skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The combined letters "water" shows up in that text 7 times. In all but one of the cases, it's because of Senator Barry Goldwater's name is in the report.

In the remaining case (the only time the word 'water' itself shows up) is this sentence:

> One police writer claims that the threat of scopolamine interrogation has been effective in extracting confessions from criminal suspects, who are told they will first be rendered unconscious by chloral hydrate placed covertly in their coffee or drinking water.

Which is absolutely unrelated to putting chemicals in the drinking supply of a population in an attempt to mind control them.
Is this something added specifically to prevent warrant canaries?
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How are they "stealing" employees? Are they not people, and perfectly capable of making their own decision on where they want to work? If any company is bitching about having employees "stolen", maybe they need to do less bitching, and more looking at why people are wanting to leave.
Interesting to see that the whale seems to have no preferred orientation. When first spotted it is "inverted" (belly up) with respect to the video screen's orientation, and then in the rest of the video it faces all sorts of different directions as it swims near the ROV.

Almost all the footage I've seen of whales is near the surface, where they do tend to maintain one "upright" orientation--probably because that it the orientation in which it is easiest for them to breathe.

And now that I think about it, most of the footage I can remember of ocean life shares those two characteristics: shot near the surface, and most animals seem to prefer "upright" orientations. When was the last time you saw video of a shark or fish swimming upside down? Wonder if there is a connection there. Maybe the sun? It's pitch black at 2,000 feet.

On the other hand, seals and sea lions stay close to the surface and like to swim upside down.
No, the doctor has no such responsibility, they only have responsibility to their patients. They are bound to operate based on the standard of care in the profession and location (this varies widely between states, cities, and countries). The doctor, likely, can easily stand up to pushy patients and, likely, has been doing so for years. The alternative of censure is much more harming than some patient that knows exactly the opioid and dosage they want. if they are not doing so, then it is the responsibility of the patients and other staff to report the doctor to the appropriate medical boards such that the doctor continue to practice safely.(http://www.ehow.com/how_5106471_report-bad-doctors.html).

Also, yes, the issue with Google is that your filter bubble gets in the way and you make bad choices about what to listen to. Honestly, it's really bad. You point out the autism-vaccine controversy (...good God, what the hell has happened to us...Jesus...) and I'm sure there are a million other nutters out there with even more dangerous ideas. I.... I'm at a loss here. I can only say that you just have to research more, but I know that is beyond the reach of most people to do so. The excuses are gone, but not the stupid. We have all this information, but it's like a library with pages just thrown everywhere and there are no curators. I can't expect people to know what to do. My own father would say 'Well, life sucks, and it sucks a lot more if you're stupid'.

Man alive, is that a cop-out. It's true, but saying that life just sucks for stupid people is heartless and against all of medicine as an ethos. Still, the question remains, how do you get people to be responsible for their own damn asses?

Any ideas?
Impressive parents. Clickbait though.
Ask HN: How should I hack the hacker?
Some A..hole hacked my identity (through one of the many recent data breaches most likely). Among other things, he created a fraudulent account for me at one of the credit bureaus and tried to download my credit report. He didn't get it, but when I discovered this I was able to get the email address he was using.

So my thought is to try to turn the tables on him and phish away whatever other info he'll provide through that email address. Any other ideas?
Karma earned from new account doesn't count in order to prevent sockpuppeting.
The minimum band size is 250, so the 0 bucket would be too small. This is the best they can do without the feds bringing down the hammer.
Have you considered using wp export/import in lieu of actual database dumps?

http://wp-cli.org/commands/export/
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That's why you send actual 802.11 messages instead of a continuous wave.
>It really bugs me when people talk about Big Pharma pushing pills, cause really, 8-9 times out of 10, it's patients begging for pills. Are pharmaceutical companies angels? Fuck no, neither are doctors, but if nobody was buying, they wouldn't be selling.

In the case of children it is the parents begging, but the real question is why do they beg. If you met large populations who begged for something dangerous or bad to be done to them that would benefit another, would you think they truly wanted it of their free will having made fully informed decisions, or would you suspect that for many, there had been some manipulation/misinformation/etc.?
So, according to you, they (agencies from US, China, Russia, etc) never cross lines that you and me would never cross? They never tried to broke security, sabotage, ..., or hack someone?

I'm not talking about moon or UFO's conspiracies. I'm talking about things that, according to leaks and official documents, they already did in the past and keep doing today.
I'm a frequent flightradar voyeurist and I see that existing A380 fleet is busy to their limit. You can see A380 traffic jams over Dubai, they seem to be just right for Europe - UAE - Southeast Asia corridor. I doubt they are going away long-term.

