skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You only need 33 bits of information to uniquely identify a living person (and probably no more than 38 bits to identify any person who ever lived).

Everything provides some information, 0.01 bits here, 3 bits there - e.g. a bit of information such as "understands english" is already 2.5 bits. It's just a meter of integrating all those observation into one coherent estimate.
As someone who doesn't like sports, who grew up in an environment where sports were very prominent, going to college and having the opportunity to dismiss popular sports, call it sportsball, and actually connect with people on that was a breath of fresh air, and felt like a goddamn treasure at the time.

Now that I'm not 18 anymore, I can see where this article is coming from. I don't have the luxury of only talking to people in my peer group, and I've learned a little bit from sports about how to get excited from other people's excitement. Still, I feel like I had to leave an environment where sports were Mandatory Fun to get that enjoyment.
It seems to me that rooting out and shaming "snobs" is becoming something of a cultural pastime. It really bothers people when you don't like what they like. So it must be because you're an asshole snob, not because you just don't like it. It's related to all the anti-"hipster" crap that has popped up in recent years. It's fun because skewering "hipsters" is puncturing pretensions, you're taking cultural snobs down a peg.

I find all this behavior symptomatic - even if someone is being a snob, so what? Ignore them if their opinions are bad.
My daily commute is under 10 miles round-trip. With errands, I occasionally do 20-30 miles. If I had an electric and needed to go on a longer trip, I could either borrow my wife's car or rent an ICE vehicle. I take road trips longer than 200 miles very rarely.

Yes, I realize that some people do have longer commutes than me. But very few people commute more than 200 miles per day.

Of course, this does limit all-electric vehicles to those that can afford a second vehicle or a rental when the need arises. But I don't think anyone is arguing that electric vehicles have reached the point of being affordable to anyone but the well-off.
‘Black Mirror’ and the Horrors and Delights of Technology
i always found Chomsky's take on sports to be quite interesting...

"Take, say, sports -- that's another crucial example of the indoctrination system, in my view. For one thing because it -- you know, it offers people something to pay attention to that's of no importance. [audience laughs] That keeps them from worrying about -- [applause] keeps them from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea of doing something about. And in fact it's striking to see the intelligence that's used by ordinary people in [discussions of] sports [as opposed to political and social issues]. I mean, you listen to radio stations where people call in -- they have the most exotic information [more laughter] and understanding about all kind of arcane issues. And the press undoubtedly does a lot with this.

You know, I remember in high school, already I was pretty old. I suddenly asked myself at one point, why do I care if my high school team wins the football game? [laughter] I mean, I don't know anybody on the team, you know? [audience roars] I mean, they have nothing to do with me, I mean, why I am cheering for my team? It doesn't mean any -- it doesn't make sense. But the point is, it does make sense: it's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority, and group cohesion behind leadership elements -- in fact, it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports. I think if you look closely at these things, I think, typically, they do have functions, and that's why energy is devoted to supporting them and creating a basis for them and advertisers are willing to pay for them and so on."

http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/1992----02.htm
The specifics of Rossi's contraptions may be kept private and shady, but the process involved is not something that only Rossi has been working on. Lenr itself is contentious still but there are so many groups working on it now, including Nasa. If some Russian scientist can independently reproduce an effect and he publicizes all the methods used it may be the start of acknowledging the effect as something that is no longer magical because more groups can start to replicate. That is newsworthy to me. Is that fair? I think so.

> This is a snake oil peddler with a secret black box

Perhaps, but you say that with no actual proof other than speculation and an a priori belief that it cannot be true. Is that much better than reporting on a phenomenon that is not yet understood.

Personally I think if there's a scam it may be that Rossi overstates how stable or viable his technology is. I think the phenomenon is probably real and not yet explained, just based on the number of groups that are working on this for considerable time now. Instead of blowing over, there are more and more groups starting work on it as the years have gone by.
Are you interested in any feedback for the app itself?
If so, where should I send it?
pretty sure they call that "the rest of the internet".
Check out this document -- http://www.rethinkdb.com/docs/architecture/ -- it explains how everything works.
yes!!! great callout. this software is amazing. Records better reliable video + audio stream on my machine than 350 camtasia.
That's interesting. The Germans surrendered as well, but they may have done so with the intent of actually surrendering, and upon seeing the weakness of the people holding them realized they could probably break free, making it not perfidy on their part.

That being said, the Geneva Convention didn't exist when this happened.
It's a lot easier to handle feeling like a fraud when you receive no negative feedback with overwhelming positive feedback, and are very confident regarding a certain domain. If someone feels like a fraud even in their "core competency", that can create a lot of unneeded stress and anxiety in their life.

