skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity, do you move your hands a lot when talking? A coworker uses his Fitbit daily, but has mentioned that it falsely reads his arm movements when he talks (which he does a lot of hand waving and other movements).

I worked a physical job, stocking books and filling book orders for a summer while in college[1]. I used a pedometer and rarely went much above 10k steps (for the 8 hour shift anyway). That's walking basically for 8 hours straight (with stops to place or grab a book).

[1] - not my only physical job, but the one I walked the most, and the only one I ever had a pedometer on.
uBlock doesn't call itself an ad blocker, but a blocker. Also, checking the default block lists and/or removing some is the first thing I do after installing a new one. If that sounds like to much work, stick with the defaults and click the humongous "disable blocking permanently" button. Not sure what all the fuss is about.
I clicked one of the legitimate downloads. The link takes you to a new page and waits a few seconds before starting the download.

The most prominent element of this page, centered just below the header, is a large bright green "Start Download" button. That button is part of an advertisement, but is blatantly designed to get the majority of its clicks from users who intended to download software from the project hosted on SF. I see it as a malicious download.

I realize you may have been referring specifically to the recent SF malware bundling, but I want to stress that this ad came up for me on my first try clicking one of those links. Ad's like that have been regular on SF for years; it's impossible to believe that they have made it a priority to prevent them. The opposite seems more likely: the page design minimizes the legitimate controls and emphasizes the scam link.

Even if I know the installer is free of opt out malware I would hesitate to send a SF link to a friend or family member. The clearest call to action they are likely to see is a malicious download impersonating the software they want.
After Elon said "fuck it" and built his own rocket motors after getting screwed by the Russians, I don't see him wasting any time with politics or property development (who I'd argue would be leeches/vultures trying to extract their tax on the project).

He's just commission 2-4 TBMs (tunnel boring machines, about ~$20MM/each), drop them in the ground, and have them start digging hyperloop tunnels.
What entrepreneurs can learn from the Game of Thrones
It's funny they are building a 1 mile test track but don't have any interest in running with the idea... seems pretty committed at this point.
I think modern jQuery is already modular (or semi-modular) and you can download a build of it that contains the features you want.

But honestly, if you load jQuery from a big-time CDN, chances are your users already have it cached and don't need to load anything.
I think he wants it to be created by someone, but my recollection is that when he announced the plans he specifically said he didn't have time to do it himself and wanted others to take the ball and run with it.
Suppressing the middle class, nationalizing industries, disaffecting business people all contribute to tanking their economy. Didn't the cutting-off happen AFTER all that?
How is that not an interpreter?
Is that 30,000, 29,989 or 30,523 commits? :)
They plan on releasing the full requirements for the final design in Aug, but the rules document includes some example technical questions. Most calculations I imagine can be estimated using college physics and mechanics: drag coefficient, pneumatic pressure, heat flux, etc. But I'm curious if anyone has any references specific to air compresser propulsion systems? I'm thinking it would make a nice WebGL simulation that shows the relationship between speed and heat generated ;)
I haven't been seeing those issues with uBlock.
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> My deadline for almost all work I do is "yesterday".

Having more or less worn both hats, it's exactly the same for developers. :)
I don't understand you comment.

Are you saying that good players are too good for average players to play against? (if this is good or bad it's another thing). And then you say it's simplified (Candy Crush).

I'm really curious. I don't play sports games, and don't really understand what changes in their year-to-year iterations (besides the teams).
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It so happens that the tape was originally called duck tape, so named because it was made by applying adhesive to duck cloth. The name duct tape came later, when it started being used in construction to seal duct work. Amusingly, modern duct tape is not certified for that use. None of this has anything to do with the duck referred to in duck typing. But I am now curious about the etymology of "duck cloth" and whether it has any relation to water fowl that quack. edit: "strong, untwilled linen (later cotton) fabric," used for sails and sailors' clothing, 1630s, from Dutch doeck "linen cloth" (Middle Dutch doec), related to German Tuch "piece of cloth," Danish dug, Old Frisian dok, Old High German tuoh, all of unknown origin."
Sure it is. A traditional interpreter executes via generate-synthetic-code-and-emulate-cpu technique. This other method uses the native compiler to generate code (i.e. compiles the 'Execute' methods).
We certainly do not have to give up anonymity to have community. HN for example is as psuedonymous as you want it to be (as your green username shows).

You can architect systems such that the actions of bad actors are isolated. For instance if your example site had stored actions in an immutable log, it would have been possible to revert the malicious changes. This itself could even be crowdsourced with cross-checking. Public distributed computing projects have always had to deal with this in ways appropriate to their problem domains. Distributed systems are hard, but that doesn't mean we should give up and centralize them.

