skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you believe I want to run something else other than Linux?
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I agree, but I suspect fewer people would make the mistake. Partly because more people would actually do the math, and partly because there's no immediately attractive wrong answer involving "98/100" and "100 lbs". There's still a somewhat attractive wrong answer of multiplying 98/100 by 14 lbs, but there's one less reason to make that mistake.

This seems like the kind of thing that could be tested with a study. Ask a few hundred people each version of the problem (ideally filtering out anyone who has seen the problem before), and see how many get each version right.

(Potato paradox problem paradox: You ask 100 people to solve the potato paradox. 99% of them get the answer wrong. You drop people who answered incorrectly until you have a group where 98% got the answer wrong. How many people are left?)
Very good point I hadn't thought of that. That'll teach me to try thinking hard about something after a long work day.
I think he says that Pixar movies are capitalist propaganda.
Meh. You're cherry-picking one photo from that slideshow.
Why would you trust Bluetooth for anything security related?
I use [ws](https://github.com/websockets/ws). I've never had any trouble with it, and it benchmarks well. Of course, there's no fallback there; just websockets.

I haven't seen a websocket+fallback lib that seems like it will work well. Requiring sticky sessions and disallowing using node's cluster module is the norm, and neither of those are appealing. We've rolled our own polling fallback, which is also used to cleanly handle missed messages during a websocket reconnect.
Very snappy on an iPhone 4s in app browser.

Nice animations that aren't overdone, my scroll history is remembered, no scroll jank, no touch latency. Kudos.

Wish more spas worked this well on mobile.

Edit: there's occasionally a touch of repositioning when opening up the homepage again. The Israeli article headline is stuck at the top of the page behind the header for a half a second or so then quickly gets set into place. Definitely still a web app, but it's better than most
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_cake-cutting
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New Horizons isn't for quantifiable (monetary) benefit. It's to explore strange new worlds, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
This strikes me as similar to the non-intuitiveness of compounding interest (and related brain teasers like "bacteria doubling population every day" and "pieces of gold doubling on a chess board").
I've been fascinated by the ambition and innovation in most DARPA projects. How does someone who is in industry rather than an academic context get involved in a DARPA project? More info on my background for context: http://codinginparadise.org/about/
> They have no fees for either the sender or receiver

Only in countries where checks are common.
I've been trying it for roughly the last month. I have run into a few quirks, for example it uses non-blocking i/o for things with libuv (for stdin), which can interfere with parent processes that expect blocking i/o. If you file a bug report, the issue usually gets fixed quickly.

I've kept vim installed as a fallback so I can easily use vim if I run into anything that is a show-stopper, at least until it's fixed in nvim. I still plan on submitting patches to both for the foreseeable future though.
Do you know of non-DARPA organizations doing the kind of high-risk, high-reward work DARPA does but without the military angle?
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That's beautiful. One of my passions in life is seeing carders get caught.
The astrophysical dark matter can't decay on any reasonably short timescale (since it's still here!)

If there is only one DM particle and it's a Majorana (i.e. its own antiparticle), then they can annihilate and produce all sorts of things, which is why experiments like AMS-2, Fermi, and IceCube are looking for annihilation products (the keyword is "indirect dark matter detection").
TL;DR:

1. Some fuckwad in Canada released a game where you punched an image of a feminist blogger.

2. Two feminists (who were not the one in the game) organized an internet shaming campaign against him.

3. George Elliot, who had a cordial online relationship with the two feminists from #2, tweeted in opposition to internet shaming, which he considered as vicious as the face punch game.

4. The two feminists blocked Elliot on Twitter, told him to stop mentioning them, and to to stop commenting on heated political issues.

5. They also organized a massive twitter shaming campaign against Elliot, including having someone pose as a 13 year old and accuse him of being a pedophile.

6. Elliot is now on trial for criminal harassment. There are no allegations that he threatened them or sexually harassed them, but they claimed they had feelings of fear, and that is apparently all this is required for "criminal harassment" in Canada!?

Edit: This seems astonishing, but a bit of Googling on the newspaper (National Post) and the reporter (Christie Blatchford) didn't turn up anything--they appear to be legitimate mainstream press.

Edit 2: Coverage in the Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2014/01/09/gregory_alan_el...

Looks like Elliot did insult them, in that he made a #FascistFeminists tag in relation to them, and in response to someone in the shaming campaign against him calling him a "perv and a sad little man" told that person they were wrong and they should go "listen to (Guthrie) play her s--- music in crappy bars with your loser faux-feminist friends".
but CDNs themselves are also dangerous to the public... they reduce privacy...
The difference might seem subtle, but on Amiga you could refer to volumes as "Volume name": like WorkDisk:. Then whenever anything referred to say WorkDisk:dir/file, the system would request you to provide this volume, "WorkDisk".

