skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the reason that public transit is so bad is because it's having to compete with cars in areas that cars really don't belong. In cities where cars are not such a big part of the mix, public transit gets a lot better. And of course, where density drops sharply and public transit becomes unviable, cars make sense.

In any case, this is not about "getting rid of cars", so it's dishonest of you to reframe the argument in those terms. As very specifically noted, this is about sharply limiting to getting rid of cars in dense urban cores. Big, big difference.
why won't it let me search for a keyword if it's a search engine?
I'm not in the US so don't have a use for this but I had to post to say I love the design and simplicity - makes a change from the cluttered crap/fluff I have seen in this sector.
Come on. It's 12 years old, it's been discussed to death, and technically it's not a "new kind of science".
It's always annoyed me that Events would tell me the temperature in °F.
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If you search for for "Workweek" (which is what appears in the actual title of the article), it doesn't find the posting from four days ago since the submitter changed the title to "Work Week".
Try double clicking.
A smarter algorithm would consider the payoff as well as the odds. Then it may bet or refrain.
Except that if they obtained the IP illegally, and the defense can prove it, all the evidence obtained based on that is thrown out. Which is why they're pursuing it so vigorously: as you've noted, it's the code they found on the box and the bitcoins they found by finding the box's owner that pin him so severely.
The reason they are calling it, "Whatever, USA" is this contest is part of the "Up For Whatever" campaign. Another event in this campaign was the Superbowl commercial where they take a guy out for "the night of his life", after agreeing to someone asking him if he, "was up for whatever happens next".

I understand the negative and dismissive feeling "whatever" conveys, though it makes sense in the context of the campaign.
How much do folks who learned electronics feel that they were, or would have been, helped by introducing electron flow before switching to the mainstream sign convention for current?
I think this is right (not an HoTT expert), it voids it. I'd say that what type theory brings in, that didn't come for free in set theory (ZFC or Mizar's Tarski-Grodendiek extension), is the Curry-Howard correspondence that has the slogan "propositions as types, proofs as programs". With that correspondence you can see the same thing as a program (in a typed lambda calculus depending of the type theory of interest), or as a proof in a corresponding logic.
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This is what I can't wait for. free piston generator engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUbBqSu9Hdc
Why it's better not to work on a Friday
Ask HN: The Markdown mess. Where to now for plain text formatting syntax?
Jeff Atwood et al recently attempted to come up with a better defined standard for Markdown.

The original author, John Gruber, took exception to this for whatever reason, ultimately forcing Atwood and his associates to entirely remove the "Markdown" name from their effort to standardise/improve. This can't have been good for what is now called "CommonMark", ultimately now a spiritual successor to Markdown, but now lacking close association with the original.

So where to now for plain text formatting syntax? Things now appear more fragmented than ever.
Unfortunately, the technology you need to do that is not yet finished: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9498

ETA: I should have said "one possible technology"; there may be others, but I am pretty sure that an IP-less Tor node requires that you play the Tor Bridge game and stream the Tor protocol over a non-IP link. I have had a prototype of this design running, but have yet to have it to a point I consider robust.
I would imagine such a law would apply to cops who are representing themselves as cops. This would go a long way to establishing the police as a group of people that I, as a law abiding citizen, can trust.
Um, that's not the definition of "slave". It's not even in the same ballpark as the definition of "slave".

This is free advice, so you can take it for what it's worth, but if you've ever found yourself suffering from a limited amount of trust or respect from others, consider that it may be due to your apparently limited respect for the truth. Or basic English.
The problem with using "correlation does not imply causation" outside of a mathematical context is that in math, saying A implies B means that if condition A is true, then condition B is true. In common vernacular, implies means to suggest, hence the confusion.
Notational Velocity (and nvAlt) synced with SimpleNote through Dropbox, so I can access it anywhere. Works like a charm, simple enough so that the setup does not get in the way of anything and I need not have to think about it when note-taking, but robust enough to be everywhere whenever I want it.
Exactly. Flag and move on, it keeps the content better.
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If the evidence was obtained using illegal methods, all that evidence can't be presented at trial and the jurors can't take that information into account when deciding guilty or not. There are many people who are acquitted for things they obviously did, but for which there is no formal legal way of proving it.
I think he infers that both are bad practice, but for the record I don't think there's anything wrong with var_dump debugging. Sure, a real interactive debugger is nicer, but it can be a pain to set up with PHP (I know, having set these up several times). Print-based debugging is fine as long as you don't expose sensitive information to end users.
Why would you flag? Just don't upvote it and it won't go anywhere. Flagging should be reserved for clearly inappropriate material, not as a means of downvoting.
The problem isn't battery technology, the problem is the popular conception of what a "smartwatch" is.
Thanks for your reply. Just a couple of other things:

First, I see from your code that you don't specify an absolute path to gpg. If I can write to a directory in your PATH that gets searched before the location of your desired gpg binary, then I win. Depending on your PATH, I don't need privileges or even a user account--for example, using a browser exploit or some social engineering, I could drop a poisoned gpg into your Downloads directory (or anywhere in your /home or /tmp), and if your PATH searches in your /home first (or searches '.' first), I could get you to use my gpg instead.

Second, regarding preventing plaintext from getting swapped to disk before writing, you have to keep in mind that libfuse will obtain the plaintext from the kernel and then call your write() callback--you're not safe if you only mlock() the data that FUSE gives you, since the data could have swapped to disk between libfuse reading from the kernel and calling write(). Now, I don't know if libfuse mlock's the write buffer first (maybe it's a side-effect of FUSE splicing pages between the kernel and application?), but it is something to keep in mind.
This is really annoying (emphasis mine):

>Mr. Rudder is particularly interested in the divide between the mates people claim they want and their actual online pursuits. Witness the actions of 35-year-old heterosexual men on OkCupid. These men typically search for women between the ages of 24 and 40, Mr. Rudder reports, yet in practice they rarely contact anyone over 29.

>“I see this as a statement of what men imagine they’re supposed to desire,” he writes in the book, “versus what they actually do.”

For a guy talking up all the awesome science he thinks he can do, this is rather unscientific. I'm sure he realizes there are other explanations for this trend (older women are more likely to be divorced or have kids, for example), but by promoting his own narrative he muddies the waters. For what it's worth I don't think his interpretation of the data is correct in this case.

A lot of other stuff on the OKCupid blog, e.g. claims of racism because black women receive fewer first messages than women of other races, fell into the same trap. The blog was very interesting to read, to be sure, but I couldn't take it seriously because there was so much pseudoscience and just-so stories, even if it was backed up with mountains of data and nifty charts.
Generally, I don't completely get why do humans feel pride for things they didn't have anything to do with? Probably has something to do with ego.
Not online, but offline
http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Electronics-Paul-Horowitz/dp/0...
Standard Markdown is now CommonMark
Die shrinks reduce power consumption. 45nm consumes more power than 28nm.
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I'm curious - can anyone point me to an overview/exposition of this that is more hand-wavy than the book? I'm interested understanding the ideas in this work, because proofs as objects would be a major step forward, but I don't even know much about the existing systems of foundations (ZFC etc), nevermind type theory...
From a content marketing perspective, I'm looking to monitor what ppl are saying in social media about certain keywords/trends across Twitter and Facebook. Not so much interested in the scheduling and publishing component. How can Hubspot help me in creating timely, relevant content?
If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link

Since I have seen this submission many times I consider it as spam.
He states that there is no way that a public IP would show up in a packet capture over a Tor network.

No, he does not. He says that there's no way a public IP would show up at layers 3 or 4 of the OSI model. The author takes the position that the IP leak must have come from layer 7 (quoting from the article):

[...] and it is at the application layer that the FBI uncovered the IP address.

Depending on how one interprets the FBI's wording, this impossibility contradicts their accounting of how they discovered the IP. Let's look at what the FBI said:

Upon examining the individual packets of data being sent back from the website,3 [sic] we noticed that the headers of some of the packets reflected a certain IP address not associated with any known Tor node as the source of the packets.

Note that they're talking about headers of the packets, not HTTP headers. This is the FBI, though, so it's possible they confused "packets" with "HTTP requests". Taking their words at face value, though, the FBI seem to say that they got the IP address from the IP headers on packets received from Silk Road, or at least traffic generated by their browser on behalf of Silk Road. That's what the author argues is impossible.

Nobody, least of all the author, disputes that Silk Road could have leaked its IP in HTTP headers, or via some other misconfiguration. But if they did, why didn't the FBI just say that? Why claim that they leaked it in the IP layer?

Two possibilities come to mind. The first is that the FBI got the IP from the application layer, as everyone believes is possible, and misattributed the leak to the IP layer due to terminology confusion. The second is that they got the IP from another source, attempted to deceptively misattribute the source, and accidentally picked a fake source the leak could not have come from. If the second option is the case, we're looking at an example of parallel construction.