As fecebook and spewtube comments show, even using real names doesn't make dimwits magically wisen up.

Reddit was setup such that "trolls" (whomever you consider that to be) could form their own communities with their own mod policy - free to go their own way. Of course that's not good enough to appease people who want to control what others communicate about.
Sometimes, a benevolent dictator is required.
I've been using Adblock Edge, but it's been discontinued in favor of uBlock.

https://bitbucket.org/adstomper/adblockedge
This sounds cool, I would be interested in helping out.
Reminds me of the beginnings of an open source version of this:
http://speciesgame.com/

Unfortunately Windows only, but it's a pretty neat little evolution simulator.
Not really trying to be a pedantic jerk, but...

Kind of by definition, what you would have would not be C, so there can't be any strictly-typed C implementations. I presume what you want is "just like C, except". And in fact, it's fine to want that. Just be aware that it really isn't C any more.
> No bell

Hey i ride without bell too. On the other hand, i don't mind staying at walking speed and taking it slowly if there's some congestion up ahead. I find bell users to be insufferable dicks at most times.

> they have the legal ability to go through red lights under safe conditions

Everytime bicycles come up on HN i learn some new insanity about the USA. Do you have a link to the legistlation for that?

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEPx0N_jAa8

From my point of view, NEITHER of these three people are fit to participate in civilized society. Especially not the cop who tells the lady to shut up because she might get shot by someone.
I thought it was ammo-case waterproof tape developed in WWII, affectionately called 'duck tape' by GI Joe.
Another Char-rnn application: neural nets that write their own TED talks
> I gotta wonder - if everyone has less stuff than they did in 1960 then why are homes getting so much bigger?

Because:

(1) everyone doesn't, just the median person, and its by value, not volume of stuff.

(2) means aren't medians.

> The average amount of living space per person in a new home has almost doubled in just the last forty years.

Averages (arithmetic means) are often misleading.

If the biggest 10% of new homes added 15 times the old average to their size (which would be a much smaller multiple of the size of that largest-size cohort), but the bottom 90%, on average, reduced their size by 5/11 the old average, the average (arithmetic mean) size of a new home would have doubled, even though most new homes were significantly smaller.

(And that's even assuming that you can accurately assess the size of homes people live in by measuring the size of new homes -- which is obviously flawed to start with.)
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"schematics, and all the CAD you need to design your own enclosure" does not count as a mention of schematics?

If that's not enough for you, then it's not, but it sounds like you're just arguing to argue. (FWIW I've soldered my own ErgoDox. I've also backed the Model 01.)

Anyway, I'm going to back away from this thread now. Good luck, guy.
User analytics that's as easy as asking a question. Literally
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Note that this article talks about Violent Crime & its reduction.

One theory to add to the mix of all others (one that is somewhat touched upon in the article) - We are moving to more digitized, less physical (things) economy.

If what you think of as being "Valuable" is not physical but digitized, it is harder for violent criminals to deprive you of it.

However if we consider all crime - violent (physical) & non-violent (hacking, White-collar problems, Scams frauds etc) there will be a more interesting & perhaps less dramatic result than "Plummets".

Obviously Murders (& certain other baser crimes) cannot be digitized away.
Each community has to find their own level of acceptable moderation vs. acceptable behaviour, though. Reddit is probably OK with a bunch of supposed trolls, etc. jumping ship. Voat's OK with getting them.

It's a win-win situation.
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>> a) I think one of the biggest challenges in a Kaggle competition is getting away from overfitting to the leaderboard.

This actually depends on the data. The commenter above won the Social Circles competition. That competition had a very small number of instances - it looks like it was 60 in the training set and 50 in the test set. It had one of the larger shakeups in Kaggle history.
It never stopped. It's been growing for some years, but until now, that has been due to a parabolic increase in angel rounds - the frequency of series A rounds has remained flat for a long time. If this has changed, it's a pretty large signal, IMHO.
Anything that changes continually with a bias toward preserving existing structure ends up looking like biology in some way.

When people add to existing methods rather than creating new methods, or add to existing classes rather creating new classes we end up with that organic feel. Fruit starts green, grows ripe, and ends rotten.

The fact we need to face is that this is what people do naturally. It's not an accident. It's more like behavioral economic incentive.
Many systemd features are explicitly tailored for server workload (eg. resource management), and a particular effort is being put over container-based deployments.

