skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that it is not an authoritative source, but there was an episode of an Anthony Bourdain show which travelled to Mexico / MidWest kind of area where they spoke Spanish that was mostly unchanged since 400 years ago.
Bought a 128GB USB 3.0 stick. Works like a charm.

Hosts:

Notebook runs Linux Mint 17 with VirtualBox 5.0

Desktop runs Windows 7 with VirtualBox 4.3
(5.0 ha an issue on Win7 that Oracle won't fix, but prevent my VM from starting)

Guest:

Xubuntu 15.04 with the VirtualBox 5.0 Guest Additions
I think it's just that it's more resistant to card cloning. The payment terminal makes the chip authenticate itself in some way that run-of-the-mill carders with a card printer and magstripe writer can't counterfeit. I guess the chip or the payment network then request the cardholder's signature, rather than the PIN that chip-and-PIN use.
I was bankrupted so medications were not an option.

I was aware of it did not make me feel better.

a girl said let's fuck because I am also depressed and it makes people depressed feel better. (she was bipolar)

She was lying, but I was kind of in love with her, so it made me feel better, but not her.

In fact it works. At least for me, even if I cared more about her than me.

Just loving people heal depression a lot, I guess.

Ho! And my parent's cat was nice with me. Maybe that was the key. But who knows?
Kim Jong Un just cannot get any respect
> First of all, BSD, in the form of OS X and iOS, is more than holding its own.

Those are proprietary forms. I think we were talking about whether the decision to be BSD-licensed has been good for the health and contribution of the *BSD projects that OS X and iOS originated from. Then we can draw a conclusion (but hopefully after gathering more data) on whether releasing your codebase GPL or BSD is more likely to lead to long-term health for that open source codebase.
You're not wrong, and I think we're coming at this from a very similar place. I hope I'm not coming off as divisive.

There is a fundamental difference between the experience of being prejudged against when you're a member of a powerful group in society vs. a member of an oppressed group. The difference is difficult for a member of a dominant group to fully understand, partly because they don't have to be aware of their position in a dominant group every single day, whereas members of oppressed groups are constantly reminded of their position.

This isn't to say that men don't have their own issues that they need support with -- issues like (I think) higher rates of unemployment, depression, suicide, drug abuse, imprisonment, lower graduation rates, problems with custody and child support payments, etc. Some people do go too far in saying that if you're a member of a dominant group then you cannot claim to suffer from discrimination in any way, and that's not what I'm trying to say.

I totally agree that the long-term goal should be to make e.g. women in CS programs unexceptional -- and to get there we need to recognize the ways that we make it harder for those women who are in CS programs today to stick it out.
Suppose you expanded every point of a coastline into a small disk (i.e. take the minkowski sum [1] of the coastline and a disk). Is the perimeter of the resulting shape still infinite?

The coastline had infinite perimeter because as you zoomed it got jankier and jankier. But once the janks get smaller than the disk, they start being hidden by disks from the surrounding points. You can't jump in and out anymore on tiny scales, because you run into the adjacent disks. This smooths out the noise and things converge instead of diverging.

... I think.

A river's length would smooth out for essentially the same reason. The set of points equidistant from both sides of the river is smoothed out compared to the sides because points on the side that are closer to the center of the river will hide jank from the nearby further points.

That's my intuition anyways. Not sure how it actually plays out.

Edit And if you go by "shortest path within the river from source to sink" as the length then it's definitely finite.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_addition
And if their predicted worst-case scenario plays out, you'll probably be skating on the Thames again. It will just be a bit wider.

Weather != climate.
But your logic suggests that racism is not the dictionary definition but it has to do who is in minority or who is in majority. That is wrong. The definition "the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races." Until you change it in the dictionary this will be the definition and it has nothing to do with who is in majority and your "social constructs".
> I type some query in the Cortana search bar and press Enter, it launches Edge extremely fast.

Probably something to do with the fact that Edge/Cortana is already loaded at Windows start? So in a way it's a "trick" to starter "faster".
Tell them you will work for them from Canada while you finish your degree.
Climate change has become a political issue and politics is all about popularity and fame.
You mean, with guns?
The right to choose a "locked down" platform like iOS is inherently a user right.

If you don't want your software to be used on that platform that's your choice, but pretending its about "user rights" is ridiculous.
I downvoted your comment, but then noticed that you have only made two comments here, so this felt needlessly cruel. So I upvoted your first comment as recompense. Your first one was a fine comment. This one is not.

I'd be glad to hear more about using this technique to check alignment of floppies. In fact, the top rated comment on this page is about that. But saying "Nothing new here" is unwarranted and crass. While this may be old hat to you, it's interesting to many who might not have considered it.