Edit: Grammar. Gotta keep up appearances.
As it happens, I was just reading http://www.macroresilience.com/2012/02/21/the-control-revolu... today, the high point of which is describing "defense in depth" as a fallacy because of its tendency to increase fragility in complex systems in the long term.
The CPU benchmarks don't make it a good CPU. It's old and power hungry, that's primarily why it sucks.
Similar data-flow analysis techniques as volatile.
CenturyLink's business in my area is extremely overpriced, very slow, very poor quality DSL connections. Their customers are technology-illiterate old people and business who haven't looked seriously at their infrastructure since the 90s. It's also pretty rare, since Road Runner and U-Verse are far superior for consumers and tw telecom provides fiber to downtown businesses.

A @centurylink.com email address in 2014 conveys roughly the same thing as an @aol.com address: a nice young man set up my computer for me sometime around 2002 and nothing has changed since.

Why is a company like this buying one of the most modern/progressive and least stodgy hosting companies in existence? It feels like IBM buying Apple or something. There must be more to CenturyLink than is visible to a consumer.
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> It is an ethnicity.

I'm aware that it is, but many people seem to like to use it for an (incorrect) generalization.
The defense lawyer was pretty incompetent. Even if the defendant was in the same park as the victim at the time of the murder, that's hardly proof beyond a reasonable doubt that she committed the murder.

And there's no excuse for a prosecutor trying to pressure an innocent victim into pleading guilty - they sent an innocent person to prison and possibly allowed the real murderer to keep on killing people. Unfortunately, this happens all the time.
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To be fair: 1600 lines is relatively small.

You could probably proof it from anything but business-level error.
You are just abusing flag then. It is obviously not SPAM in how most of us understand the term.
I was taught electron flow from the get-go in high school, as it correctly represents electron emission off a hot cathode. I still use it, except I have to think backwards when using a current meter or simulation software, as the industry standard is conventional flow.
> So...here's the question. I don't think these are broken, so what are you fixing?

I know many people that never got a BSOD on Windows. Does this mean that there is nothing that could be fixed about Windows? Or is it possible that different people have different experiences?
My point isn't that there are many non-Muslim Arab scholars, it's that a lot of the greatest Muslim scholars at the time weren't actually of Arab origin. e.g. Ibn Sina and Al-Ghazali were both of Persian origin (although the lingua franca was Arabic).

Islam was the catalyst of change in the 7th century, I don't see how that could be denied. Yes, it was predominately Arabs that brought it outside the Peninsula but the scholarly achievements weren't Arab achievements, because, again, many of the scholars weren't Arabs. Heck, the most important book in Sunni Islam after the Qur'an was compiled by al-Bukhari, a non-Arab from Bukhara in modern-day Afghanistan.

If you look into it, Islamic scholarship didn't really kick off until the Abbasid Dynasty was established. Non-Arabs played a large role in allowing the Abbasids to come into power in the first place.

The jizya (tax on non-Muslims) was a higher fee than the zakat (religious tax on Muslims). As more and more non-Arabs started to embrace Islam, the Umayyads were getting less and less tax revenue because the new Muslims were playing zakat instead of jizya.

As such, they stated (against the laws of Islam) that non-Arab converts to Islam still need to pay the same amount as they were paying before they embraced Islam. Naturally, this led to a lot of resentment amongst the new non-Arab Muslims who would later support the Abbasid rebellion against the Umayyads.

The Abbasids would go on to employ many non-Arabs, especially Persians, into high positions in government.
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That's not a disclaimer. It's a disclosure.
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Did you read the Introduction from pp1-12 of HoTT? I thought it was a pretty good overview.
Is there anyone approaching the issue from the other side? Meaning, if I have a good understanding of programming and type theory, using that to explain homotopy theory?
I was thinking along the same lines and just pushed up an addition to do so. (t.disable())
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You are just abusing flag then.

I'm using it correctly as per guidelines.

It is obviously not SPAM in how most of us understand the term.

Us. Did you conduct a pool of some sorts; are you a representative of a large group of people?
I already submitted this before fauri did, same URL... weird
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8268858
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Why does it lead by describing him as a Muslim? I don't see anything else in the article that refers to that - he's not noted as a Imam or a Koran scholar or anything similar. Wouldn't it make more sense to simply say he was from an area that today is Turkey?
Is it me or is this article stupid?
Of course there's nothing wrong. My only point is quite the opposite.