But I agree that intellectual humility is very important to self-growth.
Realtime push seems like such an obviously useful feature. I wonder if there are any other databases that support that?
Being internet famous is overrated. Anyway, if you're going to start off from the premise that the OP is fibbing about their capabilities then you're starting off your relationship based on distrust. I'd rather give them the benefit of the doubt, give them a real test of their capabilities than to start off with something that has value when you're evaluating 100's of applicants for a specific job position so you can save yourself some time but here you're only dealing with one applicant and effectively you're the one now reaching out to him.

In that situation I think a fizzbuzz test is a bit strange.

But, it's your company and I don't think anybody should tell you how to run it, I was just curious about why you'd administer this particular test on someone that should be able to not only ace it but will likely be insulted by it.
Facts vs. Stories: Why Segment Has No API for Sessions
here is the journal: https://journals.aps.org/prx/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevX.5.011007
Why the Internet’s Next Billion Users Will Be Mobile-Only (2014)
"and where, yes, despite claims that event-driven/callback scattered code are worse than what Go offers, people are able to get things out the door anyway!"

You misunderstand my argument. If someone is begrudgingly complaining about JavaScript in the browser, well they have a legitimate gripe because they really have no option (beyond various compiles-to-javascript kludges). If those same people used nodejs, on the other hand, which many people do, they clearly found some compelling reason to do so. In the case of node it was that it made code very easily, and by default, asynchronous, instead of the classic .NET/PHP synchronous model. There was a benefit, and people gained from it.

Really?

Why are you using Go? Are you solving a real problem? Did you say "here is my itch, and I am using Go to scratch it?" I have never seen, in these discussions, people solving actual problems complaining about Go. Instead it's the code tourists who want to do some flippant, vaguely directed project and then add "Go Guru" on their resume to give credibility to their complaints.
Except the NSA almost certainly has the ability to MITM ssl connections, which means the whole CA thing doesn't gain you that much if NSA is what you care about.

Of course I can MITM something without CAs if you're on public wifi, provided I intercept the very first connection, so it's a valid question for defending againt less sophisticated attackers.
I own an Ergodox (https://www.massdrop.com/buy/ergodox#tab-description). Here are my thoughts and questions about this keyboard based on my experience with the Ergodox.

1. Does it require drivers to use a non-standard layout? If I want to customize it, do I need drivers on the computer I use the keyboard on, or just a program on the computer I do the customizations on?

2. Can I map any key to any button? For example, can I move the Mod key to the caps lock position, and place Enter where Mod is? I think you can; the page says "How about swapping Space and Mod? Or any other crazy remapping ideas? We've got you covered!"

3. Why is the keyboard still laid out in the "traditional" way, with non-vertical rows? Q should be directly above A, not offset.

4. I want to be able to have more than four layers.

5. How does layer switching work? Does pressing Fn go to the Fn layer, or are layers (to use Jef Raskin's term) quasimodes, where releasing the Fn button goes back to the Base layer?

6. If I switch to the Fn layer, how do I get back to the Base layer?

7. What if I want to press two buttons on the Fn layer in a row?

8. Can I use it on Linux? Can I customize it there? Can I use the media keys, and can I use application-specific keymaps?

9. I hope you can save layouts, and quickly switch between them. Ideally they're sharable.
I seem to remember BMW having invested in hydrogen technology; maybe that's been canned now, but perhaps they're not ready to commit fully to another unproven post-gasoline power source.
Gaming critic TotalBiscuit also cites that game as having made him feel genuinely troubled about his actions, also unscripted [1].

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[1] http://youtu.be/YNNAdTAM5os
What on earth are you talking about ?

(a) Association rules are big data when you are doing them on large data sets with many variables. I work at a company that sells tens of thousands of different products and tens of millions of customers. Definitely takes us a while to compute those rules.

(b) The majority of big data is structured. For most big data projects it is typically stored in old school Oracle/Teradata/etc data warehouses and shipped into a Hadoop cluster. It may not be consolidated but it is definitely structured.

(c) The total RAM of our Hadoop cluster is 4TB and ours is small. I would consider that to be big data in the sense that it overwhelms any applications that directly try to access the raw data.
This article isn't talking about disinterest. It's talking about the contempt self proclaimed intellectuals have - not the "oh I don't really follow NFL" attitude, the "oh, you like sports? Here let me post the tim and eric sports video to show how disdainful I am of sports."

You know the type, they think they're so clever calling sports terms by the wrong name. Really sticking it to society by saying things like, "yay!! our squad scored some touchgoals in the handball match ha-ha-ha!!" People who are too good for non-intellectual things like sports, because in their mind, being intellectual is what sets them apart from the rest of the pack and the rest of the pack are stupid neanderthals who watch sports.