Perhaps more importantly, only the first part of the article is about visually checking the magnetic strip. The rest is about enhancing it using image enhancement, decoding it by guessing likely parity codes, and then detailing years of unsuccessful attempts to discourage people from buying this fraudulent product.

Anyway, welcome to HN and please stick around to share your experience by make more comments like your first one.
Timehopping Google maps
A neural net is just software, like Photoshop. Who owns the images created with Photoshop? The one who is paying for the electricity.
I think my experience is different from yours (I don't let spikes make it past my own branch), but as far as production goes, we're on the same page!
Isolation is orthogonal to what I listed. MOSIX has decent sandboxing. I don't know about Linux-PMI or OpenMOSIX, though. They died off years ago anyway.
How did you do that? I though it was (more or less) public information.
When I first saw the HN title, I was so stunning. Weird, it's not my tool https://github.com/icy/bocker ;)

The author of "bocker" (not my bocker) has a great idea. I would learn from the script. Docker is not magic anymore.!!
It's already happening. Austin based ShooTag maker Energetic Solutions is supplying earthquake survivors and relief workers in Haiti with their odious cards.

I'd be inclined to agree it's sociopathic except I've met too many woo-believers that are just loony.

People, it seems, will believe anything.
Don't forget to consider the fact that humans select the best outputs from their NNs, thus, contributing with their esthetic sense to the final result. I am sure not all images generated from NN are worthy of Smithsonian yet. Also, it's humans who took the input pictures and fed them to the NN.
Nice. As I just started playing with zfsonlinux, I'm tempted to "port" this from btrfs to zfs... Should allow for migrating "images"/snapshots with zfs send...
Yes, but who plugged the computer into the socket and paid for its electricity? Does that count? It's just a minor contribution, but essential. Also, who configured the software - shouldn't the work performed by humans be considered a contribution to the end result?

Alternatively, why not attribute the Pixar movies to their rendering engines? Aren't they using enough neurons or procedural generation? I am sure there are lots of smart agents there in their procedural generation of trees, grass and minor characters.
I guess it apparently depends on what definition of the word "word" (which is quite overloaded) one uses, though. I'm not quite familiar with English linguistic terminology but I believe it's more about sharing a radix than a root.
That's a very interesting downward progression. By just the 3rd course only half the percentage of women, which implies more than half the women quit (assuming the whole class shrunk as well).

Why?

I guess it could be a culture of exclusion, but for it to work that fast it seems like it would have to be exceedingly toxic.

I wonder if Stanford does exit interviews when people leave a major. I had to have informal talks with my advisers (at a different college) when I changed majors, explaining my reasons. I wonder if that data is collected at all? And if not, why not?
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The emperor is wearing fewer clothes.
No, IE9 is the minimum we support at work.
If my dry read of the code is correct, that line is for the "bocker ps" routine to be able to print the command later.

The run command itself is executed next, inside of ip netns exec.
I thought closed form expressions existed for linear regression. Why is gradient descent needed?
Dell's latest tablet is designed for war zones
derivative works

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work
> nothing to suggest that a black person might be an engineer or a manager or a wise elder or whatever. Whether it was talking heads on TV or a comedy set in a park, someone riffing on "black culture" would be doing gangsta stereotypes.

The "wise elder" is actually quite a prevalent trope. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalNegro
The rest of the site is a helpful database of tech companies considered to be "breaking out" which would look good on your resume/teach you a lot/maybe make you some money.
anyone else notice this page is 12MB because the two thumbnails images are 6MB each
I made a couple of things sort of like this, one I spent several months on. Another was simpler. Neither was finished since I needed to work eventually for money.

Here is the simpler one which is a backend for a barely started mobile front end.

https://github.com/runvnc/oicapp

I basically came to the conclusion that for scale simplicity and security I needed a new Digital Ocean VPS for each container so that's what I did. To make it faster you could sort of pool them ahead of time.
I totally understand what you are saying. In fact, I wrote another blog post about how AngularJS is turning new devs into javascript zombies. For me, writing code is always about eloquence. How can I most eloquently write this so that it is understandable and DRY. I see decorators as a win for this.
I think the most interesting feature is the ask cortana feature, http://www.thewindowsclub.com/enable-cortana-in-edge-browser, it performs reasonably well on most queries and is pretty fast. Especially useful when reading articles where you have no clue about some of the people mentioned or phrases and expressions being thrown around.. Highlight the phrase and hit the ask cortana option in the menu.
There's a link to a video that explains it.

tl;dw: when rivers are very sinuous, the kinks turn into oxbow lakes and separate from the river, so that limits how sinuous they can get. On the other hand, rivers' bends are constantly amplified by erosion. Researchers modeling these phenomena showed that under certain assumptions, these forces are in equilibrium at a sinuosity of ᴨ.
Yep, same reason I'm gonna switch to IE
I think the point about higher education being just a means to an end these days is spot on. The product plug at the end is not especially well-integrated into the otherwise interesting and reflective article, though.
If you're banking being able to get back into UW in a few years if you change your mind, you should also talk to someone at the school about that. As well, banking on a loophole to get a work visa (the TN restrictions are pretty specific about needing a degree in the field) seems like a pretty risky idea.