747 is indeed scarce and mostly cargo.
IKEA introduces wireless charging furniture [pdf]
I didn't downvote you and was genuinely interested in why you were considering my information to be incorrect. And I now realize it's because I've always worked with systems where processing is always strongly synced to the central frame/sample/... clock. Also I read your initial comment as "why don't we use 'process every single sample' to reduce latency at all costs" which is -as you wrote- clearly a bad idea. Sorry for misrepresenting that.
Er, two wrongs don't make a right.
I'm always torn on what to think of Kanye West. At times he seems normal (well, driven) and possibly insightful, and at at other he seems completely out of touch and off-kilter.

Even in this video, I see both parts. I see him as an entrepreneur, with a good outlook on his business and his critics, but he begins the video with how whenever he says the "truth" the "internet breaks". Even if we disregard whether his "truth" is anything of the sort, that he thinks the internet breaks when the popular media is consumed with some story about him highlights his very limited view of what's actually going on in the world and it's importance
Probably the Zedboard.
+1 as well. I was once asked for computational science what program I used as a lab notebook. People looked surprised when I said I used an actual lab notebook.
"He uses Visual Studio which is certainly one of the best IDEs"

Depends on what you're doing. .NET? Of course. Java, Python, C++, Ruby, etc? Not really.

"If you are building ASP.NET MVC applications, you really don't have a better choice than Windows"

That's like saying if I'm building iOS apps, I don't really have a better choice than OS X. Yes, it's technically possible to do both on other platforms, but in reality, it doesn't happen that often.
Source from 2014 (p. 3): http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/4222014127160422403...

Edit: Just realized this is linked above, apologies
> These were doctors prescribing these, not the pharmaceutical industry, and I believe that the doctors were trying, something, anything, that they believed might work.

It wasn't until I was a parent that I realized a big part of what doctors do is guesswork. Not all of the time, and they are making educated guesses, but it's still guesswork.

Lots of people don't understand this - unfortunately even some doctors.
'splains Randy Quaid... kind of.
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"The final archive format" is a very big promise that 4q doesn't keep right now. It falls short of 7z, RAR and tar.xz, and certainly isn't ready to replace them at the moment.

I'm not too familiar with Coffeescript, but it doesn't seem like a good choice of language to write an archiver. There's no actual draft file format spec I can see, either? But from a first pass, I have the following comments:

Crypto: Encrypted blocks: AES-256-CBC, random IV, with no MAC (!!!). You need to look at that again: that could be a Problem. Hashed blocks: SHA-2-512. Maybe OK (how's length encoded? Look out for extension attacks). That crypto is 14 years old and missing a vital bit: not "modern". Modern choices would include CHACHA20_POLY1305 (faster, more secure, seekable if you do it right); hashes like BLAKE2b (as the new RAR already does); signing things with Ed25519. Look into that kind of thing. You need a crypto overhaul. The keybase.io integration is a nice thought for a UX - but is an online service in invite beta really ready for being baked into an archive format?

Packing: LZMA2 is pretty good: 7z and xz already use that. For a fast algorithm, Snappy is not as good as LZ4, I understand? Neither is the last word in compression. Text/HTML/source code packs much better with a PPM-type model, like PPMd (7z has that, too, as had RAR, but removed it recently), but you need to weigh up the decompression memory usage. ZPAQ's context model mixing can pack tighter, but that's much more intensive and while I like extensibility, I don't like the ZPAQ archive format having essentially executable bytecode.

Other missing features that other archivers have: Volume splitting? Erasure coding or some other FEC? Can you do deltas? (e.g. binary software updates)

You've got some pleasant UX ideas for a command-line archiver (compared to some other command-line archivers!), but sorry, I don't think you're ready for 1.0.
That's a good point. Regardless of ideology, removing repositories like this and not mentioning it in the transparency report doesn't instill a lot of confidence in Github's desire to be truly transparent.

IMO for Github to be trustworthy, they would only remove repos when required by law and then they should end up in this report.
Well technically you can get a new head. Once we figure out how to laplink your brain data over.
LA's school board would like all of that iPad money back now, please
I agree, I'm a CS student taking a Digital Design course and programming VHDL is possibly the worst experience I've ever had. (I am very aware that VHDL is not a programming language but a HDL).
This was my first reaction too. :-)
Nice, I'm glad to see that Python 3 adoption is finally picking up steam! Python 2 is nice, but it has really started to overstay its welcome, I think.
Nice. I have a CLI for a similar site (kopy.io); do you mind if I add support for your site as well?

My project is here:

github.com/xmnr/kopycat

It boasts a single user right now, so it shouldn't burden you with traffic too much.
Your trolling is their art.

Censoring art is still censorship, even if we care for neither the art, the artist, or the message.
Author here.