CoreOS has been quite successful in basing their own infrastructure on systemd and with rkt they are moving to use systemd even more.
Samsung Safety Truck [video]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_of_living

"The standard of living includes factors such as income, quality and availability of employment, class disparity, poverty rate, quality and affordability of housing, people, hours of work required to purchase necessities, gross domestic product, inflation rate, number of holiday days per year, affordable (or free) access to quality healthcare, quality and availability of education, life expectancy, incidence of disease, cost of goods and services, infrastructure, national economic growth, economic and political stability, political and religious freedom, environmental quality, climate and safety."

(And edited to add, "happyscrappy is, indeed, happy" did not appear on the list, although I am happy for your happiness, because life should be fun)

Make my day, pick some and provide unbiased data showing improvement, much as I've done for decline in income.

Wikipedia is weird so I don't know what "people" or "climate" means in the context of standard of living. Also GDP is totally irrelevant to individuals and any way that it could be relevant is already handled in the previously listed economic indicators.
Sure, but assumably they do something ASIDE from refactor.
Wow, this is a lot worse than I initially thought.
> Suppressing the middle class,

This is the modern narrative for revolutions in Latin/South America? "Middle Class", really? Because well fed people providing for their families decided to take up arms? Or because the well-fed were a tiny minority, and the rest lived in poverty under the economic oppression of former colonialists?
If cycling is so dangerous that people throwing bricks at you is safer, wouldn't the most reasonable course be to not cycle at all?
For beginners, I would go for a recursive descent interpreter (just made up that term) that implements a 'little language'. That is something on the complexity of a shell without looping or variables or of parsing argv:

- read a line
- do a switch on the first word of the line
- inside each switch, make up your own syntax, parse the
remainder of the line, and execute it or issue an error
message and abort.
Feel free to cheat by using scanf to parse integers.

Iteration 2 can add printing the line number in error messages.

Iteration 3 can add if/then and looping: keep the lines in an array, and add 'goto' to the list of commands, and hack the jump into the interpreter loop by adjusting a global variable from inside the 'goto' statement.

Iteration 4 can add the 'let' command and variables. Naming them A through Z for simplicity is an option.

Then, add simple assignments of the form

let a = x <op> y

where x and y are liberals or variables. For now, don't bother with expressions with multiple operators.

Next, add statements of the form

y = f(x)

That gives you a sort-of 70's Basic that can be quite useful and fun to use.

Only then would I start introducing grammars, the word 'parse', etc.
5 Big Data Use Cases for Docker
What happened to those wireless-plus-wheels approaches from about 10 years ago?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6506193.stm

Low-cost Communication for Rural Internet Kiosks Using
Mechanical Backhaul:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2006/mobicom_kiosks...
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SAM a New Pattern for React.js / AWS Lambda
I wonder how this will affect profit-driven miners. If banks start to mine not-for-profit, in an activity, that is already almost non-profitable, then this will make mining bitcoin cost money.

If this drives the for-profit miners, and only big-giant corp-banks are mining, they'll easily control over 51% of the mining capacity.

This will return us again to same problem bitcoin tried to solve: Decentralization. And this is putting us in the hands that we wanted to escape from in the first place.
And if you choose GA, you accept that some people will block it, the same way they might block your javascript, your cookies, your css, your images, or anything else they don't want to download.
> SpaceX will construct a one-mile test track adjacent to our Hawthorne, California headquarters

I'm not sure which would be the more remarkable achievement, getting the Hyperloop working, or obtaining the real estate to build a mile-long test track in Hawthorne.
The per-unit cgroup and the ability to kill it is rather nice too, without delving in the container-related features where the systemd server-side support really shines.
This is of course the sane policy. But we don't even have universal pedestrian right of way.
The reduction in environmental lead exposure makes much more sense than Roe v Wade.

State by state, country by country, it matches up to a crime reduction more than abortion.
Anti-vaccines movement leading to first spanish case of Diphtheria in 28 years
The pause from the comma makes the sentence come off a bit condescending. I felt like I was being talked down to.
Because it's asking the enforcers to become the judges. There's good reason those powers remain separate.
An interesting question is "why do standards tend to run behind state-of-the-art"? There are so many examples of this in the past (coming from a graphics background, OpenCL vs. CUDA). Is this something we can fix?

Perhaps it is about providing the right hooks into the specification to not compromise the end user experience.