I have a strong feeling I know what company you're talking about as well (and no, I don't believe it's Github as someone else here does), I have to say that even if the company is full of brilliant people, you should also consider the relative risks in the field that they operate in. Bitcoin can be a risky business, even for the golden child.

My overall recommendation would be to stick with your degree. In a year and a half you wont have to worry about whether or not you can return to an undergrad if you wish, nor worry that a visa loophole will come back to bite you in the ass. If something happens and you need to find a new job, you wont have to worry about having to find one that will be willing to risk dealing with visa loopholes. Not to mention that you sound like you still have 2 coop terms left. Even here you could very likely return to this specific company for those terms if you wish, or (my recommendation) take advantage of the terms to explore different options.
Ahhh, no.. I was looking at line 57 and somehow missed the actual call to $2 on 59. Clear as a bell now
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Got kicked off two trains yesterday for doors that would not close and just bout missed my MARC train. I rather walk the 2 miles to Union Station than ride the METRO.
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And this comment is copyrighted by my "Left and Right hands", because it was them that typed, letter by letter. You know, my hands are so smart, they have lots of sensors and neural networks in them.
>>Apple was WAY late to the MP3 player party.

If you think of the iPod as an MP3 player, sure. But I think Apple tapped a brand new market with the iPod: the "fashionable gadgets" market. Arguably, that's the main reason it was incredibly popular.
This is super interesting, where did you learn about it?
Only if your jurisdiction enforces penalties against copyright infringement.
So the copyright belongs to google, even if you run it on your own photographs on your own machine? That doesn't seem right.
In most cases you assume that if hackers get root on the web application server you lose everything else in the data center, including the database. There are over a hundred things you have to do right to prevent this, and if you miss one, you lose.

I know that isn't the answer you wanted, but it's the truth, so: don't lose your web server.

In certain regulated industries you'll be encouraged to do some theatre like separating the database from the server on a different network, putting a firewall between them, yadda yadda. Which is all great, but the web server has to be able to talk to the database in some fashion, and that's game over if the web server can say the right things. If you assume the ability of the attacker to coerce the web server into saying any of the range of things the web server is authorized to say, that's usually "pretty bad news" with regards to what you have in your DB.

Concrete example: suppose I have the web server connect to the DB with a relatively limited privileged user, which is one thing you should certainly do. That user only gets access to the proper database on the DB server (which after all might have many of them), which prevents e.g. someone from hopping from a WordPress compromise directly into the main application database... sorta. You'll probably also want to limit the actions the webserver can take to avoid e.g. creating users or changing schemas.

That still leaves the web server able to do CRUD operations, which is easily enough to do a lot of damage to your business and yourself. Rails can trivially execute "select * from patients;" That single line, or one isomorphic to it, is a catastrophe if you're in healthcare.

(Yeah yeah row-level ACLs, I know, I know. Aside from "Not widely supported in actual web application stacks" they're probably not sufficiently robust in the face of a server compromise because the server should be able to authenticate as every user somehow and at that point you're just a for-loop away from total compromise.)
If installing via apt-get, that means creating a debian package that provides lxc-docker-1.6.2 (docker 1.7 broke backwards compatibility in output of docker ps). Otherwise, just patching the [Makefile](https://github.com/progrium/dokku/blob/master/Makefile#L85) to check for bocker (linked to `/usr/local/bin/docker` of course) would suffice.

Though I don't think that is what he is asking for.
Would it be OK for me to re-post this question?
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There was a good discussion of this aspect of the problem at Intelligence Squared: http://intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/past-debates/item/6...
First: I'm not necessarily opposed to nuclear, at least in the near term. However it has numerous issues (see link below, Thoughts...). Addressing risks:

Coal mining is a strawman. The comparison you want to be making is to solar, wind, hydro, and biomass.

All of which compare well with, if not better than nuclear. And which don't suddenly consecrate 300-1,000 year human-exclusion wildlife parks, and threaten continent-wide areas with toxic poison which cannot be sensed directly.

http://i.imgur.com/KqOOYai.png

From: "Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change"
http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/report/

The problem with nuclear power is that, with little warning, things can go very, very wrong. From good neighbor to continent-contaminating, centuries-long nature-preserve (no humans allowed) creation. The uncertainty and disputes over nuclear accident consequences (Chernobyl deaths: a few dozen, hundreds, thousands, millions? Over what time? When do you close the books? What happens if containment around the sarcophogus fails some time into the future?).

