skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That mechanism is good for society, because it means that nobody is just hoarding a gold pile somewhere.

Why is that necessarily bad? Inflation requires individuals and companies to grow to maintain value, that is potentially unsustainable. If the money base grows faster than resources utilization can be made more efficient, then you wind up either 1) destroying the environment or 2) screwing over the poor. In order to continue, the exponential growth inherent in inflation presumes a future that is rosier than the present. The people who get screwed over are not the wealthy, they have access to inflation-proofed investments and also have access to the lowest interest rates (most competitive with inflation, sometimes better than) to make leveraged reallocation of resources.

That kind of base cannot handle anything catastrophic. Because everyone is yoked together by leveraging, a catastrophic event, say, a tsunami in seattle, will domino over such that the individuals depending on the fractional reserve of the victim's holdings will then be forced into default, and those dependent on them, and so on and so forth via the multiplier effect.

To say that a non-inflationary system cannot handle an catastrophe is simply ignoring some pretty stark evidence. Between 1820-1900 the US was effectively on the gold standard and somehow, it managed to survive a massive civil war that tore apart the nation and not 40 years later it was basically one of the world powers.
But now you can fly with hackers.
I don't know what you think someone thinks is news, but the discussion about why American is considered a dialect (and not a separate language) is interesting. As a comparison, Danish and Norwegian was also considered (more or less) the same language at the time of the american revolution, but is today considered separate languages.
As an example of another promotion that went wrong:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_free_flights_promotion
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I don't think it's that crappy. Is it?
> Is potato-blackhole distinguishable from same mass water black-hole?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hair_theorem

We don't know if black holes have hair, so the answer to your question is "We don't know".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
I'm guessing you are short then ?
> ... should be listed as a risk factor in your 10-K forms. Sooner or later, shareholders are going to figure this out and start holding these enterprises' management accountable.

And on that day publicly traded companies will start to implement comprehensive test suites. Until then they are just extra costs as far as (most) management is concerned and management loves to 'trim the fat' and eliminate costs.
If you listen closely, you can hear me clapping. Well done.
Similar situation here, met with an associate who was trying to integrate with MUMPS.
I don't believe linguists consider the writing system as part of the language as such. Multiple languages have shifted writing systems for convenience or political reasons without the language itself changing.
Is your running playlist too slow? The science behind Spotify Running
I've just recently learned all the good things that come with being humble. Becoming an adult, but slowly.
And for a different but convergent take on the same approach to this problem space, here's the Pick Operating System, which evolved for business applications on minicomputers in the 1960s, along similar lines (global hash table database, built-in language):

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

MUMPS can thus be seen as a member of a (loose) family of 1960s era systems.
Hebben we superfoods echt nodig
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6 kind of people that have most realistic chance of becoming rich
HSM key extraction vulnerability
Difference between Secured and PreAuthorize
Definitely. London is completely sub-standard, it doesn't stand any comparision with the German or Dutch cycling networks.
There are minor differences in spelling and vocabulary between British and US English, but there are also differences in grammar, so I consider en_US and en_GB to be quite different - enough that I always push for translations for applications, where the differences in grammar are as important as those in spelling and vocabulary.

Here are some excellent examples:

http://www.onestopenglish.com/grammar/grammar-reference/amer...
When it was released? It was the best (ok IE5 on Mac may disagree).
Seven years later (when IE7 finally appeared) it was worst.
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> But Safari absolutely is falling behind other browsers in
> API support and could well end up holding the web back

I am afraid that hastily releasing half-baked APIs and moving on to the new shiny things will do web more harm in the long run.
IMHO web is suffering a huge identity crisis right now.
Those extra spaces feel like I'm walking upstairs and I suddenly miss a step. Completely throws me Knocks me out of the rhythm every time.

Although I spent some time as an editor, so that's probably it.
https://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Readers/HowManyAngels/Wayso...

Quine (who never went by QuineQuine, more's the pity) had an answer to this problem: Differentiate between veridical and falsidical paradoxes.

A veridical paradox is a paradox of the linked type: It appears absurd, but there is no problem in the logic, so it doesn't lead to a contradiction. Therefore, the conclusion is valid.