The post I was responding to suggested "Since he is a rocket scientist, it is unlikely that he would be able to code the frontend, and would require help", which is absurd. Given Mr. Munroes obvious interest in programming and computers, (see comics:

https://xkcd.com/1180/

https://xkcd.com/1172/

https://xkcd.com/1168/

http://xkcd.com/1137/

http://xkcd.com/1068/

https://xkcd.com/1024/

https://xkcd.com/979/

https://xkcd.com/963/

https://xkcd.com/806/

https://xkcd.com/619/

http://xkcd.com/378/

http://xkcd.com/303/

https://xkcd.com/269/

https://airbrake.io/blog/internet/best-programming-xkcd-comi...

) it was entirely reasonable to believe that he had picked up enough experience to code the javascript frontends.

There is simply no reason to pigeon hole the man as a "Rocket Scientist", especially given the fact he was a roboticist previously (which, shockingly enough, tends to involve programming). He has shown a wide variety of interests, and if he demonstrated an ability to code frontend javascript, I would not be surprised.
No.

hippie != libertarian
hippie != hipster
No you are not, and perhaps you aren't a native English speaker, but it is easy enough to just use the wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)

> Electronic spamming is the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited messages (spam), especially advertising, indiscriminately.

Someone submits a link to Wolfram's NKOS, how do they fit the definition of a spammer above? Or perhaps you meant forum SPAM:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_spam

> Forum spam consists of posts on Internet forums that contains related or unrelated advertisements, links to malicious websites, and abusive or otherwise unwanted information. Forum spam is usually posted onto message boards by automated spambots or manually with unscrupulous intentions with one idea in mind: to get the spam in front of readers who would not otherwise have anything to do with it intentionally.

So I guess you could say this is "unwanted information" by every reader of hackernews. I think that is a big assumption, and anyways, not upvoting it is sufficient to make the article disappear.

What are you worried about? If people upvote it, then you'll have to see it on the front page and many hackernews viewers will corrupted by Wolfram's ego? Well, thank you for using flag to save us based on your good taste.
> Individual preference (it seems to me) isn't racist, but in aggregate it at the very least raises questions about where those widespread preferences come from.

Thank you. It's so easy to brush under the rug peoples racial preferences as if they are sacrosanct
The tagging functionality does mirror the formal organization of a forum. It would be nice to see it formalized a bit more on imgur. Maybe a bar at the top of the screen with trending tags? Or heck, maybe even just in the sidebar.

Oh and the real exciting question... when is imgur going to branch into a "simple video sharing" service. Youtube gets more cumbersome and annoying each year (dialog boxes that pop up all over the videos? I mean come on!). The perfect opportunity is arising for imgur to step in at what it does best, keeping things simple. In addition to imgur users, I bet all OC video content on reddit would immediately switch to using an imgur video service.
For anybody who hasn't, I strongly suggest reading On Intelligence, even if you don't agree with all his views. Hawkins does a fantastic job presenting his framework in an understandable way, and once you finish reading it, you definitely feel like you could code up some simations yourself.

If you have read the book, and are interested in tracking his progress, check out Numenta. They released a product based on his hierarchical temporal memory. There's a spinoff company named Vicarious with Dileep George, one of the minds behind the HTM implementation, but they've been pretty hush-hush about their progress.
The comparison chart and cover photo show other "real watches" like the "Tag Heuer Aquaracer 300M" which costs only.. $2,300 ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0055NBVDM ).

Ars Technica reviews are usually good but they couldn't have found a watch that's not 10X the Moto's price to compare aesthetics to?

*Edit: Corrected site name.
Also used to classify genes related to lifespan -
LDA on Statistical modeling of biomedical corpora: mining the Caenorhabditis Genetic Center Bibliography for genes related to life span. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16681860
The author has a TED talk worth watching.
In reality, causal mechanisms for the phenomena we most care about (economic and social phenomena particularly) are so fantastically complicated that you never really "figure it out". Nevertheless, if you can exploit the hypothesized causation to optimize some function, you've won, regardless of the metaphysics.

Even in the context of physical processes, like the biological processes Gwern mentions, the notion of "establishing causality" is much more of a regulatory artifact than anything else.

You might call this the machine learning approach (optimize some objective function, regardless of mechanism) as opposed to the statistics approach (generate some measured claim about a process itself).
Oddly enough, I learned about vacuum tubes but never did anything with them except repair guitar amps. But I can see where an introduction to tube circuitry would want to start with electron flow.