehicles as you need in a market to achieve ETAs on par with or lower than Uber/Lyft. It’s all going to come down to ETAs, price, and marketing. I don’t think there will be 60 services in a single market but I can see more than the 2 today operating successfully.
Sierra Quest games were like this - one pixel to the left, and you have to reload your last save :)

In contrast with Lucasart ones - but both were fun, just in different way!

Then came... "The Day of the Tentacle" - OMG!!!
I spent a lot of time overlaying provider coverage maps with Zillow listings. Sometimes listings will call out fiber internet or the name of a known provider.

Google queries like rural fiber coop <state> should send you on a good path. There are a surprising amount. In our specific case it was https://www.co-mo.net/ in Morgan County, Missouri. It’s even more niche because the county has no buildings restrictions, so experimental/cheaper building methods are possible.

Email in my profile for more info.
Yes and any number plus zero is partially zero.
Five Years That Changed Dating
Risk-First Software Development
"Playing God" is often used for activities where we're able to cause some change, have a hard time undoing our actions, and are unable see all possible consequences.
"We have fundamental enforceable human rights, democratic government, independent judiciary, (way too much)state-independent media, functional Intellectual Property Rights(IPR) regime while China lacks all of these."

I don't agree with you here. Maybe you live in a different India.
Democratic government -Yes
Independent Judiciary - Nope. Look up about the recent Rafael Fiasco. Also, a judge was killed and replaced by a Yes man to protect a mafia politician. Search Justice Loya for more details

state-independent media - To some extent. But there are many ruling party pet new channels

Functional Intellectual Property Right ??? Really ?
That's the US. Many countries have much more centralized governments. French and Japanese public schools are run by the national government and are highly standardized. Germany and Switzerland, on the other hand, have powerful regional governments.
You get the highest temperature by reflecting moonlight from every angle.

For a single lens you just want something really big. Make it take up 90+% of the sky from your target.

For temperature, the no-calculation way is to measure a rock on the moon (article says 100C) and use that number for how hot you should be able to get.

The calculation way goes as follows: Near earth you get 1400 watts per square meter of sunlight, so if that bounces perfectly off the center of a full moon and gets through the atmosphere with no losses, your target will get 1400 watts per square meter. That's equal to a black body at 122C. After taking into account the spherical shape and atmospheric losses you might get less than half of that, so ambient heat might drown out your results.
Discount codes are widely used to mitigate this though. Lot's of retailers in the UK have a sales every few weeks and when there isn't a sale they have discount codes.
That describes everybody's safety talks and voluntary safety reports, including Waymo's. They all spout the same platitudes.
They expected and were ready to be caught.
You can't say anything about the runtime of amoeba because they only solve a finite number of instances and you have no accurate model that would allow you to say something about the asymptotic behavior.
Reminds me on the current Icelandic movie "Woman at war", out now in the cinemas. Maybe it's related.
> We have fundamental enforceable human rights,

Oh yes, you mean the one where a journalist is put under draconian NSA for criticizing the government.[0]

> democratic government

Oh right. The one where hate-mongering communal bigot is made the Chief Minister.[1]

Congratulations India!

> independent judiciary

Absolutely. I guess that' why the 4 senior-most judges of the Supreme Court of India came out and said that the democracy was at stake.[2] Isn't it?

> the upcoming dystopian big data-driven, social network-like integrated citizen evaluation program

By any chance, do you mean like the one used by 40 departments of Indian government to spy on it's citizen?[3]

> So, its wildly inappropriate to mention India and China in the same vein here

Oh it's absolutely appropriate to mention India and China in the same vein here.

[0] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/manipur-journalist-ki...

[1] https://www.thequint.com/news/india/new-up-cm-yogi-adityanat...

[2] https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/supreme-court-cris...

[3] https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2018/09/07/the-indian-governme...
I’m skeptical it’s a group because no one has claimed responsibility- what’s the point causing all this chaos if you won’t at least do an anonymous post claiming it’s due to <xyz> issues.

My money is on disgruntled locals (individuals, not group) fed up with the noise, or an individual that feels hard done by / aggrieved by either the airport or an airline.
It looks quite cheap for someone with a larger family. But there's nothing substantial on the privacy page. I'd expect at least some more verbiage on how data will be handled and won't be handled. It also doesn't state how much disk space quota is allocated, how many mails can be sent, whether each user can choose multiple aliases, and any other limits that come close to what's considered abuse.