A falsidical paradox is similar to the Liar Paradox: It appears absurd and has a hole in the logic, such that there is no conclusion (it contradicts itself, and is also called an antinomy, as in the Liar Paradox) or the conclusion is invalid (as in one of the many fake proofs that 1 = 0). In Quine's words:

> In a falsidical paradox there is always a fallacy in the argument, but the proposition purportedly established has furthermore to seem absurd and to be indeed false.
Minimal PCG number generator in Go
BTW, i'm not even sure a structured asic will give you good security against physical attacks, because you probably need to design below the logic layer for that.
I am not sure which is worse - the stupidity of AA for selling these tickets or their pathetic attempts to get out of the contract when they realised they were idiots.
If you're ever in the Silicon Valley we should "meet up". I'll be nicer to you but you're buying.
Most years the big films which are up for Best Picture and Best Director, are often nominated for other more niche awards.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was nominated for Best Sound Mixing. And you have to wonder if it really had far and away better sound editing than hundreds of other films that year.
I'm asian and it showed me up as 26 (I'm 9 yrs older)
Bring Back Ellen Pao as the CEO of Reddit Inc
Due to drug prohibition millions of people are running self-supervised experiments on themselves with a limited ability to verify the chemical compounds they are ingesting. You can buy Mecke and Marquis reagents[0] to test for things but RCs(research chemicals) like the 2C class indicated in the article are difficult to test for. MDMA has been around a long time but often is mixed with amphetamines, ephedrine, MDA or other chemicals that are cheaper or easier to obtain. So now we do not have the information nor the data to make a case about these drugs either way.

Due to friction in black and grey markets it is not only difficult to verify substances, but the reputation of suppliers as they obviously aren't doing CR on yelp. This is exactly what happened with "Bath Salts". At first, they were legal and reputable dealers sold them to club kids used to using meth and other amphetamines. The drugs were newer and untested, but "somewhat" safe after being out in the world. As negative press and deaths were reported the substance was banned. Less reputable dealers continued to create drugs with slightly different chemical makeups and batch tested accross the population. These drugs were more dangerous and in some cases only tried by a handful of people before release.

Shulgin notes this in the article saying that amateur chemists thirsty for profits are either releasing untested chemicals into the market, or making mistakes in synthesizing known psychoactive substances.

We can't get data on these drugs so we don't know much about them. The 2c class has some promising RCs it would be nice if there was a way to record the data from the thousands of people doing these trials on themselves. Shulgin has a license, probably one of only a few ever given by the DEA, to produce, synthesize and test RCs and Psychoactive substances. It would make sense that the gov't could issue such a license to people for the trial of these chemicals for scientific purposes. Until then, only a few people will ever have real data about these drugs and it will be unable to be verified or shared due to the stigma and legal repercussions for coming forward.

sad.

[0]https://dancesafe.org/shop/
Server.accept will block (wait) until a new connection happens. Once the callback (in the form of a Ruby block) completes the thread will end. So it starts a potentially infinite number of threads but only one per connection and each one is terminated pretty quickly. This is a pretty common way to write a server that can handle multiple simultaneous connections.
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I'd like to think that if there was any ambiguity there they'd call me into a branch to present ID or whatever.
Let's assume you spend 30% of your time sleeping (7.2 hours a day), and your expected lifetime to be T. Then your "useful time" is 0.7T. So you decide to sleep 25% more (9 hours), so you sleep through 37,5% of a day and your life expectancy is now T'=1.25T, so your useful time is 0.625T'=0.625 x 1.25T=0.781T. Your useful time grown around 12%.

Note that if you take your working hours into account and you are only interested in your free time after work, then this free time will hoard up more at the end of your life when you will be retired but you will lose free time before that.
I don't think there is a method to it : as a developer you should see a lot of opportunities to automate things in your daily life. If not you probably need some hobbies outside the dev world.

I started coding about 10 years ago because I wanted to make a better bot for World Of Warcraft than what was available. Literally if it wasn't for WOW and an obnoxious coder that wouldn't share his bot code I wouldn't be a developer today !

Among more recent projects, I made a "green" script to encode videos at night while electricity is cheaper, a tool to extract, rename and classify rared / ziped nested ebooks (obtained from dubious sources ;-), another tool to analyze and optimize my chances at winning on football (soccer) bets (let me say it didn't work very well).
I think we should just pay for what we use.

Special loyalty programs just mess up the transparency of the market. And they can cause other problems as well, as illustrated in the article.
Wow. Aside, obviously, from the details, this was exactly my experience as a kid; the precise set of rituals, the exhausting time taken, and the need for a restart if there were any interruptions.

I was never diagnosed with OCD at the time, and in fact it was only as an adult that I heard of the disorder - something of a damascene moment. Instead I was put through a kind of Freudian analysis to dig out some mystical "underlying problem"; pure quackery that still angers me to this day.