I've had a couple girlfriends who made fun of me enjoying hockey and college football, but after explaining the depth of the strategy, and how the football game is much less about the guys running into each other, and much more about the chess game the coaches are playing against each other, they've all come around and at least appreciated what sports are about.
Ah, I guess you're right. I'm considering buying an Odroid, maybe startup will be a bit faster (hopefully it's not this bad for all ARM devices)
You have to have a program running on the computer under attack for this to work, because it has to execute specific instruction patterns. It can only send blind; it can't receive. The main situation in which this would be useful is when attack software has been placed on a laptop, then used by then target.

RF attacks on serial connections (which includes not just serial ports but USB and Ethernet) are much easier. All the bits you want are right there. Historically, Teletypes generated RF which was easy to monitor, and the Friden Flexowriter could be monitored from half a mile away.
I really enjoyed this article. imho The quest/test for manhood theme is one of the most dominant in our media, yet it is also kind of a spoken taboo. Breaking Bad and Fight Club come to mind, where "castrated" protagonists fight back for their manhood... The Big Lebowski is, among many themes, about how different people prove their masculinity in different ways too. The whole damsel in distress genre...
I've been writing an article about this topic, hopefully it will come out soon. Also, movie/tv male comic relief is often portrayed as asexual or incredibly dorky.

This is also incredibly timely, as I've spent the last weeks thinking about how joining the military would be like.
The terms confusing enough that I've heard a lot of people completely stop using SMG in favor of "pistol-caliber <rifle/carbine/whatever>"
Sports are not intrinsically bad? Let's pretend a world without sports for a second. What do you see? I see a world where scientists and philanthropists are common household names. Where kids hero's are astronauts and firemen. I see a world where when someone makes a couple hundred million a year, they don't go immediately bankrupt after retiring because their industry wasn't intrinsically broken. That healthy panhandler who refuses to contribute to society gets no credit and recognition. Why should I recognize an athlete that take illicit drugs to perform well and teaches our youth that to be recognized you need to do something completely arbitrary and useless to society.
Not sure how IA works, but casual observation suggests they give upload accounts to libraries and the cataloging is done by the library, not by IA.
This is a perfect example of how broken the system is.
Is the damage American Football causes to its players a valid reason for disliking the activity?
Makes me want to put an Ettus Research SDR board and a steerable Yagi antenna in my datcenter 😄
I am not worried about PEGIDA. I am worried about the mischaracterisations of PEGIDA. I am also /very/ worried about Antifa.
A Simple Priority Queue with Redis in Ruby
Direct link to the research paper: ("Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata")

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6221/536.full
You are 100% correct that data availability is always the first problem to solve. However, I think this is addressed indirectly in his thesis that advanced analytics are brittle in a rapidly changing business. Any change that breaks your data by definition breaks your models.
It isn't about not liking what other people like, it's about being a jerk about it.

I for instance don't care for sports. And that is how I phrase it when asked. If there is a sports related conversation taking place I am generally more upset at the snobs demanding to be a part of the conversation just so they can shit all over sports in general, than the people that are spending an hour talking about a specific player, game, or statistic.

It very much is a social thing where you need to know how to politely excuse yourself from conversations and situations you do not want to be a part of rather than trying to evangelize your view that they suck.
Seems to not work in FF?
Why are sports unhealthy? They are in fact extremely healthy, in the physical sense. Professional sports are simply an outgrowth of more "natural" sporting activities. Sports, even the professional variety, are not carefully engineered social prisons, but an evolution of natural human activities: physical activity and training combined with competition and the desire to observe others who are better than one's self.

We can imagine such an idealistic world, but this is completely unrealistic and crazy. People legitimately ENJOY watching and participating in sporting activities. You cannot (practically speaking) dictate what people should or should not enjoy. Suggesting better alternatives, fine, but insisting that others follow YOUR vision for a perfect world is self-centered and conceited.

I would argue that you do have a moral obligation to respect other humans which includes not purposefully hurting people's feelings for no reason. If you don't like sports, fine, but that's no reason to put down people who do.
Salters Duck
I think my biggest problem with inkscape is the tearing of the screen when I move the canvas around and it redraws. something about it makes the entire thing seem unstable to me. I dislike Illustrator but I feel like it could handle a big file better than inkscape, if inkscape can't even draw the screen fast enough. How will it handle the memory of a three-hundred thousand node vector image. Somebody tell me what the heck is that tearing happening and why after 20 versions isn't it improving?