Tangentially, it's also amusing to see "family name" so ingrained in so many cultures that it's assumed that people who are part of a family will have a common name. Around the world, this implicit assumption breaks so many things for the people who culturally don't follow these (including visa applications, website forms, etc.). See point #20 here. [1]

[1]: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
There's an infinite number of ways to asymmetrically attack a system. A single person in Australia caused millions of dollars of damage by just sticking needles into strawberries in supermarkets. People have rented and driven light vehicles into crowds. People have deliberately poisoned food at restaurants. The attack surface is limited only by the imagination, while defending against each scenario carries immense financial and personal freedom cost.

The whole point of asymmetric attacks is that they use the size of the target against it. It's impossible to stop these kinds of attacks without completely taking away personal freedoms and instituting some kind of pre-crime surveillance state.

And a pre-crime surveillance state is exactly what most governments seem to want to build today. The historical scales are rapidly tipping towards tyranny in the name of illusionary safety. As Franklin aptly put it, "They who can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety".

As far as drones go, it's comparatively simple to build what's effectively a supersonic missile for about 10K usd worth of easily obtainable hobbyist parts. It's been possible for the better part of the decade. The fact that no one has done it suggests that maybe there aren't that many bad actors out there after all.
The category of sets embeds into the category of topological spaces as a full subcategory, the essential image of which are the discrete spaces. Hence the equivalence I claimed is a precise statement.

Look up ring localization.
My experience with SC and SC2 goes back from high-school, we've got some "beefy" PC-XT and PC-ATs with CGA graphics, and the thing to do was to find a keyboard where two players can play hold 10 keys simualtenously and play against each other - choice of keyboard was critical, and there was an APP allowing to find these keys.

Played MELEE mostly from the game, and bit of the Adventure, but to be fair - MELEE for me was the best part - endless plays, much like we've played ARCHON, and ARCHON 2 before that - in fact these were the two most played games at school (somewhere ~1991-1993).

Then around this time my other favourite game came to be Heroes of Might and Magic 1, 2 and later 3 - and much like the ones above it - "multiplayer" was really people taking turns, and promising to not see while the others are playing - some sessions ended up being more than 24hr, after which the girlfriend back then of my best friend, had to kick us out (we drank, and not showered for whole day...)

Then the same experience in the army (mandatory service back then, where I came from), lol. So much fun...

And I've never really played much multi-player network game myself - PC clubs, or nowadays internet (with the exception of Hearthstone - nothing else).

I do miss the funky, weird, games of old times...
Yes, but while it was owned by the taxpayer, it still pursued outsourcing of local jobs.
Heard on the news that they did not want to shoot it down to avoid collateral damage from bullets falling around.
"It was so over the top on feel-good-make-the-world-a-better-safe-place, you couldn't believe a word of it. If they really cared about safety, they would be adding safety features to cars already operated by humans (e.g., automatic breaking, warnings when you veer out of your lane, cameras, etc). They wouldn't try to take the giant step of removing the human."

And yet Waymo's Sebastian Thrun, who has lost a friend in a car accident, is saying and doing the same.
https://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_thrun_google_s_driverles...
Videogame revenue surpassed the U.S. movie and music industry in 2005 and 2007 respectively, including all licensing.
I have no experience with the mac app but 1Password X is certainly better than the native windows app.
I'm intentionally blurring the lines between breeding and GMOs because if what you really want to avoid is over-use of pesticides and antibiotics, avoiding GMOs is neither sufficient (farmers will add antibiotics to the conventionally bred grain they feed their conventionally bred cows simply because it makes them grow faster) nor necessary (the most lucrative modifications are about pesticide use, but not all of them are) and therefore it would be better to focus energy on the things you really need to care about rather than an unreliable proxy like breeding vs. GMO.
5 years @ $200K a year? This guy could use some negotiation advice from Anthony Levandowski.
Huge project by the german open data community: http://maps.luftdaten.info/#4/44.54/7.52
This won't work in linear time, since you need time proportional to the square root of the number of spaghetti to move your picker from the position of the longest spaghetti to your output list.
Law was passed sometime ago - it's up to five years in prison:

https://www.techradar.com/news/new-uk-drone-laws-come-into-f...
Buying and holding ETFs is not incompatible with dollar cost averaging.