So mounting a filesystem to a directory is not same. When directories are mounted, you need to provide volume first and then you can refer to it. You could name some USB stick as "Important Files": and whenever you copy or save anything to drive "Important Files": the system would ask you to provide this named volume.
Based on this post from a few months ago (which was on HN at the time), I wouldn't call Safari a holdout, though I don't know what's happened since then.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2015AprJ...
I think it goes on a case-by-case basis, depending on liability and whether it would affect the customer's experience.
Wizball was such a fantastic game. I haven't thought about that one for years...
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When I change jobs, I check which version of my editor the dev environments have installed. If it's too old, I build a local copy of the latest version of my editor. No worries asking IT or Ops to update a package for me.

When it comes to production servers, I'm more likely to build my editor in my home directory than use my sudo privileges to install my editor in the system.

So developers can be building newest versions of code on old systems. I do.
First of all, great work! That is an impressive journey. Secondly, what was your Haskell experience like?

I'm always looking to see what others experiences are so I know how I can help make future experiences better.
I found Blatchford's wikipedia and did a bit more research because at first I thought it could be someone from 4chan trolling. One of the accusers is a gender justice consultant who has given a tedx talk in Toronto. I found more on infowars and the Toronto standard. It looks like the case originated in 2012ish but is close to being ruled on now.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_Blatchford
That was just a flash crash. It has stayed well about 200 the past 6 months.
Thanks for posting this. It certainly got a lot more attention than my original post for blessed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6058639

I guess I'm bad at HN. :)
I haven't studied economics, so forgive me a naive question: What if the "interference" with action X is introducing a new alternative at time T that person A prefers over the original? (Perhaps that's not strictly within the definition of "interference" in this case?)
Why are Microsoft so restrictive about giving access to this service?
RFC 2616 has been superseded by RFC 7230 et al.
Do you also blame Microsoft Word because it doesn't let you play movies?
> "stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user"

This seems like a very odd way of phrasing the law. The default user-agent string, for instance, is stored on the terminal equipment of the user, albeit in read-only memory. It can be used to distinguish one user from another. Therefore, could one argue that any site that includes the user agent in their logs would be violating this law?

And what if the user is not behind a NAT? In that case, the user's external IP address is the one their terminal equipment places in the TCP header... which would mean that it is necessarily stored in said terminal equipment. Did the user give up the right to the privacy of the information by connecting to the website in the first place? Must there be a right-to-refuse all the way down?

/s
I guess mine is sort of an anti-food-related math concept, then! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
http://musicinformationretrieval.com

A collection of instructional IPython notebooks related to music information retrieval.
The frequent fliers who flew too much (2012)
Super similar design the the Cyberdyne (note: actual company, not Skynet) HAL. Dropped in and nerded out when I was in Japan last year. Their main target is for medical and mobility assistance for the elderly but they also do some pretty interesting stuff for augmenting able bodied users: http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/products/supporting.html.
More cynically, New Horizons was an investment to inspire the young generation, which will lead to a real return years down the line. It also worked as a jobs program. It also provides the US with an excuse to continue advancing in the space domain, which will be unambiguously useful if it ever becomes militarized.

Also, in terms of pure enjoyment value, I have already received far more than my two dollars worth from just following the mission over the last few days.
It will never go to 0. I will buy all at 0.001, and I am sure a lot more people are willing to bid more than that. Anyways, will you eat your hat if it ever goes back to 460, or 1000 or 2000?
This is a more substantive question but there's a lot of evidence it's not a problem. According to your article, eHarmony was sued in 2008, created the "separate but equal" site, and then merged them in 2012 after more complaints.

However, 3 years later, they still have separate portals for people interested in dating specific people:

http://www.eharmony.com/asian-dating/

http://www.eharmony.com/black-dating/

http://www.eharmony.com/r/christian-dating-1/
etc.

More analysis of the general right of association in light of private groups setting rules for membership is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_membersh...
Wow, a reply from patio11! Thanks for chiming in.

Regarding this negotiation on tax implication, is this to be explicitly negotiated in the contract, or something to be done afterward? Or is it naturally implied in the contract, by declaring the assets being transferred?

Thanks
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This is simply the new normal as too many small-brain (and thus fast) algorithms are crowded into the same strategy space. Periodically, they will all randomly converge on the same strategy, liquidity dries up, and the prices jump dramatically.

The fix is to add a delay in all public stock markets between order placement and execution. This could be done either through a fixed lower speed limit, through specifying a human-scale atomic time quanta, or adding a tax inversely proportional to the duration between consecutive trades from the same agent -- a tax on simplicity.