As long as I work on Windows, there is Xara thankfully. It's got quirks but has been good to me and my workflow. On Mac now thankfully is Affinity Designer. Not quite fully fleshed out but still excellent to have. Inkscape is a great utility program for me that has a lot of low level tweak settings and it's great it constantly gets better.
Zuckerberg describes need to balance local laws and free speech
> Compared to the kids in the social responsibility program, children with the mindful intervention had 15% better math scores, ...

That 15% seams really interesting ...

> ... showed 24% more social behaviors, were 24% less aggressive and perceived themselves as 20% more prosocial.

Um ... How do they measure the 24% more social behaviors??? Actually, how have they measured the 15% better math scores?
I think the situation is worse -- people want to look away, they want to be distracted. It's not foisted on them. (I include myself here, for what it's worth)
Anyone can be a snob. Unfortunately it's not a problem confined to academia.
What stops you from having multiple windows on your desktop?

Oculus sucks at displaying text - it's low resolution (half of 1080p), it has crazy chromatic abberations, and you have to transform "spherize" your image to correct for the lens distortion, further reducting the resolution.

Oculus is not light - it's pretty annoying to wear it for longer than 20-30 minutes.
"X a Y" is colloquially used interchangeably with "X per Y" if TFA had said "800 rounds in a minute" you would probably be right.
I noticed that too, and I hoped the author was going to give more info. I’m pretty sure you won’t be able to see inside an HTTPS request. That would defeat the whole point of HTTPS.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8970129.
The amount of commercials required to watch a game of football is intrinsically bad. The tax exempt status of the NFL is intrinsically bad.
I find that unless you've played football, it's one of those sports where it can be kind of hard to recognize great play at the line and other positions that aren't featured as heavily as the QB/RB/WR's. The truth is though that at that level there is always 100x more stuff going on than you could possibly imagine; how far someone is leaning forward, if their right foot is slightly ahead of their left, where their center of gravity is relative to their normal stance, what moves were tried in previous situations and how will that affect what they try now given what I think I/we am/are showing? When I played sports at a high level, I always regarded my ability to think quickly and break down situations further than my competition in the moment as to what made me effective. There's a fair amount of slower freak athletes in the NFL that don't need to win the mental battles as much because they are just so much better physically and nothing can counter-act that, but there's also a ton of really smart guys studying their ass off for that slight edge and beating the bigger, stronger, faster with it.

Then there's guys who do both like JJ Watt
The distances between any 2 of Shanghai, Nanjing, and Hangzhou on a map looks far greater than Beijing to Tianjin, or Guangzhou to Shenzhen, so perhaps Beijing-Tianjin and Pearl River Delta would qualify as urban conurbations in way that the Yangtze River Delta doesn't.
Reminded me of how LinkedIn would scan your contacts and invite them all...
I recognize the prevalance of sports in society. I still can not recognize the importance. You might think that is a rude statement if you like sports. You might also think that "Kim Kardashian (and the things she does) are not important" is a rude statement if you like celebrity gossip. Personally I don't see much difference between the two. I do however find it more rude that people won't ask me personal questions or feign interest in my hobbies, yet sports fans find no problem with going out to a bar and talking about nothing else for the entirety of their stay. Have you ever hung out with a group of coworkers who worked for a company that you don't work for? Did they talk about their job the entire time? Was it incredibly boring? That is how non-sports fans feel every time one of their friends starts talking about last week's game. To clarify, I understand sports just fine. I still do not enjoy them. How does this possibly make ME a dick? If you think that the best way to relate to people is to discuss their hobbies, you have really only scratched the surface of human interaction.
I think you mean "abuse of employees" rather than "employee abuse."
A healthy civilian market means you aren't entirely dependent on the government and therefore politics for innovations.

E.g. the AR-15 and its round, which were adopted as the M16 and 5.56x45mm came from the civilian market (and the round's parent was civilian). Most or all of the modern optics that have been used in the GWoT came from the civilian market. Our current and prior service handguns came from civilians, and the same civilian, perhaps with funding from the military during WWII, designed the heavy machine gun we still use to this day. He also designed the lighter crew serviced machine guns we used from WWI (at least in part) through the Korean War. Oh, and the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR), our light machine gun prior to light versions of General Purpose Machine guns (and part of the internals of our current medium and light general purpose machine gun were inspired by the BAR).

Our sniper rifles are all militarized versions of civilian rifles, and I believe their scopes as well. The gold standard sniper bullet is from a civilian company, it's called the Match King, indicating its original purpose.

And that's just what I can remember off the top of my head from the 20th Century.

I can give you iffier examples of problems that we believe have come from places that extinguished or prevented the development of gun cultures, which is not to say that such places and governments haven't come up with good guns and rounds.