I didn't write the follow-up yet because it requires a lot of research and I'm busy :-)

If you ask me, GPUs are anything but "the new FPGA". GPUs are the least efficient hardware accelerator out there, but also the most accessible to the largest number of programmers. FPGAs are much more efficient than GPUs on DSP workloads and GPUs are useless for I/O while FPGAs are a godsend. On the other hand, FPGAs have a ton of problems GPUs don't have. The two do not look similar to someone caring about accelerators any more than snow and ice look similar to someone living at a place where they get to see both... though the two might seem similar to people from hot places where neither is common (or perhaps if they saw one but never the other.)
Makes perfect sense. Because his company isn't built on the shoulders of multitudes of employees. He alone built the entire company with his bare hands and his "LIFE". Therefore all employees deserve nothing and he deserves 100%.

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"Heavy-handed parody" and "trollfest" aren't mutually exclusive. Parody is the overarching category that can include both trolling and satire. The difference between the two is motive. A troll's only goal is to get a response, usually through anger and outrage. While a satirist is using parody to actually change opinions. Trolling is an aggressive action. Satire is a political action. I am perfectly fine protecting the later while punishing the former.
Dumb question: why can't they land (drop) into a large pool filled with some inert liquid?
The other commenter was talking about audio software that both consumes and produces samples at a fixed rate. Clearly, if the audio software is late grabbing 64 samples from the input device, it's also late delivering the next 64 to the output device, and there will be a dropout. The output sample clock has to be the timing master, and the software can never be late, and since it's also waiting for the input audio, it can never be early enough to "get ahead", either.
bullshit.

the big bad pharmaceutical industry is full of biotech startups that all race to find something new. it is not a monolithic cabal of lizard people.

like this:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/12/24/256839330/orenitr...

the pharma industry cares more about the well-being of its customers than most of the companies HN usually covers. now go back to coding your mobile/social/dating app that actually cares about the well being of anyone.

opposition to pharma, opposition to vaccines, opposition to science.
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We used FPGAs from Xilinx to implement a MIPS processor for a course in school, and I remember one of the most frustrating things of the whole process was the toolkit/documentation. Compilation errors were very unhelpful, and debugging was a nightmare for most relatively complicated tasks.
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> Python 2 is scheduled to be EOL'd upstream officially and for good in 2020.
We're in 2015 now (wow, that went quickly), and keeping our release cadence up
(3 years a pop) puts Stretch up in 2018, and Buster in 2021.

Am I missing something? Did Debian decide to extend their release cycles?

Jessie is due to be released next week, which is 2 years since Wheezy (May 2013). In fact, the last several years have all been 2-year cycles, not 3. The only three-year cycle was Woody → Sarge (2002-2005), and AFAIK, that delay was one of the reasons that Ubuntu had room to enter the market. Since this put pressure on Debian to make their development more rapid, I'd be surprised if they decided to move in the opposite direction.
Going to open source it?
So Humpty Dumpty is a relativist?

"It just means what I choose it to mean" is the basis of Relativism.

Could Humpty Dumpty say "I like ice cream" and mean "atoms are actually divisible"? If not then does that mean your argument is a boatload of crap?
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No, I can't agree.

The doctor should do what their training and experience leads them to believe will lead to the best outcome for the patient. Pills are not evil. Optimise for good outcomes.
I love how Ikea embraces new technologies to make life actually easier, without bullst.
Is it? Do you know which flight?
Imagine the material that a coke can is made off.

Now imagine a cylinder made of that material 3-4 times wider than a barrel and 20-30ft high.

That's why you can't land them sideways they'd just crush themselves.
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Blaming the doctor for having to make an impossible choice is not entirely fair.

?? There's no "impossible choice" here. This conversation has taken an absurd turn.

So, the doctor is not to blame for writing the script. Last I heard, patients were not required to have medical degrees.

I don't care what I, as a patient, as for, I think the doctor should base his/her response on science and training and experience. Not what I want.
Yes, everyone's making fun of me for not saying 2 years rather then 3.

Also, our releases aren't timed, they're based on bug count, so the timing of the releases wasn't even the main point (and doesn't really matter) :)

I also typoed Python 3 as Python 2 in one of the lines, so, uh, just switch those two numbers. I'm pretty sure it works like that.

Either way, getting Buster off Python 2 means the transition will be more bug free, since we'll have a bit of slack time.
Even government funded research becomes corrupted. Special interest groups, inconvenient results giving lesser weight, laws and policy limiting what can be studied, manipulation of results to portray a pre-determined narrative.

My goto example is the NISVS 2010 where a man being forced to have sex but not being forcefully penetrate was defined to not be rape but only sexual assault, and then the summary section showing how few men were raped (while leaving the particular definition of rape buried in the details).

This same corruption is all the harder to see as you deal with studies moving towards biology and neurology as the base level of knowledge needed to understand a given paper to the same degree increases (per my own experiences and those of others I've talked to).
This is a cool hack, but no latency compensation or database only on the server. I would rather use a package that adhered to the core principles of Meteor.
Once that inert liquid is into every single component on the engine how do you safely and cost efficiently remove it?