Increasing the time-scale of the market will increase the sophistication of the algorithms, as they no longer need to fight to be winner-take-all fast. Bigger-brained algorithms mean the strategy space is larger and convergence is less likely. Thus, no more flash crashes.
I loved the P.A.S.S. synthesizer demo. http://csdb.dk/release/?id=128704 It's amazing how programmers squeezed so much performance out of that 1980s hardware.
On another note,

I would love to see higher level frameworks wrapping blessed. Blessed gives you the API and some fancy widgets/elements: it's the (nicer) DOM for the terminal.

This guy already started an XML-based markup language for blessed: https://github.com/kevinhikaruevans/blessedoo. That's the kind of stuff I love to see as the author of blessed.

If you could take something like JSDOM (combined with a CSSOM node module), and make blessed the backend rendering engine, you could practically just use React, Angular, or any of the high level web frameworks. Or you could just make a kickass terminal web browser with just the DOM/CSSOM wrapper.

Blessed has everything you need to make a terminal a browser-like environment: overlay images, ansi images, element transparency, every mouse protocol still in use, hover effects, forms, dynamic layout positioning, etc.

I really want to see someone do this. If not, I might have to do it some day.

Also, the first person to create a terminal-based MMORPG gets a satoshi.
Should have unit tested that comment
Adrian mentioned your idea about 13ish minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POzEqzWy2Ac&feature=youtu.be
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How is that clearer?? :-)

In fact, it's not even the same thing. A 100-gallon pool (for very small people) that is 99% full has 99 gallons. 98% full has 98 gallons...
do you have any links to these talks? thanks!
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So, from the second figure you can see that you have a series of decaying envelopes. For the individual taps you should be able to model this as some event at an unknown scale with an apriori rate of decay. You can easily discard the non-activity regions based upon some windowed estimates of the energy. That leaves you with what's essentially a template matching type of problem for each of the three areas where the signal is showing above noise levels of activity. The first and last region don't match the decaying exponential well and the middle one matches it fairly well with 3 distinct events.

That said, this approach introduces what may be more latency, coding complexity, and computational work than is desired.
I'd take a look at a spectrogram and see if there's some bandpass filter which makes it easier to see these events compared to the 'false activity'.
How are you scaling it? I'm using the Ruby version along with eventmachine but max concurrent connections was 1024.
Since you're arguing terminology, I'll just quote the second dictionary definition:

a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
"in a paradox, he has discovered that stepping back from his job has increased the rewards he gleans from it"
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Assuming automatically that the state stands outside the nature of man as a perfect institution with the ABILITY to 'correct' market outcomes. There's whole fields of literature examining this and most regulation falls far short.
Another intuitive way of thinking is to think in terms of proportionality between water and potato matter. The weight of the potato matter remains constant, and the amount of water can change, which in our case goes down. To make the matter proportionally twice as bigger compared to water, one needs to divide water by twice.
These protocols may be deprecated, they may be unused and they may be out of sight but they aren't completely dead yet:

https://www.shodan.io/report/9xshqrdb

Many of these old protocols don't die easily and tend to linger around forever. Maybe there's a nostalgic element to keeping them alive for sysadmins :)
Try this link: https://www.apple.com/imac-with-retina/
Yeah... that's because you have a space in your URL.
Typical Mind Fallacy.

Took me ten seconds to get it. Takes most people (IME) a lot longer than me to get similar things.

Maybe "no number sense" is actually "other people's minds don't usually work like mine"?
as much as our brains are designed to understand logarithmic scales, this percentage problem never really feels intuitive for me. If you have 1 part U235 and 99 parts U238, to get to 2%, it is 50.5% (50/99) of the work to get to to 100% enriched. If all you need to get to weapon grade uranium is 90% enriched, you need to eliminate 98.88888 of the 99 units of U238 (1/1.11111 = .90). So there is no real significant difference in your progress, you are now 50.56% of the way there.
Thanks. Contract or not, the bank was arguably negligent. Unless the court's interpretation was unprecedented.
I think your implementation of "RFC 862, the Echo Protocol" wouldn't work if the input doesn't end in a newline.
If you think that, you have more number sense than many people. Perhaps more than most :)
I think another dynamic to be nervous about here is the fact that when humans see the US treasury market flash, they probably jump to conclusions. A big buy move on the treasury market that says "risk-off" would tell me some serious shit just happened and hasn't hit the news wires yet. If the algos don't correct themselves quickly enough, a crisis could actually materialize out of the reactions humans make under the assumption that the market is pricing in a real event.
The Ham Sandwich Theorem may have the best companion image/caption combo I've ever seen on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem#/media/Fi...
This ruling is a (proposed) penalty for failing to hand over private customer data including GPS logs of trips. HN would normally love to see a company stand up to such an order.
What are Bloom filters?
I don't think I have ever seen a water fountain in a European airport. I have definitely never seen a water fountain in a WC. Who is regulating the water fountains worldwide?
My prediction:

The reward drop will instantly price out of the market a large proportion of the current hash rate.