The worst power plant accident of time, not a nuclear power plant failure, but a hydro station in China, Banqiao Dam. It's instructive several ways:

Any number of fairly simple methods would have hugely alleviated the impact of the disaster. Much as with major nuclear disasters, it was a cascade of failures, starting with poor management and a dysfunctional culture, amplified through poor design, adverse conditions, poor communications, delayed or absent warnings, and little or no disaster response (many of the deaths were attributed to starvation and disease, not drowning or other physical impacts).

A useful thing to keep in mind, though, is that after a dam break is done being a a massive disaster area, which typically resolves in a few hours to a few weeks, the land is no longer a glowing radioactive mess. It can be re-settled and populated as structures and infrasctructure are rebuilt. Zhumadian City, the region surrounding Banqiao, has a present population of over 7 million.

Or look up the story of the Johnstown Flood, worst dam break in US history (by deaths), which saw the emergence of the Red Cross, of national response to disasters, and changes in liability laws.

(Excepting Johnstown and Banqiao, dam failure mortality falls off rapidly, with another 8 disasters of 1,000+ lives. Wikipedia gives some 908 notable dams, and 137 hydroelectric facilities of 1GW+ net capcity.)

There are other questions, notably whether or not "deaths per GWh generation" is the most appropriate measure of risk. Particularly for a technology whose risk tail spans not years, decades, or even centuries, but millennia. Or longer.

Last I checked, there were few human institutions with lifespans of similar scale. Technical or otherwise.

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

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

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

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

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2awjj2/thought...

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/283sz1/key_fac...?
Any idea?
My choice was about licensing and design but 90+% design given GCC was a pain to work with. Your link shows two paragraphs of text talking about design issues with one sentence on licensing. So, it seems Apple's justifications were more similar to my own than different.

The best part is that so many have jumped on the LLVM bandwagon. There's even a formal semantics to get formal verification work going. Mainstream coders, tool developers, and high assurance people all under the same roof contributing a bit to the same tool. Lots of potential there.
Richer nations don't necessarily need to build walls around poorer nations to keep the water out. They may find it cheaper or otherwise preferable to build walls around themselves to stop the flow of people fleeing from the poorer nations.

Climate refugees have no legal status under the UN Refugee Convention:

> `there has been a collective, and rather successful, attempt to ignore the scope of the problem... so far there is no "home" for forced climate migrants in the international community, both literally and figuratively` -- Oli Brown [1]

Nations are already following this approach of literally building walls or pouring resources into improving their border security. For example, India is building a wall along its border with Bangladesh, and some of the nations in the EU are spending a lot of money and resources trying to intercept or discourage boats of immigrants from Africa [2].

> With 80 percent of its densely populated landmass lying near sea level, Bangladesh is often hailed as "ground zero" for climate change. A 1 meter rise in sea level, which seems likely by the end of the century, could flood almost one-fifth of the country. Some of the most vulnerable coastal districts in Bangladesh—Khulna, Satkhira, and Bagerhat—lie along India's border. -- [3]

> The Continent's richer, more northerly countries, great emitters of carbon and producers of wealth, barely contributed ships or aircraft to Frontex [4], and they processed a relative trickle of African asylum seekers. So Malta was itself a victim to this, he suggested. It was a power game: Northern Europe bullied southern Europe. Southern Europe fought within itself and with or against North Africa. The big stepped on the small, and the small stepped on the smaller. The migrants themselves were at the bottom. Here, too, shit rolls downhill. -- [2]

[1] http://www.ibanet.org/Article/Detail.aspx?ArticleUid=B51C02C...

[2] see the book: "Windfall: the booming business of global warming" by McKenzie Funk.

[3] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/green_room/...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontex

edit: as usual, I'm not writing this because I advocate this position, or think that it has any moral or ethical merit. But I think it is good to clearly understand that this is already happening and it will almost certainly get worse the further we get into this century.
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The data we have has been evolving very rapidly over the last few years, but in general, it would appear to support these conclusions. If they'd thrown in a guesstimate on possible massive arctic permafrost/clathrate methane leaks, it'd make this estimate look conservative. Greenland, West and likely East Antarctica are all far more vulnerable to rapid melt than we had imagined, and those different findings have not to my knowledge so far been combined and used to update global models until now.

The paper is written by some of the real heavy-hitters of climate science, so I would take it in some sense as almost a "statement of consensus" about what the new science is telling us. And, as many have been trying to warn, the answer is: it's not good.
Only someone willing to experiment would be able to know.
This analysis is insane. It's just a very advanced photoshop filter.
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