What inert liquid wouldn't vapourise at least partially under the force of a rocket engine?

Mostly though you can't find a nice friendly pool of inert liquid on Mars or anywhere else but the Earth in our solar system ;).
> If there really is a design advantage to small wheels, I wonder what the physics there are. Large wheels are good on road where you will encounter potholes etc.

Meh. 17" wheels do great on the road.

So the physics is basically this.

DISADVANTAGES. Small wheels have a steeper angle of attack, so they're somewhat bumpier on tough surfaces. That's easily dealt with using a small full suspension to glue wheels to the road, just like it's done on motorcycles. Small wheels are more difficult to gear high. There are lots of common approaches to that. And small wheels often have more squirrely steering, because it's harder (not impossible) to give them a lot of mechanical trail. This in turn presents a problem for going downhill fast where steering stability matters. Last, of course, the tires wear out faster.

ADVANTAGES. Numerous. Small wheels are far more aerodynamic. They can be much lighter. They are far, far stronger and require fewer spokes. And they have much smaller rotational inertia, translating into faster acceleration and deceleration. Last, they allow for a much wider range of design options, including fairings. Large wheels are quite cumbersome in that regard.
There is a line there. I can't set fire to your home and call it art to avoid punishment. Why should I be allowed to figuratively set fire to your corner of the internet in the name of art?
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My father is 80 and 3,000 miles away. So, no, I haven't reported the doctor and it's pretty silly to think I would.

My father doesn't know any better. The doctor does. That makes it clear where the responsibility lies.
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As do Akamai and MaxCDN.
The David Rose video is absolute mint!
duckduckgo uses all available apis (mostly bing) to show search results. all of those apis have a term like "this service may change at any moment".

it would be really silly for a fortune 500 company to base one of its money cows in such a precarious position. only small start ups have the luxury of doing that.

btw, remember why duckduckgo uses bing now?
In before bubble talk. This is absolutely insane, but I think it shows that investors have faith in the founding team to execute on their vision. This is a healthy reminder that companies are all evaluated on how people feel about them not, not the actual numbers: even publicly traded companies on the stock market. While I personally wouldn't invest in Slack at a 2.8B valuation, that doesn't mean other people don't think that they are worth that. Ultimately, Slack has the ability to execute and become a multi-billion dollar B2B company: I feel that they aren't that now. Other people disagree.
Compare to a nice grand piano: 1 meter of air ~3ms. (hammer travel after you bottom out the key - another 10ms? A MIDI keyboard doesn't know the velocity of the note (or send the note at all) until key travel is mostly done too.)

I have only 5 ms of ASIO buffering using my PC but I don't actually know how much actual key->sound latency; I do know that using headphones it's only slightly less immediate than a nice grand.

I think the low MIDI bit rate (31kbaud) also adds a little latency on chords.

It would be nice if keyboards in the future immediately sent a lower latency+precision keypress-initiated notice (before full key travel) so disk-based samplers can make ready for that note (and make any initial attack sound that's appropriate).
According to the article, the people previously celebrated in the industry would be folks like Notch, Jens Bergensten, and Miyamoto. People that created Minecraft and the early IP of Nintendo.

Anita, by contrast, is more notable for the buzz and backlash she generated than any of her actual work.

And so, Times celebrates the victim instead of the maker.
Because people don't know any better? The answer seems pretty obvious.
one interesting thing i observed is each book you readh changes the way you look at world rather than books, speak with people who read a lot of books and you will appreciate the perspective of the world.
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Both individuals and groups tend to resist opposing view points as it stirs conflict and disagreement. So it's much simpler to remove repos with anti-feminist ideology.

While Github held out against the Chinese, they did not make any outward statements of accusation towards the Chinese government in a smart move. That form of political tension is better handled by the United States government such that Github does not face further backlash. Github's role was purely technical: stopping the DDoS.
Yeah, Emirates flies a lot of A380s, but the problem is they are the only ones who really embraced it. Other airlines bought a few to cover specific high volume routes, but went with other models for their bulk buys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Airbus_A380_orders_and...
I mean...there are still wires. Just not connected directly to your phone.
They haven't gotten clearance yet, but they hope to. Edit: SpaceX page indicates an attempt in July so they must have.
Oh okay, in that case I can understand why it was taken down. I'm assuming you're https://github.com/untitaker, and I respect your projects a lot. Did you get any troll PRs from them? My impression at the time (from reading news articles and the Geek Feminism wiki) was that it was taken down without any cogent reason.

[Also, someone seems to have flagged my original comment so it isn't visible. Could they unflag it, so people can follow the conversation, and how my viewpoint changed? Aside: bit funny that this happened in my comment about censorship against unpopular viewpoints.]