This will make the next 2016 blocks take substantially longer to find than normal, which will result in a large drop in the difficulty. This, in turn, will price a large chunk of mining back in - enough to mean that the following 2016 blocks take substantially less time to find than normal.

So I think we'll see see-sawing difficulty in alternate 2016-block periods for a while, until a new equilibrium is reached (at a lower difficulty / lower network hash rate than before the reward drop).

I don't think there'll be a significant effect on either the bitcoin price. Transaction fees should rise a bit in the "high difficulty" periods, and drop in the "low difficulty" periods, but once equilibrium is reached they should be much the same as they were before the reward drop.
Another angle on this problem: How much water must you add to the potatoes to make them 100% water?

Of course, you can add all the water in the universe and they'll still not be 100% water. The water-percent increment just gets smaller and smaller, the more water you add.

This "potato paradox" illustrates the same effect, but in the other direction, where a small relative decrease yields a large absolute decrease.
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>They don't require drivers to get passenger carrier permits. They don't really have to follow or comply with any of the other regulations imposed by the CPUC or things that plague the taxi and limo industry.

Uber enforces the paperwork requirements of each (product type, geofence) permutation. Why would it require something like a Passenger Carrier Permit, if local law does not require it?

If you RTFA, you'll notice that the issue is failure to hand over trip data and GPS logs. Regualators allegedly want them to make sure disabled people and people with service animals are not discriminated against, but I'd be stunned if that's all the data was used for once it fell into government hands.
Why do you think that a CDN reduces privacy any more than if a company such as YouTube hosted 100k servers themselves (presumably maintained by _paid_ employees or by another company themselves such as Amazon)?
It is worth mentioning that eliminating the first half of the U238 is still easier then eliminating the second half.
What is the legality with respect to downloading this file? Could it contain material that would put us at legal risk?
Just throwing a crazy idea out there - maybe you can be a landlord of one property then rent another one where you want to live. This gets you in the real estate market, and if you can do it smart you buy where the yield is high and rent where it is cheap.

This assumes you don't mind having and being a landlord at the same time.
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Math sort of has to be learned in the opposite way from how it's written. It's best written "short and sweet", compressing as much meaning as one can handle precisely into a single theorem for maximum generality. Human minds, though, learn mental models of how things work from relatively concrete examples, ones which require only a little new information to be absorbed in order to gain the new concept.

A lot of things you thought were separate and overly-elaborate start seeming simple and small once you actually work your way up enough levels, to have seen enough examples, that the generalizations make sense to you. But that requires a lot of work!
Another #ifdef would fix that!

A wrapper function could hide the extra #ifdef, taking it out of OP's count. A macro defined during compilation would be even better|harder to understand.
> Do people actually sign up for newsletters from these things?

Yes. I've personally seen seen multiple A/B tests on different sites showing newsletter popups to be highly effective on both a rate and absolute basis. Their increase in conversion rate is more than enough to offset the (tiny) number of users who leave because of them. (We also ran this A/B test over multiple weeks to see if it had an effect on return frequency. It didn't.)

That being said, good publishers should cookie that you closed the popup and not bother you about it again. I imagine the numbers on this would also be different for a technical audience.
NAT is for stretching IPv4. That's it.

As far as security goes, firewalls don't require it. Not only that, but I share the admittedly minority opinion that firewalls are a crutch for bad system security and that we should be working to fix that problem. A system that requires a firewall to be secure is broken.
I felt like it was more of an attempt at justifying sociopathy, or at least exploring the impulse towards it.

The movie essentially argues that greatness comes from external pressure, from being pushed beyond your limits.
Yeah, at least for language. Fuck is a lot more common on Reddit than it is on prime time television.

I probably should have went with US cable television, with the premium networks (HBO, Showtime, Starz, and so on) excluded, and with a more European approach to nudity and sex.
That is fantastic. I actually wrote a one-off utility to do exactly this from polar plots several years back. This is WAAAAAYYYY better, in both features and UI. I don't have a specific need for this now, but it's actually kinda nifty to see someone else do this.
That would involve moats and drawbridges. With gears & swords and sprockets on show-hn and how to avoid overheating and chafing in armor in ask-hn.