I'd like to believe that nowadays the disorder is broadly enough understood that sufferers, especially children, are given the therapy and management techniques that were denied me.
Theory of disruptive innovation as a pseudo science
If it had we might be running it right now.
This reminds me of the guy who used a Wii remote to create/mix music. Innovative idea.
I was a programmer many years ago and always had music on when working. It wasn't pumping / awesome music but it allowed me to drop back from the concentration of work into the music for a short while then get straight back into work.
I wouldn't lose my attention and it game by brain 30 seconds of down time.
People are different, but that works really well for my.
My role is now more 'interrupt driven' and I really don't like it, people get the hump when I make them wait 10 seconds stood at my desk seemingly being ignored as I finish the micro task.
Well Asians look younger than other races, so that kind of makes sense.
No no, it's fine. I understand your point. Looks like we hail from different countries.

In the UK, at least, there is simply no rampant mis-diagnoses. My diagnosis has taken 2 years and this is average, perhaps quick, given the state of things.

It's easy to see why some would dismiss.
Is there a list of active rooms somewhere?
Bruce Sterling on Alien-Computer Interfaces (2013)
This is really trying to find meaning where there is none. "Andrew's life didn't need editing", wtf. It's just a way to introduce the main character and his nemesis, that's all there is to it.

The reason it is oscar-worthy is : drums are by definition repetitive, a character playing drums is mostly static, there are no real dialogs possible while drums are being played, and the movie overcame all these obstacles.
Initially well, but soon very poorly, because IE6 remained a contemporary browser for an unusually long time.

Distilled down to the core, the fundamental problem with IE6 was the five year chasm where development was completely stalled. When the version was finally bumped in 2006, so much time had elapsed that the solution was unsatisfying for everyone: changes so major that compatibility was problematic, but still insufficient to bring it up to speed with its competitors.

Safari may not be implementing bleeding-edge features at the same rate, but at least the engine is being continually developed and improved.
Yes, i used to have a boss that would literally shout at me in an open plan office in front of everyone. After a while I realized it was just his style (and I wasn't the only one he shouted at). He was basically a decent guy with some bad habits. His / our boss was the opposite. Came across as a nice guy at first but turned out to be a real ct.
I've been running a QOTD service on my server for the last few years:

$ nc zx2c4.com 17

Source here: http://git.zx2c4.com/mulder-listen-daemon/tree/mulderd.c

I also run a toy telnet server:

$ telnet zx2c4.com

:P
Imagine a reverse situation: a man buys this lifetime ticket and dies in a car accident a month later.
Do you think the company would return the money to the grieving relatives or they would exploit this opportunity with typical greed and lack of consideration for other people and keep the money?
I used to work at EnormousCorp and internally there was fetchnotes, a fetchmail-like command line tool for situations exactly like yours. A bit of Googling seems to only show mentions of it here and there but no downloads or links to source so I guess it never made it to the outside world, which is unfortunate.

Lotus Notes 8.0 and later are based on Eclipse though, so perhaps with a little bit of effort one of the Vim or Emacs plugins might possibly work for it?
The source code in the Firefox extension suggests it's all done server-side.
> it would be nice if there was a way to record the data from the thousands of people doing these trials on themselves.

The closest thing we have to this is erowid [0] but I agree it's just a collection of anecdotal data.

[0] https://www.erowid.org/chemicals/2cb/
> I don't know what you think someone thinks is news,

Because it's on a news website: BBC.
Quite possibly but I use selenium extensively during dev to automate boring tasks (filling in forms over and over is boring) as well as for integration and functional testing.

So I had a hammer and the problem looked like a nail. ;)
You hated it because it had a mean character in it? Your prerogative, I suppose. I thought it was a fantastic movie, despite not liking every person in it.
And for Facebook React. This reminds me of VB and Delphi components.
how did you eventually find out about the ban out of interest?
See prior comment about the intentional omission of "/list" functionality
How on Earth is Belarus "constituting an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States"?
Interesting, do you have links for these other techniques?
Going to about:config and setting media.peerconnection.enabled to false seems to work, without the need for an extension.

Now to find out how many sites break in fun and exciting ways for having done this ;)
If you want to start a startup I would advise you to come up with an idea and start working on your product.

I just want to know more about it, I know that it wouldn't be as helpful as doing it yourself and it won't be a comprehensive guide.
Pretty sure the US Gov has access to US Passports.,
"The covers always feature a overly made-up, blonde, Eastern European"

No, not only blondes, not only Eastern European:

http://dangerousminds.net/tag/G%C3%A9rard-de-Villiers

http://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/001995716--...

http://www.carti-online.com/sas-mafia-drogurilor-p-1025.html
Airlines are like hard disk vendors or car manufacturers. Everybody has their anecdotal evidence that the particular one they hate is indeed the worst.
I have to say I quite like this. It looks nice and plays through well.