I think Docker is an interesting project to follow in this regard. They have shown the ability to get both startups and large players (amazon, google, microsoft) onboard by keeping the platform open. Yet they are clearly focused on providing the best experience for developer/ops interaction with cloud services. It will be interesting to see the rollout of their extension mechanisms and whether they can be a primary interface to cloud services or will become a second-teir compatibility layer. However, even in this case perhaps chat protocols could learn something here.
The red-light item is fictitious. There aren't traffic laws written that waffle like that. Its a cyclist's lame rationalization.
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Wow. Fred Fish and his Fish Disks! Haven't thought of that for years. Used to love them - a huge amount of my Amiga software in the mid to late 80's came from them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fish

The disks: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/amiga/fish/

... and now really sad to hear that he's not with us any more.
A.K. Dewdney wrote an article in his column "Computer Recreations" called "Simulated Evolution: wherein bugs learn to hunt bacteria" (Scientific American, May 1989, pp 138-141) describing a simple algorithm for virtual bugs to evolve movement patterns where they would find increasingly efficient ways to find "food". A lot of people put this into code and had fun playing with it. I think it influenced quite a few peoples' perception of genetic algorithms because it was just so easy to understand, implement and tweak. We had fun adding "predators" and all sorts of other things into it.

Looks like there is a website dedicated to it here: http://www.simulatedevolution.com/
Probably safer at least.
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In the most generous remotely tenable reading of the facts for the US policy, it protected the Cuban policies you point to by providing an easy, convenient, and credible PR scapegoat for the deleterious effects of the Cuban policies, thereby reducing pressure on the regime to alter them.
It slowed me down. I was too busy thinking "1/3 2/3 1/3...".

:)
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(This is not legal advice, just a comment.)

No, the "under penalty of perjury" bit in the DMCA is that they own the copyright in the content they're saying they own. (I believe this is undisputed; they do in fact own the typesetting of their front page.)

Whether the links actually point to copies of the content alleged, or whether the content if republished would be an infringement of copyright in that context, are entirely separate questions (and there are no repercussions for being wrong, even deliberately, which is one of the really bad things about the DMCA, especially in a world where robots auto-file takedowns based on dud search terms).

They do not seem to have misrepresented their clients' interests, although this §512(c) takedown is clearly filed in bad faith: because yes, this kind of meta-reporting, commentary on news stories, is absolutely classic fair use - and there's the story they're reporting on, right there on the right. I believe it would be perfectly legal over here, too - in fact, the BBC actually routinely republish the front pages of every major UK newspaper every day for comment and criticism, both on the TV and on their website - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs/the_papers - and they neither seek, nor need, permission. This low-res image of the front page represents what the paper was reporting as a snapshot in time as a matter of history. It obviously doesn't replace the paper: it doesn't even contain all of the story in question. It is quite clearly not an actionable infringement of copyright.

One would think that Ms Chisese would have given her client certain advice about the serious potential negative impact of spitefully trying to restrict news reporting via copyright takedowns: aka the "Streisand effect"? You would think they'd know about that. Still, I don't see an "on instructions" in there. Oh well. I'm sure the Intercept will respond as I would expect them to. (Edit: Sure enough - https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/610451356122509312 )
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I highly doubt it's that short, that would mean that after 1 year you would make back all your money and everything after is profit?

I've never seen any numbers even close to that, they all give decades to make make back your money, even when selling the electricity at retail, and certainly not when selling at wholesale.
I'd love this to be brought back. Often I feel we're too reliant on connectivity, something that felt amazing (booting from PXE, package repository, github etc) but now I feel it would be a good thing to be able to git the web and have a complete (obviously not complete, but a core set) local copy.

ps: wikipedia dumps is less than 64GiB, less than 100 with user/talk pages. A 256GB flash memory device (SD or key) is less than 100$.
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A notable difference here (as opposed to other open source projects that have received the same treatment on SourceForge) is that Mozilla owns the "Firefox" trademark, and has specific policies governing its use and the distribution of software that uses its name or branding:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/

It specifically precludes distributing modified versions of the software or installer and still calling it "Firefox" (with which they seem to be complying for the moment), and also specifies the manner in which the name and branding are to be used in website copy, like putting a "TM" symbol after the first mention (with which SF seems not to be complying at the moment). In other words: Mozilla has power here and could force them to take it down if they wanted. And they should, in my view, if for no other reason than because SF have been jerks about this whole thing and this is finally a situation where someone can actually do something about it.
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Have you measured this benefit in any empirical way?

It is a bit dated now, but Code Complete cites actual attempts to study the connections between function length and maintenance cost in real world code bases. The conclusion was that functions with a high internal complexity were maintenance hazards. Basically add up all of the if's, loops, and so on, and if that is a big number, then break it up. However long functions without internal complexity were not a maintenance hazard. This was true up to about 200 lines.

OK, a lot has changed since IBM studied maintenance costs in the 1980s. But the received wisdom today about short functions was already the received wisdom then. And the wisdom today is just as much based on opinion as it was then.

Is there any more reason why we should accept the received wisdom today than there was then?