One thing I noticed though is that when one player loses both of their lives the whole game is over. With the limited number of animals I suppose it isn't likely the game can go on for that long, but it seems odd to end the game with a loser instead of a winner.

Another issue with this is the turn selector seems to be set on random rather than cycling through the players in an order. That seems great on the surface as a sort of 'party mode' but when I played a four player game more often than not a player (Bob) would have had two turns before another (John) had even had one. If Bob turns out to be a particularly dense child he could kill the game off for everyone before John even gets a turn to guess.
That theoretical leverage only exists because of Android's ubiquity which it has because of the handset makers. We have no idea how long the contracts that stipulate that handset makers control updates is valid for but it's safe to assume that they are still valid today because the update/security fragmentation it creates is bad for everyone except handset makers. No doubt it's something that handset makers will hold onto for as long as possible because a lack of updates sells new phones.

Google is slowly breaking up the OS into applications that it can distribute in the app store which smells a lot like someone trying to get around a contractual obligation using a technicality. There are legal agreements between Google and handset makers that can't simply be dissolved by threatening to revoke access to the app store.
The longer you live, the better become available treatments in the meantime to make your life even longer. ;)
Narrow Street to Horseferry Road is my favourite part - you have to veer across a busy road into oncoming traffic.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5101249,-0.0379109,19z/dat...
Bastion host setup in Ansible
Shameless plug: I started the http://hashbang.sh network with this in mind. Show up, get a free shell, and work on the network itself. Plenty of people from all over the industry noob/pro alike hacking stuff out together and exchanging open project ideas. ;)
Asking Siri to charge your phone dials the police
I talk to people. Pretty much every side project I've ever done has come from a conversation about something that someone finds annoying, or an idea that they think is brilliant, or that I think is brilliant. For me, the key to coming up with a project I won't abandon easily is to have other people involved pushing me to work on it.
IMHO the problem is their yearly release cycle. Right now the feature might be too incomplete to include, which is fair. But in a few months it would be, but its still 10 months at minimum before Safari adds support for it.
The infrastructure for cycling in London sucks, but I find it remarkably easy to get around.

My first or second day riding here I was unfamiliar with the territory so spent a lot of time paying attention to signs, markings on the road, laws. It made for a confusing and difficult ride.

Since then I have been paying less attention to the infrastructure and more to the situation. Keep your head up and don't be afraid to break the rules a bit, and you'll have a fun and quick ride. Just be wary that your decisions don't impact drivers because we need as many good graces as we can get :)
These are 2 valid concerns. Using localStorage to cache the URL already looked up would help for the pages you visit the most (gmail.com, twitter, etc). Having a whitelist/blacklist of site {not,} to lookup might also help.
Let me know if you think these 2 features would actually help. I could implement them.

Thanks for your comment!
This is very nice.

I particularly like the automatic mode. However, the deafult 'distance' threshold of 120 seems to be too large: selecting the yellow foreground color picks points on both the yellow and red lines; selecting the green foreground color picks points on both the green curve and the axes.

A solution for the test image is to just reduce the threshold to 50.

The best threshold may depend on both the target color and the specific image being processed, but could potentially be automatically chosen: imagine constructing a greyscale image by replacing each pixel's color with its distance from the target color, and then picking a threshold for converting this grayscale image to a binary image (e.g. using Otsu's method [0]).

The export to plot.ly feature is also great - you can really quickly extract data from one graph and re-plot it in a different/clearer way.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otsu%27s_method
Might I recommend doing some gesture drawings - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesture_drawing. That was literally the top google result, there are better resources out there.

Very useful (when you move onto attempting to draw living objects) for getting anatomy down.
You can get way more than $12000 out of a million miles. I don't fly *A, but a quick glance at UA's award chart shows ~200k miles for a one way "anytime" US-Australia flight in first class. That is currently about $10,000 according to Google Flights. Done 5 times, there's $50,000. (I'm sure you can redeem on one of their better partner airlines, like ANA, if you are willing to be flexible on dates and times.)

Of course, this is unhelpful if you don't want to go somewhere far away and expensive in a premium cabin. I've always found the value in frequent flyer miles to be in redeeming tickets that I could never afford with money. Using frequent flyer miles to fly from Chicago to Minneapolis is not getting you much value.